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I am sorry but he is not the law unto himself; he can not turn the world upside down because some want him to that is not how the government works. I get the impression the LGBT community is trying to bulldog the president. <br><br>I read another blog that suggested the gay community will vote for the GOP in 2012 and that the Black community is responsible for the defeat of Prop. 8.  My opinion is if the LGBT community would vote for the GOP in 2012 they voted for the GOP in 2008. Furthermore, the LGBT community will never ever be able to compare the Black experience with their movement; and if the guilt approach is how they intend to win over the Black community they will lose. <br><br>The LGBT community needs to take some lessons from my forefathers and mothers on how to protest without threats, work within the system, and have a faithful attitude\u2026that means ditch the snarkiness.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_15:42:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "moObama", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11055013, "depth": 2, "points": 8, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11065175": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I think it is a friggin shame that with all the things he could do for minority groups he chose to do something for gays initially. No other minority group has even garnered his attention in terms of policy changes.<br><br>So the gay folks do need to sit down and shut up.<br><br>I am ticked that my tax dollars will go to this nonsense.  So, can all single people now claim anyone they choose as a 'live-in' and cover them too?<br><br>Where does this nonsense in terms of benefits coverage end?  Folks are going to start living together to share benefits?  Find a government employee to live with and you get TAXpayer paid benefits?<br><br>Whaaaat?  hmph!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_18:30:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11057905, "depth": 1, "points": 3, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11058192": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "No, I'm talking about the fact that the military (as has been reported on here at JJP: <a href=\"http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2007/07/crip-walking-in-baghdad/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2007/07/crip...</a> and I'm pretty sure there's more recent posts about this) has overlooked the history and records of recruits to allow people of reputable backgrounds into the service. <br><br>It makes so much sense to do this while kicking out others who have done nothing wrong and have shown stellar service.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_15:42:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "marachne", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11057816, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11059729": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I think you mean ENDA, not DOMA. Part of the beef between gays and lesbians and the trans community is that they have access to marriage rights under DOMA while gays and lesbians do not. ENDA, however, is the other way around. <br><br>Whatever the case...Barney Frank's probably the nation's most recognized LGBT advocate, so he's hard to discount. His past actions notwithstanding, he's introducing a trans-enclusive ENDA.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_16:20:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "nctodc", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11059250, "depth": 4, "points": 4, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11064338": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "So then I guess you rather he had done nothing because Congress decides who gets healthcare benefits, not the President. You know I might not give a damn if people complained no matter what I did either.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_18:04:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "texascowgirl", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11053298, "depth": 1, "points": 5, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11064340": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Legislation not executive orders, that was one of our beefs with Bush. Where is Franks drafted legislation for DADT or DOMA?<br><br>Criticize the Pres but be fair. The Pres does not/should not write or change laws!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_18:04:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "karlewis", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11054504, "depth": 1, "points": 4, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11053077": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I believe that the President is wrong on DOMA and DADT. I believe both were easy ' gimmes' for the President that he has messed up, and didn't need to. That they were easy things to do, while the hardest one - Gay Marriage - works its way through the judiciary.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_13:42:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 9, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11051952, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11061275": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I think people are being VERY fair. He said he wanted people to stay on him to make sure he does what he said he would do. He ASKED us to do what we are doing, and now people are trying to say we are being unfair to him.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_16:59:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "Muzikal203", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11060666, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11102751": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "If I were gay I would have muster up some dignity and civility as well as respect for the president, since I want help with this issue.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-18_11:52:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "moObama", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11059625, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11061282": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "As I said, Obama could come out and openly push members of Congress to draft a bill to repeal DADT and DOMA, but again, why does he have to?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_16:59:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "LTMidnight", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11060086, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11058729": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I think what bothers me most on the issue of LGBT equality, is that the President--if he truly believes in the equal right to health benefits and retirement--will not make his belief known for fear of political damage.<br><br>To me, that's not much different than JFK's unwillingness to sign a civil rights bill for fear of political damage.  He <i>believed</i> in civil rights, he just didn't have the courage to fight for them.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_15:55:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "RonnieB", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 6, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11063340": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "John Aravosis is a smart man, but one of the biggest drama queens I've ever seen.  He admits to engaging in \"yellow journalism\" in order to get attention.  I have very little respect for that.<br><br>He was also one of the biggest chicken-littles during the presidential campaign and turned out to be dead ass wrong.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_17:37:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "LTMidnight", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11059419, "depth": 1, "points": 7, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11059250": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I wouldn't be relying on Barney Frank, one wealthy white man as being the voice of GLBTs. He has a history of animus towards the \"T\" portion of that acronym. Besides DOMA was pushed by Gay & Lesbians activists at the expense of Trans folk anyway. It took away their rights. So between the co-opting of the AA Civil Rights struggle and pissing on their bethren it's no wonder there's a bit of cosmic payback for being shady. Now having said that, Obama has still dropped the ball big time!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_16:08:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11055780, "depth": 3, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11062836": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I agree with you that his approval ratings won't be this high forever so which do you think he should spend his political capital on now? Healthcare and the economy, which costs trillions of dollars or repealing DOMA and DADT, which he could do at anytime because of public opinion being in favor of it. He will actually have a lot more people on his side on those issues a year from now then he will a 1.6 trillion dollar overhaul of healthcare or new regualtions for the finacial sector. Has anyone considered that he is trying to do the hardest stuff first? If you are a gay person in the military, then DADT may be your priority, but their are a lot more people looking at foreclosures and a lack of healthcare insurance.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_17:22:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "texascowgirl", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11061613, "depth": 4, "points": 10, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11056187": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I think Obama should forgo Congress, period.  he should just issue executive orders for everything.  It is in his power right, so why not?  I mean why do we need a Congress for anyhow.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_14:53:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "lamh", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11053126": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I hear you, iceberg. The DOMA thing makes no damn sense to me. It was easy to be on the ' right side' of this issue, and it seems as if this Administration went out of their way to make the wrong decision.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_13:43:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11051234, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11065417": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yes prop 8 was a failure, in a lot of ways, but I don't recall or see much blame directed in Obama's direction.  There was of course, the loud racist squawking that came out after the vote, but the vast majority of people with reasoned heads placed the blame exactly where you do, on the anti-prop 8 leadership.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_18:37:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "patatsea", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11064604, "depth": 5, "points": 4, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11070544": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I know right?  Someone needs to remind them whose husband signed DOMA and DADT!  I think that the venom towards Obama stems from the belief that \"He's a minority so he SHOULD understand, our plight!\"  It's unwarranted in my view, but there you have it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_21:33:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "MrNoface", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11068665, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11059797": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Exactly, I just \"love\" how they've non-responded to the DOMA brief. /snark", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_16:22:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "Muzikal203", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11058887, "depth": 2, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11053152": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "If it doesn't include health benefits and retirement, then this ' announcement' is bullshyt, and not worth the paper its written on.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_13:44:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11057765": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "He can't...as I pointed out in my comment, and Barney Frank's comments confirm, any additional benefits require Congressional approval.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_15:32:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "nctodc", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11056934, "depth": 4, "points": 4, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11065446": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "No, they did NOT sit on their hands. You don't seem to want to acknowledge it. Have you even been following the situation outside of what's been on the TV?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_18:38:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "Muzikal203", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11064604, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11067921": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Different argument but single people have always been penalized for being single. Gay or straight, married or single I should be able to extend my benefits to whom ever I see fit. If I wanted to designate my partner for something I paid for then why should your 'ring' over power my wishes??!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_19:58:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "karlewis", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11065175, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11067498": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I don't believe in same-sex marriage either, but I do believe in civil rights?  I believe people should live however they want as long as they're not hurting anyone.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_19:44:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "LTMidnight", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11065670, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11107176": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thanks. I just don't like irrational knee-jerk emotionalism that's based on wanting to fell a certain way and not actual facts. We already have a crazy rightwing in this country and I don't like seeing it on the left either. If there is one thing the right does better then the left it's that they know how to support their presidents. I have never seen president get turned on like this in my life from his own damn party and after only 5 months. Maybe that's why we have lost so many elections in the last 40 years. Our best and brightest don't want to deal with Democrats let alone the GOP.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-18_13:38:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "texascowgirl", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11105123, "depth": 4, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11066482": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Second. he can't even deal w/ people like the Liarman whom ratted out the party. Expecting him to do anything for anybody is to wait for Godot.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_19:10:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "RobM", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11065470, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11063924": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "And I guess no criticism of the criticism either?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_17:52:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "texascowgirl", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11062464, "depth": 3, "points": 7, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11064049": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Obama got quite a bit less of the LGBT community then John Kerry did. Just sayin'.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_17:55:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "texascowgirl", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11058182, "depth": 3, "points": 5, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11065470": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Because Reid has no SPINE. I really wish we could get rid of him.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_18:39:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "Muzikal203", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11064814, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11055233": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I say this because there are things Obama promised the AA community during the campaign that he has either yet to do or is taking his sweet time in doing.  But I don't see a huge uproar within the community about that.  I'd like to believe it's because the AA community knows his plate is full and are willing to be just a little patient and cut him some slack at least for the time being.<br><br>It's been the GLBT community that have, even before he took office, taken the \"I want what I want and I want it NOW NOW NOW\" approach.  It's as if Obama fulfilled all the promises of every interest group except theirs.<br><br>That's why I ask the question.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_14:31:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "LTMidnight", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11054455, "depth": 2, "points": 5, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11067019": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Bullshit. LGBTs could have been just as enraged and willing to fight for equal rights when Bush was in office. They wait until Obama gets in office to act brand new. Miss me with that. And I'm sorry, but they're not going about it with the way AA's did in the 1960s because of WHITE PRIVILEGE. Period.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_19:28:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "HopeOverFear", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11060022, "depth": 2, "points": 3, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11062925": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "At this time last year I was for civil unions not gay marriage. This time I am for gay marriage.<br><br>That being said, I am getting rather irritated with the LGBT community right now. I do want DOMA and DADT repealed but ...yes but..it isn't something that should or will come from the top down. Watch the states do it. I think by this time next year this may be a moot point. I also think the largest and loudest of these protests are not from Obama supporters but still angry Hillary supporters. The sites I go to that freak me out the most are puma and Edwards supporter sites. (I mean except for the crazy lets kill Obama sites) I love their impression that their failed candidate would have had all this taken care of in the first month. <br><br>I am sorry but this is not really the top issue in this nation at the moment. That being said, I know that civil rights was never \"the top issue in the nation\" during its moment.<br><br>I am working with a group in my state of Washington that is fighting off an outside machine coming in and trying to overturn what the Governor just signed into law for gay rights. True, I am not gay but I am not homophobic either. Work on your state and the Feds will have to follow. This is kind of how movements lose its potential supporters who are NOT directly affected but who can empathize.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_17:24:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "Lilytiger", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11060192, "depth": 3, "points": 6, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11060879": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "First, I like your diaries at DKOS. <br><br>Second, maybe you are right about me not being gay, and therefore I can't possible care as much. I don't espect anyone to care about women more then women or black folks more then black folks, so you may be right. Of course even if I were gay a repeal of DOMA would still leave me only able to marry in 5 states. And actually you are upset because he hasn't undone decades of bad policy because that's what DOMA and DADT are. When was he and Congress suspossed to have gotten that done by? It's June 17. He was sworn in on Jan 20th. When was it supposed to be on his schedule? I'm not trying to be a jerk, I'm dead serious. He could issue and executive order to repeal DADT, but that's temporary fix. Congress needs to act to make it official law. When did you expect that to have been done by? What did the gay community expect?<br><br>And just for the record I have said the same in threads dealing with what I feel were unrealistic expectations from black people and what they expect from Obama. And I am black so me not being something doesn't have as much to do with my view on this particular issue as you may think.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_16:48:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "texascowgirl", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11059625, "depth": 2, "points": 5, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11058326": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I agree with your sentiments entirely.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_15:46:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "PBomb", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11054504, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11056279": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Why do I get the feeling you hear anything from Pam Spaulding, Rachel, and drama queen John Aravosis on this.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_14:55:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "LTMidnight", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11055780, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11057816": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Whoh!<br><br>\"neo nazis & gang bangers!!!!\" What exactly is the relation between the two...?<br>Oh...neo-nazis = white, gang bangers = blacks?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_15:33:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "lamh", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11057663, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11104927": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "NOPE. <br><br>The WH cannot execute laws which have not been legislated.  Reid has to legislate policy.<br><br> As leader of the executive branch his primary job is to EXECUTE the laws. It is the job of the DOJ to ENFORCE the laws.<br><br>You know like how JFK had to execute, i.e. command/direct,  the DOJ to have AG RFK send in the Federal troops to Alabama to ENFORCE the FEDERAL civil laws??.<br><br> Please understand the roles of  leadership within our  government before you start making demands, on folks positions.<br><br>Presidents uphold and execute laws.<br>DOJ enforces laws.<br>Congress legislates laws.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-18_12:49:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11064814, "depth": 5, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11055780": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Pam Spaulding, Rachel and that crew are full of shyt.  Here's Barney Frank (via the Oval)<br><br>Update 1:40 pm ET:<br> An openly gay member of the House, Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., is defending the president. \"As I understand it, it goes as far as he can legally,\" Frank said of Obama's benefits plan. \"The president will do the maximum he can under the law. It's up to the Congress to change the law.\" Frank spoke to reporters outside the White House, where he was attending the president's announcement on financial reform. (He's chairman of the House Banking Committee). <br><br>It's up to Congress to change the law. What part of that don't people understand?  To hear the gay libbers tell it, Obama is intentionally leaving out certain benefits because he hates gays.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_14:44:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "Alexander2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11055326, "depth": 2, "points": 11, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11052197": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "And I'm also not a big fan of the GLBT community co-opting the AA civil rights movement after all the hard work has been done.<br><br>If their civil rights is so important to them:<br><br>*Where is the GLBT version of a \"sit-in\"?<br>*Where is the GLBT version of a March on Washington?<br><br>And more important, where was all this \"righteous outrage\" during the Bush Administration when they were entertaining the idea of a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage?<br><br>I could go on.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_13:24:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "LTMidnight", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 14, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11066037": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I have no problem with people pushing for their issues.  It's how unfair and how disingenuous the pushing has been that I take issue with.  <br><br>It's like hiring a person to run a company that's in bad shape.  You are told it will take up to 2 years to stabilize the company so that it doesn't completely collapse so that should be your top priority , and then 6 months down the line you criticize that person for not giving the employees new desk.  That person tells you stabilizing the company has been top priority.  Well no excuses.  No money for yo.<br><br>Doesn't make much sense.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_18:56:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "LTMidnight", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11065552, "depth": 8, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11064863": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I guess it's a matter of perspective. Palestinians would say he is doing a lot. Environmentalist would say he is doing a lot. GOP definitely thinks he doing a lot they complain about him taking on too much and making us a Socialist country all the time. The Administration is pushing for 'hate crime' prosecutions. The Pres is not a king. Shit! California couldn't pass Prop 8 and Obama is supposed to do it with wave of a wand?<br><br>Keep putting pressure but the US government is more than one man.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_18:20:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "karlewis", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11059419, "depth": 1, "points": 9, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11106494": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "HELLO!!!!  Keep telling it, texascowgirl.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-18_13:23:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11060192, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11062464": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "LT....No criticism of Obama are allowed. None.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_17:14:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "AM2k9", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11056393, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11058887": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I know I probably shouldn't go on, but hey, I'm a Sagittarius and we're not known to knowing when to shut up :)<br><br>First of all, I have never felt that deluded about where the president's politics were/are. I know he's a lot more moderate/centrist than my taste runs, and I have been among those who have said \"hey, give the man a break, give him time.\"<br><br>But there have been a number of disappointments recently -- the lack of support for a real public option in his health care plan; the lack of support for cram downs, and real financial reform; the choice of wall street insiders for his financial team; his approach to Afghanistan, his lack of any kind of support for investigations into the abuses of the Bush administration ...and still I have said \"ok, give him time, he's a smart politician, his go slow approach has gotten results in the past.<br><br>But he seems to either have somewhat of a deaf ear, or have someone with a fair amount of influence in his administration that keeps him making some really odd choices. As I said, Rick Warren was NOT necessary -- he's not even that influential, and his AIDS work in Africa has been shown to have its dubious side. The fact that he has no done simple, small things about DADT like a stop loss, or issued a statement about the wording of the DOMA brief -- things like seem to indicate that he either doesn't get it, or doesn't care. <br><br>And this latest, in terms of the timing around the DNC fundraiser just shows him in a bad light -- as a gesture, it is more insult than aid. <br><br>This is the man who said he has no problem multi-tasking, yet he's too busy to catch these kinds of gaffs. This is the man who very quickly apologized for the AF1 look-alike fly-over, and states that ultimately, he is responsible for the actions of his administration, but somehow, in this case, he stays mum.<br><br>I'm not saying that I'm right and you're wrong. All I'm saying is that he's made some moves that leads to people wondering about how he is approaching some of the hot button issues.<br><br>I still think he is a hell of a lot better than McCain ever would've been, and certainly a lot better than Bush or Clinton...but that's about as far as I can go at this point.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_15:59:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "marachne", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11057905, "depth": 1, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11059915": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "No, I think they are both important, why must there be a competition?", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_16:25:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "Muzikal203", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11053804, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11065552": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I'm not understanding your point. Based on what's been going on in the last 5 months, Obama doesn't appear to be as fierce an advocate as he claimed he was. People are voicing their dissatisfaction with his lack of progress on the issues. My question to you is why does it bother you so much for people to push Obama for their issue? That's really the only way we'll get it done. Remember one of Obama's favorite sayings is \"the fierce urgency of now\" and now that he's in the office we're just supposed to wait until he gets around to it?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_18:42:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "Muzikal203", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11064120, "depth": 7, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11062996": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": ". . . he shouldn't be kowtowing to ANYONE but he SHOULD be keeping his promise. So we should wait until his term is over to complain about him not keeping promises? How about we complain about it now and force him to KEEP his promises.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_17:26:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "Muzikal203", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11062707, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11067607": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "And that silence automatically means he's not doing anything?