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Trust me, Fox played the clips of him saying \"God....Damned America\" and not in the context set forth by Sean Klannity.<br><br>I still say if Obama challenged Klannity to attend services at Trinity, he could have cleared up this mess and backed Klannity into a corner with no way out except to admit he was wrong about both Jeremiah Wright and Barack Obama.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_13:58:54", "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": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3860915, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3865097": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Texas_Girl:  NICE POST!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)  I use ta work with AQMD agents as a school administrator.  :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_13:59:05", "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": 3863179, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3853837": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Michelle Obama and \"just a mom\" <br><br><a href=\"http://alaskareal.blogspot.com/2008/11/michelle-obama-and-just-mom.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://alaskareal.blogspot.com/2008/11/michelle...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_01:09:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 28, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3860507": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I'd say \"some,\" but not \"many.\"<br><br>I think that the problem is (and this consistently gets me in trouble) that some (again, not all) of Obama's staunchest supporters find it easier to throw the \"racist!!\" flag than to actually discuss how a detractor came to a certain conclusion, or to just laugh at a joke. Throw that label around enough, and eventually people will be scared to challenge you.<br><br>People were called racist over the Rev. Wright flap (I was one of them, and I'm <i>still</i> trying to figure out how that works). And how many people thought the <i>New Yorker</i> cover was racist when it first came out?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_10:01:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 17, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3860365, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3865120": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Town, they buried any clips of Robertson or Falwell blaming gays for 9/11, until their own church members told them they went too far with that shyt.<br><br>Additionally, you never really hear how Larry Flynt punked Falwell in a court of law and upheld the 1st Amendment, either.<br><br>Call it what it IS - RACISM.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_14:01:16", "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": 3862350, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3865125": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "vulcan girl:    HEY!   :&gt;)           LOL!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_14:01:33", "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": 3862816, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3854388": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:   Mr. President-Elect Obama is very gracious:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/16/obama-sends-thank-you-to_n_144150.html?page=3&show_comment_id=18044057#comment_18044057\" rel=\"nofollow\">OBAMA Sends THANK YOU To People of Illinois</a>   :&gt;)<br><br><i>CHICAGO \u2014 On the day he formally stepped down as Illinois' junior senator, President-elect Barack Obama released an open letter to state residents, saying they had taught him lessons he would draw on during his presidency.<br><br>Obama, whose resignation after nearly four years in the Senate was a formality in the wake of his Nov. 4 election victory, thanked Illinois residents <b>in a nostalgic letter published in Sunday newspapers throughout the state.</b><br><br>\"I will never forget, and will forever be grateful, to the men and women of this great state who made my life in public service possible,\" Obama wrote.<br><br>The education he received in Illinois, he added, has prepared him for the White House job he'll have beginning Jan. 20.<br><br>That schooling began on the South Side of Chicago, where Obama said he saw how factory workers lost hope when their way of life vanished with the closing of steel mills. Obama said he struggled to try and bring neighborhoods back _ one block at a time.<br><br>\"In the process I received the best education I ever had,\" he said.<br><br>Obama said the experience led him to organize a voter registration project, become an attorney and run for the Illinois state senate.<br><br>In Springfield, Obama said, he saw farmers, teachers, businessmen and laborers from urban and rural communities fight to get a seat at the same table.<br><br>\"It was there that I learned to disagree without being disagreeable; to seek compromise while holding fast to those principles that can never be compromised; and to always assume the best in people instead of the worst,\" he wrote.<br><br>Obama said he saw then how the state's residents were both diverse and unified, and how they met problems with a spirit of strength and courage. That spirit made Obama believe America can overcome its many problems, he wrote.<br><br>Obama closed by quoting words spoken by the last president from Illinois nearly 150 years ago. Abraham Lincoln said he owed everything to the people of the state.<br><br>\"Today, I feel the same, and like Lincoln, I ask for your support, your prayers, and for us to 'confidently hope that all will yet be well,'\" Obama wrote.<br><br>    * Barack Obama<br><br>CHICAGO &mdash; On the day he formally stepped down as Illinois' junior senator, President-elect Barack Obama released an open letter to state residents, saying they had taught him lessons he would dr...<br>CHICAGO &mdash; On the day he formally stepped down as Illinois' junior senator, President-elect Barack Obama released an open letter to state residents, saying they had taught him lessons he would dr...<br>RSS stumble digg reddit del.ico.us news trust <a href=\"http://mixx.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">mixx.com</a><br>More in Politics...</i><br><br>THERE IS MORE.<br><br>President-elect Obama!   :&gt;)  A TRUE GENTLEMAN!!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_02:36:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3865143": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I think that's why so many people love the Obamas as a couple, particularly black people.  Because we don't really see black women being treated and regarded as LADIES, and Barack treating Michelle with such respect forces the entire WORLD to see this darker skinned black woman being treated like a queen.  Most of the time when you see black women on tv they are shaking their asses or have the mean mug or comforting white women or being SASSAY!<br><br>I think it's good for the country to see a couple in a loving, healthy relationship instead of these \"arrangements\" we've been seing lately.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_14:02:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3864836, "depth": 9, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3861560": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I knooooow, right? Thank you, D. I didn't read through the comments (he has since taken them down) so I don't know what the issue is...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_11:09:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "claudia_m", "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": 3861490, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3867710": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "carolinagirl:   Kleenex?  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_17:09:01", "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": 3862412, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3853375": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Obama's White House Hires Reflect Respect for Hill<br>By Jonathan Allen, CQ Staff  \u2013 Sun Nov 16, 4:33 pm ET<br><br>Featured Topics: <br>Among the small number of White House staff announcements made so far by President-elect Barack Obama, most of the top spots have gone to recent Capitol Hill veterans.<br>The latest wave, announced early Sunday morning, includes Senior Adviser Pete Rouse, who served as Senate chief of staff to Obama and former Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., and Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina, who was the chief of staff to Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus.<br><br>They join incoming White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, a Chicago congressman who is the fourth-ranking Democrat in the House leadership, and White House lobbyist Phil Schiliro, who worked as Daschle's policy director and was House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry A. Waxman's top aide before joining the Obama campaign as a liaison to Capitol Hill.<br><br>While Capitol Hill experience is not the primary reason for the appointments, the hires reflect Obama's sensitivity to the importance of Congress in governance, according to a senior transition official who spoke on the condition of anonymity.<br><br>Read on:  <br><br><a href=\"http://news.yahoo.com/s/cq/20081116/pl_cq_politics/politics2986799RESPECT%21\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://news.yahoo.com/s/cq/20081116/pl_cq_polit...</a>  <br><br>RESPECT!  <br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kkgQHcdlZU\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kkgQHcdlZU</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_00:41:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "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}, "3865156": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Green Lady, here's Newt's response:<br><br><b><i>\"Bitch, please!  Get yo' ass to that GOP rally or else, before I slap yo' ass off that pole, and dare the First Dude to say a damn thing about it.  You our bitch - and when I send you out there to make that money, you damned well will drop it like its hot...am I gon have to choke a bitch?\"</b></i>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_14:03:58", "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": 3863761, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3863110": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The MSM would report on the people foaming at the mouth at the Palin hate rallies and then try to say with a straight face that Obama's rallies were the same way.  Yeah, um, people singing AINT NO STOPPING US NOW is exactly the same as people foaming at the mouth about treason and killing.  Ok.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_12:44:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3862729, "depth": 10, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3862607": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I like it!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_12:12:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "bittersweet", "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": 3861219, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3860561": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Hey, but you know we're gonna put his picture on church fans...that's a must....no debate about it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_10:05:35", "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": 3854686, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3861077": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "...and I remember them catching hell for those statements (though that's not who I asked about...).<br><br>You know just as well as I do that, post 9/11, you can't make a statement like that-whether Wright was actually damning America or not-and <i>not</i> expect to catch hell if/when it becomes public. That goes for anyone, regardless of where their seat on the aisle is.<br><br>And we're not going to talk about what the media did to seem \"fair and balanced.\" Cause, obviously, they were nothing of the sort.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_10:50:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "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": 3860975, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3861595": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Basically and who better to do it than the black woman? It's been a divide and conquer amongst the genders for YEARS now.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_11:12:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "a43f021c11b2e6b394c6c3002f6cece0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3860772, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3853916": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I touched on this too.  Call me crazy, but I think Michelle can walk and chew gum at the same time. <br><br><a href=\"http://tinyurl.com/6qbsdv\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://tinyurl.com/6qbsdv</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_01:22:18", "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": 26, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3853837, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3862110": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "yes", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_11:39:21", "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": 3861925, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3861600": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yes, rikyrah, you are so wrong for posting that picture.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_11:12:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3853921": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "HORRORS!!!!!!!!!!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_01:23:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "36b635acf9afdee88c5a928b551e9410", "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}, "3862626": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The picture looks more like Kanye West than Barack Obama.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_12:14:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "17d38a9bec20bbbf3fa16e256880eec2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3860582": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LOL. OMG this picture. *giggles* This is gonna be my new gravatar. LOL.<br><br><br>LMAO. The artist is just so wrong for this. LOL.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_10:07:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "CarolinagirlinGA", "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}, "3862633": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yes. Sarah Palin will not have the stage this time. This is why her press conference only lasted 11 minutes. She is wearing on them!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_12:14:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "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": 3859921, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3869290": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You really should read or listen to it before you use it as a basis of an argument.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_19:09:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3865247, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3863666": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ahaha!  Good one, Liza!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_13:13:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "bittersweet", "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": 3862916, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3853428": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "rikyrah,  I can hear GreenLadyHere now, Air condtion!  Whew! LAWD HA MERCY!   heheee  Who's he artist", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_00:44:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "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}, "3860086": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The image you posted reminds me of the ongoing debate about whether Obama is a \"magical Negro,\" absolving white liberals of their guilt.  Here are some resources on this topic:  <br><br><a href=\"http://freedomroadproject.blogspot.com/2008/11/magical-negro-in-chief.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://freedomroadproject.blogspot.com/2008/11/...</a><br><br>What do you think?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_09:21:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "fa02a4083e1fd460c0491394ff192028", "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}, "3862634": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The right isn't going anywhere in this country anymore...<br><br>Until it drops the racism.<br><br>There isn't going to be any GOP revival based on the Southern Fried politics of the Sno' Ho', limiting the Party to the deep southern states, mimicking George Wallace's 3rd Party Dixiecrats.<br><br>The national demographics don't support it.<br><br>The right built a media and internet machine in the early 90's which led to their electoral victory in he House and Senate in 1994, and ultimately led to George Bush's being placed in the White House in 2000.<br><br>Freepers dominated the press, the internet, and polls.<br><br>There isn't any problem with the right's \"message\" getting out...<br><br>The problem is the \"message\" is counterfeit.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_12:14:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "a467514886b7e0129a29898ae02e3050", "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": 3862341, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3853953": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "me too.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_01:29:24", "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": 3853916, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3866247": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:   Just from the TITLE of this article, I'm believin' that Ayers \"pimp-slapped\"  \"SNO-HO\":  <br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/17/ayers-our-neighborhood-ki_n_144362.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\">AYERS:  Our Neighborhood \"Kind of Like WASILLA\"</a><br><br>Oooooo-eeeeeee!!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_15:27:09", "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": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3854472": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "rikyrah:  Seems as IFFF, Gingrich HATH SPOKEN!:<br><br><a href=\"http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/gingrich-says-palin-will-not-be-the-future-gop-leader-2008-11-16.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Gingrich Says Palin Will NOT Be In The Future GOP LEADER</a><br><br><i><b>Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) is batting down the hype that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin heads into 2012 as the front runner for the GOP presidential nomination.</b><br><br>Palin energized the Republican base after GOP presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) tapped her as his running mate and she has tried to preserve her high public profile since Election Day.<br><br><b>But Gingrich, an architect of the Republican revolution of 1994, took Palin down a notch, asserting that she would not become the party\u2019s leader, as some have predicted.<br><br>\u201cI think that she is going to be a significant player,\u201d said Gingrich during an interview on CBS\u2019s \u201cFace the Nation\u201d.<u> \u201cBut she\u2019s going to be one of 20 or 30 significant players. She\u2019s not going to be the de facto leader.\u201d</u></b><br><br>Since the defeat of the GOP ticket, Palin has pursued an aggressive media strategy, scheduling a full slate of interviews to keep her face on television.<br><br>CNN aired a lengthy, wide-ranging interview between Wolf Blitzer and Palin on Sunday. Palin has also sat down for interviews with CNN\u2019s Larry King, Fox New\u2019s Greta Van Susteren, and invited Matt Lauer of the \u201cToday Show\u201d to Wasilla for dinner.<br><br>Palin refused to rule out a presidential bid in 2012 during her interview with Blitzer, which aired on CNN\u2019s \u201cLate Edition.\u201d<br><br>Some political analysts, citing her high name identification and loyal following among the base, say that Palin will be a frontrunner for the GOP nomination in 2012.<br><br>Palin dominated media coverage at the Republican Governors Association meeting in Miami last week. She grabbed the spotlight at a Thursday press conference, answering reporters\u2019 questions while a dozen other GOP governors stood awkwardly behind her on stage.<br><br>Crowds of reporters and cameras chased Palin in Miami while ignoring more experienced colleagues from other states.<br><br><b>But Gingrich on Sunday sought to divert some media attention away from Palin and to other governors such as Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) and Utah Gov. John Huntsman (R).</b><br><br>\u201cShe\u2019s going to be a much bigger story in the short run,\u201d said Gingrich, explaining Palin\u2019s higher media profile compared to other GOP governors.<b> \u201cBut, I think, as she goes back to being governor and as she works in Alaska, you\u2019re going to see a group of governors emerge, not just Sarah Palin.\u201d</b><br><br>THERE IS MORE.</i><br><br>I'm believin' that he is speaking the thoughts of most of the GOP.  The <b>UN-VETTED ONE</b> seems to be a FIGMENT of her own IMAGINATION at this point in time!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)<br><br>Wellll, looks like Piper will NOT get that chance for another cache of clothes!  :&gt;)<br><br><br>Oh!        Wait!.  . . . . .  They are in the CARGO BELLY of some AIRPLANE!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_02:59:14", "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": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3863179": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "For those of us living in Southern Cali<br><br>As Southern Californians battle the wildfires, there are measures we all can take to protect<br>our health from the harmful pollutants filling our air.<br><br>If you are a healthy individual, the ash and smoke from the fires can irritate your eyes and<br>airways, cause coughing and/or a scratchy throat. They can also irritate your sinuses, cause<br>headaches or a runny nose. In addition to short-term effects, there may be long term effects<br>that can significantly impact your health.<br><br>Here are some tips you can follow to protect you and your family members from unhealthful air:<br>\u25a0 Stay indoors. Choose indoor options when air pollution levels are unhealthful. Keep your windows and<br>doors closed. Use your air conditioning system and place it on recirculation mode, if available.<br>\u25a0 Reduce outdoor activity. Reducing your physical activity in outdoor areas lowers the amount of polluted<br>air your body intakes. Curtail your involvement in outdoor activities and events that require prolonged<br>exposure and strenuous exercise or sports participation.<br>\u25a0 Stay alert. Listen to your local news and weather forecasts and air quality alerts provided by the South<br>Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD). If the air quality in your area worsens take necessary<br>precautions and plan your activities accordingly.<br><br>While the ash and smoke are visible reminders of the pollution currently impacting our area, be even more<br>cautious of the fine particles you can\u2019t see. These particles, which are invisible to the naked eye, bypass<br>our natural defense system and lodge into our lungs. They can cause irritation, and over the long-term<br>cause decreased lung function. They also make us more susceptible to developing diseases such as asthma, bronchitis, emphysema and possibly cancer.<br><br>If you have any questions about air quality, please call <b>AQMD at 1-800-CUT-SMOG</b> or visit our website at<br><a href=http://www.aqmd.gov/ rel=\"nofollow\">www.aqmd.gov.</a href>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_12:49:53", "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": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3861644": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "What is he holding?  A gold brick embossed with a \"B\"?   Candy bar?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_11:15:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "bittersweet", "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": 3860627, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3861648": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Which is why Michelle is my she-ro. This may have gone out of style, but I certainly do not aspire to be the head of my household. I grew up with a single mother so when I do get married, bringing my education/experience to the table, I will be A-OK with him leading me. I have nothing to prove to anyone.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_11:15:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "a43f021c11b2e6b394c6c3002f6cece0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3860925, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3864721": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "YES! The moment he said that *I* felt pride for Michelle and for Sally and for us! I'm wondering if anyone has brought this point up on any of our morning radio shows? I feel like our special victory is being lost. Don't get me wrong, not overshadow PE Obama, but you know what I mean? And it's a little tragic for me at the same time because I feel like younger black women have no clue.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_13:32:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "a43f021c11b2e6b394c6c3002f6cece0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3863385, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3860627": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "That picture is a hoot, especially with the white unicorn in the background.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_10:12:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "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}, "3863700": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That's why I say it's nothing to worry about. If they're doing what they're supposed to be doing, then welcome it.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_13:16:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "a43f021c11b2e6b394c6c3002f6cece0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3863156, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3860629": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "People preach that black women need to stay their ass in the home and take care of the kids and stop being so aggressive and having attitudes and let the man lead.<br><br>Michelle Obama is doing that, and people are catching the vapors.<br><br><br>SMH.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_10:12:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 14, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3854157, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3866264": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I told y'all....the serious folks aren't playing second fiddle to the likes of Caribou Barbie...not in this lifetime.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_15:28:40", "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": 3859921, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3867801": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "EVENING THREAD IS UP", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_17:17:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3862170": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>I don't know what the hell these folks want Michelle Obama to do.</i><br><br>Now, THERE'S your double standard.  Why does Michelle have to do anything?  Even if she became the second coming of Hillary (which I don't think she will), some folks (think Andrea Mitchell, Cokie Roberts, et al) are going to complain.<br><br>Girlfriend should set her own style - my mom used to say Jackie Kennedy got the same type of damned complaints about how much money she spent on clothes and shyt - and homegirl ignored them, and made her own style in the White House - if she were alive today, I think Jackie would give Michelle the same type of advice - \"Do your own thing.\"<br><br>This is a result of continuing to believe that African-Americans are a monolithic race.  Michelle Obama combines the best of being a Black Woman; she is book smart and street-savvy; she is beautiful and sexy, and most of all, she and Barack demonstrates Black love in a way that can't be fully comprehended by others because it is exactly how they depict it on television and in movies - but the Obamas have the real deal, and rather than ask \"Why can't we have that?\", they'd rather complain, because to complain takes the focus off their sterile marriages and arrangements masquerading as true love relationships.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_11:41:28", "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": 3854077, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3859613": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Morning, JJP!<br><br>Late last week someone posted a link to an audio parody of \"Brick House\" called \"Barack's House\" and I thought it was quite funny. However, a friend pointed out to me this morning that the guy who runs the site - who I'm pretty sure is white - has been getting hate mail and accused of being racist, so he took the post down. (You can read his explanation here: <a href=\"http://ldsrr91.wordpress.com/2008/11/16/this-cannot-be-good/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://ldsrr91.wordpress.com/2008/11/16/this-ca...</a>)<br><br>This raises a number of questions for me, especially after hearing comedians and editorial cartoonists joke about how challenging it is to poke fun at Obama (he's too cool, not really all that funny looking - except the ears - and, of course, people don't want to be accused of being a bigot).  But in my opinion, I think people should be allowed to lampoon and satirize Obama to their heart's content, <i>just as they would any president.</i> Should he be treated with kid's gloves? He has always expected equal treatment, so why should this be any different? It also seems to me that if accusations of racism get thrown around unnecessarily, then the very real criticisms of racist ignorance and hatred will lose their potency. <br><br>In any case, I'd love to hear what folks think, especially those who remember the lyrics from \"Barack's House.\" I honestly didn't think it was inappropriate or insensitive.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_08:46:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "claudia_m", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 27, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3860638": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "My kinfolk in Memphis probably have it up right now.