To elaborate on jsfox's response, the full (and correct) quote is:

Of course, not all my conversations in immigrant communities follow this easy pattern. In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. They have been reminded that the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly; they need specific reassurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.

And purely as an aside, I'm pretty surprised and saddened by your cynical take here, Billy. Obamanauts? Assuming those of us who support him are somehow ignorant of this 'black muslim sympathizer' and his true nature, what with all the wool over our eyes?

You're not a troll, so why buy into an obvious troll of a post? You've got better standards than that.

he and Axlerod have been through Obama's books line by line and can explain every one of them

I think they have to be able to do it in a good sound bite, otherwise the damage will be hard to reverse. Are they up to it? I don't know, because they haven't shown that side yet, they've focused on other techniques to get their base.

Even going back to before he was running, there is no evidence of him liking to do this. The only evidence I see is to the contrary. When he wanted to react to DKossacks, for example, he sat down and wrote a real thoughtful post and expected them to read it carefully. He doesn't like to be pinned down to sound bites on anything, is what I see. For another example along these lines, in "Audacity of Hope" there is a section where his dislike of answering litmus test questionnaires for Senators, he wants to nuance everything.

The upping of the already poor situation of national A.D.D., by the internet and the blogosphere, works against his approach. Making people wait in anticipation of a rally and then sitting through an inspirational speech is good for building a fan base. Expecting the general electorate to sit through a 1/2 hour nuanced retort on television or to read a lengthy nuanced defense as to an accusation is another thing. Heck, how many people on a blog like this actually read the whole article that someone links to and uses as a point of debate?

I'm not saying he/they don't have the ability, I am just saying that they haven't shown it yet if they do. It's just a little scary to me; in these times in this situation that the country is in, I've always thought he was a much riskier candidate than Hillary, because we just don't know what he can do or can't. Risky as in: there's the possibility of both a much higher return and a much lower return.

Comes to mind that his modus operandi would benefit greatly by having GOP endorsements or surrogates to speak for him? His leaked V.P. candidate lists might have right of center people on it for that purpose?

Oh and I should add that John McCain himself will never do the race card thing because of his adopted daughter; if he does, Cindy would take the kid and leave (I have read that the girl was quite hurt when much younger by the Bush surrogate Carolina stuff.) A McCain V.P. candidate of color would insulate him, though, for raising all the other baggage related to color, i.e., soft on Muslims and welfare leechers, that kind of crap. People also have to keep in mind that Obama is never going to get the avowed racist vote anyways so the straight racist stuff played on right wing talk radio is just preaching to the choir and not dangerous to his chances, those people never factor into it. It's the borderline stuff that is problematic.

I think you can say that he was promising to impose any effort to intern them the way the Japanese were during WWII.