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Thinking too fast!!  :&gt;)   I had Shrub in my mind and \"McAncient\" in my FINGERS!!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br> Again, thanks!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>p.s.  And if anyone thinks that I can re-type the post for correction.   NO WAY.    :&gt;)   :&gt;)  I'm happy that I learned HOW ta post a comment!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_16:01:20", "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": 1918221, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1921770": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Hillary is not laying low! Not Hillary Clinton. Hillary is saying to  herself and of course to  Bill and her daughter, TOLD YA, He should have picked me! Yep!!!!! <br><br>Some of these comments about Mc Cains pick is rather funny because you were saying the same thing, when people were critizing Obama.  This is politics and Obama has played some games too, no different then Mc Cain. If you believe in Obama, then stand your ground. No need to worry yourselves over the latest bombshell. Its politics.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_20:26:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "354df5c74d0e8d0898a4209dace8bcc4", "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}, "1918987": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Right on, <b>RonnieB</b>, except for the plunging neckline stuff.  Kay Bailey Hutchinson has already begun the snark with saying that she doesn't know anything about her.  The long-time diehard repug women aren't going to like this choice either.<br><br>The fact is, she hasn't been vetted, she's under investigation for ethics violations and nearly 90% of Alaskans polled believe she's lying about her involvement at some level, her biggest claim to fame prior to becoming governor was being the mayor of a town of 6500 people.<br><br>This isn't a good repug choice at all; it demonstrates a lack of judgment on McCaint's part because now he can't talk about inexperience on the national security level, nor can he any longer spout the celebrity meme on which the repugs have spent at least $10 million in ads.<br><br>This will make the repug white boys - and their wives - stay at home on Nov. 4.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_16:26:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1918120, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1918476": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "you must have never seen Fox News =-)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_16:01:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "JJai", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1918203, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1920525": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Jack Cafferty is ON FIRE<br><br>\"this is a JOKE\"<br><br>lol", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_18:39:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1921553": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Maybe it's me but what I take from this interview is that she was interested in the national stage.  I think she said it was an \"impossibility\" because she had only recently entered the national stage.  <br><br>I guess given the opportunity she decided to take advantage of it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_20:02:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "cdb105a0448967d7c26f2589218a5ecb", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1921427, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1916439": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Liza at Culture Kitchen makes a great point on picking Palin:<br><br><a href=\"http://culturekitchen.com/liza/blog/what_was_mccain_thinking_he_should_have_picked_chr\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://culturekitchen.com/liza/blog/what_was_mc...</a><br><br><i>WHAT THE HELL WAS HE THINKING!<br><br>If I were a Republican, I'd be totally pissed. If there is anybody who would be the perfect Republican Hillary Clinton stand-in, it would be Christine Todd-Whitman. And yes I know how she fudged the studies from the EPA after 9/11 and I know how she short of lied in order to make it impossible for civilians and first respondents demand better health care after the World Trade Center tragedy. Yet Christine Todd-Whitman was an excellent governor for New Jersey who wowed Democrats across the state with her moderate to liberal stance; especially as one of the rare breed of envirnmentalist republicans who believes we need to put carbon caps and who was disgusted when the Bush administration didn't sign the Kyoto agreement.  And let's not forget she is an avowed civil rights defender for women, minorities and gays. Oh and did I say she's pro-choice?<br><br>Yet it's the fact she left the Bush administration in disgust over their environmental policies and that she stood up to George Bush that would have made her not only the perfect pro-choice Clintonista magnet but the perfect anti-Bush Republican super-shero who would reform the GOP by taking it back to its fiscal conservatism yet moderate socio-political roots. <br><br>I am speaking right now from the point of view of a political strategist and as a feminist. This is an amazingly lost opportunity for the GOP and it shows how in decline they are as a political and social force. Had they understood the phenomenon of the Clintonistas and particularly the small portion of the disgruntled Democrats who they need to win over, they would have seen in Todd-Whitman the perfect Hillary Clinton surrogate.<br><br>Yet it goes to show they can't even get their Republican feminist icons straight.<br><br>Wow.<br><br>If I were a Republican, I would indeed be totally pissed. </i>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_15:08:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1922308": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "No takesy-backsy's!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_21:28:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1921579, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1921566": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Interesting comment on one of the blogs at Obama's website:<br><br><i>Re: THIS IS A JOKE!!!!  |  Report to Admin<br>Reply<br>By Shari Dodge 55 minutes ago (Updated 55 minutes ago)<br>Hello....I thought I would inform everyone who knows nothing about Alaska......I was born and raised in Alaska and my 3 daughters were born and raised there....I am a Native American/lived in Ketchikan/3rd largest city in Alaska just south of the state capitol/an island girl..Alaska has a population of 700,000 and has No State Tax...why..All of the state is funded by the perm/fund...and nobody pays taxes...in fact every year, every person recieves a perm/fund check of on average of $1000.00.So she has no budget to balance...just endless money to spend...and a surplus every year...Where does this money come from...OIL!!!! The Alaska pipeline was built in the 70s..my bothers help build it...and they oblished state taxes after the billions it profided for the state...So now you not only have a Oil Man running...You have a Oil woman....don't think that she is going to bite the hand that feeds her....SHE WILL SUPPORT THE OIL COMPANY'S!!!!I now live in the lower 48...however I know Alaska..my home state.....It does not take any experince to becaome anything or anybody you want in Alaska....MOST people have a high school degrees only and do on the job training to work...Alaska has the highest paid teachers in all 50 states....why? they can afford it...they build the best and most expencive schools in the country...same reason...endless oil money...My youngest daughter who is a senior in college has the experience to become the Governor of Alaska in Alaska standards....but that dosn't mean she is QUALIFIDE!!!!!!Trust me on that one....check out some of the people in Alaska who have made it to office...their qualifications would not even get them a job working as a head of a garbage company.....the reason for this is....Alaska has a ratio of 10 men for every woman...and people who move to Alaska from ANTWHERE else in the world leave because of the harsh weather conditions....if you wern't born and raised there you usually won't stay!!!....so that leaves slim pickens...you know what I mean...Alaska is THE OIL STATE...relying completly on it's oil for survival....So when you hear this Governor talk about tax savings...she can only be meaning taxes on your house or local taxes//and this new natural gas pipeline has been in the woeks for over 10 years/she's been in office 16 months..SHE IS NO WHERE NEAR HILLARY CLINTON...and she does not support womens rights...I would be ashamed to be HER!!!!!Thanks for your time...GET TO WORK!!! </i>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_20:04:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1919004": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Especially since McCain dumped a wife and married a woman 20 years his junior that was a former beauty queen herself....oh yeah, the storyline is poetic......especially with Barack married to the Harvard Law School grad, contrary to the shrills of PUMA nuts, he obviously doesn't fear a strong educated woman....oh..please some surrogate that doesn't give a damn...run with it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_16:27:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1918866, "depth": 4, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1920030": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "From The Jed Report:<br><br><b>McCain Didn't Even Know Palin Before Picking Her</b><br><br><i>According to Andrea Mitchell and Chuck Todd, John McCain had only met Sarah Palin once or twice before selecting her to be a heartbeat away from the presidency.<br><br>Also, earlier today McCain's campaign chairman Sen. Lindsay Graham admitted that he had never met Palin, and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison also said that she didn't know much about Palin.</i><br><br><a href=\"http://www.jedreport.com/2008/08/mccain-didnt-know-palin-before.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.jedreport.com/2008/08/mccain-didnt-k...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_17:52:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 11, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1922084": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LOLOLOLOL!!! I wish I'd come up with that line!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_21:02:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "The_Black_Snob", "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": 1921176, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1921798": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Wait what?  Is this the game we are playing now?  For voters who are not leaning towards McCain we can't question his decisionmaking and judgment?  How does that even make sense?  This is an election.  No one knows what is going to happen. Having a debate about these issues is what politics is all about.  <br><br>And sorry, If I understand your argument, the fact that she has a son that is going to Iraq and McCain is a POW from Vietnam is a shield for criticizing the both of them on Iraq and Afghanistan?!?  Are you freakin' kidding me?!?  We are at WAR.  My friend is over there.  People are dying.  We are pumping billions of tax dollars into both countries each month. That argument makes absolutely no sense, and anybody who subscribes to it should stay at home on election day.  Based on your own logic neither McCain or Palin can challenge Biden on Iraq/Afghanistan since his son is headed to Iraq in October, and he served in Vietnam as well.  <br><br>In general, I do think it has some political value for McCain, but for some at least, it also makes him look desperate and phony.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_20:29:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "ef781b639c890767ebd1ce99011c3afa", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1921292, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1921064": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"Prior to that, she was mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, which Karl Rove early this morning on Fox News erroneously stated is the second largest city in Alaska.\"<br><br>Hell, I know virtually nothing about Alaska and even I knew a city of 9,000 couldn't be larger than Fairbanks, Juneau or Rome....damn....the GOP is just stupid...by Sunday this will be a running joke on every latenight show.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_19:23:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1920900, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1920604": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Wait .. . here is more TRW Chris Matthews asked Buchanan what did she have to do to win the debates against Biden and Buchanan said - all she has to do is show up because there are no expectations.  Also others are saying that Biden has to be careful when debating Palin because she doesn't know much.  Repubs are saying that Biden doesn't want to come off as being too condencending by being too knowledgeable.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_18:47:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1920011, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1922090": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "There are so many levels of intrigue here....as always, McCain manages to distract from the issues with intrigue.  What are we talking about?....experience, foreign policy, what Hillary voters will think - all areas that favour McCain.  We're talking about everything but THE ECONOMY.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_21:03:26", "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": 1918532, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1921579": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Are there take-backs in VP nominations?  Is it too late for him to say \"kidding\"?  Because she really is a bad choice.  The media s going to eat her alive.  Heck, they seem to be having a hard time trying to find people who think this is a good idea.  <br><br>Wow way to blow it McCain.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_20:05:54", "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": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1922605": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Exactly.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_22:00:36", "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": 1920083, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1916452": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "CPL:   ANNNNNND, \"we shall never forget\" her gaffe    -   . . . MY HUSBAND. . . when referring to \"McAncient\"!!!   <br><br>There is no biographical data that indicated that she was even, \"boyfriended\" or \"engaged\"!   How did she advance to \"Husband\" when she referred to him!!?????<br><br>UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!<br><br>Co-signing on ALL points!!!    :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_15:09:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1916338, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1918728": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I just saw a post saying she looks like Shania Twain.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_16:12:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1918308, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1918517": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "TruthSeeker:   Co-sign!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_16:03:50", "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": 1916153, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1919031": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "deleted repeat message", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_16:29:48", "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}, "1919032": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ben Smith has the youtube of Palin on Clinton and Clinton's reponse to the pick.<br><br><br>Statement from Sen. Hillary Clinton on Sen. McCain's VP selection:<br><br>\u201cWe should all be proud of Governor Sarah Palin's historic nomination, and I congratulate her and Senator McCain. While their policies would take America in the wrong direction, Governor Palin will add an important new voice to the debate.\u201d <br> <br><a href=\"http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_16:29:51", "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}, "1920570": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The way Pat Buchanan is going on and on about Palin, you'd think he took an extra dose of viagra.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_18:45:02", "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": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1922115": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "And she had that same, frozen, cave woman face the whole time. And the white headband? Oy!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_21:05:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "The_Black_Snob", "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": 1920146, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1918532": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Oh the McCain/Palin ticket was hurt from the minute he made the 1am TODAY decision to go with her. Ya know, all it will take is that reminder of the Jane Pauley/Deborah Norville fiasco that rocked the very women that were Hillary lovers to their core. The reminder of the pretty young thang that the bad men executives wanted out front for eye-candy and to push the well educated/experienced but plainer woman to the back. So Hutchinson/Whitman....not as easy on the eyes as Mrs. Palin. Its so sexist, so manipulative.....and so what's happening here.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_16:04:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1918203, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1924678": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Eh hee!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_23:50:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1921648, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1918537": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hey PUMAS! Did ya'll hear that! You gonna take that from Political Barbie?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_16:05:10", "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": 1918129, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1919565": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "what is bugging me is that the speech deserves respect and admiration. i just listened to one hour npr radio. a.k.a big brother for intellectuals. no mention of the speech. just talk about this strange v.p. choice. now she is news and it certainly is a curious gimmick but....the speech was not a gimmick. it was something truly historic. 38 friggin million people watched and we are all chasing anecdotes about some person whose name is totally new to us. the speech is not 24 hours old yet. how about some respect...oh i am talking about the american news media. my bad! then again obama spoke directly to the people in real time and reminded them why he was the nominee. and that is beyond the pundit's control.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_17:14:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "andyfrombrooklyn", "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}, "1919054": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "She's reportedly said that Hillary was whining during the primaries.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_16:31:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1918737, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1923665": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "lololololololol<br><br><br>I bet they will try to do it.  hahaha", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_22:14:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1921579, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1920083": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Here's what I want to know. Even if McCain's camp wants to run with the Obama is not experienced meme...at the end of the day, he was CHOSEN BY THE PEOPLE. At the end of it all, he was still the selection as a result of voters, from different walks of life, different backgrounds, across 50 states. Even if you say the 18 million Hillary voters did not choose him, the vast majority are heeding the endorsement of their first choice. Even if it was a political game, whatever, an ACTUAL former president endorsed Barack Obama in a no holds barred fashion. The majority of elected officials in their capacity as superdelegates voted for Barack Obama...SO THIS IS THE VOTERS OF THE PARTY'S CHOICE  - millions of people.<br><br>The choice of the VP is a direct indictment of the judgement of the nominee. Its the first big decision they have to make that comes down to THEIR INDIVIDUAL DECISION...and look what you got. Barack Obama chooses a running mate to shore up a weakness in a governing issue, and McCain chooses a running mate purely, I mean undeniably for pure political purposes, not for the voters interest, but for the voters VOTE. This is just sad, I mean damn.....did McCain not listen to Obama's speech?? lol...clearly he did not....as you can see, Obama said it was never about him, but from McCain's view, Obama is speaking only for himself. It is SOOOOO about McCain.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_17:56:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1919844": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Good Cop/Bad Kopp? The Palin Train Wreck Continues.<br><br><a href=\"http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/07/25/good-copbad-kopp-the-palin-train-wreck-continues/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/07/25/good-c...</a><br><br>\"The scene today features the Governor (again) and also the man slated to replace (Good Cop) Walt Monegan as Commissioner of Public Safety - Chuck Kopp.  It seems that Chuck Kopp has a skeleton in his closet in the form of a sexual harrassment complaint filed against him when he was Chief of Police in Kenai.  Despite his little gem of a quote, \u201cI am not a sex harrasser\u201d, what Kopp describes as \u201chugging a friend\u201d, was apparently not interpreted as such by the woman on the receiving end.  She complained of unwanted hugging and a kiss, and the result was an investigation, an official letter of reprimand, and Kopp being removed as her boss.  One wonders in this day and age, how anyone doesn\u2019t know that it\u2019s not OK to hug or kiss people who work for you.  But I digress\u2026\"<br><br>\"So, the people of Alaska asked themselves, \u201cHow could this be?  How could a man be offered up to the state to lead the Department of Public Safety, and deal with matters of\u2026.well\u2026.the LAW, and have this nasty accusation, investigation, letter of reprimand, and reassignment hanging over his head?  And this guy is supposed to replace the likes of Walt Monegan?  What was the Governor thinking?\u201d<br><br>\"We hear the answer today from Palin spokeswoman Sharon Leighow.  Here\u2019s how it plays out in my screenplay:\"<br><br>\"Leighow: The Governor didn\u2019t know.\"<br><br>\"Chuck Kopp:  Yes, she did know.  She knew about the whole thing in 2006 when I was on her transition team.\"<br><br>\"Leighow:  Well, she didn\u2019t know about the letter.  She knew about the other stuff but thought it went nowhere.  Nothing was said about a letter.  The Governor found out about it at the press conference on Tuesday, just like everyone else.\"<br><br>\"Chuck Kopp:  Well, no one ASKED me about the letter.  It just never came up in the interview. So, I didn\u2019t mention it.\"<br><br>\"HUH?  Sooo\u2026..no one bothered to ASK him, and he never offered.  When hiring people, doesn\u2019t one generally ask about such things?  Don\u2019t you do a background check?  Don\u2019t you want to know if you\u2019re going to have egg on your face, and risk public humiliation and scandal?  If the media managed to pry it out of him using the strongarm tactic of\u2026asking\u2026wouldn\u2019t it have worked for the Governor?   The mind reels.\"<br><br>\"Back to Kopp. According to the ADN:\"<br><br>\"He does not consider the letter of reprimand a validation of sexual harassment. He considers it a \u201cletter of instruction\u201d for future dealings with employees.\u201d<br><br>\"He does not consider the letter of reprimand a validation of sexual harassment. He considers it a \u201cletter of instruction\u201d???   Yeah, and Walt Monegan wasn\u2019t \u201cfired\u201d, he was just offered a lesser position and turned it down.  And it\u2019s not really a rainy summer\u2026.there\u2019s just a lot of water falling from the sky.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_17:38:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1920783": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "See, this is the kind of bullshit that I am talking about.  I have zero respect for people pushing this argument.  None.  There is no way, no how that they would let Obama get away with that but they are going to shrug it off for her because she is a woman?!?!?<br><br>Yeah right.  Some of these Repubs have been screaming to the high heavens that Obama is the affirmative action candidate---tell me in what world would they let him get away with her statement about Iraq, the vice presidency, and her ethical investigation if she were a Democrat?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_19:05:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "ef781b639c890767ebd1ce99011c3afa", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1920604, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1919580": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yes, and here's a post from Daily Kos:<blockquote>If my dad's reaction is any indication then we are in good shape! My dad is a lifelong independent, mostly voted republican, and while living in MA refused to vote for Romney (HATED him) - as of yesterday said he would \"wait until the debates to decide who to vote for.\" He lives in FL now. He just called me on his way home from work - FURIOUS! Ranting about the Palin pick. His exact words:<br><br><b>I have never seen someone work so hard to mess up a campaign. How anyone can see this as anything other than pandering is beyond me. This was a HUGE mistake! The woman has NO experience! McCain is 72!! I don't like Romney and even I know he should have picked him. This woman will have nothing to say in response to Biden!</b> <br><br>He was really angry! <b>by negev79</b></blockquote>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_17:16:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1919246, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1920097": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Most Conservatives (except \"s\" I guess LOL) are not impressed:<br><br><a href=\"http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MWY0YmM3N2JhMTVkYmI0ZjU0OTBiYTY3NmUyMjgxNTc=\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MWY0Ym...</a><br><br><b>Inexperience. </b> Palin has been governor for about two minutes. Thanks to McCain\u2019s decision, Palin could be commander-in-chief next year. That may strike people as a reckless choice; it strikes me that way. And McCain's age raised the stakes on this issue.<br><br>As a political matter, it undercuts the case against Obama. Conservatives are pointing out that it is tricky for the Obama campaign to raise the issue of her inexperience given his own, and note that the presidency matters more than the vice-presidency. But that gets things backward. To the extent the experience, qualifications, and national-security arguments are taken off the table, Obama wins.<br><br>And it\u2019s not just foreign policy. Palin has no experience dealing with national domestic issues, either. (On the other hand, as Kate O\u2019Beirne just told me, we know that Palin will be ready for that 3 a.m. phone call: She\u2019ll already be up with her baby.) <br><b>Tokenism.</b> Can anyone say with a straight face that Palin would have gotten picked if she were a man?<br><br><b>Compatibility.</b> It doesn\u2019t seem as though McCain knows Palin well. Do we have much reason to think they would work well together? <br><br><b>Debates.</b> Maybe, as Jonah said the other day, Biden will look like a bully going up against her\u2014and maybe she\u2019ll shine. But I can think of a lot of other picks who would have been lower-risk.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_17:57:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1922146": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Romney, Pawlenty: McCain Used Us!<br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/29/romney-pawlenty-mccain-us_n_122498.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/29/romney...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_21:09:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1919931": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "He got all that last night.  Didn't you know that corporate media lunkheads are a fickle, flighty bunch? Plus, they still haven't dealt with the fact that the all-white Old Boys Broadcast Journalist's Club is going to have to refer to Barack as \"President Obama.\"  These kinds of white people just ain't used to being led by a strong black man.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_17:45:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1919565, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1921894": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "29.08.2008<br><br>Palin Fun Facts! <br><br>Since everyone south of Juneau seems to be relying on their trusty Nexis accounts for more information on the surprise Republican vice-presidential candidate, I'll do the same. A brief sampling of her pre-gubernatorial career:<br><br>-Forbesmania!  Palin was an Alaska  cochair of Steve Forbes' 2000 presidential campaign.<br><br>-Float for change! Palin's float won first prize in the political category at the 1999 Alaska State Fair.   <br><br>-Gay marriage, no; Wal-Mart marriage, yes! As mayor of Wasilla, Palin once presided over a wedding in a Wal-Mart.<br><br>-A cessna in every garage! Mayor Palin successfully eliminated her city's tax on boats, planes, and snowmobiles.<br><br>-No Juneau! Palin pushed to move the seat of Alaska's legislature to greater Anchorage.<br><br>-She can run, but can she ever run! Palin finished 119th in the 1995 Alaska Run for Women 8k, finishing in 37:55. The same year, she finished sixth in the Father's Day Fun Run, at 25:34. And in 1996, she finished second in the Iditarod Days 10k footrace, at 45:32.<br><br>-Ivanarama! And as this brilliant April 3, 1996 piece from the Anchorage Daily News makes clear, Palin also doesn't share her running mate's recent disdain for celebrities:<br><br>Sarah Palin, a commercial fisherman from Wasilla, told her husband on Tuesday she was driving to Anchorage to shop at Costco. Instead, she headed straight for Ivana.<br>And there, at J.C. Penney's cosmetic department, was Ivana, the former Mrs. Donald Trump, sitting at a table next to a photograph of herself. She wore a light-colored pantsuit and pink fingernail polish. Her blonde hair was coiffed in a bouffant French twist.<br><br>''We want to see Ivana,'' said Palin, who admittedly smells like salmon for a large part of the summer, ''because we are so desperate in Alaska for any semblance of glamour and culture.''<br>Ivana Trump, the former Czechoslovakian Olympic skier who found fame and wealth as the wife of the New York tycoon, came to Anchorage Tuesday to push her line of perfume. <br><br>-Michael Schaffer", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_20:40:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1922151": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "...And, so said, so done.  Carville is on Larry King putting his foot in his mouth and the Repub surrogate just basically said he's dismissive of Palin and women around the country, and this is something we've heard from the Obama Campaign before.  She stopped just short of calling him sexist.  James is not even an Obama surrogate.<br><br>This is what I mean about minefields.<br><br>This is what Repubs do best, lay traps.  They have nothing of substance to offer, so they do treachery.<br><br>Begala was on Campbell Brown and he said he thought she was poised, he said that might be from the beauty queen experience.  Begala and Carville are not exactly Obama supporters.  They could really create problems for Obama if they don't shut up.<br><br>That Repub surrogate, Nancy...is painting Palin in the same language used to portray Hillary...fierce advocate..blah blah.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_21:10:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1918600, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1918570": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Politically speaking, whatever happens in November; I am proud of the race Barack has run along with his VP choice. He chose a person who would help him to govern.<br><br>However, this choice of Palin as VEEP makes me even more fearful of a McCain administration. I can't begin to articulate the sweeping negative affects on our country it would produce. I thought McCain would contine to be a \"maverick\" and pick someone whom he respected. He has shown that he is just a pawn of Rove and the very worst of the Rethug party. I am afraid, y'all. More afraid than ignorant folks who think O is a muslim and hates America. This game has gotten a lot more serious!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_16:07:30", "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": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1919088": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Miranda, you are on the money! <br><br>My take ...<br><br>It's pandering for disaffected Hillary Clinton supporters, people whom the Republican's think will run to vote for McCain just because a woman is on the ticket with him ...<br><br>but also, I believe it's very much what you stated. As you said, it's manipulative and I would add it's just another instance of subliminal ABB.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_16:34:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "noelani", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1918532, "depth": 3, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1920634": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "of course.  He said she has 5 kids and she doesn't need to know anything about running becoming because McCain knows everything.  <br><br>Bucanan said Palin is the \"princess of the right\".", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_18:50:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1920570, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1925755": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You liberals got Tweaked hard today! This pic was not about: you or Hillary Supporters. It was about us Republicans and the future of the GOP. Tonight the three main factions of the GOP went to be happy. You guys are not republican so you wouldn't get it however someone needs to put moose on the white house menu asap!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-30_03:38:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "7e5ae376ad5611aebf00ea11b5ff067d", "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}, "1922685": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Maybe not. But would she let Palin slide?<br><br>Let them still attack Obama on his perceived lack of experience.  He was already a community organizer and working towards what he is today when Palin was running for Miss America (1984).  It would be one thing if people were saying that facetiously <i> but it's true!</i>  Palin was literally running for Miss America at the time.<br><br>Also, McCain apparently didn't vet her but you bet the Obama camp will!  There will be enough substantive arguments against her that can work directly against McCain by calling into question his judgment.  And she can also make mistakes...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_22:01:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1922535, "depth": 7, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1924737": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Preach it, <b>CPL</b>.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-30_00:02:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1921861, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1919106": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<blockquote>This just proves that McAncient is more interested in political gamesmanship than in actual policy and governance. He just wants to win at any cost. </blockquote>Well, wasn't he accusing Obama of the same thing?<br><br>Where I come from we like to say, \"it takes one to know one.\"<br><br>Lindsey Graham is on TV right now saying that he's comfortable with her assuming the presidency if, heaven forbid, McCaint becomes the oldest president to assume the office but croaks.  He has the unmitigated gall to say that he trusts her judgment more than he trusts Obama based on Obama's not going along with an undocumented workers' bill.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_16:36:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1916765, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1920645": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Sorry - multitasking.  lol<br><br>I meant -- of course. He said she has 5 kids and she doesn't need to know anything about running the country because McCain knows everything. <br><br>Buchanan said Palin is the \"princess of the right\".", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_18:52:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1920634, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1918600": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "And you must watch nothing but Fox News. What's your point?<br><br>She's got a 5 month old baby with special needs and 4 other kids.  Hillary showed cleavage once, remember? Big deal.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_16:09:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1918476, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1920141": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "McCain professes to have the right judgement...what a joke!  He has chosen a VP candidate based on classic Republicans manipulation tactics.  This was a completely calculated choice that is meant to underestimate the American public's intelligence(don't fall for it).  A woman as VP great...but weren't there choices that could have been SELECTED (because the VP is a selected not elected position) that would not have screamed slimy opportunistic politics sooooo loudly???  It is completely irresponsible and absolutely patronizing to the America public for McCain to choose someone based on a game of rock, scissors, paper!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_18:01:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "pcmadison", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1919121": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Well it was a nice play on the  chess board all the same. Everyone's talking about it cuz if it had been Romney it would've been one big snooze. Palin's a mom, she's liked in her state and she addresses environmental concerns. I'm sick of those PUMAs but Obama and the supporters will need to continue to address them the same he had to shore up the Geritol crowd of undecided whites. He can't leave anything to chance. But  I am hoping for a landslide victory that will shut up the talking teevee heads for good!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_16:37:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "87e75d88c7647774003db8905a3e99e6", "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}, "1920146": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Why the hell is that PUMA nut on Hardball as if that organization has any credibility?? What the hell? Why is that fool sitting up there on a panel with Michelle Bernard? That's an insult to Michelle to be sitting there with that tin-foil hat nut.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_18:01:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1919970, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1921176": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Maybe someone should remind people that Liddy Dole RAN for president and got NO love from the GOP and now they wanna put Blair from Facts of Life on the ticket as the VP choice and act like its some monumental occassion??", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_19:28:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1920726, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1919130": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Many of the so-called PUMAs were Operation Chaos plants.  Real HRC supporters have mostly gone home to the Democratic Party.  Even the diehard holdouts will be more willing to either vote for Obama or stay at home than before because of this choice and her attempts to usurp their votes.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_16:38:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1916849, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1923866": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "....the bangs...the folksiness ...the woeful inadequacy.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_22:33:04", "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": 1923758, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1921648": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Could you possibly stay on your OWN topic? Going off on some mid 70s ERA rant does not mean Sarah Palin should be Vice President anymore than it means Pamela Anderson is ready to be president of the Screen Actors Guild.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_20:12:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1921448, "depth": 3, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1920162": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Good question, <b>Anovelista</b>.  I live in a largely immigrant latino neighborhood in Los Angeles - mostly Salvadorans, Nicaraguans, and Mexicans - and so far they are mostly Obama supporters.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_18:03:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1919445, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1921701": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "See - THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DON'T VET YOUR CANDIDATE.  This is going to be funny guys! lolol<br><br>Today when Palin gave her speech she stated she fought against the Bridge to Nowhere.  I guess she doesn't realize what age we live in. . . . . see below.<br><br>29.08.2008<br><br>Did Palin Really Fight The \u201cBridge To Nowhere\u201d? <br><br>Republicans have been heavily touting Sarah Palin's reformist credentials, with her supposed opposition to Alaska's \"Bridge to Nowhere\" as Exhibit A. But how hard did she really fight the project? Not very, it seems. Here's what she told the Anchorage Daily News on October 22, 2006, during the race for the governor's seat (via Nexis):<br><br>5. Would you continue state funding for the proposed Knik Arm and Gravina Island bridges?<br><br>Yes. I would like to see Alaska's infrastructure projects built sooner rather than later. The window is now--while our congressional delegation is in a strong position to assist.<br><br><a href=\"http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/08/29/did-palin-really-fight-the-bridge-to-nowhere.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archiv...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_20:20:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1921905": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Found a blog from an Alaskan, pretty much states she did try to abuse her power on getting an in-law fired.</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_20:42:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "b8b9328e61e0094ae18e247c922f9dc7", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1918120": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "First, I don't think this choice will have a net positive affect.<br><br>That said, I think Palin is intended to be little more than wet-tee-shirt eye candy for the white males who aren't man enough to admit their Black-man-in-power phobia.<br><br>Mark my words: the higher Barack's point spread becomes, the lower Palin's neckline will get.  These Republicans will stop at nothing to stay in power.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_15:42:14", "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": 23, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1921564": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "She was a mayor of a town with less than 9000 people whose responsibility will be to -- inquire about the health of the President.  <br><br>What is McCain Thinking? One Alaskan\u2019s Perspective.<br><a href=\"http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/what-is-mccain-thinking-one-alaskans-perspective/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/what-i...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_20:04:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1921370, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1918122": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "CPL:   I'm in!!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)   Where we send the donation!!????   :&gt;)    :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_15:42:18", "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": 1916358, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1923758": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "ewww....snap....Harriet Miers...the distraction candidate....me thinks you're on to something here.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_22:17:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1921937, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1918129": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "How will the PUMAs explain away this one?