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"forum": "jackandjillpolitics", "is_initial_load": true, "is_authenticated": false, "timestamp": "2009-12-09_18:24:51", "remote_domain": "", "page": 1, "is_moderator": false, "display_username": "", "points": null, "subscribe_on_post": 2, "moderator_can_edit": false, "is_remote": false, "is_verified": false, "missing_perm": "login"}, "realtime_paused": false, "posts": {"3605504": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You're the one who suggested our actions caused their reactions.<br><br>Let's try this: how would. YOU deal with them?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_18:47:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3605314, "depth": 13, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3606017": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "PE Obama <a href=\"http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1108/Obama_apologizes_to_Nancy_Reagan.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"> calls Nancy Reagan to apologize about presser comment.</a><br><br>LOL! No, I guess this is serious...I shouldn't laugh but...whatever...stay away from the jokes dude!<br><br>T.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_19:30:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "d6755b31010b50fc47eac9ee8b3bb319", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3597318": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "KLEENEX ALERT:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/06/AR2008110603948.html?nav=emailpage\" rel=\"nofollow\">A (White House) Butler Well Served by This Election</a><br><br>Be sure to check out the slideshow too.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_14:57:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3600392": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"The purpose of all war is ultimately peace.\"<br><br>No one likes war, least of all those who worn the uniform. We recognize its occasional necessity, but trust...it ain't sport.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_16:52:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3599354, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3597833": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "WIth 4 big burly men in dark suits sitting directly behind them.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_15:24:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3596367, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3607307": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Well, Barack called his beloved grandmother a typical white person. My husband tends to refer to certain of his characteristics as typical Dutch.<br><br>What's interesting about Doris Kearns Goodwin is that she suggested a typical AA home is one with two strong parents, one of whom went to work everyday, even with a disability, who made sure their children got good educations<br><br>I guess typical in these contexts don't bother me so much but I certainly understand why it can sound like nail on chalkboard.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_21:11:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3606456, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3594252": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Wonderful!<br><br>I believe NOW that THE USA on the photo \"already\" existed, but IT really needed a Figure like Obama to strength it.<br><br>I really HOPE Afro-Americans to JUMP on the boat, they lost the one from the 60's, to lose this ONE will be disastrous!<br><br>Remember NO relationship is one sided.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_12:06:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "ochyming", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3599106": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Beautiful pictures of the Obama Family before and after election night speech:<br><br><a href=\"http://flickr.com/photos/barackobamadotcom/sets/72157608716313371/show/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://flickr.com/photos/barackobamadotcom/sets...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_16:29:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mythe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3594254": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "What we need is a <i>strong</I>, young, black conservative voice (besides Michael Steele).<br><br>Instead, all the black conservatives I've seen are all puss......um, <i>punks</i>.</i>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_12:06:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3593648, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3605848": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_19:14:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3604209, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3594771": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/07/malia-obama-see-how-shes_n_141836.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Malia Obama: See How She's Grown</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_12:30:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3597145": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The Republicans are really, really, really pissy about Rahm Emanuel...I LOVE IT, LOVE IT, LOVE IT...And yes, they should be scurred.<br><br>Rahm is a \"New Age Al Capone\"...Our President-Elect has made an excellent choice.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_14:47:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "Webb", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3606040": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I agree 100% with posey.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_19:32:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "a43f021c11b2e6b394c6c3002f6cece0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3606044": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "A person can refer to themselves however they want to. He didn't malign anybody else by calling himself a mutt.<br><br>Let the folks carry on. I guess they'll be asking for him to resign before he even gets started.<br><br>I laughed when he said it, just like you did.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_19:33:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3605484, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3594270": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Chicago Judge Mugged Near Obama\u2019s House on Election Eve<br><br>Posted 1 hour, 22 minutes ago<br>By Debra Cassens Weiss<br><br>A Chicago judge who lives a few blocks from Barack Obama in the city's Hyde Park neighborhood was mugged on her front porch the evening before the election.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.abajournal.com/news/chicago_judge_mugged_near_obamas_house_on_election_eve\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.abajournal.com/news/chicago_judge_mu...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_12:07:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3606047": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "What is there to negotiate? The Poles have given permission, and the Czechs may well do so.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_19:33:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3605936, "depth": 15, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3605936": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You started off by claiming WE are protecting Poland and the Czech Republic supposedly from Russia...which is unfounded since I don't recall any threat to them from Russia's behalf.<br><br>Not only is there suspicion about the missile system. but their is also a race from both the US and Russia on securing the upper hand as far as \"black gold\" or oil is concerned.  And I particularly happen to think that the \"energy\" race has influenced our foreign policy more than anything.<br><br>But it is very worthy to note that a majority of Czechs did not even approve of this missile system---quite possibly because it leads to \"Cold War\" type tensions.<br><br>If missile had been placed by russia along the Mexican border, Cuba, Haiti and so forth, there would be an outcry on our behalf. PERIOD.<br><br>At this time becasue of the heightened tension, negotiations  and talks are the  prudent answer period.  I am tired of hawkishness.<br><br>Our country financially and psychologically cannot afford more conflicts, especially not one with Russia.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_19:23:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3605504, "depth": 14, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3593250": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I'm slowly approaching the point of \"f--k the GOP.\" They \"change\" they want is to drive out the moderates and go even <i>further</i> to the right.<br><br>Maybe after another drubbing in '12, they'll begin to see the light.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_11:09:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3593167, "depth": 5, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3606534": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yeah it is all over the place. Who knows if he will address it, with other matters of importance going on, but they are already stealing from him and us by being on this trip. We all witnessed them treating him like any other n*gger during the primary season. Everyone knows McCain's supporters weren't pissed off about some harmless, \"not really black\" man. No telling what else the President-Elect has gone through in his daily life with the skin he's in yet they won't even let him wear the title of black man for fear it might give one of us too much credit? He can bare all the mistreatment and unfairness that comes with being black when it's convenient for them, but when he's doing well--they strip it away? It's an insult.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_20:13:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "a43f021c11b2e6b394c6c3002f6cece0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3606456, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3593767": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The New York Times' website has a neat interactive map that lets you compare this past Tuesday's election returns to that of the 2004 election.  <br><br><a href=\"http://elections.nytimes.com/2008/results/president/map.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://elections.nytimes.com/2008/results/presi...</a><br><br>One really neat thing to take note of is the voting shifts feature.  It can show you changes in voting patterns vs 2004 at the county level.   Perhaps it is the best evidence of Howard Dean's 50 state strategy, as the overwhelming majority of individual counties/parishes showed a shift to Democrats.  Some observations: <br><br>**For whatever reason, most of the counties in Tennessee, Arkansas, and southern Louisiana, and eastern Oklahoma tilted more Republican.  <br>**Both Mississippi and South Carolina appeared to tilt more Democratic than Alabama did. <br>**In my home state of Alabama, folks north of Birmingham/Jefferson County favored the GOP more, joining most of Tennessee.  Most of the counties south of B/JC tilted to the Dems.  (A potential move to Montgomery looks even more promising.)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_11:40:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "Nate_Wesley", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3606057": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Damn. That just messed me up.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_19:34:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3597318, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3592239": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Those pics are America's future at its best.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_10:07:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "80dbd3ee6caa6e9b2c51d4d564ee1bfd", "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}, "3596857": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "lol<br><br>The poor kid will be picked apart. But don't worry....some brave youngster will take his chances!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_14:30:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3596385, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3594300": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "A Texas Longhorns football player  learns why racist Obama Facebook updates are dumb:<br><br><a href=\"http://ncaafootball.fanhouse.com/2008/11/06/texas-c-buck-burnette-learns-why-racist-obama-facebook-updates-a/#comments\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://ncaafootball.fanhouse.com/2008/11/06/tex...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_12:08:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "Nate_Wesley", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3606591": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>I'm literally rolling my eyes...</i><br><br><br>So Am I.......Ughhhhhhhhhh", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_20:19:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3606456, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3604035": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "D:  With all due respect, I believe that I just did.<br><br>I know that YOU jes gotta be YOU.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tme4pZWqJZs\" rel=\"nofollow\">I GOTTA BE ME (Sammy Davis Jr.)</a><br><br>ENJOY!!!!   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_17:10:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3602874, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3601477": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Miranda:  \"Whycome\" I APPRECIATE YOUR words?  Because they are TRUE!!  :&gt;)<br><br>THANK YOU for giving me this perspective!!  :&gt;)<br><br>NOW, I'll be less **head shaking***   :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_16:53:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3599354, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3597894": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "True, it is.<br><br>But there's not a whole hell of a lot Bush can do about it, at this stage in the game. <br><br>I halfway wonder would this have happened if McCain won, but that's not my main concern. My biggest worry is that as the days go on, more and more of this type of behavior is gonna start to show up. It proves Biden's statement, but you can't help but be a little concerned...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_15:27:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 12, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3597549, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3599434": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Those are all assets. But in some cultures, they can also be perceived as weaknesses. Calmness can easily be mistaken for aloofness.<br><br>My biggest problem with Obama has been in areas of foreign policy and how he would deal with countries like Russia and Iran. Reagan was able to talk the Russians down, but he made it completely clear that if it came down to it, he'd destroy them. Obama doesn't have that option (without going nuclear), so he needs to show strength <i>from the beginning</i>.<br><br>I understand that most are more concerned about problems here at home, but-as Obama said himself-the president should be able to deal with more than one thing at a time. Yes, the economy's a big deal, and I'm not trying to lessen its significance...but at the same time, other nations are seeing a window of opportunity to act fools, thinking we're at our knees.<br><br>And Obama should remind them that, current difficulties aside, we can still take care of business if/when we need to.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_16:45:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3599207, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3593803": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Damn, Town.  That hurt :)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_11:43:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "60266805bc0d9559a62514e1e769b750", "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": 3593560, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3606605": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "It has become obvious that gov Palin is not going away. Nor is her ignorance and actions. Black snob has a take on it you should read:<br><a href=\"http://blacksnob.blogspot.com/2008/11/say-it-to-her-face-les-bitches-you-all.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://blacksnob.blogspot.com/2008/11/say-it-to...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_20:20:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "RobM", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3611726": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I agree.  I guess I am missing something here.  Obama has a bi-racial ethnicity and a multi-racial upbringing.  I have heard bi-racial friends (White/Black) refer to themselves as Black and as mutts.  I didn't think anything of it then, and I don't think anything of it now.<br><br>I feel like if people start to over analyze things they will drive themselves crazy.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_22:05:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "ef781b639c890767ebd1ce99011c3afa", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3605388, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3596367": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Clearly Barack doesn't play, so this scenario is likely to happen at some point within the next 8 years.<br><br>Maybe POTUS will let her invite a date to see a movie with her in the White House theater.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_13:59:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "60266805bc0d9559a62514e1e769b750", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3595755, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3598418": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "After the exclamation of \"We are all Georgians,\" I am sure that the same thing would have occurred.  <br><br>Like you've said many times before, history has told us that \"tests\" occur irregardless of who is in office.  The Bush administration were given many, many warnings before 9/11....and the country even experienced the Cole bombing during the 2000 presidential campaign, so we knew fundamentalist activities were rising....so  the inaction of Bush was blaring.  Remember, Bush spent a LARGE portion of his first months of the presidency on vacation ( I think it was even reported as a record for a president).<br><br>Of course now we live in a very different world where our leaders are alert and take nothing for granted.  And I am convinced that the departing Bush administration and the incoming administration are<br>not taking anything for granted.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_15:52:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 11, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3597894, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3618915": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "ROFLMAO<br><br>Hilarious, and accurate", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-08_01:37:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3615959, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3593813": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Presidential appointments and transition information on change.gov", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_11:44:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mythe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3607128": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "rikyrah:  So I guess that THIS is NOT true EITHER!??<br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/07/sarah-palin-spent-40000-o_n_142247.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">SARAH PALIN SPENT $40,000 On Luxury Goods For TODD</a><br><br><i><b>Washington Post's Reliable Sources column reports on more Palin clothing expenditures, this time for Todd:<br><br>    On top of the $150,000 first outlined in Federal Election Commission filings, Palin spent \"tens of thousands of dollars\" on additional clothing, makeup and jewelry for herself and her family, including $40,000 in luxury goods for her husband, Todd, our colleague Michael Shear reports. The campaign was charged for silk boxer shorts, spray tanners and 13 suitcases to carry all the designer clothes, according to two GOP insiders.</b><br><br>Keep reading the article<br><br>--or--<br><br>Check out a slideshow of Sarah Palin's clothing.<br><br>The McCain-Palin campaign is over, but Wardrobe-gate lives on. More embarrassing details have emerged about Sarah Palin's infamous shopping sprees -- including even more designer duds, plus sprayed-on...<br>The McCain-Palin campaign is over, but Wardrobe-gate lives on. More embarrassing details have emerged about Sarah Palin's infamous shopping sprees -- including even more designer duds, plus sprayed-on...<br>RSS stumble digg reddit del.ico.us news trust <a href=\"http://mixx.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">mixx.com</a><br>More in Politics...</i><br><br>I'm just askin' . . . . <br><br>President-Elect Obama!   First Lady Michelle!    :&gt;)   ;.0", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_20:59:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3606619": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "LMAO!! OK?! May I use that?  Best. Line. This Week! Besides President-Elect Obama.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_20:21:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "freespiritbty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3603853, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3596385": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "LOL.  You know daddies don't play when it comes to checking out potential boyfriends anyway, but a daddy with a Secret Service detail at his disposal?  Any potential Malia suitor is going to have to come seriously correct.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_14:01:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3595755, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3596899": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "JunePearl:  Did you mean:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8g9k30MujQ\" rel=\"nofollow\">HOW I GOT OVER (Mary Mary)</a><br><br>ENJOY!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_14:33:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3595930, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3618413": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Wow. That's real talk. This is class. Bring your side of the story after the election- not like Rev \"I crave the spotlight\" Wright. <br><br> Forest. Trees.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-08_00:24:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "evita", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3606258, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3597245": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  <b>DAY -74 on HIS  \"JOURNEY TO JANUARY!\":</b><br><br>1.  WORD FOR THE DAY:  <b>ECONOMICS!!</b><br><br>2.  Formation of and MEETING with HIS DIVERSE <b>TEAB [Transition Economic Advisory Board]</b><br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/05/obama-to-name-napolitano_n_141438.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Obama Transition Team Named</a><br><br>  3.  <a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/07/obama-expected-to-name-mo_n_142054.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Obama's First Press Conference Since WIN Friday</a><br><br><i>CNN reports:<br><br>    President-elect Barack Obama could name other members of his administration on Friday, a day after he named Rep. Rahm Emanuel as White House chief of staff, an Obama transition official said.<br><br><br>    Among the announcements expected soon is Obama's selection for press secretary. Observers believe it will be Robert Gibbs, the communications director for Obama's presidential campaign.<br><br>    Obama will hold a news conference Friday -- his first since winning election -- and may announce key administrative appointments during it, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity when discussing Obama's plans.<br><br>However, the Obama team says that there will be \"no personnel announcements today.\"<br><br>Read more about Obama's schedule for Friday and Obama's Cabinet picks.<br><br>President-elect Barack Obama could name other members of his administration on Friday, a day after he named Rep. Rahm Emanuel as White House chief of staff, an Obama transition official said. Among t...<br>President-elect Barack Obama could name other members of his administration on Friday, a day after he named Rep. Rahm Emanuel as White House chief of staff, an Obama transition official said. Among. . . .<br>More in Politics...</i><br><br>WATCHING NOW!  STANDING AS \"HE\" ENTERS THE ROOM!! :&gt;)   <br><br><b>Mr. President-Elect Obama!!</b>  God Bless you!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_14:52:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3606644": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Major PWND!! HAHAHA!!! After seeing Piper slick down Trig's hair with her saliva, did me in, LOL!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_20:24:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "freespiritbty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3599067, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3626103": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Because if Russia had said anything before the election no one would have been paying attention. It would have served as a blip on the radar of our focus. Remember, we were tending to election mania. If you want to be heard, you do it after something big happens, not before.<br><br>In summation, I believe they waited until after the election because they are attention hogs.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-08_13:42:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "JunePearl", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3598987, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3604092": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Whether you realize it or not, Obama is an academic who has ironically been studying Reagan extensively amongst others.  Obama is very measured and pragmatic....I take comfort in that.<br><br>One of the things that has hurt this country more than anything in the past 8 years is credibilty and haste in dealing with our foreign policy.  <br><br>Obama chose a great VP who is as experienced in foreign policy as McCain...though not as hawkish perhaps.  McCain repeatedly said he wanted Russia kicked out of G-8 and other confrontational things even before he became ithe election was over---and you seem to endorse that ?!  Now McCain/Palin would have been even scarier....Palin had NOTHING to offer McCain as far as consulting and thankfully the neo-CONS like Scheunemann will be away from the White House as advisors.  It is time to build some international support aside from just Israel, plain and simple.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_17:14:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3599434, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3606148": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "We drew down under Clinton. Only cost us, oh, 4000 or so lives between Somalia, Khobar, the Cole, and 9/11. <br><br>I'm sorry, but I'd rather not return to 9/10/01. <br><br>And, let's remember that Obama will be swearing to preserve, PROTECT and DEFEND.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_19:42:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3606014, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3593352": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "From The Onion -<br><br>Black Man Given Nation's Worst Job<br><br>November 5, 2008 | Issue 44\u202245<br>Article Tools<br><br>WASHINGTON\u2014African-American man Barack Obama, 47, was given the least-desirable job in the entire country Tuesday when he was elected president of the United States of America. In his new high-stress, low-reward position, Obama will be charged with such tasks as completely overhauling the nation's broken-down economy, repairing the crumbling infrastructure, and generally having to please more than 300 million Americans and cater to their every whim on a daily basis. As part of his duties, the black man will have to spend four to eight years cleaning up the messes other people left behind. The job comes with such intense scrutiny and so certain a guarantee of failure that only one other person even bothered applying for it. Said scholar and activist Mark L. Denton, \"It just goes to show you that, in this country, a black man still can't catch a break.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_11:15:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "a467514886b7e0129a29898ae02e3050", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3598987": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "If that's the case, then why did Russia's announcement come <i>after</i> the election...especially considering that the US/Poland agreed to put systems in place back in <i>February</i>?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_16:21:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3598727, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3599502": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "D:  <i>Which to me,</i>;    <i>but that's just me.</i><br><br>My THESIS stands:   YOUR, sometimes WISHFUL statements.  <br><br>I'm recommending that YOU separate them FROM REALITY!!  YOUR points may READ better. <br><br>I'm just saying. . . . . .   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_16:49:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3599220, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3594386": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Not under any circumstances.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_12:12:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3593560, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3618499": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ohhh....I was looking for this! Thanks Evita!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-08_00:35:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3616755, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3595930": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.startribune.com/politics/34058514.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">World leaders are bragging about talking to our president.</a> It feels SO. GOOD. to not be embarassed by the president anymore. I am saying prayers that Bush just bide his time and not make any big decisions. Anyone else think he's got one more good mess to make before he leaves? I am hoping he just doesn't do anything.<br><br>The past few days have been flabbergasting, I'm still trying to take it all in. But all these pictures ain't helping JJP, I get back to earth and then a picture pops up and I start getting tears in my eyes. <br><br>This is a beautiful time to be Black and alive. My soul looks back and wonders...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_13:34:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "JunePearl", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 34, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3592859": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "No kidding! Take a look:<br><br><a href=\"http://voices.washingtonpost.com/washingtonpostinvestigations/2008/11/alaska_turnout_results_raise_q.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://voices.washingtonpost.com/washingtonpost...</a><br><br><i>Elections officials, party leaders and voters are wondering what happened this Tuesday in the Last Frontier, where turnout was surprisingly low and two lawmakers who have been the focus of FBI corruption investigations appear to have been reelected despite polling suggesting they would be ousted.</i><br><br><b>An Alaskan Blog: Stolen Election In Alaska</b><br><br><a href=\"http://shannynmoore.wordpress.com/2008/11/06/stolen-election-in-alaska/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://shannynmoore.wordpress.com/2008/11/06/st...</a><br><br><br><i>Something stinks. Not just an ordinary low tide smell. Not like something you\u2019d blame on the dog. It smells like an infection. For me to plug my nose, I\u2019d have to overlook some curious facts.</i><br><br><i>In Alaska, more people voted for George W. Bush in 2004 than for Sarah Palin on Tuesday despite an identical 61-36 margin of victory. Yes. Only four years ago 54,304 Alaskans got off their sofas and voted for Bush, but decided to sit home and not vote for Palin in 2008. In turn, I have to ignore the 30,520 Alaskans who felt progressive enough in 2004 to vote for John Kerry, but weren\u2019t inspired to vote for Barack Obama. I would have to glance past the 1,700% increase in the Democratic caucus in February, the 20,991 newly registered voters, and the three largest political rallies in Alaska\u2019s history. I would also have to forget the people I stood in a long line with to early vote. It would be helpful not to know every other presidential election since Alaska began keeping records has had a larger turn out than the one we just had with our own Governor on the ticket. Try not to remember 12.4% more Alaskans showed up for the August primary as compared to four years ago, before the Palin nomination. Don\u2019t think about the Lower 49\u2019s record voter turn out this year either. Try to delete the memory file, though difficult, that 80% of us approved of Sarah Palin just two months ago.</i><br><br><b>Something stinks. You don\u2019t care? Obama won. Yes. He. Did! Free at Last! Wait. Democracy demands all of the votes be counted\u2026if you can find them.</b><br><br><br><br>WTF is happening?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_10:46:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3591897, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3591837": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "you guys are awesome. these picture say more than anyone ever could. There is HOPE.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_09:41:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "roschelle", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3596959": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Rikyrah!! Just when I've stopped crying, these pics got me blubbering again!! This is the kind of America I've always dreamed of.  As I type I have tears in my eyes!  The dream is on it's way to being fully realized.  The road is still long, but the distance is getting shorter.   I'm coming undone again! LOL!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_14:36:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "freespiritbty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3604128": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Since most of the schools they are considering are all girls schools I don't think we have to worry about the little dude on the court.  I'm sure Malia's potential suiters will be brought in (maybe from the brother school, all prescreened, of course or sons of family friends).   I think there is little chance she is just going to meet someone randomly in the next 8 years.  Not to mention I'm sure Will Smith, P Diddy, Tom Cruise and every other celeberty with a son aged 10 to 12 are already lining thier little boys up to win Malia's heart.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_17:16:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3595755, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3592355": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Great Point!!!!  I think Palin is going to try and lurk in the shadows and appoint herself as senator...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_10:14:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "b5146ae7345f65635b527deb77a6966a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 14, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3591897, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3592869": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "PANEL 1:<br><br>White Boy:  Yay! Obama!<br>Black Boy: Sure wish I had an Obama / Biden sign<br><br><br>PANEL 2:<br><br>White Boy:  Here, take my sign!<br>Black Boy: Let me look around and see if my momma's watching, I don't want to get in trouble.<br><br><br>PANEL 3:<br><br>Black Boy:  Yay!  Obama / Biden!<br>Black Father: This boy too heavy to keep leaning over like that.  Let me get closer to these people so he won't have to lean anymore.<br><br><br>PANEL 4:<br><br>Everyone: YAY!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_10:47:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3599014": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "D:  STOP!!  That is NOT what happened!  As other posters have reminded you, he was speaking to SHRUB and his administration!<br><br>That statement: [M did not congratulate Mr. President - Elect] was editorial!  It was NOT a part of M's statement!  Geesh!<br><br>So <i>Russia did give him the finger.</i>  was NOT an accurate representation of the statement that M made!!  That was YOUR interpretation.   And it was a HARSH MIS-representation!!!<br><br>STOP looking for imaginary things that represent YOUR disappointment!<br><br>It takes TOO LONG and 2 MUCH of people's Energy to HELP YOU SEE THE TRUTH - as in  <b>True, it is.</b> [YOUR words!!]<br><br>Annnnnd, quite frankly, I'm NOT going to join you in your WORRIES and WHAT IF's.  We have ENOUGH on our plates on a daily basis!!<br><br>President-Elect Obama!  First Lady [First MOM!] Michelle!!   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_16:23:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 10, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3596625, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3606897": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "About the new Chief of Staff:<br><br><a href=\"http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/11/06/rahm-was-the-only-choice-not-just-the-right-choice.