He retained the same bailout team on the finance side, which led to similar policies. He was even more in Wall Street's pocket than Bush with Treasury chief appointments like Rubin.

The too big to jail, and not jailing anyone for the tons of criminal activities that went around the 2008 meltdown was the biggest mistake anyone made IMHO.

He retained the same military team, including retaining Robert Gates and the same military policies, just run more incompetently as the whiffs around the Iraq Status of Forces Agreement showed. Under Bush day move-on was running ads calling General Petraeus "General Betray-us", and under Obama he kept getting promoted higher and higher, despite failures such as the Afghan surge.

The neocons retained power in the foreign policy, which meant Obama not only continued the illegal wars under Bush, he started his own illegal war in Libya - which landed up not only destabilizing the Middle - East, it also destabilized Europe with the resulting refugee crisis.

On torture, the only change was instead of the US directly performing it, the US outsourced torture to its allies.

On NSA spying, he went well beyond what even Bush did.

I could go on for a while, but how is this even a question?