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_10:12:58", "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": 3853816, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3865247": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Nope. Someone gave me a printed transcript of it a couple weeks after the story broke.<br><br>If it's not what it sounded like, I'll admit that I was wrong about <i>that</i> aspect of Rev. Wright (though there's still a couple other issues).", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_14:10:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "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": 3865090, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3866272": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I feel you on this. I place as much value (or more) on the sheer imagery of their love for each other as I do on Barack as President. Our younger people need to see what \"love and honor\" really means. They need to see this wonderful feminine chocolate woman be loved by her King.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_15:29:11", "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": 3864721, "depth": 10, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3862184": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "um,  I'm not seeing the correlation between,<br><br>NIGGER!  KILL HIM!  OFF WITH HIS HEAD!<br><br>v.<br><br>singing  \"AIN'T NO STOPPING US NOW\"  a '79  positive, upbeat, tune that made the US pop charts to 13.  (McFadden & Whitehead - Sound of Phila.)<br><br><br>'Doing the same thing?'   What the hell are you talking about?    Not. seeing. the. comparison.   NOT!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_11:43:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "isonprize", "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": 3860975, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3862697": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "More from the whack job right -<br><br><i>AP adds a new one:  \"And in a Maine convenience store, an Associated Press reporter saw a sign inviting customers to join a betting pool on when Obama might fall victim to an assassin. The sign solicited $1 entries into 'The Osama Obama Shotgun Pool,' saying the money would go to the person picking the date closest to when Obama was attacked. 'Let's hope we have a winner,' said the sign, since taken down.\"<br><br>More from AP:  \"One of the most popular white supremacist Web sites got more than 2,000 new members the day after the election, compared with 91 new members on Election Day, according to an AP count. The site, <a href=\"http://stormfront.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">stormfront.org</a>, was temporarily off-line Nov. 5 because of the overwhelming amount of activity it received after Election Day. On Saturday, one Stormfront poster, identified as Dalderian Germanicus, of North Las Vegas, said, 'I want the SOB laid out in a box to see how 'messiahs' come to rest. God has abandoned us, this country is doomed.'\" -- Greg Mitchell </i><br><br><a href=\"http://www.eandppub.com/2008/11/ap-more-threats.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.eandppub.com/2008/11/ap-more-threats...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_12:18:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "a467514886b7e0129a29898ae02e3050", "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}, "3853994": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I have been sorta pissed at those types of articles. <br><br>Michelle Obama has 2 small children that she wants to prevent from becoming  subjects of an ' E! True Hollywood Story'. Black women know that means HANDS ON PARENTING. Why is this so hard for people to believe that this woman means for her children to THRIVE in this world?  Are they so unaccomsted to seeing a devoted Black mother that they're twitching with nervousness?<br><br>As I wrote over at MOW, <br><br>Michelle Obama has 2 small children that she  will be raising. <br><br>She seems to have an actual MARRIAGE, which means that it will be up to HER to try and carve out a portion of the world for the future President that is REAL...that he can decompress from the pressures of being President. <br><br>Add into it that she's the first Black First Lady, and if she did everything the same that Laura Bush did, it would be different, JUST BECAUSE MICHELLE OBAMA IS DOING IT. <br><br>From where I sit, that means Michelle Obama will be busy from sun up to sun down for the next 4, hopefully 8 years. <br><br>I don't know what the hell these folks want Michelle Obama to do. <br><br>Actually, I do know...they want her to be another Hillary Clinton. <br><br>But, Michelle Obama would NEVER, and I mean NEVER, put Barack Obama in that position. She would never disrespect Barack Obama that way by overreaching. She would NEVER undermine his Presidency that way.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_01:36:51", "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": 22, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3853916, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3862708": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Justice, Brother Newt is going to personally see to dealing with Sister Sarah, and it's not going to be nuthin' nice....LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_12:19:02", "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": 3862633, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3853496": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I don't know the artist. I first saw this awhile ago on The Black Snob. I laughed at it then.....I still think it's funny as heck, and thought I'd bring some lightheartedness and fun to the Open Thread.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_00:50:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3853428, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3863156": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I guess that's why they keep claiming he was born in Kenya.  It would fit with the anti-Christ being born in the east.<br><br>If Obama really WERE the anti-Christ, shouldn't they be welcoming his arrival so they can go get their heavenly reward quicker?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_12:48:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3861707, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3859643": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "For CPL. There was no problem w/ deregulation according to Phil Gramm:<br><a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/17/business/economy/17gramm.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/17/business/econ...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_08:50:23", "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": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3862816": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "We never have to worry about our President looking like this ever again.<br><br><a href=\"http://weblogs.newsday.com/features/home/gardendetective_blog/bushcrocsgetty.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://weblogs.newsday.com/features/home/garden...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_12:25:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "17d38a9bec20bbbf3fa16e256880eec2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3865286": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Which is why it's better to either watch a video of him preaching that sermon, or being there in person like I was - a printed transcript cannot fully convey the context that sermon was given and allowed for it to be blown out of proportion the way Klannity wanted it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_14:13:23", "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": 3865247, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3862729": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Got it.  Thanks for the clafication.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_12:20:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "isonprize", "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": 3862234, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3861707": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Newsweek asks if Obama is the AntiChrist.<br><br>Newsweek.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_11:20:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3860685": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I think it has to do with this feminine BS. They believe mother/wife is beneath the educated woman. What they don't seem to think about is this: Michelle had a career, completed her education, married and then had children. I can understand why her children would take center stage in her life at this point because she had already done everything else. Plus like you said, we believe in a hands on approach. They want another Hillary to cut the balls of President Obama, that is all. I think in their minds Michelle has too much respect for him as if marriage is a constant power trip.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_10:17:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "a43f021c11b2e6b394c6c3002f6cece0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3853994, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3863761": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "CPL:  LOL!!    :&gt;)  :&gt;)  <br><br>BUT, how will he understand HER RESPONSES to his future requests??<br><br>Par exemplo:   <b>NEWT:</b>  \"SNO-HO\", can you come out an play ----DISTRACTOR --- for about a MONTH??<br><br><b>\"SNO-HO\": </b>   Oh! Mr. Gingrich, I've been here just trying ta work out all the projects that were left un-done while . . .annnnnnnd it's been just one meetin' after, such as, yet this being a Governor again is my way of. . .welll, giving back to the American people, sooo I just need to focus on, such as, the larger GOP issues in these times. . .education, that darned \"Bridge to Nowhere\" which we might look at again 'cause I need to go over it to get to the other side, since we, here in Alaska need good infer-,   infra-, in-something -  \"I'll find it out and get back to ya!\"<br><br>Sooooo, IFFF I can find something in my closet to last for 4 weeks and pull these kids OUT OF SCHOOL, again, annnnnnd, I have been reading things that will prepare me better to serve - SUCH AS-  well, whatever is available, 'cause I just love the glasses that I get from the 99-cents stores, you know that I don't spend the tax-payers' money -----<br><br>So there ya go!!  :&gt;)   **big toothy PAGEANT smile***    ***WINK**  <br><br><br>Uh, Mr Gingrich,   -uh, Mr. Gingrich!   Are you still there?  Hello!   Hello!  Hello!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_13:20:02", "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": 3859921, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3862741": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "This entire election cycle....You have to laugh to keep from crying. My sister and I were rolling yesterday over the lunacy that got thrown out there as actual campaign talking points. The surrogates and groups that popped up and actually got airtime on what USED to be credible news shows with the most insane comments.  From the primaries to the general election..it was INSANE. There should be a whole recap thread of all the nuttiness and it should be made into a good Mel Brooks madcap movie! <br><br>Did Bob Johnson really go all the way Buckwheat shrilling for Hillary?? Did Hill ACTUALLY state she was staying in the race because...well we know what happened to Bobby Kennedy in June...did she really say that?? so those PUMA people were serious?? Lady Lynn de Forrester Rotschild - ROFLMAO!! Yeah..the \"lady of the people\"..... Harriet Christian at the DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee meeting bemoaning the discrimination against white woman EREwhere!!.....hell, Harold Ickles and Lanny Davis at the DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee meeting...Donna Brazile having to go OFF at the DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee meeting! And finally after enduring that complete cuckoo-ness we get to the DNC in Denver, all goes well....except that dumbazz heifer crying like Miss Scarlet asked her to birth a damn baby....Michelle and Barack shine....and Lord have mercy....................here comes John McCain trotting out Miss Sarah the next day............................ I can't even start on that.<br><br>You can't make this stuff up...you have to laugh...you have to put it in its proper perspective...a sitcom...a comedy sketch - its so bizarre. What we have witnessed this year, I honestly still don't believe some of it really happened, I think I made it up - tell me.....does Joe the Plumber exist? Oh hell.......he does....and that mofo got a website:<br><a href=\"http://www.secureourdream.com/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.secureourdream.com/index.html</a><br><br>There HAS to be a big budget comedy coming outta this..there has to be.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_12:21:30", "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": 3861925, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3862234": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "It's not the same thing, that's the point.  The media scratched and clawed very hard to say that the people attending Obama's rallies were doing the exact same thing the people at McCain's rallies were doing.  They weren't but because the media didn't want to be accused of being \"in the tank\" for Obama they came up with ridiculous comparisons.<br><br>THAT's what the hell I'm talking about.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_11:46:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3862184, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3864797": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "And this is why you saw that really crazed out stance by some of Hillary's supporters and their unfounded dislike over Michelle. They could never quite articulate why they were so in love with Hillary and then would turn around and bash Michelle....you nailed it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_13:38:31", "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": 3860685, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3861219": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Finally found the lyrics:<br><br>Barack's House<br>(Parody of Brick House by The Commodores)<br><br>Ow! It's The White House<br>We finally might be<br>Just letting a bro hang out<br>Obama's White House<br><br>He might paint it black<br>Put a hoop out back<br>Rush Limbaugh has a heart attack<br><br>Ow! Barack's House<br>Well come November everybody knows<br>This is how the story goes<br><br>Obama beats John McCain<br>Then he rolls on up the moving van<br>Yeah, Yeah! How can he lose<br>To some old white dude<br>50 states<br>November 4 2008 he's a winning man<br><br>His crib's The White House<br>Yeah! Thanks to Oprah Winfrey<br>He's been letting his soul hang out<br><br>It'll be Barack's house<br>First Lady's got back<br>That's a fact<br>You better not talk no smack Yow<br><br>Chick a change chick a chane change<br>Beat McCain with a cane now<br>Getting down getting down now<br>Getting down<br><br>Ow! Barack in The House<br>Yeah! Not just for whitey<br>We're letting the bro hang out<br>Barack's house<br><br>Yeah! He's the one<br>The chosen one<br>We'll move him into Washington", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_10:58:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "claudia_m", "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": 3859810, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3865318": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Hey, GreenLadyHere, that was you on the other end asking that question?<br><br>lol", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_14:14:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "4ec3c0272b87ba5c8ce3a9168cf4e78a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3854809, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3863282": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Town:  These were my thought when I read through the lyrics.  Di'ja NOTE that I di'int post the real SONG??  :&gt;)<br><br>Just felt a little uncomfortable.  However, hmmm.~ <br><br>Lyrics - kinda at the smile/chuckle level.  IMHO", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_12:56:24", "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": 3860365, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3865334": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  ADDING to my PREVIOUS POST on  \"The MEETING\":     :&gt;)<br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/17/obama-to-meet-with-mccain_0_n_144264.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">OBAMA MEETS With MsCain At Transition Office (VIDEO)</a><br><br><i>Ken Bazinet of the New York Daily News offers this pool report from the brief meeting.<br><br>    Asked about the goal of the meeting, Mr. Obama said, \"We're going to have a good conversation about how we can do some work together to fix up the country, and also to offer thanks to Sen. McCain for the outstanding service he's already rendered.\"...<br><br><br>    Your pool tried to get the President-elect to answer a question on the auto industry bail out, but was shouted down by the pool sherpas. Mr. Obama finally said with a smile, \"You're incorrigible.\"<br><br>    Sitting around a coffee table, with three U.S. flags behind them, were: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), President-elect Barack Obama and Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.), the chief-of-staff-designate.<br><br>    Your pool was in and out in about three minutes.<br><br>WATCH:</i><br><br>McAncient LOOKED soooo UNCOMFORTABLE!!  GOOD!!   :&gt;)<br><br>He betta RECOGNIZE!!!   WINNER:   President-Elect OBAMA<br><br><b>LOSER</b>   Y'ALL!!    :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_14:15:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3863799": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The comparison is always there just because they can't be 'wrong'. For example: if one man beats another, rolls over him with a car, then lands an air plane on him. The victim is still wrong for having gotten up because then they're going 'back and forth'. Throughout history their logic has always been like this. Extreme and dead wrong.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_13:21:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "a43f021c11b2e6b394c6c3002f6cece0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3862184, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3854077": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<i>I don't know what the hell these folks want Michelle Obama to do.<br><br>Actually, I do know...they want her to be another Hillary Clinton.<br><br>But, Michelle Obama would NEVER, and I mean NEVER, put Barack Obama in that position. She would never disrespect Barack Obama that way by overreaching. She would NEVER undermine his Presidency that way.</i><br><br>I agree. And you know they discussed all of this long before Obama stepped out on that cold February day in Springfield to announce his candidacy.<br><br>All of this hand-wringing is truly really short-sighted.  Too often, it does not occur to people that we can be multi-faceted. You can have style and substance - you don't have to choose!<br><br>And that's not to mention the complete lack of acknowledgment that black women have been doing this type of juggling all along.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_01:49:15", "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": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3853994, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3864836": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Well I don't know about white Americans, I keep thinking I am one, but I'm half-Arab, half-white-Southerner, 100% liberal feminist West Coaster...<br><br>But I just LOVE their relationship and it makes total sense to me. Where is the contradiction? Who is complaining? People just complain too much. Hilary was also the lawyer mama supportive wife. People gave her a hard time about it, too. The difference with the Obamas is that he's really devoted to Michelle in a way that ole Bill with his fidelity issues is not devoted to Hilary.<br><br>I just loved how when the Obamas got out of the limo at the White House last week, Barack jumped out, then said \"wait a minute\" and turned to help Michelle get out of that awkward enormous car. His triumphal moment greeting the sitting President had to wait while he helped his wife out of the car. THat says it all to me. He loves her and he puts her comfort ahead of his moment of glory.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_13:41:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "d05ea8e305211a62ffa34eb705f7eb42", "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": 3862015, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3861765": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Wow, that picture is too cool!  I can't stop laughing.  Don't you know it's coming. We all realize it is and can laugh at it because we have seen it ib 'hoods all over this country. My, my, my people.  This is going to be such a \"colorful\" presidential  term, none like we have ever seen before.  It will truly be entertaining. This pic is a great eye-catcher.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_11:25:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mythe", "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}, "3863169": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "TOO.FUNNY!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_12:49:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "7acec36f3ac1c3ce26f5070a275439fa", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3862816, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3863816": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "At first, I didn't agree, but I stared and stared at the pic, and yes- the pic does look like Kanye around the mouth, lower jaw and chin area.   I still see Barack around the hair, forehead and eyes.<br><br>OK.  This needs to be my last word on this picture!   I'm scaring myself.  :)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_13:22:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "bittersweet", "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": 3862626, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3863306": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Miranda:   Seeeee!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_12:59:11", "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": 3860561, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3860751": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "A woman like Michelle is supposed to be either a) alone or b) courting men at her leisure where she is the ring leader ala Oprah/Stedman. But to be committed to a man without loosing her individuality is too much. Black woman are not allowed to be complex. It's either ball-busting, educated, independent or nothing at all. No wait, the flip side to that is baby mama status. I've seen/heard people make the comment that, \"she really didn't need him\". Ok, I guess a romantic relationship is unnecessary for the successful black woman.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_10:22:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "a43f021c11b2e6b394c6c3002f6cece0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 13, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3860629, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3860752": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "That's because many of the people being challenged are in fact racist or saying racist stuff and they a) don't realize they are being racist or b) don't want to accept the fact THEY are being racist.<br><br>The Rev. Wright flap was racist because people were not only questioning why Obama sat there but they questioned why he was going to a black church in the first place BUT they never questioned Hagee's church and they never caught the vapors over what Falwell and Robertson said, either.  \"Conservative' chat show hosts were saying \"the black church\" should be investigated and questioning why there was a black church to begin with.  O'Reilly sicced his producer to ambush Father Pfleger, but he never sent somebody after Hagee or Robertson.  Why is that?<br><br>The New Yorker cover was racist because they were projecting their fears about black people onto Michelle Obama, having her with the Angela Davis fro and AK-47 and camoflage gear when what she said was not nearly as inflammatory as what they projected her to feel.  And we have nerve to wonder why gun sales have shot up since Obama's election?  It ain't because they're afraid Obama will overturn the 2nd amendment on Jan. 20, my friend [/johnmccain]", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_10:22:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 16, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3860507, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3853600": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "In my neighborhood it would be MLK, Obama, and Bob Marley. <br>Is Obama kicking up roses with a Unicorn behind him?  smh", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_00:51:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "evita", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3854626": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://punditkitchen.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">&lt;img class=\"mine_2577777\" style=\"word-spacing:2577777px;font-size:2577777px;\" src=\"http://images.icanhascheezburger.com/completestore/2008/11/13/128710433078681683.jpg\" alt=\"For the last time...<br><br><br>No, I do not want my presidential portrait to be painted on black velvet.\" /&gt;</a><br />see more <a href=\"http://punditkitchen.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">funny political pictures</a><br><br>Let's see if this actually works to link to or display something I just saw on <a href=\"http://punditkitchen.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">punditkitchen.com</a> related to the original post....", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_03:31:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "4ec3c0272b87ba5c8ce3a9168cf4e78a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3860772": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Because Obama is an inadequate black male [/harrietchristian] who needs to be put in his place.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_10:24:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3860685, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3865386": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Michelle:    Welll, somebody had ta broach the subject, since JJP was discussing it!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>I just SACRIFICED MYSELF!!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_14:20:11", "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": 3865318, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3863854": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I feel like if they really wanted to play neutral, which was never a concern for them when the chips were stacked again PE Obama, then they would have done better to never mention the threats.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_13:24:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "a43f021c11b2e6b394c6c3002f6cece0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3863110, "depth": 11, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3862319": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I thought it was a belt buckle but you never know.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_11:53:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "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": 3861644, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3863344": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yep.  That's it in a nutshell, Miranda.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_13:01:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "60266805bc0d9559a62514e1e769b750", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3862890, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3864372": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You are so on point.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_13:29:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "a43f021c11b2e6b394c6c3002f6cece0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3862890, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3865909": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That picture is all  kinds of FAIL.  lol", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_15:01:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "15f99840cacc01015fcf18648270f515", "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}, "3854648": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Well, that<br><br>Did. Not. Work. Did Not Work AT ALL.<br><br>Let me try it the old-fashioned way: <br><br><a href=\"http://images.icanhascheezburger.com/completestore/2008/11/13/128710433078681683.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">No, I do not wabnt my presidential portrait to be painted on black velvet</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_03:35:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "4ec3c0272b87ba5c8ce3a9168cf4e78a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3854626, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3863866": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Run the Obama playbook.<br><br>That only works if half the country isn't already pissed off at you, and when you have a halfway decent standard-bearer.<br><br>Palin's sitting at 14:59:97; I'm about ready to call her time of death. By the time 2016 comes around, Jindal's gonna be old news.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_13:25:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "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": 3862341, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3862341": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Internet \u2018Rightroots\u2019 Key to GOP Revival<br>Only a stronger conservative online community and a compelling story will lead Republicans out of the wilderness.<br><a href=\"http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/internet-rightroots-key-to-gop-revival/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/internet-rightroot...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_11:54:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "djchefron", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3864716": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I live in Oakland CA and we already have lots of beautiful Obama on black tee shirt expression here. Everybody was wearing them on Saturday, too. Unusually warm summer-like weather so no jackets to cover up the images. Lots of folks have Barack AND Michelle tee shirts; I like those the best. The pride and happiness just make me smile.<br><br>In the Middle East when I was growing up, all through the 1970s, you saw prayer carpets, machine made, with JFK, RFK and Martin. Weird because JFK & RFK were not very good for the Arabs, especially Palestinians. Whatever. I assume we are going to see prayer carpets with Obama pretty soon. No I don't want to see him up there with Malcolm and Martin, our martyrs. I prefer to see him with Michelle - alive, not memorialized.