What did Barack Obama say about invading Iraq in 2002?

Obama's full speech is here.    What follows is a long excerpt from this October 2, 2002 speech: Saddam poses no imminent and direct threat to the United States, or to his neighbors, that the Iraqi economy is in shambles, that the Iraqi military a fraction of its former strength, and…

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NASA’s satellite photos of planet Earth.

Here's a composite photo of the Earth at night, published by NASA: The brightest lights correlate with the densest populations. No political boundary lines are visible, of course.   I once had a framed poster of this sort of image in my office.  One of my co-workers asked: "Did they take that…

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Who is better equipped to answer that phone at 3 am?

Larry David is convinced that it's not Hillary Clinton: Here's an idea for an Obama ad: a montage of Clinton's Sybillish personalities that have surfaced during the campaign with a solemn voiceover at the end saying, "Does anyone want this nut answering the phone?" How is it that she became…

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