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And one way that people manifest that fear is through self (read: Obama) sabotage.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_10:31:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "RonnieB", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "856503": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i> The same stuff I'm sure big momma and them been saying. </i><br><br>Heee!<br><br>I agree with what you are saying.  That line made me laugh though because it reminded me of my grammie.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_13:29:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 855669, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "856074": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Truthseeker,<br>You are correct with the Jesse / Obama disagreements.  Sharpton has been very fair and reasonable over the past 2 years.  So I don't really see any major issues between he and Obama as men.<br>What is strange is that Jesse Jr. and his sister were in Michelle and Barack\u2019s wedding and the sister was the maid of honor, where is this coming from with Jesse Sr.  The kids have been close for close to 20 years.<br>Then top it all off and Jesse Jr. is the national co-chair for Senator Obama's campaign, why would his dad have such animosity towards such a close family friend.  Why would he not say what he has to say to the man himself instead of some dude at fox?  He clearly has access to Obama.<br>Seems like the father is a little jealous of his son\u2019s success.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_12:49:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "kenyaw", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 855156, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "855554": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Obama has been talking down to blakc people and I actually called it from February. I really think that people are missing the point as to why some did not care for the speech.<br><br>My grandfather said on Father's Day that he wanted to backhand Obama. He is the dedicated father 8 children, 22 grandchildren, an amaxing husband and father figure to many. I found that most of the people who disagreed technically had no reason for it to hit home but Obama making it race specfic and calling black men boys was wrong. <br><br>When whites call black men \"boys\", it is put up as a racial smear yet Obama can throw it around.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_12:02:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 855355, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "860687": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "So your family cant hear something meant for millions of people without getting upset because it doesnt apply to them.<br><br>Sounds like your family is touchy and should calm down.<br><br>Youre at a 10, you need to be at a 2.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_21:26:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "3ecdfe23431e5da5147ee82ef2de47ae", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 856296, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "857628": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "don't become delusional just don't expect him not to be a politician. It's gonna happen or he may as well concede to McCain right now.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_15:12:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "JJai", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "855582": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Oh please. I don't know one Black irresponsible father. Not one. I'm not denying they exist, but solely focusing on dysfunctional people in the Black community tarnishes us all with the same stain. <br><br>Sick of lectures that apply to 20-30% when 70-80% are doing okay.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_12:04:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "taritac", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 10, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 854440, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "856096": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Kenyaw:  I co-sign with you BIG TIME!  Just about to ask the same question.  We are getting distilled bits and pieces of this legislation and SPECULATING on its future effects.  Wiretapping may very well be obsolete in the way that its interpreted now.  The technological advances [which I have little knowledge of -I'm a little 'old school'] that exist and will exist could make the term itself obsolete.  It's about cyber stuff that we haven't been told about - yet.<br>Finally, if \"we\" keep \"hatin'\" on Mr. Obama, why should anyone else support him?? Yes question, but the continuous barage (sp) of hatin' is not productive.  Can we please let him get to the White House?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_12:50:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 854191, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "853538": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Barack Obama is running for POTUS, not Black America.<br><br>I have had to tell my husband this, many times.<br><br>Barack Obama, as I and many of us, has benefited from the likes of Jesse Jackson.  This does not mean we think or agree with their words or approach.<br><br>This is a generational gap thing.  Jackson knew full well that if he is on ANY SHOW, etc. that you act like the MIC IS ON, not OFF.  He was the one caught by a journalist on tape back in the 80s with his hymietown talk, which was put in all the papers (24/7) cable was not out then, and ended his own chances of POTUS.<br><br>Jesse Jackson expected Obama to kiss his ring, but found out, as Hillary is finding out that Obama does not bend well when he is told what to do, especially when he is in the driver's seat.<br><br>Obama has been talking about personal responsibility in the Black Community for years, this is nothing new. <br><br>I respect Jesse Jackson, but he needs to sit down and just shut up, if he wants to retain any relevancy.  This snafu does more harm to Jesse than Obama.<br><br>Lastly, Obama is trying to WIN this thing in November.  FISA, definitely do not agree with Obama's approach, but after spending the weekend in NW Indiana, steel mill country, do you think anyone is talking about FISA?  These people are hurting, talking about gas prices, mortgages, etc.  One woman I spoke with knew the prices and how they have rose on what she usually shops for in the grocery store.  I was stunned.  So, for people upset on FISA, the left did not sell it well for folks to embrace it.  When your wallet and pocketbook is light folks are looking to see what these politicians will offer to help them.  Can FISA be fixed?  Yes, remember Obama said, folks forget, that the first thing he will do as POTUS is clean up the justice department and look at all the shit the Bush Administration did.<br><br>Lastly, on FISA, this does not save the telecom community from criminal charges.  As President Obama, and his justice department, they can go after these companies by representing the American Public.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_08:37:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "icebergslim", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "855587": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "pjamma,<br>you have never lied!  I can just hear it now.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_12:04:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "kenyaw", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 855240, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "854054": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "LOL. <br><br>No, he's not distancing himself from White people. He's showing everyone how he can be the spokesperson for White \"concern\" about Black responsibility. The UCC, Jeremiah Wright, Jesse, and all other Black people will be shown the door. Zionist Jews and Whites are his new best friends.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_09:47:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "taritac", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 853855, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "856616": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Black men is where \"we\" as African Americans may put our emotional trash because it is a more sensitive issue to \"us\" but I have heard the same complaints and concerns from people who are not black. And if yon need mainstream media proof just turn on the Lifetime Movie Network.  That is white family disfunction at it's ugliest.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_13:38:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 856139, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "855084": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That is how I feel CPL and No ID.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_11:23:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 853422, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "856116": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "jay,<br>Obviously.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_12:53:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "kenyaw", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 855732, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "855732": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Where was this outrage when Bush was running for president the second time? I mean seriously.<br><br>I'm not blindly support Obama, but damn...b/c the man have the audicity to say you should be personaly responsible for your actions and that you shouldn't reply on rapping and playing ball as your only career options he deserves to have his nuts cut off?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_12:15:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "b8b9328e61e0094ae18e247c922f9dc7", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 855489, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "858122": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<i>Obama could stop perpetuating the perception of blacks as lazy and irresponsible...</i><br><br>::<br><br>Or, people could stop perceiving Obama's statements this way.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_16:03:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 856380, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "854080": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That's right-- this is a  \"flip-flop\" charge Obama brought on himself. If he thought he would be avoiding criticism from the Right by voting for FISA, then he judged wrong. He will be criticized regardless, so he might as well DO THE  RIGHT THING.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_09:49:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "taritac", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 853943, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "861249": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "now you know you just threw a whole lotta folks off with that one, belle, including me! LOL", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_22:34:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "cc6569f8cbd4abd6bef53a2f883f8ca5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 854661, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "857154": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I read the article and it points out that there are good fathers that have multiple kids by multiple woman and do not live, from what I can tell, with all of them.  Uhm, okay.  Not ideal but better then nothing.<br><br>The whole BS about low-income, low-skilled black men, keeping consistent employment not being easy and the black father's ability to financially contribute is one of the biggest determinants of whether he stays in the home is, well, BS.  Sorry things ain't working out for ya sir but the solution is to leave the home?  As the first part of the article pointed out there is more to being a dad then the finances.   And to use the excuse of \"culture pressures\"  to bail out on family is weak.  Real weak.<br><br>I won't deny that there are a lot of good fathers in non-traditional situations.  And that's a good thing.  But there are a lot of fathers who ignore responsibility and use the excuse that society made it this way that will never get a pass from me.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_14:30:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 856427, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "861256": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "you make some good points town....except for the michelle obama quote. if hillary clinton could change the paradigm for first lady (as well as certainly eleanor roosevelt) then i think its fair for michelle obama to support her husband publicly and stump for him. many women find her to be likable, intelligent and a great supporter and partner to her husband. i think without her, he wouldn't be enjoying the popularity in the black community that he does now. i would argue that had he married a white woman he wouldn't have gone this far, but that's a whole nother conversation.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_22:37:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "cc6569f8cbd4abd6bef53a2f883f8ca5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 854622, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "856139": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<i>\"I do know plenty of fathers that don't spend enough quality time with their children. They leave most of the homework and soccer games to the wife to handle.\"</i><br><br>I don't think women will ever get men to care about the things we want them to care about.  I wonder if it's a mistake to try.  What I'm saying is maybe there's something else at work here, than just being a deadbeat.  There's also our ideas about what constitutes \"quality time\".  It makes me uneasy how comforting it is for us to talk about missing fathers...using the same cliches over and over.  It strikes me as a response to compulsive anxiety.  It's so easy to make black men the garbage bin of the races.  Black men is where we put our emotional trash.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_12:54:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 855915, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "861263": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "you make some good points town....except for the michelle obama quote. if hillary clinton could change the paradigm for first lady (as well as certainly eleanor roosevelt) then i think its fair for michelle obama to support her husband publicly and stump for him. many women find her to be likable, intelligent and a great supporter and partner to her husband. i think without her, he wouldn't be enjoying the popularity in the black community that he does now. i would argue that had he married a white woman he wouldn't have gone this far, but that's a whole nother conversation.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_22:38:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "cc6569f8cbd4abd6bef53a2f883f8ca5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 854622, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "856659": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "How is this describing white folks?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_13:43:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 856208, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "856148": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "No one said we had to agree with everything he says or does.  I simply pointed out that he is human and will continue to make mistakes.  A lie is a lie and wrong is wrong regardless of who is committing it. I am intelligent and have enough common sense to make a judgment of whom I will support and how <br>much i believe he can actually achieve.  And yes \"We as a people fear success\" all the time.  I am 49 olds <br>and have experienced first hand other peoples fear of someone else's success throughout my life<br>time.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_12:55:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "lewevelyn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 855489, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "855640": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm with you, Rhondacoca. And NumNuts. Some black folks are starting to lose any degree of objectivity because they believe that electing Obama as president should become our collective mission. I support his candidacy but he and his family and friends can pray for him. That's not my job.<br><br> When we disagree with Obama we need to speak out instead of psychoanalyzing why we want to protest. Not speaking out because Obama is black is just an inverted form of internalized racism.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_12:08:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "PTCruiser", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 855489, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "855159": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Obama only sat in a church for 20 years where the minister was wiretapped and visited by the FBI.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_11:31:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 854009, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "855644": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.newsweek.com/id/136335\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Article from Newsweek in regards to absentee black father<a/ rel=\"nofollow\"><br><br>As I kept saying over and over again only to stumble across this article, there is nuance behind the statistics and to assume that a man who does not live in the home does not take care of his children is wrong. However when it comes to blacks it is always okay to reduce us to a statistic. <br><br>I guess after all I have accomplished in my life and seen what black could accomplish, I'm afraid of success.</a></a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_12:09:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "854622": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Exactly.  Al Sharpton is everywhere (and God bless him, as he shuts these fools down on these show).  Al Sharpton might have several problems with Obama but he's not going to rock the hot mic and tell it because he knows how everyone else would take it.  <br><br>Michelle Obama should \"shut up\" and fall back like Cindy McCain, Laura Bush and everyone else.  If she wants to have little teas and socials, that's fine, but rocking the mic giving speeches?  Why?<br><br>Jesse Jackson should shut up just on general principle.<br><br>Tavis Smiley didn't have to \"shut up,\" he shut himself up by pitching a bitch fit because not everyone agreed with him this time.  And people were turned off to him NOT because he was \"holding Obama accountable,\" they were turned off to him because he was drunk on haterade and twirling with the extra drama.  Real talk.  He'd come on the Tom Joyner show like he was the SHERIFF saying \"I invited all three candidates to XYZ...and only ONE bothered to respond.  I'm gonna give the other 2 until Thursday and then I'm gonna start calling them out.\"  Why all the extra drama?  Just say \"I invited all 3 candidates to XYZ.  Hillary Clinton has accepted the invitation, but Barack Obama and John McCain have not.\"  Plus Tavis never really held Billary \"accountable\" for their race baiting tricks and games.  People didn't like that mess and let Tavis know and THAT's why Tavis packed his mic up and exited stage left, NOT because Barack Obama told him to sit down.<br><br>The kids should shut up because they shouldn't be in the spotlight, not because they'll say embarassing things about daddy, but because people will want to use these kids against daddy and use these kids as an example.  You had Anderson Cooper pissed off b/c he didn't get the \"hard hitting interview\" with the kids.  WTF?  Whatcha gonna ask them, Anderson Cooper?  You gonna grill Malia on Barack's FISA position?  Interrogate them on why they have black Barbie dolls instead of white Barbie dolls?  You gonna grill Sasha on why she likes \"That's So Raven\" over \"Hannah Montana?\"  *** Because you know people would love to use the Obama girls as another reason why Obama shouldn't be elected.  I can see Hannity discussing on FOX now, that the reason Sasha likes \"Raven\" over \"Hannah Montana\" is because Michelle hates white people and has taught the girls to hate white people and that's why they have black Barbie dolls and watch \"That's So Raven\" instead of \"Hannah Montana\" and \"Zoey 101.\"  The kids don't need to be in the spotlight.  Chelsea Clinton wasn't in the spotlight in '92 and had some evil things said about her and she was a (homely) little 12 year old WHITE girl.  Adults were saying some evil crap about a 12 YEAR OLD GIRL!  So you know they will have some evil, evil things to say about some little black girls.  Keep the kids out the spotlight.<br><br>**For the record, I don't know what shows the Obama girls like.<br><br>Jesse Jackson's entire point was invalidated by him saying he wanted to cut Barack's nuts off.  It doesn't matter what the context was, you just don't say you want to cut body parts off just because you disagree with somebody's position.  Hillary's point was also invalidated when she started talking about assassination.  She got seared for that remark and Jesse should be seared for his.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_10:40:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 854219, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "857698": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I agree.  Something tells me there are times Al wants to castrate Obama too, but he never lets on.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_15:19:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 856614, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "856676": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I understand your concern about the Rev. Al being on the album cover, but take that up with the artist, Art Maggot, since he did the photoshopping and replaced Walter Williams, William Thomas, and Eddie Levert's pictures with Jackson, Rush and Sharpton.  Maybe Art Maggot had a reason for including Sharpton.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_13:44:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "854375": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>Wait until he decides to bring Hillary on the ticket. Those two are spending way too much time together way too early for it not to mean she is the choice for VP.</i><br><br>I'm pretty alert. <br><br>They've done one event in Unity, New Hampshire, and now 2 fundraisers, and you think they're spending too much time together?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_10:17:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 854048, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "855149": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yea I here you, Jesse was right but he should have known better in regards to Fox news. Why was he there in the first place? Come on.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_11:30:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 853776, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "855156": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I've always known Al and Jesse have deep disagreements with Obama; but they decided not to say anything to the media that would hurt O's chances in any way.  I think Al is more adamant about this than Jesse...and so Jesse got caught saying things he didn't need to ....unless he's smarter than us and it's a setup :)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_11:30:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 854436, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "855669": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "A pookie by any other name is still a pookie. You may be sick of it, and you may not be apart of it...but we're talking about the black community right? Community that you're also apart of?<br><br>Folks wanna be mad at Obama, he's only saying the same thing other black \"leaders\" have said. The same stuff I'm sure big momma and them been saying. Just b/c doesn't have a perm, and his name doesn't start off with \"Rev\" doesn't mean he ain't preachin' the truth.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_12:10:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "b8b9328e61e0094ae18e247c922f9dc7", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 855293, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "854647": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "RonnieB . . . just . . . unbelievable. Yes, I feel <b>entitled</b> to live in a nation that respects the documents upon which it was founded. It's just stunning to me that my wish to hold government accountable to that foundation is considered \"self righteous.\" <br><br>The constitution is in shreds <i>right now</i>. Do you think anything good will come in this country if we simply ignore it and the rights attached to and flowing from it? Healthcare for kids? are you joking??<br><br>We live RIGHT NOW in a corporatocracy. That Obama handed this to corporate America is further proof to me that he is precisely what I feared: just another corporate toady in service to power.