As usual the president failed to mention his abuse of executive power; the dangers of ever increasing surveillance; the widening drone war, pursued without accountability even in our own airspace; a secret hit list that includes American citizens who can be killed; the widening spiral of despair which is at the root of our violence (*gun control* is a happy phrase - Chicago has draconian gun control laws, and its gun violence is growing exponentially); how the killing of children for profit and convenience is of a piece with an almost psychopathic drive to destroy other people's futures we see throughout the financial sector of the economy; how especially the drive to kill children who are conceived in horrific circumstances, as well as those with Down's Syndrome, reflects an atavistic urge to vengeance and purity; how all these things amounts to an embrace of Nothingness, or better the Nothing. Of course, the president is not the Pope, but I would like it if, you know, the guy had at least an ounce of moral insight and courage.
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