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She gave a nice interlude to have a spiritual/political conversation about how we can all join together to make the world better. She also talked about the vortex phenomena in relation to its affect on people. It was part art installation, concert and a combination of several of her influences. Definitely not like her other shows.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_04:59:00", "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}, "1969980": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "sorry i can't figure how to link...but paul krugman has another annoying one at the nytimes this morning.\"Unfortunately, the campaign against misogyny hasn\u2019t been equally successful. aaarrgghhh!! i really have learned to hate paul krugman.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_06:28:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab03b08e2f2082ad84cf39c973e5bebb", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1969981": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Watching CNN this morning... did they just have a piece on wether Obama is black or bi-racial...sigh... are we back HERE again???!?!?!?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_06:50:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "b4a8449dd305999e79c6b0ede6dc3bfd", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": 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}, "1969982": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I was watching Morning <br>(Joe) Bullshit and Pat Buchanan talking about how McCain was leading the polls against Obama and that Obama was losing against Hillary (Ford laughed and said Gore had more votes than Bush and let it end on that) and George Will who was interviewed later said those polls were trashD and that Buchanan new from his polling experience that they were.  Buchanan did not argue that point with Will.</br><br></br><br>Ford let Buchana go on and on insinuating that Obama was a losing to Clinton and that he would lose to McCain and all Ford could do was laugh.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_07:49:00", "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}, "1969983": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "colbert accepted buchanan's apology last week. pat hadn't offered one but it was accepted. pat looked lost.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_08:10:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab03b08e2f2082ad84cf39c973e5bebb", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1969984": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "islandgirl,<br></br><br>Let them frame it any way they feel  the need so long as he gets the votes.  This is America afterall</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_08:12:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "c36c5e8bd4d56491f8a60b53ae8e9eb4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1969985": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "What did Buchanan say or do to Colbert.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_08:27:00", "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}, "1969986": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "islandgirl,<br></br><br>CNN has nothing better to do.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_08:35:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f85f4de88a30987f0360c336da9569ae", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1969987": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I keep on telling you folks that Dark Sith Ford can't be trusted. WHen will you accept that?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_08:36:00", "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}, "1969988": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Another good Frank Rich Column:<br></br><br><a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/08/opinion/08rich.html?_r=1&amp;ref=opinion&amp;oref=slogin\" rel=\"nofollow\">One Historic Night, 2 Americas</a></br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_08:37:00", "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}, "1969989": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Dick Morris' Latest:<br></br><br><a href=\"http://pundits.thehill.com/2008/06/08/its-not-over-yet/#more-3091\" rel=\"nofollow\">It's not over</a></br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_08:42:00", "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}, "1969990": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/08/gop-insiders-worry-about_n_105946.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">GOP Insiders Worry about McCain's CHances</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_08:44:00", "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}, "1969991": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/08/weekinreview/08mabry.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Where Whites Draw The Line</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_08:51:00", "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}, "1969992": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/09/opinion/09krugman.html#\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Latest Paul Krugman</a><br></br><br>Krugman has been such a disappointment. I can't really read him seriously anymore.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_08:53:00", "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}, "1969993": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The Washington POst has lost its natural mind. <br></br><br>Obama give up his money advantage?</br><br></br><br><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/08/AR2008060801677.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">HELL NO</a></br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_08:54:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f85f4de88a30987f0360c336da9569ae", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1969994": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "regarding the ackward conversation, she never did say she got over being annoyed by being called 'sister'. it reads to me like she feels a bit of privilege and station over both black and white Americans.  that's the subcontext I got.<br></br><br>but i like how she broke down diminishers and deniers.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_09:13:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "369dd1fe5f49cbfe5e745f45b499d41e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": 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}, "1969995": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "as for the Washington Post, it's a nice question and a legitimate one 'how black is too black'......... poor Jeremiah Wright is way lighter than Obama, but he became 'too black'.  For me, this talk of Obama being just as white as he is black just means he hasn't <i>really</i> f-cked up yet ;)<br></br><br>when he does, he'll be all-black again, instead of having certain types of white folks want to claim the 'good' parts of him for themselves, because how could any black be good?</br><br></br><br>this also goes for certain 'he's biracial' segments.  same song.</br><br></br><br>and to be fair, blacks pulled that b.s. too because of the number of people actually thought he wasn't cool enough to be black, he talked 'white' (notice nobody says that anymore?), he was schooled 'white', he 'acted white'. and there are still a number of people waiting for him to 'act more black' and who don't trust him because he can't be trusted to be Nat Turner.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_09:19:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "369dd1fe5f49cbfe5e745f45b499d41e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": 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}, "1969996": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Mr. Buchanan said Mr. Obama\u2019s monolithic support among blacks was likely to stoke such white animosity.<br></br><br>\u201cThere\u2019s a sense among some folks that if African-Americans are voting 90 percent for \u2018one of us;\u2019 then you\u2019re going to vote for \u2018one of us,\u2019 \u201d he said. </br><br></br><br>------------------</br><br></br><br>People like Pat Buchanan who conveniently overlook the fact that blacks have been voting 90% for white candidates for years are just trying to justify why they won't vote for a black person.  I wish they would just man up and say, without excuse, \"No, I don't like black people and I'm not voting for one.\"  I would have more respect for someone like that than people who pull excuses out of their asses to justify not voting for a black person or the white people who blame black people for why they won't vote for a white person.</br><br></br><br></br><br></br><br>For me, this talk of Obama being just as white as he is black just means he hasn't really f-cked up yet ;)</br><br>---------------------</br><br></br><br>Notice, nobody said anything about him being biracial or mixed race or half black/half white when the Jeremiah Wright tapes came out, he was all black then.  When pointed out that he was half white, it was said that he must resent the white side of himself and that's why he \"threw his grandmother under the bus.\"    But I think Barack and Michelle addressed this phenomenon themselves last year.  He said if he messed up nobody would have a problem describing him as \"black.\"  Jeremiah Wright is much lighter than Barack Obama and yet nobody questions whether he's half white or anything; he's just all black.  Hmm.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_09:42:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "1cb6140180747707b601ebc52c1fcb5a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": 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}, "1969997": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"Too black\" = \"Too radical\"<br>People do want to feel threatened or defensive. </br><br></br><br>I agree with Obama has a fine line to walk. </br><br></br><br>Shelby Steele wrote:</br><br></br><br>\"Mr. Obama has said of himself, \"I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views . . .\" And so, human visibility is Mr. Obama's Achilles heel. If we see the real man, his contradictions and bents of character, he will be ruined as an icon, as a \"blank screen.\"</br><br></br><br>Now that the general election campaign has begun, the 'contradictions' and 'bents of character' will receive greater scrutiny than ever. And if this scrutiny is of his record and his judgment is characterized by Obama or his supporters in a way that makes voters feel 'challenged' to defend their skepticism or criticism against cries of 'racism!' than he will fail to win much of the white vote.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_09:49:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "bbb5f18b1f882407561a7f27f4fb2937", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": 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}, "1969998": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/politics/view.bg?articleid=1099334&amp;srvc=home&amp;position=rated\" rel=\"nofollow\">African-American churches could help decide the election</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_09:53:00", "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}, "1969999": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The Krugman article is ridiculous and condtradictory.<br></br><br>In one paragraph he suggests that crime is committed by blacks when referencing a statement made by a Clinton surrogate when asked if America was ready for black president, he claimed under privileged blacks were more likely to rob or mug someone.  </br><br></br><br>In another paragraph, he states that during Clinton's presidency crime went down for some unknown reason when it is well-known that the economy flourished during those times.</br><br></br><br>IMO, if he believes the statement he quoted regarding the underprivleged being more likely to commit crime, it would then be with in reason to assume that during better economic times that crime would recede.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_10:00:00", "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}, "1970000": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "S<br></br><br>What is too black?  Are you referring to the amount of pigment in one's skin?</br><br></br><br>Are you referring to a type of culture common to a certain group of people?</br><br></br><br>Do you consider the KKK to be too radical?</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_10:06:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fcb7c771a7713dda01aa936fd426bfe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1970001": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Morning, all....<br></br><br><a href=\"http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/06/overconfidence_on_the_left.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Overconfidence on the Left</a></br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_10:36:00", "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}, "1970002": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>Now that the general election campaign has begun, the 'contradictions' and 'bents of character' will receive greater scrutiny than ever. And if this scrutiny is of his record and his judgment is characterized by Obama or his supporters in a way that makes voters feel 'challenged' to defend their skepticism or criticism against cries of 'racism!' than he will fail to win much of the white vote.</i><br></br><br>In other words, you and a persistent handful of others, are still hoping that there's some way to \"niggerize\" Barack so that y'all have plausible deniability.  </br><br></br><br>You can't do it with his record, because it's about as sparse as John Roberts'.  So really, all you can do is make him out to be the typical angry Black man that makes SOME white people uncomfortable and distrustful.  All the while being able to patronizingly say that they're not voting for Barack because he doesn't have the right \"temperment\" or \"judgment\".</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_10:39:00", "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}, "1970003": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ive been waiting for it, and still have yet to see one significant article that details the FACT that the repulican party is just as divided. <br></br><br>I work with nothing but Conservatives/rethugs. 3 Nascar Repubs (redneckin hillbillyin) 3 Reagan ( make alota money and dont want to share any of it) 4 of the 6 plan to vote for Obama 1 plans to vote McCain and 1 plans to stay home. </br><br></br><br>The ones voting for Obama say they are convince McCain is another Bush term (all the NASCAR GUYS) and though they can afford to live comfortably, they worry that with McCain in office, it wont last long. </br><br></br><br>The other Reagan conservative is oddly enough a hispanic dude who said he'd vote for Barack if he beat Hillary b/c its a signd America is recognizing minorities. Thats the only reason though. </br><br></br><br>Rikyrah, </br><br>So thats who the dark syth is..Ive said it before, and i'll say it again, Baracks first issue he needs to resolve as far as the Dem Party is concerned is to X. the DLC and the Bluedogs off the map.</br><br></br><br>They are nothing more then republicans who oppose Roe V. Wade.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_10:50:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "2042081350805262dea9b76f7cd72640", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": 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}, "1970004": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Paul Krugman has jumped the shark.  One thing can be stated during this campaign, the veil has come OFF on alot of these folk.<br></br><br>O/T:  Being here in Chicago, the R. Kelly trial is something else.  Kelly is producing the \"Shaggy\" defense \"It Wasn't Me\".</br><br></br><br>The truth is I know quite a few folk who have that bootleg tape, hell you can go to 87th or 79th street and purchase it on the corner.  IT was that widely distributed.  I could not watch anything like this, but from the folk I knew who did, said it was Kelly and he should go to jail.</br><br></br><br>Yes, the other caveat is these underage girls, where is their mommas and daddy, for that fact.  True.  But in the end, no man had a right to have sex with 13 or 14 year olds.</br><br></br><br>Just this, remember he married Aaliyah and she was what, 15 or 16?</br><br></br><br>Kelly has strong support here and the jury is mixed, so if he is guilty he better make a lot of cd's before the shackles are on his feet.</br><br></br><br><a href=\"http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-r-kelly-trial-tape-web-jun09,0,3806.story?track=rss\" rel=\"nofollow\">Chicago Tribune Article</a></br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_11:09:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "c8b2d42511d55e0cb79da4b7de989dab", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": 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}, "1970005": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "From the Weekly Standard:<br></br><br><a href=\"http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/200qbtpn.asp?pg=1\" rel=\"nofollow\">Voting for Commander in Chief</a></br><br></br><br><i>It would be hard to design a better test for the job of commander in chief than the real-life test senators John McCain and Barack Obama have undergone in the last two years. As the situation in Iraq deteriorated during 2006 and the war reached its most critical moment, both senators served on national security committees: McCain on Armed Services, Obama on Foreign Relations. From those positions, with access to classified situation reports as well as the public testimony and private advice of those who knew the situation in Iraq best, each man reached an understanding of the facts on the ground and the interests at stake. And each proposed a strategy. It was as close as a presidential candidate could get to showing how he would respond to a national security crisis without already being in the White House.</i></br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_11:22:00", "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}, "1970006": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hey guys, did you know that dap / fist bump is could possibly be a terrorist fist jab?<br></br><br>According to Fox News, fist bumps are really terrorist fist jabs. </br><br></br><br></br><br>Although nobody has ever seen Osama bin Ladin giving \"dap\" to anyone.</br><br></br><br>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/09/fox-news-anchor-calls-the-obamas-fist-pound-a-terrorist-fist-jab/</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_11:45:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "1cb6140180747707b601ebc52c1fcb5a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": 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}, "1970007": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "ronnie b,<br></br><br>The key word in your comments re: Obama's record is 'sparse.'</br><br></br><br>That, along with the fact that he has shown no ability or political will to break from the tired memes of the Democrat party that no longer reflect or confront the challenges we are facing, are enough to give voters cause pause.</br><br></br><br>Obama has yet to acknowlege our success in Iraq and Afghanistan. </br><br></br><br>He does not support domestic oil production.</br><br></br><br>He wants to raise the taxes during an economic slow down and raise capital gains taxes which will hamper the ability the middle class Americans to accumulate wealth.</br><br></br><br>He plans to expand the size and scope of our government, restricting our freedom.</br><br></br><br>He will not break from the unions to allow free-trade and school choice.</br><br></br><br>These are legitimate concerns for many Americans. </br><br></br><br>Also, re: judgment</br><br></br><br>Obama chose to associate with individuals who have controversial views and he must accept responsibility for his choices.  Is it 'racist' to be skeptical? No.</br><br></br><br> Your take on my comments is exactly why Obama will not win. If your view towards those who do not support Obama becomes the meme of his campaign or his supporters you can wave goodbye to his election. He will be, in your words, 'niggerized' by his own supporters if they choose to deflect criticism and characterize it as 'racism', rather than defend their candidate.</br><br></br><br>He needs more experience in national politics and governing on a federal level. He needs to build a record that reflects his desire to be bipartisan.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_11:55:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "bbb5f18b1f882407561a7f27f4fb2937", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": 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}, "1970008": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "S<br></br><br>you didnt answer my question.  i would really like to know what a white person such as yourself considers black and in this case too black.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_12:18:00", "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}, "1970009": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "ms martin,<br></br><br>It has nothing to do with skin color.</br><br></br><br>I consider the KKK to be evil.</br><br></br><br>It has more to do with a repudiation of moderation, and a willingness to characterize scrutiny and criticism of a far-left agenda as 'racism.'</br><br></br><br>Obama is winning over so many independents because THEY BELIEVE HIM TO BE MODERATE. The 'blank slate,' 'a Rorschach test' on whom they can project whatever they wish to see.</br><br></br><br>But that will soon change. The 'radicals' will come out in full force, believeing that Obama's nomination is an embrace of their worldview and agenda. Afterall, the daily kos/moveon movement 'owns' the party and they claim credit for obama's nomination.</br><br></br><br>Smoothies comments about 'X'ing the DLC and bluedogs off the map is my case in point. If Obama is pressed by the far-left to push moderates from the party, Obama will lose the election.</br><br></br><br>Americans may want 'change' from GWB but they do not want to 'remake' the US into a vision of the far-left.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_12:30:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "bbb5f18b1f882407561a7f27f4fb2937", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": 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}, "1970010": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "S<br></br><br>you still didn't answer.  What is 'black' and what is too black?</br><br></br><br>i would really like to know what your definition is.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_12:33:00", "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}, "1970011": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>Americans may want 'change' from GWB but they do not want to 'remake' the US into a vision of the far-left.</i><br></br><br>s,</br><br></br><br>How do you know?</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_12:36:00", "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}, "1970012": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Actually, S, it seems like that's exactly what they want.....", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_12:39:00", "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}, "1970013": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "d,<br></br><br>That passage re: Iraq sums it up perfectly.</br><br></br><br>And overconfidence has always been a hallmark of self-righteous liberals who think everyone who disagrees with their worldview and policies is either ignorant, racist, xenophobic, greedy or callous.</br><br></br><br>Criticize Obama's tax hikes. Well you're just a selfish rich person who doesn't want to help the less fortunate. </br><br></br><br>Support the troops and the surge strategy in Iraq. Warmonger!</br><br></br><br>Take issue with Obama's thin resume. Liberals will claim you called him 'an inadequate black man.'</br><br></br><br>Take issue with Wright, Bittergate, et al and you are nothing but an ignorant rube who chooses to ignore the TRUTH about AmeriKKKa!</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_12:42:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "bbb5f18b1f882407561a7f27f4fb2937", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": 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}, "1970014": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Here is a article about McCain's first wife and how he treated her.<br>...................................</br><br>The wife U.S. Republican John McCain callously left behind</br><br></br><br>By Sharon Churcher</br><br>Last updated at 1:45 AM on 08th June 2008</br><br>Now that Hillary Clinton has at last formally withdrawn from the race for the White House, the eyes of America and the world will focus on Barack Obama and his Republican rival Senator John McCain. </br><br></br><br></br><br>While Obama will surely press his credentials as the embodiment of the American dream \u2013 a handsome, charismatic young black man who was raised on food stamps by a single mother and who represents his country\u2019s future \u2013 McCain will present himself as a selfless, principled war hero whose campaign represents not so much a battle for the presidency of the United States, but a crusade to rescue the nation\u2019s tarnished reputation.</br><br>Forgotten woman: But despite all her problems Carol McCain says she still adores he ex-husband</br><br></br><br>McCain likes to illustrate his moral fibre by referring to his five years as a prisoner-of-war in Vietnam. And to demonstrate his commitment to family values, the 71-year-old former US Navy pilot pays warm tribute to his beautiful blonde wife, Cindy, with whom he has four children.</br><br></br><br>But there is another Mrs McCain who casts a ghostly shadow over the Senator\u2019s presidential campaign. She is seldom seen and rarely written about, despite being mother to McCain\u2019s three eldest children.</br><br></br><br>And yet, had events turned out differently, it would be she, rather than Cindy, who would be vying to be First Lady. She is McCain\u2019s first wife, Carol, who was a famous beauty and a successful swimwear model when they married in 1965. </br><br></br><br>She was the woman McCain dreamed of during his long incarceration and torture in Vietnam\u2019s infamous \u2018Hanoi Hilton\u2019 prison and the woman who faithfully stayed at home looking after the children and waiting anxiously for news. </br><br></br><br>But when McCain returned to America in 1973 to a fanfare of publicity and a handshake from Richard Nixon, he discovered his wife had been disfigured in a terrible car crash three years earlier. Her car had skidded on icy roads into a telegraph pole on Christmas Eve, 1969. Her pelvis and one arm were shattered by the impact and she suffered massive internal injuries.