Change....what change?!

I'm kind of annoyed. Our dear Obama has not yet even been officially instated as president, and already there is great reason to become quite skeptical about the great "changes" that he's promising to enact. Take, for example, Obama's emphasis on having "new blood" in Washington, even hinting at crossing party lines in his choices for Cabinet members. And then when it actually comes down to it, he chooses more "Washington insiders" than either Bush or Clinton. "Obama's first four likely Cabinet choices, including former First Lady Hillary Clinton, bring a combined total of more than 60 years of Washington experience" (go here to read the full article). Let's look at some of his selections so far:

• Secretary of Health and human Services: Senator Tom Daschle, a 30 years in Washington AND most recently working as a Lobbyist (mems, Obama, how you said you weren't a fan of Lobbyists?)
• Attorney General: Eric Holder, 20 years in Washington
• White House Chief of Staff: Rahm Emanuel, a strongly partisan Democrat, and, according to wikipedia and npr, kind of scary and emotionally volatile
• Senior Advisor to the President: David Axelrod

and the most TERRIFYING of ALL:

• Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. Heaven help us!
  

Please bear in mind that I have never had any strong dislike for Obama, so I'm not complaining about this out of some kind of I'm mad McCain or Romney or Huckabee or Nader or whoever didn't get elected so I'm going to complain about it vendetta. I just think if you're going to run a campaign based solely on the promise of change, maybe the first official acts you do as a president elect should reflect just a little hint of change, rather than the Clinton administration all over again.

And then there's that whole I'm 47 and have written 4 dozen books about my life because I have so much to say...but that's a complaint for another time.