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I'm not saying that this is going to change what happened overnight, but speaking up about the abuse, meeting the victims, has to be a positive step for the church.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_10:43:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f85f4de88a30987f0360c336da9569ae", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961059": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Books in the queue for the weekend:<br></br><br><a href=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" http:=\"HTTP:\">Surrender is Not an Option: Defending America at the United Nations and Abroad</a> by Amb. John Bolton</br><br></br><br><a http:=\"HTTP:\" rel=\"nofollow\">War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism</a> by Doug Feith</br><br></br><br><a http:=\"HTTP:\" rel=\"nofollow\"> The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East</a> by Robert Fisk</br><br></br><br>Just thought I'd share....</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_10:47:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0183bc94f5be8b9ec79636f3f2174ff5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961060": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "painting Barack as the Angry Black man<br></br><br></br><br>The whole point of the Clinton/GOP attacks on Obama is to promote fear by playing on people's racially-based apprehensions and prejudices. They are trying to slap on to Obama the images of the angry black man, the black man in the back alley, the black thug.</br><br></br><br>Osama=Obama \"slip-ups\"</br><br></br><br>The insidious email campaign that Obama was educated at a madrassa and so was a secret terrorist.</br><br></br><br>Obama's pastor as anti-American, shouting, angry, violent.</br><br></br><br>William Ayers question: Weather Underground bombers.</br><br></br><br>Bob Johnson suggesting that Obama was a thug in \"the hood\"</br><br></br><br>This approach is cynical, degrading, and anti-democratic (whether it is anti-American or not i will leave to others). It is meant to shut down discussion of real issues, to end democratic conversation: the political discourse that is supposed to mark a constitutional democracy like our own.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_10:56:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "78f95c0a478953601d04cd3c4341ff79", "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}, "1961061": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "d:<br></br><br>I saw the Fisk book in the library last week and was intrigued by it.  Will pick it up next time.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_11:10:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "5e5216a4d8e0e1e02b0fec9811cdb1a3", "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}, "1961062": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"Pope Benedict XVI Apologizes to Sex Abuse Victims<br></br><br>I'm watching this on CNN, but it seems as if the Pope met with some sexual abuse victims of the Catholic Church. I'm not saying that this is going to change what happened overnight, but speaking up about the abuse, meeting the victims, has to be a positive step for the church.\"</br><br></br><br>Yes, that is a step in the right direction. My priest often speaks about it also...many do. I am happy that someone at the top has said it and issued an apology. They also need to reform priesthood in my opinion</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_11:32:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "6b8623e8e850161265a6267d83471b3d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961063": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Joe In Oklahom-<br></br><br>Of course and when he doesnt fall for the bait, he is a \"wimp\". Its almost a no win situation. </br><br></br><br>Today on the news, they are calling him a \"wimp\", that he is \"whining\" and our friend Don Imus called him a \"pussy\" pretty much. </br><br></br><br>They go from one extreme to the next...unfortunate.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_11:35:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "6b8623e8e850161265a6267d83471b3d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961064": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Just a reminder: early voting started yesterday in North Carolina. If you know folks in NC, start reaching out to them and urge them to vote early. <br></br><br>If they aren't registered (or haven't updated their registration), they can go register and vote during this early voting period.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_11:42:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "ae808a21e515de8acf8c49c6721915aa", "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}, "1961065": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://www2.nysun.com/article/66933\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hillary Clinton is a Black Panther, Too</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_11:49:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9bf0971c139c9dc33659e8ed441e4f5e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961066": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>They also need to reform priesthood in my opinion</i><br></br><br>::</br><br></br><br>Ending the oppression of the dogma of celibacy would be a great start.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_11:51:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9bf0971c139c9dc33659e8ed441e4f5e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, 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events to fit an agenda.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_12:21:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0183bc94f5be8b9ec79636f3f2174ff5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961069": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2008/04/thats_it.cfm\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hillary Rodham Nixon Fatigue</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_12:32:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9bf0971c139c9dc33659e8ed441e4f5e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961070": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2008/04/heilemann_robert_reich_to_endo.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Another Clinton Loyalist Backs Obama</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_12:44:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9bf0971c139c9dc33659e8ed441e4f5e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961071": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "right rhonda, and when he does respond they accude HIM of bringing race in play.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_12:54:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "78f95c0a478953601d04cd3c4341ff79", "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}, "1961072": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Obama was on Colbert Report last night. And he officially put \"distractions\" on notice.<br></br><br>Also, linked throught the Obama webpage and on Colbert's site, you will find a donation page to help school teachers and students in Pennsylvania. </br><br></br><br>http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/leadershipboard.html?category=25</br><br></br><br>You can give in honor of your candidate. So far, </br><br></br><br>Obama has $155,601</br><br>Clinton has $29,151</br><br></br><br>Just in case you wanted to drop a little somethin' somethin'</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_13:03:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "432619ba625f6a3e6b9013e9117e3759", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961073": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/samgrahamfelsen/gGCxSW\" rel=\"nofollow\"> Sam Nunn and David Goren Endorse Obama</a><br></br><br>Both from the south. Both centrists. Both national security/intelligence experts</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_13:11:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9bf0971c139c9dc33659e8ed441e4f5e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961074": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "There was an earthquake here in the Midwest. Didn't feel it, but it's such an anomaly, thought I'd bring it up.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_13:12:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f85f4de88a30987f0360c336da9569ae", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961075": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The flag pin wearing questioner was a total PLANT. Did ABC really think that folks wouldn't research this? Points out their hideousness even more. <br></br><br><a href=\"http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/189807.php\" rel=\"nofollow\">From Talking Points Memo</a></br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_13:14:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f85f4de88a30987f0360c336da9569ae", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961076": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>painting Barack as the Angry Black man<br></br><br></br><br>The whole point of the Clinton/GOP attacks on Obama is to promote fear by playing on people's racially-based apprehensions and prejudices. They are trying to slap on to Obama the images of the angry black man, the black man in the back alley, the black thug.</br><br></br><br>Osama=Obama \"slip-ups\"</br><br></br><br>The insidious email campaign that Obama was educated at a madrassa and so was a secret terrorist.</br><br></br></i><br></br><br>Joe, you are so right on this. They're just waiting for one time..just one time..to brand him as the Angry Black Man...that will all they need...it'll be an endless loop to end all endless loops. </br><br></br><br>But, Obama understands this, and he hasn't bitten.</br><br></br><br>If he didn't bite at that lynching over at ABC, he's never going to bite.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_13:16:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f85f4de88a30987f0360c336da9569ae", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961077": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert Reich, Bill Clinton's former Secretary of Labor, endorses Obama<br></br><br>http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2008/04/heilemann_robert_reich_to_endo.html</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_13:19:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "432619ba625f6a3e6b9013e9117e3759", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961078": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Sam Nunn And  David L. Boren endorsed Obama today. <br></br><br>Nunn could be a potential VP, putting GA in play.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_13:25:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "dff7b0b089d65975d8857fa991590e66", "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}, "1961079": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "i agree rikyrah<br></br><br>but it would seem to me that he needs a white moderate pol  to carry the water on this</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_13:46:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "78f95c0a478953601d04cd3c4341ff79", "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}, "1961080": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Rikyrah<br></br><br>I'm in the Midwest too and I felt it.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_13:52:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fcb7c771a7713dda01aa936fd426bfe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961081": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Oh, come on.<br></br><br>Check the main page of the Faux News website. Reeeally reaching. If you're arriving late to my comment and missed what I'm referring to, I'm talking about the whole \"did or didn't he give Hillary the bird?\"</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_14:02:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961082": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That pansy Johnathan with the horn-rimmed glasses was on Morning Joe...he is USELESS, I tell ya. Useless.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_14:04:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f85f4de88a30987f0360c336da9569ae", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961083": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Anon-<br></br><br>Yup, yup. They are saying that Obama gave Hillary the middle finger at his speech in Raleigh where he dusted his shoulders off!!</br><br>All of those Hillary supporters and the conservative media are trying to make some issue out of it.</br><br></br><br>Tryin to make him into an angry black man who swears, puts up his middle finger at white folks and listens to \"rap music\". I love it!!</br><br></br><br>Listen Barack has \"99 Problems but the Bitch aint one\"</br><br></br><br>He dusted her off moving on!!</br><br></br><br>Moving on....</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_14:06:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "6b8623e8e850161265a6267d83471b3d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961084": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "anonymous,<br></br><br>read about it at The Field last night.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_14:07:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f85f4de88a30987f0360c336da9569ae", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961085": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I've been following the coverage of the Pope and follow-up commentary. <br></br><br>I am glad the Pope apologized and I'm sure some of the Catholics really needed to hear it.</br><br></br><br>I would like to know if anyone has seen the similarties between the Pope's message and Obama's as it relates to humanity and hope?  The Pope's messages echoed the core of Obama's message regarding immigrants and the the fact that people have more in common than things that separate them.</br><br></br><br>I couldn't believe Lou Dobb's in all his self-righteousness and defense of his bigotry towards illegal immigrants actually asked if the Americans wanted the Pope involved in political matters regarding America.  I didn't see the results of that poll.  I can't believe he even asked.</br><br></br><br>I guess the Pope sounded too much like Obama to him.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_14:12:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fcb7c771a7713dda01aa936fd426bfe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961086": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"That pansy Johnathan with the horn-rimmed glasses was on Morning Joe...he is USELESS, I tell ya. Useless.\"<br></br><br>He usually is.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_14:20:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "6b8623e8e850161265a6267d83471b3d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961087": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Just repeating till I'm blue in the face--what you saw Wednes. night was the official, distict death end of the American TV news media as a credible, professional force in our democracy (Fox was just the tip of the iceberg). And no, racism had only small part in the dynamics.<br></br><br>Other than that, go to a bookstore and buy James McBride's Song Yet Sung and Mat Johnson's Incognegro (and then my new books come summer and next winter) put down that damn Zane and C-Murder and Terri Woods ghetto crap!!!</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_15:03:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "2856a0a69d86b3cc32b0fa651ff33d01", "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}, "1961088": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "ChristopherChambers<br></br><br>What are the other dynamics?</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_15:17:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fcb7c771a7713dda01aa936fd426bfe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961089": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>ChristopherChambers<br></br><br>What are the other dynamics?</br></i><br></br><br>I  am not Mr. Chambers, but, from where I sit, it goes in concert with what I posted just yesterday. </br><br></br><br>Obama is a threat to the status quo. He threatens to upend 'The System' in such a way that the corporate-owned media must try and stop him. </br><br></br><br>Why else a million stories on Bittergate,</br><br></br><br>and only Olbermann bringing up that basically, The President, VP, Secretary of State and Defense were in meetings, in the WHITE HOUSE, discussing which TORTURE METHODS TO USE? </br><br></br><br>We have War Profiteers robbing our Treasury blind, but no sustained stories on that...are we supposed to think that NBC, MSNBC, CNBC would cover that considering that their parent company, GE  - IS one of those War Profiteers? </br><br></br><br>I said before, race is the easy way to hide behind these attacks, because it goes way deeper than that. Race is one of those muddling factors they can throw out and BS, when the truth is far more harsh, and if it clicked with the average American...well, things would change.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_15:32:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f85f4de88a30987f0360c336da9569ae", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961090": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "ms.martin & Rikyrah:<br>I felt that earthquake in Toronto.</br><br></br><br>Must see!!!!!!</br><br><a href=\"http://youtube.com/watch?v=uBGyuYKlxIg\" rel=\"nofollow\">How  *DANGER*Hillary Can Still Win!!!</a></br><br></br><br>VOTE for Obama.  He's moved up from #35 to #6!!! We can help get him to #1.  Move the slider to 100 and submit.</br><br><a href=\"http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1725112_1723512_1723519,00.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">TIME 2008 Most Influential OBAMA</a></br><br></br><br>VOTE for Rev Wright at TIME most influential people</br><br><a href=\"http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1725112_1723512_1725186,00.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">TIME 2008 Most Influential REV WRIGHT</a></br><br></br><br>Amazing article on Huffington Post!..MUST READ</br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/catherine-crier/choosing-a-leader_b_97352.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Choosing a Leader</a></br><br></br><br>Breaking News! Obama loves Hitler!!</br><br><a href=\"http://www.redlasso.com/ClipPlayer.aspx?id=0d29f7aa-6aee-4ebd-92b3-9513981354f8\" rel=\"nofollow\">Six degrees of Separation</a></br><br></br><br>..also, Obama got some great endorsements today! Whoo hoo!</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_15:36:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0e63fda3bc8752465623f674ffcc5f40", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961091": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/4/18/145351/659/895/498470\" rel=\"nofollow\">John McCain is a Liar: Attacks Obama Falsely in Campaign Email</a><br></br><br>If any of you heard any questions about Carter's talks in the debate, please let me know.</br><br></br><br>There haven't been any broadcast headlines of the Hamas endorsement that I've seen. Perhaps this is McCain's way of trying to get it there.</br><br></br><br>Whatever the case, the gloves are off.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_15:36:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9bf0971c139c9dc33659e8ed441e4f5e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961092": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Looks like <a href=\"http://MoveOn.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">MoveOn.com</a> is getting ready to run an ad against ABC.<br></br><br>There's a petition to sign with 200,000 signatures received in just 24 hours.</br><br></br><br>They are going to create an ad to ask the media to focus on real issues and not trivial distractions.</br><br></br><br>http://pol.moveon.org/enoughdistractions/?rc=homepage</br><br></br><br></br><br>http://pol.moveon.org/enoughdistractions/?rc=homepage</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_15:37:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "ee9a6fc0f1213e6b14e2765968e804e5", "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}, "1961093": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Truthseeker:<br></br><br>Hillary Can Still Win is hillarious!</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_15:52:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fcb7c771a7713dda01aa936fd426bfe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961094": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Craig,<br>I'm surprised that the Hamas endorsement hasn't been news myself. If anything, it defintely would make some people think about whether or not they want to elect someone who's been endorsed by a known terrorist organization.</br><br></br><br>What's DKos saying McCain's lying about? The endorsement actually did take place......</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_15:56:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0183bc94f5be8b9ec79636f3f2174ff5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961095": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "@ Craig Hickman,<br></br><br>..I think Dobbs mentioned something about Hamas in connection with Obama on his show yesterday.  He had a segment with a jerk flogging his book...this guy was really down on Obama here's the clip:</br><br></br><br><a href=\"http://www.redlasso.com/ClipPlayer.aspx?id=24cf0831-8849-4c03-9a0a-7a0ba422ae6d\" rel=\"nofollow\">Lou sliming Obama</a></br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_16:00:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0e63fda3bc8752465623f674ffcc5f40", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961096": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "McCain's campaign is lying about two things:<br></br><br>1) That Jimmy Carter's meeting with Hamas came up in the debate and Obama refused to condemn him. </br><br></br><br>2) The lie of omission that Barack Obama has denounced Carter for meeting with Hamas and has stated unequivocally that he will NOT meet with Hamas himself.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_16:06:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9bf0971c139c9dc33659e8ed441e4f5e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961097": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Carter is taking one for the team on Hamas. No sitting U.S. President can be seen as taking a meeting with a group dedicated to the elimination of our 51st State- Israel. But, let's get real - we wanted elections in the Middle East, and we got elections in the Middle East, and HAMAS WON. <br></br><br>but, what this meeting does do is open the door to under-the-table discussions with Hamas later on.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_16:09:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f85f4de88a30987f0360c336da9569ae", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961098": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "@ d<br></br><br>Obama's been endorsed by highly respected Americans, are they suggesting Hamas has more credible weight than Americans??</br><br></br><br>That's a stupid line of attack.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_16:11:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0e63fda3bc8752465623f674ffcc5f40", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961099": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That stuff with Dobbs is indicative of what I'msaying. He rails against immigrants as a hook, yet he also has written books on the assault on the middle class, onhow Bush sucks, on CEO pay, etc. Turning around and piling on Barack is something a focus group consultant told him to do. Is he a racist? Who knows? His right hand woman for many years was a black correspondent who was anything but right wing. <br></br><br>TV news is expensive to produce, and analysis, real talk etc is boring to the average moron. Opinion, shouting, slime is entrallng so that is their business model. Is it a chicken or the egg thing? At this point it's hard to say what drives what.</br><br></br><br>If black folks would stop buying ghetto and video vixen books would publishers stop printing them? Yes. If publishers stopped doing that first, what would happen? Well as long as fools couldn't get them bootleg, who knows? Perhaps folks would indeed get the message and start goin for more intelligent fare.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_16:12:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "2856a0a69d86b3cc32b0fa651ff33d01", "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}, "1961100": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Craig,<br>Found nothing in the transcript about #1, so okay....guess that's not exactly accurate.</br><br></br><br>On #2....if Obama has denounced Carter and said he won't meet with Hamas, then what's the big deal?</br><br></br><br></br><br>Truth,</br><br>if bin Laden or al-Zaharwi endorsed Obama, it wouldn't matter what American did. This is the same thing to a large segment of the population. Let's not forget that Hamas <i><b>is</b></i> listed as a terrorist organization.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_16:17:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0183bc94f5be8b9ec79636f3f2174ff5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961101": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The big deal is that McCain said he was committed to running a clean campaign.<br></br><br></br><br>But this shows he's not as committed as he says he is.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_16:24:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9bf0971c139c9dc33659e8ed441e4f5e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961102": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I agree and have commented vaguely in past about the difficulty Obama would face as the change he was referring to was a change in power - a redistributing of the power enjoyed in Washington.<br></br><br>I thought Chambers was speaking of a dynamic I might be unware of.