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I explicitly cited Tim McVeigh as the type of white supremacists domestic TERRORIST with a track record and SWORN/STATED goal similar to what you attribute to the \"boogie man\" called Al-Qaeda.</br><br></br><br>Tim McVeigh killed Americans with no respect to their race/ethnicity.    Again, that's the exact example I used but, for some reason, you felt compelled to show your IGNORance and your sparkling colors by reframing this debate in Black/White when I spoke to your fake concern about the threats posed against all Americans.</br><br></br><br>For some reason, you don't Chicken Little white supremacists.  And to make matters worse, after all the (fake) \"why can't we come together\"  stuff you declare terrorism committed against African-Americans who surely lost well more than 3000 people JUST LIKE IRAQ HAS LOST WELL MORE THAN 3000 + 4000...  Well, it's your selectivity that accounts for why we can't come together.</br><br></br><br>All of that is YOUR CHOICE.  We can't come together because of YOU and the sh*t on your brain.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-29_20:30:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "3ecde559248958521e4cb25a77f2ee65", "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}, "1959041": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "d, you have to realize that your statements sound a lot like \"can't your pleas for social justice wait until after we beat the terrorists?\"<br></br><br>And need I remind you that America didn't come together after 9/11 - people were still racist and still held prejudices, they were simply put on the back-burner for a while. I know for sure people don't just want the issue of race put on the back-burner, we want it dealt with no matter how uncomfortable it may get. Sure, whites may not in large part discriminated against blacks in, say, downtown Manhattan after 9/11, but there were plenty of Arabs being blamed for the attacks around the country.</br><br></br><br>Racial justice can't be ignored because there are  terrorists in the world. Just because there is some universal threat does not mean we should ignore the very real threat of racism in America.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-30_02:36:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "d2eafa069926271cdf16d3789fa23130", "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}, "1958973": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Admit it, you have been brainwashed into thinking that all black Republicans are 'Uncle Toms.' <br></br><br>\"Condamnesia\"? </br><br></br><br>'She's just one big shade of gray' only because she refuses to be see as anything other than an individual.</br><br></br><br>I'd vote for Condi over Obama in a heartbeat.</br><br></br><br>McCain/Rice '08?</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-28_16:33:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "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}, "1958974": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Girl, I had the same reaction!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-28_16:41:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "c60cf267cb7a0392bdb4a893a5ee5c7c", "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}, "1958975": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I am far more interested in what Rice, Powell, Sowell, etc. have to say about race than Barak, Michlle and Wright.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-28_16:48:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "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}, "1958976": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'll reiterate:<br></br><br>I've often called Secretary Rice a fraud, and then she does something like this and I pause.</br><br></br><br>Maybe she's considering a veep spot after all.</br><br></br><br>Imagine if the Republicans get the chance to put a Black American and a woman in yet another historical national office?</br><br></br><br>I said months ago that even despite Rice's many negatives, she would be McCain's best bet for veep against Obama or Clinton.</br><br></br><br>Obama would have to choose Samantha Power as his running mate if McCain chooses Rice.</br><br></br><br>(Just kidding.)</br><br></br><br>And I agree, I've always wanted to hear what Powell had to say about race in America. For real.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-28_17:11:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9bf0971c139c9dc33659e8ed441e4f5e", "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}, "1958977": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Actually, even though I was kidding, just the sound of Obama/Power would be, well... powerful. <br></br><br>(I'm still kidding.)</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-28_17:12:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9bf0971c139c9dc33659e8ed441e4f5e", "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}, "1958978": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Every time this woman opens her mouth about race, she puts a foot in it. In her perfect GOP run world, race hasn't been an issue or what, 45 years or so now? How much longer till she is out of the public limelight with this nonsense?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-28_17:29:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "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}, "1958979": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Wow.<br></br><br>Rice's remarks in the actual interview transcript are even more comprehensive and compelling. The article left out some of the best stuff.</br><br></br><br>The interview is about all sorts of things, so you'll have to scroll through it to get to the race stuff.</br><br></br><br><a href=\"http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2008/03/102757.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\">Her Entire Interview</a></br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-28_17:30:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9bf0971c139c9dc33659e8ed441e4f5e", "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}, "1958980": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Founding Population - gotta start using it.\u00a0<br>always been a bit bit dissapointed at how Dr.rice hasn't been applauded more by both AA and feminist for attaining such a powerful and respected position.</br><br>\u00a0Of course her role in dubyas inner circle has much to do with it. Anyone out there think her statements are her first step as vp? A gop ploy to trump the dems, (Obama) on the race issue?</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-28_17:38:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "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}, "1958981": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Of course.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-28_17:47:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9bf0971c139c9dc33659e8ed441e4f5e", "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}, "1958982": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Who is this Black woman talking out of her ass on Hard Ball?<br></br><br>Anyone know who she is?</br><br></br><br>She's claiming a friend told her she was on that plane and that the pilot told the passengers to sit on their flak jackets.</br><br></br><br>The pilot of that plane already gave an interview and refuted that very claim.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-28_17:48:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9bf0971c139c9dc33659e8ed441e4f5e", "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}, "1958983": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I met Condi Rice back in 2005 at a political summit in DC. She was very compelling and was very open about discussing race and gender. She was also suprisingly nice. I always admired her despite the difference in certain political ideologies. Just because she is Republican does not mean that she does not understand race and race relations. It was not a \"slip\" nor has she ever been \"clueless\". She is a very smart women of conviction. In addition, she is from Birmingham Al, need I say more. She understands the history of this country and the country's present. I was last year when she was praising Obama and stated that she was proud of him and what he has been able to accomplish but she did make it clear that he was breaking down barriers for AA's in high offices etc but that race would still be a barrier that exists in our society.<br></br><br>I am confused and i'm wondering if she has to be a democrat and talk about race constantly in order to gain respect from the black community. Pretty unfortunate! For example, I know a lot of democratic black politicans that I do not admire, like or think nothing off. I also know many black Republican politicans that I do not admire, like or think anything off. I look at the individual. The \"shades of gray\" that you speak of is the personal who is an individual. They are not clear cut nor predictable. Her racial/cultural performance is different where it is personal where as for others it is more covert. Are we able to be individuals?</br><br></br><br>P.S. I dont think that she is going to run with John McCain, she has said no! On many occasions. I dont think that she will do that as some way to show up Barack either. From what I have read, they have a great deal of respect for one another. I think that she may want to jump into Barack's multi-party cabinet along with Powell and redeem their legacy after being connected with our good friends George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. </br><br></br><br>::Wishingful thinking...but a smart move!!:::</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-28_18:00:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "6b8623e8e850161265a6267d83471b3d", "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}, "1958984": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The republican party is getting ready to court the black vote. especially if Hillary gets the Nomination or something goes wrong for Obama between now and the Convention. <br></br><br>Condi's policies her world view her unwavering support of Bush and his war speak louder than these simple words. </br><br></br><br>I'm sure Clarence Thomas has black folk thinking he related to them when he used the term hi tech lynching in his testimony during the Hill fiasco</br><br></br><br>This is a calculated move.</br><br></br><br>Don't believe the hype!</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-28_18:11:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "248baa30ad747303377d0c70eb900f8d", "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}, "1958985": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Someone thinks we matter, after all?   <br></br><br>And the reason why blacks should not look at Republicans is what, Truth?  Abused Housewife Syndrome?    Political bigotry?  Superstition?  Lack of a share of established bribes and backscratching for people like Maxine Waters or William Jefferson, who'd have to start all over again?</br><br></br><br>More or less seriously, can blacks make a proactive difference within the Republican party, if there is a shift?  Honestly, it's not like certain core Republican values are alien or antithetical to the black community.  As for the rest, why couldn't we have the power and the numbers to update and broaden those other values?</br><br></br><br>I don't think either major party should have a lock on the black vote.  It's time to grow up.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-28_18:38:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "1d62234b5162c9a41823478b140ed8ec", "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}, "1958986": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I think Rice has always been a proponent of affirmative action and, yes, this is not the first time she called slavery/racism America's birth defect.<br></br><br><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&amp;node=&amp;contentId=A54664-2001Sep6\" rel=\"nofollow\"><b>Lessons of Might and Right</b></a></br><br>How Segregation and an Indomitable Family Shaped National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice</br><br></br><br></br><br>(Damn, I can't believe that was 7 years ago.)</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-28_19:06:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "3ecde559248958521e4cb25a77f2ee65", "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}, "1958987": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I believe my conflict with Rice stems from the deep respect for what I consider to be her pure, raw intellect. I honestly believe, if she's in a room with 100 people, there are, TOPS, two people in the room that MIGHT be smarter than her. It's simply not easy to be Black, Brilliant and a woman in this country, my natural empathy for her stems from that.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-28_19:09:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f85f4de88a30987f0360c336da9569ae", "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}, "1958988": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Dr. Rice doesn't confuse me.  I just wished she used her considerable intellect for good and not evil.  She's Sheila Lee-Jackson... except she holds more cards in her Bush relationship than Lee-Jackson does in that Clinton relationship; and I'd put more money down on Rice in a fight between her and Lee-Jackson.<br></br><br>I knew everything I needed to know about Dr. Rice' place in the Bush inner circle when I heard she had referred to Bush as her 'husband'; and then it was cemented in a unexpected direction when I saw a copy of the 'am I allowed to pee now?' note passed to Dr. Rice by Bush at the UN meeting where General Powell was forced to tell lies (misspeakings?) about Iraq.</br><br></br><br>Dr. Rice just chooses to take her understanding of what's happening in America in a different direction than the Democratic party one.  Again, I wish she used her intellect for the forces of good instead of Halliburton.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-28_19:09:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "369dd1fe5f49cbfe5e745f45b499d41e", "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}, "1958989": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Condi probably just got back from a visit with her cousin Constance (you know, the lefty one) before giving this interview.  Gotta love that about family--sometimes they make you see the ignorance of your own ways.<br></br><br>B</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-28_19:15:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "49c7d03cd683cd8dc222a4483ed009f3", "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}, "1958990": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>Who is this Black woman talking out of her ass on Hard Ball?<br></br><br>Anyone know who she is?</br><br></br><br>She's claiming a friend told her she was on that plane and that the pilot told the passengers to sit on their flak jackets.</br><br></br></i><br></br><br>She's a writer...and a Clinton shill.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-28_19:37:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f85f4de88a30987f0360c336da9569ae", "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}, "1958991": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thanks, rikyrah.<br></br><br>Chris Matthews smacked her hard in her \"credentials\" when he told her to present a source from the blogosphere where she claimed Obama's top advisors are anti-Israel and anti-Jewish. </br><br></br><br>When I finally realized she was representing BET on the show (coincidence she shows up for the first time after the former owner of that network signs on to a thug letter to Speaker Pelosi?), I understood all:</br><br></br><br>Liars defend liars.</br><br></br><br>Hillary Rodham Nixon will stop at <i>nothing.</i></br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-28_20:16:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9bf0971c139c9dc33659e8ed441e4f5e", "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}, "1958992": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>I knew everything I needed to know about Dr. Rice' place in the Bush inner circle when I heard she had referred to Bush as her 'husband'</i><br></br><br>Yeah, and to be honest, this is one of the most underreported political stories in the past few years. </br><br></br><br>What I am about to say will seem sexist, backwards, and some will want to kick me out of the Sisterhood.</br><br></br><br>****************************</br><br></br><br>Dr. Rice needs to begin seriously thinking about Dr. Rice.Whatever the hell her relationship is with Shrub, she needs to wind that mess down and start thinking about herself. </br><br></br><br>She is, IMO, an attractive prospect for a Trophy Wife, and not in the bimbo, 20 year old version...but, for a man of a certain age, who has grown children, and wants to be part of a 'Power Couple'. She has enough of a profile to offer a great deal in a 'Power Couple' relationship. There's gotta be a rich guy out there for her; no conflict about children between them...she'd be a great second wife for some tycoon.  </br><br></br><br>There, I said it.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-28_20:23:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f85f4de88a30987f0360c336da9569ae", "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}, "1958993": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>Chris Matthews smacked her hard in her \"credentials\" when he told her to present a source from the blogosphere where she claimed Obama's top advisors are anti-Israel and anti-Jewish. <br></br><br>When I finally realized she was representing BET on the show (coincidence she shows up for the first time after the former owner of that network signs on to a thug letter to Speaker Pelosi?), I understood all:</br><br></br><br>Liars defend liars.