<br><br><i>Once onstage, together with Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, Palin talked about what women expect from women leaders; how she took charge in Alaska during a political scandal that threatened to unseat the state's entire Republican power structure, and her feelings about Sen. Hillary Clinton.<b> (She said she felt kind of bad she couldn't support a woman, but she didn't like Clinton's \"whining.\")</i></b><br><br><a href=\"http://www.newsweek.com/id/156190\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.newsweek.com/id/156190</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_15:42:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1923763": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "True....all good points.<br><br>There is another factor.  You're 2 months from the election, there's less time to clean up mistakes.  O is on a roll, and should avoid making any huge mistakes to get re-labeled as sexist or elitist...which might stick because the label's been around for so long.  Time is not on Palin's side.  If skeletons are revealed close to the election, there won't be time for McCain to clean it up.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_22:18:07", "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": 1922685, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1919669": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yep.  <br><br>And like the other article you pointed to indicates - that type of voter will be deciding between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin.  <br><br>I think the Biden/Palin debates will be great - but not greater than Obama/McCain debates :)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_17:25:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1919580, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1921719": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "He made this decision at 3am - he had too. Its more proof of why he doesnt need to be in charge of a damn thing. The more that comes out, the worst it is. They're just GIVING material to Olbermann now. Every single contributor to the Huffington Post is fighting to get a piece up....the republican surrogates are looking stupid because they don't even know what to say other than \"Good pick!!\" \"She's change!!\"<br><br>My God, the writers for Leno, Letterman, SNL, The Daily Show, the Colbert Report, Jimmy Kimmel...  they are in overdrive right now. We're about to revisit the Dan Quayle years...but too bad for the GOP, Barack Obama is NOT Michael Dukakis.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_20:21:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1921579, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1920696": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "DWS is on point!  Now if she would only get a relaxer!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_18:56:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "60266805bc0d9559a62514e1e769b750", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1920344, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1918154": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I'm not shock by the choice at all. He had to do it! Think about last night. I cried wishing that my parents were alive to witness this on television, especially my dad. My only problem with Obama is, he should have saw this coming and he should have picked Hillary.  For the first time in my life I am exited about voting. Can I say that? heh!<br><br>Grace", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_15:44:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "354df5c74d0e8d0898a4209dace8bcc4", "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}, "1918144": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "National polls? We dont have a national election in this country.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_15:43:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1915726, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1919691": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Chris Matthews also asked -- McCain is 72 if something were to happen to him, could she lead especially when she has no interest in foreign policy?<br><br>Buchanan couldn't answer so he changed the topic to say she is a mother of 5 and repubs will love her.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_17:26:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1919686": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Wow... I've got to look that up.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_17:26:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1919653, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1916108": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "As Baratunde pointed out on Twitter, here is what super-pro Hillary supporter Taylor Marsh (the type McCain is pandering to here) says about Sarah Palin:<br><br><i>This is a desperation play. McCain's trying to mute his geezer quotient with Palin's babe vibe. On that, well done, John. With McCain turning 72 today, this is beyond obvious.<br><br>However, so much for the \"war on terror\" being the transcendent issue of our time. The thought of Palin as commander in chief is frightening.<br><br>Women voters, especially HRC voters, were pro Hillary because she was very experienced and qualified. Palin's abuse of power problems is not a plus.<br>As for Palin, not even Kay Bailey Hutchison knew anything about her when she appeared on CNN today. McCain and his team didn't even bother to get her a fact sheet on his veep pick. That says it all. </i><br><br>and here is one of her commenters:<br><br><i>I see the ocncern trolls are out in full force trying to spin the Palin pick as a good thing.<br>Good luck with that.<br><br>Michigan Union Guy: Vote for Creepy Cactus who might croak at the sound of a balloon popping<br>and the beauty queen creationist becomes prez...<br><br>OR... vote for the Muslim Black Power Guy who might have an unfortunate accident and the guy<br>who's a spittin' image of my uncle Larry becomes prez...<br><br>HELLO, OBAMA!!!</i><br><br><br><a href=\"http://www.taylormarsh.com/archives_view.php?id=28322\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.taylormarsh.com/archives_view.php?id...</a><br><br>We also have Supreme Court picks to think about ladies and gentlemen.<br><br>And last - I don't want to hear another word from the GOP on affirmative action after Palin's selection!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_14:46:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1923786": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yep.  O definitely has to avoid any chance for them to try and re-define him as \"sexist\" or \"elitist\" whatever the other side does.  Even if they make a huge gaffe, he's got to roll like it will be the tightest race ever on Nov. 4th.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_22:22:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1923763, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1924299": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"Wall of ignorance\". This is flat out to easy an ad.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_22:45:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "RobM", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1920900, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1919180": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Oh, we should talk about it but not worry it to death as some are prone to do and we certainly shouldn't see this as some great threat to a future Obama presidency, because it is not.<br><br>The initial reaction of most prominent repugs has been very negative.  We still have work to do, but they've got a lot of ground to cover in a relatively short time.  White repug guys aren't happy with this and neither are the guys whom McCaint strung along all these weeks.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_16:42:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1916748, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1922255": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I hear ya - but Pat Buchanon (whom Palin is already distancing herself from after her 1999 support of him) already had foot in the mouth disease today when he repeatedly referred to her as a \"gal\" and had to be corrected.  <br><br>There is enough to poke holes in her candidacy w/o even mentioning her gender.  <br><br>And the experience thing?  Andrew Sullivan found a good one  - video of Karl Rove on VPs and \"experience\"  18 days ago!<br><br><i>Rove On Veeps And Experience<br><br>Heh:<br><br>    <b>\"With all due respect again to Governor Kaine, he's been a governor for three years.  He's been able but undistinguished. I don't think people could really name a big, important thing that he's done ... [Kaine] was mayor of the 105th largest city in America. And again, with all due respect to Richmond, Virginia, it's smaller than Chula Vista, California; Aurora, Colorado; Mesa, or Gilbert, Arizona; North Las Vegas, or Henderson, Nevada. It's not a big town.\"</b><br><br>Palin has been governor for less than two years of a state with 600,000 people, compared to Virginia's 8 million. Before that, she was mayor of a town with 6,000 inhabitants, compared to Richmond's 200,000. Someone able to become president of the United States at a moment's notice? Politically, I have no idea how this will play. As an act of presidential governing, as McCain's first real presidential decision, it was and is fundamentally unserious.  </i><br><br><a href=\"http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/08/rove-on-veeps-a.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily...</a><br><br>Here is the link to the video of Karl Rove on Face The Nation on August 10, 2008: <br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuh7DM7JWSk\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuh7DM7JWSk</a><br><br>This is the type of thing <b>female</b> Obama surrogates can nab her on too.<br><br>I wouldn't get comfortable.  But I ain't running scared either. I am not worried...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_21:21:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1922151, "depth": 5, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1922257": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Re the snark.<br><br>The Repubs will fall in line eventually.  She'll go out there and talk up Palin even if it eats at her gut.<br><br>Ha!....and as I type this, I see Crist saying he's IMPRESSED!.....this is the man who got married to cover up gay rumours in order to get a shot at the VP slot....he's falling in line.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_21:21:43", "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": 1918987, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1918165": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Exactly. That's why it SO resonated with me because it IS an eerily accurate channeling of that thought process. I think that commenter nailed it.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_15:45:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1917884, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1920726": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Kay Bay, Liddy Dole, and the other Republican women who are actually qualified to be President should actively campaign for Obama.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_19:00:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "60266805bc0d9559a62514e1e769b750", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1920030, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1918169": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "That is my perspective as well. <br><br>I also wonder if any votes McCain picks up, he will also lose by those turned off (sexist men and those just generally offended) he picked a woman resulting in a zero net effect.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_15:45:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "Honey01", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1916153, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1920218": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I have got to find her immigration views because frankly, that will make or break her with many Latinos.<br><br>And what, pray tell, are her Affirmative Action views? Heh.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_18:07:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1920162, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1919198": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "And I can't stand Tina Fey either.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_16:43:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1916148, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1916128": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"the GOP continues to believe that a woman\u2019s place is in the home\"<br><br>How quickly we forget Condoleezza.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_14:47:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "1de2d33433ebdb3f7247ca125431a441", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 9, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1930465": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Obama is inexperienced!<br>-Right...nothing screams \"experience\" like being the mayor of a town with 9,000 people...but she eats mooseburgers...now THAT's change you can believe in!<br><br>Obama is the affirmative action candidate!<br>-So Palin gets picked 'cause she's just slopping over with years and years of experience...uh, she's a former beauty queen...allrighty, then!<br><br>Obama is a celebrity!<br>-Did I mention Sarah Palin is a fomer beauty queen?<br><br>Hey, now!<br><br>At least the PUMA's are happy!<br><br>And that is what counts!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-30_15:21:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1921036, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1923298": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Miranda -- I said the same thing. LOLOL I gave it until next Wednesday.  Would make her say -- emergency in the family or something.  lolol", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_22:07:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1922423, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1922277": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Val:  Now I can appreciate \"McAncient\" NOT VETTING Palin.<br><br>He is C-O-N-F-U-S-E-D and thought that the VET is the place where his PETS were taken to receive their shots!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)  <br><br>In his state, this is an honest mistake!!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_21:24:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1921701, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1920209": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Aint this about a biyatch?? I swear, only a true idiot would even look at this McCain/Palin ticket seriously. What a joke. Well, the comforting thing is Obama has constantly played this game better, so even though reports say his camp was surprised, I bet my kidneys HE wasn't.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_18:06:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1920030, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1918186": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "RonnieB:    LOL   X10!!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)  \". . . lower Palin's neckline will get.\"   :&gt;)   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>p.s.:  Just to be really nit-picky,  did you see how \"McAncient\" READ Palin's name/title when announcing her????   FUNNY!!!!: )    :&gt;)     :&gt;) So much for HIS oratorical skills. -   NOT!!!!    :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_15:46:26", "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": 1918120, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1919214": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<b>Kay Bailey Hutchinson has already begun the snark with saying that she doesn't know anything about her. The long-time diehard repug women aren't going to like this choice either.</b><br><br>Exactly!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_16:45:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1918987, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1922288": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "She supported his 2000 Presidential race, <a href=http://www.thenation.com/blogs/jstreet/350730 rel=\"nofollow\">they are buddies</a href>", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_21:25:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "Texas_Girl_in_LA", "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": 1920570, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1916148": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The Black Snob and I have observed - Sarah Palin looks just like Tina Fey which will be comedy gold on SNL this season LOL!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_14:49:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1922293": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "She's an impressive woman in many rights and may well be a great mother, but that does not qualify her for national office. Joe Biden also has a son who is headed off to Iraq, not that I think that should be some kind of litmus test for running for office. I have no intention of voting for McCain but he is clearly going after disaffected female voters with this choice and it shows him for being the clear political opportuist that he's accused Obama of being. There were other female Republicans who were better qualified to be VP but some reason he picked a 44-year old former beauty queen and self described \"Hockey Mom.\" Something in the milk is not clean. lol ( forgive me JJP folks for that Khaia reference - I couldn't help it.)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_21:26:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "marvy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1921292, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1922294": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Trust me, no one is worried about Obama....he has rewritten the rules of the game, that's why McCain made this bizarro world pick, because its a whole new game and he can't play it. What's bothering people is the blatant disrespect. This is just insulting to anyone with an IQ above 50. Why must the political process continue to be demeaned with such foolishness? I'm embarrassed as a citizen of this country.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_21:26:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1921770, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1916153": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<blockquote></i>and let's be real--the PUMAs, NOW-nuts, anti-black, anti-muslim, anti-corporate </i></blockquote><br>Those groups were not going to vote for Obama anyway, they were already in McCain's camp....except for the anti-corporate.<br><br>Palin inspired one word for me: Underwelming.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_14:49:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1915726, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1918203": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I don't agree that the mother of 5's neckline will get any lower.<br><br>But I do agree that passing over GOP women like Whitman and Hutchinson and Palin's remarks about Hillary Clinton \"whining\" will ultimately hurt.   It won't be enough to put McCain over the top.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_15:47:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 18, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1918120, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1919746": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That 38 Million doesn't include those of us that watched it on C-SPAN and streamed online...and those in the stadium and also the thousands outside the stadium that couldn't get in. See where I'm going with this? Directly to the people...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_17:30:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "Texas_Girl_in_LA", "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": 1919565, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1916164": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Condoleezza's in the \"black\" box with the GOP.  They don't think of her - or other black women as \"real\" women.  \"Women\" means WHITE women.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_14:50:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1916128, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1920774": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I just want to see the look on any of their faces as the GOP trots them out to back the first female GOP vice presidential candidate.   I want to see them tout McPain with a straight face.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_19:05:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1920726, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1920263": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<b>Even if McCain's camp wants to run with the Obama is not experienced meme...at the end of the day, he was CHOSEN BY THE PEOPLE.</b><br><br>Dead on correct Miranda and a lot of people agree with you:<br><br><b><br>Those who compare Palin's slim experience with Obama's should remember that Obama wasn't chosen by a dispeptic old man to run for office.  He was chosen by voters after a long and hard campaign.</b><br><br><a href=\"http://www.jedreport.com/2008/08/on-sarah-palins-lack-of-experience.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.jedreport.com/2008/08/on-sarah-palin...</a><br><br>Also see from the conservative National Review:<br><br><a href=\"http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MWY0YmM3N2JhMTVkYmI0ZjU0OTBiYTY3NmUyMjgxNTc=\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MWY0Ym...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_18:12:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1920083, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1923848": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "OMG!<br><br><br>That's hilarious,", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_22:30:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1921176, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1920779": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "This decision is FRIGHTENING! Truly <b>FRIGHTENING!</b><br><br>And to think that this decision comes during the 3rd anniversary of Katrina. We all saw what illogical, hasty, desperate decision making resulted in then, and here we have a man, who wants the highest office in the land, choose a running mate because he's scared that he will lose this campaign? Aw HAIL naw!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_19:05:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1920209, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1921292": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Question:<br>If you weren't going to vote for McCain anyway, why do you care that Palin is his choice? Why even waste time and energy thinking about her? Why be insulted?<br><br>Or do you think there is some political value in him running with this wife, mother, and governor?<br><br>She actually has a child going to Iraq and he is a veteran who was a POW, how can you not look like a jerk to uncommitted voters when confronting them on Iraq and Afghanistan.<br><br>She was the mayor of a small town, not unlike the towns whose residents were offended by Obama's comments.<br><br>As a working mom, with 3 kids in school and a newborn, she more in common with typical American women (regardless of color) than most politicians in DC.  If you are saying that she can't be VP, are you suggesting that similarly situated women shouldn't be in executive roles.  Are you suggesting that women should be menopausal or asexual in order to seriously considered for leadership roles?  <br><br>I dare you to say yes.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_19:40:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "cdb105a0448967d7c26f2589218a5ecb", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 11, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1918221": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Hi Greenlady,<br>That was Bush that she referred to as her \"husband'.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_15:48:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "Honey01", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1916452, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1919246": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "LOL! It gets even better by the minute.  From Andrew Sullivan:<br><br><b>Palin Appointed a Sexual Harraser:</b><br><br><a href=\"http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/08/palin-appointed.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily...</a><br><br><b>Palin liked Obama's Energy Plan... 24 days ago </b><br><br><a href=\"http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/08/palin-liked-oba.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_16:46:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1918735": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "no, I only vaguely tune into Fox but in those brief moments all I see are pretty vapid correspondents and they are number 1 aren't they..<br><br>So my point is I don't put it past them to lower her necklines if they think it will translate to votes.<br><br>Also, remember Hill is a democrat.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_16:13:06", "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": 1918600, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1918737": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Personally, I am waiting to see Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail.  THAT will be interesting.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_16:13:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1918532, "depth": 3, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1922325": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LOVING IT FOLKS.  Please read.<br><br>The Worst Vice-Presidential Nominee in U.S. History<br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-j-elisberg/the-worst-vice-presidenti_b_122491.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-j-elisberg...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_21:31:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1919770": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Fox News Channel\u2019s Steve Doocy says Sarah Palin has foreign policy experience because her state is across the Bering Sea from Russia.<br><br><a href=\"http://belowthebeltway.com/2008/08/29/most-absurd-comment-ever/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://belowthebeltway.com/2008/08/29/most-absu...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_17:32:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1922376": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Miranda, <br><br>You are my comedy fix everyday. You and \"Town\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_21:37:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "Texas_Girl_in_LA", "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": 1922308, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1921036": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "HERE IS THE DEAL.   THIS WOMAN HAS MORE EXECUTIVE EXPERIENCE THAT<br>ANYONE ON EITHER TICKET.   MAYOR AND GOVERNOR.  SHE HAS BEEN GOVERNOR AS LONG AS OBAMA HAS BEEN SENATOR. LONGER ACTUALLY,<br>SHE STOPPED CAMPAIGNING AFTER SHE WAS ELECTED.<br><br>OBAMA WAS WRONG NOT TO GIVE HILARY THE NOD.  HE COULD HAVE<br>MADE BILL THE SECRETARY OF STATE AND KEPT HIM PERPETUALLY OUT OF THE COUNTRY.  INSTEAD, HE HAS TO BITE HIS NAILS HOPING THAT THE  HILL<br>RAISERS WONT VOTE FOR MCCAIN OR JUST STAY HOME.<br><br>THIS AINT A DONE DEAL- FOLKS. EVEN IF YOU HAVE WON - SOME PEOPLE STILL DONT GET TO BE PRESIDENT.  ASK AL GORE.<br><br>SO , BE SMART AND STOP THE CHEAP SHOTS AT ALASKA, SMALL TOWNS AND PRETTY WOMEN.   HELL HATH NO FURY LIKE A WOMAN SCORNED.  IN THIS CASE<br>9 MILLION OF THEM.    <br><br>DONT BELIEVE THE PUNDITS WHEN THEY SAY THAT ABORTION IS A KEY ISSUE FOR THE HILL RAISERS,   IT  IS NOT.   THEY WANTED HILLARY AND THEY WANT REVENGE.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_19:22:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "b465f4f12f205996e75e75aa8461ecc6", "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}, "1919268": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Not \"reportedly\" definitely. It's on video:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.newsweek.com/id/156190\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.newsweek.com/id/156190</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_16:48:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1919054, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1919269": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Shania Twain is much prettier and she doesn' t look cross-eyed crazy like Palin does.  I'm checking out the photo posted here and her eyes are looking a little wobbly. She also has a horrible helium filled voice.<br><br>She is still under investigation for ethics violations re the firing of her BIL when just weeks before she had sung his praises as she touted him for the Alcoholic Beverage Board.  She's only been on the job 18 months as governor and her previous political experience was only as mayor of a town of 6500.  I don't know what her selling points are, but I know she looks a beer short of a six-pack.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_16:48:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1918728, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1918255": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "True, but never underestimate the power of crazy....", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_15:50:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "c9e6566377259ba2f122f727cc0fc8bf", "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": 1916849, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1919792": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "What's messed up is Mrs. Greenspan and Massa Buchanan as well as Tweety are saying that McCaint's choice has set Obama's campaign back on its heels, with Obama having to rush in with a less biting comment after his campaign attacked Palin as VP choice.<br><br>The disingenuousness of corporate media continues unabated.<br><br>Some comments on the Cafferty Files blog:<blockquote> <br>Barry Cohen   August 29th, 2008 1:46 pm ET - She\u2019d better learn how to spell \u201cpotato\u2026\u201d<br> <br>Colleen, Weddington, North Carolina   August 29th, 2008 1:47 pm ET<br>McCain has his $500.00 shoes in his mouth.<br> <br>Mike C - Wethersfield CT   August 29th, 2008 1:48 pm ET - Jack,<br>I think John McCain just wants Sara Palin available for CPR.<br> <br>Anne   August 29th, 2008 1:49 pm ET - McCain can no longer bring up the inexperience issue. Being head of the Alaska National Guard doesn\u2019t exactly make you prepared to deal with foreign leaders and decide on what country to bomb tomorrow. As far as I know, about the only connection between the Guard and a governor is that a governor can call up the Guard when there\u2019s a flood in their state. As far as having a son in the military, lots of us, including me, have sons in uniform, and I don\u2019t think I\u2019m qualified to be president.<br><br>Also, if this is an effort to get Clinton supporters, it\u2019s the wrong pick. Clinton supporters are pro choice. They will never go for someone who wants to make choice illegal. <br> <br>Jean B   August 29th, 2008 1:49 pm ET - Jack - Experience? Sarah Palin is a popular governor with executive branch experience. Obama? A junior senator from Illinois, with a limited voting record and his national credentials are running for President\u2026..teamed with a 30 year Washington insider. I will take Palin any day! McCain/Palin ARE the politics of change!<br> <br> <br>james in santa barbara   August 29th, 2008 1:49 pm ET - Another example of McCain being out of touch, by picking Gov. Palin.<br><br>By selecting her, he proved to me that he is putting his ambitions ahead of those of our country. He has stated both recently and previously, that he would chose a running mate that shared his views and principles. She certainly fits his requirements. What he did NOT do was put the nations interests first, by selecting an individual qualified to succeed him in the event of an unfortunate tragedy. The first demonstration of presidential decision making.<br><br>Second, he is trying to appeal to the Hillary voters and using her for that purpose. Another example of a man using a women for personal satisfaction. To borrow a phrase from Sen. Lloyd Bensen addressing Sen Quayle, one step removed \u201cGov., I knew Sen. Clinton. Sen. Clinton was a friend of mine. Gov. you are not Sen. Clinton\u201d<br> <br>Jad in NH   August 29th, 2008 1:49 pm ET - Not only does McCain undercut his experience charge against Obama, he also puts his own judgement into question. In this dangerous, dangerous world, we cannot afford to have a Vice President of this caliber. It\u2019s frightening. He\u2019s obviously putting winning the election over the best interests of the country.<br>  <br>Stephanie, Alabama   August 29th, 2008 1:50 pm ET - John McCain not only undercuts his own message but insults all women by nominating Sarah Palin, when he had many stronger, more experienced, more intelligent women to choose from. I guess since he already feels like he has a \u201ctrophy\u201d wife, he needed a \u201ctrophy\u201d vice president to make a bookend set. This is sad and pathetic on so many levels, but to have this woman, literally a heartbeat away from the Presidency, is SCARY!<br> <br>Patricia Vittoria   August 29th, 2008 1:51 pm ET - I am a disenchanted Hillary Clinton supporter. In a million years I would have never imagined voting for John McCain, but with his fantastic bold move of Sara Palin, WOW hats off to his campaign. I am so impressed with his choice, if elections were today, I would change parties. I think she is a fantastic choice and an increible role model for American women today. Bravo!<br>  <br>Sly From Alpena, Michigan   August 29th, 2008 1:51 pm ET - Yes he did Jack, By John McCain Choosing a Sarah Palin, Who?, he just gave Barack Obama the Presidency. Thank You John.<br> <br>Tom in Desoto Texas   August 29th, 2008 1:51 pm ET - McCain can\u2019t bring up experience as an issue anymore. By choosing Palin perhaps McCain believes the Alaskan governor would bring her neighboring territories into the republican column, you know, the Yukon Territories and British Columbia.<br> <br>G maddox   August 29th, 2008 1:52 pm ET - What was John thinking? As I watched him when she introduced herself to America in Ohio, even McCain\u2019s face made me wonder if he too wondered what was he thinking. When she praised Hillary Clinton, he clapped 3 times and the muscles in his jaw started flexing even as he kept his game face smile. Was this even his idea? Who knows?<br><br>All over America, conservative businessmen must be wondering how they allowed themselves to be betrayed like this. And thousands are probably reaching for their nitro pills. Whatever the GOP is, it\u2019s definately not the party of big business this year.<br><br>I\u2019m just speechless. And conservative Dean Rush was stuttering as he said this was a stroke of genius. Imagine. A heartbeat away from being the leader of the free world. OMG!<br><br>The only thing that scares me is that the election is in just two months. And this electorate is the same one that brought us George Bush\u2013even after we knew what we were getting! Really. Is this a movie script?<br> <br>Laurie in Lawrence, KS   August 29th, 2008 1:52 pm ET - Obviously, McCain has figured out he is the Republican\u2019s sacrificial lamb. His choice in Palin only underscores that fact. Obama better start measuring for the new drapes, because he is our next president!<br> <br>Betty in Texas   August 29th, 2008 1:52 pm ET - Yes he does, so yes we can!<br> <br>Keith - Cleveland, OH   August 29th, 2008 1:52 pm ET - You\u2019ve got to remember, Jack\u2026 These guys are politicians.. They say one thing one day, and the opposite thing the next day. They cannot foresee anything in the future\u2026 They can only react.. Therefore, their V.P. selections are only planned to get them elected.. They cannot see beyond that.<br> <br>Mickie in Philadelphia, PA   August 29th, 2008 1:53 pm ET - Well, I would never want her to be the next president. I even heard (though I have not verified) that she is being investigated for awarding a contract to an oil company where her husband works and that she tried to use her power to have her brother-in-law fired. Of course, abuse of power is the republicans\u2019 calling card, so that should not bother them. Of course a first term governor and former mayor has more experience in national security than a senator (right, LOL). And McCain thinks she would be good to replace him.<br><br>Terry, Chandler AZ   August 29th, 2008 1:53 pm ET - My daughter, my girlfriend, my mom, most of the women in my office are insulted. They are not insulted over the person but feel insulted that McCain is attempting to win them over by selecting a woman who has more looks than experience.<br>Nice try McCain but it will not be successful.<br> <br>Karen - TN   August 29th, 2008 1:53 pm ET - Face it, Jack. Looks matter in politics, and McCain is old and looks sort of like a gremlin. Sarah Palin is young and a former beauty pageant contender, plus she\u2019s tough and ambitious. Her age won\u2019t be relevant. McCain is trying to grab the \u201cHillary\u201d followers who wanted her simply because she\u2019s female. I suspect he would have made a different choice had Obama chosen someone other than Biden.<br><br>Ron Alridge   August 29th, 2008 1:53 pm ET - In selecting a woefully unqualified candidate to be a heartbeat away from a presidency held by a 72-year-old man, John McCain has proven that he values winning the election over serving the country. Had he truly valued the country, there were a number of well qualified Republican women that he could have chosen as his running mate. I guess they weren\u2019t sufficiently extreme. Or maybe they weren\u2019t young and hot enough for the frisky old fighter pilot.  So much for judgment, John, and so much for putting country first.<br> <br>Ernie Jameson   August 29th, 2008 1:54 pm ET - Let me see if i get this right. A young inexperienced Male is good enough to run the country, but a young inexperienced woman is not good enough for second in comand. sounds like more of the same to me. <br> <br>Kerry Diehl   August 29th, 2008 1:54 pm ET - Not really Jack, <br><br>In spite of her youth, she has accomplished quite a bit in her short but fast rising political career. Most importantly, she has stood up against the grain of \u201cpolitics as usual\u201d and brings something refreshing to the table \u2013 ethical behavior and responsibility in government. <br><br>Yes, this is a swipe at what he has said about Barack, but also a giant leap in the direction of true change and being the maverick he says he is. This truly is not the same old same old election (for either side).<br><br>BAM in Maine   August 29th, 2008 1:54 pm ET - John McCain is so old he\u2019s not thinking clearly.<br> <br>byhen   August 29th, 2008 1:54 pm ET - I knew he was an idiot. This just proves it. Guess tomorrow he\u2019ll have no memory of selecting her.<br> <br>Jackie in Dallas   August 29th, 2008 1:54 pm ET - Jack, you didn\u2019t expect anything different, did you? He had to pick someone to appeal to the women and the younger voters. However, it certainly DOES undercut his own message about experience and age. <br><br>And the American people have to consider that the odds are pretty good that if McCain is elected (heaven forbid), there will be at least some time where his VP will have to take over. His age and health will be a factor there. She\u2019s practically unknown, so not only does he have to come up with an actual platform other than negatives to run on, he has to sell her to the billions who don\u2019t know her.<br><br>Bill/Green Valley AZ   August 29th, 2008 1:54 pm ET - Jack: McCain just lost 2 votes. At 72 he is vulnerable to a demise. I hope not but I cant imagine a soccer mom as commander in chief. Maverick equals defeat. foolish move.<br> <br>Simon   August 29th, 2008 1:54 pm ET - Jack, sometimes I hate to agree with your questions but at the end of the day Mccain is not thinking about the man or woman for that matter, who can\u2019t pay medical expences for the family , tuition you name that includes a homeless soldier or even get a Job. He\u2019s looking for what will do the trick. I don\u2019t know about you but you can put a Bishop on the ticket but if all you tell me is watch out for a celebrity and the surge is working I will not care. At least not this time.<br><br>Heather   August 29th, 2008 1:54 pm ET - He absolutely undercut his own argument by choosing someone even less experienced than McCain. McCain\u2019s age is much more of a source for worry about what his vice president may have to undertake in the future: Palin\u2019s inexperience is thus magnified even further.<br> <br>SY, Oviedo, FL   August 29th, 2008 1:55 pm ET - When McCain said about 10 days ago that he was going to wait to choose his running mate until after Obama chose his, I thought he had just made the most ridiculously blatant statement possible. Now, choosing Alaska\u2019s female governor, he\u2019s achieved the superlative degree of blatant perfidy! So much for any semblance of integrity!<br><br>Stephanie R. Glidden   August 29th, 2008 1:55 pm ET - Jack, With all due respect to Ms. Palin and her accomplishments and family, but the population of Alaska is under 700,000 people. That\u2019s smaller than SAN DIEGO!! I think it shows the classic 70-year old male mentality of Senator McCain, who divorced his wife and married his young assistant. He thinks that women are so shallow and emotional that all those disenfranchised Hillary women are going to vote for him because he has a woman on the ticket. He will be wrong. He could very well die and then what, we have essentially the mayor of a small US city with zero experience to face up to Iran and Russia and solve our dire economic situation at home. The last democrat I voted for was McGovern and I would rather move out of America than have McCain as president.<br><br>Mrs Wyse   August 29th, 2008 1:55 pm ET - Earn your place or be placed to earn!  John McCain picks Sarah Palin in hopes of winning Senator Clinton voters. But once again \u201cout of touch\u201d John McCain unlike Senator Obama doesn\u2019t get it.  Senator Clinton EARNED her place as the first WOMAN to have a successful run for the White House. However, Palin was GIVEN this opportunity to play second. For me being a woman and hearing Palin\u2019s 1st speech trying to pull Clinton voters over to McCain simply because Palin happens to be a woman is an insult, and shows that sexism is being played but Senator Obama isn\u2019t the one playing it. Also, due to the fact that no one knows her I feel was the wrong way to be introduced. Almost a slap in the face.  Lastly, McCain picks Palin because he wants to win.<br>Obama picks Biden because he wants AMERICA to Win.<br>So is Country REALLY FIRST McCain?<br><br>Joan   August 29th, 2008 1:55 pm ET - Alaska drilling is what it\u2019s all about !<br>Seeing that McCain is as old as dirt the GOP have to elect a VP with more experience than Joe Biden (not Sarah Palin), they have to elect a VP ready to be president on day one (not Sarah Palin) and they have to invest 5 billion in Cryogenics for McBush to relieve any tensions their cult followers might have now. Sarah Palin was picked by Oil and Gas Industry that have donated $1,069,854 so far to his campaign. Alaska drilling in the future???<br> <br>Debra   August 29th, 2008 1:56 pm ET - We all love a success story and I think it is great that a soccer mom can be nominated to be the next VP but get real!!!! I think John McCain\u2019s lack judgement in this situation is scary! This woman has a degree in journalism, not business. She \u201cmanages\u201d a state with less population than Dayton, OH! As a life long republican and nurse I am already concerned about John McCain\u2019s continued cowboy diplomacy, advanced age, history of cancer and begining stages of dementia and now he does this! At least Obama has been in washington for awhile, has practiced constitutional law and has experience on the National stage. I have more education and corporate experience than this woman! I truly feel that if McCain\u2019s ticket wins we should be very afraid. If something happens to him we will end up with a soccer mom for president. I have just made a big contribution to Obama and will vote Democrat come November for the first time in my life!<br><br>KEVIN   August 29th, 2008 1:56 pm ET - hi Jack, I hope John McCain does not think we are that dumb, to think that he can some how steal Hillary\u2019s people by getting a woman.  Barrack and Joe has everything we need to change this country. And turn Washington upside down. for all the people dems and rep<br><br>Not this time. Yes they can and yes we will change the country, and then the World. <br> <br>Jo   August 29th, 2008 1:56 pm ET - No, I think this is a great pick! The DNC and Obama didn\u2019t go after the womens vote. They messed up. After 34 years of voting Democrat, I am voting for McCain/Palin! I am thrilled they have values that are important to me.<br><br>Heather   August 29th, 2008 1:57 pm ET - He absolutely undercut his own argument by choosing someone even less experienced than Obama. McCain\u2019s age is much more of a source for worry about what his vice president may have to undertake in the future: Palin\u2019s inexperience is thus magnified even further.  (oops on the typo)<br><br>Shawn   August 29th, 2008 1:57 pm ET - You already said it Mr.Cafferty. <br><br>A) She\u2019s no Hillary Clinton!<br>B) She\u2019s no Hillary Clinton!<br>C) McCain can no longer argue experience, which was the only strong card he really had.<br>D) Biden is going to toast her, much worse than Obama will McCain<br><br>The GOP has just signed their notice of defeat in this race. </blockquote>It's a good enough sampling of the hundreds of responses to get an idea of the negativity that anonymous commenters/potential voters feel.  