</br><br></br><br>When Carol was discharged from hospital after six months of life-saving surgery, the prognosis was bleak. In order to save her legs, surgeons</br><br></br><br>had been forced to cut away huge sections of shattered bone, taking with it her tall, willowy figure. She was confined to a wheelchair and was forced to use a catheter. </br><br></br><br>Through sheer hard work, Carol learned to walk again. But when John McCain came home from Vietnam, she had gained a lot of weight and bore little resemblance to her old self. </br><br></br><br>Today, she stands at just 5ft4in and still walks awkwardly, with a pronounced limp. Her body is held together by screws and metal plates and, at 70, her face is worn by wrinkles that speak of decades of silent suffering.</br><br></br><br>For nearly 30 years, Carol has maintained a dignified silence about the accident, McCain and their divorce. But last week at the bungalow where she now lives at Virginia Beach, a faded seaside resort 200 miles south of Washington, she told The Mail on Sunday how McCain divorced her in 1980 and married Cindy, 18 years his junior and the heir to an Arizona brewing fortune, just one month later.</br><br>Carol insists she remains on good terms with her ex-husband, who agreed as part of their divorce settlement to pay her medical costs for life. \u2018I have no bitterness,\u2019</br><br></br><br>she says. \u2018My accident is well recorded. I had 23 operations, I am five inches shorter than I used to be and I was in hospital for six months. It was just awful, but it wasn\u2019t the reason for my divorce. </br><br></br><br>\u2018My marriage ended because John McCain didn\u2019t want to be 40, he wanted to be 25. You know that happens...it just does.\u2019 </br><br></br><br>Some of McCain\u2019s acquaintances are less forgiving, however. They portray the politician as a self-centred womaniser who effectively abandoned his crippled wife to \u2018play the field\u2019. They accuse him of finally settling on Cindy, a former rodeo beauty queen, for financial reasons. </br><br></br><br>McCain was then earning little more than \u00a325,000 a year as a naval officer, while his new father-in-law, Jim Hensley, was a multi-millionaire who had impeccable political connections. </br><br></br><br>He first met Carol in the Fifties while he was at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis. He was a privileged, but rebellious scion of one of America\u2019s most distinguished military dynasties \u2013 his father and grandfather were both admirals. </br><br></br><br>But setting out to have a good time, the young McCain hung out with a group of young officers who called themselves the \u2018Bad Bunch\u2019. </br><br></br><br>His primary interest was women and his conquests ranged from a knife-wielding floozy nicknamed \u2018Marie, the Flame of Florida\u2019 to a tobacco heiress. </br><br></br><br>Carol fell into his fast-living world by accident. She escaped a poor upbringing in Philadelphia to become a successful model, married an Annapolis classmate of McCain\u2019s and had two children \u2013 Douglas and Andrew \u2013 before renewing what one acquaintance calls \u2018an old flirtation\u2019 with McCain.</br><br></br><br>It seems clear she was bowled over by McCain\u2019s attention at a time when he was becoming bored with his playboy lifestyle. </br><br></br><br>\u2018He was 28 and ready to settle down and he loved Carol\u2019s children,\u2019 recalled another Annapolis graduate, Robert Timberg, who wrote The Nightingale\u2019s Song, a bestselling biography of McCain and four other graduates of the academy.</br><br></br><br>The couple married and McCain adopted Carol\u2019s sons. Their daughter, Sidney, was born a year later, but domesticity was clearly beginning</br><br></br><br>to bore McCain \u2013 the couple were regarded as \u2018fixtures on the party circuit\u2019 before McCain requested combat duty in Vietnam at the end of 1966.</br><br></br><br>He was assigned as a bomber pilot on an aircraft carrier in the Gulf of Tonkin. </br><br></br><br></br><br>What follows is the stuff of the McCain legend. He was shot down over Hanoi in October 1967 on his 23rd mission over North Vietnam and was badly beaten by an angry mob when he was pulled, half-drowned from a lake. </br><br></br><br></br><br> </br><br>War hero: McCain with Carol as he arrives back in the US in 1973 after his five years as a PoW in North Vietnam</br><br>Over the next five-and-a-half years in the notorious Hoa Loa Prison he was regularly tortured and mistreated. </br><br></br><br>It was in 1969 that Carol went to spend the Christmas holiday \u2013 her third without McCain \u2013 at her parents\u2019 home. After dinner, she left to drop off some presents at a friend\u2019s house. </br><br></br><br>It wasn\u2019t until some hours later that she was discovered, alone and in terrible pain, next to the wreckage of her car. She had been hurled through the windscreen.</br><br></br><br>After her first series of life-saving operations, Carol was told she may never walk again, but when doctors said they would try to get word to McCain about her injuries, she refused, insisting: \u2018He\u2019s got enough problems, I don\u2019t want to tell him.\u2019 </br><br></br><br></br><br>H. Ross Perot, a billionaire Texas businessman, future presidential candidate and advocate of prisoners of war, paid for her medical care.</br><br></br><br>When McCain \u2013 his hair turned prematurely white and his body reduced to little more than a skeleton \u2013 was released in March 1973, he told reporters he was overjoyed to see Carol again. </br><br></br><br>But friends say privately he was \u2018appalled\u2019 by the change in her appearance. At first, though, he was kind, assuring her: \u2018I don\u2019t look so good myself. It\u2019s fine.\u2019 </br><br></br><br>He bought her a bungalow near the sea in Florida and another former PoW helped him to build a railing so she could pull herself over the dunes to the water.</br><br></br><br>\u2018I thought, of course, we would live happily ever after,\u2019 says Carol. But as a war hero, McCain was moving in ever-more elevated circles. </br><br></br><br></br><br>Through Ross Perot, he met Ronald Reagan, then Governor of California. A sympathetic Nancy Reagan took Carol under her wing. </br><br></br><br>But already the McCains\u2019 marriage had begun to fray. \u2018John started carousing and running around with women,\u2019 said Robert Timberg. </br><br></br><br></br><br>McCain has acknowledged that he had girlfriends during this time, without going into details. Some friends blame his dissatisfaction with Carol, but others give some credence to her theory of a mid-life crisis.</br><br></br><br>He was also fiercely ambitious, but it was clear he would never become an admiral like his illustrious father and grandfather and his thoughts were turning to politics. </br><br></br><br>In 1979 \u2013 while still married to Carol \u2013 he met Cindy at a cocktail party in Hawaii. Over the next six months he pursued her, flying around the country to see her. Then he began to push to end his marriage. </br><br></br><br>Carol and her children were devastated. \u2018It was a complete surprise,\u2019 says Nancy Reynolds, a former Reagan aide. </br><br></br><br>\u2018They never displayed any difficulties between themselves. I know the Reagans were quite shocked because they loved and respected both Carol and John.\u2019 </br><br></br><br>Another friend added: \u2018Carol didn\u2019t fight him. She felt her infirmity made her an impediment to him. She justified his actions because of all he had gone through. She used to say, \u201cHe just wants to make up for lost time.\u201d\u2019 </br><br></br><br>Indeed, to many in their circle the saddest part of the break-up was Carol\u2019s decision to resign herself to losing a man she says she still adores. </br><br></br><br>Friends confirm she has remained friends with McCain and backed him in all his campaigns. \u2018He was very generous to her in the divorce but of course he could afford to be, since he was marrying Cindy,\u2019 one observed. </br><br></br><br>McCain transferred the Florida beach house to Carol and gave her the right to live in their jointly-owned townhouse in the Washington suburb of Alexandria. He also agreed to pay her alimony and child support. </br><br></br><br>A former neighbour says she subsequently sold up in Florida and Washington and moved in 2003 to Virginia Beach. He said: \u2018My impression was that she found the new place easier to manage as she still has some difficulties walking.\u2019 </br><br></br><br>Meanwhile McCain moved to Arizona with his new bride immediately after their 1980 marriage. There, his new father-in-law gave him a job and introduced him to local businessmen and political powerbrokers who would smooth his passage to Washington via the House of Representatives and Senate. </br><br></br><br></br><br>And yet despite his popularity as a politician, there are those who won\u2019t forget his treatment of his first wife. </br><br></br><br>Ted Sampley, who fought with US Special Forces in Vietnam and is now a leading campaigner for veterans\u2019 rights, said: \u2018I have been following John McCain\u2019s career for nearly 20 years. I know him personally. There is something wrong with this guy and let me tell you what it is \u2013 deceit. </br><br></br><br>\u2018When he came home and saw that Carol was not the beauty he left behind, he started running around on her almost right away. Everybody around him knew it.</br><br></br><br>\u2018Eventually he met Cindy and she was young and beautiful and very wealthy. At that point McCain just dumped Carol for something he thought was better. </br><br></br><br>\u2018This is a guy who makes such a big deal about his character. He has no character. He is a fake. If there was any character in that first marriage, it all belonged to Carol.\u2019 </br><br></br><br>One old friend of the McCains said: \u2018Carol always insists she is not bitter, but I think that\u2019s a defence mechanism. She also feels deeply in his debt because in return for her agreement to a divorce, he promised to pay for her medical care for the rest of her life.\u2019 </br><br></br><br></br><br>Carol remained resolutely loyal as McCain\u2019s political star rose. She says she agreed to talk to The Mail on Sunday only because she wanted to publicise her support for the man who abandoned her.</br><br></br><br>Indeed, the old Mercedes that she uses to run errands displays both a disabled badge and a sticker encouraging people to vote for her ex-husband. \u2018He\u2019s a good guy,\u2019 she assured us. \u2018We are still good friends. He is the best man for president.\u2019 </br><br></br><br>But Ross Perot, who paid her medical bills all those years ago, now believes that both Carol McCain and the American people have been taken in by a man who is unusually slick and cruel \u2013 even by the standards of modern politics.</br><br></br><br>\u2018McCain is the classic opportunist. He\u2019s always reaching for attention and glory,\u2019 he said. </br><br></br><br>\u2018After he came home, Carol walked with a limp. So he threw her over for a poster girl with big money from Arizona. And the rest is history.\u2019</br><br>Pass it on</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_12:56:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "e8929a93ccff877492df9b177a3888cf", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": 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}, "1970015": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "b-serious and d,<br></br><br>To this point the focus has been on process (winning the primary) and platitudes ('hope' and 'change') and history. If the debate is allowed to move beyond race and 'distractions' the choice Americans have will become clearer.</br><br></br><br>Do Americans want a more expansive, expensive federal government that sacrifices individual freedom for a 'utopian' collective equality?</br><br></br><br>Do Americans want to move toward 'socialization' of healthcare or do they want to insure the uninsured while maintaining the most flexibility and choice possible?</br><br></br><br>Do Americans want more pandering to teacher's unions with speeches about 'higher pay' for teachers or do they want school choice?</br><br></br><br>Do Americans truly want to limit domestic energy production and exploration while paying higher energy prices to appease global-warming advocates and fund dictators hostile to the US?</br><br></br><br>Do Americans really want to leave Iraq in defeat and </br><br>disillusionment? To abandon a strategy that is finally showing progress? </br><br></br><br>Do Americans truly want to believe that we are the 'root cause' of the world's problems or do they want to believe that while, imperfect, we are still a beacon of liberty, opportunity prosperity for the oppressed in this world?</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_12:58:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "bbb5f18b1f882407561a7f27f4fb2937", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": 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}, "1970016": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "dchefron,<br></br><br>Perfect. Let's keep the focus off ideas, issues and policies. Let the 'old politics' prevail.</br><br></br><br>Afraid to debate issues?</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_13:03:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "bbb5f18b1f882407561a7f27f4fb2937", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": 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}, "1970017": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "S,<br>My honest opinion is that most people don't really care about those things. </br><br></br><br>So many Americans are caught up in a wave of Bush/Republican hatred that all they want is something different.</br><br></br><br>And it's going to take that \"something different\" having a negative effect on their lives (like the way the gas prices have steadily gone up since the dems took Congress in '06, even after they swore to bring them down) before they realize that all change isn't necessarily good.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_13:06:00", "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}, "1970018": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "It is no coincidence that the same people who oppose spending tax dollars to help the less fortunate at home are usually the first ones to get behind spending billions of dollars to kill our \"enemies\" abroad.  <br></br><br>It is selfish to mortgage the future of this country by going to war and refusing to share in the financial burden of said war.  It is selfish to continue to amass wealth and the expense of the poorest amongst us.  If we keep going down that route, we are going to end up a world power with a third-world society (i.e non-existent middle class).  </br><br></br><br>If you want people to acknowledge your arguments as valid, you need to stop being hypocritical.  If you want to discuss Wright, then let's also discuss McCain's associations with convicted Nazi-sympathizer G. Gordon Liddy.</br><br></br><br>Junglecat</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_13:07:00", "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}, "1970019": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Junglecat,<br>...and then we can bring Hagee, Parsley, Pfleger, Rezko, etc. back for one more go-round.</br><br></br><br>But what's that really gonna accomplish?</br><br></br><br>Two things have to happen:</br><br></br><br>1. Elements of the right wing have to stop dragging out Wright and others. Yes, it speaks to judgement....but we've had that discussion already. No need to rehash it at this point.</br><br></br><br>2. Obama's supporters need to stop playing the \"my associate is better than your associate\" game. You claim to want a debate on the issues; well, let's have it.</br><br></br><br>Wonder which will happen first.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_13:21:00", "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}, "1970020": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "To S I would love to debate McCains ideas on endless war in Iraq, how our national sercurity is threaten by not talking to the players in the middle east on how McCain wants to continue the transfer of wealth to a country that produce our enemy Saudi Arabia.On how the corparations that McCain favors keep getting tax cuts while our country is falling deeper in debt to Communist China I could go on but you thugs that call yourselfs republicans has already started the dirty politics so be on notice you want to play dirty you want to go after Michelle Obama on being proud we will bring up Cindys walk on the wild side.You bring up Tony Resko where there is nothing there we will visit Charles Keating. SO GAME ON!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_13:25:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "e8929a93ccff877492df9b177a3888cf", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": 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}, "1970021": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>Do Americans want a more expansive, expensive federal government that sacrifices individual freedom for a 'utopian' collective equality?</i><br></br><br>According to George F. Will, the Republican government of 2000 - 2006 sure did.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_13:39:00", "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}, "1970022": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "junglecat,<br></br><br>Invidiual Americans are the most generous people in the world.</br><br></br><br>I do not believe the federal  government is the best vehicle for helping the poorest among us. Wasteful spending and 'pork' permeates the appropriation of our tax dollars and I simply do not trust the government to spend our money responsibly.</br><br></br><br>However, the federal government is the best way to provide for our national security. </br><br></br><br>I do not buy into your fearmongering...we are not going to become a third-world society...unless we choose to cede our economic freedom and opportunity for government control over our 'well-being.'</br><br></br><br>Huge government entitlement programs seek make individuals dependent on government and try to impose a 'utopian' ideal of 'equality' through government restriction of our freedom. </br><br></br><br>You choose to label me as greedy, selfish and hypocritical, yet you have no idea how much of my income I contribute to charity, or how much of my 'disposable' income contributes to the employment of low or middle income earners.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_13:43:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "bbb5f18b1f882407561a7f27f4fb2937", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": 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}, "1970023": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "ronnie b,<br></br><br>That's right. The Republican government, not the voters! Much of the dissatisfaction with GWB speaks directly to the anger Republicans felt about the growth of government under Bush.</br><br></br><br>Democrats seem to think that Bush's low approval rating is due entirely to the war. </br><br></br><br>Limited government advocates and deficit hawks will not vote for Obama because he seeks to grow government, raise taxes, stifle our economy and limit our economic freedom and opportunity.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_13:49:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "bbb5f18b1f882407561a7f27f4fb2937", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": 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}, "1970024": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "djchefron,<br></br><br>Where to begin. So much inaccuracy. Such a skewed worldview.</br><br></br><br>Endless war.  Nice try, but this meme will not stick. It is in our interests to maintain and support alliances in the Middle East. The world runs on oil. Until US innovation and creativity develop the technology and products necessary to limit and end our dependence on fossil fuels, the free flow and peak production and refinement of oil is paramount to the economic security of the US and the world economy. To allow nuclear proliferation in a region so vital to the world's economy is dangerous. To negotiate with  governments and leaders openly hostile to the US and our ally, Israel, without a credible threat of military action, will place us in a position of weakness and make it less likely to deter their hostile intentions.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_14:05:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "bbb5f18b1f882407561a7f27f4fb2937", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": 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}, "1970025": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "S said...Limited government advocates and deficit hawks will not vote for Obama because he seeks to grow government, raise taxes, stifle our economy and limit our economic freedom and opportunity.<br>So a unending occupation in Iraq, the telecoms spying on Americans without a warrant the tax burdan that is shifted to the middle class the transfer of our wealth to China and Saudi Arabia that is what you are avocating.Im sorry but consevative economic policies has always screwed over the people</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_14:08:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "e8929a93ccff877492df9b177a3888cf", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": 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}, "1970026": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "S said:<br>\"You choose to label me as greedy, selfish and hypocritical\"</br><br></br><br>My response:</br><br>Wait a minute, I did not call you greedy:)</br><br></br><br>D,</br><br>Maybe, you should reread my post.  I was only responding to S' statements that the Wright issue was legitimate.  I do not think associations (with very limited exceptions) are legitimate topics of debate.</br><br></br><br>I would rather debate, how you think America is safer as a result of the war in Iraqi</br><br></br><br>I would rather debate, how it makes sense that taxes should be lowered even though we are involved in three wars.</br><br></br><br>I would rather debate how the federal government plans on preventing another Katrina.</br><br></br><br>However, if people like s keeping throwing Wright in my face, I will respond in kind.</br><br></br><br>Junglecat</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_14:15:00", "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}, "1970027": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Okay again the NIE reported that Iran has suspended their nuclear progam.You wabt to talk about nuclear weapons then put the Isrealis 200 warheads on the table.How is Saudi Arabia our allie?Is is that we transfer our money to them so they can finance Bin Laden.The Soviet Union was hostile to us ,Red China was hostile to us but we talk and in time we became economic partners with them albeit with China its one sided.I am a Disabled vetern who served his country how much death do you want to see so we can have a credible military response,how many women and children habe to suffer so you can go along saying my balls are bigger than your balls.You remind me of the idiots who glorify war but will never go or send your babies but other peoples children", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_14:20:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "e8929a93ccff877492df9b177a3888cf", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": 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}, "1970028": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "junglecat,<br></br><br>You wrote:</br><br>\"It is selfish to continue to amass wealth and the expense of the poorest amongst us.\"</br><br></br><br>That's pretty much the definition of 'greedy.'</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_14:26:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "bbb5f18b1f882407561a7f27f4fb2937", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": 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}, "1970029": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=5027815\" rel=\"nofollow\">Laura Bush defended Michelle Obama's patriotism?</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_14:28:00", "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}, "1970030": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "djchefron,<br></br><br>\"Okay again the NIE reported that Iran has suspended their nuclear progam.\"</br><br></br><br>_____________________________________</br><br></br><br>Perhaps you missed this.</br><br>From the NYT 5/26/2008</br><br></br><br>    The International Atomic Energy Agency, in an unusually blunt and detailed report, said Monday that Iran\u2019s suspected research into the development of nuclear weapons remained \u201ca matter of serious concern\u201d and that Iran continued to owe the agency \u201csubstantial explanations.\u201d</br><br></br><br>    The nine-page report accused the Iranians of a willful lack of cooperation, particularly in answering allegations that its nuclear program may be intended more for military use than for energy generation.</br><br></br><br>    Part of the agency\u2019s case hinges on 18 documents listed in the report and presented to Iran that, according to Western intelligence agencies, indicate the Iranians have ventured into explosives, uranium processing and a missile warhead design \u2014 activities that could be associated with constructing nuclear weapons. \u2026.</br><br></br><br>    The report makes no effort to disguise the agency\u2019s frustration with Iran\u2019s lack of openness. It describes, for example, Iran\u2019s installation of new centrifuges, known as the IR-2 and IR-3 (for Iranian second and third generations) and other modifications at its site at Natanz, as \u201csignificant, and as such should have been communicated to the agency.\u201d</br><br></br><br>    The agency also said that during a visit in April, it was denied access to sites where centrifuge components were being manufactured and where research of uranium enrichment was being conducted.