It's funny how all the U.S. presidential candidates this year--Democrats and Republicans alike--couldn't proclaim loudly and ardently enough that they were the candidates of "Change."  (I mean, Mitt Romney, for pete's sake!)  One might almost have thought it was a bipartisan judgment on the last seven years, and a highly negative one on both sides of the political aisle--until one remembers that in American politicalspeak, "Change" means "more of the same."