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I think that as long ans Obama wins and doesn't screw up as much as Bush did then he will change the way the world views Black people. His mere existence as President will change the thinking of a lot of Black people about themselves and the world will think differently about us. <br><br>Yes, some people  may believe there is no racism or discrimination anymore but its crazy to not want the man to win just to prove racism exists! I have actually heard comments by people worrying that him winning would be bad for Black people. So should we never be CEOs, Principals, or top executives because then people will say discrimination doesn't exist? I thought the goal was to give everyone the opportunity to get to the top. It seems like some people want us to only get so far so that the disparities remain so we can complain about them. <br><br>I'm hoping that although some people will start thinking racism and discrimination don't exist anymore others start thinking Black people are just as good as anyone else so there is no need to be racist or discriminate against them. 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I've been writing to him regularly about not kissing so much booty.  I'm trying to work with the brotha.  I think he's got potential.  :-)<br><br>Oh, and what's so wrong with having a white wife? ;-)  <br><br>{ducking and running for cover...}", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-07_08:46:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "RonnieB", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1117087, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1116551": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Good Article...Ridiculous Title.<br><br>You would do better to just act like the Title said \"Great Taste, Less Filling\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-06_17:41:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "Inkognegro", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1114539, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1114248": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "So when do we begin to see the end of Hispanic, Jewish, Asian, Gay and Native American (I know I missed several groups.) politics?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-06_13:58:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "PTCruiser", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1124617": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I'd take him at his word: \u201cLook, I never asked anybody to be for me because I was black... I asked people to be for me because I thought I was the best candidate when I ran for City Council and when I ran for mayor. I\u2019m proud of the votes I received. I\u2019m proud I received the votes of the majority of the African-American community and the majority of the vote from the white community. But I never asked anybody to give me anything because I was black. I asked people to give me a chance because I thought I was the best.\u201d", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-07_13:09:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anderkoo", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1124536, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1114636": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Booker T. Obama is not the end of black politics. <br>Booker T. Obama is the anticlimax of neoliberal politics.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-06_14:32:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "ea0c481ef0d3494e07b7b81312b9a99e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1124525": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I agree.  If the NAACP had vision, and maybe they have come up with this idea and I missed it, instead of pushing for race-based programs they should push for class-based programs that affects a wide range of people (I think Bruce Gordon would have been hip to this).", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-07_13:03:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "ef781b639c890767ebd1ce99011c3afa", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1121837, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1124754": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "We are the Soul of America and right now Obama is Soul Brotha #1.<br><br>I'm old school. James Brown is still Soul Brotha #1. Senator Obama is a brother who we would like to see elected as president.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-07_13:20:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "PTCruiser", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1124676, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1118997": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Hmmm...<br>Since Hillary lost and Bill is whining that he is not a racist (yeah, whatever), does this mean that the Clintons are the end of white politics?<br>(Hey, somebody had to ask ;-))", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-06_22:53:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1124632": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"...there isn't much to say about \"Asian-American politics\").<br><br>Many, many Asian Americans would take strong exception to this assertion.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-07_13:10:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "PTCruiser", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1124400, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1145041": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Interesting article; better than what the NY Times usually does on the topic of race (usually very badly IMO).   But the ENDof black politics?  I don't think so.  That's like saying the founding of the NAACP marked the end of black politics a la Frederick Douglass; or the black power movement was the end of the politics of Bethune, Houston, Terrell.  I think the 'perceived power struggle has more to do with personalities like the black political power brokers sited in the articles than generation politics.  <br><br>Among grassroots organizers and cultural professionals I know, I see a lot of back and forth respect between the generations and for those who've come before any of us.   But everyone likes to have something they can call \"their stuff.\"  However, the environment, jobs, energy, Iraq, and globalization are and have been black issues.  They will be regardless of the outcome in November.<br><br>Jill Tubman suggested I share my take on \"generation Obama.\"  It's like a border group between Gen X and the Baby Boomers.  [As of this election year we were kicked out of the Boomer group].  Our influences were the WW II generation (pragamatism) - grandparents, uncles, aunts, and perhaps parents.  They were our rocks.  They only had one TV and stereo (yep, that's what we called it) in the house.  We watched what they watched.  We listened to Nat King Cole, Sinatra, Sarah, maybe a little Johnny Cash.  They were unselfishly sentimental.  Second influence was the civil rights and black power generation (justice issues, multiculturalism, African diaspora).  They may have been our older siblings or parents.  If they were into the diaspora, they gave us the multi-cultural perspective. We were encouraged to demand, not ask; fight not flight and call it when we saw it.  We were proud of who were were as we were - \"Say It Loud...\" Finally there's the coming of age years (Reagan).  We were the test market for MTV and video games.  Hip Hop was Rap and some of it stuck with us or we slipped our parents'/siblings'Nina Simone, Coltrane, Aretha and Sarah stash into the trunk of the car and headed back to campus where we fused with Ruben Blades, Willie Colon, Celia Cruz.  Participated in panels hosted by the Asian Student Association, and pushed the board to divest from South Africa. AIDS came on the scene.  Crack on the city streets.   The divestment movement taught us something about investments, globalization, and commerce.  It may have been the first serious encounter with the Wall Street Journal.  We were intrigued. <br><br>All that said (and it's just a sprinkling), this group that includes Obama can't be neatly put into a box.  \"Border crossers\" may be the closest label.  The generations opened the doors.  So many influences; and we probably have been receptive in some form or fashion to all of them.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-09_09:47:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "michon", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1118491": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Black Politics ended in the 1990's with mayors like Marion Barry and David Dinkins. The fact that DC re-elected the guy alone is scary enough and New York City is one of the most liberal cities in America has not seen a Democrat mayor in over a Decade (thats 10 years for you GEDers). Gov Deval looks like he will last one term. Philly has turn into West Beirut and Detroit is just a great example of what happens when Democrats run cities. I can ramble on but most of you are still blaming Reagan for your woes.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-06_21:46:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "JibreelRiley", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1114142": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Well, I think that the MSM , Billary Inc. and the Hannity types would love for Obama to be the end of black politics, but IMO he's only just the beginning.  Win or lose, he's squeezed the toothpaste out of the tube and it can't be put back in.    Who's to say that in 20 years \"Juan Reyes\" or \"Emily Kim\" or \"Hardeep Singh\" won't run for President one day?  I think the Pat Buchanan types know that's going to happen...for all their hyping of Bobby Jindal they know damn well they don't want no Indian a step away from the White House.<br><br>Stopping Obama also stops Reyes, Kim and Singh from thinking they can run for the White House as well.  We've already got little black kids looking at this thinking, well maybe I can be President too.  And I think that's very disturbing to the Hannitys and Hasselbecks of the world.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-06_13:48:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1117087": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Ronnie, I'l forgive you for including Harold Ford in that bunch.  He has no sense of civil rights heritage and runs from it every chance he gets.  That's why he gets no mo love in Memphis...especially with Snowflake on his arm.<br><br>Cory Booker was smarter than Harold and had experienced racism up close, despite an advantaged, privileged upbringing - the white kids still teased him about those naps on his head.  Besides, Sharpe James was a crook and needed to be relieved of duties (not to mention heading for jail now).<br><br>Harold Ford was not a part of this bunch, so quit telling that lie about him ;-).  He knew how to kiss ass - not compromise, cause that's a fine art of giving something up without selling out.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-06_18:46:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "189cfefdc1b6f99ecf3ea93859ec6c73", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1116147, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1116451": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "There is a flying-by-the-seat-of-our-pants -ness to this phenomenon of Black politicians doing things in a new way...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-06_17:30:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "c14dc645708e1f6b7caba8da416ef4b7", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1116355, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1168711": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "As several have said here, this is not the end, this is just the beginning. <br><br>I hope all who have commented here will join my Obama phone-in on 19th August.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-12_11:37:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "a395dd4ed77f4ed29e62651dfd56666f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1127366": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "When I was in college, which was some time ago, we used to say that the letters NAACP stood for the National Association for the Advancement of Certain People.  Not much has changed in all these years.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-07_17:10:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "PTCruiser", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1121837, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1114920": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "When a Hispanic, Jewish, Asian, Gay or Native American is running for President?", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-06_14:56:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "jonster", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1114248, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1117098": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I guess young brothas can still be as sexist as the old brothas, Roxie.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-06_18:48:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "189cfefdc1b6f99ecf3ea93859ec6c73", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1115313, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1114539": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I don't even understand the title so I can't read the piece.  Why would Obama mark the end of black politics?  I don't get it.<br><br>I'm simple like that.  Some things just go right over my head.  Like this article.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-06_14:22:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1121837": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "When I speak of different tactics, I'm talking about doing something other than simply marching in the streets, giving speeches in churches, organizing symbolic gestures such as having funerals for the N word...etc. Our community is dealing with a different set of obstacles, yet the \"Old Guard\" is intent on using outdated tools to solve these new problems. A perfect example is what Bruce Gordon faced against the the 64 member NAACP board.<br><br>The results of these new tactics remain to be seen because they're being clocked by the resistance from those set in their ways.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-07_09:04:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1119694, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1124400": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "From the article: \"Black leaders who rose to political power in the years after the civil rights marches came almost entirely from the pulpit and the movement, and they have always defined leadership, in broad terms, as speaking for black Americans. They saw their job, principally, as confronting an inherently racist white establishment, which in terms of sheer career advancement was their only real option anyway.\"<br><br>I wrote my college thesis 11 years ago about a similar phenomenon in Boston's Chinatown -- two political styles, one born of the Civil Rights movement, one predating it -- both of which presumed to speak the community. I found both troubling and disempowering of the community itself, which struck me as practically captured by its supposed \"leaders.\" And this was before the current era of post-CR politics.<br><br>There was a lot of value, I felt, in these two factions competing for the loyalty of the community, because that held them accountable. And maybe that's what's happening now across America across many political circles, not just African-American, but also white liberal, environmental, gay, evangelical. And, yes, Republican. Each group is struggling with a generational divide and an emerging new politics. (What a terrible year for Mark Penn to roll with \"microtrends\": if there is a macrotrend happening today, it is a change from the ideological to the pragmatic.) Environmentalists are embracing the market. Evangelicals are moving on from abortion. Gays are making sense of what legal marriage means for their historically marginalized status.<br><br>New politics -- new leadership. Is there an end in sight of \"black politics\"? I guess it's worth asking if there's such a thing any more of \"Irish politics,\" \"Italian politics,\" and \"Jewish politics.\" (For better or worse, my thesis notwithstanding, there isn't much to say about \"Asian-American politics\"). It was clear for someone like Mayor Nutter that the end of a distinctive, isolated, ghettoized \"black politics\" is a desired goal -- a sign of true integration, even if incomplete. At the very least, perhaps, a leadership shakeup is always an accountability moment, which is never a bad thing in democracy.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-07_12:53:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anderkoo", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 9, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1115313": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "where are the women?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-06_15:34:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "01463bc0d5db55fcf49197e77901ee73", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1115955": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Is black politics a single entity? Are Obama's politics really the same as Cynthia McKinney's, or are their differences enough to say that they represent different groups of blacks? Does Obama still represent black interests, or is the scope of presidency so wide that representation is abstracted to a higher level that eliminates color lines?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-06_16:33:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "1de2d33433ebdb3f7247ca125431a441", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1116597": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ok, I've read every comment in this thread, and kdizo seems to be the only one who comes within miles of saying anything about what should be done, and how it should be done. And as I said, he/she only came within miles. What do you younger folks intend to DO, exactly? What's your plan? Gimme some detail here.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-06_17:47:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "fb67e13066281c4e22557d02eb57edda", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1119286": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Inkonegro:  Thank you.  I stand corrected&gt;   :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-06_23:47:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1116551, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1116472": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Town,<br><br>as usual, you speak the truth.<br><br>THEY understand it. <br>THEY get what an Obama victory would mean. <br>THEY get it. <br><br>They get that next time, the platitudes about Jindal (if he survives Louisiana without being indicted IS the Senate and maybe the White House)<br>That maybe Richardson has too many 'women rumors', but there's a young Latino out there who doesn't have those problems. <br><br>It's also about the future. I know, sometimes it gets hokey, talking about the ' symbolism' of Obama, but I can't help but think about what this would mean, not only to little Black kids, but to little kids, period. Of growing up in a world where the President of the United States is a Black Man. <br><br>I read diaries, posted by parents of kids who go nuts over Obama. Who see video of his speech in Berlin, and then try and re-create it in their playrooms using their toys and stuffed animals, and think nothing of it. I believe that means something. Something that won't pay dividende for years, but it will pay dividends.