</br><br></br></i><br></br><br>Craig,</br><br></br><br>I was so proud of Tweety, not letting her just drop that ' Obama has problems with the Jews' BS out of the sky like it was gospel, and the best her ass could do, when called upon for a REFERENCE,  was The New York Post, and she realized how idiotic that sounded, so then she tried to say it was the Daily News. </br><br></br><br>Like I said, a Handkerchief Head for Hillary.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-28_20:27:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f85f4de88a30987f0360c336da9569ae", "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}, "1958994": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'd like to point out that Condi's position deals with foreign policy, and it's entirely possible that she is a liberal on domestic issues. <br></br><br>I don't like the job she's done, but I think there are alot of assumptions made about her politics, when the truth is we don't know where she stands on much. And she has spoken positively about Obama in the past.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-28_20:36:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "84ce11ad4e30ba782433bb5bf24a077e", "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}, "1958995": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>I don't think either major party should have a lock on the black vote. It's time to grow up.</i><br></br><br>Sounds like a great speech to give to the Republican party which Black people some 50 years ago, or thereabout, used to vote for en masse.</br><br></br><br>Just like them governments Rev. Wright talked about... it's obvious it's the party that changed. And, really, looking at all this BarackHUSSEINObama stuff...  Yeah, Republicans really have a lot of growing up to do.  And we can give a choice middle finger to quite a few democrats too.</br><br></br><br>Also, until you can explain why even Black Republicans, including Lynn Swann, admit the Republican party hardly supports Black Republican candidates...  Well, until then, you'd do best to keep quiet while grown folks are talking.</br><br></br><br>No one is confused about the Republican (or the Democratic) party.  But it's obvious that it's the Dem party, out of both of the flawed parties, that has a Black man running for president and has at least attempt to embrace some of the issues Black folks deemed important instead of the other way around.</br><br></br><br>Think about that for a moment.  Then get back to me once the history everybody should know... has a consequence and impact on your rhetoric.</br><br></br><br>Again, some 50 years ago or so, there were a lot of Black Republicans.  Ask NBRA.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-28_20:46:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "3ecde559248958521e4cb25a77f2ee65", "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}, "1958996": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>She is, IMO, an attractive prospect for a Trophy Wife, and not in the bimbo, 20 year old version...but, for a man of a certain age, who has grown children, and wants to be part of a 'Power Couple'. She has enough of a profile to offer a great deal in a 'Power Couple' relationship. There's gotta be a rich guy out there for her; no conflict about children between them...she'd be a great second wife for some tycoon.</i><br></br><br>It is my belief that she's lesbian.</br><br></br><br>There. I said it.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-28_20:52:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9bf0971c139c9dc33659e8ed441e4f5e", "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}, "1958997": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I've never thought Condi was stupid or an Uncle Tom.  She's may be an opportunist.  <br></br><br>All I know is that she is a complex women who defies labels.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-28_21:26:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "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}, "1958998": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Wow.<br></br><br>Y'all need to read the whole transcript.</br><br></br><br>How can she have these thoughts and roll with the cats she rolls with?</br><br></br><br>That is very strange.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-28_22:25:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "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}, "1958999": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "It is my belief that she's a complex lesbian.<br></br><br>There. I said that.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-28_22:32:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "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}, "1959000": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Craig, you think she's a lesbian? Where are you getting that from? I don't get that vibe from her at all, plus, many read the \"husband\" comment as a Freudian slip that revealed her feelings for Dubya. I don't know if I agree with that, but it was out there. Ultimately, I believe her singledom boils down to the difficulty of being black, brilliant and female, as Rikyrah said.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-28_22:32:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7ca5ec8b8af41ca86caf9b6a2f1f045f", "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}, "1959001": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Condoleeza Rice and Colin Powell are great Americans who were loyal to their masters...Reagan, Bush 41 and Bush 43, yet in key moments stood up for affirmative action...I don't fault them for being republicans...<br></br><br>Why? Because I'm a real intellectual...someone who  is open to considering ideas outside of the mainstream.  I can listen to contrary opinions and neither be offended nor threatened.  </br><br></br><br>People who fear dissent and open debate (the same close-minded people who talk more than listen) should not refer to themselves as intellectuals...if you can not defend your ideas, then you're weak.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-28_22:49:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "61b38052cdae3077225c223eee4a5ad9", "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}, "1959002": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"I'd like to point out that Condi's position deals with foreign policy, and it's entirely possible that she is a liberal on domestic issues. <br></br><br>I don't like the job she's done, but I think there are alot of assumptions made about her politics, when the truth is we don't know where she stands on much. And she has spoken positively about Obama in the past.\"</br><br></br><br>Thats much of my take on it too. </br><br></br><br></br><br>P.S. According to stats, 70% of black women in America are single so I guess we all are lesbians...not! Being an intelligent and strong black women means you often cannot find an equal. </br><br></br><br>There is a joke by Chris Rock that I did not find funny about Michelle Obama. He claimed that \"a black women can't be a first lady\", pretty much he was trying to say that black women are too domineering. I think too many brothers think like that. There's a difference between being domineering and having strength.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-28_23:29:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "6b8623e8e850161265a6267d83471b3d", "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}, "1959003": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>Craig, you think she's a lesbian? Where are you getting that from? I don't get that vibe from her at all, plus, many read the \"husband\" comment as a Freudian slip that revealed her feelings for Dubya. I don't know if I agree with that, but it was out there. Ultimately, I believe her singledom boils down to the difficulty of being black, brilliant and female, as Rikyrah said.<br></br><br></br></i><br></br><br>Nadra,</br><br></br><br>That's how I see it too. I don't think she's a lesbian. I just think she's Black, Brilliant and  a Woman, and in America, oh, how that can consign you to a single status, because nobody knows what to do with you - man wise.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-29_00:22:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f85f4de88a30987f0360c336da9569ae", "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}, "1959004": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Since \"the speech\", people have been talking about race. And a re-occuring theme is that we don't talk about race because it makes us uncomfortable.  I don't think that is the complete answer - I think the real reason is because we don't see the problem the same way.  It's difficult to discuss a problem if you are looking at apples and I am looking at oranges.  <br></br><br>Every white person I know can look at film footage of Bull Connor with water hoses & attack dogs and say - that's a racist... I'm not like that; therefore see, obviously, I'm not a racist.  Every white person I know can hear some neo-Nazi spout hate speech and say - that's a racist.... I don't think like that; therefore, obviously, I'm not a racist.  Now add to this, hip-hop artist or some black comedians who use the N-word as part of their stand up routine.  Every white person I know hears that and says sure, maybe sometimes I may giggle at some jokes but I would NEVER use the N-word; therefore see, I'm not a racist.  </br><br></br><br>So this is the confusion - what is racism?  </br><br></br><br>In 1980 (yes, that was some years ago - but this accurately demonstrates the problem we see today), I was moving to a new city (very nice suburb outside of Kansas City).  Two white 40+ women were my real estate agent.  As we were driving through a subdivision, we spotted a black guy jogging along the sidewalk.  There aren't many blacks that live in this town today - there really weren't many black family 28 years ago.  One of the women says, \"Oh, that must be a Chief player\".  My reaction was, \"No way, the guys about 5'5\" tall, weighs about 145 pounds\".  And I was getting ready to add, \"and he's not even very coordinated - no way is he a profession athlete\".  However, before I could say that, the other woman says, \"Then he must be a Royals player\".  Right There - BAM!  This is the problem with race & racism in this country now.  These women had zero idea that what they thought was in any wrong, racist, dumb.  This wasn't, \"Oh my, a black man has moved into the neighborhood, hide your daughter\".  To these women, they were expressing another perk as to why I should buy a house in this neighborhood - as in, we have wonderful schools, great parks, and look - how cool is this, a Chief player lives down the street - they meant it as a compliment. </br><br></br><br>Unfortunately, it NEVER occurred to  these women that a black guy could have amassed enough wealth to live in this part of town without being a pro athlete.  The guy jogging was probably an accountant or an dentist or own a sheet rock company.  </br><br></br><br>So how do you educate people who THINK they are saying something complimentary that they may be saying something racist?</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-29_00:43:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "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}, "1959005": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<b>All I know is that she is a complex women who defies labels.</b><br></br><br>That is exactly what I believe about Condoleezza Rice. And this WT article is hardly the first time I have heard Secretary Rice talk about race in a frank manner. I do not agree with her on many things, but I do admire her and have a great deal of respect for her.  It's the Black Brilliant Woman thing.</br><br></br><br></br><br><b>That's how I see it too. I don't think she's a lesbian. I just think she's Black, Brilliant and a Woman, and in America, oh, how that can consign you to a single status, because nobody knows what to do with you - man wise.</b></br><br></br><br>I agree with this too.  I think a white Condi Rice would be married.</br><br></br><br>Also, speaking of the mutual respect between the Secretary and our favorite Senator and Brother President-to-be, it should be noted that he voted YES to her confirmation as Secretary of State to great criticism by many Democrats.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-29_01:47:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "376c4de9b9dbc5d8a0f228c9592205c6", "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}, "1959006": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "anon @ 9;43,<br></br><br>I think that the women you describe were not racist. Racism is hatred toward another person because of one's race.</br><br></br><br>They were making ignorant assumptions based on race, but without malice.</br><br></br><br>People make ignorant assumptions about one another all the time, 'dumb blondes,' 'stupid jocks,' 'women drivers,' 'Condi Rice is a lesbian ,' etc. </br><br></br><br>So what.</br><br></br><br>The words of others should not define you.</br><br></br><br>I was always taught, \"No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.\"</br><br></br><br>Racism begins and ends with individuals and their actions. One person at a time, thinking and questioning whether their judgment  about an individual is based on the character of the individual or on some external factor. </br><br></br><br>Unfortunately, this type of self-examination and self-discipline requires effort. It is not for the intellectually lazy.</br><br></br><br>The women you describe are more to be pitied for their ignorance than chastised for racism.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-29_02:01:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "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}, "1959007": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "One thing to consider, Anon, when it comes to your Apples vs. Oranges analogy, first, you didn't specify what the Oranges were compared to the Apples you talked about in terms of what Whites recognize as racism.  And that's the problem:  your very illustration about one form of \"racism\" (the ignorant racial/racist assumptions Black=athlete) highlights how it's not an Apples vs. Oranges problem, per se, but it's a problem of DENIAL and who gets to define what racism is, what forms it takes, how fluid the term is and whether its something that's frozen in time or in set modes that never change or adapt or if it's all about Whites having a conveniently say, \"that's not me; I'm not racist.\"<br></br><br>The problem with what you said is that this very speech on race was occasioned by White folks not pointing to anything like \"waterhoses & attack dogs\" and, indeed, nothing demonstrably like \"neo Nazi hate speech\" yet plenty of [white] people saw fit to denounce Rev. Wright's statements as \"bigoted\", \"racist\" or otherwise derogatory about White people along with the equally incredulous and questionable charges of Wright being anti-American.</br><br></br><br>That, too, is about DENIAL and who holds THE POWER OF DEFINITION.</br><br></br><br>When it came to Imus (whose name has come up in attempts to show Obama's hypocrisy on the Wright issue) there was DENIAL as there is routinely.  Routinely.  So that means there is no confusion about what racism is but, instead, an on-going debate driven by Whites who want to limit the definition of racism so they can continue to say, \"I'm not racist.\"</br><br></br><br>Someone who will never see jail time is still a criminal when they commit a petty crime no matter how murders and other violent offenders hold sway in the popular imagination as the \"real criminals.\"  </br><br></br><br>I say that to make the point that racism is a term like crime: there a number of different was to commit said act.</br><br></br><br>Now here's an example of a statement that makes the Apples vs. Oranges, \"we aren't talking about the same things\" point you attempted to make:</br><br></br><br><b>\"If you're looking to understand why discussions between blacks and whites about racism are often so difficult in this country, you need only know this: when the subject is race and racism, whites and blacks are often not talking about the same thing. To white folks, racism is seen mostly as individual and interpersonal--as with the uttering of a prejudicial remark or bigoted slur. For blacks, it is that too, but typically more: namely, it is the pattern and practice of policies and social institutions, which have the effect of perpetuating deeply embedded structural inequalities between people on the basis of race. To blacks, and most folks of color, racism is systemic. To whites, it is purely personal.\"</b> </br><br><a href=\"http://www.lipmagazine.org/~timwise/raynagin.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tim Wise</a></br><br></br><br>The problem with real estate agents making \"ignorant\" racial assumptions has been well-documented and, indeed, a noted part of the systematic kind of racism Blacks, e.g., have faced.</br><br></br><br>BTW, they didn't identify a 5'5 white guy and just assume they were complimenting him/you by making, by all appearances, a hugely ridiculous and obviously race-based assumption that he was a pro-athlete... hmmmm... and being real estate agents, it's hard to imagine that they never sold a house to someone Black who wasn't a pro athlete.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-29_03:33:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "3ecde559248958521e4cb25a77f2ee65", "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}, "1959008": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That's how I see it too. I don't think she's a lesbian. I just think she's Black, Brilliant and a Woman, and in America, oh, how that can consign you to a single status, because nobody knows what to do with you - man wise.