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_16:27:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fcb7c771a7713dda01aa936fd426bfe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961103": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "They just brought u the bird thing on MSNBC apparently it supposedly happened when he was scratching his head - the panel dismissed it and said he was far to classy a guy to do that.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_16:39:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fcb7c771a7713dda01aa936fd426bfe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961104": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "@ d<br></br><br><i>Truth,</i></br><br>if bin Laden or al-Zaharwi endorsed Obama, it wouldn't matter what American did. This is the same thing to a large segment of the population. Let's not forget that Hamas is listed as a terrorist organization.</br><br></br><br>That argument stands up only from the standpoint of irrationality.  Since Hamas is a terrorist organization, if they wanted to oppose an anti terrorist US party, they would simply put out a statement endorsing them.  If your logic is to be accepted, this would be the kiss of death.  </br><br></br><br>It is irrational for Americans to accept the validity of an endorsement from a terrorist organization.  It is also irrational for Democrats to accept the advise of Republicans.  Barack wishes to restore rationality.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_16:57:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0e63fda3bc8752465623f674ffcc5f40", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961105": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hamas is used to scare off the Jewish vote.  Our government has defined it as a terrorist group, but it is the democratically elected government.  In many ways, Hamas is place between a rock and a hard space", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_17:40:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961106": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Cornell West will be on Real Time with Bill Maher tonight.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_18:01:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "432619ba625f6a3e6b9013e9117e3759", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961107": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Essentially anyone who does not agree with our administration is a terrorist.  Hamas takes care of the Palestinian people which is why they were democratically elected by the people.  They (the people) got sick of Fatah's corrupt bullsh__.  Anyone who is serious about peace has to pull Hamas into the talks.  Ignoring those who don't agree with you like they are six year olds doesn't work.<br></br><br>One of the reasons Obama gives so many people hope is that he has said he will sit down with our enemies.  And since usually the reason someone is our enemy is because they won't hand over their resources (ie Palestinians it's land, Iran it's oil, Iraq it was oil etc) or they become a threat because they pose competition to those resources (ie Russia) it makes sense.</br><br></br><br>Don't forget, Iraq was one of the three \"axis of evil\" and as it turns out (and as I knew and most people I know knew) they were no threat to us but they had lots of untapped oil.</br><br></br><br>Anyways, I have to get back to work.</br><br></br><br>Just one more thing, for every Isreali killed, 30-40 Palestinians are killed...</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_18:12:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961108": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"Turning around and piling on Barack is something a focus group consultant told him to do. Is he a racist? Who knows? His right hand woman for many years was a black correspondent who was anything but right wing\". <br></br><br>I think Dobbs piled on when in a speech, Obama named him as one of a group of people who are demagoging immigration. Dobbs mentioned it on his show, angrily of course, and ever since then has been especially hard on Obama.</br><br></br><br>I think he's a right-wing populist, not much different from Pat Buchanan.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_18:20:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "aedda92d645e540d5d4d78a25c550ffc", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961109": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Truth,<br>It may seem irrational to you, but many Americans will just see the headline, and it will look bad. Our attention span is too short to go into the details.</br><br></br><br>...and since Hamas is the elected government of Palestine, that would then put them in the \"state sponsor of terrorism\" category, IMO. In which case, why should Obama-or any president-want to do anything with them except sending them a few tons on bombs?</br><br></br><br>The US has a stated policy that's worked for as long as I've been alive: we don't negotiate with terrorists.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_18:58:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0183bc94f5be8b9ec79636f3f2174ff5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961110": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Maybe it's time to change the no negotiation thing.  Look at Vietnam and Korea.  Two long senseless wars fought because we don't talk, we fight.  It doesn't work.  Look at Afghanistan - we supported the Taliban because the Russians were bad, Iraq - we supported Saddam in the 80s because Iran was bad.  Not talking to Fidel and trying to kill him only pushed him to toward Russia.  I wonder what would have happened if we sat down and befriended Fidel?  Oh but if we had done that then we wouldn't have things like the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis to reminisce about.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_19:20:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "ebab26d5a6728d011cdfb4920618002e", "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}, "1961111": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Plantsmantx:<br></br><br>I agree, I saw the show where Dobbs responded.  He even polled his viewers doing the show.</br><br></br><br>I think something like 57% didn't agree with Dobbs - he's been on a rant every sense.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_19:22:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fcb7c771a7713dda01aa936fd426bfe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961112": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Obama Supporters:<br></br><br>The cable news outlets are discussing us today.  They are singing in unison with Hillary.  They say we're whining about the debate.</br><br></br><br>Rachel Maddow was the only pundit who attributed the outrage to the format and lack of substanitive questions.</br><br></br><br>We're the \"Obama Nation\".</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_19:25:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fcb7c771a7713dda01aa936fd426bfe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961113": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yes, ms.martin. We are.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_19:43:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9bf0971c139c9dc33659e8ed441e4f5e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961114": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"The cable news outlets are discussing us today. They are singing in unison with Hillary. They say we're whining about the debate.\"<br></br><br>I saw that, they dont get it. We are not whining, we are upset about the format of the debate. I want Obama to get hard questions always and he will but they like saying that we are whiners and cultists etc.. </br><br></br><br>They can continue to insult us and our intelligence.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_20:49:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "6b8623e8e850161265a6267d83471b3d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961115": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I will not vote if Hillary ever, ever (which she won't)wins the nomination. I cannot support her, he true colors have been exposed.<br></br><br>When she comes back to New York to run for Senator, I will not vote for her or support her. I want a contender for Hillary.</br><br></br><br>I thought you guys would like the fact that a lot of Hillary's neighbors are...OBAMA supporters. I am not lying. In our county (Hillary;s county)Hillary only beat Obama 55 to 45!! haha...and she lost CT which is a stone throw away so she better not get us upset cause we will not vote for her...she will not get back her seat. she will be unempolyed like all those CBC people who support her.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_20:55:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "6b8623e8e850161265a6267d83471b3d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961116": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Dan Abrams--The Verdict:<br></br><br>Hillary caught on tape after Super Tuesday slamming Move on. Org!</br><br></br><br>Well I'll be....</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_21:08:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "3b31356ea345f986babefd4710e13291", "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}, "1961117": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Looks like Clinton will have to explain her own \"behind closed door\" remarks that were recorded after Super Tuesday. This is just getting ridiculous...superdels where are you??<br></br><br></br><br>http://thepage.time.com/2008/04/18/clinton-blames-partys-activist-base-for-defeats-at-post-super-tuesday-fundraiser/</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_21:09:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "a434d32327a7ccbb408eb10d4de56c10", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961118": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yeah,<br></br><br>Justice58 the story is at Huffpo and Dailykos. I'm wondering if this will do anything. I'm sure she will brush it off. Well, actually they did.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_21:10:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "432619ba625f6a3e6b9013e9117e3759", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961119": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Mrs. Hillary Rodham Nixon leaked that  recording herself. This is her Sistah Souljah moment. She wants the Republicans to know that she distances herself from a \"left-wing\" group that supposedly opposed the war in Afghanistan while that same group endorsed Obama.<br></br><br>Doesn't matter that MoveOn started to  help save her husband's ass. She's trying to complete the painting of Obama as a radical.</br><br></br><br>She pandered to the group in public last year but \"behind closed doors\" she's mad it didn't endorse her. And they are to blame for her losing all the caucuses.</br><br></br><br>This is Mrs. Nixon at her ruthless best. I have no doubt in my mind that she leaked this herself. Which is why Wolfson isn't even upset.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_21:17:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9bf0971c139c9dc33659e8ed441e4f5e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961120": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Everything Hillary throws at Barack, it comes right back & bites her in the ass!<br></br><br>BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_21:19:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "3b31356ea345f986babefd4710e13291", "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}, "1961121": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You know Craig, Ron Reagan said the same thing!<br></br><br>If so--Hillary is the ultimate....</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_21:21:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "3b31356ea345f986babefd4710e13291", "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}, "1961122": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://essence.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/04/16/bobjohnsoncartoon_2.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">Roland Martin found this Bob Johnson Cartoon- it's HILARIOUS</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_21:28:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f85f4de88a30987f0360c336da9569ae", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961123": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "How in the hell does Bobo Joe get on television.<br></br><br>He puts Hillary's CBC surrogates to shame.</br><br></br><br>It's a sad day when Regan's son has to point out what happened with those debates and the fact that Obama wasn't whining, that he was pointing out the fact that the questions had nothing to do with the issues facing Americans.</br><br></br><br>Abrams just called Lou Dobbs \"Chatty Cathy\".</br><br></br><br>And I wasn't the only one who noticed that he wants to challenge the Pope.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_21:29:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fcb7c771a7713dda01aa936fd426bfe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961124": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "From Roland Martin:<br></br><br><i>April 16, 2008</i></br><br>Former Newark, N.J. mayor, mistress convicted in federal court</br><br>Sharpe James, one of the last big city powerbrokers who ran Newark, N.J. for 20 years, was convicted today of fraud, along with his mistress.</br><br></br><br>According to the New York Times, they were convicted of \"conspiring to sell city-owned properties to a former girlfriend, who quickly flipped them and earned hundreds of thousands of dollars in profits.\"</br><br></br><br>The paper says \"the jury found Mr. James, 72, guilty on all five counts he faced. His former girlfriend, Tamika Riley, 39, was convicted on the same fraud and conspiracy charges as well as eight others for numerous tax violations in connection with what the authorities said was her failure to file income tax returns for her public relations firm.\"</br><br></br><br>James ran Newark prior to the election of Mayor Cory Booker.</br><br></br><br>The two face up to eight years in prison and will be sentenced on July 29.</br><br></br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_21:47:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f85f4de88a30987f0360c336da9569ae", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961125": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This was sent to me via email:<br></br><br><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/14/AR2008041402453.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Richard Cohen of the WaPo has serious ' issues' with Obama</a></br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_21:59:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f85f4de88a30987f0360c336da9569ae", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961126": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Chuck Todd calls us ' ObamaNation'. I know it's a slam, but I thought it was ok..made me laugh.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_22:11:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f85f4de88a30987f0360c336da9569ae", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961127": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/celeste-fremon/clinton-slams-democratic_b_97484.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Huffpo</a> is reporting that Hillary's got her own bitter-gate moment.  There is a recording of <b>her</b> at a closed-door fundraiser trashing <a href=\"http://Move-on.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">Move-on.org</a>, specifically, and all grassroots organizations in general.  She says these organizations intimidate her supporters at caucuses.<br></br><br>Now this won't have the media coverage of bitter-gate, but the Superdelagates are paying attention.  You don't want to piss off activist groups--particularly one founded because of your husband's impeachmnt.  They're the backbone of the demorcatic party</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_22:14:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "6aa3ee71bc9714917dc34dde9e4e2b41", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961128": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The key to me is the last paragraph....Hillary is dissing a group whose history organized to defend.....her trashy behaving husband.<br></br><br></br><br>Hillary Clinton dissed party activists and MoveOn.org</br><br>Apparently Hillary Clinton hasn't always been enamored with the rambunctious nature of the historic fight for the Democratic presidential nomination. Speaking to financial backers after Super Tuesday, she blamed the party's activists and <a href=\"http://MoveOn.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">MoveOn.org</a> for her early primary and caucus defeats, according to an item over at The Huffington <a href=\"http://Post.%3C/br%3E%3Cbr%3E%3C/br%3E%3Cbr%3E%22MoveOn.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">Post.</br><br></br><br>\"MoveOn.org</a> endorsed [Barack Obama] -- which is like a gusher of money that never seems to slow down,\" the item quotes Clinton as saying (there's audio on the site).</br><br></br><br>Her campaign, she continues, had been less successful in caucuses because those gatherings bring out \"the activist base of the Democratic Party... [T]hey are very driven by their view of our positions, and it's primarily national security and foreign policy that drives them. I don't agree with them. They know I don't agree with them. So they flood into these caucuses and dominate them and really intimidate people who actually show up to support me.\"</br><br></br><br>Eli Pariser, MoveOn's executive director, defended the base: \"Senator Clinton's attack on our members is divisive at a time when Democrats will soon need to unify to beat Senator [John] McCain. MoveOn is 3.2 million reliable voters and volunteers who are an important part of any winning Democratic coalition in November. They deserve better than to be dismissed using Republican talking points.\"</br><br></br><br>So much for party unity in the dash for the White House.</br><br></br><br>It was exactly ago a week ago ...</br><br></br><br>that another Huffington Post item unearthed a candid comment -- Barack Obama's now-infamous sociological assessment of the mores of small-town America -- the the reaction roiled the Democratic presidnetial race.</br><br></br><br>Clinton's comment won't kick up as much a fuss as Obama's, but she did poke a stick at a group that can be counted on to respond in kind.</br><br></br><br>Indeed, Pariser took particular umbrage to Clinton, in the comments to her donors, saying, \"MoveOn didn't even want us to go into Afghanistan. I mean, that's what we're dealing with.\"</br><br></br><br>Pariser said: \"Senator Clinton has her facts wrong again. MoveOn never opposed the war in Afghanistan, and we set the record straight years ago when Karl Rove made the same claim.\"</br><br></br><br>And you can be sure that many of its members will seethe over the Afghanistan matter.</br><br></br><br>The fact that Obama made his small-town comment in San Francisco helped give it particular reasonance. The new post concerning Clinton does not identify where she uttered her words; Huffington Post editors tell us that information was withheld to protect the source who provided the audio to \"citizen-journalist\" Celeste Fremon.</br><br></br><br>The event, we've been told, \"was a small affair held between Super Tuesday and the Ohio/Texas primaries in a major American city.\"</br><br></br><br>There's irony in Clinton trashing MoveOn -- the group was formed, and its name conceived, in an effort to persuade the country that too much time and energy was being devoted to impeach and drive Bill Clinton from office because of the Monica Lewinsky affair.</br><br></br><br>-- Scott Martelle/Don Frederick</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_22:18:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "3e892379e7d442c8970d7cad6f54d5b8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961129": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I don't get arrogance from Obama.  As a matter of fact, sometimes I see fleeting hint of insecurity.  Maybe these guys are filtering their perceptions through a mesh of prejudice.  He said Obama looks like he thinks we need him more than he needs us...Well, hell yeah!  He seemed to have a pretty good life before, no secret service detail.  Mr. Cohen could is sensing what's true, but it's not coming from Obama.  It's coming from his intuitive awareness of the truth.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_22:30:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0e63fda3bc8752465623f674ffcc5f40", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961130": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The new politics of hope and change sure looks a lot like the old politics of smear and distort.<br></br><br>Here we go:</br><br></br><br>    (CNN) \u2014 John McCain's campaign is crying foul over what it characterizes as repeated distortions from Barack Obama, saying on Friday the Illinois senator is \"recklessly dishonest.\"</br><br></br><br>    The most recent dustup comes after Obama criticized McCain earlier Friday for comments the Arizona senator made in an interview on Bloomberg Television.</br><br></br><br>    \"John McCain went on television and said that there has been quote \"great progress economically over the last seven and a half years,\" Obama told a Pennsylvania crowd. \"John McCain thinks our economy has made great progress under George W. Bush. Now, how could somebody who has been traveling across this country, somebody who came to Erie, PA, say we've made great progress?\u201d</br><br></br><br>    The McCain campaign immediately took issue with the comment, noting the Arizona senator also said he knows families are facing \"tremendous economic challenges.\"</br><br></br><br>    \u201cAmerican families are hurting and Barack Obama is being recklessly dishonest,\" McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds said. \"It is clear that Barack Obama is intentionally twisting John McCain\u2019s words completely out of context. Obama is guilty of deliberately distorting John McCain\u2019s comments for pure political gain, which is exactly what Senator Obama was complaining about just yesterday.\"</br><br></br><br>Let's interject a bit of reality so that the reality based side can see for themselves just what some of them are foisting on us.  Here is the McCain interview in question, my excerpt:</br><br></br><br>    MR. COOK: I'm going to ask you a version of the Ronald Reagan question. You think if Americans were asked, are you better off today than you were before George Bush took office more than seven years ago, what answer would they give?</br><br></br><br>    SEN. MCCAIN: Certainly, in this time, we are in very challenging times. We all recognize that. Families are sitting around the kitchen table this evening and figuring out whether they're going to be able to keep their home or not. They're figuring out whether they're - why it is that suddenly and recently someone in their family or their neighbor has lost their job. There's no doubt that we are in enormous difficulties.</br><br></br><br>    I think if you look at the overall record and millions of jobs have been created, et cetera, et cetera, you could make an argument that there's been great progress economically over that period of time. But that's no comfort. That's no comfort to families now that are facing these tremendous economic challenges.</br><br></br><br>    But let me just add, Peter, the fundamentals of America's economy are strong. We're the greatest exporter, the greatest importer, the greatest innovator, the greatest producer, still the greatest economic engine in the world. And, by the way, exports and free trade are a key element in economic recovery. But these are tough times, tough times, and nobody knows that more than American families including in small towns of Pennsylvania. They haven't lost their fundamental religious beliefs, their respect for the Constitution, their right to bear arms. They are still - keep America as a beacon of hope and freedom throughout the world.</br><br></br><br>For Obama to extract one sentence and argue that McCain is out of touch is shameless.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_22:48:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961131": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/4/18/22105/1053/669/498696\" rel=\"nofollow\">Obama gets 40,000 in Philly?</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_22:53:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f85f4de88a30987f0360c336da9569ae", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961132": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Sounds like McCain is saying that things are good to me or at least trying to bat down frustrations over current economic conditions.<br></br><br>Has anyone seen the spoof of McCain debating himself?</br><br></br><br>It shows how he says this now and that later!</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_22:57:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fcb7c771a7713dda01aa936fd426bfe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961133": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "RE:  Clinton's comments about MoveON.<br></br><br>I wrote about it on my blog:</br><br>http://reachblack.blogspot.com/</br><br></br><br>@craig,</br><br></br><br>This is definite sister souljah material.  But I'm not sure she'd leak something like this so early.  You gotta make it to the general before you pull a stunt like this.  She's gotta catch Obama first, and stuff like this ain't gonna help.</br><br></br><br>Let's see. . . If I were running for the DEMOCRATIC nomination I think I'd want to:</br><br></br><br>1.  Piss off black folk (check);</br><br>2.  Dismiss the youth vote (check);</br><br>3.  Piss off Progressives (check); </br><br>4.  Threaten the DNC Chair (check)</br><br>5.  Threaten the Democratic Speaker of the House (check)</br><br></br><br>Yup.  She'd be well on her way!  Well, if she were running for the REPUBLICAN nomination.</br><br></br><br>But don't worry.  Hillary's got the Reagan Democrats in her camp.  Too bad she won't have the Democratic BASE to go with it.</br><br></br><br>Wow!  Now, just add in her negatives over 50% as well as the fact that most Democratic voters don't think she's trustworthy and I can see how she thinks she's the strongest candidate ;)</br><br></br><br>Not smart.  And she's got the nerve to attack Obama's electability?!?!?