"They Think, Deep Down, That They Are Better than We Are"

"It’s no secret that, at this point, many of America’s richest men—including some former Obama supporters—hate, just hate, President Obama. Why? Well, according to them, it’s because he 'demonizes' business—or as Mitt Romney put it earlier this week, he 'attacks success.' Listening to them, you’d think that the president was the second coming of Huey Long, preaching class hatred and the need to soak the rich.

"Needless to say, this is crazy."

Paul Krugman in The New York Times discusses "the pathos of the plutocrats."