Change: "An empty vessel waiting to be filled with the details of real life"

There was another nice piece in today's Washington Post by David Ignatius (not exactly a conservative firebrand) talking about Obama's Afghanistan policy from which the above phrase was taken. Read the Piece (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/07/AR2009100703044.html?wpisrc=newsletter&wpisrc=newsletter). At some point I will stop referring to the writings of others referring to the Obama promise of "change", as they all pretty much say the same thing, to wit, there is/was nothing there. In fact, inasmuch as George W. Bush made mistakes (and he made some whoppers), most of the time he at least he did something - and a lot of the time, just doing something is better than doing nothing. I believe that is what is called leadership.