<br><br>I don't know if he is or isn't.  And neither do you.  That's my point.<br><br>Again, I'm willing to condemn the man in such a short period.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_19:48:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "LTMidnight", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11065648, "depth": 8, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11065051": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "He already has made his beliefs known. They are well known and were known during the campaign. He supported gay rights moreso than HRC.  So, he is not hiding from political drama based on his position. He has repeatedly stated he believes in civil unions and that gay folks are denied numerous rights derived under federal law based on marriage.<br><br>He HAS courage...he was elected WITH those KNOWN views.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_18:26:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11058729, "depth": 1, "points": 4, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11066076": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Maybe everyone needs a refresher course:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEJL2Uuv-oQ\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEJL2Uuv-oQ</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_18:58:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11055326": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Exactly!  I thought I was the only lone wolf that thought this.<br><br>Thank you, nctodc.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_14:34:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "LTMidnight", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11054504, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11051234": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "NO.<br><br>One thing I have always complained about Obama is his slowness on issues.  He is overly cautious, which is understandable, but for that rhetoric in that DOMA brief is enough to make many keep their WALLETS CLOSED.  Yes, Obama probably did not know all the language, but as many of his former presidents, \"it was under his watch.\"<br><br>This being afraid of anything with \"gay\" attached to it is cowardly.  And this is what the Obama Administration is to me on this issue, cowards.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_13:02:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "icebergslim", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 4, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11059432": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "...", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_16:12:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "PBomb", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11054504, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11053804": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "And I want to ask an honest question here, and I don't care how you answer it as long as you're honest.<br><br>Do you really believe the causes the GLBT community are fighting for is vastly more important than issues the AA community is facing?<br><br>I'm not saying neither should be achieved?  Of course they should.  But does one takes precedence over the other IYO?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_13:57:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "LTMidnight", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 16, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11057905": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "If this was the last and not the first thing he was planning to do, then I would agree that it's not nearly enough. But since it's the first, I don't get all of the bitching and moaning. Ya'll do know he's been President for less then 150 days right? You didn't expect him to do everything you wanted in less then 6 months did you? I'll be amazed if he gets eveything I want done in two terms, but maybe I just have low expectations. Maybe I'm crazy to believe he could do everything I wanted, when I wanted and repeal, reverse or restructure every bad law and policy enacted over the last 8 years in 5 months. Or should I say 16 because Clinton is responsible for DOMA, DADT and the repeal of the Blass-Stegal act which.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_15:36:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "texascowgirl", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 34, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 7, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11053298": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "To answer the question inthe beginning of this blog, no I don't think that this is enough. For Obama to extend benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees, but for him to stop at giving them heath benefits is like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich without the jelly.<br><br><a href=\"http://freeonlineadvertising.yolasite.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">-Nikki-</a><br><br><a href=\"http://sellingphotography101.yolasite.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">selling photography 101</a><br><a href=\"http://1dollarebooks.yolasite.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">1 dollar ebooks</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_13:47:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "nthomas00", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11059955": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I think most AAs are more willing to give him the benefit of the doubt because we see him as \"one of us\" where as the GLBT community isn't exactly sure. They have a lot of nice words from him, but it doesn't look like there has been much action.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_16:26:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "Muzikal203", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11055233, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11068665": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The one vein that seems to be running with all the angry gay groups and they are scary angry, is that if the sainted HRC had won, all would be different, too bad they don't realize how politcs really work.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_20:27:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "EdnaMae", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11063340, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11065597": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "This is not the 60s. They have their gay pride rallies. They have their civil rights groups. They are trying to work with the system. Simply because we don't see them getting assaulted with water hoses and dogs doesn't mean they aren't fighting for their rights.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_18:43:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "Muzikal203", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11063792, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11480322": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Legalizing same gender marriage solves nothing it only creates a whole host of other issues for society.<br><br>Cunnilingus should not be allowed to cover anyone as long as she is single, unless it is a child.<br><br>Single people will be able to cover their parents as significant others!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-19_15:56:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11145102, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11063557": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "They did NOT sit on their hands the past 8 years. It's just NOW people are paying more attention to them.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_17:41:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "Muzikal203", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11063194, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11056393": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I seem to recall liberals getting their panties in a bunch when the Bush Administation picked and chose which laws they wanted to upheld, but now have no qualms with Obama doing the same thing if it suits them.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_14:58:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "LTMidnight", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11056187, "depth": 1, "points": 12, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11063568": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Keeping him honest is one thing (which I strongly encourage), but when I hear crap like \"he BETRAYED us!!!!111!\" or \"he's no better than Bush!!!111\" or my favorite \"Obama's a homophobic bigot (the GLBT new favorite name to call people who aren't gung-ho over same sex marriage)\" it does nothing but convince me that these people are anything but disingenuous.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_17:41:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "LTMidnight", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11061275, "depth": 5, "points": 5, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11071251": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I wanted to give a large majority in that movement the benefit of the doubt, but given some of the things being said by their talking heads, you may be more correct than I am!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_21:57:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "MrNoface", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11071007, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11062036": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Congress has to deal with the issue of health benefits. So again we are back to him just doing something vs. something with actual teeth. To hear what some are saying he should have done this without Congress putting health benefits into it because it would have been something as opposed to nothing. Make up your minds. Do you want him to act in a superficial way or wait to get real legislation through Congress.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_17:13:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "texascowgirl", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11053152, "depth": 1, "points": 5, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11071007": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I think that the venom towards Obama stems from the belief that \"He's a minority so he SHOULD understand, our plight!\"<br><br>I don't....I think it stems from the belief that \"he's a minority so he should just be grateful to be President and do what we demand when we demand it!\" <br><br>Yep I said it and ain't taking it back.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_21:48:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11070544, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11064604": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yes they did.  It's why Prop 8 passed.  Not because of what the opposition did, but the because the \"advocates\" didn't do.  The GLBT community want to criticize Obama because all he did was a radio commercial against Prob 8, but it was a lot more than the very rich and very influential gays in California did.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_18:12:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "LTMidnight", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11063557, "depth": 4, "points": 5, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11059419": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I don't think he's doing enough, I feel like he's talking the talk, but he's not walking the walk. This memo he is signing today is just a shiny object that he hopes will pacify those of us who are not satisfied with the way he's been handling this. I am really glad to see this post on JJP, especially since we Black folk supposedly hate \"teh gays.\"<br><br>I hate to be overly cynical, but I think the only reason he's even signing this memo tonight is because the gays started pulling their money and support out of a fundraiser. The Obama administration is completely tone deaf on this issue which is disappointing. I've started reading AmericaBlog, and the more they look into this memo, the more it looks like bullshit. The latest is that he may just be signing a memo to give them rights they already have. SMH", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_16:12:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "Muzikal203", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11056934": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Do you really think they are taking the attitude that the President has fulfilled the promises to every interest group, or blacks specifically? I don't think so, and Googling up one or two people who have taken on that attitude wouldn't prove anything, BTW.<br><br>Let's look at the specific issue that is the subject of this post. Why couldn't he have gone all the way?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_15:11:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "Plantsmantx", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11055233, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11104551": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "False. If they wanted the so-called 'benefits' they would marry the opposite gender. All this 'live-in' coverage is completely wrong and the entire reason there are laws that surround and support the institution of marriage.<br><br>What is going to stop a 'live-in' from discontinuing benefits at their capricious whim?  Is the law going to say well even though 'fellatio' moved out that 'cunnilingus' no longer has to cover them?  Will 'fellatio' be able to sue to keep cunnilingus' benefits and will cunnilingus be able to put 'fellatio2' on their benefits too?<br><br>How many \"fellatio's\" will cunnilingus be allowed to live with and have healthcare benefits?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-18_12:39:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11067332, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11057714": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Exactly LT.  It just seems to me that only option some in the LGTB community are giving Obama is to do what Bush did.  USE the power, to hell with checks and balances!!<br><br>heck why don't we just make the US a monarchy or dictatorship.  That's basically what they are asking for.  <br><br>They refuse to make CONGRESS do their jobs.  <br><br>They have been all along bitchin' about Bush being power hungry.  Some of us on the left are like abused children.  We know that what our abuser was doing was wrong, but we still go along and abuse others, casue that was how we were taught things get done!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_15:30:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "lamh", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11056393, "depth": 2, "points": 12, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11065648": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "What makes you think he has done something? Obama is supposedly the \"transparency\" President, so if he was actually pressuring Congress, wouldn't he want us to know \"yes, I've been pressuring Congress\" or even \"yes, I'm working with Congress\" instead all they have is silence.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_18:44:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "Muzikal203", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11063639, "depth": 7, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11055925": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I completely agree with you. I have also been reading several blogs on several LGBT sites and the voices have been very disingenious. The administration ahs been taken several steps to work towards gay rights. I read about it in the Advocate as well. They have been working on iniatives since March. But the legislative branch will have to also participate in creating a repeal. So it's easy to blame the President when there are others involved as well. Everyone bitched about how BushCo took the Constitution and the concept \" We are a nation of laws\" and completely wiped his ass with it, now we do have an independent DOJ  and the public still cries wolf. <br><br>One of the first steps to take to get DADT and DOMA repealed is to call your senator. Especially if you're represented by one of the very liberal ones. The president wants a law for repealing DADT. But only the Congress can, you know, make laws", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_14:47:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "PBomb", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11054504, "depth": 1, "points": 4, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11060022": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "7 people LIKED this comment? SMH<br><br>Their Civil Rights ARE important to them, and just because they aren't going about it the way YOU think they should go about it doesn't mean they aren't working HARD to get their rights. <br><br>The rage was there when Bush was in office, but Bush never made them any promises. Obama made the promises and he should keep them. If he had no intention of keeping them, he shouldn't have made them.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_16:28:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "Muzikal203", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11052197, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11064120": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Who says he's gonna wait until his term is over to do it?  That's my point.<br><br>Nobody knows when he plans to move on this.  They just know it's not fast enough for their liking.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_17:57:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "LTMidnight", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11062996, "depth": 6, "points": 4, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11065670": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I've never said any of that. I just don't think he's as fierce of an advocate as he proclaims to be, but I do think he supports equal rights (except for the right to get married) to homosexuals.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_18:45:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "Muzikal203", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11063568, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11060039": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yup I meant ENDA but it applies to DOMA as well. I can't edit after a response has been posted.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_16:29:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11059729, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11059532": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "What happened to all of this \"transparency\" that were were supposed to have? I think it's more my mistake than Obama's that I believed most of his rhetoric during the campaign.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_16:15:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "Muzikal203", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11058729, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11106018": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The example you use of JFK is different from what BHO is facing. JFK had laws on the book that he could command and direct to be executed. That is the President's role. BHO does not have laws on the book he can uphold or execute!!<br><br>BHO has to wait for Congress to legislate the laws.<br><br>You are mixing up the responsibilities of the leadership roles involved.  Presidents' do not MAKE laws they EXECUTe them.  Congress LEGISLATES.  Once Congress legislates then Presidents execute and UPHOLD the law.<br><br>so you are angry at the wrong person!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-18_13:11:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11066276, "depth": 3, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11061389": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Because he's the President, you act like he hasn't come out and pushed Congress to do what he wants before.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_17:02:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "Muzikal203", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11061282, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11063639": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "So what makes you think he hasn't done so already and it's not the congress dragging their feet on it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_17:44:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "LTMidnight", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11061389, "depth": 6, "points": 3, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11064152": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "marachne, thanks for taking the time to post your response, it's a much needed perspective, and if you'll indulge me, I'd like to respond to a few points (I won't respond on specific points on DOMA or DADT or today's \"meaningless crumb\" because I addressed them in <a href=\"http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2009/06/is-obamas-same-sex-partners-policy-enough/?dsq=11059729#comment-11054504\" rel=\"nofollow\">a previous comment</a>, I encourage you to take a look): <br><br>I think LGBT rights are civil rights and if the community wants to co-opt the the language of the Civil Rights Era, I'm fine with that (I say that, of course, as if it's my language to give away), but the disconnect has been (and, to a degree, continues to be) whether it goes beyond word choice. Is there an understanding of the history behind the words? Does the leadership of LGBT organizations and, generally, people who advocate for the cause, appreciate that the Civil Rights Movement was \"the most strategic, careful and patient litigation effort that this country had ever seen\" (to quote <a href=\"http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/11185/olson-and-boies-go-on-media-rounds-to-discuss-the-federal-marriage-lawsuit\" rel=\"nofollow\">one law professor</a>). <br><br>You'll get absolutely no disagreement from me on the plight of LGBT persons  within their communities of color. I've heard stories for years from my gay and lesbian friends who have had their family members tell them that their sexuality is a \"white thing\" and they weren't really gay. We need to do better, we must do better and certainly Obama's in a good place to start that  discussion. <br><br>That said, while Obama may be a good place to start that discussion, far too many people think the conversation begins and ends with Obama when it comes to LGBT legislation. That strategy is not only wrong as a matter of process but it's wrong as matter of politics. Why isn't the message to Congress and to the American people: \"support Barack Obama's LGBT agenda\" instead of \"why Barack Obama has let us down?\" <br><br>Think about it this way: in short order, there's going to be an effort in Maine to amend the state's constitution and the LGBT community will have to mount a fight. Obama has, consistently, opposed efforts to add discrimination to the Constitution--why would you try to weaken his standing as an LGBT advocate when his advocacy could prove invaluable? The absence of that kind of strategic thinking distinguishes this movement from the Civil Rights Movement.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_17:58:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "nctodc", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11057663, "depth": 1, "points": 7, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11137377": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Amen.  I think that people from the left assumed that they owned Pres. Obama. Instead of waiting for what a politician can do for you, you need to do for yourself.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-18_19:29:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "facebook-684381026", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11069313, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11105123": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "TXgirl...you are on fire, again!!  Great post.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-18_12:55:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11060192, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11067237": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"Reid and Obama are co equals in their respective roles, so why does Reid has to wait?\"<br><br>-Um, 'cause Reid is a useless fuck?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_19:35:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11064814, "depth": 5, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11059048": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "If this wakes some people up from thinking of him as what another blogger refers to as a \"sacred cow\" then so be it. Since so many people seem to have such difficulties wrapping their brain around what Obama promised and what DOMA says I think it's been laid out plainly now. There are plenty of Black people who are GLBT and they need protection because as we all know it's Blacks who continually get the short end of the stick.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_16:03:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11051234, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11057513": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "+1", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_15:25:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "texascowgirl", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11056393, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11063146": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Mmm..I think you might be onto something about the voting in 2008..", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_17:31:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "Lilytiger", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11058182, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11068267": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "EVENING OPEN THREAD IS UP!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_20:11:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11061613": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I want to second a bunch of what Muzikal203 said about there is plenty he could've done that yeah, maybe wouldv'e been temporary, but would've made a difference in the lives of both those military personnel who got booted and their comrades who depend on them to be there doing their part.<br><br>And I concede that some of the things he is doing are following through on what he stated re: Afghanistan. <br><br>Also, I am just, if not more p.o.'d at the punk-ass senate and the useless Harry Reid -- put the repubs feet to the fire when they threaten to filibuster, start some legislation. There are lots of missed opportunities and miss-steps on their part.<br><br>And this post is probably not the place to talk about the other things that the president has done that leaves me scratching my head, like not giving more support to the employee free choice act, or comments about open-ended detention, or now saying he will continue Bush's policy of keeping the WH guest list private.<br><br>I am not a one-issue voter, never have been, never will be, but how many times does one have to feel dismissed before one has the right to speak up? And how long can the \"he's new in office\" excuse going to hold? There will never stop being crisis'. His political approval will not stay at the current level forever. If he doesn't do the more risky things he said were important to him now, what is the likelihood he will later?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_17:08:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "marachne", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11060192, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11105647": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm glad you bring up the temporary nature of an Executive Order.<br><br>Since he got into office, Obama has repealed LOTS of Bush EOs... cause he can... but all the ones he's writing up can be repealed as soon as someone who doesn't like it gets into office.<br><br>Folks need to get off Obama and get their behinds in the Halls of Congress because there are A LOT of closeted gay members who they need to call to task (while they want to out celebs like Queen Latifah). You want something permanent, right? Well get a LAW. The Executive Branch does not pass laws, Congress does. Period.<br><br>All this blame and anger is just in the wrong spot and that's all there is to that. Rep. Barney Frank is an openly gay member of Congress and I haven't heard of him spearheading anything to change this situation.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-18_13:05:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "ASmith", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11060879, "depth": 3, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11060086": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Because as Obama himself has said repeatedly, the buck stops with him. If they honestly felt OBAMA was working to repeal DADT and the DOMA then they would turn their ire more on Congress and largely leave Obama alone, but I don't think Obama has done anything over the last 5 months to inspire a lot of confidence in the GLBT community.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_16:30:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "Muzikal203", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11053492, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11054455": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Why would one have to take precedence over the other? You're saying both should be achieved, but you're still setting up an either/or situation...needlessly.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_14:11:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "Plantsmantx", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 9, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11053804, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11069313": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Don't you people ever get tired of flapping your lips just to complain about the President?<br><br>In 2012 you can vote for McCain, Palin or any of the other bozos in the republican party who run for office.  <br><br>Until then get off of your lazy a**** and do something for someone or your community, like mentoring or tutoring.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_20:50:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "TiredOfThePhonies", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 3, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11064201": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "True, but after 8 years of a POTUS doing whatever the hell he wanted because he had a lock step Congress of his own party, people's senses are warped. Clinton couldn't get the Congress to do whatever he wanted when he had a Democratic majority (see healthcare) and apparently neither can Obama (again, see healthcare). For whatever reasons, the Dems aren't like the GOP. Less orgazined, less authoritarian and more diverse in almost everyway. It actually is more difficult to be a Democratic President, even when your own party holds Congress.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_17:59:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "texascowgirl", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11063205, "depth": 3, "points": 5, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11145102": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "But your scenario is exactly what would be solved by the legalization of same sex marriage, that's what I was pointing out. I'm assuming the 'fellatio' and 'cunnilingus' you speak of are the same gender (I would assume male, given Romance language masculine word endings, though its so hard to tell with such unusual names).  