<br></br><br></br><br>This is so on point...</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-29_08:54:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "b2746406ec0d277ab44a024ee7188ae5", "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}, "1959009": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Saying that Condi is a Lesbian is a compliment. Not sure if it's true about her, and if it is, she will probably not say so, given rampant global homophobia. But please remember, being a Lesbian is a wonderful, honorable choice, and I hope we don't see any dissing of Lesbians and Gays and etc. here. That kind of attitude would be a total disconnect with progressive politics.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-29_09:01:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "dd942b0d6f854a55505e8ce82f529eea", "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}, "1959010": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I think Dr. Rice is a good example of what \"post-racialism\" really should be: an acknowledgement that historically, America has exhibited racism towards everyone (blacks, whites, and everyone in between)-but an unwillingness to dwell on racism, or look for it in every percieved slight.<br></br><br>It's a little interesting to see a defense (or maybe an appreciation) for Dr. Rice here, when I'd almost be willing to guess that most readers here spent the last, oh, 4-6 years throwing her under the bus for NOT addressing race in America.</br><br></br><br>McCain/Rice (or McCain/anyone black) won't work now. Blacks would see it as an attempt to negate Obama's appeal as a black man (which, being honest, is the only reason why some-BUT NOT MOST!!-blacks are voting for him), and would view the person as an Uncle Tom. And I think we all know why that wouldn't fly with the ultraconservative base of the Republican Party.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-29_10:08:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0183bc94f5be8b9ec79636f3f2174ff5", "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}, "1959011": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Whose pushing this \"post-racial\" idea?<br></br><br>Most Black folks say to hell with superficial, issue avoiding \"colorblindness.\"</br><br></br><br>And the every perceived slight... Well that's draws one of my signature STFU when White folks, particularly those who would otherwise feign allegiance or preference to \"post-racialism\" are all uptight over Rev. Wright.</br><br></br><br>Simply, spare me the bs until you can show me how Rice's \"post-racialism\" has an impact on the racial/racism front.  It's as if you missed the critiques... the utter irony of Rice talking about America's \"birth defect\" while she and Powell served in an administration and belong to a party that has brain/moral defects when it comes to race.</br><br></br><br>Both Powell and Rice served while the Bush Administration filed a brief in the Michigan affirmative action case... completely against their own views on affirmative action.</br><br></br><br>When something like that occurs against the backdrop of all kinds of people who left the Bush Administrations over differences of opinions...  Well, that would be Rice throwing herself under the bus.</br><br></br><br>Apparently, her \"unwillingness to dwell on racism\" made for her not taking a strong stand on the AA issue or doing something... enough to discourage the Administration she serves from entering the fray when there was no reason for Bush it.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-29_11:12:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "3ecde559248958521e4cb25a77f2ee65", "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}, "1959012": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>70% of black women in America are single so I guess we all are lesbians...</i><br></br><br>My opinion about Rice has nothing whatsoever to do with this statistic.</br><br></br><br>It's my opinion. That's all. And it's based on a gut feeling. That's all.</br><br></br><br>And a woman can be a Brilliant Black Woman and be lesbian. It's not an insult to suggest as much unless, of course, homophobia is at play.</br><br></br><br>I'm not going to argue about it because it's a silly argument to have. None of us <i>know</i>, we're simply speculating.</br><br></br><br>Rikyrah said something she thought was daring about her love life, and I responded with my own dare. </br><br></br><br>We can probably lighten up and simply agree that she's a Brilliant Black Woman no matter whom she loves.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-29_11:47:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9bf0971c139c9dc33659e8ed441e4f5e", "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}, "1959013": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "As for \"post-racial\", that's got to be the stupidest thing I've ever heard in my adult life.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-29_11:49:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9bf0971c139c9dc33659e8ed441e4f5e", "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}, "1959014": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"More or less seriously, can blacks make a proactive difference within the Republican party, if there is a shift? Honestly, it's not like certain core Republican values are alien or antithetical to the black community. As for the rest, why couldn't we have the power and the numbers to update and broaden those other values\"?<br></br><br>No, we can't. We don't have the numbers and the power to update those other \"values\". The only thing it will result in is us willingly cosigning policies that are designed to hurt us.</br><br></br><br>As for blacks sharing \"core Republican values\"...really? I think you, like many other people, have bought into the conservatives' redefinition of basically living a decent life as being exclusively \"conservative\". It's not, and never has been.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-29_12:49:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "70c7b3ec815f547e276c8c95fedfa136", "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}, "1959015": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Sorry for offending you Craig but thats not what I was trying to say. Please dont take me out of context.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-29_13:29:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "6b8623e8e850161265a6267d83471b3d", "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}, "1959016": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Rhondacoca, I wasn't offended at all. I'm not the offending kind. And my last response was to a few different comments, not just yours.<br></br><br>It's all good.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-29_13:34:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9bf0971c139c9dc33659e8ed441e4f5e", "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}, "1959017": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Here's the whole point of my thought on post-racialism:<br></br><br>The racial divide-as recently highlighted by Wright's comments-has become THE dominant issue of late. Meanwhile, our economy is falling apart, and-let's not forget-there's still a group of people who are sworn to kill us. And what we are missing in our latest discussion of race is that those people who want us destroyed don't see race, they just see \"American.\"</br><br></br><br>We-and that's inclusive of everyone in this country-need to find a way to collectively get over the past and come together. Because if we can't, we'll damn sure die that way.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-29_13:42:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0183bc94f5be8b9ec79636f3f2174ff5", "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}, "1959018": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>And what we are missing in our latest discussion of race is that those people who want us destroyed don't see race, they just see \"American.\"</i><br></br><br>I think you're making an assumption. How do you know they don't see race when they see American? Or let me ask it another way. How do you know that those who want to destroy us don't see white supremacist/imperialist America when they see America?</br><br></br><br>Post-racialism is a farce of the worst kind. It suggests that we've healed our racial wounds as a nation and moved beyond them and therefore we don't have to confront it anymore.</br><br></br><br>I wish James Baldwin were still alive. I'd love to read his essays about this election cycle.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-29_14:02:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9bf0971c139c9dc33659e8ed441e4f5e", "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}, "1959019": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Because they see America as an example of freedom and democracy, which are incompatible with their view of Islam and sharia law. <br></br><br>I would invite you to read the treatise \"Democracy and Sharia\" by one of al-Qaeda's founders (Zawhari, I believe).</br><br></br><br>A good example of a post-racial society was America immediately after 9/11. We put everything aside to be Americans. Black America wasn't attacked, white America wasn't attacked; ALL of America was attacked. And in the months after 9/11, we lived up to our pledge; we were one nation, under God, indivisible.</br><br></br><br>Have the wounds of racism healed? No. Will they ever? Probably not. But is it worth the destruction of our way of life to keep holding them open?</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-29_14:29:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0183bc94f5be8b9ec79636f3f2174ff5", "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}, "1959020": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"A good example of a post-racial society was America immediately after 9/11. We put everything aside to be Americans. Black America wasn't attacked, white America wasn't attacked; ALL of America was attacked. And in the months after 9/11, we lived up to our pledge; we were one nation, under God, indivisible\".<br></br><br>Was that really the case? I, and most of the other black people I know, were more saddened than angered by 9/11. I got the distinct impression that most of us viewed 9/11 the way most of the rest of the world did- with profound sympathy, but not as if it actually happened to us, or (especially) as if it was directed toward us.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-29_14:37:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "aedda92d645e540d5d4d78a25c550ffc", "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}, "1959021": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"Have the wounds of racism healed? No. Will they ever? Probably not. But is it worth the destruction of our way of life to keep holding them open\"?<br></br><br>We're not much more than ten percent of the population of this country. Do you really believe that our participation or lack thereof in the \"War on Terror\" will make a difference as to whether or not it's won or lost? </br><br></br><br>For most conservatives, both white AND black, \"healing the wounds of racism\" is code for \"you blacks need to shut the hell up, stop complaining, do what we say, and think what we want you to think\". In this specific case, I'm hearing \"Blacks need to shut the hell up.... or else it'll be your fault if the terrorists win\".</br><br></br><br>Nope, sorry.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-29_14:50:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "aedda92d645e540d5d4d78a25c550ffc", "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}, "1959022": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Then you've missed my point, as I think most people are.<br></br><br>This isn't just a black problem. Earlier I said that EVERYONE needs to come together on this one. It will be the NATION'S loss if we fail because we can't unite.</br><br></br><br>I think that black people don't always see how the War on Terror affects them....because, like you said, some of us don't feel like 9/11 happened TO us.</br><br></br><br>The truth is that 9/11 was another act in a jihad not limited to white America, but against ALL of America. Under sharia, you have three options: convert, pay for second class citizenship, or die. There are no exceptions-racial or otherwise. </br><br></br><br>We as blacks have gotten bogged down in Iraq, and have lost sight of the larger objectives in the War on Terror. That is OUR fault.</br><br></br><br>But the racial piece isn't just limited to blacks.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-29_15:08:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0183bc94f5be8b9ec79636f3f2174ff5", "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}, "1959023": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "D,<br></br><br>If the best you can do is try to use some other \"boogie man\" as a way to \"unite\" us vs. JUSTICE then it's clear that you intend on continuing the racist status quo.</br><br></br><br>If anything, the idea that there are people threatening the country we all share should engender some genuine, heart-felt reflection on just how foolish DENIAL OF JUSTICE for Black people, e.g., is when you're going to turn around and try to appeal to those same people for solidarity.</br><br></br><br>Let me be clear... You got the wrong guy to think that American stuff is going to do the trick.  There's not a damn thing magic in the word to me.  And to even begin to try to raise the spectre of the failing economy when this country, its government and, yes, it's people via WHITE MAJORITY RULE have resisted investing in all her people...   You're crying to the wrong guy, trying to pull at heartstrings I don't have.</br><br></br><br>Your thoughts aren't post-racial.  They're are racially blind to the fact that America never gave a f-ck about economic prospects or solidarity with Black people when White folks \"way of life\" weren't threatened from without.  Instead, America treated the notions of solidarity with her Black citizens on issues of concern to her Black citizens up to and including crisis level economic concerns in the Black community as a threat to White folks \"way of life\" from within.</br><br></br><br>Don't insult my/Black folks intelligence by trying to feign friendship when America has always treated us as enemies.</br><br></br><br>It's White America who has to prove her loyalty and the first place to start is on the racial equality front.  </br><br></br><br>\"Our\" economy is not the way America sees it in times of White comfort.  And, truth be told, America doesn't see it as \"our\" economy now.  The decades long debate over affirmative action always featured the white poor as the trump card... the excuse for why nothing \"special\" could be done for Black folks even as Dr. King noted how something \"special was done against us.\"</br><br></br><br>No, Lone Ranger, don't come to Tonto talking about \"coming together\" now.  What the hell you're talking about \"WE\" for, America, when you've had what Obama noted as an EMPATHY DEFICIT for things going on NOW, not in the past... NOW.  </br><br></br><br>And that's just it.  Folks have been making the WE and OUR argument til they were blue in the face but it takes economic collapse and external forces for White America to acknowledge in any serious way that they aren't the only people in America, however disingenuous and fear-induced the oft repeated pleas are.</br><br></br><br>Oh, no...  There will be no post-memory America.  We've seen this go down too many times.  Black people have fought in all of America's wars only to have to come back to post-war America to have another war to fight.</br><br></br><br>No, you got the wrong guy.  I don't do bs.  </br><br></br><br>And speaking of bs...  Funny how everything Rev. Wright said in the soundbites are supposed to be dismissed because of the AIDS conspiracy yet scared azz mf's can concoct some ridiculous notion that there's some \"boogie man\" out to \"destroy\" us when its America's disease of racism, capitalism and just plain selfish azz ruling White elites who don't give a damn about country.  </br><br></br><br>And, really, the last thing anyone should ever do is try to decry (racial) tribalism by invoking even more nationalistic tribalism.</br><br></br><br>I got a serious problem with the idea that America can put a number of Americans who have lost their lives in Iraq but has no respect for the humanity of Iraqis to even attempt to report on the numbers of INNOCENT Iraqis who have lost their lives.</br><br></br><br>Then people have the nerve to get upset when Rev. Wright preaches TRUTH regarding how \"violence begets violence\" and how the KILLING OF INNOCENTS ought to be damned.  Anyone without the humanity to acknowledge how other people lives other than they're own are being/have been destroyed doesn't deserve anyone's solidarity.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-29_15:15:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "3ecde559248958521e4cb25a77f2ee65", "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}, "1959024": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "D,<br></br><br>Keep your CONSPIRACY THEORY propaganda to yourself.</br><br></br><br>You don't know a damn thing about Sharia...  And that Chicken Little bs don't fly.  </br><br></br><br>You act like we're in a cold war with an army remotely comparable to our own.  You insult your own intelligence pedaling that bs.</br><br></br><br>It's America's own racism and her capitalistic/imperialistic chickens coming how to roost in her own implosion.</br><br></br><br>We don't need an Al Qaeda except for a convenient scapegoat.  America's own misdeeds are doing her in.  America chose to be weak by trying to maintain White Supremacy. </br><br></br><br>None of that is our fault.  