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Can anyone speak to the energy of the room?</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_10:00:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "ee9a6fc0f1213e6b14e2765968e804e5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962081": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "oh evita, do you think so? i didn't see it all ~ had to record for later, but caught some of the Q&A; and it seemed to me that he is just a brilliant, thoughtful, highly educated man pointing out the hypocrisy and stupidity in so much of what passes for news and our public discourse.<br></br><br>i absolutely LOVED his answer to the question about whether God loves everyone. it was perfect. fight that, conservative judgmental fuckheads. it's God's word. </br><br></br><br>oh but of course they <i>will</i> fight it, just as they condemn gays because God says so, and ignore God's word on adultery as they frolic with their hookers and 2d and 3d wives.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_10:12:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7f306b3009c480dcd5fc7baf547d1b80", "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}, "1962082": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"I felt like he was clowning though he did answer many of the questions to my satisfaction.\"<br></br><br>He is somethin'. He really was trying to throw it in his critics face. They assasinated his character and he is talking back. They wanted him to remain silent but he is a prominent minister who has been speaking at events across the nation for years. He is not going to shut up now that they tell him too.</br><br></br><br>I hope that they got all their questions answered and they can just get off his tail and take his name out of their mouths. They have been obsessed since last year.</br><br></br><br>I found out some interesting information about the FBI and Wright and his church. According to my friend/roommate who is from Chicago, his church has been the site of undercover FBI investigations. She said that they were trying to meddle in the church to bring down black political figures. Interesting.</br><br></br><br></br><br></br><br>\"And, I read the transcript of Obama on Fox. Can anyone speak to the energy of the room?\"</br><br></br><br>I did not watch it but what do you mean by energy? I believe that it was just him and Wallace?</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_10:15:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "6b8623e8e850161265a6267d83471b3d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962083": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This interview will be drown out with the new MSM fodder Wright has given them with his NAACP and NPC appearances.<br></br><br>Wall to wall Wright for the next week will not help Obama. Especially after Obama declared him a 'legitimate political issue.'</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_10:28:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962084": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "All that I can say is...<br></br><br>If Barack Obama loses this race because of people twising Reverend Wright's words, then America shall \"reap what is sows.\" </br><br></br><br>One side of me feels, \"We've got to be more politically savvy in how we deal with the conservative forces in play,\" but the other side of me says, \"F**K it, if these folks can not handle the truth, then SO BE IT.  Let this country fall further and further behind economically,  racially, and spiritually.\"  The Roman Empire had to fall too.</br><br></br><br>My eyes were on Wright as I left the house watching MSNBC and my ears heard the Q&A; on V103 (local ATL radio).  I'm cool with everything that Reverend Wright is doing.  He should not be quiet and go away like the majority of the MSM wants him to do.  That man has sacrificed so much for his community and THIS DAYUM COUNTRY...He's just telling the truth. </br><br></br><br>If America can't accept him (and by default association, not accept Barack Obama), then  ___ them all.</br><br></br><br>It's going to take some special savvy to deal with these emotions and I'm confident that Barack can turn these events around in his favor...I don't know how, but I'm prayerful that Obama can do it!</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_10:35:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "61b38052cdae3077225c223eee4a5ad9", "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}, "1962085": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I agree with evita. Rev. Wright was, despite some great answers, clowning doing the Q&A; session. He was humorous in Detroit last night, but he never clowned. Today, he did. And I can't see why he would think that it would help those he was addressing swallow  his message more easily. <br></br><br>Maybe I'm just too anxious to see clearly.</br><br></br><br>To hear that TUCC is under investigation by the FBI in order to bring down Black political leaders is interesting and believable.</br><br></br><br>Makes one wonder...</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_10:42:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9bf0971c139c9dc33659e8ed441e4f5e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962086": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "i heard a grownup talking to other grownups, just like obama does.<br></br><br>i'm guardedly optimistic that the american people will respond to that. </br><br></br><br>on my good days, i believe there are more people of good sense in this country than there are right wing zealots and lunatics. we shall see.</br><br></br><br>meanwhile, 1 million new democrats registered and obama launching a new voter registration campaign. </br><br></br><br>waking up this nation of sheep to recognize that it's no democracy if you don't participate, that we are losing this country and any hope of getting it right if we don't stand up and fight and we <i>cannot afford</i> another republican administration.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_11:00:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7f306b3009c480dcd5fc7baf547d1b80", "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}, "1962087": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Call me crazy, but I'm beginning to get suspicious about why Wright feels the need to go on all these interviews, especially right now.  The best thing he could do for Obama is not say anything!  He know that anytime he opens his mouth, it serves as fodder for McCain and Hillary.<br></br><br>Anybody care to enlighten me?</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_11:07:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "532d643127105c8a85230d3f5af05ead", "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}, "1962088": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "cameron,<br></br><br>He addressed this point in his Press Club speech. He let the sound bite controversy play but now he thinks it's time for his response to the slander.</br><br></br><br>He also is in DC for this conference on Black Church and this could highlight the conference and its work.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_11:12:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "363c2f6b494574d0d44acfb0bcd59869", "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}, "1962089": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "he laid it down last night", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_11:14:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9e52b9ab5d80ed9cb814245b329a6f49", "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}, "1962090": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Webb,<br></br><br>I agree with your post 100%</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_11:19:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "d087c5d149453c1db87a76ee583d3b80", "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}, "1962091": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Cameron,<br></br><br>He can continue to remain quiet but I do not think that it will go away. Conservatives want to use him as bait along with vindicative Hillary supporters and the media. He is speaking for himself and people can judge him based on what he is presenting of himself that is not the caricature drawn up by soundbytes and pundits. He has alright to defend himself, the black church theology and his church which has been under attack. </br><br></br><br>He is a prominent minister and always has speaking engagements. He has been doing this thing since Obama was like 10/11 years old.</br><br></br><br>Now, I feel that he has presented his case effectively and needs to fade into the background now so that the attention can be back on the candidates.</br><br></br><br>The media has gotten obsessed with this side issue.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_11:22:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "6b8623e8e850161265a6267d83471b3d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962092": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "cameron,<br></br><br>Wright is looking to boost himself into the spot light at Obama's expense.</br><br></br><br>Obama gave him legitimacy and credibility by not separating himself from Wright. Wright is taking full advantage of the platform Obama has handed him.</br><br></br><br>Now Wright says Obama is just a politician who is saying what he needs to say in order to get elected! OUCH.</br><br></br><br>The more Wright opens his mouth the more ammunition he gives to the media. He welcomes it. </br><br></br><br>IMO he feels he is above Obama.</br><br></br><br>He is a loose cannon who will dog Obama for the rest of the campaign.</br><br></br><br>Obama is trying to retool his campaign message with with blue-collar workers and seniors but how much of this will be drown out by Wright.</br><br></br><br>Does anyone know how the Obama campaign is reacting/responding?</br><br></br><br>They cannot be happy.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_11:25:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962093": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yeah, Wright did the Side Show Bob egopalooza extravaganza today. Tony Harris could barely look into the camera after the session ended. Roland Martin and David Gergin were so serious, like cancer surgeons. The prognosis:We aren't sure he's going to make it.We'll have to wait and see. This could be the death knell...Hillary's ticket to ride (her broom back to the white house). Wright justified it by saying that it wasn't about him, but he is defending the Black church. He got this one very wrong.It really was about him and the church isn't going to be effected one way or the other. Like I already said, he didn't have enough LOVE for Obama....What next? Jerry Springer?<br></br><br>\"Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy;love does not parade itself, is not puffed up;Does not behave rudely, does not seek it's own, is not provoked, thinks no evil.Does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in truth;Bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails.\"</br><br></br><br>Why are we so ego driven? There are other groups who do their own thing and work on their own self-determination without a bunch of bruhaha or bombast or how yuh like me now?!? Wright can add his name to a long list of egotistical preachers. So sad.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_11:27:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "889c732285beb0fc252d78b61edaa231", "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}, "1962094": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"To hear that TUCC is under investigation by the FBI in order to bring down Black political leaders is interesting and believable.\"<br></br><br>THEY WERE at some point in the past. My friend was telling me that. You know how the FBI for the last few decades have been obbsessed with any black organization that helps the community as much as TUCC. They hate strong black leaders.</br><br></br><br>Anywayz, I think that the media feels stupid and is upset. I think that the American people will have a different outlook, unless they are the gulliable ones for media propaganda. They are going through it with a fine tooth comb which allows me to conclude that they dont have much. He definitely is coming off as more personable now which helps ease people's \"fears\" of him.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_11:31:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "6b8623e8e850161265a6267d83471b3d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962095": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Slander?<br></br><br>He spoke his mind, be stands by what he says and if others take issue with his opinions, it's slander? </br><br></br><br>Context or no context, his thoughts and opinions are controversial. </br><br></br><br>His words run contrary to Obama's central campaign themes of unity and hope.</br><br></br><br>Wright is making himself a issue in this campaign:</br><br></br><br>\"While Obama remains in an embrace with Rev. Wright, top Obama adviser David Axelrod was on MSNBC this morning doing plenty of distancing from the reverend's tour.  \"We don't have any control over Rev. Wright,\" Axelrod said.  \"Rev. Wright speaks for Rev. Wright\u2026He's out there doing his own thing\u2026There's not a thing we can do about it.  It's a free country and he's exercising his right to speak.\"</br><br></br><br>Asked whether Wright's tour hurts Obama, Axelrod said, \"To the extent that people impute to Sen. Obama words that are not his, and sentiments that are not his, its obviously not helpful\u2026I have great faith in the American people in their fairness and in their ability to think this thing through for what it is.\"</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_11:37:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962096": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Tony Harris is a clown and he pretty much called black people stupid one day back in February for voting for Obama. <br></br><br>I did see Martin and Gergen's reactions. martin while I like him has said a lot of things recently that I do not agree with. He was telling Wright cancel with the NAACP and only talk to black media. </br><br></br><br>I know for a fact that Wright has a big personality so he isnt trying to put on any show. That is who he is. However I agree that he could have been more conservative at the Q&A; because some people obviously do not get his humor. As for the politican thing, he did say that if Obama got elected that he would come after him to as he does with any other politican. I think that Wright is not in love with politicans. I do not think that it is personal. However I think that he could have left it out. Nonetheless I dont think it will hurt the O-man. </br><br></br><br></br><br>:::Primary Fatigue::::Primary Fatigue::::</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_11:39:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "6b8623e8e850161265a6267d83471b3d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962097": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "We'll see.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_11:41:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9bf0971c139c9dc33659e8ed441e4f5e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962098": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>His words run contrary to Obama's central campaign themes of unity and hope.</i><br></br><br>I'm white, and I think Rev. Wright is ALL ABOUT unity and hope. I'm not even religious, but I would attend his church just to hear his sermons. He's a deeply impressive man.</br><br></br><br>As for the political angle? Screw it. This country got where it is by way of too many people being afraid to stand up for what they believe in and what's right.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_11:46:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f95c5ec0c48b18549cf9e70d092acd48", "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}, "1962099": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I think Obama needs to say that:<br></br><br>\"Wright has always been and will always be critical of government and all politicans which would includes myself. I believe that it is in no way personal\"</br><br></br><br>Moving on...</br><br></br><br>The more he shows angst and the more his campaign shows angst and avoidance, the more the media will flock because they are predators and they go where they smell blood.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_11:48:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "6b8623e8e850161265a6267d83471b3d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962100": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Most people I know are more interested in finding common ground with individuals that are 'different' from them. Finding ideas and values to which we can all relate to and agree upon.<br></br><br>While I respect Rev. Wright's freedom to speak and worship as he believes, I find very little in common with those opinions and beliefs. I have read his remarks, in and out of 'context' and I see very little distortion or misrepresentation.</br><br></br><br>I think the outrage on the part of his defenders is that they cannot understand why I do not see the 'truth' in what he says. They do not understand how I can take offense or disagree.</br><br></br><br>I can choose to make him relevant to my decision to vote for Obama or not. And as Obama had asked, I was willing to let it go and chalk up his divisive, angry words of those as a bitter, aging pastor from the 60s.</br><br></br><br>But he wants to turn the spotlight on himself at Obama's expense and it is making me ill.</br><br></br><br>Obama should have cut this man loose long ago. He will only cost Obama votes.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_11:50:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962101": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm white, and I think Rev. Wright is ALL ABOUT unity and hope.<br>_____________________________________</br><br></br><br>Huh? Care to explain.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_11:52:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962102": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I wouldn't have to explain if you'd actually read the man's own words.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_11:53:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f95c5ec0c48b18549cf9e70d092acd48", "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}, "1962103": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "cop out steve.<br>____________________________________</br><br></br><br>Jeremiah Wright May Have Just Sunk Obama's Campaign</br><br></br><br>The Obama campaign is off the rails.</br><br></br><br>The entire tone of the race changed the moment we saw the first fiery Wright sermon. The sight of those sermons triggered a question in a lot of voters' minds: How do you get the moderate-sounding, pleasant, agreeable student Barack Obama from an angry, divisive, radical, way-out-of-the-mainstream teacher like Jeremiah Wright? The sermons weren't quite a deal-breaker, but many Obama supporters, leaners, and undecideds were asking... how did Obama choose this man as a mentor? How could he possibly not know that his mentor had these attitudes? And does Obama agree with any of Wright's inflammatory statements?</br><br></br><br>In response, Obama gave a very eloquent speech about race relations in America. But it never quite answered the question, and in fact tried to blur the distinction between family we are born into and those we choose to turn to for guidance. Hillary jabbed at this in the debate, and Obama never quite had an appropriate response. He even said he disowned Wright, then backtracked and said he disowned his controversial statements.</br><br></br><br>And since then, it's gotten worse, even with a Bill Moyers interview that wasn't softball so much as it was Nerf Tee-Ball. We've heard Wright compare the Roman Legions who punished Jesus to the U.S. Marines, we've heard him argue that the U.S. and al-Qaeda are doing the same acts under different flags, etc.</br><br></br><br>Now we hear Wright analyzing the differences between white and black brains (!) and that the criticism of him for his comments was \"an attack on the black church.\" He didn't retract his assertion that the U.S. government created the AIDS virus. He didn't retract his accusation that the United States had committed terrorism. He raved about Louis Farrakhan.</br><br></br><br>And again, we're left with that question... presuming Obama strongly disagrees with all of Wright's statements in these areas... how did he end up selecting this pastor? This church? (I know we get the story in Obama's autobiography. But did Obama once agree with all of the crazy conspiracy theories? Does he still agree, late at night, when the microphones and television cameras are far away?)</br><br></br><br>Obama is saying he should be president, instead of two much more experienced rivals, because of his superior judgment. But what kind of judgment is needed to select Wright as a surrogate father figure?</br><br></br><br>More reaction:</br><br></br><br>Jake Tapper: \"He clearly was not doing Obama any favors, not only by reappearing before a ravenous media thus distracting from Obama's attempt to relate better to white working class voters in Indiana and North Carolina, but by implying Obama's condemnation of some of his sermons was not sincere.\"</br><br></br><br>David Brody: \"Jeremiah Wright did Barack Obama no favors. Pastor Wright\u2019s appearance at the National Press Club today started out as a great opportunity to explain the importance of the black Church experience. Instead it turned into a circus atmosphere and ensured that the Wright controversy is not going away and has the potential to single-handily take down Obama\u2019s campaign.\"</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_11:57:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962104": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Not that I really think you're sincere, but just in case you are, perhaps this will help you. It's far more eloquent than anything I could write.<br>http://chronicle.com/free/v54/i30/30b00101.htm</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_11:58:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f95c5ec0c48b18549cf9e70d092acd48", "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}, "1962105": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The entire tone of the race changed the moment we saw the first fiery Wright sermon. <br></br><br></br><br>....</br><br></br><br>You don't think the tone of the race changed BEFORE the 'wright' controversy when Governor Rendell said that whites in PA will never vote for a black man for president? Or when Geraldine Ferraro said Barack was only where he was because he was black?? That played and there was no outrage from the white community... .</br><br>So why are their words less divisive and radical than Rev. Wrights.. and how is it that THEIR words don't have as much or MORE impact than Wrights?</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_12:13:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "248baa30ad747303377d0c70eb900f8d", "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}, "1962107": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rhondacoca @ 8:22<br></br><br>\"Now, I feel that he has presented his case effectively and needs to fade into the background now so that the attention can be back on the candidates.\"</br><br></br><br>That's just it - he CAN'T fade into the background. He never will. The media (and most of white america) have already made up their mind about Wright. Right or wrong, it is what it is.  I listen to Fox News Talk in the AM, and that's ALL they've been talking about this morning. This is a problem - especially since Obama is not doing well with working class white voters.</br><br></br><br>Remember, all Hillary and McCain has to do at this point is plant the seeds of doubt into American voters by distracting them from the important issues.  You know, things  like \"he's a radical... he's elitist... he's not like you or I... radical preacher - judgement.... black guy... don't trust him with your white babies....\"  it just goes on and on.  And those seeds get watered and nurtured to the point everytime Wright makes an appearance or does it interview.  Most important, it keeps Obama from setting the tone of the primary and gives the power to Hillary and McCain.  </br><br></br><br>Wright really needs to do Obama a favor and go on 6 month sabatical.  Him defending himself is doing Obama no favors right now and is hurting more than helping</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_12:16:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "532d643127105c8a85230d3f5af05ead", "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}, "1962108": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Of course anonymous is sincere. I mean, for what other purpose would someone come to this blog, to namelessly state the same things over and over again? <br></br><br>Maybe to see if he/she can poison the well. So, he/she has motives, to either rattle Obama supporters or divide. </br><br></br><br>In that, anonymous is being very sincere.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_12:17:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "ae84a1f516965138dcc59937fe7a7ac1", "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}, "1962109": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I have mixed feelings about Wright speaking these past 3 days. Part of me supports him defending himself.  Give the MSM a big \"Kiss my ass! I'm gonna speak truth to power whether you like it or not!\". But the other part of me knows that his words, no matter how innocent and truthful they are, will be twisted and mangled by the MSM for their own agenda. In fact, it has already happened with Chris Matthews, Mica Byrinszky, Andrea Martin and Fox News  saying that he was making fun of former presidents or causing more division between blacks and whites, or (my favorite) insulting black children when he talks about how they learn differently. <br></br><br>Like it was pointed out upthread, we really need to learn how to be more savvy when it comes to fighting the Right Wing Media Monster.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_12:22:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "6a15e2f4a8734cebd4efee6381b0eb4f", "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}, "1962110": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "i just ? tonigth i will talk to the \"WILL&GRACE;\" kids about read life .uvrnoz", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_12:28:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962111": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Watched Wright this a.m. at the national press club.  Could somebody send this clown on an all-expenses paid vacation to some remote part of the world until after November.  Please.  Perhaps the Obama campaign can fund it.<br></br><br>Jesus H. Christ.  Shut the phuk up already, man!!!!!</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_13:04:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962112": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"...saying that he was making fun of former presidents or causing more division between blacks and whites or (my favorite) insulting black children when he talks about how they learn differently\"<br></br><br>Wow. if they interpreted the speech like that last night then I do not know. I was not offended. They obviously do not understand certain concepts. Bunch of simpletons is who is in the media. These are the people who are getting out to the public. Whatever. May the chips fall where they may.</br><br></br><br>I think that Obama's campaign overall can be more pro-active than re-active. If they felt that he was going to say anything that can be used a \"fodder\" then they should have contacted him and spoken to him, if they haven't.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_13:22:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "6b8623e8e850161265a6267d83471b3d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962113": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "People are now claiming that Wright knows Obama believes as he believes. That he practically said so. This is how it will all get twisted and how it will ultimately be a bigger hurdle for Obama to overcome than it was before.<br></br><br>I can't help but think Wright is upset that Obama said he was stuck in a time warp. That he was wrongheaded and divisive. </br><br></br><br>He made a point of saying that he is descriptive, not divisive. </br><br></br><br>In essence, Obama critiqued him publicly and he doesn't appear to like it.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_13:22:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9bf0971c139c9dc33659e8ed441e4f5e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962114": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Jonathan Capehart is pure scum.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_13:26:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9bf0971c139c9dc33659e8ed441e4f5e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962115": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I said a year ago, and I'll say it again today I strongly believe that Reverend Wright is trying to sabotage Senator Obama.  His interview with the NY Times in the wake of the Obama Campaign not allowing him stage time at the official announcement was petulant, vindictive and self-serving.  There are relly no words for his performance today,and that's what it was--a performance.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_13:27:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "c60cf267cb7a0392bdb4a893a5ee5c7c", "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}, "1962116": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "nmp-<br></br><br>I hear you to a point. The Moyers interview was good, the speech at the NAACP was good, the speech today was good but the Q&A; was not good. If that part was left out then it would be fine. He has alright to defend the black church tradition, his church and himself. The media has created a certain caricature of him and his church. They are not going to change it. They will find anything to continue to paint him that way. Therefore, he should not have done the National Press Club because they were looking for 'soundbites' from his Q&A.; They probably did not even (they did not) pick up what he was saying in either of his two speeches. </br><br></br><br></br><br>Obama played it wrong. He was running away hoping that it didn't come up. He came to bite him...hard. When he disinvited his pastor, it began to make people whisper. You cannot act like you are hiding something or someone. He tried to avoid race and anything slightly racial but obviously it is the big elephant in the room. As I said, Obama and his campaign continue to be re-active rather than pro-active.</br><br></br><br>Does Obama or his campaign have any communication with Wright?</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_13:46:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "6b8623e8e850161265a6267d83471b3d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962117": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Friends, you know, I feel what some of you all are saying....but I think Obama is a legitimate presidential candidate, and I honestly and sincerely think he would be better for the country than McSame or HillBilly, which is why I want him to be president. We live in a racist country (hello?) that will use race as an excuse to not give him a chance to try to do something different with the country. There are those who are so blinded by their racism that they are willing the SCREW the whole country, though they obviously don't see it that way. There is a time and a place for everything. What I'm saying that this is not the right time for Wright's commentary or self-defense tour with respect to Obama's campaign. If he speaks the truth at a later date, does that make it less of the truth? So to me, Wright's willingness to SCREW and derail Obama's campaign, if he believes in it, makes him no better than the racists. Both are motivated by what's best for them and not what's best for the nation. It hurts more coming from family than from the racist. To me, his actions don't look very spiritual or christian or even liberation oriented, because a blind person can see that he's letting himself be used as a tool of the enemy! Will we still have the audacity to hope after the pit bull MSM shakes this issue like a chicken? Keep hope alive.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_13:46:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "889c732285beb0fc252d78b61edaa231", "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}, "1962118": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Wright actually made it very clear that he and Obama are anything but joined at the hip.<br>While I personally would prefer a world where an Obama could be as blunt as a Wright and still be successful, in the world we actually live in the additional distance between the two is hardly a negative for Obama. People need to get a bit clearer about what they're so worried about. You can't simultaneously hold that being \"linked\" to Wright hurts Obama AND that Wright's \"attack\" on Obama hurts Obama. Which is it?</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_13:54:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f95c5ec0c48b18549cf9e70d092acd48", "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}, "1962119": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i> I said a year ago, and I'll say it again today I strongly believe that Reverend Wright is trying to sabotage Senator Obama. </i><br></br><br>::</br><br></br><br>Agreed.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_13:54:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9bf0971c139c9dc33659e8ed441e4f5e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962120": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "So, Wright says he's going to \"go after\" Obama if he's elected...seems like he's going after him right now.<br></br><br>I wonder if he has any plans on going after Hillary, Bill and McCain.  It is unfair to go after Obama in this way.  Why would Wright and others in the so-called black leadership hold Barack to impossible standards?</br><br></br><br>I recall something I saw one season of the American Idol auditions.  There was a young black woman who came to the second round of auditions with several members of her family.  Apparently the mother loved a particular song and wanted the daughter to sing it.  It was clear that this young woman was not feeling that particular song, but felt pressured somehow to be obedient and 'represent' her family's wishes.  I could see there was some fear in following her own instinct in case she would fail for being disobedient.  Anyway, she sang the song and got poor reviews and was cut from the audition.  Her mom came onto the stage and talked to the judges, but it was too late.</br><br></br><br>This makes me think of what's happening now with Barack and the black \"leadership\".  Blacks have a very authoritarian upbringing informed by religion.  We are taught to obey our elders without question.  </br><br></br><br>I see Barack as struggling to sing his own song against the impossible pressure of the hopes and dreams of the entire black community.  Many of us understand this instinctively and release him to do what he needs to do...but some in the black \"leadership\" seek to burden him with petty things.</br><br></br><br>The most insulting part of this is the assertion that they're doing it out of love.  They say they're holding Barack \"accountable\"..doing him a favour.  Then they say they're defending the black church.  The truth is that people like Smiley and Wright and West are competing jealously.  Not the green-eyed-monster kind of jealousy..but the stifling, possesive, authoritarian, \"ownership\" kind of jealousy.</br><br></br><br>Is this what will happen whenever any black person dares to win the office of President?</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_13:56:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0e63fda3bc8752465623f674ffcc5f40", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962121": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "They are forcing Obama to choose...and it's not fair.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_14:00:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0e63fda3bc8752465623f674ffcc5f40", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962122": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Teacher-<br></br><br>I hear you to a point-</br><br></br><br>What you however don't seem to understand is that this is not going away. People have only heard and seen how the media has painted him. The Republicans are getting ready to run ads, the media mentions it all of the time...its was not just going to go away.</br><br></br><br>It was good that he came out to defend the black church tradition, his church and himself. However we could have all done without the Q&A.;</br><br></br><br>Also I would like to remind you guys that he is a prominent minister who often has speaking engagements and he is always being awarded somewhere. What has happened now is that he has heightened media scrutiny and anything he says can potentially screw Obama. That is the problem. He has a life that does not include Obama and he has been well respected before Obama!!!!!!!!!</br><br></br><br>Where I believe he went wrong was in the Q&A.; He needs to not allow anymore cameras where he goes.</br><br></br><br>P.S.</br><br></br><br>Wright is very candid. That is his personality. My friend knows TUCC and she has already told me that. This doesn't work when you are dealing with a mainstream media who has bad intentions. He should not have done the National Press Club. However I do not think that he is trying to sabotage Obama. </br><br></br><br></br><br>P.S.S. A few New Yorkers aren't too happy with the O-man because he said that we have to \"respect the verdict\"...\"we are a country of laws\" (Sean Bell). I have tried to clarify with them what he was saying but they didnt want to hear it. </br><br></br><br>I do understand how hard it is for Obama.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_14:03:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "6b8623e8e850161265a6267d83471b3d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962123": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Why shouldn't Obama choose?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_14:04:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "4eab3ed2a24a5f320e8b466ca7e64c98", "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}, "1962124": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "OMG!!! You people are too much. Truthseeker, He was stating that he is also going to go after Obama because he is hard on all POLITICANS and GOVERNMENT. <br></br><br>I'm reading this thread and I think that people are missing understanding him.