</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_23:18:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "d1a8e45844ef20a90904a65e60371f42", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961134": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm watching Late Night with Bill Maher<br></br><br>There's a reporter (don't know his name) that's saying a lot of unlikely people are really voting for Obama in Pennsylvania.</br><br></br><br>He said that there's a Bigots for Obama group (don't know if he was joking) because of the condition of the economy and some of them believe he's different that typical Washington.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-18_23:46:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fcb7c771a7713dda01aa936fd426bfe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961135": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "ms. martin;<br></br><br>I just saw Bill Maher too.   I really don't know what to think of what that reporter said.   The polls seem to be all over the map.   One pollster (PPP) actually shows Obama 2 pts ahead of Clinton in PA and that same pollster was supposedly right on the mark in calling S. Carolina?????</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-19_00:00:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "3e892379e7d442c8970d7cad6f54d5b8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961136": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "obama is the same old lying, evasive, distorting politician we've come to expect, just wrapped in a flashier package.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-19_00:01:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961137": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Angela<br></br><br>I hope they're right.  That would mean people finally get it.</br><br></br><br>They finally understand who Obama is and Hillary Clinton is not.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-19_00:02:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fcb7c771a7713dda01aa936fd426bfe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961138": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "35,000 came out to Obama this evening in Philadelphia...<br></br><br></br><br>Go Obama!</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-19_00:14:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "ebab26d5a6728d011cdfb4920618002e", "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}, "1961139": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This was a cute post over at Talking Points.<br></br><br><a href=\"http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/04/my-82-year-old-mothers-debate.php\" rel=\"nofollow\">My 82 Year Old Mother's Debate Reaction</a></br><br></br><br></br><br>How Obama is thinking ahead, and I agree with the writer's assessment, though from a different angle. I've told y'all - he can't be seen as that Big Black Brute beating up on that 'Poor Defenseless White Woman'. </br><br></br><br>Only commentator to break it down like that was a Black REPUBLICAN Female - Michelle Bernard, and that Joan Whatshername from ' We called Obama UPPITY' <a href=\"http://Salon.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Salon.com</a>, poo-pooed it. But, Bernard was on the money.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-19_01:21:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f85f4de88a30987f0360c336da9569ae", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961140": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Here's the story that goes with haale point about Obama drawing 35K at the Philly rally last night:<br></br><br>http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5joZ3qLp6q573frLjOGU3W8koFk0wD904LCA01</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-19_09:28:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "a434d32327a7ccbb408eb10d4de56c10", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961141": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Consider this thought experiment: Assume that a conservative candidate for the GOP nomination spent two decades at a church whose senior pastor was a white supremacist who uttered ugly racial (as well as anti-American) epithets from the pulpit. Assume, too, that this minister wasn\u2019t just the candidate\u2019s pastor but also a close friend, the man who married the candidate and his wife, baptized his two daughters, and inspired the title of his best-selling book.<br></br><br>In addition, assume that this GOP candidate, in preparing for his entry into politics, attended an early organizing meeting at the home of a man who, years before, was involved in blowing up multiple abortion clinics and today was unrepentant, stating his wish that he had bombed even more clinics. And let\u2019s say that the GOP candidate\u2019s press spokesman described the relationship between the two men as \u201cfriendly.\u201d</br><br></br><br>Do you think that if those moderating a debate asked the GOP candidate about these relationships for the first time, after 22 previous debates had been held, that other journalists would become apoplectic at the moderators for merely asking about the relationships? Not only would there be a near-universal consensus that those questions should be asked; there would be a moral urgency in pressing for answers. We would, I predict, be seeing an unprecedented media \u201cfeeding frenzy.\u201d</br><br></br><br>The truth is that a close relationship with a white supremacist pastor and a friendly relationship with an abortion clinic bomber would, by themselves, torpedo a conservative candidate running for president. There is an enormous double standard at play here, one rooted in the fawning regard many journalists have for Barack Obama. They have a deep, even emotional, investment in his candidacy. And, as we are seeing, they will turn on anyone, even their colleagues, who dare raise appropriate and searching questions\u2013the kind journalists are supposed to ask. The reaction to Stephanopoulos and Gibson is a revealing and depressing glimpse into the state of modern journalism.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-19_09:44:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961142": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "A bunch of liberal journalists have written an open letter to ABC to whine about its handling of Wednesday night's debate. \"We're at a crucial moment in our country's history,\" they write. \"Large majorities of our fellow Americans tell pollsters they're deeply worried about the country's direction... Tough, probing questions on these issues clearly serve the public interest... excessive emphasis on tangential 'character' issues do not.\"<br></br><br>The signers include at least seven contributors to The Nation, whose editors never saw anything \"tangential\" about George W. Bush's Air National Guard service and what that said about his character. A Google search of The Nation's website for stories on that topic yields 72 stories \u2014 none of which called on the media to stop focusing on such a tangential character issue.</br><br></br><br>ABC's critics also continue to insist that the American people don't care about issues like Obama's association with William Ayers or Clinton's lying about her trip to Bosnia, but they undermine their own argument by getting furious with anyone who mentions these topics. They're furious because they know that Americans do care about their president's character, and they know that these stories \u2014 if they get too much attention \u2014 will hurt their candidate in the fall.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-19_09:54:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961143": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Anon 644,<br></br><br>I'm with you...to a point.</br><br></br><br>The type of vetting that should've gone on with Obama (which one could argue is happening now) should've taken place last year. </br><br></br><br>Obama's gotten a free ride to this point, and it looks like it just ended.</br><br></br><br>However, to spend an hour trashing Obama on national TV...not cool. If for no other reason than it looks like a conservative hit job, which gets us the \"racist!!\" flag.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-19_10:05:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0183bc94f5be8b9ec79636f3f2174ff5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961144": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "@ d<br></br><br>that \"vetting\" nonesense is ignorant crap.  It's part of the old politics that's passing away, thankfully.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-19_10:18:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0e63fda3bc8752465623f674ffcc5f40", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961145": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "For anyone who doesn't have HBO, you can catch Real Time episodes on these YouTube channels:<br></br><br>(current season fastest upload)</br><br>youtube.com/user/videocafeblog</br><br></br><br>(current season)</br><br>youtube.com/user/MoKEELoK</br><br></br><br>(previous seasons)</br><br>youtube.com/user/REALTIMEwBMs123</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-19_10:36:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0e63fda3bc8752465623f674ffcc5f40", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961146": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "truthseeker said...<br></br><br><i>I don't get arrogance from Obama. As a matter of fact, sometimes I see fleeting hint of insecurity</i></br><br></br><br>::</br><br></br><br>There's both. He's a Leo afterall.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-19_10:45:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "1dfba1efb1f4e394ef47a227c2801240", "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}, "1961147": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I find Leo's are formidable but deeply compassionate people :)<br></br><br>Here's a segment of Friday's Real Time where the reporter talking to rural Pensylvanians:</br><br></br><br>youtube.com/watch?v=0uO_KITFHmY</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-19_10:49:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0e63fda3bc8752465623f674ffcc5f40", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961148": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "b serious said...<br></br><br><i>@craig,</i></br><br></br><br>This is definite sister souljah material. But I'm not sure she'd leak something like this so early. You gotta make it to the general before you pull a stunt like this. She's gotta catch Obama first, and stuff like this ain't gonna help.</br><br></br><br>She can't get to the general election. She knows it. What she's trying to do is destroy Obama. This is part of the painting of him as radical.</br><br></br><br>Check This Out:</br><br></br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/18/clinton-backer-distribute_n_97525.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">How the GOP Will Link Obama and Ayers</a></br><br></br><br>The polls in PA must not look good for Mrs. Clinton.</br><br></br><br>A sistah souljah moment followed up by a Willie Horton moment which resurrects McCarthyism in the process, and the Nixons are in fullout destroy mode.</br><br></br><br>Obama's base are Black people and youth. And this Nixonian operative is spreading this mess to heads of  unions all over PA.</br><br></br><br>His opponents are scared. Really, really scared.</br><br></br><br>Perhaps they're hoping someone with a sawed-off shotgun hunts Obama down.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-19_10:50:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "1dfba1efb1f4e394ef47a227c2801240", "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}, "1961149": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah said...<br></br><br><i>How Obama is thinking ahead, and I agree with the writer's assessment, though from a different angle. I've told y'all - he can't be seen as that Big Black Brute beating up on that 'Poor Defenseless White Woman'. </i></br><br></br><br>::</br><br></br><br>Yup. We saw the same thing in our house. And Bernard nailed it to the wall. If he flattened Mrs. Nixon to her face, those white women who can't see past Mrs. Nixon's treachery would be leading the lynching party.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-19_11:07:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "1dfba1efb1f4e394ef47a227c2801240", "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}, "1961150": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>\"If he flattened Mrs. Nixon to her face, those white women who can't see past Mrs. Nixon's treachery would be leading the lynching party.\"</i><br></br><br>I agree with you, Craig.  Obama said as much at a rally this week (I think it was in NC).  During the Q&A; session, he told a questioner that he won't have to be so restrained during the general.  MSM didn't pick up on this because they're too worried about the Weather Underground, but what he's implicitly saying is I can't brutalize the white woman because if I do, I'll get lynched.</br><br></br><br>To Truthseeker, thanks for the \"Real Time\" links.  And I agree with you that the \"vetting\" thing is bs.  Faux News has been rifling through Obama's trash for over a year now and the Chicago Tribune has been doing it since he ran for state office.  These organizations tried Rezko; that didn't stick.  So now they have to manufactor sh*t: Rev. Wright, muslim, lapel pen, Pledge of Allegiance, Weather Underground, and bitter-gate.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-19_11:46:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "6aa3ee71bc9714917dc34dde9e4e2b41", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961151": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "A global survey on optimism: 61 percent of Americans were optimistic about the future, 29 percent of the French, 15 percent of Germans. Take it from a foreigner: In my experience, Americans are the least \"bitter\" people in the developed world. Secular, gun-free big-government Europe doesn't seem to have done anything for people's happiness.<br></br><br>Obama's 'bitter' commentis not just snobbish nor even merely wrongheaded. It's an attack on two of the critical advantages the United States holds over most of the rest of the Western world. In the other G7 developed nations, nobody clings to God 'n' guns. The guns got taken away, and the Europeans gave up on churchgoing once they embraced Big Government as the new religion.</br><br></br><br>How's that working out? Compared with America, France and Germany have been more or less economically stagnant for the past quarter-century, living permanently with unemployment rates significantly higher than in the United States.</br><br></br><br>And Germany and France have now embraced a conservative platform to reform their economic woes. Ireland is thriving due in large part to providing businesses with the lowest corporate tax rate in the world.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-19_11:48:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961152": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "d,<br></br><br>Republicans are going to continue to be called racist in any event. The flag pin is the least of Obama's problems.</br><br></br><br>Democrats are so used to being treated most favorably by the media. But now, the media itself as fractured as the Democrat party itself. All objectivity is out the window.</br><br></br><br>Obama supporters here and elsewhere in the blogosphere will continue to only 'see what they want to see' and spin away anything that threatens Obama's nomination.</br><br></br><br>On the war and taxes, two issues that are important to me, serious debate and discussion about Obama's debate performance are lacking.</br><br></br><br>Serious debate behind the ideological premise of Obama's 'bitter' remarks is non-exisitent among his supporters as well.</br><br></br><br>Refusing to acknowledge Obama's vulnerabilities, contradictions and flaws, will not serve him well in the general election. Shooting the messenger and crying foul do not remove or dispel the challenges he will face against McCain.</br><br></br><br>Once he wins the nomination, as I believe he will, perhaps the focus on issues of policy, ideology and character will become more substantive, as all 3 of these factors are important when electing a president.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-19_12:01:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "bbb5f18b1f882407561a7f27f4fb2937", "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}, "1961153": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Anon 8:48 has just published the words of another person without wither quoting or linking the source.<br></br><br>That's copyright infringement and I think the post should be removed.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-19_12:39:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9bf0971c139c9dc33659e8ed441e4f5e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961154": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>Serious debate behind the ideological premise of Obama's 'bitter' remarks is non-exisitent among his supporters as well.</i><br></br><br>::</br><br></br><br>That's THAT'S a fairy tale.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-19_12:42:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9bf0971c139c9dc33659e8ed441e4f5e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961155": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Felicia<br> </br><br>I saw that question and answer too and I think he was saying is that he won't fight a Democrat like she's a Republican the way she's fighting him.  </br><br></br><br>Think about it, he really doesn't have to.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-19_14:02:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fcb7c771a7713dda01aa936fd426bfe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961156": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"Chuck Todd calls us ' ObamaNation'. I know it's a slam, but I thought it was ok..made me laugh.\"<br></br><br>I agree that it definitely is a slam but I don't think it is OK at all to call us [an] \"abomination\".  Let   Hagee keep that for his hate towards homosexuals.  </br><br></br><br>Chuck is slick with the multi-faceted ultimate insult but I can't roll with Chuck.  He may as well call us n-words and n-word lovers as far as I am concerned because when you get to this level there is little difference in the degree.  Nope, I can't help chuck by embracing insults against myself while they laugh at the desk about how young, naive and gullible we are. </br><br></br><br>Chuck Todd is a republican and I find it amusing that his subtle con works on MSNBC viewers.  We long time CSPAN fans remember chuck from back in the hotline days when for 5-10 minutes they got to skewer the democrats and praise the republicans when they were supposed to present the overall political landscape.  All those years, Dems must have been all bad and Repubs all good in the view of good old Chuck.</br><br></br><br>You are superslick chuck but some of us are neither young or dumb and we remember your number and are also in-touch enough to use the internet.  Surprise, Surprise!</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-19_14:22:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961157": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Chuck revealed his hand when he said just today to Tim Russert that the \"ObamaNation\" activists were going to come after the media and anybody else if Obama wasn't the nominee and in doing so they would destroy the Democratic party.<br></br><br>Meanwhile, back at the ranch:</br><br></br><br><a href=\"http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/04/18/politics/fromtheroad/entry4028758.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow\">Audience Member Brings Up Lewinsky and Says Hillary Needs to be President in order Move Past it all</a></br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-19_14:57:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9bf0971c139c9dc33659e8ed441e4f5e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961158": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Anyone watch Down Home With the Neeley's on the Food Channel?<br></br><br>I like them.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-19_15:20:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f85f4de88a30987f0360c336da9569ae", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961159": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>Chuck revealed his hand when he said just today to Tim Russert that the \"ObamaNation\" activists were going to come after the media and anybody else if Obama wasn't the nominee and in doing so they would destroy the Democratic party.</i><br></br><br>They're still trying to peg us as ' emotional' and 'irrational' and a 'cult'. When in fact, we're very sane, and know how to get our point across, and they're stunned.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-19_15:22:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f85f4de88a30987f0360c336da9569ae", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961160": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>I saw that question and answer too and I think he was saying is that he won't fight a Democrat like she's a Republican the way she's fighting him. <br></br><br>Think about it, he really doesn't have to.</br></i><br></br><br>That is too true. Oh so true.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-19_15:23:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f85f4de88a30987f0360c336da9569ae", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961161": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "She has to release her money statements for March. I'm very interested in the truth about her numbers.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-19_15:24:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f85f4de88a30987f0360c336da9569ae", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961162": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/18/clinton-backer-distribute_n_97525.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Clinton Backer Distributes Essay On How GOP Would Link Obama To '70s Radicals</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-19_15:34:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f85f4de88a30987f0360c336da9569ae", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961163": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Valid points made from opposing viewpoints are easy to disregard if one recognizes the name attached and the readers deems them 'conservative.'<br>At least the post was read, but unfortunately the points raised have not been addressed. Only requested that they be censured.</br><br></br><br>Mark Steyn was the author of the comments @ 8:48</br><br></br><br>Here's Larry Kudlow:</br><br></br><br>During the debate, Obama bungled his answers on tax policy, big time. Period. End of sentence. End of story. To my liberal friends in the media, all I can say is: Get over it. Your guy has a very poor grasp of basic economic principles.</br><br></br><br>First off, you don't raise taxes during a recession. That's a no-brainer. Second, doubling the capital-gains tax rate will affect Americans up and down the income ladder, not just rich hedge-fund managers. In addition, capital-gains tax cuts are self-financing, and they stimulate jobs and the economy. You want to raise budget revenues and spark economic growth? Cut the cap-gains tax rate. That's what history shows.</br><br></br><br>The Wall Street Journal's Steve Moore points out that in 2005, almost half of all tax returns reporting capital gains came from households with incomes under $50,000, while more than three-quarters came from households earning less than $100,000.</br><br></br><br>Obama also proposed uncapping the payroll tax, another blunder that will hit people up and down the income ladder. While Obama pledges tax hikes only for folks earning more that $200,000 a year, his tax hike on payrolls would actually slam middle-income earners. The cap on wages subject to the payroll tax is presently $102,000. By eliminating that cap Obama will be soaking veteran firemen, cops, teachers, and health-service workers, along with a variety of other occupations.</br><br></br><br>In fact, in America's largest cities, a firefighter married to a school teacher can earn close to $200,000 filing jointly. So not only will each spouse separately pay more for Social Security and health care under Obama's plan, together they'll also be slammed by Obama's cap-gains tax increase.</br><br></br><br>This is more than just a failure to understand the Laffer curve. It's another cultural misstep by Obama. I can't help but wonder if the senator knows any cops or firemen. His appeal is to well-educated latte liberals. That remark about middle-income folks having turned to God, faith, and guns because of economic setbacks? Not only was it ill-advised, it illustrates the wide cultural chasm that exists between the candidate and the rest of America.</br><br></br><br>In effect, Obama's economics are bad and his social circle is very limited. This is one of the many reasons why a quarter of the Hillary Democrats are telling pollsters they'll likely move to John McCain in the general election.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-19_16:12:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961164": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "To Anonymous:<br></br><br>The problem is John McCain does have ties with idealogical, hate spewing pastors (priests, ministers - whatever they are called).  I can't remember everything the guy said (or his name) but one was that Katrina was the result of America's tolerance of homosexuals, islam is evil blah, blah, blah.</br><br></br><br>I'll post his name later - I can only open one window at a time</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-19_16:17:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "ebab26d5a6728d011cdfb4920618002e", "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}, "1961165": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Halle,<br></br><br>So, are pastoral associations of the candidates in bounds or out?</br><br></br><br>Do you believe voters should excuse Wright, but not Hagge? Should both candidates be held up to further scrutiny or not? Should they be treated equally, and if not, why?