And all the Americanism in the world can't make Al Qaeda, blowback we help create, into the ominous \"boogie man\" you're trying to make them/radical Islam out to be.</br><br></br><br>Israel is in the Middle East in a virtual sea of radical Islamist, yet, Israel still exists and the USA too.  We can readily note how suicide bombings aren't happening here on a regular basis.</br><br></br><br>Stupid ass CONSPIRACY THEORY and shameless fear-mongering...  You can't scare people into solidarity and your unfounded paranoia isn't shared.</br><br></br><br>Stop PROJECTING America's intentions...</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-29_15:31:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "3ecde559248958521e4cb25a77f2ee65", "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}, "1959025": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Truthpower, I was reading your comments and I was thinking \"Thank God somebody understands\". This defiantly a political move. She was telling the truth, and I do agree with what she said, but I wonder where its coming from. I hate to type  it, but she is like Mariah Carry. Black when it's convent.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-29_15:35:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "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}, "1959026": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "There is no \"boogie man.\" the killing of Americans and the destruction of our society is the SWORN, STATED policy of al-Qaeda.<br></br><br>I haven't suggested that there shouldn't be a discussion on racism in this country. What I've suggested is that we shouldn't attempt to have the discussion with a gun being held to our head.</br><br></br><br>What I know of al-Qaeda's interpretation of sharia comes from THEIR own words. I've tried to study why they think what they do, so if you've got something to add, I welcome it.</br><br></br><br>My argument is this: in this hour, against this enemy, there should be no \"us\" and \"them,\" because that's not how the enemy sees us. We are Americans. Hyphenate it as you will, but \"American\" will always be the last word. And the sooner that mentality spreads, the sooner we will preserve our way of life.</br><br></br><br>In the Declaration, the signers pledged their \"lives, fortunes, and sacred honor\" to the cause of freedom. What's important in that pledge is not WHAT they pledged, but HOW they pledged it: \"mutually.\" We'd do well to heed that pledge.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-29_15:48:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0183bc94f5be8b9ec79636f3f2174ff5", "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}, "1959027": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"I don't think either major party should have a lock on the black vote. It's time to grow up\". I agree with this comment and the nquest. Democrats have taken Blacks for granted and Republications  act like they don't want us. Blacks need to make both major political parties for  their VOTE.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-29_15:49:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "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}, "1959028": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Let me get this right.<br></br><br>An intelligent black woman who is single, independent and accomplished but doesn't necessarily follow the social and political tenets set forth by the cabal that is middle class Black America has to be a lesbian.</br><br></br><br>I must have missed that meeting.  Would someone please forward me the minutes?</br><br></br><br>Thanks.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-29_16:12:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "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}, "1959029": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"Democrats have taken Blacks for granted and Republications act like they don't want us. Blacks need to make both major political parties for their VOTE\".<br></br><br>So...do we draw straws to determine who among us will vote for the party of...caging black votes and weakening civil rights laws?</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-29_16:34:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "aedda92d645e540d5d4d78a25c550ffc", "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}, "1959030": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Al Qaeda is little more than those non-existent WMD's in Iraq.  Or better yet, a more apt comparison are the domestic terrorists of that Tim McVeigh strain.  They have SWORN, STATED goals too.<br></br><br>Now get the f-ck out of her with that Chicken Little bs.</br><br></br><br><i>What I've suggested is that we shouldn't attempt to have the discussion with a gun being held to our head.</i></br><br></br><br>You're not duckin' any bullets and there's no gun to your head.  It's the Iraqis getting blown and shot the f-ck up as a result of US TERRORISM.  The state sponsored kind.</br><br></br><br></br><br><i>What I know of al-Qaeda's interpretation of sharia comes from THEIR own words. I've tried to study why...</i></br><br></br><br>Well, let me find some White militia, white supremacist literature for you, D.  I'm sure you can imagine a gun to your head attached to a neo-white sheet.  You imagination is active like that.</br><br></br><br></br><br><i>We are Americans. Hyphenate it as you will, but \"American\" will always be the last word. And the sooner that mentality spreads, the sooner we will preserve our way of life.</i></br><br></br><br>You must be joking...  You don't mean \"WE\" you mean YOU.  There is no solidarity in struggles abroad without JUSTICE on the homefront.</br><br></br><br>That \"We are Americans\" dog won't hunt.  This very Rev. Wright ordeal has revealed what and who people see as \"Americans.\"</br><br></br><br>Ask Bush what \"skin color\" that is and then try to tell me \"WE are Americans.\"  My allergies are good.  I'm having no problems.  I smell the strong aroma of bs.</br><br></br><br></br><br>And speaking of the strong stank of bs...  \"THE SIGNERS\"   Dude, know your audience.  It's as if you missed the lead in about America's BIRTH DEFECT.  \"Mutually\" my azz.</br><br></br><br>The last people you can invoke are those mf's White America has neither disowned or denounced.</br><br></br><br>You got the wrong guy to try to pitch that bs.  \"The signers\"...  I got a sign all right but I don't think you'd like the picture.</br><br></br><br>The age of the Okey Doke is over, D.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-29_17:14:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "3ecde559248958521e4cb25a77f2ee65", "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}, "1959031": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>My argument is this: in this hour, against this enemy...</i><br></br><br>D, we have seen the enemy and the enemy is....</br><br></br><br></br><br>Get a freakin' clue... IN THIS HOUR!!</br><br></br><br></br><br>Get back to me when you've read up on that white supremacists literature and your knee jerk and heart rate gets all worked up over their SWORN and STATED goals.</br><br></br><br></br><br>And note...  Black folks have lived through TERRORISM.  That's part of the \"past\" you don't want us to bring up IN THIS HOUR.  My point is:  you can't scare us with the prospect of terrorism and Chicken Little-isms about our \"way of life.\"</br><br></br><br>I know I'm not looking for any tall buildings to jump off because I just can't take it.   You got to have better tactics that your projected fears.  Didn't you learn anything from Obama's speech?</br><br></br><br>Things play out differently in the Black community.  Part of that is because of the LACK OF \"WE\" that existed before THIS HOUR.... were there is no army storming America's coasts/beaches.</br><br></br><br>TRY AGAIN!!!</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-29_17:26:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "3ecde559248958521e4cb25a77f2ee65", "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}, "1959032": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "(correction)<br></br><br>... before (and during) THIS HOUR where there is no army storming America's coasts/beaches.</br><br></br><br></br><br>And there is NOTHING about THIS HOUR that says \"we\" can't or shouldn't reconcile \"racial issues.\"  Again, if anything, White America ought to get religion instead of just getting paranoid, scared and anxious.</br><br></br><br>Yeah, Obama talks about the things \"WE\" have in common but that sh*t ain't connecting the way it should especially when people like you like to say \"We are Americans\" as if you're making some point.</br><br></br><br>Yeah, we are Americans and that means, by definition, that you don't set the terms for all of us.  You want some comforting solidarity on the War on Terrorism... then you know what you have to do.</br><br></br><br>I'm one of them coordinated Black folk.  I can chew gum and walk straight at the same time.  What's your problem?</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-29_17:34:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "3ecde559248958521e4cb25a77f2ee65", "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}, "1959033": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>We put everything aside to be Americans. Black America wasn't attacked, white America wasn't attacked; ALL of America was attacked. And in the months after 9/11, we lived up to our pledge; we were one nation, under God, indivisible.</i><br></br><br>I call ish.</br><br></br><br>I wasn't one of those Americans who actually felt as though someone outside of us attacked us. My deep beliefs about 9/11 would cause some to label me insane at best and unpatriotic at worst.</br><br></br><br>Our chickens did <i>not</i> come home to roost. They never went anywhere to begin with.</br><br></br><br>But despite my radical thought about 9/11, there was no one nation, under God, indivisible.</br><br>Americans got meaner after 9/11, more paranoid.</br><br></br><br>The mixed neighborhood I lived in in  the southwest of Boston changed. No more volleyball games on Sundays one block over where kids and grown folk enjoyed themselves after supper. No more pop calls by the women who lived across the street or behind us. No more Saturday potlucks at rotating houses. No more impromptu gatherings on neighbors' front porches to talk about music, gossip about relatives, ctiticize the homeowners who were keeping up their properties.</br><br></br><br>It's as though everyone in the neighborhood locked their doors, closed their drapes, and turned into Greta Garbo.</br><br></br><br>In October 2002, fed up with the closing of our American neighborhood, we moved.</br><br></br><br>The woman who bought our house became a friend. She tell us that things haven't changed. Tells us that it doesn't fell like a neighborhood at all. Tells us that people are still mean and paranoid and un-neighborly.</br><br></br><br>Now there's a statesman appealing to our hopes instead of our fears, telling us that we can actually stop being so afraid, a statesman who believes that we can actually come together to solve our nation's biggest problems, a statesman who is transforming the disillusioned into the activist.</br><br></br><br>And all the while, he hasn't tried to sugarcoat the realities of our lives. But has reinforced a spiritual truth that the only way we can come together is to <i>change our mindsets.</i></br><br></br><br>It's no wonder why the ruling classes are afraid of him.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-29_17:48:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9bf0971c139c9dc33659e8ed441e4f5e", "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}, "1959034": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yes, Craig... <br></br><br>And it's rather ironic that instead of this \"We are Americans\" idea that Obama has been subjected to a level of suspicion that betrays this fake ass posture D has.  Yeah, instead of appealing for solidarity Americans didn't care whether non-White people were Americans or not.  A Sikh was mistaken for one of \"them.\"  Black people in and out of prison where held under suspicion that \"they\" might be prime breeding grounds for radical Islam.</br><br></br><br>Oh but there was none of that \"spread democracy\" stuff going on.  All the \"We are Americans\" sentiments got exposed in both Katrina and Jena.</br><br></br><br>At every opportunity to forge genuine solidarity our fellow Americans failed because of some twisted concept about the threats to their \"way of life.\"</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-29_18:02:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "3ecde559248958521e4cb25a77f2ee65", "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}, "1959035": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "White supremacists weren't responsible for 9/11. al-Qaeda was.<br></br><br>No one in the military I served in-and that's post 9/11, by the way-is planting IEDs and blowing up mosques in Iraq. Again, al- Qaeda.</br><br></br><br>If you can find me some white supremacist literature that speaks intelligently on sharia, I'll concede your point. Might be difficult, though...since white supremacy doesn't exactly jive with sharia either.</br><br></br><br>And you missed my point-which you're getting good at-about the signers. The point was that under the threat to their very existence, they came TOGETHER.</br><br></br><br>Why can't we do the same? At what point do we come together for a common cause? When do we put our differences to the side to confront an enemy that wants nothing more than to see is destroyed?</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-29_18:07:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0183bc94f5be8b9ec79636f3f2174ff5", "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}, "1959036": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "We been talking \"common cause\" for the longest but just as it's all about certain people's \"way of life\" when it comes to domestic policy, it's easy to see how the same selfish motive exists in the foreign policy.<br></br><br></br><br><i>When do we put our differences to the side to confront an enemy that wants nothing more than to see is destroyed?</i></br><br></br><br>BULLSH*T!!!   The USA has the \"most powerful military the world has ever known\", is the world's sole \"Superpower\" and a band of misfits are supposed to threaten the existence of the country?</br><br></br><br>Please....</br><br></br><br>I told you that CONSPIRACY THEORY bs gets no play here.  </br><br></br><br></br><br><i> White supremacists weren't responsible for 9/11. </i></br><br></br><br>That has nothing to do with the fact that white supremacists have a SWORN, STATED goal akin to what you speculate about Al Qaeda.  I'm saying Al Qaeda is probably no more potent than America's homegrown terrorists.</br><br></br><br>There is no army, conventional or gorilla, storming America's shores or in America's cities WITH GUNS TO OUR HEADS, Chicken Little.</br><br></br><br></br><br><i>If you can find me some white supremacist literature that speaks intelligently on sharia, I'll concede your point. </i></br><br></br><br>My point is that they have a SWORN and STATED goal much like the one you're trying to play the FEAR CARD with when it comes to Al Qaeda.  That much was obviously clear.  What doesn't \"jive\" is your Chicken Little-isms.</br><br></br><br>If you're not all worked up over homegrown terrorists the way you are Al Qaeda which, again, is not holding a gun up to your head and never  launched anything that could ever be confused with an all out assault on this country... Well, spare the Chicken Noodle, Chicken Little bs.</br><br></br><br></br><br><i>...they came TOGETHER... Why can't we do the same?</i></br><br></br><br>You're not genuine.  You know that, I know that.  </br><br></br><br>We can \"put our differences aside\" when you those long standing \"common cause\" and other issues are addressed.   Chew gum and walk.  It doesn't take a lot of coordination.</br><br></br><br>But you're not genuine.  \"Not now\" in America's forked-tongue speak has always meant not at all.</br><br></br><br>The day of the Okey Doke is over.</br><br></br><br><i>\"...planting IEDs and blowing up mosques in Iraq... al- Qaeda.</i></br><br></br><br>Even if I by your propaganda...  there is a disconnect.  IRAQ... USA.  </br><br></br><br>I know Israel gets treated as America-EAST but conflating Iraq with the US or acting like mentioning supposed Al-Qaeda activities in Iraq is relevant shows how you've lost it.</br><br></br><br>I already said it's Iraqis getting blown the f-ck up and nobody has a gun to your head, so what the hell are you talking about?</br><br></br><br>Now, before AMERICA'S RACISM started the war in Iraq any illusions of Al-Qaeda planting IED's in Iraq were just that: non-existent illusions.  \"Our\" vengeful RACISM was the cause to any effect you want to assign to Al-Qaeda--IN IRAQ.  Not the USA. In Iraq.  </br><br></br><br></br><br>The least you could do is make a coherent argument. But, again, you will have to spare me to full-frontal stank of your bs.</br><br></br><br>READING IS....</br><br></br><br><b>Get back to me when you've read up on that white supremacists literature and your knee jerk and heart rate gets all worked up over their SWORN and STATED goals.</b></br><br></br><br>FUNDAMENTAL.</br><br></br><br>Nothing said about white supremacists knowing/using sharia.  Tell me about their SWORN and STATED goals, explain why you're not trying to Chicken Little their SWORN and STATED goals or STFU!!!</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-29_18:53:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "3ecde559248958521e4cb25a77f2ee65", "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}, "1959037": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "White supremacists have said that it is the religious duty of other white supremacists to kill Americans wherever they are?<br></br><br>Has a white supremacist organization pulled an event in which 3000 people died in a single day? Before you answer that, I'm sure that you will try to equate slavery and attacks on blacks by supremacists to 9/11. The two don't exactly compare.</br><br></br><br>Can you provide any facts to back up anything you're suggesting?</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-29_19:09:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0183bc94f5be8b9ec79636f3f2174ff5", "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}, "1959038": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Re: Chris Rock's joke<br></br><br>I'm a sistah and I didn't find Chris Rock's joke offensive at all. It was what it was: A JOKE. I'm all for pointing out sexism towards black women, but sometimes I think sistahs take things too far to the point that they become paranoid. </br><br></br><br>The same thing about Craig believing Rice is a lesbian.  Can't a black man (or anyone) have an opinion about a black woman without sistahs going into sermons about the plight of the Single Strong Sistah?</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-29_19:34:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "fc32fc3b75191bb4ce88008ebc519f7a", "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}, "1959039": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>White supremacists weren't responsible for 9/11. al-Qaeda was.</i><br></br><br>That's a conspiracy theory you believe. </br><br></br><br>I do not.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-29_20:13:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9bf0971c139c9dc33659e8ed441e4f5e", "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}}, "integration": {"receiver_url": "", "theme": 4, "reply_position": true, "disqus_logo": false}, "timer": {"timer_url": "http://localhost:8005", "thread_id": "2087661", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "21630", "hash": -4694798970702821843}, "thread": {"days_alive": 0, "slug": "condoleeza_rice_conflicting_and_confusing_for_me", "paginate": false, "num_pages": 1, "num_posts": 69, "per_page": 0, "total_posts": 0, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 2087661, "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"};
