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"", "has_replies": false, "message": "The twisted logic of this is staggering:<br></br><br><a href=\"http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/trailhead/archive/2008/04/24/drop-out-obama.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow\">Drop Out, Obama</a></br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-25_09:52:00", "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}, "1961890": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Craig,<br></br><br>I saw that. I was like, WTF?</br><br></br><br>Never in the history of A-merry-ca, has the LEADER been told to drop out. </br><br></br><br>I don't think so. </br><br></br><br>Lost their goddamn minds.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-25_10:29:00", "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}, "1961891": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "John McCain keeps asking Obama to apologize for his bitter comments before audiences, just to keep them in the atmosphere. Obama already said he deeply regretted if he offended anyone with his choice of words and a conflation of two ideas, but he meant no harm by them and was trying to show not everybody is racist who doesn't vote for him.<br></br><br>And he claims he's running a clean, respectful campaign. He's a fraud.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-25_10:32:00", "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}, "1961892": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "McCain also just said Obama isn't ready to be comannder-in-chief. Wonder where he first heard that.<br></br><br>He also just said Obama doesn't know anything about the economy. Wonder why then two Nobel prize winning economists said that Obama's speech 3 weeks ago on the economy was great and that of the 3 candidates left, he would be best for the economy.</br><br></br><br>I'll say it again: McCain is showing his true colors.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-25_10:37:00", "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}, "1961893": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The WSJ seems to think the Dems already have a nominee...coupled with the recent stories in the NYT, it looks like Clinton was right when she said a tide was turning...guess she just didn't realize the direction.<br></br><br>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120899521565139921.html?mod=todays_columnists</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-25_10:39:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "a434d32327a7ccbb408eb10d4de56c10", "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}, "1961894": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Some links I found:<br></br><br><a href=\"http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=75f776fe-3f70-4893-9a2e-e5a557d761ee\" rel=\"nofollow\">Cheer up, Democrats</a></br><br></br><br><a href=\"http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_spine/archive/2008/04/24/bill-clinton-shows-his-true-colors.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bill Clinton SHows His True Colors</a></br><br></br><br><a href=\"http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/open_university/archive/2008/04/17/silly-season-ayers-obama-and-hyde-park.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow\">Silly Season: Ayers, Obama, and Hyde Park</a></br><br></br><br></br><br><a href=\"http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-campaign_fri.1apr25,0,2850297.story\" rel=\"nofollow\">Obama Plans Voter Registration Drive</a></br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-25_10:46:00", "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}, "1961895": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Craig,<br>Even if far-fetched, it makes sense.</br><br></br><br>My contribution for the day:</br><br><a http:=\"HTTP:\" rel=\"nofollow\">Gen. Petraeus Picked to Head U.S. Central Command</a></br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-25_10:56:00", "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}, "1961896": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "(It makes no sense, d. I know it's what you want, but it makes no sense.)<br></br><br>We just attacked Iran.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-25_10:58:00", "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}, "1961897": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "From a strategic aspect, it does. I agree that it's stupid.<br></br><br>And really, I wouldn't want that. I had my sights on Petraeus after McCain.</br><br></br><br>We did not attack Iran. We fired warning shots at two of their boats that got too close. Standard procedure.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-25_11:02:00", "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}, "1961898": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I was being snarky on Iran.<br></br><br>It doesn't make sense as strategy because Obama said he's only running once. It's now or never for him.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-25_11:17:00", "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}, "1961899": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The Clintons must've spiked Chris Wilson's drink.<br></br><br>They're already calling Obama a wimp who can't beat the girl, can you imagine what they would say if he dropped out???</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-25_11:52:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "6a15e2f4a8734cebd4efee6381b0eb4f", "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}, "1961900": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Playground politics.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-25_12:35:00", "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}, "1961901": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I wonder how many death threats Obama's getting now.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-25_12:36:00", "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}, "1961902": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.obamain30seconds.org/vote/?t=2%3Cbr%3E%3C/br%3E%3Cbr%3EMoveOn.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.obamain30seconds.org/vote/?t=2<br>&lt;/...</a> is asking for folks to vote on the 30second ad contest for Obama.</br><br></br><br>I personally like the one with the kids making a mess trying to solve the problems of the country and the mom comes in and says who's going to clean up this mess, and one of the kids says, \"We can hire Obama.\"</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-25_13:14:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fcb7c771a7713dda01aa936fd426bfe", "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}, "1961903": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=8215AA90-3048-5C12-0061C552DC2D1F07\" rel=\"nofollow\">Dems suspense may be unnecessary</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-25_13:31:00", "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}, "1961904": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Major Clinton Fundraiser Defects to Obama<br></br><br>From First Read MSNBC</br><br></br><br>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/04/25/946650.aspx</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-25_14:26:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "432619ba625f6a3e6b9013e9117e3759", "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}, "1961905": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Here's a good read:<br></br><br><a href=\"http://www.nationaljournal.com/njonline/no_20080425_7012.php\" rel=\"nofollow\">Barack's campaign manager puts it down</a></br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-25_14:48:00", "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}, "1961906": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thanks, texas girl, that's a huge development.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-25_15:32:00", "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}, "1961907": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "craig, <br></br><br>Thanks for the heads up on the Politico article.</br><br></br><br>It's possible that Obama already knows he's got this nomination wrapped up.  As the article suggests, Obama might already have the critical mass of super delegates needed to put him over 2025, but they're just waiting for the right time.  I'll keep my fingers crossed.</br><br></br><br>Looks like we're not the only ones who know the black vote is key, if not decisive.</br><br></br><br>From Politico.com:</br><br><i>\"The critical mass of Democratic congressmen that has been prepared to endorse Obama when the timing seemed right remains prepared to do so. Their reasons, ones they have held for months, have not changed \u2013 and by their very nature are unlikely to. </i></br><br></br><br>Essentially, they are three: </br><br></br><br>(a) Hillary Rodham Clinton is such a polarizing figure that everyone who ever considered voting Republican in November, and even many who never did, will go to the polls to vote against her, thus jeopardizing Democrats down the ticket \u2013 i.e., themselves, or, for party leaders, the sizeable majorities they hope to gain in the House and the Senate in November. </br><br></br><br>(b) To take the nomination away from Obama when he is leading in the elected delegate count would deeply alienate the black base of the Democratic Party, and, in the words of one leading Democrat, \u201cThe superdelegates are not going to switch their votes and jeopardize the future of the Democratic Party for generations.\u201d Such a move, he said, would also disillusion the new, mostly young, voters who have entered into politics for the first time because of Obama, and lose the votes of independents who could make the critical difference in November.</br><br></br><br>(c) Because the black vote can make the decisive difference in numerous congressional districts, discarding Obama could cost the Democrats numerous seats. </br><br></br><br>One Democratic leader told me, \u201cIf we overrule the elected delegates there would be mayhem.\u201d Hillary Rodham Clinton\u2019s claim that she has, or will have, won the popular vote does not impress them \u2013 both because of her dubious math and because, as another key Democrat says firmly, \u201cThe rules are that it\u2019s the delegates, period.\u201d (These views are closely aligned with Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s statement earlier this year that the superdelegates should not overrule the votes of the elected delegates.)\"</br><br></br><br>http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=8215AA90-3048-5C12-0061C552DC2D1F07</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-25_16:34:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "d1a8e45844ef20a90904a65e60371f42", "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}, "1961908": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Craig,<br></br><br>Yeah, I know. I'm sure Carville will be calling him a Judas or something like that pretty soon.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-25_17:08:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "432619ba625f6a3e6b9013e9117e3759", "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}, "1961909": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080424/lf_nm_life/lying_face_dc;_ylt=AisZAacmnDnJSEWkMUkpo0UDW7oF\" rel=\"nofollow\">Lying shows in your face - microexpressions</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-25_17:45:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0e63fda3bc8752465623f674ffcc5f40", "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}, "1961910": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The media is continuing to try and talk this nomination in Hillary Clinton's direction.  Todoay the discussion is the youth vote; Barack needs to win this - stupid mofos - he's winning already.<br></br><br>Obama's campaign is working on a 50-state campaign to get out the vote.</br><br></br><br>I am behind him and want to support him, but I'm skeptical.</br><br></br><br>If I help register voters and the the spineless Democrats give the nomination to HRC, I would feel like the biggest fool alive.</br><br></br><br>I am not voting for Hillary and I'm not convincing other voters to register so they end up only having Hillary to vote for.</br><br></br><br>Clyburn will be on Countdown tonight.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-25_17:50:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fcb7c771a7713dda01aa936fd426bfe", "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}, "1961911": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The Puerto Rican fund raiser and Clinton loyalist that just switched to Obama is the grandson of a popular Puerto Rican politician. The governor of Puerto Rico is an Obama supporter. Puerto Ricans, as far as I'm aware, aren't as anti-Black as, say, certain central and South American Latinos. <br></br><br>This nomination is over.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-25_18:12:00", "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}, "1961912": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Craig,<br></br><br>This may help him in Puerto Rico. This is good...this is very good. I was reading over at DailyKos...very interesting.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-25_18:22:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "432619ba625f6a3e6b9013e9117e3759", "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}, "1961913": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/04/25/946650.aspx%3Cbr%3E%3C/br%3E%3Cbr%3EBig\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/04/...</a> HRC fundraiser defects to Obama Posted: Friday, April 25, 2008 2:18 PM by Chuck Todd</br><br></br><br>From NBC's Chuck Todd</br><br>One of the things that both Dem campaigns are always nervous about is defectors. In particular, Clinton is more vulnerable to this problem since she's the candidate that is trailing. Well, NBC News has learned that a major fundraiser for Hillary Clinton, former Amb. to Chile Gabriel Guerra-Mondragon is leaving the campaign to join up Barack Obama's campaign. Officially dubbed a \"Hillraiser,\" Guerra-Mondragon raised nearly $500,000 for Clinton's campaign, according to some estimates. He has been informing people inside Clintonworld this week in what's been described as some tough conversations. A formal announcement of a role for Guerra-Mondragon on Obama's national finance committee will be made next week.  Guerra-Mondragon was appointed Amb. to Chile by Pres. Clinton in '94 and served until '98. </br><br></br><br>Among the reasons for Guerra-Mondragon to defect, according to one informed source, was he was uneasy with the tone of the Clinton campaign and was beginning to worry about what this would mean for the general election. </br><br></br><br>It's unclear if this defection will lead to others; the Clinton camp has been particularly effective at getting folks to keep their powder dry. For Obama, this comes at a time when his campaign is trying to re-convince insiders that the math indicates he has the nomination virtually wrapped up. In addition, Guerra-Mondragon's defection could serve as a tipping point with some key Hispanic Democratic leaders that Obama is ready to start making a bigger effort to court Hispanics. </br><br></br><br>Enjoy the weekend all!</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-25_19:05:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "1231fd2a873665b8a67c9bd4abf4525c", "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}, "1961914": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>Puerto Ricans, as far as I'm aware, aren't as anti-Black as, say, certain central and South American Latinos.</i><br></br><br>Craig,</br><br></br><br>I don't think the Puerto Rican vote can be lumped in with the rest of the \"Latino\" narrative we've seen in places like the Southwest.</br><br></br><br>Blacks and Puerto Ricans do have their differences.  But I think we're more familiar with eachother than with any other Hispanic population.  </br><br></br><br>First you've got the historical, pan-african ties between the two groups.</br><br></br><br>Second, you've got a great deal of intermingling (interracial relationships, etc.).</br><br></br><br>Especially amongst younger generations, blacks and latinos grow up together and basically live in the same neighborhoods.</br><br></br><br>Don't forget, Obama won the Latino vote in CT.  Northeast Latinos are Puerto Rican and Dominican.  Much closer to the black community than I think you'd find with other groups (e.g., Mexicans in the Southwest).</br><br></br><br>It's an interesting relationship.  I don't mean to suggest it's all positive.  But Puerto Rico could surprise a lot of people.  Particularly if the youth vote is high.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-25_19:39:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "d1a8e45844ef20a90904a65e60371f42", "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}, "1961915": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Today was a rough day for me.  Does anyone know of a blog for people with economic difficulties?  A blog for the broke?  I wanted to start a \"Blog for the Broke\" but someone already beat me to the domain name - brokeblog.com...<br></br><br>Today the ramifications of debt slammed me hard...Solution:  I got 2 make more $$$.  I'm asking all of the upwardly-mobile JJP Saints to pray for me that I may be able to keep my broadband and continue to make comments on this site.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-25_21:16:00", "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}, "1961916": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Jack Cafferty was telling THE TRUTH on CNN. I was shocked. Loved it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-25_21:58:00", "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}, "1961917": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "For my experience, I have found that Puerto Ricans have the least issues with Black folk, because they have so many that look like us in their families. <br></br><br>Puerto RIcans ain't Mexicans.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-25_22:04:00", "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}, "1961918": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "did anyone watch the wright interview w/moyer on pbs tonight? i thought he did a good job and moyer did a solid job of not making the interview about obama (his name isnt mentioned until the last 5 minutes or so) which should assuage those concerned about the proximity of the interview to the next primaries. as someone who was not familiar with wright outside the comments, I walked away seeing him as a true Christian man of incredible intelligence--pulling quotes from Shakespeare to the book of Genesis.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-25_22:17:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "a434d32327a7ccbb408eb10d4de56c10", "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}, "1961919": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The interview was outstanding. Obama was an afterthought.<br></br><br>This was all about Wright and his ministry.</br><br></br><br>What a brilliant, humble man.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-25_22:27:00", "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}, "1961920": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah, i don't really watch CNN. What was Jack Cafferty talkin bout?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-25_22:28:00", "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}, "1961921": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "craig,<br></br><br>He was like, what are you all talking about? Obama has won this. Anything you're blathering about is delusional, because Obama IS the Democratic Nominee...he cracked me up.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-26_00:09:00", "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}, "1961922": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "If you replay Harball tonight...the gist of his guests' opinion was the Clintons want to damage Obama enough so Hillary, can run in 2012 if she can't get the nomination this year.  One of the pol analysts was a black women...I didn't get her name.<br></br><br>So much for the Clinton's being the \"best and loyal friends\" of the black community.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-26_00:37:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "3e892379e7d442c8970d7cad6f54d5b8", "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}, "1961923": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>\"One of the pol analysts was a black women...I didn't get her name.