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_14:36:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "bbb5f18b1f882407561a7f27f4fb2937", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": 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}, "1970031": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "A republican with no sense of humor, who would have thunk it.<br></br><br>Junglecat</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_14:37:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1970032": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "djchefron,<br></br><br>Israel's nukes are a deterrent to the existential threat posed to them by Iran, Syria, Hamas, Hezbollah, et al.</br><br></br><br>They have never threatened to wipe anyone off the map. </br><br></br><br>This deterrent is non-negotiable in face of the fact that their enemies will not even acknowledge their right to exist!</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_14:41:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "bbb5f18b1f882407561a7f27f4fb2937", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": 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}, "1970033": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "djchefron,<br></br><br>\"So a unending occupation in Iraq, the telecoms spying on Americans without a warrant\"</br><br>____________________________________</br><br></br><br>Your arguments are nothing more than the same regurgitated anti-American memes spewed by those who wish to believe the worst about this country.</br><br></br><br>Yawn.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_14:45:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "bbb5f18b1f882407561a7f27f4fb2937", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": 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}, "1970034": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "S<br></br><br>Those are McCain's stances djchefron is reminding you of.  Can you defend them?</br><br></br><br>Also, would you please tell me what the definition of black and too black is (one of your earlier arguments).</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_14:53:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fcb7c771a7713dda01aa936fd426bfe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1970035": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "S said...Your arguments are nothing more than the same regurgitated anti-American memes spewed by those who wish to believe the worst about this country.<br>...................................There is nothing anti american about standing up for the constitution that I took a oath to defend.Show me where it is right to spy on citizens of my country without a warrant.I know a lot of you are scared so you abicate your rights to the government to protect you this was tried in 1930 Germany and we know how that ended.We do not have to be a imperialist country,It doesnt serve the people and it only enriches the few who can give a damn about our country.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_15:04:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "e8929a93ccff877492df9b177a3888cf", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": 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}, "1970036": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "To S Please explain to me where it benefits Americans to spend 12 billion a month on a occupation on a country that we will never pacify but it is wrong to spend that amount in our country?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_15:11:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "e8929a93ccff877492df9b177a3888cf", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": 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}, "1970037": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "ms martin,<br></br><br>Yes. I can defend McCain's stance on success in Iraq. Time and time again, McCain's position has been mischaracterized. I will not over that again, but I will say that it is not 'endless war' to suggest that it is vital to our security to retain a military presence in Iraq after we achieve success, draw down our forces, and bring most of our troops home. We remain today in Germany, Japan and South Korea and there is no 'endless war' in those countries.</br><br></br><br>\"Endless war\" is nothing more than a fear-mongering meme used to keep young voters who are ignorant of history believing that peace and stability cannot be achieved, in part, by military action or even the threat of military action.</br><br></br><br>As far as 'domestic spying:'</br><br></br><br>Again, more fear-mongering.</br><br></br><br>Until it can be proven that this action has led to a whole scale attack of our civil liberties, I am willing to allow it, in the same way that many Americans are content to pay high taxes because they think the government is helping our less fortunate citizens. </br><br></br><br>We have not been attacked here at home since 9/11. I am willing to allow the US government to monitor conversations coming in and out of this country to keep us safe.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_15:13:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "bbb5f18b1f882407561a7f27f4fb2937", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": 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}, "1970038": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "djchefron,<br>I took the same oath.</br><br></br><br>If our enemies are actively using our infrastructure to plot against us, then the government has the right to take whatever measures it feels are best to bring them to justice. </br><br></br><br>I'm willing to bet money that if the government caught someone on tape threatening to kill you or your family without a warrant, you'd be first in line to have them prosecuted. This is no different.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_15:17:00", "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}, "1970039": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "ms martin,<br></br><br>To adress you other point. </br><br></br><br>I was responding to an article linked to by rikyrah, \"Where White draw the Line.\"</br><br></br><br>Whites will begin to 'draw the line' on Obama if he is seen as 'too radical.' This has more to do with his worldview and vision for America.</br><br></br><br>Personally, I really don't by into the \"Too black\" vs \"Not black enough\" argument. </br><br></br><br>My point is not based on skin color. But on a personal political philosophy.</br><br></br><br>I agree with Shelby Steele's assessment that Obama has had to 'make a bargain' with white voters. To make them feel comfortable.</br><br></br><br>But all presidential candidates must do that in order to win election.</br><br></br><br>In that regard, his bargain is: \"I am moderate.\"  White independents and swing voters LOVE moderation, are non-confrontational and adopt a 'live and let live' attitude towards abortion, gay marriage, etc. They may personally oppose abortion, but do not want to see it outlawed. Some may prefer it to be left to the states, but feel that there is no threat that it will ever be 'out-lawed' and that doctors and women will be prosecuted for performing or seeking an abortion.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_15:28:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "bbb5f18b1f882407561a7f27f4fb2937", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": 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}, "1970040": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "djchefron,<br></br><br>Again, this is vacuous Dem slogan.</br><br></br><br>I do not accept the premise that the money spent on Iraq can be better spent here at home.</br><br></br><br>I support spending money to fund our troops so that they can succeed in a mission that keeps us safe from domestic terror attacks and promotes a free, stable Iraq.</br><br></br><br>'Throwing money' at a problem alone will not achieve equality, assure justice or prompt meaningful reform.</br><br></br><br>How we choose to spend the money, and how responsible we are with it, both at home and abroad is more of a concern to me.</br><br></br><br>For example, how does pandering to teacher's unions about 'more pay' improve access to quality education or hold poor teachers accountable for the miseducation or non-education of our children?</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_15:41:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "bbb5f18b1f882407561a7f27f4fb2937", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": 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}, "1970041": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "djchefron,<br></br><br>I really just can't buy into your wild claims and gross exaggerations. Your extreme characterizations undermine your arguments. Can you cite any example of a  serious violation of a fellow American's civil liberties as a result of our government's action regarding listening to telephone conversations?</br><br></br><br></br><br>d,</br><br></br><br>I'm with you. Your response is thoughtful and logical.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_15:48:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "bbb5f18b1f882407561a7f27f4fb2937", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": 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}, "1970042": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"Get Whitey\" convention:<br></br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/leonce-gaiter/getting-whitey-michelle-o_b_106092.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Getting Whitey: Michelle Obama's Secret Negro Agenda</a></br><br></br><br>and....</br><br></br><br>Be Not Afraid ;-)</br><br></br><br>\"Whitey\" tape doesn't exist:</br><br></br><br><a href=\"http://www.reason.com/blog/show/126883.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Everything's Gonna Be All White</a></br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_15:53:00", "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}, "1970043": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Is there anything intrinsically wrong with being old?  No.  <br></br><br>But this is funny anyway, 'cause McCain is such a jerk and calling your wife a \"c*nt\" is a no-no!:</br><br></br><br><a href=\"http://youtube.com/watch?v=3JJD_8esz4o\" rel=\"nofollow\">John McCain is OLD!!!</a></br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_16:02:00", "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}, "1970044": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "McCain's first general election ad.<br></br><br>    JOHN MCCAIN: Only a fool or a fraud talks tough or romantically about war.</br><br></br><br>    When I was five years old, my father left for war.</br><br></br><br>    My grandfather came home from war and died the next day.</br><br></br><br>    I was shot down over Vietnam and spent five years as a POW. Some of the friends I served with never came home.</br><br></br><br>    I hate war.</br><br></br><br>    And I know how terrible its costs are.</br><br></br><br>    I'm running for President to keep the country I love safe.</br><br></br><br>    I'm John McCain and I approve this message.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_16:04:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "bbb5f18b1f882407561a7f27f4fb2937", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": 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}, "1970045": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "S<br></br><br>I see you're not going to answer my question about what black or too black is and you certainly must have an opinion, otherwise you wouldn't have referenced too black and too radical.  You know it's bullshit though, that's why you won't even bother defending it.  It's the typical bs rhetoric you repukes use to try and win votes.  Now that is racist.  Take advantage of the negativity spewed upon one group = racist.</br><br></br><br>Also, what about being a prisoner of war, whore and war monger certifies one to be POTUS?</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_16:28:00", "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}, "1970046": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "S<br></br><br>John McCain  =  YAWN</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_16:30:00", "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}, "1970047": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.nysun.com/foreign/help-against-bin-laden-is-proffered/79524/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Iraqi Sheik Offers to Take Fight to Bin Laden</a><br></br><br><i>The leader of the tribal confederation that has fought to expel Al Qaeda from most of Iraq's Anbar province is offering his men to help gin up a rebellion against Osama bin Laden's organization along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.</i></br><br></br><br>I'll be damned; Iraq's turning into an ally.</br><br></br><br>\"The war is lost,\" huh?</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_16:35:00", "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}, "1970048": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "ms martin,<br></br><br>Tha article asked \"Where do Whites Draw the Line\"</br><br></br><br>The article attempts to define 'too black' and yes I do think it is bs.</br><br></br><br>IMO Obama's success in winning over independent white voters lies in his success at defining himself as a 'moderate,' and politically 'non-threatening.'</br><br> </br><br></br><br>http://online.wsj.com/public/article_print/SB120579535818243439.html</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_16:44:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "bbb5f18b1f882407561a7f27f4fb2937", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": 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}, "1970049": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Trivia:<br></br><br><a href=\"http://youtube.com/watch?v=PLXMkdAXDZw\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hilarous Jamaican Pot Smuggling Attempt from 1979</a></br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_16:56:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0e63fda3bc8752465623f674ffcc5f40", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1970050": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "d dont believe the hype.Have you ever read about the british occupation in the 1920's I guess you havent because if you did you would know we will never have \"victory\" as you neo cons like to say.And by the way before we went bumbling and stumbling into that helhole there was no Al quadia, Iran was contain by a hostile Iraq and more importantly over 4000 of our sons and daughters would be alive today.So you warmongers I say go sign up and go fight in Iraq if its that important to you <br></br><br></br><br></br><br></br><br></br><br></br><br></br><br></br><br></br><br></br><br></br><br></br><br></br><br></br><br></br><br></br><br></br><br></br><br></br><br></br><br></br><br></br><br></br><br></br><br></br><br></br><br></br><br>'</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_16:58:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "e8929a93ccff877492df9b177a3888cf", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": 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}, "1970051": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "D,<br>You really believe that Iraq is an ally based on the words of one tribal leader?</br><br></br><br>I know you are smarter than that.  Stop being intellectually dishonest.</br><br></br><br>Junglecat</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_17:02:00", "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}, "1970052": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "djchefron,<br>Been there, done that. </br><br></br><br>(how many times have I said that here?)</br><br></br><br>Junglecat,</br><br>Note I said \"turning into an ally.\"</br><br></br><br>And when the word of a tribal leader- whose movement is widely recognized as one of the turning points in Iraq-is placed against the word of someone who hasn't seen the country in 2 years...yeah, I go with the tribal leader.</br><br></br><br>It would be intellectually stupid not to.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_17:16:00", "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}, "1970053": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Didn't I just read or hear somewhere that Iraqi leaders are negotiating for less US presence in certain areas of Iraq?<br></br><br>What's that all about?</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_17:19:00", "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}, "1970054": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "C-SPAN callers post Hillary Speech part 1 of 3<br></br><br><a href=\"http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=yCQSjY3kG-Q\" rel=\"nofollow\">C-SPAN Callers Post Hillary Clinton Endorsement Speech pt.1</a></br><br></br><br>I think the Democratic party has not done enough to diffuse the idea the primary wasn't fair.  Some callers insist that caucuses are not legitimate.</br><br></br><br>One woman says Obama is not ready now but might be in 4 years.  I wonder what he is expected to learn in 4 years.  Maybe he can go to President school.</br><br></br><br>Another woman thinks if Clinton supporters are expected to support Obama, then Obama supporters should back Clinton for VP.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_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}, "1970055": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ms Martin<br>Not to mention the report about the administration blackmailing the Iraqi administration by holding hostage $50bn  of Iraq\u2019s money in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to pressure the Iraqi government into signing an agreement seen by many Iraqis as prolonging the US occupation indefinitely.</br><br></br><br>http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/revealed-secret-plan-to-keep-iraq-under-us-control-840512.html</br><br></br><br>D,</br><br>We are NEVER going to have Iraq as an ally as long as we continue to occupy their land.  If you want to grasp at straws in order to come to a different conclusion, knock yourself out.</br><br></br><br>Junglecat</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_17:30:00", "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}, "1970056": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "D This is the reality withyour so call ally<br>...................................</br><br> </br><br>Shiite cleric warns of popular uprising against Iraq-U.S long term agreement  </br><br> </br><br>Karbala - Voices of Iraq  </br><br>Monday , 09 /06 /2008  Time 10:17:06   </br><br>Karbala, Jun8, (VOI)-A renowned Iraqi Shiite cleric on Sunday warned that a popular uprising may erupt if Iraq signs the long-term agreement with the U.S .</br><br>The proposed security agreement would cover the status of U.S troops in Iraq, control of Iraqi airspace and immunity for security contractors after United Nations resolution governing U.S forces in Iraq expires in December. </br><br>Speaking to reporters and clerics in Karbala, grand ayatollah Mohammed Taqqi al-Mudaressi said \u201cthe proposed security agreement between Iraq and the U.S lacks the overall and in-depth vision of Iraq\u2019s general affairs\u201d.</br><br>The cleric expected \u201cthe agreement would fail if the details of the deal remained as they are in the current draft\u201d, adding \u201c signing the agreement came while Iraq is deprived of sovereignty under chapter seven of (the Security Council charter).</br><br>He branded the agreement as \u201c a sort of US blackmailimg and a sword strangling Iraqis\u201d. </br><br> \u201cInfringing Iraq\u2019s sovereignty would not be in the U.S interests as a superpower because the agreement humiliates people\u2019s dignity, pushing them to uprise and to start a new cycle of violence\u201d, he pointed out.</br><br>Iraq's independence is still limited by the legacy of UN sanctions and restrictions imposed on Iraq since Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in the 1990s. Iraq has been  considered a threat to international security and stability under Chapter Seven of the UN charter.</br><br>Influential Shiite clerics in Iraq and neighbouring Iran oppose the deal and have called it a move against their religion.</br><br>They have vowed to stage protests to force the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to roll back the deal which is expected to be concluded by the end of July.</br><br>A declaration of principles was signed between U.S. President George W. Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in December 2007. The declaration was planned to be ratified on July 31, 2008 to be effective as of January 1, 2009.</br><br>The agreement governs the U.S. forces' presence in Iraq after the year 2008. This presence currently relies on a mandate by the UN, renewed annually upon the request of the Iraqi government.</br><br> The agreement will not valid unless it commands a national consensus and be approved by the Iraqi parliament and the presidency board.</br><br>Al-Mudaressi is a Karbala-based grand ayatollah and key cleric of religious Shiite authority that has  a strong sway in Iraq.</br><br>Karbala, the second hold Shiite city after Najaf, lies 110 km south-west Baghdad</br><br>AM</br><br>...................................Before you start beleiving the war criminals who lied us into this debacle read what the shiites who are the majority have to say about it</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_17:34:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "e8929a93ccff877492df9b177a3888cf", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": 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}, "1970057": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Why is McCain getting $58,000 a year in disability income?<br></br><br>http://www.americablog.com/2008/06/why-is-mccain-getting-58000-year-in.html</br><br></br><br>Junglecat</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_17:36:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1970058": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "McCain is in real trouble today on hardball Tony Perkins from focus on the family just said that Evangelicals are drawn to Obamas message.If McCain cannot get this vote like bush it will be a wipeout.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_17:46:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "e8929a93ccff877492df9b177a3888cf", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": 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}, "1970059": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "djchefron,<br></br><br>The best thing that could have happened for John McCain's outreach to evangelicals has happened --the Democrats have settled on their most radical nominee in their history, and no evangelical who cares about abortion or same sex marriage or porn or religious freedom can be indifferent to the result of the fall vote.</br><br></br><br>Senator Obama's expressed admiration for Justice Ginsburg contrasts sharply with the admiration Senator McCain has expressed for Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito.  With six justices aged 68 or older, the stakes for the future of the Supreme Court could not be higher.  Evangelicals might have preferred a different Republican nominee and Senator McCain would be well served by a running mate with solid conservative credentials, but only MSMers scornful of the intelligence and judgment of evangelicals will conclude that more than a handful will sit out the election because they didn't get their first choice as the nominee.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_17:52:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1970060": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=JzcFQkbnLyY\" rel=\"nofollow\">Democracy vs Sleep? The Greatest Thing Ever</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_19:49:00", "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}, "1970061": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=JiphuhgXSyE\" rel=\"nofollow\">Presidential Blood Lines</a><br></br><br></br><br><a href=\"http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=XIWoiUALFwU\" rel=\"nofollow\">A Town called Dildo</a></br><br></br><br></br><br><a href=\"http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=uEGQNGMQiZc\" rel=\"nofollow\">One of the Oldest Bloggers in the World</a></br><br></br><br></br><br><a href=\"http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=wNBPifcUJj4\" rel=\"nofollow\">Gore Vidal (Part 1)</a></br><br><a href=\"http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=sR8tc_bj4XE\" rel=\"nofollow\">Gore Vidal (Part 2)</a></br><br></br><br><a href=\"http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=pNmeCvb8d54\" rel=\"nofollow\">SpaceShip Man</a></br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_20:13:00", "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}, "1970062": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Just saw video footage on Keith Olberman of Bill Moyers putting the verbal smackdown on Faux News \"ambush\" reporter.<br></br><br>Hilarious. I heart Bill Moyers.</br><br></br><br></br><br></br><br></br><br>Honey01</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_21:07:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "cda55c7832b52db750659b8f518a520f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": 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}, "1970063": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Right now Dennis Kucinich is reading articles of impeachment on C-Span.Nothingds going to come of it but at least its in the record for history", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_23:06:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "e8929a93ccff877492df9b177a3888cf", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": 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}, "1970064": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "djchefron,<br></br><br>You beat me to it! :)</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-09_23:15:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "3b31356ea345f986babefd4710e13291", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": 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": "3964726", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "21630", "hash": 983976337352700988}, "thread": {"days_alive": 0, "slug": "monday_open_thread_how_was_the_weekend_60", "paginate": false, "num_pages": 1, "num_posts": 89, "per_page": 0, "total_posts": 0, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 3964726, "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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};

