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Politics", "streaming_realtime": false, "url": "jackandjillpolitics", "allow_anon_post": false, "reactions_enabled": true, "reply_position": 1, "show_avatar": true, "allow_anon_votes": false, "disqus_auth_disabled": false}, "realtime_enabled": false, "request": {"username": "", "is_global_moderator": false, "sharing": {}, "sort": 4, "forum": "jackandjillpolitics", "is_initial_load": true, "is_authenticated": false, "timestamp": "2009-12-09_17:06:41", "remote_domain": "", "page": 1, "is_moderator": false, "display_username": "", "points": null, "subscribe_on_post": 2, "moderator_can_edit": false, "is_remote": false, "is_verified": false, "missing_perm": "login"}, "realtime_paused": false, "posts": {"1977344": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Send this to the talking heads and maybe after they gush over her moose stew casserole they can ask her about secession", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_10:46:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "djchefron", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1976161, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2004993": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "correcting my post, I misread your message.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-02_11:16:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "noelani", "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": 1986024, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1977346": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "McAncient:<br><br>Sen. McCain, of all the candidates you considered, what drew you to her? JOHN: Obviously, I found her to be very intelligent and very well-versed on the issues. But I think the important thing was that she's a reformer. She's taken on special interests since she ran for the PTA and the city council and mayor. The courage, I guess, is what most impressed me<br><br>PTA?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_10:47:15", "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": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1977859": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "So the suspicions were correct: The Religious Right picked Palin, not McCain. McCain is a puppet for the Religious Right!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_11:48:20", "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": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1977712, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1980420": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Let's hope that the baby's father is Black, just for an extra laugh.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_13:48:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "60266805bc0d9559a62514e1e769b750", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1979563, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1986053": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Obama on the Palin Pregnancy:<br><br><a href=\"http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/obama-to-media.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09...</a><br><br>Obama doesn't have to do anything. The bloggers are just doing what the right wing has always done to the Democrats. I have no qualms in putting all this out on the street. If the roles were reversed, all we'd be hearing about would be the LACK of parenting skills of Barack and Michelle. Their LACK of family values.<br><br>so, fuck them.<br><br>sorry about the kid, but since Mommy wants to parade around as Mother of the Year, then get ready for this. <br><br>we shouldn't back down one iota. <br><br>James.Dobson.In.A.Dress wants control over my body, and she's not going to have it. She's a religious right fanatic and should be treated as such.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_15:14:04", "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": 14, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1978889": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Palin just said Bristol is presently 5 months pregnant.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_12:21:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "delfinajones", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 14, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1994762": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "MSNBC reporting that Palin has hired a private attorney to represent her and staff in Troopergate.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_17:22:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1995275": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The trick is a LIAR. I've read all the sites, including the blog IN ALASKA that has information about this alleged pregnancy. But as several people have noted, she could easily refute these rumors by providing a birth certificate for her son, by showing a photo of her unequivocally pregant, or by showing photos of Bristol during that six months or so she wasn't in school. I can't understand why people think this is a \"personal\" matter. This woman would be next in line for the presidency of the United States. Her judgment is at question and should be. No matter which way this story spins out, and it seems to be spinning out of control for her, she looks like a liar, and not just in this instance.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_18:17:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "cc6569f8cbd4abd6bef53a2f883f8ca5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "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": 1995093, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1978898": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I think you mean Clare McCaskill, Obama's best surrogate.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_12:22:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "LisaM5432", "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": 1977604, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1978899": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That's part of her disarming shtick.  She knows precisely what the VP does.  Playing the \"dumb blond\" to disarm puffed up, arrogant males.  Of course, their instinct is to pat her on the head condescendingly.   But, that's when she bares her fangs, and bites them!<br><br>Biden should not proceed as if she doesn't know.  He should assume she is smart and allow her to prove otherwise.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_12:22:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1977772, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1996820": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"Get over yourselves.\" Gee, what an intelligent response. I am not one who seeks to impose my personal beliefs on others, so I am far from intolerant. McCain, Palin and the Republicans kept harping about her son's condition as though it gave her some moral authority, and that is also a fact. Your comparison to Obama's color is irrelevant and incorrect. He never campaigned on his color.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_20:38:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "marvy", "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": 1995386, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1977367": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "This woman was so vain she only wanted to wear the fake belly for a few months!!<br><br>Unlike Bree on Desperate housewives, she had already had 4 pregnancies and refused to be so encumbered for that length of time.<br><br>Thus, there is only ONE photo of her pregnant...reMEMber she announces in March that she is seven months pregnant, and everyone is incredulous because she is NOt showing.<br><br>She THINKS she has two months to go looking pregnant!!  But alas, that tricky daughter Bristol of hers didn't know the conception date...that Trig was a full term birth at six pounds!!  Especially being a Down's baby if he was premature he should have weighed less not the normal weight.<br><br>Sarah was happy as hell she only had to wear the fake pregnant belly less than a Month!<br><br>You can't look pregnant in a public photo at a conference YET no ONE on the plane can tell you are pregnant when you BOARD it?  No one during the flight thinks you even LOOK pregnant at SEVEN months?<br><br>She took that belly off before she boarded.<br><br>She is a LIAR and a POSER.<br><br>Out her,  and just so she giggles about it...let me say..out the BYTCH.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_10:49:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "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": 1974256, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1995288": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You are sadly misinformed. <br><br>Overturning Roe v. Wade will NOT outlaw abortion in this country, the issue will be left to the states, and no reasonable person believes your exaggerated position. Abortion will be available to women but abortion rights advocates will have to petition the states. <br><br>Many feminists are tired of being held hostage to issue of abortion rights. Palin is an accomplished, poised, independent, principled pro-life woman and she offers modern women a new view of 'feminism.' <br><br>As a member of Feminists for Life, <a href=\"http://www.feministsforlife.org/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.feministsforlife.org/</a><br>Palin is not opposed to birth control. Abstinence is the only 100% proven effective method of birth control. <br><br>You have a right to oppose her, but get your facts straight and tone down your overwrought rhetoric if you want to be a credible critic of Palin.<br><br>Palin is a threat to the monopoly the Democrat party has had on 'feminism' and this is why she is being attacked.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_18:18:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "1400f03cc71ef078ba73fa4da59a7c4f", "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": 1995000, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1992221": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Again, like it was said, just because McCain added a vagina to his ticket doesn't mean said vagina was going to be concerned about anyone else's.<br><br>I spit on this ticket, and I'm going to continue to think for myself before independent thinking becomes illegal.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_16:44:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1986053, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1994245": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "If further rumors are true, the father is in his late 20's, and they've been dating for more than 3 years, which would mean that the Palin's let their child date a child molestor.  Could any of you imagine what the news coverage would be if this were Michelle and Barack's daughter?  We all know the answer.  His black ass would be off that ticket by the end of the day.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_16:48:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "NMP", "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}, "1979425": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I posted some videos of her debating.   I can see how, matched up with Biden, she might come off a charming to his \"curmudgeon\".   Matched up with him, she seems like change.  Biden will have to tread carefully here.<br><br>I'm not buying the \"dumb blond\" act.   I say, assume she does know her stuff, and prepare for that.   Then, if she really is \"dumb\" then let her prove it.  Biden and O should not proceed as if she's \"dumb\".", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_13:10:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1979276, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1981993": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Not bragging, but I had an email exchange with Ben Smith of Politico within the last 30 minutes.  I provided him excerpts from her 2006 questionnaire in which she opposed abstinence only education. Interestingly enough the link to Sarah Palins official 2006 campaign website now redirects to McCain's campaign webste.  What more are they hiding?   For whatever reason, the MSM isn't doing their job in scruitinizing this woman's views and policies, so we have to push hard against the media.  <br><br>Sorry for the daughter, but this is a legitimate campaign issue, not just because of their obvious attempt to conceal the preganancy but because she wants to impose her ineffective policies on us.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_14:04:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "NMP", "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}, "1977903": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I heard him say it & couldn't believe it. But if a male opponent brings it up they will be accused of dismissing her accomplishments.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_11:51:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "4d9312cd58c7caeb087835daea9d59b6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "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": 1977346, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1987422": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Anyone got the 4-1-1 on her hubby's DUI?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_15:52:58", "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": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1974838": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That's a great link, thanks Anovelista...  I am not fond of religious extremists.<br><br><blockquote><i>The Issue: Abortion<br><br>Palin\u2019s Position: Believes abortion should be illegal \u201cWith the exception of a doctor\u2019s determination that the mother\u2019s life would end if the pregnancy continued\u201d (source). Palin also said that she\u2019d be opposed to abortion even if her daughter had been sexually assaulted (source).<br><br>America\u2019s Position: Although most polling shows that Americans are pro-choice by only narrow pluralities or majorities, tolerance for abortion increases substantially in cases where there are mitigating factors. In particular, an October 2007 FOX/Opinion Dynamics poll says that by a 70-21 margin, Americans believe that abortion should be legal if the pregnancy was the result of rape or incest. A CBS News poll, also conducted in October 2007, revealed similar numbers: just 16 percent of Americans share Palin\u2019s position that abortion should be legal only in order to save the mother\u2019s life, while another 4 percent believed that abortion should be illegal in all cases (source).<br><br>Conclusion: Palin\u2019s position is far outside of the mainstream.<br><br>The Issue: Sex Education<br><br>Palin\u2019s Position: Would replace sex-ed programs with abstinence-only programs (source).<br><br>America\u2019s Position: A broad consensus around the teaching of sex education has existed for decades, with 85 percent of Americans favoring sex-ed in schools as early as 1985 (source). The numbers appear to have increased since, as a 2004 poll conducted by NPR, the Kaiser Family Foundation, and the Kennedy School of Government showed that 90 percent of Americans believe that sex education is a \u201cvery important\u201d or \u201csomewhat important\u201d part of the school curriculum, whereas only 7 percent believe that sex education should not be taught at all. In the same survey, just 15 percent of Americans supported abstinence-only programs (source).<br><br>Conclusion: Palin\u2019s position is far outside of the mainstream.</i></blockquote>", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_04:40:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1974174, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1977911": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Hillary Clinton's narcissism could be the single best weapon the Democrats have to take on Sarah Palin.<br><br>If McCain is elected, Palin beats Clinton to the executive branch and maybe even the presidency itself.<br><br>I can't see Hillary (or Bill) wanting that to happen. <br><br>Something tells me that even though John McCain is  their friend, they're rather pissed off with him right now.<br><br>I know Bill didn't show up for the nomination speech. Hillary did. She wants to be the leader of the women's movement in America, and Palin is poised to steal the spotlight from her.<br><br>It's a perfect storm. No pun intended.<br><br>I think we're going to see Hillary a lot in the next 6 weeks.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_11:52:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2005049": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Oh please stop acting like this thing she has \"courage\" for is something she had no control over. The worst part of ALL of this is making 17 year olds get married. CRAZY. That is WAY to young to be married. This is no way to compound the issue but its not my family... so I'll back off of that.<br><br>My issue is her POLITICAL STANCE on sex education and abortion. For me, it is always about having a choice. I wonder how much choice this kid is having... And don't you think its kind of hypocritical to have a moral stance on privacy when people were poking around Obama  in HIS CHURCH. It wasn't us here at JJP. How about when they nose around in a the best wishes book at the Jewish Memorial in Israel? It wasn't us here at JJP. <br><br>The nation is doing this, not us.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-02_11:21:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "evita", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1995386, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1986108": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Barack says, \"Back off.\"<br><br><a href=\"http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0908/Obama_on_Palin.html?showall\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0908/Oba...</a><br><br><br>Politically, Sarah Palin is a radical extremist. She's as dangerous for our nation as John McCain. That's what we  have to drive home. <br><br>Leave the rest of her soap opera life to the tabloids.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_15:18:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 13, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1995730": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I agree with both Melinda and Town on this one.  Barack must remain politically correct.  This proves both McCain and Palin have incredibly bad judgment and are nothing but liars.  If McCain's campaign had realized Bristol was pregnant (if true), his strategists would have framed this from the beginning.  They<br>would have informed us of the upcoming nuptials at the press conference.  They would have said Palin is preparing to be a proud grandmother  and Bristol is being married by Rev So & So on Sept  5th!  As it stands, everyone is INCOMPETENT!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_19:02:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "jelana", "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": 1995253, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1978949": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Religious fanaticism is alive and well in the USA, while the army wages war on the raggedy, rock throwing Muslims.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_12:26:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1977859, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1986124": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Rhondacoca:   WELCOME BACK!!!   Hope U R feeling better and stronger!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>Good points!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_15:20:41", "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": 1980883, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1985613": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I agree with ya and I still think Trig is Bristols too.  The chance of getting pregnant  again right after have a baby is really high.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_14:34:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "checkbookcc", "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": 1979371, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1995343": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Do moderates and independents really care what Pat Buchanan thinks. Do you really think that Palin is being hypocritical? The fact that her daughter chose to engage in pre-marital sex in spite of the risk of pregnancy or STDs and did not have an abortion is in what way hypocritical? I think it is called 'practicing what you preach.\"<br><br>Obama said, \"If my daughter makes a mistake, I don't want her burdened with a baby.\"<br><br>Was he a burden to his young mother. What if she has aborted her mistake?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_18:24:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "1400f03cc71ef078ba73fa4da59a7c4f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1994560, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1985616": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "All of this information could not come out on a worst day ... Gustav is hititng the Gulf coast and the news organizations are hunkered down with that coverage, but I have to say SOMEBODY needs to take a minute or two to address this AIP issue. This is serious shit!<br><br>I mean, look at what Obama had to endure just for being a church member ... and look what they've done to Michelle for saying one sentence. This is serious shit going on with Palin ... SUCCEED from the United States!?<br><br>I don't know what kind of vetting the Republicans thought they were doing ... but the American people NEED to have all the facts! They should know who is really suspect in this equation. <br><br>This is getting beyond ludicrous.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_14:34:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "noelani", "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": 1979802, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1976401": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "that video is incredulous!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_10:02:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "JJai", "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": 1976161, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1977939": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I cannot BELIEVE that What About Our Daughters SUPPORTS McCain's choice of Palin as VP.  I just officially deleted them from my favorites, I'm so disgusted...<br><br><a href=\"http://www.whataboutourdaughters.com/2008/08/mccain-brilliantly-aims-directly-at-obamas-weakspotpits-the-ambitions-of-blacks-vs-those-of-white-women/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.whataboutourdaughters.com/2008/08/mc...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_11:55:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "BlackAmericanPrincess", "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}, "1987670": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "No, Because this isn't a question about Obama or  the daughter. Rather John McCain's judgement. McCain has centered his whole campaign on the issue's of judgement , experience and readiness to lead. Is Palin ready with one DS baby and a daughter that's pregnant? So it's perfectly legitimate to question McCain's competence when he selects someone that doesn't meet his own standards.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_16:20:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "ff63de3c552a068d4e2a738eecd1e361", "has_been_anonymized": false, "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": 1987403, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1995193": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Barack isn't wrong, and I'll tell you why:<br><br>On a personal level, he's not going to want Bristol Palin demonized for being a pregnant 17 year old, because his mom had him when he was 18.  He wouldn't want his mom demonized, so he's not going to demonize Bristol Palin.<br><br><br>On a POLITICAL level, neither Obama nor his supporters should even bring up Bristol Palin, Sarah Palin's son/grandson, mothering skills, etc.  They SHOULD take the high road.  They are simply giving Sarah Palin and John McCain the rope in which to hang themselves.  What is it, Monday?  McCain made the pick on Friday?  Already we have learned:<br><br>Sarah Palin probably illegally used her influence to try and get her brother in law fired (hence, hiring a lawyer to defend her today);<br><br>Sarah Palin is against abortions and contraception to prevent the pregnancies, and her 17 year old underage daughter is pregant;<br><br>McCain did NOT vet Sarah Palin;<br><br>Sarah Palin was part of an Alaska successionist party as recently as 2 years ago;<br><br>And more is yet to come out about this woman, you just wait and see!<br><br>Let the National Enquirer, \"journalists,\" tabloid media, bloggers and the general public devour Sarah Palin; Obama and his camp don't need to.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_18:07:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "b55fc0e16623c181a6c8436de91a9fb4", "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": 1994470, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1995386": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The fact that Trig has Down's Syndrome is nothing more than that, a fact.<br><br>Barack Obama is black, is he using his race for political advantage?<br><br>Get over yourselves here at JJP.  <br><br>Bristol Palin will have the love and support of her family, her friends and her community, she will survive your hateful attacks, and you all will be exposed as intolerant and self-righteous.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_18:28:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "1400f03cc71ef078ba73fa4da59a7c4f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1995234, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1970780": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/211769.php\" rel=\"nofollow\">Getting Real About Palin</a><br><br>About her abuse of power.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_02:50:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1984095": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "so much for her great work/life balance. Looks like Sarah let something slip.<br><br>And yeah the press would have a fit if this were Malia or Sasha. I am sort of interested to determine if the religious right will deem this a bad example or stick with the old stand by of being proud that she chose life.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_14:22:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "JJai", "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": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1983288, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1979491": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "HYPOCRITES LYING SELFISH HYPOCRITES", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_13:16:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1979371, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1987689": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Monica:   So let me get this STR8:   Hillary supporters [former and present.   No wait. .. .they are both the same!!] - read this stuff AND use it as SUPPORT for a point????<br><br>In the groans of Arsenio Hall:    Hmmmmmmmmmmm!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>On second thought:   \". . . .should heed the mandate of our candidate. . . .\"  <br><br>Complete with robot-tech-sonic music:   \"She is NOW NOT a candidate!! You can THINK for yourself!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL-ISJ2HBG4\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL-ISJ2HBG4</a><br><br><br>[JJP:  please know that I don't know anything about this music.   :&gt;)   :&gt;)  So I hope that I'm not offending anyone!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)]", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_16:23:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1987568, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1985643": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Oh it would be an indictment on Barack and Michelle's parenting skills and judgement. Then it would be a indictment on Black Americans as a whole. You know how the game is played.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_14:37:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "noelani", "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": 1983288, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1996910": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "God and Country are first to the RNC base. So, the idea that he is muslim is just as bad. Honestly, and with these conservatives then you would have to go back to Rev. Wright. <br><br>Perhaps, those things together would squell voter turnout if this story of her inclusion in AIP gets legs.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_20:49:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "JJai", "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": 1996790, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1994863": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Bloggers are voters too.    Bloggers are citizens.    <br><br>Sarah Palin exposed her daughter to this scrutiny by making <i>her</i> son Trig, supportive evidence of her anti-choice position.   <br><br>At Palin's first appearance with McCain,  Bristol can be seen clutching the baby, and using him to hide her abdomen.   Why hide if she is planning on keeping this baby and marrying it's father?  They released this information BECAUSE of the rumours!  Isn't this an odd coincidence?<br><br>Has anyone here expressed hate for this young woman, Bristol?<br><br>You're so eager to find shelter in Obama's compassion; yet, we all know that if this was one of the Obama girls, Conservatives would eat them alive!  There would be no mercy for Obama and his family.<br><br>I hear the hypocrites right now saying that \"things happen in life..\"   Well, they didn't think this with Reverend Wright, did they?  They even demonized Obama for having a Muslim father!  No one begged for restraint when the nasty rumours were spread about Obama and Michelle.<br><br>Bristol is not displaying courage.  Courage requires choice.  Bristol is not allowed choice based on her mother's assertion that abortion is out of the question.   Bristol is adopting the default position.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_17:32:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1994446, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1978993": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I just saw this.  Is it me, or does someone anyone else feel like McCain is punking us?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_12:31:37", "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": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1978889, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1995283": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Obama is playing this very Zen. He won at the Convention big forcing this gambit by McCain. The hypocrisy is not something that is new to us. We need to take a deep breath and breathe. Clear our mind. <br>Fear is the mind killer. What I fear and what I think most of us fear is that Obama's approach feels like martrydom. And that we do not want any part of.<br>By reminding us that his mother had him at 18 he has once again neutralized McCain. He has taken out issues that can only appeal to the rabid base and can no longer be mentioned in swing voter areas. He has placed the children off limits. This includes the older children in the military so he has neutralized military service issue-something Democrats haven't had in a long time.<br>So I plan to keep being analytical and as calm as possible. I have to hope. I lived to see this, day why wouldn't  I want my children to have an even better life.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_18:18:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "RobM", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1981044": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Exactly!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_13:56:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "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": 1979189, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1994869": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This personifies the term poetic justice.<br><br>Fox news and other conservative pundits have engaged in any tactic that would distract the American public from the substantive issues at hand. They have used both fear mongering and Muckraking to achieve these goals and have in turned created an environment where it is now considered par for the course.<br><br>With the revelation about Palin's daughter they are now in the position of having to deal with the monster they have created. When the blogs, tabloids and zealots seek more of this type of information on the Palin's for a gotcha moment; the Right Wing media will now be put in the position of having to acknowledge it as well.<br><br>I think Obama should take the same stance as he did with Rev. Wright on this issue, namely, give a final repudiation of those using it as a campaign tool and never speak of it again. Yet as mentioned, thanks to Rove's Rules politics this revelation will never die.<br><br>The Chickens have come home to roost.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_17:32:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "382c92ecadd86cf0c401b6239a0f967e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "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}, "1979511": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "and there you have it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_13:18:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1979189, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1986168": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The Palin family is nothing but the Clampetts on a national stage.<br><br>We might as well re-name the White House ...WalMart.<br><br>Cause that is what this is quickly turning into ...a national mocker of every tradition in America.<br><br>Now, we are suppose to support these right to lifers dragging the White House in to the sewer after Bush dragged it through the gutter?<br><br>But trailer trash is better than Negros in the white house.<br><br>No one has seen a birthcertificate for Trig yet. that boy could have been born in March,, and Bristol turned right around and was pregnant again.<br><br>Something is fishy in the Palin household...real generational sexual abuse is going on here.<br><br>Bristol knows her only way out is through pregnancy.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_15:24:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "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": 1984095, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1994874": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "NO SALE nancyelyn<br>not with what the reTHUGS have done to Michelle and most people of color<br>who cares what the reTHUGS say about the blogs, with the way townhall, the freepers and redstate act?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_17:33:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "gaiilonfong", "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": 1994446, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1995900": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I suppose you could argue that \"accepting her fate\" is a form of courage.  But, it would be nice if she could truly choose.  Maybe deep inside, she is terrified.  Maybe she knows in her heart this is the wrong outcome for her.      <br><br>Republicans are asking for privacy.  They say this is a family affair.  Yet, they seek to impose their will on all families with anti-abortion legislation.  There must be no \"privacy\" for other women.<br><br>They are hypocrites!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_19:19:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1995537, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1973375": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/08/flashback_palin_said_she_didnt.php\" rel=\"nofollow\">Calling HIllary a ' whiner'</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_02:55:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1995371": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "It is your <i>logic</i> that is faulty.  Nowhere here do I make clear my opinion about Bristol keeping her baby.   At no time have I judged that outcome.  You do not know what I think about her keeping her baby.<br><br>What I have said, is that you cannot point to her keeping her baby as evidence of her superior morality or courage.   You cannot do that, because morality is based on choice.   If Bristol has no choice, and the only option is for her to have her baby, then it is impossible to tell whether she is acting out of courage...or simply accepting her fate.<br><br>Perhaps you are reading my comment through religious lenses.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_18:27:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1995091, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1994249": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "These stories about Palin should not be backed down on.  Obama HAS to play nice with all of these crazies out here but someone needs to call this woman.  If this was regular John/Cindy-I-Use-Vikadin type story then I could see letting the tabloids take care of it.<br><br>Palin has two stances that I know of:<br>1-global warming doesn't really exist/isn't man made<br>2-pro-life, anti birth control.. ?<br><br>Her <b>17&lt;/&gt; year old daughter is KNOCKED UP.  Getting married because you are pregnant doesn't make things better, most of the time, it makes things worse.  I will get over the double standard of \"if this were Obama\" but if the newborn is really the \"17\" year old's, she is lying to us about something as simple as her home life.  What else would she be capable of lying about?  This woman just screams \"scandal\" to me.  She needs to RUN away from this election as soon and fast as possible.</b>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_16:48:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "nickwah22", "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": 1986108, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1995397": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "oh and one more thing nancyelyn -- regarding your statements \"Obama supporters are now doing far more harm to Obama than good.<br><br>Bloggers on the left are losing their credibility FAST. Their desire to practice the 'politics of personal destruction', spread lies, resort to exaggeration and fear-mongering with the fury of a hurricane will damage their ability to be believed in any legitimate criticism and scrutiny of Sarah Palin. \"<br><br>Unlike you repubs -- we don't make up stuff.  This information stemmed from Alaskan newspapers and other legitimate blogs and from the mouth of Ms. Palin herself.  So the only people that are spreading lies and fearmongering are on McCain's team.   So get that right.<br><br>While you are at it - you may want to give McCain a heads up on the next storm coming where Ms. Palin needs to explain why she is for pushing the effort to make Alaska it's  own country and ask her what is up with \"infiltrating\" a national party to make sure this happens?   Again - no lies or fearmongering.  Information is coming from the mouth of Ms. Palin herself.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_18:29:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1994446, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1979017": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Nope--official press release. McCain--liar- sez he knew.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_12:33:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "delfinajones", "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": 1978993, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1973390": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/09/mccain-only-now-sending-8perso.php\" rel=\"nofollow\">McCain only NOW sending 8-person team to Alaska to vet Palin</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_03:00:39", "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}, "1976464": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Wow. What an enlightening Debate. Thanks TruthSeeker for this link.<br><br>Murkowski comes across as an armscrossed condescending powerdrunk bully!<br>It was like I was watching Hannity&Colmes with Ms.Congenialty as the moderator between the little boy getting beat up on by the bigbully.. She came out looking like a rose between thorns.<br><br>This debate makes it quite easy to see why she won the 3 way race.<br><br>Murkowski dismissively characterized her as a whistle blower on her own party...like that was a negative?!<br><br>Palin blew that out the water by saying she supports Alaska citizens and that they should come before party interests.<br><br>Binkle was talking down to her as if she was inexperienced by touting how much bigger his administrative duties were...typical my dyck is bigger than yours male mindset. Which she skewers, by saying it's the experience not the size.<br><br>Then she shrewedly addresses points where her and Binkley are aligned against Murkowski while making a very pointed sexist remark to Mukowski by asking him \"where's the boss, where's Nancy\" (his wife)...unbeliiievable ...no man could get away with asking Palin 'where's the boss, where's Michael'...the feminists would be all over that.<br><br>However, due to Murkowski's fingerpointing bullying, everyone felt it was fair to call out that he was all bark and that his wife wears the pants!<br><br>Unfortunately murkowski came across as a pugnacious pompous jerk even going on the offensive to attack both opponents rather than answer the question, while patting himself on the back for having been the one to appointment. both..as in 'I had the good judgment to appoint these folks now let me tell why they do not know what they are talking about.  What a self-congratulatory backhanded compliment that was!<br><br>Overall Mukowski comes off as disdainful to John and condescending to Palin. Both men were dismissive of her.<br>Although, I gotta hand it to Ms Congeniality she sure knows how to disagree AGREEABLY and she gave as good as she got.<br><br>Which will be a big problem in a two-way debate with Biden.  Biden risks being dismisive and condescending in the typically 'daddy knows what is best' catholic irish steeped cultural  workingclass male role model...look no further than Matthews<br><br>Biden needs to practice debating with a Southern belle for this debate!! He does not need to debate a man. Democrats need to find a woman versed on foreign policy who knows how to deliver soft power to Biden's strong expertise. <br><br>Palin is a female Barack when it comes to consensus and demonstrating she understands and listens to the other person before responding.<br><br>OK, Democrats our job is to now come up with a list of female politicians that will debate like Palin...all Ms.Congeniality while sticking the knife in with each breath.<br><br>Someone like that syrupy sweet voiced Amy Holmes on CNN whose speaking tone is all chirpy but whose words are daggers!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_10:11:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "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": 1974951, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1973400": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/08/what-does-palin-mean-for-the-d.php\" rel=\"nofollow\">What Does Palin Mean to the Democrats</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_03:04:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1979033": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<b>Palin: Surge? What Surge?</b><br><a href=\"http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/08/palin-surge-wha.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_12:35:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "nickwah22", "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}, "1979549": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "which makes it worse.  He actively participated in the effort to deceive the American people.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_13:21:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1979017, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1977712": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Dobson and the wingnut extremists met in Minn last week to vet Palin who wudda thunk??<br><br><a href=\"http://www.talk2action.org/story/2008/9/1/24846/28141/Front_Page/The_Council_For_National_Policy_Meets_In_Minn_Vets_Palin\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.talk2action.org/story/2008/9/1/24846...</a><br><br><br>The Council For National Policy Meets In Minn, Vets Palin<br>By Max Blumenthal\t Mon Sep 01, 2008 at 02:48:46 AM EST\t  print story<br>              Last week, while the media focused almost obsessively on the DNC's spectacle in Denver, the country's most influential conservatives met quietly at a hotel in downtown Minneapolis to get to know Sarah Palin. The assembled were members of the Council for National Policy, an ultra-secretive cabal that networks wealthy right-wing donors together with top conservative operatives to plan long-term movement strategy.<br>CNP members have included Tony Perkins, James Dobson, Grover Norquist, Tim LaHaye and Paul Weyrich. At a secret 2000 meeting of the CNP, George W. Bush promised to nominate only pro-life judges; in 2004, then-Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist told the group, \"The destiny of the nation is on the shoulders of the conservative movement.\" This year, thanks to Sarah Palin's selection, the movement may have finally aligned itself behind the campaign of John McCain.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_11:31:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "gaiilonfong", "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}, "1974946": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Took a \"Field Trip\" to see Mr. Martin:<br><br>He's ALL OVER \"MCAncient\" regarding his \"soulmate\"<br><br><a href=\"http://essence.typepad.com/news/2008/08/with-palin-does.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://essence.typepad.com/news/2008/08/with-pa...</a><br><br>With Palin, Does McCain Now Believe in Quotas and Affirmative Action?<br><br>I believe that the answer was \"Hell to the Naw\"!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_04:55:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1985700": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "from the Immoral Morality an AK blog<br><br>\"How convenient is it that Bristol is now five months pregnant, which of course would make it impossible for her to have given birth to four and a half month old Trig? Could anybody have even hoped for a better coincidence?<br><br>Here is a question I started asking myself yesterday. If you knew somebody doubted that you had given birth to your most recent child, why would you have the photos from that time removed from your website? I mean wouldn't you post MORE pictures of yourself looking pregnant to kill the rumors? What would taking them down make most people assume?<br><br>If the right wing thinks that this makes the story go away then they are totally fooling themselves!\"", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_14:42:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "JJai", "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": 1985613, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1974951": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "******Videos*******<br>Sarah Palin Debating...got this link from Fivethirtyeight dot com<br><a href=\"http://palintology.com/2006/08/08/decision-2006-republican-candidate-round-table/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://palintology.com/2006/08/08/decision-2006...</a><br><br>Notice any similarities between the incumbent she debates and Joe Biden?<br><br>I predict she will attack Joe Biden on being the antithesis of change.  She will portray herself as the <i>true</i> change candidate.   I understand there's only on VP debate?  That is not good in the case of an unknown like Palin.   Joe has one chance to destroy her bogus argument in person.  She needs to be defined beginning now. <br><br>In these debates, she appears disarming.  Joe has his work cut out for him, but I believe he is more than capable.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_04:56:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 17, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1979563": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "does anyone know anything about her daughter's baby's father. (Interestingly, I have never typed that phrase before...)<br><br>Her kid is 17. How old is the baby daddy? Statutory issues? <br><br>I was surfing around and the right wing nutsjobs are saying... THIS IS PROOF OF PALIN'S FAMILY'S VALUES since she hasn't thrown the kid out. LMFAO! If Obama's daughter came up pregnant it would be the END of the world.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_13:23:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "evita", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1981613": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yea that was half hilarious, half frightening because this women could possibly be in the white house. <br><br>Did you catch the one where she said that she was not \"really following Iraq\".", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_14:00:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "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": 1977772, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1983288": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "She's going to be a grandma.<br><br>So much for that ABSTINENCE TEACHING.<br><br>Riddle me this, folks, WHAT IF Malia or Sasha Obama were 17 and having  a baby.<br>Just saying.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_14:17:46", "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": 11, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1995380": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yup, politically he's smart to stay out of this and let bloggers do their thing. He's not going to win either way on this. What's really sad is that we're now dependent on the National Enquirer and bloggers, who don't always get shit right, to do the investigative journalism that mainstream newspapers once did. That's why newspaper journalism is on life support.