</br><br></br><br>I am an Obama supporter but this whole nobody dare look at Obama or we are all going to blow up mentality cannot work.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_14:06:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f8196abc4eed1f09b28cc223bd497673", "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}, "1962125": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Jealous!!!<br></br><br>Truthseeker, I agree that Smiley was being a hater but please stop. This doesnt help anything.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_14:09:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f8196abc4eed1f09b28cc223bd497673", "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}, "1962126": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The media is the one obsessed with Rev Wright, not the people.  Most people are worried about rising gas prices, losing their job, the war in Iraq, etc.  The media is largely to blame for making this a big story.<br></br><br>The media loves to make everything a soap opera; well, if we let them do that, we get the type of govt that is a soap opera.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_14:12:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962127": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Where I believe he went wrong was in the Q&A.; He needs to not allow anymore cameras where he goes.<br></br><br>::</br><br></br><br>But this is precisely the problem. Wright said he is not a politician. Then why answer the questions from a press corps that crucified him?</br><br></br><br>It makes no sense on its face unless he's got something else in mind.</br><br></br><br>As you said, just giving speeches and educating listeners about the history of the Black Church and the tradition of the prophetic social gospel is perfectly fine.</br><br></br><br>But he also said he wasn't there to answer questions about the political process. Notice that the only answers he offered about politicians were answers asked about Obama. Questions about the Hillary Rodham Nixon and her husband's race-baiting tactics weren't justified with a response.</br><br></br><br>Now, I'll take it all the way <i>there</i>:</br><br></br><br>Lest we forget, Wright had enough of a relationship with President Clinton to accept his invite to the Whitehouse years ago. </br><br></br><br>No preacher is an angel. I've certainly never met one who is. Doesn't mean they aren't good people who do good things with their ministries. But preachers can be just as corrupted by power and money as politicians can. </br><br></br><br>So, the million dollar question: Is Wright being put up to this?</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_14:26:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9bf0971c139c9dc33659e8ed441e4f5e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962128": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Melissa,<br></br><br>What is the point of him saying this?  I think he went too far.  I thought the speech was great and appropriate, as was the interview.  The question and answer was a recipe for disaster full of vacuous questions from \"stuck on stupids\" for an obviously intelligent and proud man.  So, if he is smarter, why did he subject himself to a trap?   I think he just couldn't help himself.  He is driven to compete and to be relevant.  There is little humility to be seen there and he stumbled on the HIV conspiracy question.</br><br></br><br>I like him, and I don't like him.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_14:33:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0e63fda3bc8752465623f674ffcc5f40", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962129": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "@ craig hickman<br></br><br>damn, you really did go there!  I don't know....the timing is so perfect for the other side.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_14:40:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0e63fda3bc8752465623f674ffcc5f40", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962130": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "It's not all about the media.  If you take off the Obama blinders you would see there are some legitimate questions being raised.<br></br><br>Obama made an effort to downplay his blackness from the beginning of the campaign.  He didn't want to be painted black or be made the black candidate. (That didn't stop him from expecting the black vote, but that's a another story).  </br><br></br><br>He had white people believing that had nothing in common with the likes of Rev Al and Brother Jesse.  He didn't attend the state of the black union.</br><br></br><br>He attempted to keep Rev Wright hidden, because he knew that there would be fall out.</br><br></br><br>The 20 year association could not be easily explained away.  There is no easy way out.  Any reasonable person would think, If he didn't agree with him, why stay in the church?  why make him a mentor?  Is this an example of his judgement?</br><br></br><br>As a black person I have additional questions.  The way I see it,  Obama pursued a relationship with Wright to gain street cred in Chicago.  Now he doesn't need him anymore or the association is an embarrassment he is backing away-and will eventually disavow him in a effort to win the nomination and presidency.  Will he do this if he makes it to the White House?</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_14:40:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "4eab3ed2a24a5f320e8b466ca7e64c98", "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}, "1962131": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "wright is seems authentic to me- if people are so concerned about the general election why don't we get the democratic national committee to start advertising for democrats against Bush and any followers of Bush policies? this onesided focus on individuals is problematic. petition the dnc- start the campaign- delineate our differences- expose the lies- again and again and then even if we get stuck with Hillary there will already be pressure on her not to totally cave.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_14:40:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "6c9d6dcdfdfc1850c653aae44bc1c312", "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}, "1962132": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Game over.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_14:42:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "2856a0a69d86b3cc32b0fa651ff33d01", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962133": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I knew it was only a matter of time before the Obamites found a way to link Wright to the Clintons or worse, Republican dark forces.<br></br><br>Why can't he just have his own opinions and act based on his own motivations?</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_14:45:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "4eab3ed2a24a5f320e8b466ca7e64c98", "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}, "1962134": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Repeat, game over. Barack and thus by extraction Axelrod, have been living in a bubble re: how TV newsrooms (such as they are) truly work, and what the average white schlub \"responds\" to. It is soap opera, and the good Rev. has delivered himself as the Adam Chandler of this campaign.Not necessarily a villian, but always there. Look, did they really think the Clintons were going to play fair...or the RNC and it's minions beyond that? Having a political philosophy of union and the future and hope is one thing, but you have to have the razor/lead shield/punch-counter punch personality, and everyday humor, to carry that. <br></br><br>Lest I say, here comes the \"L\" word...</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_14:53:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "2856a0a69d86b3cc32b0fa651ff33d01", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962135": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "@ tree<br></br><br>how do you downplay your blackness really?  I can only assume it's by not following the template of behaviour of previous black candidates.  But, what if Barack really doesn't believe the way they do.  Maybe he was really just being himself...singing his own song.</br><br></br><br>@ craig hickman</br><br>maybe the Clinton's are trying to regain the black vote...but that's just from one cynic to the other.</br><br></br><br></br><br>I am tired of people like Sharpton exploiting people like the Bell family for their own gain.  How is it beneficial for them to march.  Maybe I'm shortsighted, but I don't see the benefit.  There is no remedy for this family other than to grieve, then quietly sue for every dime they can get.  Then, if they want to change the law, they should testify before congress, form an advocacy group...but shutting down the city???  Who does that benefit?</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_14:54:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0e63fda3bc8752465623f674ffcc5f40", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962136": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Truthseeker and Craig:<br></br><br>You do not know my minister. He has said wonderful things about Obama. He even said last night that he supported him in saying \"Yes We Can\".</br><br></br><br>He answered the questions so that he can clarify what he was trying to say. </br><br></br><br>I was so hurt when my church came under attack. He and the congregation have alright to fight back at the media. </br><br></br><br>He repeated what he says a lot. The whole thing about Obama being a politican. Wright is a man who is critical about all politicans and government. I put my head down when he repeated it because I know that he is a very outspoken man but the media will use it. It sounded like it was not in Obama's favor.</br><br></br><br>I think people fail to undertstand that the man has a life outside of Barack. He is well-known. He has been invited to speak nationwide for years. He has a church of about 8,000. It took it from 80 to 8000. He has built ministries and helped the community. The media is digging and Barack supporters are jumping on anyone that passes close to Barack. Wow. </br><br></br><br>I support Barack 100% but he is not as progressive as he used to be before he hit the national stage.</br><br></br><br>P.S. RhondaCoca, you are right about the FBI. Who told you that? Our church has been outspoken when it comes to the government and world issues. Being a strong black church puts us in the spotlight like it has so many other black churches and organizations. It happened a while back. They for years have been successful in shuting people up.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_14:56:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f8196abc4eed1f09b28cc223bd497673", "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}, "1962137": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I may be totally alone in this thinking, but I actually think Rev. Wright being more public is good for Obama. Whatever people's impression or opinion of him, for good or ill, Rev. Wright becomes more his own person and less an appendage of Obama, which is how people unfamiliar with him prior to this see him. Now he's becoming his own person, in everyone's mind, who must be judged for himself.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_14:58:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "93f7d5482c73e626b3c1aa6eb2a6ed8f", "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}, "1962138": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "truth,<br></br><br>I don't even consider myself a cynic. If so, I wouldn't support Obama and I wouldn't be paying any attention to this election at all.</br><br></br><br>After the Q&A; today, I just don't trust Wright's motives entirely.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_15:02:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9bf0971c139c9dc33659e8ed441e4f5e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962139": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Melissa, you are right. I do not know your minister. But I still have a right to express my skepticism of his motives. And since I don't know him at all, my feelings aren't informed by any personal relationship I have with him.<br></br><br>I have doubt. That's all.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_15:10:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9bf0971c139c9dc33659e8ed441e4f5e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962140": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I must've missed something.<br></br><br>When did Wright make fun of Democratic presidents?</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_15:18:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9bf0971c139c9dc33659e8ed441e4f5e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962141": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Just because there aren\u2019t 30 second sound bites that we know of on Hillary\u2019s religious mentor, Doug Coe, doesn\u2019t give the media a pass on not investigating her religious connections or any religious connections of question that McCain might have.   <br></br><br>If people voting for Hillary truly understood what her theological leader and prayer groups believe in they might very well be more concerned about her as you will see in the following excerpt regarding Hillary\u2019s religious affiliations. (please make note of the irony of the use of the word \u201celite.\u201d </br><br></br><br>\u201cThe Family avoids the word Christian but worships Jesus, though not the Jesus who promised the earth to the \u201cmeek.\u201d  They believe that, in mass societies, it\u2019s only the elites who matter, the political leaders who can build God\u2019s \u201cdominion\u201d on earth.   Insofar as The Family has a consistent philosophy, it\u2019s all about power\u2014cultivating it, building it and networking it together into ever-stronger units, or \u201ccells.\u201d  We work with power where we can,\u201d Doug Coe has said, and \u201cbuild new power where we can\u2019t\u201d  </br><br></br><br>The above is from an article from the Nation \u201cHillary\u2019s Nasty Pastorate\u201d by Barbara Ehrenreich (<a href=\"http://www.thenation.com%29.%3C/br%3E%3Cbr%3E%3C/br%3E%3Cbr%3EFrankly\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.thenation.com).</br><br></br><br>Frankly</a>, I find it odd that the msm keeps saying the public knows Hillary but they don\u2019t Sen. Obama?   They keep asking why did he sit in that church for 20 years, blah, blah, blah.  Looks to me like the msm should be asking the same things of Hillary and looks to me like the public doesn't really know her either.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_15:27:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "3e892379e7d442c8970d7cad6f54d5b8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962142": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Wright's problem was not speaking out It was in how he managed it. He managed his PR tour extremely poorly. He should've given his Moyers interview and his NAACP speech and let that be for a few weeks. The networks--hoping to land an interview--would've been kind to him. Instead, he decided to appear on every show, including Glenn Beck. The result: he restarted the media shitfest.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_15:30:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "2a2201364786f612d9d33bb12f2de038", "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}, "1962143": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>Craig Hickman said... <br>I must've missed something.</br><br></br><br>When did Wright make fun of Democratic presidents?</br><br></br><br>Mon Apr 28, 12:18:00 PM 2008</br><br></br></i><br></br><br>He didn't make fun of democratic presidents. He pointed out that when Jack Kennedy and LBJ pronounced words with their distinctly regional inflection, they weren't criticized as less than or stupid or too dumb to learn English. </br><br></br><br>All he was saying is that blacks have been treated unfairly in part because there is an expectation in this country that white and european is the standard of measure. </br><br></br><br>Different is not deficient, it's just different. Good lord, it would be a better world if we could beat that into every head in this country.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_15:45:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7f306b3009c480dcd5fc7baf547d1b80", "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}, "1962144": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Craig Hickman, you are RIGHT ON!!! Something about this situation simply stinks, is a tangential point that I am also trying to make. No one is perfect and we all have contradictions, subconcious motivations, alterior motives, hypocricy inside us (thought it's easier to see it in other people).<br></br><br>Truthseeker, I really think you captured some of the underlying psychology operating in this saga. I agree with you, and I continue to say again, LOVE should have prompted Wright to wait until a more opportune time to speak his truth to power. And as a professed representative of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, who did not defend himself when being crucified, I think LOVE should have been the filter & the forethought, not the after thought.To me, love should have caused him to \"cover\" Obama, because when you love someone, that's what you do (love covers a multitide of sins).</br><br></br><br>Tree, I disagree with what you said about Obama trying to downplay his blackness. Obama didn't grow up in the hood. His lack of exposure to other Black people caused him to seek out a more Black experience. It caused him to embrace his African name and take a Black wife (unlike Tiger Woods). By the same token, the embracing of his Blackness hasn't stopped Wright from building a 10 mil. $ home in an all white gated community, but I digress. One might have to have the experience or know someone who had it, to understand. It is lonely and painful at times. He sought out upwardly mobile Black people like himself. He gave Wright the privilege of being the father that he never had, and showed his loyalty and seriousness by not dissavowing him when the media asked him to do so. He said, \"I can no more dissavow him than I can dissavow the Black community.\" And Wright responds with, \"I'm coming after him IF he becomes pres. because he will represent a gov. whose policies harm the poor.\" How about this option. Build yourself a 1 mill. $ home and give 9 (.2) million to the poor instead of threatening Obama. Put your $ where your mouth is or STFU. THE MAN'S EGO IS OUT OF CONTROL!!!!</br><br></br><br>How many Black people do you think are going to quit the Black church because of the Wright tape loop? The church needs no defense and is not on trial. He used it as an excuse to posture. My grandmother was a member of his church for 20 years as was my brother and some cousins. We had her Home Going celebration at his church. I own several of his study books and tapes, but honestly, if you speak truth to power and have not love, you don't sound like anything to me.</br><br></br><br>Rhonda, I understand your perspective, and agree a little.Maybe it would not have gone totally away, but I still don't agree with Wright giving them additional foder because of his ego tripping. Tu intiende?</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_15:59:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "889c732285beb0fc252d78b61edaa231", "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}, "1962145": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thanks, belle. I forgot about that. But to hear the MSM tell it...<br></br><br>Angela, you are right and the reason why the MSM isn't questioning Hillary Rodham Nixon about The Family is because it's a right wing cult full of right wing Republicans.</br><br></br><br>All that talk about obliterating Iran comes right out of The Family.</br><br></br><br>So when I say that Mrs. Nixon would be happy to be McCain's runningmate, I'm not talking outta my behind.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_16:00:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9bf0971c139c9dc33659e8ed441e4f5e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962146": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>Repeat, game over. Barack and thus by extraction Axelrod, have been living in a bubble re: how TV newsrooms (such as they are) truly work, and what the average white schlub \"responds\" to. It is soap opera, and the good Rev. has delivered himself as the Adam Chandler of this campaign.Not necessarily a villian, but always there.</i><br></br><br>Don't forget Chris; where ever there's Adam Chandler, there's <i>Stuart</i> Chandler.  Not sure what I mean by that, but it sounded good. :)</br><br></br><br>I disagree that it's game over.  As you said, newsrooms are what they are.  And this issue--like \"Mission Accomplished\"; like Katrina; like the Downing Street Minutes; like Abu Ghraib--has a shelf life.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_16:06:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "25c2ebf4464c5d95fa227ddd4a0d2fe5", "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}, "1962147": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Adam and Stuart Chandler. How friggin funny.<br></br><br>On the other side:</br><br></br><br>Obama held it down in a NC town hall today.</br><br></br><br>And he also got another superdelegate from New Mexico.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_16:14:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9bf0971c139c9dc33659e8ed441e4f5e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962148": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "How do we know this isn't some kind of strategery on the part of the Obama campaign?  I think they put Wright out there to define himself, let the media froth over the mouth about it for a week and then they'll realize there's no there there and move on.  Better to get this crap out of the way before the General Election.<br></br><br>I think we Obama supporters underestimate him and his team. They're shrewd political gamers. The whole thing about trying to bankrupt HRC as rikyrah mentioned earlier is part of the Game. Obama's team is looking at the Big Picture which is why they've got the 50-state voter reg campaign and donating money to the DNC.  We gotta think long view. Barack will be fine.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_16:25:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f02f5f26f821ef591ff517c2f992ea78", "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}, "1962149": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Roland Martin is leaving a bad taste in my mouth.<br></br><br>http://essence.typepad.com/news/?xid=042808-EssenceNews-RolandReportHeadline</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_16:34:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962150": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "What a disaster. Wright at National Press Club today.  <br></br><br>One nugget of \"wisdom\" from the rev: \"Black brains\" are wired differently and work differently than \"white brains\".  </br><br></br><br>Un-f*cking-believable. </br><br></br><br>Sounds like something straight out of 19th century America or Nazi Germany.  </br><br></br><br>\"Taken out of context\" (again) I suppose.</br><br></br><br>There's no way in hell this guy isn't on the RNC or HRC payroll.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_16:57:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962151": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Michelle Bernard is beside herself. She cannot hide her pain. She is calling for Obama to absolutely separate himself from Rev. Wright.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_17:08:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9bf0971c139c9dc33659e8ed441e4f5e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962152": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>We gotta think long view. Barack will be fine.</i><br></br><br>I think this long, drawn out primary is getting the best of a lot of us.  Just by reading the posts here and on some of the other blogs it seems like everyone's nerves are frayed down to nothing and emotions are running as high as I've ever seen them.  That's not to say that there is no cause for concern, but taking a few deep breaths really wouldn't hurt at this point.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_17:32:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "d087c5d149453c1db87a76ee583d3b80", "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}, "1962153": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Chris Matthews on Hardball....Preachers Gone Wild!They are painting Wright to be a little loco. They have (a little)sympathy for Obama, but are calling for him to denounce Wright. They are really playing hardball. White people can be so control freaky.What would you do? <br></br><br>Ceedub, you are the voice of reason, fu sho! Sometimes the Obama campaign does seem dumb like a fox.They do seem to eek by and somehow come out ahead. They keep it on the DL. I'm down with that. Thanks.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_17:32:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "889c732285beb0fc252d78b61edaa231", "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}, "1962154": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "And people think I'm a conspiracy theorist. This is a comment from the article on WaPo that I linked earlier.<br></br><br><i>I have it on good authority that radicals within the powerful rightwing Jewish Lobby including [AIPAC] American Israel Public Affairs Committee are vexed, frustrated and displeased with Barack Obama's refusal to accept special interest money and consequentially seek his crucifixion. The concern is that the Senator's policy prevents them from exerting influence or extracting favor from his administration should he become the next President in these United States of America. In an effort to allay their fears, Senator Obama has offered his assurance that if elected, an Obama administration would not be a foe- yet this does not seem to halt their resistance to his candidacy. Reportedly, Senator Clinton's campaign saw an opening to exploit the Jewish community's apprehension and began stoking the anti-Obama fire behind the scene.</i></br><br></br><br>In collaboration with the Clintons, they [the Jewish Lobby] dispatched a number of \"candidacy assassinators\" including former Clinton special counsel, Lanny Davis, Florida congress woman, Debbie Wasserman-Shultz, California congress man, Brad Sherman, CNN news anchor, Wolf Blitzer [vis-a-vis Lou Dobbs], Independent Senator, Joseph Lieberman, the far right crippled Washington Post Journalist, Charles Krauthammer and others to torpedo Obama's nomination bid. The above mentioned Jews were mandated to fan the flames of hateful passion against the Illinois Senator using demagoguery and nefarious spin of the Reverend Wright issue to toxify the American voters. Their mission is to convince the public that Obama would be unelectable in November due to his optics and alleged third party association to Rev. Farrakhan. This while simultaneously promoting Hillary as the only friend of Israel. It is also reliably reported that Democratic Jews are being counseled to vote for John McCain as a penultimate option should Senator Clinton not get the nomination.</br><br></br><br>The rest of it gets really into the mire.</br><br></br><br>Here's the thing: the Jewish lobby has and will continue to be one of the most powerful lobbies in US government.</br><br></br><br>If Obama refuses contributions from lobbyists...</br><br></br><br>A lot to ponder here. A lot to ponder.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_17:45:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9bf0971c139c9dc33659e8ed441e4f5e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962155": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hillary Rodham Nixon is in a \"no comment\" holding pattern about all of this. Just as she was the last time Wright became an issue. Funny that when Wright didn't doom Obama the first time around, she finally came out and spoke on the matter, trying to turn the knife before the PA primary. <br></br><br>She must feel believe that this time Obama is carrion for the picking.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_17:56:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9bf0971c139c9dc33659e8ed441e4f5e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962156": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Craig they are discussing this very issue on Race for the White House as I write these words. The (conspiracy) theory you just offered is juicy and gives me an appreciation for my anonymous and small life. What would Wright's price be to collude with a group who wanted to destroy his \"son's\" career? Could he really collude with an identified enemy and oppressor of Palestine, God's other chosen people? I may as well save my brain cells for something I can actually figure out.<br></br><br>HillBilly wants to do it with him on the back of a flatbed truck as she sings oblit oblit oblit--obliterate Iran....</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_18:19:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "889c732285beb0fc252d78b61edaa231", "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}, "1962157": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Here is the dirt.  The mainstream media allowed our elected officials to lie to us, i.e. Pentagaon Propaganda Pundits, Armstrong Williams and other pundits, Jessica Lynch, WMD in Iraq, Nukes from Niger, Pat Tillman, Katrina, etc.  Whenever someone dares speak truth to power they are labeled \"loco\" or \"traitors\" or \"anti American\" by the same media that lied to us.  The media believes that truth must be renounced and denounced.<br>Wright is right, this is an attack on the black church and also an attack on black people.</br><br></br><br>The corporate media can kiss my Ebony Donkey.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_18:35:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962158": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Wright is right.<br></br><br>But he's also so very wrong.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_18:47:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9bf0971c139c9dc33659e8ed441e4f5e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962159": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Noose found at Secret Service facility; agent put on leave<br></br><br></br><br>By REBECCA CARR</br><br>The Atlanta Journal-Constitution</br><br></br><br>Published on: 04/28/08</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_19:15:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fcb7c771a7713dda01aa936fd426bfe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962160": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The noose story is another part of the perfect storm.<br></br><br>That paper is in the North Carolina print media market.</br><br></br><br>Do you see what's going on, ms.martin?</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_19:25:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9bf0971c139c9dc33659e8ed441e4f5e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962161": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Craig Hickman<br></br><br>I do and I've seen all along and I understood what SBO would be confronted with when it became clear that he could be America's president.</br><br></br><br>The MSM could not draw Obama out (in a reactionary manner)nor manage public opinion to his detriment by using Wright as a campaign issue so they drew out Wright who has every right to to defend himself;it's unfortunate for Obama that he went beyond defending himself to fighting back, but that's his right as well.</br><br></br><br>It is incumbent upon us to be able to separate things that really matter.</br><br></br><br></br><br>Chris Matthews is getting on my fing nerves.  He thinks he smells blood so he's trying to be forceful and he looks stupid.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_19:44:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fcb7c771a7713dda01aa936fd426bfe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962162": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "If Black voters can be convinced that their votes will be wasted....<br></br><br>The noose story is far too obvious to be anything other than a plot point.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_19:49:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9bf0971c139c9dc33659e8ed441e4f5e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962163": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "For celebrities there's no such thing as bad press.  I really hope that applies to politicians, too.  Obama's not having a good day.  The NC governor endorsed Clinton, the SUSA poll,which has been the most accurate poll this primary season, shows Obama down 9 points in IN, and now Wright won't go away.  <br></br><br>Obama's going to be in the news the next four days--and not for good reasons.  He needs to scramble his PR firm to help him get over this mess.  It would truly be ashame if he got this close and loses the nomination.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_19:49:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "6aa3ee71bc9714917dc34dde9e4e2b41", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962164": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Craig Hickman<br></br><br>After everything we've been through this election season, I really don't think black voters will give it a second thought.  The veil has been lifted and now we really see.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_19:53:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fcb7c771a7713dda01aa936fd426bfe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962165": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I agree with Melissa and ceedub.  Barack will be fine!  I believe<br>Pastor Wright is FULLY in Barack's</br><br>corner and not part of any conspiracy!  Everyone's nerves really are frayed.  We all knew what the MSM</br><br>would do.  They need to keep the drama going in order to maintain ratings!</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_19:53:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "c36c5e8bd4d56491f8a60b53ae8e9eb4", "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}, "1962166": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I never expected Obama to win Indiana. And I always thought Hillary Rodham Nixon could win North Carolina with a little help. If Jesse Helms Democrats could be reminded of why they voted for Jesse Helms and she got a big endorsement....<br></br><br>North Carolina could end up being what Virginia was <i>supposed</i> to be: a close race where Mrs. Nixon could squeak out a victory.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_19:53:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9bf0971c139c9dc33659e8ed441e4f5e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962167": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Chris Matthews just asked Axelrod if it was possible for Obama to continue campaigning without be angry.  WTF!!!!!!!!!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_20:00:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fcb7c771a7713dda01aa936fd426bfe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962168": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Obama Fatigue...Annoyance with Obama...I've heard it all today.  Pardon my french, but it dayum near feels like Peter denying Christ before the crucifixion up in here today and i'm disappointed not with Barack, but with some of you folks.<br></br><br>If you're so dayummed fatigued and annoyed, can you imagine how Barack Obama must feel after what is probably the longest \"primary\" campaign in modern american history...get over yourselves okay. </br><br></br><br>You'll hear me say a lot of things on here, but you're not ever gonna hear me doubting Barack.  This is not the time to be discounting the brother's chances, this is the time WE SHOULD BE LIFTING HIM UP!  I'm encouraging everyone to \"check yourselves\" and watch your emotions...don't be so drawn into the \"bombast\" of the MSM, KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE PRIZE.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_20:19:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "61b38052cdae3077225c223eee4a5ad9", "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}, "1962169": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I have to say I'm really shocked by how big a deal this thing has become.  I'm white and my mother preaches in a UCC church which minus the african cultural focus is theologically very similar to Trinity.  Has the religious left become so discredited in this country?  The religious right can say any sort of batshit insane nonsense (blame katrina and 9/11 on sexual immorality, be rabidly anti-catholic/anti-muslim) they want, and nobody cares...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_20:22:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7f4b87e2aeac52991262e696d40be75f", "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}, "1962170": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Web<br></br><br>I'm not tired of Obama, I'm tired of the MSM and the way they're trying to shape public opinion.</br><br></br><br>I'm tired of this shit, I'm tired of being reminded that I'm black and that it it is supposed to be something negative.</br><br></br><br>I'm tired of all these racists who think I don't see them and the ones who don't care if I see them.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_20:24:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fcb7c771a7713dda01aa936fd426bfe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962171": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Me too ms.martin!<br></br><br>It's the stupid Media!</br><br></br><br>According to Cambell (Mrs. Jon Senor) Brown, Obama just can't connect with white working class voters. Obama nor Hillary can win without black voters.  The so called white working class voters are bigots.  They aren't going to vote for an uppity black man anyway.</br><br></br><br>The SCOTUS passed the Voter ID bill today, is the media talking about that?</br><br></br><br>John McCain is using his wifes company jet for the Straight Talk Express. Is the media talking about that?</br><br></br><br>50 shots, not guilty, is the media talking about that?</br><br></br><br>Gas is sky high is the media talkinb about that?</br><br></br><br>There is a looming food crisis, is the media talking about that?</br><br></br><br>4 more soldiers were killed in Iraq, is the media talking about that?</br><br></br><br>It's all Wright all the time, UNfair and UNbalanced.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_20:34:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962172": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thanks Webb.