When did "Hope and Change" morph into "Bush -lite"? How did Obama manage to get EVERYONE to dislike him?

It seems Obama has no political backbone to put up a fight. He still has a majority and he backed down to something him and his party do not believe in. That's why his party is against him, he sold him out on the Bush tax cuts. And I have to agree with the party. Bill Clinton, like him or not, had political backbone. He fought for what he believed in. He allowed the government to close down until he made the majority opposition capitulate to him. Obama doesn't have the backbone for the fight. The right move would of been to let the tax cuts expire and force the Republicans into a real compromise. Republicans have constituents in need of the unemployment extension as well. If Obama had any political savvy he would of used the power of the press to paint the Republicans as villains as Clinton did so well with a Republican congress. In short, Obama capitulated and gave Republicans everything they wanted in exchange for an extension of unemployment benefits. Hopefully, this dies in congress because this kind of legislation will continue to bury us in debt.