NEW YORK CITY-We asked and you told us. President Obama’s stanceon businesses hasn’t exactly endeared him to GlobeSt.com’s viewers.Eighty-seven percent of respondents to our latest online pollagreed with the statement that the president “has no clue that thisis a capitalist country.” Only 13% would consider Obama “theentrepreneur’s personal savior.”

In that view, readers likely find themselves siding withGlobeSt.com blogger Joel Ross, who wrote earlier this month thatObama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “have created a regime whichis filled with people who are truly anti-business, pro labor, antiwealth creation.” Ross cited Obama’s appointment of ElizabethWarren to head the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, whichRoss called “the ultimate example of the regulatory zeal which willultimately harm the economy. The way he appointed her this week isfurther proof that Obama doesn’t care what is best, he only caresto advance his agenda.”

There’s been a lot of skepticism about the currentadministration among GlobeSt.com’s readers. Along with the poll onObama’s attitude toward business, readers have sounded off on otherpoll questions related to the economy and Washington’s handling ofit. Specifically, 76% say that a double-dip recession is “rightaround the corner,” while in another poll, a plurality (50%)dispute that the Federal Reserve’s efforts have helped the market,agreeing that “nothing good ever came out of Washington.”

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Paul Bubny

Paul Bubny is managing editor of Real Estate Forum and GlobeSt.com. He has been reporting on business since 1988 and on commercial real estate since 2007. He is based at ALM Real Estate Media Group's offices in New York City.