If 'fellatio' and 'cunnilingus' could marry, then 'cunnilingus' could simply cover 'fellatio' as a spouse, no more worrying about what \"live-in\" status is.  And clearly, since one can only marry one other person, 'cunnilingus' would be limited to only covering 'fellatio', unless they should ever get divorced.  Then 'fellatio' would no longer be covered, and if 'cunnilingus' should ever remarry, let's say to 'John', then 'John' would be covered as 'cunnilingus's' husband.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-18_21:12:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "patatsea", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11104551, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11104148": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "ITA!  We are definitely like-minded on this Guns.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-18_12:28:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11070891, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11067289": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hmmm...Can someone explain to me how those in the armed forces -- working for Uncle Sam -- are supposed to take advantage of these \"benefits?\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_19:37:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mothsmoke", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11063194": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The GLBT community sat on their hands for the past 8 years when the previous administration was entertaining the idea of a federal ban on same-sex marriage, but they can't give this president six months to give them everything they demand?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_17:32:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "LTMidnight", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11059625, "depth": 2, "points": 9, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11061153": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "He could do that. And then the next anti-gay GOP president could issue and executive order to reverse anything Obama does. Just like funding for abortions overseas and stem cell research funding gets reversed depending on who's president and their personal views. Do you want it done or do you want it done right? Because it does matter how it's done. This part of what it hasn't been done yet.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_16:56:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "texascowgirl", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11056187, "depth": 1, "points": 4, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11066276": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "He has never followed up on either of those. I could be wrong but at last leak this proposal is not written in a matter that is permanent for whatever comcessions he is making.The defense of DOMA was done in a manner that had to be offensive to you as a human being. You may not want them to be married but i do not think you'd argue against homosexual marriage by saying it permits incest and child rape. You know that isn't true.<br><br>At this point I've come to the concluson the President is an incrementalist. We are not at a point in time where we can work in incrementnal bits. Our communiations systems work to fast for that.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_19:04:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "RobM", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11065051, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11063205": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "What is really apparent is that our lawmaking is not a simplistic action.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_17:33:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "Lilytiger", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11062036, "depth": 2, "points": 3, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11060135": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "the thing I find funny is that the more disagreeable (in my opinion anyway) things the Obama administration does, the harder his apologists fight to defend what is quickly becoming indefensible (if it's not already).", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_16:31:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "Muzikal203", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11059048, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11054504": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I consider myself to be, if I might borrow the phrase, a fierce advocate for LGBT issues, so these last few weeks of commentary coming from LGBT blogs has been disheartening.  <br><br>It's not that I disagree with any of the ideas being advanced, but I think the conversation around these issues, from voices I'd long respected like Pam Spaulding, Joe Aravosis and Rachel Maddow, has been, at best, disingenuous. <br><br>A few examples: <br><br>It is easy to call today's presidential memorandum an \"empty gesture,\" but, as I understand it, the extension of health care or retirement benefits would require Congressional action. It's easier, I guess, to scapegoat Obama than to ask Congress where their leadership has been. <br><br>Moreover, people bemoan the timing of today's announcement, but last month Rep. Howard Berman gave <a href=\"http://www.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid85221.asp\" rel=\"nofollow\">an interview to The Advocate</a> that White House action on LGBT issues was imminent--that we'd probably know their plan by Stonewall's anniversary. This (and I suspect other initiatives) were in the works before any of this most recent kerfuffle. <br><br>Last week's release of the Justice Department's DOMA brief led a lot of LGBT advocates to vilify Obama for his failure to deliver on his promises. People, including lawyers that think DOMA is unconstitutional, who tried to point out that Justice might have an obligation to file the brief were dismissed (<a href=\"http://lawdork.wordpress.com/2009/06/16/aravosis-falsely-states-that-doj-changed-doma-suit-statement/\" rel=\"nofollow\">or worse</a>). And there was virtually no room for progressives to point out that the brief did not represent administration views (though Howard Dean did say so in his Maddow appearance) and that it was proof of what we'd wanted for 8 years--an independent Justice department. <br><br>On DADT, advocates continue to call for executive action on ending Bill Clinton's brainchild, many adopting Bush's post-9/11 \"you're either with us or you're against us\" posture. There's no discussion of the fact that presidential action on DADT would be, essentially, a temporary stop-loss order for gays and lesbians serving in the military, which has ramifications FAR beyond gays and lesbian soldiers--for example, how it impacts Obama's efforts to get rid of the stop-loss policy and/or offer stop-lossed soldiers overtime compensation (that bill passed the House today).  Both of those issues, wrongly decided, would have far more impact on unit cohesion than gays and lesbians in our ranks ever would.<br><br>Those are just a few examples--I could go on--but sufficed to say, our President has asked us to embrace a politics filled with nuance and on LGBT issues, progressives have failed to meet his challenge. <br><br>(Sorry for the long response, I just needed to get that out.)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_14:12:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "nctodc", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 11, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 15, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11059625": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "People aren't upset that he hasn't undone decades of bad policy. People are upset because he hasn't done ANYTHING AT ALL. And how long is the he's only been in office _____ days argument going to fly? I bet if YOU were gay, you would have an issue with him not doing ANYTHING in those however many days, especially when he constantly called himself a \"fierce advocate\" for gay rights.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_16:18:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "Muzikal203", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 15, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11057905, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11067818": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Are these the same sort of exit polls that grossly misstated the black vote on prop 8?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_19:55:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "patatsea", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11064049, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11070891": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Whites you and I went at it the other day but I have to cosign you on this.  First off, this is discrimination for all of the heterosexual couples that are living together or are \"partners\".  Matter of fact, I have to two chicks who live in my house and I want them covered.(In my dreams. The one I have now is enough stress)  A lot of these homosexuals have an elitist mentality anyway and disrespect the civil rights movement every chance they get.  I got love for my AAs in Hollywood but some of those negroes have been in Hollywood too long.  They stay cosigning this shiznit.  Obama doesn't need their money anymore he has 300 million dollar war chest for the next election.  The gays just make a lot noise and a lot of these media types are closeted homosexuals and that's why they get a lot of attention.  This is one issue that the Republicans actually have right.  And I can't stand all this nonsense in the media labeling blacks as homophobic.  Where the hell were they when police were using hoses and dogs against blacks? Probably somewhere in the closet?   Don't equate 400 years of oppression to you not being able to walk down the aisle with a person that has the same genitalia because last time I checked you have been able to do everything else for a long time.     The bottom line is Obama doesn't have to do too much for them because where are they going to go?  The GOP?  LOL And if you happen to be a homosexual and reading this please don't be offended. I just think you should take civil unions and STFU<br><br><a href=\"http://Iamverybroke.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Iamverybroke.com</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_21:44:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "Guns3000", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11065175, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11051952": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "What I can't get for the life of me is why is all the venom and anger coming from the GLBT community targeted solely on Obama?<br><br>I happen to know that there are several very liberal members of congress (some are even gay) that have yet to do jack s#!% when it comes to drafting a bill to repeal DOMA and DADT.  Are they waiting for Obama and, if so, why?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_13:18:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "LTMidnight", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 10, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 5, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11062707": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "If anything, the fact that he's \"one of us\" should lead to the belief that he should be kowtowing to us if no one else.  That's not happening.  Maybe, just maybe, some people out there want to give him more than six months in a 48 month long presidency before they declare he broke his promises.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_17:17:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "LTMidnight", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11059955, "depth": 4, "points": 3, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11053492": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "But again, why is all the venom on Obama?  COuld he has handled DOMA and DADT better than he did?  Of course.  But where's Barney Frank with his bill to repeal DADT?  Where's that \"San Francisco liberal\" Polosi's bill to repeal DOMA?  I'd like to see some venom aimed in their direction.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_13:51:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "LTMidnight", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11053077, "depth": 2, "points": 11, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11060666": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I can't speak for no one else, but I just think there needs to be some fairness involved.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_16:44:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "LTMidnight", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11060135, "depth": 3, "points": 3, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11064255": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "People weren't sitting on their hands- you'll notice a federal ban never passed.  Queer opposition to Bush was much less visible both because the movement had a much smaller platform to speak from at the time and because queer opposition was lumped in with general opposition to Bush.  I said it before- a few years ago the only people hearing LGBT opinion were those who actively sought it out.  The movement has grown, which is why the general public hears about these issues more and more.<br><br>I think continued demands are important because without them, the issues will fade into the background.  How many comments here have stated that LGBT issues are not top priority and should wait their turn?  Unfortunately, I don't think people realize how much those comments come from a place of privilege.  I'd rather the president be working on health care and the economy too, but I can't ignore these issues because they affect my very existence, the same way racial issues affect me as a POC.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_18:01:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "patatsea", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11063194, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11067332": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "If same sex marriage were legal, then we wouldn't have to deal with all of this \"live-in\" coverage nonsense.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_19:38:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "patatsea", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11065175, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11067245": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Well maybe they SHOULD get waterhoses and dogs. Freedom ain't free. And black folks' road to freedom damn sure wasn't easy. If LGBTs are fighting, they ain't fightin hard enough. Maybe they should engage in civil disobedience in order to make their voices heard. I ain't talking about standing outside no damn hotel where the President is holding signs saying \"Obama is a fraud\" ANYBODY can do that. I'm talking about getting HURT. REAL BAD. Maybe it's time the LGBT community started doing THAT. Cuz if they ain't willing to risk their physical comfort, dare I say even their LIVES to get equality, then they don't really want it, as far as I'm concerned.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_19:35:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "HopeOverFear", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11065597, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11057619": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thanks for your calm, reasoned response.  I know that sounds trite but calm, reasoned responses are in extremely short supply in the blogosphere these days.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_15:28:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11054504, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11053014": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "AFTERNOON OPEN THREAD IS UP!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_13:41:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11057629": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This is a very good question. Harry Ried wants Obama to get busy on repealing DADT, but what's stopping Harry Reid and Barney Frank from putting a bill on the floor, passing it through Congress and sending it to the President to sign? The truth is the Dems had Congress for two years before Obama was POTUS and tbey could have had a bill ready for him to sign just like the CHIP bill.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_15:28:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "texascowgirl", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11053492, "depth": 3, "points": 7, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11055013": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<i>Do you really believe the causes the GLBT community are fighting for is vastly more important than issues the AA community is facing?</I><br><br>I look at what Obama has promised to the LGBT community (military service, federal recognition of marriage/civil unions, et. al.) as basic rights of citizenship.</i>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_14:26:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "nctodc", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11053804, "depth": 1, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11060192": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I guess the key term is \"hot button\". They are \"hot\" for some and not for others. The truth is a politician can feel a certain way about an issue and intend to act on it, but maybe not before they do several other things that they deem to be more important. As far as multi taking does, he is multi-tasking, just not every task you want. I disagree with you on the public option for healthcare, I don't think he's backed off on it and the biggest problem is Dems in congress, not Obama. As far as the Afghan war goes, I think he was pretty clear about that during the campaign. McCain was the candidate who wanted to stay out of the Afghan/ Pakistan border, not Obama. I think he's right and there have been some good results. Pakistan is stepping up in a way they never where before and Al Queda is making videos begging for money. They are beng hit on both sides and that wasn't true before. <br><br>I get you complaints and disappointments, but again I feel the need to stress he's been in office for 5 months and literally has 99 problems. The idea that he could give the same amount of attention to all of them at the same time is ridiculous and unrealistic. I guess taking personal offense is unavoidable, but I would imagine it's not personal at all. How can he through anyone under the bus when he's barely gotten on the bus? To say Obama doesn't care about any partcular group of people is to sugest that some groups of people aren't affected by the recession, healthcare or foreign policy which I always assumed were his top three issues for the beginning of his term. And it is still the beginning. <br><br>Some people are acting like Obama is their boyfriend and he forgot some arbitrary special day that he isn't even aware of. Was he suppose to have repealed DOMA by 3/15 or 4/15? Was he suppose to have had all of the plans for a public option ready before he walked into office? Before he stabalized the finacial markets? Would Congress have even been willing to take the issue up before then? Was he suppose to have been lying when he told you that he thought the war in Afghanistan was the war worth fighting? It's fair to want Obama to do what he said he would, but it's also fair to give him at least a damn year and not hold him responsible for a do nothing Congress, pussy ass Congress.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_16:33:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "texascowgirl", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11058887, "depth": 2, "points": 7, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11061220": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Wasn't the stim cell thing he did earlier an executive order? Or was it a bill? I can't remember at the moment. And if it was an executive order, should he have waited for Congress to move on it to have a more permanent fix?", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_16:57:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "Muzikal203", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11061153, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11061159": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Thanks about the diaries. <br><br>By June 17th there could be way more action. There could be a bill on the floor. He could have suspended the implementation of DADT until Congress got around to it. He could put more pressure on Congress to repeal both DADT and the DOMA. Harry Reid said he's waiting on the WH to do something, and the WH says they are waiting on Congress to do something, meanwhile nothing is getting done. I don't subscribe to the idea that simply because a fix would be TEMPORARY you shouldn't do it and instead should wait on our notoriously slow Congress to move on it. Obama could stop the bleeding.  I, personally, didn't expect him to undo all of it immediately, but I DID expect him to do SOMETHING. Look at Guantanamo, it was also a staple in his stump speeches, and he signed an executive order for that the first day. How much time would he really have to spend on signing an executive order? He probably wouldn't even have to WRITE it, just read and sign it. <br><br>For something like DADT, which was also a staple in his stump speeches, you'd THINK he'd do more than TALK about what he plans to do and actually START doing something. Frame the argument for DADT as necessary to be successful in Iraq/Afghanistan. How many more Arabic translators do we have to lose simply because they are homosexual?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_16:56:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "Muzikal203", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11060879, "depth": 3, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11102189": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I don't remember Hillary taking up any gay cause while running for president. She was too busy trying to out do Obama.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-18_11:37:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "moObama", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11068665, "depth": 3, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11064814": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;Harry Reid said he's waiting on the WH to do something, and the WH says they are waiting on Congress to do something, meanwhile nothing is getting done.&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;<br><br>This is exactly what I'm talking about.  Why the hell is Reid waiting on word from the WH to act?  He's the Senate Majority Leader for christ sakes.  He's a leader of the Legislative Branch, whose primary goal is to make the laws of the land.<br><br>Obama's primary job as leader of the Executive Branch is to ENFORCE those laws.<br><br>Reid and Obama are co equals in their respective roles, so why does Reid has to wait?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_18:19:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "LTMidnight", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11061159, "depth": 4, "points": 4, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11132669": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Really! It seems as if there are only three dems in power at the moment and two of them aren't really doing anything. Where's my Dems, where are the rest of the country's. They aren't making nearly enough noise on any issue.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-18_17:11:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "Lilytiger", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11064201, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11063792": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;7 people LIKED this comment? SMH&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;<br><br>Why are you so surprised?  It's a fair and honest question.<br><br>Who's out there fighting and ready to risk life and limb for the cause?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_17:48:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "LTMidnight", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11060022, "depth": 2, "points": 4, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11104241": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Single people are NOT penalized that is the entire point. Marriage is a LOSS of individual constitutional and property rights.<br><br>Only gay people have made marriage about 'benefits' it is a totally specicous argument i.e. based on a false premise!<br><br>Go buy a 'ring' if you think that is where the 'power' is vested it ain't.<br><br>Ask Usher, if he wishes he wasn't married to Tameka right now, in terms of his individual rights...he would certainly would have far less to lose.<br><br>Gay folks just want to turn the society upside down and inside out to support their outside the box choices.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-18_12:31:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11067921, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11063282": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "It seems to me to be another example of the \"magical negro\" mentality that his opponents have.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_17:35:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "Lilytiger", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11061282, "depth": 5, "points": 4, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11057653": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The LGBT community has marched on Washington in 1979, 1987, and 1993.  Another march is being planned, and permits have already been issued, for this October.<br><br>There was plenty of righteous outrage against Bush, but the only people listening were those who intentionally sought out LGBT opinions- people who were already allies.  A national voice that you did not have to go out of your way to hear- that's pretty new, and I'd bet that a lot of queer people tended to avoid politics until the passage of prop 8.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_15:29:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "patatsea", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11052197, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11106217": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I 1000% AGREE, Miranda.  I reallllllllllllllly don't appreciate the fact the gay community is equating the Civil Rights Movement and Black struggles with their plight.<br><br>As a matter of fact, it totally, fucking pissing me off, and all the whiners who spew this nonsense, will not get one iota of compassion from me until they fess up and be truthful about what role they play in their movement.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-18_13:17:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11071007, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11057663": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I hear, and respect several arguments I have heard here regarding the sense that the so parts of the  LGBT community has both co-opted the AA struggle and dismissed/ignored POC among us, but I also have a problem with some of the statements that have been made here.<br><br>First of all, I don't think that making parallels between different struggles for civil rights is all that awful. Why can't we use the history to try and explain the present? And no, I'm not saying that things are all rosy and perfect in terms of racism, but the struggles and efforts are worth emulating. Didn't Dr. King look to Ghandi, and the US civil rights movement was not exactly the same -- it was not an attempt to throw out an outside, imperialistic government but an attempt to change a government of one's own country.<br><br>Secondly, just like parts of the LGBT community have ignored the presence of POC, parts of the AA community has ignored the presence of LGBT persons.  I have heard repeatedly of people feeling torn between their racial/ethnic identity and their sexual identity, and not feeling welcome in either. Isn't there some responsibility among AA allies to call out the homophobia in their midst just as their among white LBGT allies to call out the racism in theirs (and hey, some of us do, every day...and my thanks to Jill and some of the others here who are doing just that).<br><br>I think there is also an incredible dismissal of the things that LBGT folk face in this country. Leaving aside the whole marriage thing (personally, I think everyone should be given civil unions and the state should get out the marriage business all together -- it works in France, why not here?), we are talking not only loss/lack of basic rights such as access to social security benefits, health care benefits, hospital visitation, but we are talking harassment, beatings, rapes, killings...the teenage suicide rate among LBGT teens is disproportionately high -- doesn't that tell you something? And despite the image of all queers as being upper middle class, the reality is that the rate of poverty and homelessness is above the national average.<br><br>As to the question of \"where are the marches, where are the sit ins, we have marched:there have been 4 marches on Washington: 1979, 1987, 1993 and 2000. We have demonstrated, (what do you call all the activity -- nationwide -- after prop 8 passed?), and we do write/call/etc our public officials.<br><br>What has been so painful with President Obama has been that he has made very specific promises, and then his actions belie his words. Yeah, Rick Warren wasn't the end of the world, but it was a pretty potent symbol. DADT does need to be changed in the legislature (and there are people working on it) but he didn't even need to issue an executive order, all he needed was, as CIC to issue a stop-loss order. But I guess neo-nazis and gang bangers are more valuable members of the military then highly trained, long-time serving service members.<br><br>As for the DOMA brief -- why/who assigned it to a Mormon to write? It IS his DOJ, he does set a tone, and if nothing else, he could've said something about the issue of what an ugly piece of work it was, full of unnecesary lies and calumny.<br><br>And I don't care what he might have had in the works, throwing the kind of meaningless crumb he is, with barely any advance notice days before a big DNC fundraiser looks, and smells bad -- it makes he look like he thinks we're stupid and desperate enough to put up with any crumbs. <br><br>I really appreciate JJP. I learn a lot from reading what people have to say, and get my assumptions called up short regularly. I mostly lurk because I am not a POC, and I know that my folk already take up too much space. But I also feel, just like I try and speak out for others when I think they have been wronged, that I can say something when I need to defend myself.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-17_15:29:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "marachne", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 3, "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": "21996325", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "21630", "hash": 8134842389042248107}, "thread": {"days_alive": 0, "slug": "is_obama8217s_same_sex_partners_policy_enough", "paginate": false, "num_pages": 1, "num_posts": 130, "per_page": 0, "total_posts": 0, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 21996325, "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.frames = {};
};

