And what was amazing to me well it was pretty kickass he was killing a fly in the house with a gun but what was so amazing to me was that he knew just enough how to pump it.

Immediately after the killing, a military police officer allegedly yelled at one of the town residents, You damned Gypsies! while pointing a gun at him.

Finally, in his second year, Obama must, as he put it last summer in a speech to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), aim higher.

And it is an arresting fact that right across the board, in every single one of the major world faiths, compassion the ability to feel with the other in the way we've been thinking about this evening is not only the test of any true religiosity, it is also what will bring us into the presence of what Jews, Christians and Muslims call God or the Divine.