No matter how corporate media and the repugs try to spin it, it's a bad move.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_17:34:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1919121, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1920820": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Oh this will be hilarious.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_19:10:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1920774, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1919797": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Republican Vice Presidential Nominee Sarah Palin and U.S. Foreign Policy<br><br><br>Presumed Republican presidential nominee John McCain (R-AZ) has chosen Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running mate. So where does Palin stand on foreign policy? You tell me! <br>According to On The Issues, she has no on-the-record foreign policy stances. However, as governor of an oil rich state in an environmentally sensitive area, she has had to tackle global climate change and energy security issues. Foreign Policy Passport says, \"Palin brings energy to ticket, but lacks foreign policy cred.\" <br><br><a href=\"http://usforeignpolicy.about.com/b/2008/08/29/republican-vice-presidential-nominee-sarah-palin-and-us-foreign-policy.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://usforeignpolicy.about.com/b/2008/08/29/r...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_17:34:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1920822": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "She ought to be strongly for it, seeing as how she benefited from AA as of this morning, if not sooner.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_19:10:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "60266805bc0d9559a62514e1e769b750", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1920218, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1922366": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "And Evangelicals...which equals \"Crusader\" in my book.   They've been responsible for the destruction of so many lives.<br><br>Here's Begala again - one of 2 former Hillary democrats on the panel.   I know he's going to say something Obama's campaign will be blamed for.<br><br>EVERYBODY'S talking about Palin....and John McCain gets away unscathed.   O should focus on attacking McCain...like they did in the convention and not get distracted by this inflammatory VP choice.   It's a trap...it's bait.<br><br>Ignore Palin, she's beneath both Obama and Biden.  Speak of  her with respect, but ignore her and change the subject to McCain.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_21:36:07", "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": 1918570, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1921343": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "yes.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_19:44:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1921292, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1919712": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I feel like someone just slapped me in the face with this...Is Mcain delusional..oh wait he might be. Ok that was not right but does he really think by doing this women will jump on the band wagon??? Biden better go after her with fire!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_17:27:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "kepop", "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": 1919434, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1921861": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "And y'all thought hell was going to freeze over because Pat Buchanan threw out a few phrases of praise for Obama.<br><br>According to this comment, that love fest didn't last long, once he hooked back up with Mrs. Greenspan, Royal Hater of Anything Obama.  I spit on <i>anything</i> she says because she's biased and she can't hide it.  Plus, her hubby royally fu---ked up the economy and left a moron that continues to do so.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_20:35:55", "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": 1919792, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1916232": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<blockquote>Michigan Union Guy: Vote for Creepy Cactus who might croak at the sound of a balloon popping and the beauty queen creationist becomes prez...<br><br>OR... vote for the Muslim Black Power Guy who might have an unfortunate accident and the guy who's a spittin' image of my uncle Larry becomes prez...</blockquote><br>\"Unfortuante accident?\"<br><br>I get what their saying, but that's not at all funny.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_14:54:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "akonuche", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1916108, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1922378": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You have to watch MSNBC Decision 2008.  I am LOVVVVVVIIIINNNGGGG it.  They (I forgot the name of the commentator) but they were talking about the investigation that is currently going on with Palin, talking about her \"cover up\" while stating she hasn't been accused of anything.  Asking why whe lied about her role in having the police chief fired, asking why she squandered a speech talking about moose stew and why she said she was against the bridge to nowhere when she said in 2006 she was for it.  <br><br>She is being SLAUGHTERED.  And the McCain surrogate is stuttering  . . . poor woman.  She doesn't know what to do or say.  LOLOL  This is hysterical.  BHWAAAAHHHHAAAAAA", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_21:37:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1916748": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I'm too high off last night to give this any mind, and I think we're playing into Republican hands by even discussing this. Let's keep the positive spin on ourselves and let the other side play in the mud.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_15:31:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anderkoo", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1918797": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This will be MUST SEE TV", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_16:14:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1918737, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1915726": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "this will work out for mccain better than anyone thinks. it's already a close race--obama's  up no more than 5 points in any poll; this pick won't hurt that. and let's be real--the PUMAs, NOW-nuts, anti-black, anti-muslim, anti-corporate reformers have a new reason to go for mccain.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_14:24:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "228b96b571da740911fb2572905b5e9d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1920344": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Debbie Wasserman Schultz said I am sure she manages her household very well but she is not ready to manage the nation. She said she was offended by the choice.<br><br>Additionally, she said her congressonal district had more people than Alaska.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_18:19:40", "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": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1920857": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yep...Obama chose a running mate based on the issues and where he needed to be strengthened.....McCain chose a running mate on nothing relating to the issues at ALL.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_19:13:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1920779, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1921370": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "No disrespect, but please give me an effing break.  I recognize that she was a mayor and has been a governor for 20 months.  But if we are going to take it there, then lets go.<br><br>Bush has a Master's degree in Business Administration from Harvard and was the governor of the biggest state in the continental US.  He was supposed to be the \"safe pick\" for many because of this supposed \"experience\" and we see what happened with him as president.  <br><br>And if you want to talk about executive experience, then you might as well give another two points to Obama for running one of the biggest campaigns in history for the past 18 months.  <br><br>And Obama was not wrong for not giving Hillary the VP nod.  a) She did not want to be VP, she wanted to be President.  If she wanted to be VP she would have dropped out and improved her chances when it was clear that she couldn't win; b) Once those Penn memos came out it was done---while everybody has been kow towing to the PUMA faction of Hillary supporters, Obama would have lost significant support among his base for not standing up to the Clintons; c) I don't care what anybody says--don't sit there and try to tell me that Bill Clinton wouldn't be trying to muscle in on the process to reclaim his legacy.  It would have been a mess and it would have cast a shadow on Obama's presidency.  <br><br>I have nothing against Alaska, small towns, or the fact that she is attractive.  What I do have a problem with is the cynicism and condescension of the McCain campaign with this pick and his explanations for this pick, and all those Obama critics that were slamming him just yesterday, but are quick to jump to this woman's defense.  <br><br>I'm sure that she will appeal to conservative women, and more power to her for it, but she is a poor man's Hillary, and anybody who tries to argue otherwise is kidding themselves.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_19:46:43", "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": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1921036, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1916765": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "This just proves that McAncient is more interested in political gamesmanship than in actual policy and governance. He just wants to win at any cost. This announcement strengthened my resolve to raise money for the Democrats because I realize that there is a fringe element of hard core Clintonistas who'd already said that they would vote for McCain before he picked Palin as a way to punish the DNC party elders for not giving the nomination to Hillary -- no matter that a McCain victory  would subject the country to four more years of Republican mismanagement. Make no mistake about it, a lot of PUMAs are happy about this choice.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_15:32:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "marvy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 9, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1920229": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Haven't you heard?  McCain/Palin are now officially known as <b>McPain</b> on the innernets LOL.<br><br>As for our team O'Biden - Murtaugh & Riggs!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_18:09:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1920209, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1921376": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Now that the \"dares\" are out of the way...by Sarah Palin's own admission she shouldn't be considered for the VP role, because she doesn't know what the VP's role actually IS.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_19:47:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1921343, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1919330": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "And for a supposed expert in Russian Studies, she has no clue.  She has no business being Secretary of State and she had no business being NSA adviser.  In each position, it's been proven time again that she was virtually ignored by Rummy and Cheney, as if she wasn't there, as if she was invisible.  Her husband, Shrub, didn't listen to Powell so you know he ain't listening to her.  She's only a figurehead.<br><br>As my curmudgeon ex-Marine brother said once, how could Shrub have thought he'd be successful negotiating with Islamic countries with a woman as the negotiator?  She ain't at all as competent as say a Madeline Albright.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_16:53:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1916338, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1919843": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "&lt; href=http://www.newsweek.com/id/40211?bcpid=1691028268&bclid=1759767670&bctid=1760440838&gt;Here is the video:</a href>", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_17:38:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "Texas_Girl_in_LA", "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": 1918129, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1918308": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "LOL! She also looks and sounds like Karen Walker from \"Will and Grace\"!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_15:52:58", "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": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1916148, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1924697": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Because yelling via ALL CAPS makes your point more loudly - NOT!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_23:53:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1921036, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1924305": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Or he thought she was a Veteran like him.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_22:46:59", "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": 1922277, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1919856": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080829/ap_on_el_pr/cvn_veepstakes\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080829/ap_on_el_pr...</a><br><br>The Obama campaign immediately questioned whether she would be prepared to step in and be president if necessary.<br><br>\"Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency,\" Adrianne Marsh, a spokeswoman for Obama, said in a written statement. But Obama put a statement greeting her to the campaign.<br><br>Sharyl Odenweller, a retired teacher from Delphos, Ohio who was visiting the store, said she was pleased that McCain had chosen a woman and someone \"very pro life.\" But, Odenweller also said, \"I'd like to know more about her experience. If something happened to him, would she be qualified to step into the presidency?\" <br><br>More recently, she has come under the scrutiny of an investigation by the Republican-controlled legislature into the possibility that she ordered the dismissal of Alaska's public safety commissioner because he would not fire her former brother-in-law as a state trooper.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_17:39:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1920881": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "OMG she does sound just like Karen Walker!!!  I hate the little whiny, white woman voice.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_19:15:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "60266805bc0d9559a62514e1e769b750", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1918308, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1922423": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "That's David Shuster...LOL...the media is just gonna eat this woman alive. Its really a shame, I cant believe she is being sacrificed like this. It wouldn't surprise me if after the convention they pretend like she has to drop out and throw Mitt Romney out there. They're so darn crazy, they might try it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_21:42:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1922378, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1919353": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "What's wild is that these repugs are on tv saying that she has more executive experience than Obama!<br><br>Oh hell to the naw, we ain't going out like that!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_16:55:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1916381, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1920746": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Talk about affirmative action tokenism.  Not only she is unqualified to be President, the standards are to be lowered for her to make her feel comfortable.  GWB was right about the curse of low expectations.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_19:02:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "60266805bc0d9559a62514e1e769b750", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1920604, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1920894": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "ITA. The MSM knows damn well that this pick is affirmative action on steroids, but they're letting McCain slide! And to think how the MSM allowed the Republicans to paint Obama as an affirmative action candidate. <br><br>This proves that white women really do benefit the most from affirmative action.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_19:17:07", "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": 1920746, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1920383": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The term pro-life is a misnomer, isn't it?  Pro-life could mean you don't kill insects, couldn't it?  I really think, as a strategic plan, the Dems ought to start calling them anti-choice because, in the end, that is what they are.  No one's pro-abortion, most are pro-choice, and most pro-choice folk are pro-life in the strictest definition of the term.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_18:24:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1919959, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1919874": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Chuck Todd just said  that his VP pick looks gimmicky, so it will probably have a more negative effect since people will instantly believe that it was a political pick akin to pandering.<br><br><i>Anchorage Daily News</i>, Aug. 17, 2008: <a href=\"http://www.adn.com/opinion/comment/fagan/story/496302.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Palin Can't Seem to Admit She Erred</a><blockquote><b>Gov. Palin is revealing her ugly side during this, her toughest political battle to date. As she continues to dig a deeper hole for herself day by day in the so-called Troopergate scandal, the more desperate she appears. Sarah Palin is not handling the pressure well.<br><br>On Thursday Gov. Palin kept digging at Walt Monegan for lying for saying he felt pressured by her administration to fire her former brother-in-law, Mike Wooten. <br><br>If Monegan felt pressured to ax the trooper, he would have said so, she said. \"I'm sure Monegan would have come to me and said, 'Call off the dogs, I'm feeling pressure,' \" Palin said. <br><br>Translation: If Walt didn't like my husband and several members of my administration hounding him relentlessly about firing my ex-brother-in-law, he should have said something. What was he worried about? Was he afraid if he didn't fire Wooten, I would fire him? What a crazy idea that is. <br><br>The governor should really just stop talking when it comes to Troopergate.<br><br>We'll probably never know for sure how much of a factor Monegan's inaction on Palin's brother-in-law played in her decision to fire the commissioner. <br><br>But in the recording of her right hand man Frank Bailey while lobbying a state trooper to fire Wooten, Bailey says something very revealing about how the governor feels about Monegan.<br><br>He says, \"I am telling you honestly she really likes Walt a lot but on this issue (trooper Wooten) she feels like she doesn't know why there is absolutely no action for a year; it's very troubling for her and the family.\"<br><br>Even with that recording, the governor continues to insist Monegan's handling of the Wooten case played no role in his firing. And she continues to criticize Monegan when she should be apologizing to him.</b></blockquote>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_17:40:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1918169, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1920387": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This is the case of time will tell. Who will break under the pressure of national debate and heightened scrutiny. Who will gaffe the worst. So lets sit back relax and enjoy the show.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_18:24:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "c8042eabc91f1dd9779db6b27b32e776", "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}, "1920900": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "And as Think Progress is reporting, McCain Campaign spokesperson Nancy Pfotenhauer appeared on Fox News earlier today and was asked how well McCain knew Palin. Her answer to host Bill Hemmer: <br><br>You're running flat into the wall of my ignorance here, Bill. I truly have no indication whatsoever the extent of a relationship that exists with the Governor of Alaska.<br><br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/29/andrea-mitchell-john-mcca_n_122517.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/29/andrea...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_19:17:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1921506": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "What is McCain Thinking? One Alaskan\u2019s Perspective.<br><br><a href=\"http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/what-is-mccain-thinking-one-alaskans-perspective/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/what-i...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_19:58:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1921937": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Ha!  McCain thinks he's that amazing that he can have a \"throw-away\" VP....a \"null' object VP.<br><br>Why do I think Harriet Myers when I look at her?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_20:46:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1919653, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1918866": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "that is a great comparison.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_16:18:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1918532, "depth": 3, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1921427": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "on this video linked she said it was an \"impossibility\" that she would be tapped for the role by McCain this past Friday<br><br><a href=\"http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0808/Palin_in_February_National_ticket_impossibility_this_cycle.html?showall\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/08...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_19:51:22", "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": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1921376, "depth": 3, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1919959": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Palin is not merely pro-life, she has said she would outlaw abortion in all cases, including rape and incest.<br><br>She is imminently unqualified to lead this country.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_17:47:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "60266805bc0d9559a62514e1e769b750", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1919434, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1919899": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That seems to be the standard meme.  Congressman Eric Cantor (R-VA) just responded identically to the same question from Wolf Blitzer.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_17:42:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "60266805bc0d9559a62514e1e769b750", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1919691, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1919389": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Definitely not! She's been in office for as long as Obama has been running for president!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_16:58:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1919353, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1921776": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "For Alaskans of Palin's generation (she's 44), the last few years have been a political coming of age. Younger candidates have smashed the state's company-town politics. Palin was among the first to take a stand. Having been in the right place at the right time, with that amazing smile, she shot upward in a way no one has ever done before.<br><br>The idea of her being a potential president, however, is laughable. That is to say, at our house this morning, we literally were belly-laughing when we heard the news that John McCain had chosen her. I wouldn't be surprised if the audience she spoke to at McCain's announcement was the largest she ever addressed. Alaska politicians don't use teleprompters. There rarely is an opportunity to orate to more than a hundred people. <br><br>Running for governor two years ago, Palin didn't have firm stands on issues, and in debates, she displayed discomfiting shallowness. A moderator had to ask her three times to clarify her position on the critical (for us) issue of indigenous hunting rights. Her victory was simply a vote for change.<br><br><br><a href=\"http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/08/29/dispatch-from-alaska-palin-really.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archiv...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_20:27:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1919910": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Actually, <b>Val</b>, what he said was that \"she is a mother of 5, the last one with Down's Syndrome, and she's a former beauty queen.\"<br><br>Eh hee!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_17:43:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1919691, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1921448": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Well then, YOU stay at home and wait for your husband to provide for you.  YOU wait for some man to give you validation. <br><br>Some of us will be achieving goals in our careers, marrying like minded partners, having great sex and making babies all while watching you dry like a raisin in the sun.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_19:53:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "cdb105a0448967d7c26f2589218a5ecb", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1921343, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1922475": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This political season has seriously made me consider a career in stand-up....so much material...hell, just on the stuff s provides everyday on this site alone, jokes on top of jokes from those comments.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_21:47:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1922376, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1918894": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LOL! you ain't lying.......I can't believe McCain went HERE.....oh hell naw...it would be best to keep Hillary's name out of Palin's mouth at all costs...not even to compliment her.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_16:19:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1918451, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1921455": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Blair from Facts of Life????  ROFLMAO", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_19:54:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "60266805bc0d9559a62514e1e769b750", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1921176, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1920011": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The more I think about this, the angrier I get.  Obama made a VP choice based on the best person for the job--someone he could work with, and who had broad based experience in different areas.<br><br>No disrespect to Palin, but McCain chose her for gamemanship.  If Obama pulled this BS people would be slamming him for politicking instead of thinking about what is best for this country, --country first.   But somehow, in some conservatives' minds, McCain deserves a pat on the back for his decision.   <br><br>Not just that, he, Palin, and other Repubs have the nerve to use Hillary Clinton as a symbol in a way that is insulting to women everywhere---its basically, the any uterus will do ploy.  <br><br>Honestly, I had my doubts about both Obama and McCain leading the country.  I really didn't know what to expect from either once they got into office.    But today, Obama clearly demonstrated that he has better judgment then McCain and would be a far better president.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_17:50:44", "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": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1916849": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The PUMAs are happy because they're crazy.  Off their meds crazy.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_15:38:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "5e2b33c435c317e69152caba2b39bad6", "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": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1916765, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1916338": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Jed, we never considered Condoleezza for the main fact that she sold out to the establishment, and despite being Sec. of State, she has <i>always</i> done what the men told her to do.  If you remember her testimony before the 9/11 commission, she was simpering towards the men, but was real contemptous toward the women, especially Barbara Boxer.<br><br>That's \"June Cleaver\" type behavior, right there.  And if you examine Condi's ascent to the top, it has not been because she's an independent thinker - her history has been to defer to and act upon the advice of her elders, usually WHITE and usually MALE.<br><br>We haven't forgotten her at all  - in fact, she fits right in with the ReThug way of thinking regarding their womenfolk.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_15:01:03", "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": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1916128, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1922547": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Basically,<br><br>They sound so pathetic and hypocritical with all the excuses and lies that they are using to cover up the fact that this was a not well thought out decision. I cannot say that I am shocked.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_21:56:07", "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": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1921064, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1920441": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "My God....Jon Stewart has probably gone into cardiac arrest from the laughter.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_18:30:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1919970, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1918907": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I had a debate last night with a poster over at Skeptical Brotha about Kay Bailey Hutchinson. Can't stand her, because she's got a 90% rating from the ACU, but she's beena Senator for more than 1 term in TEXAS. So, I'd have to take her seriously.<br><br>I hadn't of thought about Whitman, but you are correct - she is EXACTLY the type of GOP woman that would appeal to Independents and Hillary voters.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_16:20:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1916439, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1917884": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I saw that comment on taylormarsh and that commenter is pro-Obama, and the point is SO true.....but I did laugh in a \"seinfeld\" kind of way because that is probably an accurate channeling of the thought process, scary as it is.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_15:41:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1916365, "depth": 3, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1919423": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I think a lot of them were plants too.  Especially listening to a lot of folks who went to Denver.<br><br>I think their numbers have been blown way out of proportion.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_17:02:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1919130, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1923523": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "YES!! Was she on drugs? Should she be??", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_22:10:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1922115, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1916358": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I will pay money for SNL to do a skit with Tina Fey as Sarah Palin, just so Tracy Morgan can repeat, \"Black is the New President, Bitch!\"<br><br>That killed me when it was being done in response to the phrase \"Bitch is the New Black.\"  LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_15:02:48", "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": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1916148, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1919994": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "lololololol  I stand corrected.  I forgot about the beauty queen comment.  Which makes it even worse.  LOL", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_17:49:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1919910, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1919434": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=*http://caffertyfile.blogs.cnn.com/* rel=\"nofollow\">Cafferty Files</a><blockquote><b>All we have heard from John McCain for months is, \u201cBarack Obama is too young. Barack Obama is too inexperienced to be commander-in-chief. Who do you want answering the phone in the White House at three a.m.? Blah, blah, blah.\u201d<br><br>So what does McCain do? He picks someone to be his running mate who is even younger than Barack Obama and has less experience.<br><br>Sara Palin is 44 \u2013 Obama is 47. Sara Palin is in her first term as governor of Alaska, a state that has 13 people and some caribou. Obama is a member of the United States Senate from Illinois.<br><br>It\u2019s not a big deal, except for this: If McCain wins, he will be the oldest person ever inaugurated for a first term at 72. He has a history of health problems that include bouts of melanoma, a potentially deadly form of skin cancer. It is reasonable to consider that McCain\u2019s running mate could be called upon to be our president.<br><br>Meanwhile, some may see this as a move for McCain to attract disaffected women who voted for Hillary Clinton and aren\u2019t yet behind Obama. But that might not work for a few reasons: Palin, like McCain, is pro-life. Also, she might be a woman, but she\u2019s no Hillary Clinton \u2013 when it comes to her experience or her ideology.<br><br>At some point, voters will have to ask themselves who they would want running the country if it ever became necessary: Joe Biden or Sarah Palin.</b></blockquote>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_17:03:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1922507": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "So now its who has executive experience...okay so McCain is out. He is has no experience.<br><br>That is bullshit.<br><br>Obama's district when he was in the Illinois State Senate was larger than the population of the small town she was mayor of in Alaska. Illinois is a large state with a diverse population that represents the diversity of the U.S. He is a senator in the United States senate. Please...please...please. She is the governor of Alaska...give me a break. <br><br>It is obvious why she was picked and all the the arguments that the GOP just loved to bring up to use against Obama is now off the table:<br><br>1. The experience argument<br>2. Their nonsensical and rabidly racist rants about the \"affirmative action\" candidate.<br>3. The idea of voting based on identity politics that they thought was so wrong. It is obvious that she was chosen to try and upstage Barack Obama's historic ascendency and to reel in disgruntled Clinton supporters. <br><br>etc...etc...etc...<br><br>The hypocrisy coming out of the GOP and others who do not support Obama is sinful at this point.<br><br>I love how people are so dismissive towards Obama but are willing to magnify every slither of perceived accomplishment  of this governor that McCain met like once.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_21:51:17", "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": 1921036, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1921996": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "TRW:  Soooo, there are 2 \"cards\" to be played???<br><br>1.   The \"Because I was a P.O.W. Card\"<br><br>2.   The \"My son is going to Iraq\" Card\"<br><br>Well, let me play the \"If Shrub had NOT gotten us into the Iraq War, nobody would have to be there CARD\"!   TRUMP\"!   [As she SLAMS the TABLE with the CARD!!! ]   :&gt;)<br><br>Whew!   Card Playing Deep Breaths!!!!    :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_20:51:54", "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": 1921798, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1916365": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Of course it's not funny - but I re-posted it so people can get an idea of what a lot of not-so-pro and flat out against Obama folks think.  We have to stay on top of what people who are not on our side are thinking - and not the useless trolls who drop mere talking points and insult our intelligence here.<br><br>Many will sit at home or follow the logic of the \"Michigan Union guy\" type.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_15:03:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1916232, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1940430": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Jibreel, I see you didn't get enough cans of whip-ass poured on you over at the Field Negro's blog, so you decided to come here.<br><br>You must be addicted to whip-ass, huh?  Well, you came to the right place for it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_11:51:38", "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}, "1919445": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<b>He has the unmitigated gall to say that he trusts her judgment more than he trusts Obama based on Obama's not going along with an undocumented workers' bill.</b><br><br>Interesting - how will she go over with the Latino and the pro-immigration crowd?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_17:03:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1919106, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1927417": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Even if Obama had picked Clinton, heaven forbid, McCain would have chosen<br>a man instead.  McCain choosing Palin is the biggest mistake he could ever<br>make.  This is a GIFT to the Obama campaign!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-30_10:14:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "jelana", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1918154, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1916381": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "He mentions Condoleezza.<br><br>What about<br><br>Kay Bailey Hutchinson?<br>Olympia Snowe?<br>Christine Todd Whitman?<br><br><a href=\"http://culturekitchen.com/liza/blog/what_was_mccain_thinking_he_should_have_picked_chr\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://culturekitchen.com/liza/blog/what_was_mc...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_15:04:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1916338, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1919653": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "watching Hardball and Chris Matthews read a quote from Palin - in short she said she had no interest in Foreign Policy.  <br><br>Per Pat Buchanan - it is not that important because she is a mother of five with one child having downs syndrome and McCain has all the experience.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_17:23:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1919970": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Palin - quote \"I haven't focused much on the war in Iraq because haven't paid much attention to it.\"  <br><br>on Hardball Chris Matthews", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_17:47:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1922535": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "What worries me, is not Obama's response....it's the \"former\" Clinton surrogates who are on panels tonight shooting off their mouths, creating the impression that they officially speak for the Obama campaign, but instead are undermining him.<br><br>My suspicions are confirmed that this was an opportunity to hit Obama over and over again about experience, which had been a virtually dead issue.   Every time Begala makes a point, they hit him with \"if you want to have a debate about experience, then lets talk about Obama\".<br><br>I don't trust that Hillary has given up undermining Obama.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_21:54:10", "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": 1922255, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1916392": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That was funny LOL!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_15:04:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1920494": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hillary comments on VP choice:<br><br><b>\"We should all be proud of Governor Sarah Palin's historic nomination, and I congratulate her and Senator McCain. While their policies would take America in the wrong direction, Governor Palin will add an important new voice to the debate.\u201d</b><br><br>I'm gonna hold off on jumping to criticize her. Maybe she's laying low?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_18:36:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1918451": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Hillary and her crew is not gonna let Political Barbie take her crown as \"Best Female Politician EVER!\".", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_16:00:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1915726, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1921525": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "So, according to you, we shouldn't question the choice of a woman who could end up running this country that WE live in? <br><br>As the Vice President of the United States, there's the possibility that you may have to take over as the President should the need arise, and that is a position that has a profound affect on my life and the lives of the ones I love, so ya damn right I'm gonna question Palin and ANY person that wants the V.P. spot. PERIOD. <br><br>Furthermore, no she doesn't have more in common with the typical American woman. The typical American woman isn't a Governor of a state.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_19:59:54", "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": 1921292, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1921258": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "So Biden has to \"dumb\" down because if he's too knowledgable, it looks bad?? Wow.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_19:36:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1920604, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1919482": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "99% Sure:   THANKS!!!   I like Cafferty when he's in this form!!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)  <br><br>His last statement:   What else can we say!!!    :&gt;)     :&gt;)  :&gt;)  ON POINT!!!!    :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_17:07:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1919434, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1918972": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yep. I'm from NJ and sure, Whitman has her detractors, but Liza nailed it when she said that Whitman breaking away from Bush EARLY would appeal to true swing voters and feminist HRC voters who care about voting for a woman AND a candidate with experience.  <br><br>I'm looking at a lot of conservative, liberal and in-between stuff today and I have to say  - Palin just strikes me as a desperate choice for McCain.<br><br>Also - I want that video of Palin calling Hillary a \"whiner\" in an Obama ad along with her positions on women's and other civil rights issues.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-29_16:25:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1918907, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "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": "3878281", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "21630", "hash": 3830385229984559966}, "thread": {"days_alive": 0, "slug": "mccain8217s_trying_to_make_history_too_but_it_won8217t_save_him_41", "paginate": false, "num_pages": 1, "num_posts": 190, "per_page": 0, "total_posts": 0, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 3878281, "queued": false}, "reactions_limit": 10, "context": {"show_reply": true, "use_fb_connect": true, "forum_facebook_key": "bd6a8bc56f8eb204984f34b6fefe228d", "use_yahoo": false, "subscribed": false, "use_twitter_signin": true, "use_openid": false, "realtime_speed": 5000}, "reactions_start": 0, "settings": {"debug": false, "disqus_url": "http://disqus.com", "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"}, "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"};
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	this.curPageId = 'dsq-comments';