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow\">Rahm Was the Only Choice, Not Just the Right Choice</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_20:46:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3618473": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Okay, so it's the end of a very emotional and historical week. I haven't said anything b/c there's been so much going on that I cannot work together all my feelings and thoughts but, I'll try (everyone else has given it a shot):<br><br>-President-Elect Barack Obama<br><br>When Keith (I call him Keef) Olbermann called it at 11pm Tuesday night, it felt like this huge weight of anxiety lifted off my chest and I was just so overcome with emotion. I knew that I would cry, I just didn't know that I would react in the way that I did. I couldn't be happier or more proud of my country than I was that night. Needless to say, I needed a large cup of vodka and cranberry juice to calm my nerves when I came home from work to watch the coverage.<br><br>-Exit Poll on Proposition 8<br><br>I think everyone on all sides of this issue are getting just a tad bit too heated. I guess I would never really understand the strong feelings b/c I am not homosexual. I am indifferent I guess. I could give a damn who you marry, b/c it won't have anything to do w/ how my husband and I live our marraige and raise our child. Do what you want in the privacy of your own home as long as you're not a serial killer or a pedophile (that you can't do in the privacy of your own home).<br><br>I look at the results of this exit poll, and I think it is a little misleading for certain bloggers and news organizations to go on with this negative and misleading story blaming black people for the passage of this proposition. The numbers don't lie. 70% of the 224 people SURVEYED said that they voted yes. It is pretty silly to me to allow 224 (actually 157) people to represent the millions of black voters in the electorate. End of story.<br><br>-Barack Obama is not really black, but biracial.<br><br>He says that he is a black man with a white mother from Kansas. If that is how he identifies his racial background so be it. Please stop trying to put your own label on a man that has already come to terms with who he is and has labeled himself as African-American (hell, in it's purest definition). This country is in the shitter and we've got bigger fish to fry than trying to place even more labels on this guy.<br><br>-Rahm Emanual<br><br>From the litte bit I've been reading, he seems like a cutthroat guy who gets shit done. Fine w/ me. Do what you need to do to get things back on track. All hands on deck to get our country back. Quit yer bitchin' (I'm looking at you Joe Scarborough) already. There's is plenty of opportunity for bi-partisanship in other positions in the Administration.<br><br>-Sarah Palin<br><br>This woman is still in the news?!?!?! Please go away. And don't forget to put the tags back on all those clothes. That is all.<br><br><br>Sorry if that was too long.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-08_00:32:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "CarolinagirlinGA", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3599021": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yeah, I was holding it together until I read the update on his wife.  That was like a punch in the gut.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_16:23:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3598930, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3616471": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "spirit:   LOL!!   :&gt;)<br><br>I use to watch this show!! :&gt;)   How things have changed!   :&gt;)  :&gt;)<br><br>President-Elect Obama!   First Lady Michelle!  Yaaa!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_22:36:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3615959, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3592895": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "She gets voted in as senator, and runs for president before she completes her first term.<br><br>God help me, but who does she think she is? The conservative Barack Obama?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_10:48:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 12, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3592694, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3606210": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "CH, <a href=\"http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2580216/obama-isnt-black.thtml\" rel=\"nofollow\">This </a>may also provide some entertainment relief m'luv. Read the comments too.<br><br>T.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_19:47:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "d6755b31010b50fc47eac9ee8b3bb319", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3606044, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3606211": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I have every right to be Proud of the First African American President and while he is everyone's President now ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE that does not take away the fact that while Obama acknowledge he is bi-racial , he also consider himself a Black Man. Nothing wrong with that.<br><br> For example,  when he said \" Brothers need to pull their pants up\" who do you think he was addressing?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_19:47:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "42dea2824a55a6970ac2bc62b2320ce8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3605388, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3595466": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Town:  Nice captions!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>These pics really TELL THE STORY OF THIS ELECTION!!<br><br>IT was this UNIQUE!!  :&gt;)<br><br>President-Elect Obama   First Lady Michelle!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_13:09:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3592869, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3616709": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!   Stop!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_23:01:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3615959, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3607248": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I guess I was using \"right\" in its constitutional connotation. But yes, everyone has a right to their feelings and states of mind.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_21:04:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3606211, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3615959": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Wasilla Acres!<br><br>Sarah Palin:  Neiman Marcus is the place for me<br><br>Todd palin:  Snow mobling is the life for me. <br>Snow spreadin' out so deep and wide <br>Keep Mall of America just give me that snowmobile countryside <br><br>Sarah:  Front & Center is where I'd rather stay. <br>get allergic smelling emails<br>I just adore a bath towel view. <br>Dah-ling I love you but give me Sacks 5th Avenue <br><br>Todd:  The kids!<br>Sarah: The stores!<br>Todd :  Fresh air! <br>Sarah:  2012!<br>Todd:  You are my wife!<br>Sarah:  Good bye, VP life! <br>Todd & Sarah:  Alalaska here we come again! <br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>You are my wife. <br>Good bye, city life. <br>Green Acres we are there<br>I just adore a penthouse view. <br>Dah-ling I love you but give me Park Avenue. <br><br>...The chores. <br>...The stores. <br>...Fresh air. <br>...Times Square <br><br>You are my wife. <br>Good bye, city life. <br>Green Acres we are there.<br>our comment here.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_22:24:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "cd0d2421fbf06d0f0ed2d20f7f1f09c5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3611429, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3591897": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "There's some shady stuff going on in Alaska. We need to keep an eye out on that Senate election.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_09:45:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 22, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3594970": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Jed has posted <a href=\"http://www.jedreport.com/2008/11/a-night-to-remember-barack-oba.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">video highlights of Tuesday night</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_12:39:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3599067": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Remember ......\"\"Wasilla hillbillies looting Neiman Marcus from coast to coast.\" PWT!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_16:25:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3597605, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3593082": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LOL!!!<br><br>What's amazing about the Obama movement is that American children and young adults have taken the responsibility for leading us to a more civilized nation.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_11:00:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "60266805bc0d9559a62514e1e769b750", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3592437, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3611870": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  <i>MUDFLATTERS</i> CAME DOWN to Chicago to CELEBRATE with PRESIDENT-ELECT OBAMA!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)  They brought their signs and took lots of pics!  to send back to Alaska! :&gt;)<br><br><a href=\"http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/11/06/obama-victory-rally-at-mudflats-point-grant-park-chicago/shikago8/\" rel=\"nofollow\">MUDFLATTERS IN GRANT PARK - CHICAGO!</a><br><br><a href=\"http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/11/06/obama-victory-rally-at-mudflats-point-grant-park-chicago/shikago7/\" rel=\"nofollow\">MUDFLATS INVADE OBAMA VICTORY RALLY!</a><br><br>They are continuing to work AGAINST the further progress of the <b>UN-VETTED ONE</b><br><br>President-Elecft Obama!   First Lady Michelle!   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_22:20:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3611429": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The lying conniving.....", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_21:35:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3607128, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3616482": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I adore this picture series.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_22:37:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "Miss_Me", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3592933": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LOL<br><br>Town, you're too cute!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_10:51:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3592869, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3618428": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I never thought Reagan earned the pedestal he was put on. I don't care about what Obama said... And Nancy is old enough not to care much either.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-08_00:27:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "evita", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3606017, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3599083": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Let you tell it....", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_16:27:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3596625, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3597549": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "D., you know that this is also a reaction to the Bush administration's circling of Russia with missile systems......and quite naturally, the lame duck is no where to be found or at least heard from.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_15:10:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 16, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3596625, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3591918": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "well we better free our minds and recoginze the real.  he is one man and although he sounded good and this is historic, america has to want to change, not to mention many of us  <a href='http://rawdawgb.blogspot.com/2008/10/negro-comfortable-up-in-here.html' rel=\"nofollow\">negro comfortable up in here</a><br><br><br>i just hope the <a href='http://rawdawgb.blogspot.com/2008/11/red-rum.html' rel=\"nofollow\">red states</a> dont take us back pre 1960", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_09:47:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "32a9f52fc4eb8f70910325057a03e6c5", "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}, "3604209": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The Wasilla Hillbillies!<br><br>Come and listen to a story about woman name Sarah<br>A power hungry Governor, barely kept her family fed, <br>Then one day she was shootin at a moose <br>And up around the corner came a McCain phone call<br><br>Call that is, for his POTUS pick.  Alaska  tea. <br><br>Well the first thing you know ole Sarah's a VP candidate<br>Kinfolk said \"Sarah, hit the lower 48, heck! Move away from there\" <br>Said \"Lower 48 is the place you ought to be\" <br>So they loaded up the truck and moved to the RNC. <br><br>St. Paul, that is.  Neiman Marcus, Mall of America, red FMP. <br><br>Well now its time to say good by to Sarah and all her kin. <br>And they would like to thank you folks fer them kindly droppin in. <br>They're not  invited back again to this locality (Lower 48)<br>So no more race-baiting and rouge candidacy from thee<br>We don't need to have a heapin helpin of that insanity. <br><br>Hillbilly that is. Set a spell, Take your shoes off. <br><br>Don't come back now, y\u2019all hear?<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZp2JcmUU6oe\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZp2JcmUU6oe</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_17:22:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3599067, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3606258": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<b> Ayers Hit Back  At McCain</b><br><br><a href=\"http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1108/Ayerss_side_.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1108/Aye...</a><br><br><i>Bill Ayers writes of his \"surreal\" year in In These Times </i><br><br><i>He notes, with mixed emotions, that this campaign was probably the last to even attempt to refight the battles of the '60s. </i><br><br><i>But Ayers can't let them go.</i> <br><br><i>Hitting back at McCain, he calls the Republican nominee's bombing runs as a Navy pilot \"immoral.\" </i><br><br><i>Ayers writes:</i><br><br><i>The '60s - as myth and symbol - is much abused: the downfall of civilization in one account, a time of defeat and humiliation in a second, and a perfect moment of righteous opposition, peace and love in a third.</i><br><br><i>The idea that the 2008 election may be the last time in American political life that the '60s plays any role whatsoever is a mixed blessing. On the one hand, let's get over the nostalgia and move on. On the other, the lessons we might have learned from the black freedom movement and from the resistance against the Vietnam War have never been learned. To achieve this would require that we face history fully and honestly, something this nation has never done. </i><br><br><i>The war in Vietnam was an illegal invasion and occupation, much of it conducted as a war of terror against the civilian population. The U.S. military killed millions of Vietnamese in air raids - like the one conducted by McCain - and entire areas of the country were designated free-fire zones, where American pilots indiscriminately dropped surplus ordinance - an immoral enterprise by any measure.</i><br><br><br><b>Uh Oh</b>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_19:51:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3599091": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "D:   \"OUCH!!\"  :&gt;)  Annnd, I have my own Band-Aid!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_16:27:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3596201, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3598930": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "OMG.....<br>This needs to be a movie. OMG.........this is so moving........Gob Bless Them.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_16:18:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3597318, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3592437": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Okay, I'm calling BS.  JJP is obviously paying people to pose for these staged pictures. Don't get me wrong,  I mean, they're great shots.  They seem to keep getting better.  But I don't live in a world where people can come together like that, all happy, hopeful, and positive.  Sorry JJP, but the jig is up. <br><br>Ouch!  Uh oh.   <br><br>I'm sorry ya'll, I just pinched myself and double checked my calendar.  It really isn't November 3rd anymore.  Just forget all of that other stuff I mentioned...today is a great day.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_10:18:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "Nate_Wesley", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3598586": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "My concern is that if you get too much stuff popping off at once (Russia's already acting a fool, so let's say China joins them, Israel preemptively/preventatively attacks Iran, and al-Qaeda emerges from some hole somewhere), it could become a lot difficult for him to deal with.<br><br>I won't question Obama's vigilance (yet; he does have bigger problems with the economy).", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_16:01:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 10, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3598418, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3596540": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Good for  you Spirit! Go ahead and cry if you want to!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_14:11:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3595751, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3593474": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Even though we rarely agree and sometimes are interactions were angry rants I do respect you.If people like you leave without speaking out on the wrongs of your party then the theocrats will take over and we will truly have one party rule and even though it would be democratic that scares me even more because if we dont have an effective opposition then we to will become corrupt.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_11:22:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "djchefron", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3593250, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3599109": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Miranda:  Annnnnd 2 in between them!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_16:29:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3597833, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3606790": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Girl if 2 or more agree :-). I want Palin to go down hard. I am so proud of Alaska opposition/Mudflats for all their efforts!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_20:37:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "freespiritbty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3598634, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3604234": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Correction VPOTUS  Heeheee!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_17:24:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3604209, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3620619": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yeap....the turnout is lower than 2004.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-08_04:23:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3591897, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3617038": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "evita:  What a GREAT FIND!!  THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)  WOW!!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_23:36:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3616755, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3607320": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I think you're giving them too much power.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_21:12:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3606534, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3616544": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "freespiritbty:   EEEEWWWWWWW   Me  2!!  <br><br>I'm tellin' you that those chil'ren need to be \"socialized!\"  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_22:44:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3606644, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3607332": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "freespiritbty\"  Yes!!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_21:13:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3606790, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3597605": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "WOW:  Palin's feet is about to be held to the fire.  Her record is deplorable.  I hope she runs in 2012, so we can laughed her off the stage.  Palin is a straight up trip!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_15:12:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "freespiritbty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 13, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3596604, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3607336": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I've heard black people say much the same thing about Barack. With a different agenda, of course, but still.<br><br>Pure entertainment to be sure.<br><br>Those who deny that Barack is black, for whatever reason, cannot deny that he's African American in the truest sense of the descriptor.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_21:13:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3606210, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3620649": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The Moment We Knew: Barack Obama Wins Virginia & The White House<br><a href=\"http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=AUbEUB-BrBo\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=AUbEUB-BrBo</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-08_04:30:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3598634": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "freespiritbty:  ACTUALLY, I'm HOPING that she will be \"brought down\" NOW!!!<br><br>Some of the Alaskans are trying to make SURE of THAT!!  In this way, she will not be able to continue to establish a \"base!\" This is the STRATEGY!!  YES!!!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_16:03:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3597605, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3604268": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I howled with laughter today at PE Obama's self-deprecating humor when he referred to himself as a \"mutt\", while discussing the family's  choice of a dog. I thought it was quite funny. But apparently his comment may have far-reaching racial consequences for black people. You see his reference could mean two things. Is he is referring to the fact that he has mixed race parentage, or is he referring to the fact that he is a man born of simple means? Apparently the media and some right wing blogs are all atwitter about this reference, kinda sorta suggesting that it is a \"racial gaffe\". Some right wing blogs are now saying that if he refers to himself as a \"mutt\" them maybe he's saying that he's not really \"black\" and that he probably should call himself \"biracial\". Joe Klein commented that he \"self identified\" as mutt. OH.MY.GOD!!!!!! LOL!<br><br>T.<br>What's up my people?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_17:27:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "d6755b31010b50fc47eac9ee8b3bb319", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3605293": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I did not like the mutt comment at all. If you read liberal predominantely  white blogs, they are actually saying that Obama is not really \"black\" because of his white mother,and why can\"t he say he is Bi-Racial? I feel they are already trying to take away his blackness and in doing so denying  African Americans their right to be proud of  Obama as the first African American President. <br> I have seen black women and men argue that Obama consider himself a black man just to be shot down. All of the sudden they want to claim him all to themselves. Sick of it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_18:33:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "42dea2824a55a6970ac2bc62b2320ce8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 17, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3625096": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That is HONESTY and TRUE patriotism.<br>Patriots run NOT from the ugly, because they CARE about the future.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-08_11:53:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "ochyming", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3606258, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3591480": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Beautiful. One more image that makes me so happy.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_09:15:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "9d43e408ce25a014890cd0e95152ef90", "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}, "3596604": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "rikyrah:   Bringin' some \"stuff\" DOWN FROM ALASKA: <br><br>1.  <a href=\"http://alaskacorruption.blogspot.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">ALASKA CORRUPTION BLOGSPOT</a>  [They're WATCHIN'!!]<br><br>2.   <a href=\"http://alaskareal.blogspot.com/2008/09/sarah-palins-record-on-alaska-native.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sarah Palin's Record on ALASKA Native and Tribal Issues</a><br><br> <i>After struggling over this one, I'm going to go ahead and just post it, and let you make up your own minds.<br><br>Sarah Palin's Record on Alaska Native and Tribal Issues<br><br><b>This document has been floating around, and is factually true.</b> But the other fact is, our governor is very good at staying off the record on important Alaska Native issues. Or any Alaska Native issues, really. I refer you to my earlier posts (below or to the right) to view where her lack of attention has gotten us, as Alaskans and Alaska Native people.<br><br>This document asserts that:<br><br>1. Palin has attacked Native subsistence fishing<br>2. Palin has attacked Native subsistence hunting<br>3. Palin has attacked Alaska Native tribal sovereignty<br>4. Palin has attacked Alaska Native languages<br><br>This is not new, but I think \"Palin's administration\" or \"Palin, through her staff\" is the most accurate wording. Palin has released only a \"supportive\" letter to Alaska Native people during her campaign for governor, and other than that has remained publicly silent on Alaska Native issues.<br><br>The Alaska Native languages attack, for instance, was actually on an issue I've covered here before - the Yup'ik language ballot. In this instance, \"Bethel and the State of Alaska\" fought against providing Yup'ik voting materials to the highly Yup'ik area of Bethel. The Lt. Governor, Sean Parnell, is listed as one of the defendants, but not Palin directly. She's done this many, many times before (most notably in the Troopergate investigation,) - letting her people take care of the highly controversial issues, while she visibly takes on highly popular issues (gas pipeline, $1,200 checks to all Alaskans.)<br><br>For those of you who do not know Alaska, Alaska Native people make up nearly 20% of the population. To say something publicly against solid Alaska Native issues would be devastating to a campaign - and we vote to the tune of 90% in some boroughs.<br><br>Again, the facts of this document are true, I'm just a bit cautious about saying \"Palin believes this\" about anything that she will come in and say \"Oh, but that was my staff, not me\" on. Which she has done. Frequently.<br>Posted by Writing Raven at 3:00 AM After struggling over this one, I'm going to go ahead and just post it, and let you make up your own minds.<br><br>Sarah Palin's Record on Alaska Native and Tribal Issues<br><br>This document has been floating around, and is factually true. But the other fact is, our governor is very good at staying off the record on important Alaska Native issues. Or any Alaska Native issues, really. I refer you to my earlier posts (below or to the right) to view where her lack of attention has gotten us, as Alaskans and Alaska Native people.<br><br>This document asserts that:<br><br>1. Palin has attacked Native subsistence fishing<br>2. Palin has attacked Native subsistence hunting<br>3. Palin has attacked Alaska Native tribal sovereignty<br>4. Palin has attacked Alaska Native languages<br><br>This is not new, but I think \"Palin's administration\" or \"Palin, through her staff\" is the most accurate wording. Palin has released only a \"supportive\" letter to Alaska Native people during her campaign for governor, and other than that has remained publicly silent on Alaska Native issues.<br><br>The Alaska Native languages attack, for instance, was actually on an issue I've covered here before - the Yup'ik language ballot. In this instance, \"Bethel and the State of Alaska\" fought against providing Yup'ik voting materials to the highly Yup'ik area of Bethel. The Lt. Governor, Sean Parnell, is listed as one of the defendants, but not Palin directly. She's done this many, many times before (most notably in the Troopergate investigation,) - letting her people take care of the highly controversial issues, while she visibly takes on highly popular issues (gas pipeline, $1,200 checks to all Alaskans.)<br><br><b>For those of you who do not know Alaska, Alaska Native people make up nearly 20% of the population. To say something publicly against solid Alaska Native issues would be devastating to a campaign - and we vote to the tune of 90% in some boroughs.</b><br><br><b>Again, the facts of this document are true,</b> I'm just a bit cautious about saying \"Palin believes this\" about anything that she will come in and say \"Oh, but that was my staff, not me\" on. Which she has done. Frequently.<br>Posted by Writing Raven at 3:00 AM</i><br><br>3.  <a href=\"http://womenagainstsarahpalin.blogspot.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">(ALASKA) Women Against Sarah Palin</a><br><br>SEE the pic under the article \"YES WE CAN\".  A sista is cryin' !<br><br>This is the philosophy of the author of the blogspot:  About Me<br><br><i>womenagainstsarahpalin<br>    We are not in the habit of criticizing women in the public sphere, as we usually feel we should support our female compatriots with as much encouragement as we can. However, Sarah Palin's record is anti-woman. Feminism is not simply about achieving the power and status typically held by men. It's about protecting and supporting the rights of women of all classes, races, cultures, and beliefs. Palin's record and beliefs do not align with this. She was chosen by John McCain specifically because he believes that American women will vote for any female candidate regardless of their qualifications. He is wrong.<br><br>View my complete profile</i><br><br>THERE IS sooo MUCH MORE!!  I'm just trying to demonstrate that ALASKANS are WORKING HARD AGAINST HER!!  Even though it's a RED and CORRUPT STATE!!<br><br>Praying for them!!<br><br>President-Elect Obama!  First Lady Michelle!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_14:15:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 14, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3605314": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "D., don't come at me with the same tired Republican meme...expressing dissent is somehow placing blame on America.<br><br>The tensions between Russia and Georgia...not to mention our $1 billion pledge to them in the aftermath of the conflict has created a tension on Russia's behalf, whether you think it is substantiated or not.<br><br><br>Believe it or not, according to reports most Czech citizens themselves opposed the missile system.<br><br>Check out this article from July<br><br><a href=\"http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article4295309.ece\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/eur...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_18:34:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3604963, "depth": 12, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3594563": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Top 10 Obama Victory Songs<br><a href=\"http://newsone.blackplanet.com/entertainment/top-10-obama-songs/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://newsone.blackplanet.com/entertainment/to...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_12:21:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "BarackMarley", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3593541": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Funny stuff.  Love the Onion.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_11:25:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "60266805bc0d9559a62514e1e769b750", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3593352, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3621195": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I agree with you 100%", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-08_06:53:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3605388, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3596109": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "lol at the t I missed out in bold. Did I make any other mistakes sir?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_13:43:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "46b57d15d7e91c214295d21376373ee4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3595742, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3599182": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You ain't lyin....I LITERALLY felt like I'd gotten hit. It was so sobering. wow......its a history lesson wrapped around a love story too.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_16:33:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "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": 3599021, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3607376": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "spirit:   LOL!!  :&gt;)<br><br>I couldn't \"get\" the youtube??  Thanks!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_21:17:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3604209, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3596625": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yeah, well, <a href=\"http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27551326/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Russia did give him the finger.</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_14:17:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 29, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3595930, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3596116": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "We were just discussing this today at the People's Agenda for the Black Revolution meeting (or rather when I went to lunch with my black co-workers, apparently we plan the revolution when we go to lunch together, or at least that's what the \"looks\" tell me).<br><br>If you look at the way the count went down, its obvous that Georgia is a blue state. Obama won Georgia, plain and simple. They totally stole this one in an attempt to hold on to the myth that he couldn't win one of the strangleholds of the GOP. Yes he won VA, NC and FL - yeah, those are southern states.....but if you really want to stick a fork in there, AL or MS or GA would do it. Georgia was the best shot and he did it. There will be a run-off for the Senate seat and I hope Obama or Biden comes down to help Martin out. We need it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_13:44:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "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": 3592098, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3593560": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I've observed Barack Obama.  Sarah Palin is not Barack Obama.<br><br>I do believe Sherri Shepherd is smarter than Palin.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_11:26:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3592895, "depth": 4, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3591513": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Extremely beautiful pic", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_09:19:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "rorysmomma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3598682": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Green Lady, that's my jam!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_16:05:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "JunePearl", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3596899, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3604965": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Lawd have mercy....LOL.....well.... the \"terrorist fist jab\" was fair warning...we cant say we didn't see it coming.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_18:04:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3604268, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3604880": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "OK, I saw that pic on \"Yes We Can...Hold Babies\" and I tell you, I just can't look at that website anymore. I just can't.