Of course it's CHANGE we need

I'm sick of those bloggers and pundits, critiquing Obama's cabinet and staff picks, and his pronouncements to date as president-elect - they point out that he or she is from the Clinton administration - that's not the CHANGE I was expecting. Duh! The CHANGE we need, the CHANGE we can believe in is CHANGE from eight years of George W. Bush/Dick Cheney. It's not as if Obama pretended he would invent something never seen before in governance, that every appointee was going to be someone who had never governed before or been in an administration - just not from THAT administration, with THAT governing philosophy.

And now - I hate to broach the subject, but have you seen Obama's mini-press conferences lately (today, yesterday)? Does it seem to you that he is just a teensy bit too eager to please the press corps, with his calling on them by name? Or that maybe it is supposed to demonstrate his command of the room, when he does not yet have the authority that inauguration will convey? I just kept thinking to myself - he's trying too hard. I don't want to think it, I don't want to have the slightest negative thought in my mind about him, but . . .