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It is so apparent they are trying to paint him with a sweep of the easiest brush instead of acknowledging the complexities of society, a cpmplexity that Obama has repeatedly acknowledges lives in him. Religion, values, culture and whatever seems to be the easiest way to pigeon hole this non white guy. <br><br>Barack wasn't and isn't running to be the President of Black America. He isn't a spokesperson for ANY group. He is expressing who he is, which as far as I can tell is consistent with words he has chosen to describe himself. So I can find value in what he says, though I may not agree with it all. I can challenge his ideas while still having great respect for his willingness to speak when so many opt out.<br><br>Jesse [insert Spanish expletives] was not a leader that  I have EVER chosen. He occupies  leadership role though many times he has chosen questionable and unethical paths. I KNEW he was a WACK supporter of Obama when Baratunde was on CNN... he half gave Obama his due. Remember they ate up so much time so Jesse could have a GRAND ENTRANCE [insert Spanish expletives.] Straight up, Jesse Jr just became a leader to the next generation. Jesse Sr is pan tostado.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_23:24:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "evita", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "861527": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I'm not going to make generalizations about everybody's else's situation, but my Mom worked more than eight hours a day, and I turned out just fine.  Would I have liked if she worked less?  Of course.  But she doesn't agree with taking handouts from anyone, especially since it means you might have to sacrifice some of your privacy and autonomy.  And since she has always wanted children, she felt it was her job to do what needed to be done to sacrifice for them.  <br>So despite her long hours, what made the difference was good parenting.  It's that simple.  She taught me certain values at a young age, and I respected her authority.  She was also vigilant when she needed to be, and made sure that I had good influences in my life.  <br>Now, if my father would have been present and active, things would have been different.  She wouldn't have had to work as much to support my sister and I.  But from here, I don't see where the government comes in.      <br><br>And as far as program funding, it might take a will, but it also takes money.  And plenty of people are not happy that their paychecks are constantly being sliced and diced to support government programs.  I think a total overhaul is needed, and some of these programs should be cut.  And is the war really a good analogy?  We are in a huge deficit right now because of it, and we are going to pass it on to our children.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_23:20:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "ef781b639c890767ebd1ce99011c3afa", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 860762, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "849937": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I just saw the clip on O'Reilly.  And I hate O'Reilly so it pained me to tune in and I gotta ask, what the hell was Jessie thinking?  Why would you say something like that at all much less in the Fox studios?  It's gonna be played over and over again.  It's one thing to say you feel Obama talks down to black people (the first part of the statement), some here have said the same thing. And you can spin that if needed.  But you can't claim \"misspeak\" when you say you want to cut his nuts out.  That's just stupid.<br><br>And now O'Reilly is saying there is more which is even worse that they didn't play out of respect (?) to Jessie.<br><br>Sighhh!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_20:09:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "849938": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "And any Dem that goes on Fox should assume their mike is live until they leave the damn building!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_20:09:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "2bcfb68e46ed1c3e91653e7834aa2e5e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "850453": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Sullivan's comments don't bother me.   In no way does Sullivan demean black people in general or suggest proximity to black people is a problem.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_21:17:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "4762cbe7dafca8325c0b2260b9ed2b76", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "851990": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "pjamma:  Amen!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_00:55:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 850449, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "849945": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Agree with Nellcote. <br><br>And I'm for one tired of  irresponsible black fathers getting this knee jerk protection from the community. We talk about this problem all the time but the minute Obama says it and he should get his \"nuts cut off\"? Obama NEVER said ALL black fathers are irresponsible in their duties. He is addressing the ones that need to be addressed. Why is it ok to discuss the problems of other segments of the population but not the black men that don't take any part in their children s lives? <br><br>And Jessie Jackson has father illegitimate children so I would rather get my moral judgments else where.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_20:10:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "245857794a8d4da90a73fbb64352b916", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 36, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "851994": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Mari19:  YEP!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_00:57:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 850374, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "851483": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I just watched the video that someone linked to here and to me it looked staged.  It sounded like he said Obama was looking down on blacks with his faith-based initiatives and I didn't hear anything about the Father's Day speech.  At any rate, it looked staged.  Why in the hell would he be whispering while he's on the air?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_23:28:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "860762": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Is it really good for the collective for a parent to work more than 8 hours per day?  What happens when the collective feels the effect of a child who's been ignored by a parent?  A needy child is an emergency.<br><br>You say \"it\" in reference to goverment as if it forms an entity of it's own, with it's own rights that need to be protected.  I say \"us\" in reference to government.  Government is a tool.<br><br>As for program funding...all it takes is will.  You've waged a 5 year war in a sovereign  country that was not a threat.  The Iraq war has lasted longer than the 2nd world war.  There was a will to invade Iraq.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_21:35:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 858838, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "851998": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "And I disagree.  What do you look for in a community leader?  I look for someone who no matter what the obstacles went to one of the best collages in the nation, one of the best law schools in the nation, distinguished himself as one of the top in his class as editor of the law review, met and married a woman of a similar background who had similar achievements, made a whole lot of mistakes, including drugs, but admitted to it and spoke honestly about it, turned down corporate job offers to go back to his community as an advocate, became a state Senator, a US Senator, has two beautiful daughters, no affairs we know of, is positioned to be the next President of the United States and the biggest thing we as part of the black community can call him out on (based on the number of posts I've seen) is the fact he gave a speech about parental responsibility in a black church? <br><br>I don't know what more you are looking for or what more you want him to be but I personally think he is someone I want the younger people in my family to look up to as a leader and as someone to emulate.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_00:58:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 851847, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "852008": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "TRW:  I just joined the STANDING O!!!  Thanks!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_01:00:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 851676, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "849961": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>But Jesse, for real, didn\u2019t you learn your lesson about \u201cprivate conversations\u201d after Hymietown?</i><br><br>LOL<br><br>That just about says it all, dnA. <br><br>of course, as some folks said on the radio..<br><br>It's FOX NEWS. <br><br>How could he trust until he was OUT of the building that ANYTHING he said wouldn't be used against him. <br><br>Warren Ballantine tried his best on Stupid Campbell Brown's show. He's trying hard.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_20:11:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "887344": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Jesse demonstrated in Jenna regarding lynching. Black men were castrated also how may tell can an advocate of civil rights use that term so blatenly its just as bad as another black using the n work when refering to another black. Jesse may be you are suffering from dementia. And as for fathers responsibility i am one who constantly stay in family court trying to get assistance from my baby daddy and he will not work in order to not pay child support.  what obama missed was acculades to the women that are fathers when he made that speech in addition to honoring those men that are because we do have them. but dont let the media define who we are by dividing and concuring us in an attempt to distance us from Obama that we stay home and dont vote. read between the lines the media is hard at work.VOTE VOTE VOTE DONT LET DOWN THE ONES THAT DIED FOR US TO HAVE THIS PRIVILIGE", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-14_11:24:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "80a6866ac48c11f00dd5cabd31a62fe5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "849969": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You must have been listening to the same radio show I was listening too..that's what tha callers said..LOL", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_20:13:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 849938, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "850759": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Link to video of what Jesse Jackson Said:<br><a href=\"http://www.myfoxwfld.com/myvoicedc/2008/07/09/jesse-jacksons-comments-on-obama/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.myfoxwfld.com/myvoicedc/2008/07/09/j...</a><br><br>Jackson's press conference in full:<br><a href=\"http://www.myfoxwfld.com/myvoicedc/2008/07/09/jesse-jacksons-press-conference-on-obama-comments/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.myfoxwfld.com/myvoicedc/2008/07/09/j...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_21:50:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "e2926a6c063600608ed17130a5cf54ab", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "849971": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I think that it's ok to criticize Barack Obama.<br><br>But it's NOT okay to talk about cutting somebody's nuts off, or talking about somebody in a crude fashion like that.<br><br>And I can't help but wonder, would Jesse Jackson have used such crude language to or about a white candidate who's ideology he disagreed with?<br><br>The MSM playing this up is another part of the \"Barack has no nutz\" meme.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_20:13:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "5a42c8d71a4455fc970e73cdefe66e2e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "852021": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "evita:  BIG TIME SI!!!  Mad props to Jesse Jr.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_01:04:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 851459, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "851515": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "msmartin,<br><br>you.are.so.bad.<br><br>LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_23:33:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 851449, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "851010": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "What kills me about Obama's \"intelligence\" is this:<br><br>1. <br><br>\"parental responsibility and participating in their child's live\"<br><br>A man not being in the home mean that he is a deadbeat?<br><br>Is this intelligent man really going to reduce a group of people to a statistic?<br><br>2.<br><br>If we are looking at numbers then the breakdown of the family is an American problem? Why make a speech were you stand up in a conservative blakc church and berate black people?<br><br>He should have spoken to all American black, white, latino etc... but no the race neutral candidate made it a race specific problem.<br><br>I have a problem with that, sorry.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_22:24:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "6bc2a184a87faa5510b891e55f8de59d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 850185, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "849987": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I just watched the O'Reilly Report and the comments were crude, \"cut Obama's nuts off\", but it was about his position on Obama's faith based initiative.<br><br>Overall, no big deal.  Barack is not losing the black vote, as Jesse said, and the good reverend need a cup of STFU, from here on out.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_20:15:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "icebergslim", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "849992": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Hannity said he's going to play the whole tape on his show.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_20:17:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "5a42c8d71a4455fc970e73cdefe66e2e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 849937, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "859721": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This stuff is like watching a freaking perverse minstrel show with Bill Oreilly as rhe interlocutor", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_19:03:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "f6d50ae342150874d012a75380c50404", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "852043": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The economy is dependent on marriage - a religious institution - to provide for children.   When the religious institution collapses, the government must find ways to support single parents.   The only way Barack can effectively address this, is from the standpoint of the economy.  When he starts <i>preaching</i> about missing fathers, he's doing what has always been done to no effect...he is pandering to a group.   He is far too smart to not know the dynamics at play.<br><br>He knows talking about it is ineffective, and the only power he has to change it is in policy; however, he didn't speak on policy to that audience.  Barack's speech is not going to make missing fathers suddenly care.  Tired cliches - \"too many fathers are AWOL\" , \"too many fathers are MIA\"...c'mon! -  are not going to do a thing except please the cheering section of bitter, blue collar whites who think that black people are oversexed and irresponsible.....and angry, abandoned black women.<br><br>Oh, he can talk about it.  But I can also know that he's being a little weasel.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_01:10:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 10, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 851879, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "849998": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "What does this response have to do with anything?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_20:18:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "6bc2a184a87faa5510b891e55f8de59d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 849835, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "851537": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I couldn't resist rikyrah.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_23:37:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 851515, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "850002": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I don't think anyone get any points here.<br><br>Many believe in faith based initiatives, many black folks totally agree with Barack on parental responsibility.  <br><br>The one who lose points is Jesse Jackson.  He really need to chill.<br><br>And if they had more to play, which will come out, I can bet my paycheck that is a on Jesse, not Barack.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_20:18:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "icebergslim", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 849937, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "850006": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "They both have been and Jackson was caught off guard. He should have known better.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_20:19:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "6bc2a184a87faa5510b891e55f8de59d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 849846, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "852073": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "pjamma:  WELL SAID!!!!  Thanks!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_01:14:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 851998, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "850010": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "This is one of my many problems with Obama and his supporters. Yes, the old guard black leaders are out dated in a certain way but they have made it possible for Obama to be were he is today. His supporters and him to an extend take glee in the fact that his has distance from the black community.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_20:19:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "vixen", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "852060": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Quanli:  AGREED!  I saw a recent Tavis interview with[I forgot who].  The person was giving mad props to Mr. Obama and tavis kept ignoring them!  He just couldn't form his mouth to say 1 positive thing!  It was patently obvious that he had his HATE ON during the whole interview!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_01:13:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 851686, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "850019": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"Cut his nuts out\".....that's such an odd phrase.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_20:21:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 849937, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "852069": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "There are a lot of issues pertinent to blacks.  I could have pulled a bunch of cliches out my ass and  given the same speech...if I didn't fundamentally respect my audience.  This issue is talked about ad nauseum by preachers and people sitting on porches and women in fancy hats in congregations...It's not off-limits.  What has changed now that Barack has talked about it, except that bigoted, blue collar whites got a tingle?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_01:14:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 851700, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "850534": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "So the Dan Abrams meme is that Jess'e remarks are PROOF that Barack is an elite snob.<br><br>And Ronald Reagan, Jr. is calling Brad a fool.<br><br>This is a circus!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_21:26:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "850449": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "But how does any of this have anything to do with Obama trying not to be African American?  I don't think Obama ever said all black fathers are slackers.  I know Obama never said he wanted to distance himself from the African American community and from what I know three of the biggest joys in his life are his African American wife and children.  So maybe he says things that some people don't agree with but in no way does that make him less African American.<br><br>When are we going to get over degrees of Blackness?  My God, we are a huge diverse population and should not be judged of one mind.  And no matter what you think of my, Obama or any other African American's opinion you and no one else in our community should be the judge of just how African American someone else is.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_21:17:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 850360, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "851049": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Craig,<br><br>I don't even know what your voice sounds like, but reading this, I can almost hear the tone. <br><br>I'm feeling you.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_22:28:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 850908, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "851730": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Which one?  Please share.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_00:09:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 850941, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "852087": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Lots of children are SAVED from not knowing their fathers.  Children who are abused by their fathers, are abused by the fathers who stick around.  What are the statistics of present, abusive fathers?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_01:18:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 850643, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "850046": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I did not like Obama's speech and I felt that it was talking down. I agree with parental responsiblity because who does not but that as I keep repeating was not the reason why some do not appreciate Obama's speech....hello!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_20:25:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "6bc2a184a87faa5510b891e55f8de59d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 850002, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "852612": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Some Atheists even exchange gifts at Christmas. :)<br><br><i>\"Just because the relationship doesn't last the child is still here and<br>should be cared for by both parents, emotionally and financially.\"</i><br><br>Says who?  That's one of many social mores.   But humans have a funny way of disobeying rules.  Obama's vain speech changed nothing for those who disobey the social rules, and he knew it.<br><br><i>\"The government should be a last extreme result\" </i><br><br>I think of government as representative of the collective.  It's not in<br>the collectives best interest to have children uncared for.<br><br><i>'I don't understand. It's not an economic message it's take care of your<br>children. Doesn't matter what race or religious affiliation (or lack<br>their of). You brought it into the world, take care of it until you or<br>it leaves the world\" </i><br><br>If it's not an economic message, then what type of message is it?  Is it a moral message; if so, based on what?  Maybe it's based on an idea of what's <i>right</i>.  But how do we determine what's right, based on what criteria?  What if that parent decides that it's not right for them?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_03:45:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 852280, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "851478": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"The Republican strategist is saying that Jesse Jackson, who said that Barack was talking down to black people, provides proof that Barack is an elite snob.\"<br><br>\"It's not just a white thing anymore, you see.\"<br><br>-Thanks, CraigHickman.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_23:26:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "850567": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Sigh.  I've had this feeling for awhile now.  One of Barack's biggest impediments to the presidency will not just be the Republicans, it will be people who claim to \"support\" him.  <br><br>Besides the obvious irony about Jesse Jackson getting upset about Barack's speech about absent Black fathers, can we keep it real for once?  I get that many Black people don't like to be talked down to or used as fodder for racist White voters, but when will people start to openly admit, that the rampant irresponsibility by *some* Black men, AND women, is severely hurting our community. Despite what some may think, it is not a secret.  And I just don't how you can separate this moral issue from the policy issues that are related to it.  Yes, there are many single women kicking butt, taking names, and raising amazing children--my Mom being one of them--but I saw first hand how difficult it was.  <br><br>By bringing up children in that sort of environment, you are increasing the chances they will be raised in poverty (unless you have a significant amount of money to support yourself and a child), which will impact where they live, where they go to school, how soon you can advance in your career, and what type of health care both of  you will have.  So yes, this needs to be said.  We can't bemoan the state of our schools, when parents have no active roles in reinforcing the importance of education at home, and are not aware of what is going on at the school.  We can't bemoan the state of health care, when parents feed their children a steady diet of sugar and fat, and let them get obese, and we can't bemoan, our financial situations, when having children you can't afford significantly decreases your chances of being able to get advanced degrees/training/promotions, which will lead to better pay.  It's about personal responsibility.  <br><br>Enough is enough.  These young women and men, are having kids younger and younger now a days.  Maybe we need to bring shaming back, or honor to the family.  Because this is ridiculous.  It has become so normalized to have single parent homes, that many do not blink an eye, but it continues to have a negative ripple effect that is just getting worse.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_21:30:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "ef781b639c890767ebd1ce99011c3afa", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 10, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "852105": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yeah, & it's double weird coming from a \"reverend.\" There are some crunk men of God coming out of Chi this year! Thank goodness that politics is off limits at work, or whie co-workers would be asking, \"Does your paster ever cuss? Does s/he cuss during the sermon? Does s/he talk about privates? Does s/he talk about cutting privates? What kind of preacher talks about cutting privates? Do you think it's ok for preachers to cuss and talk about cutting privates?\" <br><br>SHUUUUT UUUUUPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_01:21:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "4d9312cd58c7caeb087835daea9d59b6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 850271, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "856203": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Correct.  Obama is not going to be Soul Brother No. 1.  All the more reason for black folks to push him hard on his policies before he is elected.<br><br>Obama and McCain have both committed to total amnesty (with a token \"back taxes\" payment of maybe $3000 - chump change)  of illegals and to letting them stay in America and keep working AND to bring their families here.  <br><br>This is going to be a devastating blow to our already overburdened now-multilingual school systems, welfare systems, and medical systems.<br><br>Obama, as a member of the Democratic Party (which 40 years ago was the working class party) can probably be worked on better than McCain.  And he should be.<br><br>As Booker T. Washington explained, America has a duty to black folks and ought to \"cast down its bucket\" right here in the black community rather than inviting aliens of questionable (or no) loyalty to this country. See:<br><br><a href=\"http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/88\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/88</a>.<br><br>Which also has a recording of Mr. Washington giving that portion of his speech in Atlanta,1895.<br><br><br><br>Mexicans are not going to stop sneaking illegals into the USA and protecting them.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_13:00:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "11cba5c2c37c77f486625bd29735779d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 855503, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "850063": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Obama is not a preacher, or community leader.    Obama is a presidential candidate.  For a Presidential candidate, the subject of missing fathers is inappropriate except in very broad, non-racial terms.   It is a social problem, better dealt with by social leaders.  Obama can only appropriately address this issue from the standpoint of policy...jobs, education, social programs etc.<br><br>I am surprised that anyone advised him to take this route.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_20:27:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 32, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 849945, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "850581": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "His speech did include policy prescriptions.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_21:32:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "faba19c60bc49948a7a5801b50c79fe1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 850063, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "851102": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Obama is getting critiized...and he should be.<br><br>I tried to bring up Obama's disingeneousness before today<br><br>Angela", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_22:35:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "Angela1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "852128": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I thought Jess had one child outside of his marriage, but I never got the impression that he left her hanging. He is too much of a public figure for that. They would extradite him from a foreign country during a hostage negotiation to arrest him for not paying child support & turn him into the dead-beat poster boy. I can't see him letting that happen.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_01:27:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "4d9312cd58c7caeb087835daea9d59b6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 849945, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "850082": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Well, if he has no nutz, then there's nothing for Jesse to cut off....therefore Jesse's comment is moot.  LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_20:29:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 849971, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "851820": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Aint it though. I need that chow chow, it's been years.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_00:23:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 851772, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "852142": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Maybe it will resinate more if it is said by a black man who overcame a lot of obstacles to become the probable President of the United States.  That's powerful.  And while we can appreciate the porch sitters, big hat wearers and preachers if they are in similar circumstances they can and have been ignored.  But this man is about to be the leader of the free world.  If he can't have an impact or at the very least speak out to a crowd and have his message resinate with young men then well thats too bad.  As a child of a single parent home (Barack, not me) if he didn't it would be ignoring a huge segment of the population who may need a new inspiration.  And the message is not on that needed to be exclusive to black men but all men and if you listen to it again it did address all men not living up to their responsibility.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_01:33:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 852069, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "852655": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>\"I refuse to believe that Barack woke up in the morning, kissed Michelle ad the girls and said it's time to sacrifice the black man to appease whitey.\"</i><br><br>I'm sure he just clenched his jaw, went out there and took care of business.  Barack is a grown man with children of his own...I don't believe it is personally cathartic for him to talk about his own missing father on the stump.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_04:05:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 852332, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "850101": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Wasn't the FISA vote today?  This silly story knocked it off he headlines.  I'm kinda embarrassed by how gleeful Wolf and Campbell looked when they talked about how crude it was.  LOL<br><br>I've wanted to cut Wolf's nuts off a few times this week.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_20:32:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 849786, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "850102": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Well hopefully other news organizations pick it up because I can not stand Hannity at all.  And no matter how bad I think the situation is I am sure Hannity will make it 100% worse.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_20:32:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 849992, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "852332": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I respectfully disagree.  Mostly because he is not lecturing. <br><br>I do known his speech is not going to change everyone but it may bring about a different discussion.   I would much rather hear the words he said come out of his mouth (as someone raised without his mother) then the poster boy for nuclear family, George Bush.<br><br>I refuse to believe that Barack woke up in the morning, kissed Michelle ad the girls and said it's time to sacrifice the black man to appease whitey.  Maybe if he was making up a situation that didn't exist and he wasn't personally familiar with then sure I'd be skeptical.  But he was speaking to a major issue that affected him and affects  families across race and class.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_02:20:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 852241, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "852157": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Craig:  Yep!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_01:36:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 851799, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "851651": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "He was speaking at a Black church.  There is a real problem in the Black community of fathers abandoning their children  Every one of my female cousins that are divorced have absentee fathers.  I am not unique in our community.   <br><br>It is an American problem, but the incidence in Black families is higher.  This is a fact we can only resolve by confronting.  Do not have a problem with the truth.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_23:57:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "b1e8e18ba31ae1e4c8fe371561db8970", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 851010, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "851654": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "How, when he has been talking about this consistently?  Why is everything about White voters?  or White people?  Maybe in the past yes, but now, not so much.  I would rather hear Barack talk about these issues, as they relate to broader policy issues, because they are in fact relevant.  <br><br>We can agree to disagree but the biggest obstacles facing the Black community is not White racists, it is Black on Black crime, the income disparity, the high school drop out rates, AIDS,  the deterioration of the Black family etc.  I could go on.  My point is most of these things we can control, but there seems to be a disconnect, and chaos within the community.  <br><br>These things need to be worked on internally by the Black community.  The government can't do anything significant to solve these problems, and by Barack acknowledging it, doesn't automatically mean that he is trying to sell Black people down the river.  Sometimes, the truth is the truth.  And just because you speak about one truth, doesn't mean it applies to a whole group of people.  If people can't figure that out, then that's sad.  <br><br>Also, yes, some Black people admit it and talk about it all the time, but it depends on which circles you run in.  Other Black people are still looking to the government to single handedly fix the schools, housing, etc, when its not going to happen.  It's just not.  We need to take initiative instead of waiting it out for the government.  I am basing this on my personal experiences, so I am obviously not speaking about everyone.  <br><br>I guess I am just frustrated about the things that I see everyday.  It just seems like people don't have perspective.  Instead of worrying about what White people think, we should be worrying about ourselves.  I mean what happened to us?  Our ancestors used to walk for miles, under the threat of violence from the KKK to get educated, and today it seems you couldn't pay some of these kids to crack a book.  We used to value stable family relationships, and responsibility to the community, and now we have an increase in pregnant teenage mothers with absent fathers, young girls getting all kinds of STDs, and HIV rates that are disproportionate to other racial/ethnic groups.  So, I want people to speak up loud in clear.  These things are unacceptable, and until more people find them unacceptable, we are going to be stuck in neutral for years to come.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_23:58:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "ef781b639c890767ebd1ce99011c3afa", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 850906, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "852167": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The racial dog whistle goes both ways.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_01:39:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 852142, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "851656": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I can't stand Campbell Brown. She will twist words and is always pretending to be digging for the truth when she is only digging for the negative...usually on Sen Obama.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_23:58:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "kenyaw", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 850101, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "850643": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Obama is doing this to dispell the myth that \"all\" blacks have no sense of personal responsibility.  You can't call for governmental help in poor neighborhoods without addressing some of the problems--one of the problems is absent fathers.  Does an absent father mean a child will grow up to be a criminal?  No.  But it doesn't help an already tough situation.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_21:36:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "happycozy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 850063, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "858838": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Wait.  Huh?  I am totally confused by this statement: \"When the religious institution collapses, the government must find ways to support single parents.\"  I totally disagree.  Instead of more government intervention in our lives we need less.  Historically, when people needed help making ends meet, they got another job, or made sacrifices in other areas.  And kept it moving.  Government assistance should be the last resort, i.e. in case of emergencies only.  <br><br>And to address your responses below, the government does represent its citizens, but we in should no way be looking for it to take care of our children.  It's about proper planning. And where is the money going to come from to sustain these programs?  I honestly think that within the next 10 years or so, a lot of these programs are going to be cut altogether, which should give plenty of people an incentive to take initiative.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_17:13:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "ef781b639c890767ebd1ce99011c3afa", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 852043, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "851783": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Agreed.  This just goes back to what happened when Barack first started running.  Andrew Young, another MLK Lieutenant, made several inappropriate--no scratch that, ignorant remarks about Obama.  He pointed out how Obama didn't have many Black advisers around him, while Hillary did--which I guess qualifies you to care about Black people or Black issues, i.e.  proximity to Blackness, he then went on to agree with Toni O's statement that Bill Clinton, was America's first Black president, and wait--\"Bill is every bit as Black as Barack.  He has probably gone out with more Black women than Barack.\"  Yup, he was marching right along with MLK.  I'm sure MLK would be beaming with pride.  <br><br>So, I'm with you.  I call bull.  Jesse Jackson can talk out of both sides of his neck about cutting off nuts and unequivocal support all he wants, but his comments (and other old guard civil right activists' comments) reveal that he is an egomaniac that refuses to acknowledge the changing landscape in America.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_00:17:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "ef781b639c890767ebd1ce99011c3afa", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 851686, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "855503": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"we DO need to address the childrearing issue. these things are FACTS. his father's day speech (and other occasions where he's raised these issues) may be uncomfortable for some to hear, but we need to \"get over\" the discomfort and start the very hard work of healing.\"<br><br>Obama is not running for the presidency of Black America. The Black Electorate has no such position in its ranks. If elected president, he will not be Soul Brother No. 1.  If he is still feeling any angst caused by his own father's behavior then he needs to address those issues in the privacy of a therapeutic relationship.  If he wants to address absentee fathers as a public policy issue, then he should discuss it in the context of it being an American problem, not a Black American problem.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_11:58:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "PTCruiser", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "851676": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Sorry, and I meant to add, no, Obama didn't invent this topic, but is that what should disqualify him from speaking on it?  I don't get that logic.  Especially since he has shared his own experiences about what the absence of his father meant in his own life.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_00:02:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "ef781b639c890767ebd1ce99011c3afa", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 850906, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "850142": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Wolf has nuts?  Who knew?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_20:36:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "03c199c607a1578bbac1d88a28cb1108", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 850101, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "850143": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Only this week, Truthseeker? You're a saint, then.<br><br>LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_20:37:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 850101, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "872673": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I think that we just have a fundamental disagreement on how the government should work.  <br><br>1) \"You already pay the taxes. The question is in how those taxes are utilized. I think there is a definite meanness component in Conservative ideology. They believe in punishment and shame as motivation for good behaviour.\"  <br><br>First of all, I think that it is a generalization to say that there is a component of \"meanness\" in conservative ideology.  How is it \"mean\" to expect people to take care of themselves?  And again, I go back to the fact that people are well aware that they have to pay taxes to provide for infrastructure, security, etc.  but many people do NOT want their tax money to go to programs that are enabling bad behavior, which they see as a dependent relationship on government assistance.  I was focusing my comments on Black people, but this goes for everyone.  And I will speak for myself.  I don't want the money that I make at my job to go to someone who doesn't know how or doesn't try to take care of themselves.  I guess that makes me mean, but that's fine.   <br><br>\"Not even the extremely wealthy are completely self-sufficient. They require infrastructure and the civilization it fosters in order to survive.\"<br><br>Of course no one is absolutely self-sufficient.  But people just want to take it back to the basics, and not throw in a lot of social programs that are doing more harm than good.  <br><br>\"It's in everyone's best interest to ensure that those people are fed and cared for. As a matter of fact, it's a bargain! If not, then that person will flounder, they may turn to crime, they may take someone's life, they may end up in jail.\"<br><br>That's just the point.  It's in YOUR best interest to make sure that you are fed and cared for NOT the government.  I refuse to subscribe to the belief that people can just be lax and irresponsible in their personal decision making, but its okay because its in everyone's best interest that they land on their feet so we should just pitch in and help them out.  Um no.  We need to go to the root of the problem.  And the root of the problem is that people need to make better decisions for themselves and take more initiative to invest in their future.  If you feel that your schools are inadequate, form a group/organization and petition the school board/hang out in the library as much as you can/or move.   If you feel that you need more money to live comfortably, look for ways to get training or more education or get another job.  And if you can't afford to have children right away, either invest in sound birth control methods or abstain.  These are things that individuals can do that have nothing to do with the government, but can change people's quality of life significantly.     <br><br>And when has poverty become an excuse for criminality?  And how is that a bargaining chip?  I should support these paternalistic social programs that I don't agree with, or these people may end up robbing/killing me later?  Again, I think it shifts the argument to the wrong group of people.  Instead of shaming others into thinking that it is their duty to take care of everyone in this way, we should be encouraging people to find ways to take care of themselves.    <br><br>\"Maybe Conservatives need to acquire some wisdom and understanding to go with their prejudice and greed.\"  This is another generalization.  Just because many conservatives believe in self-sufficiency doesn't make them prejudiced.  And just because people want to make sure the money in their pocket doesn't go to certain social programs doesn't make them greedy.  <br><br>But to sum up, I think we can agree to disagree.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-12_01:18:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "ef781b639c890767ebd1ce99011c3afa", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 867128, "depth": 10, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "850726": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "No he is perpetuating it. If he wanted to \"dispell\" it he would have made a positive speech about the many men who are never mentioned ever. He chose the usual rhetoric.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_21:47:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "6bc2a184a87faa5510b891e55f8de59d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 850643, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "851686": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "He's saying that because at least Obama is talking ACTION. For all the grandstanding Jesse does trying to live off MLK's back, what has he done for his \"community\" lately? I quite frankly do not care to hear about Obama's so-called pandering when these low lifes (Sharpton included) have gotten a free pass over the years. If Tavis Smiley had said the same thing Obama said word for word, he would have received nothing but a standing ovation. It is not about what Obama said, it is the fact that HE said it. Some people are still stuck on this \"not black enough\" and are too coward to come out and say it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_00:03:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "a43f021c11b2e6b394c6c3002f6cece0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "851691": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I see I'm not the only one who can't stand that nitwit. And, she is a condescending, race-baiting nitwit. Glad to see that someone else can see her blatant anti-Obama bias.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_00:04:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 851656, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "852209": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Word (1990's). For real.<br><br>Do we really need a lecture from Obama? How is this Presidential? Isn't this the same shit we've been hearing since the 1980's from Republicans? How has it worked for us?<br><br>I am sick of Black people demonizing other Black people, as if we created dysfunction.  It is insulting and condescending when anyone uses a lecture to Black people as a political touchstone for Whites. <br><br>If Obama wants to fix absentee father-ism, he might want to start with the fact that a hundreds of thousands of them are in jail. It's hard to parent from a jail cell.<br><br>This election has truly re-awakened me to the deep racism in America. Obama has to become the mouthpiece of the paternalistic white person, telling Black people how awful he thinks we are, in order for him to be taken seriously.  White people can't say it because they'd be deemed racist, so Obama and Bill Cosby have to say it for them.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_01:46:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "taritac", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 852043, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "850163": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>It\u2019s not that any one incident in and of itself doesn\u2019t make sense, but the larger understanding of what his candidacy means in racial terms seems to be that his proximity to us as a people is a problem.</i><br><br>I understand what you mean, but this isn't exactly a good example for that, dnA. Jesse bitchslaps him, on Fox News no less.....what's Obama supposed to do? <br><br>I ask that in all honesty. <br><br>I'm not about to get back into a debate about his Father's Day Speech. I agreed with it,and others didn't. I get that. Been there. Done that.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_20:39:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "851700": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "He was at a Black church.  His father abandoned him.  He lived in a community of Blacks where some fathers abandoned children.  How could he not speak about it.  Most Black men that are taking care of their families talk about this problem. <br><br>I do not understand why this issue is off limits to any, but avid racist.  All folks who want the Black community to thrive should bemoan the high incidence of father abandonment in the Black community.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_00:05:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "b1e8e18ba31ae1e4c8fe371561db8970", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 850063, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "852215": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Huh???", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_01:48:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 852167, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "852217": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "TRW:  Andrew Young made the \"Hater Watch\" on blacks4barack.  Also, Toni Morrison of \"Bill as 1st Black Prez \" fame, apologized for that very remark!  She is endorsing Mr. Obama - also on blacks4barack.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_01:48:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 851783, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "850171": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I didn't like Obama's \"speech\" either.  Still don't.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_20:41:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "03c199c607a1578bbac1d88a28cb1108", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 850046, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "850687": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "As if the emasculation of black men in America needed more assistance.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_21:44:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "nctodc", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "850185": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "If I had to try to make sense of it...Jesse's comment was in response to Obama's speech about parental responsibility and participating in their child's live so Obama's camp was saying this message is nothing new , it's what he has always said and part of his view is shaped by growing up without his father.  So whether Jessie cuts his nuts out our not he is still going to spread this same message. And if Jess is really apologizing then cool.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_20:42:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 849998, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "850700": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I think \"we\" are really over-analyzing this event...the mainstream-\"caucasian\" population probably feels sympathy for *O* right now.  Nobody (at least no man) wants to comtemplate being made a eunuch.<br><br>If Jesse had said, \"Let's cut America's nuts off,\" ala Jeremiah Wright, then there would be REAL trouble.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_21:45:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "Webb", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "852241": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Barack's speechifying on this issue isn't going to change a damn thing. I'm not trying to be nasty, but it is wishful thinking to believe that Barack's voice will suddenly show some wayward man the way.<br><br>I believe in Barack, and I think that he will be good for the country in many ways. However, all the lectures in the world are not going to fix poverty or drug addiction or crime, the main factors that challenge low-income families. <br><br>He knows this of course, and that's key, because to me, it says that he is only using his lectures to Black people to score political points with Whites.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_01:54:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "taritac", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 852142, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "850194": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Bingo vixen.  What good is it going to do to have an African American President if all he's going to do is try not be an African American?  The call it \"First Blackitis\" over at the Black Commentator.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_20:43:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "03c199c607a1578bbac1d88a28cb1108", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 850010, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "851738": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "So now Barack isn't even intelligent?<br><br>Surely you jest.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_00:11:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 851010, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "865563": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "i think coming from a Rev who cheated on his wife and produced a child his assuption of Obama is hypacritical especially when he uses the term moral. i lost respect for Jesse Jackson sin he smeared Martin Luthers blood on himself and lied and said Martin Luther died in his arms. He is an opportunist of the worst kind as his own son said sit down and KEEP HOPE ALIVE.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-11_11:49:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "80a6866ac48c11f00dd5cabd31a62fe5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "853276": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ok.  That's fine.  And now Jesse has apologized for his statements.  My point is that these people should know better.  People should think before they open their mouths.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_07:42:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "ef781b639c890767ebd1ce99011c3afa", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 852217, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "851750": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Nellcote,<br>I can't quite make the connection either. I just want to know who these prominent black leaderSSS are, because I only remember a leader. He distance himself from his pastor, which is really a personal situation.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_00:12:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "kenyaw", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 849835, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "850481": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Steele?<br><br>LOL!!!!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_21:20:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 850339, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "850217": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "How, exactly, is he trying not to be African American?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_20:47:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 850194, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "850225": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "There's so much theater going on in this campaign, it's hard to tell fact from fiction.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_20:48:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 850101, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "850229": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Today is his first day back! ...HA", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_20:48:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 850143, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "852280": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Uhm what? <br><br>Marriage is a religious institution? Except that atheists get married. <br><br>When the marriage collapses the government must support the single parent?  But what about the father/mother.  Just because the relationship doesn't last the child is still here and should be cared for by both parents, emotionally and financially.  The government should be a last extreme result.<br><br>I don't understand.  It's not an economic message it's take care of your children.  Doesn't matter what race or religious affiliation (or lack their of).  You brought it into the world, take care of it until you or it leaves the world (and there are some cases when you just can't ,like illness or abuse, and that is what the government is there, or should be there, to help with).<br><br>There would be no need for tired cliches if some part of what he was saying is true.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_02:07:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 852043, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "851772": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "It's hard out here for a pimp. LOL<br><br>I'm 'bout to make you some chow chow.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_00:16:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 851332, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "852286": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This is exactly what happens when folks like Rev. Jackson refuse to take a principled pubic position regarding a candidate for public office because they want access to that candidate if he or she is elected to office. If Jackson objected to Obama's Fathers Day peroration then he should have said so publicly instead of ducking and dodging.  I have made my objections to that speech quite clear to my friends and acquaintances. I also attended an Obama fundraiser this evening; paid my money like everybody else and ate fried fish, collard greens and corn bread. I had a good time. I will never like Obama's  Fathers Day speech and I don't intend to bite my tongue about it. <br><br>Suck it up, Rev. Jackson and be a man!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_02:08:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "PTCruiser", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "851778": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "If the he you are referring to is JJ he wasn't on air, he was off stage but his mic was still hot.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_00:16:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 851483, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "851187": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "What I didn't say earlier is that Obama is getting \"creamed\" more by is \"own\" than any other group.........\"what gives\"<br>Angela", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_22:47:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "Angela1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "850244": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Have mercy.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_20:50:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 849911, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "850245": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Sooooo, it is true that   \"people who live in glass houses[who procreate children in an EXTRA-marital situation] shouldn't throw stones [at a person who pointed this out when he wasn't even referring to him].\"<br>And is a REVEREND allowed\" to say . . \"cut his nuts out\"?  How is that SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE for the FLOCK????<br>And his apology?? \"IFI said anything . . .   You did say something inappropriate and outrageous and you said it to the ENEMY!!!!!<br>Mr. Jessie, Jr.  was most appropriate in his disgust, denunciation and outright \"BLAST\" on the Rev!<br>Whew!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_20:50:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 849945, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "850145": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ha!<br><br>Well to be correct he said cut his nuts out, which is just so much worse in my mind.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_20:37:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 850082, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "851785": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thank you!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_00:17:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 851686, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "867128": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<i>\"..but I think the argument is, we have gone way over the top with<br>government programs and government involvement in our everyday lives.<br>And with increased government programs, people have to pay for it in<br>taxes.  \"</i><br><br>That argument hasn't been made with supportive facts and evidence.  So, it is more of a 'prejudice' rather than an argument.  It's like saying black people are lazy ...but never providing measurement of their laziness in comparison to any other race.    You already pay the taxes.  The question is in how those taxes are utilized.   I think there is a definite meanness component in Conservative ideology.  They believe in punishment and shame as motivation for good behaviour.<br>Not even the extremely wealthy are completely self-sufficient.  They require infrastructure and the civilization it fosters in order to survive.<br><br><i>\"..And the next person doesn't make wise decisions, or fails to properly<br>plan for a child, and then seeks government assistance in the form of<br>food stamps, welfare, etc. when they can't make ends meet Many people<br>feel that these types of programs are encouraging bad behaviour.\"</i><br><br>It's in everyone's best interest to ensure that those people are fed and cared for.  As a matter of fact, it's a bargain!  If not, then that person will flounder, they may turn to crime, they may take someone's life, they may end up in jail.  At each step, taxes will be used to bring them to justice, and punish them.  It is far cheaper to provide food and housing.  The problem is, that even food and housing is used to shame and punish the recipients.  It is not the government's job to use the necessities of life to punish and mitigate \"behaviour\".  It is the government's job to make sure we maintain our civilization and keep ALL people moving forward.<br><br><i>\"So when people look at their situation, and understand that they made<br>sacrifices to live comfortably, to simply say that it is selfish to<br>expect someone else to do the same is short sighted.\"</i><br><br>It's short-sighted to preoccupy ourselves with what someone else does.  There are bigger fish to fry.  I don't care what choices they've made, I care that they have the opportunity to change course and move forward...whatever that takes.  Maybe Conservatives need to acquire some wisdom and understanding to go with their prejudice and greed.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-11_13:57:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 866203, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "851282": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Apparently, NO, Jesse didn't learn from \"Hymietown\".<br><br>It's time for him to make a graceful exit from the stage - he has run out and he doesn't have MLK's coattails to ride on anymore.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_22:59:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 849971, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "851799": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Craig,<br>Say it again.<br>I was clutching my chest when I first heard Jesse Jr.'s statement.<br>But it just let me know that Jesse Sr. has been picking all along in private and in public.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_00:20:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "kenyaw", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 850244, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "851289": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I didn't know Wolf had any cajones.  LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_23:00:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 850101, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "855901": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "1) He did speck to all of America<br><br>2) Here is the breakdown by race of the American problem:<br><br>The nation's out-of-wedlock birth rate is 38%. Among white children, 28% are now born to a single mother; among Hispanic children it is 50% and reaches a chilling, disorienting peak of 71% for black children. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, nearly a quarter of America's white children (22%) do not have any male in their homes; nearly a third (31%) of Hispanic children and over half of black children (56%) are fatherless.<br><br>So by shear numbers, yes it is an American problem.  But if you are  going to single out any race to make a point  the one with alarming statistics may be the one that you reference in your speech.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_12:30:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 851010, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "850271": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "It's particularly odd coming from a black man who knows that lynching often involved cutting a black man's nuts out. <br><br>And O'Reilly is the one who called for a lynching party on Michelle if she really hates her country.<br><br>If Barack loses enthusiasm from black voters, he loses the election.<br><br>Father's Day was last month. So we're still talking about it a month later because Jesse Jackson put his foot in his mouth?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_20:53:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 850019, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "850281": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I knew it would happen, but I  totally disagree with you.<br><br>But I still love you. ;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_20:55:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 850063, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "851818": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>It's hard out here for a pimp.</i><br><br>Oh Craig..<br><br>BWA HA  HA HA HA HA HA HA HA", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_00:23:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 851772, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "850284": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Miss_Opinion:  I forgot to co-sign in all my response.  Sorry.  :&gt;)  :&gt;)  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_20:55:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 849945, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "851833": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "How is he perpetuating it by addressing it?  His speech is not going to be the cause for the problems that affect the black community to continue nor the myth to be spread wider.  He may have highlighted it but I don't see how her perpetuated it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_00:26:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 850726, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "849786": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Andrew Sullivan isn't exactly a Barack supporter. Sure, he wanted him to win the nomination, but by his own admission, he's still open as to who he wants to be president. He respects McCain far more than I ever have and he's a libertarian conservative so he probably wants to endorse McCain, but McCain isn't giving him a lot of reason to.<br><br>Besides, Sullivan can't vote, so...<br><br>That said, maybe JJ did this on purpose.<br><br>Just sayin.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_19:44:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 9, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "850813": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"So the Dan Abrams meme is that Jess'e remarks are PROOF that Barack is an elite snob.\"<br><br>-Can you give more info on this (I'm watching BBC America right now, not Dan Abrams)?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_21:58:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 9, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "850303": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yeah!....\"He should keep hope alive\"??  He's pretty mad to say this about his father!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_20:59:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 850244, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "850817": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "TRW, great post.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_21:58:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 850567, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "851332": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Damn, just when I had recovered from that speech.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_23:05:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 850281, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "851847": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"...the race neutral candidate made it a race specific problem.\"  That statement from someone here expresses the essence of my problem with Mr. Obama.  He is not a Black community leader.  I'm disgusted at the idea of him lecturing us, advising us, or speaking for us.  He is a politician still desperately in pursuit of white votes.   When he talks about problems we face, instead of examining us, he should be talking about what institutional racism and the system are doing to our families and communties across this nation.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_00:28:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "0d5d85e101c841d7573113f8f8b89271", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "850826": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "if we can go a year without anyone saying \"i reject and repudiate\" <i>anything</i>, it will be true heaven.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_22:00:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "bigassbelle", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 849911, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "851339": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "So true, girl, so true!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_23:07:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 850063, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "851350": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "WTF.  You thought he was going to be the black people's president?", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_23:09:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 850194, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "866203": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "But I think that you are talking about the extreme of conservatism.  Of course we need people's taxes to contribute to basic infrastructure and the security of this country, which everyone benefits from, but I think the argument is, we have gone way over the top with government programs and government involvement in our everyday lives.  And with increased government programs, people have to pay for it in taxes.  And I don't think its fair to simply attribute people's concern about increased taxes  to meanness, selfishness, or small mindedness.  <br><br>Say for example, I wait to have children until I am married and have two incomes, or I am single with a significant income to support that child.  And the next person doesn't make wise decisions, or fails to properly plan for a child, and then seeks government assistance in the form of food stamps, welfare, etc. when they can't make ends meet  Many people feel that these types of programs are encouraging bad behavior.  That instead of restraint, responsibility, and sound financial planning, people are getting themselves into situations that they are ill equipped to handle and then turning to government assistance to fill in the gaps (this is a generalization, I realize there are exceptions).  So when people look at their situation, and understand that they made sacrifices to live comfortably, to simply say that it is selfish to expect someone else to do the same is short sighted.  Yes, we live in a collective society, but ultimately we have to take care of ourselves.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-11_12:38:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "ef781b639c890767ebd1ce99011c3afa", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 861610, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "851871": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "TRW, I think I love you.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_00:32:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 851676, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "851363": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Good lord!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_23:10:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "evita", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 849911, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "851879": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Truthseeker,<br>I mean this in a sisterly loving way but, says who?<br>That is what alot of people of all races talk about. <br>Divorced fathers slack off, unmarried fathers slack off. If 70% of black children are born out of wedlock and 55% of all marraiges end in  divorce then it is a valid point. It is a national crisis.<br>Where is this legislation that states that Senator Barack Obama can't talk about personal responsibility and government policy, jobs, education, social programs etc.<br>in the same speech, LIKE HE DID ON FATHER'S DAY?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_00:32:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "kenyaw", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 11, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 850063, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "861610": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Pass the deficit onto children, but no will to have invested that money into those same children in the first place.  Had that investment taken place, the children would be more than equipped to handle the much smaller debt incurred.  Instead, they will pay for what we haven't equipped them to handle.<br><br>Your pay cheque pays for an unjust war.  I don't hear a great outcry from Conservatives especially....the ones who are averse to taxes.<br><br>The model they propose has been tried before.  It was called the Dark Ages.  The advent of government, social programs, unions, law enforcement, health care system, fire department, public school,  has brought us to our present civilization.  <br><br>Now that we have reaped the benefit of that civilization, we look askance at the very institution that has made it possible: Government and taxation. <br><br>Now that we've made it safely out of infancy, have gone to the schools that others have helped build (surely your parents tax dollars alone were not sufficient to educate you) we look suspiciously at taxes.<br><br>It is meanness.  Selfishness.   Small-mindedness.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_23:38:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 861527, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "849835": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I'm not sure how Jessie saying something rude in public relates to Obama distancing himself from \"prominent black figures\" but here's the Obama camp response:<br><br>\u201cAs someone who grew up without a father in the home, Senator Obama has spoken and written for many years about the issue of parental responsibility, including the importance of fathers participating in their children\u2019s lives. He also discusses our responsibility as a society to provide jobs, justice, and opportunity for all. He will continue to speak out about our responsibilities to ourselves and each other, and he of course accepts Reverend Jackson\u2019s apology,\u201d said Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_19:52:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "2bcfb68e46ed1c3e91653e7834aa2e5e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "850908": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The Republican strategist is saying that Jesse Jackson, who said that Barack was talking down to black people, provides proof that Barack is an elite snob.<br><br>It's not just a white thing anymore,  you see.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_22:12:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 850813, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "851016": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Keep hope alive??", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_22:25:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "6bc2a184a87faa5510b891e55f8de59d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 849911, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "851891": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "ooohhhh you are so wrong for that one ms martin", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_00:35:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "Texas_Girl_in_LA", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 851537, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "849846": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I agree with your post, but let's not kid ourselves, it is part of the game, even though we hate it, that a large segment of the \"majority\" population does not like Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton.  It's sad but true.<br><br>What's funny is that I was just thinking a few weeks ago when all this FISA brouhaha started that it has been relatively quiet on the Al and Jesse front, even considering the Sean Bell incident, and the new Imus incident, it seems to me that \"the Revs\" were being pretty quiet.  I figured that they were trying to keep a low profile so as to not be a \"distraction\" or \"problem\" for Obama's campaign.<br><br>Well, there goes that line of thinking...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_19:53:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "lamh", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "850360": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Listen to what Jesse said minus the nuts part pjamma.  Jesse dissing<br>Barack Obama is the gift that will keep on giving. <br><br>I want to say this about black fathers and responsibility.  I can count on one <br>hand the number of fathers I know personally who aren't taking care of their<br>children, Obama's father being one of them.<br>I believe the number of responsible black fathers out number the slackers.<br>I also believe the question should be asked why some fathers aren't being<br>responsible.  Is it because they are products of failing public schools and<br>have no education nor skills?  Is it because they have a felony record and<br>can't find employment?  Is it because the illegal immigrants are taking their<br>jobs?  It's easy  to talk about what people are not doing, but that doesn't <br>help the situation.  Let's talk about solutions to the problem, not the problem.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_21:06:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "03c199c607a1578bbac1d88a28cb1108", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 850217, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "851902": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "micheline,<br><br>Somehow no one heard that portion of the speech.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_00:36:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "kenyaw", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 850581, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "850374": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Jesse Jackson should have talk to Obama personally if he had any beef with Obama. But, what does Jesse do instead the man goes and complains to a Foxnews reporter. Hell, Jesse should have just  attended a Klan gathering to voice his opinions about Obama. Because all Fox News = Klux Klux Klan Network. <br><br>No matter how much truth Jesse spoke about Obama he still did it on anti-Black news network.  Jesse screwed up!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_21:07:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "200f26fc2c716a0708ead00f1011686e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "851959": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Me either!!!!  So ta-rue!!!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_00:48:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 851656, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "851919": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "So he can talk openly about war, healthcare, education, border issues, immigrants (who are mostly mexican), religion, rural folk, but when it comes to the one group and experience he is most familiar with, parenting and the lack of of paternal figure specifically as a black man in America it is off limits because it hurts people feelers?  And even though the majority of the speech did not focus on the black community but the society as a whole, if he does address personal responsibilty it is all about dissing the black folk for the white voter? WTFever.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_00:40:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 850906, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "854992": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "i thought the obama campaign's response to this incident was principled and decent.  it was in no way a \"distancing\" of barack from jesse jackson.  he accepted his apology and moved on.  i also don't think that overall obama has distanced himself from all things black...actually, to the contrary...  the issues he plans to address and correct as president have disproportionately negative impacts on black communities (he mentions this)...so i don't get it.  i appreciate the fact that we have the VERY REAL possibility of having  a president who is not only AWARE of \"our\" issues, but who intends to address them!  how is that distancing?  our marriage rates HAVE plummeted...we DO need to address the childrearing issue.  these things are FACTS. his father's day speech (and other occasions where he's raised these issues) may be uncomfortable for some to hear, but we need to \"get over\" the discomfort and start the very hard work of healing.  <br><br>that's my humble opinion.  this is my first time reading this blog.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_11:13:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "99bcec632769e483ead5faa515e84132", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "850386": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"I think that it's ok to criticize Barack Obama.\"<br><br>\"But it's NOT okay to talk about cutting somebody's nuts off, or talking about somebody in a crude fashion like that.\"<br><br>-Town, that is a very cutting remark.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_21:09:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "850339": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Sharpton and Steele on Hannity right now (yes I caved and turned it on).", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_21:03:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "851413": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "rikyrah,<br><br>I've been doing a lot of \"yawning\" at so many of the comments in this thread.<br><br>If Barack were the first major party candidate for president who happened to be Jewish, I wonder how many Jewish Americans would be attacking him from all sides and wanting to cut his nuts off. <br><br>Just saying.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_23:16:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 851049, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "856024": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Booker T Washington had a good deal to say about facing uncomfortable race truths, the need to deal with white folks honestly and forthrightly (after all, it's not like white folks can't see it, too) and how many white folks, even though they are racists, want the best for their communities, which does involve the uplift of the black race.  Perhaps Obama is following Mr. Washington's footsteps and not Jesse's or Al's.  See:<br><br><a href=\"http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/washeducation/washing.html#wash42\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/washeducation/washi...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_12:42:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "11cba5c2c37c77f486625bd29735779d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 851654, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "850906": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "We admit it and many talk about it on a regular basis. I talk about it all the time. Trust me its spoken about and admitted! <br><br>Obama did not invent this topic. In this case I believe that he was talking down to blacks and using us as fodder for racist white voters.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_22:12:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "6bc2a184a87faa5510b891e55f8de59d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 850567, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "850396": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "you're braver than me.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_21:11:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 850339, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "851934": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I just gave you a standing ovation.  Thank you for saying exactly what should have been said in exactly the right way.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_00:41:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "8ac3b04770a5837ca2b9ae28c7e0dee1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 851676, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "851937": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thanks :)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_00:42:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "ef781b639c890767ebd1ce99011c3afa", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 851871, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "851944": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I ain't saying nothing.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_00:44:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 851449, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "851946": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"like basic.\"<br><br>Please define your terms.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_00:44:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 850941, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "851440": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Or which fellow Jew would say:<br><br>\"I want to gas him up.\"<br><br><br>I'm thinking zero, actually.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_23:22:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "5a42c8d71a4455fc970e73cdefe66e2e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 851413, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "850932": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LOL", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_22:15:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "5a42c8d71a4455fc970e73cdefe66e2e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 850386, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "851957": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "It <i>was</i> staged.<br><br>And you're right, there was no reference to Father's Day in the clip.<br><br>Didn't  I say that both sides know how to wag the dog?", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_00:47:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 851483, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "856054": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "you clearly misunderstood my comments.  i am thoroughly aware (and grateful) that barack obama isn't running as the black people's president.  and...you conveniently left out the part where i wrote that these issues have a DISPROPORTIONATELY negative impact on black (and brown) communities.  that--in my view--is the key piece of this, and probably why barack feels comfortable in discussing it.  frankly, it would be irresponsible of him NOT to.   i'm very sensitive to black people being painted in a pathological light, as it's been done by so-called \"social scientists\" before in attempts to justify punitive public policy.  however, i've listened to barack's speeches/rallies/etc. and  i feel that he's treated the topic in a respectful, positive way. <br><br>issues of privacy notwithstanding (and i daresay any person abandoned by their father probably always owns a little \"angst\") , it's about time that parental responsibility gets a national stage.  sweeping it under the rug has not worked well.<br><br>an aside:  reading about your fundraiser made me HUNGRY!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_12:46:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "99bcec632769e483ead5faa515e84132", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "849911": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Jesse Jackson JR via the LA Times:<br><br>His comments triggered condemnation from an unexpected source: Rep. Jesse L. Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.), Jackson's son.<br><br>In a statement released by his office, Jackson Jr. said he was \"deeply outraged and disappointed in Rev. Jackson's reckless statements about Sen. Barack Obama.\"<br><br>\"His divisive and demeaning comments about the presumptive Democratic nominee -- and I believe the next president of the United States -- contradict his inspiring and courageous career,\" the congressman said.<br><br>\"Rev. Jackson is my dad and I'll always love him,\" he said. \"He should know how hard that I've worked for the last year and a half as a national co-chair of Barack Obama's presidential campaign. So I thoroughly reject and repudiate his ugly rhetoric. He should keep hope alive and any personal attacks and insults to himself.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_20:04:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "2bcfb68e46ed1c3e91653e7834aa2e5e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "851449": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Well..........from the looks of what I saw in that Access interview yesterday, Jesse got some work on his hands.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_23:23:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 851413, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "851962": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I guess you don't read. Because Barack has written quite a bit about these things.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_00:49:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 851847, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "850941": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Some of you guys are like basic. It is about time and place and the way in which something is framed.<br><br>Also are any of you aware of the study that was widely circulated in Newsweek?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-09_22:16:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "6bc2a184a87faa5510b891e55f8de59d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}}, "integration": {"receiver_url": "", "theme": 4, "reply_position": true, "disqus_logo": false}, "timer": {"timer_url": "http://localhost:8005", "thread_id": "1769708", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "21630", "hash": -4144587090177619859}, "thread": {"days_alive": 0, "slug": "and_another_one", "paginate": false, "num_pages": 1, "num_posts": 152, "per_page": 0, "total_posts": 0, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 1769708, "queued": false}, "reactions_limit": 10, "context": {"show_reply": true, "use_fb_connect": true, "forum_facebook_key": "bd6a8bc56f8eb204984f34b6fefe228d", "use_yahoo": false, "subscribed": false, "use_twitter_signin": true, "use_openid": false, "realtime_speed": 5000}, "reactions_start": 0, "settings": {"debug": false, "disqus_url": "http://disqus.com", "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"}, "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"};
	/* */ this.jsonData.cookie_messages = {"user_created": null, "post_has_profile": null, "post_twitter": null, "post_not_approved": null}; this.jsonData.session = {"url": null, "name": null, "email": null}; /* */