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_18:27:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "cc6569f8cbd4abd6bef53a2f883f8ca5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "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": 1995193, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1995451": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "that was funny as hell!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_18:33:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "cc6569f8cbd4abd6bef53a2f883f8ca5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "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": 1994480, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1996647": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "ABC News has confirmed Palin's inclusion in the Alaska Independence Party. Now, this is something that the right could get upset about and it completely juxtaposes McCain's Country First agenda. This organization's slogan is \"Alaska Fir, Alaska Always.\"<br><br><a href=\"http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/members-of-frin.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_20:25:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "JJai", "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}, "1979582": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "So she should be dubbed the Lynn Spears of Politics.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_13:25:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "rorysmomma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1987445": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Rikyrah, you have my full-throated endorsement...  Could you imagine all of the Baby-Mama references and jokes if this were Malia or Sasha?  My God, this blog would be flooded with anti-black trolls.  If Sarah Palin is ready for prime time, then her she goes.  This is going to be too funny once Letterman and Leno get a hold of it.  I'm staying up late to watch The Daily Show tonight.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_15:55:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "MotorCityBadBoy", "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": 1986053, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1974976": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "An ad with the \"Rapist's Bill of Rights\" portraying Palin as extreme, would be great, as per Anovelista. <br><br>She has a disarming quality.  I can see people saying she doesn't look like a bad person.   Saying she's \"more of the same\" ....I'm not sure that's enough.   They have to drive home her actions and extreme positions.  <br><br>As for John McCain, they have to drive home that he considers Palin a \"soulmate\";  therefore, he ascribes to her extreme positions and has promised to tinker with the Supreme Court.   It must be made clear that this could mean it will be law that rape victims are denied emergency contraception and abortion.    This is not fear mongering, it is a real threat!<br><br>When the Dems get done, every woman should know that Palin believes a rapist has the right to choose her as mother of his child.  Every man with a wife and daughter should know it too.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_05:08:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1974951, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1979075": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yes. I had typed a Freudian slip, I suppose.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_12:40:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1978898, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1985910": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/8/30/12195/3751\" rel=\"nofollow\"><br>Comprehensive list of GOP Family Values hypocrites</a> Craig, Foley, Vitter, Barr, etc...all with links to source articles.  ENJOY!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_15:00:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "3352c3738e0057def37d99bedbefb7bb", "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}, "1977542": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "CO-SIGN!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_11:09:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "60266805bc0d9559a62514e1e769b750", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1977367, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1986081": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "NMP:   \"Not braggin. . . \"  You would not be seen as bragging!!!  U R doing JUST what we all are doing  --  sharing with the persons who will FIRE UP the MSM!!!  This is STRATEGIC!!!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)<br><br>And when the MSM looks across the proverbial \"TABLE of TALK\" - we will be able to say to them  -    \"GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER!??\"   <br><br>JJP!!!   Pass the peas please!!!!   :&gt;)     :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>GOOD JOB!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_15:16:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1981993, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1974984": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Thanks.  That's a good one.<br><br>Although.  I don't think Palin should be underestimated.  It is a disrespectful pick by McCain...but, it would be a mistake to go into debate and belittle her accomplishments.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_05:11:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1974946, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1994956": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Word!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_17:42:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "4d9312cd58c7caeb087835daea9d59b6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "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": 1987499, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1987275": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "whiterosebuddy,<br><br>this Alaska blog \"claims\" to have the smoking gun on Trig being Bristol's kid. Follow the link and check out these pictures.<br><br><a href=\"http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/2008/09/is-this-smoking-gun-that-proves-trig.html#links\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/2008/09/...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_15:38:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "JJai", "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": 1986168, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1974988": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I think Joe will be ok if he doesn't fear kicking her ass. I trust that he is already studying up on everything he can get about her. If he can deliver statements where he can kick her & Mccain at the same time (with both feet, like in a karate movie), that will be so much the better. Mccain's record on women & children's issues is abhorrent. There is a story about it on Huffpo. Joe's voting record on the same issues is good, so he does infact represent change and support for women and children unlike their 17th century beliefs.<br><br>I also feel that O has run a very tight and highly disciplined campaign. I'm sure he asked Biden if he thought he could hang or not, and told him what he expected. I am not affraid.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_05:13:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "4d9312cd58c7caeb087835daea9d59b6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1974951, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1994446": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Obama supporters are now doing  far more harm to Obama than good.<br><br>Bloggers on the left are losing their credibility FAST. Their desire to practice the 'politics of personal destruction', spread lies, resort to exaggeration and fear-mongering with the fury of a hurricane will damage their ability to be believed in any legitimate criticism and scrutiny of Sarah Palin. <br><br>Moderate, independent  men and women are repulsed and disgusted.<br><br>The Palins all chose life and lived their values.  That doesn\u2019t strike me as news, as we already saw that with her commitment to her son Trig.  Obama has aked his supporters to back off of these types of smears, but this actually draws more attention to the hate that is being spewed here at JJP, DailKos, etc .  <br><br>Most people, I\u2019d say, will wish Bristol and the Palins well.  <br><br>We would all do better just to admire the Palins for their love and support for Bristol, Bristol\u2019s courage in pursuing motherhood when faced with a difficult but hardly unusual situation, and agree that this has little to do with whether Sarah Palin will make a good Vice President.  Families have been dealing with this since \u2026 there were families.  Neither side should use Bristol to score political points.  Keeping them in our prayers would also be the kindest action we can take.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_16:49:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "1400f03cc71ef078ba73fa4da59a7c4f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 30, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1995983": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "nancelyn:  Noting that you just arrived here.<br><br>This comes under the heading of DOUBLE (IL)LOGIC!! [similar, and with all due respect to our newest thread :&gt;)]:<br><br>\"The FACT that Trig has Down's Syndrome is nothing more than that, a FACT.\"   <br><br>O.K.  A FACT!!<br><br>\"Barack Obama is black, is he using his race for political advantage?\"<br><br>Several things:<br><br>1.  Black should be capitalized!!  That's A FACT!!!<br><br>2.  Barack  Obama is Black.   That's a FACT!!   Period!!!  [NOT comma!!]<br><br>It it NOT LOGICAL to move beyond \"Barack Obama is black\"  IF you're going to put a PERIOD at the end of your \"Down's Syndrome\" fact.   <br><br>In fact it's a non-parallelism and a non-sequitur and, therefore,<br><br>ILLOGICAL!!!   But, enjoy your visit!!  And y'all come back now!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_19:29:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1995386, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1985744": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "If the Palins can be so proud of their unwed, pregnant teenaged daughter, why the heck can't the McCains let poor Bridget out of the dungeon?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_14:46:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "60266805bc0d9559a62514e1e769b750", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1997009": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You are right, the rate of Black teenage pregnancies have decreased.  However, Black girls represent 30% of all teenage pregancies of all races, which is disproportionate to when compared to the total population of African Americans - say 12-13%.  This is 2006 data, so things may have changed over the last 18 months, but not that much.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_21:00:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "c955d4fea8e1769edcfda7cf81ec4eec", "has_been_anonymized": false, "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": 1980883, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1979090": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "And the Native American vote.<br><br>Barack's ground game is unmatched.<br><br>The brown, black, and red people will be at the polls in overwhelming numbers and Barack will win.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_12:41:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1978789, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1974996": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "She has 3 houses.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_05:16:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "4d9312cd58c7caeb087835daea9d59b6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "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}, "1979093": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "That is a terrific blog!<br><br>Don't you just know that if Tim was alive, he'd be getting ready to do an anal probe right about now?<br><br>Tim wasn't perfect, but it's astounding there's no journalist even close, that I can think of.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_12:42:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1977266, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1994967": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You should see Bill Bennett on CNN trying to use Barack's statement as cover from having to answer Wolf's questions about Abstinence only.   He's saying that Obama has asked them not to talk about this!!   In the same breath, Bill mentions Ayers and Rezko   <br><br>HA!<br><br>Goddamned Hypocrites!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_17:43:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1994446, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1995480": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"Bristol Palin will have the love and support of her family, her friends and her community, she will survive your hateful attacks, and you all will be exposed as intolerant and self-righteous.\"<br><br>You STILL don't get it.  It is not about Bristol.  Why lie?  Why lie when if you look at all the issues this country now faces, Bristol's sex life is not on the top ten lists of what affects the needs of the people in this country?Unfortunately MANY teens have unwanted pregnancies in the US because we are not educating them enough about sex education and it certainly does not help with a candidate who wants to ban teaching sex education (except of abstinence) in the schools, wants to ban contraception and who is against a womans right to choose.  <br><br>That is the problem.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_18:37:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1995386, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1987364": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "One last thing....  I know people think this may be bold, but it brings to light the hypocrisy that the GOP always shove down our throats...  How we are all sinners and they're the party of morals and family values.  This is my LAST comment on Sarah Palin and pregnancy (Insert Bush signing statement here ).  <br>I want everyone to Watch for the old Switcheroo....  You heard it here first...  Palin's daughter is NOT 5 months pregnant...  She may be pregnant, but not 5 months.  The campaign said 5 months to end the speculation that Sarah Palin really had the last baby, Trigg Palin, 4 1/2 months ago...  I saw that girls photo on stage a few days ago, and she may be 3 months pregnant at the most cause she's not showing at all.  Here's what's going to happen...  Somehow they're going to claim a miscarriage before the baby comes to term.  This was put out there to stop the first rumors.  I still truly believe that Sarah Palin is already a Grandmother.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_15:46:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "MotorCityBadBoy", "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}, "1996506": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "emm.. good question..!!! where were you though??", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_20:09:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "nickwah22", "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": 1996242, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1985757": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Charlie Rose, maybe hell James Lipton from inside the Actor's Studio. <br><br>What about Mary Hart from Entertainment Tonight??", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_14:47:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "Lilytiger", "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": 1979093, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1987810": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yes, I know that is what you were taught.  But has that been your experience in the 'melting pot' we call America?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_16:36:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "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": 1987499, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1994470": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Same here! I love Barack but he is wrong on this.  It's not the pregnancy but the hypocrisy.  The GOP has been trying to legislate their brand of morality for decades, including abstinence only education.  She put herselt out there as the poster child for abstinence only education, so it is more than fair for us to make her the poster child for the failure of abstinence only education.  Being the governor of a state roughly the size of DC and mostly white and indigenous people, she doesn't have to deal the the deadly consequences of teenage AIDS.  This is an issue of policy and judgement, nothign personal.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_16:52:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "NMP", "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": 1987499, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1976045": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Palin: Iraq is a war for oil.\u00bb<br><a href=\"http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/31/palin-iraq-is-a-war-for-oil/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/31/palin-iraq-...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_09:24:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "djchefron", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1979118": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "yes shes 5 months pregnant and unwed. talk about conservative moral values huh? mccain should be punching himself in the face. stupid", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_12:45:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "3da4f68bf4cf2bd15ab3285db21c41ee", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1978889, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1994480": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The media would be roasting Barack and Michelle on an open spit, with that KKK leader Sean Hannity cheerleading and being followed up with Don Imus calling them \"Nappy Headed Hos\".<br><br>They started the fight, all the way back in 1993 when they called Chelsea Clinton the \"White House Dog\".  Monica, do you remember THAT?  Chelsea, daughter of Hillary, was 12-years old and being called names by the Reich Wing, dope-fiend, Rush Limbaugh.<br><br>Mrs. \"Family Values Palin\" needs to stay the hell out of my womb and pay attention to what's going on in her own damned house.  Bristol's pregnancy could have easily been prevented if her air-headed mom stopped for two seconds preaching about abstinence and hauling that child's fast a$$ down to the local Planned Parenthood for birth control.<br><br>Children and political attacks on them should ALWAYS BE OFF LIMITS, but Sarah Palin's own hypocracy is being exposed for what it is, and again, indicates McCaint's unfitness to lead this country should the ReThugs decide to steal another election.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_16:53:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "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": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1983288, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1987539": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I agree that her fundamentalism is the scariest thing about her, but there's also the question of her priorities and her judgement.  If I had had a special needs child 4 months ago and a teenager who's expecting a child of her own in a few months, I don't think, \"Sure, I'll run for Vice president\" would be my first thought.  I think she must be extraordinarily political ambitious and not have a whole lot of common sense.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_16:04:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "glaukopis", "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": 1986108, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1995508": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Amen Town Amen...I can see the headlines now!!<br><br>I co-sign with every thing you just said!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_18:40:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "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": 1995093, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1995000": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The issue isnt the baby.  Many teens have babies . . . the issue is that Palin is anti-abortion even in the case of incest and rape, wants to revoke Roe vs. Wade, is against contraception, is against teaching sex educations in the schools.  THAT is the issue.  Now, you are right in that Palin is entitled to her beliefs and her daughter is entitled to her privacy however OUR DAUGHTERS also should have the right to choose and make their own decisions.  This isn't about Obama -- this is bigger than he is.  This is about the rights of EVERY woman to choose.<br><br>The fact is that Palin is not knowledgeable about the issues that face our nation and should not be a breath away from the presidency and she does she have the judgment to lead our great country and I certainly don't want her making any decisions on what should be my daughters right to choose when she clearly can't make those decisions in her own home.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_17:46:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1994446, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1995513": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "They need Obama/Biden surrogates out in the field saying loudly that the best way to show women's advancement is for BIDEN to debate her like any MAN. If he treats her like her like a stupid kid or \"just a woman,\" it would be an insult to all feminists everywhere!!!!!<br><br>The real women's leadership better take the lead on this!!!!!!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_18:40:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "evita", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1974988, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1996540": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LMAO!  Boy is it heated today.  <br><br>But just like these conservatives are crossing over today I had to go read some of their comments to see where they are coming from.  I just want to know what her stances are! How long do we have to wait to get some damn answers!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_20:13:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "nickwah22", "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": 1995983, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1994560": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I've got Video of Pat Buchanan and Joe Scarborough saying that Sarah Palin should not be picked as VP for John McCain...  It would be hard for them to walk this back... even though I know they'll try.  <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTbsbeY5k5k\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTbsbeY5k5k</a> .  We need to spread this around.  Thank to Kos.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_17:02:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "MotorCityBadBoy", "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": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1996545": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Monica, why are your still supporting Hillary Clinton?  What office is she running for?  Last time I checked she is still the senator of my state --New York.  She has not announced that she is running for to any us New Yorkers. <br><br>In the primary I voted for Kucinich.  He did not win.  Guess what? I don't support him anymore because he is no longer running for President.  I SUPPORTED Kucinich, but I no longer SUPPORT him.  <br><br>But if you still support Hillary Clinton than why don't you become an OBAMA SUPPORTER and identify yourself as such, she does", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_20:13:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "ecb8e53ad4dc175b15ab69340dd091f1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "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": 1987403, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1977602": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Palin pretended to be pregnant (and not very convincingly) to cover for her child who gave birth out of wedlock.  Her kid with Down Syndrome is her grandson, not her son.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/31/145838/319/386/581332\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/31/145838/...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_11:16:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "deed231e006dfeb6fd25299fcb01bf9b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "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}, "1977603": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Who's unpatriotic now?", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_11:16:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "60266805bc0d9559a62514e1e769b750", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1976161, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1977604": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Sarah McCaskill", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_11:16:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1976464, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1995525": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "keep living in your alternate reality.  Now excuse me while I fight to protect mine.<br><br>Go Obama/Biden 08", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_18:42:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1995288, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1994503": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That's what happens, Melinda, when you don't vet your candidate.<br><br>Like it was said on another thread, even Obama's VP Vetting Team got VETTED.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_16:55:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1985813, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1976585": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Palin and her pastors<br><br><a href=\"http://harpers.org/archive/2008/08/hbc-90003486\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://harpers.org/archive/2008/08/hbc-90003486</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_10:23:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1994510": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "That would make Grandma Alaska an accomplice to her daughter's statutory rape.  Surely no woman would pimp out her child in the name of conservative politics.  Would she???", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_16:56:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "60266805bc0d9559a62514e1e769b750", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1994245, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1995053": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "NMP...see your comment to parker404...<br><br>your email address is displayed.  You might want to edit it and delete that portion before someone replies and you're not able to.  Before you do, take a print screen or copy and send it to Disqus support.<br><br>The same thing happened to me a couple times.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_17:52:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1994245, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1995537": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Okay, I'll take that expanation, lol<br><br>BTW, I  am reading your comment through a religious lense. I view all things through religious lenses. I am a committed Christian.  I am very sensitive when I perceive that faith is marginalized. Upon further inspection I will concede that I was perhaps being too sensitive.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_18:43:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "JJai", "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": 1995371, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1987459": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "In total agreement. <br><br>So now, it seems like the strategy was never the disaffected Hillary Clinton supporters, or women in general but rather the extreme evangelical right wing.<br><br>Just wow. Well, they surely have fired up the \"base\".", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_15:56:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "Honey01", "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": 1982950, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1985813": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I think the religious right will try to make this poor girl their poster child. It's so sad. She shouldn't be held up as an example. She is lucky; her parents can and will support her. Many 17-year-old pregnant high school girls do NOT have that kind of family life.<br><br>I seriously doubt that McCain knew about this beforehand. If he did, then double-shame on him for even asking this woman and her family to stand next to him in front of the whole country and world! Now is NOT their time to be coping with national politics!<br><br>If Malia or Sasha were even past puberty I doubt Obama could run. White America has already shown its stupidity by the way Michelle has been treated. I think the Obamas might have even considered their girls' ages when deciding to go for this campaign. I recall hearing them say something about now being the time and not wanting to try this when the girls are older----not that I think they expect their girls to go through something like this! But I think they are realists and they love their kids and don't want to put them through the trauma of entering the national stage when they are also entering young womanhood.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_14:53:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "3c6b9b09aa1f21981baca2edd9e4dde1", "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": 1983288, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1995030": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Motor City you are so right about everything you have said, but I don't think the comedians are going to touch this. John Daily might, but he would be the only one.<br><br>I'm watching the RNC on CNN & its a sea of white people. The have a lot of empty seats as well. I like Laura Bush. She is the only good thing about the Bush family. She seems nice, but I wouldn't wan her to run for president.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_17:50:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "4d9312cd58c7caeb087835daea9d59b6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "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": 1987445, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1995543": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "She better not DARE get pissed at that either. In Alaska they had bumper stickers that said \"Coldest state, Hottest governor.\"", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_18:44:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "evita", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1974179, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1995032": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I could give a CRAP on what Obama says on this issue Craig.  This isn't about having a baby.  It is about A WOMAN'S RIGHT TO CHOOSE.  <br><br>So too bad, so sad.  He has to get over it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_17:50:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1986108, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1976603": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Great point!...<br><br>Don't forget that she also believes that every father has the right to make his daughter the mother of his child as well!!<br><br>Every woman with daughters needs to know that.<br><br>Palin is just LDS polygamists  on steroids!!<br><br>Based on how deviant her position is on abortion , it wouldn't surpise me if we  find out that Track and Trig are her brothers and that Bristol was the victim of generational sexual abuse.<br><br>GOP politicians are known for taking the harshest stances on issues they are personally complicit in and guilty of.  Look no further, than Livingston, Barr as well as Foley and Craig!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_10:25:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "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": 1974976, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1995039": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I loved how he crossed his arms and refused to say anything except \"Barack says we should back off\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_17:51:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "nickwah22", "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": 1994967, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1980192": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "wrb:   I'm waiting for the National Enquirer which I hope includes a statement from the ATTENDING PHYSICIAN and a FEW NURSES, the admitting clerk and candy striper or 2!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>Otherwise:  Co-signing!!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_13:46:49", "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": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1977367, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1996577": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "From DailyKos:<br><br>Sarah Palin Isn't Ready To Be Commander In Chief.<br><br>- She has been Governor for 18 months of a state that ranks 47th in population.  Only North Dakota, Vermont, and Wyoming have fewer people to govern than Alaska.<br>- Prior to that, she was Mayor of Wasilla, Alaka for 6 years and sat on Wasilla's City Council for 4 years.  Wasilla's 2005 population estimate is 8,471.<br>- Sarah Palin has no foreign policy experience.  Physical proximity of Alaska to Russia doesn't count.<br><br><br>Sarah Palin is woefully out of the mainstream in her views.<br><br>- She opposes abortion, even in cases of rape and incest.  Only 18% of Americans agree with her that it should be illegal in all cases (source).<br>- She opposes sex education in schools and is firmly behind abstinence-only programs (source). 69% of Americans think sex education in schools is very important, and 21% think its somewhat important (source - PDF, p. 6).<br>- She supports the idea of \"school choice\", or vouchers (source).  70% of Americans do NOT support vouchers when it means public school funding would be cut (source).<br>- She supports teaching creationism in science classes (source).<br>- She is skeptical of global warming and doesn't believe climate change is man-made (source).    85% of Americans believe the planet is warming and a full 70% believe that it is attributable to either BOTH nature and man (49%) or solely to humans (21%) (source).<br><br><br>Palin is hardly free of old-Washington influence and tactics.<br><br>- She was FOR the Bridge to Nowhere, before she was against it (source).<br>- She openly praises Hillary Clinton, but thinks Clinton is a \"whiner\" (source).<br>- She is under investigation for ethics abuses in the firing of Alaska's Public Safety Director (source - worth noting also that CNN just reported Palin has retained a lawyer on the same issue).<br>- She was director of Senator Ted Stevens' PAC (source).  It's worth noting here also that Stevens himself is under indictment for 7 felonious counts.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_20:17:19", "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": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1976100": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Well this settles it<br>McCain impressed by Palin's courageous work at the PTA<br><a href=\"http://www.americablog.com/2008/08/mccain-impressed-by-palins-courageous.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.americablog.com/2008/08/mccain-impre...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_09:33:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "djchefron", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1980710": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "If we go into the next two months with an \"OJ-like\" celebratory attitude because Palin's daugher is pregnant  --  Hooray!!   she's the mother of a pregant teenager, we win the morality vote! --  God bless us all because we have lost -- and Obama will certainly lose too.   <br><br>Think about the consequences and the reaction of those independents, Reagan repubs and Hillary supporters before you start jumping for joy. <br><br>As the father of a teenage daughter, I know when I'm sitting inside of a glass house.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_13:52:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "c955d4fea8e1769edcfda7cf81ec4eec", "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": 1980420, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1994538": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "He's probably an Alaskan Native (as in Eskimo).", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_16:59:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1980420, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1994539": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Finger snaps!  This is NOT about the pregnancy but hypocrisy.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_16:59:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "NMP", "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": 1986053, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1976621": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Biden can't risk focusing too much on McCain and not on her unless he is consistently linking her to the issues...otherwise it will come across as dismissive of her and she is the person debating him.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_10:27:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "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": 1974988, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1994461": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Sorry, can you be more specific about \"opposed abstinence only education\"? Did she oppose ANY sex education, or did she think that sex education should also include information about birth control and safe sex?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_16:51:21", "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": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1981993, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1996593": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Governor Grandma's parenting skills have rightfully been called into question (i.e., boarding a 12 hour flight after her water broke), and there are still so many facts that are not sitting right with me:<br><br>What kind of mother asks her pregnant daughter (of any age) to stand on a stage behind her for 30+ minutes holding a baby?  Why not get poor Bristol a chair?  Was painting a false portrait of the perfect, conservative family so important that no one, not mama or daddy, thought to speak up for their DAUGHTER and make sure she was comfortable?  Why not put little Trig in a freaking stroller, or let his own Daddy hold him?<br><br>This stuff is just not adding up.  Is it more likely that:<br><br>a.  A 5 month pregnant girl was asked to hold her baby brother while standing on stage for nearly an hour;<br>b.  A 2-3 month pregnant girl was asked to use her infant son as a prop to hide her baby #2 containing belly; or, <br>c.  A new mom was asked to pass off her son as her brother in order to spare her ambitious mom embarrassmentt?<br><br>Whichever is the case, the Palins really don't seem to do things the way the rest of us do.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_20:19:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "60266805bc0d9559a62514e1e769b750", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1979189": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Let's see how this is handled. My sympathy to Bristol for her selfish mother who chose politics over family--BUT if this was a black teen child of a candidate that was pregnant....well let's see the Repub. spin on this.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_12:53:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "delfinajones", "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": 1979118, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1994552": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "She believes that abstinence should be the only form of sex education taught in our schools.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_17:01:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "60266805bc0d9559a62514e1e769b750", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1994461, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1983291": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Heh<br><br>I am hoping she is seeing all her hard work go up in smoke. I hope that she is so angry that she will be the she-devil herself, and take on Palin. <br><br>Okay pumas, she's a fighter. Let her fight to continue to be the most influencial woman in politics.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_14:17:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "Lilytiger", "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": 1979713, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1985855": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I am a Latina/Native/Irish mix and when Obama came on strong my reaction was that the people of  all colors and I don't mean white  would fall in line and back him because we would see our struggles in yours. <br><br>Look at the coalitions he has garnered. The Asians, the Pacific Islanders, the Latino, the Natives, the African. He is the one. He is the hope and the voice but especially the face.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_14:56:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "Lilytiger", "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": 1981814, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1977664": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "She deserves to be dismissed.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_11:25:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1976621, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1979713": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yes indeedee as my local jazz historian says.<br>I have already been over to the crypt pulled the stake out of  her heart, broke the mirror and burnt the garlic. It's dark in the Big Easy.<br><br>On a serious note: this is the opening we needed. Palin can be attacked on her lies and hyprocrisy w/o making it about Republican issues. hilliary in the vanguard and the fire brigade where ever whenever. Gov Selibus and every non big state elected official hammering her in non Metropolitan areas. Caroline and Maria in the big Metro's and their swing suburbs like Oakland(Detroit) and Montgomery(Philadelphia) w/ their local counter parts. Exception Whiney Wasserman Schultz  she is a walking SNL skit and the two Cali Senators(their feminism is 60's hate men stereotypes.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_13:34:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "RobM", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1977911, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1995075": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Rikyrah - Spot On.  <br><br>Contrary to popular belief -- we are not sheep.  We choose to support Obama's agenda.  A woman has the right to choose and sex education is mandatory and THIS is the reason why.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_17:54:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1986053, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1979716": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "TruthSeeker:  I agree with your \"cautions!\"   :&gt;)  I hope that they are reviewing the \"tapes\" like athletic teams do in preparation for the \"BiG Game!\"   :&gt;)  :&gt;)<br><br>I'm feelin' your suspicions!!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_13:34:27", "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": 1979425, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1995125": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Obama's family is off limits. The right damages its own cause when it engages in  such repulsive tactics.<br><br>I admire Michelle Obama. She has much in common with Sarah Palin even if their political views are polar opposites. The fact that I may agree more with Palin, does not diminish Michele's accomplishments, poise and grace. She would be a fine first lady. Same for Cindy McCain.<br><br>The left is too concerned about fighting back and giving the right a 'dose of their own medicince' x 100! But the electorate is turned off by this. That is why Obama's message has so much resonance with a diverse group of Americans.<br><br>The far-left is over-reacting and over-reaching and is a sure threat to detract from Obama's message of change. What are we changing other than the balance of power? Where's the post-partisanship, where is the healing of divisions, where is the tolerance of opposing viewpoints and life choices? Is this a 'big tent party' or is it a far left wing party run by overwrought radicals?<br><br>If Obama cannot persuade his supporters that it is damaging to continue along this path, that will speak volumes about his ability to offer us a new brand of politics.<br><br>This country will survive and continue to be the greatest nation in the world no matter who becomes president. Most voters believe this and roll their eyes at the fear-mongering and exaggeration on both sides of the debate.<br><br>Why is Obama's change better than McCain's?<br><br>Build up you man. Tout his big ideas. Tell us why he is the one who deserves his vote, without degrading his opponents and their families.Use this forum to echo his positive message. What you are doing here is trampling all over his message and shoving his face in the mud. <br><br>If you can't see that and choose to defend and continue these despicable tactics you will share in the blame for Obama's loss.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_18:00:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "1400f03cc71ef078ba73fa4da59a7c4f", "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": 1994661, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1987403": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "With all the great publicity your blog is receiving, do you really want to be associated with the vilest aspects of our political culture?<br><br>Just like you've said Hillary supporters like myself should heed the mandate of our candidate and support Obama, shouldn't you heed the call of your nominee and leave this Palin family matter alone?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_15:50:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "cdb105a0448967d7c26f2589218a5ecb", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1986053, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1973580": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Alaska National Guard General: Palin Plays No Role In National Defense Activities Even When They Involve The Alaska National Guard<br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/31/alaska-national-guard-gen_n_122860.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/31/alaska...</a><br><blockquote><i>Maj. Gen. Craig Campbell, adjutant general of the Alaska National Guard, considers Palin \"extremely responsive and smart\" and says she is in charge when it comes to in-state services, such as emergencies and natural disasters where the National Guard is the first responder.<br><br>But, in an interview with The Associated Press on Sunday, he said he and Palin play no role in national defense activities, even when they involve the Alaska National Guard. The entire operation is under federal control, and the governor is not briefed on situations.</i></blockquote>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_03:41:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1995234": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Palin was using her children to score political points - how many times did we hear about her having a special needs child - and you can't have it both ways. It's unfortunate that her daughter has to deal with being a pregnant teen in the public eye, but this is the result of her mother's choice.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_18:12:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "marvy", "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": 1994446, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1996779": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "From Bill O'Reilly's Pinhead and Patriots on Dec 20, 2007<br><br>On the pinhead front, 16-year-old Jamie Lynn Spears is pregnant. The sister of Britney says she is shocked. I bet.<br><br>Now most teens are pinheads in some ways. But here the blame falls primarily on the parents of the girl, who obviously have little control over her or even over Britney Spears. Look at the way she behaves.<br><br>Hmmmm......do you think he still feels this way?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_20:35:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1974097": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Andrew Sullivan is linking to a Flickr photo posted late yesterday where Palin looks pregnant. <b>She looks pregnant here </b>  <a href=\"http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/09/she-looks-pregn.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily...</a><br><br>If you read the comments in the Flickr link within, some people still aren't buying it.<br><br>But then there is Daily Kos diary using the same picture (from a conservative site) of Palin along with a picture of a VERY pregnant Palin in 1989 (with son Track  <b>Sarah Palin Baby Story Ender</b>  <a href=\"http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/31/234157/516/1017/581734\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/31/234157/...</a><br><br>However, many of the Alaskan folks still aren't buying it.  The blog Mudflats again - check out this comment (and others) by \"The Logician\":<br><br><br><b><i> Re: babygate - I don\u2019t know what\u2019s being reported. Here, however, is the truth. Trig is Sarah and Todd\u2019s baby.</i><br><br>Nice try. Truly a masterpiece of Republican spin.<br><br>The truth is different. Sarah Palin and her crowd want people to think that a 44-year-old woman pregnant with her fifth child fly to a business conference during her 8th month of pregnancy. While there, her water breaks, and she wouldn\u2019t rush to the hospital. Instead, she would stay and make a half-hour speech.