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_20:42:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "432619ba625f6a3e6b9013e9117e3759", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962173": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "webb, with all due respect, you don't get to tell us how we should feel or what we should be doing.<br></br><br>We're all different. Different, not deficient.</br><br></br><br>Allow us our angst, our pessimism, our doubt.</br><br></br><br>I've been labeled one of the sunny ones around here, and I'm quite disappointed in what I saw from Rev. Wright today.</br><br></br><br>I know ego when I see it. Ego and competition. Men will be men. And we don't know what has gone on behind the scenes between Obama and Wright. I'm not saying my concerns are right, but they are what they are and no rhetoric in the world is going to change them at this time.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_21:18:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9bf0971c139c9dc33659e8ed441e4f5e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962174": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Guys its the media. I was on campus today speaking to people. A lot of people actually like Wright now. One chick told me that he was really smart and entertaining. Everyone wants to know why the media is spinning it. Everyone wants the media to discuss the candidates and the issue at hand. The media is looking for whatever they can find and this will be over by the weekend if not before. It is already very tired. <br></br><br>I agree with some of the people in here telling you guys to calm your nerves. If Obama's campaign wanst derailed after the soundbites then this will not hurt him at all...at all. As for NC, there is a large AA voting block so even if Hillary closes the gap, she cannot win the state, in my opinion. I think that he has a chance in Indiana. I realized the media plays a game. Polls are so different from each other. I find that they show the lower polling on days when candidates are having \"bad days\";)</br><br></br><br>I am in the middle of a boycott of the media. I refuse to watch. I will tune back in the day of the Indiana and NC primaries. </br><br></br><br>Soledad O'Brien was on Michael Baisden and she agreed that the media was acting extra hype. Nobody thinks that this will hurt him. </br><br></br><br>So get up and shake off!!</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_21:18:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "6b8623e8e850161265a6267d83471b3d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962175": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ms Martin said:<br></br><br>\"I'm tired of all these racists who think I don't see them and the ones who don't care if I see them\".</br><br></br><br></br><br>EXACTLY RIGHT!!  </br><br></br><br>People I implore you to boycott MSM and Fox. Stop legitamizing and internalizing their garbage.  If they don't want to tell the news, go to alternate sources.  I don't need predominatly WHITE commentators and pundits criticizing a black pastor and his words on a daily basis anymore. Remember what they did to Michelle Obama?  </br><br></br><br>Primary fatigue has set in.  Thanks for letting me vent y'all.  :-)</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_21:24:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "66b46c7ea60fc982ec853b4f635c2718", "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}, "1962176": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>Has the religious left become so discredited in this country?</i><br></br><br>Only if WE cringe, instead of standing firm, when people like Jeremiah Wright speak truth to power.</br><br></br><br>And I'm glad he plans to keep on doing so after Obama is elected. EVERY politician needs grassroots pressure to keep him / her honest.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_21:32:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f95c5ec0c48b18549cf9e70d092acd48", "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}, "1962177": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That speaking truth to power had zero effect on Bill Clinton.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_21:42:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0e63fda3bc8752465623f674ffcc5f40", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962178": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That's because we liberal enablers made the historic mistake of supporting Bill's sorry ass. I've long since repented of that one. The world would be a much better place now if Gore had gone into the 200 election as the incumbent.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_21:45:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f95c5ec0c48b18549cf9e70d092acd48", "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}, "1962179": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "dear jack and jill, i have a headcold which might be affecting my thinking but...the media seems intent on destroying obama. since he has no sex or fiscal scandals they are doing this guilt by association mccarthy patriot racist shit. it is bull shit. if they suceed we will all look back on this moment with shame. that said rev wright is an asshole. he is singlehandedly messing up our future with his ego.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_21:58:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab03b08e2f2082ad84cf39c973e5bebb", "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}, "1962180": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I've had an epiphany:<br></br><br>They are gonna give this thing to Clinton. A lot of events but now with dean saying the Dels should decided sometime in June and that they should choose the person who is most \"electable\" than that lets me know that Hill has this thing locked up and they're just letting everyone vote so her numbers look a little better when they coronate her.</br><br></br><br>Hey, if I'm wrong, I'll gladly be wrong.</br><br></br><br>So lack folk what's the plan if and when this \"coronation\" goes down? U prepare to wreak (civilized) havoc?</br><br></br><br>Or do we take this one sitting down?</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_22:12:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "6bc62d82674bf5ad817187b1a79cd32b", "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}, "1962181": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Now it seems like the MSM is desperately  trying to pit Wright vs. Obama. Richard Wolffe, a reporter from Newsweek and regular on Countdown w/ Keith Olbermann, said that people in the Wright/Obama circles said that there has been tension brewing between Wright and Obama for a while. When Obama did a book signing for Audacity of Hope, Wright seemed annoyed that O was getting all of the attention. <br></br><br>~Sepia</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_22:14:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962182": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "JJ<br></br><br>If they GIVE this nomination to Clinton, I WILL NOT VOTE FOR HER - NEVER - I REPEAT - NEVER!</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_22:25:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fcb7c771a7713dda01aa936fd426bfe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962183": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Also, if give the DNC gives the nomination to HRC on the bs electability issue that they're trying to drum up in the media, the DNC will also just have told millions that it is okay to be racist, it's okay to think less of blacks and that it is okay to dangle us out as the undesirables; the image that you don't want as your leader.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_22:37:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fcb7c771a7713dda01aa936fd426bfe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962184": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "If Barack weren't the L-word, he'd have chuckled it off this way: \"I dunno...he was ok in church, but church is church and you know how many preachers get. But now he's gotten a little muy loco--what can I say folks? I mean, Jimmy Carter had Billy...George H.W. Bush had, well, his son...Ha! We all have something hanging off us that isn't always totally polished, so--pray for me, folks. Good night now.\"<br></br><br>Something utterly Reaganesque like that. Could have ended it.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_22:37:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "2856a0a69d86b3cc32b0fa651ff33d01", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962185": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>webb, with all due respect, you don't get to tell us how we should feel or what we should be doing.<br>...Allow us our angst, our pessimism, our doubt.</br></i><br></br><br>As if I could tell you what to do...I can only encourage you to have some courage and stop underestimating the man who is carrying the ultimate burden of this campaign, Barack Obama.  </br><br></br><br>My candidate remains the candidate of \"Hope and Optimism\" and not \"pessimism and doubt.\" </br><br></br><br>I encourage you to be more than a \"fairweather\" supporter and consider adopting the philosophy of Obama's campaign: BE HOPEFUL.</br><br></br><br>There are going to be tougher days ahead and I've watched enough AA commentators today fall all over themselves to belittle Wright...it saddens me that their gut instincts led them to join the chorus rather than singing the key tune: BARACK OBAMA IS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT,  JEREMIAH WRIGHT IS NOT.  That message was not propagated at all.</br><br></br><br>The only way that Barack Obama's candidacy can be derailed by Jeremiah Wright is if people lose hope.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_22:38:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "61b38052cdae3077225c223eee4a5ad9", "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}, "1962186": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "If the nomination is taken from him this time around, we need to start a new party. Especially if real democracy is taken from the Democratic party. <br></br><br>So many young people following Obama now...itching for REAL CHANGE.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_22:39:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "ee9a6fc0f1213e6b14e2765968e804e5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962187": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "SOMEBODY PLEASE TELL ME HOW YOU CAN BE A PRESIDENT FOR BLACK FOLKS ONLY - HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE IF IT WERE YOUR INTENT?<br></br><br>I just heard a pundit on CNN saying that Obama needed to convince white America that he would be a president for all the people.  WTF.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_22:44:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fcb7c771a7713dda01aa936fd426bfe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962188": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "i've just watched most of the evening news shows and the developing meme seems to be this:<br></br><br>wright is an egomaniac who could not be dissuaded from going on this little publicity tour, which tour is solely for the purpose of developing more material and marketing his upcoming book.</br><br></br><br>more: obama is not that close to wright, never has been. it appears that wright is envious of obama nd his rise into the public eye and so he is subconsciously trying to sabotage obama's candidacy.</br><br></br><br>and now this is me: i agree with 99% of what wright says. i don't know what his motivation could be. i had just assumed that it was guided by the wish to set the record straight and had nothing to do with obama. if it is ego, if it is envy, or whatever, that's motivating this public display, shame on him.</br><br></br><br>that being said, everyone makes mistakes. and though i'd hate to see it played out this way, the idea that obama has been sabotaged by his \"crazy preacher\" could be helpful for obama's campaign.</br><br></br><br>i <i>would</i> like to see obama directly address wright's remarks that obama's doing what he's doing because he's a politician. those aren't the proper words, but the implication is that obama is not who he says he is, does not believe what he is saying, is only doing and saying what he is because he wants to win and after that, he'll change. </br><br></br><br>i don't believe that. it would be a good point for obama to confront in this whole wright thing. then put it to rest.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_22:52:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7f306b3009c480dcd5fc7baf547d1b80", "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}, "1962189": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "jj & ms.martin,<br></br><br>That would be pretty ugly.  For party leadership to drag the primary through 50 states while Obama supporters do the heavy lifting of registration and phonebanking - let them build a strong grassroots framework for the party.  At the same time, Hillary divides and tears down any goodwill between races.  She skips states, saying they're not important.   Doesn't focus on registering or building the party.  Insults the activist base.  To give the nomination to Hillary who then benefits from the hard work of The O campaign and it's supporters....that would be madness!  </br><br></br><br>I think there would be a dramatic reversal within the Dem party.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_23:03:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0e63fda3bc8752465623f674ffcc5f40", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962190": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "bigassbelle<br></br><br>I remember thinking long ago that maybe there was some jealously and anger about the disinvitation to the announcement of Obama's presidency, but then I was distracted by the attack on the truth and Trinity and I forgot about all of that and went into defense mode.</br><br></br><br>I feel really bad for SBO.  He didn't won't to hurt Wright, but I'm afraid he has forced his hand.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_23:03:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fcb7c771a7713dda01aa936fd426bfe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962191": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Steve Labonne, Wright was speaking bull to shit. I hope he has someone in his life who can/will be honest with him and tell him he is in the wrong.The whole nation is mystified as to what happened. We all smell a huge, egomaniacle rat. I wish Obama would do what Hucabee suggested and go join a new church and introduce his new pastor. What about that Father Fleger?...I'm not sure about the spelling of his name, but he layed it down last week in a faux news interview.I would attend his church, and he really seemed like a sincere, godly man.<br></br><br>There is nothing wrong with a Black liberation theology per se, depending on if it leads one to love or hate or....To me, all paths need to lead to love. Doruba bin Wahad used to say, \"Power to the people. Black power to black people, white power to white people, red power to red people, brown power to brown people, yellow power to yellow people.\" I believe this with every cell in my body, and I think Obama thinks like I think. Thats why I really want him to be our president.I believe he is going to be President, and I'm going to keep hope alive!!!!</br><br></br><br>Andyfrombrooklyn, I also have a head cold, so I hope you get well soon.They are trying to destroy him, but I believe in his rightousness and I believe he will prevail. He might not want to, because I'm sure the state of the nation is faaaaaarrr worse than any of us can fanthom.Bush has raided the treasury and we probably can't afford anything.</br><br></br><br>McCain's wife is such a Stepford person. Lord, please don't let anymore crazy people win the presidency.</br><br></br><br>I'm watching Anderson Cooper, but I'm going to have to turn him off. I can tell.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_23:06:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "889c732285beb0fc252d78b61edaa231", "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}, "1962192": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Truthseeker<br></br><br>I hope you're right.  I don't want to think about how that would make me and millions feel.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_23:06:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fcb7c771a7713dda01aa936fd426bfe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962193": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Poor Soledad O'Brien, she's trying her hardest to keep this thing in perspective.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_23:09:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fcb7c771a7713dda01aa936fd426bfe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962194": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "bigassbelle: Exactly correct, one of the big takeaway MSM messages from all this hooha is going to be precisely to separate Obama much more clearly from Wright. That's why all the anguish over this is misplaced.<br></br><br>Meanwhile I will continue both to agree with about 90% of what Wright says and to be glad he's saying it. It's way past time for progressives to stand up and stop being intimidated. When we allow ourselves to be silenced, we've become part of the problem.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_23:16:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f95c5ec0c48b18549cf9e70d092acd48", "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}, "1962195": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I don't think Obama should address Wright's comments aboit being a politician. The MSM is looking for a Wright vs. Obama fight, and that would play directly into the their hands.<br></br><br>The best thing Obama could do is stay on message about what the voters want to hear. Challenge the media to cover issues that really matter instead of these sideshows. Truth be told, people don't care about Wright-gate. When O has town hall meetings with voters, people ask him questions about the economy, not Wright!</br><br></br><br>~ Sepia</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_23:21:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962196": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "-Obama may have bigger problems than Wright.<br></br><br>The Austin American-Statesman:</br><br></br><br>NOOSE ALLEGEDLY FOUND AT SECRET SERVICE TRAINING CENTER</br><br>By Rebecca Carr | Monday, April 28, 2008, 03:03 PM </br><br></br><br></br><br>The U.S. Secret Service has placed a white agent on leave after an African American employee reported finding a noose hanging at the service\u2019s main training facility outside the nation\u2019s capital.</br><br></br><br>The service has acknowledged \u201can allegation of misconduct\u201d at its J.J. Rowley Training Center in Beltsville, Md., and that an employee last week was placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of an investigation. The employee is a veteran agent with the service, according to fellow agents.</br><br></br><br>The noose was found by an African American officer in the uniform division of the service during the week of April 14, according to those familiar with the alleged incident. That division protects the White House and surrounding grounds. He reported the incident to his supervisor and it was sent up the chain of command. He declined to comment for this story.</br><br></br><br>After learning about the alleged incident, Cox Newspapers asked the Secret Service whether a noose had been discovered at the training center.</br><br></br><br>\u201cIn response to your question, there has been an allegation of misconduct at our training center,\u201d said Edwin M. Donovan, assistant special agent in charge of government and public affairs.</br><br></br><br>\u201cThe employee involved has been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation by our Office of Professional Responsibility, which serves as the agency\u2019s internal affairs office,\u201d Donovan wrote in an e-mail response. \u201cAt the conclusion of the investigation, additional information may be available.\u201d</br><br></br><br>The alleged incident happened as U.S. Magistrate Judge Deborah A. Robinson is expected to decide next month whether to sanction the service for failing to turn over evidence in a long-running lawsuit alleging that the service created a racially hostile atmosphere that tolerated discrimination.</br><br></br><br>The lawsuit, filed on behalf of Atlanta native Reginald G. Moore, alleges that the Secret Service routinely discriminates against black agents seeking promotion in favor of white agents who scored lower on promotional exams.</br><br></br><br>Nearly 60 black agents have submitted sworn statements to the court in support of the lawsuit\u2019s allegations.</br><br></br><br>Robinson has already sanctioned the service three times since the discovery process of the lawsuit began 3 1/2 years ago.</br><br></br><br>The service denies the allegations and is now appealing all of the sanctions.</br><br></br><br>The Office of Professional Responsibility, previously called the inspection division, figured prominently during the discovery process of the lawsuit.</br><br></br><br>Carrie Hunnicutt, an inspector in charge of searching for documents sought in the lawsuit, testified in February that she destroyed original evidence sought by the plaintiffs by placing documents in a \u201cburn bag\u201d just two days before she was scheduled to testify in the case.</br><br></br><br>Justice Department lawyers defending the service have said that the destroyed documents should not be considered lost evidence because Hunnicutt transferred information from the documents to a computer database.</br><br></br><br>But lawyers at Hogan & Hartson and Relman & Dane, two Washington law firms representing the plaintiffs for free, contested that assertion, arguing that no one will ever know if the database is complete because the original evidence was destroyed by Hunnicutt.</br><br></br><br>The allegation that a noose was discovered supports the essence of the discrimination alleged in the lawsuit, said Jennifer Klar, a lawyer at Relman & Dane.</br><br></br><br>\u201cWe are appalled but unfortunately not surprised that a noose was prominently displayed recently in a secret service training center,\u201d Klar said in an interview.</br><br></br><br>\u201cThis incident of racial hatred is troubling in an agency that has the important duty of protecting world leaders of all races, including our own leaders such as (presidential candidate) Barack Obama and (Secretary of State) Condoleezza Rice,\u201d Klar said.</br><br></br><br>\u201cThis racist incident is a reminder that long time discrimination in the secret service has created an atmosphere where such hateful acts occur all too regularly,\u201d Klar said.</br><br></br><br>\u201cIt is time for the Secret Service to put a stop to acts of racism by addressing and healing the racially charged environment that has been created over the years,\u201d Klar said.</br><br></br><br>The Secret Service has fought the lawsuit each step since it was filed eight years ago.</br><br></br><br>\u201cThe Secret Service is extremely proud of the accomplishments of our diverse work force and our record on diversity,\u201d said Eric Zahren, a spokesman for the service in an e-mail document defending the service from the accusations in the lawsuit.</br><br></br><br>\u201cThe Secret Service has not and will not tolerate discrimination of any kind,\u201d Zahern said. \u201cWe are extremely proud of the contributions of our diverse work force and we will continue to promote the most qualified people.\u201d</br><br></br><br>Moore, the lead plaintiff in the case who grew up in civil rights movement in Atlanta, was promoted after filing his lawsuit in 2000. </br><br></br><br>Moore is now in the service\u2019s senior executive service. He has said that he will keep fighting until the service\u2019s promotional system is permanently changed so that all agents of all colors have an equal chance at promotion.</br><br></br><br></br><br>http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/washington/secrecy/entries/2008/04/28/noose_allegedly_found_at_secre.html#comments</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_23:25:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "56f1b58fb6a26c86d03a37c2ea95329e", "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}, "1962197": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Admiral Komack<br></br><br>Please elaborate - your thoughts on how this is a bigger problem?</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_23:31:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fcb7c771a7713dda01aa936fd426bfe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962198": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Wright broke my heart today at the National Press Club. He was 'clowning'. I could literally hear my heart tear into pieces with every question, because he did it on purpose. He's an old Black Man - he knew how White folk would spin it. He had gone 2 days without providing soundbites; so today he clowned, stabbed Obama in the heart, and everyone else who had defended him, and threw Obama under the bus. I'm so mad STILL.<br></br><br> I wrote passionately about why Obama couldn't disown Wright, when this first went down. </br><br></br><br>As my Mama said tonight, ' He clowned for them White people on purpose - to hurt Barack'. Indeed he did, Mama, which is why Obama needs to divorce himself from Wright IMMEDIATELY. </br><br></br><br>After Wright's performance today, Black folk shouldn't come down on Obama anymore. They would have when this first shook out because those were soundbite snippets. </br><br></br><br>Today was a full-on 'shock' performance of the highest order. And since we saw that he can do better (Moyers and the NAACP Dinner), what conclusion could one come to, other than this was done ON PURPOSE TO HURT OBAMA. He displayed Crab-in-a-barrell to the nth degree, and I am hurt as hell.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_23:35:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f85f4de88a30987f0360c336da9569ae", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962199": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Implosion.<br>Unraveling.</br><br>Ugghhhhh...</br><br></br><br>Those are the words that come to mind.</br><br></br><br>Fear is that this gets worse before it gets (if it gets) better.  I don't see anyone or anything stopping The Rev. Wright Tour Across America.  It's all about him at this point.  How many more national conferences on this or that is he going to be invited to speak at?  He should be selling concert t-shirts.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_23:36:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962200": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "David Gergin played to \"crabs in the barrel card,\" and Faye Waddleton stabbed him in the back suggesting that Wright is filling in the blanks of what \"we\" don't know about Obama. It looks like she's fallen for Hillbilly's Jedi mind tricks. Poor Roland is trying to let everyone save as little face, but his face is clearly as upset as it was this morning.<br></br><br>Truthseeker, thank you for your astute and insightful analysis on why the DNC wouldn't just hand the nomination to Hillbilly. Your ideas are totally logical and infused with HOPE.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_23:37:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "889c732285beb0fc252d78b61edaa231", "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}, "1962201": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah<br></br><br>I know that was hard for you.  I've been waiting to hear what you had to say all day.</br><br></br><br>Don't feel like the lone ranger.  I've been fighting for Wright and thought he was doing okay until I heard the statements and saw the demeanor today.</br><br></br><br>He wanted to hurt Barack and what's really sad about it is that when white folks wanted him to turn on Wright he refused to it hurt him so he had to speak to the nation.</br><br></br><br>It was hard for me to admit to.  I felt like he betrayed me too!</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_23:47:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fcb7c771a7713dda01aa936fd426bfe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962202": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "teacher,<br></br><br>which CNN program were they on? I missed Campbell Brown, but I am recording Larry King and Anderson Cooper.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_23:52:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f85f4de88a30987f0360c336da9569ae", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962203": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Teacher,<br></br><br>Faye Wattleton is a HHH - period.</br><br></br><br>Hell, even Carol Simpson said it was Crabs-in-a-barrell tonight in the little I saw of Larry King.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_23:54:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f85f4de88a30987f0360c336da9569ae", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962204": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Teacher<br></br><br>I couldn't believe Waddleton said that.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-29_00:00:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fcb7c771a7713dda01aa936fd426bfe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962205": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I can't believe it.. you all are giving too much energy to the wrong things.  Rev. Wright is a problem, yes, BUT, research Hillary's pastor and she has problems too!!!!<br></br><br>You have material to point out the hypocrisy of Hillary's bizarre prayer group which believes in praying for the \"elites\" of the world which she is considered one of (they believe they are more important than us everyday joe and janes). Talk about the ultimate irony of being an elitist!!!!!!!!!!!  How sick is that and shouldn't Hillary's so called blue collar class voters know that she doesn't consider them as important as she is right from the get go...that they are only an instrument to her reaching her personal goals.</br><br></br><br>She will say or do anything!!</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-29_00:22:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "3e892379e7d442c8970d7cad6f54d5b8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962206": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Sorry...I am just very frustrated.<br></br><br>I truly believe, that complaining about the way the media treats the Rev.Wright issue doesn't accomplish anything.</br><br></br><br>A book about Hillary's chosen religious affiliation is supposed to come out in May.    I hope it comes out in early May so alot of us can read it.</br><br></br><br>In the meantime...educate yourselves on what is available via the Nation article and a Mother Jones article of 2007.</br><br></br><br>Please, don't just complain, activate and communicate with msm that you are aware of Hillary's questionable religious affiliations.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-29_00:28:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "3e892379e7d442c8970d7cad6f54d5b8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962207": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Rikyrah, please cheer up. I think Obama is going to use this as an opportunity to show us, once again, what he is made of. He seems to really excell in times of adversity. David Gerkin suggested that Obama needs to get angry and show some fire, because americans like fighters. I agree. I hope he will show fire in the belly. I hope he will show that he wants the presidency as much as we want it for him.<br></br><br>I saw Roland, Faye, David & Ed on anderson Cooper, who at 1st fooled me into thinking he was liberated.</br><br></br><br>Ms. Martin, I don't know what an hhh is, but I'm going to surmise that it's unfavorable.</br><br></br><br>I'm looking at Larry King now. Lanny whatshisname sucks.</br><br></br><br>Roland kept talking about people who were close to Wright begging him not to do what he did, but Wright wouldn't listen. If I was his wife I'd be icing him like syberia.  I like Eric M. Dyson, but sometimes you have to call a spade a spade. I don't get why his lovely wife, Marcia, supports Hillbilly. Weird. Good night.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-29_00:39:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "889c732285beb0fc252d78b61edaa231", "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}, "1962208": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Teacher<br></br><br>I don't know what HHH means either, that's rikyrah's comment.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-29_00:46:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fcb7c771a7713dda01aa936fd426bfe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962209": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "HHH=Handkerchief Head for Hillary", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-29_01:02:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f85f4de88a30987f0360c336da9569ae", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962210": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ha! I just figured it out...it has something to do with \"handkerchief head\"?<br></br><br>Roland and Eric looked really troubled; though, they still didn't want to throw away the Rev.  they just looked really sad.  </br><br></br><br>If indeed Wright's colleagues begged him not to go through with this to no avail; then Wright is on a search and destroy mission and cannot be reasoned with.  It strikes me that Wright is not only angry at Obama but at the whole black community.  He knows how much this nomination means to us.</br><br></br><br>There's a kind of mad dog quality to this that is similar to the Tavis episode.  Tavis was on the radio ranting uncontrollably about Barack.  These men can't seem to help themselves.</br><br></br><br>At first I was really angry, now I'm kinda sad.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-29_01:09:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0e63fda3bc8752465623f674ffcc5f40", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962211": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Can someone explain to me WHY Wright would do this to Obama?  There are so many reasons that I just can't grasp.<br></br><br>1)  He has a history with Obama.  Baptized his kids.  Married Barack and his wife.  And Obama placed him on his spiritual committee.</br><br></br><br>2)  For a pastor that seems to want to discuss race and the upwards mobility of black people, how is clowning around and popping up at different locations and, thus, hurting Barack's chances at the White House a positive for the upward mobility of black people?</br><br></br><br>3)  While I have no doubt that his many members are committed to Jesus, I'd have to believe that many of his black followers are also Obama supporters (afterall, he does carry 90+ percent of the black vote.)  </br><br></br><br>So again, even if Wright enjoys the spotlight and wants to promote his upcoming book, how does he figure this is GOOD for him, Barack, and the black race/church at large?</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-29_01:15:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "8b2db48fae75dbb2f63dde426d0cadc8", "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}, "1962212": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Did you actually see the different speeches?  I'm not even an Obama supporter and I didn't think Wright's speeches were that damaging.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-29_02:00:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962213": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "anonymous,<br></br><br>it wasn't the speech. it was the Q&A; afterwards.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-29_02:32:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f85f4de88a30987f0360c336da9569ae", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1962214": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I encourage you to be more than a \"fairweather\" supporter and consider adopting the philosophy of Obama's campaign: BE HOPEFUL.<br></br><br>::</br><br></br><br>webb, now you're making assumptions. If you think for a nanosecond that I wouldn't vote for Obama based upon what his pastor said and what the media is doing with the whole manufactured drama, then you are mistaken.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-29_12:04:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9bf0971c139c9dc33659e8ed441e4f5e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}}, "integration": {"receiver_url": "", "theme": 4, "reply_position": true, "disqus_logo": false}, "timer": {"timer_url": "http://localhost:8005", "thread_id": "2223204", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "21630", "hash": -9187846576739998764}, "thread": {"days_alive": 0, "slug": "jeremiah_wright_on_bill_moyers", "paginate": false, "num_pages": 1, "num_posts": 134, "per_page": 0, "total_posts": 0, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 2223204, "queued": false}, "reactions_limit": 10, "context": {"show_reply": true, "use_fb_connect": true, "forum_facebook_key": "bd6a8bc56f8eb204984f34b6fefe228d", "use_yahoo": false, "subscribed": false, "use_twitter_signin": true, "use_openid": false, "realtime_speed": 5000}, "reactions_start": 0, "settings": {"debug": false, "disqus_url": "http://disqus.com", "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"}, "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"};
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	this.YOU_ARE_COMMENTING_AS_A = "You are commenting as a";
	this.LOGIN_BELOW = "Login below";
	this.PLEASE_LOGIN_BELOW_TO_COMMENT = "Please login below to comment.";
	this.SUBSCRIBE_TO_ALL_COMMENTS_BY_EMAIL = "Subscribe to all comments by email";
	this.DO_NOT_SUBSCRIBE_TO_COMMENTS = "Do not subscribe to comments";
	this.REALTIME_UPDATING_IS = "Real-time updating is";
	this.ENABLED = "enabled";
	this.PAUSED = "paused";
	this.PAUSE = "Pause";
	this.RESUME = "Resume";
	this.SHOW = "Show";
	this.JUST_NOW = "Just now";
	this.REPLY = "Reply";
	this.EDIT = "Edit";
	this.FLAG = "Flag";
	this.MODERATE = "Moderate";
	this.CANCEL = "Cancel";
	this.REPLYING_TO = "Replying to";
	this.REPORT_MISSING_REACTIONS = "Report missing reactions";
	this.POST_A_COMMENT = "Post a comment";
	this.FLAG_INAPPROPRIATE_COMMENT = "Flag inappropriate comment";
	this.FLAGGED = "Flagged";
	this.NO = "No";
	this.YES = "Yes";
	this.NEVER_MIND = "Never mind";
	this.ARE_YOU_SURE_YOU_WOULD_LIKE_TO_REPORT_THIS_COMMENT_TO_A_MODERATOR = "Are you sure you would like to report this comment to a moderator";
	this.THIS_WILL_FLAG_COMMENTS_FOR_MODERATORS_TO_TAKE_ACTION = "This will flag comments for moderators to take action";
	this.TO_RATE_PLEASE_LOG_IN = "To rate, please log in";
	this.JUST_A_MOMENT = "Just a moment...";
	this.GUEST = "Guest";
	this.NAME = "Name";
	this.EMAIL = "Email";
  this.WEBSITE = "Website";
  this.SETTINGS = "Settings";
  this.MODERATOR_OPTIONS = "Moderator options: ";
};
// Dsq.Strings