<br><br>Because I will never stop crying. And doggone it--I've been crying all week!!! :) I will have to walk around with tissue bonded to my hands. That is such a fantastic picture, and every time I look at it, my heart is full. And just when I think that a picture of children can't move more than another, I find one. <br><br>By the way, I just saw this re: how Joe Biden feels about Michelle Obama: <br><br>The Delaware senator raved about future first lady Michelle Obama, calling her \"the most impressive person I've met in 35 years.\"<br><br>\"I like him. I LOVE her,\" he said of the Obamas. <br><br>Sounds like what a lot of Black folks said about Michelle. Maybe Barack should have a little chat with Joe...!  :&lt;) <br><br><a href=\"http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2008/11/bidens-looking.html?csp=34\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2008/11/bi...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_17:57:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "APeach", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3604837": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "When did  Russia threaten Poland and czech republic outright?  <br><br>My understanding is that the Bush administration brokered these missile systems in those countries in an effort to guard against Iran and other threats---while unfortunately also giving the impression of encircling Russia.<br><br>And now post-Georgian conflict and heightened tensions, Russia apparently wants to build their own missile in response. <br><br>Is that good for our relations with Russia--probably not.<br><br>Is  Russia's actions  reactive to our own policies--YES!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_17:54:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3604358, "depth": 10, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3599207": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Well you know it was reported that a foreign entity hacked into both McCain and Obama's computer systems over the summer so there is obviously those who are \"interested\" in US policy  regardless.<br><br>McCain actually concerned me more because  began to become more hawkish and erratic and basically surrounded himself with the far-right Bushies which helped cost him the election.<br><br>Bush does not even compare in intelligence to Obama. I mean let's be honest---Bush was unmistakenly a wild frat boy whose Ivy League education was a result of legacy.  He ran an oil company into the ground...and quite frankly rode into the Texas governorship off of the Bush name...which is very powerful in business circles and connections.<br><br>I don't think Bush ever clearly had ideas of his own., the presidency was always an endeavor that was way over his head...he was mostly th poster boy of the presidency and Cheney and the hawkish PNAC were the brain trust.   <br><br>But the bottom line is, Obama is very calm, collected, pragmatic, and decisive.  Both the Clintons and McCain learned that they just couldn't shake him...and I think other leaders know that---some admire it and some are not sure waht to make of it.  At this point, I think that's an asset honestly.<br><br>Obama is a smart man who has studied international relations, has a keen sense of history and an added plus of being a \"minority\"  And believe it or not, being a minority is resonating loudly to leaders like Chavez or even Ahmedinajad (sp?)---I am not saying it will completely change their policies, but it does alter their perceptions at least for now.  And I think that should be taken advantage of by his incoming administration.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_16:34:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 9, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3598586, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3606385": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Now it is all Clinton's fault.  Is there blame to go around...maybe.<br><br>Did the Bush administration drop the ball prior  to 9/11----absolutely.  i firmly believe it did not occur \"out of nowhere.\"<br><br>Let me remind you...<br><br>The FAA received 52 WARNINGS about Al Qaeda's hope to attack airlines between April and September 10,2001 ( during Bush's term and in between his many vacations).<br><br>From a Washington Post article detailing the urgent calls to Condi Rice TWO months before 9/11<br><br>On July 10,2001  George Tenet met with  Condi Rice and J. Cofer Black about numerous communications intercepts and other top secret intelligence that Al Qaeda would soon attack the US<br><br>He did not know when, where or how, but Tenet felt there was too much noise in the intelligence systems. Two weeks earlier, he had told Richard A. Clarke, the National Security Council's counterterrorism director: \"It's my sixth sense, but I feel it coming. This is going to be the big one.\"<br><br>But Tenet had been having difficulty getting traction on an immediate bin Laden action plan, in part because Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld had questioned all the National Security Agency intercepts and other intelligence. Could all this be a grand deception? Rumsfeld had asked. Perhaps it was a plan to measure U.S. reactions and defenses....<br><br>Tenet and Black felt they were not getting through to Rice. She was polite, but they felt the brush-off. President Bush had said he didn't want to swat at flies....<br><br>Rice seemed focused on other administration priorities, especially the ballistic missile defense system that Bush had campaigned on. She was in a different place.<br><br>Tenet left the meeting feeling frustrated. Though Rice had given them a fair hearing, no immediate action meant great risk. Black felt the decision to just keep planning was a sustained policy failure. Rice and the Bush team had been in hibernation too long. \"Adults should not have a system like this,\" he said later.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_20:02:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3606148, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3599220": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I wasn't referring to Medvedev's words; I was referring to his <i>actions</i>. Which to me, read as \"f--k you\" to Obama, not to Bush (who, lest we forget, is on his way out the door!).<br><br>See what I said to June below: ample time had passed between the announcement of negotiations for this defense shield and now. If a message needed to be sent to Bush, it could have <i>been sent</i> by now. Just like I said about Obama's actions once, there's more to read from the <i>when</i> something is done than there is from the <i>how/why</i> it's done.<br><br>Obama's mind's in the right place: fixing the economy. I do kinda wish he'd tell Medvedev \"f--k you\" back, but that's just me.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_16:35:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3599014, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3597685": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "CTHU!!!!  The Obama daughters are quite beautiful in their own ways.  I bet Maila's code name will be \"on and popping\" because i can just see a potential suitor get jammed up by S.S.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_15:16:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "freespiritbty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3595755, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3595753": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Black people are too easily moved by symbolism we want real change for the masses not just superficial change.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_13:26:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "46b57d15d7e91c214295d21376373ee4", "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": 3595664, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3593594": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Holy Cow!  Those pictures are AWESOME!  Its a sign of what the future could be--WILL BE like, if we keep working at coming together as a people.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_11:28:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "6d8bd6e6ae6e9c752a15d17f1b41743d", "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}, "3616639": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  Found this interesting  -  speaking of \"WORLD REACTIONS\" to President-Elect Obama's VICTORY!<br><br><a href=\"http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2008/11/200811619119961388.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">OBAMA INSPIRES AFRO-BRAZILIANS!</a><br><br><i>It is likely that no group of people anywhere in South America are watching the rise of Barack Obama as the first black US president as passionately as in Salvador, Brazil. <br><br>Salvador, on the northeast coast of the country, is Brazil's third largest city with about 2.8 million inhabitants, over 80 per cent of whom are defining themselves as black of mixed race.<br><br>Most people from the city are direct ancestors of the first four million slaves who were taken to the city in the 16th century from what is modern-day Nigeria.<br><br>Salvador was the main entry point for slaves for the entire region, and was the colonial capital of Brazil until 1763.<br>And today, it retains a strongly African feel, with the food, culture, and music drawing hundreds of thousands of tourists each year.<br><br>SKIP<br><br>Political hopes<br><br>Salvador is the capitol of the state of Bahia, a particularly poor region where income disparity is stark and political power consolidated in the hands of the non-black ruling elite.<br><br>According to official statistics, 40 per cent of the population lives at or below minimum wage level while less than one per cent earns more than 20 times the minimum wage.<br><br>None of Salvador's political elite are black, so many here see Obama's victory as a model to achieve political power.<br><br>\"In Salvador more than 80 per cent of the population is black, and we live in the worst conditions,\" said Marcos Rezende, a young community organiser who was watching the US election results come in with several dozen others on television on Tuesday.<br><br>\"The victory of Barack Obama has immense importance for us because all our local black candidates in the elections always lose.<br><br>\"He has shown us black people we can bring this kind of influence in holding political power in the future, that yes we can also govern anywhere in the world\".<br><br>Brazil has never had a black president of its own, despite the fact that 47 per cent of the 190 million Brazilians define themselves as black or of mixed race.<br><br>\"Obama is not only going to influence the US, he will influence the politics around the world - and especially here in Brazil,\" said Lindinalva de Paula, who was also watching Tuesday night's results on local television.<br><br>\"For the black community here, it represents advancement for us as well - and makes us think seriously of the possibility in Brazil of having a black president.\"<br><br>On November 20 Brazil will celebrate the National Day of Black Awareness \u2013 and at least here in Salvador \u2013 given the new president of the US - this year that will take on a little extra significance.<br><br>\"Black children that do not understand politics now see Obama as president on the TV and realize that someone of their colour is president of the most powerful country in the world,\" says Rezende.<br><br>\"These kids will say, 'I want to do it too. I can do it. I hope to be the president of Brazil.'\"</i><br><br><b>HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL!</b><br><br><br>President-Elect Obama!  First Lady Michelle!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_22:54:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3598725": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "JunePearl:  GREAT!!  Now, REALLY ENJOY!  :&gt;)<br><br>BTW:  Do YOU have a Choir Robe?   :&gt;)   :&gt;)  \"JJP CHOIR\" is recruiting!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_16:07:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3598682, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3604358": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "...and part of doing that is showing our allies that we stand by them-especially when they're threatened.<br><br>I doubt I have to remind you of Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty, which Poland and the Czech Republic both signed.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_17:32:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3604092, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3598727": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Ditto. Russia's reaction is really aimed at all Americans. Not Obama in particular. If we had a real leader in office, I wouldn't feel quite so wary, about this...but we have Bush...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_16:07:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "JunePearl", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3597549, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3596168": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "h&f:   Major co-sign!!  <br><br>The <b>UN-VETTED ONE</b>  is NOT properly caring for that child OR any of the other ones!<br><br>Who jumps out of the hospital bed AFTER 3 DAYS and runs back onto \"bui'ness as usual??\"  NO CARING MOTHER!!!<br><br>EVEN ANIMALS NURSE and CARE for their YOUNG for a select LENGTH of TIME!!  [And she tried to compare herself to a \"pit bull or \"pig!\"  THEY are BETTER THAN HER!!]<br><br>I would LOVE to read a TELL-ALL book from JUST 1 of her children!! [Speaking of which, the National Enquirer did NOT come through (from Alaska) like I anticipated.  Hmmmm?]<br><br>LAWD, I'm SOOOO HAPPY that she's a <b>LOSER</b>, I mean - she lost!    NO!  I mean she's a LOSER!!<br><br>President-Elect  Obama!!  First Lady Michelle!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_13:47:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3595709, "depth": 6, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3605388": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Huh?<br><br>We can all claim Obama for ourselves. He doesn't belong to anyone.<br><br>We're all mutts, more or less. <br><br>We are not victims unless we choose to be. <br><br>Being proud isn't a right, and even if it were, no one could take it away from you.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_18:40:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 15, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3605293, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3603853": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yes, she is a trip without the SUITCASE!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_17:00:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3597605, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3605390": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Miranda m'lady. LOL! Crazy BUT if in fact he was referring to race, I must add this: for someone who so studiously avoided the explicit talk of race throughout the entire contest, it would be quite surprising that he would use a term that can so easily be manipulated by the media and others. <br><br>He MUST be aware that many people were not amused by all the images of black folk celebrating and so they will do anything to tamp down our pride in his amazing victory. If he wants to talk about race, assuming that he was referring to race, he needs to continue with his usual MO or  be more careful in his choice of words; otherwise he risks bloggers writing stuff like this from Ben Smith's blog:<br><br>\"He told a couple of fairly edgy jokes, as these things go, one about Nancy Reagan, and one describing himself as a \"mutt\" \u2014 a reminder that he is bringing a loose, comfortable and unstilted way of talking about race to the highest office in the land. \"<br><br>or people making comments such as this on NYT Caucus Blog:<br>\"maybe he will now call his wife a purebred\"<br><br>or what Joe Klein said above.<br><br>T.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_18:40:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "d6755b31010b50fc47eac9ee8b3bb319", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3604965, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3593104": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ha", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_11:01:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3592869, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3611542": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Love the pics of the boys sharing the sign....", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_21:46:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "2dcb7ab86ca109aed35adaccb673c5dd", "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}, "3597207": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Those are amazingly beautiful pictures.  We've come a long, long way in a relatively short period of time and now we're all seeing even more history take place.  I love it, I really do.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_14:50:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "menstrualpoetry", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3606937": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "freespiritbty, please, feel free!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_20:50:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "cd0d2421fbf06d0f0ed2d20f7f1f09c5", "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": 3606619, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3618714": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ooh you are so wrong for that.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-08_01:06:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3593560, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3593626": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I thought I was done crying. But here I go again.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_11:30:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "4861def1001895f693ff36d467bbdbe4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3591585": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "A beautiful pic! I love it!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_09:25:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3592098": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "There is some REAL shady stuff going on in GEorgia too!<br>We all saw those long lines, we all know about 10's of thousands of more registered voters...yet...the vote totals for the state are LESS than in 2004!!<br><br>What the hell is up with this aberrant tally?<br><br>No one is talking about how they have stole the election in GA....", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_09:59:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "bf592ce4366b6f179fe40d8422c998a5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3591897, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3595685": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I think you're \"touched\" right now.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_13:22:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3595664, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3594152": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Will yall stop with the pics... I don't want to cry anymore!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_12:01:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "kepop", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3616701": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LOL.  Great reworking of my all-time favorite TV show theme.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_23:00:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3615959, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3599226": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  I'm just NOTING that First Lady Michelle also calls HERSELF the <b>FIRST MOM!!</b><br><br>Contrast:  The <b>UN-VETTED ONE</b>  must have given birth to a HOCKEY!?<br><br>Wellllllllll- SHE said that SHE's a \"Hockey MoM!?   Right??   Of course RIGHT!!  :&gt;)<br><br>**shakin' my head**", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_16:35:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3593648": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Here's the thing: the Republicans who have differing opinions or who want to pump the brakes on what's going on are drummed out of the party.  There's a real \"you're either with us or against us\" mindset.<br><br>If the GOP is to survive, you're going to have to get rid of the Rush Limbaugh Jesse Helms faction of the party.  It's very telling that the GOP only won electorally in  the South and in places like Idaho and the Dakotas.  I don't know why Bobby Jindal is jumping up to plant his butt in Iowa because the same people who wouldn't vote for Obama because of his skin color aren't going to vote for Jindal because of his, GOP or not.  And a lot of \"misinformed\" voters think that Indian = Muslim, when in most cases that's not the case.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_11:32:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3593250, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3598769": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/07/antigua-mountain-barack-obama\" rel=\"nofollow\">Antigua plans to rename highest peak after Barack Obama</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_16:09:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3616755": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Anyone see this site- it is the one I was looking for:<br><br>724 newspaper covers of the Obama win!<br><br><br><a href=\"http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/default_archive.asp?fpArchive=110508\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/default...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_23:07:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "evita", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3606456": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "CH, Want more fun?<br><br>1)Wed. night. Asst Managing Editor of Newsweek appeared somewhere. His words were \"and then it was after he moved to Chicago that he decided that he was a black man\". DECIDED? And that is after he called PE Obama \"creepy\", \"culty\".<br><br>2)Tue. night. Matt Bai from New York Times magazine appears somewhere. When asked about Obama's capacity for anger. Response? \"You have to remember that he did not have a typical AA upbringing...\" So I started to ask myself, \"What is a typical AA upbringing? Only AA with that typical upbringing is capable of showing anger?\"<br><br>Matt, in an article written some time ago, has also suggested the Obama is still struggling with racial identity issues.<br><br>3)Doris Kearns Goodwin on the Today show on Thurs:\"You have to remember that Obama is more exotic while Michelle is from the typical AA home...\" <br><br>I'm literally rolling my eyes...<br><br>T.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_20:07:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "d6755b31010b50fc47eac9ee8b3bb319", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3606044, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3602874": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Okay, educate me: where am I wrong?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_16:54:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3599502, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3597471": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Question: is Obama <i>really</i> considering Kerry for SecState?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_15:05:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3592124": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "AWWWW!!! that was so sWEET....it's a new day in America", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_10:00:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "bf592ce4366b6f179fe40d8422c998a5", "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}, "3595709": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Have you watched the View? Unless there's a clip which I am selective about seeing I have permanently banned that biyacht-fest. She was actually considering voting for McCain because of Palin and her special needs child. They wouldn't have done jack for children when he voted down state funding for health insurance for kids. The stupidity just hurts my head too much.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_13:23:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3593560, "depth": 5, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3599301": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Webb:  LOL!   :&gt;)   Co-sign!   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_16:39:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3597145, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3595766": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That's real mature of you call someone mad because they have a different opinion  to you.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_13:27:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "46b57d15d7e91c214295d21376373ee4", "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": 3595685, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3593167": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "That is why true conservatives such as yourself need to fight for your party.If republicans keep going down the path of know nothing theocratic hillbillies then you will cease to exist.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_11:05:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "djchefron", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3592895, "depth": 4, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3595664": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I will find it touching when the black kid can grow up and have the same opporunities as the white kid.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_13:20:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "46b57d15d7e91c214295d21376373ee4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3605462": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Let folks parse his words and (over) analyze them till their hearts are content.<br><br>It keeps a dialogue going.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_18:44:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3605390, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3593175": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Alaska is the most corrupt oil company, ahem, I mean state, in the nation.<br><br>Alaska really is its own entity. It's really is not part of the United States and so many of its citizens actually would like to secede.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_11:05:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3592859, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3595855": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Nate:  \"Whycome\" you KNOW 2-day's a GREAT DAY!!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>Found this VIDEO.  [Admittedly, I've NOT heard this song B4; BUT like the TITLE]<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOg_4VGslCk\" rel=\"nofollow\">GREAT DAY TO BE ALIVE!(Travis Tritt)</a><br><br>ENJOY!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>President-Elect Obama!   :&gt;)   First Lady  Michelle!   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_13:31:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3592437, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3595742": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "If you can't see that a black AND white kid at an Obama rally-whether as contender, candidate or President-elect-don't have the same oppor<b>t</b>unities as each other, then you haven't been paying attention.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_13:25:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3595664, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3596256": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  That's WHY I have made my daily \"Field Trips\" to ALASKA!  :&gt;)<br><br>The <b>UN-VETTED ONE</b> is slick and \"barracuda-driven\" to try another way to get to DC.<br><br>I'm WATCHIN' her!!<br><br>President-Elect Obama!  First Lady Michelle!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_13:52:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3591897, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3621200": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "T agreed.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-08_06:53:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3605484, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3604963": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"Blame America first?\"<br><br>Unless Russia's got it in their minds that they want to attack the US, why would they feel encircled? It's a DEFENSIVE system.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_18:04:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3604837, "depth": 11, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3598820": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Bwahahahahahaaa!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_16:12:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "JunePearl", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3598725, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3599257": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "A follow up to our pre-election list of anxieties and fears. <br><br>from We are Respectable Negroes: <br><br>The Day After-18 Post Election Thoughts and Reflections<br><br><a href=\"http://wearerespectablenegroes.blogspot.com/2008/11/chauncey-devega-says-day-after-17-post.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://wearerespectablenegroes.blogspot.com/200...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_16:37:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "e364df47f230e3ed8cfa0997fbf6354e", "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}, "3593687": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Beautiful Pic!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_11:34:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "4fd3ca416b455e03c3fa02c8bc744eb4", "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}, "3595751": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The tears continue.  I remember the day when  my paternal grandmother really gave me permission to cry.  I was 8 years old, and I was sitting in her kitchen watching her make biscuits.  She was kneading the dough with her knuckles, and I started to cry.  I don't know why, but I started to cry.<br><br>Grandma Rena walked over to the counter and brought a box of tissue and set the box in front of me.  I took one tissue,  and she looked at me and said:  \"Child, I didn't give you the box of tissue to cry one tear; I gave you the box so you can cry yourself a river.\"  So I am carrying a box of tissue with me.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHVMxBkW0CQ\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHVMxBkW0CQ</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_13:26:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3593626, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3611388": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  LOVED 'EM!!!  :&gt;)  [especially, 9, 6, 4, (3), 2, 1]<br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/07/lettermans-top-10-sarah-p_n_142082.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">LETTERMAN'S TOP 10 SarahPalin Revelations (VIDEO)</a><br><br>He just STR8 ignored the \"NEWS of the DAY!\"  :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_21:31:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3595755": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I really hate it for the young man who will be walking with his lil friends going to the b-ball court or something and then the 5 Black SUVs pull up and snatch him right up and scare the bejesus outta him and his lil friends - and take him promptly to the Oval Office where he has to answer about the note he passed Malia in class....and heaven help the young man that has the confidence to ask her on a date to see a movie. Poor fella.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_13:26:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3594771, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3605484": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Like I replied to Miranda below Craig, I found it funny. Never thought it meant anything UNTIL I saw what was going on in the blogs. Even mainstream blogs. It seemed like manna from heaven to some folks...I personally don't care BUT some people appear to...especially some of the ethnic majority who are seizing on to the comment for whatever reason...others think it was politically incorrect...<br><br>T", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_18:45:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "d6755b31010b50fc47eac9ee8b3bb319", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 10, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3605388, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3594733": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "What is striking is that he said the he is not racist?<br>What is racism?<br><br>---- I am sure he doesn't know<br><br>Looks like for him being called a racist is WORST than lynch inciting.<br><br>---- ...  And that he doesn't know the history of his own country.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_12:28:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "ochyming", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3594300, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3611633": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "didn't like the comment either, but moreso because it really just wasn't funny.  he sounded like he was trying to lighten the mood and it fell flat.  but, hopefully people can just cut him some slack.  it was his first official presidential press conference... i could sense the tension in that room through the television screen, so you KNOW he felt it!  i think it's gonna take all of us some time to allow this new situation to sink in.<br><br>pres-elect barack obama has stated many times that he is a black man.  i take him at his word.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_21:54:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "99bcec632769e483ead5faa515e84132", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3605293, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3594227": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Which did we hear more of in earnest: Moderate Democrats choosing to support McCain, or moderate Republicans choosing to support Obama?  <br><br>If the GOP doesn't realize that they need a candidate that unifies people <i>outside</i> of its core base, then they're going to have problems.  Sara Palin and people of her ilk are not the answer.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_12:04:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "Nate_Wesley", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3593250, "depth": 6, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3596276": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Justice58:  Good catch!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_13:53:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3592859, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3592694": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "She can't appoint herself as senator.  After the last crooked senator/governor appointed his daughter to the Senate, they changed the rules in Alaska to where you have to have a special election.<br><br>Now it wouldn't surprise me if she ran for the Senate in the special election.  Sistah Sarah and Terror Todd got a taste of the lower 48 and got smoke blown up her ass coast to coast and they won't be content to hang out in Wasilla no more.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_10:35:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 13, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3592355, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3596201": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I think your second post (\"black people are...\") should probably be two sentences, instead of just one.<br><br>Other than that, think you're good.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_13:48:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3596109, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3617108": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Maybe I am, but you know it's only been a few days.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_23:43:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "a43f021c11b2e6b394c6c3002f6cece0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3607320, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3599354": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "GreenLady you have to know that, for reasons that only a good psychoanalyst can describe, GOPers have this need to find an \"Us vs Them\" theme throughout EVERYTHING. They sincerely like war. They really do. They think there's some sort of dignity in being the big bad bully superpower and so any hint, I mean, any tiny, atomically small, fraction of a perceived slight against the USofA, and they holler THEY HATE US!! And heaven knows they want to good fight with Russia...its a longing that you and I will never understand, and that's a good thing. Like I said, only a good psychoanalyst can really break it down, but I just chalk it up a tiny wee-wee.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_16:42:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3599014, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3606014": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom. <br>Martin Luther King, Jr.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-07_19:30:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3600392, "depth": 5, "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": "6744550", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "21630", "hash": 6957716892369904024}, "thread": {"days_alive": 0, "slug": "friday_open_thread_48", "paginate": false, "num_pages": 1, "num_posts": 183, "per_page": 0, "total_posts": 0, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 6744550, "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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if(typeof DsqLocal == 'undefined') {
	DsqLocal = {};
}