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-06_17:32:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1114142, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1125692": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I wasn't offended at all. No need to apologize. I just don't grant that sort of space to politicians.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-07_14:43:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "PTCruiser", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1124818, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1115581": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "As long as we live in an America that is disproportionately controlled by one ethnic group that is concerned with the social, economic, political and cultural domination of American society...there will always be a need for people of color(Black, Hispanic, Native American, Indian, Asian...) to champion the needs and rights of their ethnic group in the pursuit of one day living in a better America that values the sum of ALL of its parts.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-06_15:59:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "pcmadison", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1117246": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I hear you - a couple of us have noticed the absence of black female politicians in the article.  Thank goodness for Cheryl's input, but ah... that was about it.  But you can't put Booker's black female counterparts in the article if you don't see any around.  Perhaps the author didn't know who to go to?  I personally don't know who he should have gone to, but it's a good question.  Does anyone know?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-06_19:05:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "c14dc645708e1f6b7caba8da416ef4b7", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1116631, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1119298": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  Co-sign!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-06_23:48:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1116355, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1116355": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Obama is not the end. Obama is just the beginning, of something new that Black folks haven't experienced. And, it's going to be scary, because it's a whole other page that we've never seen before, and we'll be making it up as we go along. I think that's wonderful.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-06_17:17:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1124676": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "We are witnessing a shift in who is considered African-American and thus we are seeing a change in Black Politics. Throughout American political history Black Politics was regarded as the monolithic, collective politics of the emancipated slaves and their descendants, usually characterized by the presence of a charismatic leader .  In the 21st century, African-American is defined as an American citizen of African descent. This would include Americans of African descent who are not descended of emancipated slaves, like Sen. Obama.  <br>The shift in definition of who is African American gave rise to the shift in Black politics. The dynamism of Black Politics reflects the regional, cultural, class and circumstantial differences among African Americans The New Black Politics is built upon earlier Black political accomplishments and developments, however as the political constituencies have become more diverse, the strategies and goals of Black Politics have changed as well.  <br>The future of Black Politics is predicated on the ability of Black leaders and their constituencies to address the injustices and inequalities of Black life in America in real, tangible concrete ways. Obama's presidency offers the opportunity for Black Politics and its operatives to address and solve some of the most critical of our nation's ills. Sound, compassionate policies in health care, labor, criminal justice, green initiatives, civil and reproductive rights and other areas of public policy benefit all Americans, and  historically Black Americans have been at the forefront of all progressive political and social changes in our country. <br>Black Politics have been the conscience of the nation since the country's founding. We have righted this nation's path at the expense of our lives and treasure, even when our countrymen showed us no love. Now is the time we should assert ourselves to lead in this new fight  as we have in the past. <br>We are the Soul of America and right now Obama is Soul Brotha #1.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-07_13:14:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "rmalveaux", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1122399, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1114422": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Sharing from black politics on the web:<br><br><a href=\"http://blackpoliticsontheweb.com/2008/08/06/black-reporters-should-attend-political-conventions/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://blackpoliticsontheweb.com/2008/08/06/bla...</a><br>Title:  Black Reporters Should Attend Political Conventions<br><br>I agree    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-06_14:12:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1117510": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I agree with those that say Obama doesn't signify the end of Black politics, but rather the end of Black politics as we know it. The ascendancy of Black politicians like Obama, Booker, Nutter, Patrick....etc. gives permission to fight injustices that plague our community in ways that differ from the tactics our Black political forbears have used.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-06_19:37:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1114823": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I'm tired of this new meme that young black people don't view the world or politics through the eyes of the civil rights struggle. Which young people are they talking too? Not the ones who come to this site or mine. I still see view the world as a black man first and frankly I'm suspicious of anyone who doesn't.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-06_14:49:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "708ead3dff706cb871012a39aff847ed", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1125832": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Sepia:  Co-sign.  Is that like \"thinking out side of the proverbial box?\"  I'm for that!!!  New tools for old problems - YES!!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>This technology \"tool\" helped in the win against billary!! She wasn't ready for Mr. O's type of political strategy!  :&gt;)  Evidence  -  her tired A88 web site!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-07_14:54:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1121837, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1119305": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Admiral:  \"virtual dap\" for your bravery!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)   :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-06_23:49:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1118997, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1116874": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "A new excuse for what? And will I, as a black person, actually be \"the man\" if Obama is elected?", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-06_18:19:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "fb67e13066281c4e22557d02eb57edda", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1116768, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1125090": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Sure they would, and obviously I wrote my thesis on the topic, and maybe it's different out in CA, but there just aren't enough Asian Americans in most communities to add up to a machine. Flushing, NY is one exception here on the east coast. (I should add \"East Asian\" as opposed to Indian or other parts of Asia).", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-07_13:52:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anderkoo", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1124632, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1117381": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I thought the article was interesting, but I also think that the author was a bit presumptuous in several places.   I guess I am the voice of dissent on this thread.  I don't know what \"Black politics\" means, or should look like.  As many posters have pointed out, just because you are Black does not mean you are going to be an effective public servant, or do anything to uplift the Black community.    At the same time, I wish the divisions into groups would come to an end.  That is one of the reasons that I am frustrated right now.  It seems that Black people continue to fight the fight on the fringes, instead of forming broad based groups with other people to accomplish our goals.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-06_19:22:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "ef781b639c890767ebd1ce99011c3afa", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1114448": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Rather than Obama being the end of Black Politics, I think his election to the Presidency sets up a new era of Black Politics which do not fit the tradtional standards of the Civil Rights Movement, and that's what has the elder guard scared.<br><br>As in scared they will be left out of the conversation.  However, I disagree with the brotha who said \"I'm the new Black Politics\" because if it weren't for John Lewis and Jim Clyburn being willing to damn near die in the Civil Rights Movement, that brotha's ass wouldn't even be in a position to cry how he's \"the new Black Politics.\"  He dissed the Civil Rights vanguard, even though he said he wasn't.  While I might not agree with my elders, I was brought up to never disrespect them.<br><br>Jesse, Sr., earns my disdain, but not my disrespect.  While I understand Jesse, Jr., disagreeing with his father, I'm going to take the position he defended Obama and decried his father's statements in the heat of the moment.  Additionally, Jesse, Sr.'s remarks were ghetto and he should have kept his mouth shut about turning Obama into a eunich.<br><br>It isn't the end of Black Politics - it just changed the rules of the game in terms of how Black politics will be discussed from here on in.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-06_14:15:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "189cfefdc1b6f99ecf3ea93859ec6c73", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1125752": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "RonnieB:  :&gt;)   :&gt;)  :&gt;)   LOL   :&gt;)  :&gt;:)  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-07_14:48:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1121670, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1124818": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yeah, you're ol' skool alright. I didn't mean to offend you or the Godfather, but you get what I'm sayin'?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-07_13:26:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "rmalveaux", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1124754, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1125076": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I don't know Philly politics so I can't say! But I suppose it's possible for a majority to be ghettoized, or a majority of the majority (= minority) to be captured is another way to look at it. Like evangelicals in the Republican party, or blacks in the Democratic. But I really don't know in Nutter's specific case, really. What's your opinion on this?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-07_13:50:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anderkoo", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1124707, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1119694": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "What are the different tactics and where are the results that these new/different tactics have been or are showing signs of working?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-07_00:53:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "Nquest", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1117510, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1116631": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I find it quite unsettling that not one of the interview subjects were Black female politicians. If the subject of this article was the emergence of a new Black politics that isn't mired in identity politics, but rather embraces collaboration and inclusion, then I think the author has grossly misinterpreted the very subject of his article. I cannot see a \"new\" politics that excludes sex from the discourse. Am I only the person that feels this way?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-06_17:51:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "soulsistah02", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1115224": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I liked the article, and I think they would have done better to question the \"End of Black Politics\" AS WE KNOW IT.  It's an interesting question, but not a good one, 'cause the answer seems obvious to me.<br><br>I think Black Politics as-we-know-it will remain with us for as long as we have problems that disproportionately affect our community.  But I think that younger black politicians recognize that there are different ways to get stuff done than how the elders have been doing it.  New avenues have presented themselves, leaving room to try new ways of being black in public office.  I think Obama's candidacy is basically a national scale of something certain places have been seeing in local, young, black politicians.  These guys (hmm... no young female officeholders featured here) know how to reach and work with more people in addition to just the black community - I think it can only make them more effective for their constituencies.<br><br>And, I love Michael Nutter and his attitude.  Even though he supported Hillary.  And he'll get my vote again.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-06_15:27:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "c14dc645708e1f6b7caba8da416ef4b7", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1116881": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Some interesting points here. I think it's worth noting that Matt Bai, the article's author, probably did not choose the title, which was chosen by editors to perhaps elicit a certain response from readers. (The American Scholar made a similar move by titling a recent article by Charles Johnson, \"The End of the Black American Narrative\").  <br><br>I've familiar with some of Matt Bai's other writings, most notably, his book _The Argument: Argument: Billionaires, Bloggers, and the Battle to Remake Democratic Politics_. I'm thinking this recent article moves in that direction and is less concerned with \"an end\" and more focused on the factors that are influencing an internal *argument* or differing perspectives among a particular group, in this case black folx. <br><br>In this regard, the piece is useful for putting a few issues on table, as opposed to trying to propose a definite answer or conclusion. But I'm certainly interested in seeing where things do from here, especially in local sectors.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-06_18:20:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "82554a6f2042c31d270540dd393b1f51", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1124536": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"It was clear for someone like Mayor Nutter that the end of a distinctive, isolated, ghettoized \"black politics\" is a desired goal -- a sign of true integration, even if incomplete.\"<br><br>Given the fact that the majority of the residents of Philadelphia are African Americans, what do you believe Nutter is specifically referring to?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-07_13:04:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "PTCruiser", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1124400, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1126493": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "My family and I live in West Chester (East Bradford Township). I can't disagree at all with your assessment of Philadelphia politics, although I was mistaken about the current demographics. Nutter is a vast improvement over Street and would be better than Fattah but I still would not describe the city's politics as being ghettoized. <br><br>Black folks inherited and adopted a  political system and a political regime that had long been in place before they became its leaders. Nutter was a garden variety product of this system until he saw an opportunity to distinguish himself. No fault finding here.<br><br> All politicians are opportunists. The real issue is whether they have talent or not. Nutter has talent but he will never be elected governor of Pennsylvania. We lived eight years in Hershey and folks in central and western PA are not going to elect a black person to occupy the mansion on Front Street in Harrisburg.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-07_15:56:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "PTCruiser", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1126246, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1114590": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I think what Obama has done is is bigger than just changing the game for black politicians....but politics period. He has re-written the book that scares people who are entrenched in DC's games. I remember Donna Brazile screaming the Dems needed to get out of the \"red state, blue state\" mentality when Kerry was running.....and that's what's happening now. Obama is not relying on just big donors and the power elite to fund his campaign - he reached out to the $25 dollar donor. His rallies and townhall meetings are first come, first serve....excuse me? We aren't screeing every attendee first? Those politicians beholden to traditional DC games are looking in bewilderment...confused...what manner of man is this?<br><br>Obama has already changed the game...I just hope it sticks.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-06_14:28:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1122399": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Once again, the political capital of the black electorate is being used by people who are quite open in asserting that it is not their responsibility to address any of the political demands of the black electorate. If Corey Booker, for example, does not want to be the go-to-guy on inner-city issues then perhaps he should have remained in the majority white suburbs where he grew up and launched his political career from whatever political base he could have cobbled together there on his behalf.