\"</i><br></br><br>@angela,</br><br></br><br>That black woman is Michelle Bernard.  She's a conservative Independent (President/CEO of the Independent Women's Forum).  However, she's been a very strong Barack supporter so far.</br><br></br><br>I've been impressed with her comments on MSNBC.  She seems to get it.  That there comes a point where identity and pride trumps political affiliation.  </br><br></br><br>And she's spoken out against a lot of the Clinton race baiting as well as the race/gender dynamics that prevent Obama from attacking Hillary for fear of being labeled \"the angry black man.\"</br><br></br><br>Now, she could disappoint me come November.  But I have to give her credit where credit is due.  She's been one of the bright spots in political punditry over the past few months.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-26_00:57:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "d1a8e45844ef20a90904a65e60371f42", "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}, "1961924": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04252008/watch.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">The full Bill Moyers interview with Rev. Jeremiah Wright</a>.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-26_01:24:00", "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}, "1961925": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That was a great interview with Rev. Wright, of course I still believe his detractors won't care and will keep looping the same soundbites over and over.<br></br><br>I found it bittersweet because although it was great to learn more about him and the good things he has done involving his church, he also revealed that his congregation is being harrassed and they are getting death threats.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-26_01:56:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "ae84a1f516965138dcc59937fe7a7ac1", "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}, "1961926": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "N.Mahana: I am beyond pissed that I think it's disgusting that the TUCC congregation and Rev. Wright are receiving death threats. Is this 1958?  Disgusting!  I am interesed in watching the Moyers show. Thanks for posting.<br></br><br>Webb, your post is hilarious!  LOL!!</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-26_02:55:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "66b46c7ea60fc982ec853b4f635c2718", "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}, "1961927": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "McFraud's \"clean campaign\" continues:<br></br><br><i>\"I think not only a repudiation, but an apology for ever having anything to do with an unrepentant terrorist is due the American people,\" McCain said earlier today.</i></br><br></br><br>He also never bothered to contact the NC GOP and ask them to not run the Wright ads.</br><br></br><br>In 24 hours, he compared Obama to Hamas, Noriega, and Kim Jong-il.</br><br></br><br>He also said he'd consider tearing down the 9th Ward in New Orleans, and a day later said he doesn't remember saying it.</br><br></br><br>Teflon John is a liar, suffering from senility, or both.</br><br></br><br>By November, he'll be all scratched up and a whole lots gonna stick to him if he keeps going down this road.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-26_08:16:00", "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}, "1961928": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Craig,<br>The campaign did contact the NC GOP about the ad. </br><br></br><br>I don't understand why people keep thinking McCain is suddenly giving the GOP direction because he's the nominee. Expect Obama to be held to the same standard if he's the democratic nominee-and don't cry foul when it happens.</br><br></br><br>Hamas seems to have a liking for Obama. Wonder why that is?</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-26_11:06:00", "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}, "1961929": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"Hamas seems to have a liking for Obama. Wonder why that is?\"<br></br><br>Probably because he has stated that he would sit down and talk with our enemies, and hasn't bothered with bullshit hawkish posturing by threatening to obliterate a country and her people - innocent or not.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-26_12:00:00", "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}, "1961930": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "@ d<br></br><br><i>Hamas seems to have a liking for Obama. Wonder why that is?</i></br><br></br><br>..so does Canada, Egypt, Colombia, France, Brazil, Japan, Germany, Italy..</br><br></br><br>What's your point?</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-26_12:10:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0e63fda3bc8752465623f674ffcc5f40", "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}, "1961931": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "So,<br></br><br>Rev. Wright had a chat with Moyers who did a good job of filling in the 'blanks' of the Reverend's life.  Then, later Tubbs-Jones was on a CNN panel and did not miss the opportunity to twist the knife into Barack about Wright's comment that Barack was only saying what a politician says.  She made sure to say that she, as a politician only tells the truth.</br><br></br><br>So much harm has been done to humanity under the mantle of religious righteousness and the ordinary men who take up that mantle.  Really, how can you be wrong when you speak \"God's word\"?  Nevermind if that \"word\" is killing you.</br><br></br><br>Beware of those who call themselves \"shepherds\" and you the \"flock\".</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-26_12:26:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0e63fda3bc8752465623f674ffcc5f40", "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}, "1961932": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "And the Netherlands, and Denmark, and South Africa, and Australia, Obama in Japan, and...<br></br><br>John McCain did not personally contact the NC GOP. He claimed he had done everything he could to get them to pull the ad. </br><br></br><br>He's a liar.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-26_12:28:00", "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}, "1961933": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "truthseeker, <br></br><br>Tubbs-Jones is a, well.... I can't call her a domesticated animal because that would be terribly inappropriate.</br><br></br><br>Terribly. </br><br></br><br>She's an smart, intelligent Black woman, no?</br><br></br><br>She's also as well trained as my dog.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-26_12:45:00", "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}, "1961934": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Anybody seeing those earth ads that have two people from opposing views?<br></br><br>Al Sharpton and Pat Robertson talking about saving the planet? Liberals and conservatives coming together to enact change?</br><br></br><br>How timely.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-26_12:53:00", "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}, "1961935": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Craig,<br>And you know this...how?</br><br></br><br>Emails were sent from the campaign and the RNC to get the NC GOP to pull the ad. The state GOP organizations do not all take their marching orders from the RNC.</br><br></br><br>A different thought as to why Hamas wants Obama: possibly because he seems to love the idea of negotiating with terrorists and rogue states. </br><br></br><br>Course, when one of your closest associates is a terrorist himself....then it makes sense.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-26_13:06:00", "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}, "1961936": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "@ craig hickman,<br></br><br>Tubbs-Jones is rabid in her support of Hillary.  I don't know if the Clinton's have dirt on her or if they've promised her something.  Anyway, her zealotry is not to be trusted.</br><br></br><br>I hadn't realized how many former Clinton donors had jumped ship to Obama; whereas, none of Obama's donors who've maxed out to his campaign, have donated to Clinton. The devil is in the details.</br><br></br><br><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/25/AR2008042503707_2.html?hpid=topnews&amp;sid=ST2008042504037\" rel=\"nofollow\">Party Fears Racial Divide</a></br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-26_13:20:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0e63fda3bc8752465623f674ffcc5f40", "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}, "1961937": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "@ d<br></br><br><i>A different thought as to why Hamas wants Obama: possibly because he seems to love the idea of negotiating with terrorists and rogue states.</i></br><br></br><br>Ya know...your obsession with Hamas is a little suspect.  Are you sure you're not a terrorist yourself?</br><br></br><br>One man's 'rogue' is another man's 'government'.  Republican's have taken America to the brink of disaster.  Everyone around the world can see that.  It's time to wake up and let go of this insane partisanship before it's too late.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-26_13:27:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0e63fda3bc8752465623f674ffcc5f40", "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}, "1961938": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Truth,<br>As someone who's stood on the line to protect this country, your comment's almost offensive.</br><br></br><br>What I am obsessed with is electing a president who is well suited-by virtue of his experience and knowledge- of the true threats to this country.</br><br></br><br>To blindly suggest that you're willing to meet with leaders who oppress their people (N. Korea), terrorize other countries (Hamas) or swear the destruction of other nations (Iran) does not inspire confidence.</br><br></br><br>This isn't about partisanship. This is about who is the best qualified to lead our nation to victory in the war against terror and jihadist thought.</br><br></br><br>Obama doesn't want to fight-much less win-that war.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-26_15:21:00", "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}, "1961939": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "D<br></br><br>OMG stop the guilt by association Bullshit! So that means everyone and I mean everyone that's come in contact with Ayers at a party, gathering, at UIC or that Starbucks clerk that chit chats with him everyday when he buys his elitist cappuccino is connected to his terrorist past?</br><br></br><br>He's as much a terrorist as Bobby Rush but then again Clinton defended Bobby Seales, so now who is really associating with supposed  domestic terrorism.</br><br></br><br>Radical sixties domestic terrorists were mainstream and no issue (hint hint: Patty hearst) until now.</br><br></br><br>How about the right shut down the midwestern Militia groups, Christian fundamentalists that send kiddies to summer camp to train them as soldiers of god or anti-abortion groups that threaten and terrorize women and doctors, not to mention??</br><br></br><br>Those people are doing shit in the here and now...where's the outrage, where's the decry for them to stop, where's the Justice in that...??</br><br></br><br>Disingenuous</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-26_15:28:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "ae84a1f516965138dcc59937fe7a7ac1", "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}, "1961940": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Sorry for my bad writing but I'm just sick and tired of being sick and tired of crab barrel mentality using falsehoods and disingenuous tactics.<br></br><br>If you had an ex con brother does that disqualify you from being Attorney General?</br><br></br><br>Does anything your family, friends and associates do disqualify you from having any job, when YOU are not the one participating in or enabling such acts?</br><br></br><br>Please, challenge Obama on his U.S. Senate record and State Senate record but tying him to Hamas and terrorism is just too fucked up for words.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-26_15:34:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "ae84a1f516965138dcc59937fe7a7ac1", "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}, "1961941": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Where to begin...<br></br><br>1. Hamas has stated-publically-that they would like to see Obama become president. That's not falsehood, it's fact.</br><br></br><br>2. Unfortunately for the Obamaists, the company he keeps is now being called into question. Does anyone really believe Obama's a terrorist? Probably not.</br><br></br><br>But to associate-and do so closely, unlike someone who serves Mr. Ayers coffee or any other of the scenarios listed above-with someone who advocated the violent overthrow of our government is a problem.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-26_16:05:00", "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}, "1961942": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "@ d<br></br><br>I find your suggestion that Obama is suspect because of Hamas statements highly offensive.  So, you stood on the line only to turn around and smear a fellow American because a foreign government is complimentary?    And for what?  Just so your party can win?  This is patriotism of convenience.  This is a patriotism that cannibalizes it's own.  Who is the TRUE enemy?</br><br></br><br>Your government may be overthrown, but it won't be violent.  It will be the Chinese, quietly, gently calling in their loans  while you're busy accusing fellow Americans of guilt by association.  How stupid is that?</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-26_16:21:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0e63fda3bc8752465623f674ffcc5f40", "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}, "1961943": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "@ d<br></br><br>You're a terrorist because I said so.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-26_16:23:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0e63fda3bc8752465623f674ffcc5f40", "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}, "1961944": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Truth,<br>Thanks. Been called worse by less. When you've worn the uniform of this nation, then you can question my patriotism.</br><br></br><br>Obama was suspect before Hamas came around. </br><br></br><br>I call into question ANYONE-regardless of party-who does not understand who we fight, why we fight, and what happens if we lose.</br><br></br><br>We can can solve the China problem, God willing, without firing a shot.</br><br></br><br>But when you've stared across a cell at someone who believes it is his religious duty to kill you and your countrymen, then you're left with no doubt of who the true enemy is.</br><br></br><br>I've had that experience. Have you?</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-26_16:41:00", "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}, "1961945": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>terrorize other countries (Hamas) or swear the destruction of other nations (Iran) </i><br></br><br>Oh no. No. I can't not say something about this one.</br><br></br><br>Israel -- a place where I supposedly have \"right of return\" as a Jewish-ancestry person, assuming they got over the \"not if you're gay\" part which I have heard they have -- is in my eyes an illegitimate nation-state. Because a European Christian colonial power \"gave\" this state to European Jews in the context of Europe terrorizing us for centuries and dominating the Middle East during a particular time period where we could be used by Western Christian nations for their purpose (and we agreed, I'm sorry to say). </br><br></br><br>For whatever reason, whether it was that we had become more European than anything else, or because of the context of being terrorized by European Christians and wanting to be on the side of powerful ones even though they had hurt us so much -- the state of Israel has made a terrible bargain with the very type of powers that have hurt Jews in the past. Israel functions as a Western and US proxy in the Middle East. Like the US, it acts like a terrorist. </br><br></br><br>My own memory is long. I understand that the fear and reaction to being terrorized by European Christians has, for some European-ancestry Jews at least, been channeled into fear of *the Arabs.* And then a struggle created by actual takeover of land in a colonial context gives apparent reality to this threat that becomes justification for more violence against the very people who have been wronged (but they're less than human, right? I've heard that before).</br><br></br><br>And this redirection pushes the current struggle outside of current and historical reality for some of us ... and into a fake landscape where Hamas is a terrorist attacking Israel, Israel has a temporary mantle of \"not a threat\" in the Western Christian eyes, and some of us might look to white Christians like Hillary Clinton to \"protect\" us (I know her kind and she would be happy to hurt us if it helped her aspirations).  And it's just fine to take people's lands and homes and hurt them and if they have the audacity to *object* to this and even fight back well then they are terrorists and bad. </br><br></br><br>I see the flow of this illusion and it upsets me for a lot of reasons. Including the fact that it lets European Christian nations and their cultural offspring (the US) totally off the hook because all of a sudden European/white Christian nation-states are supposed to be our friends (despite their ongoing terrorist acts against us over and over throughout Europe for centuries).</br><br></br><br>If (and I do mean IF because frankly I don't see much of it so far) Senator Obama is willing to speak about and treat Hamas and others like actual humans instead of cardboard cut-outs and symbolic lightening rods for various kinds of fear and guilt and projection -- I support him doing that. In fact I wish he would do more of that, because he hasn't near done enough about this and has in some ways evaded the situation.  </br><br></br><br>So if I have any criticism of him on this it's that he hasn't done enough. And still he gets criticized and held to the usual impossible standards in which he is suspect by default.</br><br></br><br>And about the Middle East: it makes me sick when people in power talk about hurting other nations implicitly or explicitly on \"my\" behalf. The dynamics are complex. I know in my bones that the <b>very same ones</b> who claim, in their white Christian benevolence, to be about helping and protecting Israel (functioning symbolically as \"the Jews\") by hurting other peoples and nations will, if and when the time comes, happily  let it function as the scapegoat and let \"the Jews\" take the rap for all of the horrors that Western Christian nations are doing supposedly to help us.</br><br></br><br>Lots of illusion to cut through. Lots and lots. Senator Obama hasn't done near enough on this, in fact he has said things that IMO perpertuate the illusion (the one part of his race speech that made me cringe was the part about radical Islam). </br><br></br><br>But despite his actual stance, he STILL gets hit with associations with supposed \"terrorists.\" It's part of the same pattern. Ugh.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-26_16:43:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "de3917e982ff609a0d6f7fb5e3c8f079", "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}, "1961946": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "@ d<br></br><br>That 'I wear the uniform so I'm entitled' bullcrap is not gonna fly.</br><br></br><br>For those who've stared across a cell at a religious fanatic and are traumatized by it...should get therapy and not unleash that trauma on the nation at large.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-26_16:56:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0e63fda3bc8752465623f674ffcc5f40", "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}, "1961947": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "d.,<br></br><br>I know it because I heard the head of the NC GOP say it on MSNBC.