</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-19_16:23:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961166": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "@ craig hickman,<br></br><br>There is an opposing viewpoint that states that the demographic group most often voting against their economic self-interest, most inclined to vote on social issue are, in fact, college-educated, higher income earners?</br><br></br><br>Do you believe this to be true?</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-19_16:32:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "bbb5f18b1f882407561a7f27f4fb2937", "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}, "1961167": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "S<br></br><br>They can afford to - the poor and middle class working folks cannot.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-19_16:36:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fcb7c771a7713dda01aa936fd426bfe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961168": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Here's one source:<br></br><br>McCain has sought closer ties to the extreme religious right in recent years. The pastor McCain calls his \"spiritual guide,\" Rod Parsley, believes America's founding mission is to destroy Islam, which he calls a \"false religion.\" McCain sought the political support of right-wing preacher John Hagee, who believes Hurricane Katrina was God's punishment or gay rights and called the Catholic Church \"the Antichrist\" and a \"false cult.\" </br><br></br><br>Hillary also has ties to a few unsavory characters as do most politicians.  So the point is that these are none issues.  Thomas Jefferson said a few unsavory things about Black people - do we ignore everything about him and banish him from our history books or do we focus on the positive.</br><br></br><br>I just wonder why there is so much focus on Barack's acquaintances?  And especially when it is only two out of how many?</br><br></br><br>I used to work with a former Black Panther. So?  Some of my favorite teachers and mentors were part of guerilla feminist group that defaced billboards in the 1980's. And?</br><br></br><br>Bush was a drunk and a drug addict and ran several businesses into the ground...okay, this one doesn't prove my point.  ; )</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-19_16:40:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "ebab26d5a6728d011cdfb4920618002e", "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}, "1961169": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"Bush was a drunk and a drug addict and ran several businesses into the ground...okay, this one doesn't prove my point. ; )<br>-----------------------------------</br><br></br><br>ahahahahahahahahahahaha</br><br></br><br>Too funny!</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-19_16:51:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "3b31356ea345f986babefd4710e13291", "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}, "1961170": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Haale,<br>Because everyone assumed that because Obama was a relative nobody before 2004, he didn't have the shadiness. He was a \"safe\" candidate.</br><br></br><br>But now that people have started looking into him since he's the \"front-runner,\" all the dirt is coming to light. And I bet that Rev. Wright, Ayers, or the lady from CodePink who's a fundraiser for him aren't the least of it.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-19_16:57:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0183bc94f5be8b9ec79636f3f2174ff5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961171": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "haale,<br></br><br>The focus is more on Wright because the truth is, voters have so little to go on with Obama. He is virtually a newcomer on the national political stage, thrust onto the scene by his speech a the last Democratic convention. His record in the Illinois State Senate and his record in the US Senate are thin, and highly partisan. This calls into question his ability to 'reach across the aisle' and to effect real 'change' in such a highly partisan political climate.</br><br></br><br>Lacking any evidence of working on any major political issue (ie judicial appointments, immigration, etc.) in the US Senate, those seeking to become more informed look to Illinois and the roots of his political career. Personal and professional affiliations are also examined. </br><br></br><br>As children we are often taught to choose our friends wisely. We are told that hanging with the 'wrong crowd' can get us into trouble.</br><br></br><br>So it is true in national, presidential politics. The quality and quantity of a candidate's political and personal relationships are used by many to determine the 'content of ones character' and the quality of their judgment.</br><br></br><br>McCain and Obama should be scrutinized for the length and depth of their religious affiliations. They should expect to be criticized when those associations are seen as being out of the mainstream by a majority of voters. Voters can decide if it its a big enough deal to them to disqualify either candidate from having ones vote, but a double standard should not be applied.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-19_17:01:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961172": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "McCain has stated that he believe that Obama doen not sharethe extreme views of Rev Wright.<br></br><br>McCain said in an April 17 interview with Bloomberg TV,\"Well, in the case of Reverend Wright, I have expressed in the past that I am sure that Senator Obama does not share the extremist statements that Reverend Wright made.</br><br></br><br>This is the same interview in which Obama distorted McCain's statements on the economy.</br><br></br><br>To read the entire interview, here's a link:</br><br></br><br>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/04/john_mccain_on_bloomberg_tv.html</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-19_17:17:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "bbb5f18b1f882407561a7f27f4fb2937", "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}, "1961173": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Anonymous and D,<br></br><br>McCain has an interview with Stephanopolous (sp?)tomorrow so we shall see...</br><br></br><br>And I'm sorry... no one is squeaky clean because \"clean\" is relative.  Personally, associations with Code Pink is a plus in my book!</br><br></br><br>Great discussion guys/gals!</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-19_17:17:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "ebab26d5a6728d011cdfb4920618002e", "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}, "1961174": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "d,<br></br><br>Do you think this code pink bundler will make it more difficult for Obama to assert his independence from the base if the situation in Iraq requires us to stay?</br><br></br><br>He would be breaking his MAIN campaign promise and during the debate he reaffirmed his commitment to pulling out the troops regardless of what the generals say.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-19_17:32:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "bbb5f18b1f882407561a7f27f4fb2937", "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}, "1961175": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "S,<br>The democrats don't realize that the situation in Iraq is going to require a presence for the forseeable future. So when they get into office-after being swept in on antiwar sentiment-and they learn that lesson, it kills their standing with the base.</br><br></br><br>A lot of the representatives who were swept in in 06 on the same sentiment may well find themselves bounced out the door, for the same reason. And I'd love to run against Webb when he's up for reelection.</br><br></br><br>But if you notice, the Code Pink connection isn't even being heavily reported. And if you were to try to mention it to most of the Obamaists and the liberal media, they'd write you off.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-19_17:47:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0183bc94f5be8b9ec79636f3f2174ff5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961176": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "d,<br></br><br>So if it is true that Obama is making 2 promises he can't keep, leaving Iraq and raising taxes on the middle class, will McCain use this as a line of attack?</br><br></br><br>I would be more inclined to vote for Obama if he were to demonstrate independent judgment and come out and say, I would like to leave Iraq, but I must reserve the right to stay.</br><br></br><br>Also, the same for raising taxes. It doesn't make any sense to raise taxes in a recession.  Plus, I wish he would acknowledge that raising the payroll and capital gains taxes affect many income earners in the $50,000 to $1000,000 range.</br><br></br><br>Perhaps he will move to the center after the nomination, as he has promised to be a moderate. I will be watching and listening.</br><br></br><br>As for Code Pink, just like Ayers this will bubble to the surface.</br><br>Hillary is already denouncing the 'activist base' and trying to bring moderate dems to her side.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-19_18:08:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "bbb5f18b1f882407561a7f27f4fb2937", "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}, "1961177": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "S,<br>Remember, you're talking about someone who preaches that he was \"against the war from the start.\" that's so intricately tied to what his campaign's about that anything less than a complete withdrawal-regardless of the end results of such-will be seen a failure to the base. So on that issue, to suggest what you are loses him the nomination.</br><br></br><br>I don't think McCain uses either as attack points. Once you get past the rhetoric, both your points should be common sense.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-19_18:18:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0183bc94f5be8b9ec79636f3f2174ff5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961178": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I guess the Dreamworks partners, all of them Jewish, are also pro-terrorists because they hosted a fundraiser with the founder of Code Pink.<br></br><br>I guess Steven Spielberg will be making a movie about it anytime now.</br><br></br><br>I guess connecting him to terrorists (Ayers, Hamas) and terrorist \"supporters\" (CodePink) is the final Hail Mary. </br><br></br><br>Let's see who, if anyone, catches it.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-19_18:26:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9bf0971c139c9dc33659e8ed441e4f5e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961179": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "d,<br></br><br>If elected, even though exiting Iraq and not raising taxes are 'common sense' would the Congress and the base put so much pressure on Obama, that he would have no choice but to submit to their will?</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-19_18:26:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "bbb5f18b1f882407561a7f27f4fb2937", "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}, "1961180": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "craig,<br></br><br>I don't think these associations are a 'hail mary' but will be used to build a pile upon which to lay 'the last straw.'</br><br></br><br>Painting Obama into a far-left liberal corner will erode his claim to govern with independence, bipartisanship  and moderation.</br><br></br><br>He will be seen as so beholden to the far-left, anti-war, move-on groups that his judgment and independence will be called into question.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-19_18:34:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "bbb5f18b1f882407561a7f27f4fb2937", "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}, "1961181": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "S,<br>Probably. The base (which-oddly enough-is what \"al qaida\" translates to) would kill him.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-19_18:35:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0183bc94f5be8b9ec79636f3f2174ff5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961182": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "d,<br></br><br>I tend to agree.</br><br></br><br>Does this make him 'unelectable'?</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-19_18:45:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "bbb5f18b1f882407561a7f27f4fb2937", "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}, "1961183": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "s., <br></br><br>Apparently, that's what you hope will happen. That you still think most Americans are stupid enough to be duped yet again. That the Baby Boomer Battles still have cache in 2008.</br><br></br><br>CodePink co-hosted that fundraiser ages ago on the political calendar. </br><br></br><br>Bringing it up now is a Hail Mary.</br><br></br><br>Like I said, let's see who catches it.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-19_18:48:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9bf0971c139c9dc33659e8ed441e4f5e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961184": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Unelectable, no. But as the success of the surge carries through the election, he either has to acknowledge it and its implications (that we're winning) or deny it and make himself blind to reality.<br></br><br>My money's on #2.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-19_18:56:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0183bc94f5be8b9ec79636f3f2174ff5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961185": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "craig,<br></br><br>What I truly want is to be able to believe that Obama is a independent thinker and a moderate politician.</br><br></br><br>Hillary is working to divide the party into the 'activists' or 'new dem party power base' vs. 'the common man' or 'old dem party power base.' She is using the unions to raise questions about Obama's radical associations and his self-proclaimed superior judgment, all under the guise of \"this is what the Republicans will do.\"</br><br></br><br>I agree, it is up to the voters to decide the primaries, but the superdelegates will still be left to make the final call.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-19_19:00:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "bbb5f18b1f882407561a7f27f4fb2937", "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}, "1961186": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Watch the Sunday morning gas bags tomorrow and see how they will spin things.....<br></br><br>Chuck Todd has acknowledged the intensity and passion of Sen. Obama's supporters after the ABC \"debate\" and how the Democratic party could be torn apart for ever.  </br><br></br><br>I maintain this \"force\" (us) should be recognized by the super delegates. It is a reality.....!</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-19_19:21:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "3e892379e7d442c8970d7cad6f54d5b8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961187": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This is from the \"Winter Soldier Hearings\" held in March, 2008 in Washington DC:<br></br><br>\"We tried to comprehend the enormous scale of the so-called \"collateral damage\" in Iraq as speakers cited surveys that estimated about a million Iraqi civilians have died since the U.S. invasion, and that over four million Iraqis were forced from their homes. The speakers told of Iraqis, being without power and water, begging for food and fuel, and only wanting foreign troops and the 180,000 private contractors and mercenaries to leave so they can begin to rebuild their devastated country.\"</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-19_20:24:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "ebab26d5a6728d011cdfb4920618002e", "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}, "1961188": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "WASHINGTON \u2014 The war in Iraq has become \"a major debacle\" and the outcome \"is in doubt\" despite improvements in security from the buildup in U.S. forces, according to a highly critical study published Thursday by the Pentagon's premier military educational institute.<br></br><br>The report released by the National Defense University raises fresh doubts about President Bush's projections of a U.S. victory in Iraq just a week after Bush announced that he was suspending U.S. troop reductions.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-19_20:49:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "ebab26d5a6728d011cdfb4920618002e", "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}, "1961189": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The Miami Herald reports on a study at the National Defense University that it claims calls the war in Iraq a \u201cmajor debacle\u201d with the outcome in doubt. However, what the Miami Herald didn\u2019t report was that the study looked at a specific time period and has little bearing on the current status of the conflict. The Herald's report is disputed by the author, John Collins.<br></br><br>Collins writes, \"The Miami Herald story (\u201dPentagon Study: War is a \u2018Debacle\u2019 \u201c) distorts the nature of and intent of my personal research project. It was not an NDU study, nor was it a Pentagon study. Indeed, the implication of the Herald story was that this study was mostly about current events. Such is not the case. It was mainly about the period 2002-04. The story also hypes a number of paragraphs, many of which are quoted out of context. The study does not \u201clay much of the blame\u201d on Secretary Rumsfeld for problems in the conduct of the war, nor does it say that he \u201cbypassed the Joint Chiefs of Staff.\u201d It does not single out \u201cCondoleeza Rice and Stephen Hadley\u201d for criticism.</br><br></br><br>    Here is a fair summary of my personal research, which formally is NDU INSS Occasional Paper 5, \u201cChoosing War: The Decision to Invade Iraq and Its Aftermath.\u201d</br><br></br><br>    This study examines how the United States chose to go to war in Iraq, how its decision-making process functioned, and what can be done to improve that process. The central finding of this study is that U.S. efforts in Iraq were hobbled by a set of faulty assumptions, a flawed planning effort, and a continuing inability to create security conditions in Iraq that could have fostered meaningful advances in stabilization, reconstruction, and governance. With the best of intentions, the United States toppled a vile, dangerous regime but has been unable to replace it with a stable entity. Even allowing for progress under the Surge, the study insists that mistakes in the Iraq operation cry out in the mid- to long-term for improvements in the U.S. decision-making and policy execution systems.</br><br></br><br>    The study recommends the development of a national planning charter, improving the qualifications of national security planners, streamlining policy execution in the field, improving military education, strengthening the Department of State and USAID, and reviewing the tangled legal authorities for complex contingencies. The study ends with a plea to improve alliance relations and to exercise caution in deciding to go to war.\"</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-19_21:09:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1961190": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.ndu.edu/inss/Occasional_Papers/OP5.pdf%3Cbr%3E%3C/br%3E%3Cbr%3EHere%27s\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.ndu.edu/inss/Occasional_Papers/OP5.p...</a> a link to the paper</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-19_21:34:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "ebab26d5a6728d011cdfb4920618002e", "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}, "1961191": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Rikyrah<br></br><br>There's a radio talk show host from Chicago on the CNN Rick on the Road Show explaining why the \"elitist\" tag applied to SBO was offensive to blacks.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-19_22:20:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fcb7c771a7713dda01aa936fd426bfe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}}, "integration": {"receiver_url": "", "theme": 4, "reply_position": true, "disqus_logo": false}, "timer": {"timer_url": "http://localhost:8005", "thread_id": "3964475", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "21630", "hash": 3734589836128122189}, "thread": {"days_alive": 0, "slug": "friday_open_thread_tgif8230whew8230", "paginate": false, "num_pages": 1, "num_posts": 134, "per_page": 0, "total_posts": 0, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 3964475, "queued": false}, "reactions_limit": 10, "context": {"show_reply": true, "use_fb_connect": true, "forum_facebook_key": "bd6a8bc56f8eb204984f34b6fefe228d", "use_yahoo": false, "subscribed": false, "use_twitter_signin": true, "use_openid": false, "realtime_speed": 5000}, "reactions_start": 0, "settings": {"debug": false, "disqus_url": "http://disqus.com", "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"}, "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"};
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	this.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_tgif8230whew8230' +
		'&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_tgif8230whew8230/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_tgif8230whew8230'
			+ '&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_tgif8230whew8230/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">134</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/friday_open_thread_tgif8230whew8230/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_tgif8230whew8230/">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:3964475" 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_tgif8230whew8230/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:3964475" 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:3964475" 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_tgif8230whew8230',
			// 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_tgif8230whew8230/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_tgif8230whew8230'
			+ '&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_tgif8230whew8230'
			+ '&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_tgif8230whew8230'
				+ '&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/3964475/realtime.js?timestamp=' + last_checked);
		}
	};

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

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

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

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

}();

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

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

	// Public
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			id += '-' + opt_xtype;
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		if (opt_postId) {
			id += '-' + opt_postId;
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		return id;
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			return 'dsq-login-iframe';
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		return 'dsq-login-iframe-' + opt_postId;
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			name += '-' + opt_xtype;
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		if (opt_postId) {
			name += '-' + opt_postId;
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		var params = opt_extraParams || {};
		// use xtype in the id and name so we can distinguish media replies from text replies:
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			'id': id,
			'name': name,
			'class': opt_className || 'dsq-post-reply'
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				node: iframe,
				xtype: params.xtype
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Dsq.Twitter = new function() {
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};

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

	this.startYahooConnect = function() {
		var popupParams = 'location=0,status=0,width=800,height=400';
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		that._yahooInterval = window.setInterval(that.completeYahooConnect, 1000);
	};

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

Dsq.OpenID = new function() {
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	this.requestURL = function() {
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		message += '<td><label for="dsq-openid-url">OpenID URL:</label></td><td><input type="text" id="dsq-openid-url" /></td></tr>';
		message += '<tr><td><label for="dsq-openid-username">Display name:</label></td><td><input type="text" id="dsq-openid-username" /></td></tr>';
		message += '<tr><td class="dsq-openid-submit" colspan="3"><input type="button" value="Sign in" onclick="Dsq.OpenID.startConnect();" /></td></tr>';
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	this.startConnect = function() {
		var isblank = function(str) {
			return /^\s*$/.test(str);
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		var openid_url = Dsq.$('dsq-openid-url').value;
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		if (isblank(openid_url)) {
			return;
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			window.clearInterval(that._openidInterval);
			window.location.reload();
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	};
};

Dsq.Reaction = new function() {
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		Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/jackandjillpolitics/hidereaction.js?' + 'reaction_id=' + id);
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Dsq.CNN = function() {
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	obj.authenticate = function() {
		var url = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + "/saml/cnn/try/";
		Dsq.Utils.postToUrl(url, {'target': document.location}, true);
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if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) {
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			// Add "onmouseout" for dsq-header-avatar for dropProfile
			// functionality since IE6 cannot use :hover.
