Maybe not:
SUZANNE MALVEAUX: When it comes to reparations, would you take it a step further, in terms of apologizing for slavery or offering reparations to various groups?
SEN. BARACK OBAMA: You know, I have said in the past, and I’ll repeat again, that the best reparations we can provide are good schools in the inner city and jobs for people who are unemployed. And I think that strategies that invest in lifting people out of the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow, but that have brought applicability and allow us to build coalitions to actually get these things done, that, I think, is the best strategy.
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/7/28/obama_holds_brief_q_a_before
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Huh??
SEN. BARACK OBAMA: You know, I have said in the past, and I’ll repeat again, that the ...
Since he has no principles other than wanting to win and dominate all of us, and therefore needs to avoid getting caught in contradicting earlier statements that he can't remember, he starts many responses with this attempted preemptive phraseology.
If/when his polls slip and polling says he needs to shore up his base, the next time is will be: You know, I have said in the past, and I’ll repeat again, that reparations are a key aspect of my policy to redress the grave injustice done to African-Americans by the Bush-McCain slave masters and their predecessors in the Republican party ...