Barack Obama actually said...

"It is not contradictory."

"President Obama picked a rural family-practice doctor to be the next surgeon general. Dr. Regina Benjamin has spent most of her career working with the poor and uninsured patients at a clinic in Alaba..."

"I want to make sure that we have got the best possible strategy to succeed in a very limited aim. And that is to ensure that al Qaeda and its allies cannot launch attacks against the U.S. homeland and..."

"Look, I've had conversations with Bob Gates as well as Admiral Mullen about the fact that I want to see this law changed."