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_10:42:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "bigassbelle", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 853808, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "854136": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "taritac,<br>He said that he would not vote on the original bill. This is a not THE ORIGINAL BILL. There have been many significant changes.  Why some people want accept that is beyond me.<br>We want to get away from warrantless wiretapping, not wiretapping all together. <br>If the Attorney General issues a ceo a warrant then that ceo should consider complying.  There needs to be more oversight.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_09:55:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "kenyaw", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 853776, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "861308": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "stats are always used against us. I had to think hard about deadbeat dads among the many men i know. they are few and far between and trust me i know some dudes who are pretty \"hood.\" i know fathers who fought ex-wives and baby moms in court to be a part of their child's lives. i know my father and my brother are hardly perfect fathers but they aren't deadbeat dads either. so...who is this 70%? But more importantly, does that also include people who live together because they never got a divorce from a previous husband/wife? where are they getting this number from? i'm one of those never-marrieds, but i have friends who've been married multiple times. so? who's creating this stats, and who's interpreting them? yes we have issues in our community...but we also have successes and they don't get enough publicity.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_22:44:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "cc6569f8cbd4abd6bef53a2f883f8ca5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 856526, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "854144": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "If he can backtrap on Fisa, then he'll do so on Iraq.  Barack aint about change.  He's just another politico.  This Fisa bill puts BO in a whole whole whole whole different perspective.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_09:56:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "f9aaa8acc43fd7620185ff90cef3c05a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 853376, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "856195": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Attorneys General, who are executive branch appointees, shouldn't issue warrants. Courts do. If the AG had gotten warrants like they were supposed to, there would be no controversy. <br><br>This bill is not okay. It completely undermines the principles of balancing powers with judicial oversight. Having the AG issue warrants puts absolutely no check on executive power. It's like the President saying that he'll police himself.<br><br>I have grave doubts about Obama investigating Bush when he gets into office. He'll have other things on his plate, and he'll say that investigating the last administration is a distraction, a la Pelosi.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_12:59:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "taritac", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 855483, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "854661": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "He sure as hell distanced himself from me and I'm white.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_10:43:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "bigassbelle", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 854054, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "856200": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "RonnieB,<br>\"I'm all ears as to how one can talk up to Black men who are absent and uninvolved fathers.\"<br><br>All absent and univolved fathers. Let me know when someone makes that stretch.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_12:59:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "kenyaw", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 855850, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "856719": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Precisely, white families are enshrined as the June Cleaver model to aspire to; but it's a myth.  While black families are demonized.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_13:49:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 856616, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "856208": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "KENYA, KENYA..so a man who has a child born out of wedlock is automatically a deadbeat even if he takes care of his kids.<br><br>\"I don't personally know any \"deadbeat\" dads either. I do know plenty of fathers that don't spend enough quality time with their children. They leave most of the homework and soccer games to the wife to handle. He was talking to those fathers as well. <br>The ones who are sitting and watching ESPN while the wife is training, teaching, encouraging, correcting, cooking and making plans for the kids. That was one of the issues that the Senator has been addressing for several years now.\"<br><br>Ummm......it sounds like you are describing white folks.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_13:00:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 855915, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "860305": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\u0421\u043b\u043e\u0432\u043e!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_20:31:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 858122, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "857238": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You know, I am a single mom who had TWO kids out of wedlock. Now that I am older and wiser I know I had \"no business doing that\" as my mom would say! Their dad is MIA now so I guess I qualify as people Obama was addressing and  I can't be mad b/c he TOLD THE TRUTH and I do not recall him announcing \"BLACKS ONLY\".<br><br>PS I do NOT think Obama is God or a saint!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_14:37:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "7acec36f3ac1c3ce26f5070a275439fa", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 855635, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "854168": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "So you'd rather have heatlcare than a Constitution?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_09:59:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f9aaa8acc43fd7620185ff90cef3c05a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 853808, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "856736": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I can't believe Town said: \"Michelle Obama should \"shut up\" and fall back like Cindy McCain, Laura Bush and everyone else. If she wants to have little teas and socials, that's fine, but rocking the mic giving speeches? Why?\"<br><br>Town, I usually agree with most of the stuff you say, but this is an exception, friend- Michelle is a different generation than Cindy & Laura-The days of the \"little woman\" are way over- <br>Michelle needs to keep talking because she has something to say & because she represents us-working mothers-<br>She needs to give her thoughful opinion because she is smart and accomplished-She is not some vacuous socialite trophy wife with nothing to offer-Quite the contrary-She is one answer/option to the longing of all the Hillary fanatics who claim they want to see strong, opinionated, gutsy women in the forefront of society-If they didn't have racial issues, Michelle would be their champion too<br><br>C'mon Town-Get with the 21st century, friend", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_13:51:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "4d9312cd58c7caeb087835daea9d59b6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 854622, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "856226": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "NumNuts, why does his pastor have anything to do with anything at this point? So what was this man supposed to do, after the public has funded him-- say: \"okey doke, I guess I should stand here while this man is feeling himself & agree because who am I?\" Just as Wright let his ego blur his message, Jesse has done the same. I am personally sick of these grandstanding Negroes.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_13:02:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "a43f021c11b2e6b394c6c3002f6cece0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "855203": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I was was thinking like you but I am not sure if Obama will even go through what he promises or pull a Bill Clinton. That is how I feeling right now. I am going to vote for him and I wish that people could stop assuming that whenever someone disagrees with something that they are not going to vote for him.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_11:35:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 853808, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "854191": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Bless you RonnieB.<br>I wonder how many people read the original bill and then read the NEW bill.  We complain because it is hard to let go of a point, when you think that you are on the righteous side.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_10:01:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "kenyaw", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 853808, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "861363": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "you definitely have some great points coop. it's the spook who sat by the door mentality....but we just ain't for sure yet that barack has it! LOL I mean, just as you say, we know who's a brother and who ain't in our lives. black skin doesn't always mean black identification or love of black people. i think some of just would just like to be sure just exactly what's up. though personally the whole chi-town, tucc, married to a sister from the south side thing are some pretty good clues :-)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_22:53:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "cc6569f8cbd4abd6bef53a2f883f8ca5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 854506, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "859828": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>Conduct yourself accordingly and learn to live with the truth</i><br><br>Thank you, Teacher.<br><br>This comment (the whole thing and this part in particular) gets at another part of what is bothering me so much abuot the FISA-drama uproar. <br><br>I wonder where people come to the belief that they are default protected from and by the govt to begin with? Some might answer \"The Constitution\" (!! yeah!!). But from everything I have seen in my own life, this society's cultural system has at its core a built-in disconnect between words and actions/reality. So you have the ideological surface gloss of the \"ideals\" and then you have the actual lived reality -- and they are often not the same and sometimes even opposed. <br><br>Also, in my own actual experience: Given how I actually perceive the world, I have always and ALWAYS had to be strongly vigilant about what I say. In every situation, in every context, I am vigilant and as aware as possible of the risks ... and I work to choose my words and responses accordingly. This is part of my consciousness, a level of awareness that is always with me. Because my own vigilance is not a choice for me, I see a lack of such required vigilance as a form of privilege itself.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_19:20:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "4ec3c0272b87ba5c8ce3a9168cf4e78a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 855938, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "855738": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Who's trying to sabotage Obama? You are the one who sounds fearful.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_12:16:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "taritac", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 854530, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "854203": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "He promised to FILIBUSTER ANY BILL THAT CONTAINED TELECOM IMMUNITY. FISA already addressed warrantless wiretapping. The bill in its original incarnation in 1978 was to OUTLAW warrantless wiretapping. THAT HASN'T CHANGED. The only thing that changed is that BUSH AND THE TELECOMS BROKE THE DAMN LAW. They violated FISA. And this new bill ABSOLVES them of this violation.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_10:02:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "taritac", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 854136, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "854048": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I clearly understand the point that many folks are attempting to make about this situtation.  I noticed a few months ago that the Black community was being used almost an upgraded version of Willie Horton by a Black candidate.  Barack choose to slam the Black community through the use of the Black church.  And, so many of you are contradicting yourself.  If Barack is running to be POTUS than deal with issues globally,. Lack of poor parenting skills and absentee parents has been a national issue.  It's just not a Black issue.  Have we forgotten about Columbine and other shootings that have occurred in predominately White communities?  I could list a ton of stories that reflect poor parenting and lack of support in the home for children.  But, he choose to reinforce a stereotype because it's easy, and he can gain points from prejudice White folks.  I see the man as just a normal politician and nothing special.  FISA should bring this home.  Wait until he decides to bring Hillary on the ticket.  Those two are spending way too much time together way too early for it not to mean she is the choice for VP.   And, I agree totally with Jessie about this pandering.  It needs to stop.  I just hope Black folks will make their voices heard loud and clear telling him to stop using us in an effort to gain White acceptance.  Find a new and creative way.  If he is able to achieve that accomplishment than I will truly believe he is \"brilliant.\"  At this point, I am shaking my head in disbelief and thrown away my Obama sticker because he is not about change.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_09:46:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "9453746cf3e9cab35689164f6b83d2b8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "855240": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<i>I can see Hannity discussing on FOX now, that the reason Sasha likes \"Raven\" over \"Hannah Montana\" is because Michelle hates white people and has taught the girls to hate white people and that's why they have black Barbie dolls and watch \"That's So Raven\" instead of \"Hannah Montana\" and \"Zoey 101.\"</i><br><br>And if they choose Hanna Montana over Raven, or happen to own a white Barbie doll, even if it is  one on a collection of 50, then they are being raised as elitists that want to distance themselves from African Americans.  It's a no win situation.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_11:38:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 854622, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "854219": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "That is life.  For example, if you had a cousin pookie, he could not company to your company Christmas party. <br>Rev. Wright - Rather brought some of the heat to himself.  Then the racist media and the uninformed public pushed it to the next level.<br>Rev. Jesse Jackson - absolutely was unprofessional and Sen Obama did not say that he should sit down and shut up. <br>Tavis Smiley - started off on the wrong foot go on and on about who should attend <br>the State of the Black Union.<br>Michelle Obama - Her husband did make her sit down and shut up.  THE PRIMARIES ARE OVER!  That is when most spouses exit the campaign trail and go back home and continue spend more time with their family.<br>When did Al Sharpton have to sit down and shut up?  I see Al Sharpton on Fox, CNN & MSNBC now more than ever before.  And Sen Obama has been on his radio show several times.  What are you talking about???", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_10:04:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "kenyaw", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 853831, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "855247": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Obama is running to be President of all Americans except black Americans.  First he had to distance himself from his black pastor,, then he had to distance himself from his black church, now he his distancing himself from black people.  They even tried to make him distance himself from his black wife.  When I say they I am referring to the white corporate media.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_11:38:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "03c199c607a1578bbac1d88a28cb1108", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "856784": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "See this is where I get the disconnect.  I understand you and you family are a tight, proud, responsible, happy group and that is wonderful.  And I get you do not like Obama's speech. Fine.  But it is a big leap to say that blacks that disagree with his speech want handouts or fear success.  Or that those who disagree with your perspective are racist white conservatives in black face. <br><br>Can't people disagree with statements and others agree with statements without jumping to the extreme?  If you agree you are good, if you don't you are bad or like basic.  What?  The best part of this site is reading the different perspectives with question and debate but not personal attacks.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_13:55:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 856296, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "855761": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "So wait, Black women talk down on Black men and make movies and books about how awful black men can be...<br><br> plus all of the static black men get from the Media and White People, and thats ok?<br><br>If you dont want to get feelings hurt, stop acting up and doing the wrong things.<br><br>If a man isnt doing the right thing of any color, hes a boy, plain and simple. If you cant deal with that--then you have a lot of problems that will not get solved.<br><br>Namecalling is the least of our problems. <br><br>If you cannot function as an adult and deal with some of the harsher things in life--then the word \"boy\" is the least of your problems.<br><br>The same black people who are mad at Obama about this are the same people who allow the ignorance and childishness to continue to drag all of us down.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_12:18:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "3ecdfe23431e5da5147ee82ef2de47ae", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "855763": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<i>We don't have time to whine, muse, rue over Senator Obama. We need to get him into the White House. Think forest, not trees, </i> . . . <br><br>what? if he continues to pull the kind of shit he's been pulling ever since he won the nomination, i'm thinking why even bother getting him into the white house. what will change? not a freaking thing, if his recent behavior is any evidence.<br><br>the ONLY reason i will vote for him is because of the supreme court. although i have no doubt that the corporate ass-sucking congress will roll over for any nominee, maybe ~ just maybe ~ obama will stand up and at least not nominate a right wing zealot. probably a right winger, but maybe not a zealot.<br><br>it's heartbreaking that is the best i can hope for from a democratic candidate for president.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_12:18:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "bigassbelle", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 854506, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "855253": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "My family could probably be personally effected by that bill which is why I am not happy about it. I could care less if it wa going to pass. Obama said that he was going to fillibuster it and he backtracked.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_11:39:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 853943, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "856614": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You can take Rev. Al off the list.  To my surprise and delight, in the last seveal months he's had Senator Obama's back, taking on white and black critics alike.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_13:38:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "4fd3ca416b455e03c3fa02c8bc744eb4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "855271": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I co-sign Mitch", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_11:41:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 854048, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "856296": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "It has nothing to do with complaining about personal responiosblity...if I have to say this one more time, I am going to scream.<br><br>what you said is such garbege. If you know me and my family who hated Obama's speech then you would not come with that half ass comment. <br><br>so blacks who disagree with Obama want handouts and fear success....wow...racist white conservatives in black face might i ask.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_13:10:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 855847, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "860396": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "PTCruiser, c'mon to my house for some ribs and chicken wings! Brother you know how to preach the truth. Four years or more (Obama's second term) from now others WILL see that as 'people of color' we came of age.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_20:44:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "ayersteach", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "858152": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Say it again.<br><br>And I love Zora Neale Hurston.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_16:05:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 857559, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "856819": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Have you ever watched Lifetime Movie Network?  June Cleaver does not live there.   But adultery, murder, drugs, divorce, poverty, ignorance, teen pregnancy and disfunction sure do.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_13:58:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 856719, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "855800": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "made it to the top???? with what, exactly? if you stand for nothing, then what do you have in the end. nothing. <br><br>success means nothing if you sacrifice yourself in the process of achievement.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_12:22:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "bigassbelle", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 855763, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "855293": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I have no cousin Pookie...STFU about Pookie....I am so sick of that and I am not a part of it!!!!!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_11:42:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 854440, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "856277": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "It's not that we're missing the point, it's that some of us don't agree with you.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_13:08:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 855554, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "861448": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "i love the dialogue here. but i still say we apparently still love to hate ourselves. sheeit, i worked at a black company so i know how it can go down. i agree black fatherlessness is something we need to deal with. but i also agree as a woman, that we better start teaching our girls about choices and birth control as they are the ones holding the baby when shit gets thick. my mama taught me well and i have NO kids. unfortunately, she apparently did not talk to my brother as much. LOL<br>you know there are good and bad fathers as well as imperfect ones - and both my dad and brother would qualify. but there are fathers of all races who are in the home who never spend \"quality time\" with their kids, and there are white millionaires running around who never see or take care of their children and you never see a story on that unless they are celebs or someone (usually the shafted wife) gets killed.  