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But I am thinking you win the medal for the day.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_05:53:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9331bb2f158493fa0ab3fb14177d3f58", "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}, "1964186": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "From Blacks4Barack:<br>Group pushing Clinton as VP choice secretly </br><br>tied to her campaign</br><br>By Margaret Talev McClatchy Newspapers</br><br>Posted on Sunday, May 11, 2008</br><br></br><br>WASHINGTON \u2014 A group called VoteBoth has been leading the charge for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to team up on the Democratic ticket.</br><br>But the people behind it come from just one of those camps \u2014 Clinton's \u2014 and one of their goals may be keeping Clinton's White House prospects alive.</br><br>The group's founder, Adam Parkhomenko, until recently worked as an assistant to Patti Solis Doyle, who was Clinton's campaign manager until February. Parkhomenko in 2003 founded the Draft Hillary for President Committee.</br><br>VoteBoth's spokesman is Sam Arora. He's a law school student who in recent years worked for Clinton and for former Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe, Clinton's presidential campaign chairman.</br><br>VoteBoth's Facebook page lists three others as administrators, all with Clinton connections.</br><br>One is a Richmond-based Democratic technology consultant, who was quoted in a New York Times story about the Iowa Democratic Party's 2006 Jefferson-Jackson dinner, where he was passing out \"Hillary for President\" stickers. Another appears online in a photo with Hillary Clinton and others at a summer leadership program from 2006.</br><br>A third is a history professor and campaign contributor whom Clinton named earlier this year in a press release of prominent Virginians to endorse her. wrote When VoteBoth</br><br>On Friday, when word went out that Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., didn't see Clinton as Obama's pick for a running mate, VoteBoth released a statement offering respect for Kennedy. But it added, \"We think that the millions of Democrats who have voted for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have something to say, too. Why stop at having a nominee who has the support of 51 percent of Democrats when we could have a 'Dream Team' ticket that has won 100 percent?\"</br><br>VoteBoth first filed with the Federal Election Commission on April 8, two weeks before the Pennsylvania primary that Clinton won and that was considered a crucial window for her comeback. The group's original mission promoted the idea of Clinton as the nominee, with Obama as her running mate.</br><br>On May 1, days after the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's latest divisive remarks and Obama's renouncement of his former pastor, VoteBoth amended its mission. It now would support a joint ticket in either order, so long as Clinton's name was on the ballot.</br><br>Last week, as Obama's strong showing made him all but certain to clinch the nomination, VoteBoth leaders began putting themselves in the spotlight, sending regular press releases, posting blogs and appearing in interviews.</br><br>Parkhomenko wrote a widely circulated piece on The Huffington Post on Tuesday as voters went to the polls in North Carolina and Indiana primaries. \"VoteBoth does not aim to pick who leads the ticket,\" he said. He wrote of friends who \"believe in Barack as strongly as I believe in Hillary\" and wanting to be inclusive \"as a matter of fairness, practicality, experience and hope.\"</br><br>On Friday, when word went out that Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., didn't see Clinton as Obama's pick for a running mate, VoteBoth released a statement offering respect for Kennedy. But it added, \"We think that the millions of Democrats who have voted for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have something to say, too. Why stop at having a nominee who has the support of 51 percent of Democrats when we could have a 'Dream Team' ticket that has won 100 percent?\"</br><br>On Friday, Parkhomenko said through a spokesman that his decision to change the mission came after talking to an Obama supporter. He also said he gave neither the Clinton nor Obama campaigns a heads-up about his group.</br><br>In an interview Friday, Arora said VoteBoth is not coordinated with Clinton's campaign, and is \"just a bunch of us volunteering our time because we think this is a good idea.\" Despite the lopsided Clinton connections, he said it isn't just about supporting Clinton but about bringing together the rivals' historic turnout and fund-raising machines and constituencies.</br><br>\"There's been a lot of talk about a unity ticket and we think that's where the conversation should be,\" said Arora, choosing a word \u2014 conversation \u2014 that Clinton used to frame her campaign appearances. \"If we've been able to help the discussion forward, that's what we're focused on.\"</br><br>\"If Barack Obama is the nominee and he takes Senator Clinton as his vice president, you've got a ticket that's already won 100 percent of the Democratic vote, that's turned out a record number of Democratic voters and that has shattered fundraising records. A unity ticket is the way Democrats win in November.\"</br><br>Obama's campaign declined comment on VoteBoth. The Clinton campaign did not respond to a request for comment.</br><br>McClatchy Newspapers 2008</br><br></br><br>Visit: <a href=\"http://www.Blacks4Barack.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.Blacks4Barack.org</a> </br><br>A Multi-Racial, Grassroots Org...Dedicated To Truth !</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_09:39:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964187": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Anyone got any intel/background/connections with the Congressional Progressive Caucus?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_10:10:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0183bc94f5be8b9ec79636f3f2174ff5", "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}, "1964188": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yesterday I finally heard one of the pundits admit that Obama won this back in February.<br></br><br>Ruth </br><br></br><br>Don't feel bad, I feel like I'm standing still in time until this thing is over.  It's been a long I am ready for the celebration.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_10:44:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fcb7c771a7713dda01aa936fd426bfe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964189": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Might as well start with week off with a bang.<br></br><br>Michelle Obama attacked on Fox News</br><br></br><br>http://writechic.wordpress.com/2008/05/12/michelle-obama-attacked-on-foxnews/</br><br></br><br>Just blame it on a black person</br><br></br><br>http://writechic.wordpress.com/2008/05/10/just-say-it-was-a-black-person-the-fiasco-at-samford-university/</br><br></br><br>Peace.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_10:45:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964190": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Oh my GOSH this is funny!<br></br><br>Bill O'Reilly Goes Nuts!</br><br>(explicit language)</br><br></br><br>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAaHime9aaM&eur;</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_10:45:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "432619ba625f6a3e6b9013e9117e3759", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964191": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This is a great <a href=\"http://story:%3Cbr%3E%3C/br%3E%3Cbr%3Eajc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">story:<br></br><br>ajc.com</a> &gt; Metro &gt; Atlanta </br><br></br><br>Morehouse valedictorian stands out -- he's white</br><br></br><br>Joshua Packwood says college provided him a perspective he wouldn't have gotten elsewhere</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_11:04:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fcb7c771a7713dda01aa936fd426bfe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964192": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "@Texas Girl<br></br><br>That Bill O'Reilly video made my morning, I'll be laughing all day on that one!!!</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_11:06:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "ae84a1f516965138dcc59937fe7a7ac1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964193": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "A great post on how deeply the delegate math favors Obama<br></br><br>http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/05/everything-you-always-wanted-to-know.html</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_11:11:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "bc67a38bb57ec2663caef9c8162bfd38", "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}, "1964194": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Get ready for Michelle as the Black Bogeywoman, because that's all they have left. We will have to stand behind this Sista and continue to have her back.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_11:14:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f85f4de88a30987f0360c336da9569ae", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964195": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "We will have Michelle's back.  I'm sure she formed many professional relationships and there will be many who will attest to her capabilites.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_11:21:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fcb7c771a7713dda01aa936fd426bfe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964196": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The question is: what will her husband do?  Denounce her?  Tell her to go home like he did before and just concede the point?<br></br><br>I've said it and I'll say it again:  I will never forgive Barack Obama for the way he failed to standup to the attacks directed at Michelle Obama when the media trounced on the \"I'm proud of my country\" remark.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_11:54:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "3ecde559248958521e4cb25a77f2ee65", "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}, "1964197": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "nquest-get over it. <br></br><br>He cant be seen reacting to every jab and criticism. One way of dealing with a \"fake\" issue is not to feed the monster. The story eventually went away on its own. </br><br></br><br>Instead of stop messing with my WIFE!!....you are seeing, let me tell u who Michelle and I are..</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_12:09:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964198": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "There's no doubt in my mind that Barack loves and respects Michelle.<br></br><br>I wanted him to come and say more than what I heard him say, that her statements were taken out of context, but I'm sure he knew that anything else would feed the nonsense.  The speech speaks for itself - everyone knew what she meant.  No point at swinging at the wind.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_12:17:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fcb7c771a7713dda01aa936fd426bfe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964199": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "So Bill always had an anger issue?<br></br><br>Why would any business put up with that bs?</br><br></br><br>Just goes to show you the grand American double-standards.  O'Reilly can be the Angry White Guy blowing up over trivial sh*t but God forbid a Black man, Rev. Wright, say \"God damn America FOR KILLING INNOCENT PEOPLE...\"</br><br></br><br>I guess <a href=\"http://www.blackcommentator.com/276/276_think_aw_icarus_obama_left.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Narrative Maintenance</a> is a must.  </br><br></br><br><i>US history has a basic narrative: The settlers were heroes; the indigenous people were either heathens or naive primitives, but in either case they were in the way of progress. Slavery was an unfortunate episode that was cleaned up by the Civil War, though it has never been quite clear that the former slaves were ever meant to rule themselves, let alone anyone else. US foreign policy has generally been benign, nearly always driven by either a God-given imperative to improve the world or our sense that the planet would be better off with our version of capitalism and democracy. Where Rev. Wright fell into problems was by challenging this myth. Taking the standpoint of those who have seen the underside of the \u201cAmerican Dream\u201d, he was prepared to speak to a counter-narrative that identifies the problematic nature of US history.</i></br><br></br><br>*** Roll that Ronald Reagan \"City On A Hill\" clip from Hannity's latest attack on Michelle Obama.</br><br></br><br>Now roll clip after clip of Barack Obama subscribing to or floating the same problematic narrative.  And, actually, that's the biggest problem I have with Obama's grandstanding.  Denouncing Rev. Wright, Obama tried to feign offense claiming that it was Rev. Wright who acted like he didn't know him, after all these years.</br><br></br><br>Well, a little message from Trinity puts this back in proper perspective, IMO.</br><br></br><br><a href=\"http://truthabouttrinity.blogspot.com/2008/05/pastor-otis-moss-iii-divine-love-you.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"><b>#</b></a></br><br># Pastor Otis Moss III : Divine Love Does Not Ask Family To Choose Between Family Members</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_12:24:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "3ecde559248958521e4cb25a77f2ee65", "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}, "1964200": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>One way of dealing with a \"fake\" issue is not to feed the monster.</i><br></br><br>Well, Sen. Obama did just that.  </br><br></br><br></br><br><i>...you are seeing, let me tell u who Michelle and I are...</i></br><br></br><br>Where am I seeing that?  I don't do myths, Anon.</br><br></br><br>I saw:  Barack Obama FEED the Rev. Wright \"fake\" issue.</br><br>I saw:  Barack Obama FEED the \"fake\" issue over Michelle's statement by saying she \"misspoke.\"</br><br></br><br>Like I said, I don't do myths.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_12:39:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "3ecde559248958521e4cb25a77f2ee65", "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}, "1964201": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "NQuest<br></br><br>He didn't say Michelle misspoke, he said her words were taken out of context.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_12:46:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fcb7c771a7713dda01aa936fd426bfe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964202": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/05/five-reasons-why-2012-is-no-go-for.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Five Reasons why 2012 is a No-Go for Clinton</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_12:48:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f85f4de88a30987f0360c336da9569ae", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964203": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "If Michelle is angry, then she has every right.  The first time I saw her, I thought her very reserved.  There wasn't anything so much about her physical appearance except two vertical lines between her brows that indicate worry, stress and sometimes anger.<br></br><br>Then I learned she went to Harvard and I thought \"oh shit\".  Certainly, one can imagine the sort of things she went through in the 70's.  And sure enough, the story came out about her white roomate attempting to get transferred so as not to bunk with a black person.  I am sure Michelle sensed that she wasn't welcome.  A lifetime of those experiences can hurt.  I think any worry or anger in that context, is a defense mechanism.</br><br></br><br>People like Hannity can sense those things too.  They will poke at her sore spots as a way to take down Obama's bid for the Presidency.  They want Obama to get angry and react like a man, and defend his woman -  which is what he should NOT do.</br><br></br><br>I am sure Michelle doesn't need Obama to prove his devotion.  I don't know why anyone outside would need him to prove it.  They obviously adore each other.  Which brings to mind another thing.  They've got nothing on the Obama's as a family.  There's nothing sordid in their that they can attack.</br><br></br><br>Cindy's got sore spots too.  She is deeply humiliated by the stories about John calling her a \"cunt\".  I saw her sitting behind him on the stump, she was staring off into the distance with a strange expression.  Despite her wealth, she may have serious self-confidence issues.  John is a weasel and a bully.  He hides behind Cindy when convenient. Bullies don't marry strong women.  I am sure Cindy is the frequent recipient of his rage.</br><br></br><br>These people are very human.  The question is, what kind of human are they.  And, how do these things portend the kind of leaders they'll be.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_12:48:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0e63fda3bc8752465623f674ffcc5f40", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964204": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I was outside the Obama HQ in Lexington, KY yesterday, and a woman drove by in her giant SUV, honked her horn at us, and did a thumbs-down.  The hate for Obama in this region is frightening.  I have no doubt this office will be vandalized by May 20th.  <br></br><br>Now don't get me wrong, there are a lot of \"working, hard working class white voters\" in KY who support Obama.  But for every one I come across, I encounter three who <b>REALLY</b> hate him.</br><br></br><br>And the sad thing these people don't realize is that they're being made into caricatures by the media: \"look at the backwards hillbillies.  Aren't you glad, normal America, you don't live in Appalachia?\"  (The only difference between \"normal\" America and Appalachia is that they're too stupid in Appalachia to hide they're racism).  And these people in PA, OH, WV, KY, and TN are very obliging.  Whenever the press comes around, <a href=\"http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/2a50425a-1f86-11dd-9216-000077b07658,s01=1.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">they're</a> more than happy to put on their racial bigotry performances.  </br><br></br><br>What keeps me volunteering in KY is that even though these people are fighting it tooth and nail, they will benefit greatly from Obama being POTUS.  And perhaps not this generation, but the next generation will see that blacks can be trusted in positions of power.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_12:52:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "6aa3ee71bc9714917dc34dde9e4e2b41", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964205": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ms. Martin,<br></br><br>He may have said her words were taken out of context but he also concede that she \"misspoke.\"</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_12:58:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "3ecde559248958521e4cb25a77f2ee65", "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}, "1964206": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Truthseeker<br></br><br>Michelle did go to Harvard law school, but the situation at the roomate was at Princeton where she said she felt like a visitor on campus.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_13:00:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fcb7c771a7713dda01aa936fd426bfe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964207": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Geez nquest...<br></br><br>Dont  u see what's happening here? GOP plans to demonize Michelle and force him to respond by  vigorously defend her. Hopefully she comes out as well and shows some anger. That would be a bonus..</br><br></br><br>Now, we are all focusing on Michelle the wife, instead of Obama the candidate. </br><br></br><br>The goal?--distract him and make him look weak.</br><br></br><br>The real anger needs to be directed at these HHH negroes that continue to support Clinton in spite of her repeated use of the race card. </br><br></br><br>There are much bigger fish to fry my sis and u aint seen nothing yet</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_13:02:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964208": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Well Felicia,<br></br><br>Stay safe while volunteering.  The whole world is watching these elections.  I am sure KY and WV will have a serious tourism problem after this is all over.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_13:05:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0e63fda3bc8752465623f674ffcc5f40", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964209": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "It's amazing how people aid their own economical and social subjugation. Free your mind and the rest will follow.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_13:07:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "ae84a1f516965138dcc59937fe7a7ac1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964210": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "ms.martin,<br></br><br>Sure.  My point is that any Ivy League school in the 70's with few blacks would be a harrowing experience for a young black woman.  My own father was a little traumatized after attending University in London in the 60's.  To this day he refuses to live in any Europe or N. America.  He doesn't talk about it extensively, but I can fill in the blanks.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_13:12:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0e63fda3bc8752465623f674ffcc5f40", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964211": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "what's even more amazing is how the GOP's been able to con these folks into voting against their econ interests. <br></br><br><i>Free your mind, and the rest will follow </i></br><br></br><br>easier said than done with these low info voters and the irony of it all is that these working class whites, by their sheer number--stand to benefit the most from an Obama presidency.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_13:14:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964212": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Anon,<br></br><br>The GOP demonized Rev. Wright too and our dear Senator went back to kindergarten:</br><br></br><br>\"See Barack run.\"</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_13:18:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "3ecde559248958521e4cb25a77f2ee65", "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}, "1964213": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Now, please explain why Barack \"should not\" address these smears against his wife.  Is it because he is a \"politician\"?<br></br><br><b>\"We both know that if Senator Obama [did] he said he would not get elected...\"</b></br><br></br><br></br><br>Is that what you're saying?  Something like that?</br><br></br><br>LOL </br><br></br><br>Funny how that works.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_13:23:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "3ecde559248958521e4cb25a77f2ee65", "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}, "1964214": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "First off, Hannity sounding off does not constitute an attack by the GOP. If that were the case, then the NY Times' attacks on McCain were really DNC attacks.<br></br><br>(Wait, there may be some truth to that.....)</br><br></br><br>Second, let's be honest: Michelle has said some things that are completely suspect. Even when placed in their proper context, there's something questionable about saying that you're just now becoming proud of your country. </br><br></br><br>Take the right wing spin out of it. She should have had enough sense-or someone should've been smart enough to recognize-that a comment like that would land her under the bus. I know what she meant, but her phrasing was terrible.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_13:26:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0183bc94f5be8b9ec79636f3f2174ff5", "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}, "1964215": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Truthseeker<br></br><br>I got your point and understand all to well how Michelle felt.</br><br></br><br>I grew up in a small town in Illinois and was bused to predominately white schools during the late 60s and have worked in environments where there weren't many blacks.  I know that anger all to well.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_13:31:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fcb7c771a7713dda01aa936fd426bfe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964216": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>This is a great <a href=\"http://story:%3Cbr%3E%3C/br%3E%3Cbr%3Eajc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">story:<br></br><br>ajc.com</a> &gt; Metro &gt; Atlanta </br><br></br><br>Morehouse valedictorian stands out -- he's white</br><br></br><br>Joshua Packwood says college provided him a perspective he wouldn't have gotten elsewhere</br></i><br></br><br>Yep.  Saw it on the front page of the paper this morning.  </br><br></br><br>IMO, it's a major statement made by academia; a major statement made by Morehouse; and a major statement made to the country, that a young white man can go to a college with 99% young Black men, and not only receive a quality education, but be its valedictorian.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_13:37:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "25c2ebf4464c5d95fa227ddd4a0d2fe5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964217": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "OK, I hate to say but I do NOT like Michelle Obama. Both my sisters LOVE her and it appears as if she has a few fans on this site also. I agree with d, she has made hmmm.... let's face it dumb comments and she is toooo intelligent for that. I am an Obama supporter but again I don't like Michelle, sorry! I think if she can't control what comes out of her mouth then she needs to be quiet. Sorry.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_13:44:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "28cc5a449f328a9bd9d57f126ea85efd", "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}, "1964218": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "just shakin' my head...<br></br><br>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/12/see-the-dress-that-got-a_n_101311.html</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_13:49:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "cac704fd42d02c9cead997b5c53f0fcd", "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}, "1964219": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Michelle is not standing behind her husband, she's standing beside him. Some people can't handle that fact.<br></br><br>I do not believe she said anything that warrants all the attacks, however let's be truthful...a black woman speaking her mind seems to really get under some peoples skin.</br><br></br><br>She was expressing herself in an intelligent manner...geez you would think she was Monica Conyers the way a couple of you are commenting.</br><br></br><br>Please differentiate between ignorance and something you don't agree with.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_13:51:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "ae84a1f516965138dcc59937fe7a7ac1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964220": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "She should have known better. Her remarks for perfect for sound bites! Again, I am partial because unfortunately I didn't like her before then. I hope it's mostly an image problem but other AA's have said that comes off \"elite\" even before the bitter comments. I'm not saying that she is an elitist as I know her upbringing but I guess I don't understand why she can't control her words and there is something else I can't put into words just yet.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_13:52:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "28cc5a449f328a9bd9d57f126ea85efd", "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}, "1964221": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "d,<br></br><br>She did have enough \"sense\".  Her exact quote is: </br><br></br><br>\"For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country; and, not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change.\"</br><br></br><br>So, anyone with moderate comprehension skills and a low level of malice will see that she modifies her initial sentence with the explanation that she is especially proud now because people are hungry for change.</br><br></br><br>I think you suffer from an honesty deficit, d.  There is nothing questionable to me about the quote above because I have no malice toward Michelle and I understand her modifier.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_13:53:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0e63fda3bc8752465623f674ffcc5f40", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964222": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "@ n mahana,<br></br><br>I have NO problem with a woman speaking their mind. I intend to do just that but I don't agree with the way she phrased her comments and if they were so ...hmm \"politically correct\" then we would not be discussing them and Fox would not have turned them into a campaign all on their own! I support Obama whole heartedly but I do have the right to my opinion and that just happens to be my opinion about Michelle and her comments.</br><br></br><br>I mean we all know AA's are held to a higher standard and she can't afford to be painted as the angry black woman after all he has enough to deal with (Wright, the innuendos about Farrakhan etc) and I don't think he can properly defend her because he will then be painted as the angry black man although I don't know how much he can defend her other than to say she misspoke b/c the comments (or phrasing) was at best innapropiate. I don't feel as if I have to agree with everything Obama (or his wife for that matter) do to be a supporter.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_13:58:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964223": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thank you, Truthseeker.  <br></br><br>But, D, you still have your chance.  Place Michelle's comments in their proper context (which Truthseeker provided for you) and explain what you find \"questionable\" about them.</br><br></br><br>I'm thinking there's a reason why you haven't already done so.  It's called: you can't.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_13:58:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "3ecde559248958521e4cb25a77f2ee65", "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}, "1964224": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ladies and gentlemen, if you didn't follow the elections in France, then you will want to know that a right wing nut was elected president because the mainstream media swift-boated the progressive candidate to the point that it ruined his marriage. <br></br><br>This is what is being attempted here in the states. Michelle Obama is the right wing MSM's last hope to derail the Obama candidacy.</br><br></br><br>He knows it. He's too smart not to. He needs not justify any of it with a response for if he does it will disastrous.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_14:03:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9bf0971c139c9dc33659e8ed441e4f5e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964225": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I like Michelle Robinson Obama. I fail to see how her saying she was really proud of her country set off such a firestorm as it has been discussed and misappropriated a thousand times over. We already know 'they' will be gunning for her because she is a tall, attractive, Black woman who is comfortable with herself, intelligent and formidable. Hmmm...sorta like how Hillary was demonized during Bill's run. I don't see her jockeying for a co-Presidency however. Someone commented on another blog that 'they' will try to prove - and it's a little vulgar but accurate - that \"her vagina has teeth\". We know there will be criticism, but there will be criticism of Cindy McCain as well. She needs to release her tax returns. We need to reveal how the 'Maverick' left his disabled first wife who stood by his cheating self when he was a POW and left her for a younger heiress whose family money and connections bought him his Senate seat! All those so-called feminists will need to rally around Michelle. We'll see if they'll be just as ferocious a supporter of Michelle as they have been for Hillary. She will make an excellent First Lady. And yes I have beef with Barack over not defending his wife too and wrote a long post on his campaign website about it some time ago. It's a separate issue but needs equal attention to how the image of Black women has taken such a beating and the ways we can stand up for real change and stop demonizing our women and girls. <br></br><br>Oh - and side note - thanks for the chat Baratunde. It was great meeting you!