			function _headerAvatarReplace(content, inner, _unused, html) {
				return '<div class="dsq-header-avatar" '
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			html = html.replace(DSQ_HEADER_AVATAR_RE, _headerAvatarReplace);
			return html;
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	// TODO: Move Seesmic code outside of the main script.  Don't let this script clobber the global namespace.
	if(typeof seesmic == 'undefined') { var seesmic = {}; }
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	var scriptEl = document.createElement('script');
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	scriptEl.setAttribute('src', 'http://seesmic.com/version.js?callback=seesmic.widget.callback');
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	var scriptEl = document.createElement('script');
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	scriptEl.setAttribute('src', 'http://media.disqus.com/javascript/library/swfobject.js');
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	function see_play_video(_videoUri, _add) {
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		flashcontentDiv = Dsq.$(_videoUri + '_content');
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		showDiv = Dsq.$('dsq-seesmic-' + _videoUri + '_show');
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			showDiv.style.display = 'block';
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(function() {
	//
	// Load theme.  This overrides the base templates with template functions
	// from the respective themes.
	//
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		var theme = 'narcissus';
		// HACK: Set variable on window to use post message.
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	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('header', Dsq.Templates.header);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('footer', Dsq.Templates.footer);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('trackbacks', Dsq.Templates.trackbacks);
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	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('voted', Dsq.Templates.voted);
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Dsq.container.className = "clearfix";
Dsq.container.innerHTML = ' \
<ul id="dsq-comments">\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-1961058">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961058" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961058" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961058">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961058" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961058" class="dsq-comment-message">Pope Benedict XVI Apologizes to Sex Abuse Victims<br> </br><br>I\'m watching this on CNN, but it seems as if the Pope met with some sexual abuse victims of the Catholic Church. I\'m not saying that this is going to change what happened overnight, but speaking up about the abuse, meeting the victims, has to be a positive step for the church.</br></div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-1961059">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961059" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961059" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961059">D.</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961059" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961059" class="dsq-comment-message">Books in the queue for the weekend:<br></br><br><a href="" rel="nofollow" http:="HTTP:">Surrender is Not an Option: Defending America at the United Nations and Abroad</a> by Amb. John Bolton</br><br></br><br><a http:="HTTP:" rel="nofollow">War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism</a> by Doug Feith</br><br></br><br><a http:="HTTP:" rel="nofollow"> The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East</a> by Robert Fisk</br><br></br><br>Just thought I\'d share....</br></div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-1961060">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961060" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961060" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961060">joe in oklahoma</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961060" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961060" class="dsq-comment-message">painting Barack as the Angry Black man<br></br><br></br><br>The whole point of the Clinton/GOP attacks on Obama is to promote fear by playing on people\'s racially-based apprehensions and prejudices. They are trying to slap on to Obama the images of the angry black man, the black man in the back alley, the black thug.</br><br></br><br>Osama=Obama "slip-ups"</br><br></br><br>The insidious email campaign that Obama was educated at a madrassa and so was a secret terrorist.</br><br></br><br>Obama\'s pastor as anti-American, shouting, angry, violent.</br><br></br><br>William Ayers question: Weather Underground bombers.</br><br></br><br>Bob Johnson suggesting that Obama was a thug in "the hood"</br><br></br><br>This approach is cynical, degrading, and anti-democratic (whether it is anti-American or not i will leave to others). It is meant to shut down discussion of real issues, to end democratic conversation: the political discourse that is supposed to mark a constitutional democracy like our own.</br></div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-1961061">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961061" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961061" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961061">Denise</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961061" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961061" class="dsq-comment-message">d:<br></br><br>I saw the Fisk book in the library last week and was intrigued by it.  Will pick it up next time.</br></div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-1961062">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961062" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961062" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961062">RhondaCoca</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961062" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961062" class="dsq-comment-message">"Pope Benedict XVI Apologizes to Sex Abuse Victims<br></br><br>I\'m watching this on CNN, but it seems as if the Pope met with some sexual abuse victims of the Catholic Church. I\'m not saying that this is going to change what happened overnight, but speaking up about the abuse, meeting the victims, has to be a positive step for the church."</br><br></br><br>Yes, that is a step in the right direction. My priest often speaks about it also...many do. I am happy that someone at the top has said it and issued an apology. They also need to reform priesthood in my opinion</br></div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-1961063">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961063" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961063" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961063">RhondaCoca</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961063" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961063" class="dsq-comment-message">Joe In Oklahom-<br></br><br>Of course and when he doesnt fall for the bait, he is a "wimp". Its almost a no win situation. </br><br></br><br>Today on the news, they are calling him a "wimp", that he is "whining" and our friend Don Imus called him a "pussy" pretty much. </br><br></br><br>They go from one extreme to the next...unfortunate.</br></div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-1961064">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961064" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961064" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961064">natthedem</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961064" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961064" class="dsq-comment-message">Just a reminder: early voting started yesterday in North Carolina. If you know folks in NC, start reaching out to them and urge them to vote early. <br></br><br>If they aren\'t registered (or haven\'t updated their registration), they can go register and vote during this early voting period.</br></div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-1961065">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961065" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961065" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961065">Craig Hickman</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961065" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961065" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www2.nysun.com/article/66933" rel="nofollow">Hillary Clinton is a Black Panther, Too</a></div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-1961066">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961066" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961066" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961066">Craig Hickman</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961066" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961066" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>They also need to reform priesthood in my opinion</i><br></br><br>::</br><br></br><br>Ending the oppression of the dogma of celibacy would be a great start.</br></div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-1961067">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961067" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961067" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961067">Craig Hickman</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961067" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961067" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://smirkingchimp.com/thread/14120" rel="nofollow">On Obama, Truth, and American Stupidity</a></div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-1961068">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961068" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961068" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961068">D.</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961068" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961068" class="dsq-comment-message">Denise,<br>It\'ll probably take a month to read....LOL</br><br></br><br>I\'m interested to see if it\'s just his reflections, or if he slants events to fit an agenda.</br></div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-1961069">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961069" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961069" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961069">Craig Hickman</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961069" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961069" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2008/04/thats_it.cfm" rel="nofollow">Hillary Rodham Nixon Fatigue</a></div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-1961070">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961070" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961070" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961070">Craig Hickman</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961070" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961070" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2008/04/heilemann_robert_reich_to_endo.html" rel="nofollow">Another Clinton Loyalist Backs Obama</a></div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-1961071">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961071" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961071" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961071">joe in oklahoma</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961071" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961071" class="dsq-comment-message">right rhonda, and when he does respond they accude HIM of bringing race in play.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-1961072">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961072" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961072" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961072">Texas Girl in L.A.</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961072" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961072" class="dsq-comment-message">Obama was on Colbert Report last night. And he officially put "distractions" on notice.<br></br><br>Also, linked throught the Obama webpage and on Colbert\'s site, you will find a donation page to help school teachers and students in Pennsylvania. </br><br></br><br>http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/leadershipboard.html?category=25</br><br></br><br>You can give in honor of your candidate. So far, </br><br></br><br>Obama has $155,601</br><br>Clinton has $29,151</br><br></br><br>Just in case you wanted to drop a little somethin\' somethin\'</br></div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-1961073">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961073" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961073" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961073">Craig Hickman</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961073" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961073" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/samgrahamfelsen/gGCxSW" rel="nofollow"> Sam Nunn and David Goren Endorse Obama</a><br></br><br>Both from the south. Both centrists. Both national security/intelligence experts</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961074">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961074" class="dsq-comment-message">There was an earthquake here in the Midwest. Didn\'t feel it, but it\'s such an anomaly, thought I\'d bring it up.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961075">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961075" class="dsq-comment-message">The flag pin wearing questioner was a total PLANT. Did ABC really think that folks wouldn\'t research this? Points out their hideousness even more. <br></br><br><a href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/189807.php" rel="nofollow">From Talking Points Memo</a></br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961076">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961076" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>painting Barack as the Angry Black man<br></br><br></br><br>The whole point of the Clinton/GOP attacks on Obama is to promote fear by playing on people\'s racially-based apprehensions and prejudices. They are trying to slap on to Obama the images of the angry black man, the black man in the back alley, the black thug.</br><br></br><br>Osama=Obama "slip-ups"</br><br></br><br>The insidious email campaign that Obama was educated at a madrassa and so was a secret terrorist.</br><br></br></i><br></br><br>Joe, you are so right on this. They\'re just waiting for one time..just one time..to brand him as the Angry Black Man...that will all they need...it\'ll be an endless loop to end all endless loops. </br><br></br><br>But, Obama understands this, and he hasn\'t bitten.</br><br></br><br>If he didn\'t bite at that lynching over at ABC, he\'s never going to bite.</br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961077" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961077">Texas Girl in L.A.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961077" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert Reich, Bill Clinton\'s former Secretary of Labor, endorses Obama<br></br><br>http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2008/04/heilemann_robert_reich_to_endo.html</br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961078" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961078">thevaneljournal.com</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961078" class="dsq-comment-message">Sam Nunn And  David L. Boren endorsed Obama today. <br></br><br>Nunn could be a potential VP, putting GA in play.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961079">joe in oklahoma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961079" class="dsq-comment-message">i agree rikyrah<br></br><br>but it would seem to me that he needs a white moderate pol  to carry the water on this</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961080">Ms.Martin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961080" class="dsq-comment-message">Rikyrah<br></br><br>I\'m in the Midwest too and I felt it.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961081">Anonymous</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961081" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh, come on.<br></br><br>Check the main page of the Faux News website. Reeeally reaching. If you\'re arriving late to my comment and missed what I\'m referring to, I\'m talking about the whole "did or didn\'t he give Hillary the bird?"</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961082">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961082" class="dsq-comment-message">That pansy Johnathan with the horn-rimmed glasses was on Morning Joe...he is USELESS, I tell ya. Useless.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961083">RhondaCoca</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961083" class="dsq-comment-message">Anon-<br></br><br>Yup, yup. They are saying that Obama gave Hillary the middle finger at his speech in Raleigh where he dusted his shoulders off!!</br><br>All of those Hillary supporters and the conservative media are trying to make some issue out of it.</br><br></br><br>Tryin to make him into an angry black man who swears, puts up his middle finger at white folks and listens to "rap music". I love it!!</br><br></br><br>Listen Barack has "99 Problems but the Bitch aint one"</br><br></br><br>He dusted her off moving on!!</br><br></br><br>Moving on....</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961084">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961084" class="dsq-comment-message">anonymous,<br></br><br>read about it at The Field last night.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961085">Ms.Martin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961085" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'ve been following the coverage of the Pope and follow-up commentary. <br></br><br>I am glad the Pope apologized and I\'m sure some of the Catholics really needed to hear it.</br><br></br><br>I would like to know if anyone has seen the similarties between the Pope\'s message and Obama\'s as it relates to humanity and hope?  The Pope\'s messages echoed the core of Obama\'s message regarding immigrants and the the fact that people have more in common than things that separate them.</br><br></br><br>I couldn\'t believe Lou Dobb\'s in all his self-righteousness and defense of his bigotry towards illegal immigrants actually asked if the Americans wanted the Pope involved in political matters regarding America.  I didn\'t see the results of that poll.  I can\'t believe he even asked.</br><br></br><br>I guess the Pope sounded too much like Obama to him.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961086">RhondaCoca</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961086" class="dsq-comment-message">"That pansy Johnathan with the horn-rimmed glasses was on Morning Joe...he is USELESS, I tell ya. Useless."<br></br><br>He usually is.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961087">Christopher Chambers</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961087" class="dsq-comment-message">Just repeating till I\'m blue in the face--what you saw Wednes. night was the official, distict death end of the American TV news media as a credible, professional force in our democracy (Fox was just the tip of the iceberg). And no, racism had only small part in the dynamics.<br></br><br>Other than that, go to a bookstore and buy James McBride\'s Song Yet Sung and Mat Johnson\'s Incognegro (and then my new books come summer and next winter) put down that damn Zane and C-Murder and Terri Woods ghetto crap!!!</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961088">Ms.Martin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961088" class="dsq-comment-message">ChristopherChambers<br></br><br>What are the other dynamics?</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961089">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961089" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>ChristopherChambers<br></br><br>What are the other dynamics?</br></i><br></br><br>I  am not Mr. Chambers, but, from where I sit, it goes in concert with what I posted just yesterday. </br><br></br><br>Obama is a threat to the status quo. He threatens to upend \'The System\' in such a way that the corporate-owned media must try and stop him. </br><br></br><br>Why else a million stories on Bittergate,</br><br></br><br>and only Olbermann bringing up that basically, The President, VP, Secretary of State and Defense were in meetings, in the WHITE HOUSE, discussing which TORTURE METHODS TO USE? </br><br></br><br>We have War Profiteers robbing our Treasury blind, but no sustained stories on that...are we supposed to think that NBC, MSNBC, CNBC would cover that considering that their parent company, GE  - IS one of those War Profiteers? </br><br></br><br>I said before, race is the easy way to hide behind these attacks, because it goes way deeper than that. Race is one of those muddling factors they can throw out and BS, when the truth is far more harsh, and if it clicked with the average American...well, things would change.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961090">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961090" class="dsq-comment-message">ms.martin & Rikyrah:<br>I felt that earthquake in Toronto.</br><br></br><br>Must see!!!!!!</br><br><a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=uBGyuYKlxIg" rel="nofollow">How  *DANGER*Hillary Can Still Win!!!</a></br><br></br><br>VOTE for Obama.  He\'s moved up from #35 to #6!!! We can help get him to #1.  Move the slider to 100 and submit.</br><br><a href="http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1725112_1723512_1723519,00.html" rel="nofollow">TIME 2008 Most Influential OBAMA</a></br><br></br><br>VOTE for Rev Wright at TIME most influential people</br><br><a href="http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1725112_1723512_1725186,00.html" rel="nofollow">TIME 2008 Most Influential REV WRIGHT</a></br><br></br><br>Amazing article on Huffington Post!..MUST READ</br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/catherine-crier/choosing-a-leader_b_97352.html" rel="nofollow">Choosing a Leader</a></br><br></br><br>Breaking News! Obama loves Hitler!!</br><br><a href="http://www.redlasso.com/ClipPlayer.aspx?id=0d29f7aa-6aee-4ebd-92b3-9513981354f8" rel="nofollow">Six degrees of Separation</a></br><br></br><br>..also, Obama got some great endorsements today! Whoo hoo!</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961091">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961091" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/4/18/145351/659/895/498470" rel="nofollow">John McCain is a Liar: Attacks Obama Falsely in Campaign Email</a><br></br><br>If any of you heard any questions about Carter\'s talks in the debate, please let me know.</br><br></br><br>There haven\'t been any broadcast headlines of the Hamas endorsement that I\'ve seen. Perhaps this is McCain\'s way of trying to get it there.</br><br></br><br>Whatever the case, the gloves are off.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961092">evita</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961092" class="dsq-comment-message">Looks like <a href="http://MoveOn.com" rel="nofollow">MoveOn.com</a> is getting ready to run an ad against ABC.<br></br><br>There\'s a petition to sign with 200,000 signatures received in just 24 hours.</br><br></br><br>They are going to create an ad to ask the media to focus on real issues and not trivial distractions.</br><br></br><br>http://pol.moveon.org/enoughdistractions/?rc=homepage</br><br></br><br></br><br>http://pol.moveon.org/enoughdistractions/?rc=homepage</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961093">Ms.Martin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961093" class="dsq-comment-message">Truthseeker:<br></br><br>Hillary Can Still Win is hillarious!</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961094">D.