What he actually said:
"“What I’m not interested in doing is posing or pursuing some notion of American leadership or America winning or whatever other slogans they come up with that has no relationship to what is actually going to work to protect the American people and to protect the people in the region who are getting killed and to protect our allies and people like France,” Obama said.
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Those who read for meaning will easily see that what the President said made good sense. He is obviously saying that we need to DO the right things toward protecting this nation's people and the citizens of our allies and we must do more than simplistic sloganeering if that is to become a reality. Those who find another meaning simply have difficulty comprehending what they read, and especially those on point to pick at anything the President says and distort it.