A reader quotes me:

"And that rhetorical aggression effectively - and unnecessarily - alienates anyone who has ever built a business or made a success of herself." Not anyone. Not me. I launched my own business with zero government assistance, just a couple of paychecks from my last job, and built it from zero to about $2.5 million (not a vast empire, but a comfortable living) over a decade or so. I am not remotely alienated by either Warren’s remarks or Obama’s. I’d suggest that the only people who might be alienated are those with either (a) a massive sense of entitlement or (b) a need to justify their relative comfort by pretending that there is some sort of linear relationship between hard work/virtue and financial success. That does not describe most of the small business owners I know.

And as small business owner, I would make two additional points.