var disqus_popup_reference = null;

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



/**
 * Dsq.Strings: UI strings
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Dsq.Strings = new function() {
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	this.REPLY = "Reply";
	this.EDIT = "Edit";
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	this.NAME = "Name";
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  this.WEBSITE = "Website";
  this.SETTINGS = "Settings";
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};
// 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.
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			), {num:num});
	};

	this.NUMBER_OF_LIKES = function(num) {
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			(num == 1
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				: '%(num)s likes'
			), {num:num});
	};

	this.NUMBER_OF_POINTS = function(num) {
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			(num == 1
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				: '%(num)s points'
			), {num:num});
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};
// 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;



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};

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

FragmentPacket.prototype.log = function(msg) {



};

FragmentPacket.prototype.recv = function() {
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				this.receiveCallback(decodeURIComponent(this._accumMsg));

				this._accumMsg = '';

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};

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

FragmentPacket.prototype.sendFlag = function(flag, seqno) {
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};

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...');
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			return;
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		if (!( (recvBuf.flags & this.ACK) && (recvBuf.seqno === this._lastSeqno) )) {
			this.log('waiting for ack from client...');
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			return;
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			this.log('received ack: ' + this._lastSeqno + ' ' + recvBuf.seqno);
		}
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	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;
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	this._lastSeqno++;