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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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





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



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

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

	this._lastHash = null;

	this._accumMsg = '';

	this._lastSeqno = 0;

	this.MAX_DATA_LEN	= 1024;

	this.WAIT_TIME		= 10;

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

};

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

FragmentPacket.prototype.log = function(msg) {



};

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

		hash = this.reader.name;
	} else {

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

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

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

		this._lastSeqno = seqno;

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

				this._accumMsg = '';

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

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

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

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

};

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

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

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

	if (packetNum === 0) {

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

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

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

	if (num_packets === packetNum) {

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

	this._lastSeqno++;

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

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

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

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

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

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


	this.receiverId = receiverId;
};

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

	var listener = function(e) {

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


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

		that.receiveCallback(data);
	};

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

PostMessagePacket.prototype.send = function(msg) {



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


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

	var packet;
	if (!msg) {

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

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

var JsonRpc = function() {

	this.ids = {};

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

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

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

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

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

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

				json = 'null';
				break;
		}

		return json;
	};

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		send_func(this.objectToJSON(request));

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

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


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



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


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


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

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

	this.packetHandler = null;


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


	var _createReceiverForFragmentPacket = function() {

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

			that._ready = true;
		};

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

		that.receiver.onload = receiver_onload;







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

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

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

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


	var _createReceiverForPostMessage = function() {

		var receiver_onload = function() {

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

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


		ParentMessenger['_receiver_onload_' + receiverId] = receiver_onload;

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

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

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

};

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	var sendFunc = function(msg) {

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


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


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

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

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

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

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

		if (msg.username) {

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	this.url = Dsq.Urls.REPLY +
		'?' + (new Date()).getTime() +
		'&f=jackandjillpolitics' +
		'&t=friday_open_thread_48' +
		'&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/friday_open_thread_48/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='	+ 'friday_open_thread_48'
			+ '&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/friday_open_thread_48/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">183</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/friday_open_thread_48/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/friday_open_thread_48/">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:6744550" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false">You must log into your Disqus Profile in order to post comments.</a></p>\
	 </div>\
		';

		

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

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

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.authPost();
		

		html += Dsq.Templates.reactions();

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.trackbacks();
		

		return html;
	};

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

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

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

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

		if(typeof DsqLocal != 'undefined' && DsqLocal.trackback_url && DsqLocal.trackbacks) {
			var trackbacks = DsqLocal.trackbacks;
			var trackback_url = DsqLocal.trackback_url;
		} else {
			var trackbacks = [
			
