"change is best when it happens gradually"
Not when serious change is needed now, and urgently. When you are headed full speed to the edge of a cliff you don't try to coast to a stop.
That being said, no matter who wins I think we have a bad economic outlook for a while. Obama may or may not be the person for the job, but I will take him over McCain- a man that has repeatedly flip-flopped on matters of principle, a man unwilling to admit the war was a mistake- any day.