	this.frames = {};
};

var disqus_popup_reference = null;

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



/**
 * Dsq.Strings: UI strings
 */
Dsq.Strings = new function() {
	this.ADD_NEW_COMMENT = "Add New Comment";
	this.LOG_INTO_DISQUS = "Log into DISQUS";
	this.USE_MEDIA = "Use Media";
	this.LOGOUT = "Logout";
	this.SHARING_OPTIONS = "Sharing options";
	this.SHARE_ON = "Share on";
	this.TWEET_THIS_COMMENT = "Tweet this comment";
	this.SHARE_ON_NEWSFEED = "Share on news feed";
	this.SEND_UPDATE_TO_YAHOO = "Send update to Yahoo!";
	this.REBLOG_ON = "Reblog on";
	this.CONFIGURE_OPTIONS = "Configure options";
	this.POST_AS = "Post as";
	this.SORT_BY = "Sort by";
	this.SUBSCRIBE_BY_EMAIL = "Subscribe by email";
	this.SUBSCRIBE_BY_RSS = "Subscribe by RSS";
	this.POPULAR_NOW = "Popular now";
	this.BEST_RATING = "Best Rating";
	this.NEWEST_FIRST = "Newest first";
	this.OLDEST_FIRST = "Oldest first";
	this.HIGHLIGHTED = "Highlighted";
	this.UNSUBSCRIBE = "Unsubscribe";
	this.REQUIRED = "Required";
	this.OPTIONAL = "Optional";
	this.YOU_ARE_COMMENTING_AS_A = "You are commenting as a";
	this.LOGIN_BELOW = "Login below";
	this.PLEASE_LOGIN_BELOW_TO_COMMENT = "Please login below to comment.";
	this.SUBSCRIBE_TO_ALL_COMMENTS_BY_EMAIL = "Subscribe to all comments by email";
	this.DO_NOT_SUBSCRIBE_TO_COMMENTS = "Do not subscribe to comments";
	this.REALTIME_UPDATING_IS = "Real-time updating is";
	this.ENABLED = "enabled";
	this.PAUSED = "paused";
	this.PAUSE = "Pause";
	this.RESUME = "Resume";
	this.SHOW = "Show";
	this.JUST_NOW = "Just now";
	this.REPLY = "Reply";
	this.EDIT = "Edit";
	this.FLAG = "Flag";
	this.MODERATE = "Moderate";
	this.CANCEL = "Cancel";
	this.REPLYING_TO = "Replying to";
	this.REPORT_MISSING_REACTIONS = "Report missing reactions";
	this.POST_A_COMMENT = "Post a comment";
	this.FLAG_INAPPROPRIATE_COMMENT = "Flag inappropriate comment";
	this.FLAGGED = "Flagged";
	this.NO = "No";
	this.YES = "Yes";
	this.NEVER_MIND = "Never mind";
	this.ARE_YOU_SURE_YOU_WOULD_LIKE_TO_REPORT_THIS_COMMENT_TO_A_MODERATOR = "Are you sure you would like to report this comment to a moderator";
	this.THIS_WILL_FLAG_COMMENTS_FOR_MODERATORS_TO_TAKE_ACTION = "This will flag comments for moderators to take action";
	this.TO_RATE_PLEASE_LOG_IN = "To rate, please log in";
	this.JUST_A_MOMENT = "Just a moment...";
	this.GUEST = "Guest";
	this.NAME = "Name";
	this.EMAIL = "Email";
  this.WEBSITE = "Website";
  this.SETTINGS = "Settings";
  this.MODERATOR_OPTIONS = "Moderator options: ";
};
// Dsq.Strings

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

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

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

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

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

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

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





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



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

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

	this._lastHash = null;

	this._accumMsg = '';

	this._lastSeqno = 0;

	this.MAX_DATA_LEN	= 1024;

	this.WAIT_TIME		= 10;

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

};

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

FragmentPacket.prototype.log = function(msg) {



};

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

		hash = this.reader.name;
	} else {

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

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

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

		this._lastSeqno = seqno;

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

				this._accumMsg = '';

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

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

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

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

};

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

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

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

	if (packetNum === 0) {

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

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

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

	if (num_packets === packetNum) {

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

	this._lastSeqno++;

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

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

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

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

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

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


	this.receiverId = receiverId;
};

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

	var listener = function(e) {

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


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

		that.receiveCallback(data);
	};

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

PostMessagePacket.prototype.send = function(msg) {



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


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

	var packet;
	if (!msg) {

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

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

var JsonRpc = function() {

	this.ids = {};

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

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

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

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

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

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

				json = 'null';
				break;
		}

		return json;
	};

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		send_func(this.objectToJSON(request));

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

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


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



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


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


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

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

	this.packetHandler = null;


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


	var _createReceiverForFragmentPacket = function() {

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

			that._ready = true;
		};

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

		that.receiver.onload = receiver_onload;







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

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

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

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


	var _createReceiverForPostMessage = function() {

		var receiver_onload = function() {

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

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


		ParentMessenger['_receiver_onload_' + receiverId] = receiver_onload;

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

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

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

};

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	var sendFunc = function(msg) {

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


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


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

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

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

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

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

		if (msg.username) {

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	this.url = Dsq.Urls.REPLY +
		'?' + (new Date()).getTime() +
		'&f=jackandjillpolitics' +
		'&t=mccain8217s_trying_to_make_history_too_but_it_won8217t_save_him_41' +
		'&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/mccain8217s_trying_to_make_history_too_but_it_won8217t_save_him_41/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='	+ 'mccain8217s_trying_to_make_history_too_but_it_won8217t_save_him_41'
			+ '&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/mccain8217s_trying_to_make_history_too_but_it_won8217t_save_him_41/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">190</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/mccain8217s_trying_to_make_history_too_but_it_won8217t_save_him_41/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/mccain8217s_trying_to_make_history_too_but_it_won8217t_save_him_41/">Community Page</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>\
	 <span class="dsq-item-subscribe">\
	 <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/email.png" style="width:12px;height:12px;vertical-align:middle">\
	 <span id="dsq-subscribe">\
	 <a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">Subscribe by email</a>\
	 </span>\
	 </span>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-alerts">\
	 <p><a href="http://disqus.com/profile/login/?next=article:3878281" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false">You must log into your Disqus Profile in order to post comments.</a></p>\
	 </div>\
		';

		

		
		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) { 
			html = ' \
			<div class="dsq-alert-message dsq-upgrade-message"> \
				<strong>Disqus upgrade available.</strong> Hi ' + Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username + ', this message is being displayed to you because you are a moderator of this site. <a href="#" onclick="Dsq.$(\'dsq-upgrade-message\').style.display=\'block\';this.style.display=\'none\';return false">Click here for details.</a> \
				<div style="display:none; margin-top:10px;" id="dsq-upgrade-message"> \
					A new theme is available with added features. <a href="http://disqus.com/comments/settings/' + Dsq.jsonData.forum.url + '/?p=customize">To change your theme, click here</a> and choose the theme Narcissus. \
					If you do not upgrade, you are missing out on features such as: real-time commenting, new sign-in integrations, and an upgrade interface. \
					<strong>This message will automatically go away in one week.</strong> \
				</div> \
			</div> \
			' + html; 
		}
		return html;
	};

	this.footer = function() {
		var html = Dsq.Templates.pagination();

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.authPost();
		

		html += Dsq.Templates.reactions();

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.trackbacks();
		

		return html;
	};

	this.pagination = function() {
		var html = '';
		
		if (Dsq.$('dsq-pagination')) { Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML = ''; }
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.thread.paginate) { return ''; }

		//
		// TODO: num_paginator still uses the template tag for pagination, 
		// 		while append_paginator does it all in JavaScript.
		//		This should all be in JavaScript.
		//

		if (Dsq.jsonData.thread.num_pages > 1 && Dsq.jsonData.request.page < Dsq.jsonData.thread.num_pages) {
			html = ' \<a class="dsq-paginate-append-text" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.paginate(Dsq.jsonData.request.page + 1, this); return false">Show more comments...</a>\
	 <button class="dsq-button-small dsq-paginate-append-button" onclick="Dsq.Thread.paginate(Dsq.jsonData.request.page + 1, this);">Load more comments</button>\
			';
		}
		
		if (Dsq.$('dsq-pagination')) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML = html;
			return '';
		} else {
			return '<div id="dsq-pagination" class="dsq-pagination">' + html + '</div>';
		}
	};

	this.trackbacks = function() {
		var html = '';

		if(typeof DsqLocal != 'undefined' && DsqLocal.trackback_url && DsqLocal.trackbacks) {
			var trackbacks = DsqLocal.trackbacks;
			var trackback_url = DsqLocal.trackback_url;
		} else {
			var trackbacks = [
			
			
			];
			var trackback_url = 'http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/mccain8217s_trying_to_make_history_too_but_it_won8217t_save_him_41/trackback/';
		}

		html += '<div class="dsq-item-trackback">Trackback URL&nbsp;&nbsp;<input class="dsq-trackback-url" onclick="this.select()" readonly="true" value="' + trackback_url + '"></div>';

		if(trackbacks.length) {
			html += '<ul id="dsq-references">'
			for(var i = 0; i < trackbacks.length; i++) {
				var trackback = trackbacks[i];
				html += '<li><cite><a href="' + trackback.author_url + '" rel="nofollow">' + trackback.author_name + '</a></cite> \
						<p class="dsq-meta">' + trackback.date + '</p> \
						<p class="dsq-content">' + trackback.excerpt + '</p></li>';
			}
			html += '</ul>';
			html = '<h3 class="dsq-h3-trackbacks">Trackbacks</h3>' + html;
		}

		return html;
	}

	this.showRetweets = function(id, limit, element_id /* Optional */) {
		var source, html = '';

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			if (reaction.id === id) {
				source = reaction.retweets;
			}
		}

		if (source) {
			if (limit === 0) {
				limit = source.length;
			}

			for (var j = 0; j < limit; j++) {
				var rt = source[j];
				html += '<a href="' + rt.url + '">' + rt.author_name + '</a>'	+ ((j === (limit - 1)) ? '.' : ', ');
			}
		}

		if (element_id === undefined) {
			return html;
		}

		var element = document.getElementById(element_id);
		element.innerHTML = html;
		return element;
	};

	this.showMoreReactions = function(reactions, has_more, start, limit) {
		var link = document.getElementById('dsq-show-more-reactions');
		var container = link.parentNode;
		container.removeChild(link);