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-26_17:16:00", "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}, "1961948": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Here's the truth about William Ayers which the MSM won't tell you, as published in the NYT:<br></br><br> <i>September 16, 2001</i></br><br>    Weekend of Heartache: Let Us Honor the Dead; A Different Landscape</br><br></br><br>    To the Editor:</br><br>    Re a Sept. 16 New York Times Magazine interview with me and your Sept. 11 Arts pages profile:</br><br>    The barbarism unleashed against innocent human beings on Sept. 11 has in an instant transformed the complex landscape of American consciousness. I'm filled with horror and grief for those murdered and harmed, for their families and for all affected forever.</br><br>    ''Fugitive Days,'' the memoir I've written about my participation in the Weather Underground and the antiwar movement and the events of 30 years ago, is now receiving attention in a radically changed context.</br><br>    My book is a condemnation of terrorism in all its forms. We are witnessing crimes against humanity. The intent of my book was and is to understand, to tell the truth and to heal.</br><br></br><br>    BILL AYERS</br><br>    Chicago, Sept. 14, 2001</br><br></br><br><a href=\"http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C06E3D6163BF935A2575AC0A9679C8B63&amp;scp=1&amp;sq=weekend+of+heartache+ayers&amp;st=nyt\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Letter</a></br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-26_17:22:00", "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}, "1961949": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'd love to see Rev. Wright, who has worn the uniform of this nation, debate d. and pick apart his so-called patriotism for the jingoistic, warmongering, fearmongering bullshit that it is.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-26_17:27:00", "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}, "1961950": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Michelle, thank you for that.<br></br><br>One of my best friends in college had a Palestinian mother and a Jewish father.</br><br></br><br>I spent many Thanksgivings in their Philadelphia home, and I heard many many versions of your essay from his entire family.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-26_17:33:00", "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}, "1961951": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "No one hates war more than a veteran. The horrors of it live with you forever. Ask McCain.<br></br><br>If I'm a \"warmongerer\" because I believe my country should take proactive steps to end the threat of extremism to our country, I'll be that.</br><br></br><br>I don't make my points to scare people. I make them so that you all realize what one part of the bigger picture is: that regardless of whether you feel it's an imminent threat or not, our way of life IS under attack.</br><br></br><br>I don't think Rev. Wright would disagree with that. Hell, I don't think most of you-if you really stopped to think about it, and read some of the things al-Qaeda has said about wanting to destroy democracy-would disagree either.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-26_17:55:00", "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}, "1961952": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Can you please define my way of life?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-26_18:25:00", "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}, "1961953": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "d said:<br><i>\"When you've worn the uniform of this nation, then you can question my patriotism.\"</i></br><br></br><br>Okay--I can't let this go.  Weren't people questioning Rev. Wright's patriotism, and he was a marine?  But it doesn't matter because he's Obama's pastor.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-26_18:26:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "6aa3ee71bc9714917dc34dde9e4e2b41", "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}, "1961954": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Craig Hickman, thank you so much for what you wrote about your friend and his family and what you heard them talking about. I can't even find words to say what it means to me to know that. Thank you is the best I've got and it's not nearly sufficient.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-26_18:47:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "de3917e982ff609a0d6f7fb5e3c8f079", "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}, "1961955": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"If someone endorses me, it doesn't mean that I agree with their views.\"<br></br><br>Who said that?</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-26_19:09:00", "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}, "1961956": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "michelle, it seems we both needed to hear it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-26_19:16:00", "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}, "1961957": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "We're a free people, Craig. We're a country that operates under democratic principles...which are incompatible with sharia.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-26_19:36:00", "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}, "1961958": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "d<br></br><br>You are entitled? So no one is a better American than you. Well I don't boast about \"wearing the uniform but... I am a veteran too, I joined the army out of highschool in 95 and thank gawd I got out of that shit before this dumb Iraq war came around.</br><br></br><br>So whose more entitled you or I...is it only Iraq the sequel war veterans...or any veteran? Everyone else should stay home and not vote because only you and those like you deserve a say in this country's direction.</br><br></br><br></br><br>Also to your earlier comment. You tell me what the private discussions were between Obama and Ayers then your guilt by association would have some merit. Were they plotting to take down the American government...were they making pipe bombs in Obama's basement?</br><br></br><br>I mean if you are going to insinuate then go all the way, but this is typical...float a bit of nonsense out there and then claim you are only asking reasonable questions.</br><br></br><br>How does Ayers actions and statements from 1968 relate to    the man Barack Obama in 2008?</br><br></br><br>Are black panthers terrorists?</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-26_20:13:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "ae84a1f516965138dcc59937fe7a7ac1", "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}, "1961959": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "N,<br></br><br>As a veteran, you should be a bit upset by anyone who'd question your patriotism...unless you joined up for a benefit and really don't care about the country. </br><br></br><br>(and if that's true, fair enough: you'll lose no respect from me)</br><br></br><br>Agree or disagree on the war, veterans share a certain perspective that is lost on civilian life.</br><br></br><br>I haven't once said Obama is a terrorist because he hung out with Ayers. Part of our judgement of people is by the company they keep. If I put my picture with Karl Rove up here, there's no telling what'd be said about me. (ok, I KNOW what would be said....)</br><br></br><br>Far as the Black Panthers...I'd have to check the definition of terrorism. It's possible they would be considered terrorists, but I'm not sure.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-26_20:29:00", "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}, "1961960": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "YouTube video by 'miat1111'.  clips of Hardball.  Michele Bernard and Tucker comment on Clyburn's statement. Clips of Clinton's response to genocide in Rwanda and Haitian refugee crisis.  The \"lynching\" of Obama by the Clinton's.<br></br><br>suffice it to say, miat is not fond of the Clinton's.</br><br></br><br><a href=\"http://youtube.com/watch?v=n_s0Fp5-2So\" rel=\"nofollow\">Video</a></br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-26_21:23:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0e63fda3bc8752465623f674ffcc5f40", "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}, "1961961": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Earl Hutchinson's showing off his new tap dance shoes on Huff Post, basically blaming Wright for the media taking his comments out of context.<br></br><br>~ Sepia</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-26_22:41:00", "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}, "1961962": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Did anyone see Susan Rice on CNN this AM?  She was on a panel with a foreign policy adviser for Hillary and I think she obliterated him.  They were interviewed by Wolf.  Check it out if you can.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-27_12:12:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0e63fda3bc8752465623f674ffcc5f40", "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}, "1961963": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Obama get another superdelegate endorsment:<br></br><br>Charlene Fernandez of Arizona </br><br></br><br>His 241st Superdelegate endorsement</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-27_14:40:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "432619ba625f6a3e6b9013e9117e3759", "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}, "1961964": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/34931.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">If Clinton Can't Run her Campaign, how will she run the White House?</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-27_18:14:00", "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}, "1961965": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>One of the pol analysts was a black women...I didn't get her name.\"<br></br><br>@angela,</br><br></br><br>That black woman is Michelle Bernard. She's a conservative Independent (President/CEO of the Independent Women's Forum). However, she's been a very strong Barack supporter so far.</br><br></br><br>I've been impressed with her comments on MSNBC. She seems to get it. That there comes a point where identity and pride trumps political affiliation. </br><br></br><br>And she's spoken out against a lot of the Clinton race baiting as well as the race/gender dynamics that prevent Obama from attacking Hillary for fear of being labeled \"the angry black man.\"</br><br></br></i><br></br><br>Angela,</br><br></br><br>B-serious is correct. </br><br></br><br>Michelle Bernard has criticized Obama -ON POLICY. </br><br></br><br>She's a Republican, so she's SUPPOSED to criticize him ON POLICY. </br><br></br><br>But, PERSONAL ATTACKS?</br><br></br><br>I think I've seen every one of her appearances on MSNBC in the past six months - she has NEVER attacked Obama -PERSONALLY.</br><br></br><br>I've written before about her. </br><br></br><br>It's quite obvious that, as a BLACK WOMAN, she has a lot of pride about Obama's run. And, she has made it clear in the language that she uses about Obama...</br><br></br><br>She's called him ' The American Dream'...a Black ' Horatio Alger'...representing ' the best and brightest'. She has routinely shown a great deal of pride about Obama's run. When she's had policy differences, she's brought them up. But, she's been far more respectful of Obama than ANY of the HHH. I told you that she called a spade a spade last week on David Gregory's show and said that the Clintons would pull THE RACE CARD in explaining away a North Carolina win by Obama. She was very contemptuous of The Clintons, and how they were dismissive of the Black vote.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-27_18:20:00", "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}, "1961966": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "From The Boston Globe<br></br><br><a href=\"http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2008/04/27/hillary_strangelove/?page=full\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hillary Strangelove</a></br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-27_18:47:00", "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}, "1961967": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Did y'all watch the Rev. Wright speech on CNN?  ...I tuned into the last few minutes only but what I heard was good.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-27_20:30:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0e63fda3bc8752465623f674ffcc5f40", "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}, "1961968": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Truth<br></br><br>I caught the last half of it and what I saw was true and to the point - a less guarded speech on race and an explanation of the black church.</br><br></br><br>Bravo!</br><br></br><br>Some folks aren't going to like it and the pundits will of course pick it apart, but they won't forget it.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-27_20:44:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fcb7c771a7713dda01aa936fd426bfe", "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}, "1961969": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Rikyrah<br></br><br>Your description of Michelle Bernard is on point.</br><br></br><br>She is the only Republican pundit who I have seen thus far who has not disrespected SBO at all for any reason, even their policy differences.</br><br></br><br>She is clearly proud of him and feeling all of our angst about the race-baiting, and, not afraid to speak loud about it.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-27_20:49:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fcb7c771a7713dda01aa936fd426bfe", "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}, "1961970": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I thought Michelle Barnard was an Independent.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-27_21:10:00", "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}, "1961971": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I was thinking the same thing, Craig.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-27_21:44:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "432619ba625f6a3e6b9013e9117e3759", "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}, "1961972": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "If anyone finds a link to Rev Wright's speech would you please post it here. I missed it and would love to see it. I did see Obama this afternoon on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace and he, in my opinion, did really good answering the questions.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-27_22:03:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "ae84a1f516965138dcc59937fe7a7ac1", "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}, "1961973": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "If you get CNN they're running the whole thing again at 11pm I think.  They're doing clips now and reactions.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-27_22:45:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0e63fda3bc8752465623f674ffcc5f40", "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}, "1961974": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ha!  Did you guys see that Ron Paul supporters shut down the Nevada GOP convention?  It's on HuffPo.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-27_22:53:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0e63fda3bc8752465623f674ffcc5f40", "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}, "1961975": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "truthseeker,<br></br><br>I don't think I'll ever get the image of the Ron Paul supporters chasing Sean Hannity down the street - literally - in New Hampshire out of my head. They cracked me up.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-27_23:47:00", "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}, "1961976": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "From The New Yorker:<br></br><br></br><br><a href=\"http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2008/05/05/080505ta_talk_lizza\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bill vs. Barack</a></br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-27_23:48:00", "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}, "1961977": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah<br></br><br>I just read that Bill v. Barack story and I really understand just how pissed the Clintons are.  At first, I thought it was just politics; I thought they were just playing the game to get votes, but now I understand how much they really don't like Barack Obama.</br><br></br><br>I never heard about what Bill said when he thought he was off camera.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_00:09:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fcb7c771a7713dda01aa936fd426bfe", "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}, "1961978": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Now, if Barack was evil, he would keep needling Bill, and get him to completely lose it on camera.<br></br><br></br><br></br><br>@ Rikyrah</br><br></br><br>I just watched that on YT.  I don't know dissent tickles me so.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_00:28:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0e63fda3bc8752465623f674ffcc5f40", "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}, "1961979": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Some things just make you laugh:<br></br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/27/mccain-calls-obama-insens_n_98882.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">McCain calls Obama insensitive to poor people</a></br><br></br><br>Now, nevermind that Obama is the only one who actually worked IN THE PROJECTS. </br><br></br><br>The thought of saying this at a $2300/ticket fundraiser in CORAL GABLES....</br><br></br><br>Unbelievable.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_00:30:00", "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}, "1961980": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "ms martin,<br></br><br>yeah, it's pure hate. Bill has been showing his ass for some time now. What people are seeing in Barack..attracting crowds and what not is what they saw in him back in the day. And he is not happy.</br><br></br><br>The phone conversation was hilarious. I wonder how he feels about Clyburn speaking out.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_00:32:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "432619ba625f6a3e6b9013e9117e3759", "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}, "1961981": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Texas Girl<br></br><br>Bill might just lose it after this.</br><br></br><br>I would like to know what that Clinton adviser knows.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_00:46:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fcb7c771a7713dda01aa936fd426bfe", "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}, "1961982": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "truthseeker,<br></br><br>I think Bill WILL lose it by the end of the run. Then man has doubled the number of campaign stops and maximized his schedule...so...that leaves no room to think or breathe. That fool is going to blow his fuse on camera.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_00:53:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "432619ba625f6a3e6b9013e9117e3759", "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}, "1961983": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "About the Dr. Wright speech...Fox couldn't help themselves....they used a police tape as their banner during the Wright speech. <br></br><br>Sigh......</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_01:16:00", "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}}, "integration": {"receiver_url": "", "theme": 4, "reply_position": true, "disqus_logo": false}, "timer": {"timer_url": "http://localhost:8005", "thread_id": "3964492", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "21630", "hash": 8288013980814636634}, "thread": {"days_alive": 0, "slug": "daily_open_thread_tgif", "paginate": false, "num_pages": 1, "num_posts": 96, "per_page": 0, "total_posts": 0, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 3964492, "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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	this._lastHash = null;