<br><br>Then she would to to the Dallas airport and board a series of commercial flights, including a layover in Seattle, lasting more than 9 hours. Once in Anchorage, this high-risk mother would bypass the superior Anchorage hospitals and head to some small-town community hospital in the back country and deliver a 6 lb., 2 oz. baby one month premature.<br><br>Sorry, but that one does NOT (pardon the pun) hold water. On its face, it is impossible. What actually happened is that Sarah Palin\u2019s daughter, Bristol, was pregnant. By whom we don\u2019t know, but boy would we ever like to. The father\u2019s identity was the real embarrassment here, so Gov. Palin covered for her daughter by declaring herself pregnant.<br><br>Problem is, she wasn\u2019t a good enough actress. Her body didn\u2019t look pregnant in most of her photos, and story of the baby\u2019s birth is preposterous. Along comes Sue Williams to concoct some alternative story that makes even less sense; once disproven by showing that Bristol Palin is not currently pregnant, the whole \u201ccontroversy\u201d would blow away.<br><br>But Aha! in the actual course of events, Bristol Palin gave birth in April to a baby that Sarah Palin claims is hers. Neither of them could currently be pregnant. Nice try at a diversion, Sue. I hope whoever paid you to make that posting paid you enough.</b><br><br>I say it Palin was indeed pregnant (still the most likely scenario)  she still looks reckless getting on that 9+hour flight with a 1 hour drive after her water broke.  People are asking questions based on information Palin herself gave to the Alaskan media sources.  It is relevant because of her staunch anti-abortion views and the fact that the circumstances of the baby's birth were (and are) being used as a selling point for her.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_03:58:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "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": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1995091": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Truthseeker,<br>I am in agreement that Sarah/right wingers politicized her son Trig's birth in a negative fashion. I agree with you there. I further agree that we should  investigage this matter to the extent that it helps us to discern Sarah's character.<br><br>But, I gotta say I do not believe it is wrong for Bristol to keep her baby. Your comment is on the verge of being disrespectful. Though she is young she may still be displaying courage in keeping her baby. I think it's faulty logic to assume that just due to her age she shoud abort her baby. You are mistaken if you think that in these small towns having her baby would be viewed as a negative and my Christian faith can not allow me to think that it's wrong either. Difficult and not advantageous perhaps but not inherently incorrect.<br><br>All that to say I am pro choice since I don't believe in leglislating anyone's morality. But to just say you know for sure she is not displaying courage is a little disrespectful to Bristol and her unborn child. Likewise, Sarah and other republicans should not disdain the decisions of others since God is our only judge.<br><br>Just my thoughts....", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_17:56:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "JJai", "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": 1994863, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1996805": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "NO, he doesn't.  I was just watching Fox News and apparently this should be private.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_20:37:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "nickwah22", "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": 1996779, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1995093": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Get real.  If Malia Obama were 17 years old and pregnant you can bet your bottom dollar that McCain and his supporters would latch on to that and depict Malia as a baby mama (oops, they already referred to her married, having children within wedlock as a baby mama), a future welfare queen and an example of the lack of morals of black people in general.  Protect \"poor Bristol Palin\" and her \"brave\" parents?  Give me a break!  What kind of mother subjects her teenage, underage daughter to this kind of media scrutiny just for her ambitions?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_17:56:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "b55fc0e16623c181a6c8436de91a9fb4", "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": 1994446, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1979742": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I just said the same thing to my friend. The right will say this is an example of their family values that they are sticking with their daughter. If it were a liberal whose daughter was pregnant this would be an example of the LACK of family values.<br><br>I won't condemn her for what her daughter did I just know I'm going to hate the crap they spout. Like they are proud she chose to keep her baby. As if she had a damn choice.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_13:36:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "Symphony", "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": 1979563, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1980907": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "OK, so now we know that her daughter is pregnant and, if my math is correct, couldn't have been the birthmother of baby Trig. So this means that Gov. Palin was, in fact, flying all about the country while in active labor with a preterm baby that was going to need special medical attention. That's just.....beyond crazy. Someone who is better than me with words will need to define it. <br><br>Thsi woman needs to step off the national stage immediately and see what she can do to help her family. Their needs should register as more important than this VP thing. And yes, I would think the same thing if Palin was a man. I'm not saying she needs to focus on her own family because she's the woman/mom. These children need their parents' full attention right now. They do NOT need the eyes of the nation to be upon them.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_13:54:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "3c6b9b09aa1f21981baca2edd9e4dde1", "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}, "1976161": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Sarah the secessionist. All those Rovian goons trying to scrub all her shyt from the internets, didn't do so well. So Sarah America FIRST or Alaska FIRST....LOSER<br><br><a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/1/4231/18477/878/581881\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/1/4231/184...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_09:42:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "gaiilonfong", "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}, "1979117": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Andrew Sullivan wrote yesterday he thought the teenage daughter was hiding her pregnancy.  Them concealing the pregnancy goes to truth and honest, but as a policy issue, Palin is against sex education in the public school and promotes abstinence only education, which her own daughter doe not adhere to.  This is a legitimate campaign issue because it goes to the hypocrisy of the GOP and ineffective policies.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_12:45:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "NMP", "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": 1978889, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1994599": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Agreed. The woman thing was mostly a head-fake. This was always about the evangelical base.<br><br>(Don't assume that there can't be pro-life feminist evangelicals, either! There was some chance for Obama to make inroads there because he speaks the Christian language for issues like poverty and health care much more comfortably than McCain -- that's much less likely now.)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_17:07:16", "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": 1987459, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1990631": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Like you said, at least the National Enquirer still engages in good, old fashioned investigative journalism.  Now its revealed that Bristol is preggers.<br><br>Shoot, where there's smoke being blown up one's ass and all that...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_16:42:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1987458, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1996656": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Reviewing her talking points from the RNC?", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_20:26:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "delfinajones", "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": 1996506, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1994613": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Sorry I was typing furiously.  She supports abstinence ONLY sex education.<br>  ----- Original Message ----- <br>  From: Disqus&lt;mailto:&gt; <br>  To: dtdeskins@msn.com&lt;mailto:dtdeskins@msn.com&gt; <br>  Sent: Monday, September 01, 2008 4:52 PM<br>  Subject: [jackandjillpolitics] Re: James.Dobson.In.A.Dress Open Thread", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_17:08:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "NMP", "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": 1994461, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1981814": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I hope so and think so too Craig.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_14:02:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "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": 1979090, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1987447": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Obama has to say what he does. I get that. The quadruple standard for him is obvious. <br><br>This woman is a Trojan Horse. <br><br>It wasn't us. It was THEM. They presented her to the USA as this Mother of the Year. Go back and watch all the defenders of her. She's on a higher moral plain because she gave birth to a Down's Syndrome child. Oh, this is why America will love her. <br><br>They wanted to go there...so, we'll go there.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_15:55:32", "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": 1987403, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1994905": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "How weird to think, thank goodness for the National Enquirer, but they are the only ones who are both willing & able to get to the bottom of it.<br><br>Even with the new story & spin, I still think that baby boy is Bristol Palin's. How weird & dysfunctional to get the whole family to live a lie. It turns people into neurotics to ask them to live lies & keep life time secrets. It just isn't healthy.<br><br>I just would not be ok with my 17 yo getting married. I guess they are ok with the father & he is financially prepared to support himself, a wife & children. I guess that means hes not 17. Rightly or wrongly, my mother forbade me from getting pregnant. I think some girls do it because their parents give messages that they would ultimately be ok with it. But, her daughter is a minor and the parents are legally/socially accountable for her. I guess she is too busy to have a rapport with her daughter that would have influenced her abstinance. When you don't provide sex education, they educate themselves.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_17:35:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "4d9312cd58c7caeb087835daea9d59b6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "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": 1987458, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1987452": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "He got it in 86 while riding around with buddies... They were dating back then.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_15:56:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "MotorCityBadBoy", "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": 1987422, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1978749": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That's a good point whiterosebuddy,<br><br>The fact it's just one step away from LDS polygamy.  The denial of choice in cases of rape renders women inhuman in one stroke.  Self determination is a human right, however if Palin and McCain have their way, any rapist or child molester will have the right to determine any woman's future.<br><br>Dems will need to draw blood on this one.   Those foolish, self-indulgent, often wealthy Hillary supporters who spend their time threatening Barack by witholding support - they have no idea the fire they're playing with.   For any person who believes in a woman's human rights, the choice is clear!<br><br>The O campaign can frame this as being an election about economic liberation, but say that Republicans wish to make it about denying the human rights of women while ignoring the million other problems the country faces...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_12:06:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1976603, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1995431": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm not trying to censor anyone. By all means, go for it. I don't disagree with what's been  stated in this thread by those who see this as a legitimate issue to pursue.<br><br>I was just sharing information.<br><br>We are hungry for change and we know what would happen if the roles were reversed.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_18:31:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1986108, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1979263": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Be careful about hammering Palin on her daughter's pregnancy.  <br><br>First, since African-American girls have the highest teenage pregnancy rates in America, we cannot allow the Republicans accuse of of hypocrisy - \"the pot calling the kettle black\", so to speak.  I consider myself solidly in the middle class, have a teenage daughter that tends to be wilder than my wife and I would like, have family members that have kids out of wedlock, have friends with teenage kids who have terminated pregancies and the like, so I can understand what the Palins are going through.<br><br>Second, it is very interesting how the dialogue has changed so quickly.  I had some friends over last night, and the the conversation was focused on her background and the risks for Obama-Biden.  Yes, there were quite a few jokes about Moose, sub-automatic machine guns and the like, but after thinking about the evening, it was almost as if Barack was old news.  I know this will change as we get closer to the debates, but everyone, including Black folk, are interested in the background of this woman.<br><br>Third, the Republicans are charged up about her nomination as VP.  Attacking her personal life makes her more sympathethic than she already is.  She is dealing with issues that many of us have had to deal with with our children - poor choices that lead to lifelong challenges.  <br><br>I am not a supporter of the Repubs by any means, but I can see that if this becomes personal, the independents and Reagan democrats will move over to the other side.  Even with 95%+ African American support and a majority of White liberals on our side, Barack will lose.<br><br>Just my thoughts on the subject.  Be careful.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_12:56:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "c955d4fea8e1769edcfda7cf81ec4eec", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1978889, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1974145": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I started to post that one too LOL.  <br><br>This gets better by the minute but I really need to go to bed.  I've got a lot of work to do tomorrow.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_03:59:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "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": 1973580, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1987458": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Do you think this is gonna satisfy the National Enquirer? Nope.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_15:56:35", "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": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1987364, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1978755": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "wrb:   OOPS!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)  \". . . polygamist on steroids!\"     LOL!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)   LOL!!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_12:06:53", "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": 1976603, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1996097": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "We don't know her true desires. I am sure she is terrified. Lots of expectant mothers are; expecially first time mothers. I can agree that being forced in any direction is unaceptable.<br><br>I will say that that even though I am am not pro abortion; I am pro choice. I disagree with any agenda that seeks to legislate morality.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_19:40:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "JJai", "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": 1995900, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1994634": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That's exactly what that would mean.  Could you imagine if this was the reverse and it was the Obama's.  All hell would have broken out.  We wouldn't be seeing any coverage of this hurricane.  It would be wall-to-wall 'the Obama's lil' baby momma.'<br>  ----- Original Message ----- <br>  From: Disqus&lt;mailto:&gt; <br>  To: dtdeskins@msn.com&lt;mailto:dtdeskins@msn.com&gt; <br>  Sent: Monday, September 01, 2008 4:57 PM<br>  Subject: [jackandjillpolitics] Re: James.Dobson.In.A.Dress Open Thread", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_17:10:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "NMP", "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": 1994510, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1979276": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "TruthSeeker:  \"I don't thin Palin should be underestimated.\"<br><br>I somewhat agree.  I 'd like to think that there was a REASON for choosing her.  BUT, I cain't get to it 'cause the CRAP, ANTICS, LIES,, etc. are all in the way.!  :&gt;) <br><br>Where's the TRUTH???  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_12:57:49", "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": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1974984, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1984237": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "It's a set up pure and simple. The same way Barack was set up in every debate since January. Joe Biden had better tread very carefully. Whatever he does he must not piss off women!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_14:23:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1979425, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1974161": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "What do you want to bet that the National Enquirer and TMZ beat the \"spin-doctors, records scrubbers and pay-off artists\" to Wasilla?  <br><br>And who is on this 8 person team?  We know exactly who was on Obama's VP vetting committee.  Heck, the media was waiting with baited breath for the announcement.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_04:03:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1973390, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1981332": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Gina did not agree, she simply believes that it was \"smart\". I disagree with her completely and I do wish that she would go back to addressing the issues that effect black girls, young black women and black women as she does so wonderfully. However, I still like the blog.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_13:58:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "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": 1977939, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1985943": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The child is not in a dungeon. She's in Gitmo receiving a proper Republican education.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_15:03:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "akonuche", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1985744, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1995672": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I see that this is going to take a very ugly turn on both sides.  I don't know Bristol Palin, so I don't have an opinion about her teenage pregnancy.  I think it is a private family matter and should be treated as such.   However, this whole situation brings up a very important discussion.  I support comprehensive sex education.   I don't think that we do our kids any favors by throwing condoms at them and sending them on their way, or preaching abstinence only, crossing our fingers and hoping for the best.  We need to face reality.  There needs to be an open, honest dialogue about everything.  I will support a candidate that realizes the challenges we face.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_18:56:19", "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": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1979802": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Here is More --&gt; Secessionist Sarah: VP pick Sarah Palin and the Alaska Independence Party <br>by Liz Arnett <br><br>In spite of the rethug efforts to delete Sarah Palin's history, particularly between 2004 and 2006, we found a real gem on you tube this evening. <br>The clips show the connection between Sarah Palin and the Alaska Independence Party. (We downloaded the clips and re-uploaded them into our own you tube account in case they get taken down.)<br><br><a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/1/4231/18477/878/581881\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/1/4231/184...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_13:41:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1994652": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Isn't that interesting...now they're having to admit that Barack has indeed EARNED his nomination.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_17:12:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1994560, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1974174": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Sarah Palin: Compassionate Conservative?<br><br>Palin's Positions vs. America's Positions<br><br><a href=\"http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/09/sarah-palin-compassionate-conservative.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/09/sarah-pa...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_04:09:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "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}, "1987568": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I realize that you are passionate about Obama's nomination and I know you don't 4 more years of a Republican administration.<br><br>You are beginning to sound like a lunatic.<br><br>No one is going to take you seriously if continue down this Larry Johnson, <a href=\"http://noquarter.net\" rel=\"nofollow\">noquarter.net</a> route.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_16:07:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "cdb105a0448967d7c26f2589218a5ecb", "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": 1987447, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1974179": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The jokes have already started.  First Bill Maher with \"The Maverick & The MILF\" and now - <a href=\"http://media.justjared.com/headlines/2008/08/juneau-juno.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://media.justjared.com/headlines/2008/08/ju...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_04:10:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "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}, "1978789": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I was listening to this Canadian fellow on YouTube who has a deep interest in American Politics...  He said one line that stayed with me:<br>The truth is not in the voices of Democrats or Republican, it's in the voices of the millions of Americans who don't vote.<br><br>That would be all the African Americans who struggle, but don't vote.  The Hispanics...everybody who's given up.  If Barack can find a way not only to get them registered, but out to the polls in November.   He can counteract the evangelical evil.  And, I DO mean evil.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_12:10:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1977664, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1985961": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "PLEASE go DIGG this video:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTbsbeY5k5k\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTbsbeY5k5k</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_15:04:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1987499": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Barack may say \"Back-off\", but Barack doesn't control my mouth.  Barack should have told Bush to \"Back off\" on FISA so my international phone calls wouldn't be monitored.   I've supported Barack, given money, and made phone calls, but I'm a Barack supporter because I love the promise of America, not because I love Barack... So Barack can have his opinion on the matter, and I'll have mine, and from what I was taught, in America, all opinions are weighted evenly.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_16:00:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "MotorCityBadBoy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1986108, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1977772": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Palin wondering whether the VP slot would be a step down from being Governor of Alaska -- aka <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pak-rH0dCeA&feature=related\" rel=\"nofollow\">\"What is it exactly that the VP does every day? I used to being very productive...\"</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_11:38:12", "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": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1996207": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Not only domestic issues involving sexual behavior, but what about Palin's stance on supporting initiatives to combat AIDs in Africa?? What about her stance on making contraceptives available to our men and women serving on military bases abroad? Ooops....I forgot she probably doesn't have ANY stance just yet...but I am very curious to find out what her position is.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_19:51:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1995672, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1977266": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Palin, the SWOT analysis<br><br><a href=\"http://www.andrewhalcro.com/what_palin_has_to_do_to_help_mccain\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.andrewhalcro.com/what_palin_has_to_d...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_10:31:58", "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": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1995623": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "See now Nancelyn - I was being nice. . . . now you get what you get.<br><br>Regarding :  Many feminists are tired of being held hostage to issue of abortion rights. Palin is an accomplished, poised, independent, principled pro-life woman and she offers modern women a new view of 'feminism.' <br><br>Don't let me laugh.  Not even you could be that ignorant.  The right to choose is just that.  You can choose to carry your baby or you can choose not to.  How is that being held hostage when you lunatics are saying you HAVE to carry to term, you SHOULD not use contraception, and you SHOULD not educate your kids (hence poor Bristol Palin).<br><br>\"As a member of Feminists for Life, <a href=\"http://www.feministsforlife.org/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.feministsforlife.org/</a><br>Palin is not opposed to birth control. Abstinence is the only 100% proven effective method of birth control. \"<br>I am not going even touch upon the STUPIDITY in that sentence.<br><br>\"You have a right to oppose her, but get your facts straight and tone down your overwrought rhetoric if you want to be a credible critic of Palin. \" FUCK YOU AND THE COMPUTER YOU BLOGGED ON.  I could give a shit about whether you consider me to be a credible critic of your token excuse for a potential VP pick.  I have a family to protect and I would be a damn fool to even think for one second that she is remotely qualified to lead this nation.<br><br>It won't work.  NOT THIS TIME.<br><br>Go Obama/Biden 08", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_18:51:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1995288, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1974196": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I keep on telling folks - leave it to the National Enquirer.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_04:15:41", "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": 4, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1974097, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1986462": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Sorry Melinda, but until we see a birth certificate for Trig we don't know if Bristol was his mother or not!<br>There is no record of his having been born in the hospital Sarah claims to have birthed him.<br>It is very possible that Bristol turned right around and was knocked up again!! <br>It is very possible that the only way Bristol sees she can get out from under the incest is to be pregnant and have to be forced out of the home via some shotgun marriage.<br>REcall, Sarah herself eloped.<br><br>Don't feel bad about thinking Palin needs to be at home. The Christian right thinks the same thing. they are appalled that she is not putting family firsts and  feels she should be home taking care of her kids and her husband as god intended for women to do!!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_15:29:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "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": 1980907, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1974199": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "HELL YEAH, the Enquirer was already on the ground..LOL", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_04:16:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1974161, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1974200": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "How to deal with Palin<br><br><a href=\"http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/09/the-right-approach-to-palin.php\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_04:17:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1977785": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This comment was posted under the Drew Westen's piece \"Brand First, Equivocate Later: The Message of Denver and the Importance of Defining McCain-Palin Before They Define Themselves\" on HuffPo:<br><br><i><b>oldpotsmuggler See Profile I'm a Fan of oldpotsmuggler  I'm a fan of this user   permalink<br><br>(1) Palin was shown today speaking with Maria Baritoromo and stating thtat Alaska had delivered 15 billion barrels of oil to the U.S. The truth is that most of that oil actually was delivered to Japan, and the money received was used to buy Venezuelan oil for delivery to the U.S. The cause may be that the Panama Canal is not capable of allowing transit by the vessles that onloaded Alaskan oil, but the result of the way that the world oil market functions is that we became more dependent on Venezuelan oil. She appears to not know this.<br><br>(2) McCain was shown today as stating that Alaska provides \"20% of U.S. energy\", rather than only \"20% of U.S. oil and gas\". Wikipedia states that 63% of our energy came from oil and natural gas in 2005, the only items that Alaska contributes to our energy equation. Accordingly, Alaska contributed only 12.6% of our \"energy\" and the only wat to get the number even that high is to ignore that basically 100% of our food and fiber production, etc. is produced from energy provided by the sun.<br><br>(3) \"Palin is more qualified than Obama.\" What BS! In this country success is defined by who got the most votes. In 2006 she got less than 115,000 votes, while he got more than 3.5 million. Obama had more people in Germany turn out for his recent speech than Palin has total votes in her life.<br></i></b>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_11:39:56", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1980859": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "If the father is Black, Palin will win a majority of the Black male vote!!  Read between the lines.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_13:53:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "c955d4fea8e1769edcfda7cf81ec4eec", "has_been_anonymized": false, "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": 1980420, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1975746": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "She doesn't have accomplishments, she has attitude. That's what shouldn't be belittled. You can't belittle PTA president, City Council, Mayor of a hamlet and Governor of a state with the population of the Fulton County School District, because there is no room left to belittle it. Its her attitude that can't be dismissed.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_08:42:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1974984, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1996790": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "What's worse - living out of the country as a young child and attending public school with Muslims, or belonging to an organization as an adult that Advocates. For. The. Overthrow. of. the. United States. Government.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_20:36:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "60266805bc0d9559a62514e1e769b750", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1996647, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1977798": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Sarah Palin is a radical extremist. That is how we need to talk about her. That is what she is.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_11:41:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1995425": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "What the heck are you talking about? This issues based. Palin doesn't support sex education in the schools and is all about abstinence only.. so when the two mix, you get to get a prego teenager. Congrats she wins the prize for failed policies! <br><br>Its just funny how Christians (right wing ones that is) believe that the bible is enough. That is when they are met with the reality that teenagers make their own choices most of time and the parent's desires don't always pan out. <br><br>She has a tough road ahead of her so I'm not celebrating.<br><br>Just wonder what the dad's story is...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_18:31:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "evita", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1980710, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1985994": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "McCain' Folly:   \"Enjoy\" you say??   How about \"reside in ecstatic heaven\"!!?   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>I'm there!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)    Thanks!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_15:08:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1985910, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1996242": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Its about the mother's choice, and only her choice. Sort of like you having the choice to come a running to defend the honor of Miss Sarah and young Miss Bristol, but was nowhere to be found when Michelle Obama was being demonized and bashed.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_19:55:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1995343, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1980883": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Teenage pregnancy amongst black girls had DROPPED!!<br><br>Latino girls have the heighest cases of teenage preganancy.<br><br> The majority of teenage pregnancies in America are WHITE.<br><br>Please get your facts straight!<br><br><br>This is glaring hypocrisy for a multitude of reasons and I refuse to let it go. They would not let it go if it where Obama's daughter.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_13:54:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "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": 1979263, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1995257": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "So in other words you only care that your candidate is being attacked. Thanks for clearing that up.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_18:15:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1995125, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1979352": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I agree @ Anon.<br><br>But it became personal once Obama won Iowa. <b>Everyone</b> in his family has been attacked.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_13:04:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "b8b9328e61e0094ae18e247c922f9dc7", "has_been_anonymized": false, "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": 1979263, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1986013": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I could only imagine all of the \"Baby-Mama\" jokes that would be thrown at the Obama daughters...  <br><br>I got a new one...  <br><br>No Baby-Mama Drama - Vote Obama", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_15:10:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "MotorCityBadBoy", "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": 1983288, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1994661": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Did you post the same kind of passionate comment when the GOP's contractors-for- smears where spreading lies regarding Michelle Obama? Where you as committed to voicing your displeasure regarding the lies regarding Barack and his family??", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_17:13:27", "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": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1994446, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1978850": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  OMG!!!  This is great!!!  2 many GOOD points to comment on!!!  Suffice it to say -  this is ALL ON POINT!!!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)    <br><br>ENOUGH!!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)    :&gt;)   :&gt;)  Nothing was omitted!!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>SWOT is a GREAT analytical tool!!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>Thanks for this post!!!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_12:16:55", "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": 1977266, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1975781": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "They are defining her as an energy expert. She is being touted for pushing through big taxes on the oil folks.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_08:50:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "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}, "1982950": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You'd better start thinking like a right-wing republican, anti-abortionist and social conservative. There are plenty of people who'd support a Palin administration because she would take all policy cues from them and they'd in fact have their say at running things. Does it make sense? No! But neither did voting for GWB and people did it anyway. All logic, reason and fairness go out the window.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_14:14:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1977939, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1979473": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Who CARES!  This woman is not knowledgeable and is not ready to lead this country if McCain were to get sick or worse and she is anti abortion even in cases of rape or incest and wants to reverse Roe vs. Wade.<br><br>She lied on the first day she was introduced on the national scene (I opposed the bridge to nowhere - thanks but no thanks) and now her daughter is pregnant.  She misrepresented herself to the public.  Personally, I could care less about this aspect because she is the one who will have to help with the child and not me BUT where are the \"so called\" values the conservatives were touting over the last three days?  <br><br>It is not about being personal.  And BTW Anon - were you this vocal when they were RIPPING Michelle Obama to pieces?  <br><br>GTFOOH", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_13:15:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1979263, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1986024": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Just as it has been an indictment on Jamie and Lynn Spears in the media. Apparently, that standard doesn't apply when an extreme right-winger is involved.<br><br>It's unfortunate that Bristol Pallin's adult life is starting out this way, but since her family says that they will be there to support her, than she should count herself lucky.<br><br>I am, however, frankly disturbed by her mother's stance on birth control and on teaching her children the basics of the birds and the bees. There isn't anywhere in the Bible that condemns informing your offspring of the method by which they were conceived. Her daughter could have avoided having to be a mother this early. Either Palin failed in fostering the idea of abstinence until marriage or her child heard it yet did whatever she wanted, just many other teenagers her age have and will continue to do. Arm them with at least the basics!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_15:11:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "akonuche", "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": 1985643, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1979371": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "What a pack of lying hypocrites.  I don't believe for one minute Bristol is conveniently 5 months pregnant, she's probably more like 2-3 months pregnant.<br><br>And I don't think the Obama campaign will have to say one thing about this scandal, the media will do that for them.  This flies in DIRECT CONTRADICTION with their family values say no to sex education for teens preach abstinence schtick.  McCain is an idiot.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_13:06:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "BlackAmericanPrincess", "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}, "1986540": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Fuck Sarah Palin because she's so caught up in the ridiculous conservative Abstinence Only bullshit that she can't even see what's going on in her own damn house. <br><br>Until the teenage girls in the hood have ALL the resources available to the daughter of a Governor, then our children need real sex education, contraceptives and health care.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_15:30:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "60266805bc0d9559a62514e1e769b750", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1986053, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1995319": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"Bloggers on the left are losing their credibility FAST. Moderate, independent men and women are repulsed and disgusted.\"<br><br>BULLSHIT.  Moderate, independent men and women are repulsed and disgusted by McCain to subject us to this token pick as a VP to lead our country when he is 72 years old and had issues with cancer 4 times.  Does he care that she has NO national or foreign policy experience?  Hell No.  All his shills -- including his wife and Ms Bush that she has a \"bright mind\", \"she will learn quickly\", \"Alaska is next to Russia\".  GTFOOH<br><br>THAT is why moderate, independent men and women are repulsed and disgusted.<br>Now how about you go report that.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_18:21:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1994446, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1974256": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "rikyrah:   Co-signing!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)  :&gt;)<br><br>\"Waiting To Exhale\"   - for real!!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_04:27:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1974196, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1994737": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Barack isn't wrong....he's SUPPOSED to take the high road.....taking the low road where the GOP is constantly lurking is up to the rest of us. Barack shouldn't do the dirty work, we've got this. This is what I've meant by the internet being the equalizer of this political season. The Dems haven't had this type of fervor and willingness to get down and play hardball before, but this time, things have changed. Its a new day. So screw McCain, screw Rove and screw the GOP machine that is willing to kill us all for more power and control, screw that. If we have to get down in the mud to fight these bastards, let's roll. Barack can brush the dirt off his shoulders from us fighting down in it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_17:19:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1994470, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1986034": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You're right, my bad :)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_15:12:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "60266805bc0d9559a62514e1e769b750", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1985943, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1995603": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Amen Truthseeker.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_18:49:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "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": 1994863, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1995253": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I've got your back Miranda- you are totally right.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_18:15:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "delfinajones", "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": 1994737, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1995766": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "My take is he should Ignore Ms. Palin and respond to John McCain.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_19:05:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1976464, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1986039": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I saw a clip of the McCain women getting off of a plane, landing in MN for the Convention and Bridget was there.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_15:12:34", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1985744, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1986095": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "DITTO!!<br>Phuck 'em and the dyck they rode in on too!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_15:18:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "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": 1986053, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1995770": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Obama supporters have been building up Obama and explaining his positions.  It's McCAIN and his supporters who haven't built up McCAIN.  Two months from the general election and we STILL don't know what McCain is all about?  McCain's positions seem to be dictated by the James Dobsons and Karl Roves of the world.  What is McCain all about?<br><br>I have no problem with bloggers and journalists digging into Bristol Palin's ass because we know DAMN WELL if Malia Obama was 17, unmarried and pregnant she and black women in general would be demonized from the White House to the outhouse.  You can bet every last cent you have that Malia Obama would be featured in a 527 bashing her, Michelle and Barack.  Get the fugg out of here with your silliness.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_19:06:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "b55fc0e16623c181a6c8436de91a9fb4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "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": 1995125, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1994236": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Monica, what I'd like to know is are you going on all the BLOGS talking about this subject, or just JJP?<br><br>You effectively disqualified yourself to be a concern troll by mentioning you're a Hillary supporter and after all the strife and dissention she caused because she couldn't get her own way during the primaries or during the convention, do you honestly think you should be going on this blog trying to control the discussion?  <br><br>Don't worry, I'll wait for your answer.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_16:47:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1987403, "depth": 2, "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": "3964705", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "21630", "hash": -6644676078371535665}, "thread": {"days_alive": 0, "slug": "jamesdobsoninadress_open_thread", "paginate": false, "num_pages": 1, "num_posts": 220, "per_page": 0, "total_posts": 0, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 3964705, "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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	};
};

