Dennis Kneale, CNBC media and technology editor, has a column in which he refers to President Obama as “a bully.” Kneale makes his case and  concludes this way:

I can’t remember of any other President in my memory having done this. Nixon maybe? An unfortunate comparison, indeed. … And the worst part is, we’re barely calling out Obama the Bully on this behavior at all. We are becoming entirely too accustomed to it, failing to see it for what it really is: a striking lack of civility, and an overflow of divisiveness, from a President who had promised to give us precisely the opposite.

The bottom line? The man who promised to elevate American politics is degrading it.