	if (packetNum == num_packets-1) {
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	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_60' +
		'&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_60/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_60'
			+ '&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_60/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">89</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/monday_open_thread_how_was_the_weekend_60/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_60/">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:3964726" 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_60/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:3964726" 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:3964726" 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_60',
			// 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_60/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_60'
			+ '&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_60'
			+ '&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_60'
				+ '&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/3964726/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
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1969976">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1969976" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://iht.com/articles/2008/06/06/europe/obamania.php" rel="nofollow">Excitement in France over Obama Victory</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1969977">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1969977" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Opinion/Sunday_Specials/Special_Report/McCain_vs_Obama_Whos_better_for_India/articleshow/msid-3110215,curpg-1.cms" rel="nofollow">McCain vs. Obama: Who\'s Better for India</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1969978">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1969978" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/08/us/politics/08obama.html?hp=&amp;adxnnl=1&amp;adxnnlx=1212934330-T6EQ6sx3R1xNev+CbtoJGA#" rel="nofollow">Obama Maps A Nationwide Campaign in GOP Strongholds</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1969979">heartsandflowers</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1969979" class="dsq-comment-message">The Color of an Awkward Conversation was spot on!<br></br><br>I have no links to share just good vibes from the Erykah Badu show I was at this evening. She gave a nice interlude to have a spiritual/political conversation about how we can all join together to make the world better. She also talked about the vortex phenomena in relation to its affect on people. It was part art installation, concert and a combination of several of her influences. Definitely not like her other shows.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1969980">andyfrombrooklyn</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1969980" class="dsq-comment-message">sorry i can\'t figure how to link...but paul krugman has another annoying one at the nytimes this morning."Unfortunately, the campaign against misogyny hasn’t been equally successful. aaarrgghhh!! i really have learned to hate paul krugman.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1969981">islandgirl550</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1969981" class="dsq-comment-message">Watching CNN this morning... did they just have a piece on wether Obama is black or bi-racial...sigh... are we back HERE again???!?!?!?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1969982">Ms.Martin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1969982" class="dsq-comment-message">I was watching Morning <br>(Joe) Bullshit and Pat Buchanan talking about how McCain was leading the polls against Obama and that Obama was losing against Hillary (Ford laughed and said Gore had more votes than Bush and let it end on that) and George Will who was interviewed later said those polls were trashD and that Buchanan new from his polling experience that they were.  Buchanan did not argue that point with Will.</br><br></br><br>Ford let Buchana go on and on insinuating that Obama was a losing to Clinton and that he would lose to McCain and all Ford could do was laugh.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1969983">andyfrombrooklyn</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1969983" class="dsq-comment-message">colbert accepted buchanan\'s apology last week. pat hadn\'t offered one but it was accepted. pat looked lost.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1969984">jelana</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1969984" class="dsq-comment-message">islandgirl,<br></br><br>Let them frame it any way they feel  the need so long as he gets the votes.  This is America afterall</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1969985">Ms.Martin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1969985" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1969985" class="dsq-comment-message">What did Buchanan say or do to Colbert.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1969986">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1969986" class="dsq-comment-message">islandgirl,<br></br><br>CNN has nothing better to do.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1969987">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1969987" class="dsq-comment-message">I keep on telling you folks that Dark Sith Ford can\'t be trusted. WHen will you accept that?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1969988">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1969988" class="dsq-comment-message">Another good Frank Rich Column:<br></br><br><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/08/opinion/08rich.html?_r=1&amp;ref=opinion&amp;oref=slogin" rel="nofollow">One Historic Night, 2 Americas</a></br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1969989" class="dsq-comment-message">Dick Morris\' Latest:<br></br><br><a href="http://pundits.thehill.com/2008/06/08/its-not-over-yet/#more-3091" rel="nofollow">It\'s not over</a></br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1969990">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1969990" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/08/gop-insiders-worry-about_n_105946.html" rel="nofollow">GOP Insiders Worry about McCain\'s CHances</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1969991">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1969991" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/08/weekinreview/08mabry.html" rel="nofollow">Where Whites Draw The Line</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1969992">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1969992" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/09/opinion/09krugman.html#" rel="nofollow">The Latest Paul Krugman</a><br></br><br>Krugman has been such a disappointment. I can\'t really read him seriously anymore.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1969993">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1969993" class="dsq-comment-message">The Washington POst has lost its natural mind. <br></br><br>Obama give up his money advantage?</br><br></br><br><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/08/AR2008060801677.html" rel="nofollow">HELL NO</a></br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1969994">nita</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1969994" class="dsq-comment-message">regarding the ackward conversation, she never did say she got over being annoyed by being called \'sister\'. it reads to me like she feels a bit of privilege and station over both black and white Americans.  that\'s the subcontext I got.<br></br><br>but i like how she broke down diminishers and deniers.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1969995">Nita</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1969995" class="dsq-comment-message">as for the Washington Post, it\'s a nice question and a legitimate one \'how black is too black\'......... poor Jeremiah Wright is way lighter than Obama, but he became \'too black\'.  For me, this talk of Obama being just as white as he is black just means he hasn\'t <i>really</i> f-cked up yet ;)<br></br><br>when he does, he\'ll be all-black again, instead of having certain types of white folks want to claim the \'good\' parts of him for themselves, because how could any black be good?</br><br></br><br>this also goes for certain \'he\'s biracial\' segments.  same song.</br><br></br><br>and to be fair, blacks pulled that b.s. too because of the number of people actually thought he wasn\'t cool enough to be black, he talked \'white\' (notice nobody says that anymore?), he was schooled \'white\', he \'acted white\'. and there are still a number of people waiting for him to \'act more black\' and who don\'t trust him because he can\'t be trusted to be Nat Turner.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1969996">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1969996" class="dsq-comment-message">Mr. Buchanan said Mr. Obama’s monolithic support among blacks was likely to stoke such white animosity.<br></br><br>“There’s a sense among some folks that if African-Americans are voting 90 percent for ‘one of us;’ then you’re going to vote for ‘one of us,’ ” he said. </br><br></br><br>------------------</br><br></br><br>People like Pat Buchanan who conveniently overlook the fact that blacks have been voting 90% for white candidates for years are just trying to justify why they won\'t vote for a black person.  I wish they would just man up and say, without excuse, "No, I don\'t like black people and I\'m not voting for one."  I would have more respect for someone like that than people who pull excuses out of their asses to justify not voting for a black person or the white people who blame black people for why they won\'t vote for a white person.</br><br></br><br></br><br></br><br>For me, this talk of Obama being just as white as he is black just means he hasn\'t really f-cked up yet ;)</br><br>---------------------</br><br></br><br>Notice, nobody said anything about him being biracial or mixed race or half black/half white when the Jeremiah Wright tapes came out, he was all black then.  When pointed out that he was half white, it was said that he must resent the white side of himself and that\'s why he "threw his grandmother under the bus."    But I think Barack and Michelle addressed this phenomenon themselves last year.  He said if he messed up nobody would have a problem describing him as "black."  Jeremiah Wright is much lighter than Barack Obama and yet nobody questions whether he\'s half white or anything; he\'s just all black.  Hmm.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1969997">s</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1969997" class="dsq-comment-message">"Too black" = "Too radical"<br>People do want to feel threatened or defensive. </br><br></br><br>I agree with Obama has a fine line to walk. </br><br></br><br>Shelby Steele wrote:</br><br></br><br>"Mr. Obama has said of himself, "I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views . . ." And so, human visibility is Mr. Obama\'s Achilles heel. If we see the real man, his contradictions and bents of character, he will be ruined as an icon, as a "blank screen."</br><br></br><br>Now that the general election campaign has begun, the \'contradictions\' and \'bents of character\' will receive greater scrutiny than ever. And if this scrutiny is of his record and his judgment is characterized by Obama or his supporters in a way that makes voters feel \'challenged\' to defend their skepticism or criticism against cries of \'racism!\' than he will fail to win much of the white vote.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1969998">Anonymous</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1969998" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/politics/view.bg?articleid=1099334&amp;srvc=home&amp;position=rated" rel="nofollow">African-American churches could help decide the election</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1969999">Ms.Martin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1969999" class="dsq-comment-message">The Krugman article is ridiculous and condtradictory.<br></br><br>In one paragraph he suggests that crime is committed by blacks when referencing a statement made by a Clinton surrogate when asked if America was ready for black president, he claimed under privileged blacks were more likely to rob or mug someone.  </br><br></br><br>In another paragraph, he states that during Clinton\'s presidency crime went down for some unknown reason when it is well-known that the economy flourished during those times.</br><br></br><br>IMO, if he believes the statement he quoted regarding the underprivleged being more likely to commit crime, it would then be with in reason to assume that during better economic times that crime would recede.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1970000">Ms.Martin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1970000" class="dsq-comment-message">S<br></br><br>What is too black?  Are you referring to the amount of pigment in one\'s skin?</br><br></br><br>Are you referring to a type of culture common to a certain group of people?</br><br></br><br>Do you consider the KKK to be too radical?</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1970001">D.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1970001" class="dsq-comment-message">Morning, all....<br></br><br><a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/06/overconfidence_on_the_left.html" rel="nofollow">Overconfidence on the Left</a></br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1970002">Ronnie B</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1970002" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>Now that the general election campaign has begun, the \'contradictions\' and \'bents of character\' will receive greater scrutiny than ever. And if this scrutiny is of his record and his judgment is characterized by Obama or his supporters in a way that makes voters feel \'challenged\' to defend their skepticism or criticism against cries of \'racism!\' than he will fail to win much of the white vote.</i><br></br><br>In other words, you and a persistent handful of others, are still hoping that there\'s some way to "niggerize" Barack so that y\'all have plausible deniability.  </br><br></br><br>You can\'t do it with his record, because it\'s about as sparse as John Roberts\'.  So really, all you can do is make him out to be the typical angry Black man that makes SOME white people uncomfortable and distrustful.  All the while being able to patronizingly say that they\'re not voting for Barack because he doesn\'t have the right "temperment" or "judgment".</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1970003" class="dsq-comment-message">Ive been waiting for it, and still have yet to see one significant article that details the FACT that the repulican party is just as divided. <br></br><br>I work with nothing but Conservatives/rethugs. 3 Nascar Repubs (redneckin hillbillyin) 3 Reagan ( make alota money and dont want to share any of it) 4 of the 6 plan to vote for Obama 1 plans to vote McCain and 1 plans to stay home. </br><br></br><br>The ones voting for Obama say they are convince McCain is another Bush term (all the NASCAR GUYS) and though they can afford to live comfortably, they worry that with McCain in office, it wont last long. </br><br></br><br>The other Reagan conservative is oddly enough a hispanic dude who said he\'d vote for Barack if he beat Hillary b/c its a signd America is recognizing minorities. Thats the only reason though. </br><br></br><br>Rikyrah, </br><br>So thats who the dark syth is..Ive said it before, and i\'ll say it again, Baracks first issue he needs to resolve as far as the Dem Party is concerned is to X. the DLC and the Bluedogs off the map.</br><br></br><br>They are nothing more then republicans who oppose Roe V. Wade.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1970004" class="dsq-comment-message">Paul Krugman has jumped the shark.  One thing can be stated during this campaign, the veil has come OFF on alot of these folk.<br></br><br>O/T:  Being here in Chicago, the R. Kelly trial is something else.  Kelly is producing the "Shaggy" defense "It Wasn\'t Me".</br><br></br><br>The truth is I know quite a few folk who have that bootleg tape, hell you can go to 87th or 79th street and purchase it on the corner.  IT was that widely distributed.  I could not watch anything like this, but from the folk I knew who did, said it was Kelly and he should go to jail.</br><br></br><br>Yes, the other caveat is these underage girls, where is their mommas and daddy, for that fact.  True.  But in the end, no man had a right to have sex with 13 or 14 year olds.</br><br></br><br>Just this, remember he married Aaliyah and she was what, 15 or 16?</br><br></br><br>Kelly has strong support here and the jury is mixed, so if he is guilty he better make a lot of cd\'s before the shackles are on his feet.</br><br></br><br><a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-r-kelly-trial-tape-web-jun09,0,3806.story?track=rss" rel="nofollow">Chicago Tribune Article</a></br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1970005" class="dsq-comment-message">From the Weekly Standard:<br></br><br><a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/200qbtpn.asp?pg=1" rel="nofollow">Voting for Commander in Chief</a></br><br></br><br><i>It would be hard to design a better test for the job of commander in chief than the real-life test senators John McCain and Barack Obama have undergone in the last two years. As the situation in Iraq deteriorated during 2006 and the war reached its most critical moment, both senators served on national security committees: McCain on Armed Services, Obama on Foreign Relations. From those positions, with access to classified situation reports as well as the public testimony and private advice of those who knew the situation in Iraq best, each man reached an understanding of the facts on the ground and the interests at stake. And each proposed a strategy. It was as close as a presidential candidate could get to showing how he would respond to a national security crisis without already being in the White House.</i></br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1970006" class="dsq-comment-message">Hey guys, did you know that dap / fist bump is could possibly be a terrorist fist jab?<br></br><br>According to Fox News, fist bumps are really terrorist fist jabs. </br><br></br><br></br><br>Although nobody has ever seen Osama bin Ladin giving "dap" to anyone.</br><br></br><br>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/09/fox-news-anchor-calls-the-obamas-fist-pound-a-terrorist-fist-jab/</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1970007" class="dsq-comment-message">ronnie b,<br></br><br>The key word in your comments re: Obama\'s record is \'sparse.\'</br><br></br><br>That, along with the fact that he has shown no ability or political will to break from the tired memes of the Democrat party that no longer reflect or confront the challenges we are facing, are enough to give voters cause pause.</br><br></br><br>Obama has yet to acknowlege our success in Iraq and Afghanistan. </br><br></br><br>He does not support domestic oil production.</br><br></br><br>He wants to raise the taxes during an economic slow down and raise capital gains taxes which will hamper the ability the middle class Americans to accumulate wealth.</br><br></br><br>He plans to expand the size and scope of our government, restricting our freedom.</br><br></br><br>He will not break from the unions to allow free-trade and school choice.</br><br></br><br>These are legitimate concerns for many Americans. </br><br></br><br>Also, re: judgment</br><br></br><br>Obama chose to associate with individuals who have controversial views and he must accept responsibility for his choices.  Is it \'racist\' to be skeptical? No.</br><br></br><br> Your take on my comments is exactly why Obama will not win. If your view towards those who do not support Obama becomes the meme of his campaign or his supporters you can wave goodbye to his election. He will be, in your words, \'niggerized\' by his own supporters if they choose to deflect criticism and characterize it as \'racism\', rather than defend their candidate.</br><br></br><br>He needs more experience in national politics and governing on a federal level. He needs to build a record that reflects his desire to be bipartisan.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1970008" class="dsq-comment-message">S<br></br><br>you didnt answer my question.  i would really like to know what a white person such as yourself considers black and in this case too black.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1970009" class="dsq-comment-message">ms martin,<br></br><br>It has nothing to do with skin color.</br><br></br><br>I consider the KKK to be evil.</br><br></br><br>It has more to do with a repudiation of moderation, and a willingness to characterize scrutiny and criticism of a far-left agenda as \'racism.\'</br><br></br><br>Obama is winning over so many independents because THEY BELIEVE HIM TO BE MODERATE. The \'blank slate,\' \'a Rorschach test\' on whom they can project whatever they wish to see.</br><br></br><br>But that will soon change. The \'radicals\' will come out in full force, believeing that Obama\'s nomination is an embrace of their worldview and agenda. Afterall, the daily kos/moveon movement \'owns\' the party and they claim credit for obama\'s nomination.</br><br></br><br>Smoothies comments about \'X\'ing the DLC and bluedogs off the map is my case in point. If Obama is pressed by the far-left to push moderates from the party, Obama will lose the election.</br><br></br><br>Americans may want \'change\' from GWB but they do not want to \'remake\' the US into a vision of the far-left.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1970010" class="dsq-comment-message">S<br></br><br>you still didn\'t answer.  What is \'black\' and what is too black?</br><br></br><br>i would really like to know what your definition is.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1970011" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>Americans may want \'change\' from GWB but they do not want to \'remake\' the US into a vision of the far-left.</i><br></br><br>s,</br><br></br><br>How do you know?</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1970013" class="dsq-comment-message">d,<br></br><br>That passage re: Iraq sums it up perfectly.</br><br></br><br>And overconfidence has always been a hallmark of self-righteous liberals who think everyone who disagrees with their worldview and policies is either ignorant, racist, xenophobic, greedy or callous.</br><br></br><br>Criticize Obama\'s tax hikes. Well you\'re just a selfish rich person who doesn\'t want to help the less fortunate. </br><br></br><br>Support the troops and the surge strategy in Iraq. Warmonger!</br><br></br><br>Take issue with Obama\'s thin resume. Liberals will claim you called him \'an inadequate black man.\'</br><br></br><br>Take issue with Wright, Bittergate, et al and you are nothing but an ignorant rube who chooses to ignore the TRUTH about AmeriKKKa!</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1970014" class="dsq-comment-message">Here is a article about McCain\'s first wife and how he treated her.<br>...................................</br><br>The wife U.S. Republican John McCain callously left behind</br><br></br><br>By Sharon Churcher</br><br>Last updated at 1:45 AM on 08th June 2008</br><br>Now that Hillary Clinton has at last formally withdrawn from the race for the White House, the eyes of America and the world will focus on Barack Obama and his Republican rival Senator John McCain. </br><br></br><br></br><br>While Obama will surely press his credentials as the embodiment of the American dream – a handsome, charismatic young black man who was raised on food stamps by a single mother and who represents his country’s future – McCain will present himself as a selfless, principled war hero whose campaign represents not so much a battle for the presidency of the United States, but a crusade to rescue the nation’s tarnished reputation.