The State of the Union Address

Here he was, revealed as a man of great compassion, filled with nothing but the deepest of concern for those whose lives have been overwhelmed with pain and despair. 

Recounting the tale of one who traveled great distances, at unfathomable peril, to escape the atrocities of his homeland  so he could breathe the air of freedom and enter a universe a endless possibilities.

And yet this depth of emotion from our leader did not extend to those who happened to have fled the wrong leaders from the wrong borders.

Addressing parents whose teenage children were taken from them with depraved indifference by people with ready access to guns and a cruelty that knew no bounds.

But this message was not intended for the parents of those slaughtered by gunmen whose background did not neatly fit into his narrative.

Yes, Mr. President, we heard you suggest that your heart is bursting with love for your fellow man, that you have no greater calling then to end suffering and strife.

But then we know this to be but facade, that the words you read came not from your head or your heart but from a teleprompter. That your actions yesterday and tomorrow belie the script you recited tonight. That yours is a world that rejects and repudiates, vilifies and castigates, demeans and denounces. That is soaked in cruelty and callousness.

Mr. President, we were not fooled.