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=jamesdobsoninadress_open_thread' +
		'&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/jamesdobsoninadress_open_thread/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='	+ 'jamesdobsoninadress_open_thread'
			+ '&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/jamesdobsoninadress_open_thread/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">220</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/jamesdobsoninadress_open_thread/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/jamesdobsoninadress_open_thread/">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:3964705" 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/jamesdobsoninadress_open_thread/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:3964705" 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:3964705" 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'				: 'jamesdobsoninadress_open_thread',
			// 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/jamesdobsoninadress_open_thread/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='	+ 'jamesdobsoninadress_open_thread'
			+ '&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='	+ 'jamesdobsoninadress_open_thread'
			+ '&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='		+ 'jamesdobsoninadress_open_thread'
				+ '&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/3964705/realtime.js?timestamp=' + last_checked);
		}
	};

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

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

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

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

}();

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

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

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

	return obj;
}();

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		if (isblank(openid_url)) {
			return;
		}

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	return obj;
}();


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





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

	
	var scriptEl = document.createElement('script');
	scriptEl.setAttribute('type', 'text/javascript');
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1994560">MotorCityBadBoy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1994560" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'ve got Video of Pat Buchanan and Joe Scarborough saying that Sarah Palin should not be picked as VP for John McCain...  It would be hard for them to walk this back... even though I know they\'ll try.  <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTbsbeY5k5k" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTbsbeY5k5k</a> .  We need to spread this around.  Thank to Kos.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1994652">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1994652" class="dsq-comment-message">Isn\'t that interesting...now they\'re having to admit that Barack has indeed EARNED his nomination.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1995343">nancyelyn</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995343" class="dsq-comment-message">Do moderates and independents really care what Pat Buchanan thinks. Do you really think that Palin is being hypocritical? The fact that her daughter chose to engage in pre-marital sex in spite of the risk of pregnancy or STDs and did not have an abortion is in what way hypocritical? I think it is called \'practicing what you preach."<br><br>Obama said, "If my daughter makes a mistake, I don\'t want her burdened with a baby."<br><br>Was he a burden to his young mother. What if she has aborted her mistake?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1996242">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1996242" class="dsq-comment-message">Its about the mother\'s choice, and only her choice. Sort of like you having the choice to come a running to defend the honor of Miss Sarah and young Miss Bristol, but was nowhere to be found when Michelle Obama was being demonized and bashed.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1996506">nickwah22</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1996506" class="dsq-comment-message">emm.. good question..!!! where were you though??</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1996656">delfinajones</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1996656" class="dsq-comment-message">Reviewing her talking points from the RNC?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1973580" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1973580">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1973580" class="dsq-comment-message">Alaska National Guard General: Palin Plays No Role In National Defense Activities Even When They Involve The Alaska National Guard<br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/31/alaska-national-guard-gen_n_122860.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/31/alaska...</a><br><blockquote><i>Maj. Gen. Craig Campbell, adjutant general of the Alaska National Guard, considers Palin "extremely responsive and smart" and says she is in charge when it comes to in-state services, such as emergencies and natural disasters where the National Guard is the first responder.<br><br>But, in an interview with The Associated Press on Sunday, he said he and Palin play no role in national defense activities, even when they involve the Alaska National Guard. The entire operation is under federal control, and the governor is not briefed on situations.</i></blockquote></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1974145" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1974145" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1974145" class="dsq-comment-message">I started to post that one too LOL.  <br><br>This gets better by the minute but I really need to go to bed.  I\'ve got a lot of work to do tomorrow.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1970780">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1970780" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/211769.php" rel="nofollow">Getting Real About Palin</a><br><br>About her abuse of power.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1973400">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1973400" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/08/what-does-palin-mean-for-the-d.php" rel="nofollow">What Does Palin Mean to the Democrats</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1973375">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1973375" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/08/flashback_palin_said_she_didnt.php" rel="nofollow">Calling HIllary a \' whiner\'</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1973390">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1973390" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/09/mccain-only-now-sending-8perso.php" rel="nofollow">McCain only NOW sending 8-person team to Alaska to vet Palin</a></div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1974161" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1974161" class="dsq-comment-message">What do you want to bet that the National Enquirer and TMZ beat the "spin-doctors, records scrubbers and pay-off artists" to Wasilla?  <br><br>And who is on this 8 person team?  We know exactly who was on Obama\'s VP vetting committee.  Heck, the media was waiting with baited breath for the announcement.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1974199">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1974199" class="dsq-comment-message">HELL YEAH, the Enquirer was already on the ground..LOL</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1974097" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1974097" class="dsq-comment-message">Andrew Sullivan is linking to a Flickr photo posted late yesterday where Palin looks pregnant. <b>She looks pregnant here </b>  <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/09/she-looks-pregn.html" rel="nofollow">http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily...</a><br><br>If you read the comments in the Flickr link within, some people still aren\'t buying it.<br><br>But then there is Daily Kos diary using the same picture (from a conservative site) of Palin along with a picture of a VERY pregnant Palin in 1989 (with son Track  <b>Sarah Palin Baby Story Ender</b>  <a href="http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/31/234157/516/1017/581734" rel="nofollow">http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/31/234157/...</a><br><br>However, many of the Alaskan folks still aren\'t buying it.  The blog Mudflats again - check out this comment (and others) by "The Logician":<br><br><br><b><i> Re: babygate - I don’t know what’s being reported. Here, however, is the truth. Trig is Sarah and Todd’s baby.</i><br><br>Nice try. Truly a masterpiece of Republican spin.<br><br>The truth is different. Sarah Palin and her crowd want people to think that a 44-year-old woman pregnant with her fifth child fly to a business conference during her 8th month of pregnancy. While there, her water breaks, and she wouldn’t rush to the hospital. Instead, she would stay and make a half-hour speech.<br><br>Then she would to to the Dallas airport and board a series of commercial flights, including a layover in Seattle, lasting more than 9 hours. Once in Anchorage, this high-risk mother would bypass the superior Anchorage hospitals and head to some small-town community hospital in the back country and deliver a 6 lb., 2 oz. baby one month premature.<br><br>Sorry, but that one does NOT (pardon the pun) hold water. On its face, it is impossible. What actually happened is that Sarah Palin’s daughter, Bristol, was pregnant. By whom we don’t know, but boy would we ever like to. The father’s identity was the real embarrassment here, so Gov. Palin covered for her daughter by declaring herself pregnant.<br><br>Problem is, she wasn’t a good enough actress. Her body didn’t look pregnant in most of her photos, and story of the baby’s birth is preposterous. Along comes Sue Williams to concoct some alternative story that makes even less sense; once disproven by showing that Bristol Palin is not currently pregnant, the whole “controversy” would blow away.<br><br>But Aha! in the actual course of events, Bristol Palin gave birth in April to a baby that Sarah Palin claims is hers. Neither of them could currently be pregnant. Nice try at a diversion, Sue. I hope whoever paid you to make that posting paid you enough.</b><br><br>I say it Palin was indeed pregnant (still the most likely scenario)  she still looks reckless getting on that 9+hour flight with a 1 hour drive after her water broke.  People are asking questions based on information Palin herself gave to the Alaskan media sources.  It is relevant because of her staunch anti-abortion views and the fact that the circumstances of the baby\'s birth were (and are) being used as a selling point for her.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1974196">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1974196" class="dsq-comment-message">I keep on telling folks - leave it to the National Enquirer.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1974256">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1974256" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:   Co-signing!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)  :&gt;)<br><br>"Waiting To Exhale"   - for real!!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1977367">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1977367" class="dsq-comment-message">This woman was so vain she only wanted to wear the fake belly for a few months!!<br><br>Unlike Bree on Desperate housewives, she had already had 4 pregnancies and refused to be so encumbered for that length of time.<br><br>Thus, there is only ONE photo of her pregnant...reMEMber she announces in March that she is seven months pregnant, and everyone is incredulous because she is NOt showing.<br><br>She THINKS she has two months to go looking pregnant!!  But alas, that tricky daughter Bristol of hers didn\'t know the conception date...that Trig was a full term birth at six pounds!!  Especially being a Down\'s baby if he was premature he should have weighed less not the normal weight.<br><br>Sarah was happy as hell she only had to wear the fake pregnant belly less than a Month!<br><br>You can\'t look pregnant in a public photo at a conference YET no ONE on the plane can tell you are pregnant when you BOARD it?  No one during the flight thinks you even LOOK pregnant at SEVEN months?<br><br>She took that belly off before she boarded.<br><br>She is a LIAR and a POSER.<br><br>Out her,  and just so she giggles about it...let me say..out the BYTCH.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1977542">parker404</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1977542" class="dsq-comment-message">CO-SIGN!!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1980192" class="dsq-comment-message">wrb:   I\'m waiting for the National Enquirer which I hope includes a statement from the ATTENDING PHYSICIAN and a FEW NURSES, the admitting clerk and candy striper or 2!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>Otherwise:  Co-signing!!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1974174" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1974174" class="dsq-comment-message">Sarah Palin: Compassionate Conservative?<br><br>Palin\'s Positions vs. America\'s Positions<br><br><a href="http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/09/sarah-palin-compassionate-conservative.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/09/sarah-pa...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1974838">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1974838" class="dsq-comment-message">That\'s a great link, thanks Anovelista...  I am not fond of religious extremists.<br><br><blockquote><i>The Issue: Abortion<br><br>Palin’s Position: Believes abortion should be illegal “With the exception of a doctor’s determination that the mother’s life would end if the pregnancy continued” (source). Palin also said that she’d be opposed to abortion even if her daughter had been sexually assaulted (source).<br><br>America’s Position: Although most polling shows that Americans are pro-choice by only narrow pluralities or majorities, tolerance for abortion increases substantially in cases where there are mitigating factors. In particular, an October 2007 FOX/Opinion Dynamics poll says that by a 70-21 margin, Americans believe that abortion should be legal if the pregnancy was the result of rape or incest. A CBS News poll, also conducted in October 2007, revealed similar numbers: just 16 percent of Americans share Palin’s position that abortion should be legal only in order to save the mother’s life, while another 4 percent believed that abortion should be illegal in all cases (source).<br><br>Conclusion: Palin’s position is far outside of the mainstream.<br><br>The Issue: Sex Education<br><br>Palin’s Position: Would replace sex-ed programs with abstinence-only programs (source).<br><br>America’s Position: A broad consensus around the teaching of sex education has existed for decades, with 85 percent of Americans favoring sex-ed in schools as early as 1985 (source). The numbers appear to have increased since, as a 2004 poll conducted by NPR, the Kaiser Family Foundation, and the Kennedy School of Government showed that 90 percent of Americans believe that sex education is a “very important” or “somewhat important” part of the school curriculum, whereas only 7 percent believe that sex education should not be taught at all. In the same survey, just 15 percent of Americans supported abstinence-only programs (source).<br><br>Conclusion: Palin’s position is far outside of the mainstream.</i></blockquote></div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1974179" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1974179" class="dsq-comment-message">The jokes have already started.  First Bill Maher with "The Maverick & The MILF" and now - <a href="http://media.justjared.com/headlines/2008/08/juneau-juno.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://media.justjared.com/headlines/2008/08/ju...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1995543" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1995543" href="http://blog.evavegadiversity.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">evita</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995543" class="dsq-comment-message">She better not DARE get pissed at that either. In Alaska they had bumper stickers that said "Coldest state, Hottest governor."</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1974200">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1974200" class="dsq-comment-message">How to deal with Palin<br><br><a href="http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/09/the-right-approach-to-palin.php" rel="nofollow">http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1974946">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1974946" class="dsq-comment-message">Took a "Field Trip" to see Mr. Martin:<br><br>He\'s ALL OVER "MCAncient" regarding his "soulmate"<br><br><a href="http://essence.typepad.com/news/2008/08/with-palin-does.html" rel="nofollow">http://essence.typepad.com/news/2008/08/with-pa...</a><br><br>With Palin, Does McCain Now Believe in Quotas and Affirmative Action?<br><br>I believe that the answer was "Hell to the Naw"!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1974984" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1974984">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1974984" class="dsq-comment-message">Thanks.  That\'s a good one.<br><br>Although.  I don\'t think Palin should be underestimated.  It is a disrespectful pick by McCain...but, it would be a mistake to go into debate and belittle her accomplishments.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1975746">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1975746" class="dsq-comment-message">She doesn\'t have accomplishments, she has attitude. That\'s what shouldn\'t be belittled. You can\'t belittle PTA president, City Council, Mayor of a hamlet and Governor of a state with the population of the Fulton County School District, because there is no room left to belittle it. Its her attitude that can\'t be dismissed.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1979276" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1979276">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1979276" class="dsq-comment-message">TruthSeeker:  "I don\'t thin Palin should be underestimated."<br><br>I somewhat agree.  I \'d like to think that there was a REASON for choosing her.  BUT, I cain\'t get to it \'cause the CRAP, ANTICS, LIES,, etc. are all in the way.!  :&gt;) <br><br>Where\'s the TRUTH???  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1979425" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1979425">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1979425" class="dsq-comment-message">I posted some videos of her debating.   I can see how, matched up with Biden, she might come off a charming to his "curmudgeon".   Matched up with him, she seems like change.  Biden will have to tread carefully here.<br><br>I\'m not buying the "dumb blond" act.   I say, assume she does know her stuff, and prepare for that.   Then, if she really is "dumb" then let her prove it.  Biden and O should not proceed as if she\'s "dumb".</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1979716">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1979716" class="dsq-comment-message">TruthSeeker:  I agree with your "cautions!"   :&gt;)  I hope that they are reviewing the "tapes" like athletic teams do in preparation for the "BiG Game!"   :&gt;)  :&gt;)<br><br>I\'m feelin\' your suspicions!!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1984237" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1984237" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1984237" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s a set up pure and simple. The same way Barack was set up in every debate since January. Joe Biden had better tread very carefully. Whatever he does he must not piss off women!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1974951" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1974951">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1974951" class="dsq-comment-message">******Videos*******<br>Sarah Palin Debating...got this link from Fivethirtyeight dot com<br><a href="http://palintology.com/2006/08/08/decision-2006-republican-candidate-round-table/" rel="nofollow">http://palintology.com/2006/08/08/decision-2006...</a><br><br>Notice any similarities between the incumbent she debates and Joe Biden?<br><br>I predict she will attack Joe Biden on being the antithesis of change.  She will portray herself as the <i>true</i> change candidate.   I understand there\'s only on VP debate?  That is not good in the case of an unknown like Palin.   Joe has one chance to destroy her bogus argument in person.  She needs to be defined beginning now. <br><br>In these debates, she appears disarming.  Joe has his work cut out for him, but I believe he is more than capable.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1974976" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1974976">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1974976" class="dsq-comment-message">An ad with the "Rapist\'s Bill of Rights" portraying Palin as extreme, would be great, as per Anovelista. <br><br>She has a disarming quality.  I can see people saying she doesn\'t look like a bad person.   Saying she\'s "more of the same" ....I\'m not sure that\'s enough.   They have to drive home her actions and extreme positions.  <br><br>As for John McCain, they have to drive home that he considers Palin a "soulmate";  therefore, he ascribes to her extreme positions and has promised to tinker with the Supreme Court.   It must be made clear that this could mean it will be law that rape victims are denied emergency contraception and abortion.    This is not fear mongering, it is a real threat!<br><br>When the Dems get done, every woman should know that Palin believes a rapist has the right to choose her as mother of his child.  Every man with a wife and daughter should know it too.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1976603">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1976603" class="dsq-comment-message">Great point!...<br><br>Don\'t forget that she also believes that every father has the right to make his daughter the mother of his child as well!!<br><br>Every woman with daughters needs to know that.<br><br>Palin is just LDS polygamists  on steroids!!<br><br>Based on how deviant her position is on abortion , it wouldn\'t surpise me if we  find out that Track and Trig are her brothers and that Bristol was the victim of generational sexual abuse.<br><br>GOP politicians are known for taking the harshest stances on issues they are personally complicit in and guilty of.  Look no further, than Livingston, Barr as well as Foley and Craig!!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1978749" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1978749">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1978749" class="dsq-comment-message">That\'s a good point whiterosebuddy,<br><br>The fact it\'s just one step away from LDS polygamy.  The denial of choice in cases of rape renders women inhuman in one stroke.  Self determination is a human right, however if Palin and McCain have their way, any rapist or child molester will have the right to determine any woman\'s future.<br><br>Dems will need to draw blood on this one.   Those foolish, self-indulgent, often wealthy Hillary supporters who spend their time threatening Barack by witholding support - they have no idea the fire they\'re playing with.   For any person who believes in a woman\'s human rights, the choice is clear!<br><br>The O campaign can frame this as being an election about economic liberation, but say that Republicans wish to make it about denying the human rights of women while ignoring the million other problems the country faces...</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1978755" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1978755">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1978755" class="dsq-comment-message">wrb:   OOPS!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)  ". . . polygamist on steroids!"     LOL!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)   LOL!!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1974988" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1974988">Teacher</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1974988" class="dsq-comment-message">I think Joe will be ok if he doesn\'t fear kicking her ass. I trust that he is already studying up on everything he can get about her. If he can deliver statements where he can kick her & Mccain at the same time (with both feet, like in a karate movie), that will be so much the better. Mccain\'s record on women & children\'s issues is abhorrent. There is a story about it on Huffpo. Joe\'s voting record on the same issues is good, so he does infact represent change and support for women and children unlike their 17th century beliefs.<br><br>I also feel that O has run a very tight and highly disciplined campaign. I\'m sure he asked Biden if he thought he could hang or not, and told him what he expected. I am not affraid.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1976621" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1976621">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1976621" class="dsq-comment-message">Biden can\'t risk focusing too much on McCain and not on her unless he is consistently linking her to the issues...otherwise it will come across as dismissive of her and she is the person debating him.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1977664" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1977664" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1977664" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1977664" class="dsq-comment-message">She deserves to be dismissed.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1978789" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1978789">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1978789" class="dsq-comment-message">I was listening to this Canadian fellow on YouTube who has a deep interest in American Politics...  He said one line that stayed with me:<br>The truth is not in the voices of Democrats or Republican, it\'s in the voices of the millions of Americans who don\'t vote.<br><br>That would be all the African Americans who struggle, but don\'t vote.  The Hispanics...everybody who\'s given up.  If Barack can find a way not only to get them registered, but out to the polls in November.   He can counteract the evangelical evil.  And, I DO mean evil.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1979090" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1979090" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1979090" class="dsq-comment-message">And the Native American vote.<br><br>Barack\'s ground game is unmatched.<br><br>The brown, black, and red people will be at the polls in overwhelming numbers and Barack will win.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1981814" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1981814" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1981814" class="dsq-comment-message">I hope so and think so too Craig.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1985855" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1985855">Lilytiger</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1985855" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1985855" class="dsq-comment-message">I am a Latina/Native/Irish mix and when Obama came on strong my reaction was that the people of  all colors and I don\'t mean white  would fall in line and back him because we would see our struggles in yours. <br><br>Look at the coalitions he has garnered. The Asians, the Pacific Islanders, the Latino, the Natives, the African. He is the one. He is the hope and the voice but especially the face.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1995513" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1995513" href="http://blog.evavegadiversity.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">evita</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995513" class="dsq-comment-message">They need Obama/Biden surrogates out in the field saying loudly that the best way to show women\'s advancement is for BIDEN to debate her like any MAN. If he treats her like her like a stupid kid or "just a woman," it would be an insult to all feminists everywhere!!!!!<br><br>The real women\'s leadership better take the lead on this!!!!!!!!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1976464" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1976464">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1976464" class="dsq-comment-message">Wow. What an enlightening Debate. Thanks TruthSeeker for this link.<br><br>Murkowski comes across as an armscrossed condescending powerdrunk bully!<br>It was like I was watching Hannity&Colmes with Ms.Congenialty as the moderator between the little boy getting beat up on by the bigbully.. She came out looking like a rose between thorns.<br><br>This debate makes it quite easy to see why she won the 3 way race.<br><br>Murkowski dismissively characterized her as a whistle blower on her own party...like that was a negative?!<br><br>Palin blew that out the water by saying she supports Alaska citizens and that they should come before party interests.<br><br>Binkle was talking down to her as if she was inexperienced by touting how much bigger his administrative duties were...typical my dyck is bigger than yours male mindset. Which she skewers, by saying it\'s the experience not the size.<br><br>Then she shrewedly addresses points where her and Binkley are aligned against Murkowski while making a very pointed sexist remark to Mukowski by asking him "where\'s the boss, where\'s Nancy" (his wife)...unbeliiievable ...no man could get away with asking Palin \'where\'s the boss, where\'s Michael\'...the feminists would be all over that.<br><br>However, due to Murkowski\'s fingerpointing bullying, everyone felt it was fair to call out that he was all bark and that his wife wears the pants!<br><br>Unfortunately murkowski came across as a pugnacious pompous jerk even going on the offensive to attack both opponents rather than answer the question, while patting himself on the back for having been the one to appointment. both..as in \'I had the good judgment to appoint these folks now let me tell why they do not know what they are talking about.  What a self-congratulatory backhanded compliment that was!<br><br>Overall Mukowski comes off as disdainful to John and condescending to Palin. Both men were dismissive of her.<br>Although, I gotta hand it to Ms Congeniality she sure knows how to disagree AGREEABLY and she gave as good as she got.<br><br>Which will be a big problem in a two-way debate with Biden.  Biden risks being dismisive and condescending in the typically \'daddy knows what is best\' catholic irish steeped cultural  workingclass male role model...look no further than Matthews<br><br>Biden needs to practice debating with a Southern belle for this debate!! He does not need to debate a man. Democrats need to find a woman versed on foreign policy who knows how to deliver soft power to Biden\'s strong expertise. <br><br>Palin is a female Barack when it comes to consensus and demonstrating she understands and listens to the other person before responding.<br><br>OK, Democrats our job is to now come up with a list of female politicians that will debate like Palin...all Ms.Congeniality while sticking the knife in with each breath.<br><br>Someone like that syrupy sweet voiced Amy Holmes on CNN whose speaking tone is all chirpy but whose words are daggers!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1977604" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1977604" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1977604" class="dsq-comment-message">Sarah McCaskill</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1978898" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1978898" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1978898">Lisa M</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1978898" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1978898" class="dsq-comment-message">I think you mean Clare McCaskill, Obama\'s best surrogate.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1979075" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1979075" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1979075" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1979075" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1979075" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes. I had typed a Freudian slip, I suppose.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1995766" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1995766" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1995766">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1995766" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995766" class="dsq-comment-message">My take is he should Ignore Ms. Palin and respond to John McCain.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1974996" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1974996">Teacher</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1974996" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1974996" class="dsq-comment-message">She has 3 houses.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1975781">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1975781" class="dsq-comment-message">They are defining her as an energy expert. She is being touted for pushing through big taxes on the oil folks.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1976045">djchefron</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1976045" class="dsq-comment-message">Palin: Iraq is a war for oil.»<br><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/31/palin-iraq-is-a-war-for-oil/" rel="nofollow">http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/31/palin-iraq-...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1976100">djchefron</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1976100" class="dsq-comment-message">Well this settles it<br>McCain impressed by Palin\'s courageous work at the PTA<br><a href="http://www.americablog.com/2008/08/mccain-impressed-by-palins-courageous.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.americablog.com/2008/08/mccain-impre...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1976161">gaiilonfong</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1976161" class="dsq-comment-message">Sarah the secessionist. All those Rovian goons trying to scrub all her shyt from the internets, didn\'t do so well. So Sarah America FIRST or Alaska FIRST....LOSER<br><br><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/1/4231/18477/878/581881" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/1/4231/184...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1977344">djchefron</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1977344" class="dsq-comment-message">Send this to the talking heads and maybe after they gush over her moose stew casserole they can ask her about secession</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1976401">JJai</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1976401" class="dsq-comment-message">that video is incredulous!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1977603">parker404</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1977603" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1977603" class="dsq-comment-message">Who\'s unpatriotic now?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1976585">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1976585" class="dsq-comment-message">Palin and her pastors<br><br><a href="http://harpers.org/archive/2008/08/hbc-90003486" rel="nofollow">http://harpers.org/archive/2008/08/hbc-90003486</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1977266">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1977266" class="dsq-comment-message">Palin, the SWOT analysis<br><br><a href="http://www.andrewhalcro.com/what_palin_has_to_do_to_help_mccain" rel="nofollow">http://www.andrewhalcro.com/what_palin_has_to_d...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1978850">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1978850" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  OMG!!!  This is great!!!  2 many GOOD points to comment on!!!  Suffice it to say -  this is ALL ON POINT!!!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)    <br><br>ENOUGH!!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)    :&gt;)   :&gt;)  Nothing was omitted!!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>SWOT is a GREAT analytical tool!!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>Thanks for this post!!!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1979093">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1979093" class="dsq-comment-message">That is a terrific blog!<br><br>Don\'t you just know that if Tim was alive, he\'d be getting ready to do an anal probe right about now?<br><br>Tim wasn\'t perfect, but it\'s astounding there\'s no journalist even close, that I can think of.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1985757">Lilytiger</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1985757" class="dsq-comment-message">Charlie Rose, maybe hell James Lipton from inside the Actor\'s Studio. <br><br>What about Mary Hart from Entertainment Tonight??