LETTERS TO THE EDITOR – WALL STREET JOURNAL, OCTOBER 19, 2011 REGARDING THE OP-ED THAT MORT ZUCKERMAN WROTE ON OCTOBER 15, 2011,  ENTITLED “THE EXASPERATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC BILLIONAIRE”.   THE ARTICLE WAS POSTED ON THIS SITE ON OCTOBER 16.

Baton Rouge, La.

Mr. Zuckerman seems surprised that President Obama has not reached out to the congressional leadership and forged relationships in a bipartisan manner. Mr. Zuckerman is forgetting President Obama’s history. Community organizers are not known for building trust and friendship with business owners and government officials. Organizers’ tactics are more of confrontation, intimidation and division. When community organizers confronted bankers to open home loans to unqualified minorities, they did not reach out in a friendly, compromising fashion. They demonstrated and lobbied aggressively to get lending laws changed to provide “social justice” for the oppressed.

When the White House demonizes the “millionaires and billionaires” while subtly encouraging the Wall Street occupiers, or berates obstinate Republicans while demanding passage of a “jobs bill” for which there is bipartisan distaste, it shows a consistency of tactics which intelligent people like Mr. Zuckerman should have expected.

Steve Tanberg

Denver

I don’t believe Mr. Zuckerman would have for a minute appointed a person with Barack Obama’s lack of experience or lack of important leadership accomplishments to head any of his firms or departments. Yet, for whatever reasons, he helped elect him to the most important leadership post in the world. Now, apparently surprised, he looks back and thinks what went wrong? Mr. Zuckerman and many of his friends need to look in their mirrors.

Cliff Ourso

Sun City West, Ariz.