<br><br>I understand that these folks have larger ambitions and they would prefer not to be permanently assigned to the black seat. Their current posture, however, seems disingenuous in the extreme given that their political ascendancy (and celebrity) was made possible because they found more secure footing for their own ambitions among black voters. Now they will use the legitimate aspirational desires of these same voters to move on to higher office while denying any responsibility for addressing issues that have disproportionate effect on African Americans.<br><br>It has become commonplace to the point of cliche to talk about the alleged generational divide among blacks on the question of what black leadership means. The existence of this alleged divide is only possible if one assumes that those of us who are consigned to the box labeled \"Civil Rights Generation\" were always of one mind and one view. We never were. There were always divisions among us over the most pressing questions of the period and that included international affairs as well.<br><br>Artur Davis and other aspiring black politicians who share his views appear to be little more than younger versions of those who I have described elsewhere as being \"second line inheritors\" of the Civil Rights Movement. That is, those who attained political power less as a result of any sacrifices or risk they took but, rather, because they positioned themselves to take advantage of the opportunities created by the sacrifices and risks that others in their generation took. What exactly, for example, did Tom Bradley do or not do to rise to the rank of lieutenant in the notoriously racist Los Angeles Police Department and why did that department's behavior remain essentially unchanged during his four terms as mayor?<br><br>These are not radical or extremists questions because they go straight to the heart of this issue. If the Tom Bradleys and Artur Davises do not address the needs of the black electorate then what actual purpose is served by the black electorate in supporting their quests for political office? If electing Obama to the White House means that we get nothing more than a payoff on our aspirational desires and we understand and accept that reality, then we have no further complaint. If, however, we believe that he has a duty to address our issues because we have supported his candidacy then we have every right to make our views known and to demand attention. Every other group in America - business, labor, attorneys, Hispanics, Jews, women, faith-based organizations etc. - will have their hands out because it is the American way. Are we suddenly less American because a black family lives in the White House?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-07_10:03:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "PTCruiser", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1116768": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I like the joke posted on Booker T Rising's blog:  \"As comedian Wanda Sykes has joked that \"if he wins, black people are gonna have to come up with a new excuse. You can't blame the man when you are the man.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-06_18:07:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "ruthdfw", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1114593": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "99%:  Gotta Agree:  Way too much gray matter on a title that doesn't make sense - B4 or after reading through the article.  Hmmmmm?  :&gt;)  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-06_14:28:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1114539, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1125048": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Pushing for class-based programs rather than race-based ones- ok, that's one, I guess. What are some of the other new tactics?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-07_13:46:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "fb67e13066281c4e22557d02eb57edda", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1124525, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1124707": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The question I asked pertained to Nutter's claim that the black electorate in Philadelphia was ghettoized when blacks represent a majority of the city's residents. I wasn't opposed to Nutter's election and overall it has been a positive development for that city but my question had nothing to do with who Nutter sought support from during his race.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-07_13:17:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "PTCruiser", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1124617, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1126246": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I live in Philly so I have to point out a couple of things.   Although the neighborhoods are segregated, the make-up of the city is 45% white and 43% black with Latinos and  Asians making up the difference.   That's why his election was such a watershed moment.  He was the best candidate for the city black or white.  The residents of the city voted on his record and his integrity.  John Street was  an incompetent a-hole.  Anyone (of any color) would have been an improvement but we were blessed with two candidates who were capable (D Evans was the other).<br><br>The Philadelphia political situation is indeed unique and ghettonized was the best way to describe it prior to the election of Nutter.  We had black elected officials and political power, but the economy was in shambles and violent crime was rampant.  All Street did was throw his hands up and lined his pockets and those of his family and friends. <br><br>Maybe Nutter is bitter.  I am too.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-07_15:31:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "ad1c5e4d6c2968e0120c16ec7703f1e7", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1125672, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1119463": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"It isn't the end of Black Politics - it just changed the rules of the game in terms of how Black politics will be discussed from here on in.\"<br><br>Exactly!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-07_00:13:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1114448, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1115241": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I posted about this in the Wednesday Open Thread, and finished reading the article a little while ago. Matt Bai is a white semi-liberal (or recovering liberal), but he did a fairly good job on the article.<br><br>Personally, I think that the era of \u201cblack politics\u201d ended some time ago, though its influence could still be seen when Sen. Lott was attacked by the left and he had to step down from the majority leader role. Still, that was just the entire left\u2019s \u2013 along with its MSM \u2013 Modus Operandi of promoting hatred against anyone not agreeing with them (e.g. Robert Byrd still remains). Basically, the majority of Americans have been tired of \u201cblack politics\u201d for some time now\u2026as this article points out with the interviews. <br><br>Then came the primaries with Obama and Hillary, catching the usual Identity Politics of the Democratic Party off guard, and \u201cblack politics\u201d surfaced again. Missed during all the accusations against Hillary and Bill being \u201cracists\u201d, was Obama\u2019s own 20-year connections to the BLT racists, i.e. that blacks can be racists also. It will be hard to use \u201cblack politics\u201d <i>\u2018as usual\u2019</i> in the future, because the term racism will be hurled back into the faces of those claiming it, e.g. McCain\u2019s throwing Obama\u2019s use of the <i>\u2018Race Card\u2019</i> back at Obama, and to a small degree, Whoopi\u2019s claim of black ownership of the N-Word. White Americans may not have said much about Wright and Obama\u2019s connection to him and BLT yet, but they noticed\u2026noticed that something wasn\u2019t right. I look for pressure to soon mount against Democratic Convention CEO Rev. Leah Daughtry (<i><b>\u201cJeremiah Wright in a skirt\u201d</b></i>).<br><br>Interesting times ahead\u2026", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-06_15:28:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "Karmi", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1114475": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "PTCruiser:  See how folks get into trouble posing questions about Blacks only??<br>\"When Will They Ever Learn?\"  [yes a 70's olde -Where Have All The Flowers Gone?]<br><br>Why do I believe that you don't care?  :&gt;)  :&gt;)  Just kidding!  :&gt;)  No disrespect.   I always think of songs.   :&gt;)  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-06_14:17:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1114248, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1127533": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You are not alone, sister! I think the brothers who were interviewed should have insisted that some black women be interviewed, too.  How could Donna Edwards, for example, have been overlooked?", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-07_17:25:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "PTCruiser", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1116631, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1125672": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "My opinion is that Nutter is still angry and is somewhat embittered, although he denies it, toward the city's old line black leadership. Nutter's lingering sense of resentment toward these folks maybe understandable but, in truth, there was no compelling reason for the black electorate in Philly to embrace him. Prior to his decision to run for mayor, Nutter did very little to distinguish himself as a member of the city council or as a politician. He and his supporters may deny it but he was basically a go-along to get-along pol.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-07_14:42:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "PTCruiser", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1125076, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1116147": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I don't believe that Barack is the \"end\" of Black politics.  Rather, I believe he personifies a <i>new</i> Black politics.  More stealth, more practical, and not so much <i>less</i> activism, but a cooperative activism.  In other words, Obama (and Corey Booker, Deval Patrick, Harold Ford (sorry, rik) and other 40-ish Black pols) have learned the art of cooperative effort.  Not selling out, but rather compromise and triangulation.<br><br>See how Barack relates to White people of all political stripes, while married to a visibly Black woman; living in a largely Black city; worshipping in a largely Black church; and surrounding himself with mostly Black friends.   And while he's living as a Black man, he has a rainbow of non-Black family members.  <br><br>Being a successful Black politician today is an art.  And we're witnessing an artist like no other.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-06_16:54:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "RonnieB", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1114686": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Obama represents a new brand/style/model/expression of black politics - not the end of black politics.  There are myriad styles/expressions of black politics and black civic engagement.  And given the dire state of our present political/social situation, we need as much black political activity and civic engagement as possible - in all its various expressions.  I'm particularly interested in those political activities that go beyond voting (national, municipal) - that go beyond the \"proper/sanctioned political channels\".  I definately think that electoral politics/voting is a tactic that we should employ, but it is not the only thing that we should be doing.  Voting should not be our political end-all be all.  Again, barack represents a new and needed and timely expression of black politics.  However, it is going to take more than barack and his political stylo to fix this mess that we are in.  It's going to take a concerted effort to get us out of this mess.  It's our turn to bring something fresh to the political table. <br><br>Carryn' On<br><br>kdizo<br><a href=\"http://www.kdizo.wordpress.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.kdizo.wordpress.com</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-06_14:38:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "067e7243b6bcbea8eade0d4363b61007", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1114614": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Miranda:  Big, full-throated AMEN!!!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-06_14:30:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1114590, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1116408": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "CPL,<br><br>Yours and so many others have written great comments here. They are scared because they see that we, this generation, is thru with the ' One Leader' mess. We are finally using ' Black' and \"ACCOUNTABLE\" in the same sentence - THAT is scary to them, which is why I appreciate the report cards so much. They laughed at you, in the beginning...they're not laughing anymore.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-06_17:24:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1114448, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1116537": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "As usual The big man is on point.  <br><br>We view the world as the children of those who were in the struggle.  <br><br>It is a decidedly different view than our parents, but it shares a common heritage.<br><br>The struggle you see now is similar to the struggle our parents went through with THEIR parents.<br><br>People always act like the ministers in Montgomery didnt fight Martin tooth and nail.  <br><br>What Martin did was unheard of in many respects and the fact that he was young enough to have a different vantage point and base of experience was the critical difference.<br><br>At 47, Obama is the elderstatesman of OUR generation.  Old enough to have a sense of the horrors of Vietnam and the immediate post King years and young enough to understand HipHop in its proper context and be able to appreciate the true power of the current technology.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-06_17:40:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "Inkognegro", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1114823, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1115318": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Obama's political ascendancy is not the end of Black Politics. In fact I would venture to say that Sen. Obama's success is due in large part to his not being a descendant of slaves. Let us not lose sight of the fact that white Americans view him differently than they do the descendants of slaves. Whites' acceptance of Obama is predicated on not having to deal with the unresolved animosities toward the descendants of African slaves by white Americans.  With Obama there is not the legacy of antebellum slavery, Jim Crow, or any of the degradations and dehumanizations of the last 400+ years  - just racial \"progress\". The end of Black Politics is just the wishful thinking of those of my countrymen who wish to be proverbial ostriches to the legitimacy and necessity of Black Politics. <br>Their support of Obama allows them to say and feel that we have grown past the sceptre of race in American politics and that racial politics no longer has a place in the national discourse. Too many times I have heard politicos say that we do not want to have race as an issue in the Presidential (or any other) race, when , in fact , the ignoring of race has been the glaring flaw of our Constitution and our unwillingness to discuss race in real terms has led us into our Civil War, Jim Crow, the Civil Rights Movement, the Digital Divide and current socio-economic-political inequalities that continue to plague our nation and ruin the lives of our darker countrymen. <br>Black politics has served as the moral conscience of American politics, we have always been agents for change. Until we deal with issues of race as an American family, all subsequent conversations and efforts will continue to be flawed and problematic. Because as the descendants of slaves we have known white Americans for a very long time and our knowledge of them is borne out of necessity -  the necessity that a slave has to know the ways of the master. The lives of black people have depended on our knowledge of whites, passed down to us along familial lines and the exacting singularity of experience. The assimilation of Black Politics into the Amnerican mainstream will not occur until this nation can elect a descendant of African slaves to the Presidency.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-06_15:34:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "rmalveaux", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}}, "integration": {"receiver_url": "", "theme": 4, "reply_position": true, "disqus_logo": false}, "timer": {"timer_url": "http://localhost:8005", "thread_id": "2499238", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "21630", "hash": 8662649573551151502}, "thread": {"days_alive": 0, "slug": "is_obama_the_end_of_black_politics_asks_ny_times_85", "paginate": false, "num_pages": 1, "num_posts": 70, "per_page": 0, "total_posts": 0, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 2499238, "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.YOU_ARE_COMMENTING_AS_A = "You are commenting as a";
	this.LOGIN_BELOW = "Login below";
	this.PLEASE_LOGIN_BELOW_TO_COMMENT = "Please login below to comment.";
	this.SUBSCRIBE_TO_ALL_COMMENTS_BY_EMAIL = "Subscribe to all comments by email";
	this.DO_NOT_SUBSCRIBE_TO_COMMENTS = "Do not subscribe to comments";
	this.REALTIME_UPDATING_IS = "Real-time updating is";
	this.ENABLED = "enabled";
	this.PAUSED = "paused";
	this.PAUSE = "Pause";
	this.RESUME = "Resume";
	this.SHOW = "Show";
	this.JUST_NOW = "Just now";
	this.REPLY = "Reply";
	this.EDIT = "Edit";
	this.FLAG = "Flag";
	this.MODERATE = "Moderate";
	this.CANCEL = "Cancel";
	this.REPLYING_TO = "Replying to";
	this.REPORT_MISSING_REACTIONS = "Report missing reactions";
	this.POST_A_COMMENT = "Post a comment";
	this.FLAG_INAPPROPRIATE_COMMENT = "Flag inappropriate comment";
	this.FLAGGED = "Flagged";
	this.NO = "No";
	this.YES = "Yes";
	this.NEVER_MIND = "Never mind";
	this.ARE_YOU_SURE_YOU_WOULD_LIKE_TO_REPORT_THIS_COMMENT_TO_A_MODERATOR = "Are you sure you would like to report this comment to a moderator";
	this.THIS_WILL_FLAG_COMMENTS_FOR_MODERATORS_TO_TAKE_ACTION = "This will flag comments for moderators to take action";
	this.TO_RATE_PLEASE_LOG_IN = "To rate, please log in";
	this.JUST_A_MOMENT = "Just a moment...";
	this.GUEST = "Guest";
	this.NAME = "Name";
	this.EMAIL = "Email";
  this.WEBSITE = "Website";
  this.SETTINGS = "Settings";
  this.MODERATOR_OPTIONS = "Moderator options: ";
};
// Dsq.Strings