	this._accumMsg = '';

	this._lastSeqno = 0;

	this.MAX_DATA_LEN	= 1024;

	this.WAIT_TIME		= 10;

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

};

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

FragmentPacket.prototype.log = function(msg) {



};

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

		hash = this.reader.name;
	} else {

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

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

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

		this._lastSeqno = seqno;

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

				this._accumMsg = '';

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

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

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

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

};

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

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

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

	if (packetNum === 0) {

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

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

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

	if (num_packets === packetNum) {

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

	this._lastSeqno++;

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

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

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

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

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

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


	this.receiverId = receiverId;
};

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

	var listener = function(e) {

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


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

		that.receiveCallback(data);
	};

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

PostMessagePacket.prototype.send = function(msg) {



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


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

	var packet;
	if (!msg) {

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

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

var JsonRpc = function() {

	this.ids = {};

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

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

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

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

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

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

				json = 'null';
				break;
		}

		return json;
	};

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		send_func(this.objectToJSON(request));

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

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


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



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


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


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

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

	this.packetHandler = null;


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


	var _createReceiverForFragmentPacket = function() {

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

			that._ready = true;
		};

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

		that.receiver.onload = receiver_onload;







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

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

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

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


	var _createReceiverForPostMessage = function() {

		var receiver_onload = function() {

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

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


		ParentMessenger['_receiver_onload_' + receiverId] = receiver_onload;

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

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

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

};

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	var sendFunc = function(msg) {