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

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

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

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

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

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

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





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



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

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

	this._lastHash = null;

	this._accumMsg = '';

	this._lastSeqno = 0;

	this.MAX_DATA_LEN	= 1024;

	this.WAIT_TIME		= 10;

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

};

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

FragmentPacket.prototype.log = function(msg) {



};

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

		hash = this.reader.name;
	} else {

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

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

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

		this._lastSeqno = seqno;

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

				this._accumMsg = '';

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

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

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

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

};

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

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

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

	if (packetNum === 0) {

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

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

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

	if (num_packets === packetNum) {

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

	this._lastSeqno++;

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

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

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

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

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

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


	this.receiverId = receiverId;
};

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

	var listener = function(e) {

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


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

		that.receiveCallback(data);
	};

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

PostMessagePacket.prototype.send = function(msg) {



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


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

	var packet;
	if (!msg) {

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

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

var JsonRpc = function() {

	this.ids = {};

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

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

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

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

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

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

				json = 'null';
				break;
		}

		return json;
	};

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		send_func(this.objectToJSON(request));

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

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


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



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


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


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

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

	this.packetHandler = null;


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


	var _createReceiverForFragmentPacket = function() {

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

			that._ready = true;
		};

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

		that.receiver.onload = receiver_onload;







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

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

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

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


	var _createReceiverForPostMessage = function() {

		var receiver_onload = function() {

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

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


		ParentMessenger['_receiver_onload_' + receiverId] = receiver_onload;

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

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

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

};

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	var sendFunc = function(msg) {

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


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


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

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

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

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

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

		if (msg.username) {

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	this.url = Dsq.Urls.REPLY +
		'?' + (new Date()).getTime() +
		'&f=jackandjillpolitics' +
		'&t=jeremiah_wright_on_bill_moyers' +
		'&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/jeremiah_wright_on_bill_moyers/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='	+ 'jeremiah_wright_on_bill_moyers'
			+ '&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/jeremiah_wright_on_bill_moyers/reply.html';
	this.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE = '/AnonymousUser/';
	this.REQUEST_USER_AVATAR = 'http://media.disqus.com/images/noavatar92.png';
};
// Dsq.Urls

/**
 * Dsq.Validators: Validation for form fields
 */
Dsq.Validators = new function() {
	this.VALID_EMAIL_RE = /^[a-z0-9\-\_\+]+(\.[a-z0-9\-\_\+]+)*\@(([a-z0-9\-\_\+]+(\.[a-z0-9\-\_\+]+)*)+\.[a-z]{2,}|([0-9]+\.){3}[0-9]+)$/i;
	this.name = function(name) {
		var error = false;

		if(typeof Dsq.Templates.placeholder !== 'undefined' &&
		   name == Dsq.Templates.placeholder.name) {
			error = true;
		}
		if(name.length <= 1) {
			error = true;
		}

		if(error) {
			return "Please enter a name to comment.";
		} else {
			return true;
		}
	};
	this.email = function(addr) {
		if(Dsq.Validators.VALID_EMAIL_RE.test(addr)) {
			return true;
		} else {
			return "Please enter a valid email to comment.";
		}
	};
	this.url = function(addr) {
		if(!addr || addr.indexOf('.') != -1) {
			return true;
		} else {
			return "Please check your website URL (this field is optional).";
		}
	};

	this.validate = function(bulk_validation, failure_callback) {
		failure_callback = failure_callback || function(e){ alert(e); };

		for(var i = 0; i < bulk_validation.length; i++) {
			v = bulk_validation[i];
			ret = v.validator(v.value);
			if(ret !== true) {
				failure_callback(ret);
				return false;
			}
		}
		return true;
	};
};

/**
 * Dsq.Utils: Generic utility functions.
 */
Dsq.Utils = new function() {
	this.ie = /msie/i.test(navigator.userAgent) && !/opera/i.test(navigator.userAgent);
	this.ie7 = (document.all && !window.opera && window.XMLHttpRequest) ? true : false;
	this.ie6 = (!window.XMLHttpRequest) ? true: false;
	this.webkit = navigator.userAgent.indexOf('AppleWebKit/') >= 0;
	this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache = {};
	this._styleSheet = null;

	this.gebiFromElement = function(el, id, tag) {
		// This only method only helps IE.
		if(!this.ie) {
			return Dsq.$(id);
		} else {
			var cacheKey = el.id + '-' + tag;
			tag = tag || 'div';
			if(typeof this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache[cacheKey] != 'undefined') {
				collection = this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache[cacheKey];
			} else {
				collection = el.getElementsByTagName(tag);
				this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache[cacheKey] = collection;
			}

			for(var i = 0; i < collection.length; i++) {
				if(collection[i].id == id) {
					return collection[i];
				}
			}
			return null;
		}
	};

	this.execOnReady = function(func) {
		var node = document.createElement('document:ready');
		try {
			node.doScroll('left');
			func();
			node = null;
		} catch(err) {
			setTimeout(function() { Dsq.Utils.execOnReady(func); }, 10);
		}
	};


	// Courtesy of http://www.quirksmode.org/js/cookies.html
	this.createCookie = function(name,value,days) {
		if (days) {
			var date = new Date();
			date.setTime(date.getTime()+(days*24*60*60*1000));
			var expires = "; expires="+date.toGMTString();
		}
		else var expires = "";
		document.cookie = name+"="+value+expires+"; path=/";
	};

	this.readCookie = function(name) {
		var nameEQ = name + "=";
		var ca = document.cookie.split(';');
		for(var i=0;i < ca.length;i++) {
			var c = ca[i];
			while (c.charAt(0)==' ') c = c.substring(1,c.length);
			if (c.indexOf(nameEQ) == 0) return c.substring(nameEQ.length,c.length);
		}
		return null;
	};

	this.eraseCookie = function(name) {
		Dsq.Utils.createCookie(name,"",-1);
	};

	this.deleteNode = function(node) {
		if(node) {
			this.deleteChildren(node);
			if(typeof node.outerHTML != 'undefined') { node.outerHTML = ''; }
			else if(node.parentNode) { node.parentNode.removeChild(node); }
			delete node;
		}
	};

	this.deleteChildren = function(node) {
		if(node) {
			for(var x = node.childNodes.length-1; x >= 0; x--) {
				var childNode = node.childNodes[x];
				if(childNode.hasChildNodes()) { this.deleteChildren(childNode); }
				if(typeof childNode.outerHTML != 'undefined') { childNode.outerHTML = ''; }
				else node.removeChild(childNode);
				delete childNode;
			}
		}
	};

	this.findPos = function(obj) {
		var curleft = 0;
		var curtop = 0;
		if (obj.offsetParent) {
			do {
				curleft += obj.offsetLeft;
				curtop += obj.offsetTop;
			} while (obj = obj.offsetParent);
		}
		return [curleft,curtop];
	};

	this.getWindowSize = function() {
		var windowWidth = -1;
		var windowHeight = -1;

		if(typeof(window.innerWidth) == 'number') { //Non-IE
			windowWidth = window.innerWidth;
			windowHeight = window.innerHeight;
		} else if(document.documentElement) { // IE 6+ in 'standards compliant mode'
			windowWidth = document.documentElement.clientWidth || document.body.clientWidth;
			windowHeight = document.documentElement.clientHeight || document.body.clientHeight;
		}

		return [windowWidth, windowHeight];
	}

	this.getScrollPos = function() {
		var scrollWidth, scrollTop;

		if(document.documentElement && (document.documentElement.scrollTop || document.documentElement.scrollWidth)) {
			scrollWidth = document.documentElement.scrollWidth;
			// IE is weird here.  If no doctype is provided, document.body.scrollTop is 0,
			// otherwise document.documentElement.scrollTop is 0.
			scrollTop = document.documentElement.scrollTop || document.body.scrollTop;
		} else if(document.body.scrollTop && document.body.scrollWidth) {
			scrollWidth = document.body.scrollWidth;
			scrollTop = document.body.scrollTop;
		}

		return [scrollWidth, scrollTop];
	}

	this.addEventListener = function(instance, eventName, listener) {
		var listenerFn = listener;
		if (instance.addEventListener) {
			instance.addEventListener(eventName, listenerFn, false);
		} else if (instance.attachEvent) {
			listenerFn = function() {
				listener(window.event);
			};
			instance.attachEvent("on" + eventName, listenerFn);
		} else {
			throw new Error("Event registration not supported");
		}
		return {
			instance: instance,
			name: eventName,
			listener: listenerFn
		};
	};

	this.removeEventListener = function(event) {
		var instance = event.instance;
		if (instance.removeEventListener) {
			instance.removeEventListener(event.name, event.listener, false);
		} else if (instance.detachEvent) {
			instance.detachEvent("on" + event.name, event.listener);
		}
	};

	this.fixIframesIE = function(id) {
		var disqusThread = Dsq.$(disqus_container_id);
		var iframes = disqusThread.getElementsByTagName('iframe');

		if(id) {
			var container = Dsq.$(id);
		} else {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-content');
		}

		for(i = 0; i < iframes.length; i++) {
			if (container) {
				iframes[i].style.width = container.offsetWidth;
			}
		}
	};

	this.getElementsByClassName = function(oElm, strTagName, strClassName) {
	/* Credit: Jonathan Snook [http://www.snook.ca/jonathan], Robert Nyman [http://www.robertnyman.com] */
		var arrElements = (strTagName == "*" && oElm.all)? oElm.all : oElm.getElementsByTagName(strTagName);
		var arrReturnElements = new Array();
		strClassName = strClassName.replace(/\-/g, "\\-");
		var oRegExp = new RegExp("(^|\\s)" + strClassName + "(\\s|$)");
		var oElement;
		for(var i = 0; i < arrElements.length; i++) {
			oElement = arrElements[i];
			if(oRegExp.test(oElement.className)) {
				arrReturnElements.push(oElement);
			}
		}
		return (arrReturnElements);
	};

	this.postToUrl = function(url, post_data, opt_redirect) {
		var form = document.createElement('form');
		var iframe_container = document.createElement('div');
		var id = 'dsq-temp-iframe-' + (new Date()).getTime();

		form.method = 'POST';
		form.action = url;
		if (!opt_redirect) {
			form.target = id;
		}
		iframe_container.innerHTML = '<iframe style="display:none" name="' + id + '" id="' + id + '"></iframe>';

		for(var key in post_data) {
			if(post_data.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				var input = document.createElement('input');
				input.name = key;
				input.type = 'hidden';
				input.value = post_data[key];

				form.appendChild(input);
			}
		}

		Dsq.$b.appendChild(iframe_container);
		Dsq.$b.appendChild(form);
		form.submit();
	};

	// Strips integer id from id of element in the form ('some-id-###')
	this.extractId = function(e) {
		var chunks = e.id.split('-');
		if(chunks.length <= 1) {
			return 0;
		} else {
			return parseInt(chunks[chunks.length-1]);
		}
	};

	this.getStyle = function(el, styleProp) {
		if(el.currentStyle) {
			var y = el.currentStyle[styleProp];
		} else if(window.getComputedStyle) {
			var y = document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(el, null).getPropertyValue(styleProp);
		}

		if(y == 'transparent' || y == '') {
			this.getStyle(el.parentNode, styleProp);
		} else {
			return y;
		}
	};

	this.execScript = function(url, append_qs, container) {
		var script = document.createElement('script');
		append_qs = typeof append_qs == 'undefined' ? true : append_qs;
		container = container || Dsq.container;

		if(append_qs) {
			var j = (url.indexOf('?') >= 0) ? '&' : '?';
			url += j + (new Date()).getTime();
		}
		script.type = 'text/javascript';
		script.charset = 'UTF-8';
		script.src = url;
		container.appendChild(script);
		return script;
	};

	this.pluralize = function(num, singular, plural) {
		return (num != 1) ? plural || 's' : singular || '';
	};

	this.getRequestParams = function(queryString /* optional */) {
		var pairs, tuple;
		var params = {};

		queryString = queryString || window.location.search.substring(1);
		pairs = queryString.split('&');

		for (var i = 0, pair; pair = pairs[i]; i++) {
			tuple = pair.split('=');
			params[tuple[0]] = (tuple[1] || true);
		}

		return params;
	};

	this.addCssRule = function(selector, styleText, index) {
		var stylesheet;
		index = index || 0;

		if(!this._styleSheet) {
			var styleEl = document.createElement('style');
			document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(styleEl);
			this._styleSheet = styleEl.sheet;
			if(!this._styleSheet) {
				// IE does not like our newly created stylesheet.
				this._styleSheet = document.styleSheets[document.styleSheets.length-1];
			}
		}
		stylesheet = this._styleSheet;

		if(stylesheet.insertRule) {
			var ruleText = selector + ' { ' + styleText + ' }';
			if(index == -1) {
				index = stylesheet.cssRules.length;
			}
			stylesheet.insertRule(ruleText, index);
		} else if(stylesheet.addRule) {
			stylesheet.addRule(selector, styleText, index);
		}
	};

	this.forEachIn = function(obj, callback) {
		for(var key in obj) {
			if(obj.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				callback(key, obj[key]);
			}
		}
	};

	this._interpolateGlobalContext = {
		// values that get used a lot and are global to the request
		'profile_url': Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE,

		'disqus_url': Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url,
		'media_url': Dsq.jsonData.settings.media_url,
		'request_username': Dsq.jsonData.request.username,
		'request_display_username': Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username,
		'forum_name': Dsq.jsonData.forum.name
	};

	this.renderFromContextStack = function(key, contexts) {
		// Returns the first instance of `key` in the array of objects `contexts` or else ''
		for (var i=0; i<contexts.length; i++) {
			if (contexts[i][key] !== undefined) {
				return String(contexts[i][key]);
			}
		}
		throw new Error('key ' + key + ' not found in context');
	};

	var that = this;
	this.interpolate = function(fmt, opt_localContext) {
		// Interpolate `fmt` named-format string with an assumed global context.
		// Based on `interpolate` in django.views.i18n
		var contextStack = [opt_localContext || {}, that._interpolateGlobalContext];
		return fmt.replace(/%\(\w+\)s/g, function(match){
			return that.renderFromContextStack(match.slice(2,-2), contextStack);
		});
	};

	this.stripTags = function(s) {
		// Removes HTML tags from `s`
		return s.replace(/(<([^>]+)>)/g,"");

	};

	this.assert = function(b) {
		if (!b) {
			throw new Error('Assertion error.');
		}
	};

};
// Dsq.Utils

/**
 * Dsq.Popup: Popup helper functions.
 */
Dsq.Popup = new function() {
	this.timeHide = new Array();
	this.timeShow = new Array();
	this.activePopup = {};
	this.profileCache = {};
	this.statusCache = {};

	this.showTimer = function(post_id) {
		// clear the hide timer
		clearTimeout(this.timeHide[post_id]);

		// start the timer
		if(!Dsq.Popup.profileIsOn && !Dsq.Thread.adminIsOn) {
			this.timeShow[post_id] = setTimeout("Dsq.Popup.popProfile(\"" + post_id + "\")", 400);
		}
	};

	this.hideTimer = function(post_id) {
		// clear the show timer
		clearTimeout(this.timeShow[post_id]);
	};

	this.updateProfile = function(username) {
		// Callback from /embed/profile.js
		if (this.statusCache[username]) {
			var statusEl = Dsq.$('dsq-profile-status-' + username);
			statusEl.innerHTML = this.statusCache[username];
			statusEl.style.display = 'block';
		}

		if (this.profileCache[username]) {
			var _cache = this.profileCache[username];

			var _genhtml = function(text) { return '<span><big>' + text + '</big></span>'; };
			var _no_comments = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_COMMENTS(_cache.comments_count));
			var _no_likes = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_LIKES(_cache.likes_count));
			var _no_points = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_POINTS(_cache.points));

			var statsEl = Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-user-stats-' + username);
			statsEl.innerHTML = '';

			if (Dsq.jsonData.users[username].registered) {
				statsEl.innerHTML = _no_comments + _no_likes;
			}
			statsEl.innerHTML += _no_points;

			var activeSites = '';
			for (var i = 0; i < _cache.active_sites.length; i++) {
				var site = _cache.active_sites[i];
				activeSites += '<li><a href="' + site.url + '"> \
					<img src="' + site.favicon + '"/ width="16" height="16"/></a>\
					<a href="' + site.url + '">' + site.name + '</a></li>';
			}
			if (activeSites !== '') {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-' + username).innerHTML = activeSites;
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-' + username).innerHTML = 'This site.';
			}

			var moderatedSites = '';
			for (var i = 0; i < _cache.moderated_sites.length; i++) {
				var site = _cache.moderated_sites[i];
				moderatedSites += '<li><a href="' + site.url + '"> \
					<img src="' + site.favicon + '"/ width="16" height="16"/></a>\
					<a href="' + site.url + '">' + site.name + '</a></li>';
			}
			if (moderatedSites !== '') {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-moderated-' + username).innerHTML = moderatedSites;
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-moderated-wrapper-' + username).innerHTML = '';
			}
		}