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = reactions[i]; i++) {
			var el = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (el) {
				container.innerHTML += el;
			}
		}

		if (has_more) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = start;
			var l = limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			container.innerHTML += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions"><a href="#" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</a></li>';
		}
	};

	this.generateReactionHTML = function(reaction) {
		if (reaction.body === null || reaction.body == '') {
			return;
		}

		if (reaction.author_name === '') {
			reaction.author_name = '&nbsp;';
		}

		if (reaction.url === '') {
			reaction.url = reaction.get_service_url;
		}

		/* Reaction HTML begins */
		var item = '<li class="dsq-reaction" id="dsq-reaction-' + reaction.id + '">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-header">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-header-avatar">';

		if (reaction.author_url && reaction.author_url !== '') {
			item += '<a target="_blank" href="' + reaction.author_url +'">';
		} else {
			item += '<a target="_blank" href="#" onclick="return false;">';
		}

		if (reaction.avatar_url && reaction.avatar_url !== '') {
			item += '<img src="' + reaction.avatar_url + '"/>';
		} else {
			item += '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/noavatar32.png"/>';
		}

		var service_icon = (reaction.get_service_name == 'trackback' || reaction.get_service_name == 'pingback' ? 'rss' : reaction.get_service_name.replace(' ', ''));
		item += '<img class="dsq-service-icon" src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/reactions/services/' + service_icon + '.png"/>'
			+ '</a></div>'
			+ '<cite><span>' + reaction.author_name + '</span></cite>'
			+ '<span class="dsq-header-meta"><a class="dsq-header-time">' + reaction.date_created + '</a></span>'
			+ '</div><div class="dsq-reaction-body">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-message">' + reaction.body + '</div>'
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-footer">From <a class="dsq-service-name" target="_blank" href="' + reaction.url + '">' + reaction.get_service_name + '</a> '
			+ 'via ' + (reaction.source == 'backtype' ? '<a href="http://backtype.com/">BackType</a>' : '<a href="' + reaction.source_url + '">UberVU</a>')
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator ? '&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp;<a class="dsq-hide-reaction" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Reaction.hide(' + reaction.id + '); return false;">Hide</a>' : '') + '</div></div>';

		if(reaction.retweets) {
			var num_retweets = reaction.retweets.length;
			if (num_retweets > 0) {
				item += '<div class="dsq-reaction-retweets">';
				if (num_retweets == 1) {
					item += 'One more retweet from <a href="' + reaction.retweets[0].url + '">'  + reaction.retweets[0].author_name + '</a>';
				} else {
					item += (num_retweets + ' more retweets from ');

					item += '<span id="dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '">';
					var n_tweets = (num_retweets > 15) ? 15 : num_retweets;
					item += Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(reaction.id, n_tweets);

					if (n_tweets != num_retweets) {
						item += '</span> <a onclick="Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(' + reaction.id + ', 0, \'dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '\');'
							+ 'this.parentNode.removeChild(this); return false;" href="#">Show all</a>';
					}
				}
				item += '</div>';
			}
		}

		item += '</li>'; /* Reaction HTML ends */
		return item;
	};

	this.reactions = function() {
		var html, reaction;

		if (Dsq.jsonData.reactions === undefined || Dsq.jsonData.reactions.length === 0) {
			return '';
		}

		html = '';
		for (var i = 0; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			var item = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (item) {
				html += item;
			}
		}

		if (Dsq.jsonData.has_more_reactions) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_start;
			var l = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			html += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions"><a href="#" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</a></li>';
		}

		return '<h3 class="dsq-h3-reactions">Reactions</h3><ul id="dsq-reactions" class="dsq-reactions">' + html + '</ul>';
	};
	
	this.missingPermissions = function() {
		return '	<p><a href="http://disqus.com/profile/login/?next=article:3878281" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false">You must log into your Disqus Profile in order to post comments.</a></p> \n';
	};

	//
	// Post
	//

	this.prependPost = function(post_id) {
		var html = '<div id="comment-' + post_id + '"></div>';
		return html;
	};

	this.appendPost = function(post_id) {
		var html = '<div id="dsq-comment-reply-' + post_id + '"></div>';
		return html;
	};

	this.postPrependHeader = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];

		var _includeServices = function() {
			var userServices = Dsq.Post.getUserServices(null, post_id);
			var html = '';
			var hiddenThreshold = 3; // Define # of services to show before stuffing them in hidden div

			for(var i = 0; i < userServices.length; i++) {
				html +=
				(i == hiddenThreshold
					? '<li id="dsq-drop-hidden-' + post_id +'" class="dsq-drop-hidden"><ul>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-drop-services"> \
					<a class="dsq-service-' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" href="' + userServices[i].url + '" target="_blank"> \
						<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/embed/services/' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '.png" alt="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '">'
					+ userServices[i].name
					+ '</a> \
				</li>';
			}

			if(i >= hiddenThreshold) {
				html += '</ul></li> \
				<li id="dsq-drop-more-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-drop-more"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.dropProfileMore(this, '+ post_id + '); return false"><small>&#9660;</small></a></li> \
				';
			}
			return html;
		};

		return ' \
			<div class="dsq-header-avatar" id="dsq-header-avatar-' + post_id + '" onmouseover="Dsq.Post.dropProfile(' + post_id + ')"> \
				<a id="dsq-avatar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-avatar" href="' + userData.url + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">'
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.show_avatar
				? '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.users[_meta.user_key].avatar + '" alt="" />'
				: '')
			+ '</a>'
			+ '</div> \
		';
	};

	this.postAppendHeader = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];

		return ''
			+ (_meta.author_is_moderator
				? '<img class="dsq-mod-star" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/bullet-star.png" title="Moderator" alt="" />'
				: '')
			+ '<span class="dsq-header-meta"> \
				<a id="dsq-time-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-header-time" href="#comment-' + post_id + '" title="Permalink">' + _meta.date + '</a> \
			</span>';
	};

	this.preBody = function(post_id) {
		return '';
	}

	this.postBody = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: Deprecate flagging conditional
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		return ''
			+ (_meta.edited
				? '<p class="dsq-editedtxt">(Edited by a moderator)</p>'
				: '')
			;
	};

	this.postFooter = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: Use media should be conditional
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		if(_meta.killed) { return ''; }

		return ' \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer" id="dsq-comment-footer-' + post_id + '"> \
				<div id="dsq-points-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-likedtxt">'
				+ (_meta.points
					? _meta.points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(_meta.points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this comment.'
					: '')
				+ '</div>'
				+ '<ul class="dsq-comment-options dsq-list-style">'
				+ (_meta.votable
					? '<li class="dsq-list-first dsq-rate" id="dsq-rate-cont-' + post_id + '">'
					+ (!_meta.up_voted
						? '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.rate(this, ' + post_id + ', 1); return false;">Like</a>'
						: 'You liked this.') + '</li>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-report' + (!_meta.votable ? ' dsq-list-first' : '') + '" id="dsq-post-report-' + post_id + '"><a href="#" class="dsq-post-report" onclick="Dsq.Post.report(' + post_id + ', false); return false;">Report</a></li> \
				</ul> \
				<ul class="dsq-list-style">'
				+ (_meta.can_reply
					? '<li class="dsq-list-first"><a href="#" id="dsq-reply-link-' + post_id +'" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleReply(this, ' + post_id +'); return false;">Reply</a></li>'
					: '')
				+ (_meta.can_reply && !_meta.has_replies && _meta.from_request_user
					? '<li id="dsq-edit-el-' + post_id + '"><a id="dsq-edit-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); return false;">Edit</a></li>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="' + (!_meta.can_reply ? 'dsq-list-first' : '') + '" id="dsq-more-el-' + post_id + '"><a id="dsq-more-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, ' + post_id + ', \'more\'); return false">More <small>&#9660;</small></a></li>'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.use_media
					? '<li id="dsq-media-el-' + post_id +'" style="display:none"><a id="dsq-media-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, ' + post_id + ', \'media\'); return false">Use Media <small>&#9660;</small></a></li>'
					: '')
				+ '</ul>'
				+ '<div id="dsq-reply-bar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar" style="display:none"> \
						<div id="dsq-reply-bar-items-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar-items"> \
						</div> \
						<div id="dsq-reply-bar-auth-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar-auth"> \
							 \
								 \
									<a href="#" class="dsq-help dsq-reply-req-opt" title="You must log into an account in order to comment on Jack and Jill Politics" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Required:</a> \
								 \
								<img class="dsq-login-icon" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/dsq-favicon-16x16.png" alt="" /> \
								<a id="dsq-reply-login-' + post_id + '" href="http://disqus.com/profile/login/?next=article:3878281" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false">Login</a> \
								 \
									&nbsp;or&nbsp; \
									<img class="fb_login_image" src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/images/fbconnect/login-buttons/connect_light_small_short.gif" alt="Facebook Connect"/> \
									<a href="#" onclick="FB.Connect.requireSession(DisqusFbcParentController.onLogin); return false;">Connect</a> \
								 \
								&nbsp;or&nbsp; \
									<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/twitter-signin-icon.png" alt="" /> \
									<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect(); return false">Sign-in</a> \
								 \
								 \
							 \
						</div> \
					</div> \
					<div id="dsq-reply-' + post_id + '"></div> \
			</div> \
		';
	};

	//
	// Iframes
	//

	this._makeAttributes = function(attributes) {
		// Makes a tag attributes string out of an object.
		// Caller is responsible for making sure nothing needs to be escaped.
		var result = [];
		for (key in attributes) {
			result.push(' ' + key + '="' + attributes[key] + '"');
		}
		result = result.join('');
		return result;
	};

	this._frameGeneric = function(base_url, params, attributes) {
		if(typeof(disqus_callback_params) == 'undefined') {
			disqus_callback_params = '';
		}

		var default_params = {
			// TODO: These should be moved to Dsq.jsonData.
			'f'				: 'jackandjillpolitics',
			't'				: 'mccain8217s_trying_to_make_history_too_but_it_won8217t_save_him_41',
			// 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/mccain8217s_trying_to_make_history_too_but_it_won8217t_save_him_41/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='	+ 'mccain8217s_trying_to_make_history_too_but_it_won8217t_save_him_41'
			+ '&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='	+ 'mccain8217s_trying_to_make_history_too_but_it_won8217t_save_him_41'
			+ '&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='		+ 'mccain8217s_trying_to_make_history_too_but_it_won8217t_save_him_41'
				+ '&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/3878281/realtime.js?timestamp=' + last_checked);
		}
	};

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

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

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

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

}();

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

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

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

	return obj;
}();

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		if (isblank(openid_url)) {
			return;
		}

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	return obj;
}();