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


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


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

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

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

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

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

		if (msg.username) {

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	this.url = Dsq.Urls.REPLY +
		'?' + (new Date()).getTime() +
		'&f=jackandjillpolitics' +
		'&t=daily_open_thread_tgif' +
		'&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/daily_open_thread_tgif/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='	+ 'daily_open_thread_tgif'
			+ '&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/daily_open_thread_tgif/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">96</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/daily_open_thread_tgif/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/daily_open_thread_tgif/">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:3964492" 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"> \
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				</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/daily_open_thread_tgif/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:3964492" 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:3964492" 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'				: 'daily_open_thread_tgif',
			// 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/daily_open_thread_tgif/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='	+ 'daily_open_thread_tgif'
			+ '&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='	+ 'daily_open_thread_tgif'
			+ '&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='		+ 'daily_open_thread_tgif'
				+ '&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/3964492/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) {
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961889" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961889">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961889" class="dsq-comment-message">The twisted logic of this is staggering:<br></br><br><a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/trailhead/archive/2008/04/24/drop-out-obama.aspx" rel="nofollow">Drop Out, Obama</a></br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961890" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961890">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961890" class="dsq-comment-message">Craig,<br></br><br>I saw that. I was like, WTF?</br><br></br><br>Never in the history of A-merry-ca, has the LEADER been told to drop out. </br><br></br><br>I don\'t think so. </br><br></br><br>Lost their goddamn minds.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961891" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961891" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961891">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961891" class="dsq-comment-message">John McCain keeps asking Obama to apologize for his bitter comments before audiences, just to keep them in the atmosphere. Obama already said he deeply regretted if he offended anyone with his choice of words and a conflation of two ideas, but he meant no harm by them and was trying to show not everybody is racist who doesn\'t vote for him.<br></br><br>And he claims he\'s running a clean, respectful campaign. He\'s a fraud.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961892" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961892" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961892">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961892" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961892" class="dsq-comment-message">McCain also just said Obama isn\'t ready to be comannder-in-chief. Wonder where he first heard that.<br></br><br>He also just said Obama doesn\'t know anything about the economy. Wonder why then two Nobel prize winning economists said that Obama\'s speech 3 weeks ago on the economy was great and that of the 3 candidates left, he would be best for the economy.</br><br></br><br>I\'ll say it again: McCain is showing his true colors.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961893" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961893" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961893">amy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961893" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961893" class="dsq-comment-message">The WSJ seems to think the Dems already have a nominee...coupled with the recent stories in the NYT, it looks like Clinton was right when she said a tide was turning...guess she just didn\'t realize the direction.<br></br><br>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120899521565139921.html?mod=todays_columnists</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961894">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961894" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961894" class="dsq-comment-message">Some links I found:<br></br><br><a href="http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=75f776fe-3f70-4893-9a2e-e5a557d761ee" rel="nofollow">Cheer up, Democrats</a></br><br></br><br><a href="http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_spine/archive/2008/04/24/bill-clinton-shows-his-true-colors.aspx" rel="nofollow">Bill Clinton SHows His True Colors</a></br><br></br><br><a href="http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/open_university/archive/2008/04/17/silly-season-ayers-obama-and-hyde-park.aspx" rel="nofollow">Silly Season: Ayers, Obama, and Hyde Park</a></br><br></br><br></br><br><a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-campaign_fri.1apr25,0,2850297.story" rel="nofollow">Obama Plans Voter Registration Drive</a></br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961895">D.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961895" class="dsq-comment-message">Craig,<br>Even if far-fetched, it makes sense.</br><br></br><br>My contribution for the day:</br><br><a http:="HTTP:" rel="nofollow">Gen. Petraeus Picked to Head U.S. Central Command</a></br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961896" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961896" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961896">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961896" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961896" class="dsq-comment-message">(It makes no sense, d. I know it\'s what you want, but it makes no sense.)<br></br><br>We just attacked Iran.</br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961897" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961897">D.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961897" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961897" class="dsq-comment-message">From a strategic aspect, it does. I agree that it\'s stupid.<br></br><br>And really, I wouldn\'t want that. I had my sights on Petraeus after McCain.</br><br></br><br>We did not attack Iran. We fired warning shots at two of their boats that got too close. Standard procedure.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961898" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961898" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961898">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961898" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961898" class="dsq-comment-message">I was being snarky on Iran.<br></br><br>It doesn\'t make sense as strategy because Obama said he\'s only running once. It\'s now or never for him.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961899">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961899" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961899" class="dsq-comment-message">The Clintons must\'ve spiked Chris Wilson\'s drink.<br></br><br>They\'re already calling Obama a wimp who can\'t beat the girl, can you imagine what they would say if he dropped out???</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961900" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961900" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961900">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961900" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961900" class="dsq-comment-message">Playground politics.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961901" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961901" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961901">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961901" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961901" class="dsq-comment-message">I wonder how many death threats Obama\'s getting now.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961902">Ms.Martin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961902" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961902" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.obamain30seconds.org/vote/?t=2%3Cbr%3E%3C/br%3E%3Cbr%3EMoveOn.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.obamain30seconds.org/vote/?t=2<br>&lt;/...</a> is asking for folks to vote on the 30second ad contest for Obama.</br><br></br><br>I personally like the one with the kids making a mess trying to solve the problems of the country and the mom comes in and says who\'s going to clean up this mess, and one of the kids says, "We can hire Obama."</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961903" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961903" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961903">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961903" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961903" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=8215AA90-3048-5C12-0061C552DC2D1F07" rel="nofollow">Dems suspense may be unnecessary</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961904">Texas Girl In L.A.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961904" class="dsq-comment-message">Major Clinton Fundraiser Defects to Obama<br></br><br>From First Read MSNBC</br><br></br><br>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/04/25/946650.aspx</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961905" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961905" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961905">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961905" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961905" class="dsq-comment-message">Here\'s a good read:<br></br><br><a href="http://www.nationaljournal.com/njonline/no_20080425_7012.php" rel="nofollow">Barack\'s campaign manager puts it down</a></br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961906" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961906" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961906">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961906" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961906" class="dsq-comment-message">Thanks, texas girl, that\'s a huge development.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961907">B-Serious</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961907" class="dsq-comment-message">craig, <br></br><br>Thanks for the heads up on the Politico article.</br><br></br><br>It\'s possible that Obama already knows he\'s got this nomination wrapped up.  As the article suggests, Obama might already have the critical mass of super delegates needed to put him over 2025, but they\'re just waiting for the right time.  I\'ll keep my fingers crossed.</br><br></br><br>Looks like we\'re not the only ones who know the black vote is key, if not decisive.</br><br></br><br>From Politico.com:</br><br><i>"The critical mass of Democratic congressmen that has been prepared to endorse Obama when the timing seemed right remains prepared to do so. Their reasons, ones they have held for months, have not changed – and by their very nature are unlikely to. </i></br><br></br><br>Essentially, they are three: </br><br></br><br>(a) Hillary Rodham Clinton is such a polarizing figure that everyone who ever considered voting Republican in November, and even many who never did, will go to the polls to vote against her, thus jeopardizing Democrats down the ticket – i.e., themselves, or, for party leaders, the sizeable majorities they hope to gain in the House and the Senate in November. </br><br></br><br>(b) To take the nomination away from Obama when he is leading in the elected delegate count would deeply alienate the black base of the Democratic Party, and, in the words of one leading Democrat, “The superdelegates are not going to switch their votes and jeopardize the future of the Democratic Party for generations.” Such a move, he said, would also disillusion the new, mostly young, voters who have entered into politics for the first time because of Obama, and lose the votes of independents who could make the critical difference in November.</br><br></br><br>(c) Because the black vote can make the decisive difference in numerous congressional districts, discarding Obama could cost the Democrats numerous seats. </br><br></br><br>One Democratic leader told me, “If we overrule the elected delegates there would be mayhem.” Hillary Rodham Clinton’s claim that she has, or will have, won the popular vote does not impress them – both because of her dubious math and because, as another key Democrat says firmly, “The rules are that it’s the delegates, period.” (These views are closely aligned with Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s statement earlier this year that the superdelegates should not overrule the votes of the elected delegates.)"</br><br></br><br>http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=8215AA90-3048-5C12-0061C552DC2D1F07</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961908">Texas Girl in L.A.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961908" class="dsq-comment-message">Craig,<br></br><br>Yeah, I know. I\'m sure Carville will be calling him a Judas or something like that pretty soon.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961909">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961909" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080424/lf_nm_life/lying_face_dc;_ylt=AisZAacmnDnJSEWkMUkpo0UDW7oF" rel="nofollow">Lying shows in your face - microexpressions</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961910">Ms.Martin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961910" class="dsq-comment-message">The media is continuing to try and talk this nomination in Hillary Clinton\'s direction.  Todoay the discussion is the youth vote; Barack needs to win this - stupid mofos - he\'s winning already.<br></br><br>Obama\'s campaign is working on a 50-state campaign to get out the vote.</br><br></br><br>I am behind him and want to support him, but I\'m skeptical.</br><br></br><br>If I help register voters and the the spineless Democrats give the nomination to HRC, I would feel like the biggest fool alive.</br><br></br><br>I am not voting for Hillary and I\'m not convincing other voters to register so they end up only having Hillary to vote for.</br><br></br><br>Clyburn will be on Countdown tonight.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961911">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961911" class="dsq-comment-message">The Puerto Rican fund raiser and Clinton loyalist that just switched to Obama is the grandson of a popular Puerto Rican politician. The governor of Puerto Rico is an Obama supporter. Puerto Ricans, as far as I\'m aware, aren\'t as anti-Black as, say, certain central and South American Latinos. <br></br><br>This nomination is over.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961912" class="dsq-comment-message">Craig,<br></br><br>This may help him in Puerto Rico. This is good...this is very good. I was reading over at DailyKos...very interesting.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961913" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/04/25/946650.aspx%3Cbr%3E%3C/br%3E%3Cbr%3EBig" rel="nofollow">http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/04/...