"We do not know how long we've got here," President Obama said.

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2. It's a good message, all of it straight from heart to heart. It spoke so much of mortality.

But as I considered the hateful atmosphere in the USA, it was disturbing, almost prophetic. Prior to JFK and MLK, Jr. being taken from us, I didn't hear as many calls for their demise as I now hear and read by those openly calling for Obama's death, as if to wipe his name and all he has sought to do from the face of the Earth.

“From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia... could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years.

No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.”

~ Abraham Lincoln

And they killed Lincoln, too. Obama spoke eternal words, that transcend our temporary time on Earth, in a tone that I've only heard by MLK, Jr. in his last speech.

There are not many people willing to stick their necks out to be killed, and I predict there will be less with the hatred, pettiness and ignorance I see on display daily online. We are a degraded nation and Obama has been better than we deserved.