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

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

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

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

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

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

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





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



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

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

	this._lastHash = null;

	this._accumMsg = '';

	this._lastSeqno = 0;

	this.MAX_DATA_LEN	= 1024;

	this.WAIT_TIME		= 10;

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

};

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

FragmentPacket.prototype.log = function(msg) {



};

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

		hash = this.reader.name;
	} else {

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

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

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

		this._lastSeqno = seqno;

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

				this._accumMsg = '';

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

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

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

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

};

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

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

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

	if (packetNum === 0) {

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

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

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

	if (num_packets === packetNum) {

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

	this._lastSeqno++;

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

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

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

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

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

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


	this.receiverId = receiverId;
};

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

	var listener = function(e) {

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


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

		that.receiveCallback(data);
	};

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

PostMessagePacket.prototype.send = function(msg) {



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


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

	var packet;
	if (!msg) {

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

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

var JsonRpc = function() {

	this.ids = {};

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

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

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

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

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

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

				json = 'null';
				break;
		}

		return json;
	};

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		send_func(this.objectToJSON(request));

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

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


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



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


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


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

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

	this.packetHandler = null;


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


	var _createReceiverForFragmentPacket = function() {

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

			that._ready = true;
		};

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

		that.receiver.onload = receiver_onload;







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

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

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

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


	var _createReceiverForPostMessage = function() {

		var receiver_onload = function() {

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

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


		ParentMessenger['_receiver_onload_' + receiverId] = receiver_onload;

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

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

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

};

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	var sendFunc = function(msg) {

