Barack Obama actually said...

What we want is simply that people aren't hanging out in Afghanistan who are plotting to bomb the United States.

Interview With Michele Norris and Steve Inskeep of National Public Radio

05/31/2009

More Barack Obama Quotes

The United States Congress owes the American people a final up or down vote on health care. We need to see where people stand.

this as the Obama administration delays the start of indirect peace talks until Israel halts a new settlement project, announced during Vice...

The status quo on health care is simply unsustainable.

Presumably he'll be twisting with some elbows as Democrats try to nail down the votes they need.