so why do we wear this mantle of irresponsiblity alone? and why do i never, ever see anything anywhere about the multitude of stepdads who come into play when the biologicals didn't bother?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_23:06:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "cc6569f8cbd4abd6bef53a2f883f8ca5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "856333": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Quanli:  Me 2.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_13:13:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "856334": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Heck you don't even have to be using a communications device.  Have your pictures developed at a Walmart (if anyone still does that) and if you have a child in a swimsuit playing around in the pool with their dad the store can report you as a potential sex offender.<br><br>Every company you have a bank or credit account with knows your social security number and every one who touches the account has access to your private information.  And if your charging patterns change you are flagged. If your deposits increase (specifically over $10,000) they can and will alert government agencies.<br><br>Hell if you have Direct TV or Comcast their servers can track and report every time you change the channel.<br><br>Your supermarket club card tracks your purchases.<br><br>Every day there are many ways that people you don't even consider have access to information far worse then any discussion you are having with a co-worker of friend in Pakistan.  I happen to design and negotiate the development of communication infrastructures in emerging markets so I'm sure my phone is probably tapped.  But since I'm am not doing anything wrong I could care less.  Poor fool who has to spend his time listening to me talk about Madonna, A-Rod and Guy.<br><br>It's amazing how up in arms people get about something that basically happens every day and would not even be a concern if Obama's vote wasn't made so public.  Like every other form of passive or non-passive surveillance it doesn't even cross most peoples minds, partly because what is there really interesting enough about them to survey, and mostly because they are more concerned about gas, food and shelter.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_13:13:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 855938, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "853776": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The fact that people were not cognizant about FISA means that it was the *perfect* time for Obama to vote the correct way. <br><br>I take all promises of his now with a grain of salt.<br><br>Jesse is right about Obama's personal responsibility schtick, but, yes, I agree, this hurts Jesse way more than it does Obama. Jesse is an intelligent man and fantastic orator, but he needs to STFU if he doesn't realize that Fox is NOT HIS FRIEND.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_09:11:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "taritac", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 853538, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "856345": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "If it's not a setup, then it could be Jesse thinks O is an uppity whippersnapper who needs to show respect.  I'm sure his son working for Obama is not going over well either.  Generational gap issues, perhaps.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_13:14:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 856074, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "856427": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I love how people are skipping over this comment. Read the article then talk.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_13:21:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 855644, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "857890": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Fried Chicken for breakfast is a Southern, collage, or first apartment thing (as I've witnessed with many of my male friends).  It's not healthy and growing children should not eat it for breakfast like they shouldn't eat cold pizza.  It's a common sense thing.  If someone doesn't realize that they need to be talked down too.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_15:37:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 856380, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "856868": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Well, that article at The Root is pretty much BS, too. I don't recognize myself or any other black person I know in what he writes.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_14:03:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "fb67e13066281c4e22557d02eb57edda", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "854309": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Here's the thing mitch, BARACK HAS BEEN SAYING THIS IN OTHER VENUES (w/ non-blacks). This has hit home with US because we know there is a problem. If we were really worried about our image with whites why continue to play into the perception we do not like the words \"personal responsibility\"?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_10:12:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "a43f021c11b2e6b394c6c3002f6cece0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 19, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "856870": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Until Michelle Obama gets in the White House, she doesn't need to be giving speeches.  She ain't Eleanor Roosevelt yet.  She ain't running for office.  Sit down, stand down. Do the puff stuff like \"The View\".  Leave the stump speeches to Barack.   The wife of the Democratic nominee is going to be attacked.  Don't give them more ammo to do it with.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_14:03:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 856736, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "855847": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "its amaze me thatblack people are complaing about personal responsibilty. we sit around in this country waitng for white people and there goverment to take care of us and everyone agrees that they have not and there institutions are racist. now a black man is might be head of this institution we act like we always do when a black person is in charge or has there own business, we expect them to cut us a deal or take care of brother.just because we are black. if obama wins his hands are going to be tied because he will have to convince 100 senators and over 500 reps. to see things his way to even attempt to do anything for AA.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_12:26:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "c019fcae5a1095e5d4264040c87ff251", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "855850": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Though it was meant to be a private conversation, what Rev. Jackson said was degrading, inexcusable, and it speaks poorly of him.  But he apologized to Sen. Obama, and the apology was accepted.  Cool enough, I guess.<br><br>That said, if Sen. Obama has been \"talking down\" to Black folk regarding fatherlessness, I'm all ears as to how one can talk <i>up</i> to Black men who are absent and uninvolved fathers.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_12:27:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "RonnieB", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "853808": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Slim,<br><br>Way to bring the point home.  In a day when people are choosing between going broke on gas or groceries, we've got spoiled brat knuckelheads who feel so <i>entitled</i> that they're willing to forsake a historic (and culturally beneficial) presidency so that their \"principles\" can be indulged.  <br><br>People are begging to get their children into free clinics to be seen by someone other than an overworked physician's assistant.  People are dying a slow death of ulcers, migraines, and other stress-related illnesses, because they're worried about losing their jobs.   Barely 50% of Black kids are graduating from high school, ill prepared for job market competition.<br><br>Yet we've got self-righteous brats pissing and moaning about something called <i>FISA</i>?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_09:15:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "RonnieB", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 12, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "855355": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Obama's message about irresponsible black fathers probably hit home for Jesse. He does have a child out of wedlock.<br><br>Jesse should've been a MAN and talked to Obama one-on-one about his allegedly \"talking down to black people\" instead of telling someone else onFox News of all places.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_11:48:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "854332": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Don't ask me to believe that Jesse was standing up for black people as he talked about castrating Barack Obama.  There's a lot of ill feeling towards Obama from Jackson if he fantasizes about ripping off his body parts because he doesn't like his approach or policies.  <br><br>And what's with the fascination with Obama's man marbles?  First the Hillary people say that Barack doesn't have any nuts and Hillary should loan him one of hers so they could both have some, then Jesse wants to cut Obama's off.  I find that a bit more disturbing than Obama telling some black kids to rely on education instead of rapping and basketball for a career.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_10:14:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "856383": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Coop:  AGREEING BIG TIME!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_13:17:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 854506, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "856897": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Jesse Jackson has been around the hot mic long enough to know what not to say around a hot mic.  I guess \"Hymietown\" didn't teach him anything.  What he said wasn't just \"crude,\" it was violent.  It spoke to what was on the man's mind:  \"I disagree with you, so I want to cut your parts off.\"  That's no better than a schoolyard bully who wants to beat down the class nerd because the class nerd \"looked at him funny.\"", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_14:06:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 856403, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "853831": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Exactly. He's running for POTUS, but some black folks seem to have it confused and think he's about to be elected Black King of America. I'm not withdrawing support from the man. Any policies that he initiates on poverty, employment, education, gas prices, etc. will help everyone including US. It's just that given recent events, it's hard to tell just what he's going to stick with once he gets in office. This is a crucial time for this country and the world and I certainly don't think McCain is the answer. But because we're between a rock and a hard place means every candidate should be thoroughly vetted by the American public and that includes Obama. My problem is that so far we have Rev. Wright, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rev. Al Sharpton, Tavis Smiley and Michelle Obama all having to shut up and sit down so that this one brother can be president. All of the above have been criticized as too outspoken, too old, too old school, too black, too critical, etc. etc. Now even Barack's kids can't be honest about him! (Although I agree, given the mainstream take on what seemed to be a normal family interaction of a female dominant household that he should keep them away from cameras in the future). All I'm saying is that when too many people have to be silenced and shut down in the wake of another's ambition, that's an issue. And sorry, but it's too easy to pander to the mainstream with the \"personal responsibility\" shit. Jesse Jackson, whose entire quote was not reported on Faux News, had a point.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_09:19:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "cc6569f8cbd4abd6bef53a2f883f8ca5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 9, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "855890": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "It was just more lazy jawboning.  We KNOW Obama can write a hell of a speech.  I KNOW he can dig deep.  That time, he peppered the speech with meaningless cliches.  Instead of being polite, they should have thrown him out, and told him not to come back without a decent speech...kidding.  At the very least, there should have been no applause, amens or head-nodding..but stony silence.  You teach people how to treat you.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_12:29:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 855554, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "856403": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Jackson's comment was strange but I have heard people especially older people who have a tendency to use very crude language in discussing things.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_13:19:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 854332, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "855386": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "No Obama has not, no he has not!<br><br>I get so frustrated speaking to people like you becuase it is like YOU don't get it!<br>I only talk about perosnal responsiblity but as I keep saying, Obama did not have to make this issue a race specific issue. <br>But when it comes to the AA community he does to perpetuate already longheld perceptions about AA's.<br><br>You Obama and the rest of the ... on this board need to do research.<br><br><br>One what kills me about Obama's so called intelligence is this:<br><br>1. How is a man who doesn't live with his family a deadbeat? How can you look at statistics and make that assumption unless you are doing just that, making assumptions! I will share with you guys an article that I found in regards to this that was prinited just a month before Obama's \"speech\". It directly contradicts<br><br><br><br>Also, as a young black female who grew up with a father and never knew of a black man who did not take care of his children whether he was in the home or not, I am sick of this being perpetuated esp. on Father's Day. I am all for personal responsiblity as well as social responsibiltiy and all the other responsibilities but my issue is not with that. My issue was the way in which, the language used and the timing of Obama's so called speech. That was my issue. <br><br>The breakdown of the family is an American issue.<br><br>The divorce rate is over 50%.<br><br>There nearly five times as many single parent households in the white communityu but Obama will never head over there and make the speech that he made back in June.<br><br>If Obama cares about families then shouldn't he care about all families since he is not running for president of the \" Black America\".", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_11:50:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 854309, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "853855": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Obama seems to be distancing himself from everyone. Makes me wonder who he thinks his constituency is ultimately going to be.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_09:22:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "bigassbelle", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "856420": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Kenyaw, what you wrote is so true-I am also not enamored with the push for responsible fatherhood only-There are many father's groups & father's rights groups, & fatherhood initiatives-To me it's still dysfunctional when promoted outside of the context of marriage-It still hurts the the community when promoted outside of the context of marriage-We are the group LEAST likely to marry, and close to 75% of Black women are without husbands-We can pretend that responsible fatherhood is all that counts, or at least settle for that, and promote men like Puff Daddy, Scotty Pippen  or Bobby Brown as examples of our cultural heros cause they take care of their kids no matter how many baby-mamas they have- Instead, I wish we would do things decently and in order-<br>I agree with you-We need to marry each other", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_13:21:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "4d9312cd58c7caeb087835daea9d59b6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 855915, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "855911": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I have to disagree.  Obama has talked about personal responsibility and family values in many venues.  And no, a man that doesn't live with his child doesn't automatically = deadbeat, so why should that person be offended, because it clearly doesn't apply to you.  But there are men who don't live with their children, and some that do, that are not there; they are not participating in that child's life.  And they need to be called out on it.  <br><br>And as far as the timing, Obama has given this speech, or a variation of it, at least two times before, and has discussed it at multiple venues in Black crowds, and mixed crowds.  Michelle has done the same.  I guess she must be pandering too.  <br><br>I work in the court system.  I see Black men paraded in front of me everyday for federal charges, and I see their girlfriends/wives/children sitting in the gallery in support.  Does that mean that these men don't care about their families, or are not supporting their families?  No.  But clearly, if they are going to jail, they are not in the home, and they cannot do all they can to support their family.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_12:30:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "ef781b639c890767ebd1ce99011c3afa", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 855386, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "856380": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Obama could stop perpetuating the perception of blacks as lazy and irresponsible, Ronnie B. On Father's Day, there are millions and millions and millions of black men doing what they have to do and more as fathers, father figures and community leaders, role models yet he chose the tired and script. I did not have a problem with his speech last year but this one I did have a problem with.<br><br>If you listen to the rhetoric of people like Obama then you would think that all of the men that I grew up knowing did not exist and he was some expection with 2 other people. <br><br>That was my issue and talking \"up\" would have been praise rather than repudiation in front of the choir and on a national and global stage of men who really already get too much attention. <br><br>Obama's speech was cliche! <br><br>Also why not speak about the American breakdown of the family rather than going race specific since he isn't running for president of black America. There are many uninvolved Latino and white men why not repudiate them. However he saved his public scolding for the black crowd which is talking down because he would have never had the AUDACITY  to confront anyone else. <br><br><br>Now explain the Popeyes fried chicken for breakfast comment and how that was not talking down. It was and I am calling it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_13:16:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 855850, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "855915": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Senator Obama was not only talking to black fathers.  But, if he was your numbers don\u2019t quite add up.<br><br>How can your statement that those issues only apply to 20 - 30% of black men when over 70% of black children are born out of wedlock?  You lost on that one.<br>I don't personally know any \"deadbeat\" dads either.  I do know plenty of fathers that don't spend enough quality time with their children.  They leave most of the homework and soccer games to the wife to handle. He was talking to those fathers as well.  <br>The ones who are sitting and watching ESPN while the wife is training, teaching, encouraging, correcting, cooking and making plans for the kids.  That was one of the issues that the Senator has been addressing for several years now.<br>Lastly, it is irresponsible to get someone pregnant and not be married or chose to marry him or her.  <br>I have a nice white co-worker whose four nieces are unmarried and they all have children.  This is a national moral crisis.<br>I live in Atlanta and know a good number of wonderful successful people who are married.  Nevertheless, black folks need to marry each other more than we do.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_12:31:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "kenyaw", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 855582, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "854893": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thanks, Shelby:)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_11:04:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "fb67e13066281c4e22557d02eb57edda", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "867696": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I agree with what the senator has said.Anyone who really lives in the community not like J Jackson who has many homes and got rich exploiting the communities pain,knows there is a problem in our community with personal responsibilities.I see first hand what teen mothers do and the thug life that is supported by the media.Jesse and people who make excuses for the bad behavior are more concerned about what White people think than solving the problem.How to solve the problem is to give young people alternatives to immoral people like Jackson who fathered a child out of wedlock at 61 years old.Look at Obama with his family that is all Black America needs at this point.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-11_14:38:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "kalagenesis", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "855411": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Well said!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_11:52:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 854506, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "867708": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.kalanation.blogspot.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.kalanation.blogspot.com</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-11_14:39:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "kalagenesis", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "853376": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I am evidently in the minority...pardon the pun...but I'm starting to have some second thoughts about Barack Obama and his campaign. I've never been the kind of chick who can follow anyone in lockstep, and am suspicious of those who can. Since being a Barack fan has lately seemed to become a black litmus test, I have to say I might be one who has to turn my black card in. I just can't support someone whose supporters apparently feel trashing every single dissenter and/or anyone with experience and/or anyone over 40 years old who has some issues with the Establishment is OK. Those brothers worked hard in the trenches before Barack Obama was even born. While Jesse's apparently has some generation gap issues in his own household what he actually SAID made sense. It's gotten really easy to hold black men's feet to the fire and say how wrong and bad they are so that the mainstream understands you're right with them. We love to focus on what's wrong in the black community instead of what's right. Bill Cosby talking to mostly black audiences is different from a presidential candidate talking to the world via the global media. I just think those that feel Barack is the Great Black Saviour are bound to be disappointed. I can't say I won't vote for him, because I'd vote for a dog before going Republican. I just wish I felt that he had more backbone and was less willing to pander to the mainstream.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_08:04:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "cc6569f8cbd4abd6bef53a2f883f8ca5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "855938": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Taritac wrote: \"if you think FISA won't be eventually used against the Black community, think again.