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961094" class="dsq-comment-message">Craig,<br>I\'m surprised that the Hamas endorsement hasn\'t been news myself. If anything, it defintely would make some people think about whether or not they want to elect someone who\'s been endorsed by a known terrorist organization.</br><br></br><br>What\'s DKos saying McCain\'s lying about? The endorsement actually did take place......</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961095">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961095" class="dsq-comment-message">@ Craig Hickman,<br></br><br>..I think Dobbs mentioned something about Hamas in connection with Obama on his show yesterday.  He had a segment with a jerk flogging his book...this guy was really down on Obama here\'s the clip:</br><br></br><br><a href="http://www.redlasso.com/ClipPlayer.aspx?id=24cf0831-8849-4c03-9a0a-7a0ba422ae6d" rel="nofollow">Lou sliming Obama</a></br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961096" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961096">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961096" class="dsq-comment-message">McCain\'s campaign is lying about two things:<br></br><br>1) That Jimmy Carter\'s meeting with Hamas came up in the debate and Obama refused to condemn him. </br><br></br><br>2) The lie of omission that Barack Obama has denounced Carter for meeting with Hamas and has stated unequivocally that he will NOT meet with Hamas himself.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961097">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961097" class="dsq-comment-message">Carter is taking one for the team on Hamas. No sitting U.S. President can be seen as taking a meeting with a group dedicated to the elimination of our 51st State- Israel. But, let\'s get real - we wanted elections in the Middle East, and we got elections in the Middle East, and HAMAS WON. <br></br><br>but, what this meeting does do is open the door to under-the-table discussions with Hamas later on.</br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961098" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961098">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961098" class="dsq-comment-message">@ d<br></br><br>Obama\'s been endorsed by highly respected Americans, are they suggesting Hamas has more credible weight than Americans??</br><br></br><br>That\'s a stupid line of attack.</br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961099" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961099">Christopher Chambers</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961099" class="dsq-comment-message">That stuff with Dobbs is indicative of what I\'msaying. He rails against immigrants as a hook, yet he also has written books on the assault on the middle class, onhow Bush sucks, on CEO pay, etc. Turning around and piling on Barack is something a focus group consultant told him to do. Is he a racist? Who knows? His right hand woman for many years was a black correspondent who was anything but right wing. <br></br><br>TV news is expensive to produce, and analysis, real talk etc is boring to the average moron. Opinion, shouting, slime is entrallng so that is their business model. Is it a chicken or the egg thing? At this point it\'s hard to say what drives what.</br><br></br><br>If black folks would stop buying ghetto and video vixen books would publishers stop printing them? Yes. If publishers stopped doing that first, what would happen? Well as long as fools couldn\'t get them bootleg, who knows? Perhaps folks would indeed get the message and start goin for more intelligent fare.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961100">D.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961100" class="dsq-comment-message">Craig,<br>Found nothing in the transcript about #1, so okay....guess that\'s not exactly accurate.</br><br></br><br>On #2....if Obama has denounced Carter and said he won\'t meet with Hamas, then what\'s the big deal?</br><br></br><br></br><br>Truth,</br><br>if bin Laden or al-Zaharwi endorsed Obama, it wouldn\'t matter what American did. This is the same thing to a large segment of the population. Let\'s not forget that Hamas <i><b>is</b></i> listed as a terrorist organization.</br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961101" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961101">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961101" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961101" class="dsq-comment-message">The big deal is that McCain said he was committed to running a clean campaign.<br></br><br></br><br>But this shows he\'s not as committed as he says he is.</br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961102" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961102">Ms.Martin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961102" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree and have commented vaguely in past about the difficulty Obama would face as the change he was referring to was a change in power - a redistributing of the power enjoyed in Washington.<br></br><br>I thought Chambers was speaking of a dynamic I might be unware of.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961103">Ms.Martin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961103" class="dsq-comment-message">They just brought u the bird thing on MSNBC apparently it supposedly happened when he was scratching his head - the panel dismissed it and said he was far to classy a guy to do that.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961104" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961104">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961104" class="dsq-comment-message">@ d<br></br><br><i>Truth,</i></br><br>if bin Laden or al-Zaharwi endorsed Obama, it wouldn\'t matter what American did. This is the same thing to a large segment of the population. Let\'s not forget that Hamas is listed as a terrorist organization.</br><br></br><br>That argument stands up only from the standpoint of irrationality.  Since Hamas is a terrorist organization, if they wanted to oppose an anti terrorist US party, they would simply put out a statement endorsing them.  If your logic is to be accepted, this would be the kiss of death.  </br><br></br><br>It is irrational for Americans to accept the validity of an endorsement from a terrorist organization.  It is also irrational for Democrats to accept the advise of Republicans.  Barack wishes to restore rationality.</br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961105" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961105">Anonymous</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961105" class="dsq-comment-message">Hamas is used to scare off the Jewish vote.  Our government has defined it as a terrorist group, but it is the democratically elected government.  In many ways, Hamas is place between a rock and a hard space</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961106" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961106">Texas Girl in L.A.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961106" class="dsq-comment-message">Cornell West will be on Real Time with Bill Maher tonight.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961107" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961107">Anonymous</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961107" class="dsq-comment-message">Essentially anyone who does not agree with our administration is a terrorist.  Hamas takes care of the Palestinian people which is why they were democratically elected by the people.  They (the people) got sick of Fatah\'s corrupt bullsh__.  Anyone who is serious about peace has to pull Hamas into the talks.  Ignoring those who don\'t agree with you like they are six year olds doesn\'t work.<br></br><br>One of the reasons Obama gives so many people hope is that he has said he will sit down with our enemies.  And since usually the reason someone is our enemy is because they won\'t hand over their resources (ie Palestinians it\'s land, Iran it\'s oil, Iraq it was oil etc) or they become a threat because they pose competition to those resources (ie Russia) it makes sense.</br><br></br><br>Don\'t forget, Iraq was one of the three "axis of evil" and as it turns out (and as I knew and most people I know knew) they were no threat to us but they had lots of untapped oil.</br><br></br><br>Anyways, I have to get back to work.</br><br></br><br>Just one more thing, for every Isreali killed, 30-40 Palestinians are killed...</br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961108" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961108">Plantsmantx</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961108" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961108" class="dsq-comment-message">"Turning around and piling on Barack is something a focus group consultant told him to do. Is he a racist? Who knows? His right hand woman for many years was a black correspondent who was anything but right wing". <br></br><br>I think Dobbs piled on when in a speech, Obama named him as one of a group of people who are demagoging immigration. Dobbs mentioned it on his show, angrily of course, and ever since then has been especially hard on Obama.</br><br></br><br>I think he\'s a right-wing populist, not much different from Pat Buchanan.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961109">D.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961109" class="dsq-comment-message">Truth,<br>It may seem irrational to you, but many Americans will just see the headline, and it will look bad. Our attention span is too short to go into the details.</br><br></br><br>...and since Hamas is the elected government of Palestine, that would then put them in the "state sponsor of terrorism" category, IMO. In which case, why should Obama-or any president-want to do anything with them except sending them a few tons on bombs?</br><br></br><br>The US has a stated policy that\'s worked for as long as I\'ve been alive: we don\'t negotiate with terrorists.</br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961110" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961110">haale</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961110" class="dsq-comment-message">Maybe it\'s time to change the no negotiation thing.  Look at Vietnam and Korea.  Two long senseless wars fought because we don\'t talk, we fight.  It doesn\'t work.  Look at Afghanistan - we supported the Taliban because the Russians were bad, Iraq - we supported Saddam in the 80s because Iran was bad.  Not talking to Fidel and trying to kill him only pushed him to toward Russia.  I wonder what would have happened if we sat down and befriended Fidel?  Oh but if we had done that then we wouldn\'t have things like the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis to reminisce about.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961111" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961111">Ms.Martin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961111" class="dsq-comment-message">Plantsmantx:<br></br><br>I agree, I saw the show where Dobbs responded.  He even polled his viewers doing the show.</br><br></br><br>I think something like 57% didn\'t agree with Dobbs - he\'s been on a rant every sense.</br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961112" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961112">Ms.Martin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961112" class="dsq-comment-message">Obama Supporters:<br></br><br>The cable news outlets are discussing us today.  They are singing in unison with Hillary.  They say we\'re whining about the debate.</br><br></br><br>Rachel Maddow was the only pundit who attributed the outrage to the format and lack of substanitive questions.</br><br></br><br>We\'re the "Obama Nation".</br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961113" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961113">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961113" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes, ms.martin. We are.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961114" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961114">RhondaCoca</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961114" class="dsq-comment-message">"The cable news outlets are discussing us today. They are singing in unison with Hillary. They say we\'re whining about the debate."<br></br><br>I saw that, they dont get it. We are not whining, we are upset about the format of the debate. I want Obama to get hard questions always and he will but they like saying that we are whiners and cultists etc.. </br><br></br><br>They can continue to insult us and our intelligence.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961115">RhondaCoca</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961115" class="dsq-comment-message">I will not vote if Hillary ever, ever (which she won\'t)wins the nomination. I cannot support her, he true colors have been exposed.<br></br><br>When she comes back to New York to run for Senator, I will not vote for her or support her. I want a contender for Hillary.</br><br></br><br>I thought you guys would like the fact that a lot of Hillary\'s neighbors are...OBAMA supporters. I am not lying. In our county (Hillary;s county)Hillary only beat Obama 55 to 45!! haha...and she lost CT which is a stone throw away so she better not get us upset cause we will not vote for her...she will not get back her seat. she will be unempolyed like all those CBC people who support her.</br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961116" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961116">justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961116" class="dsq-comment-message">Dan Abrams--The Verdict:<br></br><br>Hillary caught on tape after Super Tuesday slamming Move on. Org!</br><br></br><br>Well I\'ll be....</br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961117" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961117">amy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961117" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961117" class="dsq-comment-message">Looks like Clinton will have to explain her own "behind closed door" remarks that were recorded after Super Tuesday. This is just getting ridiculous...superdels where are you??<br></br><br></br><br>http://thepage.time.com/2008/04/18/clinton-blames-partys-activist-base-for-defeats-at-post-super-tuesday-fundraiser/</br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961118" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961118">Texas Girl in L.A.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961118" class="dsq-comment-message">Yeah,<br></br><br>Justice58 the story is at Huffpo and Dailykos. I\'m wondering if this will do anything. I\'m sure she will brush it off. Well, actually they did.</br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961119" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961119">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961119" class="dsq-comment-message">Mrs. Hillary Rodham Nixon leaked that  recording herself. This is her Sistah Souljah moment. She wants the Republicans to know that she distances herself from a "left-wing" group that supposedly opposed the war in Afghanistan while that same group endorsed Obama.<br></br><br>Doesn\'t matter that MoveOn started to  help save her husband\'s ass. She\'s trying to complete the painting of Obama as a radical.</br><br></br><br>She pandered to the group in public last year but "behind closed doors" she\'s mad it didn\'t endorse her. And they are to blame for her losing all the caucuses.</br><br></br><br>This is Mrs. Nixon at her ruthless best. I have no doubt in my mind that she leaked this herself. Which is why Wolfson isn\'t even upset.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961120">justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961120" class="dsq-comment-message">Everything Hillary throws at Barack, it comes right back & bites her in the ass!<br></br><br>BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961121">justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961121" class="dsq-comment-message">You know Craig, Ron Reagan said the same thing!<br></br><br>If so--Hillary is the ultimate....</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961122">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961122" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961122" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://essence.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/04/16/bobjohnsoncartoon_2.jpg" rel="nofollow">Roland Martin found this Bob Johnson Cartoon- it\'s HILARIOUS</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961123" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961123" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961123">Ms.Martin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961123" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961123" class="dsq-comment-message">How in the hell does Bobo Joe get on television.<br></br><br>He puts Hillary\'s CBC surrogates to shame.</br><br></br><br>It\'s a sad day when Regan\'s son has to point out what happened with those debates and the fact that Obama wasn\'t whining, that he was pointing out the fact that the questions had nothing to do with the issues facing Americans.</br><br></br><br>Abrams just called Lou Dobbs "Chatty Cathy".</br><br></br><br>And I wasn\'t the only one who noticed that he wants to challenge the Pope.</br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961124" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961124">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961124" class="dsq-comment-message">From Roland Martin:<br></br><br><i>April 16, 2008</i></br><br>Former Newark, N.J. mayor, mistress convicted in federal court</br><br>Sharpe James, one of the last big city powerbrokers who ran Newark, N.J. for 20 years, was convicted today of fraud, along with his mistress.</br><br></br><br>According to the New York Times, they were convicted of "conspiring to sell city-owned properties to a former girlfriend, who quickly flipped them and earned hundreds of thousands of dollars in profits."</br><br></br><br>The paper says "the jury found Mr. James, 72, guilty on all five counts he faced. His former girlfriend, Tamika Riley, 39, was convicted on the same fraud and conspiracy charges as well as eight others for numerous tax violations in connection with what the authorities said was her failure to file income tax returns for her public relations firm."</br><br></br><br>James ran Newark prior to the election of Mayor Cory Booker.</br><br></br><br>The two face up to eight years in prison and will be sentenced on July 29.</br><br></br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961125" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961125">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961125" class="dsq-comment-message">This was sent to me via email:<br></br><br><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/14/AR2008041402453.html" rel="nofollow">Richard Cohen of the WaPo has serious \' issues\' with Obama</a></br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961126" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961126">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961126" class="dsq-comment-message">Chuck Todd calls us \' ObamaNation\'. I know it\'s a slam, but I thought it was ok..made me laugh.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961127">Felicia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961127" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961127" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/celeste-fremon/clinton-slams-democratic_b_97484.html" rel="nofollow">Huffpo</a> is reporting that Hillary\'s got her own bitter-gate moment.  There is a recording of <b>her</b> at a closed-door fundraiser trashing <a href="http://Move-on.org" rel="nofollow">Move-on.org</a>, specifically, and all grassroots organizations in general.  She says these organizations intimidate her supporters at caucuses.<br></br><br>Now this won\'t have the media coverage of bitter-gate, but the Superdelagates are paying attention.  You don\'t want to piss off activist groups--particularly one founded because of your husband\'s impeachmnt.  They\'re the backbone of the demorcatic party</br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961128" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961128">Angela</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961128" class="dsq-comment-message">The key to me is the last paragraph....Hillary is dissing a group whose history organized to defend.....her trashy behaving husband.<br></br><br></br><br>Hillary Clinton dissed party activists and MoveOn.org</br><br>Apparently Hillary Clinton hasn\'t always been enamored with the rambunctious nature of the historic fight for the Democratic presidential nomination. Speaking to financial backers after Super Tuesday, she blamed the party\'s activists and <a href="http://MoveOn.org" rel="nofollow">MoveOn.org</a> for her early primary and caucus defeats, according to an item over at The Huffington <a href="http://Post.%3C/br%3E%3Cbr%3E%3C/br%3E%3Cbr%3E%22MoveOn.org" rel="nofollow">Post.</br><br></br><br>"MoveOn.org</a> endorsed [Barack Obama] -- which is like a gusher of money that never seems to slow down," the item quotes Clinton as saying (there\'s audio on the site).</br><br></br><br>Her campaign, she continues, had been less successful in caucuses because those gatherings bring out "the activist base of the Democratic Party... [T]hey are very driven by their view of our positions, and it\'s primarily national security and foreign policy that drives them. I don\'t agree with them. They know I don\'t agree with them. So they flood into these caucuses and dominate them and really intimidate people who actually show up to support me."</br><br></br><br>Eli Pariser, MoveOn\'s executive director, defended the base: "Senator Clinton\'s attack on our members is divisive at a time when Democrats will soon need to unify to beat Senator [John] McCain. MoveOn is 3.2 million reliable voters and volunteers who are an important part of any winning Democratic coalition in November. They deserve better than to be dismissed using Republican talking points."</br><br></br><br>So much for party unity in the dash for the White House.</br><br></br><br>It was exactly ago a week ago ...</br><br></br><br>that another Huffington Post item unearthed a candid comment -- Barack Obama\'s now-infamous sociological assessment of the mores of small-town America -- the the reaction roiled the Democratic presidnetial race.</br><br></br><br>Clinton\'s comment won\'t kick up as much a fuss as Obama\'s, but she did poke a stick at a group that can be counted on to respond in kind.</br><br></br><br>Indeed, Pariser took particular umbrage to Clinton, in the comments to her donors, saying, "MoveOn didn\'t even want us to go into Afghanistan. I mean, that\'s what we\'re dealing with."</br><br></br><br>Pariser said: "Senator Clinton has her facts wrong again. MoveOn never opposed the war in Afghanistan, and we set the record straight years ago when Karl Rove made the same claim."</br><br></br><br>And you can be sure that many of its members will seethe over the Afghanistan matter.</br><br></br><br>The fact that Obama made his small-town comment in San Francisco helped give it particular reasonance. The new post concerning Clinton does not identify where she uttered her words; Huffington Post editors tell us that information was withheld to protect the source who provided the audio to "citizen-journalist" Celeste Fremon.</br><br></br><br>The event, we\'ve been told, "was a small affair held between Super Tuesday and the Ohio/Texas primaries in a major American city."</br><br></br><br>There\'s irony in Clinton trashing MoveOn -- the group was formed, and its name conceived, in an effort to persuade the country that too much time and energy was being devoted to impeach and drive Bill Clinton from office because of the Monica Lewinsky affair.</br><br></br><br>-- Scott Martelle/Don Frederick</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961129" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t get arrogance from Obama.  As a matter of fact, sometimes I see fleeting hint of insecurity.  Maybe these guys are filtering their perceptions through a mesh of prejudice.  He said Obama looks like he thinks we need him more than he needs us...Well, hell yeah!  He seemed to have a pretty good life before, no secret service detail.  Mr. Cohen could is sensing what\'s true, but it\'s not coming from Obama.  