	
	this.curPageId = 'dsq-comments';

	this.frames = {};
};

var disqus_popup_reference = null;

if(typeof DsqLocal == 'undefined') {
	DsqLocal = {};
}



/**
 * Dsq.Strings: UI strings
 */
Dsq.Strings = new function() {
	this.ADD_NEW_COMMENT = "Add New Comment";
	this.LOG_INTO_DISQUS = "Log into DISQUS";
	this.USE_MEDIA = "Use Media";
	this.LOGOUT = "Logout";
	this.SHARING_OPTIONS = "Sharing options";
	this.SHARE_ON = "Share on";
	this.TWEET_THIS_COMMENT = "Tweet this comment";
	this.SHARE_ON_NEWSFEED = "Share on news feed";
	this.SEND_UPDATE_TO_YAHOO = "Send update to Yahoo!";
	this.REBLOG_ON = "Reblog on";
	this.CONFIGURE_OPTIONS = "Configure options";
	this.POST_AS = "Post as";
	this.SORT_BY = "Sort by";
	this.SUBSCRIBE_BY_EMAIL = "Subscribe by email";
	this.SUBSCRIBE_BY_RSS = "Subscribe by RSS";
	this.POPULAR_NOW = "Popular now";
	this.BEST_RATING = "Best Rating";
	this.NEWEST_FIRST = "Newest first";
	this.OLDEST_FIRST = "Oldest first";
	this.HIGHLIGHTED = "Highlighted";
	this.UNSUBSCRIBE = "Unsubscribe";
	this.REQUIRED = "Required";
	this.OPTIONAL = "Optional";
	this.YOU_ARE_COMMENTING_AS_A = "You are commenting as a";
	this.LOGIN_BELOW = "Login below";
	this.PLEASE_LOGIN_BELOW_TO_COMMENT = "Please login below to comment.";
	this.SUBSCRIBE_TO_ALL_COMMENTS_BY_EMAIL = "Subscribe to all comments by email";
	this.DO_NOT_SUBSCRIBE_TO_COMMENTS = "Do not subscribe to comments";
	this.REALTIME_UPDATING_IS = "Real-time updating is";
	this.ENABLED = "enabled";
	this.PAUSED = "paused";
	this.PAUSE = "Pause";
	this.RESUME = "Resume";
	this.SHOW = "Show";
	this.JUST_NOW = "Just now";
	this.REPLY = "Reply";
	this.EDIT = "Edit";
	this.FLAG = "Flag";
	this.MODERATE = "Moderate";
	this.CANCEL = "Cancel";
	this.REPLYING_TO = "Replying to";
	this.REPORT_MISSING_REACTIONS = "Report missing reactions";
	this.POST_A_COMMENT = "Post a comment";
	this.FLAG_INAPPROPRIATE_COMMENT = "Flag inappropriate comment";
	this.FLAGGED = "Flagged";
	this.NO = "No";
	this.YES = "Yes";
	this.NEVER_MIND = "Never mind";
	this.ARE_YOU_SURE_YOU_WOULD_LIKE_TO_REPORT_THIS_COMMENT_TO_A_MODERATOR = "Are you sure you would like to report this comment to a moderator";
	this.THIS_WILL_FLAG_COMMENTS_FOR_MODERATORS_TO_TAKE_ACTION = "This will flag comments for moderators to take action";
	this.TO_RATE_PLEASE_LOG_IN = "To rate, please log in";
	this.JUST_A_MOMENT = "Just a moment...";
	this.GUEST = "Guest";
	this.NAME = "Name";
	this.EMAIL = "Email";
  this.WEBSITE = "Website";
  this.SETTINGS = "Settings";
  this.MODERATOR_OPTIONS = "Moderator options: ";
};
// Dsq.Strings

/**
 * Dsq.FmtStrings: functions that return interpolated UI strings
 */
Dsq.FmtStrings = new function() {
	// Seems we have to use named interpolation for Django to translate. Investigate more.
	this.LOGGED_IN_AS = function(username) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate('Logged in as %(username)s', {username:username});
	};

	this.LOGOUT_FROM = function(disqus) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate('Logout from %(disqus)s', {disqus:disqus});
	};

	this.SHOWING_COMMENTS_FULL = function(total, num) {
		if (num === 1) {
			return Dsq.Utils.interpolate("Showing <span id='dsq-num-posts'>%(num)s</span> of <span id='dsq-total-posts'>%(total)s</span> comment", {num:num, total:total});
		} else {
			return Dsq.Utils.interpolate("Showing <span id='dsq-num-posts'>%(num)s</span> of <span id='dsq-total-posts'>%(total)s</span> comments", {num:num, total:total});
		}
	};

	this.SHOWING_COMMENTS_WITHOUT_PAGINATION = function(num) {
		if (num === 1) {
			return Dsq.Utils.interpolate("Showing <span id='dsq-num-posts'>%(num)s</span> comment", {num:num});
		} else {
			return Dsq.Utils.interpolate("Showing <span id='dsq-num-posts'>%(num)s</span> comments", {num:num});
		}
	};

	this.NUMBER_OF_COMMENTS = function(num) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
			(num == 1
				? '%(num)s comment'
				: '%(num)s comments'
			), {num:num});
	};

	this.NUMBER_OF_LIKES = function(num) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
			(num == 1
				? '%(num)s like'
				: '%(num)s likes'
			), {num:num});
	};

	this.NUMBER_OF_POINTS = function(num) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
			(num == 1
				? '%(num)s point'
				: '%(num)s points'
			), {num:num});
	};
};
// Dsq.FmtStrings





Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN = '3a1994e3330279e78957da82fb64f754';
Dsq.COMMENTS_RE = /(<li.*?id="?dsq-comment-(\d+)"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*?)(<\/li>)/gim;
Dsq.POST_RE = /(<div.*?id="?dsq-comment-header-(\d+)"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*?)(<\/div>)\s*(<div.*?class="?dsq-comment-body"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*)(<\/div>)/gim;
Dsq.POST_BODY_RE = /\s*(<div.*?id="?dsq-comment-message-(\d+)"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*)(<\/div>)/gim;
// HACK: Safari ends with "-->" while other browsers end with "--&gt;" as expected.
Dsq.MEDIA_POST_RE = /&lt;!--\[(.*?)\]--(?:>|&gt;)/gim;



var FragmentPacket = function(reader, writer, writer_url, is_child, receiveCallback) {
	var that = this;
	this.reader = reader;
	this.writer = writer;
	this.writer_url = writer_url;

	this.is_child = is_child || false;
	this.receiveCallback = receiveCallback;

	this._lastHash = null;

	this._accumMsg = '';

	this._lastSeqno = 0;

	this.MAX_DATA_LEN	= 1024;

	this.WAIT_TIME		= 10;

	this.READY		= 0x1;
	this.WRITING	= 0x2;
	this.FIN		= 0x4;
	this.ACK		= 0x8;

};

FragmentPacket.prototype.createListener = function() {
	var that = this;
	var listener = function() {
		that.recv();
	};
	return window.setInterval(listener, 10);
};

FragmentPacket.prototype.log = function(msg) {



};

FragmentPacket.prototype.recv = function() {
	var hash;
	if (/MSIE/.test(navigator.userAgent)) {

		hash = this.reader.name;
	} else {

		var hashIndex = this.reader.location.href.indexOf('#');
		if (hashIndex == -1) {
			return;
		}
		hash = this.reader.location.href.substring(hashIndex+1);
	}
	var flags = parseInt(hash.substring(0, 4), 10);
	var seqno = parseInt(hash.substring(4, 24), 10);
	var data  = hash.substring(24);

	if (this._lastHash !== hash) {
		this._lastHash = hash;
		this.log('recv: ' + hash);

		this.log(' flags: ' + flags);
		this.log(' seqno: ' + seqno + ' len: ' + hash.substring(4, 24).length + ' (' + hash.substring(4, 24) + ')');
		this.log(' data: ' + data + ' len: ' + data.length);

		this._lastSeqno = seqno;

		if (flags & this.WRITING) {
			this._accumMsg += data;
			this.sendFlag(this.ACK, seqno);
			if (flags & this.FIN) {
				this.log('recv finished: ' + decodeURIComponent(this._accumMsg));
				this.receiveCallback(decodeURIComponent(this._accumMsg));

				this._accumMsg = '';

				this.sendFlag(this.READY | this.ACK, this._lastSeqno);
			}
		}
	}

	return {
		flags: flags,
		seqno: seqno,
		data: data
	};
};

FragmentPacket.prototype.sendRawPacket = function(packet) {
	if (/MSIE/.test(navigator.userAgent)) {
		this.writer.name = packet;
	} else {

		this.writer.location.href = this.writer_url + '#' + packet;
	}

};

FragmentPacket.prototype.sendFlag = function(flag, seqno) {
	this.sendRawPacket(this._zerofill(flag, 4) + this._zerofill(seqno, 20));
};

FragmentPacket.prototype.send = function(msg) {
	this._send(0, encodeURIComponent(msg));
};

FragmentPacket.prototype._send = function(packetNum, msg) {
	var that = this;
	var recvBuf = this.recv();

	if (packetNum === 0) {

		if (!(recvBuf.flags & this.READY)) {
			this.log('client is not ready, waiting...');
			window.setTimeout(function() { that._send(packetNum, msg); }, this.WAIT_TIME);
			return;
		}
	} else {

		if (!( (recvBuf.flags & this.ACK) && (recvBuf.seqno === this._lastSeqno) )) {
			this.log('waiting for ack from client...');
			window.setTimeout(function() { that._send(packetNum, msg); }, this.WAIT_TIME);
			return;
		} else {
			this.log('received ack: ' + this._lastSeqno + ' ' + recvBuf.seqno);
		}
	}

	var flags = this.WRITING;
	var num_packets = Math.ceil(msg.length / this.MAX_DATA_LEN);
	this.log('num_packets: ' + num_packets);

	if (num_packets === packetNum) {

		this.log('message successfully sent!');
		this.sendFlag(this.READY | this.ACK, this._lastSeqno);
		return true;
	}

	this._lastSeqno++;

	if (packetNum == num_packets-1) {
		flags |= this.FIN;
	}

	var data = msg.substring(packetNum * this.MAX_DATA_LEN, (packetNum+1) * this.MAX_DATA_LEN);
	var packet = this._zerofill(flags, 4) + this._zerofill(this._lastSeqno, 20) + data;

	this.log('sending raw packet: ' + packet);
	this.sendRawPacket(packet);

	return this._send(packetNum + 1, msg);
};

FragmentPacket.prototype._zerofill = function(num, width) {
	var retval = num.toString();
	var retval_len = retval.length;
	for (var i = 0; i < width - retval_len; i++) {
		retval = '0' + retval;
	}
	return retval;
};

var PostMessagePacket = function(receiver, receiveCallback, id, receiverId) {
	var that = this;
	this.receiver = receiver;
	this.receiveCallback = receiveCallback;
	this.id = id;


	this.receiverId = receiverId;
};

PostMessagePacket.prototype.createListener = function() {
	var that = this;

	var listener = function(e) {

		if (!that.id) {
			that.id = e.data;
			return;
		}


		var id = e.data.split(';')[0];
		if (id !== that.id) {
			return;
		}
		var data = e.data.substring(e.data.indexOf(';') + 1);

		that.receiveCallback(data);
	};

	if (typeof window.attachEvent == 'function') {
		window.attachEvent('onmessage', listener);
	} else if (typeof window.addEventListener == 'function') {
		window.addEventListener('message', listener, false);
	} else {
		throw new Error('No method found to create event listener for PostMessagePacket.');
	}
};

PostMessagePacket.prototype.send = function(msg) {



	var needs_reget = false;
	try {
		if (typeof this.receiver.id == 'undefined' || typeof this.receiver.postMessage == 'undefined') {
			needs_reget = true;
		}
	} catch(e) {


	}
	if (needs_reget && typeof this.receiverId != 'undefined') {
		this.receiver = document.getElementById(this.receiverId).contentWindow;
	}

	var packet;
	if (!msg) {

		packet = this.id;
	} else {
		packet = this.id + ';' + msg;
	}
	this.receiver.postMessage(packet, '*');
};