var disqus_popup_reference = null;

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



/**
 * Dsq.Strings: UI strings
 */
Dsq.Strings = new function() {
	this.ADD_NEW_COMMENT = "Add New Comment";
	this.LOG_INTO_DISQUS = "Log into DISQUS";
	this.USE_MEDIA = "Use Media";
	this.LOGOUT = "Logout";
	this.SHARING_OPTIONS = "Sharing options";
	this.SHARE_ON = "Share on";
	this.TWEET_THIS_COMMENT = "Tweet this comment";
	this.SHARE_ON_NEWSFEED = "Share on news feed";
	this.SEND_UPDATE_TO_YAHOO = "Send update to Yahoo!";
	this.REBLOG_ON = "Reblog on";
	this.CONFIGURE_OPTIONS = "Configure options";
	this.POST_AS = "Post as";
	this.SORT_BY = "Sort by";
	this.SUBSCRIBE_BY_EMAIL = "Subscribe by email";
	this.SUBSCRIBE_BY_RSS = "Subscribe by RSS";
	this.POPULAR_NOW = "Popular now";
	this.BEST_RATING = "Best Rating";
	this.NEWEST_FIRST = "Newest first";
	this.OLDEST_FIRST = "Oldest first";
	this.HIGHLIGHTED = "Highlighted";
	this.UNSUBSCRIBE = "Unsubscribe";
	this.REQUIRED = "Required";
	this.OPTIONAL = "Optional";
	this.YOU_ARE_COMMENTING_AS_A = "You are commenting as a";
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	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.
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		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) {
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			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=is_obama8217s_same_sex_partners_policy_enough' +
		'&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/is_obama8217s_same_sex_partners_policy_enough/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='	+ 'is_obama8217s_same_sex_partners_policy_enough'
			+ '&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/is_obama8217s_same_sex_partners_policy_enough/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">130</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/is_obama8217s_same_sex_partners_policy_enough/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/is_obama8217s_same_sex_partners_policy_enough/">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:21996325" 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/is_obama8217s_same_sex_partners_policy_enough/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:21996325" 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:21996325" 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'				: 'is_obama8217s_same_sex_partners_policy_enough',
			// 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/is_obama8217s_same_sex_partners_policy_enough/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='	+ 'is_obama8217s_same_sex_partners_policy_enough'
			+ '&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='	+ 'is_obama8217s_same_sex_partners_policy_enough'
			+ '&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='		+ 'is_obama8217s_same_sex_partners_policy_enough'
				+ '&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/21996325/realtime.js?timestamp=' + last_checked);
		}
	};

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

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

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

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

}();

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

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

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

	return obj;
}();

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		if (isblank(openid_url)) {
			return;
		}

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	return obj;
}();


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





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

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

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

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

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

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





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

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

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

})();

