Change obviously means different things to different folks. Obama's agenda is different than what we have seen. The past administration took office with the idea they would force their agenda on the rest of the country and that agenda was to invade Iraq, relax environmental laws, remove controls over business, and open the American treasury to the wealthy elite and big business. Obama's agenda, as far as we have seen, is to clean up the economic mess, provide some health care relief for private citzens and business, to restore the rest of the world's eroding respect of this country, and to restore hope in this country in its own future. To do this he has appointed advisers, not on the basis of blind partisanship and agreement, but who represent a diverse cross section of ideology and also have experience in their respective areas.