</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_14:04:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "1572c9b90152e199379cfb228c0cc759", "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}, "1964226": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "It's questionable in the sense that she should know-at least by now, and especially after the spin of the \"black America will wake up and get it\" comment-that ANYTHING she says that could be ever so slightly be shown to disparage our country will be spun completely out of context. And if she doesn't know, and Obama has competent campaign stuff, one of them should have suggested to her that she not say things like that.<br></br><br>Truth/Nquest, like I said, I know what she meant. The only reason I know what she meant is because I did look at the full quote after I read it. That being said, on first glance-which, being honest, is all a lot of people take-it still looks horrible.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_14:10:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0183bc94f5be8b9ec79636f3f2174ff5", "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}, "1964227": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "What was inappropriate about her remark?<br></br><br>People act like Michelle Obama is the first person to say something about the state of political affairs in this country as it relates to feelings of apathy, frustration and disaffection with the political process.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_14:12:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "3ecde559248958521e4cb25a77f2ee65", "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}, "1964228": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I loved this from Truthseeker:<br></br><br>\"I am sure Michelle doesn't need Obama to prove his devotion. I don't know why anyone outside would need him to prove it. They obviously adore each other.\" </br><br></br><br>I am a complete, total, and unapologetic Michelle fan.  Yet another wonderful aspect of Barack's campaign is that America has the opportunity to see what a loving and supportive partnership this Black couple has. They clearly love each other, are so comfortable showing their adoration to/for each other, and it looks so perfectly natural.</br><br></br><br>There is a look that Barack gets in his eyes when he's watching her that never fails to make me melt.  I don't think Michelle has ever had cause to wonder how her husband feels about her.</br><br></br><br>And, I have no doubt that if Michelle felt she needed defending, he would have made a much bigger deal out of that entire ridiculous \"controversy\" over her remarks.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_14:21:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7cded6e836307cd53ca5997e1f112b4c", "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}, "1964229": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Get ready for the new battle in the Voter ID fracas.<br></br><br>The New York Times reports that Missouri lawmakers are expected to support a constitutional amendment that would require proof of citizenship from anyone registering to vote. </br><br></br><br></br><br>This is a troubling development that could disenfranchise thousands of minorities</br><br></br><br>Read it <a href=\"http://www.thevaneljournal.com/2008/05/missouri-amendment-could-disenfranchise.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"></a></br><br>here</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_14:23:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "b5cfd3a4b8cf7eacb68ce45fc57ab51a", "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}, "1964230": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That's not a prom dress.That's dental floss, and her mother needs to be bitchslapped for letting her teenaged daughter walk out of the house looking like a glorified streetwalker. If she was walking down the street, why wouldn't a cop believe that she was soliticing? That's what's wrong with us, as a people, we let children dress anyway they see fit, and then tell them there's no consequences to the presentation to the world that your appearance screams. <br></br><br>Nobody can look at that dress and tell me that that girl doesn't belong:</br><br>a) on a streetcorner</br><br>b) on a stipper pole</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_14:26:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f85f4de88a30987f0360c336da9569ae", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964231": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "D, your comments now don't match the rhetoric you started off with.<br></br><br><b>Even when placed in their proper context, there's something questionable about saying that you're just now becoming proud of your country.</b></br><br></br><br>So, once again:  Place Michelle's comments in their proper context and explain what you find \"questionable\" about them.</br><br></br><br>That has nothing to do with the right wing spin machine.  That was you claiming Michelle's comments were inherently \"questionable.\"</br><br></br><br>And its completely ridiculous to talk about desperate attempts to smear Obama... Hell, they've tried to smear Obama by playing the Farrakhan card.  </br><br></br><br>The point is simply this:  it doesn't matter what Obama and associates say or don't say.  ENEMIES of his campaign will find something, anything... to use against him whether Obama & Co. \"provide\" them something or not.</br><br></br><br>You can't show what's \"QUESTIONABLE\" about Michelle's statement but because Obama's ENEMIES will do and say anything (something that can't be stopped regardless) you tried to say there was something \"questionable\"... only you still can't point that out.</br><br></br><br></br><br>But, hey... Anything right wing nuts question is, by definition, \"questionable\", huh?</br><br></br><br>GTFOoH!!!</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_14:28:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "3ecde559248958521e4cb25a77f2ee65", "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}, "1964232": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "@ anon 10:58<br></br><br>I never said that you could not be an  Obama supporter, if you disagreed with some of the things the Senator or his wife has stated.</br><br></br><br>However I made it clear in my last sentence (because some were claiming it was ignorant) that there's a difference between ignorance and something you do not agree with.</br><br></br><br>Instead of making it into an \"Angry black woman\" issue or an issue of ignorance; why not simply say, you don't agree?</br><br></br><br>However, after reading what you stated, it seems more an issue of fear rather than anything else.</br><br></br><br>Fear that she will be labeled, \"Angry black woman\", and in turn so will the Senator.</br><br></br><br>Well, it is what it is.In my opinion, that double-standard is not a reason to vilify Michelle. </br><br></br><br>The quote from Michelle that truthseeker posted, says it all. That doesn't sound ignorant, just a woman (who happens to be black) being truthful about her feelings and perspectives.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_14:33:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "ae84a1f516965138dcc59937fe7a7ac1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964233": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Nquest,<br>I personally feel it was a dumb statement, for the reasons I've stated above.</br><br></br><br>Outside of that, there's been  opportunities for Michelle to be proud of our country because of \"change.\" Based on that, I think the statement's questionable. You, of course, won't like that, but that's the good thing about my opinion.</br><br></br><br>I'm not attacking Michelle, calling her unpatriotic or anything like that. I'm not your typical conservative. Just like I saw the point Pat Buchanan was trying to make when he said (paraphrasing) that blacks should be lucky to be here, I saw Michelle's point on that statement (still don't quite get the \"America is mean\" statement, though).</br><br></br><br>And I'm just saying the same thing about Michelle that I said about Buchanan-her phrasing sucks.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_14:38:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0183bc94f5be8b9ec79636f3f2174ff5", "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}, "1964234": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "@ ppm,<br></br><br>Ha!...It's good to know someone else see those looks!  He actually touches her.  He puts his hand on the small of her back or around her waist.  There is obvious intimacy there, so much so it kinda makes me blush.  It is good to think that the President and first lady are having lots of sex  - with each other - and enjoying it!  Maybe then, he won't go bomb bomb bombing Iran.  </br><br></br><br>I watch Cindy and John, and they may as well be a hundred miles apart.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_14:39:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0e63fda3bc8752465623f674ffcc5f40", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964235": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "@heartsandflowers,<br></br><br>I loved your comment and it was spot on about the feminist movement rallying around Michelle in the general.</br><br></br><br>I won't hold my breath.</br><br></br><br>Since when has the femnist movement (overall) and their organizations rallied around any causes that concern women of color?</br><br></br><br>Even though, this is a presidential election, one of their own has been  best beaten (no pun intended) and I'm skeptical about their support of Senator Obama. I'm more prone to the idea of them undermining on behalf of Hillary in 2012.</br><br></br><br>Cindy McCain has stated point blank , that she will NOT release her tax returns. She said it with such a fearless air of elitism it almost chilled me.</br><br></br><br>She feels she doesn't have to answer to anybody.</br><br></br><br>McCain into power. *smirks*</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_14:40:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "ae84a1f516965138dcc59937fe7a7ac1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964236": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "So far today, Obama's picked up 4 more SuperDs.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_14:41:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f85f4de88a30987f0360c336da9569ae", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964237": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The more I think about Senator Hillary Clinton's blatant pander to the dixicrat roots (and continuing bloom) in the Democratic Party and the lack of outrage from the Party elders, the more pissed I get.  If Senator John McCain had uttered those words, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi et al would have been knocking each other down to hold the first press conference condemning him!  <br></br><br>How the hell did we, as people, become so complacent, tolerant, and willing participants of this disprespect over the last 4 decades?</br><br></br><br>George Bush has deservedly earned the disdain of Black folk, but the one thing you can NOT say about him is that he has any fear of putting Black folks in positions of authority unlike the Democrats who are supposed to be the Party of racial justice and equality.  The Black folks he selects may be to the Right of us, and deaad wrong on every policy front, but you can never say that he feared their race would be an impediment to his goals.  Secretary of State is the 2nd most powerful position in the world, and he not only put two Black faces out there to represent this country, but a Black woman.  </br><br></br><br>And here we are rolling with a Party that would actually give consideration to denying the nomination to a man who has earned it b/c poor White folks don't seem to be ready.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_14:45:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "c60cf267cb7a0392bdb4a893a5ee5c7c", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964238": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "nmp,<br></br><br>you hit on one of the main issues I have with the leaders of the Democratic party and some of their supporters. They seem to be very hypocritical and spineless.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_15:11:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "ae84a1f516965138dcc59937fe7a7ac1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964239": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Jeff Toobin tells the truth on CNN panels.  It's refreshing.<br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/12/toobin-a-mccain-court-cou_n_100798.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Toobin: A McCain Court Could Overturn Roe In \"Maybe A Year\"</a></br><br></br><br></br><br>Jenna Bush got married.  She looked lovely.  I felt happy for her.  It can't be easy to be George Jr.'s daughter.</br><br></br><br><a href=\"http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=3649438&amp;page=1\" rel=\"nofollow\">20/20 Exclusive: The First Daughter's First TV Interview</a></br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_15:14:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0e63fda3bc8752465623f674ffcc5f40", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964240": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "@truthseeker,<br></br><br>I wrote about the \"intimacy\" between Senator Obama and Mrs. Obama a few months back and yes I'm also happy that other's recognize this and also that it's a very healthy image for the country as well.</br><br></br><br>This is not a shameless plug...just a observation.</br><br></br><br>http://www.gerardbutler-afterdark.com/2007/10/baracks-greatest-asset.html</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_15:18:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "ae84a1f516965138dcc59937fe7a7ac1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964241": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Get ready for more silly attacks on Michelle:  I was listening to Rush Limbaugh today (I know, I know) and the very last caller compared Michelle Obama to Aunt Esther of Sanford and Son.  Of course Rush tried to play it off like he didn't know who Aunt Esther was (just like he tried to pretend to not to know who Curious George was when he let a caller on the air who compared Barack to Curious George).   What's next?  Comparing the Obama children to some gross racial stereotype?  Rush is letting his callers slam the Obamas with nasty racial stereotypes he wants to call them himself but can't.  Ugh.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_15:22:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964242": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "@anon 12:22,<br></br><br>Well Rush has been beaten to the punch on slandering Obama's children. What kills me is that these, are indeed, children...not teenagers and certainly not adults.</br><br></br><br>So called Democrats and liberals were calling these kids are sorts of names on the Democratic Underground website.</br><br></br><br>Funny how none of that was moderated.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_15:28:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "ae84a1f516965138dcc59937fe7a7ac1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964243": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "n. mahana,<br></br><br>No. My problem is not fear. I said that I do not agree with the way she phrased her remarks. They would not be an issue if they were phrased in a better context. I think she is far too intelligent to drop the ball like that - particularly in the midst of the Wright (patriotism issues). Why would she even put her husband in a position like that? You would think someone would have censored/approved this. You just can't go around saying anything you want to say anyway you like. You can't even do that in the real world! I know. I have to watch what I say at work, down to my tone- shoot even with my (Black)family members! LOL! I am a Black woman that believes in speaking my mind so I wouldn't hold another Black down, or anyone else for that matter but again I don't think the comments (or phrasing of the comments were wise. If they were they would not have been made for Sound bite Heaven! If they were wise she wouldn't be able to be used as a \"scapegoat\". Period- now that is my opinion as a loyal Obama supporter!</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_15:51:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964244": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "There are plenty of times my son feels like his homework is stupid! A lot of the times I agree. It doesn't mean it woudld be wise at all for either one of us to say that to the teacher! It just doesn't! Or IMO there are things that Black people can say around other Blacks but have no business saying on front of other ethnic groups. ( I don't mean racists comments either:-) I just don't think you speak every thought that comes into your head and you certainly have to think about how you say what you say when you are in a position like this! And I do agree that Obama should have had her lay low. There is no way I could have taken Rev. Wright coverage on this! LOL!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_15:57:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964245": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "nquest,<br></br><br>Pardon the long post, but your comments raise an intriguing issue.  </br><br></br><br>This is how I see it. . . I've said it before:</br><br></br><br>MLK or Malcolm X. . . </br><br></br><br>America makes you choose. . .you can either have your Malcolm X or your Martin Luther King Jr.</br><br></br><br>But you can't have both at the same time.  </br><br></br><br>That's the game.</br><br></br><br>And history has shown us that black leaders like Martin and Malcolm often play off of eachother to achieve their mutually shared goal, black liberation.</br><br></br><br>MLK wouldn't have been so successful if he didn't have a Malcolm X to play off of.  </br><br></br><br>\"We shall overcome\" means little without \"By ANY means necessary,\" to back it up.</br><br></br><br>It's yin and yang.  They go together even when conventional wisdom suggests they should remain at odds.</br><br></br><br>Thus, from a black perspective, \"Yes we can\" is fine as an aspiration so long as we don't sacrifice \"unapologetically/unashamedly black.\"</br><br></br><br>nquest, I understand your anger.  But my point is this:</br><br></br><br>There's a reason why Martin has a holiday and Malcolm doesn't.  </br><br></br><br>There's a reason why W. E. B. Dubois got more accomplished than Marcus Garvey.</br><br></br><br><b>Some fight the system. . . others master the game.</b> </br><br></br><br>Malcolm fought the system. . . Martin mastered the game.  Likewise, Wright fights the system. . . but Obama's mastered the game.  </br><br></br><br>It doesn't make one side better or worse.  They just provide different forms of leadership. . . each with their ideal place and time.</br><br></br><br>By definition, the presidency is an aspect of \"the system.\"  Thus it's time to master the game.  That means more Obama and less Wright for the moment.</br><br></br><br>I love the fire and passion of black folk like Malcolm and Wright.  As a matter of fact, my spirit is a little more Malcolm than Martin, more SNCC than SCLC.</br><br></br><br>But we know the game and how it's played.  For all of his greatness (indeed some attributes more inspiring than King, himself) Malcolm X was never gonna pass a 1964 Civil Rights Act.  He was never gonna influence a 1965 Voting Rights Act.</br><br></br><br>Why?</br><br></br><br>Because he was made to FIGHT the system, not master it.</br><br></br><br>Policy and politics is all about compromise.  None of us like it, but that's the nature of the beast.  We live in a pluralistic society (ultimately, that's a good thing).</br><br></br><br>Sad to say, but baby steps are the price we pay for progressive politics in a stagnant nation.</br><br></br><br>The question is how much you and I are willing to compromise.</br><br></br><br>And that brings us back to Rev. Wright and his comments during the question and answer phase at the National Press Club.  Please, note that I stress the question and answer phase because Wright's actual speech (for the most part) was focused and on point.  </br><br></br><br>Black folk know the deal.  And Rev. Wright's sin, as far as I'm concerned, wasn't \"hate speech\" so much as it was HNIC syndrome.  </br><br></br><br>In essence, Wright sought to force us to fight the system at a time when we were invested in mastering the game.</br><br></br><br>There's a time and place for everything.  Wright's voice is important.  However, Wright's words at the National Press Club, however accurate, were neither the time nor place to raise them.  Play the game, but know the rules.  If you must, make your speech at the NPC, waive and say goodbye.  But don't get sucked into a chest-thumping contest with the very people who control the microphone, control the news headlines and control the media spin.  That's just not smart.</br><br></br><br>I have no problem with much of what Wright had to say.  But I have a major problem with the fact that he fell victim to the game and gave the National Press Club every type of sound bite they had been waiting for.  His performance (and sadly, it was a performance) exploited the limelight to simplify matters of race and religion and make it a battle about himself.  </br><br></br><br>He had every right to defend his honor and reputation.  But Obama doesn't have to fight that battle for him (at least not on Rev. Wright's terms), especially when Wright doesn't give him anything to work with.  That's a personal battle between Wright and the media.  Sadly, it got hard to discern where defense of the black church ended and Rev. Wright's ego began.  </br><br></br><br>Unfortunately, Wright's timing (and mentioning of his new book) undermined much of his message.</br><br></br><br>Similarly, MLK didn't have to fight Malcolm's battle over those famous words in the wake of Pres. Kennedy's assassination, \"chickens have come home to roost.\"  Despite it's accuracy, it was neither the time nor place.  And Malcolm faced backlash (both from the SCLC crowd and the NOI) when he appeared to make the movement personal.</br><br></br><br>Listen,  I embrace many forms of black nationalism.  I love my black people.  I'm all for self-determination and self-affirmation.</br><br></br><br>But don't get it twisted. . . self-determination will NEVER be realized through purely political means.  It goes deeper than that. . . it's political. . . it's social. . . it's economic . . . it's spiritual.</br><br></br><br>MLK was never the be-all-end-all of black leadership.  But he got stuff done on a policy level.  I love Malcolm X.  But his style (like Wright's) -- NECESSARILY hostile -- was more about self-affirmation than policy.  And that's ok.  Black self-affirmation is, and should always remain, exclusive of white approval.  Just know your audience and stay mindful of the bigger picture.  Speak truth to power, but be mindful of the game.  </br><br></br><br>I didn't catch it when I first saw it.  But, looking back, it appears Wright's timing had more to do with ego, than fighting the system.</br><br></br><br>Unlike black culture, the law, legislation and politics are not exclusive of white influence.  They're not beholden to white approval either, but they do require white involvement.  That entails a willingness to reach across the table and a discipline to pick and choose your battles.    </br><br></br><br>I think Obama did that with his speech on race.  He didn't disown his pastor.  He reached across the table to contextualize black anger.  He defended the controversy for the complexity it was.  The easy path would have been to disown him then.</br><br></br><br>Wright's a smart man.  He knows this.  So why reintroduce himself into the public spotlight just when things were starting to die down?</br><br></br><br>Wright was inviting people to question his motives.</br><br></br><br>And, my goodness, why discuss controversial topics without providing evidence to back it up  For example, I wouldn't automatically dismiss the contention that our government pushed AIDS in the black community.  But I'd make damn sure I had a stack of evidence prepared before I made such an argument?  Conspiracy minus evidence equals no credibility.  Wright left too many accusations dangling in the wind.  He left them bare; exposed and waiting for the media to spin them in their most harmful light.  </br><br></br><br>Wright doesn't have to defend himself in his church or amongst his own people.  We get the context.  We know the history (well, most of us).  But Wright wasn't amongst his own people at the National Press Club.  He stepped into foreign territory without a plan.  As Roland Martin said, be cognizant of the fact that, by speaking before the National Press Club, you are playing in someone else's house, by someone else's rules. </br><br></br><br>Now back to Obama. . . </br><br></br><br>Like King, Obama will not end all racism.  I've never expected as much.  However, Obama is in a position to get stuff done.  And the success of his campaign proves that he's got a plan to break down historic barriers and open the flood-gates of inclusion for millions of Americans who've been systematically disenfranchised over the years.  That's a paradigmatic shift.  That's a movement.  Not surprisingly, he's determined that he'll get there if he's more Martin than Malcolm.  Now, that might be his honest approach (I have no reason to doubt that).  But, either way, it's too late to change now.</br><br></br><br>Again, it's a question of how much we're willing to compromise.  Where do we pick and choose our battles?  Where do we draw the line? </br><br></br><br>Personally, I draw the line at black identity.  Even in his most stark denunciation, Obama never crossed that line between the person and the people.  He has not disowned the black community.  He did not disown the black church.  He has not shunned his black identity.  </br><br></br><br>He has challenged his people, but not disowned them.  There's a difference.</br><br></br><br>Juxtapose that to the Clinton apologists who place personal loyalties over cultural pride; defending race-baiting comments from the Clinton campaign for personal gain in an ever-improbable Clinton administration.  </br><br></br><br>They too know the game, yet they choose to ignore the same type of race-baiting tactics that they'd quickly rebuke if spoken from the lips of a conservative.  Ironically, they are the ones who place their hopes in the power of one person, Clinton.  They don't want to change the game or even master the system. . . they just want to champion a different \"master\" (politically speaking) who will throw them a few more crumbs once she gets in office.  They're perfectly happy with the way things work in Washington.  For them, it's not a matter of challenging the status quo, but accepting the status quo and waiting their turn in line.  Sadly they appear to define victory as a matter of WHO gets in office rather than WHAT actually gets done.  Very partisan. . . highly cynical. . . extremely predictable.</br><br></br><br>Trust, I'm with you nquest.  My IDEAL picture of black leadership is a little more defiant.  I've always preferred Malcolm's style over Martin's.  </br><br></br><br>But, let's understand that this is about baby steps. . . </br><br></br><br>The first black President will be more Martin than Malcolm.  If we're honest, I think most of us understood that going in to this. </br><br></br><br>Now about Michelle Obama:</br><br></br><br>As for Michelle, I agree, I would have liked to have seen more passion in Obama's response to her critics.  But he did respond. . . just maybe not as forcefully as you or I might have liked.</br><br></br><br>It's like the movie CRASH.  Remember that scene where Terrence Howard and his wife were pulled over by the cops?  And how that officer sexually groped Terrence's wife in front of him?  Remember the wife's reaction towards Terrence?  She wanted him to \"be a man.\"  She wanted him to fight the police . . . KNOWING damn well that, if he had, it could have meant a bullet in the brain for both of them.</br><br></br><br>Obama's in a similar position with Michelle.  He's Terrence Howard and Sean Hannity is the cop with gun drawn and aimed, just begging for Obama to \"give me a reason!\"</br><br></br><br>He should defend his wife.  But he also needs to pick and choose his battles.  He can't fly off the handle every time Sean Hannity picks a fight.  He'd be fighting every day if he did that.</br><br></br><br>You beat people like Hannity by staying focused on the bigger issue.  The issue is the right's monopoly on \"patriotism\" and how they use that as a sledge-hammer to beat down anyone who disagrees with them.  Michelle is the flavor of the month, but she's not the focus.  The focus, is painting Obama as an outsider who doesn't mesh with \"traditional\" American values.</br><br></br><br>The way for Obama to fight that smear is to provide an alternative, yet equally patriotic, vision for America (again, Obama might do well by looking towards MLK for this).  His campaign has done that by bringing in new voters.  For example, this year might not focus on NASCAR dads so much as youth voters.  </br><br></br><br>People like Hannity like to keep it simple.  Simple audiences require simple messages.  But they can't handle the prospect of an educated electorate that sees these wedge issues for what they are.  This will only happen if Obama gives people an alternate \"American patriotism\" to buy into. </br><br></br><br>Continued attacks on Obama's wife and kids will play HORRIBLY with Independents (both left and right-leaning) in the General election.  McCain's viability rests in his separation from the A-hole wing of the Republican Party.  Yes, there are 527s, but overkill is easy when you attack someone's family.</br><br></br><br>In closing, I'd like to see more fight in Obama as well.</br><br></br><br>But I know that his fight is directly proportional to the leverage he has - thus, for example, you'll see me rant about how Obama should use his leverage to push Hillary out of the race.  Again, it's about timing and picking the right battle at the right time.</br><br></br><br>But the general election is a new monster.  There will be new dynamics at play.  Fortunately, despite my worries, thus far Obama's shown he's smart enough to anticipate them and master the system.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_16:09:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "d1a8e45844ef20a90904a65e60371f42", "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}, "1964246": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"IMO, it's a major statement made by academia; a major statement made by Morehouse; and a major statement made to the country, that a young white man can go to a college with 99% young Black men, and not only receive a quality education, but be its valedictorian.\"<br>_______________________</br><br>OR, it's a major statement that even at one of the most elite HBCUs, where supposedly the best of the best in black male talent is fostered, a single white male is always better than a thousand of the best black men. I don't recall the blogosphere or national newspapers reporting on the Morehouse Val from 2007 or 2006, do you?</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_16:10:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964247": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You would think that West Virginia had 20 or more electoral votes!<br></br><br>WV has 5 electoral votes in the General Election, 2 more than DC.  Senator McCain IS going to win West Virginia and Senator Obama IS going to win IA, netting Senator Obama 2 electoral votes from the 2004 general election map.  So, why all this talk about WV?  If Senator Obama was trailing and poised to exit the race after a big win in let\u2019s say in DC, which has as favorable a demographic for Senator Obama as WV has for Senator Clinton, would anyone be giving DC the importance some are trying to give WV for Senator Clinton, that is if they weren\u2019t trying to make the argument that poor white voters are more important than African American?</br><br></br><br>Here\u2019s one more thing for the MSM to ignore\u2026In Gallup\u2019s latest poll, Senator Obama is trailing Senator McCain among whites about 11%, the same as every Democratic presidential candidate since Lyndon Johnson who was the LAST Democratic presidential candidate to garner more than 41% of the white vote. </br><br></br><br>It\u2019s fair for the media and the Clinton campaign to point out Senator Obama\u2019s weaknesses, but what\u2019s not fair are exaggerations, lack of historical context and lack of attention to Senator Clinton\u2019s weaknesses.   Poll after poll is showing that Senator Obama is doing equally better with Independents as she is among Democrats, so it\u2019s a awash.  But you wouldn\u2019t know this reading or watching coverage that still wants to present this as a horse race.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_16:10:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9b18401428b01d3671d998099dcc86d9", "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}, "1964248": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://progressillinois.com/2008/05/11/features/obama-over-the-top\" rel=\"nofollow\">Obama Over The Top: How New Voters Could Redraw The Electoral Map<br></br></a><br></br><br>Screw the MSM.  