Barack Obama actually said...

"The vice presidency is the most important decision that I'll make before I'm president. And it's something that I take very seriously."

"This whole notion that I am, you know, shifting to the center or that I'm flip-flopping or this, that, or the other. The people who say this apparently haven't been listening to me."

"When I hear John McCain saying we can't surrender, we can't wave the white flag, nobody is talking about surrender. We're talking about common sense. We cannot be there forever."

"If you think he has, he says, you haven't been paying attention."