\"<br><br>All of this stuff is already used against everyone all the time. Please don't be simple enough to think otherwise. Unless you become a mountain man and move to a cave, get use to the idea of being under constant surveillance. There is a GPS apparatus in your cell phone if you have a contract. Thats why criminals use a series of disposable phones. Every commercial transaction you make is video recorded, and if need be, a satellite can zoom in on your home. If you don't believe me, send someone a picture of one of your kids in their underware. That will put you on the radar. Just don't send it to  me. Big Brother is here to stay, FISA or no FISA. Conduct yourself accordingly and learn to live with the truth", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_12:33:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "4d9312cd58c7caeb087835daea9d59b6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 854009, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "856454": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm more than tired of the violent fantasies and imagery projected onto the Obamas from all sides of the spectrum.  If they aren't threatening to start up lyching parties on Michelle or actually show her being lynched, people are fantasizing about assassination and cutting the man's nuts off.<br><br>You can disagree with a person without wishing them violence and harm.  The fact that people want to back hand him and cut off his nuts and start up lynching parties on Michelle because of what they have SAID says more about the person with the violent fantasy than it does about the Obamas.<br><br>I doubt seriously that the people who want to backhand, castrate or lynch the Obamas would ever fix their lips or fingertips to utter something like that about a WHITE candidate and his/her family.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_13:24:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 855554, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "855436": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Our country hates both men and they get thrown around regardless.<br><br>I already called into Al Sharpton's show and thanked him for all he has done out here in NY and told him to retire.<br><br>When another black man gets shot (60 times next time) he needs to not bother. Let people deal with it on their own becuase people like to bad mouth him but when something goes down they scream out where is Al Sharpton? Give Me A Break!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_11:53:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 854436, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "860045": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "If those were the only choices and I had a chronic illness, I'd choose healthcare.<br><br>Without batting an eye.<br><br>But it's a false choice and something tells me you know it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_19:52:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 854168, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "856976": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I agree.  This is the meat of his message delivered in many venues:<br><br>\"Parents if you don't parent, we can't improve our schools. You've got to parent. You've got to turn off the television set in your house once in a while, you've got to put the video game away once in a while.\"<br><br>\"You should have a curfew in your house so your children aren't out in the streets all night. You should meet with the teacher and find out what the homework is and help that child with the homework. And if you don't know how to do the homework, don't be embarrassed, find someone to help you.\"<br><br>\"Fathers, be fathers. Be a part of your child's life. Be a part of your child's life and try to make them proud.<br><br>\"And the last thing is, if your child is misbehaving at school don't curse out the teacher. You know who you are. It's not the teacher's fault that your child is misbehaving. That's some home training.\"<br><br>This is not a message only for blacks, it is for all people.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_14:13:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 855911, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "854417": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You started off great but then the wheels fell all the way off.<br>You can't honestly belief everything that you just wrote. <br>Jesse Jackson panders all of the time. You can't be serious. Sen Barack does not need to \"use\" black people to get white votes.<br>The man is brilliant whether you believe it or not. He is not perfect, but he is brilliant.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_10:21:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "kenyaw", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 854048, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "854436": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Why is Al Sharpton on the album cover?  Al has been above reproach through out this campaign.  He has had Sen Obama on his radio show on several occasions and they have a great repertoire.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_10:23:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "kenyaw", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "855461": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Who may I ask are you making this claim about because it seems a tad bit delusional on you part?<br><br>Are you talking about Jackson or are you assuming that those who are not agreeing with Obama's every move are unsuccessful lazy derelicts who hate success??", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_11:55:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 854530, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "854440": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Ok now Quanli, stop making so much damn sense. I'm mean come the f!@%$ on, black ppl need to wake up...if you want to be mad at someone be mad at your cousin pookey for have 8 kids with 6 different women that he's not taking care of. Or you other cousin LaCreatra for sleeping with 16 guys and actin\u2019 surprise when she doesn't know who the father is...and while you\u2019re at it blame Maury for makin' money off their plight!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_10:24:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "b8b9328e61e0094ae18e247c922f9dc7", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 14, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 854309, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "853422": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "That's okay, No ID.  Have you looked at Jill's post regarding Obama's cave in on FISA?  I think you will find a healthy number of people who are in the same boat as you regarding Obama.<br><br>As for me, I've gone from \"I'm voting for him, but...\" to \"I don't know who will get my vote, but it won't be McCain...\" A third party option (Cynthia McKinney) is looking pretty good right now.<br><br>What frightens me is any constructive attempt to hold Obama to his \"as advertised\" position is met with flaming, name-calling and allegations of racism, and that's sad.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_08:14:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "865779": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.artmaggot.blogspot.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.artmaggot.blogspot.com</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-11_12:06:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "26516018ec4434ebf80e99bb7dadd942", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "853943": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "For the Love God! The majority of Americans don't even understand what FISA is suppose to be. This is a Country that voted for Bush twice do you really think that the average America sits at home and worries about something called FISA.<br><br>Hell, My friends that FISA was a food dish. Now, what they do understand is the word flip-flop and if gets stuck on Obama then he'll be in trouble.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_09:35:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "200f26fc2c716a0708ead00f1011686e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "855483": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "taritac,<br>It is not automatic immunity, the new bill it says that if the US Attorney General issued the warrant then it was a legal for the company to comply. <br>That is not the same as saying whatever you did you want get in trouble. He can still investigate all warrants if and when he gets in office.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_11:57:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "kenyaw", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 854203, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "858559": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I disagree with the characterization that Sen. Obama is \"perpetuating the perception of blacks as lazy and irresponsible\".  He is the emobidment of the exact opposite, and as a young boy whose father split, he has every right to speak on the issue.<br><br>Intentional fatherlessness is a scourge in our community, and has been for the last 35 years.  And if grown Black men don't speak up and out against it, the problem will never go away.  To hell with making excuses; to hell with trying to pretend the issue away; to hell with celebrating and praising.  <br><br>The problem of intentional fatherlessness, and its resulting consequences are too numerous and profound to chronicle here.  But suffice it to say that folks have become so desensitized; so conditioned, that intentional fatherlessness itself has become \"cliche\".<br><br>I don't give a damn who else is doing it.  That it's still occuring in our community is the problem.  And it's foolish to presume that the issue should be discussed where the non-Black public can't hear.  THEY ALREADY KNOW!<br><br>This is our failure and it's our problem to fix.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_16:46:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "RonnieB", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 856380, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "855489": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "That is utter garbege...utter bullshit if you ask me!<br><br>So Obama could do whatever he wants but what we are supposed to agree regardless because we will come off as fearing success!<br><br>I cannot scream bullshit enough!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_11:57:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 855038, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "853446": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "To NO ID, please! Give us a break. Obama is NOT YET the president. And any candidate, black or white, has to broaden their appeal in order to win a national election. We may not like when it happen but we VOTE accordingly at the polls. Voting for the O-man is not a black litmus test. Give me a break. I am voting for hin because gas prices are high, the war goes on, the economy is in the tank and my kid's future is in doubt. As Oprah once said, \"don't play me cheap!\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_08:19:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "ayersteach", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "853964": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "For the Love God! The majority of Americans don't even understand what FISA is suppose to be. This is a Country that voted for Bush twice do you really think that the average American sits at home and worries about something called FISA.<br><br>Hell, My friends thought FISA was a food dish. Now, what they do understand is the word flip-flop and if gets stuck on Obama then he'll be in trouble.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_09:36:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "200f26fc2c716a0708ead00f1011686e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 853943, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "856526": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Except here are the statistics:<br><br>The nation's out-of-wedlock birth rate is 38%. Among white children, 28% are now born to a single mother; among Hispanic children it is 50% and reaches a chilling, disorienting peak of 71% for black children. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, nearly a quarter of America's white children (22%) do not have any male in their homes; nearly a third (31%) of Hispanic children and over half of black children (56%) are fatherless.<br><br>This represents a dramatic shift in American life. In the early 1960s, only 2.3% of white children and 24% of black children were born to a single mom.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_13:32:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 855582, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "853752": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "@icebergslim re:  \"Barack Obama is running for POTUS, not Black America.\"<br><br>AMEN!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_09:07:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "b296923bd6f1914fb903235bdd0613bc", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "858069": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Wow. That's a mouthful. <br><br>I can't find all that much to take issue with.<br><br>Jesse Jackson was wrong. <br><br>Wrong that Barack is talking down to anybody (Barack has a big ego, a huge intellect, and speaks his mind assertively) and wrong and <i>reckless</i> to suggest a Black man have his nuts cut off in a nation with a history of lynching. In the same studio where the same host called for a lynching party for Michelle Obama if tracked it down and found out she hated her country.<br><br>Jesse Jackson was wrong. And reckless. He needs to excuse himself and disappear.<br><br>::<br><br>With all the wag the dog BS propping up on my television screen minute after minute after minute to stoke our fear of a terrorist attack and/or an attack by Iran, it's very clear to me why Barack voted on FISA exactly the way he did. <br><br>We're still on the outside looking in. He's on the inside looking out. He know what he's up against and what's coming down the pike.<br><br>While I understand everyone's criticism (up to a point) I also understand Barack's rock-and-a-hard-place choice.<br><br>John McCain. Must. Not. Become. President.<br><br>Ralph Nader can't win. Cynthia McKinney can't win. Bob Barr can't win. A Write-in candidate can't win. Every single vote cast for one of them is a vote for John McCain. That is the raw truth of our electoral system.<br><br>Vote for whomever you want. But know the consequences.<br><br>John McCain. Must. Not. Become. President.<br><br>Barack told his staff that the country was counting on us to make sure that doesn't happen because whatever he will or won't do from this point forward, I know <i>exactly</i> what John McCain will do and I want no part of that hellish nightmare.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_15:58:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 854622, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "857559": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"We are all, including Obama, in a place we never really thought we would be, and it has knocked us off our feet. We don't know how to act. We don't have a plan. We're searching for our equilibrium. \"<br><br>Jack White, who I respect,  needs to speak for himself and elements of what Zora Neale Hurston in her intemperate way called the \"niggerati\".  I'm not confused at all about Obama's candidacy and I refuse to allow it to throw me off-stride or cause me to become delusional.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_15:05:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "PTCruiser", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "856542": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This article on the Root encapsulates my sentiment. <br><br><a href=\"http://www.theroot.com/id/47225\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.theroot.com/id/47225</a><br><br>See a couple excerpts<br><br>\"We are all, including Obama, in a place we never really thought we would be, and it has knocked us off our feet. We don't know how to act. We don't have a plan. We're searching for our equilibrium. \"<br><br>and<br><br>\"That, it seems to me, accounts in part for the frustration some of us are feeling by what we interpret as Obama's move to the center. We are simply not accustomed to one of our own playing real, power politics. \"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_13:33:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "JJai", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "857060": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "So is Bill Cosby pandering as well???? Obviously the AA community is having a harder time with these issues than others!<br><br>Oh I don't recall BHO saying \"Blacks only\" in his father's day speech either. I don't see what's wrong with telling the truth.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_14:22:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "7acec36f3ac1c3ce26f5070a275439fa", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 855386, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "854506": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "WoW. Wh'd a thunk, black folks arguing about FISA and a black presidential candidate's vote. I think that that's progress. But from the very beginning of Senator Obama's candidacy I 've said that black folks would have to just sit back and let the Senator run. Why? Because of the complexities of race in this campaign. Senator Obama has to walk a fine line, and I mean a fine line. Talk about wearing the mask...Michael Eric Dyson said that Senator Obama would have to talk to the white folks and wink at the black folks, or something to that effect, which means that he has to play the game, while fully realizing that he's playing the game. And don't act like we don't know the game that I'm talking about. We do it at work, we act one way around our white co-workers, but when we get together, we let down the mask. We can be in the breakroom chillin', and as soon as the white folks come in we flip the script and mirror them. Senator Obama has gone where no black folks have gone before, within striking distance of the White House and the chance to become president of the most powerful nation on earth. Think  of it, a son of Kenya, a son of Kansas, a a native son who too sings America. But getting there is not easy. His candidacy is fraught with minefields because he becomes the lightning rod for every phobia, fear, stereotype, pathology, expectation in America, in a way that no white candidate could ever encounter. Yes, he's going to have to compromise on his way to the White House. Do you think that white folks will just hand a black person the White House? But the least we black folks can do is lay in the cut, and make sure that he doesn't have to give up more than is necessary by our doubting his sincerity. We need to have his back because if he loses, he will not have the chance again. If McCain wins now, Hillary wil win in 2012. Her supporters will stop at nothing to put her there. She's running now, which is why she voted no on FISA and reopened her PAC. It's a serious political game out there, big time hardball 21st century politics. We don't have time to whine, muse, rue over Senator Obama. We need to get him into the White House. Think forest, not trees, Let's lift him up collectively buy our becoming savvy at the political game. It's a cliche, but united we stand and divided we fall. Senator Obama is being pulled apart by racist whites, aggrieved liberal whites, and blacks doubters. Give the man some slack, get him in the White House and then sit back and celebrate that we've made it to the top.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_10:29:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "6e7db422b9da7afdfb8c601a8f0d7250", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "858606": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Really, the delusional ones are the people who think they're \"in a different place\" because of this man's candidacy.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_16:51:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "fb67e13066281c4e22557d02eb57edda", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "855635": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "C'mon folks! How can we have a civil discussion about the topic w/o getting into a street fight? Listen, I live apart from my children yet play a active role in their lives. Nor did I take offensive at what he said. At NO point in the text of his speech does he refer to JUST AA men. The setting of the speech was in a AA church and the MSM took it from there and headlines screamed that he was addressing us poor black folks. <br><br>One of the lesson I am learning from this wonderful experience it how much MORE we have to develop leadership in our community. I like Jackson but in this instance - he need to go sit down.<br><br>Go O-man go!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_12:08:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "ayersteach", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "854009": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yes, this self-righteous brat pisses and moans about FISA. Very nice.<br><br>RonnieB, if you think FISA won't be eventually used against the Black community, think again. Most of the issues that Black people have with police involve 4th Amendment violations. These things matter.<br><br>The reason most people aren't talking about doing something silly like vote for John McCain is that the economy, healthcare, education all matter, and Obama will certainly do a better job for the nation than McCain. <br><br>But I will be damned if I will shut up about something that MATTERS TO ME so you and Obama can feel comfortable. The Constitution matters. He will be the President of the whole country, and the primary defender of the Constitution, so he needs to do right by it. I expect Obama to be a President I can be proud of, someone I support wholeheartedly because I believe he will do the right thing. Right now, I'm not so sure where he stands, and he needs to be held accountable for promises he's made. He's so big on \"personal responsibility,\" he needs to show a little.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_09:42:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "taritac", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 853808, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "855038": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I agree with Coop 100%. I think people of color do have a tendancy to fear success.  It is human nature that you are not going to agree with a person 100% of the time.  We must continue to rally behind Mr. Obama, except his faults and pray that he can do good for all people.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_11:18:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "lewevelyn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "856575": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Pjamma said: \"Hell if you have Direct TV or Comcast their servers can track and report every time you change the channel.\"<br><br>Yes-Whoever provides your internet  service has access to everything you have on your computer-That's how they always find perverts who engage in internet child pornoghaphy<br>The unscruplous work hard to gain access to our account #'s and passwords, and sometimes they can grab them right out of the ethers<br><br>You can keep your drawers in a wad over the \"principle\" of having privacy, but that still doesn't mean you're going to have it<br><br>It might be time to move on from FISA---with a quickness<br><br>My period key stopped working :(", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-10_13:36:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "4d9312cd58c7caeb087835daea9d59b6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 856334, "depth": 4, "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": "1781197", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "21630", "hash": 525241368609698533}, "thread": {"days_alive": 0, "slug": "lol_but_i_think_this_pic_says_it_all_02", "paginate": false, "num_pages": 1, "num_posts": 131, "per_page": 0, "total_posts": 0, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 1781197, "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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			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=lol_but_i_think_this_pic_says_it_all_02' +
		'&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/lol_but_i_think_this_pic_says_it_all_02/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='	+ 'lol_but_i_think_this_pic_says_it_all_02'
			+ '&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/lol_but_i_think_this_pic_says_it_all_02/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">131</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/lol_but_i_think_this_pic_says_it_all_02/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/lol_but_i_think_this_pic_says_it_all_02/">Community Page</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>\
	 <span class="dsq-item-subscribe">\
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	 <a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">Subscribe by email</a>\
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	this.footer = function() {
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			html += Dsq.Templates.authPost();
		

		html += Dsq.Templates.reactions();

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.trackbacks();
		

