Anybody really expect change?

The campaigns are winding down and the rhetoric has been spinning faster than a commode. We've all been listening to the candidates now for what, ten months, maybe four as the formal party candidates? There is one thing clearly obvious - neither candidate is a "change" candidate. Really.
The financial crisis is not a manufacture of the Bush administration. It began before that, with passage of the bill allowing CDS (credit derivitive swaps) that Bill Clinton signed, to Barney Franks ignorance about the oversight of the GSE's. Yes, W was also an idiot, but stupidity had many constituents in Washington. So, no change is going to come in this way; the same congressional leaders will be there, and that doesn't bode well. None are financial geniuses, or even at least smarties, so it's going to be a hard road.
So what kind of change do we need in Washington? Well, mostly the kind neither candidate are tallking about. Will either of them:
- stop cronyism?
- stop appointing campaign high rollers to positions?
- work across party lines in OUR best interests?
- put an end to the influence of political action committees and others?
- work for sensible legislation in opposition to their party wishes?
- be honest to us about the issues raised about them instead of whitewashing them?
- accept campaign reform, including campaign finance reform?
- admit the actual costs of their campaing promises?
- offer to serve only 1 term if they prove to be mismanagers like W?
Well of course not. Wholesale change in politics requires more nerve and strength of character than either candidate has shown or has.
Washington needs change, real change, not the gladhanding, happy talk change these two mainstream candidates have been pushing at us. These are both party functionaries and we can't expect anything from either of them of substance. Changing how we address the issues they raise isn't change, it's just another way of saying something. Change requires courage that could make substantive change but put your political life at risk.
Neither will go that far.