It is VITAL that AA's are registered to vote and get any necessary ID and that they turn out to vote!</br><br></br><br></br><br>Ha, losers!</br><br></br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/12/gops-new-slogan-already-b_n_101376.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">GOP's New Slogan Already Being Used To Market Anti-Depressant</a></br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_16:12:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0e63fda3bc8752465623f674ffcc5f40", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964249": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "@ anonymous 01:10:00 PM<br></br><br>You must have a REALLY, really small penis.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_16:17:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0e63fda3bc8752465623f674ffcc5f40", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964250": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Cosigning B-serious and I must admit I agree with Anon 1:10- at least the part that I never knew the val of any other class. I guess this is historic though.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_16:17:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964251": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "truthseeker, it is as small as your response.  I don't have a penis but I have a brain and one large enough to recognize that whites and blacks can read the same statement differently.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_16:29:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964252": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The young white man being Morehouse's valedictorian holds to me, the same level of newsworthiness as a black person being the first black valectorian of a white college.  As things become more commonplace, it's not that big of a deal anymore.  When Doug Wilder became governor of Virginia, it was a huge deal.  When Deval Patrick became governor of Massachusetts, it was a big deal but not as big a deal as when Wilder was elected.  And Paterson of NY gained about 2 days of news time, and one of those days was because of his affairs.<br></br><br></br><br>As far as Obama campaigning in WV, he did say he had a 50 state strategy, and even though he knows he will lose both KY and WV, it would seem silly for him to say \"Aw f'ck it\" when it comes to WV.  That's the kind of attitude that got Clinton in the jam she's in today.</br><br></br><br>General election:  I think if Obama wins Virginia, it's a wrap.  He's #44.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_16:43:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964253": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "kgekp said,<i>\"If Senator Obama was trailing and poised to exit the race after a big win in let\u2019s say in DC, which has as favorable a demographic for Senator Obama as WV has for Senator Clinton, would anyone be giving DC the importance some are trying to give WV for Senator Clinton, that is if they weren\u2019t trying to make the argument that poor white voters are more important than African American?\"</i><br></br><br>Bingo!!!</br><br></br><br>Great analogy.  </br><br></br><br>Only one small consideration. . . African-Americans are actually part of the Democratic base.  Which makes Hillary's argument even dumber than at first glance.</br><br></br><br>Plus does anyone have the stats as to whether low-income rural white voters are even part of the traditional Democratic base to begin with?  </br><br></br><br>The entire premise for her argument is specious if you ask me.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_16:45:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "d1a8e45844ef20a90904a65e60371f42", "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}, "1964254": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "b-serious,<br></br><br>brilliant post on MLK vs Malcolm!</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_16:52:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0e63fda3bc8752465623f674ffcc5f40", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964255": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "At anonymous,<br></br><br>is it that your penis is so small that it seems you don't have one; or, is it that you're female?</br><br></br><br>There is nothing racist about highlighting a lone white guy on an all black campus.  It's an oddity.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_16:54:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0e63fda3bc8752465623f674ffcc5f40", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964256": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Anon 1:43, your first paragraph supports my posts at 1:10 and 1:29 more than you probably intended. SMH", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_17:01:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964257": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "B serious,<br></br><br>YOU GO BOY on your analysis of MLK and Malcolm!</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_17:03:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "28cc5a449f328a9bd9d57f126ea85efd", "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}, "1964258": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "truthseeker, it is that it is so small it could get mistaken for your brain.  Is this the only kind of response you understand? SMH", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_17:04:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964259": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "@ anonymous,<br></br><br>I enjoy a good verbal fight; but, I don't have a snappy comeback right now, so I'll let you get away with that.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_17:25:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0e63fda3bc8752465623f674ffcc5f40", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964260": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I enjoy a good [written debate] too, truthseeker, unfortunately I haven't had one today but I am headed over to MDD so there is a good chance I'll get one.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_17:35:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964261": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>nquest, I understand your anger.</i><br></br><br>Ummm...  No you don't.  You can't understand something I have not expressed.  FRAME your own perspective.  Don't try to frame mine.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_17:52:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "3ecde559248958521e4cb25a77f2ee65", "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}, "1964262": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "haha you all are quite cranky today...except for B-serious!<br></br><br>Great post!!!!</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_18:05:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "ae84a1f516965138dcc59937fe7a7ac1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964263": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>Thus, from a black perspective, \"Yes we can\" is fine as an aspiration so long as we don't sacrifice \"unapologetically/unashamedly black.\"</i><br></br><br>That would be the exact thing I would question and you can save that \"master the game\" rhetoric. </br><br></br><br></br><br><i>Policy and politics is all about compromise... </i></br><br>The question is how much you and I are willing to compromise.</br><br> </br><br></br><br>That's the very question Barack Obama's chosen statements/behavior begs.</br><br></br><br></br><br><i>There's a time and place for everything.</i></br><br></br><br>There's never a time to front like Obama did.</br><br></br><br></br><br><i>Wright's voice is important.</i></br><br></br><br>Important to whom?</br><br></br><br></br><br><i>don't get sucked into a chest-thumping contest </i></br><br></br><br>Funny how Obama is never addressed or admonished in that manner.  Again... <a http:=\"HTTP:\" rel=\"nofollow\">Divine Love Does Not Ask Family To Choose Between Family Members</a>.</br><br></br><br>You will note that it was Malcolm X who chose to get MLK's back even as MLK talked about how \"wrong\" Malcolm X was in the same kind of paternalistic and dismissive way Obama has regarded Rev. Wright.  So these lectures you're giving are misdirected.</br><br></br><br></br><br><i>He reached across the table to contextualize black anger.</i></br><br></br><br>He misrepresented it while privileging White Resentment in the process.  That's objective analysis vs. \"be mindful of the game\" (relevance??) and \"Black self-affirmation\" (relevance??) rhetoric. </br><br></br><br><i>Wright was inviting people to question his motives.</i></br><br></br><br></br><br>Question them then but none of that make Obama motive-question free.  Like I said, I don't do myths.</br><br></br><br><i>Like King, Obama will not end all racism. </i></br><br></br><br>Dude, you done bumped your damn head.  Like the supportive facts you insist Wright should have had, I'm still looking for the reasons why you've used all this rhetoric to address me.  The very idea of putting either MLK and especially Obama in the same sentense as \"end (all) racism\" is as hilarious as it is dumbfounding.</br><br></br><br>Really?  What is all this about?  First, know, that I asked you not a single thing about what you think about Black Nationalism.  So I don't understand all the wasted breath.  What the hell is your point?  Who the hell do you think you're talking to?  Why the hell do you think any of the stuff you've said, most of it superfluous rhetoric, is relevant?</br><br></br><br>What does any of it have to do with what I've said?  Not what you think I said or what you think will make a point to me.  What I said?</br><br></br><br></br><br><i>Personally, I draw the line at black identity. </i></br><br></br><br>Whatever that means.  But it's clear you're dealing with your impression vs. what Obama actually said:</br><br></br><br><i>\"...when you start focusing so much on the plight of the historically oppressed that you lose sight of what we have in common, that it overrides everything else, that we\u2019re not concerned about the struggles of others, because we\u2019re looking at things only through a particular lens...\"</i></br><br></br><br>That, my friend, is not only dishonest (Obama claimed he didn't \"see\" it (the very explicit Afrocentric lens) as a member) but it is \"sacrificing\" what is called \"unapologetically/unashamedly black.\"</br><br></br><br>Obama decided to go there, all on his own. His pronouncements there stand at odds with what he said before:</br><br><i></i></br><br>\"...at the foot of that cross, inside the thousands of churches across the city, I imagined the stories of ordinary black people merging with the stories of David and Goliath, Moses and Pharaoh, the Christians in the lion\u2019s den...</br><br></br><br>Those stories \u2014 of survival, and freedom, and hope \u2014 became our story, my story...</br><br></br><br>Our trials and triumphs became at once unique and universal, black and more than black; in chronicling our journey, the stories and songs gave us a means to reclaim memories that we didn\u2019t need to feel shame about\u2026memories that all people might study and cherish...\"</br><br></br><br>But let's really deal with this whole \"game\" playing, compromising thing.  Campaign Hillary and the media readily point out how Obama has a supposed problem with attracting (winning) amounts of White working-class voters, some of whom presumably just won't vote for him because he is Black and he's lecturing Black people via Rev. Wright about seeing things through selfish lens?</br><br></br><br>Gone are the days of the EMPATHY DEFICIT rhetoric (Obama's term) which, by definition, says that there is a problem with somebody's lens.  Notice how the language changes...</br><br></br><br>Throughout the whole \"bitter-gate\" ordeal, Obama never talked about how working class Whites, e.g., failed to see what they have in common with the very people they have \"antipathy\" for.  Instead of flexing the way he did when he charged a Black woman with \"scapegoating\" (Nevada debate) he had that White Privilege thing working as he went out of his way to paint working-class Whites as \"victims.\"  He did the same thing in his race speech.  </br><br></br><br>legitimized White Backlash.  </br><br></br><br>There's a problem when Obama gets animated and is quick to denounce a Black person for \"scapegoating\" but went out of his way to paint working-class Whites as \"victims\" </br><br></br><br>Which brings me to another important point:</br><br></br><br>Obama stuck to his guns during \"bitter-gate\", insisted there was nothing wrong with his statement and didn't pay any additional price for sticking to his guns.  So this mythology about \"game\" playing, etc., etc. needs some examination.</br><br></br><br>And since we won't to invoke MLK:</br><br></br><br><b>\"A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.\"</b></br><br></br><br></br><br>That's what I have to say about all this willingness to play \"the game.\"  With that type of attitude... with those types of excuses... one has to be careful about getting played and going above and beyond what it called for in order to play the game.</br><br></br><br></br><br><i>Trust, I'm with you nquest.</i></br><br></br><br>You're with me how??  Stop trying to FRAME my position when you don't know the half...</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_19:46:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "3ecde559248958521e4cb25a77f2ee65", "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}, "1964264": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Michelle Bernard just said that if she were Obama, she would never ask Hillary to be er Veep.<br></br><br>The other two are saying that she needs the white vote.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_19:52:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fcb7c771a7713dda01aa936fd426bfe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964265": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "B-serious,<br></br><br>Great post!</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_20:45:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "ebab26d5a6728d011cdfb4920618002e", "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}, "1964266": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "ms. martin,<br></br><br>LOL</br><br></br><br>Go Michelle!</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_22:02:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f85f4de88a30987f0360c336da9569ae", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964267": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The Malcolm vs. Martin comparison post was wonderful. Thank you. <br></br><br>I will only add this...for all the criticism of Booker T. Washington, he created a lasting legacy in the institution of Tuskegee University. How many Black people have created something that goes on well after their deaths? Think about the thousands of Our Community that have been and will continue to be educated and be able to use that education to lift themselves up because of what Booker T. ' The Compromiser' Washington did way back when?</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_22:04:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f85f4de88a30987f0360c336da9569ae", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964268": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "For those of you who want to see more fight from Obama, I suggest these two diaries:<br></br><br><a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/5/11/55748/4095\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mr. Cool's Intensity - a Post column on Obama</a></br><br></br><br></br><br>This one is particularly stunning. It's worth reading several times:</br><br></br><br><a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/5/12/161950/935\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Tao of Obama</a></br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_22:58:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9bf0971c139c9dc33659e8ed441e4f5e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964269": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Sometimes we forget that Obama was raised in Hawaii and Indonesia and didn't see a whole lot of Black people.<br></br><br>It wasn't until he got to Chicago that he immersed himself in the Black Community. By then, he was grown.</br><br></br><br>You can take the boy out of the East, but you can't take the East out of the boy.</br><br></br><br>That is what those links above suggest.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-12_23:02:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9bf0971c139c9dc33659e8ed441e4f5e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964270": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Craig,<br></br><br>great links.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-13_00:55:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f85f4de88a30987f0360c336da9569ae", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964271": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "WHy is the Governor of Minnesota telling his bedroom business with his wife on the radio?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-13_01:07:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f85f4de88a30987f0360c336da9569ae", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964272": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "the ink,<br></br><br>I saw Speed Raced this afternoon, and you had me thinking about Obama...LOL</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-13_01:08:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f85f4de88a30987f0360c336da9569ae", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964273": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "@ B Serious-Thanx for the awesome post, Friend. Reading it has been the highlight of my day. I totally agree with the yin/yang analogy. In my experience, the yang speeches have often fired us up to do nothing. At this stage of my life I could pretty much skip it, and I am much more concerned with doing something practical. I would like us to have leadership (parlimentary moreso than charasmatic) that can organize us to effect practical change in our communities. My dream action is a collective boycott with 75-80% AA participation. Money ALWAYS talks. It is the god of our society. It's siamese twin is power.<br></br><br>@ Rikyrah-In what context are you talking about the clothing? Unless I missed something, you gave a response without posting the story. That said, it is often very challenging to find appropriate girl's clothing that your child also likes. The dept stores sell grown women's clothing in miniature. You can buy a size 6x shirt that says \"Hottie,\" and little wedge heel sandals. Luckily, my daughter doesn't like that stuff, but neither is she willing to look like one of those FLDS girls. I saw an ad for Beyonce's mama's clothing line, House of Derion (or whatever-derriere) and that stuff looked pretty bad. It can be an issue, and a lot of people really don't know any better because they lack standards and discernment.</br><br></br><br>As for Obama and anger, the MSM has also been calling for him to be more forceful and exhibit more testosterone. He's darned if he do and darned if he don't. After the bowling fiasco, morning joe said he bowled like a little girl. It was tre' insulting. This is another aspect of america's collective unconscious. We glorify the thug, the mafia, John Wayne, Shaft or hillary. We like assholes and ass kickers. Thats why McCain polls so high sometimes even though most people claim to be against the war. Its a conundrum.</br><br></br><br>As for Michelle, I'm not a big fan of hers either (please, no hating). I have also wondered why she has said some of the things she has said, and I have wondered if she is mad at him and exacting revenge. I wasn't crazy about her saying things about his socks stinking, etc., and I wondered why I was supposed to care. To me, it was kinda like her saying, \"He's not all that!\" So I'm thinking, you can take the sister out of the hood, but....Why is she doing this? What is the point of saying \"I love accessories. I'm married to one.\" She did an interview where she told someone he has 1 shot at this only, and that there would be no more chances. I guess I should assume that they had discussed it and come to a mutual agreement, but my initial impression was that she is some kind of dominatrix. That said, she did slam dunk for him in a tv appearance I saw with Caroline Kennedy. She was GREAT and redeemed herself with me. I just think that if she can't muster the self-control, she needs to say nothing.</br><br></br><br>They do appear to have the warmest union of all the candidates. I think Obama is a kind and decent person. He doesn't have the harshness or edginess of those of us raised in the continental 48. I've seen him be generally affectionate and huggy on the campaign trail.</br><br></br><br>I also feel sorry for Cindy McCain. She's married to the crypt keeper. Not only did he call her a cunt, he called her that in public. He probably wanted a more passive woman after being raised by his mother. What a shrew. She reminds me of hillary.</br><br></br><br>I don't want to see Hillbilly get any post or appointment. I want to see her flat ass go down in flames.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-13_02:02:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "889c732285beb0fc252d78b61edaa231", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964274": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ali-eteraz/obama-islam-smear-changes_b_101337.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Obama Muslim Smear Changes Stripes</a><br></br><br>Sigh....</br><br></br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-creamer/top-10-reasons-obama-defe_b_101307.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Top 10 Reasons Obama Beat Clinton</a></br><br></br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/12/more-than-20-senators-tel_n_101432.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">More than 20 Senators Say They'd Be Willing to be VP</a></br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-13_02:06:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f85f4de88a30987f0360c336da9569ae", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964275": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "teacher,<br></br><br>someone up above linked to the story at HuffingtonPost. The girl got arrested at prom. Roland Martin also has it as a story at his blog at Essence.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-13_02:08:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f85f4de88a30987f0360c336da9569ae", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964276": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Interesting:<br></br><br>Apartheid Victims' U.S. Lawsuit To Proceed</br><br>High Court Can't Intervene Because 4 Justices Forced To Sit Out Case Over Apparent Conflicts</br><br>Comments 6</br><br>WASHINGTON, May 12, 2008</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-13_02:24:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fcb7c771a7713dda01aa936fd426bfe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964277": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The Booker T. reference doesn't make sense.  Neither does the idea of casting Barack Obama as a \"black leader\" the way B-Serious did.  Ya'll done lost ya'll minds off in here.<br></br><br>Remember:  Obama is not running for president of Black America.  By the same token, he's not presenting himself as a Black leader with any specific intent on doing anything in particular for Black people per se.  Taking his own statement and not some idea people want to project onto him, Barack Obama, the presidential candidate, sees something wrong with that kind of idea.</br><br></br><br>What kind of Tuskegee like project has Barack Obama talked about?</br><br></br><br>See, that's the silliness of the Booker T. reference.  But it is rather illuminating.   What's really funny is how folks are swinging at the wind, to use language that's already been used.</br><br></br><br>This \"compromise\" FRAME and the whole argument is an argument B-Serious et al are having with themselves.   I'll refer back to MLK, another so-called \"compromiser\":</br><br></br><br><b>\"A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.\"</b></br><br></br><br></br><br>Translation:  Just assuming the position based on the assumption that that's what you have to do puts you at a position of disadvantage that's of your own making and have nothing to do with the game but rather with the role you assumed without respect to how the game has changed and what can be done to change it.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-13_09:40:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "3ecde559248958521e4cb25a77f2ee65", "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}, "1964278": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Teacher,<br></br><br>I agree with you about Michelle O. She often comes across as emasculating towards her husband. Let me say/repeat (before I am attacked) I am a loyal BHO supporter but she has not been coming across very well to me. I suppose that is not truly the case as they do seem happy and she did do MUCH better in the interview with Caroline Kennedy.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-13_10:11:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "28cc5a449f328a9bd9d57f126ea85efd", "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}, "1964279": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Barack Obama was raised by strong women. His grandmother was the breadwinner between she and her husband. He married a strong woman. He knows who he is. Women don't \"emasculate\" men. That language itself is the sexist language of patriarchy and I don't like it. It's as if we are saying women should never show that they are stronger than men because men's egos are so fragile, they can't be upstaged by the \"weaker\" sex.<br> </br><br>It's my belief, however, that women are much stronger than men. </br><br></br><br>Much. </br><br></br><br>And it comes down to the strength it takes to give birth.</br><br></br><br>If the electorate doesn't want to vote for Obama because his wife speaks her mind, then too bad for us.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-13_10:32:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9bf0971c139c9dc33659e8ed441e4f5e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964280": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "nquest,<br></br><br>Civil disobedience is a compromise.  So is nonviolence.</br><br></br><br>MLK's nonviolent movement was a compromise.  Turning the other cheek is a compromise.  </br><br></br><br>You quote king's statement:  \"A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.\"</br><br></br><br>As if nonviolence in the face of violence is not \"bending one's back,\" to assume the position one must in order to make the change they want to see.</br><br></br><br>A lot of people called King an accomodationist.  They accused him of doing the very thing that particular quote warns against.  Well, in the end, King's style got more accomplished.  In fact, King's style has become a template for other movements over they years.  He saw the bigger picture.</br><br></br><br>Was King an accomodationist?  Judging by his goals, I say no.  Yet many obviously felt that subjecting black men and women to violence was the definition of bending one's back to let the man ride on it.</br><br></br><br>Compromise (strategic compromise) is not a sign of weakness.  It can be a sign of immense strength.</br><br></br><br>The Civil Rights Movement was built with a belief that \"black\" struggles must take on a more universal appeal if things were to change.  That's strategic compromise. </br><br></br><br>That's what a minority group often does.  It doesn't have the numbers on its side.  Instead, it finds leverage to maximize the opportunity at hand.</br><br></br><br>As a practical matter, King and others realized that they could not change the wheels of power with a purely \"black\" message.  But you find a way around the zero-sum equation.  You make a win-win situation out of a win-lose situation.  That's strategic compromise.</br><br></br><br>Thus, they transformed the concept of black liberation into wider, more universal, appeals of equality, humanity and spirituality.  And yes, even symbolic politics has its place in moving the country forward.</br><br></br><br>That's mastering the game.  That's finding a way to make the game work for you.  It's beating the majority at it's own game. . . slowly, but surely, one step (one generation, even) at a time.  That's understanding the forces at play and seizing the opportunity at hand.  </br><br></br><br>The perfect storm surrounding the Civil Rights Movement presented a unique moment, which allowed King to repackage black rights in a more palatable manner and create a paradigmatic shift.</br><br></br><br>Civil rights was no longer a \"black\" issue for blacks to bear alone.  The Civil Rights Movement was a coalition of black and white designed to pressure government into specific legislative action on generic matters like voting rights, education, equal protection and employment.</br><br></br><br>Malcolm didn't create that type of a coalition.  Rev. Wright won't create that coalition.</br><br></br><br>That doesn't make them better or worse, just different.  Their less concerned with universal appeal and more concerned with \"speaking truth to power.\"  </br><br></br><br>My point is you need both.  Obama is building a coalition to affect change. . . just as King did.  He's taking advantage of a perfect storm that is ripe for another paradigm shift.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-13_11:08:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "d1a8e45844ef20a90904a65e60371f42", "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}, "1964281": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Craig,<br></br><br>I never said I wouldn't vote for him b/c of Michelle - can't speak for others however my opinion as a STRONG BLACK WOMAN (who has had babies!) myself is that she does not come across in the right manner. She comes across actually as insecure but maybe making up for it with the strong persona. I think if you are strong and \"tough\" you can act that way but it's not necessary to hit others over the head with it so to speak(when you are secure).If she did then I really don't think the MSM would have all of the sound bites they have of her to be used against her husband.</br><br></br><br>I also never said that women emasculate men I said she comes across that way. I beleive that men emasculate themselves and blame it on women at times, personally.</br><br></br><br>Again, I am not trying to convince anyone else of fight anyone over this but this is MY opinion as a loyal BHO supporter.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-13_11:25:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "28cc5a449f328a9bd9d57f126ea85efd", "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}, "1964282": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I still don't see what Michelle has said that is so \"emasculating.\"<br></br><br>She's a Capricorn. She's pragmatic, practical, earthy, she leads, she's strong, she teaches, and she's powerful.</br><br></br><br>That's all.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-13_17:28:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9bf0971c139c9dc33659e8ed441e4f5e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1964283": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "If you\u2019re interested in the issue of Obama, Islam and whether he might be a Muslim apostate, you might want to check out \u201cMuslim scholar responds to \u2018Sharia smear\u2019 against Obama\u201d -- <a href=\"http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2008/05/30/muslim-scholar-responds-to-sharia-smear-against-obama/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2008/05/30/...</a> -- on the Reuters FaithWorld blog.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-30_17:50:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "858d8f6868546be65ccb717e50688e69", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}}, "integration": {"receiver_url": "", "theme": 4, "reply_position": true, "disqus_logo": false}, "timer": {"timer_url": "http://localhost:8005", "thread_id": "3964555", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "21630", "hash": -7441463640083403168}, "thread": {"days_alive": 0, "slug": "monday_open_thread_how_was_the_weekend_08", "paginate": false, "num_pages": 1, "num_posts": 104, "per_page": 0, "total_posts": 0, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 3964555, "queued": false}, "reactions_limit": 10, "context": {"show_reply": true, "use_fb_connect": true, "forum_facebook_key": "bd6a8bc56f8eb204984f34b6fefe228d", "use_yahoo": false, "subscribed": false, "use_twitter_signin": true, "use_openid": false, "realtime_speed": 5000}, "reactions_start": 0, "settings": {"debug": false, "disqus_url": "http://disqus.com", "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"}, "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"};
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	this.curPageId = 'dsq-comments';