</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1977346">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1977346" class="dsq-comment-message">McAncient:<br><br>Sen. McCain, of all the candidates you considered, what drew you to her? JOHN: Obviously, I found her to be very intelligent and very well-versed on the issues. But I think the important thing was that she\'s a reformer. She\'s taken on special interests since she ran for the PTA and the city council and mayor. The courage, I guess, is what most impressed me<br><br>PTA?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1977903">Teacher</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1977903" class="dsq-comment-message">I heard him say it & couldn\'t believe it. But if a male opponent brings it up they will be accused of dismissing her accomplishments.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1977602">Peace to all People</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1977602" class="dsq-comment-message">Palin pretended to be pregnant (and not very convincingly) to cover for her child who gave birth out of wedlock.  Her kid with Down Syndrome is her grandson, not her son.<br><br><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/31/145838/319/386/581332" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/31/145838/...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1977712">gaiilonfong</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1977712" class="dsq-comment-message">Dobson and the wingnut extremists met in Minn last week to vet Palin who wudda thunk??<br><br><a href="http://www.talk2action.org/story/2008/9/1/24846/28141/Front_Page/The_Council_For_National_Policy_Meets_In_Minn_Vets_Palin" rel="nofollow">http://www.talk2action.org/story/2008/9/1/24846...</a><br><br><br>The Council For National Policy Meets In Minn, Vets Palin<br>By Max Blumenthal	 Mon Sep 01, 2008 at 02:48:46 AM EST	  print story<br>              Last week, while the media focused almost obsessively on the DNC\'s spectacle in Denver, the country\'s most influential conservatives met quietly at a hotel in downtown Minneapolis to get to know Sarah Palin. The assembled were members of the Council for National Policy, an ultra-secretive cabal that networks wealthy right-wing donors together with top conservative operatives to plan long-term movement strategy.<br>CNP members have included Tony Perkins, James Dobson, Grover Norquist, Tim LaHaye and Paul Weyrich. At a secret 2000 meeting of the CNP, George W. Bush promised to nominate only pro-life judges; in 2004, then-Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist told the group, "The destiny of the nation is on the shoulders of the conservative movement." This year, thanks to Sarah Palin\'s selection, the movement may have finally aligned itself behind the campaign of John McCain.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1977859">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1977859" class="dsq-comment-message">So the suspicions were correct: The Religious Right picked Palin, not McCain. McCain is a puppet for the Religious Right!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1978949">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1978949" class="dsq-comment-message">Religious fanaticism is alive and well in the USA, while the army wages war on the raggedy, rock throwing Muslims.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1977772" href="http://nquest2xl.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Nquest</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1977772" class="dsq-comment-message">Palin wondering whether the VP slot would be a step down from being Governor of Alaska -- aka <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pak-rH0dCeA&feature=related" rel="nofollow">"What is it exactly that the VP does every day? I used to being very productive..."</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1978899">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1978899" class="dsq-comment-message">That\'s part of her disarming shtick.  She knows precisely what the VP does.  Playing the "dumb blond" to disarm puffed up, arrogant males.  Of course, their instinct is to pat her on the head condescendingly.   But, that\'s when she bares her fangs, and bites them!<br><br>Biden should not proceed as if she doesn\'t know.  He should assume she is smart and allow her to prove otherwise.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1981613" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1981613" class="dsq-comment-message">Yea that was half hilarious, half frightening because this women could possibly be in the white house. <br><br>Did you catch the one where she said that she was not "really following Iraq".</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1977785">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1977785" class="dsq-comment-message">This comment was posted under the Drew Westen\'s piece "Brand First, Equivocate Later: The Message of Denver and the Importance of Defining McCain-Palin Before They Define Themselves" on HuffPo:<br><br><i><b>oldpotsmuggler See Profile I\'m a Fan of oldpotsmuggler  I\'m a fan of this user   permalink<br><br>(1) Palin was shown today speaking with Maria Baritoromo and stating thtat Alaska had delivered 15 billion barrels of oil to the U.S. The truth is that most of that oil actually was delivered to Japan, and the money received was used to buy Venezuelan oil for delivery to the U.S. The cause may be that the Panama Canal is not capable of allowing transit by the vessles that onloaded Alaskan oil, but the result of the way that the world oil market functions is that we became more dependent on Venezuelan oil. She appears to not know this.<br><br>(2) McCain was shown today as stating that Alaska provides "20% of U.S. energy", rather than only "20% of U.S. oil and gas". Wikipedia states that 63% of our energy came from oil and natural gas in 2005, the only items that Alaska contributes to our energy equation. Accordingly, Alaska contributed only 12.6% of our "energy" and the only wat to get the number even that high is to ignore that basically 100% of our food and fiber production, etc. is produced from energy provided by the sun.<br><br>(3) "Palin is more qualified than Obama." What BS! In this country success is defined by who got the most votes. In 2006 she got less than 115,000 votes, while he got more than 3.5 million. Obama had more people in Germany turn out for his recent speech than Palin has total votes in her life.<br></i></b></div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1977798" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1977798" class="dsq-comment-message">Sarah Palin is a radical extremist. That is how we need to talk about her. That is what she is.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1977911" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1977911" class="dsq-comment-message">Hillary Clinton\'s narcissism could be the single best weapon the Democrats have to take on Sarah Palin.<br><br>If McCain is elected, Palin beats Clinton to the executive branch and maybe even the presidency itself.<br><br>I can\'t see Hillary (or Bill) wanting that to happen. <br><br>Something tells me that even though John McCain is  their friend, they\'re rather pissed off with him right now.<br><br>I know Bill didn\'t show up for the nomination speech. Hillary did. She wants to be the leader of the women\'s movement in America, and Palin is poised to steal the spotlight from her.<br><br>It\'s a perfect storm. No pun intended.<br><br>I think we\'re going to see Hillary a lot in the next 6 weeks.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1979713">RobM</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1979713" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes indeedee as my local jazz historian says.<br>I have already been over to the crypt pulled the stake out of  her heart, broke the mirror and burnt the garlic. It\'s dark in the Big Easy.<br><br>On a serious note: this is the opening we needed. Palin can be attacked on her lies and hyprocrisy w/o making it about Republican issues. hilliary in the vanguard and the fire brigade where ever whenever. Gov Selibus and every non big state elected official hammering her in non Metropolitan areas. Caroline and Maria in the big Metro\'s and their swing suburbs like Oakland(Detroit) and Montgomery(Philadelphia) w/ their local counter parts. Exception Whiney Wasserman Schultz  she is a walking SNL skit and the two Cali Senators(their feminism is 60\'s hate men stereotypes.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1983291">Lilytiger</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1983291" class="dsq-comment-message">Heh<br><br>I am hoping she is seeing all her hard work go up in smoke. I hope that she is so angry that she will be the she-devil herself, and take on Palin. <br><br>Okay pumas, she\'s a fighter. Let her fight to continue to be the most influencial woman in politics.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1977939">BlackAmericanPrincess</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1977939" class="dsq-comment-message">I cannot BELIEVE that What About Our Daughters SUPPORTS McCain\'s choice of Palin as VP.  I just officially deleted them from my favorites, I\'m so disgusted...<br><br><a href="http://www.whataboutourdaughters.com/2008/08/mccain-brilliantly-aims-directly-at-obamas-weakspotpits-the-ambitions-of-blacks-vs-those-of-white-women/" rel="nofollow">http://www.whataboutourdaughters.com/2008/08/mc...</a></div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1981332" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1981332" class="dsq-comment-message">Gina did not agree, she simply believes that it was "smart". I disagree with her completely and I do wish that she would go back to addressing the issues that effect black girls, young black women and black women as she does so wonderfully. However, I still like the blog.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1982950" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1982950" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1982950" class="dsq-comment-message">You\'d better start thinking like a right-wing republican, anti-abortionist and social conservative. There are plenty of people who\'d support a Palin administration because she would take all policy cues from them and they\'d in fact have their say at running things. Does it make sense? No! But neither did voting for GWB and people did it anyway. All logic, reason and fairness go out the window.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1987459">Honey01</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1987459" class="dsq-comment-message">In total agreement. <br><br>So now, it seems like the strategy was never the disaffected Hillary Clinton supporters, or women in general but rather the extreme evangelical right wing.<br><br>Just wow. Well, they surely have fired up the "base".</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1994599" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1994599">Anderkoo</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1994599" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1994599" class="dsq-comment-message">Agreed. The woman thing was mostly a head-fake. This was always about the evangelical base.<br><br>(Don\'t assume that there can\'t be pro-life feminist evangelicals, either! There was some chance for Obama to make inroads there because he speaks the Christian language for issues like poverty and health care much more comfortably than McCain -- that\'s much less likely now.)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1978889" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1978889">delfinajones</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1978889" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1978889" class="dsq-comment-message">Palin just said Bristol is presently 5 months pregnant.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1978993" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1978993">TRW</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1978993" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1978993" class="dsq-comment-message">I just saw this.  Is it me, or does someone anyone else feel like McCain is punking us?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1979017" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1979017" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1979017">delfinajones</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1979017" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1979017" class="dsq-comment-message">Nope--official press release. McCain--liar- sez he knew.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1979549" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1979549" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1979549">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1979549" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1979549" class="dsq-comment-message">which makes it worse.  He actively participated in the effort to deceive the American people.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1979118" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1979118">osmond</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1979118" class="dsq-comment-message">yes shes 5 months pregnant and unwed. talk about conservative moral values huh? mccain should be punching himself in the face. stupid</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1979189" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1979189" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1979189">delfinajones</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1979189" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1979189" class="dsq-comment-message">Let\'s see how this is handled. My sympathy to Bristol for her selfish mother who chose politics over family--BUT if this was a black teen child of a candidate that was pregnant....well let\'s see the Repub. spin on this.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1979511" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1979511">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1979511" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1979511" class="dsq-comment-message">and there you have it.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1981044" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1981044" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1981044" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1981044" class="dsq-comment-message">Exactly!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1979117" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1979117">NMP</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1979117" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1979117" class="dsq-comment-message">Andrew Sullivan wrote yesterday he thought the teenage daughter was hiding her pregnancy.  Them concealing the pregnancy goes to truth and honest, but as a policy issue, Palin is against sex education in the public school and promotes abstinence only education, which her own daughter doe not adhere to.  This is a legitimate campaign issue because it goes to the hypocrisy of the GOP and ineffective policies.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1979263" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1979263">Anon</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1979263" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1979263" class="dsq-comment-message">Be careful about hammering Palin on her daughter\'s pregnancy.  <br><br>First, since African-American girls have the highest teenage pregnancy rates in America, we cannot allow the Republicans accuse of of hypocrisy - "the pot calling the kettle black", so to speak.  I consider myself solidly in the middle class, have a teenage daughter that tends to be wilder than my wife and I would like, have family members that have kids out of wedlock, have friends with teenage kids who have terminated pregancies and the like, so I can understand what the Palins are going through.<br><br>Second, it is very interesting how the dialogue has changed so quickly.  I had some friends over last night, and the the conversation was focused on her background and the risks for Obama-Biden.  Yes, there were quite a few jokes about Moose, sub-automatic machine guns and the like, but after thinking about the evening, it was almost as if Barack was old news.  I know this will change as we get closer to the debates, but everyone, including Black folk, are interested in the background of this woman.<br><br>Third, the Republicans are charged up about her nomination as VP.  Attacking her personal life makes her more sympathethic than she already is.  She is dealing with issues that many of us have had to deal with with our children - poor choices that lead to lifelong challenges.  <br><br>I am not a supporter of the Repubs by any means, but I can see that if this becomes personal, the independents and Reagan democrats will move over to the other side.  Even with 95%+ African American support and a majority of White liberals on our side, Barack will lose.<br><br>Just my thoughts on the subject.  Be careful.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1979352" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1979352">Jay</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1979352" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1979352" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree @ Anon.<br><br>But it became personal once Obama won Iowa. <b>Everyone</b> in his family has been attacked.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1979473" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1979473">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1979473" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1979473" class="dsq-comment-message">Who CARES!  This woman is not knowledgeable and is not ready to lead this country if McCain were to get sick or worse and she is anti abortion even in cases of rape or incest and wants to reverse Roe vs. Wade.<br><br>She lied on the first day she was introduced on the national scene (I opposed the bridge to nowhere - thanks but no thanks) and now her daughter is pregnant.  She misrepresented herself to the public.  Personally, I could care less about this aspect because she is the one who will have to help with the child and not me BUT where are the "so called" values the conservatives were touting over the last three days?  <br><br>It is not about being personal.  And BTW Anon - were you this vocal when they were RIPPING Michelle Obama to pieces?  <br><br>GTFOOH</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1980883" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1980883" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1980883" class="dsq-comment-message">Teenage pregnancy amongst black girls had DROPPED!!<br><br>Latino girls have the heighest cases of teenage preganancy.<br><br> The majority of teenage pregnancies in America are WHITE.<br><br>Please get your facts straight!<br><br><br>This is glaring hypocrisy for a multitude of reasons and I refuse to let it go. They would not let it go if it where Obama\'s daughter.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1986124" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1986124">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1986124" class="dsq-comment-message">Rhondacoca:   WELCOME BACK!!!   Hope U R feeling better and stronger!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>Good points!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1997009" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1997009">Anon</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1997009" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1997009" class="dsq-comment-message">You are right, the rate of Black teenage pregnancies have decreased.  However, Black girls represent 30% of all teenage pregancies of all races, which is disproportionate to when compared to the total population of African Americans - say 12-13%.  This is 2006 data, so things may have changed over the last 18 months, but not that much.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1979033" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1979033">nickwah22</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1979033" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1979033" class="dsq-comment-message"><b>Palin: Surge? What Surge?</b><br><a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/08/palin-surge-wha.html" rel="nofollow">http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1979371" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1979371">BlackAmericanPrincess</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1979371" class="dsq-comment-message">What a pack of lying hypocrites.  I don\'t believe for one minute Bristol is conveniently 5 months pregnant, she\'s probably more like 2-3 months pregnant.<br><br>And I don\'t think the Obama campaign will have to say one thing about this scandal, the media will do that for them.  This flies in DIRECT CONTRADICTION with their family values say no to sex education for teens preach abstinence schtick.  McCain is an idiot.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1979491" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1979491">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1979491" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1979491" class="dsq-comment-message">HYPOCRITES LYING SELFISH HYPOCRITES</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1985613" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1985613" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1985613">checkbookcc</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1985613" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1985613" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree with ya and I still think Trig is Bristols too.  The chance of getting pregnant  again right after have a baby is really high.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1985700" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1985700">JJai</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1985700" class="dsq-comment-message">from the Immoral Morality an AK blog<br><br>"How convenient is it that Bristol is now five months pregnant, which of course would make it impossible for her to have given birth to four and a half month old Trig? Could anybody have even hoped for a better coincidence?<br><br>Here is a question I started asking myself yesterday. If you knew somebody doubted that you had given birth to your most recent child, why would you have the photos from that time removed from your website? I mean wouldn\'t you post MORE pictures of yourself looking pregnant to kill the rumors? What would taking them down make most people assume?<br><br>If the right wing thinks that this makes the story go away then they are totally fooling themselves!"</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1979563" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1979563" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1979563" href="http://blog.evavegadiversity.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">evita</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1979563" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1979563" class="dsq-comment-message">does anyone know anything about her daughter\'s baby\'s father. (Interestingly, I have never typed that phrase before...)<br><br>Her kid is 17. How old is the baby daddy? Statutory issues? <br><br>I was surfing around and the right wing nutsjobs are saying... THIS IS PROOF OF PALIN\'S FAMILY\'S VALUES since she hasn\'t thrown the kid out. LMFAO! If Obama\'s daughter came up pregnant it would be the END of the world.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1979742" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1979742" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1979742">Symphony</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1979742" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1979742" class="dsq-comment-message">I just said the same thing to my friend. The right will say this is an example of their family values that they are sticking with their daughter. If it were a liberal whose daughter was pregnant this would be an example of the LACK of family values.<br><br>I won\'t condemn her for what her daughter did I just know I\'m going to hate the crap they spout. Like they are proud she chose to keep her baby. As if she had a damn choice.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1980420" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1980420">parker404</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1980420" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1980420" class="dsq-comment-message">Let\'s hope that the baby\'s father is Black, just for an extra laugh.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1980710" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1980710" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1980710">Anon</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1980710" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1980710" class="dsq-comment-message">If we go into the next two months with an "OJ-like" celebratory attitude because Palin\'s daugher is pregnant  --  Hooray!!   she\'s the mother of a pregant teenager, we win the morality vote! --  God bless us all because we have lost -- and Obama will certainly lose too.   <br><br>Think about the consequences and the reaction of those independents, Reagan repubs and Hillary supporters before you start jumping for joy. <br><br>As the father of a teenage daughter, I know when I\'m sitting inside of a glass house.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1995425" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1995425" href="http://blog.evavegadiversity.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">evita</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1995425" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995425" class="dsq-comment-message">What the heck are you talking about? This issues based. Palin doesn\'t support sex education in the schools and is all about abstinence only.. so when the two mix, you get to get a prego teenager. Congrats she wins the prize for failed policies! <br><br>Its just funny how Christians (right wing ones that is) believe that the bible is enough. That is when they are met with the reality that teenagers make their own choices most of time and the parent\'s desires don\'t always pan out. <br><br>She has a tough road ahead of her so I\'m not celebrating.<br><br>Just wonder what the dad\'s story is...</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1980859" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1980859">Anon</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1980859" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1980859" class="dsq-comment-message">If the father is Black, Palin will win a majority of the Black male vote!!  Read between the lines.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1994538" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1994538" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1994538" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1994538" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1994538" class="dsq-comment-message">He\'s probably an Alaskan Native (as in Eskimo).</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1979582" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1979582" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1979582">rorysmomma</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1979582" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1979582" class="dsq-comment-message">So she should be dubbed the Lynn Spears of Politics.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1979802" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1979802">Val</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1979802" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1979802" class="dsq-comment-message">Here is More --&gt; Secessionist Sarah: VP pick Sarah Palin and the Alaska Independence Party <br>by Liz Arnett <br><br>In spite of the rethug efforts to delete Sarah Palin\'s history, particularly between 2004 and 2006, we found a real gem on you tube this evening. <br>The clips show the connection between Sarah Palin and the Alaska Independence Party. (We downloaded the clips and re-uploaded them into our own you tube account in case they get taken down.)<br><br><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/1/4231/18477/878/581881" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/1/4231/184...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1985616" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1985616" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1985616" href="http://getbad.net/blog" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Noelani</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1985616" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1985616" class="dsq-comment-message">All of this information could not come out on a worst day ... Gustav is hititng the Gulf coast and the news organizations are hunkered down with that coverage, but I have to say SOMEBODY needs to take a minute or two to address this AIP issue. This is serious shit!<br><br>I mean, look at what Obama had to endure just for being a church member ... and look what they\'ve done to Michelle for saying one sentence. This is serious shit going on with Palin ... SUCCEED from the United States!?<br><br>I don\'t know what kind of vetting the Republicans thought they were doing ... but the American people NEED to have all the facts! They should know who is really suspect in this equation. <br><br>This is getting beyond ludicrous.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1980907" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1980907">Melinda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1980907" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1980907" class="dsq-comment-message">OK, so now we know that her daughter is pregnant and, if my math is correct, couldn\'t have been the birthmother of baby Trig. So this means that Gov. Palin was, in fact, flying all about the country while in active labor with a preterm baby that was going to need special medical attention. That\'s just.....beyond crazy. Someone who is better than me with words will need to define it. <br><br>Thsi woman needs to step off the national stage immediately and see what she can do to help her family. Their needs should register as more important than this VP thing. And yes, I would think the same thing if Palin was a man. I\'m not saying she needs to focus on her own family because she\'s the woman/mom. These children need their parents\' full attention right now. They do NOT need the eyes of the nation to be upon them.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1986462" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1986462" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1986462">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1986462" class="dsq-comment-message">Sorry Melinda, but until we see a birth certificate for Trig we don\'t know if Bristol was his mother or not!<br>There is no record of his having been born in the hospital Sarah claims to have birthed him.<br>It is very possible that Bristol turned right around and was knocked up again!! <br>It is very possible that the only way Bristol sees she can get out from under the incest is to be pregnant and have to be forced out of the home via some shotgun marriage.<br>REcall, Sarah herself eloped.<br><br>Don\'t feel bad about thinking Palin needs to be at home. The Christian right thinks the same thing. they are appalled that she is not putting family firsts and  feels she should be home taking care of her kids and her husband as god intended for women to do!!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1981993">NMP</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1981993" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1981993" class="dsq-comment-message">Not bragging, but I had an email exchange with Ben Smith of Politico within the last 30 minutes.  I provided him excerpts from her 2006 questionnaire in which she opposed abstinence only education. Interestingly enough the link to Sarah Palins official 2006 campaign website now redirects to McCain\'s campaign webste.  What more are they hiding?   For whatever reason, the MSM isn\'t doing their job in scruitinizing this woman\'s views and policies, so we have to push hard against the media.  <br><br>Sorry for the daughter, but this is a legitimate campaign issue, not just because of their obvious attempt to conceal the preganancy but because she wants to impose her ineffective policies on us.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1986081" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1986081">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1986081" class="dsq-comment-message">NMP:   "Not braggin. . . "  You would not be seen as bragging!!!  U R doing JUST what we all are doing  --  sharing with the persons who will FIRE UP the MSM!!!  This is STRATEGIC!!!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)<br><br>And when the MSM looks across the proverbial "TABLE of TALK" - we will be able to say to them  -    "GUESS WHO\'S COMING TO DINNER!??"   <br><br>JJP!!!   Pass the peas please!!!!   :&gt;)     :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>GOOD JOB!!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1994461" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1994461" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1994461">Anderkoo</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1994461" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1994461" class="dsq-comment-message">Sorry, can you be more specific about "opposed abstinence only education"? Did she oppose ANY sex education, or did she think that sex education should also include information about birth control and safe sex?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1994552" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1994552" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1994552">parker404</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1994552" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1994552" class="dsq-comment-message">She believes that abstinence should be the only form of sex education taught in our schools.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1994613" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1994613" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1994613">NMP</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1994613" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1994613" class="dsq-comment-message">Sorry I was typing furiously.  She supports abstinence ONLY sex education.<br>  ----- Original Message ----- <br>  From: Disqus&lt;mailto:&gt; <br>  To: dtdeskins@msn.com&lt;mailto:dtdeskins@msn.com&gt; <br>  Sent: Monday, September 01, 2008 4:52 PM<br>  Subject: [jackandjillpolitics] Re: James.Dobson.In.A.Dress Open Thread</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1983288" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1983288" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1983288">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1983288" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1983288" class="dsq-comment-message">She\'s going to be a grandma.<br><br>So much for that ABSTINENCE TEACHING.<br><br>Riddle me this, folks, WHAT IF Malia or Sasha Obama were 17 and having  a baby.<br>Just saying.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1984095" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1984095" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1984095">JJai</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1984095" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1984095" class="dsq-comment-message">so much for her great work/life balance. Looks like Sarah let something slip.<br><br>And yeah the press would have a fit if this were Malia or Sasha. I am sort of interested to determine if the religious right will deem this a bad example or stick with the old stand by of being proud that she chose life.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1986168" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1986168" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1986168">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1986168" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1986168" class="dsq-comment-message">The Palin family is nothing but the Clampetts on a national stage.<br><br>We might as well re-name the White House ...WalMart.<br><br>Cause that is what this is quickly turning into ...a national mocker of every tradition in America.<br><br>Now, we are suppose to support these right to lifers dragging the White House in to the sewer after Bush dragged it through the gutter?<br><br>But trailer trash is better than Negros in the white house.<br><br>No one has seen a birthcertificate for Trig yet. that boy could have been born in March,, and Bristol turned right around and was pregnant again.<br><br>Something is fishy in the Palin household...real generational sexual abuse is going on here.<br><br>Bristol knows her only way out is through pregnancy.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1987275" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1987275" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1987275">JJai</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1987275" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1987275" class="dsq-comment-message">whiterosebuddy,<br><br>this Alaska blog "claims" to have the smoking gun on Trig being Bristol\'s kid. Follow the link and check out these pictures.<br><br><a href="http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/2008/09/is-this-smoking-gun-that-proves-trig.html#links" rel="nofollow">http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/2008/09/...