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





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

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

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

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

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

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





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

		
		for(var prop in Dsq.Themes[theme]) {
			if(Dsq.Themes[theme] && Dsq.Themes[theme].hasOwnProperty(prop)) {
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1921701">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1921701" class="dsq-comment-message">See - THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DON\'T VET YOUR CANDIDATE.  This is going to be funny guys! lolol<br><br>Today when Palin gave her speech she stated she fought against the Bridge to Nowhere.  I guess she doesn\'t realize what age we live in. . . . . see below.<br><br>29.08.2008<br><br>Did Palin Really Fight The “Bridge To Nowhere”? <br><br>Republicans have been heavily touting Sarah Palin\'s reformist credentials, with her supposed opposition to Alaska\'s "Bridge to Nowhere" as Exhibit A. But how hard did she really fight the project? Not very, it seems. Here\'s what she told the Anchorage Daily News on October 22, 2006, during the race for the governor\'s seat (via Nexis):<br><br>5. Would you continue state funding for the proposed Knik Arm and Gravina Island bridges?<br><br>Yes. I would like to see Alaska\'s infrastructure projects built sooner rather than later. The window is now--while our congressional delegation is in a strong position to assist.<br><br><a href="http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/08/29/did-palin-really-fight-the-bridge-to-nowhere.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archiv...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1922277">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1922277" class="dsq-comment-message">Val:  Now I can appreciate "McAncient" NOT VETTING Palin.<br><br>He is C-O-N-F-U-S-E-D and thought that the VET is the place where his PETS were taken to receive their shots!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)  <br><br>In his state, this is an honest mistake!!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1924305">pjamma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1924305" class="dsq-comment-message">Or he thought she was a Veteran like him.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1920900">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1920900" class="dsq-comment-message">And as Think Progress is reporting, McCain Campaign spokesperson Nancy Pfotenhauer appeared on Fox News earlier today and was asked how well McCain knew Palin. Her answer to host Bill Hemmer: <br><br>You\'re running flat into the wall of my ignorance here, Bill. I truly have no indication whatsoever the extent of a relationship that exists with the Governor of Alaska.<br><br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/29/andrea-mitchell-john-mcca_n_122517.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/29/andrea...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1921064">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1921064" class="dsq-comment-message">"Prior to that, she was mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, which Karl Rove early this morning on Fox News erroneously stated is the second largest city in Alaska."<br><br>Hell, I know virtually nothing about Alaska and even I knew a city of 9,000 couldn\'t be larger than Fairbanks, Juneau or Rome....damn....the GOP is just stupid...by Sunday this will be a running joke on every latenight show.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1922547" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1922547" class="dsq-comment-message">Basically,<br><br>They sound so pathetic and hypocritical with all the excuses and lies that they are using to cover up the fact that this was a not well thought out decision. I cannot say that I am shocked.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1924299">RobM</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1924299" class="dsq-comment-message">"Wall of ignorance". This is flat out to easy an ad.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1919770">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1919770" class="dsq-comment-message">Fox News Channel’s Steve Doocy says Sarah Palin has foreign policy experience because her state is across the Bering Sea from Russia.<br><br><a href="http://belowthebeltway.com/2008/08/29/most-absurd-comment-ever/" rel="nofollow">http://belowthebeltway.com/2008/08/29/most-absu...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1919856">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1919856" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080829/ap_on_el_pr/cvn_veepstakes" rel="nofollow">http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080829/ap_on_el_pr...</a><br><br>The Obama campaign immediately questioned whether she would be prepared to step in and be president if necessary.<br><br>"Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency," Adrianne Marsh, a spokeswoman for Obama, said in a written statement. But Obama put a statement greeting her to the campaign.<br><br>Sharyl Odenweller, a retired teacher from Delphos, Ohio who was visiting the store, said she was pleased that McCain had chosen a woman and someone "very pro life." But, Odenweller also said, "I\'d like to know more about her experience. If something happened to him, would she be qualified to step into the presidency?" <br><br>More recently, she has come under the scrutiny of an investigation by the Republican-controlled legislature into the possibility that she ordered the dismissal of Alaska\'s public safety commissioner because he would not fire her former brother-in-law as a state trooper.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1920030" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1920030" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1920030" class="dsq-comment-message">From The Jed Report:<br><br><b>McCain Didn\'t Even Know Palin Before Picking Her</b><br><br><i>According to Andrea Mitchell and Chuck Todd, John McCain had only met Sarah Palin once or twice before selecting her to be a heartbeat away from the presidency.<br><br>Also, earlier today McCain\'s campaign chairman Sen. Lindsay Graham admitted that he had never met Palin, and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison also said that she didn\'t know much about Palin.</i><br><br><a href="http://www.jedreport.com/2008/08/mccain-didnt-know-palin-before.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.jedreport.com/2008/08/mccain-didnt-k...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1920209">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1920209" class="dsq-comment-message">Aint this about a biyatch?? I swear, only a true idiot would even look at this McCain/Palin ticket seriously. What a joke. Well, the comforting thing is Obama has constantly played this game better, so even though reports say his camp was surprised, I bet my kidneys HE wasn\'t.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1920229" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1920229" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1920229" class="dsq-comment-message">Haven\'t you heard?  McCain/Palin are now officially known as <b>McPain</b> on the innernets LOL.<br><br>As for our team O\'Biden - Murtaugh & Riggs!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1920779">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1920779" class="dsq-comment-message">This decision is FRIGHTENING! Truly <b>FRIGHTENING!</b><br><br>And to think that this decision comes during the 3rd anniversary of Katrina. We all saw what illogical, hasty, desperate decision making resulted in then, and here we have a man, who wants the highest office in the land, choose a running mate because he\'s scared that he will lose this campaign? Aw HAIL naw!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1920857">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1920857" class="dsq-comment-message">Yep...Obama chose a running mate based on the issues and where he needed to be strengthened.....McCain chose a running mate on nothing relating to the issues at ALL.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1920726">parker404</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1920726" class="dsq-comment-message">Kay Bay, Liddy Dole, and the other Republican women who are actually qualified to be President should actively campaign for Obama.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1921176">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1921176" class="dsq-comment-message">Maybe someone should remind people that Liddy Dole RAN for president and got NO love from the GOP and now they wanna put Blair from Facts of Life on the ticket as the VP choice and act like its some monumental occassion??</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1921455">parker404</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1921455" class="dsq-comment-message">Blair from Facts of Life????  ROFLMAO</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1922084" href="http://blacksnob.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">The_Black_Snob</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1922084" class="dsq-comment-message">LOLOLOLOL!!! I wish I\'d come up with that line!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1923848">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1923848" class="dsq-comment-message">OMG!<br><br><br>That\'s hilarious,</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1920774" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1920774" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1920774" class="dsq-comment-message">I just want to see the look on any of their faces as the GOP trots them out to back the first female GOP vice presidential candidate.   I want to see them tout McPain with a straight face.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1920820">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1920820" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh this will be hilarious.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1920083">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1920083" class="dsq-comment-message">Here\'s what I want to know. Even if McCain\'s camp wants to run with the Obama is not experienced meme...at the end of the day, he was CHOSEN BY THE PEOPLE. At the end of it all, he was still the selection as a result of voters, from different walks of life, different backgrounds, across 50 states. Even if you say the 18 million Hillary voters did not choose him, the vast majority are heeding the endorsement of their first choice. Even if it was a political game, whatever, an ACTUAL former president endorsed Barack Obama in a no holds barred fashion. The majority of elected officials in their capacity as superdelegates voted for Barack Obama...SO THIS IS THE VOTERS OF THE PARTY\'S CHOICE  - millions of people.<br><br>The choice of the VP is a direct indictment of the judgement of the nominee. Its the first big decision they have to make that comes down to THEIR INDIVIDUAL DECISION...and look what you got. Barack Obama chooses a running mate to shore up a weakness in a governing issue, and McCain chooses a running mate purely, I mean undeniably for pure political purposes, not for the voters interest, but for the voters VOTE. This is just sad, I mean damn.....did McCain not listen to Obama\'s speech?? lol...clearly he did not....as you can see, Obama said it was never about him, but from McCain\'s view, Obama is speaking only for himself. It is SOOOOO about McCain.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1920263" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1920263" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1920263" class="dsq-comment-message"><b>Even if McCain\'s camp wants to run with the Obama is not experienced meme...at the end of the day, he was CHOSEN BY THE PEOPLE.</b><br><br>Dead on correct Miranda and a lot of people agree with you:<br><br><b><br>Those who compare Palin\'s slim experience with Obama\'s should remember that Obama wasn\'t chosen by a dispeptic old man to run for office.  He was chosen by voters after a long and hard campaign.</b><br><br><a href="http://www.jedreport.com/2008/08/on-sarah-palins-lack-of-experience.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.jedreport.com/2008/08/on-sarah-palin...</a><br><br>Also see from the conservative National Review:<br><br><a href="http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MWY0YmM3N2JhMTVkYmI0ZjU0OTBiYTY3NmUyMjgxNTc=" rel="nofollow">http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MWY0Ym...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1922605" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1922605" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1922605" class="dsq-comment-message">Exactly.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1920344" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1920344">JJai</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1920344" class="dsq-comment-message">Debbie Wasserman Schultz said I am sure she manages her household very well but she is not ready to manage the nation. She said she was offended by the choice.<br><br>Additionally, she said her congressonal district had more people than Alaska.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1920696" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1920696">parker404</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1920696" class="dsq-comment-message">DWS is on point!  Now if she would only get a relaxer!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1919653" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1919653">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1919653" class="dsq-comment-message">watching Hardball and Chris Matthews read a quote from Palin - in short she said she had no interest in Foreign Policy.  <br><br>Per Pat Buchanan - it is not that important because she is a mother of five with one child having downs syndrome and McCain has all the experience.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1921937" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1921937">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1921937" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1921937" class="dsq-comment-message">Ha!  McCain thinks he\'s that amazing that he can have a "throw-away" VP....a "null\' object VP.<br><br>Why do I think Harriet Myers when I look at her?</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1923758">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1923758" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1923758" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1923758">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1923758" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1923758" class="dsq-comment-message">ewww....snap....Harriet Miers...the distraction candidate....me thinks you\'re on to something here.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1923866" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1923866" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1923866">TruthSeeker</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1923866" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1923866" class="dsq-comment-message">....the bangs...the folksiness ...the woeful inadequacy.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1919686" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1919686" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1919686" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1919686" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1919686" class="dsq-comment-message">Wow... I\'ve got to look that up.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1916748">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1916748" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1916748" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1916748">Anderkoo</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1916748" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1916748" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m too high off last night to give this any mind, and I think we\'re playing into Republican hands by even discussing this. Let\'s keep the positive spin on ourselves and let the other side play in the mud.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1919180">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1919180" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1919180" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1919180" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1919180" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1919180" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh, we should talk about it but not worry it to death as some are prone to do and we certainly shouldn\'t see this as some great threat to a future Obama presidency, because it is not.<br><br>The initial reaction of most prominent repugs has been very negative.  We still have work to do, but they\'ve got a lot of ground to cover in a relatively short time.  White repug guys aren\'t happy with this and neither are the guys whom McCaint strung along all these weeks.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1916765">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1916765" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1916765" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1916765">marvy</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1916765" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1916765" class="dsq-comment-message">This just proves that McAncient is more interested in political gamesmanship than in actual policy and governance. He just wants to win at any cost. This announcement strengthened my resolve to raise money for the Democrats because I realize that there is a fringe element of hard core Clintonistas who\'d already said that they would vote for McCain before he picked Palin as a way to punish the DNC party elders for not giving the nomination to Hillary -- no matter that a McCain victory  would subject the country to four more years of Republican mismanagement. Make no mistake about it, a lot of PUMAs are happy about this choice.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1916849">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1916849" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1916849" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1916849">Roger</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1916849" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1916849" class="dsq-comment-message">The PUMAs are happy because they\'re crazy.  Off their meds crazy.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1918255">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1918255" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1918255" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1918255">Marvy</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1918255" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1918255" class="dsq-comment-message">True, but never underestimate the power of crazy....</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1919130">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1919130" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1919130" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1919130" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1919130" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1919130" class="dsq-comment-message">Many of the so-called PUMAs were Operation Chaos plants.  Real HRC supporters have mostly gone home to the Democratic Party.  Even the diehard holdouts will be more willing to either vote for Obama or stay at home than before because of this choice and her attempts to usurp their votes.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1919423">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1919423" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1919423" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1919423" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1919423" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1919423" class="dsq-comment-message">I think a lot of them were plants too.  Especially listening to a lot of folks who went to Denver.<br><br>I think their numbers have been blown way out of proportion.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1919106" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1919106" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1919106" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1919106" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1919106" class="dsq-comment-message"><blockquote>This just proves that McAncient is more interested in political gamesmanship than in actual policy and governance. He just wants to win at any cost. </blockquote>Well, wasn\'t he accusing Obama of the same thing?<br><br>Where I come from we like to say, "it takes one to know one."<br><br>Lindsey Graham is on TV right now saying that he\'s comfortable with her assuming the presidency if, heaven forbid, McCaint becomes the oldest president to assume the office but croaks.  He has the unmitigated gall to say that he trusts her judgment more than he trusts Obama based on Obama\'s not going along with an undocumented workers\' bill.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1919445" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1919445" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1919445" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1919445" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1919445" class="dsq-comment-message"><b>He has the unmitigated gall to say that he trusts her judgment more than he trusts Obama based on Obama\'s not going along with an undocumented workers\' bill.</b><br><br>Interesting - how will she go over with the Latino and the pro-immigration crowd?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1920162" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1920162" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1920162" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1920162" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1920162" class="dsq-comment-message">Good question, <b>Anovelista</b>.  I live in a largely immigrant latino neighborhood in Los Angeles - mostly Salvadorans, Nicaraguans, and Mexicans - and so far they are mostly Obama supporters.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1920218" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1920218" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1920218" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1920218" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1920218" class="dsq-comment-message">I have got to find her immigration views because frankly, that will make or break her with many Latinos.<br><br>And what, pray tell, are her Affirmative Action views? Heh.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1920822" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1920822" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1920822">parker404</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1920822" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1920822" class="dsq-comment-message">She ought to be strongly for it, seeing as how she benefited from AA as of this morning, if not sooner.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1918120" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1918120" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1918120">RonnieB</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1918120" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1918120" class="dsq-comment-message">First, I don\'t think this choice will have a net positive affect.<br><br>That said, I think Palin is intended to be little more than wet-tee-shirt eye candy for the white males who aren\'t man enough to admit their Black-man-in-power phobia.<br><br>Mark my words: the higher Barack\'s point spread becomes, the lower Palin\'s neckline will get.  These Republicans will stop at nothing to stay in power.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1918203" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1918203" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1918203" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1918203" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1918203" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t agree that the mother of 5\'s neckline will get any lower.<br><br>But I do agree that passing over GOP women like Whitman and Hutchinson and Palin\'s remarks about Hillary Clinton "whining" will ultimately hurt.   It won\'t be enough to put McCain over the top.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1918532" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1918532" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1918532">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1918532" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1918532" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh the McCain/Palin ticket was hurt from the minute he made the 1am TODAY decision to go with her. Ya know, all it will take is that reminder of the Jane Pauley/Deborah Norville fiasco that rocked the very women that were Hillary lovers to their core. The reminder of the pretty young thang that the bad men executives wanted out front for eye-candy and to push the well educated/experienced but plainer woman to the back. So Hutchinson/Whitman....not as easy on the eyes as Mrs. Palin. Its so sexist, so manipulative.....and so what\'s happening here.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1919088" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1919088" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1919088" href="http://getbad.net/blog" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Noelani</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1919088" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1919088" class="dsq-comment-message">Miranda, you are on the money! <br><br>My take ...<br><br>It\'s pandering for disaffected Hillary Clinton supporters, people whom the Republican\'s think will run to vote for McCain just because a woman is on the ticket with him ...<br><br>but also, I believe it\'s very much what you stated. As you said, it\'s manipulative and I would add it\'s just another instance of subliminal ABB.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1918737" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1918737" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1918737" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1918737" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1918737" class="dsq-comment-message">Personally, I am waiting to see Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail.  THAT will be interesting.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1918797" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1918797" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1918797">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1918797" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1918797" class="dsq-comment-message">This will be MUST SEE TV</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1919054">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1919054" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1919054" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1919054" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1919054" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1919054" class="dsq-comment-message">She\'s reportedly said that Hillary was whining during the primaries.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1919268">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1919268" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1919268" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1919268" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1919268" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1919268" class="dsq-comment-message">Not "reportedly" definitely. It\'s on video:<br><br><a href="http://www.newsweek.com/id/156190" rel="nofollow">http://www.newsweek.com/id/156190</a></div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1918866">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1918866" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1918866" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1918866">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1918866" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1918866" class="dsq-comment-message">that is a great comparison.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1919004" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1919004" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1919004">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1919004" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1919004" class="dsq-comment-message">Especially since McCain dumped a wife and married a woman 20 years his junior that was a former beauty queen herself....oh yeah, the storyline is poetic......especially with Barack married to the Harvard Law School grad, contrary to the shrills of PUMA nuts, he obviously doesn\'t fear a strong educated woman....oh..please some surrogate that doesn\'t give a damn...run with it.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1922090" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1922090" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1922090">TruthSeeker</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1922090" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1922090" class="dsq-comment-message">There are so many levels of intrigue here....as always, McCain manages to distract from the issues with intrigue.  What are we talking about?....experience, foreign policy, what Hillary voters will think - all areas that favour McCain.  We\'re talking about everything but THE ECONOMY.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1918476">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1918476" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1918476" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1918476">JJai</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1918476" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1918476" class="dsq-comment-message">you must have never seen Fox News =-)</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1918600">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1918600" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1918600" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1918600" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1918600" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1918600" class="dsq-comment-message">And you must watch nothing but Fox News. What\'s your point?<br><br>She\'s got a 5 month old baby with special needs and 4 other kids.  Hillary showed cleavage once, remember? Big deal.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1918735">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1918735" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1918735" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1918735">JJai</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1918735" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1918735" class="dsq-comment-message">no, I only vaguely tune into Fox but in those brief moments all I see are pretty vapid correspondents and they are number 1 aren\'t they..<br><br>So my point is I don\'t put it past them to lower her necklines if they think it will translate to votes.<br><br>Also, remember Hill is a democrat.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1922151" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1922151" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1922151">TruthSeeker</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1922151" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1922151" class="dsq-comment-message">...And, so said, so done.  Carville is on Larry King putting his foot in his mouth and the Repub surrogate just basically said he\'s dismissive of Palin and women around the country, and this is something we\'ve heard from the Obama Campaign before.  She stopped just short of calling him sexist.  James is not even an Obama surrogate.<br><br>This is what I mean about minefields.<br><br>This is what Repubs do best, lay traps.  They have nothing of substance to offer, so they do treachery.<br><br>Begala was on Campbell Brown and he said he thought she was poised, he said that might be from the beauty queen experience.  Begala and Carville are not exactly Obama supporters.  They could really create problems for Obama if they don\'t shut up.<br><br>That Repub surrogate, Nancy...is painting Palin in the same language used to portray Hillary...fierce advocate..blah blah.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1922255" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1922255" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1922255" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1922255" class="dsq-comment-message">I hear ya - but Pat Buchanon (whom Palin is already distancing herself from after her 1999 support of him) already had foot in the mouth disease today when he repeatedly referred to her as a "gal" and had to be corrected.  <br><br>There is enough to poke holes in her candidacy w/o even mentioning her gender.  <br><br>And the experience thing?  Andrew Sullivan found a good one  - video of Karl Rove on VPs and "experience"  18 days ago!<br><br><i>Rove On Veeps And Experience<br><br>Heh:<br><br>    <b>"With all due respect again to Governor Kaine, he\'s been a governor for three years.  He\'s been able but undistinguished. I don\'t think people could really name a big, important thing that he\'s done ... [Kaine] was mayor of the 105th largest city in America. And again, with all due respect to Richmond, Virginia, it\'s smaller than Chula Vista, California; Aurora, Colorado; Mesa, or Gilbert, Arizona; North Las Vegas, or Henderson, Nevada. It\'s not a big town."</b><br><br>Palin has been governor for less than two years of a state with 600,000 people, compared to Virginia\'s 8 million. Before that, she was mayor of a town with 6,000 inhabitants, compared to Richmond\'s 200,000. Someone able to become president of the United States at a moment\'s notice? Politically, I have no idea how this will play. As an act of presidential governing, as McCain\'s first real presidential decision, it was and is fundamentally unserious.  </i><br><br><a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/08/rove-on-veeps-a.html" rel="nofollow">http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily...</a><br><br>Here is the link to the video of Karl Rove on Face The Nation on August 10, 2008: <br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuh7DM7JWSk" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuh7DM7JWSk</a><br><br>This is the type of thing <b>female</b> Obama surrogates can nab her on too.<br><br>I wouldn\'t get comfortable.  But I ain\'t running scared either. I am not worried...</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1922535">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1922535" class="dsq-comment-message">What worries me, is not Obama\'s response....it\'s the "former" Clinton surrogates who are on panels tonight shooting off their mouths, creating the impression that they officially speak for the Obama campaign, but instead are undermining him.<br><br>My suspicions are confirmed that this was an opportunity to hit Obama over and over again about experience, which had been a virtually dead issue.   Every time Begala makes a point, they hit him with "if you want to have a debate about experience, then lets talk about Obama".<br><br>I don\'t trust that Hillary has given up undermining Obama.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1922685" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1922685" class="dsq-comment-message">Maybe not. But would she let Palin slide?<br><br>Let them still attack Obama on his perceived lack of experience.  He was already a community organizer and working towards what he is today when Palin was running for Miss America (1984).  It would be one thing if people were saying that facetiously <i> but it\'s true!</i>  Palin was literally running for Miss America at the time.<br><br>Also, McCain apparently didn\'t vet her but you bet the Obama camp will!  There will be enough substantive arguments against her that can work directly against McCain by calling into question his judgment.  And she can also make mistakes...</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1923763">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1923763" class="dsq-comment-message">True....all good points.<br><br>There is another factor.  You\'re 2 months from the election, there\'s less time to clean up mistakes.  O is on a roll, and should avoid making any huge mistakes to get re-labeled as sexist or elitist...which might stick because the label\'s been around for so long.  Time is not on Palin\'s side.  If skeletons are revealed close to the election, there won\'t be time for McCain to clean it up.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1923786" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1923786" class="dsq-comment-message">Yep.  O definitely has to avoid any chance for them to try and re-define him as "sexist" or "elitist" whatever the other side does.  Even if they make a huge gaffe, he\'s got to roll like it will be the tightest race ever on Nov. 4th.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1918186" class="dsq-comment-message">RonnieB:    LOL   X10!!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)  ". . . lower Palin\'s neckline will get."   :&gt;)   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>p.s.:  Just to be really nit-picky,  did you see how "McAncient" READ Palin\'s name/title when announcing her????   FUNNY!!!!: )    :&gt;)     :&gt;) So much for HIS oratorical skills. -   NOT!!!!    :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1918987" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1918987" class="dsq-comment-message">Right on, <b>RonnieB</b>, except for the plunging neckline stuff.  Kay Bailey Hutchinson has already begun the snark with saying that she doesn\'t know anything about her.  The long-time diehard repug women aren\'t going to like this choice either.<br><br>The fact is, she hasn\'t been vetted, she\'s under investigation for ethics violations and nearly 90% of Alaskans polled believe she\'s lying about her involvement at some level, her biggest claim to fame prior to becoming governor was being the mayor of a town of 6500 people.<br><br>This isn\'t a good repug choice at all; it demonstrates a lack of judgment on McCaint\'s part because now he can\'t talk about inexperience on the national security level, nor can he any longer spout the celebrity meme on which the repugs have spent at least $10 million in ads.<br><br>This will make the repug white boys - and their wives - stay at home on Nov. 4.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1919214" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1919214" class="dsq-comment-message"><b>Kay Bailey Hutchinson has already begun the snark with saying that she doesn\'t know anything about her. The long-time diehard repug women aren\'t going to like this choice either.</b><br><br>Exactly!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1922257">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1922257" class="dsq-comment-message">Re the snark.<br><br>The Repubs will fall in line eventually.  She\'ll go out there and talk up Palin even if it eats at her gut.<br><br>Ha!....and as I type this, I see Crist saying he\'s IMPRESSED!.....this is the man who got married to cover up gay rumours in order to get a shot at the VP slot....he\'s falling in line.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1915726" href="http://hustleknockin.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">black canseco</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1915726" class="dsq-comment-message">this will work out for mccain better than anyone thinks. it\'s already a close race--obama\'s  up no more than 5 points in any poll; this pick won\'t hurt that. and let\'s be real--the PUMAs, NOW-nuts, anti-black, anti-muslim, anti-corporate reformers have a new reason to go for mccain.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1918451">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1918451" class="dsq-comment-message">Hillary and her crew is not gonna let Political Barbie take her crown as "Best Female Politician EVER!".</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1918894">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1918894" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL! you ain\'t lying.......I can\'t believe McCain went HERE.....oh hell naw...it would be best to keep Hillary\'s name out of Palin\'s mouth at all costs...not even to compliment her.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1916153">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1916153" class="dsq-comment-message"><blockquote></i>and let\'s be real--the PUMAs, NOW-nuts, anti-black, anti-muslim, anti-corporate </i></blockquote><br>Those groups were not going to vote for Obama anyway, they were already in McCain\'s camp....except for the anti-corporate.<br><br>Palin inspired one word for me: Underwelming.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1918169">Honey01</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1918169" class="dsq-comment-message">That is my perspective as well. <br><br>I also wonder if any votes McCain picks up, he will also lose by those turned off (sexist men and those just generally offended) he picked a woman resulting in a zero net effect.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1919874" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1919874" class="dsq-comment-message">Chuck Todd just said  that his VP pick looks gimmicky, so it will probably have a more negative effect since people will instantly believe that it was a political pick akin to pandering.<br><br><i>Anchorage Daily News</i>, Aug. 17, 2008: <a href="http://www.adn.com/opinion/comment/fagan/story/496302.html" rel="nofollow">Palin Can\'t Seem to Admit She Erred</a><blockquote><b>Gov. Palin is revealing her ugly side during this, her toughest political battle to date. As she continues to dig a deeper hole for herself day by day in the so-called Troopergate scandal, the more desperate she appears. Sarah Palin is not handling the pressure well.<br><br>On Thursday Gov. Palin kept digging at Walt Monegan for lying for saying he felt pressured by her administration to fire her former brother-in-law, Mike Wooten. <br><br>If Monegan felt pressured to ax the trooper, he would have said so, she said. "I\'m sure Monegan would have come to me and said, \'Call off the dogs, I\'m feeling pressure,\' " Palin said. <br><br>Translation: If Walt didn\'t like my husband and several members of my administration hounding him relentlessly about firing my ex-brother-in-law, he should have said something. What was he worried about? Was he afraid if he didn\'t fire Wooten, I would fire him? What a crazy idea that is. <br><br>The governor should really just stop talking when it comes to Troopergate.<br><br>We\'ll probably never know for sure how much of a factor Monegan\'s inaction on Palin\'s brother-in-law played in her decision to fire the commissioner. <br><br>But in the recording of her right hand man Frank Bailey while lobbying a state trooper to fire Wooten, Bailey says something very revealing about how the governor feels about Monegan.