	this.frames = {};
};

var disqus_popup_reference = null;

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



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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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





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



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

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

	this._lastHash = null;

	this._accumMsg = '';

	this._lastSeqno = 0;

	this.MAX_DATA_LEN	= 1024;

	this.WAIT_TIME		= 10;

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

};

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

FragmentPacket.prototype.log = function(msg) {



};

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

		hash = this.reader.name;
	} else {

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

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

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

		this._lastSeqno = seqno;

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

				this._accumMsg = '';

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

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

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

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

};

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

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

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

	if (packetNum === 0) {

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

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

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

	if (num_packets === packetNum) {

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

	this._lastSeqno++;

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

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

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

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

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

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


	this.receiverId = receiverId;
};

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

	var listener = function(e) {

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


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

		that.receiveCallback(data);
	};

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

PostMessagePacket.prototype.send = function(msg) {



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


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

	var packet;
	if (!msg) {

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

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

var JsonRpc = function() {

	this.ids = {};

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

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

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

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

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

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

				json = 'null';
				break;
		}

		return json;
	};

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		send_func(this.objectToJSON(request));

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

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


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



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


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


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

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

	this.packetHandler = null;


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


	var _createReceiverForFragmentPacket = function() {

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

			that._ready = true;
		};

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

		that.receiver.onload = receiver_onload;







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

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

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

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


	var _createReceiverForPostMessage = function() {

		var receiver_onload = function() {

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

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


		ParentMessenger['_receiver_onload_' + receiverId] = receiver_onload;

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

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

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

};

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	var sendFunc = function(msg) {

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


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


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

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

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

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

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

		if (msg.username) {

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	this.url = Dsq.Urls.REPLY +
		'?' + (new Date()).getTime() +
		'&f=jackandjillpolitics' +
		'&t=monday_open_thread_how_was_the_weekend_08' +
		'&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_how_was_the_weekend_08/latest.rss">' + Dsq.Strings.SUBSCRIBE_BY_RSS + '</a> \
			</span> \
		</div> \
		';

		
		

		return html;

	};
	
	this.footer = function() {
		var html = '';

		html += Dsq.Templates.pagination();

		
		
			html += Dsq.Templates.realtime();
			html += Dsq.Templates.showThreadSettings();
			html += Dsq.Templates.postBox();

		html += Dsq.Templates.reactions();

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.trackbacks();
		


		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator) {
 			html += ' \
				<div class="dsq-global-moderator-extras">'
					+ '<strong>shortname:</strong> ' + Dsq.jsonData.forum.url
					+ '<strong>thread id:</strong> ' + Dsq.jsonData.thread.id
					+ '<strong>thread slug:</strong> ' + Dsq.jsonData.thread.slug
				+ '</div> \
			';
		}

		return html;
	};
	
	this.realtime = function() {
		var html = '';
		
		if (Dsq.jsonData.realtime_enabled) {
			html += '<div id="dsq-realtime-options" class="dsq-options">'
					 + Dsq.Strings.REALTIME_UPDATING_IS + ' <strong id="dsq-realtime-status" style="text-transform: lowercase">' + Dsq.Strings.ENABLED + '</strong>. \
					 <a href="#" id="dsq-realtime-toggle" style="text-transform: capitalize"></a> \
					</div>';
		}

		if (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.streaming_realtime) {
			html += ' \
				<div style="display: none" id="dsq-realtime-alert" class="dsq-realtime-alert"><span id="dsq-realtime-queued"></span> <a href="#" id="dsq-realtime-show"></a></div> \
			';
		}
		
		return html;
	};

	this.showThreadSettings = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) {
			return '';
		}

		html = '<div id="dsq-thread-settings" class="dsq-thread-settings">' + Dsq.Strings.MODERATOR_OPTIONS;
		html += '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.showSettings(); return false;">' + Dsq.Strings.SETTINGS + '</a>';
		if (Dsq.jsonData.forum.reactions_enabled && Dsq.jsonData.reactions.length === 0) {
			html += '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Reaction.reportMissingReactions(); return false;">'
						+ Dsq.Strings.REPORT_MISSING_REACTIONS
						+ '</a>';
		}
		html +='</div>';

		return html;
	};

	this.postBox = function(post_id, use_fallback_iframe) {


		var html;
		var display_sharing_options = Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated;

		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated && Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled && !Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post) {
			return '';
		}
		
		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote) {


			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.hasOwnProperty(Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain)) {
				display_sharing_options = false;
			}
		}
		
		if (post_id) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
			var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];				
		}
		
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';

		var _requestUserInfo = function() {
			var html;



			var user_has_email = false;

			html = '<div class="dsq-request-user-info"> <!-- // If authenticated --> \
				<a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT + '?ctkn=' + Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN + '" class="dsq-request-user-logout">' + Dsq.Strings.LOGOUT + '</a> \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td rowspan="2">'
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '<a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE + '">' : '')
								+ '<img src="' + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_AVATAR + '" width="48" height="48" class="dsq-request-user-avatar">'
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '</a>' : '')
						+ '</td> \
						<td class="dsq-request-user-name">'
								+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
									 ? '<span class="dsq-badge-small dsq-badge-' + Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain + '">' + Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain + '</span>'
									 : (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_verified
											? '<span class="dsq-badge-small dsq-badge-verified">Verified</span>'
											: '<span class="dsq-badge-small dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span>'))
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? ' <a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE + '">' : '') 
								+ Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username 
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '</a>' : '')
							+  (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote && user_has_email ? ' <small>(<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.remoteAccountSettings(); return false;">change settings</a>)</small>' : '')
							+  (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote && !Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? ' <small>(<a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/info/" target="_blank">change name</a> or <a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/avatar/" target="_blank">picture</a>)</small>' : '')
						+ '</td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-request-user-stats"> \
							<span><big>' + Dsq.jsonData.request.comments_count + '</big> ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.comments_count == 1 ? 'comment' : 'comments') + '</span> \
							<span><big>' + Dsq.jsonData.request.likes_count + '</big> ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.likes_count == 1 ? 'like' : 'likes') + '</span> \
							<span><big>' + Dsq.jsonData.request.points + '</big> ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.points == 1 ? 'point' : 'points') + '</span> \
						</td> \
					</tr> \
				</table> \
			</div> \
			';
			return html;
		};

		var _loginOptions = function() {
			var html;
			html = ' \
			<div class="dsq-authenticate"> \
				<p class="dsq-autheneticate-copy">'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
					? Dsq.Strings.YOU_ARE_COMMENTING_AS_A + ' <a class="dsq-help" title="Click for more information" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Guest</a>. ' + Dsq.Strings.OPTIONAL + ': ' + Dsq.Strings.LOGIN_BELOW + '.'
					: Dsq.Strings.REQUIRED + ': ' + Dsq.Strings.PLEASE_LOGIN_BELOW_TO_COMMENT + '.')
				+ '</p> \
				<ul class="dsq-login-buttons">'
					+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-disqus.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Facebook.login(); return false;"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-facebook.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_twitter_signin ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect(); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-twitter.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_openid ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.OpenID.requestURL(); return false" ><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-openid.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_yahoo ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Yahoo.startYahooConnect(); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-yahoo.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
				+ '</ul> \
			</div> \
			';
			return html;
		};

		if (!Dsq.jsonData.context.show_reply) {


			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {



				return '<div id="dsq-form-area" style="display:none"><div id="dsq-textarea-wrapper"></div></div>' + _loginOptions();
			} else {
				return '';
			}
		}

		html = ' \
		<div id="' + (post_id 
			? 'dsq-reply-post-' + post_id
			: 'dsq-new-post')
		 	+ '" class="dsq-post-area"> \
			<div class="dsq-dc-logo"> \
				<a href="http://disqus.com/comments" target="_blank"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/disqus-logo.png"></a> \
			</div>'
			+ (post_id 
				? '<h3>' + Dsq.Strings.REPLYING_TO + ' ' + userData.display_name + '</h3>'
				: '<h3>' + Dsq.Strings.ADD_NEW_COMMENT + '</h3>')
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated 
				? _requestUserInfo()
				: _loginOptions() )
			+ '<div id="dsq-form-area' + pid + '">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-textarea"> \
				<div class="dsq-textarea-wrapper" id="dsq-textarea-wrapper' + pid + '"></div> \
			</div>'
			+ (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated
			? ' \
			<div class="dsq-post-fields"> \
				<form action="." method="GET" onsubmit="Dsq.Templates.postComment(' + post_id + ', this, false); return false;"> \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-left"><div class="dsq-input-wrapper"><input id="dsq-field-name' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (disqus_def_name ? disqus_def_name : (Dsq.jsonData.session.name ? Dsq.jsonData.session.name : Dsq.Strings.NAME + '" class="dsq-placeholder')) + '" onfocus="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'name\')" onblur="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'name\')" /></div></td> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-right"><div class="dsq-input-wrapper"><input id="dsq-field-website' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (Dsq.jsonData.session.url ? Dsq.jsonData.session.url : Dsq.Strings.WEBSITE + ' (' + Dsq.Strings.OPTIONAL.toLowerCase() + ')" class="dsq-placeholder') + '" onfocus="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'website\')" onblur="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'website\')" /></div></td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-left"><div class="dsq-input-wrapper"><input id="dsq-field-email' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (disqus_def_email ? disqus_def_email : (Dsq.jsonData.session.email ? Dsq.jsonData.session.email : Dsq.Strings.EMAIL + '" class="dsq-placeholder')) + '" onfocus="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'email\')" onblur="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'email\')" /></div></td> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-right"> \
							<div class="dsq-subscribe"> \
								<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.chooseSubscribe(' + post_id + '); return false" class="dsq-subscribe-menu"><span id="dsq-subscribe-select' + pid + '">' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.subscribe_on_post ? Dsq.Strings.SUBSCRIBE_TO_ALL_COMMENTS_BY_EMAIL : Dsq.Strings.DO_NOT_SUBSCRIBE_TO_COMMENTS) + '</span> <small>&#9660;</small></a> \
								<ul class="dsq-panel" id="dsq-subscribe-menu' + pid + '"> \
									<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.setSubscribe(2, this, ' + post_id + '); return false">Subscribe to all comments by email</a></li> \
									<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.setSubscribe(0, this, ' + post_id + '); return false">Do not subscribe to comments</a></li> \
								</ul> \
								<input id="dsq-subscribe-on-post' + pid + '" type="hidden" value="' + Dsq.jsonData.request.subscribe_on_post + '" /> \
							</div> \
						</td> \
					</tr> \
				</table> \
				</form> \
			</div>'
			: '')
			+ '<div class="dsq-post-footer"> \
				<div class="dsq-sharing-options" ' + (!display_sharing_options ? 'style="display:none;"' : '') + '> \
					<button class="dsq-button-small" onfocus="document.getElementById(\'dsq-post-button' + pid + '\').focus();"><span>' + Dsq.Strings.SHARING_OPTIONS + ' <small>&#9660;</small></span></button> \
					<div class="dsq-panel"> '
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.twitter !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.twitter.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-twitter' + pid + '"'
								  + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.twitter.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-twitter' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Twitter</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.facebook
								&& (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.facebook.enabled === true ||
										(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote && Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain == 'facebook'))
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-facebook' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.facebook.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-facebook' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Facebook</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.yahoo !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.yahoo.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-yahoo' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.yahoo.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-yahoo' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Yahoo!</label> \
								</div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.tumblr !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.tumblr.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-tumblr' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.tumblr.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-tumblr' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Tumblr</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.wordpress !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.wordpress.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-wordpress' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.wordpress.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-wordpress' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Wordpress</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.movabletype !== undefined
							  && Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.movabletype.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-movabletype' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.movabletype.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-movabletype' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Movable Type</label> \
							   </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.typepad !== undefined
							  && Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.typepad.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-typepad' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.typepad.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
								  <label for="dsq-sharing-typepad' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' TypePad</label> \
							   </div>'
							: '')
						+ '<div><a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/connections/" target="_blank" class="dsq-configure-options">' + Dsq.Strings.CONFIGURE_OPTIONS + '</a></div>'
					+ '</div> \
				</div>'
				+ '<button class="dsq-button" id="dsq-post-button' + pid + '" onclick="Dsq.Templates.postComment(' + post_id + ', this, false)"><span>' + Dsq.Strings.POST_AS + ' '
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username
					? Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username
					: Dsq.Strings.GUEST)
				+ '</span></button>'
				+ (post_id
					? '<button class="dsq-button" id="dsq-cancel-button' + pid + '" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleReply(' + post_id +', this)"><span>' + Dsq.Strings.CANCEL + '</span></button>'
					: '')
			+ '</div>'
			+ '</div>' // end dsq-form-area
		+ '</div> \
		';
		
		return html;
	};




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

	this.postPrependHeader = function(post_id) {
		var html;
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		
		html = ' \
		<table> \
			<tr> \
				<td id="dsq-header-avatar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-header-avatar" onmouseover="Dsq.Post.dropProfile(' + post_id + ')"> \
					<a id="dsq-avatar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-avatar" href="' + userData.url + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.show_avatar
					? '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.users[_meta.user_key].avatar + '" alt="" />'
					: '')
				+ '</a> \
				</td> \
				<td class="dsq-comment-header-meta"> \
		';

		
		return html;
	};
	
	this.postAppendHeader = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var html;
		var parent_display_name = '';
		
		if(_meta.parent_post_id) {

			var _parent_meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[_meta.parent_post_id];

			if (_parent_meta) {
				var parentUserData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_parent_meta.user_key];
				parent_display_name = parentUserData.display_name;
			}
		}

		html = ' \
		<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/moderator.png" class="dsq-moderator-star" title="Moderator" /> \
		<span class="dsq-comment-header-time"><a href="#comment-' + post_id + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.permalink(' + post_id + ')" title="Permalink">' + (_meta.is_realtime ? Dsq.Strings.JUST_NOW : _meta.date) + '</a></span> '
		+ (_meta.parent_post_id && parent_display_name
			? '<a href="#comment-' + _meta.parent_post_id + '" title="Jump to comment">in reply to ' + parent_display_name + '</a>'
			: '')
		+ '</td> \
		<td id="dsq-like-pts-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-comment-header-likes">'
		+ (_meta.points
			? _meta.points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(_meta.points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this.'
			: '')
		+ '</td> \
		</tr> \
		</table> \
		';
		return html;
	};

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

	this.postFooter = function(post_id) {
		var html;
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		if(_meta.killed || !_meta.approved) { return ''; }
		
		html = ' \
		<div class="dsq-comment-footer" id="dsq-comment-footer-' + post_id + '"> \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer-left">'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator
					? '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.moderateOptions(' + post_id+ '); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.MODERATE + '</a>'
					: '')
				+ '<a href="#" id="dsq-post-report-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-post-report" onclick="Dsq.Post.report(' + post_id + ', false); return false;">' + Dsq.Strings.FLAG + '</a> \
			</div> \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer-right">'
				+ (_meta.votable 
					? '<span id="dsq-like-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-like">'
					+ (!_meta.up_voted
						? '<button class="dsq-button-small" onclick="Dsq.Post.rate(this, ' + post_id + ', 1)" >Like</button>'
						: 'You liked this.&nbsp;&nbsp;')
					+ '</span>'
					: '')
				+ (_meta.can_reply && !_meta.has_replies && _meta.from_request_user
					? '<button class="dsq-button-small dsq-post-edit" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + ')" >' + Dsq.Strings.EDIT + '</button>'
					: '')
				+ (_meta.can_reply
					? '<span class="dsq-comment-footer-reply" id="dsq-comment-footer-reply-' + post_id + '" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleReply(' + post_id +', this)"> \
						<button class="dsq-button-small">' + Dsq.Strings.REPLY + '</button> \
						<button class="dsq-comment-footer-reply-tab">' + Dsq.Strings.REPLY + '</button><span></span> \
					</span>'
					: '')
			+ '</div> \
		</div> \
		';
		
		return html;
	};



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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		var item = '<li class="dsq-comment dsq-reaction" id="dsq-reaction-' + reaction.id + '">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-comment-header"> \
			<table> \
			<tr> \
			<td class="dsq-header-avatar"> \
			';

		if (reaction.author_url && reaction.author_url !== '') {
			item += '<a target="_blank" href="' + reaction.author_url +'" class="dsq-avatar">';
		}

		if (reaction.avatar_url && reaction.avatar_url !== '') {
			item += '<img src="' + reaction.avatar_url + '"/>';
		} else {

			item += '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/noavatar92.png"/>';
		}

		var service_icon = (reaction.get_service_name == 'trackback' || reaction.get_service_name == 'pingback' ? 'rss' : reaction.get_service_name.replace(' ', ''));
		item += (reaction.author_url && reaction.author_url !== ''
				? '</a>'
				: '')
			+ '</td>'
			+ '<td><cite class="dsq-comment-cite">' + reaction.author_name + '</cite> <span class="dsq-comment-header-time">' + reaction.date_created + '</span></td>'
			+ '<td class="dsq-comment-header-likes"></td>'
			+ '</tr></table></div>' // end dsq-comment-header
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-header" \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-reaction-header-left">'
							+ '<img class="dsq-service-icon" src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/reactions/services/' + service_icon + '.png" />'
							+ ' From <a class="dsq-service-name" target="_blank" href="' + reaction.url + '">' + reaction.get_service_name + '</a> '
							+ 'via ' + (reaction.source == 'backtype' ? '<a href="http://backtype.com/">BackType</a>' : '<a href="' + reaction.source_url + '">UberVU</a>')
						+ '</td>'
						+ '<td class="dsq-reaction-header-right">';
			
			if(reaction.retweets) {
				var num_retweets = reaction.retweets.length;
				if (num_retweets > 0) {
					if (num_retweets == 1) {
						item += 'One more retweet from <a href="' + reaction.retweets[0].url + '">'  + reaction.retweets[0].author_name + '</a>';
					} else {
						item += (num_retweets + ' more retweets from ');
						item += '<span id="dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '">';
						var n_tweets = (num_retweets > 3) ? 3 : num_retweets;
						item += Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(reaction.id, n_tweets);
						if (n_tweets != num_retweets) {
							item += '</span> <a onclick="Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(' + reaction.id + ', 0, \'dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '\');'
								+ 'this.parentNode.removeChild(this); return false;" href="#">Show all</a>';
						}
					}
				}
			}	
			item += '</td></tr> \
			</table> \
			</div>' // end dsq-reaction-header
			+ '<div class="dsq-comment-body"> \
				<div class="dsq-comment-message">' + reaction.body + '</div>'
			+ '</div> \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer"> \
				<div class="dsq-comment-footer-left"> \
				</div>'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator 
					? ' \
					<div class="dsq-comment-footer-right"> \
						<button class="dsq-button-small dsq-hide-reaction" onclick="Dsq.Reaction.hide(' + reaction.id + ')">Hide</button> \
					</div>'
					: '')
			+ '</div>'
		item += '</li>'; /* Reaction HTML ends */
		return item;
	};

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

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

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

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

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

		return '<h3 id="dsq-reactions-title" class="dsq-h3-reactions">Reactions</h3><ul id="dsq-reactions" class="dsq-reactions">' + html + '</ul>';
	};
	
	this._popupGeneric = function(content) {
		return ' \
		<div class="dsq-popup-container"> \
			<table> \
				<tbody> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-tl"></td><td class="dsq-popup-b"></td><td class="dsq-popup-tr"></td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-b"></td> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-body"> \
							<div class="dsq-popup-content"> \
								<div class="dsq-popup-title"> \
									<button class="dsq-button-small" style="float:right" onclick="Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true)">Close</button>' 
									+ content['header'] 
								+ '</div>'
								+ content['body']
							+ '</div> \
							<div class="powered-by"><a href="http://disqus.com/comments/">Powered by <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-logo.png" alt="Disqus Comments" style="margin-bottom:-5px" /></a></div> \
						</td> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-b"></td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-bl"></td><td class="dsq-popup-b"></td><td class="dsq-popup-br"></td> \
					</tr> \
				</tbody> \
			</table> \
		</div> \
		';
	};



	
	this.chooseSubscribe = function(post_id) {

		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var menu = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-menu' + pid);
		
		menu.style.display = menu.style.display == 'block' ? 'none' : 'block';
		
	};
	
	this.setSubscribe = function(value, el, post_id) {

		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var input = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-on-post' + pid);
		var select = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-select' + pid);
		var menu = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-menu' + pid);
		
		select.innerHTML = el.innerHTML;
		input.value = value;
		this.chooseSubscribe(post_id);
	};
	
	this.getFormFields = function(post_id) {

		var fields = {};
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var name = Dsq.$('dsq-field-name' + pid);
		var email = Dsq.$('dsq-field-email' + pid);
		var website = Dsq.$('dsq-field-website' + pid);
		var username = Dsq.$('dsq-field-username' + pid);
		var password = Dsq.$('dsq-field-password' + pid);

		fields = {
			'name': name,
			'email': email,
			'website': website,
			'username': username,
			'password': password
		}
		
		return fields;
	}
	
	this.validateFields = function(post_id) {
		
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) { return true; }
		
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		
		var nameField = fields.name;
		var websiteField = fields.website;
		var emailField = fields.email;
		
		websiteField.value = (websiteField.value == Dsq.Templates.placeholder['website']) ? '' : websiteField.value;
		
		var v = [{

			validator: Dsq.Validators.name,
			value: nameField.value
		}, {

			validator: Dsq.Validators.email,
			value: emailField.value
		}, {

			validator: Dsq.Validators.url,
			value: websiteField.value
		}];
		
		return Dsq.Validators.validate(v, function(e) { Dsq.Popup.popModal(e, 'Oops...') } );
	};
	
	this.checkExistingUser = function(post_id) {
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);		
		Dsq.Popup.loading(post_id);
		
		if (post_id) {
			Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].getUserByEmail(fields.email.value);
		} else {
			Dsq.frames['reply_0'].getUserByEmail(fields.email.value);
		}
	};

	this.validateAuth = function(el_clicked, post_id, auth_choice) {
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		var email = fields.email ? fields.email.value : '';
		var username = fields.username ? fields.username.value : '';
		var password = fields.password ? fields.password.value : '';
		