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


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


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

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

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

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

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

		if (msg.username) {

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	this.url = Dsq.Urls.REPLY +
		'?' + (new Date()).getTime() +
		'&f=jackandjillpolitics' +
		'&t=is_obama_the_end_of_black_politics_asks_ny_times_85' +
		'&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_obama_the_end_of_black_politics_asks_ny_times_85/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_obama_the_end_of_black_politics_asks_ny_times_85'
			+ '&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_obama_the_end_of_black_politics_asks_ny_times_85/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">70</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/is_obama_the_end_of_black_politics_asks_ny_times_85/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_obama_the_end_of_black_politics_asks_ny_times_85/">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:2499238" 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_obama_the_end_of_black_politics_asks_ny_times_85/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:2499238" 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:2499238" 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_obama_the_end_of_black_politics_asks_ny_times_85',
			// 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_obama_the_end_of_black_politics_asks_ny_times_85/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_obama_the_end_of_black_politics_asks_ny_times_85'
			+ '&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_obama_the_end_of_black_politics_asks_ny_times_85'
			+ '&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_obama_the_end_of_black_politics_asks_ny_times_85'
				+ '&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/2499238/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';
		}
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<ul id="dsq-comments">\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1116631" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1116631" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1116631">soulsistah02</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1116631" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1116631" class="dsq-comment-message">I find it quite unsettling that not one of the interview subjects were Black female politicians. If the subject of this article was the emergence of a new Black politics that isn\'t mired in identity politics, but rather embraces collaboration and inclusion, then I think the author has grossly misinterpreted the very subject of his article. I cannot see a "new" politics that excludes sex from the discourse. Am I only the person that feels this way?</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-1117246">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1117246" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1117246" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1117246" href="http://glory-i-am.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">glory</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1117246" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1117246" class="dsq-comment-message">I hear you - a couple of us have noticed the absence of black female politicians in the article.  Thank goodness for Cheryl\'s input, but ah... that was about it.  But you can\'t put Booker\'s black female counterparts in the article if you don\'t see any around.  Perhaps the author didn\'t know who to go to?  I personally don\'t know who he should have gone to, but it\'s a good question.  Does anyone know?</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-1127533">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1127533" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1127533" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1127533">PTCruiser</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1127533" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1127533" class="dsq-comment-message">You are not alone, sister! I think the brothers who were interviewed should have insisted that some black women be interviewed, too.  How could Donna Edwards, for example, have been overlooked?</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-1114142">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1114142" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1114142" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1114142">Town</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1114142" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1114142" class="dsq-comment-message">Well, I think that the MSM , Billary Inc. and the Hannity types would love for Obama to be the end of black politics, but IMO he\'s only just the beginning.  Win or lose, he\'s squeezed the toothpaste out of the tube and it can\'t be put back in.    Who\'s to say that in 20 years "Juan Reyes" or "Emily Kim" or "Hardeep Singh" won\'t run for President one day?  I think the Pat Buchanan types know that\'s going to happen...for all their hyping of Bobby Jindal they know damn well they don\'t want no Indian a step away from the White House.<br><br>Stopping Obama also stops Reyes, Kim and Singh from thinking they can run for the White House as well.  We\'ve already got little black kids looking at this thinking, well maybe I can be President too.  And I think that\'s very disturbing to the Hannitys and Hasselbecks of the world.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1116472">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1116472" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1116472" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1116472">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1116472" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1116472" class="dsq-comment-message">Town,<br><br>as usual, you speak the truth.<br><br>THEY understand it. <br>THEY get what an Obama victory would mean. <br>THEY get it. <br><br>They get that next time, the platitudes about Jindal (if he survives Louisiana without being indicted IS the Senate and maybe the White House)<br>That maybe Richardson has too many \'women rumors\', but there\'s a young Latino out there who doesn\'t have those problems. <br><br>It\'s also about the future. I know, sometimes it gets hokey, talking about the \' symbolism\' of Obama, but I can\'t help but think about what this would mean, not only to little Black kids, but to little kids, period. Of growing up in a world where the President of the United States is a Black Man. <br><br>I read diaries, posted by parents of kids who go nuts over Obama. Who see video of his speech in Berlin, and then try and re-create it in their playrooms using their toys and stuffed animals, and think nothing of it. I believe that means something. Something that won\'t pay dividende for years, but it will pay dividends.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1120256">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1120256" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1120256" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1120256" href="http://bronzetrinity.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Bronze Trinity</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1120256" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1120256" class="dsq-comment-message">So true Rikyrah. I think that as long ans Obama wins and doesn\'t screw up as much as Bush did then he will change the way the world views Black people. His mere existence as President will change the thinking of a lot of Black people about themselves and the world will think differently about us. <br><br>Yes, some people  may believe there is no racism or discrimination anymore but its crazy to not want the man to win just to prove racism exists! I have actually heard comments by people worrying that him winning would be bad for Black people. So should we never be CEOs, Principals, or top executives because then people will say discrimination doesn\'t exist? I thought the goal was to give everyone the opportunity to get to the top. It seems like some people want us to only get so far so that the disparities remain so we can complain about them. <br><br>I\'m hoping that although some people will start thinking racism and discrimination don\'t exist anymore others start thinking Black people are just as good as anyone else so there is no need to be racist or discriminate against them. Hopefully it will even out and the benefits will outweigh the negatives.</div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-1114248">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1114248" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1114248" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1114248">PTCruiser</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1114248" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1114248" class="dsq-comment-message">So when do we begin to see the end of Hispanic, Jewish, Asian, Gay and Native American (I know I missed several groups.) politics?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1114475" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1114475" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1114475">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1114475" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1114475" class="dsq-comment-message">PTCruiser:  See how folks get into trouble posing questions about Blacks only??<br>"When Will They Ever Learn?"  [yes a 70\'s olde -Where Have All The Flowers Gone?]<br><br>Why do I believe that you don\'t care?  :&gt;)  :&gt;)  Just kidding!  :&gt;)  No disrespect.   I always think of songs.   :&gt;)  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1114920">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1114920" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1114920" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1114920">jonster</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1114920" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1114920" class="dsq-comment-message">When a Hispanic, Jewish, Asian, Gay or Native American is running for President?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1114422" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1114422" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1114422">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1114422" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1114422" class="dsq-comment-message">Sharing from black politics on the web:<br><br><a href="http://blackpoliticsontheweb.com/2008/08/06/black-reporters-should-attend-political-conventions/" rel="nofollow">http://blackpoliticsontheweb.com/2008/08/06/bla...</a><br>Title:  Black Reporters Should Attend Political Conventions<br><br>I agree    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1114448" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1114448" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1114448" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1114448" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1114448" class="dsq-comment-message">Rather than Obama being the end of Black Politics, I think his election to the Presidency sets up a new era of Black Politics which do not fit the tradtional standards of the Civil Rights Movement, and that\'s what has the elder guard scared.<br><br>As in scared they will be left out of the conversation.  However, I disagree with the brotha who said "I\'m the new Black Politics" because if it weren\'t for John Lewis and Jim Clyburn being willing to damn near die in the Civil Rights Movement, that brotha\'s ass wouldn\'t even be in a position to cry how he\'s "the new Black Politics."  He dissed the Civil Rights vanguard, even though he said he wasn\'t.  While I might not agree with my elders, I was brought up to never disrespect them.<br><br>Jesse, Sr., earns my disdain, but not my disrespect.  While I understand Jesse, Jr., disagreeing with his father, I\'m going to take the position he defended Obama and decried his father\'s statements in the heat of the moment.  Additionally, Jesse, Sr.\'s remarks were ghetto and he should have kept his mouth shut about turning Obama into a eunich.<br><br>It isn\'t the end of Black Politics - it just changed the rules of the game in terms of how Black politics will be discussed from here on in.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1116408" class="dsq-comment-header">\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1116408">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1116408" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1116408" class="dsq-comment-message">CPL,<br><br>Yours and so many others have written great comments here. They are scared because they see that we, this generation, is thru with the \' One Leader\' mess. We are finally using \' Black\' and "ACCOUNTABLE" in the same sentence - THAT is scary to them, which is why I appreciate the report cards so much. They laughed at you, in the beginning...they\'re not laughing anymore.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1119463" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1119463" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1119463">msmartin</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1119463" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1119463" class="dsq-comment-message">"It isn\'t the end of Black Politics - it just changed the rules of the game in terms of how Black politics will be discussed from here on in."<br><br>Exactly!</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1114539">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1114539" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1114539" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1114539" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1114539" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1114539" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t even understand the title so I can\'t read the piece.  Why would Obama mark the end of black politics?  I don\'t get it.<br><br>I\'m simple like that.  Some things just go right over my head.  Like this article.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1114593" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1114593" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1114593">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1114593" class="dsq-comment-message">99%:  Gotta Agree:  Way too much gray matter on a title that doesn\'t make sense - B4 or after reading through the article.  