It\'s coming from his intuitive awareness of the truth.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961130" class="dsq-comment-message">The new politics of hope and change sure looks a lot like the old politics of smear and distort.<br></br><br>Here we go:</br><br></br><br>    (CNN) — John McCain\'s campaign is crying foul over what it characterizes as repeated distortions from Barack Obama, saying on Friday the Illinois senator is "recklessly dishonest."</br><br></br><br>    The most recent dustup comes after Obama criticized McCain earlier Friday for comments the Arizona senator made in an interview on Bloomberg Television.</br><br></br><br>    "John McCain went on television and said that there has been quote "great progress economically over the last seven and a half years," Obama told a Pennsylvania crowd. "John McCain thinks our economy has made great progress under George W. Bush. Now, how could somebody who has been traveling across this country, somebody who came to Erie, PA, say we\'ve made great progress?”</br><br></br><br>    The McCain campaign immediately took issue with the comment, noting the Arizona senator also said he knows families are facing "tremendous economic challenges."</br><br></br><br>    “American families are hurting and Barack Obama is being recklessly dishonest," McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds said. "It is clear that Barack Obama is intentionally twisting John McCain’s words completely out of context. Obama is guilty of deliberately distorting John McCain’s comments for pure political gain, which is exactly what Senator Obama was complaining about just yesterday."</br><br></br><br>Let\'s interject a bit of reality so that the reality based side can see for themselves just what some of them are foisting on us.  Here is the McCain interview in question, my excerpt:</br><br></br><br>    MR. COOK: I\'m going to ask you a version of the Ronald Reagan question. You think if Americans were asked, are you better off today than you were before George Bush took office more than seven years ago, what answer would they give?</br><br></br><br>    SEN. MCCAIN: Certainly, in this time, we are in very challenging times. We all recognize that. Families are sitting around the kitchen table this evening and figuring out whether they\'re going to be able to keep their home or not. They\'re figuring out whether they\'re - why it is that suddenly and recently someone in their family or their neighbor has lost their job. There\'s no doubt that we are in enormous difficulties.</br><br></br><br>    I think if you look at the overall record and millions of jobs have been created, et cetera, et cetera, you could make an argument that there\'s been great progress economically over that period of time. But that\'s no comfort. That\'s no comfort to families now that are facing these tremendous economic challenges.</br><br></br><br>    But let me just add, Peter, the fundamentals of America\'s economy are strong. We\'re the greatest exporter, the greatest importer, the greatest innovator, the greatest producer, still the greatest economic engine in the world. And, by the way, exports and free trade are a key element in economic recovery. But these are tough times, tough times, and nobody knows that more than American families including in small towns of Pennsylvania. They haven\'t lost their fundamental religious beliefs, their respect for the Constitution, their right to bear arms. They are still - keep America as a beacon of hope and freedom throughout the world.</br><br></br><br>For Obama to extract one sentence and argue that McCain is out of touch is shameless.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961131" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/4/18/22105/1053/669/498696" rel="nofollow">Obama gets 40,000 in Philly?</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961132" class="dsq-comment-message">Sounds like McCain is saying that things are good to me or at least trying to bat down frustrations over current economic conditions.<br></br><br>Has anyone seen the spoof of McCain debating himself?</br><br></br><br>It shows how he says this now and that later!</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961133" class="dsq-comment-message">RE:  Clinton\'s comments about MoveON.<br></br><br>I wrote about it on my blog:</br><br>http://reachblack.blogspot.com/</br><br></br><br>@craig,</br><br></br><br>This is definite sister souljah material.  But I\'m not sure she\'d leak something like this so early.  You gotta make it to the general before you pull a stunt like this.  She\'s gotta catch Obama first, and stuff like this ain\'t gonna help.</br><br></br><br>Let\'s see. . . If I were running for the DEMOCRATIC nomination I think I\'d want to:</br><br></br><br>1.  Piss off black folk (check);</br><br>2.  Dismiss the youth vote (check);</br><br>3.  Piss off Progressives (check); </br><br>4.  Threaten the DNC Chair (check)</br><br>5.  Threaten the Democratic Speaker of the House (check)</br><br></br><br>Yup.  She\'d be well on her way!  Well, if she were running for the REPUBLICAN nomination.</br><br></br><br>But don\'t worry.  Hillary\'s got the Reagan Democrats in her camp.  Too bad she won\'t have the Democratic BASE to go with it.</br><br></br><br>Wow!  Now, just add in her negatives over 50% as well as the fact that most Democratic voters don\'t think she\'s trustworthy and I can see how she thinks she\'s the strongest candidate ;)</br><br></br><br>Not smart.  And she\'s got the nerve to attack Obama\'s electability?!?!?</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961134" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m watching Late Night with Bill Maher<br></br><br>There\'s a reporter (don\'t know his name) that\'s saying a lot of unlikely people are really voting for Obama in Pennsylvania.</br><br></br><br>He said that there\'s a Bigots for Obama group (don\'t know if he was joking) because of the condition of the economy and some of them believe he\'s different that typical Washington.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961135" class="dsq-comment-message">ms. martin;<br></br><br>I just saw Bill Maher too.   I really don\'t know what to think of what that reporter said.   The polls seem to be all over the map.   One pollster (PPP) actually shows Obama 2 pts ahead of Clinton in PA and that same pollster was supposedly right on the mark in calling S. Carolina?????</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961136" class="dsq-comment-message">obama is the same old lying, evasive, distorting politician we\'ve come to expect, just wrapped in a flashier package.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961137" class="dsq-comment-message">Angela<br></br><br>I hope they\'re right.  That would mean people finally get it.</br><br></br><br>They finally understand who Obama is and Hillary Clinton is not.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961138" class="dsq-comment-message">35,000 came out to Obama this evening in Philadelphia...<br></br><br></br><br>Go Obama!</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961139" class="dsq-comment-message">This was a cute post over at Talking Points.<br></br><br><a href="http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/04/my-82-year-old-mothers-debate.php" rel="nofollow">My 82 Year Old Mother\'s Debate Reaction</a></br><br></br><br></br><br>How Obama is thinking ahead, and I agree with the writer\'s assessment, though from a different angle. I\'ve told y\'all - he can\'t be seen as that Big Black Brute beating up on that \'Poor Defenseless White Woman\'. </br><br></br><br>Only commentator to break it down like that was a Black REPUBLICAN Female - Michelle Bernard, and that Joan Whatshername from \' We called Obama UPPITY\' <a href="http://Salon.com" rel="nofollow">Salon.com</a>, poo-pooed it. But, Bernard was on the money.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961140" class="dsq-comment-message">Here\'s the story that goes with haale point about Obama drawing 35K at the Philly rally last night:<br></br><br>http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5joZ3qLp6q573frLjOGU3W8koFk0wD904LCA01</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961141" class="dsq-comment-message">Consider this thought experiment: Assume that a conservative candidate for the GOP nomination spent two decades at a church whose senior pastor was a white supremacist who uttered ugly racial (as well as anti-American) epithets from the pulpit. Assume, too, that this minister wasn’t just the candidate’s pastor but also a close friend, the man who married the candidate and his wife, baptized his two daughters, and inspired the title of his best-selling book.<br></br><br>In addition, assume that this GOP candidate, in preparing for his entry into politics, attended an early organizing meeting at the home of a man who, years before, was involved in blowing up multiple abortion clinics and today was unrepentant, stating his wish that he had bombed even more clinics. And let’s say that the GOP candidate’s press spokesman described the relationship between the two men as “friendly.”</br><br></br><br>Do you think that if those moderating a debate asked the GOP candidate about these relationships for the first time, after 22 previous debates had been held, that other journalists would become apoplectic at the moderators for merely asking about the relationships? Not only would there be a near-universal consensus that those questions should be asked; there would be a moral urgency in pressing for answers. We would, I predict, be seeing an unprecedented media “feeding frenzy.”</br><br></br><br>The truth is that a close relationship with a white supremacist pastor and a friendly relationship with an abortion clinic bomber would, by themselves, torpedo a conservative candidate running for president. There is an enormous double standard at play here, one rooted in the fawning regard many journalists have for Barack Obama. They have a deep, even emotional, investment in his candidacy. And, as we are seeing, they will turn on anyone, even their colleagues, who dare raise appropriate and searching questions–the kind journalists are supposed to ask. The reaction to Stephanopoulos and Gibson is a revealing and depressing glimpse into the state of modern journalism.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961142" class="dsq-comment-message">A bunch of liberal journalists have written an open letter to ABC to whine about its handling of Wednesday night\'s debate. "We\'re at a crucial moment in our country\'s history," they write. "Large majorities of our fellow Americans tell pollsters they\'re deeply worried about the country\'s direction... Tough, probing questions on these issues clearly serve the public interest... excessive emphasis on tangential \'character\' issues do not."<br></br><br>The signers include at least seven contributors to The Nation, whose editors never saw anything "tangential" about George W. Bush\'s Air National Guard service and what that said about his character. A Google search of The Nation\'s website for stories on that topic yields 72 stories — none of which called on the media to stop focusing on such a tangential character issue.</br><br></br><br>ABC\'s critics also continue to insist that the American people don\'t care about issues like Obama\'s association with William Ayers or Clinton\'s lying about her trip to Bosnia, but they undermine their own argument by getting furious with anyone who mentions these topics. They\'re furious because they know that Americans do care about their president\'s character, and they know that these stories — if they get too much attention — will hurt their candidate in the fall.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961143" class="dsq-comment-message">Anon 644,<br></br><br>I\'m with you...to a point.</br><br></br><br>The type of vetting that should\'ve gone on with Obama (which one could argue is happening now) should\'ve taken place last year. </br><br></br><br>Obama\'s gotten a free ride to this point, and it looks like it just ended.</br><br></br><br>However, to spend an hour trashing Obama on national TV...not cool. If for no other reason than it looks like a conservative hit job, which gets us the "racist!!" flag.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961144" class="dsq-comment-message">@ d<br></br><br>that "vetting" nonesense is ignorant crap.  It\'s part of the old politics that\'s passing away, thankfully.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961145" class="dsq-comment-message">For anyone who doesn\'t have HBO, you can catch Real Time episodes on these YouTube channels:<br></br><br>(current season fastest upload)</br><br>youtube.com/user/videocafeblog</br><br></br><br>(current season)</br><br>youtube.com/user/MoKEELoK</br><br></br><br>(previous seasons)</br><br>youtube.com/user/REALTIMEwBMs123</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961146" class="dsq-comment-message">truthseeker said...<br></br><br><i>I don\'t get arrogance from Obama. As a matter of fact, sometimes I see fleeting hint of insecurity</i></br><br></br><br>::</br><br></br><br>There\'s both. He\'s a Leo afterall.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961147" class="dsq-comment-message">I find Leo\'s are formidable but deeply compassionate people :)<br></br><br>Here\'s a segment of Friday\'s Real Time where the reporter talking to rural Pensylvanians:</br><br></br><br>youtube.com/watch?v=0uO_KITFHmY</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961148" class="dsq-comment-message">b serious said...<br></br><br><i>@craig,</i></br><br></br><br>This is definite sister souljah material. But I\'m not sure she\'d leak something like this so early. You gotta make it to the general before you pull a stunt like this. She\'s gotta catch Obama first, and stuff like this ain\'t gonna help.</br><br></br><br>She can\'t get to the general election. She knows it. What she\'s trying to do is destroy Obama. This is part of the painting of him as radical.</br><br></br><br>Check This Out:</br><br></br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/18/clinton-backer-distribute_n_97525.html" rel="nofollow">How the GOP Will Link Obama and Ayers</a></br><br></br><br>The polls in PA must not look good for Mrs. Clinton.</br><br></br><br>A sistah souljah moment followed up by a Willie Horton moment which resurrects McCarthyism in the process, and the Nixons are in fullout destroy mode.</br><br></br><br>Obama\'s base are Black people and youth. And this Nixonian operative is spreading this mess to heads of  unions all over PA.</br><br></br><br>His opponents are scared. Really, really scared.</br><br></br><br>Perhaps they\'re hoping someone with a sawed-off shotgun hunts Obama down.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961149" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah said...<br></br><br><i>How Obama is thinking ahead, and I agree with the writer\'s assessment, though from a different angle. I\'ve told y\'all - he can\'t be seen as that Big Black Brute beating up on that \'Poor Defenseless White Woman\'. </i></br><br></br><br>::</br><br></br><br>Yup. We saw the same thing in our house. And Bernard nailed it to the wall. If he flattened Mrs. Nixon to her face, those white women who can\'t see past Mrs. Nixon\'s treachery would be leading the lynching party.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961150" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>"If he flattened Mrs. Nixon to her face, those white women who can\'t see past Mrs. Nixon\'s treachery would be leading the lynching party."</i><br></br><br>I agree with you, Craig.  Obama said as much at a rally this week (I think it was in NC).  During the Q&A; session, he told a questioner that he won\'t have to be so restrained during the general.  MSM didn\'t pick up on this because they\'re too worried about the Weather Underground, but what he\'s implicitly saying is I can\'t brutalize the white woman because if I do, I\'ll get lynched.</br><br></br><br>To Truthseeker, thanks for the "Real Time" links.  And I agree with you that the "vetting" thing is bs.  Faux News has been rifling through Obama\'s trash for over a year now and the Chicago Tribune has been doing it since he ran for state office.  These organizations tried Rezko; that didn\'t stick.  So now they have to manufactor sh*t: Rev. Wright, muslim, lapel pen, Pledge of Allegiance, Weather Underground, and bitter-gate.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961151">Anonymous</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961151" class="dsq-comment-message">A global survey on optimism: 61 percent of Americans were optimistic about the future, 29 percent of the French, 15 percent of Germans. Take it from a foreigner: In my experience, Americans are the least "bitter" people in the developed world. Secular, gun-free big-government Europe doesn\'t seem to have done anything for people\'s happiness.<br></br><br>Obama\'s \'bitter\' commentis not just snobbish nor even merely wrongheaded. It\'s an attack on two of the critical advantages the United States holds over most of the rest of the Western world. In the other G7 developed nations, nobody clings to God \'n\' guns. The guns got taken away, and the Europeans gave up on churchgoing once they embraced Big Government as the new religion.</br><br></br><br>How\'s that working out? Compared with America, France and Germany have been more or less economically stagnant for the past quarter-century, living permanently with unemployment rates significantly higher than in the United States.</br><br></br><br>And Germany and France have now embraced a conservative platform to reform their economic woes. Ireland is thriving due in large part to providing businesses with the lowest corporate tax rate in the world.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961152" class="dsq-comment-message">d,<br></br><br>Republicans are going to continue to be called racist in any event. The flag pin is the least of Obama\'s problems.</br><br></br><br>Democrats are so used to being treated most favorably by the media. But now, the media itself as fractured as the Democrat party itself. All objectivity is out the window.</br><br></br><br>Obama supporters here and elsewhere in the blogosphere will continue to only \'see what they want to see\' and spin away anything that threatens Obama\'s nomination.</br><br></br><br>On the war and taxes, two issues that are important to me, serious debate and discussion about Obama\'s debate performance are lacking.</br><br></br><br>Serious debate behind the ideological premise of Obama\'s \'bitter\' remarks is non-exisitent among his supporters as well.</br><br></br><br>Refusing to acknowledge Obama\'s vulnerabilities, contradictions and flaws, will not serve him well in the general election. Shooting the messenger and crying foul do not remove or dispel the challenges he will face against McCain.</br><br></br><br>Once he wins the nomination, as I believe he will, perhaps the focus on issues of policy, ideology and character will become more substantive, as all 3 of these factors are important when electing a president.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961153" class="dsq-comment-message">Anon 8:48 has just published the words of another person without wither quoting or linking the source.<br></br><br>That\'s copyright infringement and I think the post should be removed.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961154" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>Serious debate behind the ideological premise of Obama\'s \'bitter\' remarks is non-exisitent among his supporters as well.</i><br></br><br>::</br><br></br><br>That\'s THAT\'S a fairy tale.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961155" class="dsq-comment-message">Felicia<br> </br><br>I saw that question and answer too and I think he was saying is that he won\'t fight a Democrat like she\'s a Republican the way she\'s fighting him.  </br><br></br><br>Think about it, he really doesn\'t have to.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961156" class="dsq-comment-message">"Chuck Todd calls us \' ObamaNation\'. I know it\'s a slam, but I thought it was ok..made me laugh."<br></br><br>I agree that it definitely is a slam but I don\'t think it is OK at all to call us [an] "abomination".  Let   Hagee keep that for his hate towards homosexuals.  </br><br></br><br>Chuck is slick with the multi-faceted ultimate insult but I can\'t roll with Chuck.  He may as well call us n-words and n-word lovers as far as I am concerned because when you get to this level there is little difference in the degree.  Nope, I can\'t help chuck by embracing insults against myself while they laugh at the desk about how young, naive and gullible we are. </br><br></br><br>Chuck Todd is a republican and I find it amusing that his subtle con works on MSNBC viewers.  We long time CSPAN fans remember chuck from back in the hotline days when for 5-10 minutes they got to skewer the democrats and praise the republicans when they were supposed to present the overall political landscape.  All those years, Dems must have been all bad and Repubs all good in the view of good old Chuck.</br><br></br><br>You are superslick chuck but some of us are neither young or dumb and we remember your number and are also in-touch enough to use the internet.  Surprise, Surprise!</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961157" class="dsq-comment-message">Chuck revealed his hand when he said just today to Tim Russert that the "ObamaNation" activists were going to come after the media and anybody else if Obama wasn\'t the nominee and in doing so they would destroy the Democratic party.<br></br><br>Meanwhile, back at the ranch:</br><br></br><br><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/04/18/politics/fromtheroad/entry4028758.shtml" rel="nofollow">Audience Member Brings Up Lewinsky and Says Hillary Needs to be President in order Move Past it all</a></br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961158" class="dsq-comment-message">Anyone watch Down Home With the Neeley\'s on the Food Channel?<br></br><br>I like them.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961159">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961159" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>Chuck revealed his hand when he said just today to Tim Russert that the "ObamaNation" activists were going to come after the media and anybody else if Obama wasn\'t the nominee and in doing so they would destroy the Democratic party.</i><br></br><br>They\'re still trying to peg us as \' emotional\' and \'irrational\' and a \'cult\'. When in fact, we\'re very sane, and know how to get our point across, and they\'re stunned.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961160" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>I saw that question and answer too and I think he was saying is that he won\'t fight a Democrat like she\'s a Republican the way she\'s fighting him. <br></br><br>Think about it, he really doesn\'t have to.</br></i><br></br><br>That is too true. Oh so true.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961161" class="dsq-comment-message">She has to release her money statements for March. I\'m very interested in the truth about her numbers.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961162" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/18/clinton-backer-distribute_n_97525.html" rel="nofollow">Clinton Backer Distributes Essay On How GOP Would Link Obama To \'70s Radicals</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961163" class="dsq-comment-message">Valid points made from opposing viewpoints are easy to disregard if one recognizes the name attached and the readers deems them \'conservative.\'<br>At least the post was read, but unfortunately the points raised have not been addressed. Only requested that they be censured.</br><br></br><br>Mark Steyn was the author of the comments @ 8:48</br><br></br><br>Here\'s Larry Kudlow:</br><br></br><br>During the debate, Obama bungled his answers on tax policy, big time. Period. End of sentence. End of story. To my liberal friends in the media, all I can say is: Get over it. Your guy has a very poor grasp of basic economic principles.</br><br></br><br>First off, you don\'t raise taxes during a recession. That\'s a no-brainer. Second, doubling the capital-gains tax rate will affect Americans up and down the income ladder, not just rich hedge-fund managers. In addition, capital-gains tax cuts are self-financing, and they stimulate jobs and the economy. You want to raise budget revenues and spark economic growth? Cut the cap-gains tax rate. That\'s what history shows.