		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked, post_id);
		
		if (post_id) {
			Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].validateAuth(auth_choice, email, username, password);
		} else {
			Dsq.frames['reply_0'].validateAuth(auth_choice, email, username, password);
		}
	};

	this.lightboxUpdateEmail = function(post_id, new_email) {
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		fields.email.value = new_email;
	};

	this.lightboxAuthenticate = function(post_id, auth_choice, auth_data) {
		var title, body;
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';

		if(typeof(auth_data) == 'undefined') {
			var auth_data = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		}

		d = auth_data;

		switch(auth_choice) {
			case 'register':
				var suggestedUsername = d.name.value.replace(/[^a-zA-Z0-9-]/g,'').toLowerCase();
			
				title = Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post ? 'Optional:' : 'Required:';
				title += ' Register a <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-profile.png" alt=Disqus Profile" />';

				body = ' \
				<ul class="dsq-lightbox-register-reasons"> \
				<li>Verify your comments</li> \
				<li>Edit and delete comments</li> \
				<li>Manage comments and replies</li> \
				</ul> \
				';

				body += ' \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-fields"> \
					<table> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Email</td> \
							<td><input type="text" value="' + d.email.value + '" onchange="Dsq.Templates.lightboxUpdateEmail(' + post_id + ', this.value)" /><div id="dsq-email-errors' + pid + '"></div></td> \
						</tr> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Username</td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-username' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + suggestedUsername + '"/><div id="dsq-username-errors' + pid + '"></div></td> \
						</tr> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Password</td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-password' + pid + '" type="password" /><div id="dsq-password-errors' + pid + '"></div></td> \
						</tr> \
					</table> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-switch-auth"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(' + post_id + ',\'login\'); return false">Login instead</a></div> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-lightbox-errors' + pid + '" class="dsq-lightbox-errors"></div> \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-submit"> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-post"><button class="dsq-button" onclick="Dsq.Templates.validateAuth(this, ' + post_id + ',\'' + auth_choice + '\')">Register and Post comment</button></div>'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
						? '<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-skip"><button class="dsq-button-small" onclick="Dsq.Templates.postComment(' + post_id + ', this, true)">Just post as a Guest</button></div>'
						: '')
				+ '</div> \
				';
				break;
			case 'login':
				title = Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post ? 'Optional:' : 'Required:';
				title += ' Login to your <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-profile.png" alt=Disqus Profile" />';
				body = '';
				
				if(d.avatar_url) {
					body += '<div class="dsq-lightbox-recognized"><table><tr>';
					body += '<td><img src="' + d.avatar_url + '" alt="" /></td>';
					body += '<td><span class="dsq-badge ' + (d.verified ? 'dsq-badge-verified' : 'dsq-badge-registered') + '">' + (d.verified ? 'Verified' : 'Registered') + '</span></td>';
					body += '<td>Hey <strong>' + d.display_name + '</strong>, is that you? Login below to claim this comment.';
					body += '</tr></table></div>';
				}

				body += ' \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-fields"> \
					<table> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Username or Email</td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-username' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (d.avatar_url ? d.username : '') + '" /></td> \
						</tr> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Password <a href="http://disqus.com/forgot" target="_blank">(cannot log in?)</a></td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-password' + pid + '" type="password" /></td> \
						</tr> \
					</table> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-switch-auth"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(' + post_id + ',\'register\'); return false">Register instead</a></div> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-lightbox-errors' + pid + '" class="dsq-lightbox-errors"></div> \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-submit"> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-post"><button class="dsq-button" onclick="Dsq.Templates.validateAuth(this, ' + post_id + ',\'' + auth_choice + '\')">Login and Post comment</button></div>'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
						? '<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-skip"><button class="dsq-button-small" onclick="Dsq.Templates.postComment(' + post_id + ', this, true)">Just post as a Guest</button></div>'
						: '')
				+ '</div> \
				';
				break;
			default:
				break;
		}
		Dsq.Popup.lightbox(body, title, post_id);
		Dsq.$('dsq-field-username' + pid).focus();
	};
	
	this.buttonsToRestore = [];
	this.setLoadingButton = function(btn, post_id) {
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		if (btn) {

			var loadingBtn = document.createElement('button');
			loadingBtn.id = btn.id + '-loading';
			loadingBtn.innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-lite.gif" alt="" /> Just a moment...';
			loadingBtn.className = btn.className + ' dsq-post-loading';
			btn.parentNode.appendChild(loadingBtn);
			btn.style.display = 'none';
			var cancelBtn = Dsq.$('dsq-cancel-button' + pid);
			if(cancelBtn) { cancelBtn.style.display = 'none'; this.buttonsToRestore.push(cancelBtn); }
			this.buttonsToRestore.push(btn);
		} else {

			var buttons = this.buttonsToRestore;
			for(var i = 0; i < buttons.length; i++) {
				buttons[i].style.display = 'inline';
				Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(Dsq.$(buttons[i].id + '-loading'));
			}
		}
		
	};

	this.postComment = function(post_id, el_clicked, force, auth_choice) {
		var append_id = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);

		if (Dsq.Templates.validateFields(post_id)) {

			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated && !force &&
				((!Dsq.Utils.readCookie('skipped_auth') && !disqus_skip_auth && !Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled) || !Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post)) {
				Dsq.Templates.checkExistingUser(post_id);
				return false;
			}
			var params = [];
			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {
				params.push(fields.name.value,
					fields.email.value,
					fields.website.value);

				if (auth_choice == 'login' || auth_choice == 'register') {
					params.push({
						auth_choice: auth_choice,
						username: fields.username.value,
						password: fields.password.value,
						email: fields.email.value
					});
				} else {
					params.push(null);
				}

				params.push(null /* sharing options */, Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-on-post' + append_id).value);
			} else {
				var service_checked = function(name) {
					var el = Dsq.$('dsq-sharing-' + name + append_id);
					return (el !== null && el.checked === true) ? '1' : '0';
				};
				params.push(null, null, null, null, {
					tw: service_checked('twitter'),
					fb: service_checked('facebook'),
					tr: service_checked('tumblr'),
					wp: service_checked('wordpress'),
					mt: service_checked('movabletype'),
					tp: service_checked('typepad'),
					yh: service_checked('yahoo')
				});
			}

			var frame = Dsq.frames['reply_' + (post_id ? post_id : 0)];
			frame.post.apply(frame, params);

			if (el_clicked) {
				Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked, post_id);
			}
			
			if (force) {
				Dsq.Utils.createCookie('skipped_auth', true);	
			}
			
		} else {
			return false;
		}
	};

	this.editComment = function(el_clicked, post_id) {
		var edited_message = Dsq.$('dsq-edit-textarea-' + post_id).value;

		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked, post_id);
		Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id].edit(post_id, edited_message);
	};

	this.toggleEdit = function(post_id) {
		var body = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-body-' + post_id);
		var message = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + post_id);

		if (!Dsq.Post.stateEditToggled[post_id]) {


			message.style.display = 'none';
			if (Dsq.$('dsq-edit-' + post_id)) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-edit-' + post_id).style.display = 'block';
			} else {

				var edit_area = document.createElement('div');
				edit_area.id = 'dsq-edit-' + post_id;
				edit_area.className = 'dsq-edit dsq-textarea';
				edit_area.innerHTML = ' \
				<div class="dsq-textarea-wrapper"> \
					<textarea class="dsq-edit-textarea" id="dsq-edit-textarea-' + post_id + '">' + message.innerHTML + '</textarea> \
				</div> \
				<div class="dsq-save-edit"> \
					<button onclick="Dsq.Templates.editComment(this, ' + post_id + ')" class="dsq-button-small">Save Edit</button> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-edit-iframe-' + post_id + '" style="display: none"></div> \
				';

				body.appendChild(edit_area);

				if (!Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id]) {
					var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
					Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(Dsq.$('dsq-edit-iframe-' + post_id), post_id);
					Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id].init();
					Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id].setState(post_id, _meta.depth);
				}
			}
		} else {

			message.style.display = 'block';
			Dsq.$('dsq-edit-' + post_id).style.display = 'none';
		}
		
		Dsq.Post.stateEditToggled[post_id] = !Dsq.Post.stateEditToggled[post_id];
	};
	
	this.edit = function(el, post_id) {

		Dsq.Templates.toggleEdit(post_id);
	};

	this.toggleReply = function(post_id, button) {
		
		if(!this.stateReplyToggled[post_id]) {

			if (Dsq.$('dsq-reply-post-' + post_id)) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).style.display = 'block';
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.postBox(post_id);
				var container = Dsq.$('dsq-textarea-wrapper-' + post_id);
				if (!Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id] && container) {
					var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(container, post_id);
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].init(function() {

						Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.postBox(post_id, true);
						Dsq.$('dsq-form-area-' + post_id).innerHTML = '';

						var theme = (typeof disqus_frame_theme == 'undefined') ? 'default' : disqus_frame_theme;
						Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(Dsq.$('dsq-form-area-' + post_id), post_id, {theme: theme});

					});
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].setState(post_id, _meta.depth);
				}
			}
			Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).className = 'dsq-append-post';
			Dsq.$('dsq-comment-footer-reply-' + post_id).className = 'dsq-comment-footer-reply-active';
			
		} else {

			Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).style.display = 'none';
			Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).className = '';
			Dsq.$('dsq-comment-footer-reply-' + post_id).className = 'dsq-comment-footer-reply';
		}
		
		this.stateReplyToggled[post_id] = !this.stateReplyToggled[post_id];

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie && this.stateReplyToggled[post_id]) {

		}

		Dsq.Events.fire(Dsq.Events.REPLY_IFRAME_TOGGLED, {
			postId: post_id,
			opened: this.stateReplyToggled[post_id]
		});
	};
	
	this.moderateOptions = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		
		if(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator && !Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator) { return false; }

		var html;
		
		html = ' \
		<div class="dsq-moderate-options"> \
		<table>'
		+ (_meta.email ? '<tr><td>Email</td><td>' + _meta.email + '</td></tr>' : '')
		+ (_meta.ip ? '<tr><td>IP address</td><td>' + _meta.ip + '</td></tr>' : '')
		+ '<tr> \
			<td>Actions</td> \
			<td><ul>'
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.moderator_can_edit
				? '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false;">Edit Comment</a></li>'
				: '')
			+ '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.removePost(' + post_id + ', 1); Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false;">Delete Comment</a></li> \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.reportSpam(' + post_id + '); Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false;">Mark Spam</a></li> \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.blacklist(' + post_id + '); return false">Block User</a></li> \
			</ul></td> \
			</table> \
		</div> \
		';
		
		html += '<p>Go to the full <a href="http://disqus.com/comments/moderate/" target="_blank">moderate panel</a> for more options.</p>';
		
		return Dsq.Popup.popModal(html, 'Moderate Options', post_id);
	};
	
	this.placeholder = {
		'class': 'dsq-placeholder',
		'name': Dsq.Strings.NAME,
		'email': Dsq.Strings.EMAIL,
		'website': Dsq.Strings.WEBSITE + ' (' + Dsq.Strings.OPTIONAL.toLowerCase() + ')'
	};
	
	this.handlePlaceholder = function(evt, el, key) {
		var placeholder = Dsq.Templates.placeholder[key];
		var className = Dsq.Templates.placeholder['class'];
		
		switch(evt.type) {
			case 'focus':
				if(el.value == placeholder) {
					el.value = '';
					el.className = '';
				}
				break;

			case 'blur':
				if(el.value == '') {
					el.value = placeholder;
					el.className = className;
				}
				break;
			default:
				break;
		}
	};
	
	this.paginate = function(page, el_clicked) {

		var extra_params = '';

		if(typeof disqus_per_page != 'undefined') {
			extra_params += '&per_page=' + disqus_per_page;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_sort != 'undefined') {
			extra_params += '&sort=' + disqus_sort;
		}

		Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML += '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
		
		if(el_clicked) {
			Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked);
		}
		
		Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/jackandjillpolitics/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ 'monday_open_thread_how_was_the_weekend_08'
			+ '&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_how_was_the_weekend_08/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">104</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/monday_open_thread_how_was_the_weekend_08/latest.rss"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/bullet-feed.png"></a>\
	 </span>\
	 </h3>\
	 <div id="dsq-options" style="margin:15px 0">\
	 <span class="dsq-item-sort">\
	 Sort by\
	 <select id="dsq-sort-select" onchange="Dsq.Thread.sortBy(this.value);">\
	 <option value="hot" selected="selected">Popular now</option>\
	 <option value="best" >Best Rating</option>\
	 <option value="newest" >Newest first</option>\
	 <option value="oldest" >Oldest first</option>\
	 </select>\
	 &nbsp;\
	 </span>\
	 <span class="dsq-item-cp"><a href="http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/monday_open_thread_how_was_the_weekend_08/">Community Page</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>\
	 <span class="dsq-item-subscribe">\
	 <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/email.png" style="width:12px;height:12px;vertical-align:middle">\
	 <span id="dsq-subscribe">\
	 <a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">Subscribe by email</a>\
	 </span>\
	 </span>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-alerts">\
	 <p><a href="http://disqus.com/profile/login/?next=article:3964555" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false">You must log into your Disqus Profile in order to post comments.</a></p>\
	 </div>\
		';

		

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

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

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.authPost();
		

		html += Dsq.Templates.reactions();

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.trackbacks();
		

		return html;
	};

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

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

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

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

		if(typeof DsqLocal != 'undefined' && DsqLocal.trackback_url && DsqLocal.trackbacks) {
			var trackbacks = DsqLocal.trackbacks;
			var trackback_url = DsqLocal.trackback_url;
		} else {
			var trackbacks = [
			
			
			];
			var trackback_url = 'http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/monday_open_thread_how_was_the_weekend_08/trackback/';
		}

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

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

		return html;
	}

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		return '<h3 class="dsq-h3-reactions">Reactions</h3><ul id="dsq-reactions" class="dsq-reactions">' + html + '</ul>';
	};
	
	this.missingPermissions = function() {
		return '	<p><a href="http://disqus.com/profile/login/?next=article:3964555" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false">You must log into your Disqus Profile in order to post comments.</a></p> \n';
	};

	//
	// Post
	//

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		return ' \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer" id="dsq-comment-footer-' + post_id + '"> \
				<div id="dsq-points-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-likedtxt">'
				+ (_meta.points
					? _meta.points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(_meta.points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this comment.'
					: '')
				+ '</div>'
				+ '<ul class="dsq-comment-options dsq-list-style">'
				+ (_meta.votable
					? '<li class="dsq-list-first dsq-rate" id="dsq-rate-cont-' + post_id + '">'
					+ (!_meta.up_voted
						? '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.rate(this, ' + post_id + ', 1); return false;">Like</a>'
						: 'You liked this.') + '</li>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-report' + (!_meta.votable ? ' dsq-list-first' : '') + '" id="dsq-post-report-' + post_id + '"><a href="#" class="dsq-post-report" onclick="Dsq.Post.report(' + post_id + ', false); return false;">Report</a></li> \
				</ul> \
				<ul class="dsq-list-style">'
				+ (_meta.can_reply
					? '<li class="dsq-list-first"><a href="#" id="dsq-reply-link-' + post_id +'" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleReply(this, ' + post_id +'); return false;">Reply</a></li>'
					: '')
				+ (_meta.can_reply && !_meta.has_replies && _meta.from_request_user
					? '<li id="dsq-edit-el-' + post_id + '"><a id="dsq-edit-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); return false;">Edit</a></li>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="' + (!_meta.can_reply ? 'dsq-list-first' : '') + '" id="dsq-more-el-' + post_id + '"><a id="dsq-more-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, ' + post_id + ', \'more\'); return false">More <small>&#9660;</small></a></li>'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.use_media
					? '<li id="dsq-media-el-' + post_id +'" style="display:none"><a id="dsq-media-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, ' + post_id + ', \'media\'); return false">Use Media <small>&#9660;</small></a></li>'
					: '')
				+ '</ul>'
				+ '<div id="dsq-reply-bar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar" style="display:none"> \
						<div id="dsq-reply-bar-items-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar-items"> \
						</div> \
						<div id="dsq-reply-bar-auth-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar-auth"> \
							 \
								 \
									<a href="#" class="dsq-help dsq-reply-req-opt" title="You must log into an account in order to comment on Jack and Jill Politics" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Required:</a> \
								 \
								<img class="dsq-login-icon" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/dsq-favicon-16x16.png" alt="" /> \
								<a id="dsq-reply-login-' + post_id + '" href="http://disqus.com/profile/login/?next=article:3964555" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false">Login</a> \
								 \
									&nbsp;or&nbsp; \
									<img class="fb_login_image" src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/images/fbconnect/login-buttons/connect_light_small_short.gif" alt="Facebook Connect"/> \
									<a href="#" onclick="FB.Connect.requireSession(DisqusFbcParentController.onLogin); return false;">Connect</a> \
								 \
								&nbsp;or&nbsp; \
									<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/twitter-signin-icon.png" alt="" /> \
									<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect(); return false">Sign-in</a> \
								 \
								 \
							 \
						</div> \
					</div> \
					<div id="dsq-reply-' + post_id + '"></div> \
			</div> \
		';
	};

	//
	// Iframes
	//

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

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

		var default_params = {
			// TODO: These should be moved to Dsq.jsonData.
			'f'				: 'jackandjillpolitics',
			't'				: 'monday_open_thread_how_was_the_weekend_08',
			// 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_how_was_the_weekend_08/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_how_was_the_weekend_08'
			+ '&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_how_was_the_weekend_08'
			+ '&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_how_was_the_weekend_08'
				+ '&email=' 	+ encodeURIComponent(email));

		} else if(!email) {
			// If anonymous user and no email has been provided yet, prompt for email

			var title = 'Subscribe to this comment thread';
			var message = ' \
				New comments will be sent directly to your email inbox! \
				<div class="dsq-subscribe-submit"> \
					<p><strong>Enter your email address below.</strong></p> \
					<input type="text" id="dsq-subscribe-email"> \
					<button onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1, Dsq.$(\'dsq-subscribe-email\').value)">Subscribe</button> \
				</div> \
			';

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

	this.showSettings = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) {
			return;
		}

		/* The form has to be re-designed when more options will come out. */
		var html = 'Automatically close comments after <input size="3" id="dsq-thread-days-alive" value="' + Dsq.jsonData.thread.days_alive + '" type="text" /> days. Existing comments will still be displayed.<br /><br />(Using 0 days will disable this feature)<br /><br />'
								 + '<button onclick="Dsq.Thread.updateDaysAlive();" class="dsq-button-small"><span>Save</span></button>'
								 + '<span id="dsq-thread-settings-status" class="dsq-options-status"></span>';
		Dsq.Popup.popModal(html, 'Settings');
	};

	this.updateDaysAlive = function() {
		var days = Dsq.$('dsq-thread-days-alive').value;
		var status = Dsq.$('dsq-thread-settings-status');
		Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/jackandjillpolitics/update_days_alive.js', {days:days,thread:Dsq.jsonData.thread.id});
		status.innerHTML = 'Saved!';
		window.setTimeout(function() { status.innerHTML = ''; }, 1000);
	};
};
// Dsq.Thread

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

	// Private
	var handlers = {};
	var getHandlers = function(event) {
		if (handlers[event] === undefined) {
			handlers[event] = [];
		}
		return handlers[event];
	};

	// Public
	// Value keys : postId, node, xtype
	obj.REPLY_IFRAME_CREATED = 1;
	// Value keys : postId, opened
	obj.REPLY_IFRAME_TOGGLED = 2;
	obj.fire = function(event, opt_value) {
		if (!event) {
			throw new Error('Unknown event');
		}
		var value = opt_value || {};
		for (var i=0; i<getHandlers(event).length; i++) {
			getHandlers(event)[i](value);
		}
	};
	obj.addHandler = function(event, callback) {
		getHandlers(event).push(callback);
	};

	return obj;
}();

/**
 * Dsq.Realtime
 */
Dsq.Realtime = new function() {
	var initialized = false;
	var interval = null;
	var last_checked = Dsq.jsonData.request.timestamp;
	var new_posts = [];
	var ongoing_request = false;
	var prev_script = null;

	function updateNewPostCount() {
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-alert').style.display = new_posts.length ? 'block' : 'none';

		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-queued').innerHTML = new_posts.length
		+ ' new '
		+ Dsq.Utils.pluralize(new_posts.length, 'comment', 'comments')
		+ Dsq.Utils.pluralize(new_posts.length, ' was', ' were')
		+ ' just posted.';

		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-show').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.SHOW + ')';
	}

	function insertNewPosts() {
		var post_id = null;
		var after_id = Dsq.$('dsq-sort-select').value === 'oldest' ? -1 : null;

		for (var i=0; i<new_posts.length; i++) {
			post_id = new_posts[i];
			Dsq.Post.insert(after_id, post_id, Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id].message);
			Dsq.Post.incrementPostCount();
			Dsq.Post.outlineComment(post_id);
		}
		new_posts = [];
	}

	this.enableInterval = function() {
		interval = setInterval(Dsq.Realtime.check, Dsq.jsonData.context.realtime_speed);
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-status').innerHTML = Dsq.Strings.ENABLED;
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.PAUSE + ')';
	}

	this.disableInterval = function() {
		if (interval) {
			clearInterval(interval);
			interval = null;
		}
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-status').innerHTML = Dsq.Strings.PAUSED;
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.RESUME + ')';
	}

	this.toggleInterval = function() {
		if (!interval) {
			Dsq.Realtime.enableInterval();
		} else {
			Dsq.Realtime.disableInterval();
		}
		return false;
	}

	this.initialize = function() {
		if (!initialized) {
			initialized = true;
			Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').onclick = this.toggleInterval;
			if (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.streaming_realtime) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-show').onclick = this.show;
				updateNewPostCount();
			}
			if (Dsq.jsonData.thread.realtime_paused) {
				Dsq.Realtime.disableInterval();
			} else {
				Dsq.Realtime.enableInterval();
			}
		}
	}

	this.show = function() {
		insertNewPosts();
		updateNewPostCount();
		return false;
	}

	this.check = function() {
		if (!ongoing_request && Dsq.jsonData.realtime_enabled) {
			if (prev_script) {
				prev_script.parentNode.removeChild(prev_script);
			}
			ongoing_request = true;
			prev_script = Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/3964555/realtime.js?timestamp=' + last_checked);
		}
	};

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

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

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

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

}();

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

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

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

	return obj;
}();

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		if (isblank(openid_url)) {
			return;
		}

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	return obj;
}();


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





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

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

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

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

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

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





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

		
		for(var prop in Dsq.Themes[theme]) {
			if(Dsq.Themes[theme] && Dsq.Themes[theme].hasOwnProperty(prop)) {
				Dsq.Templates[prop] = Dsq.Themes[theme][prop];
			}
		}
		
		for(var prop in Dsq.Post) {
			if(Dsq.Themes[theme] && Dsq.Themes[theme].hasOwnProperty(prop)) {
				Dsq.Post[prop] = Dsq.Themes[theme][prop];
			}
		}
	}

	//
	// Register templates.  This must be done after all themes are loaded.
	//
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('authPost', Dsq.Templates.authPost);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('header', Dsq.Templates.header);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('footer', Dsq.Templates.footer);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('trackbacks', Dsq.Templates.trackbacks);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('reactions', Dsq.Templates.reactions);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('prependPost', Dsq.Templates.prependPost);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('appendPost', Dsq.Templates.appendPost);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postPrependHeader', Dsq.Templates.postPrependHeader);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postAppendHeader', Dsq.Templates.postAppendHeader);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('preBody', Dsq.Templates.preBody);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postBody', Dsq.Templates.postBody);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postFooter', Dsq.Templates.postFooter);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('_popupGeneric', Dsq.Templates._popupGeneric);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('voted', Dsq.Templates.voted);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('popupProfile', Dsq.Templates.popupProfile);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postBox', Dsq.Templates.postBox);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('pagination', Dsq.Templates.pagination);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postComment_onSuccess', Dsq.Templates.postComment_onSuccess);

})();