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_13:31:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "d05ea8e305211a62ffa34eb705f7eb42", "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}, "3854157": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Also, the Obamas touched on it in their 60 Minutes interview.  People need to get over it...<br><br><b><i> Kroft:You're a Harvard Law School grad yourself. And a Princeton grad. You were a high-powered executive. How long do you give her, knocking around that big house, before she starts to want to imprint on the job of being first lady?<br><br>Mr. Obama: I think Michelle is gonna design her own role. I think she's gonna set her own path. But I here's one thing I know about Michelle she's serious when she talks about being a mom. That's why our girls are so wonderful. I'd love to take credit for it. But this is the one who deserves most of the credit. And\u2026<br><br>Michelle Obama: Well, the thing we've learned, you know, as we've watched this campaign, is that people, women, are capable of doing more than one thing well at the same time. And I've, you know, had to juggle being mom in chief and having a career for a long time. The primary focus for the first year will be making sure that the kids make it through the transition. But there are many issues that I care deeply about. I care about military families and the work/family balance issue. I care about education. I, both Barack and I, believe that we can have an impact in the D.C. area. You know, in terms of making sure we're contributing to the community that we immediately live in. That's always been something that we try to do. Whether it's in our own neighborhoods or in the schools that we've attended. So there's plenty to do. </b></i>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_01:54:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 15, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3853994, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3862350": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Did they have Falwell and Robertson on constant loop after they made those statements?  Did they suggest their congregations agreed with them and should be deported?<br><br>Or did they shrug and say \"those crazy guys, ya never know what'll come out of their mouths?\"<br><br>The underlying assumption behind the Rev. Wright / Whitey Tape / Farrakhan / New Yorker / Terrorist Fist Bump / Palling Around with Terr'ists memes is that it ASSUMES that black people <br><br>a) Are not American<br><br>b) all hate white people<br><br>c) Americans are white, so if you hate white people, you hate America.<br><br>When you have these 3 assumptions as part of your belief system, your criticisms of Obama or any other black person are automatically going to come out of a base of racism.  I actually have no problem with that if the person owns their racism, but the problem is too many people hide their racism not because of what other people might think but because they don't want to think it of themselves.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_11:55:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3861077, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3869519": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The last of my antagonists who will still speak to me...<br><br>I have to get the visceral images of it out of my mind. Reading it pissed me off, so I have to watch it with an open mind. Maybe the mrs will be down for it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_19:26:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "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": 3869290, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3867875": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  UPDATE on the Senate races [From MSNBC]:<br><br>1.  Minnesota:   Leaning toward a RE-COUNT.<br><br>2.  Georgia:    MARTIN (D)/Chambliss (R) - - - - RUN-OFF   -   Dec. 2.<br><br>3.  Alaska:   BEGICH (D) STILL LEADING Stevens (R) by a little OVER 1000+;  There is a legal statute for a run-off  IFFF the \"WINNER\" does not WIN by 1.5%.  BUT, (a) Would it happen?  -OR-   (b) Will Stevens PROTEST?<br><br>THAT'S ALL FOR NOW.    :&gt;)       :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_17:24:09", "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": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3863385": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "That's why, during his Election Night speech, when Obama honored \"the love of his life and our next First Lady,\" I said \"Fuck Thomas Jefferson.\"  Michelle Obama being who and what she is represents an end to the Sally Hemmings, second-class treatment of Black women.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_13:04:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "60266805bc0d9559a62514e1e769b750", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3862890, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3854686": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "that was hilarious...thanks.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_03:40:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3854648, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3859810": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "This was a problem that a lot of Obama's detractors ran into as well...being called \"racists\" for suggesting that anything was out of line with his policies.<br><br>Unfortunately, I see it getting worse before it gets better. Now that he <i>has</i> the job, he is well deserving of everything that comes with the job. In this case, the joking and criticism should not be spared just because he's black (no one voted for him for that reason (right?!?!), so why should he expect quarter for it?).<br><br>That doesn't grant carte blanche, though...as there's only so many \"fried chicken at the White House\" jokes you can take before it does take on a racial tinge (and before they all stop being funny).<br><br>And I'd love to see the lyrics to that song....if anyone runs across them.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_09:07:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 26, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3859613, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3862890": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I honestly think some people are uncomfortable with seeing this black woman on a pedestal...because we're supposed to clean the pedestal, or build the pedestal, or help somebody up onto the pedestal or there's this wierd feminazi stance that we're supposed to be offended by the pedestal because........I really dont know why - no one's clued me in on that part.<br>But a bonafide sistah? we're not supposed to be helped up onto the pedestal by our King and sit up there in all our glory because that's where he wants us to be and that's where you deserve to be. Oh no....I think its really bothering some folks to see this Queen.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_12:29:29", "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": 3860925, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3854199": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Anovelista:  Loved your article!!  :&gt;)<br>Especially:  <i>We know the meaning of 'Working While Black' and why the word \"articulate\" can be tricky. </i><br><br>No comment.  these concepts just resonate to me!!   THANKS!!<br><br><b>FIRST LADY MICHELLE!</b>   :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_02:02:20", "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": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3853916, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3862905": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Nope, it all really happened.  Even stuff you forgot about or never knew.<br><br>\"Yo mama ain't name you no damn Barack.\" <br><br><a href=\"http://thisfuckingelection.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://thisfuckingelection.com/</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_12:30:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "17d38a9bec20bbbf3fa16e256880eec2", "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": 3862741, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3862916": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "It's his Blackberry.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_12:31:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "313c8f108b43104806fa6f1472af3f83", "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": 3862319, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3867013": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Obama Scores Highest Rating Record for <a href=http://www.blacktalentnews.com/artman/publish/article_2067.shtml rel=\"nofollow\">\"60 Minutes\"</a href><br><br><br>The interview attracted 24.49 million viewers, giving the program a first-place finish in viewers<br><br>That marks the show's largest viewership since 1999, ad puts the show on track to be the most-watched broadcast program for the second week in a row.  Last week, more than 18 million viewers watched  Kroft's Election Night debriefing with Obama's campaign aides.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_16:16:37", "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": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3854728": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  This is a partial post UNTIL There is more:<br><br><b>MONDAY, November 17, 2008 - DAY -64 On HIS \"JOURNEY TO JANUARY!\"</b><br><br>1.  <b>WORD(s)</b>:      <b>MEETINGS</b> [including with McAncient]/<b>APPOINTMENTS[soon]</b>  :&gt;)<br><br>2.  <b>HEADLINE(s): </b>  <a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/14/barack-and-michelle-obama_n_144004.html%22%3EBARACK\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/14/barack...</a> and MICHELLE OBAMA (60 Minutes)<br><br><i>***UPDATE*** 9:15PM Nov. 16 60 Minutes aired its interview tonight with Barack and Michelle Obama, they're first interview since Obama won the presidential election. In the interview, <b>Obama repeated his commitment to close Guantanamo Bay and ban torture in order to <u>\"regain America's moral stature in the world.\"</u></b><br> (Scroll down for video)<br><br>From AP:<br><br>    <b>President-elect Barack Obama said in an interview broadcast Sunday that since terrorists might try to attack the U.S. during the White House transition, selecting his national security team is one of his top priorities.</b></i><br><br>He also spoke of \"focusing on a program of SAVING HOMEOWNER's houses!! \" :&gt;)<br><br>WHAT A THINKIN' MAN!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>President-Elect Obama!    :&gt;)  First Lady Michelle!    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_03:45:54", "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": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3864459": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ding! Ding! Ding!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_13:29:46", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3863385, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3862412": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "*comes out like a sneeze* FUCK Newsweek!!!<br><br>Whew, excuse me.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_11:59:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "CarolinagirlinGA", "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": 3861707, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3860365": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The problem is many of the criticisms of Obama are in fact, based in racism and would never be brought up if his dad was white and he was named \"Barry O'Neill.\"<br><br>Questioning Obama on his attendance at Jeremiah Wright's church: not racist.<br><br>Continuing to question Obama about Louis Farrakhan when both men have said they don't know each other and don't associate with each other = racist.<br><br>Saying that you won't vote for Obama because you believe in small government and believe the Republicans can deliver that best (lol) = not racist.<br><br>Saying \"I don't appreciate feeling like I'm a racist because I don't want to vote for Obama\" = you're probably racist.  Otherwise, why bring it up?<br><br>Having a parody of Obama where he's EXTRA straight-laced and nerdy and dorky = not racist.<br><br>Having a parody of a parody of Obama holding his nutz, dressed in saggy pants, crip walking in the White House (decorated in Red, Black & Green with pictures of MLK, Malcolm X and Ludacris on the walls while Michelle walks in with a housecoat and pink Goody rollers counting out food stamps -- remember, a parody of a parody) = not racist.<br><br>Suggesting that Obama is a drug dealer, a street thug, a black bogeyman that whites everywhere need to be afraid of when the man is about as physically threatening as a cone of cotton candy = racist.<br><br>You can joke on the Obamas and it not be racist.   You can criticize the Obamas and it not be racist.  The problem with many white folks is their criticism STEMS from racism.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_09:48:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 20, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3859810, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3862926": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I was trying to figure out who it looked liked...and that's it!!! This looks like Kanye!! LOL!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_12:31:48", "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": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3862626, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3865496": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Quanli:  HEY!   :&gt;)    <i>I have nothing to prove to anyone.</i><br><br>CO-SIGN!<br><br>I had both parents and education.  But, took the cooperation and LEAD concept serious.  He appreciated that 2.   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_14:28:24", "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": 3861648, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3866521": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  <i>MUDFLATS</i> continues to \"BRING IT\" to the <b>UN-VETTED ONE/SNO-HO!</b>:<br><br><a href=\"http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/11/16/sarah-palin-can-be-damaging-to-your-mental-health/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sarah Palin CAN Be DAMAGING To Your MENTAL HEALTH</a>      HAH!    :&gt;)<br><br><i><b>Does anyone have a sock? A cork? A bar of soap, even? Because Sarah Palin will simply not. stop. talking. And I, for one, am willing to try anything that works. For some reason, her siren song of folksiness, labyrinthine sentence structure and downright refusal to be silenced have come together to generate some kind of perfect media storm.<br><br>The seamless ease with which Palin bounces back and forth between seemingly opposite and incompatible statements is mesmerizing\u2026.or just plain mind-numbing depending on your perspective. <u>It\u2019s the classic example of what\u2019s known in psychology as the \u201cdouble bind.\u201d</u></b><br><br>Examples of a psychological double-bind are the mother who says \u201cI love you\u201d, while simultaneously recoiling from a hug in digust, or the father who says \u201cI\u2019m so proud of you, you didn\u2019t screw up again!\u201d The victims of a double bind get two simultaneous and conflicting messages. The feeling we get when we witness, or are victims of a double-bind is visceral. Our senses are telling us two different things. Our mind is in disharmony. Both our gut and our brain tell us there is something very very wrong.<br><br>I present for you a case study - Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska, ex-VP candidate and double binder extraordinaire. See if you can pick it out of the following clip. It\u2019s right in the beginning. If you want to keep listening you\u2019ll be treated to a huge non-answer about the bailout of the auto industry, and a big \u201cshout out\u201d to George W. Bush.<br><br>SKIP  <br>So what happens to those who are continuously subjected to the double bind? If it\u2019s coming from parents, or someone in a position of power, or someone from whom you cannot get away, the results can be damaging, especially for children. Fortunately for most of the country, Sarah Palin is not someone who wields power, and she is not their parent or our spouse, and they can get away from her with a click of the remote. <b>So my advice from Alaska to the rest of the country is, grab your children and run. Or just push mute.</b></i><br><br>LOL!!!!      :&gt;)      :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_15:47:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3859874": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Of course not - since he was one of the Congressional Members pushing for it back in the 90s. &lt;&lt;&lt;rolls eyes and spits&gt;&gt;&gt;", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_09:13:48", "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": 6, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3859643, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3861925": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "It was suggested you join Skeptical Brotha and Town with their comedy act, Miranda.  LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_11:32:45", "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": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3860457, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3854251": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  GREAT POST!!  :&gt;)<br><br>I'll bet that the writer was exercising much RESTRAINT to NOT say 1 word about the results of the the <b>UN-VETTED ONE\"s</b> and CHAPTER #2's \"CHILD REARING!! ? :&gt;)<br><br>I'm just saying. . . . .  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_02:09:21", "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": 3853837, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3862173": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm certain, though, that the same people who complained about this think <a href=\"http://www.elyricsworld.com/my_president_is_black_lyrics_young_jeezy.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">My President Is Black</a> is just fine.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_11:41:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "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": 3861560, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3860915": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "On Wright...don't know. I never saw a racial angle; I just saw a man essentially denouncing the US. Black, white, or whatever, there's no place for that. Did Hagee ever say anything on the order of \"God d--n America\"? <br><br>(and I ask that out of ignorance; I know he's suspect, but I've never heard him go <i>that</i> far)<br><br>I saw the stereotypes in the New Yorker cover, but took it for what it was: satire. Some people have an odd sense of humor. <br><br>What upsets me more than anything is how whenever someone says/does something that's questionable, the other sides feels they have to do the same \"in response.\" For every objectionable joke/writing/sketch about Obama, there was an equal response from his supporters about McCain....even at times when a response wasn't needed, required, or strategically smart.<br><br>And I haven't brought any guns...yet. ;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_10:36:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 15, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3860752, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3860925": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I wanted to say this, but didn't have the words right in my mind to express it.<br><br>People seem to be of several minds about black women:<br><br>We're either ShaNesha the baby mama, valued by no man;<br><br>Or<br><br>We're Maxine, the angry black woman at the office with an attitude who slices and dices people up with both hands tied behind our backs.  She busts balls and cuts people up in her quest for power.<br><br>or<br><br>We're Oprahleezza, the accomplished, educated woman who doesn't seem to have a man hanging around.  She has everything a woman could want except a man or a child.  And if she doesn't want that she obviously (rolls eyes) must be gay.<br><br><br>So it's strange to them to see Barack tapping Michelle on the ass and him clearly being into her, and her clearly being into him and being fine with him being the head of the household.  I'll always remember that GMA interview with Robin Roberts where he was like \"Don't mess with my wife\" with this serious \"Don't fuck with me\" face and Michelle sitting beside him just a'giggling.  But I don't know why people would think it's strange for Michelle with all her education would be fine with Barack being in the driver's seat while she's his ride or die helpmate....................she's only living how she grew up.  Her mom was a housewife.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_10:37:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 12, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3860751, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3862462": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Equating the fist bump between Barack and Michelle to the raised fists by Smith and Carlos at the '68 Olympics...<br><br>racist.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_12:02:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "a467514886b7e0129a29898ae02e3050", "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": 3860365, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3859921": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "In other words, GreenLady, they will keep the Sno Ho on ice and trot her out when circumstances warrant it.<br><br>If Newt's flinging her to the back of the GOP bus, if she wants to play in the game, she'd better stay there until he calls for her as a needed distraction.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_09:16:22", "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": 6, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3854472, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3865556": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The image of Sarah Palin droppin' anything is enough to convert me to liberalism.<br><br>That is <i><b>not</i></b> the change we need.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_14:33:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "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": 3865156, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3854294": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thanks GreenLadyHere :)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_02:17:59", "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": 3854199, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3854809": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Michelle:   Hey!  Wait a minute! . . . . I was on the telephone with Mr. President-Elect Obama!   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_03:59:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3854648, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3865050": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "But just think, if \"Barack Obama\" starts out his professional life as \"Barry Dunham\"....then it's discovered he changed his name from \"Barack Obama\" to \"Barry Dunham\" - how much of a field day the MSM would have had with that information.<br><br>But William Blythe can change his name to \"Bill Clinton\" and we don't even blink.<br><br>Another day in the land of \"You Can't Make This Shyt Up\".", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_13:55:41", "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": 3862905, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3859431": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Wow, this portrait is absolutely ridiculous.  The people who feel like this is an accurate representation of what this man is to the African American Community, are in for a huge disappointment.<br><br>Do you mind if I snatch this picture?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_08:23:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "TheKrimsonKing", "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}, "3860457": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Oh quit ya whining! Its all in your head!!<br><br>I promise you I said that with the straightest of faces.....I should go into acting.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_09:56:30", "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": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3859874, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3865068": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:   Heeeey!   Just experienced an EARTHQUAKE!!  Not 2 big.  Waiting for a LOCAL NEWS report!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_13:57:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3860975": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Falwell and Robertson said that the US deserved 9/11 because of gays and Americans' behavior.  Where was the fire on that?<br><br>And if anyone had looked at the ENTIRE sermon, not the 10 sec. clip, they would have seen that Rev. Wright was not \"damning America\" or saying that America deserved what it got...he was preaching we should pump our brakes, slow down and not be quick to anger.<br><br>What upsets me is that when McCain f'd up, the press would blow up a story about Obama to make it seem like they were being fair and balanced.  Oh, people at McCain rallies are screaming NIGGER and KILL HIM and OFF WITH HIS HEAD?  Well, the Obama people are doing the same thing! They're singing AINT NO STOPPING US NOW and break dancing at his rallies!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_10:41:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 9, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3860915, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3861490": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "That's it?<br><br>And people got offended?<br><br>Someone, somewhere, needs to grow up. Or get out of the house more.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_11:04:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "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": 3861219, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3854325": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "spirit:    LOL!!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)   CO-SIGNING!!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>Oh!   Wait!. . . .  .   . . THOSE are MY WORDS!!  :&gt;)<br><br>CAN I Co-sign myself???    O.K.  I'm CONFUSED!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)   J.K.<br><br>BUT, I will be putting out an APB on the artist!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>Heck!  I watch enough \"police drama!\"  I know   APB!!  :&gt;)     :&gt;)<br><br>President-Elect Obama!   :&gt;)   First Lady Michelle!   :&gt;)  GREAT COUPLE!!!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_02:23:33", "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": 3853428, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3853816": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You R right this portrait of Obama is wrong on many levels.  So which one of your friends or relatives will have a framed copy 1st?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_01:06:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "ruthdfw", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3866282": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  Is that the \"BRIDGE TO NOWHERE\" on the right side of the pic??  :&gt;)<br><br>Just askin'. . . . . .     :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_15:29:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3862015": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Anovelista, great post.  Thank you!  <br><br>White Americans aren't used to BLACK LOVE.  In their eyes, Black women are asexual, and balck men are \"Mandingo\"  That's all they've viewed from tv/movies.  Black women taking care of every body's needs except their own.  Very rarely ,if  any, do we see black couples on tv or at the movies having a deep, fulfilling sexual and meaningful relationship.  <br><br>America may not get a window into the 'Lincoln\" Bedroom of the White House, but they will get to see Michelle and Barack public display of love and respect for each other.<br><br>And a tight healthy family unit is a threat of sorts to them, because a family that prays together........<br><br>Unlike the UNVETTED ONE, who's family is the complete and utter opposite of what the Republicans preach regarding  family values, etc.  Go ahead Barack and Michelle- Mr. President and First Lady, show'em how it's done!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-17_11:35:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "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": 3860925, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}}, "integration": {"receiver_url": "", "theme": 4, "reply_position": true, "disqus_logo": false}, "timer": {"timer_url": "http://localhost:8005", "thread_id": "7155137", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "21630", "hash": -5485177192885578164}, "thread": {"total_posts": 0, "paginate": false, "per_page": 0, "slug": "monday_open_thread_87", "num_pages": 1, "days_alive": 0, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 7155137, "num_posts": 128, "closed": false, "queued": false, "killed": 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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	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=monday_open_thread_87' +
		'&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/monday_open_thread_87/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>';
		html += '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.showModeratorActions(); return false;">' + Dsq.Strings.MODERATE + '</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 <a href="' + reaction.source_url + '">' + (reaction.source == 'backtype' ? 'BackType' : '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='	+ 'monday_open_thread_87'
			+ '&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/monday_open_thread_87/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">128</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/monday_open_thread_87/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>\
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	 <span id="dsq-subscribe">\
	 <a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">Subscribe by email</a>\
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	 </span>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-alerts">\
	 <p><a href="http://disqus.com/profile/login/?next=article:7155137" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false">You must log into your Disqus Profile in order to post comments.</a></p>\
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		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) { 
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	this.footer = function() {
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			html += Dsq.Templates.authPost();
		