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FragmentPacket.prototype.log = function(msg) {



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FragmentPacket.prototype.send = function(msg) {
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FragmentPacket.prototype._zerofill = function(num, width) {
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PostMessagePacket.prototype.send = function(msg) {



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		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=condoleeza_rice_conflicting_and_confusing_for_me' +
		'&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/condoleeza_rice_conflicting_and_confusing_for_me/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='	+ 'condoleeza_rice_conflicting_and_confusing_for_me'
			+ '&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/condoleeza_rice_conflicting_and_confusing_for_me/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">69</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/condoleeza_rice_conflicting_and_confusing_for_me/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/condoleeza_rice_conflicting_and_confusing_for_me/">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:2087661" 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/condoleeza_rice_conflicting_and_confusing_for_me/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:2087661" 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:2087661" 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'				: 'condoleeza_rice_conflicting_and_confusing_for_me',
			// 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/condoleeza_rice_conflicting_and_confusing_for_me/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='	+ 'condoleeza_rice_conflicting_and_confusing_for_me'
			+ '&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='	+ 'condoleeza_rice_conflicting_and_confusing_for_me'
			+ '&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='		+ 'condoleeza_rice_conflicting_and_confusing_for_me'
				+ '&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/2087661/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-1958973">\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1958973">Anonymous</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1958973" class="dsq-comment-message">Admit it, you have been brainwashed into thinking that all black Republicans are \'Uncle Toms.\' <br></br><br>"Condamnesia"? </br><br></br><br>\'She\'s just one big shade of gray\' only because she refuses to be see as anything other than an individual.</br><br></br><br>I\'d vote for Condi over Obama in a heartbeat.</br><br></br><br>McCain/Rice \'08?</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1958974">NMP</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1958974" class="dsq-comment-message">Girl, I had the same reaction!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1958975">Anonymous</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1958975" class="dsq-comment-message">I am far more interested in what Rice, Powell, Sowell, etc. have to say about race than Barak, Michlle and Wright.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1958976" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1958976">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1958976" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'ll reiterate:<br></br><br>I\'ve often called Secretary Rice a fraud, and then she does something like this and I pause.</br><br></br><br>Maybe she\'s considering a veep spot after all.</br><br></br><br>Imagine if the Republicans get the chance to put a Black American and a woman in yet another historical national office?</br><br></br><br>I said months ago that even despite Rice\'s many negatives, she would be McCain\'s best bet for veep against Obama or Clinton.</br><br></br><br>Obama would have to choose Samantha Power as his running mate if McCain chooses Rice.</br><br></br><br>(Just kidding.)</br><br></br><br>And I agree, I\'ve always wanted to hear what Powell had to say about race in America. For real.</br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1958977" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1958977">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1958977" class="dsq-comment-message">Actually, even though I was kidding, just the sound of Obama/Power would be, well... powerful. <br></br><br>(I\'m still kidding.)</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1958978">Anonymous</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1958978" class="dsq-comment-message">Every time this woman opens her mouth about race, she puts a foot in it. In her perfect GOP run world, race hasn\'t been an issue or what, 45 years or so now? How much longer till she is out of the public limelight with this nonsense?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1958979">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1958979" class="dsq-comment-message">Wow.<br></br><br>Rice\'s remarks in the actual interview transcript are even more comprehensive and compelling. The article left out some of the best stuff.</br><br></br><br>The interview is about all sorts of things, so you\'ll have to scroll through it to get to the race stuff.</br><br></br><br><a href="http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2008/03/102757.htm" rel="nofollow">Her Entire Interview</a></br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1958980">Anonymous</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1958980" class="dsq-comment-message">Founding Population - gotta start using it. <br>always been a bit bit dissapointed at how Dr.rice hasn\'t been applauded more by both AA and feminist for attaining such a powerful and respected position.</br><br> Of course her role in dubyas inner circle has much to do with it. Anyone out there think her statements are her first step as vp? A gop ploy to trump the dems, (Obama) on the race issue?</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1958981">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1958981" class="dsq-comment-message">Of course.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1958982">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1958982" class="dsq-comment-message">Who is this Black woman talking out of her ass on Hard Ball?<br></br><br>Anyone know who she is?</br><br></br><br>She\'s claiming a friend told her she was on that plane and that the pilot told the passengers to sit on their flak jackets.</br><br></br><br>The pilot of that plane already gave an interview and refuted that very claim.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1958983">RhondaCoca</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1958983" class="dsq-comment-message">I met Condi Rice back in 2005 at a political summit in DC. She was very compelling and was very open about discussing race and gender. She was also suprisingly nice. I always admired her despite the difference in certain political ideologies. Just because she is Republican does not mean that she does not understand race and race relations. It was not a "slip" nor has she ever been "clueless". She is a very smart women of conviction. In addition, she is from Birmingham Al, need I say more. She understands the history of this country and the country\'s present. I was last year when she was praising Obama and stated that she was proud of him and what he has been able to accomplish but she did make it clear that he was breaking down barriers for AA\'s in high offices etc but that race would still be a barrier that exists in our society.<br></br><br>I am confused and i\'m wondering if she has to be a democrat and talk about race constantly in order to gain respect from the black community. Pretty unfortunate! For example, I know a lot of democratic black politicans that I do not admire, like or think nothing off. I also know many black Republican politicans that I do not admire, like or think anything off. I look at the individual. The "shades of gray" that you speak of is the personal who is an individual. They are not clear cut nor predictable. Her racial/cultural performance is different where it is personal where as for others it is more covert. Are we able to be individuals?</br><br></br><br>P.S. I dont think that she is going to run with John McCain, she has said no! On many occasions. I dont think that she will do that as some way to show up Barack either. From what I have read, they have a great deal of respect for one another. I think that she may want to jump into Barack\'s multi-party cabinet along with Powell and redeem their legacy after being connected with our good friends George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. </br><br></br><br>::Wishingful thinking...but a smart move!!:::</br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1958984" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1958984">truthToPower</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1958984" class="dsq-comment-message">The republican party is getting ready to court the black vote. especially if Hillary gets the Nomination or something goes wrong for Obama between now and the Convention. <br></br><br>Condi\'s policies her world view her unwavering support of Bush and his war speak louder than these simple words. </br><br></br><br>I\'m sure Clarence Thomas has black folk thinking he related to them when he used the term hi tech lynching in his testimony during the Hill fiasco</br><br></br><br>This is a calculated move.</br><br></br><br>Don\'t believe the hype!</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1958985">Amused Independent</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1958985" class="dsq-comment-message">Someone thinks we matter, after all?   <br></br><br>And the reason why blacks should not look at Republicans is what, Truth?  Abused Housewife Syndrome?    Political bigotry?  Superstition?  Lack of a share of established bribes and backscratching for people like Maxine Waters or William Jefferson, who\'d have to start all over again?</br><br></br><br>More or less seriously, can blacks make a proactive difference within the Republican party, if there is a shift?  Honestly, it\'s not like certain core Republican values are alien or antithetical to the black community.  As for the rest, why couldn\'t we have the power and the numbers to update and broaden those other values?</br><br></br><br>I don\'t think either major party should have a lock on the black vote.  It\'s time to grow up.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1958986">Nquest</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1958986" class="dsq-comment-message">I think Rice has always been a proponent of affirmative action and, yes, this is not the first time she called slavery/racism America\'s birth defect.<br></br><br><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&amp;node=&amp;contentId=A54664-2001Sep6" rel="nofollow"><b>Lessons of Might and Right</b></a></br><br>How Segregation and an Indomitable Family Shaped National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice</br><br></br><br></br><br>(Damn, I can\'t believe that was 7 years ago.)</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1958987">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1958987" class="dsq-comment-message">I believe my conflict with Rice stems from the deep respect for what I consider to be her pure, raw intellect. I honestly believe, if she\'s in a room with 100 people, there are, TOPS, two people in the room that MIGHT be smarter than her. It\'s simply not easy to be Black, Brilliant and a woman in this country, my natural empathy for her stems from that.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1958988">Nita</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1958988" class="dsq-comment-message">Dr. Rice doesn\'t confuse me.  I just wished she used her considerable intellect for good and not evil.  She\'s Sheila Lee-Jackson... except she holds more cards in her Bush relationship than Lee-Jackson does in that Clinton relationship; and I\'d put more money down on Rice in a fight between her and Lee-Jackson.<br></br><br>I knew everything I needed to know about Dr. Rice\' place in the Bush inner circle when I heard she had referred to Bush as her \'husband\'; and then it was cemented in a unexpected direction when I saw a copy of the \'am I allowed to pee now?\' note passed to Dr. Rice by Bush at the UN meeting where General Powell was forced to tell lies (misspeakings?) about Iraq.</br><br></br><br>Dr. Rice just chooses to take her understanding of what\'s happening in America in a different direction than the Democratic party one.  Again, I wish she used her intellect for the forces of good instead of Halliburton.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1958989">That Girl</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1958989" class="dsq-comment-message">Condi probably just got back from a visit with her cousin Constance (you know, the lefty one) before giving this interview.  Gotta love that about family--sometimes they make you see the ignorance of your own ways.<br></br><br>B</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1958990">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1958990" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>Who is this Black woman talking out of her ass on Hard Ball?<br></br><br>Anyone know who she is?</br><br></br><br>She\'s claiming a friend told her she was on that plane and that the pilot told the passengers to sit on their flak jackets.</br><br></br></i><br></br><br>She\'s a writer...and a Clinton shill.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1958991">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1958991" class="dsq-comment-message">Thanks, rikyrah.<br></br><br>Chris Matthews smacked her hard in her "credentials" when he told her to present a source from the blogosphere where she claimed Obama\'s top advisors are anti-Israel and anti-Jewish. </br><br></br><br>When I finally realized she was representing BET on the show (coincidence she shows up for the first time after the former owner of that network signs on to a thug letter to Speaker Pelosi?), I understood all:</br><br></br><br>Liars defend liars.</br><br></br><br>Hillary Rodham Nixon will stop at <i>nothing.</i></br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1958992">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1958992" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>I knew everything I needed to know about Dr. Rice\' place in the Bush inner circle when I heard she had referred to Bush as her \'husband\'</i><br></br><br>Yeah, and to be honest, this is one of the most underreported political stories in the past few years. </br><br></br><br>What I am about to say will seem sexist, backwards, and some will want to kick me out of the Sisterhood.</br><br></br><br>****************************</br><br></br><br>Dr. Rice needs to begin seriously thinking about Dr. Rice.Whatever the hell her relationship is with Shrub, she needs to wind that mess down and start thinking about herself. </br><br></br><br>She is, IMO, an attractive prospect for a Trophy Wife, and not in the bimbo, 20 year old version...but, for a man of a certain age, who has grown children, and wants to be part of a \'Power Couple\'. She has enough of a profile to offer a great deal in a \'Power Couple\' relationship. There\'s gotta be a rich guy out there for her; no conflict about children between them...she\'d be a great second wife for some tycoon.  </br><br></br><br>There, I said it.