Dsq.container.className = "clearfix";
Dsq.container.innerHTML = ' \
<ul id="dsq-comments">\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-1964180">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1964180" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1964180" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964180">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1964180" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964180" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/11/AR2008051101865.html?nav=hcmodule" rel="nofollow">Clinton Team Acknowledges $20 Million Debt</a></div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-1964181">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1964181" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1964181" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964181">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1964181" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964181" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/11/us/politics/11chicago.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin#" rel="nofollow">Pragmatic Politics, Forged on the South Side</a></div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-1964182">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1964182" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1964182" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964182">The Ink</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1964182" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964182" class="dsq-comment-message">Am I the only one who is so fixated on the election that I was sitting at an IMAX screening of Speed Racer and drawing comparisons between Speed and Obama?  which would dovetail nicely       into the whole Matrixisation of the Speed Racer franchise and the cementing of the Wachowski bros. MO which is savior vs. dominant culture.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-1964183">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1964183" class="dsq-comment-header">\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964183">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964183" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.newsweek.com/id/136300" rel="nofollow">Obama rises from political obscurity to verge of history</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964184">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964184" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/11/ap-runs-autopsy-of-clinto_n_101191.html" rel="nofollow">Autopsy of Clinton Campaign</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964185">Ruth</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964185" class="dsq-comment-message">Ink, I confess I am obsessed...LOL...otherwise why am I online at this time of the day and just finished watching the replay of Meet the Press.  But I am thinking you win the medal for the day.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964186" class="dsq-comment-message">From Blacks4Barack:<br>Group pushing Clinton as VP choice secretly </br><br>tied to her campaign</br><br>By Margaret Talev McClatchy Newspapers</br><br>Posted on Sunday, May 11, 2008</br><br></br><br>WASHINGTON — A group called VoteBoth has been leading the charge for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to team up on the Democratic ticket.</br><br>But the people behind it come from just one of those camps — Clinton\'s — and one of their goals may be keeping Clinton\'s White House prospects alive.</br><br>The group\'s founder, Adam Parkhomenko, until recently worked as an assistant to Patti Solis Doyle, who was Clinton\'s campaign manager until February. Parkhomenko in 2003 founded the Draft Hillary for President Committee.</br><br>VoteBoth\'s spokesman is Sam Arora. He\'s a law school student who in recent years worked for Clinton and for former Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe, Clinton\'s presidential campaign chairman.</br><br>VoteBoth\'s Facebook page lists three others as administrators, all with Clinton connections.</br><br>One is a Richmond-based Democratic technology consultant, who was quoted in a New York Times story about the Iowa Democratic Party\'s 2006 Jefferson-Jackson dinner, where he was passing out "Hillary for President" stickers. Another appears online in a photo with Hillary Clinton and others at a summer leadership program from 2006.</br><br>A third is a history professor and campaign contributor whom Clinton named earlier this year in a press release of prominent Virginians to endorse her. wrote When VoteBoth</br><br>On Friday, when word went out that Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., didn\'t see Clinton as Obama\'s pick for a running mate, VoteBoth released a statement offering respect for Kennedy. But it added, "We think that the millions of Democrats who have voted for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have something to say, too. Why stop at having a nominee who has the support of 51 percent of Democrats when we could have a \'Dream Team\' ticket that has won 100 percent?"</br><br>VoteBoth first filed with the Federal Election Commission on April 8, two weeks before the Pennsylvania primary that Clinton won and that was considered a crucial window for her comeback. The group\'s original mission promoted the idea of Clinton as the nominee, with Obama as her running mate.</br><br>On May 1, days after the Rev. Jeremiah Wright\'s latest divisive remarks and Obama\'s renouncement of his former pastor, VoteBoth amended its mission. It now would support a joint ticket in either order, so long as Clinton\'s name was on the ballot.</br><br>Last week, as Obama\'s strong showing made him all but certain to clinch the nomination, VoteBoth leaders began putting themselves in the spotlight, sending regular press releases, posting blogs and appearing in interviews.</br><br>Parkhomenko wrote a widely circulated piece on The Huffington Post on Tuesday as voters went to the polls in North Carolina and Indiana primaries. "VoteBoth does not aim to pick who leads the ticket," he said. He wrote of friends who "believe in Barack as strongly as I believe in Hillary" and wanting to be inclusive "as a matter of fairness, practicality, experience and hope."</br><br>On Friday, when word went out that Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., didn\'t see Clinton as Obama\'s pick for a running mate, VoteBoth released a statement offering respect for Kennedy. But it added, "We think that the millions of Democrats who have voted for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have something to say, too. Why stop at having a nominee who has the support of 51 percent of Democrats when we could have a \'Dream Team\' ticket that has won 100 percent?"</br><br>On Friday, Parkhomenko said through a spokesman that his decision to change the mission came after talking to an Obama supporter. He also said he gave neither the Clinton nor Obama campaigns a heads-up about his group.</br><br>In an interview Friday, Arora said VoteBoth is not coordinated with Clinton\'s campaign, and is "just a bunch of us volunteering our time because we think this is a good idea." Despite the lopsided Clinton connections, he said it isn\'t just about supporting Clinton but about bringing together the rivals\' historic turnout and fund-raising machines and constituencies.</br><br>"There\'s been a lot of talk about a unity ticket and we think that\'s where the conversation should be," said Arora, choosing a word — conversation — that Clinton used to frame her campaign appearances. "If we\'ve been able to help the discussion forward, that\'s what we\'re focused on."</br><br>"If Barack Obama is the nominee and he takes Senator Clinton as his vice president, you\'ve got a ticket that\'s already won 100 percent of the Democratic vote, that\'s turned out a record number of Democratic voters and that has shattered fundraising records. A unity ticket is the way Democrats win in November."</br><br>Obama\'s campaign declined comment on VoteBoth. The Clinton campaign did not respond to a request for comment.</br><br>McClatchy Newspapers 2008</br><br></br><br>Visit: <a href="http://www.Blacks4Barack.org" rel="nofollow">www.Blacks4Barack.org</a> </br><br>A Multi-Racial, Grassroots Org...Dedicated To Truth !</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964187">D.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964187" class="dsq-comment-message">Anyone got any intel/background/connections with the Congressional Progressive Caucus?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964188">Ms.Martin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964188" class="dsq-comment-message">Yesterday I finally heard one of the pundits admit that Obama won this back in February.<br></br><br>Ruth </br><br></br><br>Don\'t feel bad, I feel like I\'m standing still in time until this thing is over.  It\'s been a long I am ready for the celebration.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964189">Anonymous</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964189" class="dsq-comment-message">Might as well start with week off with a bang.<br></br><br>Michelle Obama attacked on Fox News</br><br></br><br>http://writechic.wordpress.com/2008/05/12/michelle-obama-attacked-on-foxnews/</br><br></br><br>Just blame it on a black person</br><br></br><br>http://writechic.wordpress.com/2008/05/10/just-say-it-was-a-black-person-the-fiasco-at-samford-university/</br><br></br><br>Peace.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964190">texas girl in l.a.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964190" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh my GOSH this is funny!<br></br><br>Bill O\'Reilly Goes Nuts!</br><br>(explicit language)</br><br></br><br>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAaHime9aaM&eur;</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964191">Ms.Martin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964191" class="dsq-comment-message">This is a great <a href="http://story:%3Cbr%3E%3C/br%3E%3Cbr%3Eajc.com" rel="nofollow">story:<br></br><br>ajc.com</a> &gt; Metro &gt; Atlanta </br><br></br><br>Morehouse valedictorian stands out -- he\'s white</br><br></br><br>Joshua Packwood says college provided him a perspective he wouldn\'t have gotten elsewhere</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964192">N. Mahana</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964192" class="dsq-comment-message">@Texas Girl<br></br><br>That Bill O\'Reilly video made my morning, I\'ll be laughing all day on that one!!!</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964193">Adam</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964193" class="dsq-comment-message">A great post on how deeply the delegate math favors Obama<br></br><br>http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/05/everything-you-always-wanted-to-know.html</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964194">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964194" class="dsq-comment-message">Get ready for Michelle as the Black Bogeywoman, because that\'s all they have left. We will have to stand behind this Sista and continue to have her back.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964195">Ms.Martin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964195" class="dsq-comment-message">We will have Michelle\'s back.  I\'m sure she formed many professional relationships and there will be many who will attest to her capabilites.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964196">Nquest</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964196" class="dsq-comment-message">The question is: what will her husband do?  Denounce her?  Tell her to go home like he did before and just concede the point?<br></br><br>I\'ve said it and I\'ll say it again:  I will never forgive Barack Obama for the way he failed to standup to the attacks directed at Michelle Obama when the media trounced on the "I\'m proud of my country" remark.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964197">Anonymous</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964197" class="dsq-comment-message">nquest-get over it. <br></br><br>He cant be seen reacting to every jab and criticism. One way of dealing with a "fake" issue is not to feed the monster. The story eventually went away on its own. </br><br></br><br>Instead of stop messing with my WIFE!!....you are seeing, let me tell u who Michelle and I are..</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964198">Ms.Martin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964198" class="dsq-comment-message">There\'s no doubt in my mind that Barack loves and respects Michelle.<br></br><br>I wanted him to come and say more than what I heard him say, that her statements were taken out of context, but I\'m sure he knew that anything else would feed the nonsense.  The speech speaks for itself - everyone knew what she meant.  No point at swinging at the wind.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964199">Nquest</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964199" class="dsq-comment-message">So Bill always had an anger issue?<br></br><br>Why would any business put up with that bs?</br><br></br><br>Just goes to show you the grand American double-standards.  O\'Reilly can be the Angry White Guy blowing up over trivial sh*t but God forbid a Black man, Rev. Wright, say "God damn America FOR KILLING INNOCENT PEOPLE..."</br><br></br><br>I guess <a href="http://www.blackcommentator.com/276/276_think_aw_icarus_obama_left.html" rel="nofollow">Narrative Maintenance</a> is a must.  </br><br></br><br><i>US history has a basic narrative: The settlers were heroes; the indigenous people were either heathens or naive primitives, but in either case they were in the way of progress. Slavery was an unfortunate episode that was cleaned up by the Civil War, though it has never been quite clear that the former slaves were ever meant to rule themselves, let alone anyone else. US foreign policy has generally been benign, nearly always driven by either a God-given imperative to improve the world or our sense that the planet would be better off with our version of capitalism and democracy. Where Rev. Wright fell into problems was by challenging this myth. Taking the standpoint of those who have seen the underside of the “American Dream”, he was prepared to speak to a counter-narrative that identifies the problematic nature of US history.</i></br><br></br><br>*** Roll that Ronald Reagan "City On A Hill" clip from Hannity\'s latest attack on Michelle Obama.</br><br></br><br>Now roll clip after clip of Barack Obama subscribing to or floating the same problematic narrative.  And, actually, that\'s the biggest problem I have with Obama\'s grandstanding.  Denouncing Rev. Wright, Obama tried to feign offense claiming that it was Rev. Wright who acted like he didn\'t know him, after all these years.</br><br></br><br>Well, a little message from Trinity puts this back in proper perspective, IMO.</br><br></br><br><a href="http://truthabouttrinity.blogspot.com/2008/05/pastor-otis-moss-iii-divine-love-you.html" rel="nofollow"><b>#</b></a></br><br># Pastor Otis Moss III : Divine Love Does Not Ask Family To Choose Between Family Members</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964200">Nquest</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964200" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>One way of dealing with a "fake" issue is not to feed the monster.</i><br></br><br>Well, Sen. Obama did just that.  </br><br></br><br></br><br><i>...you are seeing, let me tell u who Michelle and I are...</i></br><br></br><br>Where am I seeing that?  I don\'t do myths, Anon.</br><br></br><br>I saw:  Barack Obama FEED the Rev. Wright "fake" issue.</br><br>I saw:  Barack Obama FEED the "fake" issue over Michelle\'s statement by saying she "misspoke."</br><br></br><br>Like I said, I don\'t do myths.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964201">Ms.Martin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964201" class="dsq-comment-message">NQuest<br></br><br>He didn\'t say Michelle misspoke, he said her words were taken out of context.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964202">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964202" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/05/five-reasons-why-2012-is-no-go-for.html" rel="nofollow">Five Reasons why 2012 is a No-Go for Clinton</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964203">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964203" class="dsq-comment-message">If Michelle is angry, then she has every right.  The first time I saw her, I thought her very reserved.  There wasn\'t anything so much about her physical appearance except two vertical lines between her brows that indicate worry, stress and sometimes anger.<br></br><br>Then I learned she went to Harvard and I thought "oh shit".  Certainly, one can imagine the sort of things she went through in the 70\'s.  And sure enough, the story came out about her white roomate attempting to get transferred so as not to bunk with a black person.  I am sure Michelle sensed that she wasn\'t welcome.  A lifetime of those experiences can hurt.  I think any worry or anger in that context, is a defense mechanism.</br><br></br><br>People like Hannity can sense those things too.  They will poke at her sore spots as a way to take down Obama\'s bid for the Presidency.  They want Obama to get angry and react like a man, and defend his woman -  which is what he should NOT do.</br><br></br><br>I am sure Michelle doesn\'t need Obama to prove his devotion.  I don\'t know why anyone outside would need him to prove it.  They obviously adore each other.  Which brings to mind another thing.  They\'ve got nothing on the Obama\'s as a family.  There\'s nothing sordid in their that they can attack.</br><br></br><br>Cindy\'s got sore spots too.  She is deeply humiliated by the stories about John calling her a "cunt".  I saw her sitting behind him on the stump, she was staring off into the distance with a strange expression.  Despite her wealth, she may have serious self-confidence issues.  John is a weasel and a bully.  He hides behind Cindy when convenient. Bullies don\'t marry strong women.  I am sure Cindy is the frequent recipient of his rage.</br><br></br><br>These people are very human.  The question is, what kind of human are they.  And, how do these things portend the kind of leaders they\'ll be.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964204">Felicia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964204" class="dsq-comment-message">I was outside the Obama HQ in Lexington, KY yesterday, and a woman drove by in her giant SUV, honked her horn at us, and did a thumbs-down.  The hate for Obama in this region is frightening.  I have no doubt this office will be vandalized by May 20th.  <br></br><br>Now don\'t get me wrong, there are a lot of "working, hard working class white voters" in KY who support Obama.  But for every one I come across, I encounter three who <b>REALLY</b> hate him.</br><br></br><br>And the sad thing these people don\'t realize is that they\'re being made into caricatures by the media: "look at the backwards hillbillies.  Aren\'t you glad, normal America, you don\'t live in Appalachia?"  (The only difference between "normal" America and Appalachia is that they\'re too stupid in Appalachia to hide they\'re racism).  And these people in PA, OH, WV, KY, and TN are very obliging.  Whenever the press comes around, <a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/2a50425a-1f86-11dd-9216-000077b07658,s01=1.html" rel="nofollow">they\'re</a> more than happy to put on their racial bigotry performances.  </br><br></br><br>What keeps me volunteering in KY is that even though these people are fighting it tooth and nail, they will benefit greatly from Obama being POTUS.  And perhaps not this generation, but the next generation will see that blacks can be trusted in positions of power.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964205">Nquest</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964205" class="dsq-comment-message">Ms. Martin,<br></br><br>He may have said her words were taken out of context but he also concede that she "misspoke."</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964206" class="dsq-comment-message">Truthseeker<br></br><br>Michelle did go to Harvard law school, but the situation at the roomate was at Princeton where she said she felt like a visitor on campus.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964207" class="dsq-comment-message">Geez nquest...<br></br><br>Dont  u see what\'s happening here? GOP plans to demonize Michelle and force him to respond by  vigorously defend her. Hopefully she comes out as well and shows some anger. That would be a bonus..</br><br></br><br>Now, we are all focusing on Michelle the wife, instead of Obama the candidate. </br><br></br><br>The goal?--distract him and make him look weak.</br><br></br><br>The real anger needs to be directed at these HHH negroes that continue to support Clinton in spite of her repeated use of the race card. </br><br></br><br>There are much bigger fish to fry my sis and u aint seen nothing yet</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964208">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964208" class="dsq-comment-message">Well Felicia,<br></br><br>Stay safe while volunteering.  The whole world is watching these elections.  I am sure KY and WV will have a serious tourism problem after this is all over.</br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1964209" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964209">N. Mahana</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964209" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s amazing how people aid their own economical and social subjugation. Free your mind and the rest will follow.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1964210" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964210">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964210" class="dsq-comment-message">ms.martin,<br></br><br>Sure.  My point is that any Ivy League school in the 70\'s with few blacks would be a harrowing experience for a young black woman.  My own father was a little traumatized after attending University in London in the 60\'s.  To this day he refuses to live in any Europe or N. America.  He doesn\'t talk about it extensively, but I can fill in the blanks.</br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1964211" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964211">Anonymous</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964211" class="dsq-comment-message">what\'s even more amazing is how the GOP\'s been able to con these folks into voting against their econ interests. <br></br><br><i>Free your mind, and the rest will follow </i></br><br></br><br>easier said than done with these low info voters and the irony of it all is that these working class whites, by their sheer number--stand to benefit the most from an Obama presidency.</br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1964212" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964212">Nquest</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964212" class="dsq-comment-message">Anon,<br></br><br>The GOP demonized Rev. Wright too and our dear Senator went back to kindergarten:</br><br></br><br>"See Barack run."</br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1964213" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964213">Nquest</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964213" class="dsq-comment-message">Now, please explain why Barack "should not" address these smears against his wife.  Is it because he is a "politician"?<br></br><br><b>"We both know that if Senator Obama [did] he said he would not get elected..."</b></br><br></br><br></br><br>Is that what you\'re saying?  Something like that?</br><br></br><br>LOL </br><br></br><br>Funny how that works.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964214">D.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964214" class="dsq-comment-message">First off, Hannity sounding off does not constitute an attack by the GOP. If that were the case, then the NY Times\' attacks on McCain were really DNC attacks.<br></br><br>(Wait, there may be some truth to that.....)</br><br></br><br>Second, let\'s be honest: Michelle has said some things that are completely suspect. Even when placed in their proper context, there\'s something questionable about saying that you\'re just now becoming proud of your country. </br><br></br><br>Take the right wing spin out of it. She should have had enough sense-or someone should\'ve been smart enough to recognize-that a comment like that would land her under the bus. I know what she meant, but her phrasing was terrible.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964215">Ms.Martin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964215" class="dsq-comment-message">Truthseeker<br></br><br>I got your point and understand all to well how Michelle felt.</br><br></br><br>I grew up in a small town in Illinois and was bused to predominately white schools during the late 60s and have worked in environments where there weren\'t many blacks.  I know that anger all to well.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964216">Ronnie B</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964216" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>This is a great <a href="http://story:%3Cbr%3E%3C/br%3E%3Cbr%3Eajc.com" rel="nofollow">story:<br></br><br>ajc.com</a> &gt; Metro &gt; Atlanta </br><br></br><br>Morehouse valedictorian stands out -- he\'s white</br><br></br><br>Joshua Packwood says college provided him a perspective he wouldn\'t have gotten elsewhere</br></i><br></br><br>Yep.  Saw it on the front page of the paper this morning.  </br><br></br><br>IMO, it\'s a major statement made by academia; a major statement made by Morehouse; and a major statement made to the country, that a young white man can go to a college with 99% young Black men, and not only receive a quality education, but be its valedictorian.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964217">Against Race Politics</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964217" class="dsq-comment-message">OK, I hate to say but I do NOT like Michelle Obama. Both my sisters LOVE her and it appears as if she has a few fans on this site also. I agree with d, she has made hmmm.... let\'s face it dumb comments and she is toooo intelligent for that. I am an Obama supporter but again I don\'t like Michelle, sorry! I think if she can\'t control what comes out of her mouth then she needs to be quiet. Sorry.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964218">isonprize</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964218" class="dsq-comment-message">just shakin\' my head...<br></br><br>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/12/see-the-dress-that-got-a_n_101311.html</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964219">N. Mahana</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964219" class="dsq-comment-message">Michelle is not standing behind her husband, she\'s standing beside him. Some people can\'t handle that fact.<br></br><br>I do not believe she said anything that warrants all the attacks, however let\'s be truthful...a black woman speaking her mind seems to really get under some peoples skin.</br><br></br><br>She was expressing herself in an intelligent manner...geez you would think she was Monica Conyers the way a couple of you are commenting.</br><br></br><br>Please differentiate between ignorance and something you don\'t agree with.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964220">Against Race Politics</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964220" class="dsq-comment-message">She should have known better. Her remarks for perfect for sound bites! Again, I am partial because unfortunately I didn\'t like her before then. I hope it\'s mostly an image problem but other AA\'s have said that comes off "elite" even before the bitter comments. I\'m not saying that she is an elitist as I know her upbringing but I guess I don\'t understand why she can\'t control her words and there is something else I can\'t put into words just yet.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964221">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964221" class="dsq-comment-message">d,<br></br><br>She did have enough "sense".  Her exact quote is: </br><br></br><br>"For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country; and, not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change."</br><br></br><br>So, anyone with moderate comprehension skills and a low level of malice will see that she modifies her initial sentence with the explanation that she is especially proud now because people are hungry for change.</br><br></br><br>I think you suffer from an honesty deficit, d.  There is nothing questionable to me about the quote above because I have no malice toward Michelle and I understand her modifier.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964222">Anonymous</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964222" class="dsq-comment-message">@ n mahana,<br></br><br>I have NO problem with a woman speaking their mind. I intend to do just that but I don\'t agree with the way she phrased her comments and if they were so ...hmm "politically correct" then we would not be discussing them and Fox would not have turned them into a campaign all on their own! I support Obama whole heartedly but I do have the right to my opinion and that just happens to be my opinion about Michelle and her comments.</br><br></br><br>I mean we all know AA\'s are held to a higher standard and she can\'t afford to be painted as the angry black woman after all he has enough to deal with (Wright, the innuendos about Farrakhan etc) and I don\'t think he can properly defend her because he will then be painted as the angry black man although I don\'t know how much he can defend her other than to say she misspoke b/c the comments (or phrasing) was at best innapropiate. I don\'t feel as if I have to agree with everything Obama (or his wife for that matter) do to be a supporter.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964223">Nquest</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964223" class="dsq-comment-message">Thank you, Truthseeker.  <br></br><br>But, D, you still have your chance.  Place Michelle\'s comments in their proper context (which Truthseeker provided for you) and explain what you find "questionable" about them.</br><br></br><br>I\'m thinking there\'s a reason why you haven\'t already done so.  It\'s called: you can\'t.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964224">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964224" class="dsq-comment-message">Ladies and gentlemen, if you didn\'t follow the elections in France, then you will want to know that a right wing nut was elected president because the mainstream media swift-boated the progressive candidate to the point that it ruined his marriage. <br></br><br>This is what is being attempted here in the states. Michelle Obama is the right wing MSM\'s last hope to derail the Obama candidacy.