Barack Obama actually said...

Now you can't do what George Bush did and say, I looked into Vladimir Putin's soul. You don't look into somebody's soul to make your foreign policy. You look at your national interests. And what's right for American security.

Context

Obama criticizes George Bush's approach to foreign policy, emphasizing the importance of national interests.

08/19/2008

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