The Demonizer in Chief

What's wrong with being rich?
Liberalism is predicated on emotion -- specifically envy.  It's not fair that they're rich and you're not!
But how is it fair to confiscate what someone has earned?  Rich or not?  How is it fair to confiscate someone's property?  That's what wealth is.  Property.  Even the wealth of someone who inherits it.
But envy is the basis for all of modern liberalism.  Remember the Bible verse?  "The love of money is the root of all evil."  Well, liberals love rich people's money and they want it.  They want it to buy votes.  They want it to buy power and influence.  They want it to buy control.
President Obama is campaigning again, hoping to be reelected by playing the familiar games of class warfare and demonizing his opponents as friends of the rich, haters of the poor and killers of the sick and elderly.  The constant class warfare from the president is nothing more than an effort to exploit people's baser instincts.  Envy and jealousy can be very powerful motivators. 
Never mind that the president actually cares very little for the people he is manipulating (Lenin had a term for such people --  I believe it was "useful idiots").  It's a very callous tactic.
Thus he demonizes the wealthy.  He portrays them as the most evil examples of humankind -- oppressors of the poor with nothing but the most despicable of intentions.  Thankfully he will be the one to protect the poor and downtrodden from the abuses of the evil rich, and he will exact vengeance on their behalf.  In Barack Obama's world, everything the rich have is stolen from the poor and infirm. 
If that's the case, why have there never throughout the history of mankind been laws that have specifically punished rich people for such criminal behavior?  Surely they would be prosecuted for robbery and thievery if that were true, wouldn't they?  If the rich are so lawless and crooked, why are jails not filled with the formerly rich?  Why then is the only way to exact "justice" through the very subtle means of taxation?
And why do proponents of high taxation for purposes of fairness couch their motives in such veiled language as "redistribution of wealth" and innocuous sounding terms as "social justice"?   Surely, if the wealthy have committed such crimes wouldn't criminal prosecution be common and accepted?
Even the most "progressive" (read: socialist) countries in the world enact punishment no harsher than high taxation to correct these supposed wrongs.
Apparently simply being rich is a crime against humanity.
Thus, the president resorts to stoking humanity's baser instincts -- envy.  It's not fair that they're rich and you're not, after all.