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1958993">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1958993" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>Chris Matthews smacked her hard in her "credentials" when he told her to present a source from the blogosphere where she claimed Obama\'s top advisors are anti-Israel and anti-Jewish. <br></br><br>When I finally realized she was representing BET on the show (coincidence she shows up for the first time after the former owner of that network signs on to a thug letter to Speaker Pelosi?), I understood all:</br><br></br><br>Liars defend liars.</br><br></br></i><br></br><br>Craig,</br><br></br><br>I was so proud of Tweety, not letting her just drop that \' Obama has problems with the Jews\' BS out of the sky like it was gospel, and the best her ass could do, when called upon for a REFERENCE,  was The New York Post, and she realized how idiotic that sounded, so then she tried to say it was the Daily News. </br><br></br><br>Like I said, a Handkerchief Head for Hillary.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1958994">dnA</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1958994" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'d like to point out that Condi\'s position deals with foreign policy, and it\'s entirely possible that she is a liberal on domestic issues. <br></br><br>I don\'t like the job she\'s done, but I think there are alot of assumptions made about her politics, when the truth is we don\'t know where she stands on much. And she has spoken positively about Obama in the past.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1958995">Nquest</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1958995" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>I don\'t think either major party should have a lock on the black vote. It\'s time to grow up.</i><br></br><br>Sounds like a great speech to give to the Republican party which Black people some 50 years ago, or thereabout, used to vote for en masse.</br><br></br><br>Just like them governments Rev. Wright talked about... it\'s obvious it\'s the party that changed. And, really, looking at all this BarackHUSSEINObama stuff...  Yeah, Republicans really have a lot of growing up to do.  And we can give a choice middle finger to quite a few democrats too.</br><br></br><br>Also, until you can explain why even Black Republicans, including Lynn Swann, admit the Republican party hardly supports Black Republican candidates...  Well, until then, you\'d do best to keep quiet while grown folks are talking.</br><br></br><br>No one is confused about the Republican (or the Democratic) party.  But it\'s obvious that it\'s the Dem party, out of both of the flawed parties, that has a Black man running for president and has at least attempt to embrace some of the issues Black folks deemed important instead of the other way around.</br><br></br><br>Think about that for a moment.  Then get back to me once the history everybody should know... has a consequence and impact on your rhetoric.</br><br></br><br>Again, some 50 years ago or so, there were a lot of Black Republicans.  Ask NBRA.</br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1958996" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1958996">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1958996" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>She is, IMO, an attractive prospect for a Trophy Wife, and not in the bimbo, 20 year old version...but, for a man of a certain age, who has grown children, and wants to be part of a \'Power Couple\'. She has enough of a profile to offer a great deal in a \'Power Couple\' relationship. There\'s gotta be a rich guy out there for her; no conflict about children between them...she\'d be a great second wife for some tycoon.</i><br></br><br>It is my belief that she\'s lesbian.</br><br></br><br>There. I said it.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1958997">Anonymous</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1958997" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'ve never thought Condi was stupid or an Uncle Tom.  She\'s may be an opportunist.  <br></br><br>All I know is that she is a complex women who defies labels.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1958998">Anonymous</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1958998" class="dsq-comment-message">Wow.<br></br><br>Y\'all need to read the whole transcript.</br><br></br><br>How can she have these thoughts and roll with the cats she rolls with?</br><br></br><br>That is very strange.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1958999">Anonymous</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1958999" class="dsq-comment-message">It is my belief that she\'s a complex lesbian.<br></br><br>There. I said that.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1959000">Nadra</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1959000" class="dsq-comment-message">Craig, you think she\'s a lesbian? Where are you getting that from? I don\'t get that vibe from her at all, plus, many read the "husband" comment as a Freudian slip that revealed her feelings for Dubya. I don\'t know if I agree with that, but it was out there. Ultimately, I believe her singledom boils down to the difficulty of being black, brilliant and female, as Rikyrah said.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1959001">Webb</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1959001" class="dsq-comment-message">Condoleeza Rice and Colin Powell are great Americans who were loyal to their masters...Reagan, Bush 41 and Bush 43, yet in key moments stood up for affirmative action...I don\'t fault them for being republicans...<br></br><br>Why? Because I\'m a real intellectual...someone who  is open to considering ideas outside of the mainstream.  I can listen to contrary opinions and neither be offended nor threatened.  </br><br></br><br>People who fear dissent and open debate (the same close-minded people who talk more than listen) should not refer to themselves as intellectuals...if you can not defend your ideas, then you\'re weak.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1959002">RhondaCoca</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1959002" class="dsq-comment-message">"I\'d like to point out that Condi\'s position deals with foreign policy, and it\'s entirely possible that she is a liberal on domestic issues. <br></br><br>I don\'t like the job she\'s done, but I think there are alot of assumptions made about her politics, when the truth is we don\'t know where she stands on much. And she has spoken positively about Obama in the past."</br><br></br><br>Thats much of my take on it too. </br><br></br><br></br><br>P.S. According to stats, 70% of black women in America are single so I guess we all are lesbians...not! Being an intelligent and strong black women means you often cannot find an equal. </br><br></br><br>There is a joke by Chris Rock that I did not find funny about Michelle Obama. He claimed that "a black women can\'t be a first lady", pretty much he was trying to say that black women are too domineering. I think too many brothers think like that. There\'s a difference between being domineering and having strength.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1959003">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1959003" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>Craig, you think she\'s a lesbian? Where are you getting that from? I don\'t get that vibe from her at all, plus, many read the "husband" comment as a Freudian slip that revealed her feelings for Dubya. I don\'t know if I agree with that, but it was out there. Ultimately, I believe her singledom boils down to the difficulty of being black, brilliant and female, as Rikyrah said.<br></br><br></br></i><br></br><br>Nadra,</br><br></br><br>That\'s how I see it too. I don\'t think she\'s a lesbian. I just think she\'s Black, Brilliant and  a Woman, and in America, oh, how that can consign you to a single status, because nobody knows what to do with you - man wise.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1959004">Anonymous</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1959004" class="dsq-comment-message">Since "the speech", people have been talking about race. And a re-occuring theme is that we don\'t talk about race because it makes us uncomfortable.  I don\'t think that is the complete answer - I think the real reason is because we don\'t see the problem the same way.  It\'s difficult to discuss a problem if you are looking at apples and I am looking at oranges.  <br></br><br>Every white person I know can look at film footage of Bull Connor with water hoses & attack dogs and say - that\'s a racist... I\'m not like that; therefore see, obviously, I\'m not a racist.  Every white person I know can hear some neo-Nazi spout hate speech and say - that\'s a racist.... I don\'t think like that; therefore, obviously, I\'m not a racist.  Now add to this, hip-hop artist or some black comedians who use the N-word as part of their stand up routine.  Every white person I know hears that and says sure, maybe sometimes I may giggle at some jokes but I would NEVER use the N-word; therefore see, I\'m not a racist.  </br><br></br><br>So this is the confusion - what is racism?  </br><br></br><br>In 1980 (yes, that was some years ago - but this accurately demonstrates the problem we see today), I was moving to a new city (very nice suburb outside of Kansas City).  Two white 40+ women were my real estate agent.  As we were driving through a subdivision, we spotted a black guy jogging along the sidewalk.  There aren\'t many blacks that live in this town today - there really weren\'t many black family 28 years ago.  One of the women says, "Oh, that must be a Chief player".  My reaction was, "No way, the guys about 5\'5" tall, weighs about 145 pounds".  And I was getting ready to add, "and he\'s not even very coordinated - no way is he a profession athlete".  However, before I could say that, the other woman says, "Then he must be a Royals player".  Right There - BAM!  This is the problem with race & racism in this country now.  These women had zero idea that what they thought was in any wrong, racist, dumb.  This wasn\'t, "Oh my, a black man has moved into the neighborhood, hide your daughter".  To these women, they were expressing another perk as to why I should buy a house in this neighborhood - as in, we have wonderful schools, great parks, and look - how cool is this, a Chief player lives down the street - they meant it as a compliment. </br><br></br><br>Unfortunately, it NEVER occurred to  these women that a black guy could have amassed enough wealth to live in this part of town without being a pro athlete.  The guy jogging was probably an accountant or an dentist or own a sheet rock company.  </br><br></br><br>So how do you educate people who THINK they are saying something complimentary that they may be saying something racist?</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1959005">Nichelle</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1959005" class="dsq-comment-message"><b>All I know is that she is a complex women who defies labels.</b><br></br><br>That is exactly what I believe about Condoleezza Rice. And this WT article is hardly the first time I have heard Secretary Rice talk about race in a frank manner. I do not agree with her on many things, but I do admire her and have a great deal of respect for her.  It\'s the Black Brilliant Woman thing.</br><br></br><br></br><br><b>That\'s how I see it too. I don\'t think she\'s a lesbian. I just think she\'s Black, Brilliant and a Woman, and in America, oh, how that can consign you to a single status, because nobody knows what to do with you - man wise.</b></br><br></br><br>I agree with this too.  I think a white Condi Rice would be married.</br><br></br><br>Also, speaking of the mutual respect between the Secretary and our favorite Senator and Brother President-to-be, it should be noted that he voted YES to her confirmation as Secretary of State to great criticism by many Democrats.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1959006">Anonymous</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1959006" class="dsq-comment-message">anon @ 9;43,<br></br><br>I think that the women you describe were not racist. Racism is hatred toward another person because of one\'s race.</br><br></br><br>They were making ignorant assumptions based on race, but without malice.</br><br></br><br>People make ignorant assumptions about one another all the time, \'dumb blondes,\' \'stupid jocks,\' \'women drivers,\' \'Condi Rice is a lesbian ,\' etc. </br><br></br><br>So what.</br><br></br><br>The words of others should not define you.</br><br></br><br>I was always taught, "No one can make you feel inferior without your permission."</br><br></br><br>Racism begins and ends with individuals and their actions. One person at a time, thinking and questioning whether their judgment  about an individual is based on the character of the individual or on some external factor. </br><br></br><br>Unfortunately, this type of self-examination and self-discipline requires effort. It is not for the intellectually lazy.</br><br></br><br>The women you describe are more to be pitied for their ignorance than chastised for racism.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1959007">Nquest</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1959007" class="dsq-comment-message">One thing to consider, Anon, when it comes to your Apples vs. Oranges analogy, first, you didn\'t specify what the Oranges were compared to the Apples you talked about in terms of what Whites recognize as racism.  And that\'s the problem:  your very illustration about one form of "racism" (the ignorant racial/racist assumptions Black=athlete) highlights how it\'s not an Apples vs. Oranges problem, per se, but it\'s a problem of DENIAL and who gets to define what racism is, what forms it takes, how fluid the term is and whether its something that\'s frozen in time or in set modes that never change or adapt or if it\'s all about Whites having a conveniently say, "that\'s not me; I\'m not racist."<br></br><br>The problem with what you said is that this very speech on race was occasioned by White folks not pointing to anything like "waterhoses & attack dogs" and, indeed, nothing demonstrably like "neo Nazi hate speech" yet plenty of [white] people saw fit to denounce Rev. Wright\'s statements as "bigoted", "racist" or otherwise derogatory about White people along with the equally incredulous and questionable charges of Wright being anti-American.</br><br></br><br>That, too, is about DENIAL and who holds THE POWER OF DEFINITION.</br><br></br><br>When it came to Imus (whose name has come up in attempts to show Obama\'s hypocrisy on the Wright issue) there was DENIAL as there is routinely.  Routinely.  So that means there is no confusion about what racism is but, instead, an on-going debate driven by Whites who want to limit the definition of racism so they can continue to say, "I\'m not racist."</br><br></br><br>Someone who will never see jail time is still a criminal when they commit a petty crime no matter how murders and other violent offenders hold sway in the popular imagination as the "real criminals."  </br><br></br><br>I say that to make the point that racism is a term like crime: there a number of different was to commit said act.</br><br></br><br>Now here\'s an example of a statement that makes the Apples vs. Oranges, "we aren\'t talking about the same things" point you attempted to make:</br><br></br><br><b>"If you\'re looking to understand why discussions between blacks and whites about racism are often so difficult in this country, you need only know this: when the subject is race and racism, whites and blacks are often not talking about the same thing. To white folks, racism is seen mostly as individual and interpersonal--as with the uttering of a prejudicial remark or bigoted slur. For blacks, it is that too, but typically more: namely, it is the pattern and practice of policies and social institutions, which have the effect of perpetuating deeply embedded structural inequalities between people on the basis of race. To blacks, and most folks of color, racism is systemic. To whites, it is purely personal."</b> </br><br><a href="http://www.lipmagazine.org/~timwise/raynagin.html" rel="nofollow">Tim Wise</a></br><br></br><br>The problem with real estate agents making "ignorant" racial assumptions has been well-documented and, indeed, a noted part of the systematic kind of racism Blacks, e.g., have faced.</br><br></br><br>BTW, they didn\'t identify a 5\'5 white guy and just assume they were complimenting him/you by making, by all appearances, a hugely ridiculous and obviously race-based assumption that he was a pro-athlete... hmmmm... and being real estate agents, it\'s hard to imagine that they never sold a house to someone Black who wasn\'t a pro athlete.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1959008">PosB</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1959008" class="dsq-comment-message">That\'s how I see it too. I don\'t think she\'s a lesbian. I just think she\'s Black, Brilliant and a Woman, and in America, oh, how that can consign you to a single status, because nobody knows what to do with you - man wise.<br></br><br></br><br>This is so on point...</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1959009">PearlGirl</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1959009" class="dsq-comment-message">Saying that Condi is a Lesbian is a compliment. Not sure if it\'s true about her, and if it is, she will probably not say so, given rampant global homophobia. But please remember, being a Lesbian is a wonderful, honorable choice, and I hope we don\'t see any dissing of Lesbians and Gays and etc. here. That kind of attitude would be a total disconnect with progressive politics.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1959010">D.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1959010" class="dsq-comment-message">I think Dr. Rice is a good example of what "post-racialism" really should be: an acknowledgement that historically, America has exhibited racism towards everyone (blacks, whites, and everyone in between)-but an unwillingness to dwell on racism, or look for it in every percieved slight.