</br><br></br><br>He knows it. He\'s too smart not to. He needs not justify any of it with a response for if he does it will disastrous.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964225">heartsandflowers</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964225" class="dsq-comment-message">I like Michelle Robinson Obama. I fail to see how her saying she was really proud of her country set off such a firestorm as it has been discussed and misappropriated a thousand times over. We already know \'they\' will be gunning for her because she is a tall, attractive, Black woman who is comfortable with herself, intelligent and formidable. Hmmm...sorta like how Hillary was demonized during Bill\'s run. I don\'t see her jockeying for a co-Presidency however. Someone commented on another blog that \'they\' will try to prove - and it\'s a little vulgar but accurate - that "her vagina has teeth". We know there will be criticism, but there will be criticism of Cindy McCain as well. She needs to release her tax returns. We need to reveal how the \'Maverick\' left his disabled first wife who stood by his cheating self when he was a POW and left her for a younger heiress whose family money and connections bought him his Senate seat! All those so-called feminists will need to rally around Michelle. We\'ll see if they\'ll be just as ferocious a supporter of Michelle as they have been for Hillary. She will make an excellent First Lady. And yes I have beef with Barack over not defending his wife too and wrote a long post on his campaign website about it some time ago. It\'s a separate issue but needs equal attention to how the image of Black women has taken such a beating and the ways we can stand up for real change and stop demonizing our women and girls. <br></br><br>Oh - and side note - thanks for the chat Baratunde. It was great meeting you!</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964226">D.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964226" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s questionable in the sense that she should know-at least by now, and especially after the spin of the "black America will wake up and get it" comment-that ANYTHING she says that could be ever so slightly be shown to disparage our country will be spun completely out of context. And if she doesn\'t know, and Obama has competent campaign stuff, one of them should have suggested to her that she not say things like that.<br></br><br>Truth/Nquest, like I said, I know what she meant. The only reason I know what she meant is because I did look at the full quote after I read it. That being said, on first glance-which, being honest, is all a lot of people take-it still looks horrible.</br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1964227" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964227">Nquest</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964227" class="dsq-comment-message">What was inappropriate about her remark?<br></br><br>People act like Michelle Obama is the first person to say something about the state of political affairs in this country as it relates to feelings of apathy, frustration and disaffection with the political process.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964228">ppm</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964228" class="dsq-comment-message">I loved this from Truthseeker:<br></br><br>"I am sure Michelle doesn\'t need Obama to prove his devotion. I don\'t know why anyone outside would need him to prove it. They obviously adore each other." </br><br></br><br>I am a complete, total, and unapologetic Michelle fan.  Yet another wonderful aspect of Barack\'s campaign is that America has the opportunity to see what a loving and supportive partnership this Black couple has. They clearly love each other, are so comfortable showing their adoration to/for each other, and it looks so perfectly natural.</br><br></br><br>There is a look that Barack gets in his eyes when he\'s watching her that never fails to make me melt.  I don\'t think Michelle has ever had cause to wonder how her husband feels about her.</br><br></br><br>And, I have no doubt that if Michelle felt she needed defending, he would have made a much bigger deal out of that entire ridiculous "controversy" over her remarks.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964229">tvanel</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964229" class="dsq-comment-message">Get ready for the new battle in the Voter ID fracas.<br></br><br>The New York Times reports that Missouri lawmakers are expected to support a constitutional amendment that would require proof of citizenship from anyone registering to vote. </br><br></br><br></br><br>This is a troubling development that could disenfranchise thousands of minorities</br><br></br><br>Read it <a href="http://www.thevaneljournal.com/2008/05/missouri-amendment-could-disenfranchise.html" rel="nofollow"></a></br><br>here</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964230">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964230" class="dsq-comment-message">That\'s not a prom dress.That\'s dental floss, and her mother needs to be bitchslapped for letting her teenaged daughter walk out of the house looking like a glorified streetwalker. If she was walking down the street, why wouldn\'t a cop believe that she was soliticing? That\'s what\'s wrong with us, as a people, we let children dress anyway they see fit, and then tell them there\'s no consequences to the presentation to the world that your appearance screams. <br></br><br>Nobody can look at that dress and tell me that that girl doesn\'t belong:</br><br>a) on a streetcorner</br><br>b) on a stipper pole</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964231">Nquest</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964231" class="dsq-comment-message">D, your comments now don\'t match the rhetoric you started off with.<br></br><br><b>Even when placed in their proper context, there\'s something questionable about saying that you\'re just now becoming proud of your country.</b></br><br></br><br>So, once again:  Place Michelle\'s comments in their proper context and explain what you find "questionable" about them.</br><br></br><br>That has nothing to do with the right wing spin machine.  That was you claiming Michelle\'s comments were inherently "questionable."</br><br></br><br>And its completely ridiculous to talk about desperate attempts to smear Obama... Hell, they\'ve tried to smear Obama by playing the Farrakhan card.  </br><br></br><br>The point is simply this:  it doesn\'t matter what Obama and associates say or don\'t say.  ENEMIES of his campaign will find something, anything... to use against him whether Obama & Co. "provide" them something or not.</br><br></br><br>You can\'t show what\'s "QUESTIONABLE" about Michelle\'s statement but because Obama\'s ENEMIES will do and say anything (something that can\'t be stopped regardless) you tried to say there was something "questionable"... only you still can\'t point that out.</br><br></br><br></br><br>But, hey... Anything right wing nuts question is, by definition, "questionable", huh?</br><br></br><br>GTFOoH!!!</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964232">N. Mahana</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964232" class="dsq-comment-message">@ anon 10:58<br></br><br>I never said that you could not be an  Obama supporter, if you disagreed with some of the things the Senator or his wife has stated.</br><br></br><br>However I made it clear in my last sentence (because some were claiming it was ignorant) that there\'s a difference between ignorance and something you do not agree with.</br><br></br><br>Instead of making it into an "Angry black woman" issue or an issue of ignorance; why not simply say, you don\'t agree?</br><br></br><br>However, after reading what you stated, it seems more an issue of fear rather than anything else.</br><br></br><br>Fear that she will be labeled, "Angry black woman", and in turn so will the Senator.</br><br></br><br>Well, it is what it is.In my opinion, that double-standard is not a reason to vilify Michelle. </br><br></br><br>The quote from Michelle that truthseeker posted, says it all. That doesn\'t sound ignorant, just a woman (who happens to be black) being truthful about her feelings and perspectives.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964233" class="dsq-comment-message">Nquest,<br>I personally feel it was a dumb statement, for the reasons I\'ve stated above.</br><br></br><br>Outside of that, there\'s been  opportunities for Michelle to be proud of our country because of "change." Based on that, I think the statement\'s questionable. You, of course, won\'t like that, but that\'s the good thing about my opinion.</br><br></br><br>I\'m not attacking Michelle, calling her unpatriotic or anything like that. I\'m not your typical conservative. Just like I saw the point Pat Buchanan was trying to make when he said (paraphrasing) that blacks should be lucky to be here, I saw Michelle\'s point on that statement (still don\'t quite get the "America is mean" statement, though).</br><br></br><br>And I\'m just saying the same thing about Michelle that I said about Buchanan-her phrasing sucks.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964234" class="dsq-comment-message">@ ppm,<br></br><br>Ha!...It\'s good to know someone else see those looks!  He actually touches her.  He puts his hand on the small of her back or around her waist.  There is obvious intimacy there, so much so it kinda makes me blush.  It is good to think that the President and first lady are having lots of sex  - with each other - and enjoying it!  Maybe then, he won\'t go bomb bomb bombing Iran.  </br><br></br><br>I watch Cindy and John, and they may as well be a hundred miles apart.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964235" class="dsq-comment-message">@heartsandflowers,<br></br><br>I loved your comment and it was spot on about the feminist movement rallying around Michelle in the general.</br><br></br><br>I won\'t hold my breath.</br><br></br><br>Since when has the femnist movement (overall) and their organizations rallied around any causes that concern women of color?</br><br></br><br>Even though, this is a presidential election, one of their own has been  best beaten (no pun intended) and I\'m skeptical about their support of Senator Obama. I\'m more prone to the idea of them undermining on behalf of Hillary in 2012.</br><br></br><br>Cindy McCain has stated point blank , that she will NOT release her tax returns. She said it with such a fearless air of elitism it almost chilled me.</br><br></br><br>She feels she doesn\'t have to answer to anybody.</br><br></br><br>McCain into power. *smirks*</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964236" class="dsq-comment-message">So far today, Obama\'s picked up 4 more SuperDs.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964237" class="dsq-comment-message">The more I think about Senator Hillary Clinton\'s blatant pander to the dixicrat roots (and continuing bloom) in the Democratic Party and the lack of outrage from the Party elders, the more pissed I get.  If Senator John McCain had uttered those words, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi et al would have been knocking each other down to hold the first press conference condemning him!  <br></br><br>How the hell did we, as people, become so complacent, tolerant, and willing participants of this disprespect over the last 4 decades?</br><br></br><br>George Bush has deservedly earned the disdain of Black folk, but the one thing you can NOT say about him is that he has any fear of putting Black folks in positions of authority unlike the Democrats who are supposed to be the Party of racial justice and equality.  The Black folks he selects may be to the Right of us, and deaad wrong on every policy front, but you can never say that he feared their race would be an impediment to his goals.  Secretary of State is the 2nd most powerful position in the world, and he not only put two Black faces out there to represent this country, but a Black woman.  </br><br></br><br>And here we are rolling with a Party that would actually give consideration to denying the nomination to a man who has earned it b/c poor White folks don\'t seem to be ready.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964238" class="dsq-comment-message">nmp,<br></br><br>you hit on one of the main issues I have with the leaders of the Democratic party and some of their supporters. They seem to be very hypocritical and spineless.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964239" class="dsq-comment-message">Jeff Toobin tells the truth on CNN panels.  It\'s refreshing.<br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/12/toobin-a-mccain-court-cou_n_100798.html" rel="nofollow">Toobin: A McCain Court Could Overturn Roe In "Maybe A Year"</a></br><br></br><br></br><br>Jenna Bush got married.  She looked lovely.  I felt happy for her.  It can\'t be easy to be George Jr.\'s daughter.</br><br></br><br><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=3649438&amp;page=1" rel="nofollow">20/20 Exclusive: The First Daughter\'s First TV Interview</a></br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964240" class="dsq-comment-message">@truthseeker,<br></br><br>I wrote about the "intimacy" between Senator Obama and Mrs. Obama a few months back and yes I\'m also happy that other\'s recognize this and also that it\'s a very healthy image for the country as well.</br><br></br><br>This is not a shameless plug...just a observation.</br><br></br><br>http://www.gerardbutler-afterdark.com/2007/10/baracks-greatest-asset.html</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964241" class="dsq-comment-message">Get ready for more silly attacks on Michelle:  I was listening to Rush Limbaugh today (I know, I know) and the very last caller compared Michelle Obama to Aunt Esther of Sanford and Son.  Of course Rush tried to play it off like he didn\'t know who Aunt Esther was (just like he tried to pretend to not to know who Curious George was when he let a caller on the air who compared Barack to Curious George).   What\'s next?  Comparing the Obama children to some gross racial stereotype?  Rush is letting his callers slam the Obamas with nasty racial stereotypes he wants to call them himself but can\'t.  Ugh.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964242" class="dsq-comment-message">@anon 12:22,<br></br><br>Well Rush has been beaten to the punch on slandering Obama\'s children. What kills me is that these, are indeed, children...not teenagers and certainly not adults.</br><br></br><br>So called Democrats and liberals were calling these kids are sorts of names on the Democratic Underground website.</br><br></br><br>Funny how none of that was moderated.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964243" class="dsq-comment-message">n. mahana,<br></br><br>No. My problem is not fear. I said that I do not agree with the way she phrased her remarks. They would not be an issue if they were phrased in a better context. I think she is far too intelligent to drop the ball like that - particularly in the midst of the Wright (patriotism issues). Why would she even put her husband in a position like that? You would think someone would have censored/approved this. You just can\'t go around saying anything you want to say anyway you like. You can\'t even do that in the real world! I know. I have to watch what I say at work, down to my tone- shoot even with my (Black)family members! LOL! I am a Black woman that believes in speaking my mind so I wouldn\'t hold another Black down, or anyone else for that matter but again I don\'t think the comments (or phrasing of the comments were wise. If they were they would not have been made for Sound bite Heaven! If they were wise she wouldn\'t be able to be used as a "scapegoat". Period- now that is my opinion as a loyal Obama supporter!</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964244" class="dsq-comment-message">There are plenty of times my son feels like his homework is stupid! A lot of the times I agree. It doesn\'t mean it woudld be wise at all for either one of us to say that to the teacher! It just doesn\'t! Or IMO there are things that Black people can say around other Blacks but have no business saying on front of other ethnic groups. ( I don\'t mean racists comments either:-) I just don\'t think you speak every thought that comes into your head and you certainly have to think about how you say what you say when you are in a position like this! And I do agree that Obama should have had her lay low. There is no way I could have taken Rev. Wright coverage on this! LOL!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964245" class="dsq-comment-message">nquest,<br></br><br>Pardon the long post, but your comments raise an intriguing issue.  </br><br></br><br>This is how I see it. . . I\'ve said it before:</br><br></br><br>MLK or Malcolm X. . . </br><br></br><br>America makes you choose. . .you can either have your Malcolm X or your Martin Luther King Jr.</br><br></br><br>But you can\'t have both at the same time.  </br><br></br><br>That\'s the game.</br><br></br><br>And history has shown us that black leaders like Martin and Malcolm often play off of eachother to achieve their mutually shared goal, black liberation.</br><br></br><br>MLK wouldn\'t have been so successful if he didn\'t have a Malcolm X to play off of.  </br><br></br><br>"We shall overcome" means little without "By ANY means necessary," to back it up.</br><br></br><br>It\'s yin and yang.  They go together even when conventional wisdom suggests they should remain at odds.</br><br></br><br>Thus, from a black perspective, "Yes we can" is fine as an aspiration so long as we don\'t sacrifice "unapologetically/unashamedly black."</br><br></br><br>nquest, I understand your anger.  But my point is this:</br><br></br><br>There\'s a reason why Martin has a holiday and Malcolm doesn\'t.  </br><br></br><br>There\'s a reason why W. E. B. Dubois got more accomplished than Marcus Garvey.</br><br></br><br><b>Some fight the system. . . others master the game.</b> </br><br></br><br>Malcolm fought the system. . . Martin mastered the game.  Likewise, Wright fights the system. . . but Obama\'s mastered the game.  </br><br></br><br>It doesn\'t make one side better or worse.  They just provide different forms of leadership. . . each with their ideal place and time.</br><br></br><br>By definition, the presidency is an aspect of "the system."  Thus it\'s time to master the game.  That means more Obama and less Wright for the moment.</br><br></br><br>I love the fire and passion of black folk like Malcolm and Wright.  As a matter of fact, my spirit is a little more Malcolm than Martin, more SNCC than SCLC.</br><br></br><br>But we know the game and how it\'s played.  For all of his greatness (indeed some attributes more inspiring than King, himself) Malcolm X was never gonna pass a 1964 Civil Rights Act.  He was never gonna influence a 1965 Voting Rights Act.</br><br></br><br>Why?</br><br></br><br>Because he was made to FIGHT the system, not master it.</br><br></br><br>Policy and politics is all about compromise.  None of us like it, but that\'s the nature of the beast.  We live in a pluralistic society (ultimately, that\'s a good thing).</br><br></br><br>Sad to say, but baby steps are the price we pay for progressive politics in a stagnant nation.</br><br></br><br>The question is how much you and I are willing to compromise.</br><br></br><br>And that brings us back to Rev. Wright and his comments during the question and answer phase at the National Press Club.  Please, note that I stress the question and answer phase because Wright\'s actual speech (for the most part) was focused and on point.  </br><br></br><br>Black folk know the deal.  And Rev. Wright\'s sin, as far as I\'m concerned, wasn\'t "hate speech" so much as it was HNIC syndrome.  </br><br></br><br>In essence, Wright sought to force us to fight the system at a time when we were invested in mastering the game.</br><br></br><br>There\'s a time and place for everything.  Wright\'s voice is important.  However, Wright\'s words at the National Press Club, however accurate, were neither the time nor place to raise them.  Play the game, but know the rules.  If you must, make your speech at the NPC, waive and say goodbye.  But don\'t get sucked into a chest-thumping contest with the very people who control the microphone, control the news headlines and control the media spin.  That\'s just not smart.</br><br></br><br>I have no problem with much of what Wright had to say.  But I have a major problem with the fact that he fell victim to the game and gave the National Press Club every type of sound bite they had been waiting for.  His performance (and sadly, it was a performance) exploited the limelight to simplify matters of race and religion and make it a battle about himself.  </br><br></br><br>He had every right to defend his honor and reputation.  But Obama doesn\'t have to fight that battle for him (at least not on Rev. Wright\'s terms), especially when Wright doesn\'t give him anything to work with.  That\'s a personal battle between Wright and the media.  Sadly, it got hard to discern where defense of the black church ended and Rev. Wright\'s ego began.  </br><br></br><br>Unfortunately, Wright\'s timing (and mentioning of his new book) undermined much of his message.</br><br></br><br>Similarly, MLK didn\'t have to fight Malcolm\'s battle over those famous words in the wake of Pres. Kennedy\'s assassination, "chickens have come home to roost."  Despite it\'s accuracy, it was neither the time nor place.  And Malcolm faced backlash (both from the SCLC crowd and the NOI) when he appeared to make the movement personal.</br><br></br><br>Listen,  I embrace many forms of black nationalism.  I love my black people.  I\'m all for self-determination and self-affirmation.</br><br></br><br>But don\'t get it twisted. . . self-determination will NEVER be realized through purely political means.  It goes deeper than that. . . it\'s political. . . it\'s social. . . it\'s economic . . . it\'s spiritual.</br><br></br><br>MLK was never the be-all-end-all of black leadership.  But he got stuff done on a policy level.  I love Malcolm X.  But his style (like Wright\'s) -- NECESSARILY hostile -- was more about self-affirmation than policy.  And that\'s ok.  Black self-affirmation is, and should always remain, exclusive of white approval.  Just know your audience and stay mindful of the bigger picture.  Speak truth to power, but be mindful of the game.  </br><br></br><br>I didn\'t catch it when I first saw it.  But, looking back, it appears Wright\'s timing had more to do with ego, than fighting the system.</br><br></br><br>Unlike black culture, the law, legislation and politics are not exclusive of white influence.  They\'re not beholden to white approval either, but they do require white involvement.  That entails a willingness to reach across the table and a discipline to pick and choose your battles.    </br><br></br><br>I think Obama did that with his speech on race.  He didn\'t disown his pastor.  He reached across the table to contextualize black anger.  He defended the controversy for the complexity it was.  The easy path would have been to disown him then.</br><br></br><br>Wright\'s a smart man.  He knows this.  So why reintroduce himself into the public spotlight just when things were starting to die down?</br><br></br><br>Wright was inviting people to question his motives.</br><br></br><br>And, my goodness, why discuss controversial topics without providing evidence to back it up  For example, I wouldn\'t automatically dismiss the contention that our government pushed AIDS in the black community.  But I\'d make damn sure I had a stack of evidence prepared before I made such an argument?  Conspiracy minus evidence equals no credibility.  Wright left too many accusations dangling in the wind.  He left them bare; exposed and waiting for the media to spin them in their most harmful light.  </br><br></br><br>Wright doesn\'t have to defend himself in his church or amongst his own people.  We get the context.  We know the history (well, most of us).  But Wright wasn\'t amongst his own people at the National Press Club.  He stepped into foreign territory without a plan.  As Roland Martin said, be cognizant of the fact that, by speaking before the National Press Club, you are playing in someone else\'s house, by someone else\'s rules. </br><br></br><br>Now back to Obama. . . </br><br></br><br>Like King, Obama will not end all racism.  I\'ve never expected as much.  However, Obama is in a position to get stuff done.  And the success of his campaign proves that he\'s got a plan to break down historic barriers and open the flood-gates of inclusion for millions of Americans who\'ve been systematically disenfranchised over the years.  That\'s a paradigmatic shift.  That\'s a movement.  Not surprisingly, he\'s determined that he\'ll get there if he\'s more Martin than Malcolm.  Now, that might be his honest approach (I have no reason to doubt that).  But, either way, it\'s too late to change now.</br><br></br><br>Again, it\'s a question of how much we\'re willing to compromise.  Where do we pick and choose our battles?  Where do we draw the line? </br><br></br><br>Personally, I draw the line at black identity.  Even in his most stark denunciation, Obama never crossed that line between the person and the people.  He has not disowned the black community.  He did not disown the black church.  He has not shunned his black identity.  </br><br></br><br>He has challenged his people, but not disowned them.  There\'s a difference.</br><br></br><br>Juxtapose that to the Clinton apologists who place personal loyalties over cultural pride; defending race-baiting comments from the Clinton campaign for personal gain in an ever-improbable Clinton administration.  </br><br></br><br>They too know the game, yet they choose to ignore the same type of race-baiting tactics that they\'d quickly rebuke if spoken from the lips of a conservative.  Ironically, they are the ones who place their hopes in the power of one person, Clinton.  They don\'t want to change the game or even master the system. . . they just want to champion a different "master" (politically speaking) who will throw them a few more crumbs once she gets in office.  They\'re perfectly happy with the way things work in Washington.  For them, it\'s not a matter of challenging the status quo, but accepting the status quo and waiting their turn in line.  Sadly they appear to define victory as a matter of WHO gets in office rather than WHAT actually gets done.  Very partisan. . . highly cynical. . . extremely predictable.</br><br></br><br>Trust, I\'m with you nquest.  My IDEAL picture of black leadership is a little more defiant.  I\'ve always preferred Malcolm\'s style over Martin\'s.  </br><br></br><br>But, let\'s understand that this is about baby steps. . . </br><br></br><br>The first black President will be more Martin than Malcolm.  If we\'re honest, I think most of us understood that going in to this. </br><br></br><br>Now about Michelle Obama:</br><br></br><br>As for Michelle, I agree, I would have liked to have seen more passion in Obama\'s response to her critics.  But he did respond. . . just maybe not as forcefully as you or I might have liked.</br><br></br><br>It\'s like the movie CRASH.  Remember that scene where Terrence Howard and his wife were pulled over by the cops?  And how that officer sexually groped Terrence\'s wife in front of him?  Remember the wife\'s reaction towards Terrence?  She wanted him to "be a man."  She wanted him to fight the police . . . KNOWING damn well that, if he had, it could have meant a bullet in the brain for both of them.</br><br></br><br>Obama\'s in a similar position with Michelle.  He\'s Terrence Howard and Sean Hannity is the cop with gun drawn and aimed, just begging for Obama to "give me a reason!"</br><br></br><br>He should defend his wife.  But he also needs to pick and choose his battles.  He can\'t fly off the handle every time Sean Hannity picks a fight.  He\'d be fighting every day if he did that.</br><br></br><br>You beat people like Hannity by staying focused on the bigger issue.  The issue is the right\'s monopoly on "patriotism" and how they use that as a sledge-hammer to beat down anyone who disagrees with them.  Michelle is the flavor of the month, but she\'s not the focus.  The focus, is painting Obama as an outsider who doesn\'t mesh with "traditional" American values.</br><br></br><br>The way for Obama to fight that smear is to provide an alternative, yet equally patriotic, vision for America (again, Obama might do well by looking towards MLK for this).  His campaign has done that by bringing in new voters.  For example, this year might not focus on NASCAR dads so much as youth voters.  </br><br></br><br>People like Hannity like to keep it simple.  Simple audiences require simple messages.  But they can\'t handle the prospect of an educated electorate that sees these wedge issues for what they are.  This will only happen if Obama gives people an alternate "American patriotism" to buy into. </br><br></br><br>Continued attacks on Obama\'s wife and kids will play HORRIBLY with Independents (both left and right-leaning) in the General election.  McCain\'s viability rests in his separation from the A-hole wing of the Republican Party.  Yes, there are 527s, but overkill is easy when you attack someone\'s family.</br><br></br><br>In closing, I\'d like to see more fight in Obama as well.</br><br></br><br>But I know that his fight is directly proportional to the leverage he has - thus, for example, you\'ll see me rant about how Obama should use his leverage to push Hillary out of the race.  Again, it\'s about timing and picking the right battle at the right time.</br><br></br><br>But the general election is a new monster.  There will be new dynamics at play.  Fortunately, despite my worries, thus far Obama\'s shown he\'s smart enough to anticipate them and master the system.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964246" class="dsq-comment-message">"IMO, it\'s a major statement made by academia; a major statement made by Morehouse; and a major statement made to the country, that a young white man can go to a college with 99% young Black men, and not only receive a quality education, but be its valedictorian."<br>_______________________</br><br>OR, it\'s a major statement that even at one of the most elite HBCUs, where supposedly the best of the best in black male talent is fostered, a single white male is always better than a thousand of the best black men. I don\'t recall the blogosphere or national newspapers reporting on the Morehouse Val from 2007 or 2006, do you?</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964247" class="dsq-comment-message">You would think that West Virginia had 20 or more electoral votes!<br></br><br>WV has 5 electoral votes in the General Election, 2 more than DC.  Senator McCain IS going to win West Virginia and Senator Obama IS going to win IA, netting Senator Obama 2 electoral votes from the 2004 general election map.  