Barack Obama actually said...

Nobody is asking for a precipitous withdrawal, but I do think that it has to be a measured but increased pressure and a diplomatic surge tha...

Barack Obama used to say, we need to get out as carefully as we were careless getting in.

Nobody's asking for a precipitous withdrawal, but I do think that it has to be a measured but increased pressure; and a diplomatic surge tha...

Obama has been critical, though, of Clinton for not publishing her list of requested earmarks, whereas he has published his.