PostMessagePacket._last_unique_id = null;
PostMessagePacket._get_unique_id = function() {
	var id = (new Date()).getTime();
	if (id == PostMessagePacket._last_unique_id) {
		id++;
	}
	PostMessagePacket._last_unique_id = id;
	return id.toString();
};

var JsonRpc = function() {

	this.ids = {};

	this.objectToJSON = function(obj) {
		var json = '';
		var results = [];

		if (obj === undefined || obj === null) {
			return 'null';
		}

		switch (obj.constructor) {
			case Object:
				for (var property in obj) {
					if (obj.hasOwnProperty(property)) {
						results.push(this.objectToJSON(property) + ': ' + this.objectToJSON(obj[property]));
					}
				}
				json = '{' + results.join(', ') + '}';
				break;
			case Array:
				for (var i = 0; i < obj.length; i++) {
					results.push(this.objectToJSON(obj[i]));
				}
				json = '[' + results.join(', ') + ']';
				break;
			case Number:
			case Boolean:
				json = obj.toString();
				break;
			case String:

				var specialChars = {'\b': '\\b', '\t': '\\t', '\n': '\\n', '\f': '\\f', '\r': '\\r', '\\': '\\\\'};

				json = obj.replace(/[\x00-\x1f\\]/g, function(match) {
					var ch = specialChars[match];
					return ch ? ch : '\\u00' + match.charCodeAt().toPaddedString(2, 16);
				});

				json = '"' + json.replace(/"/g, '\\"') + '"';
				break;
			default:

				json = 'null';
				break;
		}

		return json;
	};

	this.createHandler = function(send_func, registered_funcs) {
		var that = this;
		var handler = function(message) {

			try {
				var rpc = eval('(' + message + ')');
			} catch(e) {
				alert('bad JSON: ' + message);
				return;
			}
			if (rpc.method) {

				if (!registered_funcs[rpc.method]) {
					return;
				}

				var retval = registered_funcs[rpc.method].apply(null, rpc.params);
				if (rpc.id) {
					var response = {
						result: retval,
						error: null,	// TODO
						id: rpc.id
					};
					send_func(that.objectToJSON(response));
				}
			} else if(rpc.result) {

				if (!that.ids[rpc.id]) {
					return;
				}

				that.ids[rpc.id](rpc.result);
				delete that.ids[rpc.id];
			}
		};
		return handler;
	};

	this.execute = function(send_func, method, params, response_callback) {
		response_callback = response_callback || null;
		var id = (response_callback) ? (new Date()).getTime() : null;

		var request = {
			method: method,
			params: params,
			id: id
		};

		send_func(this.objectToJSON(request));

		if (id) {
			this.ids[id] = response_callback;
		}
	};
};
JsonRpc = new JsonRpc();

var ParentMessenger = function(childUrl, receiverUrl, container, receiveCallback) {


	if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Safari') >= 0 && parseInt(navigator.userAgent.substring(navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Version/') + 8), 10) == 3) {
		throw new Error("unsupported.");
	} else if (window.opera) {
		throw new Error("unsupported.");
	}



	if (!receiverUrl &&
		navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Gecko') >= 0 &&
		parseFloat(navigator.userAgent.slice(navigator.userAgent.indexOf('rv:') + 3, navigator.userAgent.indexOf('rv:') + 6)) < 1.9) {
		throw new Error("unsupported.");
	}


	if (/msie/i.test(navigator.userAgent) && !/opera/i.test(navigator.userAgent)) {


		if (document.domain == window.location.hostname) {
			receiverUrl = '';
		}
	}

	var that = this;
	this.childUrl = childUrl;
	this.receiverUrl = receiverUrl;
	this.container = container || document.body;

	this.packetHandler = null;


	this._ready = false;
	this._error = false;


	var _createReceiverForFragmentPacket = function() {

		that.receiver = document.createElement('iframe');
		that.receiver.src = receiverUrl;
		that.receiver.id = 'receiver_' + (new Date()).getTime();
		that.receiver.name = that.receiver.id;

		that.receiver.frameBorder = '0';
		that.receiver.frameSpacing = '0';
		that.receiver.style.borderStyle = 'none';

		var receiver_onload = function() {
			var receiver = document.getElementById(that.receiver.id).contentWindow;

			try {
				receiver.document.body.innerHTML = '';
			} catch(e) {

				that._error = true;
			}
			receiver.document.body.style.padding = '0px';
			receiver.document.body.style.margin = '0px';

			var child = receiver.document.createElement('iframe');
			child.id = 'child';
			child.name = 'child';
			child.src = that.childUrl;

			child.frameBorder = '0';
			child.frameSpacing = '0';
			child.style.borderStyle = 'none';
			child.style.width = '100%';
			child.style.height = '100%';
			receiver.document.body.appendChild(child);

			that.child = receiver.document.getElementById('child').contentWindow;
			that.receiver = receiver;

			that.packetHandler = new FragmentPacket(that.receiver, that.child, that.childUrl, false, receiveCallback);

			that._listener = that.packetHandler.createListener();

			that.packetHandler.sendFlag(that.packetHandler.READY, 0);

			that._ready = true;
		};

		that.receiver.onreadystatechange = function() {
			if (this.readyState == 'complete') {
				receiver_onload();
			}
		};

		that.receiver.onload = receiver_onload;







		if (Dsq.Utils.ie) {
			if (that.container.clientWidth === 0) {

				var _waitForWidth = function() {
					if (that.container.clientWidth > 0) {
						Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(that.container.id);
					} else {
						window.setTimeout(_waitForWidth, 100);
					}
				};
				_waitForWidth();

				that._once = false;
				that.receiver.onresize = function() {
					if (!that._once) {
						Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(that.container.id);
					}
					that._once = true;
				};
			}
		}

		that.container.appendChild(that.receiver);
	};


	var _createReceiverForPostMessage = function() {

		var receiver_onload = function() {

			that.packetHandler.send();
			that._ready = true;
		};

		var id = PostMessagePacket._get_unique_id();
		var receiverId = 'child_' + id;


		ParentMessenger['_receiver_onload_' + receiverId] = receiver_onload;

		that.container.innerHTML += '<iframe ' +
			'src="' + childUrl + '" ' +
			'id="' + receiverId + '" ' +
			'name="' + receiverId + '" ' +
			'onload="ParentMessenger._receiver_onload_' + receiverId +'();" ' +
			'></iframe>';

		that.receiver = document.getElementById(receiverId).contentWindow;
		that.packetHandler = new PostMessagePacket(that.receiver, receiveCallback, id, receiverId);
		that._listener = that.packetHandler.createListener();
	};

	if (typeof window.postMessage == 'function') {
		_createReceiverForPostMessage();
	} else {
		_createReceiverForFragmentPacket();
	}

};

ParentMessenger.prototype.sendMessage = function(message) {
	var that = this;
	if (!this._ready) {

		window.setTimeout(function() { that.sendMessage(message); }, 10);
		return;
	}
	this.packetHandler.send(message);
	return true;
};

Dsq.NewFrames = function(url) {
	this.url = url;
};

Dsq.NewFrames.prototype.init = function(onFailure) {
	var that = this;

	try {
		this.messenger = new ParentMessenger(this.url, Dsq.jsonData.integration.receiver_url, this.container, this.receive_callback);
	} catch(e) {
		if (typeof onFailure == 'function') {
			onFailure();
		}
	}

	if (typeof onFailure == 'function') {
		var iId = window.setInterval(function() {
			if (typeof that.messenger == 'undefined') {
				window.clearInterval(iId);
				return;
			}
			if (that.messenger._ready) {
				window.clearInterval(iId);
			} else if (that.messenger._error) {
				window.clearInterval(iId);
				onFailure();
			}
		}, 10);
	}
};

Dsq.NewFrames.prototype._execute = function(method, args, callback) {
	var that = this;
	if (typeof that.messenger == 'undefined') {
		return false;
	}
	JsonRpc.execute(
		function(msg) { that.messenger.sendMessage(msg); },
		method,
		args || [],
		callback);
	return true;
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame = function(container, parent_post_id) {
	var that = this;
	this.container = container;
	this.parent_post_id = parent_post_id;

	var sendFunc = function(msg) {

		Dsq.Debug.log('Dsq.ReplyFrame.sendFunc');
		that.messenger.sendMessage(msg);
	};


	var postComment_onSuccess = function(response) {
		Dsq.jsonData.posts[response.message.id] = response.message.post_meta;
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.users[response.message.post_meta.user_key]) {
			Dsq.jsonData.users[response.message.post_meta.user_key] = response.message.user_meta;
		}


		var reply_position = (typeof(disqus_insert_wrt_sort) == 'undefined' 
			? (Dsq.jsonData.forum.reply_position ? -1 : null) 
			: (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 2 ? null : -1));
		
		if (response.message.post_meta.approved) {
			Dsq.Post.insert(response.message.post_meta.parent_post_id || reply_position, response.message.id, response.message.post_meta.message);
		}

		Dsq.Templates.postComment_onSuccess(response, parent_post_id, response.message.id);
	};

	var postComment_onFailure = function(response) {
		Dsq.Popup.popModal(response.message, 'Error');
		Dsq.Templates.postComment_onFailure(response, parent_post_id, response.message.id);
	};

	var editComment_onSuccess = function(response) {
		var post_id = parent_post_id;
		var message = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + post_id);
		
		message.innerHTML = response.message;
		Dsq.Templates.toggleEdit(post_id);
		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};
	
	var editComment_onFailure = function(response) {
		var post_id = parent_post_id;
		
		Dsq.Popup.popModal('Sorry, there was an error editing this comment.', 'Edit Error');
		Dsq.Templates.toggleEdit(post_id);
		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};

	var getUserByEmail_onSuccess = function(response) {
		var msg = response.message;
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(parent_post_id);

		if (msg.username) {

			Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(parent_post_id, 'login', {
				'username': msg.username,
				'display_name': msg.display_name,
				'avatar_url': msg.avatar_url,
				'verified': msg.verified,
				'email': fields.email.value
			});
		} else {

			Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(parent_post_id, 'register');
		}
	};

	var validateAuth_onSuccess = function(response, auth_choice) {
		Dsq.Templates.postComment(parent_post_id, null, true, auth_choice);
	};

	var validateAuth_onFailure = function(response, auth_choice) {
		var pid = parent_post_id ? '-' + parent_post_id : '';
		var msg = response.message;

		if (auth_choice == 'register') {
			var fields = ['email', 'username', 'password'];

			for (var i = 0; i < fields.length; i++) {
				var field = fields[i];
				var errorDiv = Dsq.$('dsq-' + field + '-errors' + pid);

				if (msg[field]) {
					errorDiv.innerHTML = msg[field];
				} else {
					errorDiv.innerHTML = '';
				}
			}
		} else if (auth_choice == 'login') {
			Dsq.$('dsq-lightbox-errors' + pid).innerHTML = '<p>We couldn\'t log you in. Please verify your login.</p>';
		}
		
		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};

	this.receive_callback = JsonRpc.createHandler(sendFunc, {
		'postComment.onSuccess': postComment_onSuccess,
		'postComment.onFailure': postComment_onFailure,
		'editComment.onSuccess': editComment_onSuccess,
		'editComment.onFailure': editComment_onFailure,		
		'getUserByEmail.onSuccess': getUserByEmail_onSuccess,
		'validateAuth.onSuccess': validateAuth_onSuccess,
		'validateAuth.onFailure': validateAuth_onFailure,
		'reload': function() { window.location.reload(); }
	});

	this.url = Dsq.Urls.REPLY +
		'?' + (new Date()).getTime() +
		'&f=jackandjillpolitics' +
		'&t=and_another_one' +
		'&ff=' + Dsq.Thread.ff +
		'&default_text=' + disqus_default_text +
		'&ifrs=' + encodeURIComponent(disqus_iframe_css);
	if (this.parent_post_id) {
		this.url += '&parent_post=' + this.parent_post_id;
	}
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype = new Dsq.NewFrames(Dsq.ReplyFrame.url);

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.post = function(author_name, author_email, author_url, authenticate, sharing_services, subscribe) {
	this._execute('postComment', [author_name, author_email, author_url, authenticate, sharing_services, subscribe]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.edit = function(post_id, message) {
	this._execute('editComment', [post_id, message]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.setState = function(parent_post_id, depth) {
	this._execute('setState', [parent_post_id, depth]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.getUserByEmail = function(email) {
	this._execute('getUserByEmail', [email]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.validateAuth = function(auth_choice, email, username, password) {
	this._execute('validateAuth', [auth_choice, email, username, password]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.authenticateFacebook = function(session, forum_url) {
	this._execute('authenticateFacebook', [session, forum_url]);
};

	Dsq.Facebook = function() {
	var that = this;

	var handleSessionData = function(session) {

		var forum_url = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;




		if (typeof disqus_facebook_forum != 'undefined') {
			forum_url = disqus_facebook_forum;
		}
		Dsq.frames.reply_0.authenticateFacebook(session, forum_url);
	};

	var onLogin = function() {
		FB.Connect.getSignedPublicSessionData(handleSessionData);
	};

	this.login = function() {
		FB.Connect.requireSession(onLogin, true);
	};
};
Dsq.Facebook = new Dsq.Facebook();


	






Dsq.Themes = {};

Dsq.Themes.narcissus = new function() {
	this.addPostContainer = 'dsq-form-area';
	this.textareaContainer = 'dsq-textarea-wrapper';



	
	this.header = function() {
		var comments_count, total_posts, num_posts;
		var html = '';
		var missing_perm_tmpl;

		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.missing_perm) {
			missing_perm_tmpl = Dsq.Templates.missingPermissions();
			if (missing_perm_tmpl) {
				html += '<div class="dsq-missing-permissions">' + missing_perm_tmpl + '</div>';
			}
		}

		total_posts = Dsq.jsonData.thread.total_posts;
		num_posts = Dsq.jsonData.thread.num_posts;

		if (total_posts) {
			comments_count = Dsq.FmtStrings.SHOWING_COMMENTS_FULL(total_posts, num_posts);
		} else {
			comments_count = Dsq.FmtStrings.SHOWING_COMMENTS_WITHOUT_PAGINATION(num_posts);
		}

		html += ' \
		<div id="dsq-comments-title"> \
			<h3>' + comments_count + '</h3> \
		</div> \
		';

		html += ' \
		<div class="dsq-options"> \
			<span class="dsq-item-sort">'
				+ Dsq.Strings.SORT_BY + ' \
				<select id="dsq-sort-select" onchange="Dsq.Thread.sortBy(this.value);"> \
					<option value="hot" ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 4 ? 'selected="selected"' : '') + '>' + Dsq.Strings.POPULAR_NOW + '</option> \
					<option value="best" ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 3 ? 'selected="selected"' : '') + '>' + Dsq.Strings.BEST_RATING + '</option> \
					<option value="newest" ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 2 ? 'selected="selected"' : '') + '>' + Dsq.Strings.NEWEST_FIRST + '</option> \
					<option value="oldest" ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 1 ? 'selected="selected"' : '') + '>' + Dsq.Strings.OLDEST_FIRST + '</option> \
				</select> \
				&nbsp; \
			</span> \
			<span class="dsq-subscribe-email"> \
				<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/email.png" style="width:12px;height:12px;vertical-align:middle"> \
				<span id="dsq-subscribe">'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.subscribed
						? '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(0); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.UNSUBSCRIBE + '</a>'
						: '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.SUBSCRIBE_BY_EMAIL + '</a>')
				+ '</span> \
			</span> \
			<span class="dsq-subscribe-rss" style="width:12px;height:12px;vertical-align:middle"> \
				<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/bullet-feed.png" alt="" /> \
				<a href="http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/and_another_one/latest.rss">' + Dsq.Strings.SUBSCRIBE_BY_RSS + '</a> \
			</span> \
		</div> \
		';

		
		

		return html;

	};
	
	this.footer = function() {
		var html = '';

		html += Dsq.Templates.pagination();

		
		
			html += Dsq.Templates.realtime();
			html += Dsq.Templates.showThreadSettings();
			html += Dsq.Templates.postBox();

		html += Dsq.Templates.reactions();

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.trackbacks();
		


		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator) {
 			html += ' \
				<div class="dsq-global-moderator-extras">'
					+ '<strong>shortname:</strong> ' + Dsq.jsonData.forum.url
					+ '<strong>thread id:</strong> ' + Dsq.jsonData.thread.id
					+ '<strong>thread slug:</strong> ' + Dsq.jsonData.thread.slug
				+ '</div> \
			';
		}

		return html;
	};
	
	this.realtime = function() {
		var html = '';
		
		if (Dsq.jsonData.realtime_enabled) {
			html += '<div id="dsq-realtime-options" class="dsq-options">'
					 + Dsq.Strings.REALTIME_UPDATING_IS + ' <strong id="dsq-realtime-status" style="text-transform: lowercase">' + Dsq.Strings.ENABLED + '</strong>. \
					 <a href="#" id="dsq-realtime-toggle" style="text-transform: capitalize"></a> \
					</div>';
		}

		if (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.streaming_realtime) {
			html += ' \
				<div style="display: none" id="dsq-realtime-alert" class="dsq-realtime-alert"><span id="dsq-realtime-queued"></span> <a href="#" id="dsq-realtime-show"></a></div> \
			';
		}
		
		return html;
	};

	this.showThreadSettings = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) {
			return '';
		}

		html = '<div id="dsq-thread-settings" class="dsq-thread-settings">' + Dsq.Strings.MODERATOR_OPTIONS;
		html += '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.showSettings(); return false;">' + Dsq.Strings.SETTINGS + '</a>';
		if (Dsq.jsonData.forum.reactions_enabled && Dsq.jsonData.reactions.length === 0) {
			html += '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Reaction.reportMissingReactions(); return false;">'
						+ Dsq.Strings.REPORT_MISSING_REACTIONS
						+ '</a>';
		}
		html +='</div>';

		return html;
	};

	this.postBox = function(post_id, use_fallback_iframe) {


		var html;
		var display_sharing_options = Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated;

		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated && Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled && !Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post) {
			return '';
		}
		
		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote) {


			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.hasOwnProperty(Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain)) {
				display_sharing_options = false;
			}
		}
		
		if (post_id) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
			var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];				
		}
		
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';

		var _requestUserInfo = function() {
			var html;



			var user_has_email = false;

			html = '<div class="dsq-request-user-info"> <!-- // If authenticated --> \
				<a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT + '?ctkn=' + Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN + '" class="dsq-request-user-logout">' + Dsq.Strings.LOGOUT + '</a> \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td rowspan="2">'
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '<a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE + '">' : '')
								+ '<img src="' + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_AVATAR + '" width="48" height="48" class="dsq-request-user-avatar">'
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '</a>' : '')
						+ '</td> \
						<td class="dsq-request-user-name">'
								+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
									 ? '<span class="dsq-badge-small dsq-badge-' + Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain + '">' + Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain + '</span>'
									 : (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_verified
											? '<span class="dsq-badge-small dsq-badge-verified">Verified</span>'
											: '<span class="dsq-badge-small dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span>'))
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? ' <a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE + '">' : '') 
								+ Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username 
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '</a>' : '')
							+  (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote && user_has_email ? ' <small>(<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.remoteAccountSettings(); return false;">change settings</a>)</small>' : '')
							+  (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote && !Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? ' <small>(<a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/info/" target="_blank">change name</a> or <a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/avatar/" target="_blank">picture</a>)</small>' : '')
						+ '</td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-request-user-stats"> \
							<span><big>' + Dsq.jsonData.request.comments_count + '</big> ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.comments_count == 1 ? 'comment' : 'comments') + '</span> \
							<span><big>' + Dsq.jsonData.request.likes_count + '</big> ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.likes_count == 1 ? 'like' : 'likes') + '</span> \
							<span><big>' + Dsq.jsonData.request.points + '</big> ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.points == 1 ? 'point' : 'points') + '</span> \
						</td> \
					</tr> \
				</table> \
			</div> \
			';
			return html;
		};

		var _loginOptions = function() {
			var html;
			html = ' \
			<div class="dsq-authenticate"> \
				<p class="dsq-autheneticate-copy">'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
					? Dsq.Strings.YOU_ARE_COMMENTING_AS_A + ' <a class="dsq-help" title="Click for more information" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Guest</a>. ' + Dsq.Strings.OPTIONAL + ': ' + Dsq.Strings.LOGIN_BELOW + '.'
					: Dsq.Strings.REQUIRED + ': ' + Dsq.Strings.PLEASE_LOGIN_BELOW_TO_COMMENT + '.')
				+ '</p> \
				<ul class="dsq-login-buttons">'
					+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-disqus.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Facebook.login(); return false;"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-facebook.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_twitter_signin ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect(); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-twitter.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_openid ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.OpenID.requestURL(); return false" ><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-openid.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_yahoo ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Yahoo.startYahooConnect(); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-yahoo.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
				+ '</ul> \
			</div> \
			';
			return html;
		};

		if (!Dsq.jsonData.context.show_reply) {


			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {



				return '<div id="dsq-form-area" style="display:none"><div id="dsq-textarea-wrapper"></div></div>' + _loginOptions();
			} else {
				return '';
			}
		}

		html = ' \
		<div id="' + (post_id 
			? 'dsq-reply-post-' + post_id
			: 'dsq-new-post')
		 	+ '" class="dsq-post-area"> \
			<div class="dsq-dc-logo"> \
				<a href="http://disqus.com/comments" target="_blank"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/disqus-logo.png"></a> \
			</div>'
			+ (post_id 
				? '<h3>' + Dsq.Strings.REPLYING_TO + ' ' + userData.display_name + '</h3>'
				: '<h3>' + Dsq.Strings.ADD_NEW_COMMENT + '</h3>')
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated 
				? _requestUserInfo()
				: _loginOptions() )
			+ '<div id="dsq-form-area' + pid + '">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-textarea"> \
				<div class="dsq-textarea-wrapper" id="dsq-textarea-wrapper' + pid + '"></div> \
			</div>'
			+ (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated
			? ' \
			<div class="dsq-post-fields"> \
				<form action="." method="GET" onsubmit="Dsq.Templates.postComment(' + post_id + ', this, false); return false;"> \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-left"><div class="dsq-input-wrapper"><input id="dsq-field-name' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (disqus_def_name ? disqus_def_name : (Dsq.jsonData.session.name ? Dsq.jsonData.session.name : Dsq.Strings.NAME + '" class="dsq-placeholder')) + '" onfocus="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'name\')" onblur="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'name\')" /></div></td> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-right"><div class="dsq-input-wrapper"><input id="dsq-field-website' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (Dsq.jsonData.session.url ? Dsq.jsonData.session.url : Dsq.Strings.WEBSITE + ' (' + Dsq.Strings.OPTIONAL.toLowerCase() + ')" class="dsq-placeholder') + '" onfocus="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'website\')" onblur="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'website\')" /></div></td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-left"><div class="dsq-input-wrapper"><input id="dsq-field-email' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (disqus_def_email ? disqus_def_email : (Dsq.jsonData.session.email ? Dsq.jsonData.session.email : Dsq.Strings.EMAIL + '" class="dsq-placeholder')) + '" onfocus="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'email\')" onblur="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'email\')" /></div></td> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-right"> \
							<div class="dsq-subscribe"> \
								<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.chooseSubscribe(' + post_id + '); return false" class="dsq-subscribe-menu"><span id="dsq-subscribe-select' + pid + '">' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.subscribe_on_post ? Dsq.Strings.SUBSCRIBE_TO_ALL_COMMENTS_BY_EMAIL : Dsq.Strings.DO_NOT_SUBSCRIBE_TO_COMMENTS) + '</span> <small>&#9660;</small></a> \
								<ul class="dsq-panel" id="dsq-subscribe-menu' + pid + '"> \
									<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.setSubscribe(2, this, ' + post_id + '); return false">Subscribe to all comments by email</a></li> \
									<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.setSubscribe(0, this, ' + post_id + '); return false">Do not subscribe to comments</a></li> \
								</ul> \
								<input id="dsq-subscribe-on-post' + pid + '" type="hidden" value="' + Dsq.jsonData.request.subscribe_on_post + '" /> \
							</div> \
						</td> \
					</tr> \
				</table> \
				</form> \
			</div>'
			: '')
			+ '<div class="dsq-post-footer"> \
				<div class="dsq-sharing-options" ' + (!display_sharing_options ? 'style="display:none;"' : '') + '> \
					<button class="dsq-button-small" onfocus="document.getElementById(\'dsq-post-button' + pid + '\').focus();"><span>' + Dsq.Strings.SHARING_OPTIONS + ' <small>&#9660;</small></span></button> \
					<div class="dsq-panel"> '
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.twitter !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.twitter.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-twitter' + pid + '"'
								  + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.twitter.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-twitter' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Twitter</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.facebook
								&& (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.facebook.enabled === true ||
										(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote && Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain == 'facebook'))
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-facebook' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.facebook.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-facebook' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Facebook</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.yahoo !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.yahoo.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-yahoo' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.yahoo.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-yahoo' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Yahoo!</label> \
								</div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.tumblr !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.tumblr.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-tumblr' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.tumblr.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-tumblr' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Tumblr</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.wordpress !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.wordpress.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-wordpress' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.wordpress.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-wordpress' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Wordpress</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.movabletype !== undefined
							  && Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.movabletype.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-movabletype' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.movabletype.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-movabletype' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Movable Type</label> \
							   </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.typepad !== undefined
							  && Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.typepad.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-typepad' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.typepad.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
								  <label for="dsq-sharing-typepad' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' TypePad</label> \
							   </div>'
							: '')
						+ '<div><a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/connections/" target="_blank" class="dsq-configure-options">' + Dsq.Strings.CONFIGURE_OPTIONS + '</a></div>'
					+ '</div> \
				</div>'
				+ '<button class="dsq-button" id="dsq-post-button' + pid + '" onclick="Dsq.Templates.postComment(' + post_id + ', this, false)"><span>' + Dsq.Strings.POST_AS + ' '
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username
					? Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username
					: Dsq.Strings.GUEST)
				+ '</span></button>'
				+ (post_id
					? '<button class="dsq-button" id="dsq-cancel-button' + pid + '" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleReply(' + post_id +', this)"><span>' + Dsq.Strings.CANCEL + '</span></button>'
					: '')
			+ '</div>'
			+ '</div>' // end dsq-form-area
		+ '</div> \
		';
		
		return html;
	};




	this.appendPost = function(post_id) {
		var html = '<div id="dsq-append-post-' + post_id + '"></div>';
		return html;
	};

	this.postPrependHeader = function(post_id) {
		var html;
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		
		html = ' \
		<table> \
			<tr> \
				<td id="dsq-header-avatar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-header-avatar" onmouseover="Dsq.Post.dropProfile(' + post_id + ')"> \
					<a id="dsq-avatar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-avatar" href="' + userData.url + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.show_avatar
					? '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.users[_meta.user_key].avatar + '" alt="" />'
					: '')
				+ '</a> \
				</td> \
				<td class="dsq-comment-header-meta"> \
		';

		
		return html;
	};
	
	this.postAppendHeader = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var html;
		var parent_display_name = '';
		
		if(_meta.parent_post_id) {

			var _parent_meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[_meta.parent_post_id];

			if (_parent_meta) {
				var parentUserData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_parent_meta.user_key];
				parent_display_name = parentUserData.display_name;
			}
		}

		html = ' \
		<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/moderator.png" class="dsq-moderator-star" title="Moderator" /> \
		<span class="dsq-comment-header-time"><a href="#comment-' + post_id + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.permalink(' + post_id + ')" title="Permalink">' + (_meta.is_realtime ? Dsq.Strings.JUST_NOW : _meta.date) + '</a></span> '
		+ (_meta.parent_post_id && parent_display_name
			? '<a href="#comment-' + _meta.parent_post_id + '" title="Jump to comment">in reply to ' + parent_display_name + '</a>'
			: '')
		+ '</td> \
		<td id="dsq-like-pts-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-comment-header-likes">'
		+ (_meta.points
			? _meta.points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(_meta.points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this.'
			: '')
		+ '</td> \
		</tr> \
		</table> \
		';
		return html;
	};

	this.preBody = function(post_id) {
		var html = '';
		return html;
	};

	this.postFooter = function(post_id) {
		var html;
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		if(_meta.killed || !_meta.approved) { return ''; }
		
		html = ' \
		<div class="dsq-comment-footer" id="dsq-comment-footer-' + post_id + '"> \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer-left">'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator
					? '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.moderateOptions(' + post_id+ '); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.MODERATE + '</a>'
					: '')
				+ '<a href="#" id="dsq-post-report-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-post-report" onclick="Dsq.Post.report(' + post_id + ', false); return false;">' + Dsq.Strings.FLAG + '</a> \
			</div> \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer-right">'
				+ (_meta.votable 
					? '<span id="dsq-like-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-like">'
					+ (!_meta.up_voted
						? '<button class="dsq-button-small" onclick="Dsq.Post.rate(this, ' + post_id + ', 1)" >Like</button>'
						: 'You liked this.&nbsp;&nbsp;')
					+ '</span>'
					: '')
				+ (_meta.can_reply && !_meta.has_replies && _meta.from_request_user
					? '<button class="dsq-button-small dsq-post-edit" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + ')" >' + Dsq.Strings.EDIT + '</button>'
					: '')
				+ (_meta.can_reply
					? '<span class="dsq-comment-footer-reply" id="dsq-comment-footer-reply-' + post_id + '" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleReply(' + post_id +', this)"> \
						<button class="dsq-button-small">' + Dsq.Strings.REPLY + '</button> \
						<button class="dsq-comment-footer-reply-tab">' + Dsq.Strings.REPLY + '</button><span></span> \
					</span>'
					: '')
			+ '</div> \
		</div> \
		';
		
		return html;
	};



	
	this.showRetweets = function(id, limit, element_id /* Optional */) {
		var source, html = '';

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			if (reaction.id === id) {
				source = reaction.retweets;
			}
		}

		if (source) {
			if (limit === 0) {
				limit = source.length;
			}

			for (var j = 0; j < limit; j++) {
				var rt = source[j];
				html += '<a href="' + rt.url + '">' + rt.author_name + '</a>'	+ ((j === (limit - 1)) ? '.' : ', ');
			}
		}

		if (element_id === undefined) {
			return html;
		}

		var element = document.getElementById(element_id);
		element.innerHTML = html;
		return element;
	};

	this.showMoreReactions = function(reactions, has_more, start, limit) {
		var link = document.getElementById('dsq-show-more-reactions');
		var container = link.parentNode;
		container.removeChild(link);

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = reactions[i]; i++) {
			var el = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (el) {
				container.innerHTML += el;
			}
		}

		if (has_more) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = start;
			var l = limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			container.innerHTML += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions" class="dsq-show-more-reactions"><button class="dsq-button-small" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</button></li>';
		}
	};

	this.generateReactionHTML = function(reaction) {
		if (reaction.body === null || reaction.body == '') {
			return;
		}

		if (reaction.author_name === '') {
			reaction.author_name = '&nbsp;';
		}

		if (reaction.url === '') {
			reaction.url = reaction.get_service_url;
		}

		var item = '<li class="dsq-comment dsq-reaction" id="dsq-reaction-' + reaction.id + '">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-comment-header"> \
			<table> \
			<tr> \
			<td class="dsq-header-avatar"> \
			';

		if (reaction.author_url && reaction.author_url !== '') {
			item += '<a target="_blank" href="' + reaction.author_url +'" class="dsq-avatar">';
		}

		if (reaction.avatar_url && reaction.avatar_url !== '') {
			item += '<img src="' + reaction.avatar_url + '"/>';
		} else {

			item += '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/noavatar92.png"/>';
		}

		var service_icon = (reaction.get_service_name == 'trackback' || reaction.get_service_name == 'pingback' ? 'rss' : reaction.get_service_name.replace(' ', ''));
		item += (reaction.author_url && reaction.author_url !== ''
				? '</a>'
				: '')
			+ '</td>'
			+ '<td><cite class="dsq-comment-cite">' + reaction.author_name + '</cite> <span class="dsq-comment-header-time">' + reaction.date_created + '</span></td>'
			+ '<td class="dsq-comment-header-likes"></td>'
			+ '</tr></table></div>' // end dsq-comment-header
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-header" \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-reaction-header-left">'
							+ '<img class="dsq-service-icon" src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/reactions/services/' + service_icon + '.png" />'
							+ ' From <a class="dsq-service-name" target="_blank" href="' + reaction.url + '">' + reaction.get_service_name + '</a> '
							+ 'via ' + (reaction.source == 'backtype' ? '<a href="http://backtype.com/">BackType</a>' : '<a href="' + reaction.source_url + '">UberVU</a>')
						+ '</td>'
						+ '<td class="dsq-reaction-header-right">';
			
			if(reaction.retweets) {
				var num_retweets = reaction.retweets.length;
				if (num_retweets > 0) {
					if (num_retweets == 1) {
						item += 'One more retweet from <a href="' + reaction.retweets[0].url + '">'  + reaction.retweets[0].author_name + '</a>';
					} else {
						item += (num_retweets + ' more retweets from ');
						item += '<span id="dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '">';
						var n_tweets = (num_retweets > 3) ? 3 : num_retweets;
						item += Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(reaction.id, n_tweets);
						if (n_tweets != num_retweets) {
							item += '</span> <a onclick="Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(' + reaction.id + ', 0, \'dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '\');'
								+ 'this.parentNode.removeChild(this); return false;" href="#">Show all</a>';
						}
					}
				}
			}	
			item += '</td></tr> \
			</table> \
			</div>' // end dsq-reaction-header
			+ '<div class="dsq-comment-body"> \
				<div class="dsq-comment-message">' + reaction.body + '</div>'
			+ '</div> \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer"> \
				<div class="dsq-comment-footer-left"> \
				</div>'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator 
					? ' \
					<div class="dsq-comment-footer-right"> \
						<button class="dsq-button-small dsq-hide-reaction" onclick="Dsq.Reaction.hide(' + reaction.id + ')">Hide</button> \
					</div>'
					: '')
			+ '</div>'
		item += '</li>'; /* Reaction HTML ends */
		return item;
	};

	this.reactions = function() {
		var html, reaction;

		if (Dsq.jsonData.reactions === undefined || Dsq.jsonData.reactions.length === 0) {
			return '';
		}

		html = '';
		for (var i = 0; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			var item = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (item) {
				html += item;
			}
		}

		if (Dsq.jsonData.has_more_reactions) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_start;
			var l = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			html += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions" class="dsq-show-more-reactions"><button class="dsq-button-small" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</button></li>';
		}

		return '<h3 id="dsq-reactions-title" class="dsq-h3-reactions">Reactions</h3><ul id="dsq-reactions" class="dsq-reactions">' + html + '</ul>';
	};
	
	this._popupGeneric = function(content) {
		return ' \
		<div class="dsq-popup-container"> \
			<table> \
				<tbody> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-tl"></td><td class="dsq-popup-b"></td><td class="dsq-popup-tr"></td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-b"></td> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-body"> \
							<div class="dsq-popup-content"> \
								<div class="dsq-popup-title"> \
									<button class="dsq-button-small" style="float:right" onclick="Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true)">Close</button>' 
									+ content['header'] 
								+ '</div>'
								+ content['body']
							+ '</div> \
							<div class="powered-by"><a href="http://disqus.com/comments/">Powered by <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-logo.png" alt="Disqus Comments" style="margin-bottom:-5px" /></a></div> \
						</td> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-b"></td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-bl"></td><td class="dsq-popup-b"></td><td class="dsq-popup-br"></td> \
					</tr> \
				</tbody> \
			</table> \
		</div> \
		';
	};



	
	this.chooseSubscribe = function(post_id) {

		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var menu = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-menu' + pid);
		
		menu.style.display = menu.style.display == 'block' ? 'none' : 'block';
		
	};
	
	this.setSubscribe = function(value, el, post_id) {

		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var input = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-on-post' + pid);
		var select = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-select' + pid);
		var menu = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-menu' + pid);
		
		select.innerHTML = el.innerHTML;
		input.value = value;
		this.chooseSubscribe(post_id);
	};
	
	this.getFormFields = function(post_id) {

		var fields = {};
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var name = Dsq.$('dsq-field-name' + pid);
		var email = Dsq.$('dsq-field-email' + pid);
		var website = Dsq.$('dsq-field-website' + pid);
		var username = Dsq.$('dsq-field-username' + pid);
		var password = Dsq.$('dsq-field-password' + pid);

		fields = {
			'name': name,
			'email': email,
			'website': website,
			'username': username,
			'password': password
		}
		
		return fields;
	}
	
	this.validateFields = function(post_id) {
		
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) { return true; }
		
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		
		var nameField = fields.name;
		var websiteField = fields.website;
		var emailField = fields.email;
		
		websiteField.value = (websiteField.value == Dsq.Templates.placeholder['website']) ? '' : websiteField.value;
		
		var v = [{

			validator: Dsq.Validators.name,
			value: nameField.value
		}, {

			validator: Dsq.Validators.email,
			value: emailField.value
		}, {

			validator: Dsq.Validators.url,
			value: websiteField.value
		}];
		
		return Dsq.Validators.validate(v, function(e) { Dsq.Popup.popModal(e, 'Oops...') } );
	};
	
	this.checkExistingUser = function(post_id) {
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);		
		Dsq.Popup.loading(post_id);
		
		if (post_id) {
			Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].getUserByEmail(fields.email.value);
		} else {
			Dsq.frames['reply_0'].getUserByEmail(fields.email.value);
		}
	};

	this.validateAuth = function(el_clicked, post_id, auth_choice) {
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		var email = fields.email ? fields.email.value : '';
		var username = fields.username ? fields.username.value : '';
		var password = fields.password ? fields.password.value : '';
		