Dsq.container.className = "clearfix";
Dsq.container.innerHTML = ' \
<ul id="dsq-comments">\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-11054504">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11054504" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11054504" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11054504" href="http://natthedem.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">nctodc</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11054504" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11054504" class="dsq-comment-message">I consider myself to be, if I might borrow the phrase, a fierce advocate for LGBT issues, so these last few weeks of commentary coming from LGBT blogs has been disheartening.  <br><br>It\'s not that I disagree with any of the ideas being advanced, but I think the conversation around these issues, from voices I\'d long respected like Pam Spaulding, Joe Aravosis and Rachel Maddow, has been, at best, disingenuous. <br><br>A few examples: <br><br>It is easy to call today\'s presidential memorandum an "empty gesture," but, as I understand it, the extension of health care or retirement benefits would require Congressional action. It\'s easier, I guess, to scapegoat Obama than to ask Congress where their leadership has been. <br><br>Moreover, people bemoan the timing of today\'s announcement, but last month Rep. Howard Berman gave <a href="http://www.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid85221.asp" rel="nofollow">an interview to The Advocate</a> that White House action on LGBT issues was imminent--that we\'d probably know their plan by Stonewall\'s anniversary. This (and I suspect other initiatives) were in the works before any of this most recent kerfuffle. <br><br>Last week\'s release of the Justice Department\'s DOMA brief led a lot of LGBT advocates to vilify Obama for his failure to deliver on his promises. People, including lawyers that think DOMA is unconstitutional, who tried to point out that Justice might have an obligation to file the brief were dismissed (<a href="http://lawdork.wordpress.com/2009/06/16/aravosis-falsely-states-that-doj-changed-doma-suit-statement/" rel="nofollow">or worse</a>). And there was virtually no room for progressives to point out that the brief did not represent administration views (though Howard Dean did say so in his Maddow appearance) and that it was proof of what we\'d wanted for 8 years--an independent Justice department. <br><br>On DADT, advocates continue to call for executive action on ending Bill Clinton\'s brainchild, many adopting Bush\'s post-9/11 "you\'re either with us or you\'re against us" posture. There\'s no discussion of the fact that presidential action on DADT would be, essentially, a temporary stop-loss order for gays and lesbians serving in the military, which has ramifications FAR beyond gays and lesbian soldiers--for example, how it impacts Obama\'s efforts to get rid of the stop-loss policy and/or offer stop-lossed soldiers overtime compensation (that bill passed the House today).  Both of those issues, wrongly decided, would have far more impact on unit cohesion than gays and lesbians in our ranks ever would.<br><br>Those are just a few examples--I could go on--but sufficed to say, our President has asked us to embrace a politics filled with nuance and on LGBT issues, progressives have failed to meet his challenge. <br><br>(Sorry for the long response, I just needed to get that out.)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11064340" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11064340">karlewis</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11064340" class="dsq-comment-message">Legislation not executive orders, that was one of our beefs with Bush. Where is Franks drafted legislation for DADT or DOMA?<br><br>Criticize the Pres but be fair. The Pres does not/should not write or change laws!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11055925" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11055925" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11055925">PBomb</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11055925" class="dsq-comment-message">I completely agree with you. I have also been reading several blogs on several LGBT sites and the voices have been very disingenious. The administration ahs been taken several steps to work towards gay rights. I read about it in the Advocate as well. They have been working on iniatives since March. But the legislative branch will have to also participate in creating a repeal. So it\'s easy to blame the President when there are others involved as well. Everyone bitched about how BushCo took the Constitution and the concept " We are a nation of laws" and completely wiped his ass with it, now we do have an independent DOJ  and the public still cries wolf. <br><br>One of the first steps to take to get DADT and DOMA repealed is to call your senator. Especially if you\'re represented by one of the very liberal ones. The president wants a law for repealing DADT. But only the Congress can, you know, make laws</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11057619">MsKitty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11057619" class="dsq-comment-message">Thanks for your calm, reasoned response.  I know that sounds trite but calm, reasoned responses are in extremely short supply in the blogosphere these days.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11055326" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11055326" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11055326" href="http://themidnightsolution.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">LTMidnight</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11055326" class="dsq-comment-message">Exactly!  I thought I was the only lone wolf that thought this.<br><br>Thank you, nctodc.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11055780" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11055780">Alexander2</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11055780" class="dsq-comment-message">Pam Spaulding, Rachel and that crew are full of shyt.  Here\'s Barney Frank (via the Oval)<br><br>Update 1:40 pm ET:<br> An openly gay member of the House, Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., is defending the president. "As I understand it, it goes as far as he can legally," Frank said of Obama\'s benefits plan. "The president will do the maximum he can under the law. It\'s up to the Congress to change the law." Frank spoke to reporters outside the White House, where he was attending the president\'s announcement on financial reform. (He\'s chairman of the House Banking Committee). <br><br>It\'s up to Congress to change the law. What part of that don\'t people understand?  To hear the gay libbers tell it, Obama is intentionally leaving out certain benefits because he hates gays.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11059250" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11059250" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11059250" class="dsq-comment-message">I wouldn\'t be relying on Barney Frank, one wealthy white man as being the voice of GLBTs. He has a history of animus towards the "T" portion of that acronym. Besides DOMA was pushed by Gay & Lesbians activists at the expense of Trans folk anyway. It took away their rights. So between the co-opting of the AA Civil Rights struggle and pissing on their bethren it\'s no wonder there\'s a bit of cosmic payback for being shady. Now having said that, Obama has still dropped the ball big time!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11059729" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11059729" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11059729" href="http://natthedem.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">nctodc</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11059729" class="dsq-comment-message">I think you mean ENDA, not DOMA. Part of the beef between gays and lesbians and the trans community is that they have access to marriage rights under DOMA while gays and lesbians do not. ENDA, however, is the other way around. <br><br>Whatever the case...Barney Frank\'s probably the nation\'s most recognized LGBT advocate, so he\'s hard to discount. His past actions notwithstanding, he\'s introducing a trans-enclusive ENDA.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11060039" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11060039" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11060039" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11060039" class="dsq-comment-message">Yup I meant ENDA but it applies to DOMA as well. I can\'t edit after a response has been posted.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11056279" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11056279" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11056279" href="http://themidnightsolution.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">LTMidnight</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11056279" class="dsq-comment-message">Why do I get the feeling you hear anything from Pam Spaulding, Rachel, and drama queen John Aravosis on this.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11058326" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11058326" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11058326">PBomb</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11058326" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11058326" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree with your sentiments entirely.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11059432" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11059432">PBomb</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11059432" class="dsq-comment-message">...</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11052197" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11052197" href="http://themidnightsolution.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">LTMidnight</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11052197" class="dsq-comment-message">And I\'m also not a big fan of the GLBT community co-opting the AA civil rights movement after all the hard work has been done.<br><br>If their civil rights is so important to them:<br><br>*Where is the GLBT version of a "sit-in"?<br>*Where is the GLBT version of a March on Washington?<br><br>And more important, where was all this "righteous outrage" during the Bush Administration when they were entertaining the idea of a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage?<br><br>I could go on.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11057653" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11057653" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11057653">patatsea</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11057653" class="dsq-comment-message">The LGBT community has marched on Washington in 1979, 1987, and 1993.  Another march is being planned, and permits have already been issued, for this October.<br><br>There was plenty of righteous outrage against Bush, but the only people listening were those who intentionally sought out LGBT opinions- people who were already allies.  A national voice that you did not have to go out of your way to hear- that\'s pretty new, and I\'d bet that a lot of queer people tended to avoid politics until the passage of prop 8.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11060022" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11060022" href="http://muzikalthoughts.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Muzikal203</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11060022" class="dsq-comment-message">7 people LIKED this comment? SMH<br><br>Their Civil Rights ARE important to them, and just because they aren\'t going about it the way YOU think they should go about it doesn\'t mean they aren\'t working HARD to get their rights. <br><br>The rage was there when Bush was in office, but Bush never made them any promises. Obama made the promises and he should keep them. If he had no intention of keeping them, he shouldn\'t have made them.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11063792" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11063792" href="http://themidnightsolution.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">LTMidnight</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11063792" class="dsq-comment-message">&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;7 people LIKED this comment? SMH&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;<br><br>Why are you so surprised?  It\'s a fair and honest question.<br><br>Who\'s out there fighting and ready to risk life and limb for the cause?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11065597" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11065597" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11065597" href="http://muzikalthoughts.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Muzikal203</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11065597" class="dsq-comment-message">This is not the 60s. They have their gay pride rallies. They have their civil rights groups. They are trying to work with the system. Simply because we don\'t see them getting assaulted with water hoses and dogs doesn\'t mean they aren\'t fighting for their rights.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11067245" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11067245" href="muttlikme.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Mutt Like Me</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11067245" class="dsq-comment-message">Well maybe they SHOULD get waterhoses and dogs. Freedom ain\'t free. And black folks\' road to freedom damn sure wasn\'t easy. If LGBTs are fighting, they ain\'t fightin hard enough. Maybe they should engage in civil disobedience in order to make their voices heard. I ain\'t talking about standing outside no damn hotel where the President is holding signs saying "Obama is a fraud" ANYBODY can do that. I\'m talking about getting HURT. REAL BAD. Maybe it\'s time the LGBT community started doing THAT. Cuz if they ain\'t willing to risk their physical comfort, dare I say even their LIVES to get equality, then they don\'t really want it, as far as I\'m concerned.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11067019" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11067019" href="muttlikme.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Mutt Like Me</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11067019" class="dsq-comment-message">Bullshit. LGBTs could have been just as enraged and willing to fight for equal rights when Bush was in office. They wait until Obama gets in office to act brand new. Miss me with that. And I\'m sorry, but they\'re not going about it with the way AA\'s did in the 1960s because of WHITE PRIVILEGE. Period.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11057905" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11057905">texascowgirl</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11057905" class="dsq-comment-message">If this was the last and not the first thing he was planning to do, then I would agree that it\'s not nearly enough. But since it\'s the first, I don\'t get all of the bitching and moaning. Ya\'ll do know he\'s been President for less then 150 days right? You didn\'t expect him to do everything you wanted in less then 6 months did you? I\'ll be amazed if he gets eveything I want done in two terms, but maybe I just have low expectations. Maybe I\'m crazy to believe he could do everything I wanted, when I wanted and repeal, reverse or restructure every bad law and policy enacted over the last 8 years in 5 months. Or should I say 16 because Clinton is responsible for DOMA, DADT and the repeal of the Blass-Stegal act which.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11065175" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11065175">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11065175" class="dsq-comment-message">I think it is a friggin shame that with all the things he could do for minority groups he chose to do something for gays initially. No other minority group has even garnered his attention in terms of policy changes.<br><br>So the gay folks do need to sit down and shut up.<br><br>I am ticked that my tax dollars will go to this nonsense.  So, can all single people now claim anyone they choose as a \'live-in\' and cover them too?<br><br>Where does this nonsense in terms of benefits coverage end?  Folks are going to start living together to share benefits?  Find a government employee to live with and you get TAXpayer paid benefits?<br><br>Whaaaat?  hmph!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11070891" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11070891" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11070891">Guns3000</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11070891" class="dsq-comment-message">Whites you and I went at it the other day but I have to cosign you on this.  First off, this is discrimination for all of the heterosexual couples that are living together or are "partners".  Matter of fact, I have to two chicks who live in my house and I want them covered.(In my dreams. The one I have now is enough stress)  A lot of these homosexuals have an elitist mentality anyway and disrespect the civil rights movement every chance they get.  I got love for my AAs in Hollywood but some of those negroes have been in Hollywood too long.  They stay cosigning this shiznit.  Obama doesn\'t need their money anymore he has 300 million dollar war chest for the next election.  The gays just make a lot noise and a lot of these media types are closeted homosexuals and that\'s why they get a lot of attention.  This is one issue that the Republicans actually have right.  And I can\'t stand all this nonsense in the media labeling blacks as homophobic.  Where the hell were they when police were using hoses and dogs against blacks? Probably somewhere in the closet?   Don\'t equate 400 years of oppression to you not being able to walk down the aisle with a person that has the same genitalia because last time I checked you have been able to do everything else for a long time.     The bottom line is Obama doesn\'t have to do too much for them because where are they going to go?  The GOP?  LOL And if you happen to be a homosexual and reading this please don\'t be offended. I just think you should take civil unions and STFU<br><br><a href="http://Iamverybroke.com" rel="nofollow">Iamverybroke.com</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11104148" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11104148">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11104148" class="dsq-comment-message">ITA!  We are definitely like-minded on this Guns.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11067332" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11067332" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11067332">patatsea</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11067332" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11067332" class="dsq-comment-message">If same sex marriage were legal, then we wouldn\'t have to deal with all of this "live-in" coverage nonsense.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11104551" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11104551" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11104551">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11104551" class="dsq-comment-message">False. If they wanted the so-called \'benefits\' they would marry the opposite gender. All this \'live-in\' coverage is completely wrong and the entire reason there are laws that surround and support the institution of marriage.<br><br>What is going to stop a \'live-in\' from discontinuing benefits at their capricious whim?  Is the law going to say well even though \'fellatio\' moved out that \'cunnilingus\' no longer has to cover them?  Will \'fellatio\' be able to sue to keep cunnilingus\' benefits and will cunnilingus be able to put \'fellatio2\' on their benefits too?<br><br>How many "fellatio\'s" will cunnilingus be allowed to live with and have healthcare benefits?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11145102" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11145102" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11145102">patatsea</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11145102" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11145102" class="dsq-comment-message">But your scenario is exactly what would be solved by the legalization of same sex marriage, that\'s what I was pointing out. I\'m assuming the \'fellatio\' and \'cunnilingus\' you speak of are the same gender (I would assume male, given Romance language masculine word endings, though its so hard to tell with such unusual names).  If \'fellatio\' and \'cunnilingus\' could marry, then \'cunnilingus\' could simply cover \'fellatio\' as a spouse, no more worrying about what "live-in" status is.  And clearly, since one can only marry one other person, \'cunnilingus\' would be limited to only covering \'fellatio\', unless they should ever get divorced.  Then \'fellatio\' would no longer be covered, and if \'cunnilingus\' should ever remarry, let\'s say to \'John\', then \'John\' would be covered as \'cunnilingus\'s\' husband.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11480322">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11480322" class="dsq-comment-message">Legalizing same gender marriage solves nothing it only creates a whole host of other issues for society.<br><br>Cunnilingus should not be allowed to cover anyone as long as she is single, unless it is a child.<br><br>Single people will be able to cover their parents as significant others!!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11067921">karlewis</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11067921" class="dsq-comment-message">Different argument but single people have always been penalized for being single. Gay or straight, married or single I should be able to extend my benefits to whom ever I see fit. If I wanted to designate my partner for something I paid for then why should your \'ring\' over power my wishes??!!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11104241">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11104241" class="dsq-comment-message">Single people are NOT penalized that is the entire point. Marriage is a LOSS of individual constitutional and property rights.<br><br>Only gay people have made marriage about \'benefits\' it is a totally specicous argument i.e. based on a false premise!<br><br>Go buy a \'ring\' if you think that is where the \'power\' is vested it ain\'t.<br><br>Ask Usher, if he wishes he wasn\'t married to Tameka right now, in terms of his individual rights...he would certainly would have far less to lose.<br><br>Gay folks just want to turn the society upside down and inside out to support their outside the box choices.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11058887">marachne</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11058887" class="dsq-comment-message">I know I probably shouldn\'t go on, but hey, I\'m a Sagittarius and we\'re not known to knowing when to shut up :)<br><br>First of all, I have never felt that deluded about where the president\'s politics were/are. I know he\'s a lot more moderate/centrist than my taste runs, and I have been among those who have said "hey, give the man a break, give him time."<br><br>But there have been a number of disappointments recently -- the lack of support for a real public option in his health care plan; the lack of support for cram downs, and real financial reform; the choice of wall street insiders for his financial team; his approach to Afghanistan, his lack of any kind of support for investigations into the abuses of the Bush administration ...and still I have said "ok, give him time, he\'s a smart politician, his go slow approach has gotten results in the past.<br><br>But he seems to either have somewhat of a deaf ear, or have someone with a fair amount of influence in his administration that keeps him making some really odd choices. As I said, Rick Warren was NOT necessary -- he\'s not even that influential, and his AIDS work in Africa has been shown to have its dubious side. The fact that he has no done simple, small things about DADT like a stop loss, or issued a statement about the wording of the DOMA brief -- things like seem to indicate that he either doesn\'t get it, or doesn\'t care. <br><br>And this latest, in terms of the timing around the DNC fundraiser just shows him in a bad light -- as a gesture, it is more insult than aid. <br><br>This is the man who said he has no problem multi-tasking, yet he\'s too busy to catch these kinds of gaffs. This is the man who very quickly apologized for the AF1 look-alike fly-over, and states that ultimately, he is responsible for the actions of his administration, but somehow, in this case, he stays mum.<br><br>I\'m not saying that I\'m right and you\'re wrong. All I\'m saying is that he\'s made some moves that leads to people wondering about how he is approaching some of the hot button issues.<br><br>I still think he is a hell of a lot better than McCain ever would\'ve been, and certainly a lot better than Bush or Clinton...but that\'s about as far as I can go at this point.