America's super rich step up the pressure on Obama

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David Usborne reports from Florida's secluded beach clubs, where discontent is growing ahead of next month's midterm elections


No, agrees Phil McCarthy, a former Titan among big-money venture capitalists in America, it might not be a good idea to drive in here with Obama stickers on your car. But his Mercedes, with a secret remote on the sun visor, has not a Democratic logo in sight. And so the barriers to the St John's Island Beach Club rise obediently to let us in.

Just north of Vero Beach on the Atlantic side of Florida, St John's Island is a gated community for people of serious means. And, if we are honest, Republican leanings. For Mr McCarthy, settling in for dinner on a patio beside the club pool, this is a rare evening. Eschewing the old Wasp conventions of discretion on matters of politics, he means to speak his mind about Barack Obama.

It is his duty to speak up, McCarthy explains. "What good does it do me to write a Letter to the Editor?" he asks, surveying a plate of oysters. He had asked some buddies to join him in offloading about the President. Jim Broadhead, a former chief executive of Florida's electric company and one-time Delta Airlines director, has enthusiastically agreed. But others, he said, proved more wary of a British reporter.

That America, preparing in two weeks to elect a new House of Representatives and replace a third of the Senate, is riddled with conservatives who consider Obama a socialist horror show is hardly a secret. But if some dismiss disciples of Sarah Palin and the Tea Party as ignorant "wing-nuts", they should know this: their views are but nothing compared to what wealthy, highly educated conservatives think.

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/americas-seriously-wealthy-step-up-the-pressure-on-obama-2109447.html

[bluestateguy]

1. If they didn't vote for him the first time I could really give a shit what they think

nt

[Metta]

2. Yes, they're part of the problem and have blood on their hands.

An immeasureable suffering from their karma to collect downstream.

[nannah]

3. AHHH, but they don't have the numbers.

we outnumber the wealthy..... we need to remember that and vote for progress in the right direction as opposed to electing people who are committed to obstruction.