If he was talking about Obama dividing Democrats, perhaps, but in this way, the Karl Rove donor is completely off. Only a month ago Ken Langone was saying that billionaires like himself should be paying higher taxes to pay down the debt but now he's cranking out the radical right classics. If only Obama actually bothered to do more than talk about fat cats and jet airplanes. The reality is that Obama has been good friends to the fat cats which is why they are donating millions to his reelection campaign.
Get a grip and see who is winning this class warfare. It's people like Ken Langone and it's not even close. Langone really needs to go Cheney himself and go away.
"He is dividing us as a nation," Langone said. "He's not bringing us together. He's willfully dividing us. He's petulant."
The co-founder of Home Depot sharply criticized the president for promoting class warfare through his repeated attacks against "fat cat" business executives and his targeting of tax loopholes.
In sum, the behavior is symptomatic of Obama's disrespect for the office he holds, Langone said.
"Ronald Reagan would never go into the Oval Office without his jacket on—that's how much he revered the presidency," he said. "This guy worked like hell to be president...Behave like a president. Let me look at you as a model to how we should behave. What does he say? Fat cats, jet airplanes. What is the purpose? Us versus them.