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1985643" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1985643" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1985643" href="http://getbad.net/blog" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Noelani</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1985643" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1985643" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh it would be an indictment on Barack and Michelle\'s parenting skills and judgement. Then it would be a indictment on Black Americans as a whole. You know how the game is played.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1986024" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1986024" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1986024">akonuche</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1986024" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1986024" class="dsq-comment-message">Just as it has been an indictment on Jamie and Lynn Spears in the media. Apparently, that standard doesn\'t apply when an extreme right-winger is involved.<br><br>It\'s unfortunate that Bristol Pallin\'s adult life is starting out this way, but since her family says that they will be there to support her, than she should count herself lucky.<br><br>I am, however, frankly disturbed by her mother\'s stance on birth control and on teaching her children the basics of the birds and the bees. There isn\'t anywhere in the Bible that condemns informing your offspring of the method by which they were conceived. Her daughter could have avoided having to be a mother this early. Either Palin failed in fostering the idea of abstinence until marriage or her child heard it yet did whatever she wanted, just many other teenagers her age have and will continue to do. Arm them with at least the basics!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2004993" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2004993" href="http://getbad.net/blog" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Noelani</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2004993" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2004993" class="dsq-comment-message">correcting my post, I misread your message.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1985813" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1985813" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1985813">Melinda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1985813" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1985813" class="dsq-comment-message">I think the religious right will try to make this poor girl their poster child. It\'s so sad. She shouldn\'t be held up as an example. She is lucky; her parents can and will support her. Many 17-year-old pregnant high school girls do NOT have that kind of family life.<br><br>I seriously doubt that McCain knew about this beforehand. If he did, then double-shame on him for even asking this woman and her family to stand next to him in front of the whole country and world! Now is NOT their time to be coping with national politics!<br><br>If Malia or Sasha were even past puberty I doubt Obama could run. White America has already shown its stupidity by the way Michelle has been treated. I think the Obamas might have even considered their girls\' ages when deciding to go for this campaign. I recall hearing them say something about now being the time and not wanting to try this when the girls are older----not that I think they expect their girls to go through something like this! But I think they are realists and they love their kids and don\'t want to put them through the trauma of entering the national stage when they are also entering young womanhood.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1994503" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1994503" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1994503" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1994503" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1994503" class="dsq-comment-message">That\'s what happens, Melinda, when you don\'t vet your candidate.<br><br>Like it was said on another thread, even Obama\'s VP Vetting Team got VETTED.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1986013" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1986013" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1986013">MotorCityBadBoy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1986013" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1986013" class="dsq-comment-message">I could only imagine all of the "Baby-Mama" jokes that would be thrown at the Obama daughters...  <br><br>I got a new one...  <br><br>No Baby-Mama Drama - Vote Obama</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1994480" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1994480" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1994480" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1994480" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1994480" class="dsq-comment-message">The media would be roasting Barack and Michelle on an open spit, with that KKK leader Sean Hannity cheerleading and being followed up with Don Imus calling them "Nappy Headed Hos".<br><br>They started the fight, all the way back in 1993 when they called Chelsea Clinton the "White House Dog".  Monica, do you remember THAT?  Chelsea, daughter of Hillary, was 12-years old and being called names by the Reich Wing, dope-fiend, Rush Limbaugh.<br><br>Mrs. "Family Values Palin" needs to stay the hell out of my womb and pay attention to what\'s going on in her own damned house.  Bristol\'s pregnancy could have easily been prevented if her air-headed mom stopped for two seconds preaching about abstinence and hauling that child\'s fast a$$ down to the local Planned Parenthood for birth control.<br><br>Children and political attacks on them should ALWAYS BE OFF LIMITS, but Sarah Palin\'s own hypocracy is being exposed for what it is, and again, indicates McCaint\'s unfitness to lead this country should the ReThugs decide to steal another election.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1995451" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1995451">NO ID</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1995451" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995451" class="dsq-comment-message">that was funny as hell!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1985744" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1985744" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1985744">parker404</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1985744" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1985744" class="dsq-comment-message">If the Palins can be so proud of their unwed, pregnant teenaged daughter, why the heck can\'t the McCains let poor Bridget out of the dungeon?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1985943" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1985943" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1985943">akonuche</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1985943" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1985943" class="dsq-comment-message">The child is not in a dungeon. She\'s in Gitmo receiving a proper Republican education.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1986034" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1986034" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1986034">parker404</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1986034" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1986034" class="dsq-comment-message">You\'re right, my bad :)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1986039" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1986039" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1986039" href="http://nquest2xl.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Nquest</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1986039" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1986039" class="dsq-comment-message">I saw a clip of the McCain women getting off of a plane, landing in MN for the Convention and Bridget was there.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1985910" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1985910" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1985910">McCain&#39;s Folly</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1985910" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1985910" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/8/30/12195/3751" rel="nofollow"><br>Comprehensive list of GOP Family Values hypocrites</a> Craig, Foley, Vitter, Barr, etc...all with links to source articles.  ENJOY!!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1985994" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1985994" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1985994">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1985994" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1985994" class="dsq-comment-message">McCain\' Folly:   "Enjoy" you say??   How about "reside in ecstatic heaven"!!?   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>I\'m there!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)    Thanks!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1985961" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1985961" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1985961">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1985961" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1985961" class="dsq-comment-message">PLEASE go DIGG this video:<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTbsbeY5k5k" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTbsbeY5k5k</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1986053" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1986053" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1986053">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1986053" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1986053" class="dsq-comment-message">Obama on the Palin Pregnancy:<br><br><a href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/obama-to-media.html" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09...</a><br><br>Obama doesn\'t have to do anything. The bloggers are just doing what the right wing has always done to the Democrats. I have no qualms in putting all this out on the street. If the roles were reversed, all we\'d be hearing about would be the LACK of parenting skills of Barack and Michelle. Their LACK of family values.<br><br>so, fuck them.<br><br>sorry about the kid, but since Mommy wants to parade around as Mother of the Year, then get ready for this. <br><br>we shouldn\'t back down one iota. <br><br>James.Dobson.In.A.Dress wants control over my body, and she\'s not going to have it. She\'s a religious right fanatic and should be treated as such.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1986540" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1986540" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1986540">parker404</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1986540" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1986540" class="dsq-comment-message">Fuck Sarah Palin because she\'s so caught up in the ridiculous conservative Abstinence Only bullshit that she can\'t even see what\'s going on in her own damn house. <br><br>Until the teenage girls in the hood have ALL the resources available to the daughter of a Governor, then our children need real sex education, contraceptives and health care.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1986095" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1986095" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1986095">whiterosebuddy</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1986095" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1986095" class="dsq-comment-message">DITTO!!<br>Phuck \'em and the dyck they rode in on too!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1987403" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1987403" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1987403">Monica</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1987403" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1987403" class="dsq-comment-message">With all the great publicity your blog is receiving, do you really want to be associated with the vilest aspects of our political culture?<br><br>Just like you\'ve said Hillary supporters like myself should heed the mandate of our candidate and support Obama, shouldn\'t you heed the call of your nominee and leave this Palin family matter alone?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1987447" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1987447">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1987447" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1987447" class="dsq-comment-message">Obama has to say what he does. I get that. The quadruple standard for him is obvious. <br><br>This woman is a Trojan Horse. <br><br>It wasn\'t us. It was THEM. They presented her to the USA as this Mother of the Year. Go back and watch all the defenders of her. She\'s on a higher moral plain because she gave birth to a Down\'s Syndrome child. Oh, this is why America will love her. <br><br>They wanted to go there...so, we\'ll go there.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1987568" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1987568" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1987568">Monica</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1987568" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1987568" class="dsq-comment-message">I realize that you are passionate about Obama\'s nomination and I know you don\'t 4 more years of a Republican administration.<br><br>You are beginning to sound like a lunatic.<br><br>No one is going to take you seriously if continue down this Larry Johnson, <a href="http://noquarter.net" rel="nofollow">noquarter.net</a> route.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1987689" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1987689">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1987689" class="dsq-comment-message">Monica:   So let me get this STR8:   Hillary supporters [former and present.   No wait. .. .they are both the same!!] - read this stuff AND use it as SUPPORT for a point????<br><br>In the groans of Arsenio Hall:    Hmmmmmmmmmmm!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>On second thought:   ". . . .should heed the mandate of our candidate. . . ."  <br><br>Complete with robot-tech-sonic music:   "She is NOW NOT a candidate!! You can THINK for yourself!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL-ISJ2HBG4" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL-ISJ2HBG4</a><br><br><br>[JJP:  please know that I don\'t know anything about this music.   :&gt;)   :&gt;)  So I hope that I\'m not offending anyone!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)]</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1987670" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1987670" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1987670">francis</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1987670" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1987670" class="dsq-comment-message">No, Because this isn\'t a question about Obama or  the daughter. Rather John McCain\'s judgement. McCain has centered his whole campaign on the issue\'s of judgement , experience and readiness to lead. Is Palin ready with one DS baby and a daughter that\'s pregnant? So it\'s perfectly legitimate to question McCain\'s competence when he selects someone that doesn\'t meet his own standards.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1994236" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1994236" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1994236" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1994236" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1994236" class="dsq-comment-message">Monica, what I\'d like to know is are you going on all the BLOGS talking about this subject, or just JJP?<br><br>You effectively disqualified yourself to be a concern troll by mentioning you\'re a Hillary supporter and after all the strife and dissention she caused because she couldn\'t get her own way during the primaries or during the convention, do you honestly think you should be going on this blog trying to control the discussion?  <br><br>Don\'t worry, I\'ll wait for your answer.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1996545" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1996545" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1996545">ljf</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1996545" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1996545" class="dsq-comment-message">Monica, why are your still supporting Hillary Clinton?  What office is she running for?  Last time I checked she is still the senator of my state --New York.  She has not announced that she is running for to any us New Yorkers. <br><br>In the primary I voted for Kucinich.  He did not win.  Guess what? I don\'t support him anymore because he is no longer running for President.  I SUPPORTED Kucinich, but I no longer SUPPORT him.  <br><br>But if you still support Hillary Clinton than why don\'t you become an OBAMA SUPPORTER and identify yourself as such, she does</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1987445" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1987445">MotorCityBadBoy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1987445" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1987445" class="dsq-comment-message">Rikyrah, you have my full-throated endorsement...  Could you imagine all of the Baby-Mama references and jokes if this were Malia or Sasha?  My God, this blog would be flooded with anti-black trolls.  If Sarah Palin is ready for prime time, then her she goes.  This is going to be too funny once Letterman and Leno get a hold of it.  I\'m staying up late to watch The Daily Show tonight.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1995030" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1995030">Teacher</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1995030" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995030" class="dsq-comment-message">Motor City you are so right about everything you have said, but I don\'t think the comedians are going to touch this. John Daily might, but he would be the only one.<br><br>I\'m watching the RNC on CNN & its a sea of white people. The have a lot of empty seats as well. I like Laura Bush. She is the only good thing about the Bush family. She seems nice, but I wouldn\'t wan her to run for president.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1992221" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1992221" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1992221" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1992221" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1992221" class="dsq-comment-message">Again, like it was said, just because McCain added a vagina to his ticket doesn\'t mean said vagina was going to be concerned about anyone else\'s.<br><br>I spit on this ticket, and I\'m going to continue to think for myself before independent thinking becomes illegal.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1994539" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1994539" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1994539">NMP</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1994539" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1994539" class="dsq-comment-message">Finger snaps!  This is NOT about the pregnancy but hypocrisy.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1995075" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1995075" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1995075">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1995075" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995075" class="dsq-comment-message">Rikyrah - Spot On.  <br><br>Contrary to popular belief -- we are not sheep.  We choose to support Obama\'s agenda.  A woman has the right to choose and sex education is mandatory and THIS is the reason why.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1986108" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1986108" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1986108" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1986108" class="dsq-comment-message">Barack says, "Back off."<br><br><a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0908/Obama_on_Palin.html?showall" rel="nofollow">http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0908/Oba...</a><br><br><br>Politically, Sarah Palin is a radical extremist. She\'s as dangerous for our nation as John McCain. That\'s what we  have to drive home. <br><br>Leave the rest of her soap opera life to the tabloids.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1987499" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1987499">MotorCityBadBoy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1987499" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1987499" class="dsq-comment-message">Barack may say "Back-off", but Barack doesn\'t control my mouth.  Barack should have told Bush to "Back off" on FISA so my international phone calls wouldn\'t be monitored.   I\'ve supported Barack, given money, and made phone calls, but I\'m a Barack supporter because I love the promise of America, not because I love Barack... So Barack can have his opinion on the matter, and I\'ll have mine, and from what I was taught, in America, all opinions are weighted evenly.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1987810" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1987810" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1987810">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1987810" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1987810" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes, I know that is what you were taught.  But has that been your experience in the \'melting pot\' we call America?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1994470" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1994470" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1994470">NMP</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1994470" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1994470" class="dsq-comment-message">Same here! I love Barack but he is wrong on this.  It\'s not the pregnancy but the hypocrisy.  The GOP has been trying to legislate their brand of morality for decades, including abstinence only education.  She put herselt out there as the poster child for abstinence only education, so it is more than fair for us to make her the poster child for the failure of abstinence only education.  Being the governor of a state roughly the size of DC and mostly white and indigenous people, she doesn\'t have to deal the the deadly consequences of teenage AIDS.  This is an issue of policy and judgement, nothign personal.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1994737" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1994737" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1994737">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1994737" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1994737" class="dsq-comment-message">Barack isn\'t wrong....he\'s SUPPOSED to take the high road.....taking the low road where the GOP is constantly lurking is up to the rest of us. Barack shouldn\'t do the dirty work, we\'ve got this. This is what I\'ve meant by the internet being the equalizer of this political season. The Dems haven\'t had this type of fervor and willingness to get down and play hardball before, but this time, things have changed. Its a new day. So screw McCain, screw Rove and screw the GOP machine that is willing to kill us all for more power and control, screw that. If we have to get down in the mud to fight these bastards, let\'s roll. Barack can brush the dirt off his shoulders from us fighting down in it.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1995253" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1995253" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1995253">delfinajones</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1995253" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995253" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'ve got your back Miranda- you are totally right.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1995730" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1995730" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1995730">jelana</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1995730" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995730" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree with both Melinda and Town on this one.  Barack must remain politically correct.  This proves both McCain and Palin have incredibly bad judgment and are nothing but liars.  If McCain\'s campaign had realized Bristol was pregnant (if true), his strategists would have framed this from the beginning.  They<br>would have informed us of the upcoming nuptials at the press conference.  They would have said Palin is preparing to be a proud grandmother  and Bristol is being married by Rev So & So on Sept  5th!  As it stands, everyone is INCOMPETENT!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1995193" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1995193" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1995193">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1995193" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995193" class="dsq-comment-message">Barack isn\'t wrong, and I\'ll tell you why:<br><br>On a personal level, he\'s not going to want Bristol Palin demonized for being a pregnant 17 year old, because his mom had him when he was 18.  He wouldn\'t want his mom demonized, so he\'s not going to demonize Bristol Palin.<br><br><br>On a POLITICAL level, neither Obama nor his supporters should even bring up Bristol Palin, Sarah Palin\'s son/grandson, mothering skills, etc.  They SHOULD take the high road.  They are simply giving Sarah Palin and John McCain the rope in which to hang themselves.  What is it, Monday?  McCain made the pick on Friday?  Already we have learned:<br><br>Sarah Palin probably illegally used her influence to try and get her brother in law fired (hence, hiring a lawyer to defend her today);<br><br>Sarah Palin is against abortions and contraception to prevent the pregnancies, and her 17 year old underage daughter is pregant;<br><br>McCain did NOT vet Sarah Palin;<br><br>Sarah Palin was part of an Alaska successionist party as recently as 2 years ago;<br><br>And more is yet to come out about this woman, you just wait and see!<br><br>Let the National Enquirer, "journalists," tabloid media, bloggers and the general public devour Sarah Palin; Obama and his camp don\'t need to.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1995380" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1995380">NO ID</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1995380" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995380" class="dsq-comment-message">Yup, politically he\'s smart to stay out of this and let bloggers do their thing. He\'s not going to win either way on this. What\'s really sad is that we\'re now dependent on the National Enquirer and bloggers, who don\'t always get shit right, to do the investigative journalism that mainstream newspapers once did. That\'s why newspaper journalism is on life support.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1994956" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1994956" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1994956">Teacher</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1994956" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1994956" class="dsq-comment-message">Word!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1987539" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1987539" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1987539">glaukopis</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1987539" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1987539" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree that her fundamentalism is the scariest thing about her, but there\'s also the question of her priorities and her judgement.  If I had had a special needs child 4 months ago and a teenager who\'s expecting a child of her own in a few months, I don\'t think, "Sure, I\'ll run for Vice president" would be my first thought.  I think she must be extraordinarily political ambitious and not have a whole lot of common sense.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1994249" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1994249" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1994249">nickwah22</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1994249" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1994249" class="dsq-comment-message">These stories about Palin should not be backed down on.  Obama HAS to play nice with all of these crazies out here but someone needs to call this woman.  If this was regular John/Cindy-I-Use-Vikadin type story then I could see letting the tabloids take care of it.<br><br>Palin has two stances that I know of:<br>1-global warming doesn\'t really exist/isn\'t man made<br>2-pro-life, anti birth control.. ?<br><br>Her <b>17&lt;/&gt; year old daughter is KNOCKED UP.  Getting married because you are pregnant doesn\'t make things better, most of the time, it makes things worse.  I will get over the double standard of "if this were Obama" but if the newborn is really the "17" year old\'s, she is lying to us about something as simple as her home life.  What else would she be capable of lying about?  This woman just screams "scandal" to me.  She needs to RUN away from this election as soon and fast as possible.</b></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1995032" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1995032" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1995032">Val</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1995032" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995032" class="dsq-comment-message">I could give a CRAP on what Obama says on this issue Craig.  This isn\'t about having a baby.  It is about A WOMAN\'S RIGHT TO CHOOSE.  <br><br>So too bad, so sad.  He has to get over it.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1995431" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1995431" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1995431" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995431" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m not trying to censor anyone. By all means, go for it. I don\'t disagree with what\'s been  stated in this thread by those who see this as a legitimate issue to pursue.<br><br>I was just sharing information.<br><br>We are hungry for change and we know what would happen if the roles were reversed.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1987364" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1987364" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1987364">MotorCityBadBoy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1987364" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1987364" class="dsq-comment-message">One last thing....  I know people think this may be bold, but it brings to light the hypocrisy that the GOP always shove down our throats...  How we are all sinners and they\'re the party of morals and family values.  This is my LAST comment on Sarah Palin and pregnancy (Insert Bush signing statement here ).  <br>I want everyone to Watch for the old Switcheroo....  You heard it here first...  Palin\'s daughter is NOT 5 months pregnant...  She may be pregnant, but not 5 months.  The campaign said 5 months to end the speculation that Sarah Palin really had the last baby, Trigg Palin, 4 1/2 months ago...  I saw that girls photo on stage a few days ago, and she may be 3 months pregnant at the most cause she\'s not showing at all.  Here\'s what\'s going to happen...  Somehow they\'re going to claim a miscarriage before the baby comes to term.  This was put out there to stop the first rumors.  I still truly believe that Sarah Palin is already a Grandmother.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1987458" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1987458" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1987458">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1987458" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1987458" class="dsq-comment-message">Do you think this is gonna satisfy the National Enquirer? Nope.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1990631" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1990631" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1990631" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1990631" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1990631" class="dsq-comment-message">Like you said, at least the National Enquirer still engages in good, old fashioned investigative journalism.  Now its revealed that Bristol is preggers.<br><br>Shoot, where there\'s smoke being blown up one\'s ass and all that...</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1994905" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1994905">Teacher</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1994905" class="dsq-comment-message">How weird to think, thank goodness for the National Enquirer, but they are the only ones who are both willing & able to get to the bottom of it.<br><br>Even with the new story & spin, I still think that baby boy is Bristol Palin\'s. How weird & dysfunctional to get the whole family to live a lie. It turns people into neurotics to ask them to live lies & keep life time secrets. It just isn\'t healthy.<br><br>I just would not be ok with my 17 yo getting married. I guess they are ok with the father & he is financially prepared to support himself, a wife & children. I guess that means hes not 17. Rightly or wrongly, my mother forbade me from getting pregnant. I think some girls do it because their parents give messages that they would ultimately be ok with it. But, her daughter is a minor and the parents are legally/socially accountable for her. I guess she is too busy to have a rapport with her daughter that would have influenced her abstinance. When you don\'t provide sex education, they educate themselves.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1987422">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1987422" class="dsq-comment-message">Anyone got the 4-1-1 on her hubby\'s DUI?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1987452" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1987452">MotorCityBadBoy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1987452" class="dsq-comment-message">He got it in 86 while riding around with buddies... They were dating back then.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1994245" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1994245">NMP</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1994245" class="dsq-comment-message">If further rumors are true, the father is in his late 20\'s, and they\'ve been dating for more than 3 years, which would mean that the Palin\'s let their child date a child molestor.  Could any of you imagine what the news coverage would be if this were Michelle and Barack\'s daughter?  We all know the answer.  His black ass would be off that ticket by the end of the day.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1994510" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1994510">parker404</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1994510" class="dsq-comment-message">That would make Grandma Alaska an accomplice to her daughter\'s statutory rape.  Surely no woman would pimp out her child in the name of conservative politics.  Would she???</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1994634" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1994634">NMP</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1994634" class="dsq-comment-message">That\'s exactly what that would mean.  Could you imagine if this was the reverse and it was the Obama\'s.  All hell would have broken out.  We wouldn\'t be seeing any coverage of this hurricane.  It would be wall-to-wall \'the Obama\'s lil\' baby momma.\'<br>  ----- Original Message ----- <br>  From: Disqus&lt;mailto:&gt; <br>  To: dtdeskins@msn.com&lt;mailto:dtdeskins@msn.com&gt; <br>  Sent: Monday, September 01, 2008 4:57 PM<br>  Subject: [jackandjillpolitics] Re: James.Dobson.In.A.Dress Open Thread</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1995053" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1995053">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995053" class="dsq-comment-message">NMP...see your comment to parker404...<br><br>your email address is displayed.  You might want to edit it and delete that portion before someone replies and you\'re not able to.  Before you do, take a print screen or copy and send it to Disqus support.<br><br>The same thing happened to me a couple times.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1994446" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1994446">nancyelyn</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1994446" class="dsq-comment-message">Obama supporters are now doing  far more harm to Obama than good.<br><br>Bloggers on the left are losing their credibility FAST. Their desire to practice the \'politics of personal destruction\', spread lies, resort to exaggeration and fear-mongering with the fury of a hurricane will damage their ability to be believed in any legitimate criticism and scrutiny of Sarah Palin. <br><br>Moderate, independent  men and women are repulsed and disgusted.<br><br>The Palins all chose life and lived their values.  That doesn’t strike me as news, as we already saw that with her commitment to her son Trig.  