<br><br>He says, "I am telling you honestly she really likes Walt a lot but on this issue (trooper Wooten) she feels like she doesn\'t know why there is absolutely no action for a year; it\'s very troubling for her and the family."<br><br>Even with that recording, the governor continues to insist Monegan\'s handling of the Wooten case played no role in his firing. And she continues to criticize Monegan when she should be apologizing to him.</b></blockquote></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1918517">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1918517" class="dsq-comment-message">TruthSeeker:   Co-sign!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1918144">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1918144" class="dsq-comment-message">National polls? We dont have a national election in this country.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1916108" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1916108" class="dsq-comment-message">As Baratunde pointed out on Twitter, here is what super-pro Hillary supporter Taylor Marsh (the type McCain is pandering to here) says about Sarah Palin:<br><br><i>This is a desperation play. McCain\'s trying to mute his geezer quotient with Palin\'s babe vibe. On that, well done, John. With McCain turning 72 today, this is beyond obvious.<br><br>However, so much for the "war on terror" being the transcendent issue of our time. The thought of Palin as commander in chief is frightening.<br><br>Women voters, especially HRC voters, were pro Hillary because she was very experienced and qualified. Palin\'s abuse of power problems is not a plus.<br>As for Palin, not even Kay Bailey Hutchison knew anything about her when she appeared on CNN today. McCain and his team didn\'t even bother to get her a fact sheet on his veep pick. That says it all. </i><br><br>and here is one of her commenters:<br><br><i>I see the ocncern trolls are out in full force trying to spin the Palin pick as a good thing.<br>Good luck with that.<br><br>Michigan Union Guy: Vote for Creepy Cactus who might croak at the sound of a balloon popping<br>and the beauty queen creationist becomes prez...<br><br>OR... vote for the Muslim Black Power Guy who might have an unfortunate accident and the guy<br>who\'s a spittin\' image of my uncle Larry becomes prez...<br><br>HELLO, OBAMA!!!</i><br><br><br><a href="http://www.taylormarsh.com/archives_view.php?id=28322" rel="nofollow">http://www.taylormarsh.com/archives_view.php?id...</a><br><br>We also have Supreme Court picks to think about ladies and gentlemen.<br><br>And last - I don\'t want to hear another word from the GOP on affirmative action after Palin\'s selection!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1916232">akonuche</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1916232" class="dsq-comment-message"><blockquote>Michigan Union Guy: Vote for Creepy Cactus who might croak at the sound of a balloon popping and the beauty queen creationist becomes prez...<br><br>OR... vote for the Muslim Black Power Guy who might have an unfortunate accident and the guy who\'s a spittin\' image of my uncle Larry becomes prez...</blockquote><br>"Unfortuante accident?"<br><br>I get what their saying, but that\'s not at all funny.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1916365" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1916365" class="dsq-comment-message">Of course it\'s not funny - but I re-posted it so people can get an idea of what a lot of not-so-pro and flat out against Obama folks think.  We have to stay on top of what people who are not on our side are thinking - and not the useless trolls who drop mere talking points and insult our intelligence here.<br><br>Many will sit at home or follow the logic of the "Michigan Union guy" type.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1917884">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1917884" class="dsq-comment-message">I saw that comment on taylormarsh and that commenter is pro-Obama, and the point is SO true.....but I did laugh in a "seinfeld" kind of way because that is probably an accurate channeling of the thought process, scary as it is.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1918165" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1918165" class="dsq-comment-message">Exactly. That\'s why it SO resonated with me because it IS an eerily accurate channeling of that thought process. I think that commenter nailed it.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1916128">jed</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1916128" class="dsq-comment-message">"the GOP continues to believe that a woman’s place is in the home"<br><br>How quickly we forget Condoleezza.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1916164" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1916164" class="dsq-comment-message">Condoleezza\'s in the "black" box with the GOP.  They don\'t think of her - or other black women as "real" women.  "Women" means WHITE women.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1916338" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1916338" class="dsq-comment-message">Jed, we never considered Condoleezza for the main fact that she sold out to the establishment, and despite being Sec. of State, she has <i>always</i> done what the men told her to do.  If you remember her testimony before the 9/11 commission, she was simpering towards the men, but was real contemptous toward the women, especially Barbara Boxer.<br><br>That\'s "June Cleaver" type behavior, right there.  And if you examine Condi\'s ascent to the top, it has not been because she\'s an independent thinker - her history has been to defer to and act upon the advice of her elders, usually WHITE and usually MALE.<br><br>We haven\'t forgotten her at all  - in fact, she fits right in with the ReThug way of thinking regarding their womenfolk.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1916381" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1916381" class="dsq-comment-message">He mentions Condoleezza.<br><br>What about<br><br>Kay Bailey Hutchinson?<br>Olympia Snowe?<br>Christine Todd Whitman?<br><br><a href="http://culturekitchen.com/liza/blog/what_was_mccain_thinking_he_should_have_picked_chr" rel="nofollow">http://culturekitchen.com/liza/blog/what_was_mc...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1919353" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1919353" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1919353" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1919353" class="dsq-comment-message">What\'s wild is that these repugs are on tv saying that she has more executive experience than Obama!<br><br>Oh hell to the naw, we ain\'t going out like that!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1919389" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1919389" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1919389" class="dsq-comment-message">Definitely not! She\'s been in office for as long as Obama has been running for president!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1916452">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1916452" class="dsq-comment-message">CPL:   ANNNNNND, "we shall never forget" her gaffe    -   . . . MY HUSBAND. . . when referring to "McAncient"!!!   <br><br>There is no biographical data that indicated that she was even, "boyfriended" or "engaged"!   How did she advance to "Husband" when she referred to him!!?????<br><br>UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!<br><br>Co-signing on ALL points!!!    :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1918221">Honey01</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1918221" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1918221" class="dsq-comment-message">Hi Greenlady,<br>That was Bush that she referred to as her "husband\'.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1918464">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1918464" class="dsq-comment-message">Honey01:  OOPS!  :&gt;)   Thanks for the correction!   Thinking too fast!!  :&gt;)   I had Shrub in my mind and "McAncient" in my FINGERS!!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br> Again, thanks!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>p.s.  And if anyone thinks that I can re-type the post for correction.   NO WAY.    :&gt;)   :&gt;)  I\'m happy that I learned HOW ta post a comment!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1919330" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1919330" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1919330" class="dsq-comment-message">And for a supposed expert in Russian Studies, she has no clue.  She has no business being Secretary of State and she had no business being NSA adviser.  In each position, it\'s been proven time again that she was virtually ignored by Rummy and Cheney, as if she wasn\'t there, as if she was invisible.  Her husband, Shrub, didn\'t listen to Powell so you know he ain\'t listening to her.  She\'s only a figurehead.<br><br>As my curmudgeon ex-Marine brother said once, how could Shrub have thought he\'d be successful negotiating with Islamic countries with a woman as the negotiator?  She ain\'t at all as competent as say a Madeline Albright.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1916148" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1916148" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1916148" class="dsq-comment-message">The Black Snob and I have observed - Sarah Palin looks just like Tina Fey which will be comedy gold on SNL this season LOL!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1916358" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1916358" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1916358" class="dsq-comment-message">I will pay money for SNL to do a skit with Tina Fey as Sarah Palin, just so Tracy Morgan can repeat, "Black is the New President, Bitch!"<br><br>That killed me when it was being done in response to the phrase "Bitch is the New Black."  LOL</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1918122">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1918122" class="dsq-comment-message">CPL:   I\'m in!!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)   Where we send the donation!!????   :&gt;)    :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1918308">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1918308" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL! She also looks and sounds like Karen Walker from "Will and Grace"!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1918728">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1918728" class="dsq-comment-message">I just saw a post saying she looks like Shania Twain.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1919269" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1919269" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1919269" class="dsq-comment-message">Shania Twain is much prettier and she doesn\' t look cross-eyed crazy like Palin does.  I\'m checking out the photo posted here and her eyes are looking a little wobbly. She also has a horrible helium filled voice.<br><br>She is still under investigation for ethics violations re the firing of her BIL when just weeks before she had sung his praises as she touted him for the Alcoholic Beverage Board.  She\'s only been on the job 18 months as governor and her previous political experience was only as mayor of a town of 6500.  I don\'t know what her selling points are, but I know she looks a beer short of a six-pack.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1920881">parker404</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1920881" class="dsq-comment-message">OMG she does sound just like Karen Walker!!!  I hate the little whiny, white woman voice.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1919198" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1919198" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1919198" class="dsq-comment-message">And I can\'t stand Tina Fey either.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1916392" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1916392" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1916392" class="dsq-comment-message">That was funny LOL!!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1916439" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1916439" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1916439" class="dsq-comment-message">Liza at Culture Kitchen makes a great point on picking Palin:<br><br><a href="http://culturekitchen.com/liza/blog/what_was_mccain_thinking_he_should_have_picked_chr" rel="nofollow">http://culturekitchen.com/liza/blog/what_was_mc...</a><br><br><i>WHAT THE HELL WAS HE THINKING!<br><br>If I were a Republican, I\'d be totally pissed. If there is anybody who would be the perfect Republican Hillary Clinton stand-in, it would be Christine Todd-Whitman. And yes I know how she fudged the studies from the EPA after 9/11 and I know how she short of lied in order to make it impossible for civilians and first respondents demand better health care after the World Trade Center tragedy. Yet Christine Todd-Whitman was an excellent governor for New Jersey who wowed Democrats across the state with her moderate to liberal stance; especially as one of the rare breed of envirnmentalist republicans who believes we need to put carbon caps and who was disgusted when the Bush administration didn\'t sign the Kyoto agreement.  And let\'s not forget she is an avowed civil rights defender for women, minorities and gays. Oh and did I say she\'s pro-choice?<br><br>Yet it\'s the fact she left the Bush administration in disgust over their environmental policies and that she stood up to George Bush that would have made her not only the perfect pro-choice Clintonista magnet but the perfect anti-Bush Republican super-shero who would reform the GOP by taking it back to its fiscal conservatism yet moderate socio-political roots. <br><br>I am speaking right now from the point of view of a political strategist and as a feminist. This is an amazingly lost opportunity for the GOP and it shows how in decline they are as a political and social force. Had they understood the phenomenon of the Clintonistas and particularly the small portion of the disgruntled Democrats who they need to win over, they would have seen in Todd-Whitman the perfect Hillary Clinton surrogate.<br><br>Yet it goes to show they can\'t even get their Republican feminist icons straight.<br><br>Wow.<br><br>If I were a Republican, I would indeed be totally pissed. </i></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1918907">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1918907" class="dsq-comment-message">I had a debate last night with a poster over at Skeptical Brotha about Kay Bailey Hutchinson. Can\'t stand her, because she\'s got a 90% rating from the ACU, but she\'s beena Senator for more than 1 term in TEXAS. So, I\'d have to take her seriously.<br><br>I hadn\'t of thought about Whitman, but you are correct - she is EXACTLY the type of GOP woman that would appeal to Independents and Hillary voters.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1918972" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1918972" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1918972" class="dsq-comment-message">Yep. I\'m from NJ and sure, Whitman has her detractors, but Liza nailed it when she said that Whitman breaking away from Bush EARLY would appeal to true swing voters and feminist HRC voters who care about voting for a woman AND a candidate with experience.  <br><br>I\'m looking at a lot of conservative, liberal and in-between stuff today and I have to say  - Palin just strikes me as a desperate choice for McCain.<br><br>Also - I want that video of Palin calling Hillary a "whiner" in an Obama ad along with her positions on women\'s and other civil rights issues.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1918129" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1918129" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1918129" class="dsq-comment-message">How will the PUMAs explain away this one?<br><br><i>Once onstage, together with Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, Palin talked about what women expect from women leaders; how she took charge in Alaska during a political scandal that threatened to unseat the state\'s entire Republican power structure, and her feelings about Sen. Hillary Clinton.<b> (She said she felt kind of bad she couldn\'t support a woman, but she didn\'t like Clinton\'s "whining.")</i></b><br><br><a href="http://www.newsweek.com/id/156190" rel="nofollow">http://www.newsweek.com/id/156190</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1918537">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1918537" class="dsq-comment-message">Hey PUMAS! Did ya\'ll hear that! You gonna take that from Political Barbie?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1919843">Texas_Girl_in_LA</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1919843" class="dsq-comment-message">&lt; href=http://www.newsweek.com/id/40211?bcpid=1691028268&bclid=1759767670&bctid=1760440838&gt;Here is the video:</a href></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1918154">Grace</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1918154" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m not shock by the choice at all. He had to do it! Think about last night. I cried wishing that my parents were alive to witness this on television, especially my dad. My only problem with Obama is, he should have saw this coming and he should have picked Hillary.  For the first time in my life I am exited about voting. Can I say that? heh!<br><br>Grace</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1927417">jelana</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1927417" class="dsq-comment-message">Even if Obama had picked Clinton, heaven forbid, McCain would have chosen<br>a man instead.  McCain choosing Palin is the biggest mistake he could ever<br>make.  This is a GIFT to the Obama campaign!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1918570">JJai</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1918570" class="dsq-comment-message">Politically speaking, whatever happens in November; I am proud of the race Barack has run along with his VP choice. He chose a person who would help him to govern.<br><br>However, this choice of Palin as VEEP makes me even more fearful of a McCain administration. I can\'t begin to articulate the sweeping negative affects on our country it would produce. I thought McCain would contine to be a "maverick" and pick someone whom he respected. He has shown that he is just a pawn of Rove and the very worst of the Rethug party. I am afraid, y\'all. More afraid than ignorant folks who think O is a muslim and hates America. This game has gotten a lot more serious!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1922366">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1922366" class="dsq-comment-message">And Evangelicals...which equals "Crusader" in my book.   They\'ve been responsible for the destruction of so many lives.<br><br>Here\'s Begala again - one of 2 former Hillary democrats on the panel.   I know he\'s going to say something Obama\'s campaign will be blamed for.<br><br>EVERYBODY\'S talking about Palin....and John McCain gets away unscathed.   O should focus on attacking McCain...like they did in the convention and not get distracted by this inflammatory VP choice.   It\'s a trap...it\'s bait.<br><br>Ignore Palin, she\'s beneath both Obama and Biden.  Speak of  her with respect, but ignore her and change the subject to McCain.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1919031">JJai</span>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1919032">JJai</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1919032" class="dsq-comment-message">Ben Smith has the youtube of Palin on Clinton and Clinton\'s reponse to the pick.<br><br><br>Statement from Sen. Hillary Clinton on Sen. McCain\'s VP selection:<br><br>“We should all be proud of Governor Sarah Palin\'s historic nomination, and I congratulate her and Senator McCain. While their policies would take America in the wrong direction, Governor Palin will add an important new voice to the debate.” <br> <br><a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/" rel="nofollow">http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1919121" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1919121" href="http://www.actsoffaithinloveandlife.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">heartsandflowers</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1919121" class="dsq-comment-message">Well it was a nice play on the  chess board all the same. Everyone\'s talking about it cuz if it had been Romney it would\'ve been one big snooze. Palin\'s a mom, she\'s liked in her state and she addresses environmental concerns. I\'m sick of those PUMAs but Obama and the supporters will need to continue to address them the same he had to shore up the Geritol crowd of undecided whites. He can\'t leave anything to chance. But  I am hoping for a landslide victory that will shut up the talking teevee heads for good!</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1919792" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1919792" class="dsq-comment-message">What\'s messed up is Mrs. Greenspan and Massa Buchanan as well as Tweety are saying that McCaint\'s choice has set Obama\'s campaign back on its heels, with Obama having to rush in with a less biting comment after his campaign attacked Palin as VP choice.<br><br>The disingenuousness of corporate media continues unabated.<br><br>Some comments on the Cafferty Files blog:<blockquote> <br>Barry Cohen   August 29th, 2008 1:46 pm ET - She’d better learn how to spell “potato…”<br> <br>Colleen, Weddington, North Carolina   August 29th, 2008 1:47 pm ET<br>McCain has his $500.00 shoes in his mouth.<br> <br>Mike C - Wethersfield CT   August 29th, 2008 1:48 pm ET - Jack,<br>I think John McCain just wants Sara Palin available for CPR.<br> <br>Anne   August 29th, 2008 1:49 pm ET - McCain can no longer bring up the inexperience issue. Being head of the Alaska National Guard doesn’t exactly make you prepared to deal with foreign leaders and decide on what country to bomb tomorrow. As far as I know, about the only connection between the Guard and a governor is that a governor can call up the Guard when there’s a flood in their state. As far as having a son in the military, lots of us, including me, have sons in uniform, and I don’t think I’m qualified to be president.<br><br>Also, if this is an effort to get Clinton supporters, it’s the wrong pick. Clinton supporters are pro choice. They will never go for someone who wants to make choice illegal. <br> <br>Jean B   August 29th, 2008 1:49 pm ET - Jack - Experience? Sarah Palin is a popular governor with executive branch experience. Obama? A junior senator from Illinois, with a limited voting record and his national credentials are running for President…..teamed with a 30 year Washington insider. I will take Palin any day! McCain/Palin ARE the politics of change!<br> <br> <br>james in santa barbara   August 29th, 2008 1:49 pm ET - Another example of McCain being out of touch, by picking Gov. Palin.<br><br>By selecting her, he proved to me that he is putting his ambitions ahead of those of our country. He has stated both recently and previously, that he would chose a running mate that shared his views and principles. She certainly fits his requirements. What he did NOT do was put the nations interests first, by selecting an individual qualified to succeed him in the event of an unfortunate tragedy. The first demonstration of presidential decision making.<br><br>Second, he is trying to appeal to the Hillary voters and using her for that purpose. Another example of a man using a women for personal satisfaction. To borrow a phrase from Sen. Lloyd Bensen addressing Sen Quayle, one step removed “Gov., I knew Sen. Clinton. Sen. Clinton was a friend of mine. Gov. you are not Sen. Clinton”<br> <br>Jad in NH   August 29th, 2008 1:49 pm ET - Not only does McCain undercut his experience charge against Obama, he also puts his own judgement into question. In this dangerous, dangerous world, we cannot afford to have a Vice President of this caliber. It’s frightening. He’s obviously putting winning the election over the best interests of the country.<br>  <br>Stephanie, Alabama   August 29th, 2008 1:50 pm ET - John McCain not only undercuts his own message but insults all women by nominating Sarah Palin, when he had many stronger, more experienced, more intelligent women to choose from. I guess since he already feels like he has a “trophy” wife, he needed a “trophy” vice president to make a bookend set. This is sad and pathetic on so many levels, but to have this woman, literally a heartbeat away from the Presidency, is SCARY!<br> <br>Patricia Vittoria   August 29th, 2008 1:51 pm ET - I am a disenchanted Hillary Clinton supporter. In a million years I would have never imagined voting for John McCain, but with his fantastic bold move of Sara Palin, WOW hats off to his campaign. I am so impressed with his choice, if elections were today, I would change parties. I think she is a fantastic choice and an increible role model for American women today. Bravo!<br>  <br>Sly From Alpena, Michigan   August 29th, 2008 1:51 pm ET - Yes he did Jack, By John McCain Choosing a Sarah Palin, Who?, he just gave Barack Obama the Presidency. Thank You John.<br> <br>Tom in Desoto Texas   August 29th, 2008 1:51 pm ET - McCain can’t bring up experience as an issue anymore. By choosing Palin perhaps McCain believes the Alaskan governor would bring her neighboring territories into the republican column, you know, the Yukon Territories and British Columbia.<br> <br>G maddox   August 29th, 2008 1:52 pm ET - What was John thinking? As I watched him when she introduced herself to America in Ohio, even McCain’s face made me wonder if he too wondered what was he thinking. When she praised Hillary Clinton, he clapped 3 times and the muscles in his jaw started flexing even as he kept his game face smile. Was this even his idea? Who knows?<br><br>All over America, conservative businessmen must be wondering how they allowed themselves to be betrayed like this. And thousands are probably reaching for their nitro pills. Whatever the GOP is, it’s definately not the party of big business this year.<br><br>I’m just speechless. And conservative Dean Rush was stuttering as he said this was a stroke of genius. Imagine. A heartbeat away from being the leader of the free world. OMG!<br><br>The only thing that scares me is that the election is in just two months. And this electorate is the same one that brought us George Bush–even after we knew what we were getting! Really. Is this a movie script?<br> <br>Laurie in Lawrence, KS   August 29th, 2008 1:52 pm ET - Obviously, McCain has figured out he is the Republican’s sacrificial lamb. His choice in Palin only underscores that fact. Obama better start measuring for the new drapes, because he is our next president!<br> <br>Betty in Texas   August 29th, 2008 1:52 pm ET - Yes he does, so yes we can!<br> <br>Keith - Cleveland, OH   August 29th, 2008 1:52 pm ET - You’ve got to remember, Jack… These guys are politicians.. They say one thing one day, and the opposite thing the next day. They cannot foresee anything in the future… They can only react.. Therefore, their V.P. selections are only planned to get them elected.. They cannot see beyond that.<br> <br>Mickie in Philadelphia, PA   August 29th, 2008 1:53 pm ET - Well, I would never want her to be the next president. I even heard (though I have not verified) that she is being investigated for awarding a contract to an oil company where her husband works and that she tried to use her power to have her brother-in-law fired. Of course, abuse of power is the republicans’ calling card, so that should not bother them. Of course a first term governor and former mayor has more experience in national security than a senator (right, LOL). And McCain thinks she would be good to replace him.<br><br>Terry, Chandler AZ   August 29th, 2008 1:53 pm ET - My daughter, my girlfriend, my mom, most of the women in my office are insulted. They are not insulted over the person but feel insulted that McCain is attempting to win them over by selecting a woman who has more looks than experience.<br>Nice try McCain but it will not be successful.<br> <br>Karen - TN   August 29th, 2008 1:53 pm ET - Face it, Jack. Looks matter in politics, and McCain is old and looks sort of like a gremlin. Sarah Palin is young and a former beauty pageant contender, plus she’s tough and ambitious. Her age won’t be relevant. McCain is trying to grab the “Hillary” followers who wanted her simply because she’s female. I suspect he would have made a different choice had Obama chosen someone other than Biden.<br><br>Ron Alridge   August 29th, 2008 1:53 pm ET - In selecting a woefully unqualified candidate to be a heartbeat away from a presidency held by a 72-year-old man, John McCain has proven that he values winning the election over serving the country. Had he truly valued the country, there were a number of well qualified Republican women that he could have chosen as his running mate. I guess they weren’t sufficiently extreme. Or maybe they weren’t young and hot enough for the frisky old fighter pilot.  So much for judgment, John, and so much for putting country first.<br> <br>Ernie Jameson   August 29th, 2008 1:54 pm ET - Let me see if i get this right. A young inexperienced Male is good enough to run the country, but a young inexperienced woman is not good enough for second in comand. sounds like more of the same to me. <br> <br>Kerry Diehl   August 29th, 2008 1:54 pm ET - Not really Jack, <br><br>In spite of her youth, she has accomplished quite a bit in her short but fast rising political career. Most importantly, she has stood up against the grain of “politics as usual” and brings something refreshing to the table – ethical behavior and responsibility in government. <br><br>Yes, this is a swipe at what he has said about Barack, but also a giant leap in the direction of true change and being the maverick he says he is. This truly is not the same old same old election (for either side).<br><br>BAM in Maine   August 29th, 2008 1:54 pm ET - John McCain is so old he’s not thinking clearly.<br> <br>byhen   August 29th, 2008 1:54 pm ET - I knew he was an idiot. This just proves it. Guess tomorrow he’ll have no memory of selecting her.<br> <br>Jackie in Dallas   August 29th, 2008 1:54 pm ET - Jack, you didn’t expect anything different, did you? He had to pick someone to appeal to the women and the younger voters. However, it certainly DOES undercut his own message about experience and age. <br><br>And the American people have to consider that the odds are pretty good that if McCain is elected (heaven forbid), there will be at least some time where his VP will have to take over. His age and health will be a factor there. She’s practically unknown, so not only does he have to come up with an actual platform other than negatives to run on, he has to sell her to the billions who don’t know her.<br><br>Bill/Green Valley AZ   August 29th, 2008 1:54 pm ET - Jack: McCain just lost 2 votes. At 72 he is vulnerable to a demise. I hope not but I cant imagine a soccer mom as commander in chief. Maverick equals defeat. foolish move.<br> <br>Simon   August 29th, 2008 1:54 pm ET - Jack, sometimes I hate to agree with your questions but at the end of the day Mccain is not thinking about the man or woman for that matter, who can’t pay medical expences for the family , tuition you name that includes a homeless soldier or even get a Job. He’s looking for what will do the trick. I don’t know about you but you can put a Bishop on the ticket but if all you tell me is watch out for a celebrity and the surge is working I will not care. At least not this time.<br><br>Heather   August 29th, 2008 1:54 pm ET - He absolutely undercut his own argument by choosing someone even less experienced than McCain. McCain’s age is much more of a source for worry about what his vice president may have to undertake in the future: Palin’s inexperience is thus magnified even further.<br> <br>SY, Oviedo, FL   August 29th, 2008 1:55 pm ET - When McCain said about 10 days ago that he was going to wait to choose his running mate until after Obama chose his, I thought he had just made the most ridiculously blatant statement possible. Now, choosing Alaska’s female governor, he’s achieved the superlative degree of blatant perfidy! So much for any semblance of integrity!<br><br>Stephanie R. Glidden   August 29th, 2008 1:55 pm ET - Jack, With all due respect to Ms. Palin and her accomplishments and family, but the population of Alaska is under 700,000 people. That’s smaller than SAN DIEGO!! I think it shows the classic 70-year old male mentality of Senator McCain, who divorced his wife and married his young assistant. He thinks that women are so shallow and emotional that all those disenfranchised Hillary women are going to vote for him because he has a woman on the ticket. He will be wrong. He could very well die and then what, we have essentially the mayor of a small US city with zero experience to face up to Iran and Russia and solve our dire economic situation at home. The last democrat I voted for was McGovern and I would rather move out of America than have McCain as president.<br><br>Mrs Wyse   August 29th, 2008 1:55 pm ET - Earn your place or be placed to earn!  John McCain picks Sarah Palin in hopes of winning Senator Clinton voters. But once again “out of touch” John McCain unlike Senator Obama doesn’t get it.  Senator Clinton EARNED her place as the first WOMAN to have a successful run for the White House. However, Palin was GIVEN this opportunity to play second. For me being a woman and hearing Palin’s 1st speech trying to pull Clinton voters over to McCain simply because Palin happens to be a woman is an insult, and shows that sexism is being played but Senator Obama isn’t the one playing it. Also, due to the fact that no one knows her I feel was the wrong way to be introduced. Almost a slap in the face.  Lastly, McCain picks Palin because he wants to win.<br>Obama picks Biden because he wants AMERICA to Win.<br>So is Country REALLY FIRST McCain?<br><br>Joan   August 29th, 2008 1:55 pm ET - Alaska drilling is what it’s all about !<br>Seeing that McCain is as old as dirt the GOP have to elect a VP with more experience than Joe Biden (not Sarah Palin), they have to elect a VP ready to be president on day one (not Sarah Palin) and they have to invest 5 billion in Cryogenics for McBush to relieve any tensions their cult followers might have now. Sarah Palin was picked by Oil and Gas Industry that have donated $1,069,854 so far to his campaign. Alaska drilling in the future???<br> <br>Debra   August 29th, 2008 1:56 pm ET - We all love a success story and I think it is great that a soccer mom can be nominated to be the next VP but get real!!!! I think John McCain’s lack judgement in this situation is scary! This woman has a degree in journalism, not business. She “manages” a state with less population than Dayton, OH! As a life long republican and nurse I am already concerned about John McCain’s continued cowboy diplomacy, advanced age, history of cancer and begining stages of dementia and now he does this! At least Obama has been in washington for awhile, has practiced constitutional law and has experience on the National stage. I have more education and corporate experience than this woman! I truly feel that if McCain’s ticket wins we should be very afraid. If something happens to him we will end up with a soccer mom for president. I have just made a big contribution to Obama and will vote Democrat come November for the first time in my life!<br><br>KEVIN   August 29th, 2008 1:56 pm ET - hi Jack, I hope John McCain does not think we are that dumb, to think that he can some how steal Hillary’s people by getting a woman.  Barrack and Joe has everything we need to change this country. And turn Washington upside down. for all the people dems and rep<br><br>Not this time. Yes they can and yes we will change the country, and then the World. <br> <br>Jo   August 29th, 2008 1:56 pm ET - No, I think this is a great pick! The DNC and Obama didn’t go after the womens vote. They messed up. After 34 years of voting Democrat, I am voting for McCain/Palin! I am thrilled they have values that are important to me.<br><br>Heather   August 29th, 2008 1:57 pm ET - He absolutely undercut his own argument by choosing someone even less experienced than Obama. McCain’s age is much more of a source for worry about what his vice president may have to undertake in the future: Palin’s inexperience is thus magnified even further.  (oops on the typo)<br><br>Shawn   August 29th, 2008 1:57 pm ET - You already said it Mr.Cafferty. <br><br>A) She’s no Hillary Clinton!<br>B) She’s no Hillary Clinton!<br>C) McCain can no longer argue experience, which was the only strong card he really had.<br>D) Biden is going to toast her, much worse than Obama will McCain<br><br>The GOP has just signed their notice of defeat in this race. </blockquote>It\'s a good enough sampling of the hundreds of responses to get an idea of the negativity that anonymous commenters/potential voters feel.  No matter how corporate media and the repugs try to spin it, it\'s a bad move.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1921861" class="dsq-comment-message">And y\'all thought hell was going to freeze over because Pat Buchanan threw out a few phrases of praise for Obama.<br><br>According to this comment, that love fest didn\'t last long, once he hooked back up with Mrs. Greenspan, Royal Hater of Anything Obama.  I spit on <i>anything</i> she says because she\'s biased and she can\'t hide it.  Plus, her hubby royally fu---ked up the economy and left a moron that continues to do so.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1919246" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL! It gets even better by the minute.  From Andrew Sullivan:<br><br><b>Palin Appointed a Sexual Harraser:</b><br><br><a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/08/palin-appointed.html" rel="nofollow">http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily...</a><br><br><b>Palin liked Obama\'s Energy Plan... 24 days ago </b><br><br><a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/08/palin-liked-oba.html" rel="nofollow">http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1919580" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes, and here\'s a post from Daily Kos:<blockquote>If my dad\'s reaction is any indication then we are in good shape! My dad is a lifelong independent, mostly voted republican, and while living in MA refused to vote for Romney (HATED him) - as of yesterday said he would "wait until the debates to decide who to vote for." He lives in FL now. He just called me on his way home from work - FURIOUS! Ranting about the Palin pick. His exact words:<br><br><b>I have never seen someone work so hard to mess up a campaign. How anyone can see this as anything other than pandering is beyond me. This was a HUGE mistake! The woman has NO experience! McCain is 72!! I don\'t like Romney and even I know he should have picked him. This woman will have nothing to say in response to Biden!</b> <br><br>He was really angry! <b>by negev79</b></blockquote></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1919669" class="dsq-comment-message">Yep.  <br><br>And like the other article you pointed to indicates - that type of voter will be deciding between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin.  <br><br>I think the Biden/Palin debates will be great - but not greater than Obama/McCain debates :)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1919434" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href=*http://caffertyfile.blogs.cnn.com/* rel="nofollow">Cafferty Files</a><blockquote><b>All we have heard from John McCain for months is, “Barack Obama is too young. Barack Obama is too inexperienced to be commander-in-chief. Who do you want answering the phone in the White House at three a.m.? Blah, blah, blah.”<br><br>So what does McCain do? He picks someone to be his running mate who is even younger than Barack Obama and has less experience.<br><br>Sara Palin is 44 – Obama is 47. Sara Palin is in her first term as governor of Alaska, a state that has 13 people and some caribou. Obama is a member of the United States Senate from Illinois.<br><br>It’s not a big deal, except for this: If McCain wins, he will be the oldest person ever inaugurated for a first term at 72. He has a history of health problems that include bouts of melanoma, a potentially deadly form of skin cancer. It is reasonable to consider that McCain’s running mate could be called upon to be our president.<br><br>Meanwhile, some may see this as a move for McCain to attract disaffected women who voted for Hillary Clinton and aren’t yet behind Obama. But that might not work for a few reasons: Palin, like McCain, is pro-life. Also, she might be a woman, but she’s no Hillary Clinton – when it comes to her experience or her ideology.<br><br>At some point, voters will have to ask themselves who they would want running the country if it ever became necessary: Joe Biden or Sarah Palin.</b></blockquote></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1919482" class="dsq-comment-message">99% Sure:   THANKS!!!   I like Cafferty when he\'s in this form!!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)  <br><br>His last statement:   What else can we say!!!    :&gt;)     :&gt;)  :&gt;)  ON POINT!!!!    :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1919712" class="dsq-comment-message">I feel like someone just slapped me in the face with this...Is Mcain delusional..oh wait he might be. Ok that was not right but does he really think by doing this women will jump on the band wagon??? Biden better go after her with fire!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1919959" class="dsq-comment-message">Palin is not merely pro-life, she has said she would outlaw abortion in all cases, including rape and incest.<br><br>She is imminently unqualified to lead this country.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1920383" class="dsq-comment-message">The term pro-life is a misnomer, isn\'t it?  Pro-life could mean you don\'t kill insects, couldn\'t it?  I really think, as a strategic plan, the Dems ought to start calling them anti-choice because, in the end, that is what they are.  No one\'s pro-abortion, most are pro-choice, and most pro-choice folk are pro-life in the strictest definition of the term.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1919565" class="dsq-comment-message">what is bugging me is that the speech deserves respect and admiration. i just listened to one hour npr radio. a.k.a big brother for intellectuals. no mention of the speech. just talk about this strange v.p. choice. now she is news and it certainly is a curious gimmick but....the speech was not a gimmick. it was something truly historic. 38 friggin million people watched and we are all chasing anecdotes about some person whose name is totally new to us. the speech is not 24 hours old yet. how about some respect...oh i am talking about the american news media. my bad! then again obama spoke directly to the people in real time and reminded them why he was the nominee. and that is beyond the pundit\'s control.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1919931" class="dsq-comment-message">He got all that last night.  Didn\'t you know that corporate media lunkheads are a fickle, flighty bunch? Plus, they still haven\'t dealt with the fact that the all-white Old Boys Broadcast Journalist\'s Club is going to have to refer to Barack as "President Obama."  