<br></br><br>It\'s a little interesting to see a defense (or maybe an appreciation) for Dr. Rice here, when I\'d almost be willing to guess that most readers here spent the last, oh, 4-6 years throwing her under the bus for NOT addressing race in America.</br><br></br><br>McCain/Rice (or McCain/anyone black) won\'t work now. Blacks would see it as an attempt to negate Obama\'s appeal as a black man (which, being honest, is the only reason why some-BUT NOT MOST!!-blacks are voting for him), and would view the person as an Uncle Tom. And I think we all know why that wouldn\'t fly with the ultraconservative base of the Republican Party.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1959011">Nquest</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1959011" class="dsq-comment-message">Whose pushing this "post-racial" idea?<br></br><br>Most Black folks say to hell with superficial, issue avoiding "colorblindness."</br><br></br><br>And the every perceived slight... Well that\'s draws one of my signature STFU when White folks, particularly those who would otherwise feign allegiance or preference to "post-racialism" are all uptight over Rev. Wright.</br><br></br><br>Simply, spare me the bs until you can show me how Rice\'s "post-racialism" has an impact on the racial/racism front.  It\'s as if you missed the critiques... the utter irony of Rice talking about America\'s "birth defect" while she and Powell served in an administration and belong to a party that has brain/moral defects when it comes to race.</br><br></br><br>Both Powell and Rice served while the Bush Administration filed a brief in the Michigan affirmative action case... completely against their own views on affirmative action.</br><br></br><br>When something like that occurs against the backdrop of all kinds of people who left the Bush Administrations over differences of opinions...  Well, that would be Rice throwing herself under the bus.</br><br></br><br>Apparently, her "unwillingness to dwell on racism" made for her not taking a strong stand on the AA issue or doing something... enough to discourage the Administration she serves from entering the fray when there was no reason for Bush it.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1959012">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1959012" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>70% of black women in America are single so I guess we all are lesbians...</i><br></br><br>My opinion about Rice has nothing whatsoever to do with this statistic.</br><br></br><br>It\'s my opinion. That\'s all. And it\'s based on a gut feeling. That\'s all.</br><br></br><br>And a woman can be a Brilliant Black Woman and be lesbian. It\'s not an insult to suggest as much unless, of course, homophobia is at play.</br><br></br><br>I\'m not going to argue about it because it\'s a silly argument to have. None of us <i>know</i>, we\'re simply speculating.</br><br></br><br>Rikyrah said something she thought was daring about her love life, and I responded with my own dare. </br><br></br><br>We can probably lighten up and simply agree that she\'s a Brilliant Black Woman no matter whom she loves.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1959013">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1959013" class="dsq-comment-message">As for "post-racial", that\'s got to be the stupidest thing I\'ve ever heard in my adult life.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1959014">Acanthus</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1959014" class="dsq-comment-message">"More or less seriously, can blacks make a proactive difference within the Republican party, if there is a shift? Honestly, it\'s not like certain core Republican values are alien or antithetical to the black community. As for the rest, why couldn\'t we have the power and the numbers to update and broaden those other values"?<br></br><br>No, we can\'t. We don\'t have the numbers and the power to update those other "values". The only thing it will result in is us willingly cosigning policies that are designed to hurt us.</br><br></br><br>As for blacks sharing "core Republican values"...really? I think you, like many other people, have bought into the conservatives\' redefinition of basically living a decent life as being exclusively "conservative". It\'s not, and never has been.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1959015">RhondaCoca</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1959015" class="dsq-comment-message">Sorry for offending you Craig but thats not what I was trying to say. Please dont take me out of context.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1959016">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1959016" class="dsq-comment-message">Rhondacoca, I wasn\'t offended at all. I\'m not the offending kind. And my last response was to a few different comments, not just yours.<br></br><br>It\'s all good.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1959017">D.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1959017" class="dsq-comment-message">Here\'s the whole point of my thought on post-racialism:<br></br><br>The racial divide-as recently highlighted by Wright\'s comments-has become THE dominant issue of late. Meanwhile, our economy is falling apart, and-let\'s not forget-there\'s still a group of people who are sworn to kill us. And what we are missing in our latest discussion of race is that those people who want us destroyed don\'t see race, they just see "American."</br><br></br><br>We-and that\'s inclusive of everyone in this country-need to find a way to collectively get over the past and come together. Because if we can\'t, we\'ll damn sure die that way.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1959018">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1959018" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>And what we are missing in our latest discussion of race is that those people who want us destroyed don\'t see race, they just see "American."</i><br></br><br>I think you\'re making an assumption. How do you know they don\'t see race when they see American? Or let me ask it another way. How do you know that those who want to destroy us don\'t see white supremacist/imperialist America when they see America?</br><br></br><br>Post-racialism is a farce of the worst kind. It suggests that we\'ve healed our racial wounds as a nation and moved beyond them and therefore we don\'t have to confront it anymore.</br><br></br><br>I wish James Baldwin were still alive. I\'d love to read his essays about this election cycle.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1959019">D.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1959019" class="dsq-comment-message">Because they see America as an example of freedom and democracy, which are incompatible with their view of Islam and sharia law. <br></br><br>I would invite you to read the treatise "Democracy and Sharia" by one of al-Qaeda\'s founders (Zawhari, I believe).</br><br></br><br>A good example of a post-racial society was America immediately after 9/11. We put everything aside to be Americans. Black America wasn\'t attacked, white America wasn\'t attacked; ALL of America was attacked. And in the months after 9/11, we lived up to our pledge; we were one nation, under God, indivisible.</br><br></br><br>Have the wounds of racism healed? No. Will they ever? Probably not. But is it worth the destruction of our way of life to keep holding them open?</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1959020" class="dsq-comment-message">"A good example of a post-racial society was America immediately after 9/11. We put everything aside to be Americans. Black America wasn\'t attacked, white America wasn\'t attacked; ALL of America was attacked. And in the months after 9/11, we lived up to our pledge; we were one nation, under God, indivisible".<br></br><br>Was that really the case? I, and most of the other black people I know, were more saddened than angered by 9/11. I got the distinct impression that most of us viewed 9/11 the way most of the rest of the world did- with profound sympathy, but not as if it actually happened to us, or (especially) as if it was directed toward us.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1959021">Plantsmantx</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1959021" class="dsq-comment-message">"Have the wounds of racism healed? No. Will they ever? Probably not. But is it worth the destruction of our way of life to keep holding them open"?<br></br><br>We\'re not much more than ten percent of the population of this country. Do you really believe that our participation or lack thereof in the "War on Terror" will make a difference as to whether or not it\'s won or lost? </br><br></br><br>For most conservatives, both white AND black, "healing the wounds of racism" is code for "you blacks need to shut the hell up, stop complaining, do what we say, and think what we want you to think". In this specific case, I\'m hearing "Blacks need to shut the hell up.... or else it\'ll be your fault if the terrorists win".</br><br></br><br>Nope, sorry.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1959022">D.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1959022" class="dsq-comment-message">Then you\'ve missed my point, as I think most people are.<br></br><br>This isn\'t just a black problem. Earlier I said that EVERYONE needs to come together on this one. It will be the NATION\'S loss if we fail because we can\'t unite.</br><br></br><br>I think that black people don\'t always see how the War on Terror affects them....because, like you said, some of us don\'t feel like 9/11 happened TO us.</br><br></br><br>The truth is that 9/11 was another act in a jihad not limited to white America, but against ALL of America. Under sharia, you have three options: convert, pay for second class citizenship, or die. There are no exceptions-racial or otherwise. </br><br></br><br>We as blacks have gotten bogged down in Iraq, and have lost sight of the larger objectives in the War on Terror. That is OUR fault.</br><br></br><br>But the racial piece isn\'t just limited to blacks.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1959023">Nquest</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1959023" class="dsq-comment-message">D,<br></br><br>If the best you can do is try to use some other "boogie man" as a way to "unite" us vs. JUSTICE then it\'s clear that you intend on continuing the racist status quo.</br><br></br><br>If anything, the idea that there are people threatening the country we all share should engender some genuine, heart-felt reflection on just how foolish DENIAL OF JUSTICE for Black people, e.g., is when you\'re going to turn around and try to appeal to those same people for solidarity.</br><br></br><br>Let me be clear... You got the wrong guy to think that American stuff is going to do the trick.  There\'s not a damn thing magic in the word to me.  And to even begin to try to raise the spectre of the failing economy when this country, its government and, yes, it\'s people via WHITE MAJORITY RULE have resisted investing in all her people...   You\'re crying to the wrong guy, trying to pull at heartstrings I don\'t have.</br><br></br><br>Your thoughts aren\'t post-racial.  They\'re are racially blind to the fact that America never gave a f-ck about economic prospects or solidarity with Black people when White folks "way of life" weren\'t threatened from without.  Instead, America treated the notions of solidarity with her Black citizens on issues of concern to her Black citizens up to and including crisis level economic concerns in the Black community as a threat to White folks "way of life" from within.</br><br></br><br>Don\'t insult my/Black folks intelligence by trying to feign friendship when America has always treated us as enemies.</br><br></br><br>It\'s White America who has to prove her loyalty and the first place to start is on the racial equality front.  </br><br></br><br>"Our" economy is not the way America sees it in times of White comfort.  And, truth be told, America doesn\'t see it as "our" economy now.  The decades long debate over affirmative action always featured the white poor as the trump card... the excuse for why nothing "special" could be done for Black folks even as Dr. King noted how something "special was done against us."</br><br></br><br>No, Lone Ranger, don\'t come to Tonto talking about "coming together" now.  What the hell you\'re talking about "WE" for, America, when you\'ve had what Obama noted as an EMPATHY DEFICIT for things going on NOW, not in the past... NOW.  </br><br></br><br>And that\'s just it.  Folks have been making the WE and OUR argument til they were blue in the face but it takes economic collapse and external forces for White America to acknowledge in any serious way that they aren\'t the only people in America, however disingenuous and fear-induced the oft repeated pleas are.</br><br></br><br>Oh, no...  There will be no post-memory America.  We\'ve seen this go down too many times.  Black people have fought in all of America\'s wars only to have to come back to post-war America to have another war to fight.</br><br></br><br>No, you got the wrong guy.  I don\'t do bs.  </br><br></br><br>And speaking of bs...  Funny how everything Rev. Wright said in the soundbites are supposed to be dismissed because of the AIDS conspiracy yet scared azz mf\'s can concoct some ridiculous notion that there\'s some "boogie man" out to "destroy" us when its America\'s disease of racism, capitalism and just plain selfish azz ruling White elites who don\'t give a damn about country.  </br><br></br><br>And, really, the last thing anyone should ever do is try to decry (racial) tribalism by invoking even more nationalistic tribalism.</br><br></br><br>I got a serious problem with the idea that America can put a number of Americans who have lost their lives in Iraq but has no respect for the humanity of Iraqis to even attempt to report on the numbers of INNOCENT Iraqis who have lost their lives.</br><br></br><br>Then people have the nerve to get upset when Rev. Wright preaches TRUTH regarding how "violence begets violence" and how the KILLING OF INNOCENTS ought to be damned.  Anyone without the humanity to acknowledge how other people lives other than they\'re own are being/have been destroyed doesn\'t deserve anyone\'s solidarity.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1959024" class="dsq-comment-message">D,<br></br><br>Keep your CONSPIRACY THEORY propaganda to yourself.</br><br></br><br>You don\'t know a damn thing about Sharia...  And that Chicken Little bs don\'t fly.  </br><br></br><br>You act like we\'re in a cold war with an army remotely comparable to our own.  You insult your own intelligence pedaling that bs.</br><br></br><br>It\'s America\'s own racism and her capitalistic/imperialistic chickens coming how to roost in her own implosion.</br><br></br><br>We don\'t need an Al Qaeda except for a convenient scapegoat.  America\'s own misdeeds are doing her in.  America chose to be weak by trying to maintain White Supremacy. </br><br></br><br>None of that is our fault.  And all the Americanism in the world can\'t make Al Qaeda, blowback we help create, into the ominous "boogie man" you\'re trying to make them/radical Islam out to be.</br><br></br><br>Israel is in the Middle East in a virtual sea of radical Islamist, yet, Israel still exists and the USA too.  We can readily note how suicide bombings aren\'t happening here on a regular basis.</br><br></br><br>Stupid ass CONSPIRACY THEORY and shameless fear-mongering...  You can\'t scare people into solidarity and your unfounded paranoia isn\'t shared.</br><br></br><br>Stop PROJECTING America\'s intentions...</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1959025">Anonymous</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1959025" class="dsq-comment-message">Truthpower, I was reading your comments and I was thinking "Thank God somebody understands". This defiantly a political move. She was telling the truth, and I do agree with what she said, but I wonder where its coming from. I hate to type  it, but she is like Mariah Carry. Black when it\'s convent.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1959026">D.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1959026" class="dsq-comment-message">There is no "boogie man." the killing of Americans and the destruction of our society is the SWORN, STATED policy of al-Qaeda.<br></br><br>I haven\'t suggested that there shouldn\'t be a discussion on racism in this country. What I\'ve suggested is that we shouldn\'t attempt to have the discussion with a gun being held to our head.</br><br></br><br>What I know of al-Qaeda\'s interpretation of sharia comes from THEIR own words. I\'ve tried to study why they think what they do, so if you\'ve got something to add, I welcome it.</br><br></br><br>My argument is this: in this hour, against this enemy, there should be no "us" and "them," because that\'s not how the enemy sees us. We are Americans. Hyphenate it as you will, but "American" will always be the last word. And the sooner that mentality spreads, the sooner we will preserve our way of life.</br><br></br><br>In the Declaration, the signers pledged their "lives, fortunes, and sacred honor" to the cause of freedom. What\'s important in that pledge is not WHAT they pledged, but HOW they pledged it: "mutually." We\'d do well to heed that pledge.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1959027">Anonymous</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1959027" class="dsq-comment-message">"I don\'t think either major party should have a lock on the black vote. It\'s time to grow up". I agree with this comment and the nquest. Democrats have taken Blacks for granted and Republications  act like they don\'t want us. Blacks need to make both major political parties for  their VOTE.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1959028">Anonymous</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1959028" class="dsq-comment-message">Let me get this right.