		html += Dsq.Templates.reactions();

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.trackbacks();
		

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

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

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

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

		if(typeof DsqLocal != 'undefined' && DsqLocal.trackback_url && DsqLocal.trackbacks) {
			var trackbacks = DsqLocal.trackbacks;
			var trackback_url = DsqLocal.trackback_url;
		} else {
			var trackbacks = [
			
			
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			var trackback_url = 'http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/monday_open_thread_87/trackback/';
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		html += '<div class="dsq-item-trackback">Trackback URL&nbsp;&nbsp;<input class="dsq-trackback-url" onclick="this.select()" readonly="true" value="' + trackback_url + '"></div>';

		if(trackbacks.length) {
			html += '<ul id="dsq-references">'
			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>';
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			html += '</ul>';
			html = '<h3 class="dsq-h3-trackbacks">Trackbacks</h3>' + html;
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		return html;
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		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			if (reaction.id === id) {
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		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;
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		}

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

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

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

		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 <a href="' + reaction.source_url + '">' + (reaction.source == 'backtype' ? 'BackType' : '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;
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				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>';
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					item += '<span id="dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '">';
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					if (n_tweets != num_retweets) {
						item += '</span> <a onclick="Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(' + reaction.id + ', 0, \'dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '\');'
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		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:7155137" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false">You must log into your Disqus Profile in order to post comments.</a></p> \n';
	};

	//
	// Post
	//

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		var default_params = {
			// TODO: These should be moved to Dsq.jsonData.
			'f'				: 'jackandjillpolitics',
			't'				: 'monday_open_thread_87',
			// 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/monday_open_thread_87/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='	+ 'monday_open_thread_87'
			+ '&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='	+ 'monday_open_thread_87'
			+ '&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='		+ 'monday_open_thread_87'
				+ '&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.showModeratorActions = function() {
      if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) {
          return;
      }

      var html = '<div class="dsq-moderate-options"><table><tr>' +
                 '<td>' + Dsq.Strings.ACTIONS + '</td><td><ul>';
      html += '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.toggleClosed(); return false;">' +
              (Dsq.jsonData.thread.closed ? Dsq.Strings.OPEN_THREAD : Dsq.Strings.CLOSE_THREAD) +
              '</a></li>';
      html += '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.toggleKilled(); return false;">' +
              (Dsq.jsonData.thread.killed ? Dsq.Strings.RESTORE_THREAD : Dsq.Strings.REMOVE_THREAD) +
              '</a></li>';
      html += '</ul></td></tr></table></div>' +
              '<p>Go to the full <a href="http://disqus.com/comments/moderate-threads/" target="_blank">moderate panel</a> for more options.</p>';
      Dsq.Popup.popModal(html, Dsq.Strings.MODERATE_OPTIONS);
  };

