America-bashing, or as Dems call it, playing to the base.

OBAMA: In our home country, slavery and Jim crow, all too often was justified in the name of Christ. Michelle and I returned from India, an incredible, beautiful country. Full of this magnificent diversity, but a place where in past years religious faiths of all types have on occasion been targeted by other peoples of faith, simply due to their heritage and believes. Acts of intolerance that would have shocked Gandhi, the person who helped to liberate that nation. So this is not unique to one group or one religion. There is a tendency in us, sinful tendency that can pervert and distort our faith.