		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked, post_id);
		
		if (post_id) {
			Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].validateAuth(auth_choice, email, username, password);
		} else {
			Dsq.frames['reply_0'].validateAuth(auth_choice, email, username, password);
		}
	};

	this.lightboxUpdateEmail = function(post_id, new_email) {
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		fields.email.value = new_email;
	};

	this.lightboxAuthenticate = function(post_id, auth_choice, auth_data) {
		var title, body;
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';

		if(typeof(auth_data) == 'undefined') {
			var auth_data = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		}

		d = auth_data;

		switch(auth_choice) {
			case 'register':
				var suggestedUsername = d.name.value.replace(/[^a-zA-Z0-9-]/g,'').toLowerCase();
			
				title = Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post ? 'Optional:' : 'Required:';
				title += ' Register a <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-profile.png" alt=Disqus Profile" />';

				body = ' \
				<ul class="dsq-lightbox-register-reasons"> \
				<li>Verify your comments</li> \
				<li>Edit and delete comments</li> \
				<li>Manage comments and replies</li> \
				</ul> \
				';

				body += ' \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-fields"> \
					<table> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Email</td> \
							<td><input type="text" value="' + d.email.value + '" onchange="Dsq.Templates.lightboxUpdateEmail(' + post_id + ', this.value)" /><div id="dsq-email-errors' + pid + '"></div></td> \
						</tr> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Username</td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-username' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + suggestedUsername + '"/><div id="dsq-username-errors' + pid + '"></div></td> \
						</tr> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Password</td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-password' + pid + '" type="password" /><div id="dsq-password-errors' + pid + '"></div></td> \
						</tr> \
					</table> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-switch-auth"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(' + post_id + ',\'login\'); return false">Login instead</a></div> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-lightbox-errors' + pid + '" class="dsq-lightbox-errors"></div> \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-submit"> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-post"><button class="dsq-button" onclick="Dsq.Templates.validateAuth(this, ' + post_id + ',\'' + auth_choice + '\')">Register and Post comment</button></div>'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
						? '<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-skip"><button class="dsq-button-small" onclick="Dsq.Templates.postComment(' + post_id + ', this, true)">Just post as a Guest</button></div>'
						: '')
				+ '</div> \
				';
				break;
			case 'login':
				title = Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post ? 'Optional:' : 'Required:';
				title += ' Login to your <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-profile.png" alt=Disqus Profile" />';
				body = '';
				
				if(d.avatar_url) {
					body += '<div class="dsq-lightbox-recognized"><table><tr>';
					body += '<td><img src="' + d.avatar_url + '" alt="" /></td>';
					body += '<td><span class="dsq-badge ' + (d.verified ? 'dsq-badge-verified' : 'dsq-badge-registered') + '">' + (d.verified ? 'Verified' : 'Registered') + '</span></td>';
					body += '<td>Hey <strong>' + d.display_name + '</strong>, is that you? Login below to claim this comment.';
					body += '</tr></table></div>';
				}

				body += ' \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-fields"> \
					<table> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Username or Email</td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-username' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (d.avatar_url ? d.username : '') + '" /></td> \
						</tr> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Password <a href="http://disqus.com/forgot" target="_blank">(cannot log in?)</a></td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-password' + pid + '" type="password" /></td> \
						</tr> \
					</table> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-switch-auth"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(' + post_id + ',\'register\'); return false">Register instead</a></div> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-lightbox-errors' + pid + '" class="dsq-lightbox-errors"></div> \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-submit"> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-post"><button class="dsq-button" onclick="Dsq.Templates.validateAuth(this, ' + post_id + ',\'' + auth_choice + '\')">Login and Post comment</button></div>'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
						? '<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-skip"><button class="dsq-button-small" onclick="Dsq.Templates.postComment(' + post_id + ', this, true)">Just post as a Guest</button></div>'
						: '')
				+ '</div> \
				';
				break;
			default:
				break;
		}
		Dsq.Popup.lightbox(body, title, post_id);
		Dsq.$('dsq-field-username' + pid).focus();
	};
	
	this.buttonsToRestore = [];
	this.setLoadingButton = function(btn, post_id) {
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		if (btn) {

			var loadingBtn = document.createElement('button');
			loadingBtn.id = btn.id + '-loading';
			loadingBtn.innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-lite.gif" alt="" /> Just a moment...';
			loadingBtn.className = btn.className + ' dsq-post-loading';
			btn.parentNode.appendChild(loadingBtn);
			btn.style.display = 'none';
			var cancelBtn = Dsq.$('dsq-cancel-button' + pid);
			if(cancelBtn) { cancelBtn.style.display = 'none'; this.buttonsToRestore.push(cancelBtn); }
			this.buttonsToRestore.push(btn);
		} else {

			var buttons = this.buttonsToRestore;
			for(var i = 0; i < buttons.length; i++) {
				buttons[i].style.display = 'inline';
				Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(Dsq.$(buttons[i].id + '-loading'));
			}
		}
		
	};

	this.postComment = function(post_id, el_clicked, force, auth_choice) {
		var append_id = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);

		if (Dsq.Templates.validateFields(post_id)) {

			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated && !force &&
				((!Dsq.Utils.readCookie('skipped_auth') && !disqus_skip_auth && !Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled) || !Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post)) {
				Dsq.Templates.checkExistingUser(post_id);
				return false;
			}
			var params = [];
			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {
				params.push(fields.name.value,
					fields.email.value,
					fields.website.value);

				if (auth_choice == 'login' || auth_choice == 'register') {
					params.push({
						auth_choice: auth_choice,
						username: fields.username.value,
						password: fields.password.value,
						email: fields.email.value
					});
				} else {
					params.push(null);
				}

				params.push(null /* sharing options */, Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-on-post' + append_id).value);
			} else {
				var service_checked = function(name) {
					var el = Dsq.$('dsq-sharing-' + name + append_id);
					return (el !== null && el.checked === true) ? '1' : '0';
				};
				params.push(null, null, null, null, {
					tw: service_checked('twitter'),
					fb: service_checked('facebook'),
					tr: service_checked('tumblr'),
					wp: service_checked('wordpress'),
					mt: service_checked('movabletype'),
					tp: service_checked('typepad'),
					yh: service_checked('yahoo')
				});
			}

			var frame = Dsq.frames['reply_' + (post_id ? post_id : 0)];
			frame.post.apply(frame, params);

			if (el_clicked) {
				Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked, post_id);
			}
			
			if (force) {
				Dsq.Utils.createCookie('skipped_auth', true);	
			}
			
		} else {
			return false;
		}
	};

	this.editComment = function(el_clicked, post_id) {
		var edited_message = Dsq.$('dsq-edit-textarea-' + post_id).value;

		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked, post_id);
		Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id].edit(post_id, edited_message);
	};

	this.toggleEdit = function(post_id) {
		var body = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-body-' + post_id);
		var message = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + post_id);

		if (!Dsq.Post.stateEditToggled[post_id]) {


			message.style.display = 'none';
			if (Dsq.$('dsq-edit-' + post_id)) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-edit-' + post_id).style.display = 'block';
			} else {

				var edit_area = document.createElement('div');
				edit_area.id = 'dsq-edit-' + post_id;
				edit_area.className = 'dsq-edit dsq-textarea';
				edit_area.innerHTML = ' \
				<div class="dsq-textarea-wrapper"> \
					<textarea class="dsq-edit-textarea" id="dsq-edit-textarea-' + post_id + '">' + message.innerHTML + '</textarea> \
				</div> \
				<div class="dsq-save-edit"> \
					<button onclick="Dsq.Templates.editComment(this, ' + post_id + ')" class="dsq-button-small">Save Edit</button> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-edit-iframe-' + post_id + '" style="display: none"></div> \
				';

				body.appendChild(edit_area);

				if (!Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id]) {
					var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
					Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(Dsq.$('dsq-edit-iframe-' + post_id), post_id);
					Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id].init();
					Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id].setState(post_id, _meta.depth);
				}
			}
		} else {

			message.style.display = 'block';
			Dsq.$('dsq-edit-' + post_id).style.display = 'none';
		}
		
		Dsq.Post.stateEditToggled[post_id] = !Dsq.Post.stateEditToggled[post_id];
	};
	
	this.edit = function(el, post_id) {

		Dsq.Templates.toggleEdit(post_id);
	};

	this.toggleReply = function(post_id, button) {
		
		if(!this.stateReplyToggled[post_id]) {

			if (Dsq.$('dsq-reply-post-' + post_id)) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).style.display = 'block';
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.postBox(post_id);
				var container = Dsq.$('dsq-textarea-wrapper-' + post_id);
				if (!Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id] && container) {
					var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(container, post_id);
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].init(function() {

						Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.postBox(post_id, true);
						Dsq.$('dsq-form-area-' + post_id).innerHTML = '';

						var theme = (typeof disqus_frame_theme == 'undefined') ? 'default' : disqus_frame_theme;
						Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(Dsq.$('dsq-form-area-' + post_id), post_id, {theme: theme});

					});
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].setState(post_id, _meta.depth);
				}
			}
			Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).className = 'dsq-append-post';
			Dsq.$('dsq-comment-footer-reply-' + post_id).className = 'dsq-comment-footer-reply-active';
			
		} else {

			Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).style.display = 'none';
			Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).className = '';
			Dsq.$('dsq-comment-footer-reply-' + post_id).className = 'dsq-comment-footer-reply';
		}
		
		this.stateReplyToggled[post_id] = !this.stateReplyToggled[post_id];

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie && this.stateReplyToggled[post_id]) {

		}

		Dsq.Events.fire(Dsq.Events.REPLY_IFRAME_TOGGLED, {
			postId: post_id,
			opened: this.stateReplyToggled[post_id]
		});
	};
	
	this.moderateOptions = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		
		if(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator && !Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator) { return false; }

		var html;
		
		html = ' \
		<div class="dsq-moderate-options"> \
		<table>'
		+ (_meta.email ? '<tr><td>Email</td><td>' + _meta.email + '</td></tr>' : '')
		+ (_meta.ip ? '<tr><td>IP address</td><td>' + _meta.ip + '</td></tr>' : '')
		+ '<tr> \
			<td>Actions</td> \
			<td><ul>'
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.moderator_can_edit
				? '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false;">Edit Comment</a></li>'
				: '')
			+ '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.removePost(' + post_id + ', 1); Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false;">Delete Comment</a></li> \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.reportSpam(' + post_id + '); Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false;">Mark Spam</a></li> \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.blacklist(' + post_id + '); return false">Block User</a></li> \
			</ul></td> \
			</table> \
		</div> \
		';
		
		html += '<p>Go to the full <a href="http://disqus.com/comments/moderate/" target="_blank">moderate panel</a> for more options.</p>';
		
		return Dsq.Popup.popModal(html, 'Moderate Options', post_id);
	};
	
	this.placeholder = {
		'class': 'dsq-placeholder',
		'name': Dsq.Strings.NAME,
		'email': Dsq.Strings.EMAIL,
		'website': Dsq.Strings.WEBSITE + ' (' + Dsq.Strings.OPTIONAL.toLowerCase() + ')'
	};
	
	this.handlePlaceholder = function(evt, el, key) {
		var placeholder = Dsq.Templates.placeholder[key];
		var className = Dsq.Templates.placeholder['class'];
		
		switch(evt.type) {
			case 'focus':
				if(el.value == placeholder) {
					el.value = '';
					el.className = '';
				}
				break;

			case 'blur':
				if(el.value == '') {
					el.value = placeholder;
					el.className = className;
				}
				break;
			default:
				break;
		}
	};
	
	this.paginate = function(page, el_clicked) {

		var extra_params = '';

		if(typeof disqus_per_page != 'undefined') {
			extra_params += '&per_page=' + disqus_per_page;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_sort != 'undefined') {
			extra_params += '&sort=' + disqus_sort;
		}

		Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML += '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
		
		if(el_clicked) {
			Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked);
		}
		
		Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/jackandjillpolitics/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ 'and_another_one'
			+ '&p='		+ page
			+ extra_params);
	};
	
	
	this.rate = function(el, id, vote) {


		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated || Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_votes) {
			if(vote == 1) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-like-' + id).innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
			}
			Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/jackandjillpolitics/vote.js'
				+ '?post_id='    + id
				+ '&vote='        + vote);
		} else {
			Dsq.Popup.login('To rate, please log in');
		}
	};

	this.voted = function(post_id, points, vote) {

		Dsq.$('dsq-like-pts-' + post_id).innerHTML = points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this.';

		if(vote) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-like-' + post_id).innerHTML = 'You liked this.&nbsp;&nbsp;';
		}
	};




	this.postComment_onSuccess = function(response, parent_post_id, post_id) {
		var approved = response.message.post_meta.approved;

		if (parent_post_id) {
			Dsq.Post.toggleReply(parent_post_id);
		}

		Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true);
		
		if (approved) {
			Dsq.Post.incrementPostCount();
			Dsq.Post.outlineComment(post_id);
		} else {			
			var unapproved_msg = 'Thanks for posting!\
	 Your comment must be approved by a moderator before appearing here.\
			';
			Dsq.Popup.popModal(unapproved_msg, 'Comment awaiting approval', post_id);
		}

		var sharing_results = response.message.sharing_results;
		var sharing_errors = '';
		for (var service in sharing_results) {
			if (sharing_results.hasOwnProperty(service) === true) {
				if (sharing_results[service].error === true) {
					sharing_errors += service + ', ';
				}
			}
		}

		if (sharing_results.facebook && sharing_results.facebook.callback) {
			FB.ensureInit(function() {
				FB.Connect.streamPublish('', sharing_results.facebook.attachment);
			});
		}

		if (sharing_errors !== '') {
			var message = 'Your comment was posted, but there were errors sharing with the following connections: ';
			message += sharing_errors.replace(/,\s$/, '');
			message += '<p><a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/connections" target="_blank">Configure your connections here</a></p>'
			Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, 'Sharing options');
		}

		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};

	this.postComment_onFailure = function(response, parent_post_id, post_id) {

		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};
};




// TODO: It might be faster to use string methods to find all <li (...) </li> blocks and pass to Dsq.PostHandler manually.
Dsq.CommentsHandler = function(str, head, post_id, content, tail, offset, s) {
	var prepend_post = Dsq.Templates.prependPost(post_id);
	var append_post = Dsq.Templates.appendPost(post_id);

	content = content.replace(Dsq.POST_RE, Dsq.PostHandler);
	Dsq.Templates.postLoopCounter++;
	head = Dsq.Templates.Filters.commentContainer(post_id, head);
	return prepend_post + head + content + tail + append_post;
};

Dsq.PostHandler = function(str, h_head, post_id, h_content, h_tail, b_head, b_content, b_tail, offset, s) {
	var prepend_header = Dsq.Templates.postPrependHeader(post_id);
	var append_header = Dsq.Templates.postAppendHeader(post_id);
	var prepend_body = Dsq.Templates.preBody(post_id);
	var append_body = Dsq.Templates.postBody(post_id);
	var append_footer = Dsq.Templates.postFooter(post_id);

	b_content = b_content.replace(Dsq.POST_BODY_RE, Dsq.PostBodyHandler);
	return h_head + prepend_header + h_content + append_header + h_tail + b_head + prepend_body + b_content + append_body + b_tail + append_footer;
};

Dsq.PostBodyHandler = function(str, head, post_id, content, tail, offset, s) {
	content = Dsq.Templates.Filters.commentContent(post_id, content);
	return head + content + tail;
};

Dsq.MediaPostHandler = function(str, args, offset, s) {
	args = args.split(' ');
	if(args[0] == 'seesmic') {
		return '<br />' + Dsq.Templates.mediaSeesmic(args[1], args[2]);
	}
	return '';
};


/**
 * Shorcuts
 */
Dsq.$ = function(element) { return document.getElementById(element); };
Dsq.$b = document.body || document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0];


/**
 * Dsq.Debug: Logging functions.
 */

Dsq.Debug = new function() {this.log=function(s){};this.profile=function(f){if(typeof f == 'function')return f();else return eval(f);};};


/**
 * Dsq.Urls: URL paths
 */
Dsq.Urls = new function() {
	this.LOGIN = '/profile/login/';
	this.LOGOUT = '/logout/';
	this.REPLY = 'http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/and_another_one/reply.html';
	this.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE = '/AnonymousUser/';
	this.REQUEST_USER_AVATAR = 'http://media.disqus.com/images/noavatar92.png';
};
// Dsq.Urls

/**
 * Dsq.Validators: Validation for form fields
 */
Dsq.Validators = new function() {
	this.VALID_EMAIL_RE = /^[a-z0-9\-\_\+]+(\.[a-z0-9\-\_\+]+)*\@(([a-z0-9\-\_\+]+(\.[a-z0-9\-\_\+]+)*)+\.[a-z]{2,}|([0-9]+\.){3}[0-9]+)$/i;
	this.name = function(name) {
		var error = false;

		if(typeof Dsq.Templates.placeholder !== 'undefined' &&
		   name == Dsq.Templates.placeholder.name) {
			error = true;
		}
		if(name.length <= 1) {
			error = true;
		}

		if(error) {
			return "Please enter a name to comment.";
		} else {
			return true;
		}
	};
	this.email = function(addr) {
		if(Dsq.Validators.VALID_EMAIL_RE.test(addr)) {
			return true;
		} else {
			return "Please enter a valid email to comment.";
		}
	};
	this.url = function(addr) {
		if(!addr || addr.indexOf('.') != -1) {
			return true;
		} else {
			return "Please check your website URL (this field is optional).";
		}
	};

	this.validate = function(bulk_validation, failure_callback) {
		failure_callback = failure_callback || function(e){ alert(e); };

		for(var i = 0; i < bulk_validation.length; i++) {
			v = bulk_validation[i];
			ret = v.validator(v.value);
			if(ret !== true) {
				failure_callback(ret);
				return false;
			}
		}
		return true;
	};
};

/**
 * Dsq.Utils: Generic utility functions.
 */
Dsq.Utils = new function() {
	this.ie = /msie/i.test(navigator.userAgent) && !/opera/i.test(navigator.userAgent);
	this.ie7 = (document.all && !window.opera && window.XMLHttpRequest) ? true : false;
	this.ie6 = (!window.XMLHttpRequest) ? true: false;
	this.webkit = navigator.userAgent.indexOf('AppleWebKit/') >= 0;
	this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache = {};
	this._styleSheet = null;

	this.gebiFromElement = function(el, id, tag) {
		// This only method only helps IE.
		if(!this.ie) {
			return Dsq.$(id);
		} else {
			var cacheKey = el.id + '-' + tag;
			tag = tag || 'div';
			if(typeof this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache[cacheKey] != 'undefined') {
				collection = this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache[cacheKey];
			} else {
				collection = el.getElementsByTagName(tag);
				this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache[cacheKey] = collection;
			}

			for(var i = 0; i < collection.length; i++) {
				if(collection[i].id == id) {
					return collection[i];
				}
			}
			return null;
		}
	};

	this.execOnReady = function(func) {
		var node = document.createElement('document:ready');
		try {
			node.doScroll('left');
			func();
			node = null;
		} catch(err) {
			setTimeout(function() { Dsq.Utils.execOnReady(func); }, 10);
		}
	};


	// Courtesy of http://www.quirksmode.org/js/cookies.html
	this.createCookie = function(name,value,days) {
		if (days) {
			var date = new Date();
			date.setTime(date.getTime()+(days*24*60*60*1000));
			var expires = "; expires="+date.toGMTString();
		}
		else var expires = "";
		document.cookie = name+"="+value+expires+"; path=/";
	};

	this.readCookie = function(name) {
		var nameEQ = name + "=";
		var ca = document.cookie.split(';');
		for(var i=0;i < ca.length;i++) {
			var c = ca[i];
			while (c.charAt(0)==' ') c = c.substring(1,c.length);
			if (c.indexOf(nameEQ) == 0) return c.substring(nameEQ.length,c.length);
		}
		return null;
	};

	this.eraseCookie = function(name) {
		Dsq.Utils.createCookie(name,"",-1);
	};

	this.deleteNode = function(node) {
		if(node) {
			this.deleteChildren(node);
			if(typeof node.outerHTML != 'undefined') { node.outerHTML = ''; }
			else if(node.parentNode) { node.parentNode.removeChild(node); }
			delete node;
		}
	};

	this.deleteChildren = function(node) {
		if(node) {
			for(var x = node.childNodes.length-1; x >= 0; x--) {
				var childNode = node.childNodes[x];
				if(childNode.hasChildNodes()) { this.deleteChildren(childNode); }
				if(typeof childNode.outerHTML != 'undefined') { childNode.outerHTML = ''; }
				else node.removeChild(childNode);
				delete childNode;
			}
		}
	};

	this.findPos = function(obj) {
		var curleft = 0;
		var curtop = 0;
		if (obj.offsetParent) {
			do {
				curleft += obj.offsetLeft;
				curtop += obj.offsetTop;
			} while (obj = obj.offsetParent);
		}
		return [curleft,curtop];
	};

	this.getWindowSize = function() {
		var windowWidth = -1;
		var windowHeight = -1;

		if(typeof(window.innerWidth) == 'number') { //Non-IE
			windowWidth = window.innerWidth;
			windowHeight = window.innerHeight;
		} else if(document.documentElement) { // IE 6+ in 'standards compliant mode'
			windowWidth = document.documentElement.clientWidth || document.body.clientWidth;
			windowHeight = document.documentElement.clientHeight || document.body.clientHeight;
		}

		return [windowWidth, windowHeight];
	}

	this.getScrollPos = function() {
		var scrollWidth, scrollTop;

		if(document.documentElement && (document.documentElement.scrollTop || document.documentElement.scrollWidth)) {
			scrollWidth = document.documentElement.scrollWidth;
			// IE is weird here.  If no doctype is provided, document.body.scrollTop is 0,
			// otherwise document.documentElement.scrollTop is 0.
			scrollTop = document.documentElement.scrollTop || document.body.scrollTop;
		} else if(document.body.scrollTop && document.body.scrollWidth) {
			scrollWidth = document.body.scrollWidth;
			scrollTop = document.body.scrollTop;
		}

		return [scrollWidth, scrollTop];
	}

	this.addEventListener = function(instance, eventName, listener) {
		var listenerFn = listener;
		if (instance.addEventListener) {
			instance.addEventListener(eventName, listenerFn, false);
		} else if (instance.attachEvent) {
			listenerFn = function() {
				listener(window.event);
			};
			instance.attachEvent("on" + eventName, listenerFn);
		} else {
			throw new Error("Event registration not supported");
		}
		return {
			instance: instance,
			name: eventName,
			listener: listenerFn
		};
	};

	this.removeEventListener = function(event) {
		var instance = event.instance;
		if (instance.removeEventListener) {
			instance.removeEventListener(event.name, event.listener, false);
		} else if (instance.detachEvent) {
			instance.detachEvent("on" + event.name, event.listener);
		}
	};

	this.fixIframesIE = function(id) {
		var disqusThread = Dsq.$(disqus_container_id);
		var iframes = disqusThread.getElementsByTagName('iframe');

		if(id) {
			var container = Dsq.$(id);
		} else {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-content');
		}

		for(i = 0; i < iframes.length; i++) {
			if (container) {
				iframes[i].style.width = container.offsetWidth;
			}
		}
	};

	this.getElementsByClassName = function(oElm, strTagName, strClassName) {
	/* Credit: Jonathan Snook [http://www.snook.ca/jonathan], Robert Nyman [http://www.robertnyman.com] */
		var arrElements = (strTagName == "*" && oElm.all)? oElm.all : oElm.getElementsByTagName(strTagName);
		var arrReturnElements = new Array();
		strClassName = strClassName.replace(/\-/g, "\\-");
		var oRegExp = new RegExp("(^|\\s)" + strClassName + "(\\s|$)");
		var oElement;
		for(var i = 0; i < arrElements.length; i++) {
			oElement = arrElements[i];
			if(oRegExp.test(oElement.className)) {
				arrReturnElements.push(oElement);
			}
		}
		return (arrReturnElements);
	};

	this.postToUrl = function(url, post_data, opt_redirect) {
		var form = document.createElement('form');
		var iframe_container = document.createElement('div');
		var id = 'dsq-temp-iframe-' + (new Date()).getTime();

		form.method = 'POST';
		form.action = url;
		if (!opt_redirect) {
			form.target = id;
		}
		iframe_container.innerHTML = '<iframe style="display:none" name="' + id + '" id="' + id + '"></iframe>';

		for(var key in post_data) {
			if(post_data.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				var input = document.createElement('input');
				input.name = key;
				input.type = 'hidden';
				input.value = post_data[key];

				form.appendChild(input);
			}
		}

		Dsq.$b.appendChild(iframe_container);
		Dsq.$b.appendChild(form);
		form.submit();
	};

	// Strips integer id from id of element in the form ('some-id-###')
	this.extractId = function(e) {
		var chunks = e.id.split('-');
		if(chunks.length <= 1) {
			return 0;
		} else {
			return parseInt(chunks[chunks.length-1]);
		}
	};

	this.getStyle = function(el, styleProp) {
		if(el.currentStyle) {
			var y = el.currentStyle[styleProp];
		} else if(window.getComputedStyle) {
			var y = document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(el, null).getPropertyValue(styleProp);
		}

		if(y == 'transparent' || y == '') {
			this.getStyle(el.parentNode, styleProp);
		} else {
			return y;
		}
	};

	this.execScript = function(url, append_qs, container) {
		var script = document.createElement('script');
		append_qs = typeof append_qs == 'undefined' ? true : append_qs;
		container = container || Dsq.container;

		if(append_qs) {
			var j = (url.indexOf('?') >= 0) ? '&' : '?';
			url += j + (new Date()).getTime();
		}
		script.type = 'text/javascript';
		script.charset = 'UTF-8';
		script.src = url;
		container.appendChild(script);
		return script;
	};

	this.pluralize = function(num, singular, plural) {
		return (num != 1) ? plural || 's' : singular || '';
	};

	this.getRequestParams = function(queryString /* optional */) {
		var pairs, tuple;
		var params = {};

		queryString = queryString || window.location.search.substring(1);
		pairs = queryString.split('&');

		for (var i = 0, pair; pair = pairs[i]; i++) {
			tuple = pair.split('=');
			params[tuple[0]] = (tuple[1] || true);
		}

		return params;
	};

	this.addCssRule = function(selector, styleText, index) {
		var stylesheet;
		index = index || 0;

		if(!this._styleSheet) {
			var styleEl = document.createElement('style');
			document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(styleEl);
			this._styleSheet = styleEl.sheet;
			if(!this._styleSheet) {
				// IE does not like our newly created stylesheet.
				this._styleSheet = document.styleSheets[document.styleSheets.length-1];
			}
		}
		stylesheet = this._styleSheet;

		if(stylesheet.insertRule) {
			var ruleText = selector + ' { ' + styleText + ' }';
			if(index == -1) {
				index = stylesheet.cssRules.length;
			}
			stylesheet.insertRule(ruleText, index);
		} else if(stylesheet.addRule) {
			stylesheet.addRule(selector, styleText, index);
		}
	};

	this.forEachIn = function(obj, callback) {
		for(var key in obj) {
			if(obj.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				callback(key, obj[key]);
			}
		}
	};

	this._interpolateGlobalContext = {
		// values that get used a lot and are global to the request
		'profile_url': Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE,

		'disqus_url': Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url,
		'media_url': Dsq.jsonData.settings.media_url,
		'request_username': Dsq.jsonData.request.username,
		'request_display_username': Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username,
		'forum_name': Dsq.jsonData.forum.name
	};

	this.renderFromContextStack = function(key, contexts) {
		// Returns the first instance of `key` in the array of objects `contexts` or else ''
		for (var i=0; i<contexts.length; i++) {
			if (contexts[i][key] !== undefined) {
				return String(contexts[i][key]);
			}
		}
		throw new Error('key ' + key + ' not found in context');
	};

	var that = this;
	this.interpolate = function(fmt, opt_localContext) {
		// Interpolate `fmt` named-format string with an assumed global context.
		// Based on `interpolate` in django.views.i18n
		var contextStack = [opt_localContext || {}, that._interpolateGlobalContext];
		return fmt.replace(/%\(\w+\)s/g, function(match){
			return that.renderFromContextStack(match.slice(2,-2), contextStack);
		});
	};

	this.stripTags = function(s) {
		// Removes HTML tags from `s`
		return s.replace(/(<([^>]+)>)/g,"");

	};

	this.assert = function(b) {
		if (!b) {
			throw new Error('Assertion error.');
		}
	};

};
// Dsq.Utils

/**
 * Dsq.Popup: Popup helper functions.
 */
Dsq.Popup = new function() {
	this.timeHide = new Array();
	this.timeShow = new Array();
	this.activePopup = {};
	this.profileCache = {};
	this.statusCache = {};

	this.showTimer = function(post_id) {
		// clear the hide timer
		clearTimeout(this.timeHide[post_id]);

		// start the timer
		if(!Dsq.Popup.profileIsOn && !Dsq.Thread.adminIsOn) {
			this.timeShow[post_id] = setTimeout("Dsq.Popup.popProfile(\"" + post_id + "\")", 400);
		}
	};

	this.hideTimer = function(post_id) {
		// clear the show timer
		clearTimeout(this.timeShow[post_id]);
	};

	this.updateProfile = function(username) {
		// Callback from /embed/profile.js
		if (this.statusCache[username]) {
			var statusEl = Dsq.$('dsq-profile-status-' + username);
			statusEl.innerHTML = this.statusCache[username];
			statusEl.style.display = 'block';
		}

		if (this.profileCache[username]) {
			var _cache = this.profileCache[username];

			var _genhtml = function(text) { return '<span><big>' + text + '</big></span>'; };
			var _no_comments = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_COMMENTS(_cache.comments_count));
			var _no_likes = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_LIKES(_cache.likes_count));
			var _no_points = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_POINTS(_cache.points));

			var statsEl = Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-user-stats-' + username);
			statsEl.innerHTML = '';

			if (Dsq.jsonData.users[username].registered) {
				statsEl.innerHTML = _no_comments + _no_likes;
			}
			statsEl.innerHTML += _no_points;

			var activeSites = '';
			for (var i = 0; i < _cache.active_sites.length; i++) {
				var site = _cache.active_sites[i];
				activeSites += '<li><a href="' + site.url + '"> \
					<img src="' + site.favicon + '"/ width="16" height="16"/></a>\
					<a href="' + site.url + '">' + site.name + '</a></li>';
			}
			if (activeSites !== '') {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-' + username).innerHTML = activeSites;
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-' + username).innerHTML = 'This site.';
			}

			var moderatedSites = '';
			for (var i = 0; i < _cache.moderated_sites.length; i++) {
				var site = _cache.moderated_sites[i];
				moderatedSites += '<li><a href="' + site.url + '"> \
					<img src="' + site.favicon + '"/ width="16" height="16"/></a>\
					<a href="' + site.url + '">' + site.name + '</a></li>';
			}
			if (moderatedSites !== '') {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-moderated-' + username).innerHTML = moderatedSites;
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-moderated-wrapper-' + username).innerHTML = '';
			}
		}

		// Reposition popup after full HTML is rendered
		if(Dsq.Popup.activePopup && Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el) {
			Dsq.Popup.initPopup(Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el, Dsq.Popup.activePopup.id, Dsq.Popup.activePopup.type);
		}

	};

	this.showCookieMsgs = function() {
		var title = '';
		var message = '';
		var numAlerts = 0;

		Dsq.Utils.forEachIn(Dsq.jsonData.cookie_messages, function(k, v) {
			if (!v) return;

			switch(k) {
				// Cookie: Twitter
				case 'post_twitter':
					if (v === 'error') {
						title = 'Twitter Error!';
						message += '<li id="dsq-msg-twitter-error">Oops, we couldn\'t tweet this comment. Please check your <a href="http://disqus.com/account/services">account settings</a>.</li>';
					} else {
						var _msg = v.split(':');
						title = 'Tweeted!';
						message += '<li id="dsq-msg-twitter-success">Your comment was successfully tweeted. <a href="http://twitter.com/' + _msg[0] + '/status/' + _msg[1] + '">Click here to view the tweet</a>.</li>';
					}
					break;
				// Cookie: Unapproved Post
				case 'post_not_approved':
					title = 'Comment awaiting approval by a moderator';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-post-not-approved">Your comment must be approved by a moderator before appearing here.</li>';
					break;
				// Cookie: Profile Found
				case 'post_has_profile':
					title = 'Use your existing commenter profile';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-post-has-profile">You have just posted your commment as a <span class="dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span>, but you may already have a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile.<br /><br /><a href="http://disqus.com/claim">Log in and claim this comment!</a></li>';
					break;
				case 'user_created':
					var _data = v.split(':');
					title = 'Profile created!';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-user-created">You have just created a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile, the best way to claim, manage, and track your comments all over the web. \
					<br /><br />A confirmation is being sent to <strong>' + _data[1] + '</strong>. Please check for this email in order to verify your profile. \
					<ul class="dsq-list-tick"> \
						<li>Your username is <strong>' + _data[0] +'</strong>. <a href="http://disqus.com/people/' + _data[0] + '/" target="_blank">Click here to view your public profile</a>.</li> \
						<li>Be sure to set your profile picture, as well as connect your <span class="dsq-badge-facebook">Facebook</span> and <span class="dsq-badge-twitter">Twitter</span> accounts. <a href="http://disqus.com/account/" target="_blank">Click here for account settings</a>.</li> \
					</ul> \
					</li>'
					break;
				default:
					break;
			}
			numAlerts++;
		});

		if(numAlerts > 1) {
			message = '<ul class="dsq-list-bluebullet">' + message;
			message += '</ul>';
			title = 'Thanks for posting!';
		}
		if(numAlerts > 0) {
			if(typeof(disqus_cookie_msgs) == 'function') {
				disqus_cookie_msgs(message, title);
			} else {
				Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);
			}
		}
	};

	this.helpBadges = function(post_id) {
		var html = ' \
			<ul class="dsq-popup-help"> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-verified">Verified</span> has a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile with a confirmed email address.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span> has a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile, but has not yet confirmed his or her email address.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span> is not logged in with any account and has not claimed his or her comments.</li> \
				<li class="dsq-help-otheraccts">Other accounts</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-facebook">Facebook</span> is using his or her Facebook profile via Facebook Connect.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-twitter">Twitter</span> is using his or her Twitter profile via Twitter Sign-in.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-openid">OpenID</span> is using his or her OpenID.</li> \
			</ul> \
		';

		this.popModal(html, 'Help: Types of Commenters', post_id);
		return;
	};

	this.permalink = function(post_id) {
		var header = 'Link to this comment';
		var body = '<strong>You are anchored to</strong>:<br />' + document.location.protocol + '//' + document.location.host + document.location.pathname + document.location.search + '#comment-' + post_id;

		this.popModal(body, header, post_id);
	};

	this.login = function(header, body) {
		var h = header || 'Login or Register';
		var b = body || '';
		b += Dsq.Templates.frameLogin({id: 'dsq-popup-login'});
		b += '</iframe>'; // HACK: Sometimes there is something funky with the IFRAME SRC that causes no end tag
		this.popModal(b, h, null, true, 'dsq-popup-login');
	};

	this.blacklist = function(id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		var title = 'Add to Blacklist';
		var message = ' \
		Adding this person to the blacklist will block him or her from commenting on this site. Check the following types that you would like to add to the blacklist:'
		+ (userData['registered'] ?
			'<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
				<input id="dsq-blacklist-username" type="checkbox" checked> \
				<label for="dsq-blacklist-username"><strong>Username</strong>: ' + userData['username'] + '</label> \
			</div>'
			: '')
		+ (_meta.email ?
			'<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
				<input id="dsq-blacklist-email" type="checkbox" checked> \
				<label for="dsq-blacklist-email"><strong>Email address</strong>: ' + _meta.email + '</label> \
			</div>'
			: '')
		+ '<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
			<input id="dsq-blacklist-ip" type="checkbox" onclick="Dsq.$(\'dsq-blacklist-ip-warning\').style.display=\'block\'"> \
			<label for="dsq-blacklist-ip"><strong>IP address</strong>: ' + _meta.ip + '</label> \
		</div> \
		';

		message += ' \
			<p id="dsq-blacklist-ip-warning" style="display:none">	\
				Note: Blocking this person\'s IP address may also unintentionally prevent others, who share his/her IP address, from commenting on this site. \
				This may include people who are sharing the same computer, living in the same house, or using the same Internet provider. Only block an IP address as a last resort. \
			</p> \
		';

		message += ' \
			<p style="text-align:center"><button onclick="Dsq.Post.blockUser(' + id + '); this.disabled=true; this.innerHTML=\'Just one moment...\'">Add to Blacklist</button></p> \
		';