Hmmmmm?  :&gt;)  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1116551" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1116551" href="http://www.inkognegro.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Inkognegro</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1116551" class="dsq-comment-message">Good Article...Ridiculous Title.<br><br>You would do better to just act like the Title said "Great Taste, Less Filling"</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1119286" class="dsq-comment-header">\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1119286">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1119286" class="dsq-comment-message">Inkonegro:  Thank you.  I stand corrected&gt;   :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1114590">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1114590" class="dsq-comment-message">I think what Obama has done is is bigger than just changing the game for black politicians....but politics period. He has re-written the book that scares people who are entrenched in DC\'s games. I remember Donna Brazile screaming the Dems needed to get out of the "red state, blue state" mentality when Kerry was running.....and that\'s what\'s happening now. Obama is not relying on just big donors and the power elite to fund his campaign - he reached out to the $25 dollar donor. His rallies and townhall meetings are first come, first serve....excuse me? We aren\'t screeing every attendee first? Those politicians beholden to traditional DC games are looking in bewilderment...confused...what manner of man is this?<br><br>Obama has already changed the game...I just hope it sticks.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1114614">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1114614" class="dsq-comment-message">Miranda:  Big, full-throated AMEN!!!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1114686" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1114686" href="http://www.kdizo.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">kdizi kdizo</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1114686" class="dsq-comment-message">Obama represents a new brand/style/model/expression of black politics - not the end of black politics.  There are myriad styles/expressions of black politics and black civic engagement.  And given the dire state of our present political/social situation, we need as much black political activity and civic engagement as possible - in all its various expressions.  I\'m particularly interested in those political activities that go beyond voting (national, municipal) - that go beyond the "proper/sanctioned political channels".  I definately think that electoral politics/voting is a tactic that we should employ, but it is not the only thing that we should be doing.  Voting should not be our political end-all be all.  Again, barack represents a new and needed and timely expression of black politics.  However, it is going to take more than barack and his political stylo to fix this mess that we are in.  It\'s going to take a concerted effort to get us out of this mess.  It\'s our turn to bring something fresh to the political table. <br><br>Carryn\' On<br><br>kdizo<br><a href="http://www.kdizo.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow">www.kdizo.wordpress.com</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1114823" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1114823" href="http://www.ravingblacklunatic.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Big Man</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1114823" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m tired of this new meme that young black people don\'t view the world or politics through the eyes of the civil rights struggle. Which young people are they talking too? Not the ones who come to this site or mine. I still see view the world as a black man first and frankly I\'m suspicious of anyone who doesn\'t.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1115522" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1115522" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1115522" class="dsq-comment-message">Big Man - CO-SIGN!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1116537" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1116537" href="http://www.inkognegro.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Inkognegro</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1116537" class="dsq-comment-message">As usual The big man is on point.  <br><br>We view the world as the children of those who were in the struggle.  <br><br>It is a decidedly different view than our parents, but it shares a common heritage.<br><br>The struggle you see now is similar to the struggle our parents went through with THEIR parents.<br><br>People always act like the ministers in Montgomery didnt fight Martin tooth and nail.  <br><br>What Martin did was unheard of in many respects and the fact that he was young enough to have a different vantage point and base of experience was the critical difference.<br><br>At 47, Obama is the elderstatesman of OUR generation.  Old enough to have a sense of the horrors of Vietnam and the immediate post King years and young enough to understand HipHop in its proper context and be able to appreciate the true power of the current technology.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1115224">glory</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1115224" class="dsq-comment-message">I liked the article, and I think they would have done better to question the "End of Black Politics" AS WE KNOW IT.  It\'s an interesting question, but not a good one, \'cause the answer seems obvious to me.<br><br>I think Black Politics as-we-know-it will remain with us for as long as we have problems that disproportionately affect our community.  But I think that younger black politicians recognize that there are different ways to get stuff done than how the elders have been doing it.  New avenues have presented themselves, leaving room to try new ways of being black in public office.  I think Obama\'s candidacy is basically a national scale of something certain places have been seeing in local, young, black politicians.  These guys (hmm... no young female officeholders featured here) know how to reach and work with more people in addition to just the black community - I think it can only make them more effective for their constituencies.<br><br>And, I love Michael Nutter and his attitude.  Even though he supported Hillary.  And he\'ll get my vote again.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1115313" href="http://www.fortunecookiesinbed.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Roxie</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1115313" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1115313" class="dsq-comment-message">where are the women?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1117098" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1117098" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1117098" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1117098" class="dsq-comment-message">I guess young brothas can still be as sexist as the old brothas, Roxie.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1115318">rmalveaux</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1115318" class="dsq-comment-message">Obama\'s political ascendancy is not the end of Black Politics. In fact I would venture to say that Sen. Obama\'s success is due in large part to his not being a descendant of slaves. Let us not lose sight of the fact that white Americans view him differently than they do the descendants of slaves. Whites\' acceptance of Obama is predicated on not having to deal with the unresolved animosities toward the descendants of African slaves by white Americans.  With Obama there is not the legacy of antebellum slavery, Jim Crow, or any of the degradations and dehumanizations of the last 400+ years  - just racial "progress". The end of Black Politics is just the wishful thinking of those of my countrymen who wish to be proverbial ostriches to the legitimacy and necessity of Black Politics. <br>Their support of Obama allows them to say and feel that we have grown past the sceptre of race in American politics and that racial politics no longer has a place in the national discourse. Too many times I have heard politicos say that we do not want to have race as an issue in the Presidential (or any other) race, when , in fact , the ignoring of race has been the glaring flaw of our Constitution and our unwillingness to discuss race in real terms has led us into our Civil War, Jim Crow, the Civil Rights Movement, the Digital Divide and current socio-economic-political inequalities that continue to plague our nation and ruin the lives of our darker countrymen. <br>Black politics has served as the moral conscience of American politics, we have always been agents for change. Until we deal with issues of race as an American family, all subsequent conversations and efforts will continue to be flawed and problematic. Because as the descendants of slaves we have known white Americans for a very long time and our knowledge of them is borne out of necessity -  the necessity that a slave has to know the ways of the master. The lives of black people have depended on our knowledge of whites, passed down to us along familial lines and the exacting singularity of experience. The assimilation of Black Politics into the Amnerican mainstream will not occur until this nation can elect a descendant of African slaves to the Presidency.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1115581" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1115581">BlackButterfly</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1115581" class="dsq-comment-message">As long as we live in an America that is disproportionately controlled by one ethnic group that is concerned with the social, economic, political and cultural domination of American society...there will always be a need for people of color(Black, Hispanic, Native American, Indian, Asian...) to champion the needs and rights of their ethnic group in the pursuit of one day living in a better America that values the sum of ALL of its parts.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1115955">jed</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1115955" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1115955" class="dsq-comment-message">Is black politics a single entity? Are Obama\'s politics really the same as Cynthia McKinney\'s, or are their differences enough to say that they represent different groups of blacks? Does Obama still represent black interests, or is the scope of presidency so wide that representation is abstracted to a higher level that eliminates color lines?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1116147">RonnieB</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1116147" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t believe that Barack is the "end" of Black politics.  Rather, I believe he personifies a <i>new</i> Black politics.  More stealth, more practical, and not so much <i>less</i> activism, but a cooperative activism.  In other words, Obama (and Corey Booker, Deval Patrick, Harold Ford (sorry, rik) and other 40-ish Black pols) have learned the art of cooperative effort.  Not selling out, but rather compromise and triangulation.<br><br>See how Barack relates to White people of all political stripes, while married to a visibly Black woman; living in a largely Black city; worshipping in a largely Black church; and surrounding himself with mostly Black friends.   And while he\'s living as a Black man, he has a rainbow of non-Black family members.  <br><br>Being a successful Black politician today is an art.  And we\'re witnessing an artist like no other.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1117087" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1117087" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1117087" class="dsq-comment-message">Ronnie, I\'l forgive you for including Harold Ford in that bunch.  He has no sense of civil rights heritage and runs from it every chance he gets.  That\'s why he gets no mo love in Memphis...especially with Snowflake on his arm.<br><br>Cory Booker was smarter than Harold and had experienced racism up close, despite an advantaged, privileged upbringing - the white kids still teased him about those naps on his head.  Besides, Sharpe James was a crook and needed to be relieved of duties (not to mention heading for jail now).<br><br>Harold Ford was not a part of this bunch, so quit telling that lie about him ;-).  He knew how to kiss ass - not compromise, cause that\'s a fine art of giving something up without selling out.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1121670">RonnieB</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1121670" class="dsq-comment-message">C\'mon CPL, can\'t I get a *little* latitude with Harold?  I\'ve been writing to him regularly about not kissing so much booty.  I\'m trying to work with the brotha.  I think he\'s got potential.  :-)<br><br>Oh, and what\'s so wrong with having a white wife? ;-)  <br><br>{ducking and running for cover...}</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1125752" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1125752">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1125752" class="dsq-comment-message">RonnieB:  :&gt;)   :&gt;)  :&gt;)   LOL   :&gt;)  :&gt;:)  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1116355">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1116355" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1116355" class="dsq-comment-message">Obama is not the end. Obama is just the beginning, of something new that Black folks haven\'t experienced. And, it\'s going to be scary, because it\'s a whole other page that we\'ve never seen before, and we\'ll be making it up as we go along. I think that\'s wonderful.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1116451" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1116451" href="http://glory-i-am.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">glory</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1116451" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1116451" class="dsq-comment-message">There is a flying-by-the-seat-of-our-pants -ness to this phenomenon of Black politicians doing things in a new way...</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1119298" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1119298">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1119298" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  Co-sign!