Obama has aked his supporters to back off of these types of smears, but this actually draws more attention to the hate that is being spewed here at JJP, DailKos, etc .  <br><br>Most people, I’d say, will wish Bristol and the Palins well.  <br><br>We would all do better just to admire the Palins for their love and support for Bristol, Bristol’s courage in pursuing motherhood when faced with a difficult but hardly unusual situation, and agree that this has little to do with whether Sarah Palin will make a good Vice President.  Families have been dealing with this since … there were families.  Neither side should use Bristol to score political points.  Keeping them in our prayers would also be the kindest action we can take.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1995093" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1995093" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1995093">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995093" class="dsq-comment-message">Get real.  If Malia Obama were 17 years old and pregnant you can bet your bottom dollar that McCain and his supporters would latch on to that and depict Malia as a baby mama (oops, they already referred to her married, having children within wedlock as a baby mama), a future welfare queen and an example of the lack of morals of black people in general.  Protect "poor Bristol Palin" and her "brave" parents?  Give me a break!  What kind of mother subjects her teenage, underage daughter to this kind of media scrutiny just for her ambitions?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1995275">NO ID</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995275" class="dsq-comment-message">The trick is a LIAR. I\'ve read all the sites, including the blog IN ALASKA that has information about this alleged pregnancy. But as several people have noted, she could easily refute these rumors by providing a birth certificate for her son, by showing a photo of her unequivocally pregant, or by showing photos of Bristol during that six months or so she wasn\'t in school. I can\'t understand why people think this is a "personal" matter. This woman would be next in line for the presidency of the United States. Her judgment is at question and should be. No matter which way this story spins out, and it seems to be spinning out of control for her, she looks like a liar, and not just in this instance.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1995508" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1995508" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1995508" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995508" class="dsq-comment-message">Amen Town Amen...I can see the headlines now!!<br><br>I co-sign with every thing you just said!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1994661" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1994661" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1994661">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1994661" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1994661" class="dsq-comment-message">Did you post the same kind of passionate comment when the GOP\'s contractors-for- smears where spreading lies regarding Michelle Obama? Where you as committed to voicing your displeasure regarding the lies regarding Barack and his family??</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1995125" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1995125">nancyelyn</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995125" class="dsq-comment-message">Obama\'s family is off limits. The right damages its own cause when it engages in  such repulsive tactics.<br><br>I admire Michelle Obama. She has much in common with Sarah Palin even if their political views are polar opposites. The fact that I may agree more with Palin, does not diminish Michele\'s accomplishments, poise and grace. She would be a fine first lady. Same for Cindy McCain.<br><br>The left is too concerned about fighting back and giving the right a \'dose of their own medicince\' x 100! But the electorate is turned off by this. That is why Obama\'s message has so much resonance with a diverse group of Americans.<br><br>The far-left is over-reacting and over-reaching and is a sure threat to detract from Obama\'s message of change. What are we changing other than the balance of power? Where\'s the post-partisanship, where is the healing of divisions, where is the tolerance of opposing viewpoints and life choices? Is this a \'big tent party\' or is it a far left wing party run by overwrought radicals?<br><br>If Obama cannot persuade his supporters that it is damaging to continue along this path, that will speak volumes about his ability to offer us a new brand of politics.<br><br>This country will survive and continue to be the greatest nation in the world no matter who becomes president. Most voters believe this and roll their eyes at the fear-mongering and exaggeration on both sides of the debate.<br><br>Why is Obama\'s change better than McCain\'s?<br><br>Build up you man. Tout his big ideas. Tell us why he is the one who deserves his vote, without degrading his opponents and their families.Use this forum to echo his positive message. What you are doing here is trampling all over his message and shoving his face in the mud. <br><br>If you can\'t see that and choose to defend and continue these despicable tactics you will share in the blame for Obama\'s loss.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1995257" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1995257" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1995257">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1995257" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995257" class="dsq-comment-message">So in other words you only care that your candidate is being attacked. Thanks for clearing that up.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1995770" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1995770" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1995770">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1995770" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995770" class="dsq-comment-message">Obama supporters have been building up Obama and explaining his positions.  It\'s McCAIN and his supporters who haven\'t built up McCAIN.  Two months from the general election and we STILL don\'t know what McCain is all about?  McCain\'s positions seem to be dictated by the James Dobsons and Karl Roves of the world.  What is McCain all about?<br><br>I have no problem with bloggers and journalists digging into Bristol Palin\'s ass because we know DAMN WELL if Malia Obama was 17, unmarried and pregnant she and black women in general would be demonized from the White House to the outhouse.  You can bet every last cent you have that Malia Obama would be featured in a 527 bashing her, Michelle and Barack.  Get the fugg out of here with your silliness.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1994863" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1994863">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1994863" class="dsq-comment-message">Bloggers are voters too.    Bloggers are citizens.    <br><br>Sarah Palin exposed her daughter to this scrutiny by making <i>her</i> son Trig, supportive evidence of her anti-choice position.   <br><br>At Palin\'s first appearance with McCain,  Bristol can be seen clutching the baby, and using him to hide her abdomen.   Why hide if she is planning on keeping this baby and marrying it\'s father?  They released this information BECAUSE of the rumours!  Isn\'t this an odd coincidence?<br><br>Has anyone here expressed hate for this young woman, Bristol?<br><br>You\'re so eager to find shelter in Obama\'s compassion; yet, we all know that if this was one of the Obama girls, Conservatives would eat them alive!  There would be no mercy for Obama and his family.<br><br>I hear the hypocrites right now saying that "things happen in life.."   Well, they didn\'t think this with Reverend Wright, did they?  They even demonized Obama for having a Muslim father!  No one begged for restraint when the nasty rumours were spread about Obama and Michelle.<br><br>Bristol is not displaying courage.  Courage requires choice.  Bristol is not allowed choice based on her mother\'s assertion that abortion is out of the question.   Bristol is adopting the default position.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1995091" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1995091">JJai</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1995091" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995091" class="dsq-comment-message">Truthseeker,<br>I am in agreement that Sarah/right wingers politicized her son Trig\'s birth in a negative fashion. I agree with you there. I further agree that we should  investigage this matter to the extent that it helps us to discern Sarah\'s character.<br><br>But, I gotta say I do not believe it is wrong for Bristol to keep her baby. Your comment is on the verge of being disrespectful. Though she is young she may still be displaying courage in keeping her baby. I think it\'s faulty logic to assume that just due to her age she shoud abort her baby. You are mistaken if you think that in these small towns having her baby would be viewed as a negative and my Christian faith can not allow me to think that it\'s wrong either. Difficult and not advantageous perhaps but not inherently incorrect.<br><br>All that to say I am pro choice since I don\'t believe in leglislating anyone\'s morality. But to just say you know for sure she is not displaying courage is a little disrespectful to Bristol and her unborn child. Likewise, Sarah and other republicans should not disdain the decisions of others since God is our only judge.<br><br>Just my thoughts....</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1995371" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1995371" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1995371">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995371" class="dsq-comment-message">It is your <i>logic</i> that is faulty.  Nowhere here do I make clear my opinion about Bristol keeping her baby.   At no time have I judged that outcome.  You do not know what I think about her keeping her baby.<br><br>What I have said, is that you cannot point to her keeping her baby as evidence of her superior morality or courage.   You cannot do that, because morality is based on choice.   If Bristol has no choice, and the only option is for her to have her baby, then it is impossible to tell whether she is acting out of courage...or simply accepting her fate.<br><br>Perhaps you are reading my comment through religious lenses.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1995537" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1995537">JJai</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995537" class="dsq-comment-message">Okay, I\'ll take that expanation, lol<br><br>BTW, I  am reading your comment through a religious lense. I view all things through religious lenses. I am a committed Christian.  I am very sensitive when I perceive that faith is marginalized. Upon further inspection I will concede that I was perhaps being too sensitive.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1995900" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1995900" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1995900">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1995900" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995900" class="dsq-comment-message">I suppose you could argue that "accepting her fate" is a form of courage.  But, it would be nice if she could truly choose.  Maybe deep inside, she is terrified.  Maybe she knows in her heart this is the wrong outcome for her.      <br><br>Republicans are asking for privacy.  They say this is a family affair.  Yet, they seek to impose their will on all families with anti-abortion legislation.  There must be no "privacy" for other women.<br><br>They are hypocrites!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1996097" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1996097" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1996097">JJai</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1996097" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1996097" class="dsq-comment-message">We don\'t know her true desires. I am sure she is terrified. Lots of expectant mothers are; expecially first time mothers. I can agree that being forced in any direction is unaceptable.<br><br>I will say that that even though I am am not pro abortion; I am pro choice. I disagree with any agenda that seeks to legislate morality.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1995603" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1995603" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1995603" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1995603" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995603" class="dsq-comment-message">Amen Truthseeker.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1994874" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1994874">gaiilonfong</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1994874" class="dsq-comment-message">NO SALE nancyelyn<br>not with what the reTHUGS have done to Michelle and most people of color<br>who cares what the reTHUGS say about the blogs, with the way townhall, the freepers and redstate act?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1994967" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1994967">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1994967" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1994967" class="dsq-comment-message">You should see Bill Bennett on CNN trying to use Barack\'s statement as cover from having to answer Wolf\'s questions about Abstinence only.   He\'s saying that Obama has asked them not to talk about this!!   In the same breath, Bill mentions Ayers and Rezko   <br><br>HA!<br><br>Goddamned Hypocrites!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1995039" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1995039" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1995039">nickwah22</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1995039" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995039" class="dsq-comment-message">I loved how he crossed his arms and refused to say anything except "Barack says we should back off"</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1995000" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1995000" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1995000">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995000" class="dsq-comment-message">The issue isnt the baby.  Many teens have babies . . . the issue is that Palin is anti-abortion even in the case of incest and rape, wants to revoke Roe vs. Wade, is against contraception, is against teaching sex educations in the schools.  THAT is the issue.  Now, you are right in that Palin is entitled to her beliefs and her daughter is entitled to her privacy however OUR DAUGHTERS also should have the right to choose and make their own decisions.  This isn\'t about Obama -- this is bigger than he is.  This is about the rights of EVERY woman to choose.<br><br>The fact is that Palin is not knowledgeable about the issues that face our nation and should not be a breath away from the presidency and she does she have the judgment to lead our great country and I certainly don\'t want her making any decisions on what should be my daughters right to choose when she clearly can\'t make those decisions in her own home.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1995288" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1995288" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1995288">nancyelyn</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1995288" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995288" class="dsq-comment-message">You are sadly misinformed. <br><br>Overturning Roe v. Wade will NOT outlaw abortion in this country, the issue will be left to the states, and no reasonable person believes your exaggerated position. Abortion will be available to women but abortion rights advocates will have to petition the states. <br><br>Many feminists are tired of being held hostage to issue of abortion rights. Palin is an accomplished, poised, independent, principled pro-life woman and she offers modern women a new view of \'feminism.\' <br><br>As a member of Feminists for Life, <a href="http://www.feministsforlife.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.feministsforlife.org/</a><br>Palin is not opposed to birth control. Abstinence is the only 100% proven effective method of birth control. <br><br>You have a right to oppose her, but get your facts straight and tone down your overwrought rhetoric if you want to be a credible critic of Palin.<br><br>Palin is a threat to the monopoly the Democrat party has had on \'feminism\' and this is why she is being attacked.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1995525" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1995525">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995525" class="dsq-comment-message">keep living in your alternate reality.  Now excuse me while I fight to protect mine.<br><br>Go Obama/Biden 08</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1995623" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1995623" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1995623">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995623" class="dsq-comment-message">See now Nancelyn - I was being nice. . . . now you get what you get.<br><br>Regarding :  Many feminists are tired of being held hostage to issue of abortion rights. Palin is an accomplished, poised, independent, principled pro-life woman and she offers modern women a new view of \'feminism.\' <br><br>Don\'t let me laugh.  Not even you could be that ignorant.  The right to choose is just that.  You can choose to carry your baby or you can choose not to.  How is that being held hostage when you lunatics are saying you HAVE to carry to term, you SHOULD not use contraception, and you SHOULD not educate your kids (hence poor Bristol Palin).<br><br>"As a member of Feminists for Life, <a href="http://www.feministsforlife.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.feministsforlife.org/</a><br>Palin is not opposed to birth control. Abstinence is the only 100% proven effective method of birth control. "<br>I am not going even touch upon the STUPIDITY in that sentence.<br><br>"You have a right to oppose her, but get your facts straight and tone down your overwrought rhetoric if you want to be a credible critic of Palin. " FUCK YOU AND THE COMPUTER YOU BLOGGED ON.  I could give a shit about whether you consider me to be a credible critic of your token excuse for a potential VP pick.  I have a family to protect and I would be a damn fool to even think for one second that she is remotely qualified to lead this nation.<br><br>It won\'t work.  NOT THIS TIME.<br><br>Go Obama/Biden 08</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1995234">marvy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995234" class="dsq-comment-message">Palin was using her children to score political points - how many times did we hear about her having a special needs child - and you can\'t have it both ways. It\'s unfortunate that her daughter has to deal with being a pregnant teen in the public eye, but this is the result of her mother\'s choice.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1995386" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1995386" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1995386">nancyelyn</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995386" class="dsq-comment-message">The fact that Trig has Down\'s Syndrome is nothing more than that, a fact.<br><br>Barack Obama is black, is he using his race for political advantage?<br><br>Get over yourselves here at JJP.  <br><br>Bristol Palin will have the love and support of her family, her friends and her community, she will survive your hateful attacks, and you all will be exposed as intolerant and self-righteous.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1995480" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1995480" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1995480">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995480" class="dsq-comment-message">"Bristol Palin will have the love and support of her family, her friends and her community, she will survive your hateful attacks, and you all will be exposed as intolerant and self-righteous."<br><br>You STILL don\'t get it.  It is not about Bristol.  Why lie?  Why lie when if you look at all the issues this country now faces, Bristol\'s sex life is not on the top ten lists of what affects the needs of the people in this country?Unfortunately MANY teens have unwanted pregnancies in the US because we are not educating them enough about sex education and it certainly does not help with a candidate who wants to ban teaching sex education (except of abstinence) in the schools, wants to ban contraception and who is against a womans right to choose.  <br><br>That is the problem.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1995983">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995983" class="dsq-comment-message">nancelyn:  Noting that you just arrived here.<br><br>This comes under the heading of DOUBLE (IL)LOGIC!! [similar, and with all due respect to our newest thread :&gt;)]:<br><br>"The FACT that Trig has Down\'s Syndrome is nothing more than that, a FACT."   <br><br>O.K.  A FACT!!<br><br>"Barack Obama is black, is he using his race for political advantage?"<br><br>Several things:<br><br>1.  Black should be capitalized!!  That\'s A FACT!!!<br><br>2.  Barack  Obama is Black.   That\'s a FACT!!   Period!!!  [NOT comma!!]<br><br>It it NOT LOGICAL to move beyond "Barack Obama is black"  IF you\'re going to put a PERIOD at the end of your "Down\'s Syndrome" fact.   <br><br>In fact it\'s a non-parallelism and a non-sequitur and, therefore,<br><br>ILLOGICAL!!!   But, enjoy your visit!!  And y\'all come back now!!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1996540">nickwah22</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1996540" class="dsq-comment-message">LMAO!  Boy is it heated today.  <br><br>But just like these conservatives are crossing over today I had to go read some of their comments to see where they are coming from.  I just want to know what her stances are! How long do we have to wait to get some damn answers!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1996820" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1996820" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1996820">marvy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1996820" class="dsq-comment-message">"Get over yourselves." Gee, what an intelligent response. I am not one who seeks to impose my personal beliefs on others, so I am far from intolerant. McCain, Palin and the Republicans kept harping about her son\'s condition as though it gave her some moral authority, and that is also a fact. Your comparison to Obama\'s color is irrelevant and incorrect. He never campaigned on his color.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2005049" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2005049" href="http://blog.evavegadiversity.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">evita</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2005049" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2005049" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh please stop acting like this thing she has "courage" for is something she had no control over. The worst part of ALL of this is making 17 year olds get married. CRAZY. That is WAY to young to be married. This is no way to compound the issue but its not my family... so I\'ll back off of that.<br><br>My issue is her POLITICAL STANCE on sex education and abortion. For me, it is always about having a choice. I wonder how much choice this kid is having... And don\'t you think its kind of hypocritical to have a moral stance on privacy when people were poking around Obama  in HIS CHURCH. It wasn\'t us here at JJP. How about when they nose around in a the best wishes book at the Jewish Memorial in Israel? It wasn\'t us here at JJP. <br><br>The nation is doing this, not us.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1995319" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1995319" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1995319">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1995319" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995319" class="dsq-comment-message">"Bloggers on the left are losing their credibility FAST. Moderate, independent men and women are repulsed and disgusted."<br><br>BULLSHIT.  Moderate, independent men and women are repulsed and disgusted by McCain to subject us to this token pick as a VP to lead our country when he is 72 years old and had issues with cancer 4 times.  Does he care that she has NO national or foreign policy experience?  Hell No.  All his shills -- including his wife and Ms Bush that she has a "bright mind", "she will learn quickly", "Alaska is next to Russia".  GTFOOH<br><br>THAT is why moderate, independent men and women are repulsed and disgusted.<br>Now how about you go report that.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1995397" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1995397">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1995397" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995397" class="dsq-comment-message">oh and one more thing nancyelyn -- regarding your statements "Obama supporters are now doing far more harm to Obama than good.<br><br>Bloggers on the left are losing their credibility FAST. Their desire to practice the \'politics of personal destruction\', spread lies, resort to exaggeration and fear-mongering with the fury of a hurricane will damage their ability to be believed in any legitimate criticism and scrutiny of Sarah Palin. "<br><br>Unlike you repubs -- we don\'t make up stuff.  This information stemmed from Alaskan newspapers and other legitimate blogs and from the mouth of Ms. Palin herself.  So the only people that are spreading lies and fearmongering are on McCain\'s team.   So get that right.<br><br>While you are at it - you may want to give McCain a heads up on the next storm coming where Ms. Palin needs to explain why she is for pushing the effort to make Alaska it\'s  own country and ask her what is up with "infiltrating" a national party to make sure this happens?   Again - no lies or fearmongering.  Information is coming from the mouth of Ms. Palin herself.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1994762" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1994762">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1994762" class="dsq-comment-message">MSNBC reporting that Palin has hired a private attorney to represent her and staff in Troopergate.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1994869" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1994869" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1994869" href="http://Black-Thought-Police.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Jefferson Sergeant</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1994869" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1994869" class="dsq-comment-message">This personifies the term poetic justice.<br><br>Fox news and other conservative pundits have engaged in any tactic that would distract the American public from the substantive issues at hand. They have used both fear mongering and Muckraking to achieve these goals and have in turned created an environment where it is now considered par for the course.<br><br>With the revelation about Palin\'s daughter they are now in the position of having to deal with the monster they have created. When the blogs, tabloids and zealots seek more of this type of information on the Palin\'s for a gotcha moment; the Right Wing media will now be put in the position of having to acknowledge it as well.<br><br>I think Obama should take the same stance as he did with Rev. Wright on this issue, namely, give a final repudiation of those using it as a campaign tool and never speak of it again. Yet as mentioned, thanks to Rove\'s Rules politics this revelation will never die.<br><br>The Chickens have come home to roost.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1995283" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1995283" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1995283">RobM</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995283" class="dsq-comment-message">Obama is playing this very Zen. He won at the Convention big forcing this gambit by McCain. The hypocrisy is not something that is new to us. We need to take a deep breath and breathe. Clear our mind. <br>Fear is the mind killer. What I fear and what I think most of us fear is that Obama\'s approach feels like martrydom. And that we do not want any part of.<br>By reminding us that his mother had him at 18 he has once again neutralized McCain. He has taken out issues that can only appeal to the rabid base and can no longer be mentioned in swing voter areas. He has placed the children off limits. This includes the older children in the military so he has neutralized military service issue-something Democrats haven\'t had in a long time.<br>So I plan to keep being analytical and as calm as possible. I have to hope. I lived to see this, day why wouldn\'t  I want my children to have an even better life.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1995672" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1995672" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1995672">TRW</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995672" class="dsq-comment-message">I see that this is going to take a very ugly turn on both sides.  I don\'t know Bristol Palin, so I don\'t have an opinion about her teenage pregnancy.  I think it is a private family matter and should be treated as such.   However, this whole situation brings up a very important discussion.  I support comprehensive sex education.   I don\'t think that we do our kids any favors by throwing condoms at them and sending them on their way, or preaching abstinence only, crossing our fingers and hoping for the best.  We need to face reality.  There needs to be an open, honest dialogue about everything.  I will support a candidate that realizes the challenges we face.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1996207" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1996207">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1996207" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1996207" class="dsq-comment-message">Not only domestic issues involving sexual behavior, but what about Palin\'s stance on supporting initiatives to combat AIDs in Africa?? What about her stance on making contraceptives available to our men and women serving on military bases abroad? Ooops....I forgot she probably doesn\'t have ANY stance just yet...but I am very curious to find out what her position is.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1996577" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1996577" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1996577">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1996577" class="dsq-comment-message">From DailyKos:<br><br>Sarah Palin Isn\'t Ready To Be Commander In Chief.<br><br>- She has been Governor for 18 months of a state that ranks 47th in population.  Only North Dakota, Vermont, and Wyoming have fewer people to govern than Alaska.<br>- Prior to that, she was Mayor of Wasilla, Alaka for 6 years and sat on Wasilla\'s City Council for 4 years.  Wasilla\'s 2005 population estimate is 8,471.<br>- Sarah Palin has no foreign policy experience.  Physical proximity of Alaska to Russia doesn\'t count.<br><br><br>Sarah Palin is woefully out of the mainstream in her views.<br><br>- She opposes abortion, even in cases of rape and incest.  Only 18% of Americans agree with her that it should be illegal in all cases (source).<br>- She opposes sex education in schools and is firmly behind abstinence-only programs (source). 69% of Americans think sex education in schools is very important, and 21% think its somewhat important (source - PDF, p. 6).<br>- She supports the idea of "school choice", or vouchers (source).  70% of Americans do NOT support vouchers when it means public school funding would be cut (source).<br>- She supports teaching creationism in science classes (source).<br>- She is skeptical of global warming and doesn\'t believe climate change is man-made (source).    85% of Americans believe the planet is warming and a full 70% believe that it is attributable to either BOTH nature and man (49%) or solely to humans (21%) (source).<br><br><br>Palin is hardly free of old-Washington influence and tactics.<br><br>- She was FOR the Bridge to Nowhere, before she was against it (source).<br>- She openly praises Hillary Clinton, but thinks Clinton is a "whiner" (source).<br>- She is under investigation for ethics abuses in the firing of Alaska\'s Public Safety Director (source - worth noting also that CNN just reported Palin has retained a lawyer on the same issue).<br>- She was director of Senator Ted Stevens\' PAC (source).  It\'s worth noting here also that Stevens himself is under indictment for 7 felonious counts.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1996593" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1996593">parker404</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1996593" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1996593" class="dsq-comment-message">Governor Grandma\'s parenting skills have rightfully been called into question (i.e., boarding a 12 hour flight after her water broke), and there are still so many facts that are not sitting right with me:<br><br>What kind of mother asks her pregnant daughter (of any age) to stand on a stage behind her for 30+ minutes holding a baby?  Why not get poor Bristol a chair?  Was painting a false portrait of the perfect, conservative family so important that no one, not mama or daddy, thought to speak up for their DAUGHTER and make sure she was comfortable?  Why not put little Trig in a freaking stroller, or let his own Daddy hold him?<br><br>This stuff is just not adding up.  Is it more likely that:<br><br>a.  A 5 month pregnant girl was asked to hold her baby brother while standing on stage for nearly an hour;<br>b.  A 2-3 month pregnant girl was asked to use her infant son as a prop to hide her baby #2 containing belly; or, <br>c.  A new mom was asked to pass off her son as her brother in order to spare her ambitious mom embarrassmentt?<br><br>Whichever is the case, the Palins really don\'t seem to do things the way the rest of us do.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1996647" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1996647">JJai</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1996647" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1996647" class="dsq-comment-message">ABC News has confirmed Palin\'s inclusion in the Alaska Independence Party. Now, this is something that the right could get upset about and it completely juxtaposes McCain\'s Country First agenda. This organization\'s slogan is "Alaska Fir, Alaska Always."<br><br><a href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/members-of-frin.html" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1996790" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1996790" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1996790">parker404</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1996790" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1996790" class="dsq-comment-message">What\'s worse - living out of the country as a young child and attending public school with Muslims, or belonging to an organization as an adult that Advocates. For. The. Overthrow. of. the. United States. Government.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1996910" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1996910" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1996910">JJai</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1996910" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1996910" class="dsq-comment-message">God and Country are first to the RNC base. So, the idea that he is muslim is just as bad. Honestly, and with these conservatives then you would have to go back to Rev. Wright. <br><br>Perhaps, those things together would squell voter turnout if this story of her inclusion in AIP gets legs.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1996779" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1996779" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1996779">Miranda</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1996779" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1996779" class="dsq-comment-message">From Bill O\'Reilly\'s Pinhead and Patriots on Dec 20, 2007<br><br>On the pinhead front, 16-year-old Jamie Lynn Spears is pregnant. The sister of Britney says she is shocked. I bet.<br><br>Now most teens are pinheads in some ways. But here the blame falls primarily on the parents of the girl, who obviously have little control over her or even over Britney Spears. Look at the way she behaves.<br><br>Hmmmm......do you think he still feels this way?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1996805" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1996805" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1996805">nickwah22</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1996805" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1996805" class="dsq-comment-message">NO, he doesn\'t.  I was just watching Fox News and apparently this should be private.</div>\
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// HACK: Resetting cache because we're done with.
Dsq.Utils.gebiFromElementCollectionCache = null;