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		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>\
			';
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		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 {
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		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">'
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				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>';
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			html += '</ul>';
			html = '<h3 class="dsq-h3-trackbacks">Trackbacks</h3>' + html;
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		return html;
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			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);
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				container.innerHTML += el;
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		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;
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		if (reaction.author_name === '') {
			reaction.author_name = '&nbsp;';
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		if (reaction.url === '') {
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		var item = '<li class="dsq-reaction" id="dsq-reaction-' + reaction.id + '">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-header">'
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		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 + '"/>';
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			item += '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/noavatar32.png"/>';
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		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>')
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		if(reaction.retweets) {
			var num_retweets = reaction.retweets.length;
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					item += 'One more retweet from <a href="' + reaction.retweets[0].url + '">'  + reaction.retweets[0].author_name + '</a>';
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					if (n_tweets != num_retweets) {
						item += '</span> <a onclick="Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(' + reaction.id + ', 0, \'dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '\');'
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		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:1781197" 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;
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		return ' \
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			+ (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"> \
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			</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) {
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		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"> \
							 \
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									<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> \
								 \
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								 \
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								 \
								&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> \
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	// 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'				: 'lol_but_i_think_this_pic_says_it_all_02',
			// 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/lol_but_i_think_this_pic_says_it_all_02/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='	+ 'lol_but_i_think_this_pic_says_it_all_02'
			+ '&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='	+ 'lol_but_i_think_this_pic_says_it_all_02'
			+ '&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='		+ 'lol_but_i_think_this_pic_says_it_all_02'
				+ '&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/1781197/realtime.js?timestamp=' + last_checked);
		}
	};

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

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

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

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

}();

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

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

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

	return obj;
}();

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		if (isblank(openid_url)) {
			return;
		}

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	obj.authenticate = function() {
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-853376" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-853376">NO ID</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-853376" class="dsq-comment-message">I am evidently in the minority...pardon the pun...but I\'m starting to have some second thoughts about Barack Obama and his campaign. I\'ve never been the kind of chick who can follow anyone in lockstep, and am suspicious of those who can. Since being a Barack fan has lately seemed to become a black litmus test, I have to say I might be one who has to turn my black card in. I just can\'t support someone whose supporters apparently feel trashing every single dissenter and/or anyone with experience and/or anyone over 40 years old who has some issues with the Establishment is OK. Those brothers worked hard in the trenches before Barack Obama was even born. While Jesse\'s apparently has some generation gap issues in his own household what he actually SAID made sense. It\'s gotten really easy to hold black men\'s feet to the fire and say how wrong and bad they are so that the mainstream understands you\'re right with them. We love to focus on what\'s wrong in the black community instead of what\'s right. Bill Cosby talking to mostly black audiences is different from a presidential candidate talking to the world via the global media. I just think those that feel Barack is the Great Black Saviour are bound to be disappointed. I can\'t say I won\'t vote for him, because I\'d vote for a dog before going Republican. I just wish I felt that he had more backbone and was less willing to pander to the mainstream.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-854144" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-854144">AnthonyMason</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-854144" class="dsq-comment-message">If he can backtrap on Fisa, then he\'ll do so on Iraq.  Barack aint about change.  He\'s just another politico.  This Fisa bill puts BO in a whole whole whole whole different perspective.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-853422" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-853422" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-853422" class="dsq-comment-message">That\'s okay, No ID.  Have you looked at Jill\'s post regarding Obama\'s cave in on FISA?  I think you will find a healthy number of people who are in the same boat as you regarding Obama.<br><br>As for me, I\'ve gone from "I\'m voting for him, but..." to "I don\'t know who will get my vote, but it won\'t be McCain..." A third party option (Cynthia McKinney) is looking pretty good right now.<br><br>What frightens me is any constructive attempt to hold Obama to his "as advertised" position is met with flaming, name-calling and allegations of racism, and that\'s sad.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-855084" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-855084" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-855084" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-855084" class="dsq-comment-message">That is how I feel CPL and No ID.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-853446" class="dsq-comment-header">\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-853446">ayersteach</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-853446" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-853446" class="dsq-comment-message">To NO ID, please! Give us a break. Obama is NOT YET the president. And any candidate, black or white, has to broaden their appeal in order to win a national election. We may not like when it happen but we VOTE accordingly at the polls. Voting for the O-man is not a black litmus test. Give me a break. I am voting for hin because gas prices are high, the war goes on, the economy is in the tank and my kid\'s future is in doubt. As Oprah once said, "don\'t play me cheap!"</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-853538" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-853538" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-853538" href="http://thisweekwithbarackobama.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">icebergslim</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-853538" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-853538" class="dsq-comment-message">Barack Obama is running for POTUS, not Black America.<br><br>I have had to tell my husband this, many times.<br><br>Barack Obama, as I and many of us, has benefited from the likes of Jesse Jackson.  This does not mean we think or agree with their words or approach.<br><br>This is a generational gap thing.  Jackson knew full well that if he is on ANY SHOW, etc. that you act like the MIC IS ON, not OFF.  He was the one caught by a journalist on tape back in the 80s with his hymietown talk, which was put in all the papers (24/7) cable was not out then, and ended his own chances of POTUS.<br><br>Jesse Jackson expected Obama to kiss his ring, but found out, as Hillary is finding out that Obama does not bend well when he is told what to do, especially when he is in the driver\'s seat.<br><br>Obama has been talking about personal responsibility in the Black Community for years, this is nothing new. <br><br>I respect Jesse Jackson, but he needs to sit down and just shut up, if he wants to retain any relevancy.  This snafu does more harm to Jesse than Obama.<br><br>Lastly, Obama is trying to WIN this thing in November.  FISA, definitely do not agree with Obama\'s approach, but after spending the weekend in NW Indiana, steel mill country, do you think anyone is talking about FISA?  These people are hurting, talking about gas prices, mortgages, etc.  One woman I spoke with knew the prices and how they have rose on what she usually shops for in the grocery store.  I was stunned.  So, for people upset on FISA, the left did not sell it well for folks to embrace it.  When your wallet and pocketbook is light folks are looking to see what these politicians will offer to help them.  Can FISA be fixed?  Yes, remember Obama said, folks forget, that the first thing he will do as POTUS is clean up the justice department and look at all the shit the Bush Administration did.<br><br>Lastly, on FISA, this does not save the telecom community from criminal charges.  As President Obama, and his justice department, they can go after these companies by representing the American Public.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-853776" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-853776">taritac</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-853776" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-853776" class="dsq-comment-message">The fact that people were not cognizant about FISA means that it was the *perfect* time for Obama to vote the correct way. <br><br>I take all promises of his now with a grain of salt.<br><br>Jesse is right about Obama\'s personal responsibility schtick, but, yes, I agree, this hurts Jesse way more than it does Obama. Jesse is an intelligent man and fantastic orator, but he needs to STFU if he doesn\'t realize that Fox is NOT HIS FRIEND.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-854136" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-854136">kenyaw</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-854136" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-854136" class="dsq-comment-message">taritac,<br>He said that he would not vote on the original bill. This is a not THE ORIGINAL BILL. There have been many significant changes.  Why some people want accept that is beyond me.<br>We want to get away from warrantless wiretapping, not wiretapping all together. <br>If the Attorney General issues a ceo a warrant then that ceo should consider complying.  There needs to be more oversight.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-854203" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-854203" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-854203">taritac</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-854203" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-854203" class="dsq-comment-message">He promised to FILIBUSTER ANY BILL THAT CONTAINED TELECOM IMMUNITY. FISA already addressed warrantless wiretapping. The bill in its original incarnation in 1978 was to OUTLAW warrantless wiretapping. THAT HASN\'T CHANGED. The only thing that changed is that BUSH AND THE TELECOMS BROKE THE DAMN LAW. They violated FISA. And this new bill ABSOLVES them of this violation.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-855483" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-855483">kenyaw</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-855483" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-855483" class="dsq-comment-message">taritac,<br>It is not automatic immunity, the new bill it says that if the US Attorney General issued the warrant then it was a legal for the company to comply. <br>That is not the same as saying whatever you did you want get in trouble. He can still investigate all warrants if and when he gets in office.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-856195" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-856195">taritac</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-856195" class="dsq-comment-message">Attorneys General, who are executive branch appointees, shouldn\'t issue warrants. Courts do. If the AG had gotten warrants like they were supposed to, there would be no controversy. <br><br>This bill is not okay. It completely undermines the principles of balancing powers with judicial oversight. Having the AG issue warrants puts absolutely no check on executive power. It\'s like the President saying that he\'ll police himself.<br><br>I have grave doubts about Obama investigating Bush when he gets into office. He\'ll have other things on his plate, and he\'ll say that investigating the last administration is a distraction, a la Pelosi.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-855149" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-855149" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-855149" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-855149" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-855149" class="dsq-comment-message">Yea I here you, Jesse was right but he should have known better in regards to Fox news. Why was he there in the first place? Come on.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-853752">Trinity</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-853752" class="dsq-comment-message">@icebergslim re:  "Barack Obama is running for POTUS, not Black America."<br><br>AMEN!!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-853808" class="dsq-comment-header">\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-853808">RonnieB</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-853808" class="dsq-comment-message">Slim,<br><br>Way to bring the point home.  In a day when people are choosing between going broke on gas or groceries, we\'ve got spoiled brat knuckelheads who feel so <i>entitled</i> that they\'re willing to forsake a historic (and culturally beneficial) presidency so that their "principles" can be indulged.  <br><br>People are begging to get their children into free clinics to be seen by someone other than an overworked physician\'s assistant.  People are dying a slow death of ulcers, migraines, and other stress-related illnesses, because they\'re worried about losing their jobs.   Barely 50% of Black kids are graduating from high school, ill prepared for job market competition.<br><br>Yet we\'ve got self-righteous brats pissing and moaning about something called <i>FISA</i>?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-854009" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-854009" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-854009">taritac</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-854009" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes, this self-righteous brat pisses and moans about FISA. Very nice.<br><br>RonnieB, if you think FISA won\'t be eventually used against the Black community, think again. Most of the issues that Black people have with police involve 4th Amendment violations. These things matter.<br><br>The reason most people aren\'t talking about doing something silly like vote for John McCain is that the economy, healthcare, education all matter, and Obama will certainly do a better job for the nation than McCain. <br><br>But I will be damned if I will shut up about something that MATTERS TO ME so you and Obama can feel comfortable. The Constitution matters. He will be the President of the whole country, and the primary defender of the Constitution, so he needs to do right by it. I expect Obama to be a President I can be proud of, someone I support wholeheartedly because I believe he will do the right thing. Right now, I\'m not so sure where he stands, and he needs to be held accountable for promises he\'s made. He\'s so big on "personal responsibility," he needs to show a little.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-855159" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-855159" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-855159" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-855159" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-855159" class="dsq-comment-message">Obama only sat in a church for 20 years where the minister was wiretapped and visited by the FBI.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-855938" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-855938" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-855938">Teacher</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-855938" class="dsq-comment-message">Taritac wrote: "if you think FISA won\'t be eventually used against the Black community, think again."<br><br>All of this stuff is already used against everyone all the time. Please don\'t be simple enough to think otherwise. Unless you become a mountain man and move to a cave, get use to the idea of being under constant surveillance. There is a GPS apparatus in your cell phone if you have a contract. Thats why criminals use a series of disposable phones. Every commercial transaction you make is video recorded, and if need be, a satellite can zoom in on your home. If you don\'t believe me, send someone a picture of one of your kids in their underware. That will put you on the radar. Just don\'t send it to  me. Big Brother is here to stay, FISA or no FISA. Conduct yourself accordingly and learn to live with the truth</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-856334">pjamma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-856334" class="dsq-comment-message">Heck you don\'t even have to be using a communications device.  Have your pictures developed at a Walmart (if anyone still does that) and if you have a child in a swimsuit playing around in the pool with their dad the store can report you as a potential sex offender.<br><br>Every company you have a bank or credit account with knows your social security number and every one who touches the account has access to your private information.  And if your charging patterns change you are flagged. If your deposits increase (specifically over $10,000) they can and will alert government agencies.<br><br>Hell if you have Direct TV or Comcast their servers can track and report every time you change the channel.<br><br>Your supermarket club card tracks your purchases.<br><br>Every day there are many ways that people you don\'t even consider have access to information far worse then any discussion you are having with a co-worker of friend in Pakistan.  I happen to design and negotiate the development of communication infrastructures in emerging markets so I\'m sure my phone is probably tapped.  But since I\'m am not doing anything wrong I could care less.  Poor fool who has to spend his time listening to me talk about Madonna, A-Rod and Guy.<br><br>It\'s amazing how up in arms people get about something that basically happens every day and would not even be a concern if Obama\'s vote wasn\'t made so public.  Like every other form of passive or non-passive surveillance it doesn\'t even cross most peoples minds, partly because what is there really interesting enough about them to survey, and mostly because they are more concerned about gas, food and shelter.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-856575" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-856575">Teacher</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-856575" class="dsq-comment-message">Pjamma said: "Hell if you have Direct TV or Comcast their servers can track and report every time you change the channel."<br><br>Yes-Whoever provides your internet  service has access to everything you have on your computer-That\'s how they always find perverts who engage in internet child pornoghaphy<br>The unscruplous work hard to gain access to our account #\'s and passwords, and sometimes they can grab them right out of the ethers<br><br>You can keep your drawers in a wad over the "principle" of having privacy, but that still doesn\'t mean you\'re going to have it<br><br>It might be time to move on from FISA---with a quickness<br><br>My period key stopped working :(</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-859828">Michelle</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-859828" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>Conduct yourself accordingly and learn to live with the truth</i><br><br>Thank you, Teacher.<br><br>This comment (the whole thing and this part in particular) gets at another part of what is bothering me so much abuot the FISA-drama uproar. <br><br>I wonder where people come to the belief that they are default protected from and by the govt to begin with? Some might answer "The Constitution" (!! yeah!!). But from everything I have seen in my own life, this society\'s cultural system has at its core a built-in disconnect between words and actions/reality. So you have the ideological surface gloss of the "ideals" and then you have the actual lived reality -- and they are often not the same and sometimes even opposed. <br><br>Also, in my own actual experience: Given how I actually perceive the world, I have always and ALWAYS had to be strongly vigilant about what I say. In every situation, in every context, I am vigilant and as aware as possible of the risks ... and I work to choose my words and responses accordingly. This is part of my consciousness, a level of awareness that is always with me. Because my own vigilance is not a choice for me, I see a lack of such required vigilance as a form of privilege itself.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-854168">AnthonyMason</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-854168" class="dsq-comment-message">So you\'d rather have heatlcare than a Constitution?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-860045" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-860045" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-860045" class="dsq-comment-message">If those were the only choices and I had a chronic illness, I\'d choose healthcare.<br><br>Without batting an eye.<br><br>But it\'s a false choice and something tells me you know it.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-854191">kenyaw</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-854191" class="dsq-comment-message">Bless you RonnieB.<br>I wonder how many people read the original bill and then read the NEW bill.  We complain because it is hard to let go of a point, when you think that you are on the righteous side.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-856096">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-856096" class="dsq-comment-message">Kenyaw:  I co-sign with you BIG TIME!  Just about to ask the same question.  We are getting distilled bits and pieces of this legislation and SPECULATING on its future effects.  Wiretapping may very well be obsolete in the way that its interpreted now.  The technological advances [which I have little knowledge of -I\'m a little \'old school\'] that exist and will exist could make the term itself obsolete.  It\'s about cyber stuff that we haven\'t been told about - yet.<br>Finally, if "we" keep "hatin\'" on Mr. Obama, why should anyone else support him?? Yes question, but the continuous barage (sp) of hatin\' is not productive.  Can we please let him get to the White House?</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-854647" href="http://www.bigassbelle.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">bigassbelle</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-854647" class="dsq-comment-message">RonnieB . . . just . . . unbelievable. Yes, I feel <b>entitled</b> to live in a nation that respects the documents upon which it was founded. It\'s just stunning to me that my wish to hold government accountable to that foundation is considered "self righteous." <br><br>The constitution is in shreds <i>right now</i>. Do you think anything good will come in this country if we simply ignore it and the rights attached to and flowing from it? Healthcare for kids? are you joking??