Do people honestly think OBAMA will bring change when the elections have been like a pendulum democrat-rep?

Clinton did have great change I thought. He wiped out our dept. That's pretty impressive if you ask me. And what are the presidential candidates supposed to say anyhow, "when I'm elected president I will do nothing." I think nothing has been done in the past 4 years because of all the filibustering in which the president doens't have power over.