			
			];
			var trackback_url = 'http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/friday_open_thread_48/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:6744550" 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:6744550" 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'				: 'friday_open_thread_48',
			// 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/friday_open_thread_48/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='	+ 'friday_open_thread_48'
			+ '&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='	+ 'friday_open_thread_48'
			+ '&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='		+ 'friday_open_thread_48'
				+ '&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/6744550/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;
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Dsq.container.className = "clearfix";
Dsq.container.innerHTML = ' \
<ul id="dsq-comments">\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-3593813">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3593813" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3593813" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3593813">Myth</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3593813" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3593813" class="dsq-comment-message">Presidential appointments and transition information on change.gov</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-3594252">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3594252" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3594252" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3594252" href="http://deoclicianocgiportfolio.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ochyming</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3594252" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3594252" class="dsq-comment-message">Wonderful!<br><br>I believe NOW that THE USA on the photo "already" existed, but IT really needed a Figure like Obama to strength it.<br><br>I really HOPE Afro-Americans to JUMP on the boat, they lost the one from the 60\'s, to lose this ONE will be disastrous!<br><br>Remember NO relationship is one sided.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-3591480">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3591480" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3591480" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3591480">E. Duvert</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3591480" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3591480" class="dsq-comment-message">Beautiful. One more image that makes me so happy.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-3591513">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3591513" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3591513" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3591513">rorysmomma</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3591513" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3591513" class="dsq-comment-message">Extremely beautiful pic</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-3591585">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3591585" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3591585" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3591585">Justice58</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3591585" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3591585" class="dsq-comment-message">A beautiful pic! I love it!</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-3591837">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3591837" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3591837" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3591837" href="http://www.inconsequentiallogic.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">roschelle</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3591837" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3591837" class="dsq-comment-message">you guys are awesome. these picture say more than anyone ever could. There is HOPE.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-3591897">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3591897" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3591897" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3591897">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3591897" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3591897" class="dsq-comment-message">There\'s some shady stuff going on in Alaska. We need to keep an eye out on that Senate election.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-3592355">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3592355" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3592355" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3592355">univofiowagrad2003</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3592355" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3592355" class="dsq-comment-message">Great Point!!!!  I think Palin is going to try and lurk in the shadows and appoint herself as senator...</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-3592694">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3592694" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3592694" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3592694">Town</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3592694" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3592694" class="dsq-comment-message">She can\'t appoint herself as senator.  After the last crooked senator/governor appointed his daughter to the Senate, they changed the rules in Alaska to where you have to have a special election.<br><br>Now it wouldn\'t surprise me if she ran for the Senate in the special election.  Sistah Sarah and Terror Todd got a taste of the lower 48 and got smoke blown up her ass coast to coast and they won\'t be content to hang out in Wasilla no more.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-3592895">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3592895" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3592895" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3592895" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3592895" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3592895" class="dsq-comment-message">She gets voted in as senator, and runs for president before she completes her first term.<br><br>God help me, but who does she think she is? The conservative Barack Obama?</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-3593560">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3593560" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3593560" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3593560">Town</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3593560" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3593560" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'ve observed Barack Obama.  Sarah Palin is not Barack Obama.<br><br>I do believe Sherri Shepherd is smarter than Palin.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-3595709">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3595709" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3595709" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3595709" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3595709" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3595709" class="dsq-comment-message">Have you watched the View? Unless there\'s a clip which I am selective about seeing I have permanently banned that biyacht-fest. She was actually considering voting for McCain because of Palin and her special needs child. They wouldn\'t have done jack for children when he voted down state funding for health insurance for kids. The stupidity just hurts my head too much.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-3596168">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3596168" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3596168" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3596168">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3596168" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3596168" class="dsq-comment-message">h&f:   Major co-sign!!  <br><br>The <b>UN-VETTED ONE</b>  is NOT properly caring for that child OR any of the other ones!<br><br>Who jumps out of the hospital bed AFTER 3 DAYS and runs back onto "bui\'ness as usual??"  NO CARING MOTHER!!!<br><br>EVEN ANIMALS NURSE and CARE for their YOUNG for a select LENGTH of TIME!!  [And she tried to compare herself to a "pit bull or "pig!"  THEY are BETTER THAN HER!!]<br><br>I would LOVE to read a TELL-ALL book from JUST 1 of her children!! [Speaking of which, the National Enquirer did NOT come through (from Alaska) like I anticipated.  Hmmmm?]<br><br>LAWD, I\'m SOOOO HAPPY that she\'s a <b>LOSER</b>, I mean - she lost!    NO!  I mean she\'s a LOSER!!<br><br>President-Elect  Obama!!  First Lady Michelle!  :&gt;)</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-3593803">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3593803" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3593803" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3593803">parker404</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3593803" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3593803" class="dsq-comment-message">Damn, Town.  That hurt :)</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-3594386">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3594386" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3594386" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3594386" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3594386" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3594386" class="dsq-comment-message">Not under any circumstances.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-3618714">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3618714" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3618714" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3618714">msmartin</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3618714" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3618714" class="dsq-comment-message">Ooh you are so wrong for that.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-3593167">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3593167" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3593167" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3593167">djchefron</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3593167" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3593167" class="dsq-comment-message">That is why true conservatives such as yourself need to fight for your party.If republicans keep going down the path of know nothing theocratic hillbillies then you will cease to exist.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-3593250">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3593250" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3593250" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3593250" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3593250" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3593250" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m slowly approaching the point of "f--k the GOP." They "change" they want is to drive out the moderates and go even <i>further</i> to the right.<br><br>Maybe after another drubbing in \'12, they\'ll begin to see the light.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-3594227">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3594227" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3594227" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3594227">Nate_Wesley</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3594227" class="dsq-comment-message">Which did we hear more of in earnest: Moderate Democrats choosing to support McCain, or moderate Republicans choosing to support Obama?  <br><br>If the GOP doesn\'t realize that they need a candidate that unifies people <i>outside</i> of its core base, then they\'re going to have problems.  Sara Palin and people of her ilk are not the answer.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3593474" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3593474">djchefron</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3593474" class="dsq-comment-message">Even though we rarely agree and sometimes are interactions were angry rants I do respect you.If people like you leave without speaking out on the wrongs of your party then the theocrats will take over and we will truly have one party rule and even though it would be democratic that scares me even more because if we dont have an effective opposition then we to will become corrupt.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3593648" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3593648" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3593648">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3593648" class="dsq-comment-message">Here\'s the thing: the Republicans who have differing opinions or who want to pump the brakes on what\'s going on are drummed out of the party.  There\'s a real "you\'re either with us or against us" mindset.<br><br>If the GOP is to survive, you\'re going to have to get rid of the Rush Limbaugh Jesse Helms faction of the party.  It\'s very telling that the GOP only won electorally in  the South and in places like Idaho and the Dakotas.  I don\'t know why Bobby Jindal is jumping up to plant his butt in Iowa because the same people who wouldn\'t vote for Obama because of his skin color aren\'t going to vote for Jindal because of his, GOP or not.  And a lot of "misinformed" voters think that Indian = Muslim, when in most cases that\'s not the case.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3594254" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3594254" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3594254" class="dsq-comment-message">What we need is a <i>strong</I>, young, black conservative voice (besides Michael Steele).<br><br>Instead, all the black conservatives I\'ve seen are all puss......um, <i>punks</i>.</i></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3592098" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3592098">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3592098" class="dsq-comment-message">There is some REAL shady stuff going on in GEorgia too!<br>We all saw those long lines, we all know about 10\'s of thousands of more registered voters...yet...the vote totals for the state are LESS than in 2004!!<br><br>What the hell is up with this aberrant tally?<br><br>No one is talking about how they have stole the election in GA....</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3596116" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3596116">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3596116" class="dsq-comment-message">We were just discussing this today at the People\'s Agenda for the Black Revolution meeting (or rather when I went to lunch with my black co-workers, apparently we plan the revolution when we go to lunch together, or at least that\'s what the "looks" tell me).<br><br>If you look at the way the count went down, its obvous that Georgia is a blue state. Obama won Georgia, plain and simple. They totally stole this one in an attempt to hold on to the myth that he couldn\'t win one of the strangleholds of the GOP. Yes he won VA, NC and FL - yeah, those are southern states.....but if you really want to stick a fork in there, AL or MS or GA would do it. Georgia was the best shot and he did it. There will be a run-off for the Senate seat and I hope Obama or Biden comes down to help Martin out. We need it.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3592859" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3592859">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3592859" class="dsq-comment-message">No kidding! Take a look:<br><br><a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/washingtonpostinvestigations/2008/11/alaska_turnout_results_raise_q.html" rel="nofollow">http://voices.washingtonpost.com/washingtonpost...</a><br><br><i>Elections officials, party leaders and voters are wondering what happened this Tuesday in the Last Frontier, where turnout was surprisingly low and two lawmakers who have been the focus of FBI corruption investigations appear to have been reelected despite polling suggesting they would be ousted.</i><br><br><b>An Alaskan Blog: Stolen Election In Alaska</b><br><br><a href="http://shannynmoore.wordpress.com/2008/11/06/stolen-election-in-alaska/" rel="nofollow">http://shannynmoore.wordpress.com/2008/11/06/st...</a><br><br><br><i>Something stinks. Not just an ordinary low tide smell. Not like something you’d blame on the dog. It smells like an infection. For me to plug my nose, I’d have to overlook some curious facts.</i><br><br><i>In Alaska, more people voted for George W. Bush in 2004 than for Sarah Palin on Tuesday despite an identical 61-36 margin of victory. Yes. Only four years ago 54,304 Alaskans got off their sofas and voted for Bush, but decided to sit home and not vote for Palin in 2008. In turn, I have to ignore the 30,520 Alaskans who felt progressive enough in 2004 to vote for John Kerry, but weren’t inspired to vote for Barack Obama. I would have to glance past the 1,700% increase in the Democratic caucus in February, the 20,991 newly registered voters, and the three largest political rallies in Alaska’s history. I would also have to forget the people I stood in a long line with to early vote. It would be helpful not to know every other presidential election since Alaska began keeping records has had a larger turn out than the one we just had with our own Governor on the ticket. Try not to remember 12.4% more Alaskans showed up for the August primary as compared to four years ago, before the Palin nomination. Don’t think about the Lower 49’s record voter turn out this year either. Try to delete the memory file, though difficult, that 80% of us approved of Sarah Palin just two months ago.</i><br><br><b>Something stinks. You don’t care? Obama won. Yes. He. Did! Free at Last! Wait. Democracy demands all of the votes be counted…if you can find them.</b><br><br><br><br>WTF is happening?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3593175" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3593175" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3593175" class="dsq-comment-message">Alaska is the most corrupt oil company, ahem, I mean state, in the nation.<br><br>Alaska really is its own entity. It\'s really is not part of the United States and so many of its citizens actually would like to secede.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3596276" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3596276">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3596276" class="dsq-comment-message">Justice58:  Good catch!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3596256" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3596256">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3596256" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  That\'s WHY I have made my daily "Field Trips" to ALASKA!  :&gt;)<br><br>The <b>UN-VETTED ONE</b> is slick and "barracuda-driven" to try another way to get to DC.<br><br>I\'m WATCHIN\' her!!<br><br>President-Elect Obama!  First Lady Michelle!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3620619" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3620619">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3620619" class="dsq-comment-message">Yeap....the turnout is lower than 2004.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3591918" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3591918" href="http://rawdawgb.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">rawdawg</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3591918" class="dsq-comment-message">well we better free our minds and recoginze the real.  he is one man and although he sounded good and this is historic, america has to want to change, not to mention many of us  <a href=\'http://rawdawgb.blogspot.com/2008/10/negro-comfortable-up-in-here.html\' rel="nofollow">negro comfortable up in here</a><br><br><br>i just hope the <a href=\'http://rawdawgb.blogspot.com/2008/11/red-rum.html\' rel="nofollow">red states</a> dont take us back pre 1960</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3592124" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3592124">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3592124" class="dsq-comment-message">AWWWW!!! that was so sWEET....it\'s a new day in America</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3592239" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3592239" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3592239" href="http://daddyBstrong.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">MacDaddy</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3592239" class="dsq-comment-message">Those pics are America\'s future at its best.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3592437" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3592437">Nate_Wesley</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3592437" class="dsq-comment-message">Okay, I\'m calling BS.  JJP is obviously paying people to pose for these staged pictures. Don\'t get me wrong,  I mean, they\'re great shots.  They seem to keep getting better.  But I don\'t live in a world where people can come together like that, all happy, hopeful, and positive.  Sorry JJP, but the jig is up. <br><br>Ouch!  Uh oh.   <br><br>I\'m sorry ya\'ll, I just pinched myself and double checked my calendar.  It really isn\'t November 3rd anymore.  Just forget all of that other stuff I mentioned...today is a great day.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3593082" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3593082">parker404</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3593082" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3593082" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL!!!<br><br>What\'s amazing about the Obama movement is that American children and young adults have taken the responsibility for leading us to a more civilized nation.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3595855" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3595855">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3595855" class="dsq-comment-message">Nate:  "Whycome" you KNOW 2-day\'s a GREAT DAY!!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>Found this VIDEO.  [Admittedly, I\'ve NOT heard this song B4; BUT like the TITLE]<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOg_4VGslCk" rel="nofollow">GREAT DAY TO BE ALIVE!(Travis Tritt)</a><br><br>ENJOY!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>President-Elect Obama!   :&gt;)   First Lady  Michelle!   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3592869">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3592869" class="dsq-comment-message">PANEL 1:<br><br>White Boy:  Yay! Obama!<br>Black Boy: Sure wish I had an Obama / Biden sign<br><br><br>PANEL 2:<br><br>White Boy:  Here, take my sign!<br>Black Boy: Let me look around and see if my momma\'s watching, I don\'t want to get in trouble.<br><br><br>PANEL 3:<br><br>Black Boy:  Yay!  Obama / Biden!<br>Black Father: This boy too heavy to keep leaning over like that.  Let me get closer to these people so he won\'t have to lean anymore.<br><br><br>PANEL 4:<br><br>Everyone: YAY!!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3592933" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3592933">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3592933" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL<br><br>Town, you\'re too cute!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3593104" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3593104">MsKitty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3593104" class="dsq-comment-message">Ha</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3595466" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3595466">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3595466" class="dsq-comment-message">Town:  Nice captions!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>These pics really TELL THE STORY OF THIS ELECTION!!<br><br>IT was this UNIQUE!!  :&gt;)<br><br>President-Elect Obama   First Lady Michelle!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3593352" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3593352">BTx</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3593352" class="dsq-comment-message">From The Onion -<br><br>Black Man Given Nation\'s Worst Job<br><br>November 5, 2008 | Issue 44•45<br>Article Tools<br><br>WASHINGTON—African-American man Barack Obama, 47, was given the least-desirable job in the entire country Tuesday when he was elected president of the United States of America. In his new high-stress, low-reward position, Obama will be charged with such tasks as completely overhauling the nation\'s broken-down economy, repairing the crumbling infrastructure, and generally having to please more than 300 million Americans and cater to their every whim on a daily basis. As part of his duties, the black man will have to spend four to eight years cleaning up the messes other people left behind. The job comes with such intense scrutiny and so certain a guarantee of failure that only one other person even bothered applying for it. Said scholar and activist Mark L. Denton, "It just goes to show you that, in this country, a black man still can\'t catch a break."</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3593541" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3593541">parker404</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3593541" class="dsq-comment-message">Funny stuff.  Love the Onion.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3593594" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3593594" href="http://shruglife.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Mr. Noface</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3593594" class="dsq-comment-message">Holy Cow!  Those pictures are AWESOME!  Its a sign of what the future could be--WILL BE like, if we keep working at coming together as a people.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3593626" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3593626" href="http://bettycracker.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Betty Cracker</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3593626" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3593626" class="dsq-comment-message">I thought I was done crying. But here I go again.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3595751" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3595751" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3595751">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3595751" class="dsq-comment-message">The tears continue.  I remember the day when  my paternal grandmother really gave me permission to cry.  I was 8 years old, and I was sitting in her kitchen watching her make biscuits.  She was kneading the dough with her knuckles, and I started to cry.  I don\'t know why, but I started to cry.<br><br>Grandma Rena walked over to the counter and brought a box of tissue and set the box in front of me.  I took one tissue,  and she looked at me and said:  "Child, I didn\'t give you the box of tissue to cry one tear; I gave you the box so you can cry yourself a river."  So I am carrying a box of tissue with me.<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHVMxBkW0CQ" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHVMxBkW0CQ</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3596540" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3596540">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3596540" class="dsq-comment-message">Good for  you Spirit! Go ahead and cry if you want to!