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11060192">texascowgirl</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11060192" class="dsq-comment-message">I guess the key term is "hot button". They are "hot" for some and not for others. The truth is a politician can feel a certain way about an issue and intend to act on it, but maybe not before they do several other things that they deem to be more important. As far as multi taking does, he is multi-tasking, just not every task you want. I disagree with you on the public option for healthcare, I don\'t think he\'s backed off on it and the biggest problem is Dems in congress, not Obama. As far as the Afghan war goes, I think he was pretty clear about that during the campaign. McCain was the candidate who wanted to stay out of the Afghan/ Pakistan border, not Obama. I think he\'s right and there have been some good results. Pakistan is stepping up in a way they never where before and Al Queda is making videos begging for money. They are beng hit on both sides and that wasn\'t true before. <br><br>I get you complaints and disappointments, but again I feel the need to stress he\'s been in office for 5 months and literally has 99 problems. The idea that he could give the same amount of attention to all of them at the same time is ridiculous and unrealistic. I guess taking personal offense is unavoidable, but I would imagine it\'s not personal at all. How can he through anyone under the bus when he\'s barely gotten on the bus? To say Obama doesn\'t care about any partcular group of people is to sugest that some groups of people aren\'t affected by the recession, healthcare or foreign policy which I always assumed were his top three issues for the beginning of his term. And it is still the beginning. <br><br>Some people are acting like Obama is their boyfriend and he forgot some arbitrary special day that he isn\'t even aware of. Was he suppose to have repealed DOMA by 3/15 or 4/15? Was he suppose to have had all of the plans for a public option ready before he walked into office? Before he stabalized the finacial markets? Would Congress have even been willing to take the issue up before then? Was he suppose to have been lying when he told you that he thought the war in Afghanistan was the war worth fighting? It\'s fair to want Obama to do what he said he would, but it\'s also fair to give him at least a damn year and not hold him responsible for a do nothing Congress, pussy ass Congress.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11062925">Lilytiger</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11062925" class="dsq-comment-message">At this time last year I was for civil unions not gay marriage. This time I am for gay marriage.<br><br>That being said, I am getting rather irritated with the LGBT community right now. I do want DOMA and DADT repealed but ...yes but..it isn\'t something that should or will come from the top down. Watch the states do it. I think by this time next year this may be a moot point. I also think the largest and loudest of these protests are not from Obama supporters but still angry Hillary supporters. The sites I go to that freak me out the most are puma and Edwards supporter sites. (I mean except for the crazy lets kill Obama sites) I love their impression that their failed candidate would have had all this taken care of in the first month. <br><br>I am sorry but this is not really the top issue in this nation at the moment. That being said, I know that civil rights was never "the top issue in the nation" during its moment.<br><br>I am working with a group in my state of Washington that is fighting off an outside machine coming in and trying to overturn what the Governor just signed into law for gay rights. True, I am not gay but I am not homophobic either. Work on your state and the Feds will have to follow. This is kind of how movements lose its potential supporters who are NOT directly affected but who can empathize.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11061613">marachne</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11061613" class="dsq-comment-message">I want to second a bunch of what Muzikal203 said about there is plenty he could\'ve done that yeah, maybe wouldv\'e been temporary, but would\'ve made a difference in the lives of both those military personnel who got booted and their comrades who depend on them to be there doing their part.<br><br>And I concede that some of the things he is doing are following through on what he stated re: Afghanistan. <br><br>Also, I am just, if not more p.o.\'d at the punk-ass senate and the useless Harry Reid -- put the repubs feet to the fire when they threaten to filibuster, start some legislation. There are lots of missed opportunities and miss-steps on their part.<br><br>And this post is probably not the place to talk about the other things that the president has done that leaves me scratching my head, like not giving more support to the employee free choice act, or comments about open-ended detention, or now saying he will continue Bush\'s policy of keeping the WH guest list private.<br><br>I am not a one-issue voter, never have been, never will be, but how many times does one have to feel dismissed before one has the right to speak up? And how long can the "he\'s new in office" excuse going to hold? There will never stop being crisis\'. His political approval will not stay at the current level forever. If he doesn\'t do the more risky things he said were important to him now, what is the likelihood he will later?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11062836">texascowgirl</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11062836" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree with you that his approval ratings won\'t be this high forever so which do you think he should spend his political capital on now? Healthcare and the economy, which costs trillions of dollars or repealing DOMA and DADT, which he could do at anytime because of public opinion being in favor of it. He will actually have a lot more people on his side on those issues a year from now then he will a 1.6 trillion dollar overhaul of healthcare or new regualtions for the finacial sector. Has anyone considered that he is trying to do the hardest stuff first? If you are a gay person in the military, then DADT may be your priority, but their are a lot more people looking at foreclosures and a lack of healthcare insurance.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11105123">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11105123" class="dsq-comment-message">TXgirl...you are on fire, again!!  Great post.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11107176">texascowgirl</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11107176" class="dsq-comment-message">Thanks. I just don\'t like irrational knee-jerk emotionalism that\'s based on wanting to fell a certain way and not actual facts. We already have a crazy rightwing in this country and I don\'t like seeing it on the left either. If there is one thing the right does better then the left it\'s that they know how to support their presidents. I have never seen president get turned on like this in my life from his own damn party and after only 5 months. Maybe that\'s why we have lost so many elections in the last 40 years. Our best and brightest don\'t want to deal with Democrats let alone the GOP.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11106494" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11106494">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11106494" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11106494" class="dsq-comment-message">HELLO!!!!  Keep telling it, texascowgirl.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11059797" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11059797" href="http://muzikalthoughts.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Muzikal203</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11059797" class="dsq-comment-message">Exactly, I just "love" how they\'ve non-responded to the DOMA brief. /snark</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11059625" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11059625" href="http://muzikalthoughts.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Muzikal203</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11059625" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11059625" class="dsq-comment-message">People aren\'t upset that he hasn\'t undone decades of bad policy. People are upset because he hasn\'t done ANYTHING AT ALL. And how long is the he\'s only been in office _____ days argument going to fly? I bet if YOU were gay, you would have an issue with him not doing ANYTHING in those however many days, especially when he constantly called himself a "fierce advocate" for gay rights.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11063194" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11063194" href="http://themidnightsolution.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">LTMidnight</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11063194" class="dsq-comment-message">The GLBT community sat on their hands for the past 8 years when the previous administration was entertaining the idea of a federal ban on same-sex marriage, but they can\'t give this president six months to give them everything they demand?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11063557" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11063557" href="http://muzikalthoughts.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Muzikal203</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11063557" class="dsq-comment-message">They did NOT sit on their hands the past 8 years. It\'s just NOW people are paying more attention to them.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11064604" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11064604" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11064604" href="http://themidnightsolution.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">LTMidnight</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11064604" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes they did.  It\'s why Prop 8 passed.  Not because of what the opposition did, but the because the "advocates" didn\'t do.  The GLBT community want to criticize Obama because all he did was a radio commercial against Prob 8, but it was a lot more than the very rich and very influential gays in California did.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11065417">patatsea</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11065417" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes prop 8 was a failure, in a lot of ways, but I don\'t recall or see much blame directed in Obama\'s direction.  There was of course, the loud racist squawking that came out after the vote, but the vast majority of people with reasoned heads placed the blame exactly where you do, on the anti-prop 8 leadership.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11065446" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11065446" href="http://muzikalthoughts.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Muzikal203</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11065446" class="dsq-comment-message">No, they did NOT sit on their hands. You don\'t seem to want to acknowledge it. Have you even been following the situation outside of what\'s been on the TV?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11064255" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11064255" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11064255">patatsea</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11064255" class="dsq-comment-message">People weren\'t sitting on their hands- you\'ll notice a federal ban never passed.  Queer opposition to Bush was much less visible both because the movement had a much smaller platform to speak from at the time and because queer opposition was lumped in with general opposition to Bush.  I said it before- a few years ago the only people hearing LGBT opinion were those who actively sought it out.  The movement has grown, which is why the general public hears about these issues more and more.<br><br>I think continued demands are important because without them, the issues will fade into the background.  How many comments here have stated that LGBT issues are not top priority and should wait their turn?  Unfortunately, I don\'t think people realize how much those comments come from a place of privilege.  I\'d rather the president be working on health care and the economy too, but I can\'t ignore these issues because they affect my very existence, the same way racial issues affect me as a POC.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11060879" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11060879" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11060879">texascowgirl</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11060879" class="dsq-comment-message">First, I like your diaries at DKOS. <br><br>Second, maybe you are right about me not being gay, and therefore I can\'t possible care as much. I don\'t espect anyone to care about women more then women or black folks more then black folks, so you may be right. Of course even if I were gay a repeal of DOMA would still leave me only able to marry in 5 states. And actually you are upset because he hasn\'t undone decades of bad policy because that\'s what DOMA and DADT are. When was he and Congress suspossed to have gotten that done by? It\'s June 17. He was sworn in on Jan 20th. When was it supposed to be on his schedule? I\'m not trying to be a jerk, I\'m dead serious. He could issue and executive order to repeal DADT, but that\'s temporary fix. Congress needs to act to make it official law. When did you expect that to have been done by? What did the gay community expect?<br><br>And just for the record I have said the same in threads dealing with what I feel were unrealistic expectations from black people and what they expect from Obama. And I am black so me not being something doesn\'t have as much to do with my view on this particular issue as you may think.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11105647" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11105647" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11105647" href="http://blackdiamond2008.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ASmith</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11105647" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11105647" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m glad you bring up the temporary nature of an Executive Order.<br><br>Since he got into office, Obama has repealed LOTS of Bush EOs... cause he can... but all the ones he\'s writing up can be repealed as soon as someone who doesn\'t like it gets into office.<br><br>Folks need to get off Obama and get their behinds in the Halls of Congress because there are A LOT of closeted gay members who they need to call to task (while they want to out celebs like Queen Latifah). You want something permanent, right? Well get a LAW. The Executive Branch does not pass laws, Congress does. Period.<br><br>All this blame and anger is just in the wrong spot and that\'s all there is to that. Rep. Barney Frank is an openly gay member of Congress and I haven\'t heard of him spearheading anything to change this situation.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11061159" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11061159" href="http://muzikalthoughts.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Muzikal203</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11061159" class="dsq-comment-message">Thanks about the diaries. <br><br>By June 17th there could be way more action. There could be a bill on the floor. He could have suspended the implementation of DADT until Congress got around to it. He could put more pressure on Congress to repeal both DADT and the DOMA. Harry Reid said he\'s waiting on the WH to do something, and the WH says they are waiting on Congress to do something, meanwhile nothing is getting done. I don\'t subscribe to the idea that simply because a fix would be TEMPORARY you shouldn\'t do it and instead should wait on our notoriously slow Congress to move on it. Obama could stop the bleeding.  I, personally, didn\'t expect him to undo all of it immediately, but I DID expect him to do SOMETHING. Look at Guantanamo, it was also a staple in his stump speeches, and he signed an executive order for that the first day. How much time would he really have to spend on signing an executive order? He probably wouldn\'t even have to WRITE it, just read and sign it. <br><br>For something like DADT, which was also a staple in his stump speeches, you\'d THINK he\'d do more than TALK about what he plans to do and actually START doing something. Frame the argument for DADT as necessary to be successful in Iraq/Afghanistan. How many more Arabic translators do we have to lose simply because they are homosexual?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11064814" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11064814" href="http://themidnightsolution.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">LTMidnight</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11064814" class="dsq-comment-message">&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;Harry Reid said he\'s waiting on the WH to do something, and the WH says they are waiting on Congress to do something, meanwhile nothing is getting done.&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;<br><br>This is exactly what I\'m talking about.  Why the hell is Reid waiting on word from the WH to act?  He\'s the Senate Majority Leader for christ sakes.  He\'s a leader of the Legislative Branch, whose primary goal is to make the laws of the land.<br><br>Obama\'s primary job as leader of the Executive Branch is to ENFORCE those laws.<br><br>Reid and Obama are co equals in their respective roles, so why does Reid has to wait?</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-11067237">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11067237" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11067237" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11067237">Admiral_Komack</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11067237" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11067237" class="dsq-comment-message">"Reid and Obama are co equals in their respective roles, so why does Reid has to wait?"<br><br>-Um, \'cause Reid is a useless fuck?</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-11104927">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11104927" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11104927" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11104927">whiterosebuddy</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11104927" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11104927" class="dsq-comment-message">NOPE. <br><br>The WH cannot execute laws which have not been legislated.  Reid has to legislate policy.<br><br> As leader of the executive branch his primary job is to EXECUTE the laws. It is the job of the DOJ to ENFORCE the laws.<br><br>You know like how JFK had to execute, i.e. command/direct,  the DOJ to have AG RFK send in the Federal troops to Alabama to ENFORCE the FEDERAL civil laws??.<br><br> Please understand the roles of  leadership within our  government before you start making demands, on folks positions.<br><br>Presidents uphold and execute laws.<br>DOJ enforces laws.<br>Congress legislates laws.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-11065470">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11065470" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11065470" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11065470" href="http://muzikalthoughts.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Muzikal203</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11065470" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11065470" class="dsq-comment-message">Because Reid has no SPINE. I really wish we could get rid of him.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11066482" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11066482" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11066482">RobM</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11066482" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11066482" class="dsq-comment-message">Second. he can\'t even deal w/ people like the Liarman whom ratted out the party. Expecting him to do anything for anybody is to wait for Godot.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-11102751">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11102751" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11102751" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11102751">MoObama</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11102751" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11102751" class="dsq-comment-message">If I were gay I would have muster up some dignity and civility as well as respect for the president, since I want help with this issue.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-11058729">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11058729" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11058729" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11058729">RonnieB</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11058729" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11058729" class="dsq-comment-message">I think what bothers me most on the issue of LGBT equality, is that the President--if he truly believes in the equal right to health benefits and retirement--will not make his belief known for fear of political damage.<br><br>To me, that\'s not much different than JFK\'s unwillingness to sign a civil rights bill for fear of political damage.  He <i>believed</i> in civil rights, he just didn\'t have the courage to fight for them.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-11065051">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11065051" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11065051" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11065051">whiterosebuddy</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11065051" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11065051" class="dsq-comment-message">He already has made his beliefs known. They are well known and were known during the campaign. He supported gay rights moreso than HRC.  So, he is not hiding from political drama based on his position. He has repeatedly stated he believes in civil unions and that gay folks are denied numerous rights derived under federal law based on marriage.<br><br>He HAS courage...he was elected WITH those KNOWN views.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-11066276">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11066276" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11066276" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11066276">RobM</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11066276" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11066276" class="dsq-comment-message">He has never followed up on either of those. I could be wrong but at last leak this proposal is not written in a matter that is permanent for whatever comcessions he is making.The defense of DOMA was done in a manner that had to be offensive to you as a human being. You may not want them to be married but i do not think you\'d argue against homosexual marriage by saying it permits incest and child rape. You know that isn\'t true.<br><br>At this point I\'ve come to the concluson the President is an incrementalist. We are not at a point in time where we can work in incrementnal bits. Our communiations systems work to fast for that.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-11106018">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11106018" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11106018" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11106018">whiterosebuddy</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11106018" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11106018" class="dsq-comment-message">The example you use of JFK is different from what BHO is facing. JFK had laws on the book that he could command and direct to be executed. That is the President\'s role. BHO does not have laws on the book he can uphold or execute!!<br><br>BHO has to wait for Congress to legislate the laws.<br><br>You are mixing up the responsibilities of the leadership roles involved.  Presidents\' do not MAKE laws they EXECUTe them.  Congress LEGISLATES.  Once Congress legislates then Presidents execute and UPHOLD the law.<br><br>so you are angry at the wrong person!!</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-11059532">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11059532" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11059532" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11059532" href="http://muzikalthoughts.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Muzikal203</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11059532" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11059532" class="dsq-comment-message">What happened to all of this "transparency" that were were supposed to have? I think it\'s more my mistake than Obama\'s that I believed most of his rhetoric during the campaign.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-11051952">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11051952" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11051952" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11051952" href="http://themidnightsolution.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">LTMidnight</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11051952" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11051952" class="dsq-comment-message">What I can\'t get for the life of me is why is all the venom and anger coming from the GLBT community targeted solely on Obama?<br><br>I happen to know that there are several very liberal members of congress (some are even gay) that have yet to do jack s#!% when it comes to drafting a bill to repeal DOMA and DADT.  Are they waiting for Obama and, if so, why?</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-11053077">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11053077" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11053077" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11053077">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11053077" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11053077" class="dsq-comment-message">I believe that the President is wrong on DOMA and DADT. I believe both were easy \' gimmes\' for the President that he has messed up, and didn\'t need to. That they were easy things to do, while the hardest one - Gay Marriage - works its way through the judiciary.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-11053492">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11053492" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11053492" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11053492" href="http://themidnightsolution.