Barack Obama actually said...

"My impression was that the president and the White House did an excellent job nationalizing the campaign. And I think you have got to give him credit politically for having done that very effectively...."

"This year, we mark the 60th anniversary of the end of the Korean War, a time when thousands of our prisoners of war finally came home after years of starvation and hardship and in some cases torture."

"We lost a young man, Michael Brown, in heartbreaking and tragic circumstances."

"What it comes down to is an assertion of status over the other. And that basic psychology that then gets institutionalized is used to justify dehumanizing somebody."