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3593687" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3593687">NMP</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3593687" class="dsq-comment-message">Beautiful Pic!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3593767" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3593767">Nate_Wesley</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3593767" class="dsq-comment-message">The New York Times\' website has a neat interactive map that lets you compare this past Tuesday\'s election returns to that of the 2004 election.  <br><br><a href="http://elections.nytimes.com/2008/results/president/map.html" rel="nofollow">http://elections.nytimes.com/2008/results/presi...</a><br><br>One really neat thing to take note of is the voting shifts feature.  It can show you changes in voting patterns vs 2004 at the county level.   Perhaps it is the best evidence of Howard Dean\'s 50 state strategy, as the overwhelming majority of individual counties/parishes showed a shift to Democrats.  Some observations: <br><br>**For whatever reason, most of the counties in Tennessee, Arkansas, and southern Louisiana, and eastern Oklahoma tilted more Republican.  <br>**Both Mississippi and South Carolina appeared to tilt more Democratic than Alabama did. <br>**In my home state of Alabama, folks north of Birmingham/Jefferson County favored the GOP more, joining most of Tennessee.  Most of the counties south of B/JC tilted to the Dems.  (A potential move to Montgomery looks even more promising.)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3594152">kepop</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3594152" class="dsq-comment-message">Will yall stop with the pics... I don\'t want to cry anymore!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3594270">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3594270" class="dsq-comment-message">Chicago Judge Mugged Near Obama’s House on Election Eve<br><br>Posted 1 hour, 22 minutes ago<br>By Debra Cassens Weiss<br><br>A Chicago judge who lives a few blocks from Barack Obama in the city\'s Hyde Park neighborhood was mugged on her front porch the evening before the election.<br><br><a href="http://www.abajournal.com/news/chicago_judge_mugged_near_obamas_house_on_election_eve" rel="nofollow">http://www.abajournal.com/news/chicago_judge_mu...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3594300">Nate_Wesley</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3594300" class="dsq-comment-message">A Texas Longhorns football player  learns why racist Obama Facebook updates are dumb:<br><br><a href="http://ncaafootball.fanhouse.com/2008/11/06/texas-c-buck-burnette-learns-why-racist-obama-facebook-updates-a/#comments" rel="nofollow">http://ncaafootball.fanhouse.com/2008/11/06/tex...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3594733" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3594733" href="http://deoclicianocgiportfolio.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ochyming</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3594733" class="dsq-comment-message">What is striking is that he said the he is not racist?<br>What is racism?<br><br>---- I am sure he doesn\'t know<br><br>Looks like for him being called a racist is WORST than lynch inciting.<br><br>---- ...  And that he doesn\'t know the history of his own country.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3594563" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3594563">BarackMarley</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3594563" class="dsq-comment-message">Top 10 Obama Victory Songs<br><a href="http://newsone.blackplanet.com/entertainment/top-10-obama-songs/" rel="nofollow">http://newsone.blackplanet.com/entertainment/to...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3594771" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3594771">MsKitty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3594771" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/07/malia-obama-see-how-shes_n_141836.html" rel="nofollow">Malia Obama: See How She\'s Grown</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3595755" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3595755">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3595755" class="dsq-comment-message">I really hate it for the young man who will be walking with his lil friends going to the b-ball court or something and then the 5 Black SUVs pull up and snatch him right up and scare the bejesus outta him and his lil friends - and take him promptly to the Oval Office where he has to answer about the note he passed Malia in class....and heaven help the young man that has the confidence to ask her on a date to see a movie. Poor fella.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3596367" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3596367">parker404</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3596367" class="dsq-comment-message">Clearly Barack doesn\'t play, so this scenario is likely to happen at some point within the next 8 years.<br><br>Maybe POTUS will let her invite a date to see a movie with her in the White House theater.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3597833">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3597833" class="dsq-comment-message">WIth 4 big burly men in dark suits sitting directly behind them.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3599109" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3599109">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3599109" class="dsq-comment-message">Miranda:  Annnnnd 2 in between them!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3596385" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3596385">MsKitty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3596385" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL.  You know daddies don\'t play when it comes to checking out potential boyfriends anyway, but a daddy with a Secret Service detail at his disposal?  Any potential Malia suitor is going to have to come seriously correct.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3596857">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3596857" class="dsq-comment-message">lol<br><br>The poor kid will be picked apart. But don\'t worry....some brave youngster will take his chances!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3597685">freespiritbty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3597685" class="dsq-comment-message">CTHU!!!!  The Obama daughters are quite beautiful in their own ways.  I bet Maila\'s code name will be "on and popping" because i can just see a potential suitor get jammed up by S.S.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3604128">pjamma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3604128" class="dsq-comment-message">Since most of the schools they are considering are all girls schools I don\'t think we have to worry about the little dude on the court.  I\'m sure Malia\'s potential suiters will be brought in (maybe from the brother school, all prescreened, of course or sons of family friends).   I think there is little chance she is just going to meet someone randomly in the next 8 years.  Not to mention I\'m sure Will Smith, P Diddy, Tom Cruise and every other celeberty with a son aged 10 to 12 are already lining thier little boys up to win Malia\'s heart.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3594970">MsKitty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3594970" class="dsq-comment-message">Jed has posted <a href="http://www.jedreport.com/2008/11/a-night-to-remember-barack-oba.html" rel="nofollow">video highlights of Tuesday night</a></div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3595930" href="http://sooncome.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">JunePearl</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3595930" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.startribune.com/politics/34058514.html" rel="nofollow">World leaders are bragging about talking to our president.</a> It feels SO. GOOD. to not be embarassed by the president anymore. I am saying prayers that Bush just bide his time and not make any big decisions. Anyone else think he\'s got one more good mess to make before he leaves? I am hoping he just doesn\'t do anything.<br><br>The past few days have been flabbergasting, I\'m still trying to take it all in. But all these pictures ain\'t helping JJP, I get back to earth and then a picture pops up and I start getting tears in my eyes. <br><br>This is a beautiful time to be Black and alive. My soul looks back and wonders...</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3596899">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3596899" class="dsq-comment-message">JunePearl:  Did you mean:<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8g9k30MujQ" rel="nofollow">HOW I GOT OVER (Mary Mary)</a><br><br>ENJOY!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3598682" href="http://sooncome.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">JunePearl</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3598682" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3598682" class="dsq-comment-message">Green Lady, that\'s my jam!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3598725" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3598725">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3598725" class="dsq-comment-message">JunePearl:  GREAT!!  Now, REALLY ENJOY!  :&gt;)<br><br>BTW:  Do YOU have a Choir Robe?   :&gt;)   :&gt;)  "JJP CHOIR" is recruiting!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3598820" href="http://sooncome.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">JunePearl</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3598820" class="dsq-comment-message">Bwahahahahahaaa!!!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3596625" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3596625" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3596625" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3596625" class="dsq-comment-message">Yeah, well, <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27551326/" rel="nofollow">Russia did give him the finger.</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3597549">Monie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3597549" class="dsq-comment-message">D., you know that this is also a reaction to the Bush administration\'s circling of Russia with missile systems......and quite naturally, the lame duck is no where to be found or at least heard from.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3598727" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3598727" href="http://sooncome.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">JunePearl</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3598727" class="dsq-comment-message">Ditto. Russia\'s reaction is really aimed at all Americans. Not Obama in particular. If we had a real leader in office, I wouldn\'t feel quite so wary, about this...but we have Bush...</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3598987" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3598987" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3598987" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3598987" class="dsq-comment-message">If that\'s the case, then why did Russia\'s announcement come <i>after</i> the election...especially considering that the US/Poland agreed to put systems in place back in <i>February</i>?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3626103" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3626103" href="http://sooncome.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">JunePearl</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3626103" class="dsq-comment-message">Because if Russia had said anything before the election no one would have been paying attention. It would have served as a blip on the radar of our focus. Remember, we were tending to election mania. If you want to be heard, you do it after something big happens, not before.<br><br>In summation, I believe they waited until after the election because they are attention hogs.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3597894" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3597894" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3597894" class="dsq-comment-message">True, it is.<br><br>But there\'s not a whole hell of a lot Bush can do about it, at this stage in the game. <br><br>I halfway wonder would this have happened if McCain won, but that\'s not my main concern. My biggest worry is that as the days go on, more and more of this type of behavior is gonna start to show up. It proves Biden\'s statement, but you can\'t help but be a little concerned...</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3598418">Monie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3598418" class="dsq-comment-message">After the exclamation of "We are all Georgians," I am sure that the same thing would have occurred.  <br><br>Like you\'ve said many times before, history has told us that "tests" occur irregardless of who is in office.  The Bush administration were given many, many warnings before 9/11....and the country even experienced the Cole bombing during the 2000 presidential campaign, so we knew fundamentalist activities were rising....so  the inaction of Bush was blaring.  Remember, Bush spent a LARGE portion of his first months of the presidency on vacation ( I think it was even reported as a record for a president).<br><br>Of course now we live in a very different world where our leaders are alert and take nothing for granted.  And I am convinced that the departing Bush administration and the incoming administration are<br>not taking anything for granted.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3598586" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3598586" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3598586" class="dsq-comment-message">My concern is that if you get too much stuff popping off at once (Russia\'s already acting a fool, so let\'s say China joins them, Israel preemptively/preventatively attacks Iran, and al-Qaeda emerges from some hole somewhere), it could become a lot difficult for him to deal with.<br><br>I won\'t question Obama\'s vigilance (yet; he does have bigger problems with the economy).</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3599207" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3599207">Monie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3599207" class="dsq-comment-message">Well you know it was reported that a foreign entity hacked into both McCain and Obama\'s computer systems over the summer so there is obviously those who are "interested" in US policy  regardless.<br><br>McCain actually concerned me more because  began to become more hawkish and erratic and basically surrounded himself with the far-right Bushies which helped cost him the election.<br><br>Bush does not even compare in intelligence to Obama. I mean let\'s be honest---Bush was unmistakenly a wild frat boy whose Ivy League education was a result of legacy.  He ran an oil company into the ground...and quite frankly rode into the Texas governorship off of the Bush name...which is very powerful in business circles and connections.<br><br>I don\'t think Bush ever clearly had ideas of his own., the presidency was always an endeavor that was way over his head...he was mostly th poster boy of the presidency and Cheney and the hawkish PNAC were the brain trust.   <br><br>But the bottom line is, Obama is very calm, collected, pragmatic, and decisive.  Both the Clintons and McCain learned that they just couldn\'t shake him...and I think other leaders know that---some admire it and some are not sure waht to make of it.  At this point, I think that\'s an asset honestly.<br><br>Obama is a smart man who has studied international relations, has a keen sense of history and an added plus of being a "minority"  And believe it or not, being a minority is resonating loudly to leaders like Chavez or even Ahmedinajad (sp?)---I am not saying it will completely change their policies, but it does alter their perceptions at least for now.  And I think that should be taken advantage of by his incoming administration.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3599434" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3599434" class="dsq-comment-message">Those are all assets. But in some cultures, they can also be perceived as weaknesses. Calmness can easily be mistaken for aloofness.<br><br>My biggest problem with Obama has been in areas of foreign policy and how he would deal with countries like Russia and Iran. Reagan was able to talk the Russians down, but he made it completely clear that if it came down to it, he\'d destroy them. Obama doesn\'t have that option (without going nuclear), so he needs to show strength <i>from the beginning</i>.<br><br>I understand that most are more concerned about problems here at home, but-as Obama said himself-the president should be able to deal with more than one thing at a time. Yes, the economy\'s a big deal, and I\'m not trying to lessen its significance...but at the same time, other nations are seeing a window of opportunity to act fools, thinking we\'re at our knees.<br><br>And Obama should remind them that, current difficulties aside, we can still take care of business if/when we need to.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3604092">Monie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3604092" class="dsq-comment-message">Whether you realize it or not, Obama is an academic who has ironically been studying Reagan extensively amongst others.  Obama is very measured and pragmatic....I take comfort in that.<br><br>One of the things that has hurt this country more than anything in the past 8 years is credibilty and haste in dealing with our foreign policy.  <br><br>Obama chose a great VP who is as experienced in foreign policy as McCain...though not as hawkish perhaps.  McCain repeatedly said he wanted Russia kicked out of G-8 and other confrontational things even before he became ithe election was over---and you seem to endorse that ?!  Now McCain/Palin would have been even scarier....Palin had NOTHING to offer McCain as far as consulting and thankfully the neo-CONS like Scheunemann will be away from the White House as advisors.  It is time to build some international support aside from just Israel, plain and simple.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3604358" class="dsq-comment-message">...and part of doing that is showing our allies that we stand by them-especially when they\'re threatened.<br><br>I doubt I have to remind you of Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty, which Poland and the Czech Republic both signed.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3604837">Monie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3604837" class="dsq-comment-message">When did  Russia threaten Poland and czech republic outright?  <br><br>My understanding is that the Bush administration brokered these missile systems in those countries in an effort to guard against Iran and other threats---while unfortunately also giving the impression of encircling Russia.<br><br>And now post-Georgian conflict and heightened tensions, Russia apparently wants to build their own missile in response. <br><br>Is that good for our relations with Russia--probably not.<br><br>Is  Russia\'s actions  reactive to our own policies--YES!!</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3604963" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3604963" class="dsq-comment-message">"Blame America first?"<br><br>Unless Russia\'s got it in their minds that they want to attack the US, why would they feel encircled? It\'s a DEFENSIVE system.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3605314">Monie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3605314" class="dsq-comment-message">D., don\'t come at me with the same tired Republican meme...expressing dissent is somehow placing blame on America.<br><br>The tensions between Russia and Georgia...not to mention our $1 billion pledge to them in the aftermath of the conflict has created a tension on Russia\'s behalf, whether you think it is substantiated or not.<br><br><br>Believe it or not, according to reports most Czech citizens themselves opposed the missile system.<br><br>Check out this article from July<br><br><a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article4295309.ece" rel="nofollow">http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/eur...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3605504" class="dsq-comment-message">You\'re the one who suggested our actions caused their reactions.<br><br>Let\'s try this: how would. YOU deal with them?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3605936">Monie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3605936" class="dsq-comment-message">You started off by claiming WE are protecting Poland and the Czech Republic supposedly from Russia...which is unfounded since I don\'t recall any threat to them from Russia\'s behalf.<br><br>Not only is there suspicion about the missile system. but their is also a race from both the US and Russia on securing the upper hand as far as "black gold" or oil is concerned.  And I particularly happen to think that the "energy" race has influenced our foreign policy more than anything.<br><br>But it is very worthy to note that a majority of Czechs did not even approve of this missile system---quite possibly because it leads to "Cold War" type tensions.<br><br>If missile had been placed by russia along the Mexican border, Cuba, Haiti and so forth, there would be an outcry on our behalf. PERIOD.<br><br>At this time becasue of the heightened tension, negotiations  and talks are the  prudent answer period.  I am tired of hawkishness.<br><br>Our country financially and psychologically cannot afford more conflicts, especially not one with Russia.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3606047" class="dsq-comment-message">What is there to negotiate? The Poles have given permission, and the Czechs may well do so.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3599014" class="dsq-comment-message">D:  STOP!!  That is NOT what happened!  As other posters have reminded you, he was speaking to SHRUB and his administration!<br><br>That statement: [M did not congratulate Mr. President - Elect] was editorial!  It was NOT a part of M\'s statement!  Geesh!<br><br>So <i>Russia did give him the finger.</i>  was NOT an accurate representation of the statement that M made!!  That was YOUR interpretation.   And it was a HARSH MIS-representation!!!<br><br>STOP looking for imaginary things that represent YOUR disappointment!<br><br>It takes TOO LONG and 2 MUCH of people\'s Energy to HELP YOU SEE THE TRUTH - as in  <b>True, it is.</b> [YOUR words!!]<br><br>Annnnnd, quite frankly, I\'m NOT going to join you in your WORRIES and WHAT IF\'s.  We have ENOUGH on our plates on a daily basis!!<br><br>President-Elect Obama!  First Lady [First MOM!] Michelle!!   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3599220" class="dsq-comment-message">I wasn\'t referring to Medvedev\'s words; I was referring to his <i>actions</i>. Which to me, read as "f--k you" to Obama, not to Bush (who, lest we forget, is on his way out the door!).<br><br>See what I said to June below: ample time had passed between the announcement of negotiations for this defense shield and now. If a message needed to be sent to Bush, it could have <i>been sent</i> by now. Just like I said about Obama\'s actions once, there\'s more to read from the <i>when</i> something is done than there is from the <i>how/why</i> it\'s done.<br><br>Obama\'s mind\'s in the right place: fixing the economy. I do kinda wish he\'d tell Medvedev "f--k you" back, but that\'s just me.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3599502" class="dsq-comment-message">D:  <i>Which to me,</i>;    <i>but that\'s just me.</i><br><br>My THESIS stands:   YOUR, sometimes WISHFUL statements.  <br><br>I\'m recommending that YOU separate them FROM REALITY!!  YOUR points may READ better. <br><br>I\'m just saying. . . . . .   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3602874" class="dsq-comment-message">Okay, educate me: where am I wrong?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3604035" class="dsq-comment-message">D:  With all due respect, I believe that I just did.<br><br>I know that YOU jes gotta be YOU.<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tme4pZWqJZs" rel="nofollow">I GOTTA BE ME (Sammy Davis Jr.)</a><br><br>ENJOY!!!!   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3599354" class="dsq-comment-message">GreenLady you have to know that, for reasons that only a good psychoanalyst can describe, GOPers have this need to find an "Us vs Them" theme throughout EVERYTHING. They sincerely like war. They really do. They think there\'s some sort of dignity in being the big bad bully superpower and so any hint, I mean, any tiny, atomically small, fraction of a perceived slight against the USofA, and they holler THEY HATE US!! And heaven knows they want to good fight with Russia...its a longing that you and I will never understand, and that\'s a good thing. Like I said, only a good psychoanalyst can really break it down, but I just chalk it up a tiny wee-wee.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3600392" class="dsq-comment-message">"The purpose of all war is ultimately peace."<br><br>No one likes war, least of all those who worn the uniform. We recognize its occasional necessity, but trust...it ain\'t sport.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3606014">Monie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3606014" class="dsq-comment-message">A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom. <br>Martin Luther King, Jr.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3606148" class="dsq-comment-message">We drew down under Clinton. Only cost us, oh, 4000 or so lives between Somalia, Khobar, the Cole, and 9/11. <br><br>I\'m sorry, but I\'d rather not return to 9/10/01. <br><br>And, let\'s remember that Obama will be swearing to preserve, PROTECT and DEFEND.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3606385">Monie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3606385" class="dsq-comment-message">Now it is all Clinton\'s fault.  Is there blame to go around...maybe.<br><br>Did the Bush administration drop the ball prior  to 9/11----absolutely.  i firmly believe it did not occur "out of nowhere."<br><br>Let me remind you...<br><br>The FAA received 52 WARNINGS about Al Qaeda\'s hope to attack airlines between April and September 10,2001 ( during Bush\'s term and in between his many vacations).<br><br>From a Washington Post article detailing the urgent calls to Condi Rice TWO months before 9/11<br><br>On July 10,2001  George Tenet met with  Condi Rice and J. Cofer Black about numerous communications intercepts and other top secret intelligence that Al Qaeda would soon attack the US<br><br>He did not know when, where or how, but Tenet felt there was too much noise in the intelligence systems. Two weeks earlier, he had told Richard A. Clarke, the National Security Council\'s counterterrorism director: "It\'s my sixth sense, but I feel it coming. This is going to be the big one."<br><br>But Tenet had been having difficulty getting traction on an immediate bin Laden action plan, in part because Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld had questioned all the National Security Agency intercepts and other intelligence. Could all this be a grand deception? Rumsfeld had asked. Perhaps it was a plan to measure U.S. reactions and defenses....<br><br>Tenet and Black felt they were not getting through to Rice. She was polite, but they felt the brush-off. President Bush had said he didn\'t want to swat at flies....