</a> HRC fundraiser defects to Obama Posted: Friday, April 25, 2008 2:18 PM by Chuck Todd</br><br></br><br>From NBC\'s Chuck Todd</br><br>One of the things that both Dem campaigns are always nervous about is defectors. In particular, Clinton is more vulnerable to this problem since she\'s the candidate that is trailing. Well, NBC News has learned that a major fundraiser for Hillary Clinton, former Amb. to Chile Gabriel Guerra-Mondragon is leaving the campaign to join up Barack Obama\'s campaign. Officially dubbed a "Hillraiser," Guerra-Mondragon raised nearly $500,000 for Clinton\'s campaign, according to some estimates. He has been informing people inside Clintonworld this week in what\'s been described as some tough conversations. A formal announcement of a role for Guerra-Mondragon on Obama\'s national finance committee will be made next week.  Guerra-Mondragon was appointed Amb. to Chile by Pres. Clinton in \'94 and served until \'98. </br><br></br><br>Among the reasons for Guerra-Mondragon to defect, according to one informed source, was he was uneasy with the tone of the Clinton campaign and was beginning to worry about what this would mean for the general election. </br><br></br><br>It\'s unclear if this defection will lead to others; the Clinton camp has been particularly effective at getting folks to keep their powder dry. For Obama, this comes at a time when his campaign is trying to re-convince insiders that the math indicates he has the nomination virtually wrapped up. In addition, Guerra-Mondragon\'s defection could serve as a tipping point with some key Hispanic Democratic leaders that Obama is ready to start making a bigger effort to court Hispanics. </br><br></br><br>Enjoy the weekend all!</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961914">B-Serious</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961914" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>Puerto Ricans, as far as I\'m aware, aren\'t as anti-Black as, say, certain central and South American Latinos.</i><br></br><br>Craig,</br><br></br><br>I don\'t think the Puerto Rican vote can be lumped in with the rest of the "Latino" narrative we\'ve seen in places like the Southwest.</br><br></br><br>Blacks and Puerto Ricans do have their differences.  But I think we\'re more familiar with eachother than with any other Hispanic population.  </br><br></br><br>First you\'ve got the historical, pan-african ties between the two groups.</br><br></br><br>Second, you\'ve got a great deal of intermingling (interracial relationships, etc.).</br><br></br><br>Especially amongst younger generations, blacks and latinos grow up together and basically live in the same neighborhoods.</br><br></br><br>Don\'t forget, Obama won the Latino vote in CT.  Northeast Latinos are Puerto Rican and Dominican.  Much closer to the black community than I think you\'d find with other groups (e.g., Mexicans in the Southwest).</br><br></br><br>It\'s an interesting relationship.  I don\'t mean to suggest it\'s all positive.  But Puerto Rico could surprise a lot of people.  Particularly if the youth vote is high.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961915">Webb</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961915" class="dsq-comment-message">Today was a rough day for me.  Does anyone know of a blog for people with economic difficulties?  A blog for the broke?  I wanted to start a "Blog for the Broke" but someone already beat me to the domain name - brokeblog.com...<br></br><br>Today the ramifications of debt slammed me hard...Solution:  I got 2 make more $$$.  I\'m asking all of the upwardly-mobile JJP Saints to pray for me that I may be able to keep my broadband and continue to make comments on this site.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961916">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961916" class="dsq-comment-message">Jack Cafferty was telling THE TRUTH on CNN. I was shocked. Loved it.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961917">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961917" class="dsq-comment-message">For my experience, I have found that Puerto Ricans have the least issues with Black folk, because they have so many that look like us in their families. <br></br><br>Puerto RIcans ain\'t Mexicans.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961918">amy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961918" class="dsq-comment-message">did anyone watch the wright interview w/moyer on pbs tonight? i thought he did a good job and moyer did a solid job of not making the interview about obama (his name isnt mentioned until the last 5 minutes or so) which should assuage those concerned about the proximity of the interview to the next primaries. as someone who was not familiar with wright outside the comments, I walked away seeing him as a true Christian man of incredible intelligence--pulling quotes from Shakespeare to the book of Genesis.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961919">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961919" class="dsq-comment-message">The interview was outstanding. Obama was an afterthought.<br></br><br>This was all about Wright and his ministry.</br><br></br><br>What a brilliant, humble man.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961920">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961920" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah, i don\'t really watch CNN. What was Jack Cafferty talkin bout?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961921">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961921" class="dsq-comment-message">craig,<br></br><br>He was like, what are you all talking about? Obama has won this. Anything you\'re blathering about is delusional, because Obama IS the Democratic Nominee...he cracked me up.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961922">Angela</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961922" class="dsq-comment-message">If you replay Harball tonight...the gist of his guests\' opinion was the Clintons want to damage Obama enough so Hillary, can run in 2012 if she can\'t get the nomination this year.  One of the pol analysts was a black women...I didn\'t get her name.<br></br><br>So much for the Clinton\'s being the "best and loyal friends" of the black community.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961923">B-Serious</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961923" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>"One of the pol analysts was a black women...I didn\'t get her name."</i><br></br><br>@angela,</br><br></br><br>That black woman is Michelle Bernard.  She\'s a conservative Independent (President/CEO of the Independent Women\'s Forum).  However, she\'s been a very strong Barack supporter so far.</br><br></br><br>I\'ve been impressed with her comments on MSNBC.  She seems to get it.  That there comes a point where identity and pride trumps political affiliation.  </br><br></br><br>And she\'s spoken out against a lot of the Clinton race baiting as well as the race/gender dynamics that prevent Obama from attacking Hillary for fear of being labeled "the angry black man."</br><br></br><br>Now, she could disappoint me come November.  But I have to give her credit where credit is due.  She\'s been one of the bright spots in political punditry over the past few months.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961924">Anonymous</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961924" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04252008/watch.html" rel="nofollow">The full Bill Moyers interview with Rev. Jeremiah Wright</a>.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961925">N. Mahana</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961925" class="dsq-comment-message">That was a great interview with Rev. Wright, of course I still believe his detractors won\'t care and will keep looping the same soundbites over and over.<br></br><br>I found it bittersweet because although it was great to learn more about him and the good things he has done involving his church, he also revealed that his congregation is being harrassed and they are getting death threats.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961926">freespiritbeautee</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961926" class="dsq-comment-message">N.Mahana: I am beyond pissed that I think it\'s disgusting that the TUCC congregation and Rev. Wright are receiving death threats. Is this 1958?  Disgusting!  I am interesed in watching the Moyers show. Thanks for posting.<br></br><br>Webb, your post is hilarious!  LOL!!</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961927">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961927" class="dsq-comment-message">McFraud\'s "clean campaign" continues:<br></br><br><i>"I think not only a repudiation, but an apology for ever having anything to do with an unrepentant terrorist is due the American people," McCain said earlier today.</i></br><br></br><br>He also never bothered to contact the NC GOP and ask them to not run the Wright ads.</br><br></br><br>In 24 hours, he compared Obama to Hamas, Noriega, and Kim Jong-il.</br><br></br><br>He also said he\'d consider tearing down the 9th Ward in New Orleans, and a day later said he doesn\'t remember saying it.</br><br></br><br>Teflon John is a liar, suffering from senility, or both.</br><br></br><br>By November, he\'ll be all scratched up and a whole lots gonna stick to him if he keeps going down this road.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961928">D.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961928" class="dsq-comment-message">Craig,<br>The campaign did contact the NC GOP about the ad. </br><br></br><br>I don\'t understand why people keep thinking McCain is suddenly giving the GOP direction because he\'s the nominee. Expect Obama to be held to the same standard if he\'s the democratic nominee-and don\'t cry foul when it happens.</br><br></br><br>Hamas seems to have a liking for Obama. Wonder why that is?</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961929">Anonymous</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961929" class="dsq-comment-message">"Hamas seems to have a liking for Obama. Wonder why that is?"<br></br><br>Probably because he has stated that he would sit down and talk with our enemies, and hasn\'t bothered with bullshit hawkish posturing by threatening to obliterate a country and her people - innocent or not.</br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961930" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961930">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961930" class="dsq-comment-message">@ d<br></br><br><i>Hamas seems to have a liking for Obama. Wonder why that is?</i></br><br></br><br>..so does Canada, Egypt, Colombia, France, Brazil, Japan, Germany, Italy..</br><br></br><br>What\'s your point?</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961931">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961931" class="dsq-comment-message">So,<br></br><br>Rev. Wright had a chat with Moyers who did a good job of filling in the \'blanks\' of the Reverend\'s life.  Then, later Tubbs-Jones was on a CNN panel and did not miss the opportunity to twist the knife into Barack about Wright\'s comment that Barack was only saying what a politician says.  She made sure to say that she, as a politician only tells the truth.</br><br></br><br>So much harm has been done to humanity under the mantle of religious righteousness and the ordinary men who take up that mantle.  Really, how can you be wrong when you speak "God\'s word"?  Nevermind if that "word" is killing you.</br><br></br><br>Beware of those who call themselves "shepherds" and you the "flock".</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961932">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961932" class="dsq-comment-message">And the Netherlands, and Denmark, and South Africa, and Australia, Obama in Japan, and...<br></br><br>John McCain did not personally contact the NC GOP. He claimed he had done everything he could to get them to pull the ad. </br><br></br><br>He\'s a liar.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961933">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961933" class="dsq-comment-message">truthseeker, <br></br><br>Tubbs-Jones is a, well.... I can\'t call her a domesticated animal because that would be terribly inappropriate.</br><br></br><br>Terribly. </br><br></br><br>She\'s an smart, intelligent Black woman, no?</br><br></br><br>She\'s also as well trained as my dog.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961934">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961934" class="dsq-comment-message">Anybody seeing those earth ads that have two people from opposing views?<br></br><br>Al Sharpton and Pat Robertson talking about saving the planet? Liberals and conservatives coming together to enact change?</br><br></br><br>How timely.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961935">D.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961935" class="dsq-comment-message">Craig,<br>And you know this...how?</br><br></br><br>Emails were sent from the campaign and the RNC to get the NC GOP to pull the ad. The state GOP organizations do not all take their marching orders from the RNC.</br><br></br><br>A different thought as to why Hamas wants Obama: possibly because he seems to love the idea of negotiating with terrorists and rogue states. </br><br></br><br>Course, when one of your closest associates is a terrorist himself....then it makes sense.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961936">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961936" class="dsq-comment-message">@ craig hickman,<br></br><br>Tubbs-Jones is rabid in her support of Hillary.  I don\'t know if the Clinton\'s have dirt on her or if they\'ve promised her something.  Anyway, her zealotry is not to be trusted.</br><br></br><br>I hadn\'t realized how many former Clinton donors had jumped ship to Obama; whereas, none of Obama\'s donors who\'ve maxed out to his campaign, have donated to Clinton. The devil is in the details.</br><br></br><br><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/25/AR2008042503707_2.html?hpid=topnews&amp;sid=ST2008042504037" rel="nofollow">Party Fears Racial Divide</a></br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961937">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961937" class="dsq-comment-message">@ d<br></br><br><i>A different thought as to why Hamas wants Obama: possibly because he seems to love the idea of negotiating with terrorists and rogue states.</i></br><br></br><br>Ya know...your obsession with Hamas is a little suspect.  Are you sure you\'re not a terrorist yourself?</br><br></br><br>One man\'s \'rogue\' is another man\'s \'government\'.  Republican\'s have taken America to the brink of disaster.  Everyone around the world can see that.  It\'s time to wake up and let go of this insane partisanship before it\'s too late.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961938">D.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961938" class="dsq-comment-message">Truth,<br>As someone who\'s stood on the line to protect this country, your comment\'s almost offensive.</br><br></br><br>What I am obsessed with is electing a president who is well suited-by virtue of his experience and knowledge- of the true threats to this country.</br><br></br><br>To blindly suggest that you\'re willing to meet with leaders who oppress their people (N. Korea), terrorize other countries (Hamas) or swear the destruction of other nations (Iran) does not inspire confidence.</br><br></br><br>This isn\'t about partisanship. This is about who is the best qualified to lead our nation to victory in the war against terror and jihadist thought.</br><br></br><br>Obama doesn\'t want to fight-much less win-that war.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961939">N. Mahana</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961939" class="dsq-comment-message">D<br></br><br>OMG stop the guilt by association Bullshit! So that means everyone and I mean everyone that\'s come in contact with Ayers at a party, gathering, at UIC or that Starbucks clerk that chit chats with him everyday when he buys his elitist cappuccino is connected to his terrorist past?