	
	
	var dsq_styleEl = document.getElementById(disqus_container_id);
	var dsq_anchorEl = document.getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
	
	Dsq.Thread.fc = Dsq.Utils.getStyle(dsq_styleEl, 'color');
	if(dsq_anchorEl) { Dsq.Thread.ac = Dsq.Utils.getStyle(dsq_anchorEl, 'color'); }
	Dsq.Thread.ff = Dsq.Utils.getStyle(dsq_styleEl, (Dsq.Utils.ie || window.opera ? 'fontFamily' : 'font-family'));
	// For Safari / Opera: strip quotes.
	Dsq.Thread.ff = Dsq.Thread.ff.replace(/['"]/g, '');
	Dsq.Thread.fc = encodeURIComponent(Dsq.Thread.fc);
	Dsq.Thread.ac = encodeURIComponent(Dsq.Thread.ac);
	Dsq.Thread.ff = encodeURIComponent(Dsq.Thread.ff);

	
	
	
	if(Dsq.$(Dsq.Templates.addPostContainer)) {
		// TODO: Check to see if theme uses postmessage.
		if (window.disqus_use_postmessage) {
			Dsq.frames['reply_0'] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(Dsq.$(Dsq.Templates.textareaContainer));
			Dsq.frames['reply_0'].init(function() {
				// Use fallback iframe
				Dsq.$(Dsq.Templates.addPostContainer).innerHTML = '';
				var theme = (typeof disqus_frame_theme == 'undefined') ? 'default' : disqus_frame_theme;
				Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(Dsq.$(Dsq.Templates.addPostContainer), null, {theme: theme});
				// if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(); }
			});
		} else {
			// DEPRECATED
			Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(Dsq.$('dsq-post-add'));
		}
	}

	
	

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

	Dsq.Popup.showCookieMsgs();

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

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

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

	



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

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

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

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

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


	


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

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

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

})();