	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);
	};

  this.toggleClosed = function() {
      Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/jackandjillpolitics/toggle_thread_closed.js', {thread:Dsq.jsonData.thread.id});
      window.setTimeout(function() { window.location.reload(); }, 500);
  };

  this.toggleKilled = function() {
      Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/jackandjillpolitics/toggle_thread_killed.js', {thread:Dsq.jsonData.thread.id});
      window.setTimeout(function() { window.location.reload(); }, 500);
  };
};
// 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/7155137/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;
		}

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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3853375">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3853375" class="dsq-comment-message">Obama\'s White House Hires Reflect Respect for Hill<br>By Jonathan Allen, CQ Staff  – Sun Nov 16, 4:33 pm ET<br><br>Featured Topics: <br>Among the small number of White House staff announcements made so far by President-elect Barack Obama, most of the top spots have gone to recent Capitol Hill veterans.<br>The latest wave, announced early Sunday morning, includes Senior Adviser Pete Rouse, who served as Senate chief of staff to Obama and former Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., and Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina, who was the chief of staff to Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus.<br><br>They join incoming White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, a Chicago congressman who is the fourth-ranking Democrat in the House leadership, and White House lobbyist Phil Schiliro, who worked as Daschle\'s policy director and was House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry A. Waxman\'s top aide before joining the Obama campaign as a liaison to Capitol Hill.<br><br>While Capitol Hill experience is not the primary reason for the appointments, the hires reflect Obama\'s sensitivity to the importance of Congress in governance, according to a senior transition official who spoke on the condition of anonymity.<br><br>Read on:  <br><br><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/cq/20081116/pl_cq_politics/politics2986799RESPECT%21" rel="nofollow">http://news.yahoo.com/s/cq/20081116/pl_cq_polit...</a>  <br><br>RESPECT!  <br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kkgQHcdlZU" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kkgQHcdlZU</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3853428" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3853428">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3853428" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah,  I can hear GreenLadyHere now, Air condtion!  Whew! LAWD HA MERCY!   heheee  Who\'s he artist</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3853496">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3853496" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t know the artist. I first saw this awhile ago on The Black Snob. I laughed at it then.....I still think it\'s funny as heck, and thought I\'d bring some lightheartedness and fun to the Open Thread.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3854325" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3854325" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3854325">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3854325" class="dsq-comment-message">spirit:    LOL!!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)   CO-SIGNING!!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>Oh!   Wait!. . . .  .   . . THOSE are MY WORDS!!  :&gt;)<br><br>CAN I Co-sign myself???    O.K.  I\'m CONFUSED!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)   J.K.<br><br>BUT, I will be putting out an APB on the artist!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>Heck!  I watch enough "police drama!"  I know   APB!!  :&gt;)     :&gt;)<br><br>President-Elect Obama!   :&gt;)   First Lady Michelle!   :&gt;)  GREAT COUPLE!!!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3853600" href="http://blog.evavegadiversity.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">evita</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3853600" class="dsq-comment-message">In my neighborhood it would be MLK, Obama, and Bob Marley. <br>Is Obama kicking up roses with a Unicorn behind him?  smh</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3853816" href="http://www.ilivetoshop.typepad.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ruthdfw</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3853816" class="dsq-comment-message">You R right this portrait of Obama is wrong on many levels.  So which one of your friends or relatives will have a framed copy 1st?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3860638">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3860638" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3860638" class="dsq-comment-message">My kinfolk in Memphis probably have it up right now.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3853837">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3853837" class="dsq-comment-message">Michelle Obama and "just a mom" <br><br><a href="http://alaskareal.blogspot.com/2008/11/michelle-obama-and-just-mom.html" rel="nofollow">http://alaskareal.blogspot.com/2008/11/michelle...</a></div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3853916" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3853916" class="dsq-comment-message">I touched on this too.  Call me crazy, but I think Michelle can walk and chew gum at the same time. <br><br><a href="http://tinyurl.com/6qbsdv" rel="nofollow">http://tinyurl.com/6qbsdv</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3853953">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3853953" class="dsq-comment-message">me too.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3853994" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3853994">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3853994" class="dsq-comment-message">I have been sorta pissed at those types of articles. <br><br>Michelle Obama has 2 small children that she wants to prevent from becoming  subjects of an \' E! True Hollywood Story\'. Black women know that means HANDS ON PARENTING. Why is this so hard for people to believe that this woman means for her children to THRIVE in this world?  Are they so unaccomsted to seeing a devoted Black mother that they\'re twitching with nervousness?<br><br>As I wrote over at MOW, <br><br>Michelle Obama has 2 small children that she  will be raising. <br><br>She seems to have an actual MARRIAGE, which means that it will be up to HER to try and carve out a portion of the world for the future President that is REAL...that he can decompress from the pressures of being President. <br><br>Add into it that she\'s the first Black First Lady, and if she did everything the same that Laura Bush did, it would be different, JUST BECAUSE MICHELLE OBAMA IS DOING IT. <br><br>From where I sit, that means Michelle Obama will be busy from sun up to sun down for the next 4, hopefully 8 years. <br><br>I don\'t know what the hell these folks want Michelle Obama to do. <br><br>Actually, I do know...they want her to be another Hillary Clinton. <br><br>But, Michelle Obama would NEVER, and I mean NEVER, put Barack Obama in that position. She would never disrespect Barack Obama that way by overreaching. She would NEVER undermine his Presidency that way.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3854077" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3854077" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3854077" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>I don\'t know what the hell these folks want Michelle Obama to do.<br><br>Actually, I do know...they want her to be another Hillary Clinton.<br><br>But, Michelle Obama would NEVER, and I mean NEVER, put Barack Obama in that position. She would never disrespect Barack Obama that way by overreaching. She would NEVER undermine his Presidency that way.</i><br><br>I agree. And you know they discussed all of this long before Obama stepped out on that cold February day in Springfield to announce his candidacy.<br><br>All of this hand-wringing is truly really short-sighted.  Too often, it does not occur to people that we can be multi-faceted. You can have style and substance - you don\'t have to choose!<br><br>And that\'s not to mention the complete lack of acknowledgment that black women have been doing this type of juggling all along.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3862170" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3862170" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>I don\'t know what the hell these folks want Michelle Obama to do.</i><br><br>Now, THERE\'S your double standard.  Why does Michelle have to do anything?  Even if she became the second coming of Hillary (which I don\'t think she will), some folks (think Andrea Mitchell, Cokie Roberts, et al) are going to complain.<br><br>Girlfriend should set her own style - my mom used to say Jackie Kennedy got the same type of damned complaints about how much money she spent on clothes and shyt - and homegirl ignored them, and made her own style in the White House - if she were alive today, I think Jackie would give Michelle the same type of advice - "Do your own thing."<br><br>This is a result of continuing to believe that African-Americans are a monolithic race.  Michelle Obama combines the best of being a Black Woman; she is book smart and street-savvy; she is beautiful and sexy, and most of all, she and Barack demonstrates Black love in a way that can\'t be fully comprehended by others because it is exactly how they depict it on television and in movies - but the Obamas have the real deal, and rather than ask "Why can\'t we have that?", they\'d rather complain, because to complain takes the focus off their sterile marriages and arrangements masquerading as true love relationships.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3854157" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3854157" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3854157" class="dsq-comment-message">Also, the Obamas touched on it in their 60 Minutes interview.  People need to get over it...<br><br><b><i> Kroft:You\'re a Harvard Law School grad yourself. And a Princeton grad. You were a high-powered executive. How long do you give her, knocking around that big house, before she starts to want to imprint on the job of being first lady?<br><br>Mr. Obama: I think Michelle is gonna design her own role. I think she\'s gonna set her own path. But I here\'s one thing I know about Michelle she\'s serious when she talks about being a mom. That\'s why our girls are so wonderful. I\'d love to take credit for it. But this is the one who deserves most of the credit. And…<br><br>Michelle Obama: Well, the thing we\'ve learned, you know, as we\'ve watched this campaign, is that people, women, are capable of doing more than one thing well at the same time. And I\'ve, you know, had to juggle being mom in chief and having a career for a long time. The primary focus for the first year will be making sure that the kids make it through the transition. But there are many issues that I care deeply about. I care about military families and the work/family balance issue. I care about education. I, both Barack and I, believe that we can have an impact in the D.C. area. You know, in terms of making sure we\'re contributing to the community that we immediately live in. That\'s always been something that we try to do. Whether it\'s in our own neighborhoods or in the schools that we\'ve attended. So there\'s plenty to do. </b></i></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3860629">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3860629" class="dsq-comment-message">People preach that black women need to stay their ass in the home and take care of the kids and stop being so aggressive and having attitudes and let the man lead.<br><br>Michelle Obama is doing that, and people are catching the vapors.<br><br><br>SMH.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3860751">Quanli</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3860751" class="dsq-comment-message">A woman like Michelle is supposed to be either a) alone or b) courting men at her leisure where she is the ring leader ala Oprah/Stedman. But to be committed to a man without loosing her individuality is too much. Black woman are not allowed to be complex. It\'s either ball-busting, educated, independent or nothing at all. No wait, the flip side to that is baby mama status. I\'ve seen/heard people make the comment that, "she really didn\'t need him". Ok, I guess a romantic relationship is unnecessary for the successful black woman.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3860925">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3860925" class="dsq-comment-message">I wanted to say this, but didn\'t have the words right in my mind to express it.<br><br>People seem to be of several minds about black women:<br><br>We\'re either ShaNesha the baby mama, valued by no man;<br><br>Or<br><br>We\'re Maxine, the angry black woman at the office with an attitude who slices and dices people up with both hands tied behind our backs.  She busts balls and cuts people up in her quest for power.<br><br>or<br><br>We\'re Oprahleezza, the accomplished, educated woman who doesn\'t seem to have a man hanging around.  She has everything a woman could want except a man or a child.  And if she doesn\'t want that she obviously (rolls eyes) must be gay.<br><br><br>So it\'s strange to them to see Barack tapping Michelle on the ass and him clearly being into her, and her clearly being into him and being fine with him being the head of the household.  I\'ll always remember that GMA interview with Robin Roberts where he was like "Don\'t mess with my wife" with this serious "Don\'t fuck with me" face and Michelle sitting beside him just a\'giggling.  But I don\'t know why people would think it\'s strange for Michelle with all her education would be fine with Barack being in the driver\'s seat while she\'s his ride or die helpmate....................she\'s only living how she grew up.  Her mom was a housewife.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3861648" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3861648">Quanli</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3861648" class="dsq-comment-message">Which is why Michelle is my she-ro. This may have gone out of style, but I certainly do not aspire to be the head of my household. I grew up with a single mother so when I do get married, bringing my education/experience to the table, I will be A-OK with him leading me. I have nothing to prove to anyone.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3865496" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3865496">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3865496" class="dsq-comment-message">Quanli:  HEY!   :&gt;)    <i>I have nothing to prove to anyone.</i><br><br>CO-SIGN!<br><br>I had both parents and education.  But, took the cooperation and LEAD concept serious.  He appreciated that 2.   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3862015">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3862015" class="dsq-comment-message">Anovelista, great post.  Thank you!  <br><br>White Americans aren\'t used to BLACK LOVE.  In their eyes, Black women are asexual, and balck men are "Mandingo"  That\'s all they\'ve viewed from tv/movies.  Black women taking care of every body\'s needs except their own.  Very rarely ,if  any, do we see black couples on tv or at the movies having a deep, fulfilling sexual and meaningful relationship.  <br><br>America may not get a window into the \'Lincoln" Bedroom of the White House, but they will get to see Michelle and Barack public display of love and respect for each other.<br><br>And a tight healthy family unit is a threat of sorts to them, because a family that prays together........<br><br>Unlike the UNVETTED ONE, who\'s family is the complete and utter opposite of what the Republicans preach regarding  family values, etc.  Go ahead Barack and Michelle- Mr. President and First Lady, show\'em how it\'s done!!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3864836" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3864836" href="http://bedouina.typepad.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Leila Abu-Saba</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3864836" class="dsq-comment-message">Well I don\'t know about white Americans, I keep thinking I am one, but I\'m half-Arab, half-white-Southerner, 100% liberal feminist West Coaster...<br><br>But I just LOVE their relationship and it makes total sense to me. Where is the contradiction? Who is complaining? People just complain too much. Hilary was also the lawyer mama supportive wife. People gave her a hard time about it, too. The difference with the Obamas is that he\'s really devoted to Michelle in a way that ole Bill with his fidelity issues is not devoted to Hilary.<br><br>I just loved how when the Obamas got out of the limo at the White House last week, Barack jumped out, then said "wait a minute" and turned to help Michelle get out of that awkward enormous car. His triumphal moment greeting the sitting President had to wait while he helped his wife out of the car. THat says it all to me. He loves her and he puts her comfort ahead of his moment of glory.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3865143" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3865143" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3865143">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3865143" class="dsq-comment-message">I think that\'s why so many people love the Obamas as a couple, particularly black people.  Because we don\'t really see black women being treated and regarded as LADIES, and Barack treating Michelle with such respect forces the entire WORLD to see this darker skinned black woman being treated like a queen.  Most of the time when you see black women on tv they are shaking their asses or have the mean mug or comforting white women or being SASSAY!<br><br>I think it\'s good for the country to see a couple in a loving, healthy relationship instead of these "arrangements" we\'ve been seing lately.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3862890" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3862890">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3862890" class="dsq-comment-message">I honestly think some people are uncomfortable with seeing this black woman on a pedestal...because we\'re supposed to clean the pedestal, or build the pedestal, or help somebody up onto the pedestal or there\'s this wierd feminazi stance that we\'re supposed to be offended by the pedestal because........I really dont know why - no one\'s clued me in on that part.<br>But a bonafide sistah? we\'re not supposed to be helped up onto the pedestal by our King and sit up there in all our glory because that\'s where he wants us to be and that\'s where you deserve to be. Oh no....I think its really bothering some folks to see this Queen.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3863344" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3863344">parker404</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3863344" class="dsq-comment-message">Yep.  That\'s it in a nutshell, Miranda.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3863385" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3863385">parker404</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3863385" class="dsq-comment-message">That\'s why, during his Election Night speech, when Obama honored "the love of his life and our next First Lady," I said "Fuck Thomas Jefferson."  Michelle Obama being who and what she is represents an end to the Sally Hemmings, second-class treatment of Black women.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3864459" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3864459">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3864459" class="dsq-comment-message">Ding! Ding! Ding!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3864721" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3864721">Quanli</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3864721" class="dsq-comment-message">YES! The moment he said that *I* felt pride for Michelle and for Sally and for us! I\'m wondering if anyone has brought this point up on any of our morning radio shows? I feel like our special victory is being lost. Don\'t get me wrong, not overshadow PE Obama, but you know what I mean? And it\'s a little tragic for me at the same time because I feel like younger black women have no clue.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3866272" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3866272" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3866272">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3866272" class="dsq-comment-message">I feel you on this. I place as much value (or more) on the sheer imagery of their love for each other as I do on Barack as President. Our younger people need to see what "love and honor" really means. They need to see this wonderful feminine chocolate woman be loved by her King.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3864372" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3864372" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3864372">Quanli</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3864372" class="dsq-comment-message">You are so on point.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3860685" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3860685">Quanli</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3860685" class="dsq-comment-message">I think it has to do with this feminine BS. They believe mother/wife is beneath the educated woman. What they don\'t seem to think about is this: Michelle had a career, completed her education, married and then had children. I can understand why her children would take center stage in her life at this point because she had already done everything else. Plus like you said, we believe in a hands on approach. They want another Hillary to cut the balls of President Obama, that is all. I think in their minds Michelle has too much respect for him as if marriage is a constant power trip.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3860772" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3860772" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3860772">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3860772" class="dsq-comment-message">Because Obama is an inadequate black male [/harrietchristian] who needs to be put in his place.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3861595" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3861595" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3861595">Quanli</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3861595" class="dsq-comment-message">Basically and who better to do it than the black woman? It\'s been a divide and conquer amongst the genders for YEARS now.