These kinds of white people just ain\'t used to being led by a strong black man.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1919691">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1919691" class="dsq-comment-message">Chris Matthews also asked -- McCain is 72 if something were to happen to him, could she lead especially when she has no interest in foreign policy?<br><br>Buchanan couldn\'t answer so he changed the topic to say she is a mother of 5 and repubs will love her.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1919899">parker404</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1919899" class="dsq-comment-message">That seems to be the standard meme.  Congressman Eric Cantor (R-VA) just responded identically to the same question from Wolf Blitzer.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1919910" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1919910" class="dsq-comment-message">Actually, <b>Val</b>, what he said was that "she is a mother of 5, the last one with Down\'s Syndrome, and she\'s a former beauty queen."<br><br>Eh hee!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1919994">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1919994" class="dsq-comment-message">lololololol  I stand corrected.  I forgot about the beauty queen comment.  Which makes it even worse.  LOL</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1919797">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1919797" class="dsq-comment-message">Republican Vice Presidential Nominee Sarah Palin and U.S. Foreign Policy<br><br><br>Presumed Republican presidential nominee John McCain (R-AZ) has chosen Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running mate. So where does Palin stand on foreign policy? You tell me! <br>According to On The Issues, she has no on-the-record foreign policy stances. However, as governor of an oil rich state in an environmentally sensitive area, she has had to tackle global climate change and energy security issues. Foreign Policy Passport says, "Palin brings energy to ticket, but lacks foreign policy cred." <br><br><a href="http://usforeignpolicy.about.com/b/2008/08/29/republican-vice-presidential-nominee-sarah-palin-and-us-foreign-policy.htm" rel="nofollow">http://usforeignpolicy.about.com/b/2008/08/29/r...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1919844">Admiral_Komack</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1919844" class="dsq-comment-message">Good Cop/Bad Kopp? The Palin Train Wreck Continues.<br><br><a href="http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/07/25/good-copbad-kopp-the-palin-train-wreck-continues/" rel="nofollow">http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/07/25/good-c...</a><br><br>"The scene today features the Governor (again) and also the man slated to replace (Good Cop) Walt Monegan as Commissioner of Public Safety - Chuck Kopp.  It seems that Chuck Kopp has a skeleton in his closet in the form of a sexual harrassment complaint filed against him when he was Chief of Police in Kenai.  Despite his little gem of a quote, “I am not a sex harrasser”, what Kopp describes as “hugging a friend”, was apparently not interpreted as such by the woman on the receiving end.  She complained of unwanted hugging and a kiss, and the result was an investigation, an official letter of reprimand, and Kopp being removed as her boss.  One wonders in this day and age, how anyone doesn’t know that it’s not OK to hug or kiss people who work for you.  But I digress…"<br><br>"So, the people of Alaska asked themselves, “How could this be?  How could a man be offered up to the state to lead the Department of Public Safety, and deal with matters of….well….the LAW, and have this nasty accusation, investigation, letter of reprimand, and reassignment hanging over his head?  And this guy is supposed to replace the likes of Walt Monegan?  What was the Governor thinking?”<br><br>"We hear the answer today from Palin spokeswoman Sharon Leighow.  Here’s how it plays out in my screenplay:"<br><br>"Leighow: The Governor didn’t know."<br><br>"Chuck Kopp:  Yes, she did know.  She knew about the whole thing in 2006 when I was on her transition team."<br><br>"Leighow:  Well, she didn’t know about the letter.  She knew about the other stuff but thought it went nowhere.  Nothing was said about a letter.  The Governor found out about it at the press conference on Tuesday, just like everyone else."<br><br>"Chuck Kopp:  Well, no one ASKED me about the letter.  It just never came up in the interview. So, I didn’t mention it."<br><br>"HUH?  Sooo…..no one bothered to ASK him, and he never offered.  When hiring people, doesn’t one generally ask about such things?  Don’t you do a background check?  Don’t you want to know if you’re going to have egg on your face, and risk public humiliation and scandal?  If the media managed to pry it out of him using the strongarm tactic of…asking…wouldn’t it have worked for the Governor?   The mind reels."<br><br>"Back to Kopp. According to the ADN:"<br><br>"He does not consider the letter of reprimand a validation of sexual harassment. He considers it a “letter of instruction” for future dealings with employees.”<br><br>"He does not consider the letter of reprimand a validation of sexual harassment. He considers it a “letter of instruction”???   Yeah, and Walt Monegan wasn’t “fired”, he was just offered a lesser position and turned it down.  And it’s not really a rainy summer….there’s just a lot of water falling from the sky."</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1919970">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1919970" class="dsq-comment-message">Palin - quote "I haven\'t focused much on the war in Iraq because haven\'t paid much attention to it."  <br><br>on Hardball Chris Matthews</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1920146">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1920146" class="dsq-comment-message">Why the hell is that PUMA nut on Hardball as if that organization has any credibility?? What the hell? Why is that fool sitting up there on a panel with Michelle Bernard? That\'s an insult to Michelle to be sitting there with that tin-foil hat nut.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1922115" href="http://blacksnob.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">The_Black_Snob</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1922115" class="dsq-comment-message">And she had that same, frozen, cave woman face the whole time. And the white headband? Oy!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1923523">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1923523" class="dsq-comment-message">YES!! Was she on drugs? Should she be??</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1920441">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1920441" class="dsq-comment-message">My God....Jon Stewart has probably gone into cardiac arrest from the laughter.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1920011">TRW</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1920011" class="dsq-comment-message">The more I think about this, the angrier I get.  Obama made a VP choice based on the best person for the job--someone he could work with, and who had broad based experience in different areas.<br><br>No disrespect to Palin, but McCain chose her for gamemanship.  If Obama pulled this BS people would be slamming him for politicking instead of thinking about what is best for this country, --country first.   But somehow, in some conservatives\' minds, McCain deserves a pat on the back for his decision.   <br><br>Not just that, he, Palin, and other Repubs have the nerve to use Hillary Clinton as a symbol in a way that is insulting to women everywhere---its basically, the any uterus will do ploy.  <br><br>Honestly, I had my doubts about both Obama and McCain leading the country.  I really didn\'t know what to expect from either once they got into office.    But today, Obama clearly demonstrated that he has better judgment then McCain and would be a far better president.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1920604">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1920604" class="dsq-comment-message">Wait .. . here is more TRW Chris Matthews asked Buchanan what did she have to do to win the debates against Biden and Buchanan said - all she has to do is show up because there are no expectations.  Also others are saying that Biden has to be careful when debating Palin because she doesn\'t know much.  Repubs are saying that Biden doesn\'t want to come off as being too condencending by being too knowledgeable.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1920746">parker404</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1920746" class="dsq-comment-message">Talk about affirmative action tokenism.  Not only she is unqualified to be President, the standards are to be lowered for her to make her feel comfortable.  GWB was right about the curse of low expectations.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1920894">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1920894" class="dsq-comment-message">ITA. The MSM knows damn well that this pick is affirmative action on steroids, but they\'re letting McCain slide! And to think how the MSM allowed the Republicans to paint Obama as an affirmative action candidate. <br><br>This proves that white women really do benefit the most from affirmative action.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1920783">TRW</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1920783" class="dsq-comment-message">See, this is the kind of bullshit that I am talking about.  I have zero respect for people pushing this argument.  None.  There is no way, no how that they would let Obama get away with that but they are going to shrug it off for her because she is a woman?!?!?<br><br>Yeah right.  Some of these Repubs have been screaming to the high heavens that Obama is the affirmative action candidate---tell me in what world would they let him get away with her statement about Iraq, the vice presidency, and her ethical investigation if she were a Democrat?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1921258">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1921258" class="dsq-comment-message">So Biden has to "dumb" down because if he\'s too knowledgable, it looks bad?? Wow.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1920097" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1920097" class="dsq-comment-message">Most Conservatives (except "s" I guess LOL) are not impressed:<br><br><a href="http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MWY0YmM3N2JhMTVkYmI0ZjU0OTBiYTY3NmUyMjgxNTc=" rel="nofollow">http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MWY0Ym...</a><br><br><b>Inexperience. </b> Palin has been governor for about two minutes. Thanks to McCain’s decision, Palin could be commander-in-chief next year. That may strike people as a reckless choice; it strikes me that way. And McCain\'s age raised the stakes on this issue.<br><br>As a political matter, it undercuts the case against Obama. Conservatives are pointing out that it is tricky for the Obama campaign to raise the issue of her inexperience given his own, and note that the presidency matters more than the vice-presidency. But that gets things backward. To the extent the experience, qualifications, and national-security arguments are taken off the table, Obama wins.<br><br>And it’s not just foreign policy. Palin has no experience dealing with national domestic issues, either. (On the other hand, as Kate O’Beirne just told me, we know that Palin will be ready for that 3 a.m. phone call: She’ll already be up with her baby.) <br><b>Tokenism.</b> Can anyone say with a straight face that Palin would have gotten picked if she were a man?<br><br><b>Compatibility.</b> It doesn’t seem as though McCain knows Palin well. Do we have much reason to think they would work well together? <br><br><b>Debates.</b> Maybe, as Jonah said the other day, Biden will look like a bully going up against her—and maybe she’ll shine. But I can think of a lot of other picks who would have been lower-risk.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1920141">BlackButterfly</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1920141" class="dsq-comment-message">McCain professes to have the right judgement...what a joke!  He has chosen a VP candidate based on classic Republicans manipulation tactics.  This was a completely calculated choice that is meant to underestimate the American public\'s intelligence(don\'t fall for it).  A woman as VP great...but weren\'t there choices that could have been SELECTED (because the VP is a selected not elected position) that would not have screamed slimy opportunistic politics sooooo loudly???  It is completely irresponsible and absolutely patronizing to the America public for McCain to choose someone based on a game of rock, scissors, paper!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1920387">Agett12</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1920387" class="dsq-comment-message">This is the case of time will tell. Who will break under the pressure of national debate and heightened scrutiny. Who will gaffe the worst. So lets sit back relax and enjoy the show.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1920494">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1920494" class="dsq-comment-message">Hillary comments on VP choice:<br><br><b>"We should all be proud of Governor Sarah Palin\'s historic nomination, and I congratulate her and Senator McCain. While their policies would take America in the wrong direction, Governor Palin will add an important new voice to the debate.”</b><br><br>I\'m gonna hold off on jumping to criticize her. Maybe she\'s laying low?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1920525">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1920525" class="dsq-comment-message">Jack Cafferty is ON FIRE<br><br>"this is a JOKE"<br><br>lol</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1920570">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1920570" class="dsq-comment-message">The way Pat Buchanan is going on and on about Palin, you\'d think he took an extra dose of viagra.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1920634">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1920634" class="dsq-comment-message">of course.  He said she has 5 kids and she doesn\'t need to know anything about running becoming because McCain knows everything.  <br><br>Bucanan said Palin is the "princess of the right".</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1920645">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1920645" class="dsq-comment-message">Sorry - multitasking.  lol<br><br>I meant -- of course. He said she has 5 kids and she doesn\'t need to know anything about running the country because McCain knows everything. <br><br>Buchanan said Palin is the "princess of the right".</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1922288">Texas_Girl_in_LA</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1922288" class="dsq-comment-message">She supported his 2000 Presidential race, <a href=http://www.thenation.com/blogs/jstreet/350730 rel="nofollow">they are buddies</a href></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1921036">leah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1921036" class="dsq-comment-message">HERE IS THE DEAL.   THIS WOMAN HAS MORE EXECUTIVE EXPERIENCE THAT<br>ANYONE ON EITHER TICKET.   MAYOR AND GOVERNOR.  SHE HAS BEEN GOVERNOR AS LONG AS OBAMA HAS BEEN SENATOR. LONGER ACTUALLY,<br>SHE STOPPED CAMPAIGNING AFTER SHE WAS ELECTED.<br><br>OBAMA WAS WRONG NOT TO GIVE HILARY THE NOD.  HE COULD HAVE<br>MADE BILL THE SECRETARY OF STATE AND KEPT HIM PERPETUALLY OUT OF THE COUNTRY.  INSTEAD, HE HAS TO BITE HIS NAILS HOPING THAT THE  HILL<br>RAISERS WONT VOTE FOR MCCAIN OR JUST STAY HOME.<br><br>THIS AINT A DONE DEAL- FOLKS. EVEN IF YOU HAVE WON - SOME PEOPLE STILL DONT GET TO BE PRESIDENT.  ASK AL GORE.<br><br>SO , BE SMART AND STOP THE CHEAP SHOTS AT ALASKA, SMALL TOWNS AND PRETTY WOMEN.   HELL HATH NO FURY LIKE A WOMAN SCORNED.  IN THIS CASE<br>9 MILLION OF THEM.    <br><br>DONT BELIEVE THE PUNDITS WHEN THEY SAY THAT ABORTION IS A KEY ISSUE FOR THE HILL RAISERS,   IT  IS NOT.   THEY WANTED HILLARY AND THEY WANT REVENGE.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1921370">TRW</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1921370" class="dsq-comment-message">No disrespect, but please give me an effing break.  I recognize that she was a mayor and has been a governor for 20 months.  But if we are going to take it there, then lets go.<br><br>Bush has a Master\'s degree in Business Administration from Harvard and was the governor of the biggest state in the continental US.  He was supposed to be the "safe pick" for many because of this supposed "experience" and we see what happened with him as president.  <br><br>And if you want to talk about executive experience, then you might as well give another two points to Obama for running one of the biggest campaigns in history for the past 18 months.  <br><br>And Obama was not wrong for not giving Hillary the VP nod.  a) She did not want to be VP, she wanted to be President.  If she wanted to be VP she would have dropped out and improved her chances when it was clear that she couldn\'t win; b) Once those Penn memos came out it was done---while everybody has been kow towing to the PUMA faction of Hillary supporters, Obama would have lost significant support among his base for not standing up to the Clintons; c) I don\'t care what anybody says--don\'t sit there and try to tell me that Bill Clinton wouldn\'t be trying to muscle in on the process to reclaim his legacy.  It would have been a mess and it would have cast a shadow on Obama\'s presidency.  <br><br>I have nothing against Alaska, small towns, or the fact that she is attractive.  What I do have a problem with is the cynicism and condescension of the McCain campaign with this pick and his explanations for this pick, and all those Obama critics that were slamming him just yesterday, but are quick to jump to this woman\'s defense.  <br><br>I\'m sure that she will appeal to conservative women, and more power to her for it, but she is a poor man\'s Hillary, and anybody who tries to argue otherwise is kidding themselves.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1921564">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1921564" class="dsq-comment-message">She was a mayor of a town with less than 9000 people whose responsibility will be to -- inquire about the health of the President.  <br><br>What is McCain Thinking? One Alaskan’s Perspective.<br><a href="http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/what-is-mccain-thinking-one-alaskans-perspective/" rel="nofollow">http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/what-i...</a></div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1922507" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1922507" class="dsq-comment-message">So now its who has executive experience...okay so McCain is out. He is has no experience.<br><br>That is bullshit.<br><br>Obama\'s district when he was in the Illinois State Senate was larger than the population of the small town she was mayor of in Alaska. Illinois is a large state with a diverse population that represents the diversity of the U.S. He is a senator in the United States senate. Please...please...please. She is the governor of Alaska...give me a break. <br><br>It is obvious why she was picked and all the the arguments that the GOP just loved to bring up to use against Obama is now off the table:<br><br>1. The experience argument<br>2. Their nonsensical and rabidly racist rants about the "affirmative action" candidate.<br>3. The idea of voting based on identity politics that they thought was so wrong. It is obvious that she was chosen to try and upstage Barack Obama\'s historic ascendency and to reel in disgruntled Clinton supporters. <br><br>etc...etc...etc...<br><br>The hypocrisy coming out of the GOP and others who do not support Obama is sinful at this point.<br><br>I love how people are so dismissive towards Obama but are willing to magnify every slither of perceived accomplishment  of this governor that McCain met like once.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1924697" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1924697" class="dsq-comment-message">Because yelling via ALL CAPS makes your point more loudly - NOT!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1930465">Admiral_Komack</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1930465" class="dsq-comment-message">Obama is inexperienced!<br>-Right...nothing screams "experience" like being the mayor of a town with 9,000 people...but she eats mooseburgers...now THAT\'s change you can believe in!<br><br>Obama is the affirmative action candidate!<br>-So Palin gets picked \'cause she\'s just slopping over with years and years of experience...uh, she\'s a former beauty queen...allrighty, then!<br><br>Obama is a celebrity!<br>-Did I mention Sarah Palin is a fomer beauty queen?<br><br>Hey, now!<br><br>At least the PUMA\'s are happy!<br><br>And that is what counts!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1921292">Monika</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1921292" class="dsq-comment-message">Question:<br>If you weren\'t going to vote for McCain anyway, why do you care that Palin is his choice? Why even waste time and energy thinking about her? Why be insulted?<br><br>Or do you think there is some political value in him running with this wife, mother, and governor?<br><br>She actually has a child going to Iraq and he is a veteran who was a POW, how can you not look like a jerk to uncommitted voters when confronting them on Iraq and Afghanistan.<br><br>She was the mayor of a small town, not unlike the towns whose residents were offended by Obama\'s comments.<br><br>As a working mom, with 3 kids in school and a newborn, she more in common with typical American women (regardless of color) than most politicians in DC.  If you are saying that she can\'t be VP, are you suggesting that similarly situated women shouldn\'t be in executive roles.  Are you suggesting that women should be menopausal or asexual in order to seriously considered for leadership roles?  <br><br>I dare you to say yes.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1921525">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1921525" class="dsq-comment-message">So, according to you, we shouldn\'t question the choice of a woman who could end up running this country that WE live in? <br><br>As the Vice President of the United States, there\'s the possibility that you may have to take over as the President should the need arise, and that is a position that has a profound affect on my life and the lives of the ones I love, so ya damn right I\'m gonna question Palin and ANY person that wants the V.P. spot. PERIOD. <br><br>Furthermore, no she doesn\'t have more in common with the typical American woman. The typical American woman isn\'t a Governor of a state.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1921798">TRW</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1921798" class="dsq-comment-message">Wait what?  Is this the game we are playing now?  For voters who are not leaning towards McCain we can\'t question his decisionmaking and judgment?  How does that even make sense?  This is an election.  No one knows what is going to happen. Having a debate about these issues is what politics is all about.  <br><br>And sorry, If I understand your argument, the fact that she has a son that is going to Iraq and McCain is a POW from Vietnam is a shield for criticizing the both of them on Iraq and Afghanistan?!?  Are you freakin\' kidding me?!?  We are at WAR.  My friend is over there.  People are dying.  We are pumping billions of tax dollars into both countries each month. That argument makes absolutely no sense, and anybody who subscribes to it should stay at home on election day.  Based on your own logic neither McCain or Palin can challenge Biden on Iraq/Afghanistan since his son is headed to Iraq in October, and he served in Vietnam as well.  <br><br>In general, I do think it has some political value for McCain, but for some at least, it also makes him look desperate and phony.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1921996" class="dsq-comment-message">TRW:  Soooo, there are 2 "cards" to be played???<br><br>1.   The "Because I was a P.O.W. Card"<br><br>2.   The "My son is going to Iraq" Card"<br><br>Well, let me play the "If Shrub had NOT gotten us into the Iraq War, nobody would have to be there CARD"!   TRUMP"!   [As she SLAMS the TABLE with the CARD!!! ]   :&gt;)<br><br>Whew!   Card Playing Deep Breaths!!!!    :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1921343">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1921343" class="dsq-comment-message">yes.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1921376">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1921376" class="dsq-comment-message">Now that the "dares" are out of the way...by Sarah Palin\'s own admission she shouldn\'t be considered for the VP role, because she doesn\'t know what the VP\'s role actually IS.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1921427">JJai</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1921427" class="dsq-comment-message">on this video linked she said it was an "impossibility" that she would be tapped for the role by McCain this past Friday<br><br><a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0808/Palin_in_February_National_ticket_impossibility_this_cycle.html?showall" rel="nofollow">http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/08...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1921553">Monika</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1921553" class="dsq-comment-message">Maybe it\'s me but what I take from this interview is that she was interested in the national stage.  I think she said it was an "impossibility" because she had only recently entered the national stage.  <br><br>I guess given the opportunity she decided to take advantage of it.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1921448">Monika</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1921448" class="dsq-comment-message">Well then, YOU stay at home and wait for your husband to provide for you.  YOU wait for some man to give you validation. <br><br>Some of us will be achieving goals in our careers, marrying like minded partners, having great sex and making babies all while watching you dry like a raisin in the sun.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1921648">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1921648" class="dsq-comment-message">Could you possibly stay on your OWN topic? Going off on some mid 70s ERA rant does not mean Sarah Palin should be Vice President anymore than it means Pamela Anderson is ready to be president of the Screen Actors Guild.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1924678" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1924678" class="dsq-comment-message">Eh hee!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1922293">marvy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1922293" class="dsq-comment-message">She\'s an impressive woman in many rights and may well be a great mother, but that does not qualify her for national office. Joe Biden also has a son who is headed off to Iraq, not that I think that should be some kind of litmus test for running for office. I have no intention of voting for McCain but he is clearly going after disaffected female voters with this choice and it shows him for being the clear political opportuist that he\'s accused Obama of being. There were other female Republicans who were better qualified to be VP but some reason he picked a 44-year old former beauty queen and self described "Hockey Mom." Something in the milk is not clean. lol ( forgive me JJP folks for that Khaia reference - I couldn\'t help it.)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1921506">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1921506" class="dsq-comment-message">What is McCain Thinking? One Alaskan’s Perspective.<br><br><a href="http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/what-is-mccain-thinking-one-alaskans-perspective/" rel="nofollow">http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/what-i...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1921566">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1921566" class="dsq-comment-message">Interesting comment on one of the blogs at Obama\'s website:<br><br><i>Re: THIS IS A JOKE!!!!  |  Report to Admin<br>Reply<br>By Shari Dodge 55 minutes ago (Updated 55 minutes ago)<br>Hello....I thought I would inform everyone who knows nothing about Alaska......I was born and raised in Alaska and my 3 daughters were born and raised there....I am a Native American/lived in Ketchikan/3rd largest city in Alaska just south of the state capitol/an island girl..Alaska has a population of 700,000 and has No State Tax...why..All of the state is funded by the perm/fund...and nobody pays taxes...in fact every year, every person recieves a perm/fund check of on average of $1000.00.So she has no budget to balance...just endless money to spend...and a surplus every year...Where does this money come from...OIL!!!! The Alaska pipeline was built in the 70s..my bothers help build it...and they oblished state taxes after the billions it profided for the state...So now you not only have a Oil Man running...You have a Oil woman....don\'t think that she is going to bite the hand that feeds her....SHE WILL SUPPORT THE OIL COMPANY\'S!!!!I now live in the lower 48...however I know Alaska..my home state.....It does not take any experince to becaome anything or anybody you want in Alaska....MOST people have a high school degrees only and do on the job training to work...Alaska has the highest paid teachers in all 50 states....why? they can afford it...they build the best and most expencive schools in the country...same reason...endless oil money...My youngest daughter who is a senior in college has the experience to become the Governor of Alaska in Alaska standards....but that dosn\'t mean she is QUALIFIDE!!!!!!Trust me on that one....check out some of the people in Alaska who have made it to office...their qualifications would not even get them a job working as a head of a garbage company.....the reason for this is....Alaska has a ratio of 10 men for every woman...and people who move to Alaska from ANTWHERE else in the world leave because of the harsh weather conditions....if you wern\'t born and raised there you usually won\'t stay!!!....so that leaves slim pickens...you know what I mean...Alaska is THE OIL STATE...relying completly on it\'s oil for survival....So when you hear this Governor talk about tax savings...she can only be meaning taxes on your house or local taxes//and this new natural gas pipeline has been in the woeks for over 10 years/she\'s been in office 16 months..SHE IS NO WHERE NEAR HILLARY CLINTON...and she does not support womens rights...I would be ashamed to be HER!!!!!Thanks for your time...GET TO WORK!!! </i></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1921579">pjamma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1921579" class="dsq-comment-message">Are there take-backs in VP nominations?  Is it too late for him to say "kidding"?  Because she really is a bad choice.  The media s going to eat her alive.  Heck, they seem to be having a hard time trying to find people who think this is a good idea.  <br><br>Wow way to blow it McCain.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1921719">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1921719" class="dsq-comment-message">He made this decision at 3am - he had too. Its more proof of why he doesnt need to be in charge of a damn thing. The more that comes out, the worst it is. They\'re just GIVING material to Olbermann now. Every single contributor to the Huffington Post is fighting to get a piece up....the republican surrogates are looking stupid because they don\'t even know what to say other than "Good pick!!" "She\'s change!!"<br><br>My God, the writers for Leno, Letterman, SNL, The Daily Show, the Colbert Report, Jimmy Kimmel...  they are in overdrive right now. We\'re about to revisit the Dan Quayle years...but too bad for the GOP, Barack Obama is NOT Michael Dukakis.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1922308">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1922308" class="dsq-comment-message">No takesy-backsy\'s!!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1922376">Texas_Girl_in_LA</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1922376" class="dsq-comment-message">Miranda, <br><br>You are my comedy fix everyday. You and "Town"</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1922475">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1922475" class="dsq-comment-message">This political season has seriously made me consider a career in stand-up....so much material...hell, just on the stuff s provides everyday on this site alone, jokes on top of jokes from those comments.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1923665">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1923665" class="dsq-comment-message">lololololololol<br><br><br>I bet they will try to do it.  hahaha</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1921770">Grace</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1921770" class="dsq-comment-message">Hillary is not laying low! Not Hillary Clinton. Hillary is saying to  herself and of course to  Bill and her daughter, TOLD YA, He should have picked me! Yep!!!!! <br><br>Some of these comments about Mc Cains pick is rather funny because you were saying the same thing, when people were critizing Obama.  This is politics and Obama has played some games too, no different then Mc Cain. If you believe in Obama, then stand your ground. No need to worry yourselves over the latest bombshell. Its politics.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1922294">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1922294" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1922294" class="dsq-comment-message">Trust me, no one is worried about Obama....he has rewritten the rules of the game, that\'s why McCain made this bizarro world pick, because its a whole new game and he can\'t play it. What\'s bothering people is the blatant disrespect. This is just insulting to anyone with an IQ above 50. Why must the political process continue to be demeaned with such foolishness? I\'m embarrassed as a citizen of this country.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1921776">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1921776" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1921776" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1921776">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1921776" class="dsq-comment-message">For Alaskans of Palin\'s generation (she\'s 44), the last few years have been a political coming of age. Younger candidates have smashed the state\'s company-town politics. Palin was among the first to take a stand. Having been in the right place at the right time, with that amazing smile, she shot upward in a way no one has ever done before.<br><br>The idea of her being a potential president, however, is laughable. That is to say, at our house this morning, we literally were belly-laughing when we heard the news that John McCain had chosen her. I wouldn\'t be surprised if the audience she spoke to at McCain\'s announcement was the largest she ever addressed. Alaska politicians don\'t use teleprompters. There rarely is an opportunity to orate to more than a hundred people. <br><br>Running for governor two years ago, Palin didn\'t have firm stands on issues, and in debates, she displayed discomfiting shallowness. A moderator had to ask her three times to clarify her position on the critical (for us) issue of indigenous hunting rights. Her victory was simply a vote for change.<br><br><br><a href="http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/08/29/dispatch-from-alaska-palin-really.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archiv...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1921894" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1921894" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1921894">Val</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1921894" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1921894" class="dsq-comment-message">29.08.2008<br><br>Palin Fun Facts! <br><br>Since everyone south of Juneau seems to be relying on their trusty Nexis accounts for more information on the surprise Republican vice-presidential candidate, I\'ll do the same. A brief sampling of her pre-gubernatorial career:<br><br>-Forbesmania!  Palin was an Alaska  cochair of Steve Forbes\' 2000 presidential campaign.<br><br>-Float for change! Palin\'s float won first prize in the political category at the 1999 Alaska State Fair.   <br><br>-Gay marriage, no; Wal-Mart marriage, yes! As mayor of Wasilla, Palin once presided over a wedding in a Wal-Mart.<br><br>-A cessna in every garage! Mayor Palin successfully eliminated her city\'s tax on boats, planes, and snowmobiles.<br><br>-No Juneau! Palin pushed to move the seat of Alaska\'s legislature to greater Anchorage.<br><br>-She can run, but can she ever run! Palin finished 119th in the 1995 Alaska Run for Women 8k, finishing in 37:55. The same year, she finished sixth in the Father\'s Day Fun Run, at 25:34. And in 1996, she finished second in the Iditarod Days 10k footrace, at 45:32.<br><br>-Ivanarama! And as this brilliant April 3, 1996 piece from the Anchorage Daily News makes clear, Palin also doesn\'t share her running mate\'s recent disdain for celebrities:<br><br>Sarah Palin, a commercial fisherman from Wasilla, told her husband on Tuesday she was driving to Anchorage to shop at Costco. Instead, she headed straight for Ivana.<br>And there, at J.C. Penney\'s cosmetic department, was Ivana, the former Mrs. Donald Trump, sitting at a table next to a photograph of herself. She wore a light-colored pantsuit and pink fingernail polish. Her blonde hair was coiffed in a bouffant French twist.<br><br>\'\'We want to see Ivana,\'\' said Palin, who admittedly smells like salmon for a large part of the summer, \'\'because we are so desperate in Alaska for any semblance of glamour and culture.\'\'<br>Ivana Trump, the former Czechoslovakian Olympic skier who found fame and wealth as the wife of the New York tycoon, came to Anchorage Tuesday to push her line of perfume. <br><br>-Michael Schaffer</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1921905" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1921905">Jay</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1921905" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1921905" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">Found a blog from an Alaskan, pretty much states she did try to abuse her power on getting an in-law fired.</a></div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1922146">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1922146" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1922146" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1922146">Val</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1922146" class="dsq-comment-message">Romney, Pawlenty: McCain Used Us!<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/29/romney-pawlenty-mccain-us_n_122498.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/29/romney...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1922325" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1922325" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1922325">Val</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1922325" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1922325" class="dsq-comment-message">LOVING IT FOLKS.  Please read.<br><br>The Worst Vice-Presidential Nominee in U.S. History<br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-j-elisberg/the-worst-vice-presidenti_b_122491.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-j-elisberg...</a></div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1922378">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1922378" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1922378" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1922378">Val</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1922378" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1922378" class="dsq-comment-message">You have to watch MSNBC Decision 2008.  I am LOVVVVVVIIIINNNGGGG it.  They (I forgot the name of the commentator) but they were talking about the investigation that is currently going on with Palin, talking about her "cover up" while stating she hasn\'t been accused of anything.  Asking why whe lied about her role in having the police chief fired, asking why she squandered a speech talking about moose stew and why she said she was against the bridge to nowhere when she said in 2006 she was for it.  <br><br>She is being SLAUGHTERED.  And the McCain surrogate is stuttering  . . . poor woman.  She doesn\'t know what to do or say.  LOLOL  This is hysterical.  BHWAAAAHHHHAAAAAA</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1922423" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1922423" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1922423">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1922423" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1922423" class="dsq-comment-message">That\'s David Shuster...LOL...the media is just gonna eat this woman alive. Its really a shame, I cant believe she is being sacrificed like this. It wouldn\'t surprise me if after the convention they pretend like she has to drop out and throw Mitt Romney out there. They\'re so darn crazy, they might try it.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1923298">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1923298" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1923298" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1923298">Val</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1923298" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1923298" class="dsq-comment-message">Miranda -- I said the same thing. LOLOL I gave it until next Wednesday.  Would make her say -- emergency in the family or something.  lolol</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1925755" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1925755" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1925755" href="http://www.myspace.com/rileymayhem20" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Jibreel Riley</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1925755" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1925755" class="dsq-comment-message">You liberals got Tweaked hard today! This pic was not about: you or Hillary Supporters. It was about us Republicans and the future of the GOP. Tonight the three main factions of the GOP went to be happy. You guys are not republican so you wouldn\'t get it however someone needs to put moose on the white house menu asap!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1940430" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1940430" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1940430" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1940430" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1940430" class="dsq-comment-message">Jibreel, I see you didn\'t get enough cans of whip-ass poured on you over at the Field Negro\'s blog, so you decided to come here.<br><br>You must be addicted to whip-ass, huh?  Well, you came to the right place for it.</div>\
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