</br><br>Forgotten woman: But despite all her problems Carol McCain says she still adores he ex-husband</br><br></br><br>McCain likes to illustrate his moral fibre by referring to his five years as a prisoner-of-war in Vietnam. And to demonstrate his commitment to family values, the 71-year-old former US Navy pilot pays warm tribute to his beautiful blonde wife, Cindy, with whom he has four children.</br><br></br><br>But there is another Mrs McCain who casts a ghostly shadow over the Senator’s presidential campaign. She is seldom seen and rarely written about, despite being mother to McCain’s three eldest children.</br><br></br><br>And yet, had events turned out differently, it would be she, rather than Cindy, who would be vying to be First Lady. She is McCain’s first wife, Carol, who was a famous beauty and a successful swimwear model when they married in 1965. </br><br></br><br>She was the woman McCain dreamed of during his long incarceration and torture in Vietnam’s infamous ‘Hanoi Hilton’ prison and the woman who faithfully stayed at home looking after the children and waiting anxiously for news. </br><br></br><br>But when McCain returned to America in 1973 to a fanfare of publicity and a handshake from Richard Nixon, he discovered his wife had been disfigured in a terrible car crash three years earlier. Her car had skidded on icy roads into a telegraph pole on Christmas Eve, 1969. Her pelvis and one arm were shattered by the impact and she suffered massive internal injuries.</br><br></br><br>When Carol was discharged from hospital after six months of life-saving surgery, the prognosis was bleak. In order to save her legs, surgeons</br><br></br><br>had been forced to cut away huge sections of shattered bone, taking with it her tall, willowy figure. She was confined to a wheelchair and was forced to use a catheter. </br><br></br><br>Through sheer hard work, Carol learned to walk again. But when John McCain came home from Vietnam, she had gained a lot of weight and bore little resemblance to her old self. </br><br></br><br>Today, she stands at just 5ft4in and still walks awkwardly, with a pronounced limp. Her body is held together by screws and metal plates and, at 70, her face is worn by wrinkles that speak of decades of silent suffering.</br><br></br><br>For nearly 30 years, Carol has maintained a dignified silence about the accident, McCain and their divorce. But last week at the bungalow where she now lives at Virginia Beach, a faded seaside resort 200 miles south of Washington, she told The Mail on Sunday how McCain divorced her in 1980 and married Cindy, 18 years his junior and the heir to an Arizona brewing fortune, just one month later.</br><br>Carol insists she remains on good terms with her ex-husband, who agreed as part of their divorce settlement to pay her medical costs for life. ‘I have no bitterness,’</br><br></br><br>she says. ‘My accident is well recorded. I had 23 operations, I am five inches shorter than I used to be and I was in hospital for six months. It was just awful, but it wasn’t the reason for my divorce. </br><br></br><br>‘My marriage ended because John McCain didn’t want to be 40, he wanted to be 25. You know that happens...it just does.’ </br><br></br><br>Some of McCain’s acquaintances are less forgiving, however. They portray the politician as a self-centred womaniser who effectively abandoned his crippled wife to ‘play the field’. They accuse him of finally settling on Cindy, a former rodeo beauty queen, for financial reasons. </br><br></br><br>McCain was then earning little more than £25,000 a year as a naval officer, while his new father-in-law, Jim Hensley, was a multi-millionaire who had impeccable political connections. </br><br></br><br>He first met Carol in the Fifties while he was at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis. He was a privileged, but rebellious scion of one of America’s most distinguished military dynasties – his father and grandfather were both admirals. </br><br></br><br>But setting out to have a good time, the young McCain hung out with a group of young officers who called themselves the ‘Bad Bunch’. </br><br></br><br>His primary interest was women and his conquests ranged from a knife-wielding floozy nicknamed ‘Marie, the Flame of Florida’ to a tobacco heiress. </br><br></br><br>Carol fell into his fast-living world by accident. She escaped a poor upbringing in Philadelphia to become a successful model, married an Annapolis classmate of McCain’s and had two children – Douglas and Andrew – before renewing what one acquaintance calls ‘an old flirtation’ with McCain.</br><br></br><br>It seems clear she was bowled over by McCain’s attention at a time when he was becoming bored with his playboy lifestyle. </br><br></br><br>‘He was 28 and ready to settle down and he loved Carol’s children,’ recalled another Annapolis graduate, Robert Timberg, who wrote The Nightingale’s Song, a bestselling biography of McCain and four other graduates of the academy.</br><br></br><br>The couple married and McCain adopted Carol’s sons. Their daughter, Sidney, was born a year later, but domesticity was clearly beginning</br><br></br><br>to bore McCain – the couple were regarded as ‘fixtures on the party circuit’ before McCain requested combat duty in Vietnam at the end of 1966.</br><br></br><br>He was assigned as a bomber pilot on an aircraft carrier in the Gulf of Tonkin. </br><br></br><br></br><br>What follows is the stuff of the McCain legend. He was shot down over Hanoi in October 1967 on his 23rd mission over North Vietnam and was badly beaten by an angry mob when he was pulled, half-drowned from a lake. </br><br></br><br></br><br> </br><br>War hero: McCain with Carol as he arrives back in the US in 1973 after his five years as a PoW in North Vietnam</br><br>Over the next five-and-a-half years in the notorious Hoa Loa Prison he was regularly tortured and mistreated. </br><br></br><br>It was in 1969 that Carol went to spend the Christmas holiday – her third without McCain – at her parents’ home. After dinner, she left to drop off some presents at a friend’s house. </br><br></br><br>It wasn’t until some hours later that she was discovered, alone and in terrible pain, next to the wreckage of her car. She had been hurled through the windscreen.</br><br></br><br>After her first series of life-saving operations, Carol was told she may never walk again, but when doctors said they would try to get word to McCain about her injuries, she refused, insisting: ‘He’s got enough problems, I don’t want to tell him.’ </br><br></br><br></br><br>H. Ross Perot, a billionaire Texas businessman, future presidential candidate and advocate of prisoners of war, paid for her medical care.</br><br></br><br>When McCain – his hair turned prematurely white and his body reduced to little more than a skeleton – was released in March 1973, he told reporters he was overjoyed to see Carol again. </br><br></br><br>But friends say privately he was ‘appalled’ by the change in her appearance. At first, though, he was kind, assuring her: ‘I don’t look so good myself. It’s fine.’ </br><br></br><br>He bought her a bungalow near the sea in Florida and another former PoW helped him to build a railing so she could pull herself over the dunes to the water.</br><br></br><br>‘I thought, of course, we would live happily ever after,’ says Carol. But as a war hero, McCain was moving in ever-more elevated circles. </br><br></br><br></br><br>Through Ross Perot, he met Ronald Reagan, then Governor of California. A sympathetic Nancy Reagan took Carol under her wing. </br><br></br><br>But already the McCains’ marriage had begun to fray. ‘John started carousing and running around with women,’ said Robert Timberg. </br><br></br><br></br><br>McCain has acknowledged that he had girlfriends during this time, without going into details. Some friends blame his dissatisfaction with Carol, but others give some credence to her theory of a mid-life crisis.</br><br></br><br>He was also fiercely ambitious, but it was clear he would never become an admiral like his illustrious father and grandfather and his thoughts were turning to politics. </br><br></br><br>In 1979 – while still married to Carol – he met Cindy at a cocktail party in Hawaii. Over the next six months he pursued her, flying around the country to see her. Then he began to push to end his marriage. </br><br></br><br>Carol and her children were devastated. ‘It was a complete surprise,’ says Nancy Reynolds, a former Reagan aide. </br><br></br><br>‘They never displayed any difficulties between themselves. I know the Reagans were quite shocked because they loved and respected both Carol and John.’ </br><br></br><br>Another friend added: ‘Carol didn’t fight him. She felt her infirmity made her an impediment to him. She justified his actions because of all he had gone through. She used to say, “He just wants to make up for lost time.”’ </br><br></br><br>Indeed, to many in their circle the saddest part of the break-up was Carol’s decision to resign herself to losing a man she says she still adores. </br><br></br><br>Friends confirm she has remained friends with McCain and backed him in all his campaigns. ‘He was very generous to her in the divorce but of course he could afford to be, since he was marrying Cindy,’ one observed. </br><br></br><br>McCain transferred the Florida beach house to Carol and gave her the right to live in their jointly-owned townhouse in the Washington suburb of Alexandria. He also agreed to pay her alimony and child support. </br><br></br><br>A former neighbour says she subsequently sold up in Florida and Washington and moved in 2003 to Virginia Beach. He said: ‘My impression was that she found the new place easier to manage as she still has some difficulties walking.’ </br><br></br><br>Meanwhile McCain moved to Arizona with his new bride immediately after their 1980 marriage. There, his new father-in-law gave him a job and introduced him to local businessmen and political powerbrokers who would smooth his passage to Washington via the House of Representatives and Senate. </br><br></br><br></br><br>And yet despite his popularity as a politician, there are those who won’t forget his treatment of his first wife. </br><br></br><br>Ted Sampley, who fought with US Special Forces in Vietnam and is now a leading campaigner for veterans’ rights, said: ‘I have been following John McCain’s career for nearly 20 years. I know him personally. There is something wrong with this guy and let me tell you what it is – deceit. </br><br></br><br>‘When he came home and saw that Carol was not the beauty he left behind, he started running around on her almost right away. Everybody around him knew it.</br><br></br><br>‘Eventually he met Cindy and she was young and beautiful and very wealthy. At that point McCain just dumped Carol for something he thought was better. </br><br></br><br>‘This is a guy who makes such a big deal about his character. He has no character. He is a fake. If there was any character in that first marriage, it all belonged to Carol.’ </br><br></br><br>One old friend of the McCains said: ‘Carol always insists she is not bitter, but I think that’s a defence mechanism. She also feels deeply in his debt because in return for her agreement to a divorce, he promised to pay for her medical care for the rest of her life.’ </br><br></br><br></br><br>Carol remained resolutely loyal as McCain’s political star rose. She says she agreed to talk to The Mail on Sunday only because she wanted to publicise her support for the man who abandoned her.</br><br></br><br>Indeed, the old Mercedes that she uses to run errands displays both a disabled badge and a sticker encouraging people to vote for her ex-husband. ‘He’s a good guy,’ she assured us. ‘We are still good friends. He is the best man for president.’ </br><br></br><br>But Ross Perot, who paid her medical bills all those years ago, now believes that both Carol McCain and the American people have been taken in by a man who is unusually slick and cruel – even by the standards of modern politics.</br><br></br><br>‘McCain is the classic opportunist. He’s always reaching for attention and glory,’ he said. </br><br></br><br>‘After he came home, Carol walked with a limp. So he threw her over for a poster girl with big money from Arizona. And the rest is history.’</br><br>Pass it on</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1970015" class="dsq-comment-message">b-serious and d,<br></br><br>To this point the focus has been on process (winning the primary) and platitudes (\'hope\' and \'change\') and history. If the debate is allowed to move beyond race and \'distractions\' the choice Americans have will become clearer.</br><br></br><br>Do Americans want a more expansive, expensive federal government that sacrifices individual freedom for a \'utopian\' collective equality?</br><br></br><br>Do Americans want to move toward \'socialization\' of healthcare or do they want to insure the uninsured while maintaining the most flexibility and choice possible?</br><br></br><br>Do Americans want more pandering to teacher\'s unions with speeches about \'higher pay\' for teachers or do they want school choice?</br><br></br><br>Do Americans truly want to limit domestic energy production and exploration while paying higher energy prices to appease global-warming advocates and fund dictators hostile to the US?</br><br></br><br>Do Americans really want to leave Iraq in defeat and </br><br>disillusionment? To abandon a strategy that is finally showing progress? </br><br></br><br>Do Americans truly want to believe that we are the \'root cause\' of the world\'s problems or do they want to believe that while, imperfect, we are still a beacon of liberty, opportunity prosperity for the oppressed in this world?</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1970016" class="dsq-comment-message">dchefron,<br></br><br>Perfect. Let\'s keep the focus off ideas, issues and policies. Let the \'old politics\' prevail.</br><br></br><br>Afraid to debate issues?</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1970017" class="dsq-comment-message">S,<br>My honest opinion is that most people don\'t really care about those things. </br><br></br><br>So many Americans are caught up in a wave of Bush/Republican hatred that all they want is something different.</br><br></br><br>And it\'s going to take that "something different" having a negative effect on their lives (like the way the gas prices have steadily gone up since the dems took Congress in \'06, even after they swore to bring them down) before they realize that all change isn\'t necessarily good.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1970018" class="dsq-comment-message">It is no coincidence that the same people who oppose spending tax dollars to help the less fortunate at home are usually the first ones to get behind spending billions of dollars to kill our "enemies" abroad.  <br></br><br>It is selfish to mortgage the future of this country by going to war and refusing to share in the financial burden of said war.  It is selfish to continue to amass wealth and the expense of the poorest amongst us.  If we keep going down that route, we are going to end up a world power with a third-world society (i.e non-existent middle class).  </br><br></br><br>If you want people to acknowledge your arguments as valid, you need to stop being hypocritical.  If you want to discuss Wright, then let\'s also discuss McCain\'s associations with convicted Nazi-sympathizer G. Gordon Liddy.</br><br></br><br>Junglecat</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1970019" class="dsq-comment-message">Junglecat,<br>...and then we can bring Hagee, Parsley, Pfleger, Rezko, etc. back for one more go-round.</br><br></br><br>But what\'s that really gonna accomplish?</br><br></br><br>Two things have to happen:</br><br></br><br>1. Elements of the right wing have to stop dragging out Wright and others. Yes, it speaks to judgement....but we\'ve had that discussion already. No need to rehash it at this point.</br><br></br><br>2. Obama\'s supporters need to stop playing the "my associate is better than your associate" game. You claim to want a debate on the issues; well, let\'s have it.</br><br></br><br>Wonder which will happen first.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1970020" class="dsq-comment-message">To S I would love to debate McCains ideas on endless war in Iraq, how our national sercurity is threaten by not talking to the players in the middle east on how McCain wants to continue the transfer of wealth to a country that produce our enemy Saudi Arabia.On how the corparations that McCain favors keep getting tax cuts while our country is falling deeper in debt to Communist China I could go on but you thugs that call yourselfs republicans has already started the dirty politics so be on notice you want to play dirty you want to go after Michelle Obama on being proud we will bring up Cindys walk on the wild side.You bring up Tony Resko where there is nothing there we will visit Charles Keating. SO GAME ON!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1970021" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>Do Americans want a more expansive, expensive federal government that sacrifices individual freedom for a \'utopian\' collective equality?</i><br></br><br>According to George F. Will, the Republican government of 2000 - 2006 sure did.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1970022" class="dsq-comment-message">junglecat,<br></br><br>Invidiual Americans are the most generous people in the world.</br><br></br><br>I do not believe the federal  government is the best vehicle for helping the poorest among us. Wasteful spending and \'pork\' permeates the appropriation of our tax dollars and I simply do not trust the government to spend our money responsibly.</br><br></br><br>However, the federal government is the best way to provide for our national security. </br><br></br><br>I do not buy into your fearmongering...we are not going to become a third-world society...unless we choose to cede our economic freedom and opportunity for government control over our \'well-being.\'</br><br></br><br>Huge government entitlement programs seek make individuals dependent on government and try to impose a \'utopian\' ideal of \'equality\' through government restriction of our freedom. </br><br></br><br>You choose to label me as greedy, selfish and hypocritical, yet you have no idea how much of my income I contribute to charity, or how much of my \'disposable\' income contributes to the employment of low or middle income earners.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1970023" class="dsq-comment-message">ronnie b,<br></br><br>That\'s right. The Republican government, not the voters! Much of the dissatisfaction with GWB speaks directly to the anger Republicans felt about the growth of government under Bush.</br><br></br><br>Democrats seem to think that Bush\'s low approval rating is due entirely to the war. </br><br></br><br>Limited government advocates and deficit hawks will not vote for Obama because he seeks to grow government, raise taxes, stifle our economy and limit our economic freedom and opportunity.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1970024" class="dsq-comment-message">djchefron,<br></br><br>Where to begin. So much inaccuracy. Such a skewed worldview.</br><br></br><br>Endless war.  Nice try, but this meme will not stick. It is in our interests to maintain and support alliances in the Middle East. The world runs on oil. Until US innovation and creativity develop the technology and products necessary to limit and end our dependence on fossil fuels, the free flow and peak production and refinement of oil is paramount to the economic security of the US and the world economy. To allow nuclear proliferation in a region so vital to the world\'s economy is dangerous. To negotiate with  governments and leaders openly hostile to the US and our ally, Israel, without a credible threat of military action, will place us in a position of weakness and make it less likely to deter their hostile intentions.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1970025" class="dsq-comment-message">S said...Limited government advocates and deficit hawks will not vote for Obama because he seeks to grow government, raise taxes, stifle our economy and limit our economic freedom and opportunity.<br>So a unending occupation in Iraq, the telecoms spying on Americans without a warrant the tax burdan that is shifted to the middle class the transfer of our wealth to China and Saudi Arabia that is what you are avocating.Im sorry but consevative economic policies has always screwed over the people</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1970026" class="dsq-comment-message">S said:<br>"You choose to label me as greedy, selfish and hypocritical"</br><br></br><br>My response:</br><br>Wait a minute, I did not call you greedy:)</br><br></br><br>D,</br><br>Maybe, you should reread my post.  I was only responding to S\' statements that the Wright issue was legitimate.  I do not think associations (with very limited exceptions) are legitimate topics of debate.</br><br></br><br>I would rather debate, how you think America is safer as a result of the war in Iraqi</br><br></br><br>I would rather debate, how it makes sense that taxes should be lowered even though we are involved in three wars.</br><br></br><br>I would rather debate how the federal government plans on preventing another Katrina.</br><br></br><br>However, if people like s keeping throwing Wright in my face, I will respond in kind.</br><br></br><br>Junglecat</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1970027" class="dsq-comment-message">Okay again the NIE reported that Iran has suspended their nuclear progam.You wabt to talk about nuclear weapons then put the Isrealis 200 warheads on the table.How is Saudi Arabia our allie?Is is that we transfer our money to them so they can finance Bin Laden.The Soviet Union was hostile to us ,Red China was hostile to us but we talk and in time we became economic partners with them albeit with China its one sided.I am a Disabled vetern who served his country how much death do you want to see so we can have a credible military response,how many women and children habe to suffer so you can go along saying my balls are bigger than your balls.You remind me of the idiots who glorify war but will never go or send your babies but other peoples children</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1970028" class="dsq-comment-message">junglecat,<br></br><br>You wrote:</br><br>"It is selfish to continue to amass wealth and the expense of the poorest amongst us."</br><br></br><br>That\'s pretty much the definition of \'greedy.\'</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1970029" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=5027815" rel="nofollow">Laura Bush defended Michelle Obama\'s patriotism?</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1970030" class="dsq-comment-message">djchefron,<br></br><br>"Okay again the NIE reported that Iran has suspended their nuclear progam."</br><br></br><br>_____________________________________</br><br></br><br>Perhaps you missed this.</br><br>From the NYT 5/26/2008</br><br></br><br>    The International Atomic Energy Agency, in an unusually blunt and detailed report, said Monday that Iran’s suspected research into the development of nuclear weapons remained “a matter of serious concern” and that Iran continued to owe the agency “substantial explanations.”</br><br></br><br>    The nine-page report accused the Iranians of a willful lack of cooperation, particularly in answering allegations that its nuclear program may be intended more for military use than for energy generation.