It's the tactics, stupid

The similarities between Bush and Obama:

• Both were charismatic to their core base.
• Both ran as centrists, then picked far right/left VP’s to appease their base (This one assumes Obama picks Dodd as VP)
• Both promised change in politics, both ran as politics as usual
• Both of them had a core base of supporters who followed their guy no matter what he said or did. Both men’s followers did not follow their candidate because of core, substansive issues, but because of charisma and gut feelings. He’s a great speaker! He’s the type of guy you want to have a beer with!
• Both have relatively little experience to run on.

So please tell me when the real change comes along? The change that gets the voters electing a president based on real issues, not feel-good bullshit?
While I will vote for him as I believe a McCain administration would be horrific, I do fear that in the long run, Obama will not be good for this country if he continues his current behavior of selling out his base. A majority of the people who voted for Bush did so because he campaigned as a moderate, with the wink towards the radicals that implied he was only doing this to get elected and he’d really side with them when his time came. I don’t care what you believe, that tactic is wrong, wrong, wrong, and ultimately destructive to the nation.

Obama set himself up as an agent of change to politics as usual. Therefore he made the bar higher on himself. I didn't do that to him, he did it to himself.

Cross posted to Pandora's Politics.