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">LTMidnight</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11053492" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11053492" class="dsq-comment-message">But again, why is all the venom on Obama?  COuld he has handled DOMA and DADT better than he did?  Of course.  But where\'s Barney Frank with his bill to repeal DADT?  Where\'s that "San Francisco liberal" Polosi\'s bill to repeal DOMA?  I\'d like to see some venom aimed in their direction.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-11057629">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11057629" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11057629" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11057629">texascowgirl</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11057629" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11057629" class="dsq-comment-message">This is a very good question. Harry Ried wants Obama to get busy on repealing DADT, but what\'s stopping Harry Reid and Barney Frank from putting a bill on the floor, passing it through Congress and sending it to the President to sign? The truth is the Dems had Congress for two years before Obama was POTUS and tbey could have had a bill ready for him to sign just like the CHIP bill.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-11060086">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11060086" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11060086" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11060086" href="http://muzikalthoughts.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Muzikal203</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11060086" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11060086" class="dsq-comment-message">Because as Obama himself has said repeatedly, the buck stops with him. If they honestly felt OBAMA was working to repeal DADT and the DOMA then they would turn their ire more on Congress and largely leave Obama alone, but I don\'t think Obama has done anything over the last 5 months to inspire a lot of confidence in the GLBT community.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-11061282">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11061282" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11061282" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11061282" href="http://themidnightsolution.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">LTMidnight</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11061282" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11061282" class="dsq-comment-message">As I said, Obama could come out and openly push members of Congress to draft a bill to repeal DADT and DOMA, but again, why does he have to?</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-11063282">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11063282" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11063282" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11063282">Lilytiger</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11063282" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11063282" class="dsq-comment-message">It seems to me to be another example of the "magical negro" mentality that his opponents have.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-11061389">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11061389" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11061389" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11061389" href="http://muzikalthoughts.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Muzikal203</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11061389" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11061389" class="dsq-comment-message">Because he\'s the President, you act like he hasn\'t come out and pushed Congress to do what he wants before.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-11063639">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11063639" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11063639" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11063639" href="http://themidnightsolution.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">LTMidnight</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11063639" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11063639" class="dsq-comment-message">So what makes you think he hasn\'t done so already and it\'s not the congress dragging their feet on it.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-11065648">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11065648" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11065648" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11065648" href="http://muzikalthoughts.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Muzikal203</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11065648" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11065648" class="dsq-comment-message">What makes you think he has done something? Obama is supposedly the "transparency" President, so if he was actually pressuring Congress, wouldn\'t he want us to know "yes, I\'ve been pressuring Congress" or even "yes, I\'m working with Congress" instead all they have is silence.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-11067607">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11067607" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11067607" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11067607" href="http://themidnightsolution.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">LTMidnight</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11067607" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11067607" class="dsq-comment-message">And that silence automatically means he\'s not doing anything?<br><br>I don\'t know if he is or isn\'t.  And neither do you.  That\'s my point.<br><br>Again, I\'m willing to condemn the man in such a short period.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-11051234">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11051234" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11051234" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11051234" href="http://thisweekwithbarackobama.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">icebergslim</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11051234" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11051234" class="dsq-comment-message">NO.<br><br>One thing I have always complained about Obama is his slowness on issues.  He is overly cautious, which is understandable, but for that rhetoric in that DOMA brief is enough to make many keep their WALLETS CLOSED.  Yes, Obama probably did not know all the language, but as many of his former presidents, "it was under his watch."<br><br>This being afraid of anything with "gay" attached to it is cowardly.  And this is what the Obama Administration is to me on this issue, cowards.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11053126" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11053126" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11053126">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11053126" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11053126" class="dsq-comment-message">I hear you, iceberg. The DOMA thing makes no damn sense to me. It was easy to be on the \' right side\' of this issue, and it seems as if this Administration went out of their way to make the wrong decision.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11059048" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11059048" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11059048" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11059048" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11059048" class="dsq-comment-message">If this wakes some people up from thinking of him as what another blogger refers to as a "sacred cow" then so be it. Since so many people seem to have such difficulties wrapping their brain around what Obama promised and what DOMA says I think it\'s been laid out plainly now. There are plenty of Black people who are GLBT and they need protection because as we all know it\'s Blacks who continually get the short end of the stick.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-11060135">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11060135" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11060135" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11060135" href="http://muzikalthoughts.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Muzikal203</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11060135" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11060135" class="dsq-comment-message">the thing I find funny is that the more disagreeable (in my opinion anyway) things the Obama administration does, the harder his apologists fight to defend what is quickly becoming indefensible (if it\'s not already).</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-11060666">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11060666" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11060666" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11060666" href="http://themidnightsolution.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">LTMidnight</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11060666" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11060666" class="dsq-comment-message">I can\'t speak for no one else, but I just think there needs to be some fairness involved.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-11061275">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11061275" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11061275" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11061275" href="http://muzikalthoughts.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Muzikal203</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11061275" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11061275" class="dsq-comment-message">I think people are being VERY fair. He said he wanted people to stay on him to make sure he does what he said he would do. He ASKED us to do what we are doing, and now people are trying to say we are being unfair to him.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-11063568">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11063568" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11063568" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11063568" href="http://themidnightsolution.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">LTMidnight</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11063568" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11063568" class="dsq-comment-message">Keeping him honest is one thing (which I strongly encourage), but when I hear crap like "he BETRAYED us!!!!111!" or "he\'s no better than Bush!!!111" or my favorite "Obama\'s a homophobic bigot (the GLBT new favorite name to call people who aren\'t gung-ho over same sex marriage)" it does nothing but convince me that these people are anything but disingenuous.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-11065670">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11065670" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11065670" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11065670" href="http://muzikalthoughts.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Muzikal203</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11065670" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11065670" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'ve never said any of that. I just don\'t think he\'s as fierce of an advocate as he proclaims to be, but I do think he supports equal rights (except for the right to get married) to homosexuals.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-11067498">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11067498" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11067498" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11067498" href="http://themidnightsolution.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">LTMidnight</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11067498" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11067498" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t believe in same-sex marriage either, but I do believe in civil rights?  I believe people should live however they want as long as they\'re not hurting anyone.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11069313" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11069313" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11069313">TiredOfThePhonies</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11069313" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11069313" class="dsq-comment-message">Don\'t you people ever get tired of flapping your lips just to complain about the President?<br><br>In 2012 you can vote for McCain, Palin or any of the other bozos in the republican party who run for office.  <br><br>Until then get off of your lazy a**** and do something for someone or your community, like mentoring or tutoring.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11137377" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11137377">Facebook User</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11137377" class="dsq-comment-message">Amen.  I think that people from the left assumed that they owned Pres. Obama. Instead of waiting for what a politician can do for you, you need to do for yourself.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11057663" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11057663">marachne</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11057663" class="dsq-comment-message">I hear, and respect several arguments I have heard here regarding the sense that the so parts of the  LGBT community has both co-opted the AA struggle and dismissed/ignored POC among us, but I also have a problem with some of the statements that have been made here.<br><br>First of all, I don\'t think that making parallels between different struggles for civil rights is all that awful. Why can\'t we use the history to try and explain the present? And no, I\'m not saying that things are all rosy and perfect in terms of racism, but the struggles and efforts are worth emulating. Didn\'t Dr. King look to Ghandi, and the US civil rights movement was not exactly the same -- it was not an attempt to throw out an outside, imperialistic government but an attempt to change a government of one\'s own country.<br><br>Secondly, just like parts of the LGBT community have ignored the presence of POC, parts of the AA community has ignored the presence of LGBT persons.  I have heard repeatedly of people feeling torn between their racial/ethnic identity and their sexual identity, and not feeling welcome in either. Isn\'t there some responsibility among AA allies to call out the homophobia in their midst just as their among white LBGT allies to call out the racism in theirs (and hey, some of us do, every day...and my thanks to Jill and some of the others here who are doing just that).<br><br>I think there is also an incredible dismissal of the things that LBGT folk face in this country. Leaving aside the whole marriage thing (personally, I think everyone should be given civil unions and the state should get out the marriage business all together -- it works in France, why not here?), we are talking not only loss/lack of basic rights such as access to social security benefits, health care benefits, hospital visitation, but we are talking harassment, beatings, rapes, killings...the teenage suicide rate among LBGT teens is disproportionately high -- doesn\'t that tell you something? And despite the image of all queers as being upper middle class, the reality is that the rate of poverty and homelessness is above the national average.<br><br>As to the question of "where are the marches, where are the sit ins, we have marched:there have been 4 marches on Washington: 1979, 1987, 1993 and 2000. We have demonstrated, (what do you call all the activity -- nationwide -- after prop 8 passed?), and we do write/call/etc our public officials.<br><br>What has been so painful with President Obama has been that he has made very specific promises, and then his actions belie his words. Yeah, Rick Warren wasn\'t the end of the world, but it was a pretty potent symbol. DADT does need to be changed in the legislature (and there are people working on it) but he didn\'t even need to issue an executive order, all he needed was, as CIC to issue a stop-loss order. But I guess neo-nazis and gang bangers are more valuable members of the military then highly trained, long-time serving service members.<br><br>As for the DOMA brief -- why/who assigned it to a Mormon to write? It IS his DOJ, he does set a tone, and if nothing else, he could\'ve said something about the issue of what an ugly piece of work it was, full of unnecesary lies and calumny.<br><br>And I don\'t care what he might have had in the works, throwing the kind of meaningless crumb he is, with barely any advance notice days before a big DNC fundraiser looks, and smells bad -- it makes he look like he thinks we\'re stupid and desperate enough to put up with any crumbs. <br><br>I really appreciate JJP. I learn a lot from reading what people have to say, and get my assumptions called up short regularly. I mostly lurk because I am not a POC, and I know that my folk already take up too much space. But I also feel, just like I try and speak out for others when I think they have been wronged, that I can say something when I need to defend myself.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11064152" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11064152" href="http://natthedem.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">nctodc</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11064152" class="dsq-comment-message">marachne, thanks for taking the time to post your response, it\'s a much needed perspective, and if you\'ll indulge me, I\'d like to respond to a few points (I won\'t respond on specific points on DOMA or DADT or today\'s "meaningless crumb" because I addressed them in <a href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2009/06/is-obamas-same-sex-partners-policy-enough/?dsq=11059729#comment-11054504" rel="nofollow">a previous comment</a>, I encourage you to take a look): <br><br>I think LGBT rights are civil rights and if the community wants to co-opt the the language of the Civil Rights Era, I\'m fine with that (I say that, of course, as if it\'s my language to give away), but the disconnect has been (and, to a degree, continues to be) whether it goes beyond word choice. Is there an understanding of the history behind the words? Does the leadership of LGBT organizations and, generally, people who advocate for the cause, appreciate that the Civil Rights Movement was "the most strategic, careful and patient litigation effort that this country had ever seen" (to quote <a href="http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/11185/olson-and-boies-go-on-media-rounds-to-discuss-the-federal-marriage-lawsuit" rel="nofollow">one law professor</a>). <br><br>You\'ll get absolutely no disagreement from me on the plight of LGBT persons  within their communities of color. I\'ve heard stories for years from my gay and lesbian friends who have had their family members tell them that their sexuality is a "white thing" and they weren\'t really gay. We need to do better, we must do better and certainly Obama\'s in a good place to start that  discussion. <br><br>That said, while Obama may be a good place to start that discussion, far too many people think the conversation begins and ends with Obama when it comes to LGBT legislation. That strategy is not only wrong as a matter of process but it\'s wrong as matter of politics. Why isn\'t the message to Congress and to the American people: "support Barack Obama\'s LGBT agenda" instead of "why Barack Obama has let us down?" <br><br>Think about it this way: in short order, there\'s going to be an effort in Maine to amend the state\'s constitution and the LGBT community will have to mount a fight. Obama has, consistently, opposed efforts to add discrimination to the Constitution--why would you try to weaken his standing as an LGBT advocate when his advocacy could prove invaluable? The absence of that kind of strategic thinking distinguishes this movement from the Civil Rights Movement.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11057816" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11057816" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11057816">lamh32</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11057816" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11057816" class="dsq-comment-message">Whoh!<br><br>"neo nazis & gang bangers!!!!" What exactly is the relation between the two...?<br>Oh...neo-nazis = white, gang bangers = blacks?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11058192" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11058192" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11058192">marachne</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11058192" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11058192" class="dsq-comment-message">No, I\'m talking about the fact that the military (as has been reported on here at JJP: <a href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2007/07/crip-walking-in-baghdad/" rel="nofollow">http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2007/07/crip...</a> and I\'m pretty sure there\'s more recent posts about this) has overlooked the history and records of recruits to allow people of reputable backgrounds into the service. <br><br>It makes so much sense to do this while kicking out others who have done nothing wrong and have shown stellar service.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11066076" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11066076" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11066076">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11066076" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11066076" class="dsq-comment-message">Maybe everyone needs a refresher course:<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEJL2Uuv-oQ" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEJL2Uuv-oQ</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11056187" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11056187" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11056187">lamh32</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11056187" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11056187" class="dsq-comment-message">I think Obama should forgo Congress, period.  he should just issue executive orders for everything.  It is in his power right, so why not?  I mean why do we need a Congress for anyhow.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11056393" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11056393" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11056393" href="http://themidnightsolution.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">LTMidnight</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11056393" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11056393" class="dsq-comment-message">I seem to recall liberals getting their panties in a bunch when the Bush Administation picked and chose which laws they wanted to upheld, but now have no qualms with Obama doing the same thing if it suits them.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11057714" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11057714" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11057714">lamh32</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11057714" class="dsq-comment-message">Exactly LT.  It just seems to me that only option some in the LGTB community are giving Obama is to do what Bush did.  USE the power, to hell with checks and balances!!<br><br>heck why don\'t we just make the US a monarchy or dictatorship.  That\'s basically what they are asking for.  <br><br>They refuse to make CONGRESS do their jobs.  <br><br>They have been all along bitchin\' about Bush being power hungry.  Some of us on the left are like abused children.  We know that what our abuser was doing was wrong, but we still go along and abuse others, casue that was how we were taught things get done!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11057513">texascowgirl</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11057513" class="dsq-comment-message">+1</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11062464" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11062464" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11062464">AM2k9</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11062464" class="dsq-comment-message">LT....No criticism of Obama are allowed. None.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11063924" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11063924" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11063924">texascowgirl</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11063924" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11063924" class="dsq-comment-message">And I guess no criticism of the criticism either?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11061153" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11061153" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11061153">texascowgirl</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11061153" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11061153" class="dsq-comment-message">He could do that. And then the next anti-gay GOP president could issue and executive order to reverse anything Obama does. Just like funding for abortions overseas and stem cell research funding gets reversed depending on who\'s president and their personal views. Do you want it done or do you want it done right? Because it does matter how it\'s done. This part of what it hasn\'t been done yet.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11061220" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11061220" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11061220" href="http://muzikalthoughts.