Barack Obama actually said...

"There's plenty of blame to go around; and many in Washington and Wall Street deserve it. All of us now have a responsibility to solve this crisis because it affects the financial well-being of every s..."

"There will be time to punish those who set this fire."

"Barack Obama's been pretty consistent over the last two weeks. He had -- has been on the phone regularly with Secretary Paulson, who had asked him not to inject presidential politics into this."

"This crisis is a direct result of a philosophy that the people who've been running Washington, for the last eight years, have been following."