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3864797" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3864797">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3864797" class="dsq-comment-message">And this is why you saw that really crazed out stance by some of Hillary\'s supporters and their unfounded dislike over Michelle. They could never quite articulate why they were so in love with Hillary and then would turn around and bash Michelle....you nailed it.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3854199">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3854199" class="dsq-comment-message">Anovelista:  Loved your article!!  :&gt;)<br>Especially:  <i>We know the meaning of \'Working While Black\' and why the word "articulate" can be tricky. </i><br><br>No comment.  these concepts just resonate to me!!   THANKS!!<br><br><b>FIRST LADY MICHELLE!</b>   :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3854294" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3854294" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3854294" class="dsq-comment-message">Thanks GreenLadyHere :)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3854251">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3854251" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  GREAT POST!!  :&gt;)<br><br>I\'ll bet that the writer was exercising much RESTRAINT to NOT say 1 word about the results of the the <b>UN-VETTED ONE"s</b> and CHAPTER #2\'s "CHILD REARING!! ? :&gt;)<br><br>I\'m just saying. . . . .  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3853921" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3853921" href="http://www.prcommunications.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Pam Purifoy</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3853921" class="dsq-comment-message">HORRORS!!!!!!!!!!!!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3854388" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3854388">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3854388" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:   Mr. President-Elect Obama is very gracious:<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/16/obama-sends-thank-you-to_n_144150.html?page=3&show_comment_id=18044057#comment_18044057" rel="nofollow">OBAMA Sends THANK YOU To People of Illinois</a>   :&gt;)<br><br><i>CHICAGO — On the day he formally stepped down as Illinois\' junior senator, President-elect Barack Obama released an open letter to state residents, saying they had taught him lessons he would draw on during his presidency.<br><br>Obama, whose resignation after nearly four years in the Senate was a formality in the wake of his Nov. 4 election victory, thanked Illinois residents <b>in a nostalgic letter published in Sunday newspapers throughout the state.</b><br><br>"I will never forget, and will forever be grateful, to the men and women of this great state who made my life in public service possible," Obama wrote.<br><br>The education he received in Illinois, he added, has prepared him for the White House job he\'ll have beginning Jan. 20.<br><br>That schooling began on the South Side of Chicago, where Obama said he saw how factory workers lost hope when their way of life vanished with the closing of steel mills. Obama said he struggled to try and bring neighborhoods back _ one block at a time.<br><br>"In the process I received the best education I ever had," he said.<br><br>Obama said the experience led him to organize a voter registration project, become an attorney and run for the Illinois state senate.<br><br>In Springfield, Obama said, he saw farmers, teachers, businessmen and laborers from urban and rural communities fight to get a seat at the same table.<br><br>"It was there that I learned to disagree without being disagreeable; to seek compromise while holding fast to those principles that can never be compromised; and to always assume the best in people instead of the worst," he wrote.<br><br>Obama said he saw then how the state\'s residents were both diverse and unified, and how they met problems with a spirit of strength and courage. That spirit made Obama believe America can overcome its many problems, he wrote.<br><br>Obama closed by quoting words spoken by the last president from Illinois nearly 150 years ago. Abraham Lincoln said he owed everything to the people of the state.<br><br>"Today, I feel the same, and like Lincoln, I ask for your support, your prayers, and for us to \'confidently hope that all will yet be well,\'" Obama wrote.<br><br>    * Barack Obama<br><br>CHICAGO &mdash; On the day he formally stepped down as Illinois\' junior senator, President-elect Barack Obama released an open letter to state residents, saying they had taught him lessons he would dr...<br>CHICAGO &mdash; On the day he formally stepped down as Illinois\' junior senator, President-elect Barack Obama released an open letter to state residents, saying they had taught him lessons he would dr...<br>RSS stumble digg reddit del.ico.us news trust <a href="http://mixx.com" rel="nofollow">mixx.com</a><br>More in Politics...</i><br><br>THERE IS MORE.<br><br>President-elect Obama!   :&gt;)  A TRUE GENTLEMAN!!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3854472">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3854472" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  Seems as IFFF, Gingrich HATH SPOKEN!:<br><br><a href="http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/gingrich-says-palin-will-not-be-the-future-gop-leader-2008-11-16.html" rel="nofollow">Gingrich Says Palin Will NOT Be In The Future GOP LEADER</a><br><br><i><b>Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) is batting down the hype that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin heads into 2012 as the front runner for the GOP presidential nomination.</b><br><br>Palin energized the Republican base after GOP presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) tapped her as his running mate and she has tried to preserve her high public profile since Election Day.<br><br><b>But Gingrich, an architect of the Republican revolution of 1994, took Palin down a notch, asserting that she would not become the party’s leader, as some have predicted.<br><br>“I think that she is going to be a significant player,” said Gingrich during an interview on CBS’s “Face the Nation”.<u> “But she’s going to be one of 20 or 30 significant players. She’s not going to be the de facto leader.”</u></b><br><br>Since the defeat of the GOP ticket, Palin has pursued an aggressive media strategy, scheduling a full slate of interviews to keep her face on television.<br><br>CNN aired a lengthy, wide-ranging interview between Wolf Blitzer and Palin on Sunday. Palin has also sat down for interviews with CNN’s Larry King, Fox New’s Greta Van Susteren, and invited Matt Lauer of the “Today Show” to Wasilla for dinner.<br><br>Palin refused to rule out a presidential bid in 2012 during her interview with Blitzer, which aired on CNN’s “Late Edition.”<br><br>Some political analysts, citing her high name identification and loyal following among the base, say that Palin will be a frontrunner for the GOP nomination in 2012.<br><br>Palin dominated media coverage at the Republican Governors Association meeting in Miami last week. She grabbed the spotlight at a Thursday press conference, answering reporters’ questions while a dozen other GOP governors stood awkwardly behind her on stage.<br><br>Crowds of reporters and cameras chased Palin in Miami while ignoring more experienced colleagues from other states.<br><br><b>But Gingrich on Sunday sought to divert some media attention away from Palin and to other governors such as Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) and Utah Gov. John Huntsman (R).</b><br><br>“She’s going to be a much bigger story in the short run,” said Gingrich, explaining Palin’s higher media profile compared to other GOP governors.<b> “But, I think, as she goes back to being governor and as she works in Alaska, you’re going to see a group of governors emerge, not just Sarah Palin.”</b><br><br>THERE IS MORE.</i><br><br>I\'m believin\' that he is speaking the thoughts of most of the GOP.  The <b>UN-VETTED ONE</b> seems to be a FIGMENT of her own IMAGINATION at this point in time!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)<br><br>Wellll, looks like Piper will NOT get that chance for another cache of clothes!  :&gt;)<br><br><br>Oh!        Wait!.  . . . . .  They are in the CARGO BELLY of some AIRPLANE!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3859921" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3859921" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3859921" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3859921" class="dsq-comment-message">In other words, GreenLady, they will keep the Sno Ho on ice and trot her out when circumstances warrant it.<br><br>If Newt\'s flinging her to the back of the GOP bus, if she wants to play in the game, she\'d better stay there until he calls for her as a needed distraction.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3862633" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3862633">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3862633" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes. Sarah Palin will not have the stage this time. This is why her press conference only lasted 11 minutes. She is wearing on them!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3862708" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3862708" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3862708" class="dsq-comment-message">Justice, Brother Newt is going to personally see to dealing with Sister Sarah, and it\'s not going to be nuthin\' nice....LOL</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3863761">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3863761" class="dsq-comment-message">CPL:  LOL!!    :&gt;)  :&gt;)  <br><br>BUT, how will he understand HER RESPONSES to his future requests??<br><br>Par exemplo:   <b>NEWT:</b>  "SNO-HO", can you come out an play ----DISTRACTOR --- for about a MONTH??<br><br><b>"SNO-HO": </b>   Oh! Mr. Gingrich, I\'ve been here just trying ta work out all the projects that were left un-done while . . .annnnnnnd it\'s been just one meetin\' after, such as, yet this being a Governor again is my way of. . .welll, giving back to the American people, sooo I just need to focus on, such as, the larger GOP issues in these times. . .education, that darned "Bridge to Nowhere" which we might look at again \'cause I need to go over it to get to the other side, since we, here in Alaska need good infer-,   infra-, in-something -  "I\'ll find it out and get back to ya!"<br><br>Sooooo, IFFF I can find something in my closet to last for 4 weeks and pull these kids OUT OF SCHOOL, again, annnnnnd, I have been reading things that will prepare me better to serve - SUCH AS-  well, whatever is available, \'cause I just love the glasses that I get from the 99-cents stores, you know that I don\'t spend the tax-payers\' money -----<br><br>So there ya go!!  :&gt;)   **big toothy PAGEANT smile***    ***WINK**  <br><br><br>Uh, Mr Gingrich,   -uh, Mr. Gingrich!   Are you still there?  Hello!   Hello!  Hello!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3865156" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3865156" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3865156" class="dsq-comment-message">Green Lady, here\'s Newt\'s response:<br><br><b><i>"Bitch, please!  Get yo\' ass to that GOP rally or else, before I slap yo\' ass off that pole, and dare the First Dude to say a damn thing about it.  You our bitch - and when I send you out there to make that money, you damned well will drop it like its hot...am I gon have to choke a bitch?"</b></i></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3865556" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3865556" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3865556" class="dsq-comment-message">The image of Sarah Palin droppin\' anything is enough to convert me to liberalism.<br><br>That is <i><b>not</i></b> the change we need.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3866264">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3866264" class="dsq-comment-message">I told y\'all....the serious folks aren\'t playing second fiddle to the likes of Caribou Barbie...not in this lifetime.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3854626" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3854626" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3854626">Michelle</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3854626" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://punditkitchen.com" rel="nofollow">&lt;img class="mine_2577777" style="word-spacing:2577777px;font-size:2577777px;" src="http://images.icanhascheezburger.com/completestore/2008/11/13/128710433078681683.jpg" alt="For the last time...<br><br><br>No, I do not want my presidential portrait to be painted on black velvet." /&gt;</a><br />see more <a href="http://punditkitchen.com" rel="nofollow">funny political pictures</a><br><br>Let\'s see if this actually works to link to or display something I just saw on <a href="http://punditkitchen.com" rel="nofollow">punditkitchen.com</a> related to the original post....</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3854648" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3854648" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3854648">Michelle</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3854648" class="dsq-comment-message">Well, that<br><br>Did. Not. Work. Did Not Work AT ALL.<br><br>Let me try it the old-fashioned way: <br><br><a href="http://images.icanhascheezburger.com/completestore/2008/11/13/128710433078681683.jpg" rel="nofollow">No, I do not wabnt my presidential portrait to be painted on black velvet</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3854686" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3854686">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3854686" class="dsq-comment-message">that was hilarious...thanks.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3860561">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3860561" class="dsq-comment-message">Hey, but you know we\'re gonna put his picture on church fans...that\'s a must....no debate about it.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3863306" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3863306">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3863306" class="dsq-comment-message">Miranda:   Seeeee!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3854809">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3854809" class="dsq-comment-message">Michelle:   Hey!  Wait a minute! . . . . I was on the telephone with Mr. President-Elect Obama!   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3865318" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3865318">Michelle</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3865318" class="dsq-comment-message">Hey, GreenLadyHere, that was you on the other end asking that question?<br><br>lol</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3865386">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3865386" class="dsq-comment-message">Michelle:    Welll, somebody had ta broach the subject, since JJP was discussing it!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>I just SACRIFICED MYSELF!!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3854728">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3854728" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  This is a partial post UNTIL There is more:<br><br><b>MONDAY, November 17, 2008 - DAY -64 On HIS "JOURNEY TO JANUARY!"</b><br><br>1.  <b>WORD(s)</b>:      <b>MEETINGS</b> [including with McAncient]/<b>APPOINTMENTS[soon]</b>  :&gt;)<br><br>2.  <b>HEADLINE(s): </b>  <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/14/barack-and-michelle-obama_n_144004.html%22%3EBARACK" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/14/barack...</a> and MICHELLE OBAMA (60 Minutes)<br><br><i>***UPDATE*** 9:15PM Nov. 16 60 Minutes aired its interview tonight with Barack and Michelle Obama, they\'re first interview since Obama won the presidential election. In the interview, <b>Obama repeated his commitment to close Guantanamo Bay and ban torture in order to <u>"regain America\'s moral stature in the world."</u></b><br> (Scroll down for video)<br><br>From AP:<br><br>    <b>President-elect Barack Obama said in an interview broadcast Sunday that since terrorists might try to attack the U.S. during the White House transition, selecting his national security team is one of his top priorities.</b></i><br><br>He also spoke of "focusing on a program of SAVING HOMEOWNER\'s houses!! " :&gt;)<br><br>WHAT A THINKIN\' MAN!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>President-Elect Obama!    :&gt;)  First Lady Michelle!    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3859431" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3859431" href="http://www.thekrimsonking.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">TheKrimsonKing</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3859431" class="dsq-comment-message">Wow, this portrait is absolutely ridiculous.  The people who feel like this is an accurate representation of what this man is to the African American Community, are in for a huge disappointment.<br><br>Do you mind if I snatch this picture?</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3859613" href="http://www.thebottomofheaven.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">claudia_m</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3859613" class="dsq-comment-message">Morning, JJP!<br><br>Late last week someone posted a link to an audio parody of "Brick House" called "Barack\'s House" and I thought it was quite funny. However, a friend pointed out to me this morning that the guy who runs the site - who I\'m pretty sure is white - has been getting hate mail and accused of being racist, so he took the post down. (You can read his explanation here: <a href="http://ldsrr91.wordpress.com/2008/11/16/this-cannot-be-good/" rel="nofollow">http://ldsrr91.wordpress.com/2008/11/16/this-ca...</a>)<br><br>This raises a number of questions for me, especially after hearing comedians and editorial cartoonists joke about how challenging it is to poke fun at Obama (he\'s too cool, not really all that funny looking - except the ears - and, of course, people don\'t want to be accused of being a bigot).  But in my opinion, I think people should be allowed to lampoon and satirize Obama to their heart\'s content, <i>just as they would any president.</i> Should he be treated with kid\'s gloves? He has always expected equal treatment, so why should this be any different? It also seems to me that if accusations of racism get thrown around unnecessarily, then the very real criticisms of racist ignorance and hatred will lose their potency. <br><br>In any case, I\'d love to hear what folks think, especially those who remember the lyrics from "Barack\'s House." I honestly didn\'t think it was inappropriate or insensitive.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3859810" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3859810" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3859810" class="dsq-comment-message">This was a problem that a lot of Obama\'s detractors ran into as well...being called "racists" for suggesting that anything was out of line with his policies.<br><br>Unfortunately, I see it getting worse before it gets better. Now that he <i>has</i> the job, he is well deserving of everything that comes with the job. In this case, the joking and criticism should not be spared just because he\'s black (no one voted for him for that reason (right?!?!), so why should he expect quarter for it?).<br><br>That doesn\'t grant carte blanche, though...as there\'s only so many "fried chicken at the White House" jokes you can take before it does take on a racial tinge (and before they all stop being funny).<br><br>And I\'d love to see the lyrics to that song....if anyone runs across them.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3860365" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3860365">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3860365" class="dsq-comment-message">The problem is many of the criticisms of Obama are in fact, based in racism and would never be brought up if his dad was white and he was named "Barry O\'Neill."<br><br>Questioning Obama on his attendance at Jeremiah Wright\'s church: not racist.<br><br>Continuing to question Obama about Louis Farrakhan when both men have said they don\'t know each other and don\'t associate with each other = racist.<br><br>Saying that you won\'t vote for Obama because you believe in small government and believe the Republicans can deliver that best (lol) = not racist.<br><br>Saying "I don\'t appreciate feeling like I\'m a racist because I don\'t want to vote for Obama" = you\'re probably racist.  Otherwise, why bring it up?<br><br>Having a parody of Obama where he\'s EXTRA straight-laced and nerdy and dorky = not racist.<br><br>Having a parody of a parody of Obama holding his nutz, dressed in saggy pants, crip walking in the White House (decorated in Red, Black & Green with pictures of MLK, Malcolm X and Ludacris on the walls while Michelle walks in with a housecoat and pink Goody rollers counting out food stamps -- remember, a parody of a parody) = not racist.<br><br>Suggesting that Obama is a drug dealer, a street thug, a black bogeyman that whites everywhere need to be afraid of when the man is about as physically threatening as a cone of cotton candy = racist.<br><br>You can joke on the Obamas and it not be racist.   You can criticize the Obamas and it not be racist.  The problem with many white folks is their criticism STEMS from racism.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3860507" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3860507" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3860507" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'d say "some," but not "many."<br><br>I think that the problem is (and this consistently gets me in trouble) that some (again, not all) of Obama\'s staunchest supporters find it easier to throw the "racist!!" flag than to actually discuss how a detractor came to a certain conclusion, or to just laugh at a joke. Throw that label around enough, and eventually people will be scared to challenge you.<br><br>People were called racist over the Rev. Wright flap (I was one of them, and I\'m <i>still</i> trying to figure out how that works). And how many people thought the <i>New Yorker</i> cover was racist when it first came out?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3860752">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3860752" class="dsq-comment-message">That\'s because many of the people being challenged are in fact racist or saying racist stuff and they a) don\'t realize they are being racist or b) don\'t want to accept the fact THEY are being racist.