President Obama is against terrorism, hate. Blah, blah.

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So what?

President Barack Obama went to the United Nations General Assembly Tuesday and defended Democracy and denounced terrorism. Oooh. Aaaah. Is he for world peace and ending hunger also? Is he against hate? Big statement.

All the president really did in his long-winded, yet elegant way of speaking was defend, denounce, decry, dismiss and disapprove – but there was another D word missing from his self-promotional 4,044-word campaign speech: Details.

Because he offered none. There are no details on how to stem the violence he so disparaged and which all of us — even us non politicians — find so offensive.

While he “made it clear that the United States government had nothing to do with this video, and I believe its message must be rejected by all who respect our common humanity,” what the president of the United States and the most powerful nation on the planet — indeed, the supposed leader of the free world — needs to make clear is that violent reaction to some stupid faux artistic endeavor is absolutely intolerable.

While he sounded more like a priest when he said it was unacceptable to “respond in that way to hateful speech” which “empowers the worst of us” – or a scolding father, right? – he needed to sound more like a president.

Instead of providing common Miss Universe soundbites like “It is time to leave the call of violence and the politics of division behind,” Mr. Universe could have and should have said that we’re going to put an end to it. Period.

Because world peace cannot be accomplished with “hope” alone. If the president really wants to prove that his administration is about moving “forward,” then he needs to provide some forward-moving action.