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);
	};

	this.remoteAccountSettings = function() {
		var body = '';
		// Set up IFrame.
		var params = {};
		var base_url = 'http://disqus.com/forums/jackandjillpolitics/_auth/embed/remote_settings/';
		var attributes = {id: 'dsq-popup-account-settings'};
		if (typeof disqus_frame_theme != 'undefined') {
			params['theme'] = disqus_frame_theme;
		}

		body = Dsq.Templates._frameGeneric(base_url, params, attributes);
		this.popModal(body, 'Account Settings', null, true, 'dsq-popup-account-settings');
	};

	this.popModal = function(message, title, post_id, use_listener, extra_classes) {
		var container = document.createElement('div');
		var header, body;

		Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true);

		if(typeof(title) == 'undefined') { title = ''; }
		if(typeof(use_listener) == 'undefined') { use_listener = true; }

		if(post_id) {
			container.id = 'dsq-popup-message-' + post_id;
		} else {
			container.id = 'dsq-popup-message';
		}

		header = title;
		body = message;

		container.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.popupModal(header, body);
		Dsq.Popup.initPopup(container, post_id, 'message', extra_classes);
		if(use_listener) {
			Dsq.Popup.popupListener = Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(document, 'mouseup', Dsq.Popup._closePopup);
		}
	};

	this.popAlert = this.popModal;

	this.loading = function(post_id) {
		var title = Dsq.Strings.JUST_A_MOMENT;
		var body = '<div style="text-align:center; padding: 5px 0 10px 0"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading.gif" alt="" /></div>'
		Dsq.Popup.lightbox(body, title, post_id);
	};

	this.lightbox = function(message, title, post_id) {
		// Wraps Dsq.Popup.popModal

		var overlay = document.createElement('div');
		overlay.id = 'dsq-overlay';
		overlay.className = 'dsq-overlay';
		Dsq.$b.appendChild(overlay);
		
		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title, post_id, false, 'dsq-lightbox');
	};

	this.popProfile = function(post_id, userKey) {
		var post = Dsq.jsonData['posts'][post_id];
		if (post && post.has_been_anonymized) {
			Dsq.Popup.popModal('This message was anonymized by its previous owner.', 'Anonymized', post_id);
			return;
		}

		if(post_id) {
			userKey = Dsq.jsonData['posts'][post_id].user_key;	
		}
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][userKey];
		var elId = 'dsq-popup-profile-' + userKey;
		var container = document.createElement('div');

		if(this.activePopup.el) {
			this._closePopup(null, true);
			if(this.activePopup.linkClicked) {
				this.activePopup.linkClicked = false;
				return;
			}
		}

		container.id = elId;
		container.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.popupProfile(userKey);

		this.initPopup(container, post_id, 'profile');
		this.popupListener = Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(document, 'mouseup', this._closePopup);

		if(!this.profileCache[userKey]) {
			Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/embed/profile.js'
				+ '?username=' + userKey
				+ '&anon=' + (userData['registered'] ? 0 : 1)
				+ '&f=' + Dsq.jsonData['request'].forum);
		} else {
			this.updateProfile(userKey);
		}
	};

	this._closePopup = function(e, force) {
		var activePopup = Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el;
		var id = Dsq.Popup.activePopup.id;
		var link = 'dsq-avatar-' + id; // HACK: Specific to profile toggle target

		// HACK: This event should be gone if there is no active popup.
		if(!activePopup) {
			return;
		}
		if(force || !Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, activePopup.id)) {
			// TODO: This is breaking iE?
			if(Dsq.Popup.popupListener) {
				Dsq.Utils.removeEventListener(Dsq.Popup.popupListener);
			}
			
			// Kill overlay
			var overlay = Dsq.$('dsq-overlay');
			if(overlay) { Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(overlay); }
			
			try {
				Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(activePopup);
			} catch(e) {
				// HACK: IE6 throws an error when using deleteNode() with a node containing a <table> in the html.
				activePopup.parentNode.removeChild(activePopup);
			}
			Dsq.Popup.activePopup = {};
		}

		if(!force && Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, link)) {
 			Dsq.Popup.activePopup.linkClicked = true;
		}

	};

	this.initPopup = function(popup, post_id, type, extra_classes) {
		popup.className = 'dsq-popup dsq-popup-' + type + ' ' + (extra_classes ? extra_classes : '');
		if(Dsq.Utils.ie6 || Dsq.Utils.ie7) {
			// HACK: We can't modify the body before it's ready, so we need
			//       to use an IE-safe "DOMReady" workaround before loading
			//       our popup.
			Dsq.Utils.execOnReady(function() {Dsq.$b.appendChild(popup); });
		} else {
			Dsq.$b.appendChild(popup);
		}

		popup.style.display = 'block';

		var xPos = (Dsq.Utils.getWindowSize()[0] - popup.offsetWidth) / 2;
		var yPos = (Dsq.Utils.getWindowSize()[1] - popup.offsetHeight) / 2;

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) {
			yPos += Dsq.Utils.getScrollPos()[1];
		}

		popup.style.left = xPos + 'px';
		popup.style.top = yPos + 'px';

		Dsq.Popup.activePopup = {
			'el' : popup,
			'id' : post_id,
			'type': type,
			'linkClicked' : false
		};
	};

	this.isClicked = function(e, id) {
		var t = e.target || e.srcElement;
		while(t && t.parentNode) {
			if(t.id == id) {
				return true;
			}

			t = t.parentNode;
		}
		return false;
	};
};
// Dsq.Popup

/**
 * Dsq.Templates
 */
Dsq.Templates = new function() {
	/*
	 * Counter keeping track of the number of posts iterated over.
	 */
	this.postLoopCounter = 0;
	this.filters = {};
	this.addPostContainer = 'dsq-post-add';
	this.textareaContainer = 'dsq-post-add';

	this.registerTemplate = function(name, func) {
		this['$$_' + name] = func;

		if(typeof DsqLocal.Filters != 'undefined'
		&& typeof DsqLocal.Filters[name] == 'function') {
			// Push filters to this.filters to unify code.
			this.filters[name] = this.filters[name] || [];
			this.filters[name].push(DsqLocal.Filters[name]);
		}

		this[name] = function() {
			var ret;

			if(typeof DsqLocal.Templates != 'undefined'
			&& typeof DsqLocal.Templates[name] == 'function') {
				ret = DsqLocal.Templates[name].apply(this, arguments);
			}

			if(ret === undefined) {
				ret = this['$$_' + name].apply(this, arguments);
			}

			if(this.filters[name]) {
				var args = [ret];

				args.push.apply(args, arguments);
				for(var i = 0; i < this.filters[name].length; i++) {
					ret = this.filters[name][i].apply(this, args);
				}
			}

			return ret;
		};
	};

	this.registerFilter = function(name, func) {
		this.filters[name] = this.filters[name] || [];
		this.filters[name].push(func);
	};

	/**
	 * Dsq.Templates.Filters
	 */
	this.Filters = new function() {
		this.commentContainer = function(post_id, s) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
			var classes = [];
			if(Dsq.jsonData.request.page > 1) {
				classes.push('dsq-append');
			}

			//
			// Extra classes used for custom themes
			//

			if(_meta.depth) {
				classes.push('dsq-comment-child', 'dsq-depth-' + _meta.depth, 'dsq-parent-is-' + _meta.parent_post_id);
			}


			//

			if(_meta.author_is_creator) {
				// TODO: We need to deprecate the "special" class since it is not properly prefixed.
				classes.push('special', 'dsq-special');
			}
			if(_meta.author_is_moderator) {
				classes.push('dsq-moderator');
			}
			classes.push(['dsq-odd', 'dsq-even'][Dsq.Templates.postLoopCounter % 2]);

			s = s.substring(0, s.lastIndexOf('>'));
			return s + ' class="dsq-comment ' + classes.join(' ') + '" style="margin-left:' + _meta.depth*30 + 'px">';
		};

		this.commentContent = function(post_id, s) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
			if (_meta.killed) {
				return '<em>Comment removed.</em>';
			} else if (!_meta.approved) {
				return '<em>This comment was flagged for review.</em>';
			}

			s = s.replace(Dsq.MEDIA_POST_RE, Dsq.MediaPostHandler);
			return s;
		};
	};

	//
	// Thread
	//
	// TODO: These need to be stripped of all Django template tags.

	this.authPost = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.context.show_reply) {
			return '';
		}
		var result = [];
		result = result.concat([
				'<div id="dsq-auth"',
						Dsq.jsonData.integration.reply_position ? 'class="dsq-auth-bottom"' : '',
						'>',
					'<div class="dsq-by">',
						'<a href="http://disqus.com" target="_blank">',
							(Dsq.jsonData.integration.disqus_logo ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img src="%(media_url)s/images/embed/by-disqus.png" alt="discussion by DISQUS">') :
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img src="%(media_url)s/images/embed/dsq-button-120x19.png" alt="discussion by DISQUS">')
							),
						'</a>',
					'</div>',
					'<div class="dsq-auth-header">',
						'<h3 id="dsq-add-new-comment" class="dsq-h3-addcomment">',
								Dsq.Strings.ADD_NEW_COMMENT,
						'</h3>',
						'<div id="dsq-login">',
						(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated && Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
								? '<p class="dsq-login-message" id="dsq-login-message">You are commenting as a <a class="dsq-help" title="Click for more information" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Guest</a>. You may select one to log into:</p>'
								: '')
		]);
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {
			result = result.concat([
							Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
								'<a id="dsq-login-toggle" href="%(disqus_url)s%(login_url)s?next=article:%(thread_id)s" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false"><img class="dsq-login-icon" src="%(media_url)s/images/dsq-profile-btn.png" title="%(log_into)s" alt="%(log_into)s"/></a>',
								{login_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGIN, thread_id: Dsq.jsonData.thread.id, log_into: Dsq.Strings.LOG_INTO_DISQUS}
								),
							'&nbsp; ',
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect ?
								'<div id="dsq-fbc-login" onlogin="DisqusFbcParentController.onLogin()" size="medium" background="light" length="short" style="display:inline; margin-right:7px"></div>' :
								''
							),
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_twitter_signin ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
									'<div id="dsq-twitter-login" class="dsq-twitter-login" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect();" style="display:inline; cursor: pointer"><img src="%(media_url)s/images/twitter-signin-short.png" style="margin-right:7px" /></div>', {}) : ''),
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_openid ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
									'<div id="dsq-openid-login" class="dsq-openid-login" onclick="Dsq.OpenID.requestURL();" style="display:inline; cursor:pointer;"><img src="%(media_url)s/images/openid-login-button.png"/></div>', {}
								) : '')
			]);
		}
		result = result.concat([
						'</div>', // dsq-login
					'</div>', // dsq-auth-header
					'<div id="dsq-authenticated" class="dsq-authenticated" ',
						Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated ? 'style="display:block"' : '',
						'>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-pic">',
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">' +
																			'<img class="dsq-post-avatar" src="%(avatar_url)s" alt="" /></a>',
																			{avatar_url: Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_AVATAR,
																			url: (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
																					 ? Dsq.jsonData.request.url
																					 : Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE) }),
						'</div>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-info">',
							'<ul>',
								'<li>',
									(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(
												Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">%(request_display_username)s</a>', {url:Dsq.jsonData.request.url})
										  )
										: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(
												Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(profile_url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">%(request_display_username)s</a>')
											)
									),
								'</li>',
								'<li class="logout">',
									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img class="dsq-login-icon" src="%(media_url)s/images/dsqicon12.png" alt="%(logged_in_as)s"/>&nbsp',
											{logged_in_as: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username)})
										: ''),

									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="%(logout_from_disqus)s">',
											{logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN, logout_from_disqus: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGOUT_FROM('DISQUS')})
										: ((Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain == 'twitter')
												? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('using Twitter (<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="Logout">Logout</a>)',
												 {logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN})
												: ((Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain == 'openid')
													 ? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('using OpenID (<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="Logout">Logout</a>)',
													 {logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN})
													 : ''
													)
											)
									),

									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote ? Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGOUT_FROM('<span class="logo-disqus">DISQUS</span>') : ''),
									'</a>',
								'</li>',
							'</ul>',
						'</div>',
					'</div>'
		]);
		if (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect) {
			result = result.concat([
					'<div id="dsq-fbc-authenticated" class="dsq-authenticated">',
						'<div id="dsq-fbc-profilepic" class="dsq-authenticated-pic" uid="loggedinuser" type="FB.XFBML.ProfilePic" size="square" facebook-logo="true"></div>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-info">',
							'<ul>',
								'<li>',
									'Logged in as <span id="dsq-fbc-name" uid="loggedinuser" type="FB.XFBML.Name" linked="true" useyou="false"></span>',
								'</li>',
								'<li class="logout">using Facebook Connect <a href="#" onclick="javascript:DisqusFbcParentController.logout();return false;">(Logout)</a></li>',
							'</ul>',
						'</div>',
					'</div>'
			]);
		}
		result = result.concat([
				'</div>', // dsq-auth
				'<div id="dsq-toolbar-items">',
				'</div>'
		]);
		result = result.concat([
					//
					//
					//
				((!Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post && !Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) ?
					// Needs to be translated:
					('<p id="dsq-no-anon-msg">Required: Please log into <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> ' +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect ? 'or connect with Facebook ' : '') +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_twitter_signin ? 'or sign in with Twitter ' : '') +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_openid ? 'or sign in using OpenID ' : '') +
					Dsq.Utils.interpolate('to comment on <strong>%(forum_name)s</strong>.</p>')) :
					''
				),
				'<div id="dsq-post-add"></div>',
				'<div style="margin:10px 0">',
				((Dsq.jsonData.forum.use_media) ?
						'<a href="#" id="dsq-media-link" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, false, \'media\'); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.USE_MEDIA + ' <small>&#9660;</small></a>' :
						''),
				'</div>'
		]);
		return result.join('');
	};


	this.header = function() {

		var html = '\<h3 id="dsq-comments-count" class="dsq-h3-commentcount">\
	 <span id="dsq-num-posts">152</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/and_another_one/latest.rss"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/bullet-feed.png"></a>\
	 </span>\
	 </h3>\
	 <div id="dsq-options" style="margin:15px 0">\
	 <span class="dsq-item-sort">\
	 Sort by\
	 <select id="dsq-sort-select" onchange="Dsq.Thread.sortBy(this.value);">\
	 <option value="hot" selected="selected">Popular now</option>\
	 <option value="best" >Best Rating</option>\
	 <option value="newest" >Newest first</option>\
	 <option value="oldest" >Oldest first</option>\
	 </select>\
	 &nbsp;\
	 </span>\
	 <span class="dsq-item-cp"><a href="http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/and_another_one/">Community Page</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>\
	 <span class="dsq-item-subscribe">\
	 <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/email.png" style="width:12px;height:12px;vertical-align:middle">\
	 <span id="dsq-subscribe">\
	 <a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">Subscribe by email</a>\
	 </span>\
	 </span>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-alerts">\
	 <p><a href="http://disqus.com/profile/login/?next=article:1769708" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false">You must log into your Disqus Profile in order to post comments.</a></p>\
	 </div>\
		';

		

		
		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) { 
			html = ' \
			<div class="dsq-alert-message dsq-upgrade-message"> \
				<strong>Disqus upgrade available.</strong> Hi ' + Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username + ', this message is being displayed to you because you are a moderator of this site. <a href="#" onclick="Dsq.$(\'dsq-upgrade-message\').style.display=\'block\';this.style.display=\'none\';return false">Click here for details.</a> \
				<div style="display:none; margin-top:10px;" id="dsq-upgrade-message"> \
					A new theme is available with added features. <a href="http://disqus.com/comments/settings/' + Dsq.jsonData.forum.url + '/?p=customize">To change your theme, click here</a> and choose the theme Narcissus. \
					If you do not upgrade, you are missing out on features such as: real-time commenting, new sign-in integrations, and an upgrade interface. \
					<strong>This message will automatically go away in one week.</strong> \
				</div> \
			</div> \
			' + html; 
		}
		return html;
	};

	this.footer = function() {
		var html = Dsq.Templates.pagination();

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.authPost();
		

		html += Dsq.Templates.reactions();

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.trackbacks();
		

		return html;
	};

	this.pagination = function() {
		var html = '';
		
		if (Dsq.$('dsq-pagination')) { Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML = ''; }
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.thread.paginate) { return ''; }

		//
		// TODO: num_paginator still uses the template tag for pagination, 
		// 		while append_paginator does it all in JavaScript.
		//		This should all be in JavaScript.
		//

		if (Dsq.jsonData.thread.num_pages > 1 && Dsq.jsonData.request.page < Dsq.jsonData.thread.num_pages) {
			html = ' \<a class="dsq-paginate-append-text" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.paginate(Dsq.jsonData.request.page + 1, this); return false">Show more comments...</a>\
	 <button class="dsq-button-small dsq-paginate-append-button" onclick="Dsq.Thread.paginate(Dsq.jsonData.request.page + 1, this);">Load more comments</button>\
			';
		}
		
		if (Dsq.$('dsq-pagination')) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML = html;
			return '';
		} else {
			return '<div id="dsq-pagination" class="dsq-pagination">' + html + '</div>';
		}
	};

	this.trackbacks = function() {
		var html = '';

		if(typeof DsqLocal != 'undefined' && DsqLocal.trackback_url && DsqLocal.trackbacks) {
			var trackbacks = DsqLocal.trackbacks;
			var trackback_url = DsqLocal.trackback_url;
		} else {
			var trackbacks = [
			
			
			];
			var trackback_url = 'http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/and_another_one/trackback/';
		}

		html += '<div class="dsq-item-trackback">Trackback URL&nbsp;&nbsp;<input class="dsq-trackback-url" onclick="this.select()" readonly="true" value="' + trackback_url + '"></div>';

		if(trackbacks.length) {
			html += '<ul id="dsq-references">'
			for(var i = 0; i < trackbacks.length; i++) {
				var trackback = trackbacks[i];
				html += '<li><cite><a href="' + trackback.author_url + '" rel="nofollow">' + trackback.author_name + '</a></cite> \
						<p class="dsq-meta">' + trackback.date + '</p> \
						<p class="dsq-content">' + trackback.excerpt + '</p></li>';
			}
			html += '</ul>';
			html = '<h3 class="dsq-h3-trackbacks">Trackbacks</h3>' + html;
		}

		return html;
	}

	this.showRetweets = function(id, limit, element_id /* Optional */) {
		var source, html = '';

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			if (reaction.id === id) {
				source = reaction.retweets;
			}
		}

		if (source) {
			if (limit === 0) {
				limit = source.length;
			}

			for (var j = 0; j < limit; j++) {
				var rt = source[j];
				html += '<a href="' + rt.url + '">' + rt.author_name + '</a>'	+ ((j === (limit - 1)) ? '.' : ', ');
			}
		}

		if (element_id === undefined) {
			return html;
		}

		var element = document.getElementById(element_id);
		element.innerHTML = html;
		return element;
	};

	this.showMoreReactions = function(reactions, has_more, start, limit) {
		var link = document.getElementById('dsq-show-more-reactions');
		var container = link.parentNode;
		container.removeChild(link);

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = reactions[i]; i++) {
			var el = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (el) {
				container.innerHTML += el;
			}
		}

		if (has_more) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = start;
			var l = limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			container.innerHTML += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions"><a href="#" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</a></li>';
		}
	};

	this.generateReactionHTML = function(reaction) {
		if (reaction.body === null || reaction.body == '') {
			return;
		}

		if (reaction.author_name === '') {
			reaction.author_name = '&nbsp;';
		}

		if (reaction.url === '') {
			reaction.url = reaction.get_service_url;
		}

		/* Reaction HTML begins */
		var item = '<li class="dsq-reaction" id="dsq-reaction-' + reaction.id + '">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-header">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-header-avatar">';

		if (reaction.author_url && reaction.author_url !== '') {
			item += '<a target="_blank" href="' + reaction.author_url +'">';
		} else {
			item += '<a target="_blank" href="#" onclick="return false;">';
		}

		if (reaction.avatar_url && reaction.avatar_url !== '') {
			item += '<img src="' + reaction.avatar_url + '"/>';
		} else {
			item += '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/noavatar32.png"/>';
		}

		var service_icon = (reaction.get_service_name == 'trackback' || reaction.get_service_name == 'pingback' ? 'rss' : reaction.get_service_name.replace(' ', ''));
		item += '<img class="dsq-service-icon" src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/reactions/services/' + service_icon + '.png"/>'
			+ '</a></div>'
			+ '<cite><span>' + reaction.author_name + '</span></cite>'
			+ '<span class="dsq-header-meta"><a class="dsq-header-time">' + reaction.date_created + '</a></span>'
			+ '</div><div class="dsq-reaction-body">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-message">' + reaction.body + '</div>'
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-footer">From <a class="dsq-service-name" target="_blank" href="' + reaction.url + '">' + reaction.get_service_name + '</a> '
			+ 'via ' + (reaction.source == 'backtype' ? '<a href="http://backtype.com/">BackType</a>' : '<a href="' + reaction.source_url + '">UberVU</a>')
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator ? '&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp;<a class="dsq-hide-reaction" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Reaction.hide(' + reaction.id + '); return false;">Hide</a>' : '') + '</div></div>';

		if(reaction.retweets) {
			var num_retweets = reaction.retweets.length;
			if (num_retweets > 0) {
				item += '<div class="dsq-reaction-retweets">';
				if (num_retweets == 1) {
					item += 'One more retweet from <a href="' + reaction.retweets[0].url + '">'  + reaction.retweets[0].author_name + '</a>';
				} else {
					item += (num_retweets + ' more retweets from ');

					item += '<span id="dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '">';
					var n_tweets = (num_retweets > 15) ? 15 : num_retweets;
					item += Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(reaction.id, n_tweets);

					if (n_tweets != num_retweets) {
						item += '</span> <a onclick="Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(' + reaction.id + ', 0, \'dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '\');'
							+ 'this.parentNode.removeChild(this); return false;" href="#">Show all</a>';
					}
				}
				item += '</div>';
			}
		}

		item += '</li>'; /* Reaction HTML ends */
		return item;
	};

	this.reactions = function() {
		var html, reaction;

		if (Dsq.jsonData.reactions === undefined || Dsq.jsonData.reactions.length === 0) {
			return '';
		}

		html = '';
		for (var i = 0; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			var item = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (item) {
				html += item;
			}
		}

		if (Dsq.jsonData.has_more_reactions) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_start;
			var l = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			html += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions"><a href="#" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</a></li>';
		}

		return '<h3 class="dsq-h3-reactions">Reactions</h3><ul id="dsq-reactions" class="dsq-reactions">' + html + '</ul>';
	};
	
	this.missingPermissions = function() {
		return '	<p><a href="http://disqus.com/profile/login/?next=article:1769708" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false">You must log into your Disqus Profile in order to post comments.</a></p> \n';
	};

	//
	// Post
	//

	this.prependPost = function(post_id) {
		var html = '<div id="comment-' + post_id + '"></div>';
		return html;
	};

	this.appendPost = function(post_id) {
		var html = '<div id="dsq-comment-reply-' + post_id + '"></div>';
		return html;
	};

	this.postPrependHeader = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];

		var _includeServices = function() {
			var userServices = Dsq.Post.getUserServices(null, post_id);
			var html = '';
			var hiddenThreshold = 3; // Define # of services to show before stuffing them in hidden div

			for(var i = 0; i < userServices.length; i++) {
				html +=
				(i == hiddenThreshold
					? '<li id="dsq-drop-hidden-' + post_id +'" class="dsq-drop-hidden"><ul>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-drop-services"> \
					<a class="dsq-service-' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" href="' + userServices[i].url + '" target="_blank"> \
						<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/embed/services/' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '.png" alt="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '">'
					+ userServices[i].name
					+ '</a> \
				</li>';
			}

			if(i >= hiddenThreshold) {
				html += '</ul></li> \
				<li id="dsq-drop-more-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-drop-more"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.dropProfileMore(this, '+ post_id + '); return false"><small>&#9660;</small></a></li> \
				';
			}
			return html;
		};

		return ' \
			<div class="dsq-header-avatar" id="dsq-header-avatar-' + post_id + '" onmouseover="Dsq.Post.dropProfile(' + post_id + ')"> \
				<a id="dsq-avatar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-avatar" href="' + userData.url + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">'
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.show_avatar
				? '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.users[_meta.user_key].avatar + '" alt="" />'
				: '')
			+ '</a>'
			+ '</div> \
		';
	};

	this.postAppendHeader = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];

		return ''
			+ (_meta.author_is_moderator
				? '<img class="dsq-mod-star" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/bullet-star.png" title="Moderator" alt="" />'
				: '')
			+ '<span class="dsq-header-meta"> \
				<a id="dsq-time-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-header-time" href="#comment-' + post_id + '" title="Permalink">' + _meta.date + '</a> \
			</span>';
	};

	this.preBody = function(post_id) {
		return '';
	}

	this.postBody = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: Deprecate flagging conditional
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		return ''
			+ (_meta.edited
				? '<p class="dsq-editedtxt">(Edited by a moderator)</p>'
				: '')
			;
	};

	this.postFooter = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: Use media should be conditional
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		if(_meta.killed) { return ''; }

		return ' \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer" id="dsq-comment-footer-' + post_id + '"> \
				<div id="dsq-points-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-likedtxt">'
				+ (_meta.points
					? _meta.points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(_meta.points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this comment.'
					: '')
				+ '</div>'
				+ '<ul class="dsq-comment-options dsq-list-style">'
				+ (_meta.votable
					? '<li class="dsq-list-first dsq-rate" id="dsq-rate-cont-' + post_id + '">'
					+ (!_meta.up_voted
						? '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.rate(this, ' + post_id + ', 1); return false;">Like</a>'
						: 'You liked this.') + '</li>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-report' + (!_meta.votable ? ' dsq-list-first' : '') + '" id="dsq-post-report-' + post_id + '"><a href="#" class="dsq-post-report" onclick="Dsq.Post.report(' + post_id + ', false); return false;">Report</a></li> \
				</ul> \
				<ul class="dsq-list-style">'
				+ (_meta.can_reply
					? '<li class="dsq-list-first"><a href="#" id="dsq-reply-link-' + post_id +'" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleReply(this, ' + post_id +'); return false;">Reply</a></li>'
					: '')
				+ (_meta.can_reply && !_meta.has_replies && _meta.from_request_user
					? '<li id="dsq-edit-el-' + post_id + '"><a id="dsq-edit-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); return false;">Edit</a></li>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="' + (!_meta.can_reply ? 'dsq-list-first' : '') + '" id="dsq-more-el-' + post_id + '"><a id="dsq-more-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, ' + post_id + ', \'more\'); return false">More <small>&#9660;</small></a></li>'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.use_media
					? '<li id="dsq-media-el-' + post_id +'" style="display:none"><a id="dsq-media-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, ' + post_id + ', \'media\'); return false">Use Media <small>&#9660;</small></a></li>'
					: '')
				+ '</ul>'
				+ '<div id="dsq-reply-bar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar" style="display:none"> \
						<div id="dsq-reply-bar-items-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar-items"> \
						</div> \
						<div id="dsq-reply-bar-auth-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar-auth"> \
							 \
								 \
									<a href="#" class="dsq-help dsq-reply-req-opt" title="You must log into an account in order to comment on Jack and Jill Politics" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Required:</a> \
								 \
								<img class="dsq-login-icon" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/dsq-favicon-16x16.png" alt="" /> \
								<a id="dsq-reply-login-' + post_id + '" href="http://disqus.com/profile/login/?next=article:1769708" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false">Login</a> \
								 \
									&nbsp;or&nbsp; \
									<img class="fb_login_image" src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/images/fbconnect/login-buttons/connect_light_small_short.gif" alt="Facebook Connect"/> \
									<a href="#" onclick="FB.Connect.requireSession(DisqusFbcParentController.onLogin); return false;">Connect</a> \
								 \
								&nbsp;or&nbsp; \
									<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/twitter-signin-icon.png" alt="" /> \
									<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect(); return false">Sign-in</a> \
								 \
								 \
							 \
						</div> \
					</div> \
					<div id="dsq-reply-' + post_id + '"></div> \
			</div> \
		';
	};

	//
	// Iframes
	//

	this._makeAttributes = function(attributes) {
		// Makes a tag attributes string out of an object.
		// Caller is responsible for making sure nothing needs to be escaped.
		var result = [];
		for (key in attributes) {
			result.push(' ' + key + '="' + attributes[key] + '"');
		}
		result = result.join('');
		return result;
	};

	this._frameGeneric = function(base_url, params, attributes) {
		if(typeof(disqus_callback_params) == 'undefined') {
			disqus_callback_params = '';
		}

		var default_params = {
			// TODO: These should be moved to Dsq.jsonData.
			'f'				: 'jackandjillpolitics',
			't'				: 'and_another_one',
			// Do we need encodeURIComponent here?
			'ifrs'			: encodeURIComponent(disqus_iframe_css),
			'to_redirect'	: encodeURIComponent(window.location),
			'cbp'			: disqus_callback_params,
			'ff'			: Dsq.Thread.ff,
			'fc'			: Dsq.Thread.fc,
			'ac'			: Dsq.Thread.ac,
			'default_text'	: disqus_default_text
		};

		base_url += '?' + (new Date()).getTime();
		// Add params to default_params.
		if(params) {
			for(var key in params) {
				if(params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
					default_params[key] = encodeURIComponent(params[key]);
				}
			}
		}
		// Build querystring.
		for(var key in default_params) {
			if(default_params[key] && default_params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				base_url += '&' + key + '=' + default_params[key];
			}
		}

		return [
			'<iframe marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" frameborder="0"',
			(' allowtransparency="true" src="' + base_url + '"'),
			this._makeAttributes(attributes),
			'</iframe>'].join('');
	};

	this.frameLogin = function(opt_attributes) {
		var params = {};
		var base_url = 'http://disqus.com/embed/login.html';
		var attributes = opt_attributes || {};
		attributes['class'] = 'dsq-post-login';

		if(typeof disqus_frame_theme != 'undefined') {
			params['theme'] = disqus_frame_theme;
		}
		return this._frameGeneric(base_url, params, attributes);
	};

	this.frameReply = function(post_id, extra_params, attributes) {
		// Returns the HTML for a reply iframe. Called by Dsq.Iframes.setReplyIframeToContainer
		var _meta = (typeof post_id != 'undefined') ? Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id] : false;
		var base_url = Dsq.Urls.REPLY;
		var params = {
			'def_email'		: disqus_def_email,
			'def_name'		: disqus_def_name
		};
		if(extra_params) {
			for(var key in extra_params) {
				if(extra_params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
					params[key] = extra_params[key];
				}
			}
		}
		if(_meta) {
			params['parent_post'] = post_id;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_per_page != 'undefined') {
			params['per_page'] = disqus_per_page;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_frame_theme != 'undefined') {
			params['theme'] = disqus_frame_theme;
		}
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {
			attributes['class'] += '-authenticated';
		}
		return this._frameGeneric(base_url, params, attributes);
	};

	this.frameEdit = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = (typeof post_id != 'undefined') ? Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id] : false;
		var base_url = 'http://disqus.com/embed/edit.html';
		var params = {
			'p' : post_id
		};
		return this._frameGeneric(base_url, params, {'class': 'dsq-post-edit', 'name': 'dsq-edit_' + post_id + '-frame'});
	};

	//
	// Menus
	//

	this.menuMore = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: "Remove post" button should hide menu.
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		return ' \
			<li><a href="#comment-' + post_id + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.permalink(' + post_id + ')">Link</a></li> \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">Profile</a></li>'
	+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator
		? '	<li class="dsq-menu-sep"></li>' + (_meta.email ? '<li class="dsq-admin-email">' + _meta.email + '</li>' : '')
		+ '	<li class="dsq-admin-ip">' + _meta.ip + '</li> \
			<li class="dsq-menu-sep"></li>'
		+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.moderator_can_edit
			? ' <li class="dsq-admin-edit"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); return false;">Edit Comment</a></li>'
			: '')
		+ ' <li class="dsq-remove"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.removePost(' + post_id + ', 1); return false;">Remove Comment</a></li> \
			<li class="dsq-report-spam"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.reportSpam(' + post_id + '); return false;">Mark Spam</a></li> \
			<li class="dsq-block-user"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.blacklist(' + post_id + '); return false">Block User</a></li>'
		: '');
	};

	this.menuMedia = function(post_id) {
		return ' \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleMediaReply(this, ' + post_id + ', \'seesmic\'); return false;">Record video</a></li> \
		';
	};

	this.dropProfile = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];

		var _includeServices = function() {
			var userServices = Dsq.Post.getUserServices(null, post_id);
			var html = '';
			var hiddenThreshold = 3; // Define # of services to show before stuffing them in hidden div

			for(var i = 0; i < userServices.length; i++) {
				html +=
				(i == hiddenThreshold
					? '<li id="dsq-drop-hidden-' + post_id +'" class="dsq-drop-hidden"><ul>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-drop-services"> \
					<a class="dsq-service-' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" href="' + userServices[i].url + '" target="_blank"> \
						<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/embed/services/' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '.png" alt="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '">'
					+ userServices[i].name
					+ '</a> \
				</li>';
			}

			if(i >= hiddenThreshold) {
				html += '</ul></li> \
				<li id="dsq-drop-more-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-drop-more"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.dropProfileMore(this, '+ post_id + '); return false"><small>&#9660;</small></a></li> \
				';
			}
			return html;
		};


		var menu = '<li class="dsq-drop-showlnk"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">Expand &#8663;</a></li>';
		var pointsMessage = '';
		if (userData['registered']) {
			pointsMessage = 'with ' + userData['points'] + ' points (more points are better).';
		}

		if (userData['is_remote']) {
			var domain = userData['remote_domain_name'];
			menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' is a ' + domain + ' user ' + pointsMessage + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()">';
			menu += '<span class="dsq-badge-' + domain.toLowerCase() + '">' + domain + '</span></li>';
		} else if (userData['registered']) {
			if (userData['verified']) {
				menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' has a verified commenter profile ' + pointsMessage + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()">';
				menu += '<span class="dsq-badge-verified">Verified</span></li>';
			} else {
				menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' has a registered, but unverified, commenter profile ' + pointsMessage + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()">';
				menu += '<span class="dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span></li>';
			}
		} else {
			menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' has not claimed this commenter profile." onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()"><span class="dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span></li>';
		}

		menu += _includeServices();
		return menu;
	};