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1116597" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1116597">Plantsmantx</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1116597" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1116597" class="dsq-comment-message">Ok, I\'ve read every comment in this thread, and kdizo seems to be the only one who comes within miles of saying anything about what should be done, and how it should be done. And as I said, he/she only came within miles. What do you younger folks intend to DO, exactly? What\'s your plan? Gimme some detail here.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1116768" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1116768" href="http://www.ilivetoshop.typepad.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ruthdfw</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1116768" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1116768" class="dsq-comment-message">I like the joke posted on Booker T Rising\'s blog:  "As comedian Wanda Sykes has joked that "if he wins, black people are gonna have to come up with a new excuse. You can\'t blame the man when you are the man."</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1116874" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1116874">Plantsmantx</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1116874" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1116874" class="dsq-comment-message">A new excuse for what? And will I, as a black person, actually be "the man" if Obama is elected?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1116881" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1116881" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1116881">Sula</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1116881" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1116881" class="dsq-comment-message">Some interesting points here. I think it\'s worth noting that Matt Bai, the article\'s author, probably did not choose the title, which was chosen by editors to perhaps elicit a certain response from readers. (The American Scholar made a similar move by titling a recent article by Charles Johnson, "The End of the Black American Narrative").  <br><br>I\'ve familiar with some of Matt Bai\'s other writings, most notably, his book _The Argument: Argument: Billionaires, Bloggers, and the Battle to Remake Democratic Politics_. I\'m thinking this recent article moves in that direction and is less concerned with "an end" and more focused on the factors that are influencing an internal *argument* or differing perspectives among a particular group, in this case black folx. <br><br>In this regard, the piece is useful for putting a few issues on table, as opposed to trying to propose a definite answer or conclusion. But I\'m certainly interested in seeing where things do from here, especially in local sectors.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1117381" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1117381">TRW</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1117381" class="dsq-comment-message">I thought the article was interesting, but I also think that the author was a bit presumptuous in several places.   I guess I am the voice of dissent on this thread.  I don\'t know what "Black politics" means, or should look like.  As many posters have pointed out, just because you are Black does not mean you are going to be an effective public servant, or do anything to uplift the Black community.    At the same time, I wish the divisions into groups would come to an end.  That is one of the reasons that I am frustrated right now.  It seems that Black people continue to fight the fight on the fringes, instead of forming broad based groups with other people to accomplish our goals.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1117510">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1117510" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree with those that say Obama doesn\'t signify the end of Black politics, but rather the end of Black politics as we know it. The ascendancy of Black politicians like Obama, Booker, Nutter, Patrick....etc. gives permission to fight injustices that plague our community in ways that differ from the tactics our Black political forbears have used.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1119694" href="http://nquest2xl.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Nquest</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1119694" class="dsq-comment-message">What are the different tactics and where are the results that these new/different tactics have been or are showing signs of working?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1121837">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1121837" class="dsq-comment-message">When I speak of different tactics, I\'m talking about doing something other than simply marching in the streets, giving speeches in churches, organizing symbolic gestures such as having funerals for the N word...etc. Our community is dealing with a different set of obstacles, yet the "Old Guard" is intent on using outdated tools to solve these new problems. A perfect example is what Bruce Gordon faced against the the 64 member NAACP board.<br><br>The results of these new tactics remain to be seen because they\'re being clocked by the resistance from those set in their ways.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1124525">TRW</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1124525" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree.  If the NAACP had vision, and maybe they have come up with this idea and I missed it, instead of pushing for race-based programs they should push for class-based programs that affects a wide range of people (I think Bruce Gordon would have been hip to this).</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1125048" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1125048">Plantsmantx</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1125048" class="dsq-comment-message">Pushing for class-based programs rather than race-based ones- ok, that\'s one, I guess. What are some of the other new tactics?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1125832">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1125832" class="dsq-comment-message">Sepia:  Co-sign.  Is that like "thinking out side of the proverbial box?"  I\'m for that!!!  New tools for old problems - YES!!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>This technology "tool" helped in the win against billary!! She wasn\'t ready for Mr. O\'s type of political strategy!  :&gt;)  Evidence  -  her tired A88 web site!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1127366" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1127366">PTCruiser</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1127366" class="dsq-comment-message">When I was in college, which was some time ago, we used to say that the letters NAACP stood for the National Association for the Advancement of Certain People.  Not much has changed in all these years.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1118997">Admiral_Komack</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1118997" class="dsq-comment-message">Hmmm...<br>Since Hillary lost and Bill is whining that he is not a racist (yeah, whatever), does this mean that the Clintons are the end of white politics?<br>(Hey, somebody had to ask ;-))</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1119305">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1119305" class="dsq-comment-message">Admiral:  "virtual dap" for your bravery!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)   :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1122399">PTCruiser</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1122399" class="dsq-comment-message">Once again, the political capital of the black electorate is being used by people who are quite open in asserting that it is not their responsibility to address any of the political demands of the black electorate. If Corey Booker, for example, does not want to be the go-to-guy on inner-city issues then perhaps he should have remained in the majority white suburbs where he grew up and launched his political career from whatever political base he could have cobbled together there on his behalf.<br><br>I understand that these folks have larger ambitions and they would prefer not to be permanently assigned to the black seat. Their current posture, however, seems disingenuous in the extreme given that their political ascendancy (and celebrity) was made possible because they found more secure footing for their own ambitions among black voters. Now they will use the legitimate aspirational desires of these same voters to move on to higher office while denying any responsibility for addressing issues that have disproportionate effect on African Americans.<br><br>It has become commonplace to the point of cliche to talk about the alleged generational divide among blacks on the question of what black leadership means. The existence of this alleged divide is only possible if one assumes that those of us who are consigned to the box labeled "Civil Rights Generation" were always of one mind and one view. We never were. There were always divisions among us over the most pressing questions of the period and that included international affairs as well.<br><br>Artur Davis and other aspiring black politicians who share his views appear to be little more than younger versions of those who I have described elsewhere as being "second line inheritors" of the Civil Rights Movement. That is, those who attained political power less as a result of any sacrifices or risk they took but, rather, because they positioned themselves to take advantage of the opportunities created by the sacrifices and risks that others in their generation took. What exactly, for example, did Tom Bradley do or not do to rise to the rank of lieutenant in the notoriously racist Los Angeles Police Department and why did that department\'s behavior remain essentially unchanged during his four terms as mayor?<br><br>These are not radical or extremists questions because they go straight to the heart of this issue. If the Tom Bradleys and Artur Davises do not address the needs of the black electorate then what actual purpose is served by the black electorate in supporting their quests for political office? If electing Obama to the White House means that we get nothing more than a payoff on our aspirational desires and we understand and accept that reality, then we have no further complaint. If, however, we believe that he has a duty to address our issues because we have supported his candidacy then we have every right to make our views known and to demand attention. Every other group in America - business, labor, attorneys, Hispanics, Jews, women, faith-based organizations etc. - will have their hands out because it is the American way. Are we suddenly less American because a black family lives in the White House?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1124676" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1124676">rmalveaux</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1124676" class="dsq-comment-message">We are witnessing a shift in who is considered African-American and thus we are seeing a change in Black Politics. Throughout American political history Black Politics was regarded as the monolithic, collective politics of the emancipated slaves and their descendants, usually characterized by the presence of a charismatic leader .  In the 21st century, African-American is defined as an American citizen of African descent. This would include Americans of African descent who are not descended of emancipated slaves, like Sen. Obama.  <br>The shift in definition of who is African American gave rise to the shift in Black politics. The dynamism of Black Politics reflects the regional, cultural, class and circumstantial differences among African Americans The New Black Politics is built upon earlier Black political accomplishments and developments, however as the political constituencies have become more diverse, the strategies and goals of Black Politics have changed as well.  <br>The future of Black Politics is predicated on the ability of Black leaders and their constituencies to address the injustices and inequalities of Black life in America in real, tangible concrete ways. Obama\'s presidency offers the opportunity for Black Politics and its operatives to address and solve some of the most critical of our nation\'s ills. Sound, compassionate policies in health care, labor, criminal justice, green initiatives, civil and reproductive rights and other areas of public policy benefit all Americans, and  historically Black Americans have been at the forefront of all progressive political and social changes in our country. <br>Black Politics have been the conscience of the nation since the country\'s founding. We have righted this nation\'s path at the expense of our lives and treasure, even when our countrymen showed us no love. Now is the time we should assert ourselves to lead in this new fight  as we have in the past. <br>We are the Soul of America and right now Obama is Soul Brotha #1.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1124754" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1124754">PTCruiser</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1124754" class="dsq-comment-message">We are the Soul of America and right now Obama is Soul Brotha #1.<br><br>I\'m old school. James Brown is still Soul Brotha #1. Senator Obama is a brother who we would like to see elected as president.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1124818">rmalveaux</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1124818" class="dsq-comment-message">Yeah, you\'re ol\' skool alright. I didn\'t mean to offend you or the Godfather, but you get what I\'m sayin\'?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1125692" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1125692">PTCruiser</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1125692" class="dsq-comment-message">I wasn\'t offended at all. No need to apologize. I just don\'t grant that sort of space to politicians.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1124400">Anderkoo</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1124400" class="dsq-comment-message">From the article: "Black leaders who rose to political power in the years after the civil rights marches came almost entirely from the pulpit and the movement, and they have always defined leadership, in broad terms, as speaking for black Americans. They saw their job, principally, as confronting an inherently racist white establishment, which in terms of sheer career advancement was their only real option anyway."