<br><br>Rice seemed focused on other administration priorities, especially the ballistic missile defense system that Bush had campaigned on. She was in a different place.<br><br>Tenet left the meeting feeling frustrated. Though Rice had given them a fair hearing, no immediate action meant great risk. Black felt the decision to just keep planning was a sustained policy failure. Rice and the Bush team had been in hibernation too long. "Adults should not have a system like this," he said later.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3601477" class="dsq-comment-message">Miranda:  "Whycome" I APPRECIATE YOUR words?  Because they are TRUE!!  :&gt;)<br><br>THANK YOU for giving me this perspective!!  :&gt;)<br><br>NOW, I\'ll be less **head shaking***   :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3599083" class="dsq-comment-message">Let you tell it....</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3596604" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:   Bringin\' some "stuff" DOWN FROM ALASKA: <br><br>1.  <a href="http://alaskacorruption.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">ALASKA CORRUPTION BLOGSPOT</a>  [They\'re WATCHIN\'!!]<br><br>2.   <a href="http://alaskareal.blogspot.com/2008/09/sarah-palins-record-on-alaska-native.html" rel="nofollow">Sarah Palin\'s Record on ALASKA Native and Tribal Issues</a><br><br> <i>After struggling over this one, I\'m going to go ahead and just post it, and let you make up your own minds.<br><br>Sarah Palin\'s Record on Alaska Native and Tribal Issues<br><br><b>This document has been floating around, and is factually true.</b> But the other fact is, our governor is very good at staying off the record on important Alaska Native issues. Or any Alaska Native issues, really. I refer you to my earlier posts (below or to the right) to view where her lack of attention has gotten us, as Alaskans and Alaska Native people.<br><br>This document asserts that:<br><br>1. Palin has attacked Native subsistence fishing<br>2. Palin has attacked Native subsistence hunting<br>3. Palin has attacked Alaska Native tribal sovereignty<br>4. Palin has attacked Alaska Native languages<br><br>This is not new, but I think "Palin\'s administration" or "Palin, through her staff" is the most accurate wording. Palin has released only a "supportive" letter to Alaska Native people during her campaign for governor, and other than that has remained publicly silent on Alaska Native issues.<br><br>The Alaska Native languages attack, for instance, was actually on an issue I\'ve covered here before - the Yup\'ik language ballot. In this instance, "Bethel and the State of Alaska" fought against providing Yup\'ik voting materials to the highly Yup\'ik area of Bethel. The Lt. Governor, Sean Parnell, is listed as one of the defendants, but not Palin directly. She\'s done this many, many times before (most notably in the Troopergate investigation,) - letting her people take care of the highly controversial issues, while she visibly takes on highly popular issues (gas pipeline, $1,200 checks to all Alaskans.)<br><br>For those of you who do not know Alaska, Alaska Native people make up nearly 20% of the population. To say something publicly against solid Alaska Native issues would be devastating to a campaign - and we vote to the tune of 90% in some boroughs.<br><br>Again, the facts of this document are true, I\'m just a bit cautious about saying "Palin believes this" about anything that she will come in and say "Oh, but that was my staff, not me" on. Which she has done. Frequently.<br>Posted by Writing Raven at 3:00 AM After struggling over this one, I\'m going to go ahead and just post it, and let you make up your own minds.<br><br>Sarah Palin\'s Record on Alaska Native and Tribal Issues<br><br>This document has been floating around, and is factually true. But the other fact is, our governor is very good at staying off the record on important Alaska Native issues. Or any Alaska Native issues, really. I refer you to my earlier posts (below or to the right) to view where her lack of attention has gotten us, as Alaskans and Alaska Native people.<br><br>This document asserts that:<br><br>1. Palin has attacked Native subsistence fishing<br>2. Palin has attacked Native subsistence hunting<br>3. Palin has attacked Alaska Native tribal sovereignty<br>4. Palin has attacked Alaska Native languages<br><br>This is not new, but I think "Palin\'s administration" or "Palin, through her staff" is the most accurate wording. Palin has released only a "supportive" letter to Alaska Native people during her campaign for governor, and other than that has remained publicly silent on Alaska Native issues.<br><br>The Alaska Native languages attack, for instance, was actually on an issue I\'ve covered here before - the Yup\'ik language ballot. In this instance, "Bethel and the State of Alaska" fought against providing Yup\'ik voting materials to the highly Yup\'ik area of Bethel. The Lt. Governor, Sean Parnell, is listed as one of the defendants, but not Palin directly. She\'s done this many, many times before (most notably in the Troopergate investigation,) - letting her people take care of the highly controversial issues, while she visibly takes on highly popular issues (gas pipeline, $1,200 checks to all Alaskans.)<br><br><b>For those of you who do not know Alaska, Alaska Native people make up nearly 20% of the population. To say something publicly against solid Alaska Native issues would be devastating to a campaign - and we vote to the tune of 90% in some boroughs.</b><br><br><b>Again, the facts of this document are true,</b> I\'m just a bit cautious about saying "Palin believes this" about anything that she will come in and say "Oh, but that was my staff, not me" on. Which she has done. Frequently.<br>Posted by Writing Raven at 3:00 AM</i><br><br>3.  <a href="http://womenagainstsarahpalin.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">(ALASKA) Women Against Sarah Palin</a><br><br>SEE the pic under the article "YES WE CAN".  A sista is cryin\' !<br><br>This is the philosophy of the author of the blogspot:  About Me<br><br><i>womenagainstsarahpalin<br>    We are not in the habit of criticizing women in the public sphere, as we usually feel we should support our female compatriots with as much encouragement as we can. However, Sarah Palin\'s record is anti-woman. Feminism is not simply about achieving the power and status typically held by men. It\'s about protecting and supporting the rights of women of all classes, races, cultures, and beliefs. Palin\'s record and beliefs do not align with this. She was chosen by John McCain specifically because he believes that American women will vote for any female candidate regardless of their qualifications. He is wrong.<br><br>View my complete profile</i><br><br>THERE IS sooo MUCH MORE!!  I\'m just trying to demonstrate that ALASKANS are WORKING HARD AGAINST HER!!  Even though it\'s a RED and CORRUPT STATE!!<br><br>Praying for them!!<br><br>President-Elect Obama!  First Lady Michelle!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3597605">freespiritbty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3597605" class="dsq-comment-message">WOW:  Palin\'s feet is about to be held to the fire.  Her record is deplorable.  I hope she runs in 2012, so we can laughed her off the stage.  Palin is a straight up trip!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3598634">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3598634" class="dsq-comment-message">freespiritbty:  ACTUALLY, I\'m HOPING that she will be "brought down" NOW!!!<br><br>Some of the Alaskans are trying to make SURE of THAT!!  In this way, she will not be able to continue to establish a "base!" This is the STRATEGY!!  YES!!!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3606790">freespiritbty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3606790" class="dsq-comment-message">Girl if 2 or more agree :-). I want Palin to go down hard. I am so proud of Alaska opposition/Mudflats for all their efforts!!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3607332">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3607332" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3607332" class="dsq-comment-message">freespiritbty"  Yes!!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3599067" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3599067">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3599067" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3599067" class="dsq-comment-message">Remember ......""Wasilla hillbillies looting Neiman Marcus from coast to coast." PWT!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3604209" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3604209" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3604209">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3604209" class="dsq-comment-message">The Wasilla Hillbillies!<br><br>Come and listen to a story about woman name Sarah<br>A power hungry Governor, barely kept her family fed, <br>Then one day she was shootin at a moose <br>And up around the corner came a McCain phone call<br><br>Call that is, for his POTUS pick.  Alaska  tea. <br><br>Well the first thing you know ole Sarah\'s a VP candidate<br>Kinfolk said "Sarah, hit the lower 48, heck! Move away from there" <br>Said "Lower 48 is the place you ought to be" <br>So they loaded up the truck and moved to the RNC. <br><br>St. Paul, that is.  Neiman Marcus, Mall of America, red FMP. <br><br>Well now its time to say good by to Sarah and all her kin. <br>And they would like to thank you folks fer them kindly droppin in. <br>They\'re not  invited back again to this locality (Lower 48)<br>So no more race-baiting and rouge candidacy from thee<br>We don\'t need to have a heapin helpin of that insanity. <br><br>Hillbilly that is. Set a spell, Take your shoes off. <br><br>Don\'t come back now, y’all hear?<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZp2JcmUU6oe" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZp2JcmUU6oe</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3604234">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3604234" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3604234" class="dsq-comment-message">Correction VPOTUS  Heeheee!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3605848" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3605848">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3605848" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3605848" class="dsq-comment-message">ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3607376">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3607376" class="dsq-comment-message">spirit:   LOL!!  :&gt;)<br><br>I couldn\'t "get" the youtube??  Thanks!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3606644" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3606644">freespiritbty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3606644" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3606644" class="dsq-comment-message">Major PWND!! HAHAHA!!! After seeing Piper slick down Trig\'s hair with her saliva, did me in, LOL!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3616544" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3616544" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3616544">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3616544" class="dsq-comment-message">freespiritbty:   EEEEWWWWWWW   Me  2!!  <br><br>I\'m tellin\' you that those chil\'ren need to be "socialized!"  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3603853">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3603853" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes, she is a trip without the SUITCASE!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3606619">freespiritbty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3606619" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3606619" class="dsq-comment-message">LMAO!! OK?! May I use that?  Best. Line. This Week! Besides President-Elect Obama.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3606937" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3606937">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3606937" class="dsq-comment-message">freespiritbty, please, feel free!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3596959">freespiritbty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3596959" class="dsq-comment-message">Rikyrah!! Just when I\'ve stopped crying, these pics got me blubbering again!! This is the kind of America I\'ve always dreamed of.  As I type I have tears in my eyes!  The dream is on it\'s way to being fully realized.  The road is still long, but the distance is getting shorter.   I\'m coming undone again! LOL!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3597145" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3597145" href="http://www.WEESeeYou.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Webb</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3597145" class="dsq-comment-message">The Republicans are really, really, really pissy about Rahm Emanuel...I LOVE IT, LOVE IT, LOVE IT...And yes, they should be scurred.<br><br>Rahm is a "New Age Al Capone"...Our President-Elect has made an excellent choice.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3599301">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3599301" class="dsq-comment-message">Webb:  LOL!   :&gt;)   Co-sign!   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3597207" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3597207" href="http://menstrualpoetry.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">menstrualpoetry</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3597207" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3597207" class="dsq-comment-message">Those are amazingly beautiful pictures.  We\'ve come a long, long way in a relatively short period of time and now we\'re all seeing even more history take place.  I love it, I really do.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3597245">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3597245" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  <b>DAY -74 on HIS  "JOURNEY TO JANUARY!":</b><br><br>1.  WORD FOR THE DAY:  <b>ECONOMICS!!</b><br><br>2.  Formation of and MEETING with HIS DIVERSE <b>TEAB [Transition Economic Advisory Board]</b><br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/05/obama-to-name-napolitano_n_141438.html" rel="nofollow">Obama Transition Team Named</a><br><br>  3.  <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/07/obama-expected-to-name-mo_n_142054.html" rel="nofollow">Obama\'s First Press Conference Since WIN Friday</a><br><br><i>CNN reports:<br><br>    President-elect Barack Obama could name other members of his administration on Friday, a day after he named Rep. Rahm Emanuel as White House chief of staff, an Obama transition official said.<br><br><br>    Among the announcements expected soon is Obama\'s selection for press secretary. Observers believe it will be Robert Gibbs, the communications director for Obama\'s presidential campaign.<br><br>    Obama will hold a news conference Friday -- his first since winning election -- and may announce key administrative appointments during it, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity when discussing Obama\'s plans.<br><br>However, the Obama team says that there will be "no personnel announcements today."<br><br>Read more about Obama\'s schedule for Friday and Obama\'s Cabinet picks.<br><br>President-elect Barack Obama could name other members of his administration on Friday, a day after he named Rep. Rahm Emanuel as White House chief of staff, an Obama transition official said. Among t...<br>President-elect Barack Obama could name other members of his administration on Friday, a day after he named Rep. Rahm Emanuel as White House chief of staff, an Obama transition official said. Among. . . .<br>More in Politics...</i><br><br>WATCHING NOW!  STANDING AS "HE" ENTERS THE ROOM!! :&gt;)   <br><br><b>Mr. President-Elect Obama!!</b>  God Bless you!!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3597318" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3597318">MsKitty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3597318" class="dsq-comment-message">KLEENEX ALERT:<br><br><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/06/AR2008110603948.html?nav=emailpage" rel="nofollow">A (White House) Butler Well Served by This Election</a><br><br>Be sure to check out the slideshow too.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3598930">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3598930" class="dsq-comment-message">OMG.....<br>This needs to be a movie. OMG.........this is so moving........Gob Bless Them.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3599021" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3599021">MsKitty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3599021" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3599021" class="dsq-comment-message">Yeah, I was holding it together until I read the update on his wife.  That was like a punch in the gut.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3599182" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3599182">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3599182" class="dsq-comment-message">You ain\'t lyin....I LITERALLY felt like I\'d gotten hit. It was so sobering. wow......its a history lesson wrapped around a love story too.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3606057" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3606057" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3606057" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3606057" class="dsq-comment-message">Damn. That just messed me up.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3597471" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3597471" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3597471" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3597471" class="dsq-comment-message">Question: is Obama <i>really</i> considering Kerry for SecState?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3598769" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3598769">MsKitty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3598769" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/07/antigua-mountain-barack-obama" rel="nofollow">Antigua plans to rename highest peak after Barack Obama</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3599106" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3599106">Myth</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3599106" class="dsq-comment-message">Beautiful pictures of the Obama Family before and after election night speech:<br><br><a href="http://flickr.com/photos/barackobamadotcom/sets/72157608716313371/show/" rel="nofollow">http://flickr.com/photos/barackobamadotcom/sets...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3599226" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3599226">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3599226" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  I\'m just NOTING that First Lady Michelle also calls HERSELF the <b>FIRST MOM!!</b><br><br>Contrast:  The <b>UN-VETTED ONE</b>  must have given birth to a HOCKEY!?<br><br>Wellllllllll- SHE said that SHE\'s a "Hockey MoM!?   Right??   Of course RIGHT!!  :&gt;)<br><br>**shakin\' my head**</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3599257" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3599257" href="http://wearerespectablenegroes.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ChaunceyDevega</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3599257" class="dsq-comment-message">A follow up to our pre-election list of anxieties and fears. <br><br>from We are Respectable Negroes: <br><br>The Day After-18 Post Election Thoughts and Reflections<br><br><a href="http://wearerespectablenegroes.blogspot.com/2008/11/chauncey-devega-says-day-after-17-post.html" rel="nofollow">http://wearerespectablenegroes.blogspot.com/200...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3604268" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3604268">T.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3604268" class="dsq-comment-message">I howled with laughter today at PE Obama\'s self-deprecating humor when he referred to himself as a "mutt", while discussing the family\'s  choice of a dog. I thought it was quite funny. But apparently his comment may have far-reaching racial consequences for black people. You see his reference could mean two things. Is he is referring to the fact that he has mixed race parentage, or is he referring to the fact that he is a man born of simple means? Apparently the media and some right wing blogs are all atwitter about this reference, kinda sorta suggesting that it is a "racial gaffe". Some right wing blogs are now saying that if he refers to himself as a "mutt" them maybe he\'s saying that he\'s not really "black" and that he probably should call himself "biracial". Joe Klein commented that he "self identified" as mutt. OH.MY.GOD!!!!!! LOL!<br><br>T.<br>What\'s up my people?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3604965" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3604965">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3604965" class="dsq-comment-message">Lawd have mercy....LOL.....well.... the "terrorist fist jab" was fair warning...we cant say we didn\'t see it coming.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3605390">T.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3605390" class="dsq-comment-message">Miranda m\'lady. LOL! Crazy BUT if in fact he was referring to race, I must add this: for someone who so studiously avoided the explicit talk of race throughout the entire contest, it would be quite surprising that he would use a term that can so easily be manipulated by the media and others. <br><br>He MUST be aware that many people were not amused by all the images of black folk celebrating and so they will do anything to tamp down our pride in his amazing victory. If he wants to talk about race, assuming that he was referring to race, he needs to continue with his usual MO or  be more careful in his choice of words; otherwise he risks bloggers writing stuff like this from Ben Smith\'s blog:<br><br>"He told a couple of fairly edgy jokes, as these things go, one about Nancy Reagan, and one describing himself as a "mutt" — a reminder that he is bringing a loose, comfortable and unstilted way of talking about race to the highest office in the land. "<br><br>or people making comments such as this on NYT Caucus Blog:<br>"maybe he will now call his wife a purebred"<br><br>or what Joe Klein said above.<br><br>T.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3605462" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3605462" class="dsq-comment-message">Let folks parse his words and (over) analyze them till their hearts are content.<br><br>It keeps a dialogue going.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3604880">APeach</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3604880" class="dsq-comment-message">OK, I saw that pic on "Yes We Can...Hold Babies" and I tell you, I just can\'t look at that website anymore. I just can\'t.<br><br>Because I will never stop crying. And doggone it--I\'ve been crying all week!!! :) I will have to walk around with tissue bonded to my hands. That is such a fantastic picture, and every time I look at it, my heart is full. And just when I think that a picture of children can\'t move more than another, I find one. <br><br>By the way, I just saw this re: how Joe Biden feels about Michelle Obama: <br><br>The Delaware senator raved about future first lady Michelle Obama, calling her "the most impressive person I\'ve met in 35 years."<br><br>"I like him. I LOVE her," he said of the Obamas. <br><br>Sounds like what a lot of Black folks said about Michelle. Maybe Barack should have a little chat with Joe...!  :&lt;) <br><br><a href="http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2008/11/bidens-looking.html?csp=34" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2008/11/bi...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3605293">posey</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3605293" class="dsq-comment-message">I did not like the mutt comment at all. If you read liberal predominantely  white blogs, they are actually saying that Obama is not really "black" because of his white mother,and why can"t he say he is Bi-Racial? I feel they are already trying to take away his blackness and in doing so denying  African Americans their right to be proud of  Obama as the first African American President. <br> I have seen black women and men argue that Obama consider himself a black man just to be shot down. All of the sudden they want to claim him all to themselves. Sick of it.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3605388" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3605388" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3605388" class="dsq-comment-message">Huh?<br><br>We can all claim Obama for ourselves. He doesn\'t belong to anyone.<br><br>We\'re all mutts, more or less. <br><br>We are not victims unless we choose to be. <br><br>Being proud isn\'t a right, and even if it were, no one could take it away from you.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3605484">T.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3605484" class="dsq-comment-message">Like I replied to Miranda below Craig, I found it funny. Never thought it meant anything UNTIL I saw what was going on in the blogs. Even mainstream blogs. It seemed like manna from heaven to some folks...I personally don\'t care BUT some people appear to...especially some of the ethnic majority who are seizing on to the comment for whatever reason...others think it was politically incorrect...<br><br>T</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3606044" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3606044" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3606044" class="dsq-comment-message">A person can refer to themselves however they want to. He didn\'t malign anybody else by calling himself a mutt.<br><br>Let the folks carry on. I guess they\'ll be asking for him to resign before he even gets started.<br><br>I laughed when he said it, just like you did.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3606210">T.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3606210" class="dsq-comment-message">CH, <a href="http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2580216/obama-isnt-black.thtml" rel="nofollow">This </a>may also provide some entertainment relief m\'luv. Read the comments too.<br><br>T.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3607336" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3607336" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3607336" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'ve heard black people say much the same thing about Barack. With a different agenda, of course, but still.<br><br>Pure entertainment to be sure.<br><br>Those who deny that Barack is black, for whatever reason, cannot deny that he\'s African American in the truest sense of the descriptor.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3606456">T.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3606456" class="dsq-comment-message">CH, Want more fun?<br><br>1)Wed. night. Asst Managing Editor of Newsweek appeared somewhere. His words were "and then it was after he moved to Chicago that he decided that he was a black man". DECIDED? And that is after he called PE Obama "creepy", "culty".<br><br>2)Tue. night. Matt Bai from New York Times magazine appears somewhere. When asked about Obama\'s capacity for anger. Response? "You have to remember that he did not have a typical AA upbringing..." So I started to ask myself, "What is a typical AA upbringing? Only AA with that typical upbringing is capable of showing anger?"