	//
	// Popups
	//

	this._popupGeneric = function(content) {
		return ' \
		<div class="dsq-popup-content"> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-top"></div> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-body" class="clearfix"> \
				<div class="dsq-popup-body-padding"> \
					<div class="dsq-popup-header"> \
						<a class="dsq-close-link" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/modal-close.png" alt="" /></a>'
						+ content['header']
					+ '</div>'
					+ content['body']
					+ '<div class="powered-by"><a href="http://disqus.com/comments/">Powered by <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-logo.png" alt="Disqus Comments" style="margin-bottom:-5px" /></a></div> \
				</div> <!-- padding --> \
			</div> <!-- body --> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-bottom"></div> \
		</div> \
		';
	};

	this.popupProfile = function(user_key) {
		var userServices = Dsq.Post.getUserServices(user_key, null);
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][user_key];
		var headerHtml = '';
		var bodyHtml = '';
		var content = {};

		var _includeServices = function() {
			var html = '';
			for(var i = 0; i < userServices.length; i++) {
				html +=
				(i == 0
					? '<h4>Connections</h4><ul>'
					: '')
				+ '<li> \
					<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/embed/services/' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '.png" alt="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" title="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" /> \
					<a class="dsq-service-' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" href="' + userServices[i].url + '" target="_blank">'
					+ userServices[i].name
					+ '</a> \
				</li>'
				+ (i+1 == userServices.length ? '</ul>' : '');
			}
			return html;
		};

		headerHtml = ' \
			<table> \
				<tr> \
					<td> \
						<a class="dsq-profile-userurl" href="' + userData.url + '"><img class="dsq-popup-profile-avatar" src="' + userData['avatar'] + '" alt="" /></a> \
					</td> \
					<td> \
						<div class="dsq-popup-profile-user"> \
							<h3>' + userData['display_name'] + '</h3> \
							<div class="dsq-popup-profile-user-stats" id="dsq-popup-profile-user-stats-' + user_key + '">Loading...</div> \
						</div> \
					</td> \
				</tr> \
			</table> \
		';

		bodyHtml = ' \
			<div class="dsq-popup-profile-state"> \
				This is a&nbsp;<span class="'
					+ (userData['registered']
						? (userData['verified']
							? ' dsq-badge-verified'
							: (userData['is_remote']
								? ' dsq-badge-' + userData['remote_domain_name'].toLowerCase()
								: ' dsq-badge-registered')
							)
							: ' dsq-badge-guest') + '">'
			+ (userData['registered']
				? (userData['verified']
					? 'Verified'
					: (userData['is_remote']
						 ? userData['remote_domain_name']
						 : 'Registered')
					)
				: 'Guest')
			+ '</span>&nbsp;commenter profile.'
			+ '&nbsp;<a class="dsq-profile-userurl" href="' + userData.url + '"><strong>View more comments </strong></a>'
			+ (!userData['points']
				? '<p class="dsq-popup-notice">If this is you, <a href="http://disqus.com/profile" target="_blank">claim it now</a> to manage your comments.</p>'
				: '')
			+ ((userData['registered'] && !userData['verified'] && (Dsq.jsonData.request.username && (Dsq.jsonData.request.username == userData['username'])) && !userData['is_remote'])
				? '<p class="dsq-popup-notice"><strong>Alert</strong>: You have not verified this account. <a href="http://disqus.com/verify">Verify it now.</a></p>'
				: '')
			+ '</div> \
			<div id="dsq-profile-status-' + user_key + '" class="dsq-popup-profile-status" style="display:none"></div> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-profile-snapshot"> \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td> \
							<div id="dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-wrapper-' + user_key + '"> \
								<h4>Most active sites</h4> \
								<ul id="dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-' + user_key + '"> \
									<li>Loading...</li> \
								</ul> \
							</div> \
						</td> \
						<td>'
							+ _includeServices()
							+ '<div id="dsq-popup-profile-moderated-wrapper-' + user_key + '"> \
								<h4>Moderator of</h4> \
								<ul id="dsq-popup-profile-moderated-' + user_key + '"> \
									<li>Loading...</li> \
								</ul> \
							</div> \
						</td> \
					</tr> \
				</table> \
			</div> \
			';

		content = {
			'header': headerHtml,
			'body': bodyHtml
		};

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

	this.popupReblog = function() {
		var headerHtml = '';
		var bodyHtml = '';
		var content = {};

		headerHtml = ' \
			<cite><span>Reblog this comment</span></cite> \
		';

		bodyHtml = ' \
			<div id="dsq-reblog-form" class="dsq-reblog-form"> \
			</div> \
		';

		content = {
			'header': headerHtml,
			'body': bodyHtml
		};

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

	this.popupModal = function(title, message) {
		var headerHtml = '';
		var bodyHtml = '';
		var content = {};

		headerHtml = ' \
			<h3>' + title + '</h3> \
		';

		bodyHtml = message;

		content = {
			'header': headerHtml,
			'body': bodyHtml
		};

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

	this.alertContent = function(name, post_id) {
		var alert = {
			'post_not_approved': {
				'title': 'Comment awaiting approval by a moderator',
				'message': 'Thanks for posting. Your comment must be approved by a moderator before appearing here.'
			},
			'post_has_profile': {
				'title': 'Use your existing commenter profile',
				'message': 'You have just posted your commment as a <span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span>, but you may already have a <span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span> commenter profile.<br /><br /><a href="http://disqus.com/claim">Log in and claim this comment!</a>'
			}
		};
		return alert[name] || false;
	};

	//
	// Actions
	//

	this.voted = function(post_id, points, vote) {
		// Update number of points
		Dsq.$('dsq-points-' + post_id).innerHTML = points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this comment.';

		// Update link text
		if(vote) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-rate-cont-' + post_id).innerHTML = 'You liked this.';
		}
	};

	this.subscribed = function(status) {
		var title, message;

		if(status) {
			title = 'Subscribed!';
			message = 'You have subscribed to this comment thread. New comments will be sent directly to your email inbox, where you may read and respond by email.';
			Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe').innerHTML = ' \
				<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(0); return false">Unsubscribe</a> \
			';
		} else {
			title = 'Unsubscribed';
			message = 'You have unsubscribed to this comment thread. New comments will no longer be sent to your email inbox.';
			Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe').innerHTML = ' \
				<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">Subscribe by email</a> \
			';
		}

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);

	};
	
	this.highlighted = function() {
		Dsq.Popup.popModal('This comment has been highlighted.', 'Highlighted comment');
	};

	//
	// Media
	//

	this.mediaSeesmic = function(id, thumb) {
		return ' \
			<div id="dsq-seesmic-' + id + '_preview" class="dsq-seesmic-preview"><a href="http://www.seesmic.com/video/' + id + '" target="_blank" class="see_link">&nbsp;</a> \
				<div style="display:block;width:160px; height:120px; border:none; background-image:url(http://t.seesmic.com/thumbnail/' + thumb + ')"> \
					<div id="dsq-seesmic-' + id + '_hide" class="seePlayOverlay" style="display:none;"><img onclick="see_play_video(\'' + id + '\',false)" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/seesmic/stopOverlay.png" width="50" height="50" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand; padding-top: 30px; padding-left: 50px" alt="" /></div> \
					<div id="dsq-seesmic-' + id + '_show" class="seePlayOverlay"><img onclick="see_play_video(\'' + id + '\',true)" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/seesmic/playOverlay.png" width="50" height="50" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand; border:none; padding-top: 30px; padding-left: 50px" alt="" /></div> \
				</div> \
			</div> \
			<div id="' + id + '_content" style="display:block; width:100%; padding-top:5px"></div> \
		';
	};

	//
	// Callbacks
	//

	this.postComment_onSuccess = function(parent_post_id) {
		// Increment post count
		var num_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-num-posts');
		var total_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-total-posts');
		
		if (num_posts) { 
			num_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(num_posts.innerHTML) + 1;
		}
		if (total_posts) { 
			total_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(total_posts.innerHTML) + 1;
		}
	};
};
// Dsq.Templates


/**
 * Dsq.Post
 */
Dsq.Post = new function() {
	this.openedMenu = {};
	this.menuEventListener = null;
	this.stateReplyToggled = {};
	this.stateEditToggled = {};
	this.stateRecordLink = {};

	/**
	 * Inserts a new post into the document.
	 *
	 * @param after_id {Number}	Insert a post before specified id.  If after_id
	 *							evaluates to false, then post in the front.  If
	 *							after_id is -1, post at the end.
	 */
	this.insert = function(after_id, id, message, author) {
		// Skeleton template from thread_posts.html.
		var skeleton = ' \
			<li id="dsq-comment-%(id)s"> \
				<div id="dsq-comment-header-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-header"> \
					<cite id="dsq-cite-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-cite"> \
						<a id="dsq-author-user-%(id)s" href="%(author_url)s" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">%(author_name)s</a> \
					</cite> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-comment-body-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-body"> \
					<div id="dsq-comment-message-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-message">%(message)s</div> \
				</div> \
			</li> \
		';
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
		var _user_meta = Dsq.jsonData.users[_meta.user_key];
		var markup = Dsq.Utils.interpolate(skeleton, {
			id: id,
			message: message,
			author_url: _user_meta.blog,
			author_name: _user_meta.display_name
		});
		var div = document.createElement('div');
		markup = markup.replace(Dsq.COMMENTS_RE, Dsq.CommentsHandler);
		div.innerHTML = markup;

		if (after_id === -1) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-comments').appendChild(div);
		} else if (!after_id) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-comments').insertBefore(div, Dsq.$('dsq-comments').firstChild);
		} else if (Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + after_id)) {
			// Get next node after "after_id", so we can insert before it.
			// If "after_id" is the last comment, the target node is the
			// last node.
			
			// var append_post_id = Dsq.Templates.appendPost(after_id).replace('<div id="','').replace('"></div>', '');
			var append_post_id = 'dsq-append-post-' + after_id;
			var node = Dsq.$(append_post_id);
			while (node = node.nextSibling) {
				if (!node || node.nodeType == 1) { // 1 == Node.ELEMENT_NODE
					break;
				}
			}
			if (!node) {
				node = Dsq.$(append_post_id);
			}
			node.parentNode.insertBefore(div, node);
		}
	};

	this.incrementPostCount = function() {
		
		var num_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-num-posts');
		var total_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-total-posts');

		if (num_posts) {
			num_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(num_posts.innerHTML, 10) + 1;
		}
		if (total_posts) {
			total_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(total_posts.innerHTML, 10) + 1;
		}
	}
	
	this.outlineComment = function(post_id) {
		Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + post_id).className += ' dsq-comment-outline';
		setTimeout("(function () { Dsq.Post.clearOutlineComment(" + post_id + ") })()", 3000);
	};
	
	this.clearOutlineComment = function(post_id) {
		Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + post_id).className = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + post_id).className.replace('dsq-comment-outline', '');
	};

	this.showMenu = function(el, id, name) {
		var anchorPos = Dsq.Utils.findPos(el);
		var menu = document.createElement('ul');

		if(this.openedMenu) {
			if(this.openedMenu.linkClicked) {
				this.openedMenu.linkClicked = false;
				return;
			}
		}

		switch(name) {
			case 'more':
				menu.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.menuMore(id);
				break;
			case 'media':
				menu.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.menuMedia(id);
				break;
			default:
				break;
		}

		// Add menu to document body
		menu.id = 'dsq-menu-' + id;
		menu.className = 'dsq-menu';
		Dsq.$b.appendChild(menu);

		// Position and show
		anchorPos[1] += 15;
		menu.style.left = anchorPos[0] + 'px';
		menu.style.top = anchorPos[1] + 'px';
		menu.style.display = 'block';

		// Set global reference
		this.openedMenu = {
			'el' : menu,
			'id' : id,
			'name' : name,
			'linkClicked' : false
		};

		// Set listener
		this.menuEventListener = Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(document, 'mouseup', this._hideMenu);
	};

	this._hideMenu = function(e) {
		var el = e.target || e.srcElement;
		var openedMenu = Dsq.Post.openedMenu.el;
		var id = Dsq.Post.openedMenu.id;

		if(!id) {
			var link = 'dsq-' + Dsq.Post.openedMenu.name + '-link';
		} else {
			var link = 'dsq-' + Dsq.Post.openedMenu.name + '-link-' + id;
		}

		if(!openedMenu) {
			return;
		}

		if(!Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, openedMenu.id)) {
			openedMenu.style.display = 'none';
			Dsq.Utils.removeEventListener(Dsq.Post.menuEventListener);
			Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(openedMenu);

		} else {
			// Hide the menu if a link was clicked inside the menu.  We can't
			// completely remove the menu until the onclick event on the link
			// fires, but the menuEventListener will prevent multiple menus
			// from polluting the DOM.
			if(el && typeof el.href != 'undefined') {
				openedMenu.style.display = 'none';
				Dsq.Post.openedMenu.el = null;
			}
		}

		if(Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, link)) {
 			Dsq.Post.openedMenu.linkClicked = true;
		}
	};


	this.getUserServices = function(user_key, id) {
		if(!user_key && id) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
			user_key = _meta.user_key;
		}
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][user_key];
		var userServices = [];

		// Keep a full list of supported services. This is the order they will display in the drop-profile.
		// Each service must have a corresponding case in _buildServiceUrl()
		var supportedServices = ['blog', 'twitter', 'facebook', 'tumblr'];

		function _buildServiceUrl(serviceName) {
			var data = userData[serviceName];
			var services = {
				blog:		function(d) { return d; },
				twitter:	function(d) { return d; },
				facebook:	function(d) { return d; },
				tumblr:		function(d) { return 'http://' + d + '.tumblr.com'; }
			};
			return services[serviceName](data);
		}

		for(var i = 0; i < supportedServices.length; i++) {
			if(userData[supportedServices[i]]) {
				var serviceUrl = _buildServiceUrl(supportedServices[i]);
				userServices.push({'name' : supportedServices[i], 'url' : serviceUrl});
			}
		}
		return userServices;
	}

	this.dropProfile = function(id) {
		var dp = Dsq.$('dsq-drop-profile-' + id);

		// IE6 needs JS to display/hide. All other browsers use CSS.
		if(dp) {
			if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) dp.style.display = (dp.style.display == 'inline') ? 'none' : 'inline';
			return false;
		} else {
			dp = document.createElement('ul');
		}

		dp.id = 'dsq-drop-profile-' + id;
		dp.className = 'dsq-drop-profile';

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) { dp.style.display = 'inline'; }

		var container = Dsq.$('dsq-header-avatar-' + id);
		dp.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.dropProfile(id);
		container.appendChild(dp);
	};

	this.dropProfileMore = function(el, id) {
		var hiddenItems = Dsq.$('dsq-drop-hidden-' + id);

		hiddenItems.style.display = 'inline';
		el.parentNode.style.display = 'none';
	};

	this._updateReplyLinks = function(el, id) {
		// Update "reply / cancel" links based on state.
		var displayDict = {};

		if(id) {
			if(this.stateReplyToggled[id]) {
				el.innerHTML = 'Cancel';
				displayDict['media'] = 'inline';
				displayDict['edit'] = 'none';
			} else {
				el.innerHTML = 'Reply';
				displayDict['media'] = 'none';
				displayDict['edit'] = 'inline';
			}
		}

		for(var key in displayDict) {
			if(displayDict.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				var	linkEl = Dsq.$('dsq-' + key + '-el-' + id),
					spacer = Dsq.$('dsq-' + key + '-spacer-' + id);

				if(linkEl) {
					linkEl.style.display = displayDict[key];
					if(spacer) spacer.style.display = displayDict[key];
				}
			}
		}
	};

	this._updateMediaLinks = function(el, id) {
		// Update "use media / cancel" links based on state.
		var appendId = (id) ? ('-' + id) : '';
		var link = Dsq.$('dsq-media-link' + appendId);

		if(this.stateRecordLink[id]) {
			link.innerHTML = 'Cancel Media';
			link.onclick = function() { Dsq.Post.toggleMediaReply(link, id); return false; };
		} else {
			link.innerHTML = 'Use Media <small>&#9660;</small>';
			link.onclick = function() { Dsq.Post.showMenu(link, id, 'media'); return false; };
		}
	};

	this.toggleReply = function(el, id) {
		// Create reply IFrame
		if (window.disqus_use_postmessage) {
			if (!this.stateReplyToggled[id]) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id).style.display = 'block';
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'block';
				// Create IFrame if it doesn't exist.
				if (!Dsq.frames['reply_' + id]) {
					var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + id] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(Dsq.$('dsq-reply-frame-' + id), id);
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + id].init();
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + id].setState(id, _meta.depth);
				}
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id).style.display = 'none';
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'none';
			}
		} else {
			// DEPRECATED
			if(!this.stateReplyToggled[id]) {
				// Reply toolbar
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'block';
				Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainerIfAllowed(Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id), id);
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'none';
				Dsq.Iframes.hideAllInContainer(Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id));
				if(this.stateRecordLink[id]) {
					// HACK: Cancel media before canceling self.
					this.toggleMediaReply(Dsq.$('dsq-media-link-' + id), id);
				}
			}
		}

		this.stateReplyToggled[id] = !this.stateReplyToggled[id];
		this._updateReplyLinks(el, id);

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE('dsq-reply-' + id); }

		Dsq.Events.fire(Dsq.Events.REPLY_IFRAME_TOGGLED, {
			postId: id,
			opened: this.stateReplyToggled[id]
		});
	};

	this.toggleMediaReply = function(el, id, xtype) {
		id = id || 0;
		if(id) {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id);
		} else {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-post-add');
		}

		if(!this.stateRecordLink[id]) {
			Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(container, id, {xtype:xtype}, 'dsq-post-video');
		} else {
			Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(container, id);
		}
		this.stateRecordLink[id] = !this.stateRecordLink[id];
		this._updateMediaLinks(el, id);

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(); }
	};

	this.edit = function(el, id) {
		Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + id).innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.frameEdit(id);
		el.parentNode.style.display = 'none';
		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE('dsq-comment-message-' + id); }
	};

    this.rate = function(el, id, vote) {
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated || Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_votes) {
			if(vote == 1) {
                Dsq.$('dsq-rate-cont-' + id).innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
            }

            Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/jackandjillpolitics/vote.js'
                + '?post_id='    + id
                + '&vote='        + vote);

		} else {
			Dsq.Popup.login(Dsq.Strings.TO_RATE_PLEASE_LOG_IN);
		}
    };

	this.report = function(id, confirmed) {
		if(confirmed) {
			Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/jackandjillpolitics/and_another_one/post_report/', {'post_id': id});
			Dsq.Popup.popModal('Thank you. This comment has been flagged for moderator attention.', 'Successfully flagged');
			Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(Dsq.$('dsq-post-report-' + id));
		} else {
			var title = Dsq.Strings.FLAG_INAPPROPRIATE_COMMENT;
			var message = Dsq.Strings.ARE_YOU_SURE_YOU_WOULD_LIKE_TO_REPORT_THIS_COMMENT_TO_A_MODERATOR + '? \
			<br /><br /> \
			<button onclick="Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true)"><strong>' + Dsq.Strings.NO + '</strong>, ' + Dsq.Strings.NEVER_MIND + '</button>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<button onclick="Dsq.Post.report(' + id + ', true);"><strong>' + Dsq.Strings.YES + '</strong>, ' + Dsq.Strings.FLAG_INAPPROPRIATE_COMMENT + '</button><br /><br />'
			+ Dsq.Strings.THIS_WILL_FLAG_COMMENTS_FOR_MODERATORS_TO_TAKE_ACTION + '. \
			';

			Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title, id);
		}
	};



	this.showAlert = function(id, msg) {
		var msgEl = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + id);
		var alert = '<div class="dsq-comment-alert">' + msg + '</div>';

		msgEl.innerHTML = alert + msgEl.innerHTML;
	};

};
// Dsq.Post


/**
 * Dsq.Thread
 */
Dsq.Thread = new function() {
	this.fc = null;
	this.ff = null;
	this.ac = null;

	
	this.adminIsOn = false;

	
	
	

	this.hlComment = null;
	this.hlCommentClass = null;

	this.getNextComment = function(el) {
		var start_id = el.id;
		while(el = el.nextSibling) {
			if(el.id && el.id.indexOf('dsq-comment-') != -1 && el.id != start_id) {
				return el;
			}
		}
		return null;
	};

	this.getActiveCommentId = function() {
		if (document.URL.indexOf('#comment-') >= 0) {
			var anchor = document.URL.slice(document.URL.indexOf('#') + 1);
			return anchor.replace('comment-', '');
		}
		return null;
	};

	this.highlightAnchor = function() {
		var i = this.getActiveCommentId();
		if (i == null) return false;
		var id = 'dsq-comment-' + i;
		var hash = window.location.hash;

		// Toggle the hash incase the comment isn't available when the page loads
		// for WebKit-based browsers.
		if (Dsq.Utils.webkit) {
			window.location.hash = '';
			window.location.hash = hash;
		}

		this.hlComment = Dsq.$(id);
		// Adding this conditional guard pending #289
		if (!this.hlComment) {
			return;
		}
		this.hlCommentClass = this.hlComment.className;
		this.hlComment.className += ' dsq-hl-anchor';

		setTimeout("Dsq.Thread.highlightClear()", 3000);
	};

	this.highlightClear = function() {
		if (!this.hlComment) {
			return;
		}
		this.hlComment.className = this.hlCommentClass;
	};

	this.login = function(toggle) {
		// toggle id is #dsq-reply-login-[id]
		var postId;
		if(toggle.id.indexOf('dsq-reply-login') != -1) {
			postId = toggle.id.slice(16);
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + postId);
		} else {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-post-add');
		}

		if(toggle) {
			if(toggle.className == 'dsq-login-active') {
				Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainerIfAllowed(container, postId);
				toggle.className = '';
			} else {
				Dsq.Iframes.showLoginIframeInContainer(container, postId);
				toggle.className = 'dsq-login-active';
			}
		} else {
			Dsq.Iframes.showLoginIframeInContainer(container, postId);
		}

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(); }
	};


	this.paginate = function(page, el_clicked, per_page) {
		// Use extra_params to pass any override parameters that we need to persist.
		var extra_params = '';

		// "Per page" can either be overriden by providing it as an argument
		// (per-call) or setting the disqus_per_page override variable (global).
		if(typeof per_page == 'undefined') {
			per_page = null;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_per_page != 'undefined' && per_page === null) {
			per_page = disqus_per_page;
		}

		if(typeof disqus_sort != 'undefined') {
			extra_params += '&sort=' + disqus_sort;
		}
		if(per_page !== null) {
			extra_params += '&per_page=' + per_page;
		}

		Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML += '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
		
		if(el_clicked) {
			el_clicked.style.display = 'none';
		}
		
		Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/jackandjillpolitics/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ 'and_another_one'
			+ '&p='		+ page
			+ extra_params);
	};

	this.sortBy = function(sort) {
		var disqus_script = document.createElement('script');
		var disqus_date = new Date();

		if (location.hash != '') {
			location.hash = '#disqus_thread';
		}

		if(typeof(disqus_url) == 'undefined') {
			disqus_url = disqus_href;
		}
		disqus_script.type = 'text/javascript';
		disqus_script.src = 'http://disqus.com/forums/jackandjillpolitics/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ 'and_another_one'
			+ '&sort='	+ sort
			+ '&title='
			+ '&'		+ disqus_date.getTime();

		Dsq.$('dsq-comments').innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading.gif">';
		Dsq.container.appendChild(disqus_script);
	};

	this.subscribe = function(status, email) {
		// `status` is an int -- 1 to subscribe, 0 to unsubscribe
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated || email) {
			// If authenticated user OR anonymous email provided

			if(email) {
				Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true);
			}

			Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/jackandjillpolitics/subscribe.js'
				+'?status=' 	+ status
				+ '&slug='		+ 'and_another_one'
				+ '&email=' 	+ encodeURIComponent(email));

		} else if(!email) {
			// If anonymous user and no email has been provided yet, prompt for email

			var title = 'Subscribe to this comment thread';
			var message = ' \
				New comments will be sent directly to your email inbox! \
				<div class="dsq-subscribe-submit"> \
					<p><strong>Enter your email address below.</strong></p> \
					<input type="text" id="dsq-subscribe-email"> \
					<button onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1, Dsq.$(\'dsq-subscribe-email\').value)">Subscribe</button> \
				</div> \
			';

			Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);
		}
	};

	this.showSettings = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) {
			return;
		}

		/* The form has to be re-designed when more options will come out. */
		var html = 'Automatically close comments after <input size="3" id="dsq-thread-days-alive" value="' + Dsq.jsonData.thread.days_alive + '" type="text" /> days. Existing comments will still be displayed.<br /><br />(Using 0 days will disable this feature)<br /><br />'
								 + '<button onclick="Dsq.Thread.updateDaysAlive();" class="dsq-button-small"><span>Save</span></button>'
								 + '<span id="dsq-thread-settings-status" class="dsq-options-status"></span>';
		Dsq.Popup.popModal(html, 'Settings');
	};

	this.updateDaysAlive = function() {
		var days = Dsq.$('dsq-thread-days-alive').value;
		var status = Dsq.$('dsq-thread-settings-status');
		Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/jackandjillpolitics/update_days_alive.js', {days:days,thread:Dsq.jsonData.thread.id});
		status.innerHTML = 'Saved!';
		window.setTimeout(function() { status.innerHTML = ''; }, 1000);
	};
};
// Dsq.Thread

Dsq.Events = function() {
	var obj = {};

	// Private
	var handlers = {};
	var getHandlers = function(event) {
		if (handlers[event] === undefined) {
			handlers[event] = [];
		}
		return handlers[event];
	};

	// Public
	// Value keys : postId, node, xtype
	obj.REPLY_IFRAME_CREATED = 1;
	// Value keys : postId, opened
	obj.REPLY_IFRAME_TOGGLED = 2;
	obj.fire = function(event, opt_value) {
		if (!event) {
			throw new Error('Unknown event');
		}
		var value = opt_value || {};
		for (var i=0; i<getHandlers(event).length; i++) {
			getHandlers(event)[i](value);
		}
	};
	obj.addHandler = function(event, callback) {
		getHandlers(event).push(callback);
	};

	return obj;
}();

/**
 * Dsq.Realtime
 */
Dsq.Realtime = new function() {
	var initialized = false;
	var interval = null;
	var last_checked = Dsq.jsonData.request.timestamp;
	var new_posts = [];
	var ongoing_request = false;
	var prev_script = null;

	function updateNewPostCount() {
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-alert').style.display = new_posts.length ? 'block' : 'none';

		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-queued').innerHTML = new_posts.length
		+ ' new '
		+ Dsq.Utils.pluralize(new_posts.length, 'comment', 'comments')
		+ Dsq.Utils.pluralize(new_posts.length, ' was', ' were')
		+ ' just posted.';

		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-show').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.SHOW + ')';
	}

	function insertNewPosts() {
		var post_id = null;
		var after_id = Dsq.$('dsq-sort-select').value === 'oldest' ? -1 : null;

		for (var i=0; i<new_posts.length; i++) {
			post_id = new_posts[i];
			Dsq.Post.insert(after_id, post_id, Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id].message);
			Dsq.Post.incrementPostCount();
			Dsq.Post.outlineComment(post_id);
		}
		new_posts = [];
	}

	this.enableInterval = function() {
		interval = setInterval(Dsq.Realtime.check, Dsq.jsonData.context.realtime_speed);
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-status').innerHTML = Dsq.Strings.ENABLED;
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.PAUSE + ')';
	}

	this.disableInterval = function() {
		if (interval) {
			clearInterval(interval);
			interval = null;
		}
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-status').innerHTML = Dsq.Strings.PAUSED;
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.RESUME + ')';
	}

	this.toggleInterval = function() {
		if (!interval) {
			Dsq.Realtime.enableInterval();
		} else {
			Dsq.Realtime.disableInterval();
		}
		return false;
	}

	this.initialize = function() {
		if (!initialized) {
			initialized = true;
			Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').onclick = this.toggleInterval;
			if (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.streaming_realtime) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-show').onclick = this.show;
				updateNewPostCount();
			}
			if (Dsq.jsonData.thread.realtime_paused) {
				Dsq.Realtime.disableInterval();
			} else {
				Dsq.Realtime.enableInterval();
			}
		}
	}

	this.show = function() {
		insertNewPosts();
		updateNewPostCount();
		return false;
	}

	this.check = function() {
		if (!ongoing_request && Dsq.jsonData.realtime_enabled) {
			if (prev_script) {
				prev_script.parentNode.removeChild(prev_script);
			}
			ongoing_request = true;
			prev_script = Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/1769708/realtime.js?timestamp=' + last_checked);
		}
	};

	this.update = function(timestamp, posts, users) {
		ongoing_request = false;
		last_checked = timestamp;

		if (users) {
			for (var user_id in users) {
				if (users.hasOwnProperty(user_id)) {
					if (!Dsq.jsonData.users[user_id]) {
						Dsq.jsonData.users[user_id] = users[user_id];
					}
				}
			}
		}

		if (posts) {
			for (var post_id in posts) {
				if (posts.hasOwnProperty(post_id)) {
					if (!Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id]) {
						Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id] = posts[post_id];
						new_posts.push(post_id);
					}
				}
			}

			if (Dsq.jsonData.forum.streaming_realtime) {
				insertNewPosts();
			} else {
				updateNewPostCount();
			}
		}
	};

}();

// DEPRECATED
Dsq.Iframes = function() {
	// Different style of object from the above. Hoping to switch to this for some reason.
	var obj = {};

	// Private
	var showIframeInContainer = function(container, id, markup) {
		// Look through container for iframes, hiding them, except show one that matches id
		// If none of them matched id, create a new iframe using markup and insert it.
		// Returns the iframe node if and only if it was newly created.
		var found = false;
		for (var i=0; i<container.childNodes.length; i++) {
			var child = container.childNodes[i];
			if (child.nodeName == 'IFRAME') {
				if (child.id == id) {
					child.style.display = 'block';
					found = true;
				} else {
					child.style.display = 'none';
				}
			}
		}
		if (found) {
			return;
		}
		// The iframe wasn't found, so construct it and add it to the container.
		// Don't use innerHTML because it might reload iframes
		var div = document.createElement('div');
		div.innerHTML = markup;
		var iframe = div.childNodes[0];
		div.removeChild(iframe);
		container.appendChild(iframe);
		return iframe;
	};

	// Public
	obj.makeReplyIframeId = function(opt_postId, opt_xtype) {
		var id = 'dsq-post-add-iframe';
		if (opt_xtype) {
			id += '-' + opt_xtype;
		}
		if (opt_postId) {
			id += '-' + opt_postId;
		}
		return id;
	};
	obj.makeLoginIframeId = function(opt_postId) {
		if (!opt_postId) {
			return 'dsq-login-iframe';
		}
		return 'dsq-login-iframe-' + opt_postId;
	};
	obj.makeReplyIframeName = function(opt_postId, opt_xtype) {
		var name = 'dsq-reply-frame';
		if (opt_xtype) {
			name += '-' + opt_xtype;
		}
		if (opt_postId) {
			name += '-' + opt_postId;
		}
		return name;
	};
	obj.showReplyIframeInContainer = function(container, opt_postId, opt_extraParams, opt_className) {
		// Construct the id so we can check if it's already present.
		// Hide any other iframes we find, and show this one if it's found.
		var params = opt_extraParams || {};
		// use xtype in the id and name so we can distinguish media replies from text replies:
		var id = Dsq.Iframes.makeReplyIframeId(opt_postId, params.xtype);
		var name = Dsq.Iframes.makeReplyIframeName(opt_postId, params.xtype);
		var attributes = {
			'id': id,
			'name': name,
			'class': opt_className || 'dsq-post-reply'
			};
		var markup = Dsq.Templates.frameReply(opt_postId, opt_extraParams, attributes);
		var iframe = showIframeInContainer(container, id, markup);
		// It was newly created
		if (iframe) {
			Dsq.Events.fire(Dsq.Events.REPLY_IFRAME_CREATED, {
				postId: opt_postId,
				node: iframe,
				xtype: params.xtype
			});
		}
	};
	obj.showLoginIframeInContainer = function(container, opt_postId) {
		var id = Dsq.Iframes.makeLoginIframeId(opt_postId);
		var markup = Dsq.Templates.frameLogin({id: id});
		showIframeInContainer(container, id, markup);
	};
	obj.showReplyIframeInContainerIfAllowed = function(container, opt_postId) {
		if (Dsq.jsonData.context.show_reply) {
			obj.showReplyIframeInContainer(container, opt_postId);
		} else {
			obj.hideAllInContainer(container);
		}
	};
	obj.hideAllInContainer = function(container) {
		for (var i=0; i<container.childNodes.length; i++) {
			var child = container.childNodes[i];
			if (child.nodeName == 'IFRAME') {
				child.style.display = 'none';
			}
		}
	};

	return obj;
}();

Dsq.Twitter = new function() {
	var that = this;

	this.startTwitterConnect = function() {
		var popupParams = 'location=0,status=0,width=800,height=400';
		that._twitterWindow = window.open(Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/_ax/twitter/begin/', 'twitterWindow', popupParams);
		that._twitterInterval = window.setInterval(that.completeTwitterConnect, 1000);
	};

	this.completeTwitterConnect = function() {
		if (that._twitterWindow.closed) {
			window.clearInterval(that._twitterInterval);
			window.location.reload();
		}
	};
};

Dsq.Yahoo = new function() {
	var that = this;

	this.startYahooConnect = function() {
		var popupParams = 'location=0,status=0,width=800,height=400';
		that._yahooWindow = window.open(Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/_ax/yahoo/begin/', 'yahooWindow', popupParams);
		that._yahooInterval = window.setInterval(that.completeYahooConnect, 1000);
	};

	this.completeYahooConnect = function() {
		if (that._yahooWindow.closed) {
			window.clearInterval(that._yahooInterval);
			window.location.reload();
		}
	};
};

Dsq.OpenID = new function() {
	var that = this;

	this.requestURL = function() {
		var message = '<table class="dsq-openid-form"><tr><td style="vertical-align:top;" rowspan="2"><img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.media_url + '/images/openid-icon-100x100.png" /></td>';
		message += '<td><label for="dsq-openid-url">OpenID URL:</label></td><td><input type="text" id="dsq-openid-url" /></td></tr>';
		message += '<tr><td><label for="dsq-openid-username">Display name:</label></td><td><input type="text" id="dsq-openid-username" /></td></tr>';
		message += '<tr><td class="dsq-openid-submit" colspan="3"><input type="button" value="Sign in" onclick="Dsq.OpenID.startConnect();" /></td></tr>';
		message += "</table>";