<br><br>I wrote my college thesis 11 years ago about a similar phenomenon in Boston\'s Chinatown -- two political styles, one born of the Civil Rights movement, one predating it -- both of which presumed to speak the community. I found both troubling and disempowering of the community itself, which struck me as practically captured by its supposed "leaders." And this was before the current era of post-CR politics.<br><br>There was a lot of value, I felt, in these two factions competing for the loyalty of the community, because that held them accountable. And maybe that\'s what\'s happening now across America across many political circles, not just African-American, but also white liberal, environmental, gay, evangelical. And, yes, Republican. Each group is struggling with a generational divide and an emerging new politics. (What a terrible year for Mark Penn to roll with "microtrends": if there is a macrotrend happening today, it is a change from the ideological to the pragmatic.) Environmentalists are embracing the market. Evangelicals are moving on from abortion. Gays are making sense of what legal marriage means for their historically marginalized status.<br><br>New politics -- new leadership. Is there an end in sight of "black politics"? I guess it\'s worth asking if there\'s such a thing any more of "Irish politics," "Italian politics," and "Jewish politics." (For better or worse, my thesis notwithstanding, there isn\'t much to say about "Asian-American politics"). It was clear for someone like Mayor Nutter that the end of a distinctive, isolated, ghettoized "black politics" is a desired goal -- a sign of true integration, even if incomplete. At the very least, perhaps, a leadership shakeup is always an accountability moment, which is never a bad thing in democracy.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1124536" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1124536">PTCruiser</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1124536" class="dsq-comment-message">"It was clear for someone like Mayor Nutter that the end of a distinctive, isolated, ghettoized "black politics" is a desired goal -- a sign of true integration, even if incomplete."<br><br>Given the fact that the majority of the residents of Philadelphia are African Americans, what do you believe Nutter is specifically referring to?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1124617">Anderkoo</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1124617" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'d take him at his word: “Look, I never asked anybody to be for me because I was black... I asked people to be for me because I thought I was the best candidate when I ran for City Council and when I ran for mayor. I’m proud of the votes I received. I’m proud I received the votes of the majority of the African-American community and the majority of the vote from the white community. But I never asked anybody to give me anything because I was black. I asked people to give me a chance because I thought I was the best.”</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1124707" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1124707">PTCruiser</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1124707" class="dsq-comment-message">The question I asked pertained to Nutter\'s claim that the black electorate in Philadelphia was ghettoized when blacks represent a majority of the city\'s residents. I wasn\'t opposed to Nutter\'s election and overall it has been a positive development for that city but my question had nothing to do with who Nutter sought support from during his race.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1125076" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1125076">Anderkoo</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1125076" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t know Philly politics so I can\'t say! But I suppose it\'s possible for a majority to be ghettoized, or a majority of the majority (= minority) to be captured is another way to look at it. Like evangelicals in the Republican party, or blacks in the Democratic. But I really don\'t know in Nutter\'s specific case, really. What\'s your opinion on this?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1125672" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1125672">PTCruiser</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1125672" class="dsq-comment-message">My opinion is that Nutter is still angry and is somewhat embittered, although he denies it, toward the city\'s old line black leadership. Nutter\'s lingering sense of resentment toward these folks maybe understandable but, in truth, there was no compelling reason for the black electorate in Philly to embrace him. Prior to his decision to run for mayor, Nutter did very little to distinguish himself as a member of the city council or as a politician. He and his supporters may deny it but he was basically a go-along to get-along pol.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1126246" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1126246"> monica </span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1126246" class="dsq-comment-message">I live in Philly so I have to point out a couple of things.   Although the neighborhoods are segregated, the make-up of the city is 45% white and 43% black with Latinos and  Asians making up the difference.   That\'s why his election was such a watershed moment.  He was the best candidate for the city black or white.  The residents of the city voted on his record and his integrity.  John Street was  an incompetent a-hole.  Anyone (of any color) would have been an improvement but we were blessed with two candidates who were capable (D Evans was the other).<br><br>The Philadelphia political situation is indeed unique and ghettonized was the best way to describe it prior to the election of Nutter.  We had black elected officials and political power, but the economy was in shambles and violent crime was rampant.  All Street did was throw his hands up and lined his pockets and those of his family and friends. <br><br>Maybe Nutter is bitter.  I am too.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1126493" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1126493">PTCruiser</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1126493" class="dsq-comment-message">My family and I live in West Chester (East Bradford Township). I can\'t disagree at all with your assessment of Philadelphia politics, although I was mistaken about the current demographics. Nutter is a vast improvement over Street and would be better than Fattah but I still would not describe the city\'s politics as being ghettoized. <br><br>Black folks inherited and adopted a  political system and a political regime that had long been in place before they became its leaders. Nutter was a garden variety product of this system until he saw an opportunity to distinguish himself. No fault finding here.<br><br> All politicians are opportunists. The real issue is whether they have talent or not. Nutter has talent but he will never be elected governor of Pennsylvania. We lived eight years in Hershey and folks in central and western PA are not going to elect a black person to occupy the mansion on Front Street in Harrisburg.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1124632" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1124632">PTCruiser</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1124632" class="dsq-comment-message">"...there isn\'t much to say about "Asian-American politics").<br><br>Many, many Asian Americans would take strong exception to this assertion.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1125090">Anderkoo</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1125090" class="dsq-comment-message">Sure they would, and obviously I wrote my thesis on the topic, and maybe it\'s different out in CA, but there just aren\'t enough Asian Americans in most communities to add up to a machine. Flushing, NY is one exception here on the east coast. (I should add "East Asian" as opposed to Indian or other parts of Asia).</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1145041">michon</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1145041" class="dsq-comment-message">Interesting article; better than what the NY Times usually does on the topic of race (usually very badly IMO).   But the ENDof black politics?  I don\'t think so.  That\'s like saying the founding of the NAACP marked the end of black politics a la Frederick Douglass; or the black power movement was the end of the politics of Bethune, Houston, Terrell.  I think the \'perceived power struggle has more to do with personalities like the black political power brokers sited in the articles than generation politics.  <br><br>Among grassroots organizers and cultural professionals I know, I see a lot of back and forth respect between the generations and for those who\'ve come before any of us.   But everyone likes to have something they can call "their stuff."  However, the environment, jobs, energy, Iraq, and globalization are and have been black issues.  They will be regardless of the outcome in November.<br><br>Jill Tubman suggested I share my take on "generation Obama."  It\'s like a border group between Gen X and the Baby Boomers.  [As of this election year we were kicked out of the Boomer group].  Our influences were the WW II generation (pragamatism) - grandparents, uncles, aunts, and perhaps parents.  They were our rocks.  They only had one TV and stereo (yep, that\'s what we called it) in the house.  We watched what they watched.  We listened to Nat King Cole, Sinatra, Sarah, maybe a little Johnny Cash.  They were unselfishly sentimental.  Second influence was the civil rights and black power generation (justice issues, multiculturalism, African diaspora).  They may have been our older siblings or parents.  If they were into the diaspora, they gave us the multi-cultural perspective. We were encouraged to demand, not ask; fight not flight and call it when we saw it.  We were proud of who were were as we were - "Say It Loud..." Finally there\'s the coming of age years (Reagan).  We were the test market for MTV and video games.  Hip Hop was Rap and some of it stuck with us or we slipped our parents\'/siblings\'Nina Simone, Coltrane, Aretha and Sarah stash into the trunk of the car and headed back to campus where we fused with Ruben Blades, Willie Colon, Celia Cruz.  Participated in panels hosted by the Asian Student Association, and pushed the board to divest from South Africa. AIDS came on the scene.  Crack on the city streets.   The divestment movement taught us something about investments, globalization, and commerce.  It may have been the first serious encounter with the Wall Street Journal.  We were intrigued. <br><br>All that said (and it\'s just a sprinkling), this group that includes Obama can\'t be neatly put into a box.  "Border crossers" may be the closest label.  The generations opened the doors.  So many influences; and we probably have been receptive in some form or fashion to all of them.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1168711" href="http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/44pq3" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Zhana</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1168711" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1168711" class="dsq-comment-message">As several have said here, this is not the end, this is just the beginning. <br><br>I hope all who have commented here will join my Obama phone-in on 19th August.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1114636" class="dsq-comment-header">\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1114636">LL</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1114636" class="dsq-comment-message">Booker T. Obama is not the end of black politics. <br>Booker T. Obama is the anticlimax of neoliberal politics.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1115241" href="http://swamphermit.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Karmi</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1115241" class="dsq-comment-message">I posted about this in the Wednesday Open Thread, and finished reading the article a little while ago. Matt Bai is a white semi-liberal (or recovering liberal), but he did a fairly good job on the article.<br><br>Personally, I think that the era of “black politics” ended some time ago, though its influence could still be seen when Sen. Lott was attacked by the left and he had to step down from the majority leader role. Still, that was just the entire left’s – along with its MSM – Modus Operandi of promoting hatred against anyone not agreeing with them (e.g. Robert Byrd still remains). Basically, the majority of Americans have been tired of “black politics” for some time now…as this article points out with the interviews. <br><br>Then came the primaries with Obama and Hillary, catching the usual Identity Politics of the Democratic Party off guard, and “black politics” surfaced again. Missed during all the accusations against Hillary and Bill being “racists”, was Obama’s own 20-year connections to the BLT racists, i.e. that blacks can be racists also. It will be hard to use “black politics” <i>‘as usual’</i> in the future, because the term racism will be hurled back into the faces of those claiming it, e.g. McCain’s throwing Obama’s use of the <i>‘Race Card’</i> back at Obama, and to a small degree, Whoopi’s claim of black ownership of the N-Word. White Americans may not have said much about Wright and Obama’s connection to him and BLT yet, but they noticed…noticed that something wasn’t right. I look for pressure to soon mount against Democratic Convention CEO Rev. Leah Daughtry (<i><b>“Jeremiah Wright in a skirt”</b></i>).<br><br>Interesting times ahead…</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1118491">JibreelRiley</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1118491" class="dsq-comment-message">Black Politics ended in the 1990\'s with mayors like Marion Barry and David Dinkins. The fact that DC re-elected the guy alone is scary enough and New York City is one of the most liberal cities in America has not seen a Democrat mayor in over a Decade (thats 10 years for you GEDers). Gov Deval looks like he will last one term. Philly has turn into West Beirut and Detroit is just a great example of what happens when Democrats run cities. I can ramble on but most of you are still blaming Reagan for your woes.</div>\
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