Open Left

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.

(1) This isn't just anti-progressive.  It's anti-reality.  And it's political poison.  There's nothing particularly pro-Wall Street about it, either.  You're just tossing random odds & ends together.

(2) The bully thing is real.  Citing the fact that others may say or do stupid things under the influence of related counter-rhetoric is really stretching it in your search for something to criticize me for.

"You know what they say -- those of us who fail history... doomed to repeat it in summer school." -- Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Season 6, Episode 3