Is Barack Obama the new Tony Blair?

I have raised this question several times before: here and here with regard to his problems with telling the truth, here with his habit of trying to please every audience no matter the policy consistency problems, here with regard to his easy charm and "pretty straight guy" persona and of course here where I just linked to Melanie Philips article.

This came back to mind today as I read more and more articles that seem to predict Barack Obama appointing his main party rival, Hillary Clinton to the most senior post in his administration - shades of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown?!