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, 'Sign in using OpenID');
	};

	this.startConnect = function() {
		var isblank = function(str) {
			return /^\s*$/.test(str);
		};

		var openid_url = Dsq.$('dsq-openid-url').value;
		var username = Dsq.$('dsq-openid-username').value;

		if (isblank(openid_url)) {
			return;
		}

		var popupParams = 'location=0,status=0,width=800,height=500';
		var url = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/_ax/openid/begin/' + '?url=' + encodeURIComponent(openid_url) + '&username=' + encodeURIComponent(username);
		that._openidWindow = window.open(url, 'openidWindow', popupParams);
		that._openidInterval = window.setInterval(that.completeConnect, 1000);
	};

	this.completeConnect = function() {
		if (that._openidWindow.closed) {
			window.clearInterval(that._openidInterval);
			window.location.reload();
		}
	};
};

Dsq.Reaction = new function() {
	var that = this;

	this.hide = function(id) {
		Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/jackandjillpolitics/hidereaction.js?' + 'reaction_id=' + id);
	};

	this.reportMissingReactions = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || !Dsq.jsonData.forum.reactions_enabled) {
			return;
		}

		if (Dsq.jsonData.thread.queued) {
			Dsq.Popup.popModal('Your report has been received. The system will automatically search for new reactions; if any are found, they will be displayed on this comment thread.<br/><br/>Thank&nbsp;you.',
												 'Reported missing reactions');
			return;
		}

		Dsq.Utils.execScript(Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/forums/jackandjillpolitics/queueurl.js');
	};
};

Dsq.CNN = function() {
	var obj = {};

	obj.authenticate = function() {
		var url = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + "/saml/cnn/try/";
		Dsq.Utils.postToUrl(url, {'target': document.location}, true);
	};

	return obj;
}();


if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) {
	(function() {
		DSQ_HEADER_AVATAR_RE = /<div class="dsq-header-avatar"(.*?)>/gim;
		Dsq.Templates.registerFilter('postPrependHeader', function(html, post_id) {
			// Add "onmouseout" for dsq-header-avatar for dropProfile
			// functionality since IE6 cannot use :hover.
			function _headerAvatarReplace(content, inner, _unused, html) {
				return '<div class="dsq-header-avatar" '
					+ inner
					+ ' onmouseout="Dsq.Post.dropProfile(' + post_id + ')">';
			}
			html = html.replace(DSQ_HEADER_AVATAR_RE, _headerAvatarReplace);
			return html;
		});
	})();
}





	// TODO: Move Seesmic code outside of the main script.  Don't let this script clobber the global namespace.
	if(typeof seesmic == 'undefined') { var seesmic = {}; }
	seesmic.widget = new function () {
		this.callback = function (data) {
			playerVersion = data.disqusplayer;
		};
	};

	
	var scriptEl = document.createElement('script');
	scriptEl.setAttribute('type', 'text/javascript');
	scriptEl.setAttribute('src', 'http://seesmic.com/version.js?callback=seesmic.widget.callback');
	document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(scriptEl);

	
	var scriptEl = document.createElement('script');
	scriptEl.setAttribute('type', 'text/javascript');
	scriptEl.setAttribute('src', 'http://media.disqus.com/javascript/library/swfobject.js');
	document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(scriptEl);

	function see_play_video(_videoUri, _add) {
		var swf = !!playerVersion ? playerVersion : 'http://seesmic.com/embeds/StandalonePlayer.swf';

		flashcontentDiv = Dsq.$(_videoUri + '_content');
		previewDiv = Dsq.$('dsq-seesmic-' + _videoUri + '_preview');
		hideDiv = Dsq.$('dsq-seesmic-' + _videoUri + '_hide');
		showDiv = Dsq.$('dsq-seesmic-' + _videoUri + '_show');
		if(_add) {
			// push flash widget
			var so = new SWFObject(swf, 'sotester', '300', '270', '9', '#000000');
			so.addVariable('video', _videoUri);
			so.addParam('allowFullScreen', 'true');
			so.addParam('allowScriptAccess','always');
			so.useExpressInstall('swfobject/expressinstall.swf');
			so.write(_videoUri + '_content');

			previewDiv.style.display = 'none';
			hideDiv.style.display = 'block';
			showDiv.style.display = 'none';
		}
		else {
			flashcontentDiv.innerHTML = '';
			previewDiv.style.display = 'block';
			hideDiv.style.display = 'none';
			showDiv.style.display = 'block';
		}
	};





(function() {
	//
	// Load theme.  This overrides the base templates with template functions
	// from the respective themes.
	//
	if (Dsq.jsonData.integration.theme == 4) {
		var theme = 'narcissus';
		// HACK: Set variable on window to use post message.
		window.disqus_use_postmessage = true;

		
		for(var prop in Dsq.Themes[theme]) {
			if(Dsq.Themes[theme] && Dsq.Themes[theme].hasOwnProperty(prop)) {
				Dsq.Templates[prop] = Dsq.Themes[theme][prop];
			}
		}
		
		for(var prop in Dsq.Post) {
			if(Dsq.Themes[theme] && Dsq.Themes[theme].hasOwnProperty(prop)) {
				Dsq.Post[prop] = Dsq.Themes[theme][prop];
			}
		}
	}

	//
	// Register templates.  This must be done after all themes are loaded.
	//
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('authPost', Dsq.Templates.authPost);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('header', Dsq.Templates.header);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('footer', Dsq.Templates.footer);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('trackbacks', Dsq.Templates.trackbacks);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('reactions', Dsq.Templates.reactions);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('prependPost', Dsq.Templates.prependPost);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('appendPost', Dsq.Templates.appendPost);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postPrependHeader', Dsq.Templates.postPrependHeader);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postAppendHeader', Dsq.Templates.postAppendHeader);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('preBody', Dsq.Templates.preBody);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postBody', Dsq.Templates.postBody);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postFooter', Dsq.Templates.postFooter);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('_popupGeneric', Dsq.Templates._popupGeneric);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('voted', Dsq.Templates.voted);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('popupProfile', Dsq.Templates.popupProfile);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postBox', Dsq.Templates.postBox);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('pagination', Dsq.Templates.pagination);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postComment_onSuccess', Dsq.Templates.postComment_onSuccess);

})();