		// Reposition popup after full HTML is rendered
		if(Dsq.Popup.activePopup && Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el) {
			Dsq.Popup.initPopup(Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el, Dsq.Popup.activePopup.id, Dsq.Popup.activePopup.type);
		}

	};

	this.showCookieMsgs = function() {
		var title = '';
		var message = '';
		var numAlerts = 0;

		Dsq.Utils.forEachIn(Dsq.jsonData.cookie_messages, function(k, v) {
			if (!v) return;

			switch(k) {
				// Cookie: Twitter
				case 'post_twitter':
					if (v === 'error') {
						title = 'Twitter Error!';
						message += '<li id="dsq-msg-twitter-error">Oops, we couldn\'t tweet this comment. Please check your <a href="http://disqus.com/account/services">account settings</a>.</li>';
					} else {
						var _msg = v.split(':');
						title = 'Tweeted!';
						message += '<li id="dsq-msg-twitter-success">Your comment was successfully tweeted. <a href="http://twitter.com/' + _msg[0] + '/status/' + _msg[1] + '">Click here to view the tweet</a>.</li>';
					}
					break;
				// Cookie: Unapproved Post
				case 'post_not_approved':
					title = 'Comment awaiting approval by a moderator';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-post-not-approved">Your comment must be approved by a moderator before appearing here.</li>';
					break;
				// Cookie: Profile Found
				case 'post_has_profile':
					title = 'Use your existing commenter profile';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-post-has-profile">You have just posted your commment as a <span class="dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span>, but you may already have a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile.<br /><br /><a href="http://disqus.com/claim">Log in and claim this comment!</a></li>';
					break;
				case 'user_created':
					var _data = v.split(':');
					title = 'Profile created!';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-user-created">You have just created a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile, the best way to claim, manage, and track your comments all over the web. \
					<br /><br />A confirmation is being sent to <strong>' + _data[1] + '</strong>. Please check for this email in order to verify your profile. \
					<ul class="dsq-list-tick"> \
						<li>Your username is <strong>' + _data[0] +'</strong>. <a href="http://disqus.com/people/' + _data[0] + '/" target="_blank">Click here to view your public profile</a>.</li> \
						<li>Be sure to set your profile picture, as well as connect your <span class="dsq-badge-facebook">Facebook</span> and <span class="dsq-badge-twitter">Twitter</span> accounts. <a href="http://disqus.com/account/" target="_blank">Click here for account settings</a>.</li> \
					</ul> \
					</li>'
					break;
				default:
					break;
			}
			numAlerts++;
		});

		if(numAlerts > 1) {
			message = '<ul class="dsq-list-bluebullet">' + message;
			message += '</ul>';
			title = 'Thanks for posting!';
		}
		if(numAlerts > 0) {
			if(typeof(disqus_cookie_msgs) == 'function') {
				disqus_cookie_msgs(message, title);
			} else {
				Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);
			}
		}
	};

	this.helpBadges = function(post_id) {
		var html = ' \
			<ul class="dsq-popup-help"> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-verified">Verified</span> has a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile with a confirmed email address.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span> has a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile, but has not yet confirmed his or her email address.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span> is not logged in with any account and has not claimed his or her comments.</li> \
				<li class="dsq-help-otheraccts">Other accounts</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-facebook">Facebook</span> is using his or her Facebook profile via Facebook Connect.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-twitter">Twitter</span> is using his or her Twitter profile via Twitter Sign-in.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-openid">OpenID</span> is using his or her OpenID.</li> \
			</ul> \
		';

		this.popModal(html, 'Help: Types of Commenters', post_id);
		return;
	};

	this.permalink = function(post_id) {
		var header = 'Link to this comment';
		var body = '<strong>You are anchored to</strong>:<br />' + document.location.protocol + '//' + document.location.host + document.location.pathname + document.location.search + '#comment-' + post_id;

		this.popModal(body, header, post_id);
	};

	this.login = function(header, body) {
		var h = header || 'Login or Register';
		var b = body || '';
		b += Dsq.Templates.frameLogin({id: 'dsq-popup-login'});
		b += '</iframe>'; // HACK: Sometimes there is something funky with the IFRAME SRC that causes no end tag
		this.popModal(b, h, null, true, 'dsq-popup-login');
	};

	this.blacklist = function(id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		var title = 'Add to Blacklist';
		var message = ' \
		Adding this person to the blacklist will block him or her from commenting on this site. Check the following types that you would like to add to the blacklist:'
		+ (userData['registered'] ?
			'<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
				<input id="dsq-blacklist-username" type="checkbox" checked> \
				<label for="dsq-blacklist-username"><strong>Username</strong>: ' + userData['username'] + '</label> \
			</div>'
			: '')
		+ (_meta.email ?
			'<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
				<input id="dsq-blacklist-email" type="checkbox" checked> \
				<label for="dsq-blacklist-email"><strong>Email address</strong>: ' + _meta.email + '</label> \
			</div>'
			: '')
		+ '<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
			<input id="dsq-blacklist-ip" type="checkbox" onclick="Dsq.$(\'dsq-blacklist-ip-warning\').style.display=\'block\'"> \
			<label for="dsq-blacklist-ip"><strong>IP address</strong>: ' + _meta.ip + '</label> \
		</div> \
		';

		message += ' \
			<p id="dsq-blacklist-ip-warning" style="display:none">	\
				Note: Blocking this person\'s IP address may also unintentionally prevent others, who share his/her IP address, from commenting on this site. \
				This may include people who are sharing the same computer, living in the same house, or using the same Internet provider. Only block an IP address as a last resort. \
			</p> \
		';

		message += ' \
			<p style="text-align:center"><button onclick="Dsq.Post.blockUser(' + id + '); this.disabled=true; this.innerHTML=\'Just one moment...\'">Add to Blacklist</button></p> \
		';

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);
	};

	this.remoteAccountSettings = function() {
		var body = '';
		// Set up IFrame.
		var params = {};
		var base_url = 'http://disqus.com/forums/jackandjillpolitics/_auth/embed/remote_settings/';
		var attributes = {id: 'dsq-popup-account-settings'};
		if (typeof disqus_frame_theme != 'undefined') {
			params['theme'] = disqus_frame_theme;
		}

		body = Dsq.Templates._frameGeneric(base_url, params, attributes);
		this.popModal(body, 'Account Settings', null, true, 'dsq-popup-account-settings');
	};

	this.popModal = function(message, title, post_id, use_listener, extra_classes) {
		var container = document.createElement('div');
		var header, body;

		Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true);

		if(typeof(title) == 'undefined') { title = ''; }
		if(typeof(use_listener) == 'undefined') { use_listener = true; }

		if(post_id) {
			container.id = 'dsq-popup-message-' + post_id;
		} else {
			container.id = 'dsq-popup-message';
		}

		header = title;
		body = message;

		container.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.popupModal(header, body);
		Dsq.Popup.initPopup(container, post_id, 'message', extra_classes);
		if(use_listener) {
			Dsq.Popup.popupListener = Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(document, 'mouseup', Dsq.Popup._closePopup);
		}
	};

	this.popAlert = this.popModal;

	this.loading = function(post_id) {
		var title = Dsq.Strings.JUST_A_MOMENT;
		var body = '<div style="text-align:center; padding: 5px 0 10px 0"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading.gif" alt="" /></div>'
		Dsq.Popup.lightbox(body, title, post_id);
	};

	this.lightbox = function(message, title, post_id) {
		// Wraps Dsq.Popup.popModal

		var overlay = document.createElement('div');
		overlay.id = 'dsq-overlay';
		overlay.className = 'dsq-overlay';
		Dsq.$b.appendChild(overlay);
		
		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title, post_id, false, 'dsq-lightbox');
	};

	this.popProfile = function(post_id, userKey) {
		var post = Dsq.jsonData['posts'][post_id];
		if (post && post.has_been_anonymized) {
			Dsq.Popup.popModal('This message was anonymized by its previous owner.', 'Anonymized', post_id);
			return;
		}

		if(post_id) {
			userKey = Dsq.jsonData['posts'][post_id].user_key;	
		}
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][userKey];
		var elId = 'dsq-popup-profile-' + userKey;
		var container = document.createElement('div');

		if(this.activePopup.el) {
			this._closePopup(null, true);
			if(this.activePopup.linkClicked) {
				this.activePopup.linkClicked = false;
				return;
			}
		}

		container.id = elId;
		container.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.popupProfile(userKey);

		this.initPopup(container, post_id, 'profile');
		this.popupListener = Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(document, 'mouseup', this._closePopup);

		if(!this.profileCache[userKey]) {
			Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/embed/profile.js'
				+ '?username=' + userKey
				+ '&anon=' + (userData['registered'] ? 0 : 1)
				+ '&f=' + Dsq.jsonData['request'].forum);
		} else {
			this.updateProfile(userKey);
		}
	};

	this._closePopup = function(e, force) {
		var activePopup = Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el;
		var id = Dsq.Popup.activePopup.id;
		var link = 'dsq-avatar-' + id; // HACK: Specific to profile toggle target

		// HACK: This event should be gone if there is no active popup.
		if(!activePopup) {
			return;
		}
		if(force || !Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, activePopup.id)) {
			// TODO: This is breaking iE?
			if(Dsq.Popup.popupListener) {
				Dsq.Utils.removeEventListener(Dsq.Popup.popupListener);
			}
			
			// Kill overlay
			var overlay = Dsq.$('dsq-overlay');
			if(overlay) { Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(overlay); }
			
			try {
				Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(activePopup);
			} catch(e) {
				// HACK: IE6 throws an error when using deleteNode() with a node containing a <table> in the html.
				activePopup.parentNode.removeChild(activePopup);
			}
			Dsq.Popup.activePopup = {};
		}

		if(!force && Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, link)) {
 			Dsq.Popup.activePopup.linkClicked = true;
		}

	};

	this.initPopup = function(popup, post_id, type, extra_classes) {
		popup.className = 'dsq-popup dsq-popup-' + type + ' ' + (extra_classes ? extra_classes : '');
		if(Dsq.Utils.ie6 || Dsq.Utils.ie7) {
			// HACK: We can't modify the body before it's ready, so we need
			//       to use an IE-safe "DOMReady" workaround before loading
			//       our popup.
			Dsq.Utils.execOnReady(function() {Dsq.$b.appendChild(popup); });
		} else {
			Dsq.$b.appendChild(popup);
		}

		popup.style.display = 'block';

		var xPos = (Dsq.Utils.getWindowSize()[0] - popup.offsetWidth) / 2;
		var yPos = (Dsq.Utils.getWindowSize()[1] - popup.offsetHeight) / 2;

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) {
			yPos += Dsq.Utils.getScrollPos()[1];
		}

		popup.style.left = xPos + 'px';
		popup.style.top = yPos + 'px';

		Dsq.Popup.activePopup = {
			'el' : popup,
			'id' : post_id,
			'type': type,
			'linkClicked' : false
		};
	};

	this.isClicked = function(e, id) {
		var t = e.target || e.srcElement;
		while(t && t.parentNode) {
			if(t.id == id) {
				return true;
			}

			t = t.parentNode;
		}
		return false;
	};
};
// Dsq.Popup

/**
 * Dsq.Templates
 */
Dsq.Templates = new function() {
	/*
	 * Counter keeping track of the number of posts iterated over.
	 */
	this.postLoopCounter = 0;
	this.filters = {};
	this.addPostContainer = 'dsq-post-add';
	this.textareaContainer = 'dsq-post-add';

	this.registerTemplate = function(name, func) {
		this['$$_' + name] = func;

		if(typeof DsqLocal.Filters != 'undefined'
		&& typeof DsqLocal.Filters[name] == 'function') {
			// Push filters to this.filters to unify code.
			this.filters[name] = this.filters[name] || [];
			this.filters[name].push(DsqLocal.Filters[name]);
		}

		this[name] = function() {
			var ret;

			if(typeof DsqLocal.Templates != 'undefined'
			&& typeof DsqLocal.Templates[name] == 'function') {
				ret = DsqLocal.Templates[name].apply(this, arguments);
			}

			if(ret === undefined) {
				ret = this['$$_' + name].apply(this, arguments);
			}

			if(this.filters[name]) {
				var args = [ret];

				args.push.apply(args, arguments);
				for(var i = 0; i < this.filters[name].length; i++) {
					ret = this.filters[name][i].apply(this, args);
				}
			}

			return ret;
		};
	};

	this.registerFilter = function(name, func) {
		this.filters[name] = this.filters[name] || [];
		this.filters[name].push(func);
	};

	/**
	 * Dsq.Templates.Filters
	 */
	this.Filters = new function() {
		this.commentContainer = function(post_id, s) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
			var classes = [];
			if(Dsq.jsonData.request.page > 1) {
				classes.push('dsq-append');
			}

			//
			// Extra classes used for custom themes
			//

			if(_meta.depth) {
				classes.push('dsq-comment-child', 'dsq-depth-' + _meta.depth, 'dsq-parent-is-' + _meta.parent_post_id);
			}


			//

			if(_meta.author_is_creator) {
				// TODO: We need to deprecate the "special" class since it is not properly prefixed.
				classes.push('special', 'dsq-special');
			}
			if(_meta.author_is_moderator) {
				classes.push('dsq-moderator');
			}
			classes.push(['dsq-odd', 'dsq-even'][Dsq.Templates.postLoopCounter % 2]);

			s = s.substring(0, s.lastIndexOf('>'));
			return s + ' class="dsq-comment ' + classes.join(' ') + '" style="margin-left:' + _meta.depth*30 + 'px">';
		};

		this.commentContent = function(post_id, s) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
			if (_meta.killed) {
				return '<em>Comment removed.</em>';
			} else if (!_meta.approved) {
				return '<em>This comment was flagged for review.</em>';
			}

			s = s.replace(Dsq.MEDIA_POST_RE, Dsq.MediaPostHandler);
			return s;
		};
	};

	//
	// Thread
	//
	// TODO: These need to be stripped of all Django template tags.

	this.authPost = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.context.show_reply) {
			return '';
		}
		var result = [];
		result = result.concat([
				'<div id="dsq-auth"',
						Dsq.jsonData.integration.reply_position ? 'class="dsq-auth-bottom"' : '',
						'>',
					'<div class="dsq-by">',
						'<a href="http://disqus.com" target="_blank">',
							(Dsq.jsonData.integration.disqus_logo ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img src="%(media_url)s/images/embed/by-disqus.png" alt="discussion by DISQUS">') :
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img src="%(media_url)s/images/embed/dsq-button-120x19.png" alt="discussion by DISQUS">')
							),
						'</a>',
					'</div>',
					'<div class="dsq-auth-header">',
						'<h3 id="dsq-add-new-comment" class="dsq-h3-addcomment">',
								Dsq.Strings.ADD_NEW_COMMENT,
						'</h3>',
						'<div id="dsq-login">',
						(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated && Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
								? '<p class="dsq-login-message" id="dsq-login-message">You are commenting as a <a class="dsq-help" title="Click for more information" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Guest</a>. You may select one to log into:</p>'
								: '')
		]);
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {
			result = result.concat([
							Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
								'<a id="dsq-login-toggle" href="%(disqus_url)s%(login_url)s?next=article:%(thread_id)s" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false"><img class="dsq-login-icon" src="%(media_url)s/images/dsq-profile-btn.png" title="%(log_into)s" alt="%(log_into)s"/></a>',
								{login_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGIN, thread_id: Dsq.jsonData.thread.id, log_into: Dsq.Strings.LOG_INTO_DISQUS}
								),
							'&nbsp; ',
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect ?
								'<div id="dsq-fbc-login" onlogin="DisqusFbcParentController.onLogin()" size="medium" background="light" length="short" style="display:inline; margin-right:7px"></div>' :
								''
							),
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_twitter_signin ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
									'<div id="dsq-twitter-login" class="dsq-twitter-login" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect();" style="display:inline; cursor: pointer"><img src="%(media_url)s/images/twitter-signin-short.png" style="margin-right:7px" /></div>', {}) : ''),
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_openid ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
									'<div id="dsq-openid-login" class="dsq-openid-login" onclick="Dsq.OpenID.requestURL();" style="display:inline; cursor:pointer;"><img src="%(media_url)s/images/openid-login-button.png"/></div>', {}
								) : '')
			]);
		}
		result = result.concat([
						'</div>', // dsq-login
					'</div>', // dsq-auth-header
					'<div id="dsq-authenticated" class="dsq-authenticated" ',
						Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated ? 'style="display:block"' : '',
						'>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-pic">',
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">' +
																			'<img class="dsq-post-avatar" src="%(avatar_url)s" alt="" /></a>',
																			{avatar_url: Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_AVATAR,
																			url: (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
																					 ? Dsq.jsonData.request.url
																					 : Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE) }),
						'</div>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-info">',
							'<ul>',
								'<li>',
									(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(
												Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">%(request_display_username)s</a>', {url:Dsq.jsonData.request.url})
										  )
										: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(
												Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(profile_url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">%(request_display_username)s</a>')
											)
									),
								'</li>',
								'<li class="logout">',
									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img class="dsq-login-icon" src="%(media_url)s/images/dsqicon12.png" alt="%(logged_in_as)s"/>&nbsp',
											{logged_in_as: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username)})
										: ''),

									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="%(logout_from_disqus)s">',
											{logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN, logout_from_disqus: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGOUT_FROM('DISQUS')})
										: ((Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain == 'twitter')
												? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('using Twitter (<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="Logout">Logout</a>)',
												 {logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN})
												: ((Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain == 'openid')
													 ? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('using OpenID (<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="Logout">Logout</a>)',
													 {logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN})
													 : ''
													)
											)
									),

									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote ? Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGOUT_FROM('<span class="logo-disqus">DISQUS</span>') : ''),
									'</a>',
								'</li>',
							'</ul>',
						'</div>',
					'</div>'
		]);
		if (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect) {
			result = result.concat([
					'<div id="dsq-fbc-authenticated" class="dsq-authenticated">',
						'<div id="dsq-fbc-profilepic" class="dsq-authenticated-pic" uid="loggedinuser" type="FB.XFBML.ProfilePic" size="square" facebook-logo="true"></div>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-info">',
							'<ul>',
								'<li>',
									'Logged in as <span id="dsq-fbc-name" uid="loggedinuser" type="FB.XFBML.Name" linked="true" useyou="false"></span>',
								'</li>',
								'<li class="logout">using Facebook Connect <a href="#" onclick="javascript:DisqusFbcParentController.logout();return false;">(Logout)</a></li>',
							'</ul>',
						'</div>',
					'</div>'
			]);
		}
		result = result.concat([
				'</div>', // dsq-auth
				'<div id="dsq-toolbar-items">',
				'</div>'
		]);
		result = result.concat([
					//
					//
					//
				((!Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post && !Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) ?
					// Needs to be translated:
					('<p id="dsq-no-anon-msg">Required: Please log into <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> ' +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect ? 'or connect with Facebook ' : '') +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_twitter_signin ? 'or sign in with Twitter ' : '') +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_openid ? 'or sign in using OpenID ' : '') +
					Dsq.Utils.interpolate('to comment on <strong>%(forum_name)s</strong>.</p>')) :
					''
				),
				'<div id="dsq-post-add"></div>',
				'<div style="margin:10px 0">',
				((Dsq.jsonData.forum.use_media) ?
						'<a href="#" id="dsq-media-link" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, false, \'media\'); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.USE_MEDIA + ' <small>&#9660;</small></a>' :
						''),
				'</div>'
		]);
		return result.join('');
	};