<br></br><br>An intelligent black woman who is single, independent and accomplished but doesn\'t necessarily follow the social and political tenets set forth by the cabal that is middle class Black America has to be a lesbian.</br><br></br><br>I must have missed that meeting.  Would someone please forward me the minutes?</br><br></br><br>Thanks.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1959029">Plantsmantx</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1959029" class="dsq-comment-message">"Democrats have taken Blacks for granted and Republications act like they don\'t want us. Blacks need to make both major political parties for their VOTE".<br></br><br>So...do we draw straws to determine who among us will vote for the party of...caging black votes and weakening civil rights laws?</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1959030">Nquest</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1959030" class="dsq-comment-message">Al Qaeda is little more than those non-existent WMD\'s in Iraq.  Or better yet, a more apt comparison are the domestic terrorists of that Tim McVeigh strain.  They have SWORN, STATED goals too.<br></br><br>Now get the f-ck out of her with that Chicken Little bs.</br><br></br><br><i>What I\'ve suggested is that we shouldn\'t attempt to have the discussion with a gun being held to our head.</i></br><br></br><br>You\'re not duckin\' any bullets and there\'s no gun to your head.  It\'s the Iraqis getting blown and shot the f-ck up as a result of US TERRORISM.  The state sponsored kind.</br><br></br><br></br><br><i>What I know of al-Qaeda\'s interpretation of sharia comes from THEIR own words. I\'ve tried to study why...</i></br><br></br><br>Well, let me find some White militia, white supremacist literature for you, D.  I\'m sure you can imagine a gun to your head attached to a neo-white sheet.  You imagination is active like that.</br><br></br><br></br><br><i>We are Americans. Hyphenate it as you will, but "American" will always be the last word. And the sooner that mentality spreads, the sooner we will preserve our way of life.</i></br><br></br><br>You must be joking...  You don\'t mean "WE" you mean YOU.  There is no solidarity in struggles abroad without JUSTICE on the homefront.</br><br></br><br>That "We are Americans" dog won\'t hunt.  This very Rev. Wright ordeal has revealed what and who people see as "Americans."</br><br></br><br>Ask Bush what "skin color" that is and then try to tell me "WE are Americans."  My allergies are good.  I\'m having no problems.  I smell the strong aroma of bs.</br><br></br><br></br><br>And speaking of the strong stank of bs...  "THE SIGNERS"   Dude, know your audience.  It\'s as if you missed the lead in about America\'s BIRTH DEFECT.  "Mutually" my azz.</br><br></br><br>The last people you can invoke are those mf\'s White America has neither disowned or denounced.</br><br></br><br>You got the wrong guy to try to pitch that bs.  "The signers"...  I got a sign all right but I don\'t think you\'d like the picture.</br><br></br><br>The age of the Okey Doke is over, D.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1959031">Nquest</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1959031" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>My argument is this: in this hour, against this enemy...</i><br></br><br>D, we have seen the enemy and the enemy is....</br><br></br><br></br><br>Get a freakin\' clue... IN THIS HOUR!!</br><br></br><br></br><br>Get back to me when you\'ve read up on that white supremacists literature and your knee jerk and heart rate gets all worked up over their SWORN and STATED goals.</br><br></br><br></br><br>And note...  Black folks have lived through TERRORISM.  That\'s part of the "past" you don\'t want us to bring up IN THIS HOUR.  My point is:  you can\'t scare us with the prospect of terrorism and Chicken Little-isms about our "way of life."</br><br></br><br>I know I\'m not looking for any tall buildings to jump off because I just can\'t take it.   You got to have better tactics that your projected fears.  Didn\'t you learn anything from Obama\'s speech?</br><br></br><br>Things play out differently in the Black community.  Part of that is because of the LACK OF "WE" that existed before THIS HOUR.... were there is no army storming America\'s coasts/beaches.</br><br></br><br>TRY AGAIN!!!</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1959032">Nquest</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1959032" class="dsq-comment-message">(correction)<br></br><br>... before (and during) THIS HOUR where there is no army storming America\'s coasts/beaches.</br><br></br><br></br><br>And there is NOTHING about THIS HOUR that says "we" can\'t or shouldn\'t reconcile "racial issues."  Again, if anything, White America ought to get religion instead of just getting paranoid, scared and anxious.</br><br></br><br>Yeah, Obama talks about the things "WE" have in common but that sh*t ain\'t connecting the way it should especially when people like you like to say "We are Americans" as if you\'re making some point.</br><br></br><br>Yeah, we are Americans and that means, by definition, that you don\'t set the terms for all of us.  You want some comforting solidarity on the War on Terrorism... then you know what you have to do.</br><br></br><br>I\'m one of them coordinated Black folk.  I can chew gum and walk straight at the same time.  What\'s your problem?</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1959033">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1959033" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>We put everything aside to be Americans. Black America wasn\'t attacked, white America wasn\'t attacked; ALL of America was attacked. And in the months after 9/11, we lived up to our pledge; we were one nation, under God, indivisible.</i><br></br><br>I call ish.</br><br></br><br>I wasn\'t one of those Americans who actually felt as though someone outside of us attacked us. My deep beliefs about 9/11 would cause some to label me insane at best and unpatriotic at worst.</br><br></br><br>Our chickens did <i>not</i> come home to roost. They never went anywhere to begin with.</br><br></br><br>But despite my radical thought about 9/11, there was no one nation, under God, indivisible.</br><br>Americans got meaner after 9/11, more paranoid.</br><br></br><br>The mixed neighborhood I lived in in  the southwest of Boston changed. No more volleyball games on Sundays one block over where kids and grown folk enjoyed themselves after supper. No more pop calls by the women who lived across the street or behind us. No more Saturday potlucks at rotating houses. No more impromptu gatherings on neighbors\' front porches to talk about music, gossip about relatives, ctiticize the homeowners who were keeping up their properties.</br><br></br><br>It\'s as though everyone in the neighborhood locked their doors, closed their drapes, and turned into Greta Garbo.</br><br></br><br>In October 2002, fed up with the closing of our American neighborhood, we moved.</br><br></br><br>The woman who bought our house became a friend. She tell us that things haven\'t changed. Tells us that it doesn\'t fell like a neighborhood at all. Tells us that people are still mean and paranoid and un-neighborly.</br><br></br><br>Now there\'s a statesman appealing to our hopes instead of our fears, telling us that we can actually stop being so afraid, a statesman who believes that we can actually come together to solve our nation\'s biggest problems, a statesman who is transforming the disillusioned into the activist.</br><br></br><br>And all the while, he hasn\'t tried to sugarcoat the realities of our lives. But has reinforced a spiritual truth that the only way we can come together is to <i>change our mindsets.</i></br><br></br><br>It\'s no wonder why the ruling classes are afraid of him.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1959034">Nquest</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1959034" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes, Craig... <br></br><br>And it\'s rather ironic that instead of this "We are Americans" idea that Obama has been subjected to a level of suspicion that betrays this fake ass posture D has.  Yeah, instead of appealing for solidarity Americans didn\'t care whether non-White people were Americans or not.  A Sikh was mistaken for one of "them."  Black people in and out of prison where held under suspicion that "they" might be prime breeding grounds for radical Islam.</br><br></br><br>Oh but there was none of that "spread democracy" stuff going on.  All the "We are Americans" sentiments got exposed in both Katrina and Jena.</br><br></br><br>At every opportunity to forge genuine solidarity our fellow Americans failed because of some twisted concept about the threats to their "way of life."</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1959035">D.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1959035" class="dsq-comment-message">White supremacists weren\'t responsible for 9/11. al-Qaeda was.<br></br><br>No one in the military I served in-and that\'s post 9/11, by the way-is planting IEDs and blowing up mosques in Iraq. Again, al- Qaeda.</br><br></br><br>If you can find me some white supremacist literature that speaks intelligently on sharia, I\'ll concede your point. Might be difficult, though...since white supremacy doesn\'t exactly jive with sharia either.</br><br></br><br>And you missed my point-which you\'re getting good at-about the signers. The point was that under the threat to their very existence, they came TOGETHER.</br><br></br><br>Why can\'t we do the same? At what point do we come together for a common cause? When do we put our differences to the side to confront an enemy that wants nothing more than to see is destroyed?</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1959036" class="dsq-comment-message">We been talking "common cause" for the longest but just as it\'s all about certain people\'s "way of life" when it comes to domestic policy, it\'s easy to see how the same selfish motive exists in the foreign policy.<br></br><br></br><br><i>When do we put our differences to the side to confront an enemy that wants nothing more than to see is destroyed?</i></br><br></br><br>BULLSH*T!!!   The USA has the "most powerful military the world has ever known", is the world\'s sole "Superpower" and a band of misfits are supposed to threaten the existence of the country?</br><br></br><br>Please....</br><br></br><br>I told you that CONSPIRACY THEORY bs gets no play here.  </br><br></br><br></br><br><i> White supremacists weren\'t responsible for 9/11. </i></br><br></br><br>That has nothing to do with the fact that white supremacists have a SWORN, STATED goal akin to what you speculate about Al Qaeda.  I\'m saying Al Qaeda is probably no more potent than America\'s homegrown terrorists.</br><br></br><br>There is no army, conventional or gorilla, storming America\'s shores or in America\'s cities WITH GUNS TO OUR HEADS, Chicken Little.</br><br></br><br></br><br><i>If you can find me some white supremacist literature that speaks intelligently on sharia, I\'ll concede your point. </i></br><br></br><br>My point is that they have a SWORN and STATED goal much like the one you\'re trying to play the FEAR CARD with when it comes to Al Qaeda.  That much was obviously clear.  What doesn\'t "jive" is your Chicken Little-isms.</br><br></br><br>If you\'re not all worked up over homegrown terrorists the way you are Al Qaeda which, again, is not holding a gun up to your head and never  launched anything that could ever be confused with an all out assault on this country... Well, spare the Chicken Noodle, Chicken Little bs.</br><br></br><br></br><br><i>...they came TOGETHER... Why can\'t we do the same?</i></br><br></br><br>You\'re not genuine.  You know that, I know that.  </br><br></br><br>We can "put our differences aside" when you those long standing "common cause" and other issues are addressed.   Chew gum and walk.  It doesn\'t take a lot of coordination.</br><br></br><br>But you\'re not genuine.  "Not now" in America\'s forked-tongue speak has always meant not at all.</br><br></br><br>The day of the Okey Doke is over.</br><br></br><br><i>"...planting IEDs and blowing up mosques in Iraq... al- Qaeda.</i></br><br></br><br>Even if I by your propaganda...  there is a disconnect.  IRAQ... USA.  </br><br></br><br>I know Israel gets treated as America-EAST but conflating Iraq with the US or acting like mentioning supposed Al-Qaeda activities in Iraq is relevant shows how you\'ve lost it.</br><br></br><br>I already said it\'s Iraqis getting blown the f-ck up and nobody has a gun to your head, so what the hell are you talking about?</br><br></br><br>Now, before AMERICA\'S RACISM started the war in Iraq any illusions of Al-Qaeda planting IED\'s in Iraq were just that: non-existent illusions.  "Our" vengeful RACISM was the cause to any effect you want to assign to Al-Qaeda--IN IRAQ.  Not the USA. In Iraq.  </br><br></br><br></br><br>The least you could do is make a coherent argument. But, again, you will have to spare me to full-frontal stank of your bs.</br><br></br><br>READING IS....</br><br></br><br><b>Get back to me when you\'ve read up on that white supremacists literature and your knee jerk and heart rate gets all worked up over their SWORN and STATED goals.</b></br><br></br><br>FUNDAMENTAL.</br><br></br><br>Nothing said about white supremacists knowing/using sharia.  Tell me about their SWORN and STATED goals, explain why you\'re not trying to Chicken Little their SWORN and STATED goals or STFU!!!</br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1959037" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1959037">D.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1959037" class="dsq-comment-message">White supremacists have said that it is the religious duty of other white supremacists to kill Americans wherever they are?<br></br><br>Has a white supremacist organization pulled an event in which 3000 people died in a single day? Before you answer that, I\'m sure that you will try to equate slavery and attacks on blacks by supremacists to 9/11. The two don\'t exactly compare.</br><br></br><br>Can you provide any facts to back up anything you\'re suggesting?</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1959038">Tiye</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1959038" class="dsq-comment-message">Re: Chris Rock\'s joke<br></br><br>I\'m a sistah and I didn\'t find Chris Rock\'s joke offensive at all. It was what it was: A JOKE. I\'m all for pointing out sexism towards black women, but sometimes I think sistahs take things too far to the point that they become paranoid. </br><br></br><br>The same thing about Craig believing Rice is a lesbian.  Can\'t a black man (or anyone) have an opinion about a black woman without sistahs going into sermons about the plight of the Single Strong Sistah?</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1959039" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1959039" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1959039">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1959039" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1959039" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>White supremacists weren\'t responsible for 9/11. al-Qaeda was.</i><br></br><br>That\'s a conspiracy theory you believe. </br><br></br><br>I do not.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1959040">Nquest</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1959040" class="dsq-comment-message">Anon,<br></br><br>Here you are asking "why we can\'t come together" when it\'s clear you can even come to listen/read.  </br><br></br><br>And that\'s the problem with your "I\'m sure that you will..." asinine ASSumption. I explicitly cited Tim McVeigh as the type of white supremacists domestic TERRORIST with a track record and SWORN/STATED goal similar to what you attribute to the "boogie man" called Al-Qaeda.</br><br></br><br>Tim McVeigh killed Americans with no respect to their race/ethnicity.    Again, that\'s the exact example I used but, for some reason, you felt compelled to show your IGNORance and your sparkling colors by reframing this debate in Black/White when I spoke to your fake concern about the threats posed against all Americans.</br><br></br><br>For some reason, you don\'t Chicken Little white supremacists.  And to make matters worse, after all the (fake) "why can\'t we come together"  stuff you declare terrorism committed against African-Americans who surely lost well more than 3000 people JUST LIKE IRAQ HAS LOST WELL MORE THAN 3000 + 4000...  Well, it\'s your selectivity that accounts for why we can\'t come together.</br><br></br><br>All of that is YOUR CHOICE.  We can\'t come together because of YOU and the sh*t on your brain.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1959041" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1959041" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1959041">Clay</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1959041" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1959041" class="dsq-comment-message">d, you have to realize that your statements sound a lot like "can\'t your pleas for social justice wait until after we beat the terrorists?"<br></br><br>And need I remind you that America didn\'t come together after 9/11 - people were still racist and still held prejudices, they were simply put on the back-burner for a while. I know for sure people don\'t just want the issue of race put on the back-burner, we want it dealt with no matter how uncomfortable it may get. Sure, whites may not in large part discriminated against blacks in, say, downtown Manhattan after 9/11, but there were plenty of Arabs being blamed for the attacks around the country.</br><br></br><br>Racial justice can\'t be ignored because there are  terrorists in the world. Just because there is some universal threat does not mean we should ignore the very real threat of racism in America.</br></div>\
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