Atrios: 

If someone smarter than me can figure out the though process behind this I think we’d understand our preznit quite a bit more than we do:

I am, you know, amazed that this is a society which so wants to be free that they’re willing to – you know, that there’s a level of violence that they tolerate.

Translation: Well they haven’t hopped on the airplanes and left or called daddy to get them out.

Christy also has a translation on it.