Obama's First Presidential Trip Overseas

This story about Obama visiting Indonesia sounds fishy to me... mainly because of this: "[Leary] said Obama told donors to 'imagine if on January 20, 2009 a guy named Barack Hussein Obama was sworn in on the US Capitol steps as the President of the United States, what that would say to the world, especially the Muslim world, about our nation.'" Plenty of people have said this sort of thing about Obama's candidacy, but has he ever said it about himself? Seems to me he scrupulously avoided rhetoric like this... but maybe not in private? Besides, what exactly is the meaning or utility of something Obama said two years ago to a handful of donors?