Barack Obama actually said...

"What it lifted up was the fact that Africa--all the stereotypes that it suffers under... when given an opportunity, Africa is a continent full of leaders, entrepreneurs, governments that can operate e..."

"The actions that took place in Darfur that resulted in, at minimum, hundreds of thousands of lives being lost."

"Al Shabaab is an organization notorious for its treatment of civilians and of the Somalia people."

"If al-Shabaab takes more and more control within Somalia, that it is going to be exporting violence the way it just did in Uganda."