</br><br></br><br>He\'s as much a terrorist as Bobby Rush but then again Clinton defended Bobby Seales, so now who is really associating with supposed  domestic terrorism.</br><br></br><br>Radical sixties domestic terrorists were mainstream and no issue (hint hint: Patty hearst) until now.</br><br></br><br>How about the right shut down the midwestern Militia groups, Christian fundamentalists that send kiddies to summer camp to train them as soldiers of god or anti-abortion groups that threaten and terrorize women and doctors, not to mention??</br><br></br><br>Those people are doing shit in the here and now...where\'s the outrage, where\'s the decry for them to stop, where\'s the Justice in that...??</br><br></br><br>Disingenuous</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961940">N. Mahana</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961940" class="dsq-comment-message">Sorry for my bad writing but I\'m just sick and tired of being sick and tired of crab barrel mentality using falsehoods and disingenuous tactics.<br></br><br>If you had an ex con brother does that disqualify you from being Attorney General?</br><br></br><br>Does anything your family, friends and associates do disqualify you from having any job, when YOU are not the one participating in or enabling such acts?</br><br></br><br>Please, challenge Obama on his U.S. Senate record and State Senate record but tying him to Hamas and terrorism is just too fucked up for words.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961941">D.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961941" class="dsq-comment-message">Where to begin...<br></br><br>1. Hamas has stated-publically-that they would like to see Obama become president. That\'s not falsehood, it\'s fact.</br><br></br><br>2. Unfortunately for the Obamaists, the company he keeps is now being called into question. Does anyone really believe Obama\'s a terrorist? Probably not.</br><br></br><br>But to associate-and do so closely, unlike someone who serves Mr. Ayers coffee or any other of the scenarios listed above-with someone who advocated the violent overthrow of our government is a problem.</br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961942" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961942">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961942" class="dsq-comment-message">@ d<br></br><br>I find your suggestion that Obama is suspect because of Hamas statements highly offensive.  So, you stood on the line only to turn around and smear a fellow American because a foreign government is complimentary?    And for what?  Just so your party can win?  This is patriotism of convenience.  This is a patriotism that cannibalizes it\'s own.  Who is the TRUE enemy?</br><br></br><br>Your government may be overthrown, but it won\'t be violent.  It will be the Chinese, quietly, gently calling in their loans  while you\'re busy accusing fellow Americans of guilt by association.  How stupid is that?</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961943">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961943" class="dsq-comment-message">@ d<br></br><br>You\'re a terrorist because I said so.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961944">D.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961944" class="dsq-comment-message">Truth,<br>Thanks. Been called worse by less. When you\'ve worn the uniform of this nation, then you can question my patriotism.</br><br></br><br>Obama was suspect before Hamas came around. </br><br></br><br>I call into question ANYONE-regardless of party-who does not understand who we fight, why we fight, and what happens if we lose.</br><br></br><br>We can can solve the China problem, God willing, without firing a shot.</br><br></br><br>But when you\'ve stared across a cell at someone who believes it is his religious duty to kill you and your countrymen, then you\'re left with no doubt of who the true enemy is.</br><br></br><br>I\'ve had that experience. Have you?</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961945">Michelle</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961945" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>terrorize other countries (Hamas) or swear the destruction of other nations (Iran) </i><br></br><br>Oh no. No. I can\'t not say something about this one.</br><br></br><br>Israel -- a place where I supposedly have "right of return" as a Jewish-ancestry person, assuming they got over the "not if you\'re gay" part which I have heard they have -- is in my eyes an illegitimate nation-state. Because a European Christian colonial power "gave" this state to European Jews in the context of Europe terrorizing us for centuries and dominating the Middle East during a particular time period where we could be used by Western Christian nations for their purpose (and we agreed, I\'m sorry to say). </br><br></br><br>For whatever reason, whether it was that we had become more European than anything else, or because of the context of being terrorized by European Christians and wanting to be on the side of powerful ones even though they had hurt us so much -- the state of Israel has made a terrible bargain with the very type of powers that have hurt Jews in the past. Israel functions as a Western and US proxy in the Middle East. Like the US, it acts like a terrorist. </br><br></br><br>My own memory is long. I understand that the fear and reaction to being terrorized by European Christians has, for some European-ancestry Jews at least, been channeled into fear of *the Arabs.* And then a struggle created by actual takeover of land in a colonial context gives apparent reality to this threat that becomes justification for more violence against the very people who have been wronged (but they\'re less than human, right? I\'ve heard that before).</br><br></br><br>And this redirection pushes the current struggle outside of current and historical reality for some of us ... and into a fake landscape where Hamas is a terrorist attacking Israel, Israel has a temporary mantle of "not a threat" in the Western Christian eyes, and some of us might look to white Christians like Hillary Clinton to "protect" us (I know her kind and she would be happy to hurt us if it helped her aspirations).  And it\'s just fine to take people\'s lands and homes and hurt them and if they have the audacity to *object* to this and even fight back well then they are terrorists and bad. </br><br></br><br>I see the flow of this illusion and it upsets me for a lot of reasons. Including the fact that it lets European Christian nations and their cultural offspring (the US) totally off the hook because all of a sudden European/white Christian nation-states are supposed to be our friends (despite their ongoing terrorist acts against us over and over throughout Europe for centuries).</br><br></br><br>If (and I do mean IF because frankly I don\'t see much of it so far) Senator Obama is willing to speak about and treat Hamas and others like actual humans instead of cardboard cut-outs and symbolic lightening rods for various kinds of fear and guilt and projection -- I support him doing that. In fact I wish he would do more of that, because he hasn\'t near done enough about this and has in some ways evaded the situation.  </br><br></br><br>So if I have any criticism of him on this it\'s that he hasn\'t done enough. And still he gets criticized and held to the usual impossible standards in which he is suspect by default.</br><br></br><br>And about the Middle East: it makes me sick when people in power talk about hurting other nations implicitly or explicitly on "my" behalf. The dynamics are complex. I know in my bones that the <b>very same ones</b> who claim, in their white Christian benevolence, to be about helping and protecting Israel (functioning symbolically as "the Jews") by hurting other peoples and nations will, if and when the time comes, happily  let it function as the scapegoat and let "the Jews" take the rap for all of the horrors that Western Christian nations are doing supposedly to help us.</br><br></br><br>Lots of illusion to cut through. Lots and lots. Senator Obama hasn\'t done near enough on this, in fact he has said things that IMO perpertuate the illusion (the one part of his race speech that made me cringe was the part about radical Islam). </br><br></br><br>But despite his actual stance, he STILL gets hit with associations with supposed "terrorists." It\'s part of the same pattern. Ugh.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961946">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961946" class="dsq-comment-message">@ d<br></br><br>That \'I wear the uniform so I\'m entitled\' bullcrap is not gonna fly.</br><br></br><br>For those who\'ve stared across a cell at a religious fanatic and are traumatized by it...should get therapy and not unleash that trauma on the nation at large.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961947">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961947" class="dsq-comment-message">d.,<br></br><br>I know it because I heard the head of the NC GOP say it on MSNBC.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961948">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961948" class="dsq-comment-message">Here\'s the truth about William Ayers which the MSM won\'t tell you, as published in the NYT:<br></br><br> <i>September 16, 2001</i></br><br>    Weekend of Heartache: Let Us Honor the Dead; A Different Landscape</br><br></br><br>    To the Editor:</br><br>    Re a Sept. 16 New York Times Magazine interview with me and your Sept. 11 Arts pages profile:</br><br>    The barbarism unleashed against innocent human beings on Sept. 11 has in an instant transformed the complex landscape of American consciousness. I\'m filled with horror and grief for those murdered and harmed, for their families and for all affected forever.</br><br>    \'\'Fugitive Days,\'\' the memoir I\'ve written about my participation in the Weather Underground and the antiwar movement and the events of 30 years ago, is now receiving attention in a radically changed context.</br><br>    My book is a condemnation of terrorism in all its forms. We are witnessing crimes against humanity. The intent of my book was and is to understand, to tell the truth and to heal.</br><br></br><br>    BILL AYERS</br><br>    Chicago, Sept. 14, 2001</br><br></br><br><a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C06E3D6163BF935A2575AC0A9679C8B63&amp;scp=1&amp;sq=weekend+of+heartache+ayers&amp;st=nyt" rel="nofollow">The Letter</a></br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961949">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961949" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'d love to see Rev. Wright, who has worn the uniform of this nation, debate d. and pick apart his so-called patriotism for the jingoistic, warmongering, fearmongering bullshit that it is.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961950">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961950" class="dsq-comment-message">Michelle, thank you for that.<br></br><br>One of my best friends in college had a Palestinian mother and a Jewish father.</br><br></br><br>I spent many Thanksgivings in their Philadelphia home, and I heard many many versions of your essay from his entire family.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961951">D.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961951" class="dsq-comment-message">No one hates war more than a veteran. The horrors of it live with you forever. Ask McCain.<br></br><br>If I\'m a "warmongerer" because I believe my country should take proactive steps to end the threat of extremism to our country, I\'ll be that.</br><br></br><br>I don\'t make my points to scare people. I make them so that you all realize what one part of the bigger picture is: that regardless of whether you feel it\'s an imminent threat or not, our way of life IS under attack.</br><br></br><br>I don\'t think Rev. Wright would disagree with that. Hell, I don\'t think most of you-if you really stopped to think about it, and read some of the things al-Qaeda has said about wanting to destroy democracy-would disagree either.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961952">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961952" class="dsq-comment-message">Can you please define my way of life?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961953">Felicia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961953" class="dsq-comment-message">d said:<br><i>"When you\'ve worn the uniform of this nation, then you can question my patriotism."</i></br><br></br><br>Okay--I can\'t let this go.  Weren\'t people questioning Rev. Wright\'s patriotism, and he was a marine?  But it doesn\'t matter because he\'s Obama\'s pastor.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961954">Michelle</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961954" class="dsq-comment-message">Craig Hickman, thank you so much for what you wrote about your friend and his family and what you heard them talking about. I can\'t even find words to say what it means to me to know that. Thank you is the best I\'ve got and it\'s not nearly sufficient.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961955">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961955" class="dsq-comment-message">"If someone endorses me, it doesn\'t mean that I agree with their views."<br></br><br>Who said that?</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961956">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961956" class="dsq-comment-message">michelle, it seems we both needed to hear it.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961957">D.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961957" class="dsq-comment-message">We\'re a free people, Craig. We\'re a country that operates under democratic principles...which are incompatible with sharia.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961958">N. Mahana</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961958" class="dsq-comment-message">d<br></br><br>You are entitled? So no one is a better American than you. Well I don\'t boast about "wearing the uniform but... I am a veteran too, I joined the army out of highschool in 95 and thank gawd I got out of that shit before this dumb Iraq war came around.</br><br></br><br>So whose more entitled you or I...is it only Iraq the sequel war veterans...or any veteran? Everyone else should stay home and not vote because only you and those like you deserve a say in this country\'s direction.</br><br></br><br></br><br>Also to your earlier comment. You tell me what the private discussions were between Obama and Ayers then your guilt by association would have some merit. Were they plotting to take down the American government...were they making pipe bombs in Obama\'s basement?</br><br></br><br>I mean if you are going to insinuate then go all the way, but this is typical...float a bit of nonsense out there and then claim you are only asking reasonable questions.</br><br></br><br>How does Ayers actions and statements from 1968 relate to    the man Barack Obama in 2008?</br><br></br><br>Are black panthers terrorists?</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961959">D.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961959" class="dsq-comment-message">N,<br></br><br>As a veteran, you should be a bit upset by anyone who\'d question your patriotism...unless you joined up for a benefit and really don\'t care about the country. </br><br></br><br>(and if that\'s true, fair enough: you\'ll lose no respect from me)</br><br></br><br>Agree or disagree on the war, veterans share a certain perspective that is lost on civilian life.</br><br></br><br>I haven\'t once said Obama is a terrorist because he hung out with Ayers. Part of our judgement of people is by the company they keep. If I put my picture with Karl Rove up here, there\'s no telling what\'d be said about me. (ok, I KNOW what would be said....)</br><br></br><br>Far as the Black Panthers...I\'d have to check the definition of terrorism. It\'s possible they would be considered terrorists, but I\'m not sure.