	this.header = function() {

		var html = '\<h3 id="dsq-comments-count" class="dsq-h3-commentcount">\
	 <span id="dsq-num-posts">134</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/jeremiah_wright_on_bill_moyers/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/jeremiah_wright_on_bill_moyers/">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:2223204" 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/jeremiah_wright_on_bill_moyers/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:2223204" 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:2223204" 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'				: 'jeremiah_wright_on_bill_moyers',
			// 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/jeremiah_wright_on_bill_moyers/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='	+ 'jeremiah_wright_on_bill_moyers'
			+ '&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='	+ 'jeremiah_wright_on_bill_moyers'
			+ '&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='		+ 'jeremiah_wright_on_bill_moyers'
				+ '&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/2223204/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;
		}
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<ul id="dsq-comments">\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-1962080">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1962080" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1962080" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962080">evita</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1962080" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962080" class="dsq-comment-message">Go watch this soon.  Did anyone hear him at the Press Club? I felt like he was clowning though he did answer many of the questions to my satisfaction. Conservative Christians are going to hate him even more...<br></br><br>And, I read the transcript of Obama on Fox. Can anyone speak to the energy of the room?</br></div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-1962081">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1962081" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1962081" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962081">BigAssBelle</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1962081" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962081" class="dsq-comment-message">oh evita, do you think so? i didn\'t see it all ~ had to record for later, but caught some of the Q&A; and it seemed to me that he is just a brilliant, thoughtful, highly educated man pointing out the hypocrisy and stupidity in so much of what passes for news and our public discourse.<br></br><br>i absolutely LOVED his answer to the question about whether God loves everyone. it was perfect. fight that, conservative judgmental fuckheads. it\'s God\'s word. </br><br></br><br>oh but of course they <i>will</i> fight it, just as they condemn gays because God says so, and ignore God\'s word on adultery as they frolic with their hookers and 2d and 3d wives.</br></div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-1962082">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1962082" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1962082" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962082">RhondaCoca</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1962082" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962082" class="dsq-comment-message">"I felt like he was clowning though he did answer many of the questions to my satisfaction."<br></br><br>He is somethin\'. He really was trying to throw it in his critics face. They assasinated his character and he is talking back. They wanted him to remain silent but he is a prominent minister who has been speaking at events across the nation for years. He is not going to shut up now that they tell him too.</br><br></br><br>I hope that they got all their questions answered and they can just get off his tail and take his name out of their mouths. They have been obsessed since last year.</br><br></br><br>I found out some interesting information about the FBI and Wright and his church. According to my friend/roommate who is from Chicago, his church has been the site of undercover FBI investigations. She said that they were trying to meddle in the church to bring down black political figures. Interesting.</br><br></br><br></br><br></br><br>"And, I read the transcript of Obama on Fox. Can anyone speak to the energy of the room?"</br><br></br><br>I did not watch it but what do you mean by energy? I believe that it was just him and Wallace?</br></div>\
	 </div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1962083">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1962083" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1962083" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962083">Anonymous</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1962083" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962083" class="dsq-comment-message">This interview will be drown out with the new MSM fodder Wright has given them with his NAACP and NPC appearances.<br></br><br>Wall to wall Wright for the next week will not help Obama. Especially after Obama declared him a \'legitimate political issue.\'</br></div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1962084">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1962084" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1962084" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962084">Webb</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1962084" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962084" class="dsq-comment-message">All that I can say is...<br></br><br>If Barack Obama loses this race because of people twising Reverend Wright\'s words, then America shall "reap what is sows." </br><br></br><br>One side of me feels, "We\'ve got to be more politically savvy in how we deal with the conservative forces in play," but the other side of me says, "F**K it, if these folks can not handle the truth, then SO BE IT.  Let this country fall further and further behind economically,  racially, and spiritually."  The Roman Empire had to fall too.</br><br></br><br>My eyes were on Wright as I left the house watching MSNBC and my ears heard the Q&A; on V103 (local ATL radio).  I\'m cool with everything that Reverend Wright is doing.  He should not be quiet and go away like the majority of the MSM wants him to do.  That man has sacrificed so much for his community and THIS DAYUM COUNTRY...He\'s just telling the truth. </br><br></br><br>If America can\'t accept him (and by default association, not accept Barack Obama), then  ___ them all.</br><br></br><br>It\'s going to take some special savvy to deal with these emotions and I\'m confident that Barack can turn these events around in his favor...I don\'t know how, but I\'m prayerful that Obama can do it!</br></div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1962085">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1962085" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1962085" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962085">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1962085" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962085" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree with evita. Rev. Wright was, despite some great answers, clowning doing the Q&A; session. He was humorous in Detroit last night, but he never clowned. Today, he did. And I can\'t see why he would think that it would help those he was addressing swallow  his message more easily. <br></br><br>Maybe I\'m just too anxious to see clearly.</br><br></br><br>To hear that TUCC is under investigation by the FBI in order to bring down Black political leaders is interesting and believable.</br><br></br><br>Makes one wonder...</br></div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1962086">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1962086" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1962086" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962086">BigAssBelle</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1962086" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962086" class="dsq-comment-message">i heard a grownup talking to other grownups, just like obama does.<br></br><br>i\'m guardedly optimistic that the american people will respond to that. </br><br></br><br>on my good days, i believe there are more people of good sense in this country than there are right wing zealots and lunatics. we shall see.</br><br></br><br>meanwhile, 1 million new democrats registered and obama launching a new voter registration campaign. </br><br></br><br>waking up this nation of sheep to recognize that it\'s no democracy if you don\'t participate, that we are losing this country and any hope of getting it right if we don\'t stand up and fight and we <i>cannot afford</i> another republican administration.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1962087" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1962087" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962087">Cameron</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1962087" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962087" class="dsq-comment-message">Call me crazy, but I\'m beginning to get suspicious about why Wright feels the need to go on all these interviews, especially right now.  The best thing he could do for Obama is not say anything!  He know that anytime he opens his mouth, it serves as fodder for McCain and Hillary.<br></br><br>Anybody care to enlighten me?</br></div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1962088">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1962088" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1962088" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962088">golden star</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1962088" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962088" class="dsq-comment-message">cameron,<br></br><br>He addressed this point in his Press Club speech. He let the sound bite controversy play but now he thinks it\'s time for his response to the slander.</br><br></br><br>He also is in DC for this conference on Black Church and this could highlight the conference and its work.</br></div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1962089">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1962089" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1962089" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962089">Torrance Stephens bka All-Mi-T</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1962089" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962089" class="dsq-comment-message">he laid it down last night</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1962090">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1962090" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1962090" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962090">Kitty</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1962090" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962090" class="dsq-comment-message">Webb,<br></br><br>I agree with your post 100%</br></div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1962091">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1962091" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1962091" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962091">RhondaCoca</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1962091" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962091" class="dsq-comment-message">Cameron,<br></br><br>He can continue to remain quiet but I do not think that it will go away. Conservatives want to use him as bait along with vindicative Hillary supporters and the media. He is speaking for himself and people can judge him based on what he is presenting of himself that is not the caricature drawn up by soundbytes and pundits. He has alright to defend himself, the black church theology and his church which has been under attack. </br><br></br><br>He is a prominent minister and always has speaking engagements. He has been doing this thing since Obama was like 10/11 years old.</br><br></br><br>Now, I feel that he has presented his case effectively and needs to fade into the background now so that the attention can be back on the candidates.</br><br></br><br>The media has gotten obsessed with this side issue.</br></div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1962092">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1962092" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1962092" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962092">Anonymous</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1962092" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962092" class="dsq-comment-message">cameron,<br></br><br>Wright is looking to boost himself into the spot light at Obama\'s expense.</br><br></br><br>Obama gave him legitimacy and credibility by not separating himself from Wright. Wright is taking full advantage of the platform Obama has handed him.</br><br></br><br>Now Wright says Obama is just a politician who is saying what he needs to say in order to get elected! OUCH.</br><br></br><br>The more Wright opens his mouth the more ammunition he gives to the media. He welcomes it. </br><br></br><br>IMO he feels he is above Obama.</br><br></br><br>He is a loose cannon who will dog Obama for the rest of the campaign.</br><br></br><br>Obama is trying to retool his campaign message with with blue-collar workers and seniors but how much of this will be drown out by Wright.</br><br></br><br>Does anyone know how the Obama campaign is reacting/responding?</br><br></br><br>They cannot be happy.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1962093" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1962093" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962093">Teacher</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962093" class="dsq-comment-message">Yeah, Wright did the Side Show Bob egopalooza extravaganza today. Tony Harris could barely look into the camera after the session ended. Roland Martin and David Gergin were so serious, like cancer surgeons. The prognosis:We aren\'t sure he\'s going to make it.We\'ll have to wait and see. This could be the death knell...Hillary\'s ticket to ride (her broom back to the white house). Wright justified it by saying that it wasn\'t about him, but he is defending the Black church. He got this one very wrong.It really was about him and the church isn\'t going to be effected one way or the other. Like I already said, he didn\'t have enough LOVE for Obama....What next? Jerry Springer?<br></br><br>"Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy;love does not parade itself, is not puffed up;Does not behave rudely, does not seek it\'s own, is not provoked, thinks no evil.Does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in truth;Bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails."</br><br></br><br>Why are we so ego driven? There are other groups who do their own thing and work on their own self-determination without a bunch of bruhaha or bombast or how yuh like me now?!? Wright can add his name to a long list of egotistical preachers. So sad.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962094">RhondaCoca</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962094" class="dsq-comment-message">"To hear that TUCC is under investigation by the FBI in order to bring down Black political leaders is interesting and believable."<br></br><br>THEY WERE at some point in the past. My friend was telling me that. You know how the FBI for the last few decades have been obbsessed with any black organization that helps the community as much as TUCC. They hate strong black leaders.</br><br></br><br>Anywayz, I think that the media feels stupid and is upset. I think that the American people will have a different outlook, unless they are the gulliable ones for media propaganda. They are going through it with a fine tooth comb which allows me to conclude that they dont have much. He definitely is coming off as more personable now which helps ease people\'s "fears" of him.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962095">Anonymous</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962095" class="dsq-comment-message">Slander?<br></br><br>He spoke his mind, be stands by what he says and if others take issue with his opinions, it\'s slander? </br><br></br><br>Context or no context, his thoughts and opinions are controversial. </br><br></br><br>His words run contrary to Obama\'s central campaign themes of unity and hope.</br><br></br><br>Wright is making himself a issue in this campaign:</br><br></br><br>"While Obama remains in an embrace with Rev. Wright, top Obama adviser David Axelrod was on MSNBC this morning doing plenty of distancing from the reverend\'s tour.  "We don\'t have any control over Rev. Wright," Axelrod said.  "Rev. Wright speaks for Rev. Wright…He\'s out there doing his own thing…There\'s not a thing we can do about it.  It\'s a free country and he\'s exercising his right to speak."</br><br></br><br>Asked whether Wright\'s tour hurts Obama, Axelrod said, "To the extent that people impute to Sen. Obama words that are not his, and sentiments that are not his, its obviously not helpful…I have great faith in the American people in their fairness and in their ability to think this thing through for what it is."</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962096">RhondaCoca</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962096" class="dsq-comment-message">Tony Harris is a clown and he pretty much called black people stupid one day back in February for voting for Obama. <br></br><br>I did see Martin and Gergen\'s reactions. martin while I like him has said a lot of things recently that I do not agree with. He was telling Wright cancel with the NAACP and only talk to black media. </br><br></br><br>I know for a fact that Wright has a big personality so he isnt trying to put on any show. That is who he is. However I agree that he could have been more conservative at the Q&A; because some people obviously do not get his humor. As for the politican thing, he did say that if Obama got elected that he would come after him to as he does with any other politican. I think that Wright is not in love with politicans. I do not think that it is personal. However I think that he could have left it out. Nonetheless I dont think it will hurt the O-man. </br><br></br><br></br><br>:::Primary Fatigue::::Primary Fatigue::::</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962097">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962097" class="dsq-comment-message">We\'ll see.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962098">Steve LaBonne</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962098" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>His words run contrary to Obama\'s central campaign themes of unity and hope.</i><br></br><br>I\'m white, and I think Rev. Wright is ALL ABOUT unity and hope. I\'m not even religious, but I would attend his church just to hear his sermons. He\'s a deeply impressive man.</br><br></br><br>As for the political angle? Screw it. This country got where it is by way of too many people being afraid to stand up for what they believe in and what\'s right.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962099">RhondaCoca</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962099" class="dsq-comment-message">I think Obama needs to say that:<br></br><br>"Wright has always been and will always be critical of government and all politicans which would includes myself. I believe that it is in no way personal"</br><br></br><br>Moving on...</br><br></br><br>The more he shows angst and the more his campaign shows angst and avoidance, the more the media will flock because they are predators and they go where they smell blood.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962100">Anonymous</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962100" class="dsq-comment-message">Most people I know are more interested in finding common ground with individuals that are \'different\' from them. Finding ideas and values to which we can all relate to and agree upon.<br></br><br>While I respect Rev. Wright\'s freedom to speak and worship as he believes, I find very little in common with those opinions and beliefs. I have read his remarks, in and out of \'context\' and I see very little distortion or misrepresentation.</br><br></br><br>I think the outrage on the part of his defenders is that they cannot understand why I do not see the \'truth\' in what he says. They do not understand how I can take offense or disagree.</br><br></br><br>I can choose to make him relevant to my decision to vote for Obama or not. And as Obama had asked, I was willing to let it go and chalk up his divisive, angry words of those as a bitter, aging pastor from the 60s.</br><br></br><br>But he wants to turn the spotlight on himself at Obama\'s expense and it is making me ill.</br><br></br><br>Obama should have cut this man loose long ago. He will only cost Obama votes.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962101">Anonymous</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962101" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m white, and I think Rev. Wright is ALL ABOUT unity and hope.<br>_____________________________________</br><br></br><br>Huh? Care to explain.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962102">Steve LaBonne</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962102" class="dsq-comment-message">I wouldn\'t have to explain if you\'d actually read the man\'s own words.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962103">Anonymous</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962103" class="dsq-comment-message">cop out steve.<br>____________________________________</br><br></br><br>Jeremiah Wright May Have Just Sunk Obama\'s Campaign</br><br></br><br>The Obama campaign is off the rails.</br><br></br><br>The entire tone of the race changed the moment we saw the first fiery Wright sermon. The sight of those sermons triggered a question in a lot of voters\' minds: How do you get the moderate-sounding, pleasant, agreeable student Barack Obama from an angry, divisive, radical, way-out-of-the-mainstream teacher like Jeremiah Wright? The sermons weren\'t quite a deal-breaker, but many Obama supporters, leaners, and undecideds were asking... how did Obama choose this man as a mentor? How could he possibly not know that his mentor had these attitudes? And does Obama agree with any of Wright\'s inflammatory statements?</br><br></br><br>In response, Obama gave a very eloquent speech about race relations in America. But it never quite answered the question, and in fact tried to blur the distinction between family we are born into and those we choose to turn to for guidance. Hillary jabbed at this in the debate, and Obama never quite had an appropriate response. He even said he disowned Wright, then backtracked and said he disowned his controversial statements.</br><br></br><br>And since then, it\'s gotten worse, even with a Bill Moyers interview that wasn\'t softball so much as it was Nerf Tee-Ball. We\'ve heard Wright compare the Roman Legions who punished Jesus to the U.S. Marines, we\'ve heard him argue that the U.S. and al-Qaeda are doing the same acts under different flags, etc.</br><br></br><br>Now we hear Wright analyzing the differences between white and black brains (!) and that the criticism of him for his comments was "an attack on the black church." He didn\'t retract his assertion that the U.S. government created the AIDS virus. He didn\'t retract his accusation that the United States had committed terrorism. He raved about Louis Farrakhan.</br><br></br><br>And again, we\'re left with that question... presuming Obama strongly disagrees with all of Wright\'s statements in these areas... how did he end up selecting this pastor? This church? (I know we get the story in Obama\'s autobiography. But did Obama once agree with all of the crazy conspiracy theories? Does he still agree, late at night, when the microphones and television cameras are far away?)</br><br></br><br>Obama is saying he should be president, instead of two much more experienced rivals, because of his superior judgment. But what kind of judgment is needed to select Wright as a surrogate father figure?</br><br></br><br>More reaction:</br><br></br><br>Jake Tapper: "He clearly was not doing Obama any favors, not only by reappearing before a ravenous media thus distracting from Obama\'s attempt to relate better to white working class voters in Indiana and North Carolina, but by implying Obama\'s condemnation of some of his sermons was not sincere."</br><br></br><br>David Brody: "Jeremiah Wright did Barack Obama no favors. Pastor Wright’s appearance at the National Press Club today started out as a great opportunity to explain the importance of the black Church experience. Instead it turned into a circus atmosphere and ensured that the Wright controversy is not going away and has the potential to single-handily take down Obama’s campaign."</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962104">Steve LaBonne</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962104" class="dsq-comment-message">Not that I really think you\'re sincere, but just in case you are, perhaps this will help you. It\'s far more eloquent than anything I could write.<br>http://chronicle.com/free/v54/i30/30b00101.htm</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962105">truthToPower</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962105" class="dsq-comment-message">The entire tone of the race changed the moment we saw the first fiery Wright sermon. <br></br><br></br><br>....</br><br></br><br>You don\'t think the tone of the race changed BEFORE the \'wright\' controversy when Governor Rendell said that whites in PA will never vote for a black man for president? Or when Geraldine Ferraro said Barack was only where he was because he was black?? That played and there was no outrage from the white community... .</br><br>So why are their words less divisive and radical than Rev. Wrights.. and how is it that THEIR words don\'t have as much or MORE impact than Wrights?</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962107">Cameron</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962107" class="dsq-comment-message">rhondacoca @ 8:22<br></br><br>"Now, I feel that he has presented his case effectively and needs to fade into the background now so that the attention can be back on the candidates."</br><br></br><br>That\'s just it - he CAN\'T fade into the background. He never will. The media (and most of white america) have already made up their mind about Wright. Right or wrong, it is what it is.  I listen to Fox News Talk in the AM, and that\'s ALL they\'ve been talking about this morning. This is a problem - especially since Obama is not doing well with working class white voters.</br><br></br><br>Remember, all Hillary and McCain has to do at this point is plant the seeds of doubt into American voters by distracting them from the important issues.  You know, things  like "he\'s a radical... he\'s elitist... he\'s not like you or I... radical preacher - judgement.... black guy... don\'t trust him with your white babies...."  it just goes on and on.  And those seeds get watered and nurtured to the point everytime Wright makes an appearance or does it interview.  Most important, it keeps Obama from setting the tone of the primary and gives the power to Hillary and McCain.  </br><br></br><br>Wright really needs to do Obama a favor and go on 6 month sabatical.  Him defending himself is doing Obama no favors right now and is hurting more than helping</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962108">N. Mahana</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962108" class="dsq-comment-message">Of course anonymous is sincere. I mean, for what other purpose would someone come to this blog, to namelessly state the same things over and over again? <br></br><br>Maybe to see if he/she can poison the well. So, he/she has motives, to either rattle Obama supporters or divide. </br><br></br><br>In that, anonymous is being very sincere.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962109">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962109" class="dsq-comment-message">I have mixed feelings about Wright speaking these past 3 days. Part of me supports him defending himself.  Give the MSM a big "Kiss my ass! I\'m gonna speak truth to power whether you like it or not!". But the other part of me knows that his words, no matter how innocent and truthful they are, will be twisted and mangled by the MSM for their own agenda. In fact, it has already happened with Chris Matthews, Mica Byrinszky, Andrea Martin and Fox News  saying that he was making fun of former presidents or causing more division between blacks and whites, or (my favorite) insulting black children when he talks about how they learn differently. <br></br><br>Like it was pointed out upthread, we really need to learn how to be more savvy when it comes to fighting the Right Wing Media Monster.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962110">Anonymous</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962110" class="dsq-comment-message">i just ? tonigth i will talk to the "WILL&GRACE;" kids about read life .uvrnoz</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962111">Anonymous</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962111" class="dsq-comment-message">Watched Wright this a.m. at the national press club.  Could somebody send this clown on an all-expenses paid vacation to some remote part of the world until after November.  Please.  Perhaps the Obama campaign can fund it.<br></br><br>Jesus H. Christ.  Shut the phuk up already, man!!!!!</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962112">RhondaCoca</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962112" class="dsq-comment-message">"...saying that he was making fun of former presidents or causing more division between blacks and whites or (my favorite) insulting black children when he talks about how they learn differently"<br></br><br>Wow. if they interpreted the speech like that last night then I do not know. I was not offended. They obviously do not understand certain concepts. Bunch of simpletons is who is in the media. These are the people who are getting out to the public. Whatever. May the chips fall where they may.</br><br></br><br>I think that Obama\'s campaign overall can be more pro-active than re-active. If they felt that he was going to say anything that can be used a "fodder" then they should have contacted him and spoken to him, if they haven\'t.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962113">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962113" class="dsq-comment-message">People are now claiming that Wright knows Obama believes as he believes. That he practically said so. This is how it will all get twisted and how it will ultimately be a bigger hurdle for Obama to overcome than it was before.<br></br><br>I can\'t help but think Wright is upset that Obama said he was stuck in a time warp. That he was wrongheaded and divisive. </br><br></br><br>He made a point of saying that he is descriptive, not divisive. </br><br></br><br>In essence, Obama critiqued him publicly and he doesn\'t appear to like it.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962114">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962114" class="dsq-comment-message">Jonathan Capehart is pure scum.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962115">NMP</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962115" class="dsq-comment-message">I said a year ago, and I\'ll say it again today I strongly believe that Reverend Wright is trying to sabotage Senator Obama.  His interview with the NY Times in the wake of the Obama Campaign not allowing him stage time at the official announcement was petulant, vindictive and self-serving.  There are relly no words for his performance today,and that\'s what it was--a performance.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962116">RhondaCoca</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962116" class="dsq-comment-message">nmp-<br></br><br>I hear you to a point. The Moyers interview was good, the speech at the NAACP was good, the speech today was good but the Q&A; was not good. If that part was left out then it would be fine. He has alright to defend the black church tradition, his church and himself. The media has created a certain caricature of him and his church. They are not going to change it. They will find anything to continue to paint him that way. Therefore, he should not have done the National Press Club because they were looking for \'soundbites\' from his Q&A.; They probably did not even (they did not) pick up what he was saying in either of his two speeches. </br><br></br><br></br><br>Obama played it wrong. He was running away hoping that it didn\'t come up. He came to bite him...hard. When he disinvited his pastor, it began to make people whisper. You cannot act like you are hiding something or someone. He tried to avoid race and anything slightly racial but obviously it is the big elephant in the room. As I said, Obama and his campaign continue to be re-active rather than pro-active.</br><br></br><br>Does Obama or his campaign have any communication with Wright?</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962117">Teacher</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962117" class="dsq-comment-message">Friends, you know, I feel what some of you all are saying....but I think Obama is a legitimate presidential candidate, and I honestly and sincerely think he would be better for the country than McSame or HillBilly, which is why I want him to be president. We live in a racist country (hello?) that will use race as an excuse to not give him a chance to try to do something different with the country. There are those who are so blinded by their racism that they are willing the SCREW the whole country, though they obviously don\'t see it that way. There is a time and a place for everything. What I\'m saying that this is not the right time for Wright\'s commentary or self-defense tour with respect to Obama\'s campaign. If he speaks the truth at a later date, does that make it less of the truth? So to me, Wright\'s willingness to SCREW and derail Obama\'s campaign, if he believes in it, makes him no better than the racists. Both are motivated by what\'s best for them and not what\'s best for the nation. It hurts more coming from family than from the racist. To me, his actions don\'t look very spiritual or christian or even liberation oriented, because a blind person can see that he\'s letting himself be used as a tool of the enemy! Will we still have the audacity to hope after the pit bull MSM shakes this issue like a chicken? Keep hope alive.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962118" class="dsq-comment-message">Wright actually made it very clear that he and Obama are anything but joined at the hip.<br>While I personally would prefer a world where an Obama could be as blunt as a Wright and still be successful, in the world we actually live in the additional distance between the two is hardly a negative for Obama. People need to get a bit clearer about what they\'re so worried about. You can\'t simultaneously hold that being "linked" to Wright hurts Obama AND that Wright\'s "attack" on Obama hurts Obama. Which is it?</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962119">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962119" class="dsq-comment-message"><i> I said a year ago, and I\'ll say it again today I strongly believe that Reverend Wright is trying to sabotage Senator Obama. </i><br></br><br>::</br><br></br><br>Agreed.