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November 28, 2011 President Barack Obama The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20500 Dear Mr. President, It is with a great sense of disappointment that I write this. Like many others, I hoped that your election would bring a salutary change of direction to the country, despite what more than a few feared was an overly aggressive social agenda. And I cannot credibly blame you for the economic mess that you inherited, even if the policy response on your watch has been profligate and largely ineffectual. (You did not, after all, invent TARP.) I understand that when...

Donald Trump: “Thousands and thousands and thousands come to New York to see the lighting of the tree. They bring their kids. Everybody’s festive. Everybody’s having a great time. They love it. It’s a big, big occasion. Now we have a problem. We have a president who doesn’t give a damn about inconveniencing people… You will never see a mess like this tomorrow night. President Obama is holding a fundraiser. Another of his fundraisers, hundreds of them. Every day he’s holding fundraisers. He doesn’t govern. All’s he does is raise money so he can try to get reelected. So he...

Billionaire investor Leon Cooperman made public his letter to the President, in which he calls for Obama to end his class warfare rhetoric and appeal to all voters today..."the divisive, polarizing tone of your rhetoric is cleaving a widening gulf, at this point as much visceral as philosophical, between the downtrodden and those best positioned to help them. It is a gulf that is at once counterproductive and freighted with dangerous historical precedents. And it is an approach to governing that owes more to desperate demagoguery than your Administration should feel comfortable with."