Barack Obama actually said...

"The profound mistake of Reverend Wright's sermons is not that he spoke about racism in our society. It's that he spoke as if our society was static; as if no progress had been made; as if this country..."

"I understand the anger. It's time for us to move to a new place."

"To the larger aspirations of all Americans: the white woman struggling to break the glass ceiling, the white man who's been laid off."

"But the anger is real, it is powerful, and to simply wish it away, to condemn it without understanding its roots only serves to widen the chasm of misunderstanding that exists between the races."