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961960">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961960" class="dsq-comment-message">YouTube video by \'miat1111\'.  clips of Hardball.  Michele Bernard and Tucker comment on Clyburn\'s statement. Clips of Clinton\'s response to genocide in Rwanda and Haitian refugee crisis.  The "lynching" of Obama by the Clinton\'s.<br></br><br>suffice it to say, miat is not fond of the Clinton\'s.</br><br></br><br><a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=n_s0Fp5-2So" rel="nofollow">Video</a></br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961961">Anonymous</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961961" class="dsq-comment-message">Earl Hutchinson\'s showing off his new tap dance shoes on Huff Post, basically blaming Wright for the media taking his comments out of context.<br></br><br>~ Sepia</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961962" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961962" class="dsq-comment-message">Did anyone see Susan Rice on CNN this AM?  She was on a panel with a foreign policy adviser for Hillary and I think she obliterated him.  They were interviewed by Wolf.  Check it out if you can.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1961963">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961963" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961963" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961963">Texas Girl in L.A.</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961963" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961963" class="dsq-comment-message">Obama get another superdelegate endorsment:<br></br><br>Charlene Fernandez of Arizona </br><br></br><br>His 241st Superdelegate endorsement</br></div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1961964">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961964" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961964" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961964">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961964" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961964" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/34931.html" rel="nofollow">If Clinton Can\'t Run her Campaign, how will she run the White House?</a></div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1961965">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961965" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961965" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961965">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961965" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961965" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>One of the pol analysts was a black women...I didn\'t get her name."<br></br><br>@angela,</br><br></br><br>That black woman is Michelle Bernard. She\'s a conservative Independent (President/CEO of the Independent Women\'s Forum). However, she\'s been a very strong Barack supporter so far.</br><br></br><br>I\'ve been impressed with her comments on MSNBC. She seems to get it. That there comes a point where identity and pride trumps political affiliation. </br><br></br><br>And she\'s spoken out against a lot of the Clinton race baiting as well as the race/gender dynamics that prevent Obama from attacking Hillary for fear of being labeled "the angry black man."</br><br></br></i><br></br><br>Angela,</br><br></br><br>B-serious is correct. </br><br></br><br>Michelle Bernard has criticized Obama -ON POLICY. </br><br></br><br>She\'s a Republican, so she\'s SUPPOSED to criticize him ON POLICY. </br><br></br><br>But, PERSONAL ATTACKS?</br><br></br><br>I think I\'ve seen every one of her appearances on MSNBC in the past six months - she has NEVER attacked Obama -PERSONALLY.</br><br></br><br>I\'ve written before about her. </br><br></br><br>It\'s quite obvious that, as a BLACK WOMAN, she has a lot of pride about Obama\'s run. And, she has made it clear in the language that she uses about Obama...</br><br></br><br>She\'s called him \' The American Dream\'...a Black \' Horatio Alger\'...representing \' the best and brightest\'. She has routinely shown a great deal of pride about Obama\'s run. When she\'s had policy differences, she\'s brought them up. But, she\'s been far more respectful of Obama than ANY of the HHH. I told you that she called a spade a spade last week on David Gregory\'s show and said that the Clintons would pull THE RACE CARD in explaining away a North Carolina win by Obama. She was very contemptuous of The Clintons, and how they were dismissive of the Black vote.</br></div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1961966">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961966" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961966" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961966">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961966" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961966" class="dsq-comment-message">From The Boston Globe<br></br><br><a href="http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2008/04/27/hillary_strangelove/?page=full" rel="nofollow">Hillary Strangelove</a></br></div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-1961967">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961967" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961967" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961967">TruthSeeker</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961967" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961967" class="dsq-comment-message">Did y\'all watch the Rev. Wright speech on CNN?  ...I tuned into the last few minutes only but what I heard was good.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1961968">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961968" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961968" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961968">Ms.Martin</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961968" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961968" class="dsq-comment-message">Truth<br></br><br>I caught the last half of it and what I saw was true and to the point - a less guarded speech on race and an explanation of the black church.</br><br></br><br>Bravo!</br><br></br><br>Some folks aren\'t going to like it and the pundits will of course pick it apart, but they won\'t forget it.</br></div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1961969">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961969" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961969" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961969">Ms.Martin</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961969" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961969" class="dsq-comment-message">Rikyrah<br></br><br>Your description of Michelle Bernard is on point.</br><br></br><br>She is the only Republican pundit who I have seen thus far who has not disrespected SBO at all for any reason, even their policy differences.</br><br></br><br>She is clearly proud of him and feeling all of our angst about the race-baiting, and, not afraid to speak loud about it.</br></div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1961970">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961970" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961970" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961970">Craig Hickman</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961970" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961970" class="dsq-comment-message">I thought Michelle Barnard was an Independent.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1961971">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961971" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961971" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961971">Texas Girl in L.A.</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961971" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961971" class="dsq-comment-message">I was thinking the same thing, Craig.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1961972">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961972" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961972" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961972">N. Mahana</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961972" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961972" class="dsq-comment-message">If anyone finds a link to Rev Wright\'s speech would you please post it here. I missed it and would love to see it. I did see Obama this afternoon on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace and he, in my opinion, did really good answering the questions.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1961973">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961973" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961973" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961973">TruthSeeker</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961973" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961973" class="dsq-comment-message">If you get CNN they\'re running the whole thing again at 11pm I think.  They\'re doing clips now and reactions.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-1961974">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961974" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961974" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961974">TruthSeeker</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961974" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961974" class="dsq-comment-message">Ha!  Did you guys see that Ron Paul supporters shut down the Nevada GOP convention?  It\'s on HuffPo.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-1961975">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961975" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961975" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961975">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961975" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961975" class="dsq-comment-message">truthseeker,<br></br><br>I don\'t think I\'ll ever get the image of the Ron Paul supporters chasing Sean Hannity down the street - literally - in New Hampshire out of my head. They cracked me up.</br></div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1961976">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961976" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961976" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961976">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961976" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961976" class="dsq-comment-message">From The New Yorker:<br></br><br></br><br><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2008/05/05/080505ta_talk_lizza" rel="nofollow">Bill vs. Barack</a></br></div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-1961977">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961977" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961977" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961977">Ms.Martin</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961977" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961977" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah<br></br><br>I just read that Bill v. Barack story and I really understand just how pissed the Clintons are.  At first, I thought it was just politics; I thought they were just playing the game to get votes, but now I understand how much they really don\'t like Barack Obama.</br><br></br><br>I never heard about what Bill said when he thought he was off camera.</br></div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-1961978">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961978" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961978" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961978">TruthSeeker</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961978" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961978" class="dsq-comment-message">Now, if Barack was evil, he would keep needling Bill, and get him to completely lose it on camera.<br></br><br></br><br></br><br>@ Rikyrah</br><br></br><br>I just watched that on YT.  I don\'t know dissent tickles me so.</br></div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-1961979">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961979" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961979" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961979">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961979" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961979" class="dsq-comment-message">Some things just make you laugh:<br></br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/27/mccain-calls-obama-insens_n_98882.html" rel="nofollow">McCain calls Obama insensitive to poor people</a></br><br></br><br>Now, nevermind that Obama is the only one who actually worked IN THE PROJECTS. </br><br></br><br>The thought of saying this at a $2300/ticket fundraiser in CORAL GABLES....</br><br></br><br>Unbelievable.</br></div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-1961980">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961980" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961980" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961980">Texas Girl in L.A.</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961980" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961980" class="dsq-comment-message">ms martin,<br></br><br>yeah, it\'s pure hate. Bill has been showing his ass for some time now. What people are seeing in Barack..attracting crowds and what not is what they saw in him back in the day. And he is not happy.</br><br></br><br>The phone conversation was hilarious. I wonder how he feels about Clyburn speaking out.</br></div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-1961981">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961981" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961981" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961981">Ms.Martin</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961981" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961981" class="dsq-comment-message">Texas Girl<br></br><br>Bill might just lose it after this.</br><br></br><br>I would like to know what that Clinton adviser knows.</br></div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-1961982">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961982" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961982" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961982">Texas Girl in L.A.</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961982" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961982" class="dsq-comment-message">truthseeker,<br></br><br>I think Bill WILL lose it by the end of the run. Then man has doubled the number of campaign stops and maximized his schedule...so...that leaves no room to think or breathe. That fool is going to blow his fuse on camera.</br></div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-1961983">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961983" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961983" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961983">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961983" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961983" class="dsq-comment-message">About the Dr. Wright speech...Fox couldn\'t help themselves....they used a police tape as their banner during the Wright speech. <br></br><br>Sigh......</br></div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-1961984">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961984" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961984" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961984">TruthSeeker</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961984" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961984" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.hiphopmusic.com/2008/04/rev_wright_naacp_speech_video.html" rel="nofollow">Rev Wright NAACP speech</a></div>\
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