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the reality is he can't keep his lunch money from the smallest bully in the schoolyard.

As you correctly pointed out during the campaign, Obama was never a progressive.  Thus now, he's not being bullied, he's being who he is.  He was elected with massive Wall Street contributions and that's who he's been working for since day 1.

The problem with getting into the bully thing is it plays into the macho rhetoric that the right feeds on.  A few days back, around healthcare, a frenzied Yglesias was calling for Rep. Grijalva to punch a senator in the face, on Kos, there are ravings about going to war.  And on the healthcare front post-Massachusetts, ramming the Senate bill through the House has been characterized as a stiffening of spine, showing courage, guts, other body parts.  It's been nauseating.  As though there weren't policy issues that people disagreed with.

So please, lay off this stuff.

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