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962120" class="dsq-comment-message">So, Wright says he\'s going to "go after" Obama if he\'s elected...seems like he\'s going after him right now.<br></br><br>I wonder if he has any plans on going after Hillary, Bill and McCain.  It is unfair to go after Obama in this way.  Why would Wright and others in the so-called black leadership hold Barack to impossible standards?</br><br></br><br>I recall something I saw one season of the American Idol auditions.  There was a young black woman who came to the second round of auditions with several members of her family.  Apparently the mother loved a particular song and wanted the daughter to sing it.  It was clear that this young woman was not feeling that particular song, but felt pressured somehow to be obedient and \'represent\' her family\'s wishes.  I could see there was some fear in following her own instinct in case she would fail for being disobedient.  Anyway, she sang the song and got poor reviews and was cut from the audition.  Her mom came onto the stage and talked to the judges, but it was too late.</br><br></br><br>This makes me think of what\'s happening now with Barack and the black "leadership".  Blacks have a very authoritarian upbringing informed by religion.  We are taught to obey our elders without question.  </br><br></br><br>I see Barack as struggling to sing his own song against the impossible pressure of the hopes and dreams of the entire black community.  Many of us understand this instinctively and release him to do what he needs to do...but some in the black "leadership" seek to burden him with petty things.</br><br></br><br>The most insulting part of this is the assertion that they\'re doing it out of love.  They say they\'re holding Barack "accountable"..doing him a favour.  Then they say they\'re defending the black church.  The truth is that people like Smiley and Wright and West are competing jealously.  Not the green-eyed-monster kind of jealousy..but the stifling, possesive, authoritarian, "ownership" kind of jealousy.</br><br></br><br>Is this what will happen whenever any black person dares to win the office of President?</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962121" class="dsq-comment-message">They are forcing Obama to choose...and it\'s not fair.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962122">RhondaCoca</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962122" class="dsq-comment-message">Teacher-<br></br><br>I hear you to a point-</br><br></br><br>What you however don\'t seem to understand is that this is not going away. People have only heard and seen how the media has painted him. The Republicans are getting ready to run ads, the media mentions it all of the time...its was not just going to go away.</br><br></br><br>It was good that he came out to defend the black church tradition, his church and himself. However we could have all done without the Q&A.;</br><br></br><br>Also I would like to remind you guys that he is a prominent minister who often has speaking engagements and he is always being awarded somewhere. What has happened now is that he has heightened media scrutiny and anything he says can potentially screw Obama. That is the problem. He has a life that does not include Obama and he has been well respected before Obama!!!!!!!!!</br><br></br><br>Where I believe he went wrong was in the Q&A.; He needs to not allow anymore cameras where he goes.</br><br></br><br>P.S.</br><br></br><br>Wright is very candid. That is his personality. My friend knows TUCC and she has already told me that. This doesn\'t work when you are dealing with a mainstream media who has bad intentions. He should not have done the National Press Club. However I do not think that he is trying to sabotage Obama. </br><br></br><br></br><br>P.S.S. A few New Yorkers aren\'t too happy with the O-man because he said that we have to "respect the verdict"..."we are a country of laws" (Sean Bell). I have tried to clarify with them what he was saying but they didnt want to hear it. </br><br></br><br>I do understand how hard it is for Obama.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962123" class="dsq-comment-message">Why shouldn\'t Obama choose?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962124">Melissa</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962124" class="dsq-comment-message">OMG!!! You people are too much. Truthseeker, He was stating that he is also going to go after Obama because he is hard on all POLITICANS and GOVERNMENT. <br></br><br>I\'m reading this thread and I think that people are missing understanding him.</br><br></br><br>I am an Obama supporter but this whole nobody dare look at Obama or we are all going to blow up mentality cannot work.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962125">Melissa</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962125" class="dsq-comment-message">Jealous!!!<br></br><br>Truthseeker, I agree that Smiley was being a hater but please stop. This doesnt help anything.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962126" class="dsq-comment-message">The media is the one obsessed with Rev Wright, not the people.  Most people are worried about rising gas prices, losing their job, the war in Iraq, etc.  The media is largely to blame for making this a big story.<br></br><br>The media loves to make everything a soap opera; well, if we let them do that, we get the type of govt that is a soap opera.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962127">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962127" class="dsq-comment-message">Where I believe he went wrong was in the Q&A.; He needs to not allow anymore cameras where he goes.<br></br><br>::</br><br></br><br>But this is precisely the problem. Wright said he is not a politician. Then why answer the questions from a press corps that crucified him?</br><br></br><br>It makes no sense on its face unless he\'s got something else in mind.</br><br></br><br>As you said, just giving speeches and educating listeners about the history of the Black Church and the tradition of the prophetic social gospel is perfectly fine.</br><br></br><br>But he also said he wasn\'t there to answer questions about the political process. Notice that the only answers he offered about politicians were answers asked about Obama. Questions about the Hillary Rodham Nixon and her husband\'s race-baiting tactics weren\'t justified with a response.</br><br></br><br>Now, I\'ll take it all the way <i>there</i>:</br><br></br><br>Lest we forget, Wright had enough of a relationship with President Clinton to accept his invite to the Whitehouse years ago. </br><br></br><br>No preacher is an angel. I\'ve certainly never met one who is. Doesn\'t mean they aren\'t good people who do good things with their ministries. But preachers can be just as corrupted by power and money as politicians can. </br><br></br><br>So, the million dollar question: Is Wright being put up to this?</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962128" class="dsq-comment-message">Melissa,<br></br><br>What is the point of him saying this?  I think he went too far.  I thought the speech was great and appropriate, as was the interview.  The question and answer was a recipe for disaster full of vacuous questions from "stuck on stupids" for an obviously intelligent and proud man.  So, if he is smarter, why did he subject himself to a trap?   I think he just couldn\'t help himself.  He is driven to compete and to be relevant.  There is little humility to be seen there and he stumbled on the HIV conspiracy question.</br><br></br><br>I like him, and I don\'t like him.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962129" class="dsq-comment-message">@ craig hickman<br></br><br>damn, you really did go there!  I don\'t know....the timing is so perfect for the other side.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962130" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s not all about the media.  If you take off the Obama blinders you would see there are some legitimate questions being raised.<br></br><br>Obama made an effort to downplay his blackness from the beginning of the campaign.  He didn\'t want to be painted black or be made the black candidate. (That didn\'t stop him from expecting the black vote, but that\'s a another story).  </br><br></br><br>He had white people believing that had nothing in common with the likes of Rev Al and Brother Jesse.  He didn\'t attend the state of the black union.</br><br></br><br>He attempted to keep Rev Wright hidden, because he knew that there would be fall out.</br><br></br><br>The 20 year association could not be easily explained away.  There is no easy way out.  Any reasonable person would think, If he didn\'t agree with him, why stay in the church?  why make him a mentor?  Is this an example of his judgement?</br><br></br><br>As a black person I have additional questions.  The way I see it,  Obama pursued a relationship with Wright to gain street cred in Chicago.  Now he doesn\'t need him anymore or the association is an embarrassment he is backing away-and will eventually disavow him in a effort to win the nomination and presidency.  Will he do this if he makes it to the White House?</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962131">Tabatha Atwood</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962131" class="dsq-comment-message">wright is seems authentic to me- if people are so concerned about the general election why don\'t we get the democratic national committee to start advertising for democrats against Bush and any followers of Bush policies? this onesided focus on individuals is problematic. petition the dnc- start the campaign- delineate our differences- expose the lies- again and again and then even if we get stuck with Hillary there will already be pressure on her not to totally cave.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962132" class="dsq-comment-message">Game over.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962133" class="dsq-comment-message">I knew it was only a matter of time before the Obamites found a way to link Wright to the Clintons or worse, Republican dark forces.<br></br><br>Why can\'t he just have his own opinions and act based on his own motivations?</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962134" class="dsq-comment-message">Repeat, game over. Barack and thus by extraction Axelrod, have been living in a bubble re: how TV newsrooms (such as they are) truly work, and what the average white schlub "responds" to. It is soap opera, and the good Rev. has delivered himself as the Adam Chandler of this campaign.Not necessarily a villian, but always there. Look, did they really think the Clintons were going to play fair...or the RNC and it\'s minions beyond that? Having a political philosophy of union and the future and hope is one thing, but you have to have the razor/lead shield/punch-counter punch personality, and everyday humor, to carry that. <br></br><br>Lest I say, here comes the "L" word...</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962135">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962135" class="dsq-comment-message">@ tree<br></br><br>how do you downplay your blackness really?  I can only assume it\'s by not following the template of behaviour of previous black candidates.  But, what if Barack really doesn\'t believe the way they do.  Maybe he was really just being himself...singing his own song.</br><br></br><br>@ craig hickman</br><br>maybe the Clinton\'s are trying to regain the black vote...but that\'s just from one cynic to the other.</br><br></br><br></br><br>I am tired of people like Sharpton exploiting people like the Bell family for their own gain.  How is it beneficial for them to march.  Maybe I\'m shortsighted, but I don\'t see the benefit.  There is no remedy for this family other than to grieve, then quietly sue for every dime they can get.  Then, if they want to change the law, they should testify before congress, form an advocacy group...but shutting down the city???  Who does that benefit?</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962136">Melissa</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962136" class="dsq-comment-message">Truthseeker and Craig:<br></br><br>You do not know my minister. He has said wonderful things about Obama. He even said last night that he supported him in saying "Yes We Can".</br><br></br><br>He answered the questions so that he can clarify what he was trying to say. </br><br></br><br>I was so hurt when my church came under attack. He and the congregation have alright to fight back at the media. </br><br></br><br>He repeated what he says a lot. The whole thing about Obama being a politican. Wright is a man who is critical about all politicans and government. I put my head down when he repeated it because I know that he is a very outspoken man but the media will use it. It sounded like it was not in Obama\'s favor.</br><br></br><br>I think people fail to undertstand that the man has a life outside of Barack. He is well-known. He has been invited to speak nationwide for years. He has a church of about 8,000. It took it from 80 to 8000. He has built ministries and helped the community. The media is digging and Barack supporters are jumping on anyone that passes close to Barack. Wow. </br><br></br><br>I support Barack 100% but he is not as progressive as he used to be before he hit the national stage.</br><br></br><br>P.S. RhondaCoca, you are right about the FBI. Who told you that? Our church has been outspoken when it comes to the government and world issues. Being a strong black church puts us in the spotlight like it has so many other black churches and organizations. It happened a while back. They for years have been successful in shuting people up.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962137">scruncher</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962137" class="dsq-comment-message">I may be totally alone in this thinking, but I actually think Rev. Wright being more public is good for Obama. Whatever people\'s impression or opinion of him, for good or ill, Rev. Wright becomes more his own person and less an appendage of Obama, which is how people unfamiliar with him prior to this see him. Now he\'s becoming his own person, in everyone\'s mind, who must be judged for himself.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962138">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962138" class="dsq-comment-message">truth,<br></br><br>I don\'t even consider myself a cynic. If so, I wouldn\'t support Obama and I wouldn\'t be paying any attention to this election at all.</br><br></br><br>After the Q&A; today, I just don\'t trust Wright\'s motives entirely.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962139">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962139" class="dsq-comment-message">Melissa, you are right. I do not know your minister. But I still have a right to express my skepticism of his motives. And since I don\'t know him at all, my feelings aren\'t informed by any personal relationship I have with him.<br></br><br>I have doubt. That\'s all.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962140">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962140" class="dsq-comment-message">I must\'ve missed something.<br></br><br>When did Wright make fun of Democratic presidents?</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962141" class="dsq-comment-message">Just because there aren’t 30 second sound bites that we know of on Hillary’s religious mentor, Doug Coe, doesn’t give the media a pass on not investigating her religious connections or any religious connections of question that McCain might have.   <br></br><br>If people voting for Hillary truly understood what her theological leader and prayer groups believe in they might very well be more concerned about her as you will see in the following excerpt regarding Hillary’s religious affiliations. (please make note of the irony of the use of the word “elite.” </br><br></br><br>“The Family avoids the word Christian but worships Jesus, though not the Jesus who promised the earth to the “meek.”  They believe that, in mass societies, it’s only the elites who matter, the political leaders who can build God’s “dominion” on earth.   Insofar as The Family has a consistent philosophy, it’s all about power—cultivating it, building it and networking it together into ever-stronger units, or “cells.”  We work with power where we can,” Doug Coe has said, and “build new power where we can’t”  </br><br></br><br>The above is from an article from the Nation “Hillary’s Nasty Pastorate” by Barbara Ehrenreich (<a href="http://www.thenation.com%29.%3C/br%3E%3Cbr%3E%3C/br%3E%3Cbr%3EFrankly" rel="nofollow">www.thenation.com).</br><br></br><br>Frankly</a>, I find it odd that the msm keeps saying the public knows Hillary but they don’t Sen. Obama?   They keep asking why did he sit in that church for 20 years, blah, blah, blah.  Looks to me like the msm should be asking the same things of Hillary and looks to me like the public doesn\'t really know her either.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962142" class="dsq-comment-message">Wright\'s problem was not speaking out It was in how he managed it. He managed his PR tour extremely poorly. He should\'ve given his Moyers interview and his NAACP speech and let that be for a few weeks. The networks--hoping to land an interview--would\'ve been kind to him. Instead, he decided to appear on every show, including Glenn Beck. The result: he restarted the media shitfest.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962143" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>Craig Hickman said... <br>I must\'ve missed something.</br><br></br><br>When did Wright make fun of Democratic presidents?</br><br></br><br>Mon Apr 28, 12:18:00 PM 2008</br><br></br></i><br></br><br>He didn\'t make fun of democratic presidents. He pointed out that when Jack Kennedy and LBJ pronounced words with their distinctly regional inflection, they weren\'t criticized as less than or stupid or too dumb to learn English. </br><br></br><br>All he was saying is that blacks have been treated unfairly in part because there is an expectation in this country that white and european is the standard of measure. </br><br></br><br>Different is not deficient, it\'s just different. Good lord, it would be a better world if we could beat that into every head in this country.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962144" class="dsq-comment-message">Craig Hickman, you are RIGHT ON!!! Something about this situation simply stinks, is a tangential point that I am also trying to make. No one is perfect and we all have contradictions, subconcious motivations, alterior motives, hypocricy inside us (thought it\'s easier to see it in other people).<br></br><br>Truthseeker, I really think you captured some of the underlying psychology operating in this saga. I agree with you, and I continue to say again, LOVE should have prompted Wright to wait until a more opportune time to speak his truth to power. And as a professed representative of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, who did not defend himself when being crucified, I think LOVE should have been the filter & the forethought, not the after thought.To me, love should have caused him to "cover" Obama, because when you love someone, that\'s what you do (love covers a multitide of sins).</br><br></br><br>Tree, I disagree with what you said about Obama trying to downplay his blackness. Obama didn\'t grow up in the hood. His lack of exposure to other Black people caused him to seek out a more Black experience. It caused him to embrace his African name and take a Black wife (unlike Tiger Woods). By the same token, the embracing of his Blackness hasn\'t stopped Wright from building a 10 mil. $ home in an all white gated community, but I digress. One might have to have the experience or know someone who had it, to understand. It is lonely and painful at times. He sought out upwardly mobile Black people like himself. He gave Wright the privilege of being the father that he never had, and showed his loyalty and seriousness by not dissavowing him when the media asked him to do so. He said, "I can no more dissavow him than I can dissavow the Black community." And Wright responds with, "I\'m coming after him IF he becomes pres. because he will represent a gov. whose policies harm the poor." How about this option. Build yourself a 1 mill. $ home and give 9 (.2) million to the poor instead of threatening Obama. Put your $ where your mouth is or STFU. THE MAN\'S EGO IS OUT OF CONTROL!!!!</br><br></br><br>How many Black people do you think are going to quit the Black church because of the Wright tape loop? The church needs no defense and is not on trial. He used it as an excuse to posture. My grandmother was a member of his church for 20 years as was my brother and some cousins. We had her Home Going celebration at his church. I own several of his study books and tapes, but honestly, if you speak truth to power and have not love, you don\'t sound like anything to me.</br><br></br><br>Rhonda, I understand your perspective, and agree a little.Maybe it would not have gone totally away, but I still don\'t agree with Wright giving them additional foder because of his ego tripping. Tu intiende?</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962145" class="dsq-comment-message">Thanks, belle. I forgot about that. But to hear the MSM tell it...<br></br><br>Angela, you are right and the reason why the MSM isn\'t questioning Hillary Rodham Nixon about The Family is because it\'s a right wing cult full of right wing Republicans.</br><br></br><br>All that talk about obliterating Iran comes right out of The Family.</br><br></br><br>So when I say that Mrs. Nixon would be happy to be McCain\'s runningmate, I\'m not talking outta my behind.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962146" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>Repeat, game over. Barack and thus by extraction Axelrod, have been living in a bubble re: how TV newsrooms (such as they are) truly work, and what the average white schlub "responds" to. It is soap opera, and the good Rev. has delivered himself as the Adam Chandler of this campaign.Not necessarily a villian, but always there.</i><br></br><br>Don\'t forget Chris; where ever there\'s Adam Chandler, there\'s <i>Stuart</i> Chandler.  Not sure what I mean by that, but it sounded good. :)</br><br></br><br>I disagree that it\'s game over.  As you said, newsrooms are what they are.  And this issue--like "Mission Accomplished"; like Katrina; like the Downing Street Minutes; like Abu Ghraib--has a shelf life.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962147" class="dsq-comment-message">Adam and Stuart Chandler. How friggin funny.<br></br><br>On the other side:</br><br></br><br>Obama held it down in a NC town hall today.</br><br></br><br>And he also got another superdelegate from New Mexico.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962148" class="dsq-comment-message">How do we know this isn\'t some kind of strategery on the part of the Obama campaign?  I think they put Wright out there to define himself, let the media froth over the mouth about it for a week and then they\'ll realize there\'s no there there and move on.  Better to get this crap out of the way before the General Election.<br></br><br>I think we Obama supporters underestimate him and his team. They\'re shrewd political gamers. The whole thing about trying to bankrupt HRC as rikyrah mentioned earlier is part of the Game. Obama\'s team is looking at the Big Picture which is why they\'ve got the 50-state voter reg campaign and donating money to the DNC.  We gotta think long view. Barack will be fine.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962149" class="dsq-comment-message">Roland Martin is leaving a bad taste in my mouth.<br></br><br>http://essence.typepad.com/news/?xid=042808-EssenceNews-RolandReportHeadline</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962150" class="dsq-comment-message">What a disaster. Wright at National Press Club today.  <br></br><br>One nugget of "wisdom" from the rev: "Black brains" are wired differently and work differently than "white brains".  </br><br></br><br>Un-f*cking-believable. </br><br></br><br>Sounds like something straight out of 19th century America or Nazi Germany.  </br><br></br><br>"Taken out of context" (again) I suppose.</br><br></br><br>There\'s no way in hell this guy isn\'t on the RNC or HRC payroll.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962151" class="dsq-comment-message">Michelle Bernard is beside herself. She cannot hide her pain. She is calling for Obama to absolutely separate himself from Rev. Wright.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962152" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>We gotta think long view. Barack will be fine.</i><br></br><br>I think this long, drawn out primary is getting the best of a lot of us.  Just by reading the posts here and on some of the other blogs it seems like everyone\'s nerves are frayed down to nothing and emotions are running as high as I\'ve ever seen them.  That\'s not to say that there is no cause for concern, but taking a few deep breaths really wouldn\'t hurt at this point.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962153" class="dsq-comment-message">Chris Matthews on Hardball....Preachers Gone Wild!They are painting Wright to be a little loco. They have (a little)sympathy for Obama, but are calling for him to denounce Wright. They are really playing hardball. White people can be so control freaky.What would you do? <br></br><br>Ceedub, you are the voice of reason, fu sho! Sometimes the Obama campaign does seem dumb like a fox.They do seem to eek by and somehow come out ahead. They keep it on the DL. I\'m down with that. Thanks.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962154" class="dsq-comment-message">And people think I\'m a conspiracy theorist. This is a comment from the article on WaPo that I linked earlier.<br></br><br><i>I have it on good authority that radicals within the powerful rightwing Jewish Lobby including [AIPAC] American Israel Public Affairs Committee are vexed, frustrated and displeased with Barack Obama\'s refusal to accept special interest money and consequentially seek his crucifixion. The concern is that the Senator\'s policy prevents them from exerting influence or extracting favor from his administration should he become the next President in these United States of America. In an effort to allay their fears, Senator Obama has offered his assurance that if elected, an Obama administration would not be a foe- yet this does not seem to halt their resistance to his candidacy. Reportedly, Senator Clinton\'s campaign saw an opening to exploit the Jewish community\'s apprehension and began stoking the anti-Obama fire behind the scene.</i></br><br></br><br>In collaboration with the Clintons, they [the Jewish Lobby] dispatched a number of "candidacy assassinators" including former Clinton special counsel, Lanny Davis, Florida congress woman, Debbie Wasserman-Shultz, California congress man, Brad Sherman, CNN news anchor, Wolf Blitzer [vis-a-vis Lou Dobbs], Independent Senator, Joseph Lieberman, the far right crippled Washington Post Journalist, Charles Krauthammer and others to torpedo Obama\'s nomination bid. The above mentioned Jews were mandated to fan the flames of hateful passion against the Illinois Senator using demagoguery and nefarious spin of the Reverend Wright issue to toxify the American voters. Their mission is to convince the public that Obama would be unelectable in November due to his optics and alleged third party association to Rev. Farrakhan. This while simultaneously promoting Hillary as the only friend of Israel. It is also reliably reported that Democratic Jews are being counseled to vote for John McCain as a penultimate option should Senator Clinton not get the nomination.</br><br></br><br>The rest of it gets really into the mire.</br><br></br><br>Here\'s the thing: the Jewish lobby has and will continue to be one of the most powerful lobbies in US government.</br><br></br><br>If Obama refuses contributions from lobbyists...</br><br></br><br>A lot to ponder here. A lot to ponder.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962155" class="dsq-comment-message">Hillary Rodham Nixon is in a "no comment" holding pattern about all of this. Just as she was the last time Wright became an issue. Funny that when Wright didn\'t doom Obama the first time around, she finally came out and spoke on the matter, trying to turn the knife before the PA primary. <br></br><br>She must feel believe that this time Obama is carrion for the picking.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962156" class="dsq-comment-message">Craig they are discussing this very issue on Race for the White House as I write these words. The (conspiracy) theory you just offered is juicy and gives me an appreciation for my anonymous and small life. What would Wright\'s price be to collude with a group who wanted to destroy his "son\'s" career? Could he really collude with an identified enemy and oppressor of Palestine, God\'s other chosen people? I may as well save my brain cells for something I can actually figure out.<br></br><br>HillBilly wants to do it with him on the back of a flatbed truck as she sings oblit oblit oblit--obliterate Iran....</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962157" class="dsq-comment-message">Here is the dirt.  The mainstream media allowed our elected officials to lie to us, i.e. Pentagaon Propaganda Pundits, Armstrong Williams and other pundits, Jessica Lynch, WMD in Iraq, Nukes from Niger, Pat Tillman, Katrina, etc.  Whenever someone dares speak truth to power they are labeled "loco" or "traitors" or "anti American" by the same media that lied to us.  The media believes that truth must be renounced and denounced.<br>Wright is right, this is an attack on the black church and also an attack on black people.</br><br></br><br>The corporate media can kiss my Ebony Donkey.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962158" class="dsq-comment-message">Wright is right.<br></br><br>But he\'s also so very wrong.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962159" class="dsq-comment-message">Noose found at Secret Service facility; agent put on leave<br></br><br></br><br>By REBECCA CARR</br><br>The Atlanta Journal-Constitution</br><br></br><br>Published on: 04/28/08</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962160">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962160" class="dsq-comment-message">The noose story is another part of the perfect storm.<br></br><br>That paper is in the North Carolina print media market.</br><br></br><br>Do you see what\'s going on, ms.martin?</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962161" class="dsq-comment-message">Craig Hickman<br></br><br>I do and I\'ve seen all along and I understood what SBO would be confronted with when it became clear that he could be America\'s president.</br><br></br><br>The MSM could not draw Obama out (in a reactionary manner)nor manage public opinion to his detriment by using Wright as a campaign issue so they drew out Wright who has every right to to defend himself;it\'s unfortunate for Obama that he went beyond defending himself to fighting back, but that\'s his right as well.</br><br></br><br>It is incumbent upon us to be able to separate things that really matter.</br><br></br><br></br><br>Chris Matthews is getting on my fing nerves.  He thinks he smells blood so he\'s trying to be forceful and he looks stupid.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962162" class="dsq-comment-message">If Black voters can be convinced that their votes will be wasted....<br></br><br>The noose story is far too obvious to be anything other than a plot point.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962163">Felicia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962163" class="dsq-comment-message">For celebrities there\'s no such thing as bad press.  I really hope that applies to politicians, too.  Obama\'s not having a good day.  The NC governor endorsed Clinton, the SUSA poll,which has been the most accurate poll this primary season, shows Obama down 9 points in IN, and now Wright won\'t go away.  <br></br><br>Obama\'s going to be in the news the next four days--and not for good reasons.  He needs to scramble his PR firm to help him get over this mess.  It would truly be ashame if he got this close and loses the nomination.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962164" class="dsq-comment-message">Craig Hickman<br></br><br>After everything we\'ve been through this election season, I really don\'t think black voters will give it a second thought.  The veil has been lifted and now we really see.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962165" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree with Melissa and ceedub.  Barack will be fine!  I believe<br>Pastor Wright is FULLY in Barack\'s</br><br>corner and not part of any conspiracy!  Everyone\'s nerves really are frayed.  We all knew what the MSM</br><br>would do.  They need to keep the drama going in order to maintain ratings!</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962166">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962166" class="dsq-comment-message">I never expected Obama to win Indiana. And I always thought Hillary Rodham Nixon could win North Carolina with a little help. If Jesse Helms Democrats could be reminded of why they voted for Jesse Helms and she got a big endorsement....<br></br><br>North Carolina could end up being what Virginia was <i>supposed</i> to be: a close race where Mrs. Nixon could squeak out a victory.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962167">Ms.Martin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962167" class="dsq-comment-message">Chris Matthews just asked Axelrod if it was possible for Obama to continue campaigning without be angry.  WTF!!!!!!!!!!!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962168">Webb</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962168" class="dsq-comment-message">Obama Fatigue...Annoyance with Obama...I\'ve heard it all today.  Pardon my french, but it dayum near feels like Peter denying Christ before the crucifixion up in here today and i\'m disappointed not with Barack, but with some of you folks.<br></br><br>If you\'re so dayummed fatigued and annoyed, can you imagine how Barack Obama must feel after what is probably the longest "primary" campaign in modern american history...get over yourselves okay. </br><br></br><br>You\'ll hear me say a lot of things on here, but you\'re not ever gonna hear me doubting Barack.  This is not the time to be discounting the brother\'s chances, this is the time WE SHOULD BE LIFTING HIM UP!  I\'m encouraging everyone to "check yourselves" and watch your emotions...don\'t be so drawn into the "bombast" of the MSM, KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE PRIZE.</br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1962169" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962169">jayjay</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962169" class="dsq-comment-message">I have to say I\'m really shocked by how big a deal this thing has become.  I\'m white and my mother preaches in a UCC church which minus the african cultural focus is theologically very similar to Trinity.  Has the religious left become so discredited in this country?  The religious right can say any sort of batshit insane nonsense (blame katrina and 9/11 on sexual immorality, be rabidly anti-catholic/anti-muslim) they want, and nobody cares...