This made me sob

"She saw all this through the eyes of a child, undimmed by the cynicism or vitriol that we adults all too often just take for granted," he said. "I want to live up to her expectations. I want our democracy to be as good as Christina imagined it. I want America to be as good as she imagined it."

-President Barack Obama

She was a 9 year old. She was struck down in Tuscan a week ago by a gunman. She was Christina Taylor-Green.

I sob because this is so true. We have lost our best selves. And because this child will never see if we grow up to rectify our ways.