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Muzikal203</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11061220" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11061220" class="dsq-comment-message">Wasn\'t the stim cell thing he did earlier an executive order? Or was it a bill? I can\'t remember at the moment. And if it was an executive order, should he have waited for Congress to move on it to have a more permanent fix?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11053152" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11053152" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11053152">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11053152" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11053152" class="dsq-comment-message">If it doesn\'t include health benefits and retirement, then this \' announcement\' is bullshyt, and not worth the paper its written on.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11062036" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11062036" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11062036">texascowgirl</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11062036" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11062036" class="dsq-comment-message">Congress has to deal with the issue of health benefits. So again we are back to him just doing something vs. something with actual teeth. To hear what some are saying he should have done this without Congress putting health benefits into it because it would have been something as opposed to nothing. Make up your minds. Do you want him to act in a superficial way or wait to get real legislation through Congress.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11063205" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11063205" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11063205">Lilytiger</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11063205" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11063205" class="dsq-comment-message">What is really apparent is that our lawmaking is not a simplistic action.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11064201" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11064201" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11064201">texascowgirl</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11064201" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11064201" class="dsq-comment-message">True, but after 8 years of a POTUS doing whatever the hell he wanted because he had a lock step Congress of his own party, people\'s senses are warped. Clinton couldn\'t get the Congress to do whatever he wanted when he had a Democratic majority (see healthcare) and apparently neither can Obama (again, see healthcare). For whatever reasons, the Dems aren\'t like the GOP. Less orgazined, less authoritarian and more diverse in almost everyway. It actually is more difficult to be a Democratic President, even when your own party holds Congress.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11132669" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11132669" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11132669">Lilytiger</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11132669" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11132669" class="dsq-comment-message">Really! It seems as if there are only three dems in power at the moment and two of them aren\'t really doing anything. Where\'s my Dems, where are the rest of the country\'s. They aren\'t making nearly enough noise on any issue.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11059419" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11059419" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11059419" href="http://muzikalthoughts.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Muzikal203</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11059419" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11059419" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t think he\'s doing enough, I feel like he\'s talking the talk, but he\'s not walking the walk. This memo he is signing today is just a shiny object that he hopes will pacify those of us who are not satisfied with the way he\'s been handling this. I am really glad to see this post on JJP, especially since we Black folk supposedly hate "teh gays."<br><br>I hate to be overly cynical, but I think the only reason he\'s even signing this memo tonight is because the gays started pulling their money and support out of a fundraiser. The Obama administration is completely tone deaf on this issue which is disappointing. I\'ve started reading AmericaBlog, and the more they look into this memo, the more it looks like bullshit. The latest is that he may just be signing a memo to give them rights they already have. SMH</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11064863" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11064863" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11064863">karlewis</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11064863" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11064863" class="dsq-comment-message">I guess it\'s a matter of perspective. Palestinians would say he is doing a lot. Environmentalist would say he is doing a lot. GOP definitely thinks he doing a lot they complain about him taking on too much and making us a Socialist country all the time. The Administration is pushing for \'hate crime\' prosecutions. The Pres is not a king. Shit! California couldn\'t pass Prop 8 and Obama is supposed to do it with wave of a wand?<br><br>Keep putting pressure but the US government is more than one man.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11063340" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11063340" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11063340" href="http://themidnightsolution.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">LTMidnight</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11063340" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11063340" class="dsq-comment-message">John Aravosis is a smart man, but one of the biggest drama queens I\'ve ever seen.  He admits to engaging in "yellow journalism" in order to get attention.  I have very little respect for that.<br><br>He was also one of the biggest chicken-littles during the presidential campaign and turned out to be dead ass wrong.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11068665" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11068665" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11068665">EdnaMae</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11068665" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11068665" class="dsq-comment-message">The one vein that seems to be running with all the angry gay groups and they are scary angry, is that if the sainted HRC had won, all would be different, too bad they don\'t realize how politcs really work.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11102189" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11102189" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11102189">MoObama</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11102189" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11102189" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t remember Hillary taking up any gay cause while running for president. She was too busy trying to out do Obama.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11070544" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11070544" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11070544">MrNoface</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11070544" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11070544" class="dsq-comment-message">I know right?  Someone needs to remind them whose husband signed DOMA and DADT!  I think that the venom towards Obama stems from the belief that "He\'s a minority so he SHOULD understand, our plight!"  It\'s unwarranted in my view, but there you have it.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11071007" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11071007" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11071007">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11071007" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11071007" class="dsq-comment-message">I think that the venom towards Obama stems from the belief that "He\'s a minority so he SHOULD understand, our plight!"<br><br>I don\'t....I think it stems from the belief that "he\'s a minority so he should just be grateful to be President and do what we demand when we demand it!" <br><br>Yep I said it and ain\'t taking it back.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11071251" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11071251" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11071251">MrNoface</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11071251" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11071251" class="dsq-comment-message">I wanted to give a large majority in that movement the benefit of the doubt, but given some of the things being said by their talking heads, you may be more correct than I am!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11106217">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11106217" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11106217" class="dsq-comment-message">I 1000% AGREE, Miranda.  I reallllllllllllllly don\'t appreciate the fact the gay community is equating the Civil Rights Movement and Black struggles with their plight.<br><br>As a matter of fact, it totally, fucking pissing me off, and all the whiners who spew this nonsense, will not get one iota of compassion from me until they fess up and be truthful about what role they play in their movement.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11053014" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11053014" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11053014">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11053014" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11053014" class="dsq-comment-message">AFTERNOON OPEN THREAD IS UP!</div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-11053298">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11053298" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11053298" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11053298" href="http://newmoviereleases.blinkweb.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">nthomas00</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11053298" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11053298" class="dsq-comment-message">To answer the question inthe beginning of this blog, no I don\'t think that this is enough. For Obama to extend benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees, but for him to stop at giving them heath benefits is like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich without the jelly.<br><br><a href="http://freeonlineadvertising.yolasite.com" rel="nofollow">-Nikki-</a><br><br><a href="http://sellingphotography101.yolasite.com" rel="nofollow">selling photography 101</a><br><a href="http://1dollarebooks.yolasite.com" rel="nofollow">1 dollar ebooks</a></div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-11064338">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11064338" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11064338" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11064338">texascowgirl</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11064338" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11064338" class="dsq-comment-message">So then I guess you rather he had done nothing because Congress decides who gets healthcare benefits, not the President. You know I might not give a damn if people complained no matter what I did either.</div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-11053804">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11053804" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11053804" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11053804" href="http://themidnightsolution.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">LTMidnight</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11053804" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11053804" class="dsq-comment-message">And I want to ask an honest question here, and I don\'t care how you answer it as long as you\'re honest.<br><br>Do you really believe the causes the GLBT community are fighting for is vastly more important than issues the AA community is facing?<br><br>I\'m not saying neither should be achieved?  Of course they should.  But does one takes precedence over the other IYO?</div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-11055013">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11055013" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11055013" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11055013" href="http://natthedem.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">nctodc</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11055013" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11055013" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>Do you really believe the causes the GLBT community are fighting for is vastly more important than issues the AA community is facing?</I><br><br>I look at what Obama has promised to the LGBT community (military service, federal recognition of marriage/civil unions, et. al.) as basic rights of citizenship.</i></div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-11058182">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11058182" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11058182" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11058182">MoObama</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11058182" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11058182" class="dsq-comment-message">The president has always taken the position of civil unions and equal rights under the law. I am sorry but he is not the law unto himself; he can not turn the world upside down because some want him to that is not how the government works. I get the impression the LGBT community is trying to bulldog the president. <br><br>I read another blog that suggested the gay community will vote for the GOP in 2012 and that the Black community is responsible for the defeat of Prop. 8.  My opinion is if the LGBT community would vote for the GOP in 2012 they voted for the GOP in 2008. Furthermore, the LGBT community will never ever be able to compare the Black experience with their movement; and if the guilt approach is how they intend to win over the Black community they will lose. <br><br>The LGBT community needs to take some lessons from my forefathers and mothers on how to protest without threats, work within the system, and have a faithful attitude…that means ditch the snarkiness.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-11064049">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11064049" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11064049" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11064049">texascowgirl</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11064049" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11064049" class="dsq-comment-message">Obama got quite a bit less of the LGBT community then John Kerry did. Just sayin\'.</div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-11067818">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11067818" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11067818" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11067818">patatsea</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11067818" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11067818" class="dsq-comment-message">Are these the same sort of exit polls that grossly misstated the black vote on prop 8?</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-11063146">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11063146" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11063146" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11063146">Lilytiger</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11063146" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11063146" class="dsq-comment-message">Mmm..I think you might be onto something about the voting in 2008..</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-11054455">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11054455" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11054455" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11054455">Plantsmantx</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11054455" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11054455" class="dsq-comment-message">Why would one have to take precedence over the other? You\'re saying both should be achieved, but you\'re still setting up an either/or situation...needlessly.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-11055233">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11055233" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11055233" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11055233" href="http://themidnightsolution.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">LTMidnight</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11055233" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11055233" class="dsq-comment-message">I say this because there are things Obama promised the AA community during the campaign that he has either yet to do or is taking his sweet time in doing.  But I don\'t see a huge uproar within the community about that.  I\'d like to believe it\'s because the AA community knows his plate is full and are willing to be just a little patient and cut him some slack at least for the time being.<br><br>It\'s been the GLBT community that have, even before he took office, taken the "I want what I want and I want it NOW NOW NOW" approach.  It\'s as if Obama fulfilled all the promises of every interest group except theirs.<br><br>That\'s why I ask the question.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-11056934">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11056934" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11056934" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11056934">Plantsmantx</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11056934" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11056934" class="dsq-comment-message">Do you really think they are taking the attitude that the President has fulfilled the promises to every interest group, or blacks specifically? I don\'t think so, and Googling up one or two people who have taken on that attitude wouldn\'t prove anything, BTW.<br><br>Let\'s look at the specific issue that is the subject of this post. Why couldn\'t he have gone all the way?</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-11057765">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11057765" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11057765" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11057765" href="http://natthedem.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">nctodc</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11057765" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11057765" class="dsq-comment-message">He can\'t...as I pointed out in my comment, and Barney Frank\'s comments confirm, any additional benefits require Congressional approval.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-11059955">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11059955" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11059955" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11059955" href="http://muzikalthoughts.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Muzikal203</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11059955" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11059955" class="dsq-comment-message">I think most AAs are more willing to give him the benefit of the doubt because we see him as "one of us" where as the GLBT community isn\'t exactly sure. They have a lot of nice words from him, but it doesn\'t look like there has been much action.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-11062707">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11062707" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11062707" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11062707" href="http://themidnightsolution.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">LTMidnight</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11062707" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11062707" class="dsq-comment-message">If anything, the fact that he\'s "one of us" should lead to the belief that he should be kowtowing to us if no one else.  That\'s not happening.  Maybe, just maybe, some people out there want to give him more than six months in a 48 month long presidency before they declare he broke his promises.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-11062996">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11062996" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11062996" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11062996" href="http://muzikalthoughts.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Muzikal203</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11062996" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11062996" class="dsq-comment-message">. . . he shouldn\'t be kowtowing to ANYONE but he SHOULD be keeping his promise. So we should wait until his term is over to complain about him not keeping promises? How about we complain about it now and force him to KEEP his promises.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-11064120">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11064120" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11064120" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11064120" href="http://themidnightsolution.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">LTMidnight</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11064120" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11064120" class="dsq-comment-message">Who says he\'s gonna wait until his term is over to do it?  That\'s my point.<br><br>Nobody knows when he plans to move on this.  They just know it\'s not fast enough for their liking.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-11065552">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11065552" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11065552" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11065552" href="http://muzikalthoughts.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Muzikal203</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11065552" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11065552" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m not understanding your point. Based on what\'s been going on in the last 5 months, Obama doesn\'t appear to be as fierce an advocate as he claimed he was. People are voicing their dissatisfaction with his lack of progress on the issues. My question to you is why does it bother you so much for people to push Obama for their issue? That\'s really the only way we\'ll get it done. Remember one of Obama\'s favorite sayings is "the fierce urgency of now" and now that he\'s in the office we\'re just supposed to wait until he gets around to it?</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-11066037">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11066037" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11066037" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11066037" href="http://themidnightsolution.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">LTMidnight</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11066037" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11066037" class="dsq-comment-message">I have no problem with people pushing for their issues.  It\'s how unfair and how disingenuous the pushing has been that I take issue with.  <br><br>It\'s like hiring a person to run a company that\'s in bad shape.  You are told it will take up to 2 years to stabilize the company so that it doesn\'t completely collapse so that should be your top priority , and then 6 months down the line you criticize that person for not giving the employees new desk.  That person tells you stabilizing the company has been top priority.  Well no excuses.  No money for yo.<br><br>Doesn\'t make much sense.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-11059915">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11059915" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11059915" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11059915" href="http://muzikalthoughts.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Muzikal203</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11059915" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11059915" class="dsq-comment-message">No, I think they are both important, why must there be a competition?</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-11067289">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11067289" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11067289" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11067289">Mothsmoke</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11067289" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11067289" class="dsq-comment-message">Hmmm...Can someone explain to me how those in the armed forces -- working for Uncle Sam -- are supposed to take advantage of these "benefits?"</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-11068267">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11068267" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11068267" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11068267">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11068267" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11068267" class="dsq-comment-message">EVENING OPEN THREAD IS UP!!</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 </ul>\
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})();