Dsq.container.className = "clearfix";
Dsq.container.innerHTML = ' \
<ul id="dsq-comments">\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-849971">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-849971" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-849971" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-849971">Town</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-849971" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-849971" class="dsq-comment-message">I think that it\'s ok to criticize Barack Obama.<br><br>But it\'s NOT okay to talk about cutting somebody\'s nuts off, or talking about somebody in a crude fashion like that.<br><br>And I can\'t help but wonder, would Jesse Jackson have used such crude language to or about a white candidate who\'s ideology he disagreed with?<br><br>The MSM playing this up is another part of the "Barack has no nutz" meme.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-850082">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-850082" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-850082" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-850082">TruthSeeker</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-850082" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-850082" class="dsq-comment-message">Well, if he has no nutz, then there\'s nothing for Jesse to cut off....therefore Jesse\'s comment is moot.  LOL</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-850145">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-850145" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-850145" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-850145">pjamma</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-850145" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-850145" class="dsq-comment-message">Ha!<br><br>Well to be correct he said cut his nuts out, which is just so much worse in my mind.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-851282">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-851282" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-851282" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-851282" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-851282" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-851282" class="dsq-comment-message">Apparently, NO, Jesse didn\'t learn from "Hymietown".<br><br>It\'s time for him to make a graceful exit from the stage - he has run out and he doesn\'t have MLK\'s coattails to ride on anymore.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-849786">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-849786" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-849786" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-849786" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-849786" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-849786" class="dsq-comment-message">Andrew Sullivan isn\'t exactly a Barack supporter. Sure, he wanted him to win the nomination, but by his own admission, he\'s still open as to who he wants to be president. He respects McCain far more than I ever have and he\'s a libertarian conservative so he probably wants to endorse McCain, but McCain isn\'t giving him a lot of reason to.<br><br>Besides, Sullivan can\'t vote, so...<br><br>That said, maybe JJ did this on purpose.<br><br>Just sayin.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-850101">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-850101" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-850101" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-850101">TruthSeeker</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-850101" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-850101" class="dsq-comment-message">Wasn\'t the FISA vote today?  This silly story knocked it off he headlines.  I\'m kinda embarrassed by how gleeful Wolf and Campbell looked when they talked about how crude it was.  LOL<br><br>I\'ve wanted to cut Wolf\'s nuts off a few times this week.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-850142">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-850142" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-850142" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-850142">Booky</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-850142" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-850142" class="dsq-comment-message">Wolf has nuts?  Who knew?</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-850143">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-850143" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-850143" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-850143">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-850143" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-850143" class="dsq-comment-message">Only this week, Truthseeker? You\'re a saint, then.<br><br>LOL</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-850229">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-850229" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-850229" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-850229">TruthSeeker</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-850229" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-850229" class="dsq-comment-message">Today is his first day back! ...HA</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-850225">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-850225" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-850225" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-850225" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-850225" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-850225" class="dsq-comment-message">There\'s so much theater going on in this campaign, it\'s hard to tell fact from fiction.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-851289">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-851289" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-851289" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-851289" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-851289" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-851289" class="dsq-comment-message">I didn\'t know Wolf had any cajones.  LOL</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-851656" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-851656" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-851656">kenyaw</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-851656" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-851656" class="dsq-comment-message">I can\'t stand Campbell Brown. She will twist words and is always pretending to be digging for the truth when she is only digging for the negative...usually on Sen Obama.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-851691" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-851691" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-851691">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-851691" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-851691" class="dsq-comment-message">I see I\'m not the only one who can\'t stand that nitwit. And, she is a condescending, race-baiting nitwit. Glad to see that someone else can see her blatant anti-Obama bias.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-851959" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-851959" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-851959">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-851959" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-851959" class="dsq-comment-message">Me either!!!!  So ta-rue!!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-849835" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-849835" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-849835">Nellcote</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-849835" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-849835" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m not sure how Jessie saying something rude in public relates to Obama distancing himself from "prominent black figures" but here\'s the Obama camp response:<br><br>“As someone who grew up without a father in the home, Senator Obama has spoken and written for many years about the issue of parental responsibility, including the importance of fathers participating in their children’s lives. He also discusses our responsibility as a society to provide jobs, justice, and opportunity for all. He will continue to speak out about our responsibilities to ourselves and each other, and he of course accepts Reverend Jackson’s apology,” said Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-849998" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-849998" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-849998" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">rhondacoca</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-849998" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-849998" class="dsq-comment-message">What does this response have to do with anything?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-850185" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-850185" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-850185">pjamma</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-850185" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-850185" class="dsq-comment-message">If I had to try to make sense of it...Jesse\'s comment was in response to Obama\'s speech about parental responsibility and participating in their child\'s live so Obama\'s camp was saying this message is nothing new , it\'s what he has always said and part of his view is shaped by growing up without his father.  So whether Jessie cuts his nuts out our not he is still going to spread this same message. And if Jess is really apologizing then cool.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-851010" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-851010" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-851010" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">rhondacoca</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-851010" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-851010" class="dsq-comment-message">What kills me about Obama\'s "intelligence" is this:<br><br>1. <br><br>"parental responsibility and participating in their child\'s live"<br><br>A man not being in the home mean that he is a deadbeat?<br><br>Is this intelligent man really going to reduce a group of people to a statistic?<br><br>2.<br><br>If we are looking at numbers then the breakdown of the family is an American problem? Why make a speech were you stand up in a conservative blakc church and berate black people?<br><br>He should have spoken to all American black, white, latino etc... but no the race neutral candidate made it a race specific problem.<br><br>I have a problem with that, sorry.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-851651" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-851651" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-851651">Nardwilly</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-851651" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-851651" class="dsq-comment-message">He was speaking at a Black church.  There is a real problem in the Black community of fathers abandoning their children  Every one of my female cousins that are divorced have absentee fathers.  I am not unique in our community.   <br><br>It is an American problem, but the incidence in Black families is higher.  This is a fact we can only resolve by confronting.  Do not have a problem with the truth.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-851738" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-851738" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-851738" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-851738" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-851738" class="dsq-comment-message">So now Barack isn\'t even intelligent?<br><br>Surely you jest.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-855901" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-855901" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-855901">pjamma</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-855901" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-855901" class="dsq-comment-message">1) He did speck to all of America<br><br>2) Here is the breakdown by race of the American problem:<br><br>The nation\'s out-of-wedlock birth rate is 38%. Among white children, 28% are now born to a single mother; among Hispanic children it is 50% and reaches a chilling, disorienting peak of 71% for black children. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, nearly a quarter of America\'s white children (22%) do not have any male in their homes; nearly a third (31%) of Hispanic children and over half of black children (56%) are fatherless.<br><br>So by shear numbers, yes it is an American problem.  But if you are  going to single out any race to make a point  the one with alarming statistics may be the one that you reference in your speech.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-851750" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-851750" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-851750">kenyaw</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-851750" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-851750" class="dsq-comment-message">Nellcote,<br>I can\'t quite make the connection either. I just want to know who these prominent black leaderSSS are, because I only remember a leader. He distance himself from his pastor, which is really a personal situation.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-849846" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-849846" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-849846">lamh32</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-849846" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-849846" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree with your post, but let\'s not kid ourselves, it is part of the game, even though we hate it, that a large segment of the "majority" population does not like Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton.  It\'s sad but true.<br><br>What\'s funny is that I was just thinking a few weeks ago when all this FISA brouhaha started that it has been relatively quiet on the Al and Jesse front, even considering the Sean Bell incident, and the new Imus incident, it seems to me that "the Revs" were being pretty quiet.  I figured that they were trying to keep a low profile so as to not be a "distraction" or "problem" for Obama\'s campaign.<br><br>Well, there goes that line of thinking...</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-850006" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-850006" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-850006" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">rhondacoca</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-850006" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-850006" class="dsq-comment-message">They both have been and Jackson was caught off guard. He should have known better.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-849911" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-849911" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-849911">Nellcote</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-849911" class="dsq-comment-message">Jesse Jackson JR via the LA Times:<br><br>His comments triggered condemnation from an unexpected source: Rep. Jesse L. Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.), Jackson\'s son.<br><br>In a statement released by his office, Jackson Jr. said he was "deeply outraged and disappointed in Rev. Jackson\'s reckless statements about Sen. Barack Obama."<br><br>"His divisive and demeaning comments about the presumptive Democratic nominee -- and I believe the next president of the United States -- contradict his inspiring and courageous career," the congressman said.<br><br>"Rev. Jackson is my dad and I\'ll always love him," he said. "He should know how hard that I\'ve worked for the last year and a half as a national co-chair of Barack Obama\'s presidential campaign. So I thoroughly reject and repudiate his ugly rhetoric. He should keep hope alive and any personal attacks and insults to himself."</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-850244" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-850244" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-850244" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-850244" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-850244" class="dsq-comment-message">Have mercy.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-850303" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-850303" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-850303">TruthSeeker</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-850303" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-850303" class="dsq-comment-message">Yeah!...."He should keep hope alive"??  He\'s pretty mad to say this about his father!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-851799" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-851799" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-851799">kenyaw</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-851799" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-851799" class="dsq-comment-message">Craig,<br>Say it again.<br>I was clutching my chest when I first heard Jesse Jr.\'s statement.<br>But it just let me know that Jesse Sr. has been picking all along in private and in public.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-852157" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-852157" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-852157">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-852157" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-852157" class="dsq-comment-message">Craig:  Yep!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-850826" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-850826" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-850826" href="http://www.bigassbelle.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">bigassbelle</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-850826" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-850826" class="dsq-comment-message">if we can go a year without anyone saying "i reject and repudiate" <i>anything</i>, it will be true heaven.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-851016" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-851016" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-851016" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">rhondacoca</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-851016" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-851016" class="dsq-comment-message">Keep hope alive??</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-851363" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-851363" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-851363" href="http://blog.evavegadiversity.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">evita</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-851363" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-851363" class="dsq-comment-message">Good lord!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-849937" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-849937" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-849937">pjamma</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-849937" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-849937" class="dsq-comment-message">I just saw the clip on O\'Reilly.  And I hate O\'Reilly so it pained me to tune in and I gotta ask, what the hell was Jessie thinking?  Why would you say something like that at all much less in the Fox studios?  It\'s gonna be played over and over again.  It\'s one thing to say you feel Obama talks down to black people (the first part of the statement), some here have said the same thing. And you can spin that if needed.  But you can\'t claim "misspeak" when you say you want to cut his nuts out.  That\'s just stupid.<br><br>And now O\'Reilly is saying there is more which is even worse that they didn\'t play out of respect (?) to Jessie.<br><br>Sighhh!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-849992" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-849992" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-849992">Town</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-849992" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-849992" class="dsq-comment-message">Hannity said he\'s going to play the whole tape on his show.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-850102" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-850102" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-850102">pjamma</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-850102" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-850102" class="dsq-comment-message">Well hopefully other news organizations pick it up because I can not stand Hannity at all.  And no matter how bad I think the situation is I am sure Hannity will make it 100% worse.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-850002" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-850002" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-850002" href="http://thisweekwithbarackobama.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">icebergslim</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-850002" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-850002" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t think anyone get any points here.<br><br>Many believe in faith based initiatives, many black folks totally agree with Barack on parental responsibility.  <br><br>The one who lose points is Jesse Jackson.  He really need to chill.<br><br>And if they had more to play, which will come out, I can bet my paycheck that is a on Jesse, not Barack.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-850046" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-850046" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-850046" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">rhondacoca</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-850046" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-850046" class="dsq-comment-message">I did not like Obama\'s speech and I felt that it was talking down. I agree with parental responsiblity because who does not but that as I keep repeating was not the reason why some do not appreciate Obama\'s speech....hello!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-850171" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-850171" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-850171">Booky</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-850171" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-850171" class="dsq-comment-message">I didn\'t like Obama\'s "speech" either.  Still don\'t.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-850019" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-850019" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-850019">TruthSeeker</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-850019" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-850019" class="dsq-comment-message">"Cut his nuts out".....that\'s such an odd phrase.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-850271" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-850271" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-850271" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-850271" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-850271" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s particularly odd coming from a black man who knows that lynching often involved cutting a black man\'s nuts out. <br><br>And O\'Reilly is the one who called for a lynching party on Michelle if she really hates her country.<br><br>If Barack loses enthusiasm from black voters, he loses the election.<br><br>Father\'s Day was last month. So we\'re still talking about it a month later because Jesse Jackson put his foot in his mouth?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-852105" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-852105" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-852105">Teacher</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-852105" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-852105" class="dsq-comment-message">Yeah, & it\'s double weird coming from a "reverend." There are some crunk men of God coming out of Chi this year! Thank goodness that politics is off limits at work, or whie co-workers would be asking, "Does your paster ever cuss? Does s/he cuss during the sermon? Does s/he talk about privates? Does s/he talk about cutting privates? What kind of preacher talks about cutting privates? Do you think it\'s ok for preachers to cuss and talk about cutting privates?" <br><br>SHUUUUT UUUUUPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-849938" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-849938" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-849938">Nellcote</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-849938" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-849938" class="dsq-comment-message">And any Dem that goes on Fox should assume their mike is live until they leave the damn building!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-849969" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-849969" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-849969">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-849969" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-849969" class="dsq-comment-message">You must have been listening to the same radio show I was listening too..that\'s what tha callers said..LOL</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-849945" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-849945" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-849945">Miss_Opinion </span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-849945" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-849945" class="dsq-comment-message">Agree with Nellcote. <br><br>And I\'m for one tired of  irresponsible black fathers getting this knee jerk protection from the community. We talk about this problem all the time but the minute Obama says it and he should get his "nuts cut off"? Obama NEVER said ALL black fathers are irresponsible in their duties. He is addressing the ones that need to be addressed. Why is it ok to discuss the problems of other segments of the population but not the black men that don\'t take any part in their children s lives? <br><br>And Jessie Jackson has father illegitimate children so I would rather get my moral judgments else where.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-850063" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-850063" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-850063">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-850063" class="dsq-comment-message">Obama is not a preacher, or community leader.    Obama is a presidential candidate.  For a Presidential candidate, the subject of missing fathers is inappropriate except in very broad, non-racial terms.   It is a social problem, better dealt with by social leaders.  Obama can only appropriately address this issue from the standpoint of policy...jobs, education, social programs etc.<br><br>I am surprised that anyone advised him to take this route.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-850281" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-850281" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-850281" class="dsq-comment-message">I knew it would happen, but I  totally disagree with you.<br><br>But I still love you. ;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-851332">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-851332" class="dsq-comment-message">Damn, just when I had recovered from that speech.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-851772" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-851772" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-851772" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s hard out here for a pimp. LOL<br><br>I\'m \'bout to make you some chow chow.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-851818">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-851818" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>It\'s hard out here for a pimp.</i><br><br>Oh Craig..<br><br>BWA HA  HA HA HA HA HA HA HA</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-851820" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-851820">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-851820" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-851820" class="dsq-comment-message">Aint it though. I need that chow chow, it\'s been years.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-850643" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-850643" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-850643">happycozy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-850643" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-850643" class="dsq-comment-message">Obama is doing this to dispell the myth that "all" blacks have no sense of personal responsibility.  You can\'t call for governmental help in poor neighborhoods without addressing some of the problems--one of the problems is absent fathers.  Does an absent father mean a child will grow up to be a criminal?  No.  But it doesn\'t help an already tough situation.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-850726" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-850726" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-850726" class="dsq-comment-message">No he is perpetuating it. If he wanted to "dispell" it he would have made a positive speech about the many men who are never mentioned ever. He chose the usual rhetoric.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-851833" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-851833">pjamma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-851833" class="dsq-comment-message">How is he perpetuating it by addressing it?  His speech is not going to be the cause for the problems that affect the black community to continue nor the myth to be spread wider.  He may have highlighted it but I don\'t see how her perpetuated it.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-852087" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-852087">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-852087" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-852087" class="dsq-comment-message">Lots of children are SAVED from not knowing their fathers.  Children who are abused by their fathers, are abused by the fathers who stick around.  What are the statistics of present, abusive fathers?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-851339" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-851339">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-851339" class="dsq-comment-message">So true, girl, so true!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-851700" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-851700">Nardwilly</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-851700" class="dsq-comment-message">He was at a Black church.  His father abandoned him.  He lived in a community of Blacks where some fathers abandoned children.  How could he not speak about it.  Most Black men that are taking care of their families talk about this problem. <br><br>I do not understand why this issue is off limits to any, but avid racist.  All folks who want the Black community to thrive should bemoan the high incidence of father abandonment in the Black community.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-852069" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-852069">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-852069" class="dsq-comment-message">There are a lot of issues pertinent to blacks.  I could have pulled a bunch of cliches out my ass and  given the same speech...if I didn\'t fundamentally respect my audience.  This issue is talked about ad nauseum by preachers and people sitting on porches and women in fancy hats in congregations...It\'s not off-limits.  What has changed now that Barack has talked about it, except that bigoted, blue collar whites got a tingle?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-852142" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-852142">pjamma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-852142" class="dsq-comment-message">Maybe it will resinate more if it is said by a black man who overcame a lot of obstacles to become the probable President of the United States.  That\'s powerful.  And while we can appreciate the porch sitters, big hat wearers and preachers if they are in similar circumstances they can and have been ignored.  But this man is about to be the leader of the free world.  If he can\'t have an impact or at the very least speak out to a crowd and have his message resinate with young men then well thats too bad.  As a child of a single parent home (Barack, not me) if he didn\'t it would be ignoring a huge segment of the population who may need a new inspiration.  And the message is not on that needed to be exclusive to black men but all men and if you listen to it again it did address all men not living up to their responsibility.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-852167" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-852167">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-852167" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-852167" class="dsq-comment-message">The racial dog whistle goes both ways.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-852215" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-852215">pjamma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-852215" class="dsq-comment-message">Huh???</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-852241" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-852241">taritac</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-852241" class="dsq-comment-message">Barack\'s speechifying on this issue isn\'t going to change a damn thing. I\'m not trying to be nasty, but it is wishful thinking to believe that Barack\'s voice will suddenly show some wayward man the way.<br><br>I believe in Barack, and I think that he will be good for the country in many ways. However, all the lectures in the world are not going to fix poverty or drug addiction or crime, the main factors that challenge low-income families. <br><br>He knows this of course, and that\'s key, because to me, it says that he is only using his lectures to Black people to score political points with Whites.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-852332" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-852332">pjamma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-852332" class="dsq-comment-message">I respectfully disagree.  Mostly because he is not lecturing. <br><br>I do known his speech is not going to change everyone but it may bring about a different discussion.   I would much rather hear the words he said come out of his mouth (as someone raised without his mother) then the poster boy for nuclear family, George Bush.<br><br>I refuse to believe that Barack woke up in the morning, kissed Michelle ad the girls and said it\'s time to sacrifice the black man to appease whitey.  Maybe if he was making up a situation that didn\'t exist and he wasn\'t personally familiar with then sure I\'d be skeptical.  But he was speaking to a major issue that affected him and affects  families across race and class.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-852655" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-852655">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-852655" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-852655" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>"I refuse to believe that Barack woke up in the morning, kissed Michelle ad the girls and said it\'s time to sacrifice the black man to appease whitey."</i><br><br>I\'m sure he just clenched his jaw, went out there and took care of business.  Barack is a grown man with children of his own...I don\'t believe it is personally cathartic for him to talk about his own missing father on the stump.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-851879" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-851879">kenyaw</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-851879" class="dsq-comment-message">Truthseeker,<br>I mean this in a sisterly loving way but, says who?<br>That is what alot of people of all races talk about. <br>Divorced fathers slack off, unmarried fathers slack off. If 70% of black children are born out of wedlock and 55% of all marraiges end in  divorce then it is a valid point. It is a national crisis.<br>Where is this legislation that states that Senator Barack Obama can\'t talk about personal responsibility and government policy, jobs, education, social programs etc.<br>in the same speech, LIKE HE DID ON FATHER\'S DAY?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-852043" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-852043">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-852043" class="dsq-comment-message">The economy is dependent on marriage - a religious institution - to provide for children.   When the religious institution collapses, the government must find ways to support single parents.   The only way Barack can effectively address this, is from the standpoint of the economy.  When he starts <i>preaching</i> about missing fathers, he\'s doing what has always been done to no effect...he is pandering to a group.   He is far too smart to not know the dynamics at play.<br><br>He knows talking about it is ineffective, and the only power he has to change it is in policy; however, he didn\'t speak on policy to that audience.  Barack\'s speech is not going to make missing fathers suddenly care.  Tired cliches - "too many fathers are AWOL" , "too many fathers are MIA"...c\'mon! -  are not going to do a thing except please the cheering section of bitter, blue collar whites who think that black people are oversexed and irresponsible.....and angry, abandoned black women.<br><br>Oh, he can talk about it.  But I can also know that he\'s being a little weasel.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-852209" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-852209">taritac</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-852209" class="dsq-comment-message">Word (1990\'s). For real.<br><br>Do we really need a lecture from Obama? How is this Presidential? Isn\'t this the same shit we\'ve been hearing since the 1980\'s from Republicans? How has it worked for us?<br><br>I am sick of Black people demonizing other Black people, as if we created dysfunction.  It is insulting and condescending when anyone uses a lecture to Black people as a political touchstone for Whites. <br><br>If Obama wants to fix absentee father-ism, he might want to start with the fact that a hundreds of thousands of them are in jail. It\'s hard to parent from a jail cell.<br><br>This election has truly re-awakened me to the deep racism in America. Obama has to become the mouthpiece of the paternalistic white person, telling Black people how awful he thinks we are, in order for him to be taken seriously.  White people can\'t say it because they\'d be deemed racist, so Obama and Bill Cosby have to say it for them.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-852280" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-852280">pjamma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-852280" class="dsq-comment-message">Uhm what? <br><br>Marriage is a religious institution? Except that atheists get married. <br><br>When the marriage collapses the government must support the single parent?  But what about the father/mother.  Just because the relationship doesn\'t last the child is still here and should be cared for by both parents, emotionally and financially.  The government should be a last extreme result.<br><br>I don\'t understand.  It\'s not an economic message it\'s take care of your children.  Doesn\'t matter what race or religious affiliation (or lack their of).  You brought it into the world, take care of it until you or it leaves the world (and there are some cases when you just can\'t ,like illness or abuse, and that is what the government is there, or should be there, to help with).<br><br>There would be no need for tired cliches if some part of what he was saying is true.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-852612" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-852612">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-852612" class="dsq-comment-message">Some Atheists even exchange gifts at Christmas. :)<br><br><i>"Just because the relationship doesn\'t last the child is still here and<br>should be cared for by both parents, emotionally and financially."</i><br><br>Says who?  That\'s one of many social mores.   But humans have a funny way of disobeying rules.  Obama\'s vain speech changed nothing for those who disobey the social rules, and he knew it.<br><br><i>"The government should be a last extreme result" </i><br><br>I think of government as representative of the collective.  It\'s not in<br>the collectives best interest to have children uncared for.<br><br><i>\'I don\'t understand. It\'s not an economic message it\'s take care of your<br>children. Doesn\'t matter what race or religious affiliation (or lack<br>their of). You brought it into the world, take care of it until you or<br>it leaves the world" </i><br><br>If it\'s not an economic message, then what type of message is it?  Is it a moral message; if so, based on what?  Maybe it\'s based on an idea of what\'s <i>right</i>.  But how do we determine what\'s right, based on what criteria?  What if that parent decides that it\'s not right for them?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-858838">TRW</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-858838" class="dsq-comment-message">Wait.  Huh?  I am totally confused by this statement: "When the religious institution collapses, the government must find ways to support single parents."  I totally disagree.  Instead of more government intervention in our lives we need less.  Historically, when people needed help making ends meet, they got another job, or made sacrifices in other areas.  And kept it moving.  Government assistance should be the last resort, i.e. in case of emergencies only.  <br><br>And to address your responses below, the government does represent its citizens, but we in should no way be looking for it to take care of our children.  It\'s about proper planning. And where is the money going to come from to sustain these programs?  I honestly think that within the next 10 years or so, a lot of these programs are going to be cut altogether, which should give plenty of people an incentive to take initiative.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-860762" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-860762">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-860762" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-860762" class="dsq-comment-message">Is it really good for the collective for a parent to work more than 8 hours per day?  What happens when the collective feels the effect of a child who\'s been ignored by a parent?  A needy child is an emergency.<br><br>You say "it" in reference to goverment as if it forms an entity of it\'s own, with it\'s own rights that need to be protected.  I say "us" in reference to government.  Government is a tool.<br><br>As for program funding...all it takes is will.  You\'ve waged a 5 year war in a sovereign  country that was not a threat.  The Iraq war has lasted longer than the 2nd world war.  There was a will to invade Iraq.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-861527">TRW</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-861527" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-861527" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m not going to make generalizations about everybody\'s else\'s situation, but my Mom worked more than eight hours a day, and I turned out just fine.  Would I have liked if she worked less?  Of course.  But she doesn\'t agree with taking handouts from anyone, especially since it means you might have to sacrifice some of your privacy and autonomy.  And since she has always wanted children, she felt it was her job to do what needed to be done to sacrifice for them.  <br>So despite her long hours, what made the difference was good parenting.  It\'s that simple.  She taught me certain values at a young age, and I respected her authority.  She was also vigilant when she needed to be, and made sure that I had good influences in my life.  <br>Now, if my father would have been present and active, things would have been different.  She wouldn\'t have had to work as much to support my sister and I.  But from here, I don\'t see where the government comes in.      <br><br>And as far as program funding, it might take a will, but it also takes money.  And plenty of people are not happy that their paychecks are constantly being sliced and diced to support government programs.  I think a total overhaul is needed, and some of these programs should be cut.  And is the war really a good analogy?  We are in a huge deficit right now because of it, and we are going to pass it on to our children.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-861610">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-861610" class="dsq-comment-message">Pass the deficit onto children, but no will to have invested that money into those same children in the first place.  Had that investment taken place, the children would be more than equipped to handle the much smaller debt incurred.  Instead, they will pay for what we haven\'t equipped them to handle.<br><br>Your pay cheque pays for an unjust war.  I don\'t hear a great outcry from Conservatives especially....the ones who are averse to taxes.<br><br>The model they propose has been tried before.  It was called the Dark Ages.  The advent of government, social programs, unions, law enforcement, health care system, fire department, public school,  has brought us to our present civilization.  <br><br>Now that we have reaped the benefit of that civilization, we look askance at the very institution that has made it possible: Government and taxation. <br><br>Now that we\'ve made it safely out of infancy, have gone to the schools that others have helped build (surely your parents tax dollars alone were not sufficient to educate you) we look suspiciously at taxes.<br><br>It is meanness.  Selfishness.   Small-mindedness.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-866203">TW</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-866203" class="dsq-comment-message">But I think that you are talking about the extreme of conservatism.  Of course we need people\'s taxes to contribute to basic infrastructure and the security of this country, which everyone benefits from, but I think the argument is, we have gone way over the top with government programs and government involvement in our everyday lives.  And with increased government programs, people have to pay for it in taxes.  And I don\'t think its fair to simply attribute people\'s concern about increased taxes  to meanness, selfishness, or small mindedness.  <br><br>Say for example, I wait to have children until I am married and have two incomes, or I am single with a significant income to support that child.  And the next person doesn\'t make wise decisions, or fails to properly plan for a child, and then seeks government assistance in the form of food stamps, welfare, etc. when they can\'t make ends meet  Many people feel that these types of programs are encouraging bad behavior.  That instead of restraint, responsibility, and sound financial planning, people are getting themselves into situations that they are ill equipped to handle and then turning to government assistance to fill in the gaps (this is a generalization, I realize there are exceptions).  So when people look at their situation, and understand that they made sacrifices to live comfortably, to simply say that it is selfish to expect someone else to do the same is short sighted.  Yes, we live in a collective society, but ultimately we have to take care of ourselves.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-867128" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-867128">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-867128" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>"..but I think the argument is, we have gone way over the top with<br>government programs and government involvement in our everyday lives.<br>And with increased government programs, people have to pay for it in<br>taxes.  "</i><br><br>That argument hasn\'t been made with supportive facts and evidence.  So, it is more of a \'prejudice\' rather than an argument.  It\'s like saying black people are lazy ...but never providing measurement of their laziness in comparison to any other race.    You already pay the taxes.  The question is in how those taxes are utilized.   I think there is a definite meanness component in Conservative ideology.  They believe in punishment and shame as motivation for good behaviour.<br>Not even the extremely wealthy are completely self-sufficient.  They require infrastructure and the civilization it fosters in order to survive.<br><br><i>"..And the next person doesn\'t make wise decisions, or fails to properly<br>plan for a child, and then seeks government assistance in the form of<br>food stamps, welfare, etc. when they can\'t make ends meet Many people<br>feel that these types of programs are encouraging bad behaviour."</i><br><br>It\'s in everyone\'s best interest to ensure that those people are fed and cared for.  As a matter of fact, it\'s a bargain!  If not, then that person will flounder, they may turn to crime, they may take someone\'s life, they may end up in jail.  At each step, taxes will be used to bring them to justice, and punish them.  It is far cheaper to provide food and housing.  The problem is, that even food and housing is used to shame and punish the recipients.  It is not the government\'s job to use the necessities of life to punish and mitigate "behaviour".  It is the government\'s job to make sure we maintain our civilization and keep ALL people moving forward.<br><br><i>"So when people look at their situation, and understand that they made<br>sacrifices to live comfortably, to simply say that it is selfish to<br>expect someone else to do the same is short sighted."</i><br><br>It\'s short-sighted to preoccupy ourselves with what someone else does.  There are bigger fish to fry.  I don\'t care what choices they\'ve made, I care that they have the opportunity to change course and move forward...whatever that takes.  Maybe Conservatives need to acquire some wisdom and understanding to go with their prejudice and greed.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-872673">TRW</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-872673" class="dsq-comment-message">I think that we just have a fundamental disagreement on how the government should work.  <br><br>1) "You already pay the taxes. The question is in how those taxes are utilized. I think there is a definite meanness component in Conservative ideology. They believe in punishment and shame as motivation for good behaviour."  <br><br>First of all, I think that it is a generalization to say that there is a component of "meanness" in conservative ideology.  How is it "mean" to expect people to take care of themselves?  And again, I go back to the fact that people are well aware that they have to pay taxes to provide for infrastructure, security, etc.  but many people do NOT want their tax money to go to programs that are enabling bad behavior, which they see as a dependent relationship on government assistance.  I was focusing my comments on Black people, but this goes for everyone.  And I will speak for myself.  I don\'t want the money that I make at my job to go to someone who doesn\'t know how or doesn\'t try to take care of themselves.  I guess that makes me mean, but that\'s fine.   <br><br>"Not even the extremely wealthy are completely self-sufficient. They require infrastructure and the civilization it fosters in order to survive."<br><br>Of course no one is absolutely self-sufficient.  But people just want to take it back to the basics, and not throw in a lot of social programs that are doing more harm than good.  <br><br>"It\'s in everyone\'s best interest to ensure that those people are fed and cared for. As a matter of fact, it\'s a bargain! If not, then that person will flounder, they may turn to crime, they may take someone\'s life, they may end up in jail."<br><br>That\'s just the point.  It\'s in YOUR best interest to make sure that you are fed and cared for NOT the government.  I refuse to subscribe to the belief that people can just be lax and irresponsible in their personal decision making, but its okay because its in everyone\'s best interest that they land on their feet so we should just pitch in and help them out.  Um no.  We need to go to the root of the problem.  And the root of the problem is that people need to make better decisions for themselves and take more initiative to invest in their future.  If you feel that your schools are inadequate, form a group/organization and petition the school board/hang out in the library as much as you can/or move.   If you feel that you need more money to live comfortably, look for ways to get training or more education or get another job.  And if you can\'t afford to have children right away, either invest in sound birth control methods or abstain.  These are things that individuals can do that have nothing to do with the government, but can change people\'s quality of life significantly.     <br><br>And when has poverty become an excuse for criminality?  And how is that a bargaining chip?  I should support these paternalistic social programs that I don\'t agree with, or these people may end up robbing/killing me later?  Again, I think it shifts the argument to the wrong group of people.  Instead of shaming others into thinking that it is their duty to take care of everyone in this way, we should be encouraging people to find ways to take care of themselves.    <br><br>"Maybe Conservatives need to acquire some wisdom and understanding to go with their prejudice and greed."  This is another generalization.  Just because many conservatives believe in self-sufficiency doesn\'t make them prejudiced.  And just because people want to make sure the money in their pocket doesn\'t go to certain social programs doesn\'t make them greedy.  <br><br>But to sum up, I think we can agree to disagree.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-850581">micheline</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-850581" class="dsq-comment-message">His speech did include policy prescriptions.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-851902">kenyaw</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-851902" class="dsq-comment-message">micheline,<br><br>Somehow no one heard that portion of the speech.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-850245">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-850245" class="dsq-comment-message">Sooooo, it is true that   "people who live in glass houses[who procreate children in an EXTRA-marital situation] shouldn\'t throw stones [at a person who pointed this out when he wasn\'t even referring to him]."<br>And is a REVEREND allowed" to say . . "cut his nuts out"?  How is that SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE for the FLOCK????<br>And his apology?? "IFI said anything . . .   You did say something inappropriate and outrageous and you said it to the ENEMY!!!!!<br>Mr. Jessie, Jr.  was most appropriate in his disgust, denunciation and outright "BLAST" on the Rev!<br>Whew!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-850284">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-850284" class="dsq-comment-message">Miss_Opinion:  I forgot to co-sign in all my response.  Sorry.  :&gt;)  :&gt;)  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-852128">Teacher</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-852128" class="dsq-comment-message">I thought Jess had one child outside of his marriage, but I never got the impression that he left her hanging. He is too much of a public figure for that. They would extradite him from a foreign country during a hostage negotiation to arrest him for not paying child support & turn him into the dead-beat poster boy. I can\'t see him letting that happen.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-849961">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-849961" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>But Jesse, for real, didn’t you learn your lesson about “private conversations” after Hymietown?</i><br><br>LOL<br><br>That just about says it all, dnA. <br><br>of course, as some folks said on the radio..<br><br>It\'s FOX NEWS. <br><br>How could he trust until he was OUT of the building that ANYTHING he said wouldn\'t be used against him. <br><br>Warren Ballantine tried his best on Stupid Campbell Brown\'s show. He\'s trying hard.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-849987" href="http://thisweekwithbarackobama.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">icebergslim</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-849987" class="dsq-comment-message">I just watched the O\'Reilly Report and the comments were crude, "cut Obama\'s nuts off", but it was about his position on Obama\'s faith based initiative.<br><br>Overall, no big deal.  Barack is not losing the black vote, as Jesse said, and the good reverend need a cup of STFU, from here on out.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-850010">vixen</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-850010" class="dsq-comment-message">This is one of my many problems with Obama and his supporters. Yes, the old guard black leaders are out dated in a certain way but they have made it possible for Obama to be were he is today. His supporters and him to an extend take glee in the fact that his has distance from the black community.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-850194">Booky</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-850194" class="dsq-comment-message">Bingo vixen.  What good is it going to do to have an African American President if all he\'s going to do is try not be an African American?  The call it "First Blackitis" over at the Black Commentator.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-850217">pjamma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-850217" class="dsq-comment-message">How, exactly, is he trying not to be African American?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-850360">Booky</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-850360" class="dsq-comment-message">Listen to what Jesse said minus the nuts part pjamma.  Jesse dissing<br>Barack Obama is the gift that will keep on giving. <br><br>I want to say this about black fathers and responsibility.  I can count on one <br>hand the number of fathers I know personally who aren\'t taking care of their<br>children, Obama\'s father being one of them.<br>I believe the number of responsible black fathers out number the slackers.<br>I also believe the question should be asked why some fathers aren\'t being<br>responsible.  Is it because they are products of failing public schools and<br>have no education nor skills?  Is it because they have a felony record and<br>can\'t find employment?  Is it because the illegal immigrants are taking their<br>jobs?  It\'s easy  to talk about what people are not doing, but that doesn\'t <br>help the situation.  Let\'s talk about solutions to the problem, not the problem.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-850449">pjamma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-850449" class="dsq-comment-message">But how does any of this have anything to do with Obama trying not to be African American?  I don\'t think Obama ever said all black fathers are slackers.  I know Obama never said he wanted to distance himself from the African American community and from what I know three of the biggest joys in his life are his African American wife and children.  So maybe he says things that some people don\'t agree with but in no way does that make him less African American.<br><br>When are we going to get over degrees of Blackness?  My God, we are a huge diverse population and should not be judged of one mind.  And no matter what you think of my, Obama or any other African American\'s opinion you and no one else in our community should be the judge of just how African American someone else is.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-851990">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-851990" class="dsq-comment-message">pjamma:  Amen!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-851350">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-851350" class="dsq-comment-message">WTF.  You thought he was going to be the black people\'s president?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-850163">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-850163" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>It’s not that any one incident in and of itself doesn’t make sense, but the larger understanding of what his candidacy means in racial terms seems to be that his proximity to us as a people is a problem.</i><br><br>I understand what you mean, but this isn\'t exactly a good example for that, dnA. Jesse bitchslaps him, on Fox News no less.....what\'s Obama supposed to do? <br><br>I ask that in all honesty. <br><br>I\'m not about to get back into a debate about his Father\'s Day Speech. I agreed with it,and others didn\'t. I get that. Been there. Done that.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-850339">pjamma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-850339" class="dsq-comment-message">Sharpton and Steele on Hannity right now (yes I caved and turned it on).</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-850396">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-850396" class="dsq-comment-message">you\'re braver than me.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-850481" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-850481" class="dsq-comment-message">Steele?<br><br>LOL!!!!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-850374">mari19</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-850374" class="dsq-comment-message">Jesse Jackson should have talk to Obama personally if he had any beef with Obama. But, what does Jesse do instead the man goes and complains to a Foxnews reporter. Hell, Jesse should have just  attended a Klan gathering to voice his opinions about Obama. Because all Fox News = Klux Klux Klan Network. <br><br>No matter how much truth Jesse spoke about Obama he still did it on anti-Black news network.  Jesse screwed up!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-851994">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-851994" class="dsq-comment-message">Mari19:  YEP!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-850386">Admiral_Komack</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-850386" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-850386" class="dsq-comment-message">"I think that it\'s ok to criticize Barack Obama."<br><br>"But it\'s NOT okay to talk about cutting somebody\'s nuts off, or talking about somebody in a crude fashion like that."<br><br>-Town, that is a very cutting remark.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-850932">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-850932" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-850453">cm</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-850453" class="dsq-comment-message">Sullivan\'s comments don\'t bother me.   In no way does Sullivan demean black people in general or suggest proximity to black people is a problem.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-850534" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-850534" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-850534" class="dsq-comment-message">So the Dan Abrams meme is that Jess\'e remarks are PROOF that Barack is an elite snob.<br><br>And Ronald Reagan, Jr. is calling Brad a fool.<br><br>This is a circus!!!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-850567">TRW</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-850567" class="dsq-comment-message">Sigh.  I\'ve had this feeling for awhile now.  One of Barack\'s biggest impediments to the presidency will not just be the Republicans, it will be people who claim to "support" him.  <br><br>Besides the obvious irony about Jesse Jackson getting upset about Barack\'s speech about absent Black fathers, can we keep it real for once?  I get that many Black people don\'t like to be talked down to or used as fodder for racist White voters, but when will people start to openly admit, that the rampant irresponsibility by *some* Black men, AND women, is severely hurting our community. Despite what some may think, it is not a secret.  And I just don\'t how you can separate this moral issue from the policy issues that are related to it.  Yes, there are many single women kicking butt, taking names, and raising amazing children--my Mom being one of them--but I saw first hand how difficult it was.  <br><br>By bringing up children in that sort of environment, you are increasing the chances they will be raised in poverty (unless you have a significant amount of money to support yourself and a child), which will impact where they live, where they go to school, how soon you can advance in your career, and what type of health care both of  you will have.  So yes, this needs to be said.  We can\'t bemoan the state of our schools, when parents have no active roles in reinforcing the importance of education at home, and are not aware of what is going on at the school.  We can\'t bemoan the state of health care, when parents feed their children a steady diet of sugar and fat, and let them get obese, and we can\'t bemoan, our financial situations, when having children you can\'t afford significantly decreases your chances of being able to get advanced degrees/training/promotions, which will lead to better pay.  It\'s about personal responsibility.  <br><br>Enough is enough.  These young women and men, are having kids younger and younger now a days.  Maybe we need to bring shaming back, or honor to the family.  Because this is ridiculous.  It has become so normalized to have single parent homes, that many do not blink an eye, but it continues to have a negative ripple effect that is just getting worse.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-850817" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-850817">pjamma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-850817" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-850817" class="dsq-comment-message">TRW, great post.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-850906" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-850906" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-850906" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-850906" class="dsq-comment-message">We admit it and many talk about it on a regular basis. I talk about it all the time. Trust me its spoken about and admitted! <br><br>Obama did not invent this topic. In this case I believe that he was talking down to blacks and using us as fodder for racist white voters.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-851654" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-851654" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-851654">TRW</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-851654" class="dsq-comment-message">How, when he has been talking about this consistently?  Why is everything about White voters?  or White people?  Maybe in the past yes, but now, not so much.  I would rather hear Barack talk about these issues, as they relate to broader policy issues, because they are in fact relevant.  <br><br>We can agree to disagree but the biggest obstacles facing the Black community is not White racists, it is Black on Black crime, the income disparity, the high school drop out rates, AIDS,  the deterioration of the Black family etc.  I could go on.  My point is most of these things we can control, but there seems to be a disconnect, and chaos within the community.  <br><br>These things need to be worked on internally by the Black community.  The government can\'t do anything significant to solve these problems, and by Barack acknowledging it, doesn\'t automatically mean that he is trying to sell Black people down the river.  Sometimes, the truth is the truth.  And just because you speak about one truth, doesn\'t mean it applies to a whole group of people.  If people can\'t figure that out, then that\'s sad.  <br><br>Also, yes, some Black people admit it and talk about it all the time, but it depends on which circles you run in.  Other Black people are still looking to the government to single handedly fix the schools, housing, etc, when its not going to happen.  It\'s just not.  We need to take initiative instead of waiting it out for the government.  I am basing this on my personal experiences, so I am obviously not speaking about everyone.  <br><br>I guess I am just frustrated about the things that I see everyday.  It just seems like people don\'t have perspective.  Instead of worrying about what White people think, we should be worrying about ourselves.  I mean what happened to us?  Our ancestors used to walk for miles, under the threat of violence from the KKK to get educated, and today it seems you couldn\'t pay some of these kids to crack a book.  We used to value stable family relationships, and responsibility to the community, and now we have an increase in pregnant teenage mothers with absent fathers, young girls getting all kinds of STDs, and HIV rates that are disproportionate to other racial/ethnic groups.  So, I want people to speak up loud in clear.  These things are unacceptable, and until more people find them unacceptable, we are going to be stuck in neutral for years to come.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-856024" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-856024">Big Bill</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-856024" class="dsq-comment-message">Booker T Washington had a good deal to say about facing uncomfortable race truths, the need to deal with white folks honestly and forthrightly (after all, it\'s not like white folks can\'t see it, too) and how many white folks, even though they are racists, want the best for their communities, which does involve the uplift of the black race.  Perhaps Obama is following Mr. Washington\'s footsteps and not Jesse\'s or Al\'s.  See:<br><br><a href="http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/washeducation/washing.html#wash42" rel="nofollow">http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/washeducation/washi...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-851676">TRW</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-851676" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-851676" class="dsq-comment-message">Sorry, and I meant to add, no, Obama didn\'t invent this topic, but is that what should disqualify him from speaking on it?  I don\'t get that logic.  Especially since he has shared his own experiences about what the absence of his father meant in his own life.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-851871">pjamma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-851871" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-851871" class="dsq-comment-message">TRW, I think I love you.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-851937">TRW</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-851937" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-851937" class="dsq-comment-message">Thanks :)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-851934" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-851934" href="http://petithairouna.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Miss B</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-851934" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-851934" class="dsq-comment-message">I just gave you a standing ovation.  Thank you for saying exactly what should have been said in exactly the right way.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-852008" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-852008">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-852008" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-852008" class="dsq-comment-message">TRW:  I just joined the STANDING O!!!  Thanks!!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-851919" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-851919" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-851919">pjamma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-851919" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-851919" class="dsq-comment-message">So he can talk openly about war, healthcare, education, border issues, immigrants (who are mostly mexican), religion, rural folk, but when it comes to the one group and experience he is most familiar with, parenting and the lack of of paternal figure specifically as a black man in America it is off limits because it hurts people feelers?  And even though the majority of the speech did not focus on the black community but the society as a whole, if he does address personal responsibilty it is all about dissing the black folk for the white voter? WTFever.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-850687" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-850687" href="http://natthedem.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">nctodc</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-850687" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-850687" class="dsq-comment-message">As if the emasculation of black men in America needed more assistance.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-850700" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-850700" href="http://www.WEESeeYou.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Webb</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-850700" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-850700" class="dsq-comment-message">I think "we" are really over-analyzing this event...the mainstream-"caucasian" population probably feels sympathy for *O* right now.  Nobody (at least no man) wants to comtemplate being made a eunuch.<br><br>If Jesse had said, "Let\'s cut America\'s nuts off," ala Jeremiah Wright, then there would be REAL trouble.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-850759" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-850759" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-850759" href="http://www.myvoicedc.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">myvoicedc</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-850759" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-850759" class="dsq-comment-message">Link to video of what Jesse Jackson Said:<br><a href="http://www.myfoxwfld.com/myvoicedc/2008/07/09/jesse-jacksons-comments-on-obama/" rel="nofollow">http://www.myfoxwfld.com/myvoicedc/2008/07/09/j...</a><br><br>Jackson\'s press conference in full:<br><a href="http://www.myfoxwfld.com/myvoicedc/2008/07/09/jesse-jacksons-press-conference-on-obama-comments/" rel="nofollow">http://www.myfoxwfld.com/myvoicedc/2008/07/09/j...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-850813" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-850813">Admiral_Komack</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-850813" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-850813" class="dsq-comment-message">"So the Dan Abrams meme is that Jess\'e remarks are PROOF that Barack is an elite snob."<br><br>-Can you give more info on this (I\'m watching BBC America right now, not Dan Abrams)?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-850908" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-850908" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-850908" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-850908" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-850908" class="dsq-comment-message">The Republican strategist is saying that Jesse Jackson, who said that Barack was talking down to black people, provides proof that Barack is an elite snob.<br><br>It\'s not just a white thing anymore,  you see.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-851049" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-851049" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-851049">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-851049" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-851049" class="dsq-comment-message">Craig,<br><br>I don\'t even know what your voice sounds like, but reading this, I can almost hear the tone. <br><br>I\'m feeling you.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-851413" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-851413" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-851413" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-851413" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-851413" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah,<br><br>I\'ve been doing a lot of "yawning" at so many of the comments in this thread.<br><br>If Barack were the first major party candidate for president who happened to be Jewish, I wonder how many Jewish Americans would be attacking him from all sides and wanting to cut his nuts off. <br><br>Just saying.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-851440" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-851440" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-851440">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-851440" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-851440" class="dsq-comment-message">Or which fellow Jew would say:<br><br>"I want to gas him up."<br><br><br>I\'m thinking zero, actually.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-851449" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-851449" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-851449">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-851449" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-851449" class="dsq-comment-message">Well..........from the looks of what I saw in that Access interview yesterday, Jesse got some work on his hands.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-851515" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-851515">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-851515" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-851515" class="dsq-comment-message">msmartin,<br><br>you.are.so.bad.<br><br>LOL</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-851537" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-851537">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-851537" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-851537" class="dsq-comment-message">I couldn\'t resist rikyrah.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-851891" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-851891" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-851891">Texas_Girl_in_LA</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-851891" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-851891" class="dsq-comment-message">ooohhhh you are so wrong for that one ms martin</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-851944" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-851944" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-851944" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-851944" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-851944" class="dsq-comment-message">I ain\'t saying nothing.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-850941" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-850941" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-850941" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-850941" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-850941" class="dsq-comment-message">Some of you guys are like basic. It is about time and place and the way in which something is framed.<br><br>Also are any of you aware of the study that was widely circulated in Newsweek?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-851730" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-851730" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-851730">pjamma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-851730" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-851730" class="dsq-comment-message">Which one?  Please share.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-851946" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-851946" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-851946" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-851946" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-851946" class="dsq-comment-message">"like basic."<br><br>Please define your terms.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-851102" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-851102" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-851102">Angela1</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-851102" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-851102" class="dsq-comment-message">Obama is getting critiized...and he should be.<br><br>I tried to bring up Obama\'s disingeneousness before today<br><br>Angela</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-851187" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-851187">Angela1</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-851187" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-851187" class="dsq-comment-message">What I didn\'t say earlier is that Obama is getting "creamed" more by is "own" than any other group........."what gives"<br>Angela</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-851459" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-851459" href="http://blog.evavegadiversity.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">evita</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-851459" class="dsq-comment-message">What i think is so sad, so very sad, is that what other people say (Wright, Jesse Sr) has more significance with the MSM than what Obama says. It is so apparent they are trying to paint him with a sweep of the easiest brush instead of acknowledging the complexities of society, a cpmplexity that Obama has repeatedly acknowledges lives in him. Religion, values, culture and whatever seems to be the easiest way to pigeon hole this non white guy. <br><br>Barack wasn\'t and isn\'t running to be the President of Black America. He isn\'t a spokesperson for ANY group. He is expressing who he is, which as far as I can tell is consistent with words he has chosen to describe himself. So I can find value in what he says, though I may not agree with it all. I can challenge his ideas while still having great respect for his willingness to speak when so many opt out.<br><br>Jesse [insert Spanish expletives] was not a leader that  I have EVER chosen. He occupies  leadership role though many times he has chosen questionable and unethical paths. I KNEW he was a WACK supporter of Obama when Baratunde was on CNN... he half gave Obama his due. Remember they ate up so much time so Jesse could have a GRAND ENTRANCE [insert Spanish expletives.] Straight up, Jesse Jr just became a leader to the next generation. Jesse Sr is pan tostado.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-852021">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-852021" class="dsq-comment-message">evita:  BIG TIME SI!!!  Mad props to Jesse Jr.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-851478">Admiral_Komack</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-851478" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-851478" class="dsq-comment-message">"The Republican strategist is saying that Jesse Jackson, who said that Barack was talking down to black people, provides proof that Barack is an elite snob."<br><br>"It\'s not just a white thing anymore, you see."<br><br>-Thanks, CraigHickman.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-851483" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-851483" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-851483">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-851483" class="dsq-comment-message">I just watched the video that someone linked to here and to me it looked staged.  It sounded like he said Obama was looking down on blacks with his faith-based initiatives and I didn\'t hear anything about the Father\'s Day speech.  At any rate, it looked staged.  Why in the hell would he be whispering while he\'s on the air?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-851778">pjamma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-851778" class="dsq-comment-message">If the he you are referring to is JJ he wasn\'t on air, he was off stage but his mic was still hot.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-851957" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-851957" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-851957" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-851957" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-851957" class="dsq-comment-message">It <i>was</i> staged.<br><br>And you\'re right, there was no reference to Father\'s Day in the clip.<br><br>Didn\'t  I say that both sides know how to wag the dog?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-851686" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-851686" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-851686">Quanli</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-851686" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-851686" class="dsq-comment-message">He\'s saying that because at least Obama is talking ACTION. For all the grandstanding Jesse does trying to live off MLK\'s back, what has he done for his "community" lately? I quite frankly do not care to hear about Obama\'s so-called pandering when these low lifes (Sharpton included) have gotten a free pass over the years. If Tavis Smiley had said the same thing Obama said word for word, he would have received nothing but a standing ovation. It is not about what Obama said, it is the fact that HE said it. Some people are still stuck on this "not black enough" and are too coward to come out and say it.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-851783" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-851783" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-851783">TRW</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-851783" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-851783" class="dsq-comment-message">Agreed.  This just goes back to what happened when Barack first started running.  Andrew Young, another MLK Lieutenant, made several inappropriate--no scratch that, ignorant remarks about Obama.  He pointed out how Obama didn\'t have many Black advisers around him, while Hillary did--which I guess qualifies you to care about Black people or Black issues, i.e.  proximity to Blackness, he then went on to agree with Toni O\'s statement that Bill Clinton, was America\'s first Black president, and wait--"Bill is every bit as Black as Barack.  He has probably gone out with more Black women than Barack."  Yup, he was marching right along with MLK.  I\'m sure MLK would be beaming with pride.  <br><br>So, I\'m with you.  I call bull.  Jesse Jackson can talk out of both sides of his neck about cutting off nuts and unequivocal support all he wants, but his comments (and other old guard civil right activists\' comments) reveal that he is an egomaniac that refuses to acknowledge the changing landscape in America.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-852217" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-852217" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-852217">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-852217" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-852217" class="dsq-comment-message">TRW:  Andrew Young made the "Hater Watch" on blacks4barack.  Also, Toni Morrison of "Bill as 1st Black Prez " fame, apologized for that very remark!  She is endorsing Mr. Obama - also on blacks4barack.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-853276" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-853276" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-853276">TRW</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-853276" class="dsq-comment-message">Ok.  That\'s fine.  And now Jesse has apologized for his statements.  My point is that these people should know better.  People should think before they open their mouths.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-851785" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-851785" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-851785">pjamma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-851785" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-851785" class="dsq-comment-message">Thank you!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-852060" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-852060" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-852060">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-852060" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-852060" class="dsq-comment-message">Quanli:  AGREED!  I saw a recent Tavis interview with[I forgot who].  The person was giving mad props to Mr. Obama and tavis kept ignoring them!  He just couldn\'t form his mouth to say 1 positive thing!  It was patently obvious that he had his HATE ON during the whole interview!</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-851847">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-851847" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-851847" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-851847">Michael</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-851847" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-851847" class="dsq-comment-message">"...the race neutral candidate made it a race specific problem."  That statement from someone here expresses the essence of my problem with Mr. Obama.  He is not a Black community leader.  I\'m disgusted at the idea of him lecturing us, advising us, or speaking for us.  He is a politician still desperately in pursuit of white votes.   When he talks about problems we face, instead of examining us, he should be talking about what institutional racism and the system are doing to our families and communties across this nation.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-851962" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-851962" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-851962" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-851962" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-851962" class="dsq-comment-message">I guess you don\'t read. Because Barack has written quite a bit about these things.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-851998" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-851998" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-851998">pjamma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-851998" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-851998" class="dsq-comment-message">And I disagree.  What do you look for in a community leader?  I look for someone who no matter what the obstacles went to one of the best collages in the nation, one of the best law schools in the nation, distinguished himself as one of the top in his class as editor of the law review, met and married a woman of a similar background who had similar achievements, made a whole lot of mistakes, including drugs, but admitted to it and spoke honestly about it, turned down corporate job offers to go back to his community as an advocate, became a state Senator, a US Senator, has two beautiful daughters, no affairs we know of, is positioned to be the next President of the United States and the biggest thing we as part of the black community can call him out on (based on the number of posts I\'ve seen) is the fact he gave a speech about parental responsibility in a black church? <br><br>I don\'t know what more you are looking for or what more you want him to be but I personally think he is someone I want the younger people in my family to look up to as a leader and as someone to emulate.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-852073" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-852073" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-852073">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-852073" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-852073" class="dsq-comment-message">pjamma:  WELL SAID!!!!  Thanks!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-852286" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-852286" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-852286">PTCruiser</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-852286" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-852286" class="dsq-comment-message">This is exactly what happens when folks like Rev. Jackson refuse to take a principled pubic position regarding a candidate for public office because they want access to that candidate if he or she is elected to office. If Jackson objected to Obama\'s Fathers Day peroration then he should have said so publicly instead of ducking and dodging.  I have made my objections to that speech quite clear to my friends and acquaintances. I also attended an Obama fundraiser this evening; paid my money like everybody else and ate fried fish, collard greens and corn bread. I had a good time. I will never like Obama\'s  Fathers Day speech and I don\'t intend to bite my tongue about it. <br><br>Suck it up, Rev. Jackson and be a man!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-854992" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-854992" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-854992">caligirl</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-854992" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-854992" class="dsq-comment-message">i thought the obama campaign\'s response to this incident was principled and decent.  it was in no way a "distancing" of barack from jesse jackson.  he accepted his apology and moved on.  i also don\'t think that overall obama has distanced himself from all things black...actually, to the contrary...  the issues he plans to address and correct as president have disproportionately negative impacts on black communities (he mentions this)...so i don\'t get it.  i appreciate the fact that we have the VERY REAL possibility of having  a president who is not only AWARE of "our" issues, but who intends to address them!  how is that distancing?  our marriage rates HAVE plummeted...we DO need to address the childrearing issue.  these things are FACTS. his father\'s day speech (and other occasions where he\'s raised these issues) may be uncomfortable for some to hear, but we need to "get over" the discomfort and start the very hard work of healing.  <br><br>that\'s my humble opinion.  this is my first time reading this blog.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-855503" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-855503" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-855503">PTCruiser</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-855503" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-855503" class="dsq-comment-message">"we DO need to address the childrearing issue. these things are FACTS. his father\'s day speech (and other occasions where he\'s raised these issues) may be uncomfortable for some to hear, but we need to "get over" the discomfort and start the very hard work of healing."<br><br>Obama is not running for the presidency of Black America. The Black Electorate has no such position in its ranks. If elected president, he will not be Soul Brother No. 1.  If he is still feeling any angst caused by his own father\'s behavior then he needs to address those issues in the privacy of a therapeutic relationship.  If he wants to address absentee fathers as a public policy issue, then he should discuss it in the context of it being an American problem, not a Black American problem.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-856203" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-856203" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-856203">Big Bill</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-856203" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-856203" class="dsq-comment-message">Correct.  Obama is not going to be Soul Brother No. 1.  All the more reason for black folks to push him hard on his policies before he is elected.<br><br>Obama and McCain have both committed to total amnesty (with a token "back taxes" payment of maybe $3000 - chump change)  of illegals and to letting them stay in America and keep working AND to bring their families here.  <br><br>This is going to be a devastating blow to our already overburdened now-multilingual school systems, welfare systems, and medical systems.<br><br>Obama, as a member of the Democratic Party (which 40 years ago was the working class party) can probably be worked on better than McCain.  And he should be.<br><br>As Booker T. Washington explained, America has a duty to black folks and ought to "cast down its bucket" right here in the black community rather than inviting aliens of questionable (or no) loyalty to this country. See:<br><br><a href="http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/88" rel="nofollow">http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/88</a>.<br><br>Which also has a recording of Mr. Washington giving that portion of his speech in Atlanta,1895.<br><br><br><br>Mexicans are not going to stop sneaking illegals into the USA and protecting them.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-856054">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-856054" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-856054" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-856054">caligirl</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-856054" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-856054" class="dsq-comment-message">you clearly misunderstood my comments.  i am thoroughly aware (and grateful) that barack obama isn\'t running as the black people\'s president.  and...you conveniently left out the part where i wrote that these issues have a DISPROPORTIONATELY negative impact on black (and brown) communities.  that--in my view--is the key piece of this, and probably why barack feels comfortable in discussing it.  frankly, it would be irresponsible of him NOT to.   i\'m very sensitive to black people being painted in a pathological light, as it\'s been done by so-called "social scientists" before in attempts to justify punitive public policy.  however, i\'ve listened to barack\'s speeches/rallies/etc. and  i feel that he\'s treated the topic in a respectful, positive way. <br><br>issues of privacy notwithstanding (and i daresay any person abandoned by their father probably always owns a little "angst") , it\'s about time that parental responsibility gets a national stage.  sweeping it under the rug has not worked well.<br><br>an aside:  reading about your fundraiser made me HUNGRY!!!</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-859721">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-859721" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-859721" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-859721" href="http://aol.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Mr, Commonsense</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-859721" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-859721" class="dsq-comment-message">This stuff is like watching a freaking perverse minstrel show with Bill Oreilly as rhe interlocutor</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-865563">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-865563" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-865563" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-865563">Pat Newbold</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-865563" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-865563" class="dsq-comment-message">i think coming from a Rev who cheated on his wife and produced a child his assuption of Obama is hypacritical especially when he uses the term moral. i lost respect for Jesse Jackson sin he smeared Martin Luthers blood on himself and lied and said Martin Luther died in his arms. He is an opportunist of the worst kind as his own son said sit down and KEEP HOPE ALIVE.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-887344">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-887344" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-887344" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-887344">Pat Newbold</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-887344" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-887344" class="dsq-comment-message">Jesse demonstrated in Jenna regarding lynching. Black men were castrated also how may tell can an advocate of civil rights use that term so blatenly its just as bad as another black using the n work when refering to another black. Jesse may be you are suffering from dementia. And as for fathers responsibility i am one who constantly stay in family court trying to get assistance from my baby daddy and he will not work in order to not pay child support.  what obama missed was acculades to the women that are fathers when he made that speech in addition to honoring those men that are because we do have them. but dont let the media define who we are by dividing and concuring us in an attempt to distance us from Obama that we stay home and dont vote. read between the lines the media is hard at work.VOTE VOTE VOTE DONT LET DOWN THE ONES THAT DIED FOR US TO HAVE THIS PRIVILIGE</div>\
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	if (Dsq.jsonData.integration.theme == 4) {
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			Dsq.Realtime.initialize();
		}
	}

	



	window.ExecuteWhen = (function () {
	var obj = {}
	
	// Private
	var running = false;
	var timer = null;
	var pending = [];
	var startTimer = function() {
		running = true;
		timer = setInterval(obj.heartBeat, 100);
	};
	var stopTimer = function() {
		running = false;
		clearInterval(timer);
	};
	
	// Public
	obj.add = function (condition, code) {
		pending.push([condition,code]);
		this.heartBeat(); //!
		if (!running) {
			startTimer();
		}
	};
	obj.heartBeat = function() {
		if (!pending.length) {
			stopTimer();
		}
		var newPending = [];
		for (var i=0; i<pending.length; i++) {
			var cond = pending[i][0];
			var code = pending[i][1];
			// FIXME: if cond or code throw an error, they never get removed from pending
			if (cond()){
				code();
			}
			else {
				newPending.push([cond, code]);
			}
		}
		pending = newPending;
	};
	return obj;
})();

// also used in embed_thread.js:
window.fbIsReady = function () {return window.FB && FB.init;};
// NOTE: This script gets executed again without threadEl
//       set when we are loaded again as the fbc_receiver.
//       In this case, we don't need the hidden container.

if(!window.FB || !FB.init) {
	if(window.Dsq && Dsq.container) {
		// container is not present when init.js is loaded from an xd-receiver iframe; in this case,
		// we don't need the FB_HiddenContainer anyway.
		var fbDiv = document.createElement('div');
		fbDiv.id = "FB_HiddenContainer";	// Required or else FeatureLoader will execute a document.write.
		fbDiv.style.position = 'absolute';	// This is intentionally not setting display to none as this breaks
		fbDiv.style.top = '-10000px';		// Flash in Safari.
		fbDiv.style.left = '-10000px';
		fbDiv.style.width = '0px';
		fbDiv.style.height = '0px';
		Dsq.container.appendChild(fbDiv);
	}
	var fbJS = document.createElement('script');
	fbJS.type = "text/javascript";
	fbJS.src = "http://static.ak.connect.facebook.com/js/api_lib/v0.4/FeatureLoader.js.php";
	document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(fbJS);

	ExecuteWhen.add(window.fbIsReady,
		function () {
			// HACK: This is a workaround FBC's single domain limitation by
			//		 allowing sites to create multiple forums with different
			//		 Facebook API keys.  This must be used in conjunction with
			//		 disqus_facebook_forum (see authenticateFacebook).
			var facebook_api_key = 'bd6a8bc56f8eb204984f34b6fefe228d';
			if (typeof disqus_facebook_api_key != 'undefined') {
				facebook_api_key = disqus_facebook_api_key;
			}

			FB.init(facebook_api_key, window.facebookXdReceiverPath || null,
				{fetchSignedPublicSessionData: true});
		});
}


	


if(typeof(disqus_callback) == 'function') {
	var callback_params = Dsq.Utils.getRequestParams()['dsq_cbp'] || null;

	// We don't care about any errors in third-party code
	try {
		disqus_callback(callback_params);
	} catch (x) {
		if (typeof(console) != 'undefined' && typeof(console.log) == 'function') {
			// But it would be nice to let developers know about them
			console.log(x);
		}
		// pass
	}

	// HACK: We don't know if the callback wraps our container, which may
	// possibly result in a new DOM element.
	Dsq.container = document.getElementById('dsq-content');
}

})();