</br><br></br><br>The Wall Street Journal\'s Steve Moore points out that in 2005, almost half of all tax returns reporting capital gains came from households with incomes under $50,000, while more than three-quarters came from households earning less than $100,000.</br><br></br><br>Obama also proposed uncapping the payroll tax, another blunder that will hit people up and down the income ladder. While Obama pledges tax hikes only for folks earning more that $200,000 a year, his tax hike on payrolls would actually slam middle-income earners. The cap on wages subject to the payroll tax is presently $102,000. By eliminating that cap Obama will be soaking veteran firemen, cops, teachers, and health-service workers, along with a variety of other occupations.</br><br></br><br>In fact, in America\'s largest cities, a firefighter married to a school teacher can earn close to $200,000 filing jointly. So not only will each spouse separately pay more for Social Security and health care under Obama\'s plan, together they\'ll also be slammed by Obama\'s cap-gains tax increase.</br><br></br><br>This is more than just a failure to understand the Laffer curve. It\'s another cultural misstep by Obama. I can\'t help but wonder if the senator knows any cops or firemen. His appeal is to well-educated latte liberals. That remark about middle-income folks having turned to God, faith, and guns because of economic setbacks? Not only was it ill-advised, it illustrates the wide cultural chasm that exists between the candidate and the rest of America.</br><br></br><br>In effect, Obama\'s economics are bad and his social circle is very limited. This is one of the many reasons why a quarter of the Hillary Democrats are telling pollsters they\'ll likely move to John McCain in the general election.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961164" class="dsq-comment-message">To Anonymous:<br></br><br>The problem is John McCain does have ties with idealogical, hate spewing pastors (priests, ministers - whatever they are called).  I can\'t remember everything the guy said (or his name) but one was that Katrina was the result of America\'s tolerance of homosexuals, islam is evil blah, blah, blah.</br><br></br><br>I\'ll post his name later - I can only open one window at a time</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961165" class="dsq-comment-message">Halle,<br></br><br>So, are pastoral associations of the candidates in bounds or out?</br><br></br><br>Do you believe voters should excuse Wright, but not Hagge? Should both candidates be held up to further scrutiny or not? Should they be treated equally, and if not, why?</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961166" class="dsq-comment-message">@ craig hickman,<br></br><br>There is an opposing viewpoint that states that the demographic group most often voting against their economic self-interest, most inclined to vote on social issue are, in fact, college-educated, higher income earners?</br><br></br><br>Do you believe this to be true?</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961167" class="dsq-comment-message">S<br></br><br>They can afford to - the poor and middle class working folks cannot.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961168">haale</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961168" class="dsq-comment-message">Here\'s one source:<br></br><br>McCain has sought closer ties to the extreme religious right in recent years. The pastor McCain calls his "spiritual guide," Rod Parsley, believes America\'s founding mission is to destroy Islam, which he calls a "false religion." McCain sought the political support of right-wing preacher John Hagee, who believes Hurricane Katrina was God\'s punishment or gay rights and called the Catholic Church "the Antichrist" and a "false cult." </br><br></br><br>Hillary also has ties to a few unsavory characters as do most politicians.  So the point is that these are none issues.  Thomas Jefferson said a few unsavory things about Black people - do we ignore everything about him and banish him from our history books or do we focus on the positive.</br><br></br><br>I just wonder why there is so much focus on Barack\'s acquaintances?  And especially when it is only two out of how many?</br><br></br><br>I used to work with a former Black Panther. So?  Some of my favorite teachers and mentors were part of guerilla feminist group that defaced billboards in the 1980\'s. And?</br><br></br><br>Bush was a drunk and a drug addict and ran several businesses into the ground...okay, this one doesn\'t prove my point.  ; )</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961169" class="dsq-comment-message">"Bush was a drunk and a drug addict and ran several businesses into the ground...okay, this one doesn\'t prove my point. ; )<br>-----------------------------------</br><br></br><br>ahahahahahahahahahahaha</br><br></br><br>Too funny!</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961170" class="dsq-comment-message">Haale,<br>Because everyone assumed that because Obama was a relative nobody before 2004, he didn\'t have the shadiness. He was a "safe" candidate.</br><br></br><br>But now that people have started looking into him since he\'s the "front-runner," all the dirt is coming to light. And I bet that Rev. Wright, Ayers, or the lady from CodePink who\'s a fundraiser for him aren\'t the least of it.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961171" class="dsq-comment-message">haale,<br></br><br>The focus is more on Wright because the truth is, voters have so little to go on with Obama. He is virtually a newcomer on the national political stage, thrust onto the scene by his speech a the last Democratic convention. His record in the Illinois State Senate and his record in the US Senate are thin, and highly partisan. This calls into question his ability to \'reach across the aisle\' and to effect real \'change\' in such a highly partisan political climate.</br><br></br><br>Lacking any evidence of working on any major political issue (ie judicial appointments, immigration, etc.) in the US Senate, those seeking to become more informed look to Illinois and the roots of his political career. Personal and professional affiliations are also examined. </br><br></br><br>As children we are often taught to choose our friends wisely. We are told that hanging with the \'wrong crowd\' can get us into trouble.</br><br></br><br>So it is true in national, presidential politics. The quality and quantity of a candidate\'s political and personal relationships are used by many to determine the \'content of ones character\' and the quality of their judgment.</br><br></br><br>McCain and Obama should be scrutinized for the length and depth of their religious affiliations. They should expect to be criticized when those associations are seen as being out of the mainstream by a majority of voters. Voters can decide if it its a big enough deal to them to disqualify either candidate from having ones vote, but a double standard should not be applied.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961172" class="dsq-comment-message">McCain has stated that he believe that Obama doen not sharethe extreme views of Rev Wright.<br></br><br>McCain said in an April 17 interview with Bloomberg TV,"Well, in the case of Reverend Wright, I have expressed in the past that I am sure that Senator Obama does not share the extremist statements that Reverend Wright made.</br><br></br><br>This is the same interview in which Obama distorted McCain\'s statements on the economy.</br><br></br><br>To read the entire interview, here\'s a link:</br><br></br><br>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/04/john_mccain_on_bloomberg_tv.html</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961173" class="dsq-comment-message">Anonymous and D,<br></br><br>McCain has an interview with Stephanopolous (sp?)tomorrow so we shall see...</br><br></br><br>And I\'m sorry... no one is squeaky clean because "clean" is relative.  Personally, associations with Code Pink is a plus in my book!</br><br></br><br>Great discussion guys/gals!</br></div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1961174">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961174" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961174" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961174">s</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961174" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961174" class="dsq-comment-message">d,<br></br><br>Do you think this code pink bundler will make it more difficult for Obama to assert his independence from the base if the situation in Iraq requires us to stay?</br><br></br><br>He would be breaking his MAIN campaign promise and during the debate he reaffirmed his commitment to pulling out the troops regardless of what the generals say.</br></div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1961175">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961175" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961175" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961175">D.</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961175" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961175" class="dsq-comment-message">S,<br>The democrats don\'t realize that the situation in Iraq is going to require a presence for the forseeable future. So when they get into office-after being swept in on antiwar sentiment-and they learn that lesson, it kills their standing with the base.</br><br></br><br>A lot of the representatives who were swept in in 06 on the same sentiment may well find themselves bounced out the door, for the same reason. And I\'d love to run against Webb when he\'s up for reelection.</br><br></br><br>But if you notice, the Code Pink connection isn\'t even being heavily reported. And if you were to try to mention it to most of the Obamaists and the liberal media, they\'d write you off.</br></div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1961176">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961176" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961176" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961176">s</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961176" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961176" class="dsq-comment-message">d,<br></br><br>So if it is true that Obama is making 2 promises he can\'t keep, leaving Iraq and raising taxes on the middle class, will McCain use this as a line of attack?</br><br></br><br>I would be more inclined to vote for Obama if he were to demonstrate independent judgment and come out and say, I would like to leave Iraq, but I must reserve the right to stay.</br><br></br><br>Also, the same for raising taxes. It doesn\'t make any sense to raise taxes in a recession.  Plus, I wish he would acknowledge that raising the payroll and capital gains taxes affect many income earners in the $50,000 to $1000,000 range.</br><br></br><br>Perhaps he will move to the center after the nomination, as he has promised to be a moderate. I will be watching and listening.</br><br></br><br>As for Code Pink, just like Ayers this will bubble to the surface.</br><br>Hillary is already denouncing the \'activist base\' and trying to bring moderate dems to her side.</br></div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1961177">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961177" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961177" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961177">D.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961177" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961177" class="dsq-comment-message">S,<br>Remember, you\'re talking about someone who preaches that he was "against the war from the start." that\'s so intricately tied to what his campaign\'s about that anything less than a complete withdrawal-regardless of the end results of such-will be seen a failure to the base. So on that issue, to suggest what you are loses him the nomination.</br><br></br><br>I don\'t think McCain uses either as attack points. Once you get past the rhetoric, both your points should be common sense.</br></div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1961178">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961178" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961178" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961178">Craig Hickman</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961178" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961178" class="dsq-comment-message">I guess the Dreamworks partners, all of them Jewish, are also pro-terrorists because they hosted a fundraiser with the founder of Code Pink.<br></br><br>I guess Steven Spielberg will be making a movie about it anytime now.</br><br></br><br>I guess connecting him to terrorists (Ayers, Hamas) and terrorist "supporters" (CodePink) is the final Hail Mary. </br><br></br><br>Let\'s see who, if anyone, catches it.</br></div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1961179">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961179" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961179" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961179">s</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961179" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961179" class="dsq-comment-message">d,<br></br><br>If elected, even though exiting Iraq and not raising taxes are \'common sense\' would the Congress and the base put so much pressure on Obama, that he would have no choice but to submit to their will?</br></div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1961180">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961180" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961180" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961180">s</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961180" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961180" class="dsq-comment-message">craig,<br></br><br>I don\'t think these associations are a \'hail mary\' but will be used to build a pile upon which to lay \'the last straw.\'</br><br></br><br>Painting Obama into a far-left liberal corner will erode his claim to govern with independence, bipartisanship  and moderation.</br><br></br><br>He will be seen as so beholden to the far-left, anti-war, move-on groups that his judgment and independence will be called into question.</br></div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1961181">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961181" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961181" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961181">D.</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961181" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961181" class="dsq-comment-message">S,<br>Probably. The base (which-oddly enough-is what "al qaida" translates to) would kill him.</br></div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1961182">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961182" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961182" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961182">s</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961182" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961182" class="dsq-comment-message">d,<br></br><br>I tend to agree.</br><br></br><br>Does this make him \'unelectable\'?</br></div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-1961183">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961183" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961183" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961183">Craig Hickman</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961183" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961183" class="dsq-comment-message">s., <br></br><br>Apparently, that\'s what you hope will happen. That you still think most Americans are stupid enough to be duped yet again. That the Baby Boomer Battles still have cache in 2008.</br><br></br><br>CodePink co-hosted that fundraiser ages ago on the political calendar. </br><br></br><br>Bringing it up now is a Hail Mary.</br><br></br><br>Like I said, let\'s see who catches it.</br></div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1961184">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961184" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961184" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961184">D.</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961184" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961184" class="dsq-comment-message">Unelectable, no. But as the success of the surge carries through the election, he either has to acknowledge it and its implications (that we\'re winning) or deny it and make himself blind to reality.<br></br><br>My money\'s on #2.</br></div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-1961185">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961185" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961185" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961185">s</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961185" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961185" class="dsq-comment-message">craig,<br></br><br>What I truly want is to be able to believe that Obama is a independent thinker and a moderate politician.</br><br></br><br>Hillary is working to divide the party into the \'activists\' or \'new dem party power base\' vs. \'the common man\' or \'old dem party power base.\' She is using the unions to raise questions about Obama\'s radical associations and his self-proclaimed superior judgment, all under the guise of "this is what the Republicans will do."</br><br></br><br>I agree, it is up to the voters to decide the primaries, but the superdelegates will still be left to make the final call.</br></div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1961186">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961186" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961186" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961186">Angela</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961186" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961186" class="dsq-comment-message">Watch the Sunday morning gas bags tomorrow and see how they will spin things.....<br></br><br>Chuck Todd has acknowledged the intensity and passion of Sen. Obama\'s supporters after the ABC "debate" and how the Democratic party could be torn apart for ever.  </br><br></br><br>I maintain this "force" (us) should be recognized by the super delegates. It is a reality.....!</br></div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1961187">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961187" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961187" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961187">haale</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961187" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961187" class="dsq-comment-message">This is from the "Winter Soldier Hearings" held in March, 2008 in Washington DC:<br></br><br>"We tried to comprehend the enormous scale of the so-called "collateral damage" in Iraq as speakers cited surveys that estimated about a million Iraqi civilians have died since the U.S. invasion, and that over four million Iraqis were forced from their homes. The speakers told of Iraqis, being without power and water, begging for food and fuel, and only wanting foreign troops and the 180,000 private contractors and mercenaries to leave so they can begin to rebuild their devastated country."</br></div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1961188">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961188" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961188" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961188">haale</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961188" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961188" class="dsq-comment-message">WASHINGTON — The war in Iraq has become "a major debacle" and the outcome "is in doubt" despite improvements in security from the buildup in U.S. forces, according to a highly critical study published Thursday by the Pentagon\'s premier military educational institute.<br></br><br>The report released by the National Defense University raises fresh doubts about President Bush\'s projections of a U.S. victory in Iraq just a week after Bush announced that he was suspending U.S. troop reductions.</br></div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1961189">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961189" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961189" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961189">Anonymous</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961189" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961189" class="dsq-comment-message">The Miami Herald reports on a study at the National Defense University that it claims calls the war in Iraq a “major debacle” with the outcome in doubt. However, what the Miami Herald didn’t report was that the study looked at a specific time period and has little bearing on the current status of the conflict. The Herald\'s report is disputed by the author, John Collins.<br></br><br>Collins writes, "The Miami Herald story (”Pentagon Study: War is a ‘Debacle’ “) distorts the nature of and intent of my personal research project. It was not an NDU study, nor was it a Pentagon study. Indeed, the implication of the Herald story was that this study was mostly about current events. Such is not the case. It was mainly about the period 2002-04. The story also hypes a number of paragraphs, many of which are quoted out of context. The study does not “lay much of the blame” on Secretary Rumsfeld for problems in the conduct of the war, nor does it say that he “bypassed the Joint Chiefs of Staff.” It does not single out “Condoleeza Rice and Stephen Hadley” for criticism.</br><br></br><br>    Here is a fair summary of my personal research, which formally is NDU INSS Occasional Paper 5, “Choosing War: The Decision to Invade Iraq and Its Aftermath.”</br><br></br><br>    This study examines how the United States chose to go to war in Iraq, how its decision-making process functioned, and what can be done to improve that process. The central finding of this study is that U.S. efforts in Iraq were hobbled by a set of faulty assumptions, a flawed planning effort, and a continuing inability to create security conditions in Iraq that could have fostered meaningful advances in stabilization, reconstruction, and governance. With the best of intentions, the United States toppled a vile, dangerous regime but has been unable to replace it with a stable entity. Even allowing for progress under the Surge, the study insists that mistakes in the Iraq operation cry out in the mid- to long-term for improvements in the U.S. decision-making and policy execution systems.</br><br></br><br>    The study recommends the development of a national planning charter, improving the qualifications of national security planners, streamlining policy execution in the field, improving military education, strengthening the Department of State and USAID, and reviewing the tangled legal authorities for complex contingencies. The study ends with a plea to improve alliance relations and to exercise caution in deciding to go to war."</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961190" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961190" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961190">haale</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961190" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961190" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.ndu.edu/inss/Occasional_Papers/OP5.pdf%3Cbr%3E%3C/br%3E%3Cbr%3EHere%27s" rel="nofollow">http://www.ndu.edu/inss/Occasional_Papers/OP5.p...</a> a link to the paper</br></div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1961191">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961191" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961191" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961191">Ms.Martin</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961191" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961191" class="dsq-comment-message">Rikyrah<br></br><br>There\'s a radio talk show host from Chicago on the CNN Rick on the Road Show explaining why the "elitist" tag applied to SBO was offensive to blacks.</br></div>\
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