<br><br>The Rev. Wright flap was racist because people were not only questioning why Obama sat there but they questioned why he was going to a black church in the first place BUT they never questioned Hagee\'s church and they never caught the vapors over what Falwell and Robertson said, either.  "Conservative\' chat show hosts were saying "the black church" should be investigated and questioning why there was a black church to begin with.  O\'Reilly sicced his producer to ambush Father Pfleger, but he never sent somebody after Hagee or Robertson.  Why is that?<br><br>The New Yorker cover was racist because they were projecting their fears about black people onto Michelle Obama, having her with the Angela Davis fro and AK-47 and camoflage gear when what she said was not nearly as inflammatory as what they projected her to feel.  And we have nerve to wonder why gun sales have shot up since Obama\'s election?  It ain\'t because they\'re afraid Obama will overturn the 2nd amendment on Jan. 20, my friend [/johnmccain]</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3860915" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3860915" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3860915" class="dsq-comment-message">On Wright...don\'t know. I never saw a racial angle; I just saw a man essentially denouncing the US. Black, white, or whatever, there\'s no place for that. Did Hagee ever say anything on the order of "God d--n America"? <br><br>(and I ask that out of ignorance; I know he\'s suspect, but I\'ve never heard him go <i>that</i> far)<br><br>I saw the stereotypes in the New Yorker cover, but took it for what it was: satire. Some people have an odd sense of humor. <br><br>What upsets me more than anything is how whenever someone says/does something that\'s questionable, the other sides feels they have to do the same "in response." For every objectionable joke/writing/sketch about Obama, there was an equal response from his supporters about McCain....even at times when a response wasn\'t needed, required, or strategically smart.<br><br>And I haven\'t brought any guns...yet. ;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3860975" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3860975">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3860975" class="dsq-comment-message">Falwell and Robertson said that the US deserved 9/11 because of gays and Americans\' behavior.  Where was the fire on that?<br><br>And if anyone had looked at the ENTIRE sermon, not the 10 sec. clip, they would have seen that Rev. Wright was not "damning America" or saying that America deserved what it got...he was preaching we should pump our brakes, slow down and not be quick to anger.<br><br>What upsets me is that when McCain f\'d up, the press would blow up a story about Obama to make it seem like they were being fair and balanced.  Oh, people at McCain rallies are screaming NIGGER and KILL HIM and OFF WITH HIS HEAD?  Well, the Obama people are doing the same thing! They\'re singing AINT NO STOPPING US NOW and break dancing at his rallies!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3861077" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3861077" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3861077" class="dsq-comment-message">...and I remember them catching hell for those statements (though that\'s not who I asked about...).<br><br>You know just as well as I do that, post 9/11, you can\'t make a statement like that-whether Wright was actually damning America or not-and <i>not</i> expect to catch hell if/when it becomes public. That goes for anyone, regardless of where their seat on the aisle is.<br><br>And we\'re not going to talk about what the media did to seem "fair and balanced." Cause, obviously, they were nothing of the sort.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3862350">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3862350" class="dsq-comment-message">Did they have Falwell and Robertson on constant loop after they made those statements?  Did they suggest their congregations agreed with them and should be deported?<br><br>Or did they shrug and say "those crazy guys, ya never know what\'ll come out of their mouths?"<br><br>The underlying assumption behind the Rev. Wright / Whitey Tape / Farrakhan / New Yorker / Terrorist Fist Bump / Palling Around with Terr\'ists memes is that it ASSUMES that black people <br><br>a) Are not American<br><br>b) all hate white people<br><br>c) Americans are white, so if you hate white people, you hate America.<br><br>When you have these 3 assumptions as part of your belief system, your criticisms of Obama or any other black person are automatically going to come out of a base of racism.  I actually have no problem with that if the person owns their racism, but the problem is too many people hide their racism not because of what other people might think but because they don\'t want to think it of themselves.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3865120" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3865120" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3865120" class="dsq-comment-message">Town, they buried any clips of Robertson or Falwell blaming gays for 9/11, until their own church members told them they went too far with that shyt.<br><br>Additionally, you never really hear how Larry Flynt punked Falwell in a court of law and upheld the 1st Amendment, either.<br><br>Call it what it IS - RACISM.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3862184" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3862184" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3862184">isonprize</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3862184" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3862184" class="dsq-comment-message">um,  I\'m not seeing the correlation between,<br><br>NIGGER!  KILL HIM!  OFF WITH HIS HEAD!<br><br>v.<br><br>singing  "AIN\'T NO STOPPING US NOW"  a \'79  positive, upbeat, tune that made the US pop charts to 13.  (McFadden & Whitehead - Sound of Phila.)<br><br><br>\'Doing the same thing?\'   What the hell are you talking about?    Not. seeing. the. comparison.   NOT!</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-3862234">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3862234" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3862234" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3862234">Town</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3862234" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3862234" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s not the same thing, that\'s the point.  The media scratched and clawed very hard to say that the people attending Obama\'s rallies were doing the exact same thing the people at McCain\'s rallies were doing.  They weren\'t but because the media didn\'t want to be accused of being "in the tank" for Obama they came up with ridiculous comparisons.<br><br>THAT\'s what the hell I\'m talking about.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3862729" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3862729" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3862729">isonprize</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3862729" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3862729" class="dsq-comment-message">Got it.  Thanks for the clafication.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3863110" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3863110" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3863110">Town</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3863110" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3863110" class="dsq-comment-message">The MSM would report on the people foaming at the mouth at the Palin hate rallies and then try to say with a straight face that Obama\'s rallies were the same way.  Yeah, um, people singing AINT NO STOPPING US NOW is exactly the same as people foaming at the mouth about treason and killing.  Ok.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-3863854">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3863854" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3863854" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3863854">Quanli</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3863854" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3863854" class="dsq-comment-message">I feel like if they really wanted to play neutral, which was never a concern for them when the chips were stacked again PE Obama, then they would have done better to never mention the threats.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-3863799">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3863799" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3863799" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3863799">Quanli</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3863799" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3863799" class="dsq-comment-message">The comparison is always there just because they can\'t be \'wrong\'. For example: if one man beats another, rolls over him with a car, then lands an air plane on him. The victim is still wrong for having gotten up because then they\'re going \'back and forth\'. Throughout history their logic has always been like this. Extreme and dead wrong.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-3865090">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3865090" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3865090" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3865090" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3865090" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3865090" class="dsq-comment-message">D, did you ever hear the entire Jeremiah Wright sermon?<br><br>I have; in fact, I sat at a church service in Arlington two years ago when he preached it.  Trust me, Fox played the clips of him saying "God....Damned America" and not in the context set forth by Sean Klannity.<br><br>I still say if Obama challenged Klannity to attend services at Trinity, he could have cleared up this mess and backed Klannity into a corner with no way out except to admit he was wrong about both Jeremiah Wright and Barack Obama.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-3865247">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3865247" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3865247" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3865247" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3865247" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3865247" class="dsq-comment-message">Nope. Someone gave me a printed transcript of it a couple weeks after the story broke.<br><br>If it\'s not what it sounded like, I\'ll admit that I was wrong about <i>that</i> aspect of Rev. Wright (though there\'s still a couple other issues).</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-3865286">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3865286" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3865286" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3865286" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3865286" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3865286" class="dsq-comment-message">Which is why it\'s better to either watch a video of him preaching that sermon, or being there in person like I was - a printed transcript cannot fully convey the context that sermon was given and allowed for it to be blown out of proportion the way Klannity wanted it.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-3869290">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3869290" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3869290" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3869290">msmartin</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3869290" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3869290" class="dsq-comment-message">You really should read or listen to it before you use it as a basis of an argument.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-3869519">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3869519" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3869519" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3869519" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3869519" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3869519" class="dsq-comment-message">The last of my antagonists who will still speak to me...<br><br>I have to get the visceral images of it out of my mind. Reading it pissed me off, so I have to watch it with an open mind. Maybe the mrs will be down for it.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-3862462">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3862462" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3862462" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3862462">BTx</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3862462" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3862462" class="dsq-comment-message">Equating the fist bump between Barack and Michelle to the raised fists by Smith and Carlos at the \'68 Olympics...<br><br>racist.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3863282" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3863282" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3863282">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3863282" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3863282" class="dsq-comment-message">Town:  These were my thought when I read through the lyrics.  Di\'ja NOTE that I di\'int post the real SONG??  :&gt;)<br><br>Just felt a little uncomfortable.  However, hmmm.~ <br><br>Lyrics - kinda at the smile/chuckle level.  IMHO</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-3861219">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3861219" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3861219" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3861219" href="http://www.thebottomofheaven.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">claudia_m</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3861219" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3861219" class="dsq-comment-message">Finally found the lyrics:<br><br>Barack\'s House<br>(Parody of Brick House by The Commodores)<br><br>Ow! It\'s The White House<br>We finally might be<br>Just letting a bro hang out<br>Obama\'s White House<br><br>He might paint it black<br>Put a hoop out back<br>Rush Limbaugh has a heart attack<br><br>Ow! Barack\'s House<br>Well come November everybody knows<br>This is how the story goes<br><br>Obama beats John McCain<br>Then he rolls on up the moving van<br>Yeah, Yeah! How can he lose<br>To some old white dude<br>50 states<br>November 4 2008 he\'s a winning man<br><br>His crib\'s The White House<br>Yeah! Thanks to Oprah Winfrey<br>He\'s been letting his soul hang out<br><br>It\'ll be Barack\'s house<br>First Lady\'s got back<br>That\'s a fact<br>You better not talk no smack Yow<br><br>Chick a change chick a chane change<br>Beat McCain with a cane now<br>Getting down getting down now<br>Getting down<br><br>Ow! Barack in The House<br>Yeah! Not just for whitey<br>We\'re letting the bro hang out<br>Barack\'s house<br><br>Yeah! He\'s the one<br>The chosen one<br>We\'ll move him into Washington</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-3861490">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3861490" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3861490" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3861490" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3861490" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3861490" class="dsq-comment-message">That\'s it?<br><br>And people got offended?<br><br>Someone, somewhere, needs to grow up. Or get out of the house more.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-3861560">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3861560" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3861560" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3861560" href="http://www.thebottomofheaven.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">claudia_m</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3861560" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3861560" class="dsq-comment-message">I knooooow, right? Thank you, D. I didn\'t read through the comments (he has since taken them down) so I don\'t know what the issue is...</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-3862173">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3862173" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3862173" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3862173" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3862173" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3862173" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m certain, though, that the same people who complained about this think <a href="http://www.elyricsworld.com/my_president_is_black_lyrics_young_jeezy.html" rel="nofollow">My President Is Black</a> is just fine.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-3862607">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3862607" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3862607" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3862607">bittersweet</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3862607" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3862607" class="dsq-comment-message">I like it!</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-3859643">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3859643" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3859643" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3859643">RobM</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3859643" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3859643" class="dsq-comment-message">For CPL. There was no problem w/ deregulation according to Phil Gramm:<br><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/17/business/economy/17gramm.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/17/business/econ...</a></div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-3859874">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3859874" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3859874" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3859874" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3859874" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3859874" class="dsq-comment-message">Of course not - since he was one of the Congressional Members pushing for it back in the 90s. &lt;&lt;&lt;rolls eyes and spits&gt;&gt;&gt;</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-3860457">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3860457" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3860457" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3860457">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3860457" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3860457" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh quit ya whining! Its all in your head!!<br><br>I promise you I said that with the straightest of faces.....I should go into acting.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-3861925">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3861925" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3861925" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3861925" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3861925" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3861925" class="dsq-comment-message">It was suggested you join Skeptical Brotha and Town with their comedy act, Miranda.  LOL</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3862110" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3862110" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3862110">Texas_Girl_in_LA</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3862110" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3862110" class="dsq-comment-message">yes</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-3862741">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3862741" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3862741" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3862741">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3862741" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3862741" class="dsq-comment-message">This entire election cycle....You have to laugh to keep from crying. My sister and I were rolling yesterday over the lunacy that got thrown out there as actual campaign talking points. The surrogates and groups that popped up and actually got airtime on what USED to be credible news shows with the most insane comments.  From the primaries to the general election..it was INSANE. There should be a whole recap thread of all the nuttiness and it should be made into a good Mel Brooks madcap movie! <br><br>Did Bob Johnson really go all the way Buckwheat shrilling for Hillary?? Did Hill ACTUALLY state she was staying in the race because...well we know what happened to Bobby Kennedy in June...did she really say that?? so those PUMA people were serious?? Lady Lynn de Forrester Rotschild - ROFLMAO!! Yeah..the "lady of the people"..... Harriet Christian at the DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee meeting bemoaning the discrimination against white woman EREwhere!!.....hell, Harold Ickles and Lanny Davis at the DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee meeting...Donna Brazile having to go OFF at the DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee meeting! And finally after enduring that complete cuckoo-ness we get to the DNC in Denver, all goes well....except that dumbazz heifer crying like Miss Scarlet asked her to birth a damn baby....Michelle and Barack shine....and Lord have mercy....................here comes John McCain trotting out Miss Sarah the next day............................ I can\'t even start on that.<br><br>You can\'t make this stuff up...you have to laugh...you have to put it in its proper perspective...a sitcom...a comedy sketch - its so bizarre. What we have witnessed this year, I honestly still don\'t believe some of it really happened, I think I made it up - tell me.....does Joe the Plumber exist? Oh hell.......he does....and that mofo got a website:<br><a href="http://www.secureourdream.com/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.secureourdream.com/index.html</a><br><br>There HAS to be a big budget comedy coming outta this..there has to be.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-3862905">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3862905" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3862905" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3862905">vulcan girl</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3862905" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3862905" class="dsq-comment-message">Nope, it all really happened.  Even stuff you forgot about or never knew.