<br><br>Matt, in an article written some time ago, has also suggested the Obama is still struggling with racial identity issues.<br><br>3)Doris Kearns Goodwin on the Today show on Thurs:"You have to remember that Obama is more exotic while Michelle is from the typical AA home..." <br><br>I\'m literally rolling my eyes...<br><br>T.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3606534">Quanli</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3606534" class="dsq-comment-message">Yeah it is all over the place. Who knows if he will address it, with other matters of importance going on, but they are already stealing from him and us by being on this trip. We all witnessed them treating him like any other n*gger during the primary season. Everyone knows McCain\'s supporters weren\'t pissed off about some harmless, "not really black" man. No telling what else the President-Elect has gone through in his daily life with the skin he\'s in yet they won\'t even let him wear the title of black man for fear it might give one of us too much credit? He can bare all the mistreatment and unfairness that comes with being black when it\'s convenient for them, but when he\'s doing well--they strip it away? It\'s an insult.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3607320" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3607320" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3607320" class="dsq-comment-message">I think you\'re giving them too much power.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3617108">Quanli</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3617108" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3617108" class="dsq-comment-message">Maybe I am, but you know it\'s only been a few days.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3606591">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3606591" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>I\'m literally rolling my eyes...</i><br><br><br>So Am I.......Ughhhhhhhhhh</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3607307" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3607307" class="dsq-comment-message">Well, Barack called his beloved grandmother a typical white person. My husband tends to refer to certain of his characteristics as typical Dutch.<br><br>What\'s interesting about Doris Kearns Goodwin is that she suggested a typical AA home is one with two strong parents, one of whom went to work everyday, even with a disability, who made sure their children got good educations<br><br>I guess typical in these contexts don\'t bother me so much but I certainly understand why it can sound like nail on chalkboard.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3621200">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3621200" class="dsq-comment-message">T agreed.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3606211">posey</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3606211" class="dsq-comment-message">I have every right to be Proud of the First African American President and while he is everyone\'s President now ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE that does not take away the fact that while Obama acknowledge he is bi-racial , he also consider himself a Black Man. Nothing wrong with that.<br><br> For example,  when he said " Brothers need to pull their pants up" who do you think he was addressing?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3607248" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3607248" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3607248" class="dsq-comment-message">I guess I was using "right" in its constitutional connotation. But yes, everyone has a right to their feelings and states of mind.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3611726">TRW </span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3611726" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree.  I guess I am missing something here.  Obama has a bi-racial ethnicity and a multi-racial upbringing.  I have heard bi-racial friends (White/Black) refer to themselves as Black and as mutts.  I didn\'t think anything of it then, and I don\'t think anything of it now.<br><br>I feel like if people start to over analyze things they will drive themselves crazy.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3621195">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3621195" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree with you 100%</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3611633">caligirl</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3611633" class="dsq-comment-message">didn\'t like the comment either, but moreso because it really just wasn\'t funny.  he sounded like he was trying to lighten the mood and it fell flat.  but, hopefully people can just cut him some slack.  it was his first official presidential press conference... i could sense the tension in that room through the television screen, so you KNOW he felt it!  i think it\'s gonna take all of us some time to allow this new situation to sink in.<br><br>pres-elect barack obama has stated many times that he is a black man.  i take him at his word.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3606017">T.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3606017" class="dsq-comment-message">PE Obama <a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1108/Obama_apologizes_to_Nancy_Reagan.html" rel="nofollow"> calls Nancy Reagan to apologize about presser comment.</a><br><br>LOL! No, I guess this is serious...I shouldn\'t laugh but...whatever...stay away from the jokes dude!<br><br>T.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3618428" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3618428" href="http://blog.evavegadiversity.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">evita</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3618428" class="dsq-comment-message">I never thought Reagan earned the pedestal he was put on. I don\'t care about what Obama said... And Nancy is old enough not to care much either.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3606040">Quanli</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3606040" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree 100% with posey.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3606258">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3606258" class="dsq-comment-message"><b> Ayers Hit Back  At McCain</b><br><br><a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1108/Ayerss_side_.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1108/Aye...</a><br><br><i>Bill Ayers writes of his "surreal" year in In These Times </i><br><br><i>He notes, with mixed emotions, that this campaign was probably the last to even attempt to refight the battles of the \'60s. </i><br><br><i>But Ayers can\'t let them go.</i> <br><br><i>Hitting back at McCain, he calls the Republican nominee\'s bombing runs as a Navy pilot "immoral." </i><br><br><i>Ayers writes:</i><br><br><i>The \'60s - as myth and symbol - is much abused: the downfall of civilization in one account, a time of defeat and humiliation in a second, and a perfect moment of righteous opposition, peace and love in a third.</i><br><br><i>The idea that the 2008 election may be the last time in American political life that the \'60s plays any role whatsoever is a mixed blessing. On the one hand, let\'s get over the nostalgia and move on. On the other, the lessons we might have learned from the black freedom movement and from the resistance against the Vietnam War have never been learned. To achieve this would require that we face history fully and honestly, something this nation has never done. </i><br><br><i>The war in Vietnam was an illegal invasion and occupation, much of it conducted as a war of terror against the civilian population. The U.S. military killed millions of Vietnamese in air raids - like the one conducted by McCain - and entire areas of the country were designated free-fire zones, where American pilots indiscriminately dropped surplus ordinance - an immoral enterprise by any measure.</i><br><br><br><b>Uh Oh</b></div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3618413" href="http://blog.evavegadiversity.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">evita</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3618413" class="dsq-comment-message">Wow. That\'s real talk. This is class. Bring your side of the story after the election- not like Rev "I crave the spotlight" Wright. <br><br> Forest. Trees.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3625096" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3625096" href="http://deoclicianocgiportfolio.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ochyming</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3625096" class="dsq-comment-message">That is HONESTY and TRUE patriotism.<br>Patriots run NOT from the ugly, because they CARE about the future.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3606605">RobM</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3606605" class="dsq-comment-message">It has become obvious that gov Palin is not going away. Nor is her ignorance and actions. Black snob has a take on it you should read:<br><a href="http://blacksnob.blogspot.com/2008/11/say-it-to-her-face-les-bitches-you-all.html" rel="nofollow">http://blacksnob.blogspot.com/2008/11/say-it-to...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3606897">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3606897" class="dsq-comment-message">About the new Chief of Staff:<br><br><a href="http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/11/06/rahm-was-the-only-choice-not-just-the-right-choice.aspx" rel="nofollow">Rahm Was the Only Choice, Not Just the Right Choice</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3607128">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3607128" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  So I guess that THIS is NOT true EITHER!??<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/07/sarah-palin-spent-40000-o_n_142247.html" rel="nofollow">SARAH PALIN SPENT $40,000 On Luxury Goods For TODD</a><br><br><i><b>Washington Post\'s Reliable Sources column reports on more Palin clothing expenditures, this time for Todd:<br><br>    On top of the $150,000 first outlined in Federal Election Commission filings, Palin spent "tens of thousands of dollars" on additional clothing, makeup and jewelry for herself and her family, including $40,000 in luxury goods for her husband, Todd, our colleague Michael Shear reports. The campaign was charged for silk boxer shorts, spray tanners and 13 suitcases to carry all the designer clothes, according to two GOP insiders.</b><br><br>Keep reading the article<br><br>--or--<br><br>Check out a slideshow of Sarah Palin\'s clothing.<br><br>The McCain-Palin campaign is over, but Wardrobe-gate lives on. More embarrassing details have emerged about Sarah Palin\'s infamous shopping sprees -- including even more designer duds, plus sprayed-on...<br>The McCain-Palin campaign is over, but Wardrobe-gate lives on. More embarrassing details have emerged about Sarah Palin\'s infamous shopping sprees -- including even more designer duds, plus sprayed-on...<br>RSS stumble digg reddit del.ico.us news trust <a href="http://mixx.com" rel="nofollow">mixx.com</a><br>More in Politics...</i><br><br>I\'m just askin\' . . . . <br><br>President-Elect Obama!   First Lady Michelle!    :&gt;)   ;.0</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3611429">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3611429" class="dsq-comment-message">The lying conniving.....</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3615959">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3615959" class="dsq-comment-message">Wasilla Acres!<br><br>Sarah Palin:  Neiman Marcus is the place for me<br><br>Todd palin:  Snow mobling is the life for me. <br>Snow spreadin\' out so deep and wide <br>Keep Mall of America just give me that snowmobile countryside <br><br>Sarah:  Front & Center is where I\'d rather stay. <br>get allergic smelling emails<br>I just adore a bath towel view. <br>Dah-ling I love you but give me Sacks 5th Avenue <br><br>Todd:  The kids!<br>Sarah: The stores!<br>Todd :  Fresh air! <br>Sarah:  2012!<br>Todd:  You are my wife!<br>Sarah:  Good bye, VP life! <br>Todd & Sarah:  Alalaska here we come again! <br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>You are my wife. <br>Good bye, city life. <br>Green Acres we are there<br>I just adore a penthouse view. <br>Dah-ling I love you but give me Park Avenue. <br><br>...The chores. <br>...The stores. <br>...Fresh air. <br>...Times Square <br><br>You are my wife. <br>Good bye, city life. <br>Green Acres we are there.<br>our comment here.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3616471">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3616471" class="dsq-comment-message">spirit:   LOL!!   :&gt;)<br><br>I use to watch this show!! :&gt;)   How things have changed!   :&gt;)  :&gt;)<br><br>President-Elect Obama!   First Lady Michelle!  Yaaa!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3616701">MsKitty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3616701" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL.  Great reworking of my all-time favorite TV show theme.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3616709">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3616709" class="dsq-comment-message">ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!   Stop!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3618915">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3618915" class="dsq-comment-message">ROFLMAO<br><br>Hilarious, and accurate</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3611388">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3611388" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  LOVED \'EM!!!  :&gt;)  [especially, 9, 6, 4, (3), 2, 1]<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/07/lettermans-top-10-sarah-p_n_142082.html" rel="nofollow">LETTERMAN\'S TOP 10 SarahPalin Revelations (VIDEO)</a><br><br>He just STR8 ignored the "NEWS of the DAY!"  :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3611542">tracey</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3611542" class="dsq-comment-message">Love the pics of the boys sharing the sign....</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3611870" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3611870">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3611870" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  <i>MUDFLATTERS</i> CAME DOWN to Chicago to CELEBRATE with PRESIDENT-ELECT OBAMA!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)  They brought their signs and took lots of pics!  to send back to Alaska! :&gt;)<br><br><a href="http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/11/06/obama-victory-rally-at-mudflats-point-grant-park-chicago/shikago8/" rel="nofollow">MUDFLATTERS IN GRANT PARK - CHICAGO!</a><br><br><a href="http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/11/06/obama-victory-rally-at-mudflats-point-grant-park-chicago/shikago7/" rel="nofollow">MUDFLATS INVADE OBAMA VICTORY RALLY!</a><br><br>They are continuing to work AGAINST the further progress of the <b>UN-VETTED ONE</b><br><br>President-Elecft Obama!   First Lady Michelle!   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3616482" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3616482">Miss_Me</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3616482" class="dsq-comment-message">I adore this picture series.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3616639">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3616639" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  Found this interesting  -  speaking of "WORLD REACTIONS" to President-Elect Obama\'s VICTORY!<br><br><a href="http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2008/11/200811619119961388.html" rel="nofollow">OBAMA INSPIRES AFRO-BRAZILIANS!</a><br><br><i>It is likely that no group of people anywhere in South America are watching the rise of Barack Obama as the first black US president as passionately as in Salvador, Brazil. <br><br>Salvador, on the northeast coast of the country, is Brazil\'s third largest city with about 2.8 million inhabitants, over 80 per cent of whom are defining themselves as black of mixed race.<br><br>Most people from the city are direct ancestors of the first four million slaves who were taken to the city in the 16th century from what is modern-day Nigeria.<br><br>Salvador was the main entry point for slaves for the entire region, and was the colonial capital of Brazil until 1763.<br>And today, it retains a strongly African feel, with the food, culture, and music drawing hundreds of thousands of tourists each year.<br><br>SKIP<br><br>Political hopes<br><br>Salvador is the capitol of the state of Bahia, a particularly poor region where income disparity is stark and political power consolidated in the hands of the non-black ruling elite.<br><br>According to official statistics, 40 per cent of the population lives at or below minimum wage level while less than one per cent earns more than 20 times the minimum wage.<br><br>None of Salvador\'s political elite are black, so many here see Obama\'s victory as a model to achieve political power.<br><br>"In Salvador more than 80 per cent of the population is black, and we live in the worst conditions," said Marcos Rezende, a young community organiser who was watching the US election results come in with several dozen others on television on Tuesday.<br><br>"The victory of Barack Obama has immense importance for us because all our local black candidates in the elections always lose.<br><br>"He has shown us black people we can bring this kind of influence in holding political power in the future, that yes we can also govern anywhere in the world".<br><br>Brazil has never had a black president of its own, despite the fact that 47 per cent of the 190 million Brazilians define themselves as black or of mixed race.<br><br>"Obama is not only going to influence the US, he will influence the politics around the world - and especially here in Brazil," said Lindinalva de Paula, who was also watching Tuesday night\'s results on local television.<br><br>"For the black community here, it represents advancement for us as well - and makes us think seriously of the possibility in Brazil of having a black president."<br><br>On November 20 Brazil will celebrate the National Day of Black Awareness – and at least here in Salvador – given the new president of the US - this year that will take on a little extra significance.<br><br>"Black children that do not understand politics now see Obama as president on the TV and realize that someone of their colour is president of the most powerful country in the world," says Rezende.<br><br>"These kids will say, \'I want to do it too. I can do it. I hope to be the president of Brazil.\'"</i><br><br><b>HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL!</b><br><br><br>President-Elect Obama!  First Lady Michelle!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3616755" href="http://blog.evavegadiversity.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">evita</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3616755" class="dsq-comment-message">Anyone see this site- it is the one I was looking for:<br><br>724 newspaper covers of the Obama win!<br><br><br><a href="http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/default_archive.asp?fpArchive=110508" rel="nofollow">http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/default...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3617038">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3617038" class="dsq-comment-message">evita:  What a GREAT FIND!!  THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)  WOW!!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3618499">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3618499" class="dsq-comment-message">Ohhh....I was looking for this! Thanks Evita!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3618473">carolinagirl</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3618473" class="dsq-comment-message">Okay, so it\'s the end of a very emotional and historical week. I haven\'t said anything b/c there\'s been so much going on that I cannot work together all my feelings and thoughts but, I\'ll try (everyone else has given it a shot):<br><br>-President-Elect Barack Obama<br><br>When Keith (I call him Keef) Olbermann called it at 11pm Tuesday night, it felt like this huge weight of anxiety lifted off my chest and I was just so overcome with emotion. I knew that I would cry, I just didn\'t know that I would react in the way that I did. I couldn\'t be happier or more proud of my country than I was that night. Needless to say, I needed a large cup of vodka and cranberry juice to calm my nerves when I came home from work to watch the coverage.<br><br>-Exit Poll on Proposition 8<br><br>I think everyone on all sides of this issue are getting just a tad bit too heated. I guess I would never really understand the strong feelings b/c I am not homosexual. I am indifferent I guess. I could give a damn who you marry, b/c it won\'t have anything to do w/ how my husband and I live our marraige and raise our child. Do what you want in the privacy of your own home as long as you\'re not a serial killer or a pedophile (that you can\'t do in the privacy of your own home).<br><br>I look at the results of this exit poll, and I think it is a little misleading for certain bloggers and news organizations to go on with this negative and misleading story blaming black people for the passage of this proposition. The numbers don\'t lie. 70% of the 224 people SURVEYED said that they voted yes. It is pretty silly to me to allow 224 (actually 157) people to represent the millions of black voters in the electorate. End of story.<br><br>-Barack Obama is not really black, but biracial.<br><br>He says that he is a black man with a white mother from Kansas. If that is how he identifies his racial background so be it. Please stop trying to put your own label on a man that has already come to terms with who he is and has labeled himself as African-American (hell, in it\'s purest definition). This country is in the shitter and we\'ve got bigger fish to fry than trying to place even more labels on this guy.<br><br>-Rahm Emanual<br><br>From the litte bit I\'ve been reading, he seems like a cutthroat guy who gets shit done. Fine w/ me. Do what you need to do to get things back on track. All hands on deck to get our country back. Quit yer bitchin\' (I\'m looking at you Joe Scarborough) already. There\'s is plenty of opportunity for bi-partisanship in other positions in the Administration.<br><br>-Sarah Palin<br><br>This woman is still in the news?!?!?! Please go away. And don\'t forget to put the tags back on all those clothes. That is all.<br><br><br>Sorry if that was too long.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3620649" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3620649">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3620649" class="dsq-comment-message">The Moment We Knew: Barack Obama Wins Virginia & The White House<br><a href="http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=AUbEUB-BrBo" rel="nofollow">http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=AUbEUB-BrBo</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3595664">Madeupname</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3595664" class="dsq-comment-message">I will find it touching when the black kid can grow up and have the same opporunities as the white kid.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3595742" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3595742" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3595742" class="dsq-comment-message">If you can\'t see that a black AND white kid at an Obama rally-whether as contender, candidate or President-elect-don\'t have the same oppor<b>t</b>unities as each other, then you haven\'t been paying attention.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3596109">Madeupname</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3596109" class="dsq-comment-message">lol at the t I missed out in bold. Did I make any other mistakes sir?</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3596201" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3596201" class="dsq-comment-message">I think your second post ("black people are...") should probably be two sentences, instead of just one.<br><br>Other than that, think you\'re good.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3599091">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3599091" class="dsq-comment-message">D:   "OUCH!!"  :&gt;)  Annnd, I have my own Band-Aid!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3595685" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3595685">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3595685" class="dsq-comment-message">I think you\'re "touched" right now.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3595766" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3595766">Madeupname</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3595766" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3595766" class="dsq-comment-message">That\'s real mature of you call someone mad because they have a different opinion  to you.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3595753" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3595753">Madeupname</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3595753" class="dsq-comment-message">Black people are too easily moved by symbolism we want real change for the masses not just superficial change.</div>\
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		// TODO: Check to see if theme uses postmessage.
		if (window.disqus_use_postmessage) {
			Dsq.frames['reply_0'] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(Dsq.$(Dsq.Templates.textareaContainer));
			Dsq.frames['reply_0'].init(function() {
				// Use fallback iframe
				Dsq.$(Dsq.Templates.addPostContainer).innerHTML = '';
				var theme = (typeof disqus_frame_theme == 'undefined') ? 'default' : disqus_frame_theme;
				Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(Dsq.$(Dsq.Templates.addPostContainer), null, {theme: theme});
				// if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(); }
			});
		} else {
			// DEPRECATED
			Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(Dsq.$('dsq-post-add'));
		}
	}

	
	

	
	if(document.location.hash != '') {
		document.location.hash = document.location.hash.substring(1);
	}

	Dsq.Popup.showCookieMsgs();

	
	if(document.location.search != '' && location.hash != '#disqus_thread') {
		var reply_id = Dsq.Utils.getRequestParams().dsq;
		if(reply_id) { document.location.hash = 'comment-' + reply_id; }
	}

	
	if((typeof OB_Script != 'undefined') && (typeof OB_versionNum != 'undefined')) {
		if(navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Firefox") != -1) {
			if(window.frames['dsq-reply-frame']) {
				window.frames['dsq-reply-frame'].location = Dsq.Urls.REPLY + (new Date()).getTime() + '&f=jackandjillpolitics&t=friday_open_thread_48&to_redirect=' + encodeURIComponent(window.location) + '&ifrs=' + encodeURIComponent(disqus_iframe_css);
			}
		}
	}

	if (Dsq.jsonData.integration.theme == 4) {
		if (Dsq.jsonData.realtime_enabled) {
			Dsq.Realtime.initialize();
		}
	}

	



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

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

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

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

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


	


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

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

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

})();