</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962170">Ms.Martin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962170" class="dsq-comment-message">Web<br></br><br>I\'m not tired of Obama, I\'m tired of the MSM and the way they\'re trying to shape public opinion.</br><br></br><br>I\'m tired of this shit, I\'m tired of being reminded that I\'m black and that it it is supposed to be something negative.</br><br></br><br>I\'m tired of all these racists who think I don\'t see them and the ones who don\'t care if I see them.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962171">Anonymous</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962171" class="dsq-comment-message">Me too ms.martin!<br></br><br>It\'s the stupid Media!</br><br></br><br>According to Cambell (Mrs. Jon Senor) Brown, Obama just can\'t connect with white working class voters. Obama nor Hillary can win without black voters.  The so called white working class voters are bigots.  They aren\'t going to vote for an uppity black man anyway.</br><br></br><br>The SCOTUS passed the Voter ID bill today, is the media talking about that?</br><br></br><br>John McCain is using his wifes company jet for the Straight Talk Express. Is the media talking about that?</br><br></br><br>50 shots, not guilty, is the media talking about that?</br><br></br><br>Gas is sky high is the media talkinb about that?</br><br></br><br>There is a looming food crisis, is the media talking about that?</br><br></br><br>4 more soldiers were killed in Iraq, is the media talking about that?</br><br></br><br>It\'s all Wright all the time, UNfair and UNbalanced.</br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1962172" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962172">Texas Girl in L.A.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962172" class="dsq-comment-message">Thanks Webb.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1962173" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962173">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962173" class="dsq-comment-message">webb, with all due respect, you don\'t get to tell us how we should feel or what we should be doing.<br></br><br>We\'re all different. Different, not deficient.</br><br></br><br>Allow us our angst, our pessimism, our doubt.</br><br></br><br>I\'ve been labeled one of the sunny ones around here, and I\'m quite disappointed in what I saw from Rev. Wright today.</br><br></br><br>I know ego when I see it. Ego and competition. Men will be men. And we don\'t know what has gone on behind the scenes between Obama and Wright. I\'m not saying my concerns are right, but they are what they are and no rhetoric in the world is going to change them at this time.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962174">RhondaCoca</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962174" class="dsq-comment-message">Guys its the media. I was on campus today speaking to people. A lot of people actually like Wright now. One chick told me that he was really smart and entertaining. Everyone wants to know why the media is spinning it. Everyone wants the media to discuss the candidates and the issue at hand. The media is looking for whatever they can find and this will be over by the weekend if not before. It is already very tired. <br></br><br>I agree with some of the people in here telling you guys to calm your nerves. If Obama\'s campaign wanst derailed after the soundbites then this will not hurt him at all...at all. As for NC, there is a large AA voting block so even if Hillary closes the gap, she cannot win the state, in my opinion. I think that he has a chance in Indiana. I realized the media plays a game. Polls are so different from each other. I find that they show the lower polling on days when candidates are having "bad days";)</br><br></br><br>I am in the middle of a boycott of the media. I refuse to watch. I will tune back in the day of the Indiana and NC primaries. </br><br></br><br>Soledad O\'Brien was on Michael Baisden and she agreed that the media was acting extra hype. Nobody thinks that this will hurt him. </br><br></br><br>So get up and shake off!!</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962175">freespiritbeautee</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962175" class="dsq-comment-message">Ms Martin said:<br></br><br>"I\'m tired of all these racists who think I don\'t see them and the ones who don\'t care if I see them".</br><br></br><br></br><br>EXACTLY RIGHT!!  </br><br></br><br>People I implore you to boycott MSM and Fox. Stop legitamizing and internalizing their garbage.  If they don\'t want to tell the news, go to alternate sources.  I don\'t need predominatly WHITE commentators and pundits criticizing a black pastor and his words on a daily basis anymore. Remember what they did to Michelle Obama?  </br><br></br><br>Primary fatigue has set in.  Thanks for letting me vent y\'all.  :-)</br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1962176" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962176">Steve LaBonne</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962176" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>Has the religious left become so discredited in this country?</i><br></br><br>Only if WE cringe, instead of standing firm, when people like Jeremiah Wright speak truth to power.</br><br></br><br>And I\'m glad he plans to keep on doing so after Obama is elected. EVERY politician needs grassroots pressure to keep him / her honest.</br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1962177" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962177">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1962177" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962177" class="dsq-comment-message">That speaking truth to power had zero effect on Bill Clinton.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1962178" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962178">Steve LaBonne</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962178" class="dsq-comment-message">That\'s because we liberal enablers made the historic mistake of supporting Bill\'s sorry ass. I\'ve long since repented of that one. The world would be a much better place now if Gore had gone into the 200 election as the incumbent.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962179">andyfrombrooklyn</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962179" class="dsq-comment-message">dear jack and jill, i have a headcold which might be affecting my thinking but...the media seems intent on destroying obama. since he has no sex or fiscal scandals they are doing this guilt by association mccarthy patriot racist shit. it is bull shit. if they suceed we will all look back on this moment with shame. that said rev wright is an asshole. he is singlehandedly messing up our future with his ego.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962180">JJ</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962180" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'ve had an epiphany:<br></br><br>They are gonna give this thing to Clinton. A lot of events but now with dean saying the Dels should decided sometime in June and that they should choose the person who is most "electable" than that lets me know that Hill has this thing locked up and they\'re just letting everyone vote so her numbers look a little better when they coronate her.</br><br></br><br>Hey, if I\'m wrong, I\'ll gladly be wrong.</br><br></br><br>So lack folk what\'s the plan if and when this "coronation" goes down? U prepare to wreak (civilized) havoc?</br><br></br><br>Or do we take this one sitting down?</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962181">Anonymous</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962181" class="dsq-comment-message">Now it seems like the MSM is desperately  trying to pit Wright vs. Obama. Richard Wolffe, a reporter from Newsweek and regular on Countdown w/ Keith Olbermann, said that people in the Wright/Obama circles said that there has been tension brewing between Wright and Obama for a while. When Obama did a book signing for Audacity of Hope, Wright seemed annoyed that O was getting all of the attention. <br></br><br>~Sepia</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962182">Ms.Martin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962182" class="dsq-comment-message">JJ<br></br><br>If they GIVE this nomination to Clinton, I WILL NOT VOTE FOR HER - NEVER - I REPEAT - NEVER!</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962183">Ms.Martin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962183" class="dsq-comment-message">Also, if give the DNC gives the nomination to HRC on the bs electability issue that they\'re trying to drum up in the media, the DNC will also just have told millions that it is okay to be racist, it\'s okay to think less of blacks and that it is okay to dangle us out as the undesirables; the image that you don\'t want as your leader.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962184">Christopher Chambers</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962184" class="dsq-comment-message">If Barack weren\'t the L-word, he\'d have chuckled it off this way: "I dunno...he was ok in church, but church is church and you know how many preachers get. But now he\'s gotten a little muy loco--what can I say folks? I mean, Jimmy Carter had Billy...George H.W. Bush had, well, his son...Ha! We all have something hanging off us that isn\'t always totally polished, so--pray for me, folks. Good night now."<br></br><br>Something utterly Reaganesque like that. Could have ended it.</br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1962185" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962185">Webb</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962185" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>webb, with all due respect, you don\'t get to tell us how we should feel or what we should be doing.<br>...Allow us our angst, our pessimism, our doubt.</br></i><br></br><br>As if I could tell you what to do...I can only encourage you to have some courage and stop underestimating the man who is carrying the ultimate burden of this campaign, Barack Obama.  </br><br></br><br>My candidate remains the candidate of "Hope and Optimism" and not "pessimism and doubt." </br><br></br><br>I encourage you to be more than a "fairweather" supporter and consider adopting the philosophy of Obama\'s campaign: BE HOPEFUL.</br><br></br><br>There are going to be tougher days ahead and I\'ve watched enough AA commentators today fall all over themselves to belittle Wright...it saddens me that their gut instincts led them to join the chorus rather than singing the key tune: BARACK OBAMA IS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT,  JEREMIAH WRIGHT IS NOT.  That message was not propagated at all.</br><br></br><br>The only way that Barack Obama\'s candidacy can be derailed by Jeremiah Wright is if people lose hope.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962186">evita</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962186" class="dsq-comment-message">If the nomination is taken from him this time around, we need to start a new party. Especially if real democracy is taken from the Democratic party. <br></br><br>So many young people following Obama now...itching for REAL CHANGE.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962187">Ms.Martin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962187" class="dsq-comment-message">SOMEBODY PLEASE TELL ME HOW YOU CAN BE A PRESIDENT FOR BLACK FOLKS ONLY - HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE IF IT WERE YOUR INTENT?<br></br><br>I just heard a pundit on CNN saying that Obama needed to convince white America that he would be a president for all the people.  WTF.</br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1962188" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962188">BigAssBelle</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962188" class="dsq-comment-message">i\'ve just watched most of the evening news shows and the developing meme seems to be this:<br></br><br>wright is an egomaniac who could not be dissuaded from going on this little publicity tour, which tour is solely for the purpose of developing more material and marketing his upcoming book.</br><br></br><br>more: obama is not that close to wright, never has been. it appears that wright is envious of obama nd his rise into the public eye and so he is subconsciously trying to sabotage obama\'s candidacy.</br><br></br><br>and now this is me: i agree with 99% of what wright says. i don\'t know what his motivation could be. i had just assumed that it was guided by the wish to set the record straight and had nothing to do with obama. if it is ego, if it is envy, or whatever, that\'s motivating this public display, shame on him.</br><br></br><br>that being said, everyone makes mistakes. and though i\'d hate to see it played out this way, the idea that obama has been sabotaged by his "crazy preacher" could be helpful for obama\'s campaign.</br><br></br><br>i <i>would</i> like to see obama directly address wright\'s remarks that obama\'s doing what he\'s doing because he\'s a politician. those aren\'t the proper words, but the implication is that obama is not who he says he is, does not believe what he is saying, is only doing and saying what he is because he wants to win and after that, he\'ll change. </br><br></br><br>i don\'t believe that. it would be a good point for obama to confront in this whole wright thing. then put it to rest.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962189">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962189" class="dsq-comment-message">jj & ms.martin,<br></br><br>That would be pretty ugly.  For party leadership to drag the primary through 50 states while Obama supporters do the heavy lifting of registration and phonebanking - let them build a strong grassroots framework for the party.  At the same time, Hillary divides and tears down any goodwill between races.  She skips states, saying they\'re not important.   Doesn\'t focus on registering or building the party.  Insults the activist base.  To give the nomination to Hillary who then benefits from the hard work of The O campaign and it\'s supporters....that would be madness!  </br><br></br><br>I think there would be a dramatic reversal within the Dem party.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962190">Ms.Martin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962190" class="dsq-comment-message">bigassbelle<br></br><br>I remember thinking long ago that maybe there was some jealously and anger about the disinvitation to the announcement of Obama\'s presidency, but then I was distracted by the attack on the truth and Trinity and I forgot about all of that and went into defense mode.</br><br></br><br>I feel really bad for SBO.  He didn\'t won\'t to hurt Wright, but I\'m afraid he has forced his hand.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962191">Teacher</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962191" class="dsq-comment-message">Steve Labonne, Wright was speaking bull to shit. I hope he has someone in his life who can/will be honest with him and tell him he is in the wrong.The whole nation is mystified as to what happened. We all smell a huge, egomaniacle rat. I wish Obama would do what Hucabee suggested and go join a new church and introduce his new pastor. What about that Father Fleger?...I\'m not sure about the spelling of his name, but he layed it down last week in a faux news interview.I would attend his church, and he really seemed like a sincere, godly man.<br></br><br>There is nothing wrong with a Black liberation theology per se, depending on if it leads one to love or hate or....To me, all paths need to lead to love. Doruba bin Wahad used to say, "Power to the people. Black power to black people, white power to white people, red power to red people, brown power to brown people, yellow power to yellow people." I believe this with every cell in my body, and I think Obama thinks like I think. Thats why I really want him to be our president.I believe he is going to be President, and I\'m going to keep hope alive!!!!</br><br></br><br>Andyfrombrooklyn, I also have a head cold, so I hope you get well soon.They are trying to destroy him, but I believe in his rightousness and I believe he will prevail. He might not want to, because I\'m sure the state of the nation is faaaaaarrr worse than any of us can fanthom.Bush has raided the treasury and we probably can\'t afford anything.</br><br></br><br>McCain\'s wife is such a Stepford person. Lord, please don\'t let anymore crazy people win the presidency.</br><br></br><br>I\'m watching Anderson Cooper, but I\'m going to have to turn him off. I can tell.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962192">Ms.Martin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962192" class="dsq-comment-message">Truthseeker<br></br><br>I hope you\'re right.  I don\'t want to think about how that would make me and millions feel.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962193">Ms.Martin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962193" class="dsq-comment-message">Poor Soledad O\'Brien, she\'s trying her hardest to keep this thing in perspective.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962194" class="dsq-comment-message">bigassbelle: Exactly correct, one of the big takeaway MSM messages from all this hooha is going to be precisely to separate Obama much more clearly from Wright. That\'s why all the anguish over this is misplaced.<br></br><br>Meanwhile I will continue both to agree with about 90% of what Wright says and to be glad he\'s saying it. It\'s way past time for progressives to stand up and stop being intimidated. When we allow ourselves to be silenced, we\'ve become part of the problem.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962195">Anonymous</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962195" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t think Obama should address Wright\'s comments aboit being a politician. The MSM is looking for a Wright vs. Obama fight, and that would play directly into the their hands.<br></br><br>The best thing Obama could do is stay on message about what the voters want to hear. Challenge the media to cover issues that really matter instead of these sideshows. Truth be told, people don\'t care about Wright-gate. When O has town hall meetings with voters, people ask him questions about the economy, not Wright!</br><br></br><br>~ Sepia</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962196">Admiral Komack</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962196" class="dsq-comment-message">-Obama may have bigger problems than Wright.<br></br><br>The Austin American-Statesman:</br><br></br><br>NOOSE ALLEGEDLY FOUND AT SECRET SERVICE TRAINING CENTER</br><br>By Rebecca Carr | Monday, April 28, 2008, 03:03 PM </br><br></br><br></br><br>The U.S. Secret Service has placed a white agent on leave after an African American employee reported finding a noose hanging at the service’s main training facility outside the nation’s capital.</br><br></br><br>The service has acknowledged “an allegation of misconduct” at its J.J. Rowley Training Center in Beltsville, Md., and that an employee last week was placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of an investigation. The employee is a veteran agent with the service, according to fellow agents.</br><br></br><br>The noose was found by an African American officer in the uniform division of the service during the week of April 14, according to those familiar with the alleged incident. That division protects the White House and surrounding grounds. He reported the incident to his supervisor and it was sent up the chain of command. He declined to comment for this story.</br><br></br><br>After learning about the alleged incident, Cox Newspapers asked the Secret Service whether a noose had been discovered at the training center.</br><br></br><br>“In response to your question, there has been an allegation of misconduct at our training center,” said Edwin M. Donovan, assistant special agent in charge of government and public affairs.</br><br></br><br>“The employee involved has been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation by our Office of Professional Responsibility, which serves as the agency’s internal affairs office,” Donovan wrote in an e-mail response. “At the conclusion of the investigation, additional information may be available.”</br><br></br><br>The alleged incident happened as U.S. Magistrate Judge Deborah A. Robinson is expected to decide next month whether to sanction the service for failing to turn over evidence in a long-running lawsuit alleging that the service created a racially hostile atmosphere that tolerated discrimination.</br><br></br><br>The lawsuit, filed on behalf of Atlanta native Reginald G. Moore, alleges that the Secret Service routinely discriminates against black agents seeking promotion in favor of white agents who scored lower on promotional exams.</br><br></br><br>Nearly 60 black agents have submitted sworn statements to the court in support of the lawsuit’s allegations.</br><br></br><br>Robinson has already sanctioned the service three times since the discovery process of the lawsuit began 3 1/2 years ago.</br><br></br><br>The service denies the allegations and is now appealing all of the sanctions.</br><br></br><br>The Office of Professional Responsibility, previously called the inspection division, figured prominently during the discovery process of the lawsuit.</br><br></br><br>Carrie Hunnicutt, an inspector in charge of searching for documents sought in the lawsuit, testified in February that she destroyed original evidence sought by the plaintiffs by placing documents in a “burn bag” just two days before she was scheduled to testify in the case.</br><br></br><br>Justice Department lawyers defending the service have said that the destroyed documents should not be considered lost evidence because Hunnicutt transferred information from the documents to a computer database.</br><br></br><br>But lawyers at Hogan & Hartson and Relman & Dane, two Washington law firms representing the plaintiffs for free, contested that assertion, arguing that no one will ever know if the database is complete because the original evidence was destroyed by Hunnicutt.</br><br></br><br>The allegation that a noose was discovered supports the essence of the discrimination alleged in the lawsuit, said Jennifer Klar, a lawyer at Relman & Dane.</br><br></br><br>“We are appalled but unfortunately not surprised that a noose was prominently displayed recently in a secret service training center,” Klar said in an interview.</br><br></br><br>“This incident of racial hatred is troubling in an agency that has the important duty of protecting world leaders of all races, including our own leaders such as (presidential candidate) Barack Obama and (Secretary of State) Condoleezza Rice,” Klar said.</br><br></br><br>“This racist incident is a reminder that long time discrimination in the secret service has created an atmosphere where such hateful acts occur all too regularly,” Klar said.</br><br></br><br>“It is time for the Secret Service to put a stop to acts of racism by addressing and healing the racially charged environment that has been created over the years,” Klar said.</br><br></br><br>The Secret Service has fought the lawsuit each step since it was filed eight years ago.</br><br></br><br>“The Secret Service is extremely proud of the accomplishments of our diverse work force and our record on diversity,” said Eric Zahren, a spokesman for the service in an e-mail document defending the service from the accusations in the lawsuit.</br><br></br><br>“The Secret Service has not and will not tolerate discrimination of any kind,” Zahern said. “We are extremely proud of the contributions of our diverse work force and we will continue to promote the most qualified people.”</br><br></br><br>Moore, the lead plaintiff in the case who grew up in civil rights movement in Atlanta, was promoted after filing his lawsuit in 2000. </br><br></br><br>Moore is now in the service’s senior executive service. He has said that he will keep fighting until the service’s promotional system is permanently changed so that all agents of all colors have an equal chance at promotion.</br><br></br><br></br><br>http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/washington/secrecy/entries/2008/04/28/noose_allegedly_found_at_secre.html#comments</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962197" class="dsq-comment-message">Admiral Komack<br></br><br>Please elaborate - your thoughts on how this is a bigger problem?</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962198">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962198" class="dsq-comment-message">Wright broke my heart today at the National Press Club. He was \'clowning\'. I could literally hear my heart tear into pieces with every question, because he did it on purpose. He\'s an old Black Man - he knew how White folk would spin it. He had gone 2 days without providing soundbites; so today he clowned, stabbed Obama in the heart, and everyone else who had defended him, and threw Obama under the bus. I\'m so mad STILL.<br></br><br> I wrote passionately about why Obama couldn\'t disown Wright, when this first went down. </br><br></br><br>As my Mama said tonight, \' He clowned for them White people on purpose - to hurt Barack\'. Indeed he did, Mama, which is why Obama needs to divorce himself from Wright IMMEDIATELY. </br><br></br><br>After Wright\'s performance today, Black folk shouldn\'t come down on Obama anymore. They would have when this first shook out because those were soundbite snippets. </br><br></br><br>Today was a full-on \'shock\' performance of the highest order. And since we saw that he can do better (Moyers and the NAACP Dinner), what conclusion could one come to, other than this was done ON PURPOSE TO HURT OBAMA. He displayed Crab-in-a-barrell to the nth degree, and I am hurt as hell.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962199">Anonymous</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962199" class="dsq-comment-message">Implosion.<br>Unraveling.</br><br>Ugghhhhh...</br><br></br><br>Those are the words that come to mind.</br><br></br><br>Fear is that this gets worse before it gets (if it gets) better.  I don\'t see anyone or anything stopping The Rev. Wright Tour Across America.  It\'s all about him at this point.  How many more national conferences on this or that is he going to be invited to speak at?  He should be selling concert t-shirts.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962200">Teacher</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962200" class="dsq-comment-message">David Gergin played to "crabs in the barrel card," and Faye Waddleton stabbed him in the back suggesting that Wright is filling in the blanks of what "we" don\'t know about Obama. It looks like she\'s fallen for Hillbilly\'s Jedi mind tricks. Poor Roland is trying to let everyone save as little face, but his face is clearly as upset as it was this morning.<br></br><br>Truthseeker, thank you for your astute and insightful analysis on why the DNC wouldn\'t just hand the nomination to Hillbilly. Your ideas are totally logical and infused with HOPE.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962201">Ms.Martin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962201" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah<br></br><br>I know that was hard for you.  I\'ve been waiting to hear what you had to say all day.</br><br></br><br>Don\'t feel like the lone ranger.  I\'ve been fighting for Wright and thought he was doing okay until I heard the statements and saw the demeanor today.</br><br></br><br>He wanted to hurt Barack and what\'s really sad about it is that when white folks wanted him to turn on Wright he refused to it hurt him so he had to speak to the nation.</br><br></br><br>It was hard for me to admit to.  I felt like he betrayed me too!</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962202">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962202" class="dsq-comment-message">teacher,<br></br><br>which CNN program were they on? I missed Campbell Brown, but I am recording Larry King and Anderson Cooper.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962203">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962203" class="dsq-comment-message">Teacher,<br></br><br>Faye Wattleton is a HHH - period.</br><br></br><br>Hell, even Carol Simpson said it was Crabs-in-a-barrell tonight in the little I saw of Larry King.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962204">Ms.Martin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962204" class="dsq-comment-message">Teacher<br></br><br>I couldn\'t believe Waddleton said that.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962205">Angela</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962205" class="dsq-comment-message">I can\'t believe it.. you all are giving too much energy to the wrong things.  Rev. Wright is a problem, yes, BUT, research Hillary\'s pastor and she has problems too!!!!<br></br><br>You have material to point out the hypocrisy of Hillary\'s bizarre prayer group which believes in praying for the "elites" of the world which she is considered one of (they believe they are more important than us everyday joe and janes). Talk about the ultimate irony of being an elitist!!!!!!!!!!!  How sick is that and shouldn\'t Hillary\'s so called blue collar class voters know that she doesn\'t consider them as important as she is right from the get go...that they are only an instrument to her reaching her personal goals.</br><br></br><br>She will say or do anything!!</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962206">Angela</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962206" class="dsq-comment-message">Sorry...I am just very frustrated.<br></br><br>I truly believe, that complaining about the way the media treats the Rev.Wright issue doesn\'t accomplish anything.</br><br></br><br>A book about Hillary\'s chosen religious affiliation is supposed to come out in May.    I hope it comes out in early May so alot of us can read it.</br><br></br><br>In the meantime...educate yourselves on what is available via the Nation article and a Mother Jones article of 2007.</br><br></br><br>Please, don\'t just complain, activate and communicate with msm that you are aware of Hillary\'s questionable religious affiliations.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962207">Teacher</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962207" class="dsq-comment-message">Rikyrah, please cheer up. I think Obama is going to use this as an opportunity to show us, once again, what he is made of. He seems to really excell in times of adversity. David Gerkin suggested that Obama needs to get angry and show some fire, because americans like fighters. I agree. I hope he will show fire in the belly. I hope he will show that he wants the presidency as much as we want it for him.<br></br><br>I saw Roland, Faye, David & Ed on anderson Cooper, who at 1st fooled me into thinking he was liberated.</br><br></br><br>Ms. Martin, I don\'t know what an hhh is, but I\'m going to surmise that it\'s unfavorable.</br><br></br><br>I\'m looking at Larry King now. Lanny whatshisname sucks.</br><br></br><br>Roland kept talking about people who were close to Wright begging him not to do what he did, but Wright wouldn\'t listen. If I was his wife I\'d be icing him like syberia.  I like Eric M. Dyson, but sometimes you have to call a spade a spade. I don\'t get why his lovely wife, Marcia, supports Hillbilly. Weird. Good night.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962208">Ms.Martin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962208" class="dsq-comment-message">Teacher<br></br><br>I don\'t know what HHH means either, that\'s rikyrah\'s comment.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962209">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962209" class="dsq-comment-message">HHH=Handkerchief Head for Hillary</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962210">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962210" class="dsq-comment-message">Ha! I just figured it out...it has something to do with "handkerchief head"?<br></br><br>Roland and Eric looked really troubled; though, they still didn\'t want to throw away the Rev.  they just looked really sad.  </br><br></br><br>If indeed Wright\'s colleagues begged him not to go through with this to no avail; then Wright is on a search and destroy mission and cannot be reasoned with.  It strikes me that Wright is not only angry at Obama but at the whole black community.  He knows how much this nomination means to us.</br><br></br><br>There\'s a kind of mad dog quality to this that is similar to the Tavis episode.  Tavis was on the radio ranting uncontrollably about Barack.  These men can\'t seem to help themselves.</br><br></br><br>At first I was really angry, now I\'m kinda sad.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962211" class="dsq-comment-message">Can someone explain to me WHY Wright would do this to Obama?  There are so many reasons that I just can\'t grasp.<br></br><br>1)  He has a history with Obama.  Baptized his kids.  Married Barack and his wife.  And Obama placed him on his spiritual committee.</br><br></br><br>2)  For a pastor that seems to want to discuss race and the upwards mobility of black people, how is clowning around and popping up at different locations and, thus, hurting Barack\'s chances at the White House a positive for the upward mobility of black people?</br><br></br><br>3)  While I have no doubt that his many members are committed to Jesus, I\'d have to believe that many of his black followers are also Obama supporters (afterall, he does carry 90+ percent of the black vote.)  </br><br></br><br>So again, even if Wright enjoys the spotlight and wants to promote his upcoming book, how does he figure this is GOOD for him, Barack, and the black race/church at large?</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962212">Anonymous</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962212" class="dsq-comment-message">Did you actually see the different speeches?  I\'m not even an Obama supporter and I didn\'t think Wright\'s speeches were that damaging.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1962213">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962213" class="dsq-comment-message">anonymous,<br></br><br>it wasn\'t the speech. it was the Q&A; afterwards.</br></div>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1962214" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1962214" class="dsq-comment-message">I encourage you to be more than a "fairweather" supporter and consider adopting the philosophy of Obama\'s campaign: BE HOPEFUL.<br></br><br>::</br><br></br><br>webb, now you\'re making assumptions. If you think for a nanosecond that I wouldn\'t vote for Obama based upon what his pastor said and what the media is doing with the whole manufactured drama, then you are mistaken.</br></div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 </ul>\
';

(function() {
	
	





Dsq.Debug.profile(function() {
	if(Dsq.jsonData.request.page == 1 && Dsq.jsonData.request.is_initial_load) {
		Dsq.container.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.header() + Dsq.container.innerHTML + Dsq.Templates.footer();
	}
	Dsq.$(Dsq.curPageId).innerHTML = Dsq.$(Dsq.curPageId).innerHTML.replace(Dsq.COMMENTS_RE, Dsq.CommentsHandler);
}); // Dsq.Debug.Profile

// 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=jeremiah_wright_on_bill_moyers&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');
}

})();