<br><br>We live RIGHT NOW in a corporatocracy. That Obama handed this to corporate America is further proof to me that he is precisely what I feared: just another corporate toady in service to power.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-855203" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-855203" class="dsq-comment-message">I was was thinking like you but I am not sure if Obama will even go through what he promises or pull a Bill Clinton. That is how I feeling right now. I am going to vote for him and I wish that people could stop assuming that whenever someone disagrees with something that they are not going to vote for him.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-853831">NO ID</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-853831" class="dsq-comment-message">Exactly. He\'s running for POTUS, but some black folks seem to have it confused and think he\'s about to be elected Black King of America. I\'m not withdrawing support from the man. Any policies that he initiates on poverty, employment, education, gas prices, etc. will help everyone including US. It\'s just that given recent events, it\'s hard to tell just what he\'s going to stick with once he gets in office. This is a crucial time for this country and the world and I certainly don\'t think McCain is the answer. But because we\'re between a rock and a hard place means every candidate should be thoroughly vetted by the American public and that includes Obama. My problem is that so far we have Rev. Wright, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rev. Al Sharpton, Tavis Smiley and Michelle Obama all having to shut up and sit down so that this one brother can be president. All of the above have been criticized as too outspoken, too old, too old school, too black, too critical, etc. etc. Now even Barack\'s kids can\'t be honest about him! (Although I agree, given the mainstream take on what seemed to be a normal family interaction of a female dominant household that he should keep them away from cameras in the future). All I\'m saying is that when too many people have to be silenced and shut down in the wake of another\'s ambition, that\'s an issue. And sorry, but it\'s too easy to pander to the mainstream with the "personal responsibility" shit. Jesse Jackson, whose entire quote was not reported on Faux News, had a point.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-854219">kenyaw</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-854219" class="dsq-comment-message">That is life.  For example, if you had a cousin pookie, he could not company to your company Christmas party. <br>Rev. Wright - Rather brought some of the heat to himself.  Then the racist media and the uninformed public pushed it to the next level.<br>Rev. Jesse Jackson - absolutely was unprofessional and Sen Obama did not say that he should sit down and shut up. <br>Tavis Smiley - started off on the wrong foot go on and on about who should attend <br>the State of the Black Union.<br>Michelle Obama - Her husband did make her sit down and shut up.  THE PRIMARIES ARE OVER!  That is when most spouses exit the campaign trail and go back home and continue spend more time with their family.<br>When did Al Sharpton have to sit down and shut up?  I see Al Sharpton on Fox, CNN & MSNBC now more than ever before.  And Sen Obama has been on his radio show several times.  What are you talking about???</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-854622" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-854622">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-854622" class="dsq-comment-message">Exactly.  Al Sharpton is everywhere (and God bless him, as he shuts these fools down on these show).  Al Sharpton might have several problems with Obama but he\'s not going to rock the hot mic and tell it because he knows how everyone else would take it.  <br><br>Michelle Obama should "shut up" and fall back like Cindy McCain, Laura Bush and everyone else.  If she wants to have little teas and socials, that\'s fine, but rocking the mic giving speeches?  Why?<br><br>Jesse Jackson should shut up just on general principle.<br><br>Tavis Smiley didn\'t have to "shut up," he shut himself up by pitching a bitch fit because not everyone agreed with him this time.  And people were turned off to him NOT because he was "holding Obama accountable," they were turned off to him because he was drunk on haterade and twirling with the extra drama.  Real talk.  He\'d come on the Tom Joyner show like he was the SHERIFF saying "I invited all three candidates to XYZ...and only ONE bothered to respond.  I\'m gonna give the other 2 until Thursday and then I\'m gonna start calling them out."  Why all the extra drama?  Just say "I invited all 3 candidates to XYZ.  Hillary Clinton has accepted the invitation, but Barack Obama and John McCain have not."  Plus Tavis never really held Billary "accountable" for their race baiting tricks and games.  People didn\'t like that mess and let Tavis know and THAT\'s why Tavis packed his mic up and exited stage left, NOT because Barack Obama told him to sit down.<br><br>The kids should shut up because they shouldn\'t be in the spotlight, not because they\'ll say embarassing things about daddy, but because people will want to use these kids against daddy and use these kids as an example.  You had Anderson Cooper pissed off b/c he didn\'t get the "hard hitting interview" with the kids.  WTF?  Whatcha gonna ask them, Anderson Cooper?  You gonna grill Malia on Barack\'s FISA position?  Interrogate them on why they have black Barbie dolls instead of white Barbie dolls?  You gonna grill Sasha on why she likes "That\'s So Raven" over "Hannah Montana?"  *** Because you know people would love to use the Obama girls as another reason why Obama shouldn\'t be elected.  I can see Hannity discussing on FOX now, that the reason Sasha likes "Raven" over "Hannah Montana" is because Michelle hates white people and has taught the girls to hate white people and that\'s why they have black Barbie dolls and watch "That\'s So Raven" instead of "Hannah Montana" and "Zoey 101."  The kids don\'t need to be in the spotlight.  Chelsea Clinton wasn\'t in the spotlight in \'92 and had some evil things said about her and she was a (homely) little 12 year old WHITE girl.  Adults were saying some evil crap about a 12 YEAR OLD GIRL!  So you know they will have some evil, evil things to say about some little black girls.  Keep the kids out the spotlight.<br><br>**For the record, I don\'t know what shows the Obama girls like.<br><br>Jesse Jackson\'s entire point was invalidated by him saying he wanted to cut Barack\'s nuts off.  It doesn\'t matter what the context was, you just don\'t say you want to cut body parts off just because you disagree with somebody\'s position.  Hillary\'s point was also invalidated when she started talking about assassination.  She got seared for that remark and Jesse should be seared for his.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-855240">pjamma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-855240" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>I can see Hannity discussing on FOX now, that the reason Sasha likes "Raven" over "Hannah Montana" is because Michelle hates white people and has taught the girls to hate white people and that\'s why they have black Barbie dolls and watch "That\'s So Raven" instead of "Hannah Montana" and "Zoey 101."</i><br><br>And if they choose Hanna Montana over Raven, or happen to own a white Barbie doll, even if it is  one on a collection of 50, then they are being raised as elitists that want to distance themselves from African Americans.  It\'s a no win situation.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-855587">kenyaw</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-855587" class="dsq-comment-message">pjamma,<br>you have never lied!  I can just hear it now.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-856736">Teacher</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-856736" class="dsq-comment-message">I can\'t believe Town said: "Michelle Obama should "shut up" and fall back like Cindy McCain, Laura Bush and everyone else. If she wants to have little teas and socials, that\'s fine, but rocking the mic giving speeches? Why?"<br><br>Town, I usually agree with most of the stuff you say, but this is an exception, friend- Michelle is a different generation than Cindy & Laura-The days of the "little woman" are way over- <br>Michelle needs to keep talking because she has something to say & because she represents us-working mothers-<br>She needs to give her thoughful opinion because she is smart and accomplished-She is not some vacuous socialite trophy wife with nothing to offer-Quite the contrary-She is one answer/option to the longing of all the Hillary fanatics who claim they want to see strong, opinionated, gutsy women in the forefront of society-If they didn\'t have racial issues, Michelle would be their champion too<br><br>C\'mon Town-Get with the 21st century, friend</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-856870">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-856870" class="dsq-comment-message">Until Michelle Obama gets in the White House, she doesn\'t need to be giving speeches.  She ain\'t Eleanor Roosevelt yet.  She ain\'t running for office.  Sit down, stand down. Do the puff stuff like "The View".  Leave the stump speeches to Barack.   The wife of the Democratic nominee is going to be attacked.  Don\'t give them more ammo to do it with.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-858069" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-858069" class="dsq-comment-message">Wow. That\'s a mouthful. <br><br>I can\'t find all that much to take issue with.<br><br>Jesse Jackson was wrong. <br><br>Wrong that Barack is talking down to anybody (Barack has a big ego, a huge intellect, and speaks his mind assertively) and wrong and <i>reckless</i> to suggest a Black man have his nuts cut off in a nation with a history of lynching. In the same studio where the same host called for a lynching party for Michelle Obama if tracked it down and found out she hated her country.<br><br>Jesse Jackson was wrong. And reckless. He needs to excuse himself and disappear.<br><br>::<br><br>With all the wag the dog BS propping up on my television screen minute after minute after minute to stoke our fear of a terrorist attack and/or an attack by Iran, it\'s very clear to me why Barack voted on FISA exactly the way he did. <br><br>We\'re still on the outside looking in. He\'s on the inside looking out. He know what he\'s up against and what\'s coming down the pike.<br><br>While I understand everyone\'s criticism (up to a point) I also understand Barack\'s rock-and-a-hard-place choice.<br><br>John McCain. Must. Not. Become. President.<br><br>Ralph Nader can\'t win. Cynthia McKinney can\'t win. Bob Barr can\'t win. A Write-in candidate can\'t win. Every single vote cast for one of them is a vote for John McCain. That is the raw truth of our electoral system.<br><br>Vote for whomever you want. But know the consequences.<br><br>John McCain. Must. Not. Become. President.<br><br>Barack told his staff that the country was counting on us to make sure that doesn\'t happen because whatever he will or won\'t do from this point forward, I know <i>exactly</i> what John McCain will do and I want no part of that hellish nightmare.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-861256">NO ID</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-861256" class="dsq-comment-message">you make some good points town....except for the michelle obama quote. if hillary clinton could change the paradigm for first lady (as well as certainly eleanor roosevelt) then i think its fair for michelle obama to support her husband publicly and stump for him. many women find her to be likable, intelligent and a great supporter and partner to her husband. i think without her, he wouldn\'t be enjoying the popularity in the black community that he does now. i would argue that had he married a white woman he wouldn\'t have gone this far, but that\'s a whole nother conversation.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-861263">NO ID</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-861263" class="dsq-comment-message">you make some good points town....except for the michelle obama quote. if hillary clinton could change the paradigm for first lady (as well as certainly eleanor roosevelt) then i think its fair for michelle obama to support her husband publicly and stump for him. many women find her to be likable, intelligent and a great supporter and partner to her husband. i think without her, he wouldn\'t be enjoying the popularity in the black community that he does now. i would argue that had he married a white woman he wouldn\'t have gone this far, but that\'s a whole nother conversation.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-853855" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-853855" href="http://www.bigassbelle.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">bigassbelle</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-853855" class="dsq-comment-message">Obama seems to be distancing himself from everyone. Makes me wonder who he thinks his constituency is ultimately going to be.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-854054" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-854054">taritac</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-854054" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL. <br><br>No, he\'s not distancing himself from White people. He\'s showing everyone how he can be the spokesperson for White "concern" about Black responsibility. The UCC, Jeremiah Wright, Jesse, and all other Black people will be shown the door. Zionist Jews and Whites are his new best friends.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-854661" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-854661" href="http://www.bigassbelle.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">bigassbelle</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-854661" class="dsq-comment-message">He sure as hell distanced himself from me and I\'m white.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-861249">NO ID</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-861249" class="dsq-comment-message">now you know you just threw a whole lotta folks off with that one, belle, including me! LOL</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-853943" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-853943">Marei</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-853943" class="dsq-comment-message">For the Love God! The majority of Americans don\'t even understand what FISA is suppose to be. This is a Country that voted for Bush twice do you really think that the average America sits at home and worries about something called FISA.<br><br>Hell, My friends that FISA was a food dish. Now, what they do understand is the word flip-flop and if gets stuck on Obama then he\'ll be in trouble.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-853964" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-853964">Marei</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-853964" class="dsq-comment-message">For the Love God! The majority of Americans don\'t even understand what FISA is suppose to be. This is a Country that voted for Bush twice do you really think that the average American sits at home and worries about something called FISA.<br><br>Hell, My friends thought FISA was a food dish. Now, what they do understand is the word flip-flop and if gets stuck on Obama then he\'ll be in trouble.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-854080" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-854080">taritac</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-854080" class="dsq-comment-message">That\'s right-- this is a  "flip-flop" charge Obama brought on himself. If he thought he would be avoiding criticism from the Right by voting for FISA, then he judged wrong. He will be criticized regardless, so he might as well DO THE  RIGHT THING.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-855253" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-855253" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-855253" class="dsq-comment-message">My family could probably be personally effected by that bill which is why I am not happy about it. I could care less if it wa going to pass. Obama said that he was going to fillibuster it and he backtracked.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-854048">mitch</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-854048" class="dsq-comment-message">I clearly understand the point that many folks are attempting to make about this situtation.  I noticed a few months ago that the Black community was being used almost an upgraded version of Willie Horton by a Black candidate.  Barack choose to slam the Black community through the use of the Black church.  And, so many of you are contradicting yourself.  If Barack is running to be POTUS than deal with issues globally,. Lack of poor parenting skills and absentee parents has been a national issue.  It\'s just not a Black issue.  Have we forgotten about Columbine and other shootings that have occurred in predominately White communities?  I could list a ton of stories that reflect poor parenting and lack of support in the home for children.  But, he choose to reinforce a stereotype because it\'s easy, and he can gain points from prejudice White folks.  I see the man as just a normal politician and nothing special.  FISA should bring this home.  Wait until he decides to bring Hillary on the ticket.  Those two are spending way too much time together way too early for it not to mean she is the choice for VP.   And, I agree totally with Jessie about this pandering.  It needs to stop.  I just hope Black folks will make their voices heard loud and clear telling him to stop using us in an effort to gain White acceptance.  Find a new and creative way.  If he is able to achieve that accomplishment than I will truly believe he is "brilliant."  At this point, I am shaking my head in disbelief and thrown away my Obama sticker because he is not about change.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-854375">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-854375" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>Wait until he decides to bring Hillary on the ticket. Those two are spending way too much time together way too early for it not to mean she is the choice for VP.</i><br><br>I\'m pretty alert. <br><br>They\'ve done one event in Unity, New Hampshire, and now 2 fundraisers, and you think they\'re spending too much time together?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-854417">kenyaw</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-854417" class="dsq-comment-message">You started off great but then the wheels fell all the way off.<br>You can\'t honestly belief everything that you just wrote. <br>Jesse Jackson panders all of the time. You can\'t be serious. Sen Barack does not need to "use" black people to get white votes.<br>The man is brilliant whether you believe it or not. He is not perfect, but he is brilliant.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-855271" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-855271" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-855271" class="dsq-comment-message">I co-sign Mitch</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-854309">Quanli</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-854309" class="dsq-comment-message">Here\'s the thing mitch, BARACK HAS BEEN SAYING THIS IN OTHER VENUES (w/ non-blacks). This has hit home with US because we know there is a problem. If we were really worried about our image with whites why continue to play into the perception we do not like the words "personal responsibility"?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-854440">Jay</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-854440" class="dsq-comment-message">Ok now Quanli, stop making so much damn sense. I\'m mean come the f!@%$ on, black ppl need to wake up...if you want to be mad at someone be mad at your cousin pookey for have 8 kids with 6 different women that he\'s not taking care of. Or you other cousin LaCreatra for sleeping with 16 guys and actin’ surprise when she doesn\'t know who the father is...and while you’re at it blame Maury for makin\' money off their plight!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-855293" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-855293" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-855293" class="dsq-comment-message">I have no cousin Pookie...STFU about Pookie....I am so sick of that and I am not a part of it!!!!!!!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-855669">Jay</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-855669" class="dsq-comment-message">A pookie by any other name is still a pookie. You may be sick of it, and you may not be apart of it...but we\'re talking about the black community right? Community that you\'re also apart of?<br><br>Folks wanna be mad at Obama, he\'s only saying the same thing other black "leaders" have said. The same stuff I\'m sure big momma and them been saying. Just b/c doesn\'t have a perm, and his name doesn\'t start off with "Rev" doesn\'t mean he ain\'t preachin\' the truth.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-856503">pjamma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-856503" class="dsq-comment-message"><i> The same stuff I\'m sure big momma and them been saying. </i><br><br>Heee!<br><br>I agree with what you are saying.  That line made me laugh though because it reminded me of my grammie.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-855582">taritac</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-855582" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh please. I don\'t know one Black irresponsible father. Not one. I\'m not denying they exist, but solely focusing on dysfunctional people in the Black community tarnishes us all with the same stain. <br><br>Sick of lectures that apply to 20-30% when 70-80% are doing okay.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-855915">kenyaw</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-855915" class="dsq-comment-message">Senator Obama was not only talking to black fathers.  But, if he was your numbers don’t quite add up.<br><br>How can your statement that those issues only apply to 20 - 30% of black men when over 70% of black children are born out of wedlock?  You lost on that one.<br>I don\'t personally know any "deadbeat" dads either.  I do know plenty of fathers that don\'t spend enough quality time with their children.  They leave most of the homework and soccer games to the wife to handle. He was talking to those fathers as well.  <br>The ones who are sitting and watching ESPN while the wife is training, teaching, encouraging, correcting, cooking and making plans for the kids.  That was one of the issues that the Senator has been addressing for several years now.<br>Lastly, it is irresponsible to get someone pregnant and not be married or chose to marry him or her.  <br>I have a nice white co-worker whose four nieces are unmarried and they all have children.  This is a national moral crisis.<br>I live in Atlanta and know a good number of wonderful successful people who are married.  Nevertheless, black folks need to marry each other more than we do.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-856139" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-856139">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-856139" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-856139" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>"I do know plenty of fathers that don\'t spend enough quality time with their children. They leave most of the homework and soccer games to the wife to handle."</i><br><br>I don\'t think women will ever get men to care about the things we want them to care about.  I wonder if it\'s a mistake to try.  What I\'m saying is maybe there\'s something else at work here, than just being a deadbeat.  There\'s also our ideas about what constitutes "quality time".  It makes me uneasy how comforting it is for us to talk about missing fathers...using the same cliches over and over.  It strikes me as a response to compulsive anxiety.  It\'s so easy to make black men the garbage bin of the races.  Black men is where we put our emotional trash.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-856616">pjamma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-856616" class="dsq-comment-message">Black men is where "we" as African Americans may put our emotional trash because it is a more sensitive issue to "us" but I have heard the same complaints and concerns from people who are not black. And if yon need mainstream media proof just turn on the Lifetime Movie Network.  That is white family disfunction at it\'s ugliest.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-856719">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-856719" class="dsq-comment-message">Precisely, white families are enshrined as the June Cleaver model to aspire to; but it\'s a myth.  While black families are demonized.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-856819">pjamma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-856819" class="dsq-comment-message">Have you ever watched Lifetime Movie Network?  June Cleaver does not live there.   But adultery, murder, drugs, divorce, poverty, ignorance, teen pregnancy and disfunction sure do.