Epigrams on Hope and Change

The theme:

“Let he who is without sin…,” preachers are wont to say,
But Obama, though as holy, must’ve missed that day.

Change:

All will change, by the Obamas we’re told,
Is nothing then right? Can I be so bold,
To suggest (in mind that Countrywide loan)
That change, like charity, begins at home.

Hope:

A new era upon us, is that so?
But from all campaigning one thing we know,
A plain maxim, an old superstition:
Political hope is political ambition.