So, why all this talk about WV?  If Senator Obama was trailing and poised to exit the race after a big win in let’s say in DC, which has as favorable a demographic for Senator Obama as WV has for Senator Clinton, would anyone be giving DC the importance some are trying to give WV for Senator Clinton, that is if they weren’t trying to make the argument that poor white voters are more important than African American?</br><br></br><br>Here’s one more thing for the MSM to ignore…In Gallup’s latest poll, Senator Obama is trailing Senator McCain among whites about 11%, the same as every Democratic presidential candidate since Lyndon Johnson who was the LAST Democratic presidential candidate to garner more than 41% of the white vote. </br><br></br><br>It’s fair for the media and the Clinton campaign to point out Senator Obama’s weaknesses, but what’s not fair are exaggerations, lack of historical context and lack of attention to Senator Clinton’s weaknesses.   Poll after poll is showing that Senator Obama is doing equally better with Independents as she is among Democrats, so it’s a awash.  But you wouldn’t know this reading or watching coverage that still wants to present this as a horse race.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964248" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://progressillinois.com/2008/05/11/features/obama-over-the-top" rel="nofollow">Obama Over The Top: How New Voters Could Redraw The Electoral Map<br></br></a><br></br><br>Screw the MSM.  It is VITAL that AA\'s are registered to vote and get any necessary ID and that they turn out to vote!</br><br></br><br></br><br>Ha, losers!</br><br></br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/12/gops-new-slogan-already-b_n_101376.html" rel="nofollow">GOP\'s New Slogan Already Being Used To Market Anti-Depressant</a></br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964249">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964249" class="dsq-comment-message">@ anonymous 01:10:00 PM<br></br><br>You must have a REALLY, really small penis.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964250" class="dsq-comment-message">Cosigning B-serious and I must admit I agree with Anon 1:10- at least the part that I never knew the val of any other class. I guess this is historic though.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964251">Anonymous</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964251" class="dsq-comment-message">truthseeker, it is as small as your response.  I don\'t have a penis but I have a brain and one large enough to recognize that whites and blacks can read the same statement differently.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964252">Anonymous</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964252" class="dsq-comment-message">The young white man being Morehouse\'s valedictorian holds to me, the same level of newsworthiness as a black person being the first black valectorian of a white college.  As things become more commonplace, it\'s not that big of a deal anymore.  When Doug Wilder became governor of Virginia, it was a huge deal.  When Deval Patrick became governor of Massachusetts, it was a big deal but not as big a deal as when Wilder was elected.  And Paterson of NY gained about 2 days of news time, and one of those days was because of his affairs.<br></br><br></br><br>As far as Obama campaigning in WV, he did say he had a 50 state strategy, and even though he knows he will lose both KY and WV, it would seem silly for him to say "Aw f\'ck it" when it comes to WV.  That\'s the kind of attitude that got Clinton in the jam she\'s in today.</br><br></br><br>General election:  I think if Obama wins Virginia, it\'s a wrap.  He\'s #44.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964253">B-Serious</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964253" class="dsq-comment-message">kgekp said,<i>"If Senator Obama was trailing and poised to exit the race after a big win in let’s say in DC, which has as favorable a demographic for Senator Obama as WV has for Senator Clinton, would anyone be giving DC the importance some are trying to give WV for Senator Clinton, that is if they weren’t trying to make the argument that poor white voters are more important than African American?"</i><br></br><br>Bingo!!!</br><br></br><br>Great analogy.  </br><br></br><br>Only one small consideration. . . African-Americans are actually part of the Democratic base.  Which makes Hillary\'s argument even dumber than at first glance.</br><br></br><br>Plus does anyone have the stats as to whether low-income rural white voters are even part of the traditional Democratic base to begin with?  </br><br></br><br>The entire premise for her argument is specious if you ask me.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964254">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964254" class="dsq-comment-message">b-serious,<br></br><br>brilliant post on MLK vs Malcolm!</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964255">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964255" class="dsq-comment-message">At anonymous,<br></br><br>is it that your penis is so small that it seems you don\'t have one; or, is it that you\'re female?</br><br></br><br>There is nothing racist about highlighting a lone white guy on an all black campus.  It\'s an oddity.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964256">Anonymous</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964256" class="dsq-comment-message">Anon 1:43, your first paragraph supports my posts at 1:10 and 1:29 more than you probably intended. SMH</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964257">Against Race Politics</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964257" class="dsq-comment-message">B serious,<br></br><br>YOU GO BOY on your analysis of MLK and Malcolm!</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964258" class="dsq-comment-message">truthseeker, it is that it is so small it could get mistaken for your brain.  Is this the only kind of response you understand? SMH</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964259">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964259" class="dsq-comment-message">@ anonymous,<br></br><br>I enjoy a good verbal fight; but, I don\'t have a snappy comeback right now, so I\'ll let you get away with that.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964260" class="dsq-comment-message">I enjoy a good [written debate] too, truthseeker, unfortunately I haven\'t had one today but I am headed over to MDD so there is a good chance I\'ll get one.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964261">Nquest</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964261" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>nquest, I understand your anger.</i><br></br><br>Ummm...  No you don\'t.  You can\'t understand something I have not expressed.  FRAME your own perspective.  Don\'t try to frame mine.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964262">N. Mahana</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964262" class="dsq-comment-message">haha you all are quite cranky today...except for B-serious!<br></br><br>Great post!!!!</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964263">Nquest</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964263" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>Thus, from a black perspective, "Yes we can" is fine as an aspiration so long as we don\'t sacrifice "unapologetically/unashamedly black."</i><br></br><br>That would be the exact thing I would question and you can save that "master the game" rhetoric. </br><br></br><br></br><br><i>Policy and politics is all about compromise... </i></br><br>The question is how much you and I are willing to compromise.</br><br> </br><br></br><br>That\'s the very question Barack Obama\'s chosen statements/behavior begs.</br><br></br><br></br><br><i>There\'s a time and place for everything.</i></br><br></br><br>There\'s never a time to front like Obama did.</br><br></br><br></br><br><i>Wright\'s voice is important.</i></br><br></br><br>Important to whom?</br><br></br><br></br><br><i>don\'t get sucked into a chest-thumping contest </i></br><br></br><br>Funny how Obama is never addressed or admonished in that manner.  Again... <a http:="HTTP:" rel="nofollow">Divine Love Does Not Ask Family To Choose Between Family Members</a>.</br><br></br><br>You will note that it was Malcolm X who chose to get MLK\'s back even as MLK talked about how "wrong" Malcolm X was in the same kind of paternalistic and dismissive way Obama has regarded Rev. Wright.  So these lectures you\'re giving are misdirected.</br><br></br><br></br><br><i>He reached across the table to contextualize black anger.</i></br><br></br><br>He misrepresented it while privileging White Resentment in the process.  That\'s objective analysis vs. "be mindful of the game" (relevance??) and "Black self-affirmation" (relevance??) rhetoric. </br><br></br><br><i>Wright was inviting people to question his motives.</i></br><br></br><br></br><br>Question them then but none of that make Obama motive-question free.  Like I said, I don\'t do myths.</br><br></br><br><i>Like King, Obama will not end all racism. </i></br><br></br><br>Dude, you done bumped your damn head.  Like the supportive facts you insist Wright should have had, I\'m still looking for the reasons why you\'ve used all this rhetoric to address me.  The very idea of putting either MLK and especially Obama in the same sentense as "end (all) racism" is as hilarious as it is dumbfounding.</br><br></br><br>Really?  What is all this about?  First, know, that I asked you not a single thing about what you think about Black Nationalism.  So I don\'t understand all the wasted breath.  What the hell is your point?  Who the hell do you think you\'re talking to?  Why the hell do you think any of the stuff you\'ve said, most of it superfluous rhetoric, is relevant?</br><br></br><br>What does any of it have to do with what I\'ve said?  Not what you think I said or what you think will make a point to me.  What I said?</br><br></br><br></br><br><i>Personally, I draw the line at black identity. </i></br><br></br><br>Whatever that means.  But it\'s clear you\'re dealing with your impression vs. what Obama actually said:</br><br></br><br><i>"...when you start focusing so much on the plight of the historically oppressed that you lose sight of what we have in common, that it overrides everything else, that we’re not concerned about the struggles of others, because we’re looking at things only through a particular lens..."</i></br><br></br><br>That, my friend, is not only dishonest (Obama claimed he didn\'t "see" it (the very explicit Afrocentric lens) as a member) but it is "sacrificing" what is called "unapologetically/unashamedly black."</br><br></br><br>Obama decided to go there, all on his own. His pronouncements there stand at odds with what he said before:</br><br><i></i></br><br>"...at the foot of that cross, inside the thousands of churches across the city, I imagined the stories of ordinary black people merging with the stories of David and Goliath, Moses and Pharaoh, the Christians in the lion’s den...</br><br></br><br>Those stories — of survival, and freedom, and hope — became our story, my story...</br><br></br><br>Our trials and triumphs became at once unique and universal, black and more than black; in chronicling our journey, the stories and songs gave us a means to reclaim memories that we didn’t need to feel shame about…memories that all people might study and cherish..."</br><br></br><br>But let\'s really deal with this whole "game" playing, compromising thing.  Campaign Hillary and the media readily point out how Obama has a supposed problem with attracting (winning) amounts of White working-class voters, some of whom presumably just won\'t vote for him because he is Black and he\'s lecturing Black people via Rev. Wright about seeing things through selfish lens?</br><br></br><br>Gone are the days of the EMPATHY DEFICIT rhetoric (Obama\'s term) which, by definition, says that there is a problem with somebody\'s lens.  Notice how the language changes...</br><br></br><br>Throughout the whole "bitter-gate" ordeal, Obama never talked about how working class Whites, e.g., failed to see what they have in common with the very people they have "antipathy" for.  Instead of flexing the way he did when he charged a Black woman with "scapegoating" (Nevada debate) he had that White Privilege thing working as he went out of his way to paint working-class Whites as "victims."  He did the same thing in his race speech.  </br><br></br><br>legitimized White Backlash.  </br><br></br><br>There\'s a problem when Obama gets animated and is quick to denounce a Black person for "scapegoating" but went out of his way to paint working-class Whites as "victims" </br><br></br><br>Which brings me to another important point:</br><br></br><br>Obama stuck to his guns during "bitter-gate", insisted there was nothing wrong with his statement and didn\'t pay any additional price for sticking to his guns.  So this mythology about "game" playing, etc., etc. needs some examination.</br><br></br><br>And since we won\'t to invoke MLK:</br><br></br><br><b>"A man can\'t ride you unless your back is bent."</b></br><br></br><br></br><br>That\'s what I have to say about all this willingness to play "the game."  With that type of attitude... with those types of excuses... one has to be careful about getting played and going above and beyond what it called for in order to play the game.</br><br></br><br></br><br><i>Trust, I\'m with you nquest.</i></br><br></br><br>You\'re with me how??  Stop trying to FRAME my position when you don\'t know the half...</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964264">Ms.Martin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964264" class="dsq-comment-message">Michelle Bernard just said that if she were Obama, she would never ask Hillary to be er Veep.<br></br><br>The other two are saying that she needs the white vote.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964265">haale</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964265" class="dsq-comment-message">B-serious,<br></br><br>Great post!</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964266">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964266" class="dsq-comment-message">ms. martin,<br></br><br>LOL</br><br></br><br>Go Michelle!</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964267">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964267" class="dsq-comment-message">The Malcolm vs. Martin comparison post was wonderful. Thank you. <br></br><br>I will only add this...for all the criticism of Booker T. Washington, he created a lasting legacy in the institution of Tuskegee University. How many Black people have created something that goes on well after their deaths? Think about the thousands of Our Community that have been and will continue to be educated and be able to use that education to lift themselves up because of what Booker T. \' The Compromiser\' Washington did way back when?</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964268">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964268" class="dsq-comment-message">For those of you who want to see more fight from Obama, I suggest these two diaries:<br></br><br><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/5/11/55748/4095" rel="nofollow">Mr. Cool\'s Intensity - a Post column on Obama</a></br><br></br><br></br><br>This one is particularly stunning. It\'s worth reading several times:</br><br></br><br><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/5/12/161950/935" rel="nofollow">The Tao of Obama</a></br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1964269" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964269">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964269" class="dsq-comment-message">Sometimes we forget that Obama was raised in Hawaii and Indonesia and didn\'t see a whole lot of Black people.<br></br><br>It wasn\'t until he got to Chicago that he immersed himself in the Black Community. By then, he was grown.</br><br></br><br>You can take the boy out of the East, but you can\'t take the East out of the boy.</br><br></br><br>That is what those links above suggest.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964270">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964270" class="dsq-comment-message">Craig,<br></br><br>great links.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964271">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964271" class="dsq-comment-message">WHy is the Governor of Minnesota telling his bedroom business with his wife on the radio?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964272">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964272" class="dsq-comment-message">the ink,<br></br><br>I saw Speed Raced this afternoon, and you had me thinking about Obama...LOL</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964273" class="dsq-comment-message">@ B Serious-Thanx for the awesome post, Friend. Reading it has been the highlight of my day. I totally agree with the yin/yang analogy. In my experience, the yang speeches have often fired us up to do nothing. At this stage of my life I could pretty much skip it, and I am much more concerned with doing something practical. I would like us to have leadership (parlimentary moreso than charasmatic) that can organize us to effect practical change in our communities. My dream action is a collective boycott with 75-80% AA participation. Money ALWAYS talks. It is the god of our society. It\'s siamese twin is power.<br></br><br>@ Rikyrah-In what context are you talking about the clothing? Unless I missed something, you gave a response without posting the story. That said, it is often very challenging to find appropriate girl\'s clothing that your child also likes. The dept stores sell grown women\'s clothing in miniature. You can buy a size 6x shirt that says "Hottie," and little wedge heel sandals. Luckily, my daughter doesn\'t like that stuff, but neither is she willing to look like one of those FLDS girls. I saw an ad for Beyonce\'s mama\'s clothing line, House of Derion (or whatever-derriere) and that stuff looked pretty bad. It can be an issue, and a lot of people really don\'t know any better because they lack standards and discernment.</br><br></br><br>As for Obama and anger, the MSM has also been calling for him to be more forceful and exhibit more testosterone. He\'s darned if he do and darned if he don\'t. After the bowling fiasco, morning joe said he bowled like a little girl. It was tre\' insulting. This is another aspect of america\'s collective unconscious. We glorify the thug, the mafia, John Wayne, Shaft or hillary. We like assholes and ass kickers. Thats why McCain polls so high sometimes even though most people claim to be against the war. Its a conundrum.</br><br></br><br>As for Michelle, I\'m not a big fan of hers either (please, no hating). I have also wondered why she has said some of the things she has said, and I have wondered if she is mad at him and exacting revenge. I wasn\'t crazy about her saying things about his socks stinking, etc., and I wondered why I was supposed to care. To me, it was kinda like her saying, "He\'s not all that!" So I\'m thinking, you can take the sister out of the hood, but....Why is she doing this? What is the point of saying "I love accessories. I\'m married to one." She did an interview where she told someone he has 1 shot at this only, and that there would be no more chances. I guess I should assume that they had discussed it and come to a mutual agreement, but my initial impression was that she is some kind of dominatrix. That said, she did slam dunk for him in a tv appearance I saw with Caroline Kennedy. She was GREAT and redeemed herself with me. I just think that if she can\'t muster the self-control, she needs to say nothing.</br><br></br><br>They do appear to have the warmest union of all the candidates. I think Obama is a kind and decent person. He doesn\'t have the harshness or edginess of those of us raised in the continental 48. I\'ve seen him be generally affectionate and huggy on the campaign trail.</br><br></br><br>I also feel sorry for Cindy McCain. She\'s married to the crypt keeper. Not only did he call her a cunt, he called her that in public. He probably wanted a more passive woman after being raised by his mother. What a shrew. She reminds me of hillary.</br><br></br><br>I don\'t want to see Hillbilly get any post or appointment. I want to see her flat ass go down in flames.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964274">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964274" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ali-eteraz/obama-islam-smear-changes_b_101337.html" rel="nofollow">Obama Muslim Smear Changes Stripes</a><br></br><br>Sigh....</br><br></br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-creamer/top-10-reasons-obama-defe_b_101307.html" rel="nofollow">Top 10 Reasons Obama Beat Clinton</a></br><br></br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/12/more-than-20-senators-tel_n_101432.html" rel="nofollow">More than 20 Senators Say They\'d Be Willing to be VP</a></br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1964275" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964275">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964275" class="dsq-comment-message">teacher,<br></br><br>someone up above linked to the story at HuffingtonPost. The girl got arrested at prom. Roland Martin also has it as a story at his blog at Essence.</br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1964276" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964276">Ms.Martin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1964276" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964276" class="dsq-comment-message">Interesting:<br></br><br>Apartheid Victims\' U.S. Lawsuit To Proceed</br><br>High Court Can\'t Intervene Because 4 Justices Forced To Sit Out Case Over Apparent Conflicts</br><br>Comments 6</br><br>WASHINGTON, May 12, 2008</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1964277" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1964277" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964277">Nquest</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964277" class="dsq-comment-message">The Booker T. reference doesn\'t make sense.  Neither does the idea of casting Barack Obama as a "black leader" the way B-Serious did.  Ya\'ll done lost ya\'ll minds off in here.<br></br><br>Remember:  Obama is not running for president of Black America.  By the same token, he\'s not presenting himself as a Black leader with any specific intent on doing anything in particular for Black people per se.  Taking his own statement and not some idea people want to project onto him, Barack Obama, the presidential candidate, sees something wrong with that kind of idea.</br><br></br><br>What kind of Tuskegee like project has Barack Obama talked about?</br><br></br><br>See, that\'s the silliness of the Booker T. reference.  But it is rather illuminating.   What\'s really funny is how folks are swinging at the wind, to use language that\'s already been used.</br><br></br><br>This "compromise" FRAME and the whole argument is an argument B-Serious et al are having with themselves.   I\'ll refer back to MLK, another so-called "compromiser":</br><br></br><br><b>"A man can\'t ride you unless your back is bent."</b></br><br></br><br></br><br>Translation:  Just assuming the position based on the assumption that that\'s what you have to do puts you at a position of disadvantage that\'s of your own making and have nothing to do with the game but rather with the role you assumed without respect to how the game has changed and what can be done to change it.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1964278" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1964278" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964278">Against Race Politics</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964278" class="dsq-comment-message">Teacher,<br></br><br>I agree with you about Michelle O. She often comes across as emasculating towards her husband. Let me say/repeat (before I am attacked) I am a loyal BHO supporter but she has not been coming across very well to me. I suppose that is not truly the case as they do seem happy and she did do MUCH better in the interview with Caroline Kennedy.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1964279" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1964279" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964279">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964279" class="dsq-comment-message">Barack Obama was raised by strong women. His grandmother was the breadwinner between she and her husband. He married a strong woman. He knows who he is. Women don\'t "emasculate" men. That language itself is the sexist language of patriarchy and I don\'t like it. It\'s as if we are saying women should never show that they are stronger than men because men\'s egos are so fragile, they can\'t be upstaged by the "weaker" sex.<br> </br><br>It\'s my belief, however, that women are much stronger than men. </br><br></br><br>Much. </br><br></br><br>And it comes down to the strength it takes to give birth.</br><br></br><br>If the electorate doesn\'t want to vote for Obama because his wife speaks her mind, then too bad for us.</br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1964280" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964280">B-Serious</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964280" class="dsq-comment-message">nquest,<br></br><br>Civil disobedience is a compromise.  So is nonviolence.</br><br></br><br>MLK\'s nonviolent movement was a compromise.  Turning the other cheek is a compromise.  </br><br></br><br>You quote king\'s statement:  "A man can\'t ride you unless your back is bent."</br><br></br><br>As if nonviolence in the face of violence is not "bending one\'s back," to assume the position one must in order to make the change they want to see.</br><br></br><br>A lot of people called King an accomodationist.  They accused him of doing the very thing that particular quote warns against.  Well, in the end, King\'s style got more accomplished.  In fact, King\'s style has become a template for other movements over they years.  He saw the bigger picture.</br><br></br><br>Was King an accomodationist?  Judging by his goals, I say no.  Yet many obviously felt that subjecting black men and women to violence was the definition of bending one\'s back to let the man ride on it.</br><br></br><br>Compromise (strategic compromise) is not a sign of weakness.  It can be a sign of immense strength.</br><br></br><br>The Civil Rights Movement was built with a belief that "black" struggles must take on a more universal appeal if things were to change.  That\'s strategic compromise. </br><br></br><br>That\'s what a minority group often does.  It doesn\'t have the numbers on its side.  Instead, it finds leverage to maximize the opportunity at hand.</br><br></br><br>As a practical matter, King and others realized that they could not change the wheels of power with a purely "black" message.  But you find a way around the zero-sum equation.  You make a win-win situation out of a win-lose situation.  That\'s strategic compromise.</br><br></br><br>Thus, they transformed the concept of black liberation into wider, more universal, appeals of equality, humanity and spirituality.  And yes, even symbolic politics has its place in moving the country forward.</br><br></br><br>That\'s mastering the game.  That\'s finding a way to make the game work for you.  It\'s beating the majority at it\'s own game. . . slowly, but surely, one step (one generation, even) at a time.  That\'s understanding the forces at play and seizing the opportunity at hand.  </br><br></br><br>The perfect storm surrounding the Civil Rights Movement presented a unique moment, which allowed King to repackage black rights in a more palatable manner and create a paradigmatic shift.</br><br></br><br>Civil rights was no longer a "black" issue for blacks to bear alone.  The Civil Rights Movement was a coalition of black and white designed to pressure government into specific legislative action on generic matters like voting rights, education, equal protection and employment.</br><br></br><br>Malcolm didn\'t create that type of a coalition.  Rev. Wright won\'t create that coalition.</br><br></br><br>That doesn\'t make them better or worse, just different.  Their less concerned with universal appeal and more concerned with "speaking truth to power."  </br><br></br><br>My point is you need both.  Obama is building a coalition to affect change. . . just as King did.  He\'s taking advantage of a perfect storm that is ripe for another paradigm shift.</br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1964281" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964281">Against Race Politics</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1964281" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964281" class="dsq-comment-message">Craig,<br></br><br>I never said I wouldn\'t vote for him b/c of Michelle - can\'t speak for others however my opinion as a STRONG BLACK WOMAN (who has had babies!) myself is that she does not come across in the right manner. She comes across actually as insecure but maybe making up for it with the strong persona. I think if you are strong and "tough" you can act that way but it\'s not necessary to hit others over the head with it so to speak(when you are secure).If she did then I really don\'t think the MSM would have all of the sound bites they have of her to be used against her husband.</br><br></br><br>I also never said that women emasculate men I said she comes across that way. I beleive that men emasculate themselves and blame it on women at times, personally.</br><br></br><br>Again, I am not trying to convince anyone else of fight anyone over this but this is MY opinion as a loyal BHO supporter.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1964282" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1964282" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964282">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1964282" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964282" class="dsq-comment-message">I still don\'t see what Michelle has said that is so "emasculating."<br></br><br>She\'s a Capricorn. She\'s pragmatic, practical, earthy, she leads, she\'s strong, she teaches, and she\'s powerful.</br><br></br><br>That\'s all.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964283">Tom Heneghan</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964283" class="dsq-comment-message">If you’re interested in the issue of Obama, Islam and whether he might be a Muslim apostate, you might want to check out “Muslim scholar responds to ‘Sharia smear’ against Obama” -- <a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2008/05/30/muslim-scholar-responds-to-sharia-smear-against-obama/" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2008/05/30/...</a> -- on the Reuters FaithWorld blog.</div>\
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