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-856208" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-856208" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-856208" class="dsq-comment-message">KENYA, KENYA..so a man who has a child born out of wedlock is automatically a deadbeat even if he takes care of his kids.<br><br>"I don\'t personally know any "deadbeat" dads either. I do know plenty of fathers that don\'t spend enough quality time with their children. They leave most of the homework and soccer games to the wife to handle. He was talking to those fathers as well. <br>The ones who are sitting and watching ESPN while the wife is training, teaching, encouraging, correcting, cooking and making plans for the kids. That was one of the issues that the Senator has been addressing for several years now."<br><br>Ummm......it sounds like you are describing white folks.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-856659">pjamma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-856659" class="dsq-comment-message">How is this describing white folks?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-856420">Teacher</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-856420" class="dsq-comment-message">Kenyaw, what you wrote is so true-I am also not enamored with the push for responsible fatherhood only-There are many father\'s groups & father\'s rights groups, & fatherhood initiatives-To me it\'s still dysfunctional when promoted outside of the context of marriage-It still hurts the the community when promoted outside of the context of marriage-We are the group LEAST likely to marry, and close to 75% of Black women are without husbands-We can pretend that responsible fatherhood is all that counts, or at least settle for that, and promote men like Puff Daddy, Scotty Pippen  or Bobby Brown as examples of our cultural heros cause they take care of their kids no matter how many baby-mamas they have- Instead, I wish we would do things decently and in order-<br>I agree with you-We need to marry each other</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-856526">pjamma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-856526" class="dsq-comment-message">Except here are the statistics:<br><br>The nation\'s out-of-wedlock birth rate is 38%. Among white children, 28% are now born to a single mother; among Hispanic children it is 50% and reaches a chilling, disorienting peak of 71% for black children. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, nearly a quarter of America\'s white children (22%) do not have any male in their homes; nearly a third (31%) of Hispanic children and over half of black children (56%) are fatherless.<br><br>This represents a dramatic shift in American life. In the early 1960s, only 2.3% of white children and 24% of black children were born to a single mom.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-861308">NO ID</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-861308" class="dsq-comment-message">stats are always used against us. I had to think hard about deadbeat dads among the many men i know. they are few and far between and trust me i know some dudes who are pretty "hood." i know fathers who fought ex-wives and baby moms in court to be a part of their child\'s lives. i know my father and my brother are hardly perfect fathers but they aren\'t deadbeat dads either. so...who is this 70%? But more importantly, does that also include people who live together because they never got a divorce from a previous husband/wife? where are they getting this number from? i\'m one of those never-marrieds, but i have friends who\'ve been married multiple times. so? who\'s creating this stats, and who\'s interpreting them? yes we have issues in our community...but we also have successes and they don\'t get enough publicity.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-855386" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-855386" class="dsq-comment-message">No Obama has not, no he has not!<br><br>I get so frustrated speaking to people like you becuase it is like YOU don\'t get it!<br>I only talk about perosnal responsiblity but as I keep saying, Obama did not have to make this issue a race specific issue. <br>But when it comes to the AA community he does to perpetuate already longheld perceptions about AA\'s.<br><br>You Obama and the rest of the ... on this board need to do research.<br><br><br>One what kills me about Obama\'s so called intelligence is this:<br><br>1. How is a man who doesn\'t live with his family a deadbeat? How can you look at statistics and make that assumption unless you are doing just that, making assumptions! I will share with you guys an article that I found in regards to this that was prinited just a month before Obama\'s "speech". It directly contradicts<br><br><br><br>Also, as a young black female who grew up with a father and never knew of a black man who did not take care of his children whether he was in the home or not, I am sick of this being perpetuated esp. on Father\'s Day. I am all for personal responsiblity as well as social responsibiltiy and all the other responsibilities but my issue is not with that. My issue was the way in which, the language used and the timing of Obama\'s so called speech. That was my issue. <br><br>The breakdown of the family is an American issue.<br><br>The divorce rate is over 50%.<br><br>There nearly five times as many single parent households in the white communityu but Obama will never head over there and make the speech that he made back in June.<br><br>If Obama cares about families then shouldn\'t he care about all families since he is not running for president of the " Black America".</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-855911">TW</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-855911" class="dsq-comment-message">I have to disagree.  Obama has talked about personal responsibility and family values in many venues.  And no, a man that doesn\'t live with his child doesn\'t automatically = deadbeat, so why should that person be offended, because it clearly doesn\'t apply to you.  But there are men who don\'t live with their children, and some that do, that are not there; they are not participating in that child\'s life.  And they need to be called out on it.  <br><br>And as far as the timing, Obama has given this speech, or a variation of it, at least two times before, and has discussed it at multiple venues in Black crowds, and mixed crowds.  Michelle has done the same.  I guess she must be pandering too.  <br><br>I work in the court system.  I see Black men paraded in front of me everyday for federal charges, and I see their girlfriends/wives/children sitting in the gallery in support.  Does that mean that these men don\'t care about their families, or are not supporting their families?  No.  But clearly, if they are going to jail, they are not in the home, and they cannot do all they can to support their family.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-856976" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-856976">pjamma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-856976" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree.  This is the meat of his message delivered in many venues:<br><br>"Parents if you don\'t parent, we can\'t improve our schools. You\'ve got to parent. You\'ve got to turn off the television set in your house once in a while, you\'ve got to put the video game away once in a while."<br><br>"You should have a curfew in your house so your children aren\'t out in the streets all night. You should meet with the teacher and find out what the homework is and help that child with the homework. And if you don\'t know how to do the homework, don\'t be embarrassed, find someone to help you."<br><br>"Fathers, be fathers. Be a part of your child\'s life. Be a part of your child\'s life and try to make them proud.<br><br>"And the last thing is, if your child is misbehaving at school don\'t curse out the teacher. You know who you are. It\'s not the teacher\'s fault that your child is misbehaving. That\'s some home training."<br><br>This is not a message only for blacks, it is for all people.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-857060">Anon</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-857060" class="dsq-comment-message">So is Bill Cosby pandering as well???? Obviously the AA community is having a harder time with these issues than others!<br><br>Oh I don\'t recall BHO saying "Blacks only" in his father\'s day speech either. I don\'t see what\'s wrong with telling the truth.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-854332">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-854332" class="dsq-comment-message">Don\'t ask me to believe that Jesse was standing up for black people as he talked about castrating Barack Obama.  There\'s a lot of ill feeling towards Obama from Jackson if he fantasizes about ripping off his body parts because he doesn\'t like his approach or policies.  <br><br>And what\'s with the fascination with Obama\'s man marbles?  First the Hillary people say that Barack doesn\'t have any nuts and Hillary should loan him one of hers so they could both have some, then Jesse wants to cut Obama\'s off.  I find that a bit more disturbing than Obama telling some black kids to rely on education instead of rapping and basketball for a career.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-856403" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-856403" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-856403" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-856403" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-856403" class="dsq-comment-message">Jackson\'s comment was strange but I have heard people especially older people who have a tendency to use very crude language in discussing things.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-856897" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-856897" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-856897">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-856897" class="dsq-comment-message">Jesse Jackson has been around the hot mic long enough to know what not to say around a hot mic.  I guess "Hymietown" didn\'t teach him anything.  What he said wasn\'t just "crude," it was violent.  It spoke to what was on the man\'s mind:  "I disagree with you, so I want to cut your parts off."  That\'s no better than a schoolyard bully who wants to beat down the class nerd because the class nerd "looked at him funny."</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-854436" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-854436" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-854436">kenyaw</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-854436" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-854436" class="dsq-comment-message">Why is Al Sharpton on the album cover?  Al has been above reproach through out this campaign.  He has had Sen Obama on his radio show on several occasions and they have a great repertoire.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-855156" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-855156" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-855156">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-855156" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'ve always known Al and Jesse have deep disagreements with Obama; but they decided not to say anything to the media that would hurt O\'s chances in any way.  I think Al is more adamant about this than Jesse...and so Jesse got caught saying things he didn\'t need to ....unless he\'s smarter than us and it\'s a setup :)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-856074" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-856074">kenyaw</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-856074" class="dsq-comment-message">Truthseeker,<br>You are correct with the Jesse / Obama disagreements.  Sharpton has been very fair and reasonable over the past 2 years.  So I don\'t really see any major issues between he and Obama as men.<br>What is strange is that Jesse Jr. and his sister were in Michelle and Barack’s wedding and the sister was the maid of honor, where is this coming from with Jesse Sr.  The kids have been close for close to 20 years.<br>Then top it all off and Jesse Jr. is the national co-chair for Senator Obama\'s campaign, why would his dad have such animosity towards such a close family friend.  Why would he not say what he has to say to the man himself instead of some dude at fox?  He clearly has access to Obama.<br>Seems like the father is a little jealous of his son’s success.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-856345" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-856345">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-856345" class="dsq-comment-message">If it\'s not a setup, then it could be Jesse thinks O is an uppity whippersnapper who needs to show respect.  I\'m sure his son working for Obama is not going over well either.  Generational gap issues, perhaps.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-855436" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-855436" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-855436" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-855436" class="dsq-comment-message">Our country hates both men and they get thrown around regardless.<br><br>I already called into Al Sharpton\'s show and thanked him for all he has done out here in NY and told him to retire.<br><br>When another black man gets shot (60 times next time) he needs to not bother. Let people deal with it on their own becuase people like to bad mouth him but when something goes down they scream out where is Al Sharpton? Give Me A Break!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-854506" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-854506">coop</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-854506" class="dsq-comment-message">WoW. Wh\'d a thunk, black folks arguing about FISA and a black presidential candidate\'s vote. I think that that\'s progress. But from the very beginning of Senator Obama\'s candidacy I \'ve said that black folks would have to just sit back and let the Senator run. Why? Because of the complexities of race in this campaign. Senator Obama has to walk a fine line, and I mean a fine line. Talk about wearing the mask...Michael Eric Dyson said that Senator Obama would have to talk to the white folks and wink at the black folks, or something to that effect, which means that he has to play the game, while fully realizing that he\'s playing the game. And don\'t act like we don\'t know the game that I\'m talking about. We do it at work, we act one way around our white co-workers, but when we get together, we let down the mask. We can be in the breakroom chillin\', and as soon as the white folks come in we flip the script and mirror them. Senator Obama has gone where no black folks have gone before, within striking distance of the White House and the chance to become president of the most powerful nation on earth. Think  of it, a son of Kenya, a son of Kansas, a a native son who too sings America. But getting there is not easy. His candidacy is fraught with minefields because he becomes the lightning rod for every phobia, fear, stereotype, pathology, expectation in America, in a way that no white candidate could ever encounter. Yes, he\'s going to have to compromise on his way to the White House. Do you think that white folks will just hand a black person the White House? But the least we black folks can do is lay in the cut, and make sure that he doesn\'t have to give up more than is necessary by our doubting his sincerity. We need to have his back because if he loses, he will not have the chance again. If McCain wins now, Hillary wil win in 2012. Her supporters will stop at nothing to put her there. She\'s running now, which is why she voted no on FISA and reopened her PAC. It\'s a serious political game out there, big time hardball 21st century politics. We don\'t have time to whine, muse, rue over Senator Obama. We need to get him into the White House. Think forest, not trees, Let\'s lift him up collectively buy our becoming savvy at the political game. It\'s a cliche, but united we stand and divided we fall. Senator Obama is being pulled apart by racist whites, aggrieved liberal whites, and blacks doubters. Give the man some slack, get him in the White House and then sit back and celebrate that we\'ve made it to the top.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-855411">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-855411" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-855411" class="dsq-comment-message">Well said!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-855763" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-855763" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-855763" href="http://www.bigassbelle.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">bigassbelle</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-855763" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-855763" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>We don\'t have time to whine, muse, rue over Senator Obama. We need to get him into the White House. Think forest, not trees, </i> . . . <br><br>what? if he continues to pull the kind of shit he\'s been pulling ever since he won the nomination, i\'m thinking why even bother getting him into the white house. what will change? not a freaking thing, if his recent behavior is any evidence.<br><br>the ONLY reason i will vote for him is because of the supreme court. although i have no doubt that the corporate ass-sucking congress will roll over for any nominee, maybe ~ just maybe ~ obama will stand up and at least not nominate a right wing zealot. probably a right winger, but maybe not a zealot.<br><br>it\'s heartbreaking that is the best i can hope for from a democratic candidate for president.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-855800" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-855800" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-855800" href="http://www.bigassbelle.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">bigassbelle</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-855800" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-855800" class="dsq-comment-message">made it to the top???? with what, exactly? if you stand for nothing, then what do you have in the end. nothing. <br><br>success means nothing if you sacrifice yourself in the process of achievement.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-856383" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-856383">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-856383" class="dsq-comment-message">Coop:  AGREEING BIG TIME!!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-861363" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-861363">NO ID</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-861363" class="dsq-comment-message">you definitely have some great points coop. it\'s the spook who sat by the door mentality....but we just ain\'t for sure yet that barack has it! LOL I mean, just as you say, we know who\'s a brother and who ain\'t in our lives. black skin doesn\'t always mean black identification or love of black people. i think some of just would just like to be sure just exactly what\'s up. though personally the whole chi-town, tucc, married to a sister from the south side thing are some pretty good clues :-)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-854530" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-854530">RonnieB</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-854530" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-854530" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m not trying to be Mr. Psychologist, but ...<br><br>it seems like people are fearing success.  And one way that people manifest that fear is through self (read: Obama) sabotage.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-855461" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-855461" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-855461" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-855461" class="dsq-comment-message">Who may I ask are you making this claim about because it seems a tad bit delusional on you part?<br><br>Are you talking about Jackson or are you assuming that those who are not agreeing with Obama\'s every move are unsuccessful lazy derelicts who hate success??</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-855738" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-855738" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-855738">taritac</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-855738" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-855738" class="dsq-comment-message">Who\'s trying to sabotage Obama? You are the one who sounds fearful.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-854893" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-854893">Plantsmantx</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-854893" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-854893" class="dsq-comment-message">Thanks, Shelby:)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-855038" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-855038">lewevelyn</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-855038" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-855038" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree with Coop 100%. I think people of color do have a tendancy to fear success.  It is human nature that you are not going to agree with a person 100% of the time.  We must continue to rally behind Mr. Obama, except his faults and pray that he can do good for all people.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-855489" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-855489" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-855489" class="dsq-comment-message">That is utter garbege...utter bullshit if you ask me!<br><br>So Obama could do whatever he wants but what we are supposed to agree regardless because we will come off as fearing success!<br><br>I cannot scream bullshit enough!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-855640" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-855640">PTCruiser</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-855640" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m with you, Rhondacoca. And NumNuts. Some black folks are starting to lose any degree of objectivity because they believe that electing Obama as president should become our collective mission. I support his candidacy but he and his family and friends can pray for him. That\'s not my job.<br><br> When we disagree with Obama we need to speak out instead of psychoanalyzing why we want to protest. Not speaking out because Obama is black is just an inverted form of internalized racism.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-855732" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-855732" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-855732">Jay</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-855732" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-855732" class="dsq-comment-message">Where was this outrage when Bush was running for president the second time? I mean seriously.<br><br>I\'m not blindly support Obama, but damn...b/c the man have the audicity to say you should be personaly responsible for your actions and that you shouldn\'t reply on rapping and playing ball as your only career options he deserves to have his nuts cut off?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-856116" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-856116">kenyaw</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-856116" class="dsq-comment-message">jay,<br>Obviously.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-856148" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-856148">lewevelyn</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-856148" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-856148" class="dsq-comment-message">No one said we had to agree with everything he says or does.  I simply pointed out that he is human and will continue to make mistakes.  A lie is a lie and wrong is wrong regardless of who is committing it. I am intelligent and have enough common sense to make a judgment of whom I will support and how <br>much i believe he can actually achieve.  And yes "We as a people fear success" all the time.  I am 49 olds <br>and have experienced first hand other peoples fear of someone else\'s success throughout my life<br>time.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-855247" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-855247" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-855247">NumNuts</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-855247" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-855247" class="dsq-comment-message">Obama is running to be President of all Americans except black Americans.  First he had to distance himself from his black pastor,, then he had to distance himself from his black church, now he his distancing himself from black people.  They even tried to make him distance himself from his black wife.  When I say they I am referring to the white corporate media.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-855355" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-855355">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-855355" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-855355" class="dsq-comment-message">Obama\'s message about irresponsible black fathers probably hit home for Jesse. He does have a child out of wedlock.