</br><br></br><br>    Part of the agency’s case hinges on 18 documents listed in the report and presented to Iran that, according to Western intelligence agencies, indicate the Iranians have ventured into explosives, uranium processing and a missile warhead design — activities that could be associated with constructing nuclear weapons. ….</br><br></br><br>    The report makes no effort to disguise the agency’s frustration with Iran’s lack of openness. It describes, for example, Iran’s installation of new centrifuges, known as the IR-2 and IR-3 (for Iranian second and third generations) and other modifications at its site at Natanz, as “significant, and as such should have been communicated to the agency.”</br><br></br><br>    The agency also said that during a visit in April, it was denied access to sites where centrifuge components were being manufactured and where research of uranium enrichment was being conducted.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1970031" class="dsq-comment-message">A republican with no sense of humor, who would have thunk it.<br></br><br>Junglecat</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1970032" class="dsq-comment-message">djchefron,<br></br><br>Israel\'s nukes are a deterrent to the existential threat posed to them by Iran, Syria, Hamas, Hezbollah, et al.</br><br></br><br>They have never threatened to wipe anyone off the map. </br><br></br><br>This deterrent is non-negotiable in face of the fact that their enemies will not even acknowledge their right to exist!</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1970033" class="dsq-comment-message">djchefron,<br></br><br>"So a unending occupation in Iraq, the telecoms spying on Americans without a warrant"</br><br>____________________________________</br><br></br><br>Your arguments are nothing more than the same regurgitated anti-American memes spewed by those who wish to believe the worst about this country.</br><br></br><br>Yawn.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1970034" class="dsq-comment-message">S<br></br><br>Those are McCain\'s stances djchefron is reminding you of.  Can you defend them?</br><br></br><br>Also, would you please tell me what the definition of black and too black is (one of your earlier arguments).</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1970035" class="dsq-comment-message">S said...Your arguments are nothing more than the same regurgitated anti-American memes spewed by those who wish to believe the worst about this country.<br>...................................There is nothing anti american about standing up for the constitution that I took a oath to defend.Show me where it is right to spy on citizens of my country without a warrant.I know a lot of you are scared so you abicate your rights to the government to protect you this was tried in 1930 Germany and we know how that ended.We do not have to be a imperialist country,It doesnt serve the people and it only enriches the few who can give a damn about our country.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1970036" class="dsq-comment-message">To S Please explain to me where it benefits Americans to spend 12 billion a month on a occupation on a country that we will never pacify but it is wrong to spend that amount in our country?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1970037" class="dsq-comment-message">ms martin,<br></br><br>Yes. I can defend McCain\'s stance on success in Iraq. Time and time again, McCain\'s position has been mischaracterized. I will not over that again, but I will say that it is not \'endless war\' to suggest that it is vital to our security to retain a military presence in Iraq after we achieve success, draw down our forces, and bring most of our troops home. We remain today in Germany, Japan and South Korea and there is no \'endless war\' in those countries.</br><br></br><br>"Endless war" is nothing more than a fear-mongering meme used to keep young voters who are ignorant of history believing that peace and stability cannot be achieved, in part, by military action or even the threat of military action.</br><br></br><br>As far as \'domestic spying:\'</br><br></br><br>Again, more fear-mongering.</br><br></br><br>Until it can be proven that this action has led to a whole scale attack of our civil liberties, I am willing to allow it, in the same way that many Americans are content to pay high taxes because they think the government is helping our less fortunate citizens. </br><br></br><br>We have not been attacked here at home since 9/11. I am willing to allow the US government to monitor conversations coming in and out of this country to keep us safe.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1970038" class="dsq-comment-message">djchefron,<br>I took the same oath.</br><br></br><br>If our enemies are actively using our infrastructure to plot against us, then the government has the right to take whatever measures it feels are best to bring them to justice. </br><br></br><br>I\'m willing to bet money that if the government caught someone on tape threatening to kill you or your family without a warrant, you\'d be first in line to have them prosecuted. This is no different.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1970039" class="dsq-comment-message">ms martin,<br></br><br>To adress you other point. </br><br></br><br>I was responding to an article linked to by rikyrah, "Where White draw the Line."</br><br></br><br>Whites will begin to \'draw the line\' on Obama if he is seen as \'too radical.\' This has more to do with his worldview and vision for America.</br><br></br><br>Personally, I really don\'t by into the "Too black" vs "Not black enough" argument. </br><br></br><br>My point is not based on skin color. But on a personal political philosophy.</br><br></br><br>I agree with Shelby Steele\'s assessment that Obama has had to \'make a bargain\' with white voters. To make them feel comfortable.</br><br></br><br>But all presidential candidates must do that in order to win election.</br><br></br><br>In that regard, his bargain is: "I am moderate."  White independents and swing voters LOVE moderation, are non-confrontational and adopt a \'live and let live\' attitude towards abortion, gay marriage, etc. They may personally oppose abortion, but do not want to see it outlawed. Some may prefer it to be left to the states, but feel that there is no threat that it will ever be \'out-lawed\' and that doctors and women will be prosecuted for performing or seeking an abortion.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1970040" class="dsq-comment-message">djchefron,<br></br><br>Again, this is vacuous Dem slogan.</br><br></br><br>I do not accept the premise that the money spent on Iraq can be better spent here at home.</br><br></br><br>I support spending money to fund our troops so that they can succeed in a mission that keeps us safe from domestic terror attacks and promotes a free, stable Iraq.</br><br></br><br>\'Throwing money\' at a problem alone will not achieve equality, assure justice or prompt meaningful reform.</br><br></br><br>How we choose to spend the money, and how responsible we are with it, both at home and abroad is more of a concern to me.</br><br></br><br>For example, how does pandering to teacher\'s unions about \'more pay\' improve access to quality education or hold poor teachers accountable for the miseducation or non-education of our children?</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1970041" class="dsq-comment-message">djchefron,<br></br><br>I really just can\'t buy into your wild claims and gross exaggerations. Your extreme characterizations undermine your arguments. Can you cite any example of a  serious violation of a fellow American\'s civil liberties as a result of our government\'s action regarding listening to telephone conversations?</br><br></br><br></br><br>d,</br><br></br><br>I\'m with you. Your response is thoughtful and logical.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1970042">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1970042" class="dsq-comment-message">"Get Whitey" convention:<br></br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/leonce-gaiter/getting-whitey-michelle-o_b_106092.html" rel="nofollow">Getting Whitey: Michelle Obama\'s Secret Negro Agenda</a></br><br></br><br>and....</br><br></br><br>Be Not Afraid ;-)</br><br></br><br>"Whitey" tape doesn\'t exist:</br><br></br><br><a href="http://www.reason.com/blog/show/126883.html" rel="nofollow">Everything\'s Gonna Be All White</a></br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1970043">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1970043" class="dsq-comment-message">Is there anything intrinsically wrong with being old?  No.  <br></br><br>But this is funny anyway, \'cause McCain is such a jerk and calling your wife a "c*nt" is a no-no!:</br><br></br><br><a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=3JJD_8esz4o" rel="nofollow">John McCain is OLD!!!</a></br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1970044">s</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1970044" class="dsq-comment-message">McCain\'s first general election ad.<br></br><br>    JOHN MCCAIN: Only a fool or a fraud talks tough or romantically about war.</br><br></br><br>    When I was five years old, my father left for war.</br><br></br><br>    My grandfather came home from war and died the next day.</br><br></br><br>    I was shot down over Vietnam and spent five years as a POW. Some of the friends I served with never came home.</br><br></br><br>    I hate war.</br><br></br><br>    And I know how terrible its costs are.</br><br></br><br>    I\'m running for President to keep the country I love safe.</br><br></br><br>    I\'m John McCain and I approve this message.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1970045">Ms.Martin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1970045" class="dsq-comment-message">S<br></br><br>I see you\'re not going to answer my question about what black or too black is and you certainly must have an opinion, otherwise you wouldn\'t have referenced too black and too radical.  You know it\'s bullshit though, that\'s why you won\'t even bother defending it.  It\'s the typical bs rhetoric you repukes use to try and win votes.  Now that is racist.  Take advantage of the negativity spewed upon one group = racist.</br><br></br><br>Also, what about being a prisoner of war, whore and war monger certifies one to be POTUS?</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1970046">Ms.Martin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1970046" class="dsq-comment-message">S<br></br><br>John McCain  =  YAWN</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1970047">D.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1970047" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.nysun.com/foreign/help-against-bin-laden-is-proffered/79524/" rel="nofollow">Iraqi Sheik Offers to Take Fight to Bin Laden</a><br></br><br><i>The leader of the tribal confederation that has fought to expel Al Qaeda from most of Iraq\'s Anbar province is offering his men to help gin up a rebellion against Osama bin Laden\'s organization along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.</i></br><br></br><br>I\'ll be damned; Iraq\'s turning into an ally.</br><br></br><br>"The war is lost," huh?</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1970048">s</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1970048" class="dsq-comment-message">ms martin,<br></br><br>Tha article asked "Where do Whites Draw the Line"</br><br></br><br>The article attempts to define \'too black\' and yes I do think it is bs.</br><br></br><br>IMO Obama\'s success in winning over independent white voters lies in his success at defining himself as a \'moderate,\' and politically \'non-threatening.\'</br><br> </br><br></br><br>http://online.wsj.com/public/article_print/SB120579535818243439.html</br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1970049" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1970049">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1970049" class="dsq-comment-message">Trivia:<br></br><br><a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=PLXMkdAXDZw" rel="nofollow">Hilarous Jamaican Pot Smuggling Attempt from 1979</a></br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1970050">djchefron</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1970050" class="dsq-comment-message">d dont believe the hype.Have you ever read about the british occupation in the 1920\'s I guess you havent because if you did you would know we will never have "victory" as you neo cons like to say.And by the way before we went bumbling and stumbling into that helhole there was no Al quadia, Iran was contain by a hostile Iraq and more importantly over 4000 of our sons and daughters would be alive today.So you warmongers I say go sign up and go fight in Iraq if its that important to you <br></br><br></br><br></br><br></br><br></br><br></br><br></br><br></br><br></br><br></br><br></br><br></br><br></br><br></br><br></br><br></br><br></br><br></br><br></br><br></br><br></br><br></br><br></br><br></br><br></br><br></br><br></br><br>\'</br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1970051" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1970051">Anonymous</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1970051" class="dsq-comment-message">D,<br>You really believe that Iraq is an ally based on the words of one tribal leader?</br><br></br><br>I know you are smarter than that.  Stop being intellectually dishonest.</br><br></br><br>Junglecat</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1970052">D.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1970052" class="dsq-comment-message">djchefron,<br>Been there, done that. </br><br></br><br>(how many times have I said that here?)</br><br></br><br>Junglecat,</br><br>Note I said "turning into an ally."</br><br></br><br>And when the word of a tribal leader- whose movement is widely recognized as one of the turning points in Iraq-is placed against the word of someone who hasn\'t seen the country in 2 years...yeah, I go with the tribal leader.</br><br></br><br>It would be intellectually stupid not to.</br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1970053" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1970053">Ms.Martin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1970053" class="dsq-comment-message">Didn\'t I just read or hear somewhere that Iraqi leaders are negotiating for less US presence in certain areas of Iraq?<br></br><br>What\'s that all about?</br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1970054" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1970054">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1970054" class="dsq-comment-message">C-SPAN callers post Hillary Speech part 1 of 3<br></br><br><a href="http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=yCQSjY3kG-Q" rel="nofollow">C-SPAN Callers Post Hillary Clinton Endorsement Speech pt.1</a></br><br></br><br>I think the Democratic party has not done enough to diffuse the idea the primary wasn\'t fair.  Some callers insist that caucuses are not legitimate.</br><br></br><br>One woman says Obama is not ready now but might be in 4 years.  I wonder what he is expected to learn in 4 years.  Maybe he can go to President school.</br><br></br><br>Another woman thinks if Clinton supporters are expected to support Obama, then Obama supporters should back Clinton for VP.</br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1970055" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1970055">Anonymous</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1970055" class="dsq-comment-message">Ms Martin<br>Not to mention the report about the administration blackmailing the Iraqi administration by holding hostage $50bn  of Iraq’s money in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to pressure the Iraqi government into signing an agreement seen by many Iraqis as prolonging the US occupation indefinitely.</br><br></br><br>http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/revealed-secret-plan-to-keep-iraq-under-us-control-840512.html</br><br></br><br>D,</br><br>We are NEVER going to have Iraq as an ally as long as we continue to occupy their land.  If you want to grasp at straws in order to come to a different conclusion, knock yourself out.</br><br></br><br>Junglecat</br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1970056" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1970056">djchefron</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1970056" class="dsq-comment-message">D This is the reality withyour so call ally<br>...................................</br><br> </br><br>Shiite cleric warns of popular uprising against Iraq-U.S long term agreement  </br><br> </br><br>Karbala - Voices of Iraq  </br><br>Monday , 09 /06 /2008  Time 10:17:06   </br><br>Karbala, Jun8, (VOI)-A renowned Iraqi Shiite cleric on Sunday warned that a popular uprising may erupt if Iraq signs the long-term agreement with the U.S .</br><br>The proposed security agreement would cover the status of U.S troops in Iraq, control of Iraqi airspace and immunity for security contractors after United Nations resolution governing U.S forces in Iraq expires in December. </br><br>Speaking to reporters and clerics in Karbala, grand ayatollah Mohammed Taqqi al-Mudaressi said “the proposed security agreement between Iraq and the U.S lacks the overall and in-depth vision of Iraq’s general affairs”.</br><br>The cleric expected “the agreement would fail if the details of the deal remained as they are in the current draft”, adding “ signing the agreement came while Iraq is deprived of sovereignty under chapter seven of (the Security Council charter).</br><br>He branded the agreement as “ a sort of US blackmailimg and a sword strangling Iraqis”. </br><br> “Infringing Iraq’s sovereignty would not be in the U.S interests as a superpower because the agreement humiliates people’s dignity, pushing them to uprise and to start a new cycle of violence”, he pointed out.</br><br>Iraq\'s independence is still limited by the legacy of UN sanctions and restrictions imposed on Iraq since Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in the 1990s. Iraq has been  considered a threat to international security and stability under Chapter Seven of the UN charter.</br><br>Influential Shiite clerics in Iraq and neighbouring Iran oppose the deal and have called it a move against their religion.</br><br>They have vowed to stage protests to force the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to roll back the deal which is expected to be concluded by the end of July.</br><br>A declaration of principles was signed between U.S. President George W. Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in December 2007. The declaration was planned to be ratified on July 31, 2008 to be effective as of January 1, 2009.</br><br>The agreement governs the U.S. forces\' presence in Iraq after the year 2008. This presence currently relies on a mandate by the UN, renewed annually upon the request of the Iraqi government.</br><br> The agreement will not valid unless it commands a national consensus and be approved by the Iraqi parliament and the presidency board.</br><br>Al-Mudaressi is a Karbala-based grand ayatollah and key cleric of religious Shiite authority that has  a strong sway in Iraq.</br><br>Karbala, the second hold Shiite city after Najaf, lies 110 km south-west Baghdad</br><br>AM</br><br>...................................Before you start beleiving the war criminals who lied us into this debacle read what the shiites who are the majority have to say about it</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1970057">Anonymous</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1970057" class="dsq-comment-message">Why is McCain getting $58,000 a year in disability income?<br></br><br>http://www.americablog.com/2008/06/why-is-mccain-getting-58000-year-in.html</br><br></br><br>Junglecat</br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1970058" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1970058">djchefron</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1970058" class="dsq-comment-message">McCain is in real trouble today on hardball Tony Perkins from focus on the family just said that Evangelicals are drawn to Obamas message.If McCain cannot get this vote like bush it will be a wipeout.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1970059" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1970059">Anonymous</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1970059" class="dsq-comment-message">djchefron,<br></br><br>The best thing that could have happened for John McCain\'s outreach to evangelicals has happened --the Democrats have settled on their most radical nominee in their history, and no evangelical who cares about abortion or same sex marriage or porn or religious freedom can be indifferent to the result of the fall vote.</br><br></br><br>Senator Obama\'s expressed admiration for Justice Ginsburg contrasts sharply with the admiration Senator McCain has expressed for Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito.  With six justices aged 68 or older, the stakes for the future of the Supreme Court could not be higher.  Evangelicals might have preferred a different Republican nominee and Senator McCain would be well served by a running mate with solid conservative credentials, but only MSMers scornful of the intelligence and judgment of evangelicals will conclude that more than a handful will sit out the election because they didn\'t get their first choice as the nominee.</br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1970060" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1970060">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1970060" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=JzcFQkbnLyY" rel="nofollow">Democracy vs Sleep? The Greatest Thing Ever</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1970061" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1970061">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1970061" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=JiphuhgXSyE" rel="nofollow">Presidential Blood Lines</a><br></br><br></br><br><a href="http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=XIWoiUALFwU" rel="nofollow">A Town called Dildo</a></br><br></br><br></br><br><a href="http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=uEGQNGMQiZc" rel="nofollow">One of the Oldest Bloggers in the World</a></br><br></br><br></br><br><a href="http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=wNBPifcUJj4" rel="nofollow">Gore Vidal (Part 1)</a></br><br><a href="http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=sR8tc_bj4XE" rel="nofollow">Gore Vidal (Part 2)</a></br><br></br><br><a href="http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=pNmeCvb8d54" rel="nofollow">SpaceShip Man</a></br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1970062">honey01</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1970062" class="dsq-comment-message">Just saw video footage on Keith Olberman of Bill Moyers putting the verbal smackdown on Faux News "ambush" reporter.<br></br><br>Hilarious. I heart Bill Moyers.</br><br></br><br></br><br></br><br></br><br>Honey01</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1970063">djchefron</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1970063" class="dsq-comment-message">Right now Dennis Kucinich is reading articles of impeachment on C-Span.Nothingds going to come of it but at least its in the record for history</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1970064">justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1970064" class="dsq-comment-message">djchefron,<br></br><br>You beat me to it! :)</br></div>\
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		var reply_id = Dsq.Utils.getRequestParams().dsq;
		if(reply_id) { document.location.hash = 'comment-' + reply_id; }
	}