<br><br>"Yo mama ain\'t name you no damn Barack." <br><br><a href="http://thisfuckingelection.com/" rel="nofollow">http://thisfuckingelection.com/</a></div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-3865050">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3865050" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3865050" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3865050" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3865050" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3865050" class="dsq-comment-message">But just think, if "Barack Obama" starts out his professional life as "Barry Dunham"....then it\'s discovered he changed his name from "Barack Obama" to "Barry Dunham" - how much of a field day the MSM would have had with that information.<br><br>But William Blythe can change his name to "Bill Clinton" and we don\'t even blink.<br><br>Another day in the land of "You Can\'t Make This Shyt Up".</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3860582" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3860582" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3860582">carolinagirl</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3860582" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3860582" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL. OMG this picture. *giggles* This is gonna be my new gravatar. LOL.<br><br><br>LMAO. The artist is just so wrong for this. LOL.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-3860627">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3860627" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3860627" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3860627">MsKitty</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3860627" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3860627" class="dsq-comment-message">That picture is a hoot, especially with the white unicorn in the background.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-3861644">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3861644" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3861644" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3861644">bittersweet</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3861644" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3861644" class="dsq-comment-message">What is he holding?  A gold brick embossed with a "B"?   Candy bar?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3862319" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3862319" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3862319">MsKitty</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3862319" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3862319" class="dsq-comment-message">I thought it was a belt buckle but you never know.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3862916" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3862916" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3862916" href="http://www.seesaw.typepad.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Liza Diamond</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3862916" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3862916" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s his Blackberry.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3863666" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3863666" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3863666">bittersweet</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3863666" class="dsq-comment-message">Ahaha!  Good one, Liza!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3861600" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3861600" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3861600" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes, rikyrah, you are so wrong for posting that picture.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3861707" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3861707" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3861707" class="dsq-comment-message">Newsweek asks if Obama is the AntiChrist.<br><br>Newsweek.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3862412">carolinagirl</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3862412" class="dsq-comment-message">*comes out like a sneeze* FUCK Newsweek!!!<br><br>Whew, excuse me.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3867710" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3867710">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3867710" class="dsq-comment-message">carolinagirl:   Kleenex?  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3863156" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3863156">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3863156" class="dsq-comment-message">I guess that\'s why they keep claiming he was born in Kenya.  It would fit with the anti-Christ being born in the east.<br><br>If Obama really WERE the anti-Christ, shouldn\'t they be welcoming his arrival so they can go get their heavenly reward quicker?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3863700" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3863700">Quanli</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3863700" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3863700" class="dsq-comment-message">That\'s why I say it\'s nothing to worry about. If they\'re doing what they\'re supposed to be doing, then welcome it.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3861765">Myth</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3861765" class="dsq-comment-message">Wow, that picture is too cool!  I can\'t stop laughing.  Don\'t you know it\'s coming. We all realize it is and can laugh at it because we have seen it ib \'hoods all over this country. My, my, my people.  This is going to be such a "colorful" presidential  term, none like we have ever seen before.  It will truly be entertaining. This pic is a great eye-catcher.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3862341">djchefron</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3862341" class="dsq-comment-message">Internet ‘Rightroots’ Key to GOP Revival<br>Only a stronger conservative online community and a compelling story will lead Republicans out of the wilderness.<br><a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/internet-rightroots-key-to-gop-revival/" rel="nofollow">http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/internet-rightroot...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3862634">BTx</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3862634" class="dsq-comment-message">The right isn\'t going anywhere in this country anymore...<br><br>Until it drops the racism.<br><br>There isn\'t going to be any GOP revival based on the Southern Fried politics of the Sno\' Ho\', limiting the Party to the deep southern states, mimicking George Wallace\'s 3rd Party Dixiecrats.<br><br>The national demographics don\'t support it.<br><br>The right built a media and internet machine in the early 90\'s which led to their electoral victory in he House and Senate in 1994, and ultimately led to George Bush\'s being placed in the White House in 2000.<br><br>Freepers dominated the press, the internet, and polls.<br><br>There isn\'t any problem with the right\'s "message" getting out...<br><br>The problem is the "message" is counterfeit.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3863866" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3863866" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3863866" class="dsq-comment-message">Run the Obama playbook.<br><br>That only works if half the country isn\'t already pissed off at you, and when you have a halfway decent standard-bearer.<br><br>Palin\'s sitting at 14:59:97; I\'m about ready to call her time of death. By the time 2016 comes around, Jindal\'s gonna be old news.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3862626">vulcan girl</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3862626" class="dsq-comment-message">The picture looks more like Kanye West than Barack Obama.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3862926">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3862926" class="dsq-comment-message">I was trying to figure out who it looked liked...and that\'s it!!! This looks like Kanye!! LOL!!!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3863816">bittersweet</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3863816" class="dsq-comment-message">At first, I didn\'t agree, but I stared and stared at the pic, and yes- the pic does look like Kanye around the mouth, lower jaw and chin area.   I still see Barack around the hair, forehead and eyes.<br><br>OK.  This needs to be my last word on this picture!   I\'m scaring myself.  :)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3862697">BTx</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3862697" class="dsq-comment-message">More from the whack job right -<br><br><i>AP adds a new one:  "And in a Maine convenience store, an Associated Press reporter saw a sign inviting customers to join a betting pool on when Obama might fall victim to an assassin. The sign solicited $1 entries into \'The Osama Obama Shotgun Pool,\' saying the money would go to the person picking the date closest to when Obama was attacked. \'Let\'s hope we have a winner,\' said the sign, since taken down."<br><br>More from AP:  "One of the most popular white supremacist Web sites got more than 2,000 new members the day after the election, compared with 91 new members on Election Day, according to an AP count. The site, <a href="http://stormfront.org" rel="nofollow">stormfront.org</a>, was temporarily off-line Nov. 5 because of the overwhelming amount of activity it received after Election Day. On Saturday, one Stormfront poster, identified as Dalderian Germanicus, of North Las Vegas, said, \'I want the SOB laid out in a box to see how \'messiahs\' come to rest. God has abandoned us, this country is doomed.\'" -- Greg Mitchell </i><br><br><a href="http://www.eandppub.com/2008/11/ap-more-threats.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.eandppub.com/2008/11/ap-more-threats...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3862816">vulcan girl</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3862816" class="dsq-comment-message">We never have to worry about our President looking like this ever again.<br><br><a href="http://weblogs.newsday.com/features/home/gardendetective_blog/bushcrocsgetty.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://weblogs.newsday.com/features/home/garden...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3863169" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3863169">Against Race Politics</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3863169" class="dsq-comment-message">TOO.FUNNY!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3865125">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3865125" class="dsq-comment-message">vulcan girl:    HEY!   :&gt;)           LOL!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3863179">Texas_Girl_in_LA</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3863179" class="dsq-comment-message">For those of us living in Southern Cali<br><br>As Southern Californians battle the wildfires, there are measures we all can take to protect<br>our health from the harmful pollutants filling our air.<br><br>If you are a healthy individual, the ash and smoke from the fires can irritate your eyes and<br>airways, cause coughing and/or a scratchy throat. They can also irritate your sinuses, cause<br>headaches or a runny nose. In addition to short-term effects, there may be long term effects<br>that can significantly impact your health.<br><br>Here are some tips you can follow to protect you and your family members from unhealthful air:<br>■ Stay indoors. Choose indoor options when air pollution levels are unhealthful. Keep your windows and<br>doors closed. Use your air conditioning system and place it on recirculation mode, if available.<br>■ Reduce outdoor activity. Reducing your physical activity in outdoor areas lowers the amount of polluted<br>air your body intakes. Curtail your involvement in outdoor activities and events that require prolonged<br>exposure and strenuous exercise or sports participation.<br>■ Stay alert. Listen to your local news and weather forecasts and air quality alerts provided by the South<br>Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD). If the air quality in your area worsens take necessary<br>precautions and plan your activities accordingly.<br><br>While the ash and smoke are visible reminders of the pollution currently impacting our area, be even more<br>cautious of the fine particles you can’t see. These particles, which are invisible to the naked eye, bypass<br>our natural defense system and lodge into our lungs. They can cause irritation, and over the long-term<br>cause decreased lung function. They also make us more susceptible to developing diseases such as asthma, bronchitis, emphysema and possibly cancer.<br><br>If you have any questions about air quality, please call <b>AQMD at 1-800-CUT-SMOG</b> or visit our website at<br><a href=http://www.aqmd.gov/ rel="nofollow">www.aqmd.gov.</a href></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3865097" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3865097">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3865097" class="dsq-comment-message">Texas_Girl:  NICE POST!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)  I use ta work with AQMD agents as a school administrator.  :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3864716" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3864716" href="http://bedouina.typepad.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Leila Abu-Saba</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3864716" class="dsq-comment-message">I live in Oakland CA and we already have lots of beautiful Obama on black tee shirt expression here. Everybody was wearing them on Saturday, too. Unusually warm summer-like weather so no jackets to cover up the images. Lots of folks have Barack AND Michelle tee shirts; I like those the best. The pride and happiness just make me smile.<br><br>In the Middle East when I was growing up, all through the 1970s, you saw prayer carpets, machine made, with JFK, RFK and Martin. Weird because JFK & RFK were not very good for the Arabs, especially Palestinians. Whatever. I assume we are going to see prayer carpets with Obama pretty soon. No I don\'t want to see him up there with Malcolm and Martin, our martyrs. I prefer to see him with Michelle - alive, not memorialized.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3865068" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3865068">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3865068" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:   Heeeey!   Just experienced an EARTHQUAKE!!  Not 2 big.  Waiting for a LOCAL NEWS report!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3865334">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3865334" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  ADDING to my PREVIOUS POST on  "The MEETING":     :&gt;)<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/17/obama-to-meet-with-mccain_0_n_144264.html" rel="nofollow">OBAMA MEETS With MsCain At Transition Office (VIDEO)</a><br><br><i>Ken Bazinet of the New York Daily News offers this pool report from the brief meeting.<br><br>    Asked about the goal of the meeting, Mr. Obama said, "We\'re going to have a good conversation about how we can do some work together to fix up the country, and also to offer thanks to Sen. McCain for the outstanding service he\'s already rendered."...<br><br><br>    Your pool tried to get the President-elect to answer a question on the auto industry bail out, but was shouted down by the pool sherpas. Mr. Obama finally said with a smile, "You\'re incorrigible."<br><br>    Sitting around a coffee table, with three U.S. flags behind them, were: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), President-elect Barack Obama and Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.), the chief-of-staff-designate.<br><br>    Your pool was in and out in about three minutes.<br><br>WATCH:</i><br><br>McAncient LOOKED soooo UNCOMFORTABLE!!  GOOD!!   :&gt;)<br><br>He betta RECOGNIZE!!!   WINNER:   President-Elect OBAMA<br><br><b>LOSER</b>   Y\'ALL!!    :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3865909" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3865909" href="http://entrylevelliving.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Allison @ Entry Level Living</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3865909" class="dsq-comment-message">That picture is all  kinds of FAIL.  lol</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3866247">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3866247" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:   Just from the TITLE of this article, I\'m believin\' that Ayers "pimp-slapped"  "SNO-HO":  <br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/17/ayers-our-neighborhood-ki_n_144362.htm" rel="nofollow">AYERS:  Our Neighborhood "Kind of Like WASILLA"</a><br><br>Oooooo-eeeeeee!!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3866282">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3866282" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  Is that the "BRIDGE TO NOWHERE" on the right side of the pic??  :&gt;)<br><br>Just askin\'. . . . . .     :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3866521" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3866521">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3866521" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  <i>MUDFLATS</i> continues to "BRING IT" to the <b>UN-VETTED ONE/SNO-HO!</b>:<br><br><a href="http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/11/16/sarah-palin-can-be-damaging-to-your-mental-health/" rel="nofollow">Sarah Palin CAN Be DAMAGING To Your MENTAL HEALTH</a>      HAH!    :&gt;)<br><br><i><b>Does anyone have a sock? A cork? A bar of soap, even? Because Sarah Palin will simply not. stop. talking. And I, for one, am willing to try anything that works. For some reason, her siren song of folksiness, labyrinthine sentence structure and downright refusal to be silenced have come together to generate some kind of perfect media storm.<br><br>The seamless ease with which Palin bounces back and forth between seemingly opposite and incompatible statements is mesmerizing….or just plain mind-numbing depending on your perspective. <u>It’s the classic example of what’s known in psychology as the “double bind.”</u></b><br><br>Examples of a psychological double-bind are the mother who says “I love you”, while simultaneously recoiling from a hug in digust, or the father who says “I’m so proud of you, you didn’t screw up again!” The victims of a double bind get two simultaneous and conflicting messages. The feeling we get when we witness, or are victims of a double-bind is visceral. Our senses are telling us two different things. Our mind is in disharmony. Both our gut and our brain tell us there is something very very wrong.<br><br>I present for you a case study - Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska, ex-VP candidate and double binder extraordinaire. See if you can pick it out of the following clip. It’s right in the beginning. If you want to keep listening you’ll be treated to a huge non-answer about the bailout of the auto industry, and a big “shout out” to George W. Bush.<br><br>SKIP  <br>So what happens to those who are continuously subjected to the double bind? If it’s coming from parents, or someone in a position of power, or someone from whom you cannot get away, the results can be damaging, especially for children. Fortunately for most of the country, Sarah Palin is not someone who wields power, and she is not their parent or our spouse, and they can get away from her with a click of the remote. <b>So my advice from Alaska to the rest of the country is, grab your children and run. Or just push mute.</b></i><br><br>LOL!!!!      :&gt;)      :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3867013">Texas_Girl_in_LA</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3867013" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3867013" class="dsq-comment-message">Obama Scores Highest Rating Record for <a href=http://www.blacktalentnews.com/artman/publish/article_2067.shtml rel="nofollow">"60 Minutes"</a href><br><br><br>The interview attracted 24.49 million viewers, giving the program a first-place finish in viewers<br><br>That marks the show\'s largest viewership since 1999, ad puts the show on track to be the most-watched broadcast program for the second week in a row.  Last week, more than 18 million viewers watched  Kroft\'s Election Night debriefing with Obama\'s campaign aides.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-3867801">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3867801" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3867801" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3867801">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3867801" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3867801" class="dsq-comment-message">EVENING THREAD IS UP</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-3867875">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3867875" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3867875" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3867875">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3867875" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3867875" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  UPDATE on the Senate races [From MSNBC]:<br><br>1.  Minnesota:   Leaning toward a RE-COUNT.<br><br>2.  Georgia:    MARTIN (D)/Chambliss (R) - - - - RUN-OFF   -   Dec. 2.<br><br>3.  Alaska:   BEGICH (D) STILL LEADING Stevens (R) by a little OVER 1000+;  There is a legal statute for a run-off  IFFF the "WINNER" does not WIN by 1.5%.  BUT, (a) Would it happen?  -OR-   (b) Will Stevens PROTEST?<br><br>THAT\'S ALL FOR NOW.    :&gt;)       :&gt;)</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-3860086">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3860086" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3860086" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3860086" href="http://www.freedomroadproject.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Patrick </a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3860086" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3860086" class="dsq-comment-message">The image you posted reminds me of the ongoing debate about whether Obama is a "magical Negro," absolving white liberals of their guilt.  Here are some resources on this topic:  <br><br><a href="http://freedomroadproject.blogspot.com/2008/11/magical-negro-in-chief.html" rel="nofollow">http://freedomroadproject.blogspot.com/2008/11/...</a><br><br>What do you think?</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 </ul>\
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