Barack Obama actually said...

"Chuck knows that war is not an abstraction. He understands that sending young Americans to fight and bleed in the dirt and mud, that's something we only do when it's absolutely necessary. My frame of ..."

"And Chuck knows that war is not an obstruction. He understands that sending young Americans to fight and bleed in the dirt and mud, that's something we only do when it's absolutely necessary."

"I want to thank all the leaders of the House and Senate. In particular, I want to thank the work that was done by my extraordinary vice president, Joe Biden, as well as Leader Harry Reid, Speaker Boeh..."

"He wants to do immigration. He wants to do gun control. I mean, these are huge issues that take a lot of political capital to get over the finish line."