<br><br>Jesse should\'ve been a MAN and talked to Obama one-on-one about his allegedly "talking down to black people" instead of telling someone else onFox News of all places.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-855554" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-855554" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-855554" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-855554" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-855554" class="dsq-comment-message">Obama has been talking down to blakc people and I actually called it from February. I really think that people are missing the point as to why some did not care for the speech.<br><br>My grandfather said on Father\'s Day that he wanted to backhand Obama. He is the dedicated father 8 children, 22 grandchildren, an amaxing husband and father figure to many. I found that most of the people who disagreed technically had no reason for it to hit home but Obama making it race specfic and calling black men boys was wrong. <br><br>When whites call black men "boys", it is put up as a racial smear yet Obama can throw it around.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-855890" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-855890" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-855890">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-855890" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-855890" class="dsq-comment-message">It was just more lazy jawboning.  We KNOW Obama can write a hell of a speech.  I KNOW he can dig deep.  That time, he peppered the speech with meaningless cliches.  Instead of being polite, they should have thrown him out, and told him not to come back without a decent speech...kidding.  At the very least, there should have been no applause, amens or head-nodding..but stony silence.  You teach people how to treat you.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-856277" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-856277" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-856277">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-856277" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-856277" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s not that we\'re missing the point, it\'s that some of us don\'t agree with you.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-856454" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-856454" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-856454">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-856454" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-856454" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m more than tired of the violent fantasies and imagery projected onto the Obamas from all sides of the spectrum.  If they aren\'t threatening to start up lyching parties on Michelle or actually show her being lynched, people are fantasizing about assassination and cutting the man\'s nuts off.<br><br>You can disagree with a person without wishing them violence and harm.  The fact that people want to back hand him and cut off his nuts and start up lynching parties on Michelle because of what they have SAID says more about the person with the violent fantasy than it does about the Obamas.<br><br>I doubt seriously that the people who want to backhand, castrate or lynch the Obamas would ever fix their lips or fingertips to utter something like that about a WHITE candidate and his/her family.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-855635" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-855635">ayersteach</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-855635" class="dsq-comment-message">C\'mon folks! How can we have a civil discussion about the topic w/o getting into a street fight? Listen, I live apart from my children yet play a active role in their lives. Nor did I take offensive at what he said. At NO point in the text of his speech does he refer to JUST AA men. The setting of the speech was in a AA church and the MSM took it from there and headlines screamed that he was addressing us poor black folks. <br><br>One of the lesson I am learning from this wonderful experience it how much MORE we have to develop leadership in our community. I like Jackson but in this instance - he need to go sit down.<br><br>Go O-man go!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-857238" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-857238">JJK</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-857238" class="dsq-comment-message">You know, I am a single mom who had TWO kids out of wedlock. Now that I am older and wiser I know I had "no business doing that" as my mom would say! Their dad is MIA now so I guess I qualify as people Obama was addressing and  I can\'t be mad b/c he TOLD THE TRUTH and I do not recall him announcing "BLACKS ONLY".<br><br>PS I do NOT think Obama is God or a saint!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-855644" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-855644" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-855644" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-855644" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.newsweek.com/id/136335" rel="nofollow">The Article from Newsweek in regards to absentee black father<a/ rel="nofollow"><br><br>As I kept saying over and over again only to stumble across this article, there is nuance behind the statistics and to assume that a man who does not live in the home does not take care of his children is wrong. However when it comes to blacks it is always okay to reduce us to a statistic. <br><br>I guess after all I have accomplished in my life and seen what black could accomplish, I\'m afraid of success.</a></a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-856427" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-856427" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-856427" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-856427" class="dsq-comment-message">I love how people are skipping over this comment. Read the article then talk.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-857154" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-857154">pjamma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-857154" class="dsq-comment-message">I read the article and it points out that there are good fathers that have multiple kids by multiple woman and do not live, from what I can tell, with all of them.  Uhm, okay.  Not ideal but better then nothing.<br><br>The whole BS about low-income, low-skilled black men, keeping consistent employment not being easy and the black father\'s ability to financially contribute is one of the biggest determinants of whether he stays in the home is, well, BS.  Sorry things ain\'t working out for ya sir but the solution is to leave the home?  As the first part of the article pointed out there is more to being a dad then the finances.   And to use the excuse of "culture pressures"  to bail out on family is weak.  Real weak.<br><br>I won\'t deny that there are a lot of good fathers in non-traditional situations.  And that\'s a good thing.  But there are a lot of fathers who ignore responsibility and use the excuse that society made it this way that will never get a pass from me.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-855761" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-855761">grapesoda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-855761" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-855761" class="dsq-comment-message">So wait, Black women talk down on Black men and make movies and books about how awful black men can be...<br><br> plus all of the static black men get from the Media and White People, and thats ok?<br><br>If you dont want to get feelings hurt, stop acting up and doing the wrong things.<br><br>If a man isnt doing the right thing of any color, hes a boy, plain and simple. If you cant deal with that--then you have a lot of problems that will not get solved.<br><br>Namecalling is the least of our problems. <br><br>If you cannot function as an adult and deal with some of the harsher things in life--then the word "boy" is the least of your problems.<br><br>The same black people who are mad at Obama about this are the same people who allow the ignorance and childishness to continue to drag all of us down.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-855847">TITO</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-855847" class="dsq-comment-message">its amaze me thatblack people are complaing about personal responsibilty. we sit around in this country waitng for white people and there goverment to take care of us and everyone agrees that they have not and there institutions are racist. now a black man is might be head of this institution we act like we always do when a black person is in charge or has there own business, we expect them to cut us a deal or take care of brother.just because we are black. if obama wins his hands are going to be tied because he will have to convince 100 senators and over 500 reps. to see things his way to even attempt to do anything for AA.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-856296" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-856296" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-856296" class="dsq-comment-message">It has nothing to do with complaining about personal responiosblity...if I have to say this one more time, I am going to scream.<br><br>what you said is such garbege. If you know me and my family who hated Obama\'s speech then you would not come with that half ass comment. <br><br>so blacks who disagree with Obama want handouts and fear success....wow...racist white conservatives in black face might i ask.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-856784" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-856784">pjamma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-856784" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-856784" class="dsq-comment-message">See this is where I get the disconnect.  I understand you and you family are a tight, proud, responsible, happy group and that is wonderful.  And I get you do not like Obama\'s speech. Fine.  But it is a big leap to say that blacks that disagree with his speech want handouts or fear success.  Or that those who disagree with your perspective are racist white conservatives in black face. <br><br>Can\'t people disagree with statements and others agree with statements without jumping to the extreme?  If you agree you are good, if you don\'t you are bad or like basic.  What?  The best part of this site is reading the different perspectives with question and debate but not personal attacks.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-860687" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-860687">grapesoda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-860687" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-860687" class="dsq-comment-message">So your family cant hear something meant for millions of people without getting upset because it doesnt apply to them.<br><br>Sounds like your family is touchy and should calm down.<br><br>Youre at a 10, you need to be at a 2.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-855850" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-855850">RonnieB</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-855850" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-855850" class="dsq-comment-message">Though it was meant to be a private conversation, what Rev. Jackson said was degrading, inexcusable, and it speaks poorly of him.  But he apologized to Sen. Obama, and the apology was accepted.  Cool enough, I guess.<br><br>That said, if Sen. Obama has been "talking down" to Black folk regarding fatherlessness, I\'m all ears as to how one can talk <i>up</i> to Black men who are absent and uninvolved fathers.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-856200" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-856200">kenyaw</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-856200" class="dsq-comment-message">RonnieB,<br>"I\'m all ears as to how one can talk up to Black men who are absent and uninvolved fathers."<br><br>All absent and univolved fathers. Let me know when someone makes that stretch.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-856380" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-856380" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-856380" class="dsq-comment-message">Obama could stop perpetuating the perception of blacks as lazy and irresponsible, Ronnie B. On Father\'s Day, there are millions and millions and millions of black men doing what they have to do and more as fathers, father figures and community leaders, role models yet he chose the tired and script. I did not have a problem with his speech last year but this one I did have a problem with.<br><br>If you listen to the rhetoric of people like Obama then you would think that all of the men that I grew up knowing did not exist and he was some expection with 2 other people. <br><br>That was my issue and talking "up" would have been praise rather than repudiation in front of the choir and on a national and global stage of men who really already get too much attention. <br><br>Obama\'s speech was cliche! <br><br>Also why not speak about the American breakdown of the family rather than going race specific since he isn\'t running for president of black America. There are many uninvolved Latino and white men why not repudiate them. However he saved his public scolding for the black crowd which is talking down because he would have never had the AUDACITY  to confront anyone else. <br><br><br>Now explain the Popeyes fried chicken for breakfast comment and how that was not talking down. It was and I am calling it.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-857890" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-857890">pjamma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-857890" class="dsq-comment-message">Fried Chicken for breakfast is a Southern, collage, or first apartment thing (as I\'ve witnessed with many of my male friends).  It\'s not healthy and growing children should not eat it for breakfast like they shouldn\'t eat cold pizza.  It\'s a common sense thing.  If someone doesn\'t realize that they need to be talked down too.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-858122" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-858122" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-858122" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-858122" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>Obama could stop perpetuating the perception of blacks as lazy and irresponsible...</i><br><br>::<br><br>Or, people could stop perceiving Obama\'s statements this way.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-860305" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-860305">pjamma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-860305" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-860305" class="dsq-comment-message">Слово!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-858559" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-858559">RonnieB</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-858559" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-858559" class="dsq-comment-message">I disagree with the characterization that Sen. Obama is "perpetuating the perception of blacks as lazy and irresponsible".  He is the emobidment of the exact opposite, and as a young boy whose father split, he has every right to speak on the issue.<br><br>Intentional fatherlessness is a scourge in our community, and has been for the last 35 years.  And if grown Black men don\'t speak up and out against it, the problem will never go away.  To hell with making excuses; to hell with trying to pretend the issue away; to hell with celebrating and praising.  <br><br>The problem of intentional fatherlessness, and its resulting consequences are too numerous and profound to chronicle here.  But suffice it to say that folks have become so desensitized; so conditioned, that intentional fatherlessness itself has become "cliche".<br><br>I don\'t give a damn who else is doing it.  That it\'s still occuring in our community is the problem.  And it\'s foolish to presume that the issue should be discussed where the non-Black public can\'t hear.  THEY ALREADY KNOW!<br><br>This is our failure and it\'s our problem to fix.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-856226" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-856226">Quanli</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-856226" class="dsq-comment-message">NumNuts, why does his pastor have anything to do with anything at this point? So what was this man supposed to do, after the public has funded him-- say: "okey doke, I guess I should stand here while this man is feeling himself & agree because who am I?" Just as Wright let his ego blur his message, Jesse has done the same. I am personally sick of these grandstanding Negroes.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-856333" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-856333">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-856333" class="dsq-comment-message">Quanli:  Me 2.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-856542" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-856542">JJai</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-856542" class="dsq-comment-message">This article on the Root encapsulates my sentiment. <br><br><a href="http://www.theroot.com/id/47225" rel="nofollow">http://www.theroot.com/id/47225</a><br><br>See a couple excerpts<br><br>"We are all, including Obama, in a place we never really thought we would be, and it has knocked us off our feet. We don\'t know how to act. We don\'t have a plan. We\'re searching for our equilibrium. "<br><br>and<br><br>"That, it seems to me, accounts in part for the frustration some of us are feeling by what we interpret as Obama\'s move to the center. We are simply not accustomed to one of our own playing real, power politics. "</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-856614" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-856614">NMP</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-856614" class="dsq-comment-message">You can take Rev. Al off the list.  To my surprise and delight, in the last seveal months he\'s had Senator Obama\'s back, taking on white and black critics alike.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-857698" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-857698">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-857698" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-857698" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree.  Something tells me there are times Al wants to castrate Obama too, but he never lets on.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-856676" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-856676" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-856676" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-856676" class="dsq-comment-message">I understand your concern about the Rev. Al being on the album cover, but take that up with the artist, Art Maggot, since he did the photoshopping and replaced Walter Williams, William Thomas, and Eddie Levert\'s pictures with Jackson, Rush and Sharpton.  Maybe Art Maggot had a reason for including Sharpton.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-856868" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-856868">Plantsmantx</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-856868" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-856868" class="dsq-comment-message">Well, that article at The Root is pretty much BS, too. I don\'t recognize myself or any other black person I know in what he writes.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-857559" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-857559">PTCruiser</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-857559" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-857559" class="dsq-comment-message">"We are all, including Obama, in a place we never really thought we would be, and it has knocked us off our feet. We don\'t know how to act. We don\'t have a plan. We\'re searching for our equilibrium. "<br><br>Jack White, who I respect,  needs to speak for himself and elements of what Zora Neale Hurston in her intemperate way called the "niggerati".  I\'m not confused at all about Obama\'s candidacy and I refuse to allow it to throw me off-stride or cause me to become delusional.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-858152" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-858152" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-858152" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-858152" class="dsq-comment-message">Say it again.<br><br>And I love Zora Neale Hurston.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-857628" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-857628" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-857628">JJai</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-857628" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-857628" class="dsq-comment-message">don\'t become delusional just don\'t expect him not to be a politician. It\'s gonna happen or he may as well concede to McCain right now.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-858606" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-858606">Plantsmantx</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-858606" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-858606" class="dsq-comment-message">Really, the delusional ones are the people who think they\'re "in a different place" because of this man\'s candidacy.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-860396" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-860396" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-860396">ayersteach</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-860396" class="dsq-comment-message">PTCruiser, c\'mon to my house for some ribs and chicken wings! Brother you know how to preach the truth. Four years or more (Obama\'s second term) from now others WILL see that as \'people of color\' we came of age.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-861448">NO ID</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-861448" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-861448" class="dsq-comment-message">i love the dialogue here. but i still say we apparently still love to hate ourselves. sheeit, i worked at a black company so i know how it can go down. i agree black fatherlessness is something we need to deal with. but i also agree as a woman, that we better start teaching our girls about choices and birth control as they are the ones holding the baby when shit gets thick. my mama taught me well and i have NO kids. unfortunately, she apparently did not talk to my brother as much. LOL<br>you know there are good and bad fathers as well as imperfect ones - and both my dad and brother would qualify. but there are fathers of all races who are in the home who never spend "quality time" with their kids, and there are white millionaires running around who never see or take care of their children and you never see a story on that unless they are celebs or someone (usually the shafted wife) gets killed.  so why do we wear this mantle of irresponsiblity alone? and why do i never, ever see anything anywhere about the multitude of stepdads who come into play when the biologicals didn\'t bother?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-865779" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-865779">artmaggot</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-865779" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-865779" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.artmaggot.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">www.artmaggot.blogspot.com</a></div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-867696">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-867696" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-867696" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-867696">kalagenesis</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-867696" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-867696" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree with what the senator has said.Anyone who really lives in the community not like J Jackson who has many homes and got rich exploiting the communities pain,knows there is a problem in our community with personal responsibilities.I see first hand what teen mothers do and the thug life that is supported by the media.Jesse and people who make excuses for the bad behavior are more concerned about what White people think than solving the problem.How to solve the problem is to give young people alternatives to immoral people like Jackson who fathered a child out of wedlock at 61 years old.Look at Obama with his family that is all Black America needs at this point.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-867708" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-867708">kalagenesis</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-867708" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-867708" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.kalanation.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">www.kalanation.blogspot.com</a></div>\
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	 </li>\
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