	
	if((typeof OB_Script != 'undefined') && (typeof OB_versionNum != 'undefined')) {
		if(navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Firefox") != -1) {
			if(window.frames['dsq-reply-frame']) {
				window.frames['dsq-reply-frame'].location = Dsq.Urls.REPLY + (new Date()).getTime() + '&f=jackandjillpolitics&t=monday_open_thread_how_was_the_weekend_60&to_redirect=' + encodeURIComponent(window.location) + '&ifrs=' + encodeURIComponent(disqus_iframe_css);
			}
		}
	}

	if (Dsq.jsonData.integration.theme == 4) {
		if (Dsq.jsonData.realtime_enabled) {
			Dsq.Realtime.initialize();
		}
	}

	



	window.ExecuteWhen = (function () {
	var obj = {}
	
	// Private
	var running = false;
	var timer = null;
	var pending = [];
	var startTimer = function() {
		running = true;
		timer = setInterval(obj.heartBeat, 100);
	};
	var stopTimer = function() {
		running = false;
		clearInterval(timer);
	};
	
	// Public
	obj.add = function (condition, code) {
		pending.push([condition,code]);
		this.heartBeat(); //!
		if (!running) {
			startTimer();
		}
	};
	obj.heartBeat = function() {
		if (!pending.length) {
			stopTimer();
		}
		var newPending = [];
		for (var i=0; i<pending.length; i++) {
			var cond = pending[i][0];
			var code = pending[i][1];
			// FIXME: if cond or code throw an error, they never get removed from pending
			if (cond()){
				code();
			}
			else {
				newPending.push([cond, code]);
			}
		}
		pending = newPending;
	};
	return obj;
})();

// also used in embed_thread.js:
window.fbIsReady = function () {return window.FB && FB.init;};
// NOTE: This script gets executed again without threadEl
//       set when we are loaded again as the fbc_receiver.
//       In this case, we don't need the hidden container.

if(!window.FB || !FB.init) {
	if(window.Dsq && Dsq.container) {
		// container is not present when init.js is loaded from an xd-receiver iframe; in this case,
		// we don't need the FB_HiddenContainer anyway.
		var fbDiv = document.createElement('div');
		fbDiv.id = "FB_HiddenContainer";	// Required or else FeatureLoader will execute a document.write.
		fbDiv.style.position = 'absolute';	// This is intentionally not setting display to none as this breaks
		fbDiv.style.top = '-10000px';		// Flash in Safari.
		fbDiv.style.left = '-10000px';
		fbDiv.style.width = '0px';
		fbDiv.style.height = '0px';
		Dsq.container.appendChild(fbDiv);
	}
	var fbJS = document.createElement('script');
	fbJS.type = "text/javascript";
	fbJS.src = "http://static.ak.connect.facebook.com/js/api_lib/v0.4/FeatureLoader.js.php";
	document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(fbJS);

	ExecuteWhen.add(window.fbIsReady,
		function () {
			// HACK: This is a workaround FBC's single domain limitation by
			//		 allowing sites to create multiple forums with different
			//		 Facebook API keys.  This must be used in conjunction with
			//		 disqus_facebook_forum (see authenticateFacebook).
			var facebook_api_key = 'bd6a8bc56f8eb204984f34b6fefe228d';
			if (typeof disqus_facebook_api_key != 'undefined') {
				facebook_api_key = disqus_facebook_api_key;
			}

			FB.init(facebook_api_key, window.facebookXdReceiverPath || null,
				{fetchSignedPublicSessionData: true});
		});
}


	


if(typeof(disqus_callback) == 'function') {
	var callback_params = Dsq.Utils.getRequestParams()['dsq_cbp'] || null;

	// We don't care about any errors in third-party code
	try {
		disqus_callback(callback_params);
	} catch (x) {
		if (typeof(console) != 'undefined' && typeof(console.log) == 'function') {
			// But it would be nice to let developers know about them
			console.log(x);
		}
		// pass
	}

	// HACK: We don't know if the callback wraps our container, which may
	// possibly result in a new DOM element.
	Dsq.container = document.getElementById('dsq-content');
}

})();




