Barack Obama actually said...

"As President Obama pushing to overhaul the nation's health care system, some Americans say the problem is not just getting the right care. They say it is racism."

"I think that there is a special sense for African-Americans of somehow connecting up with a part of yourself that you might not have even been aware was there."

"I think it's important that the way we think about it and the way it's taught is not one in which there's simply a victim and a victimizer, and that's the end of the story."

"You know, when I think about these development issues, they're not abstractions to me. I can put a face and a name to what people are going through."