The Economist says of President Obama: "A president who does so little to counter the idea that he dislikes business is, self-evidently, a worryingly negligent chief executive....The evidence that American business thinks the president does not understand Main Street is mounting....A Bloomberg survey this week found that three-quarters of American investors believe he is against business. The bedrock of the tea-party movement is angry small-business owners. The Economist has lost count of the number of prominent chief executives, many of them Democrats, who complain privately that the president does not understand their trade—that he treats them merely as adornments at photocalls and uses teleprompters to talk to them; that he shows scant interest in their views on which tax cuts would persuade them to hire people; that his team is woefully short of anyone who has had to meet a payroll (there are fewer businesspeople in this White House than in any recent administration); and that regulatory uncertainty is hampering their willingness to invest."
A related Economist article advises: "It looks as though the time has come for Mr Obama to stop attacking the fat cats of business and try stroking them instead."