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It's a Palin with HER BUNDLE!   :&gt;)  <br><br>Whew!!  Really shaking her head Deep Breaths!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_16:10:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1987488, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1996801": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Enjoyed the \"electric slide(s)\"   -   CH style!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_20:36:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1995256, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1979400": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Val:  \"RAOTFLMAO\"    Move over!!  I need ta share a piece of that floor!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_13:08:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1979162, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1996297": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Obama's gonna kick his chubby behind...<br><br>Rove At RNC: Biden A \"Big, Blowhard Doofus\"<br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/01/rove-at-rnc-biden-a-big-b_n_122998.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/01/rove-a...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_20:00:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1996298": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hey, hey, hey - leave the Clampetts out of it; they were authentic, honest backwoods people who got rich from bubbling crude and moved to Bever-lee Hills, but their basic character never changed. :)<br><br>This is more like the Ewings v. the Barnes, or the family in-fighting between JR, Bobby, and Gary.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_20:00:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1996146, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1995787": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Oops! I meant Bill BENNETT!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_19:07:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1995276, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1995276": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Bill \"Abort Black Babies To Lower Crime\" Burton just had a hissy fit because a CNN reporter said that pro-sex ed./contraception groups would say that Palin's pro-abstinence, no sex ed., anti-contraception stance doesn't work considering her teen daughter is pregnant.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_18:17:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1994754": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "that makes is worse Parker404 that means he deliberately participated in the effort to deceive the American people.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_17:21:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1979700, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1986164": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Obama's leads hold in POLLS<br><br><a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/1/13442/82722/587/582164\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/1/13442/82...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_15:24:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1976340": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Howard Wolfson is on board. HOWARD WOLFSON!!!<br><br><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/31/AR2008083101620.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">This article</a>, I must admit is great. He's a good writer.<br><br>Excerpts...<br><br><i>Most of us never heard him speak in person. At work 14 hours a day in the war room, we focused on his perceived faults and deficiencies. Our time was spent sharpening and advancing arguments. Skepticism was critical to our efforts. Insulated from Obamamania, I met few Obama supporters and distanced myself from the ones I knew. I lived this way for 18 months.<br><br>From the outside, our loss may have seemed inevitable for months, but inside the campaign we simply kept going. Each late victory brought false hope. We were finally doing too well to stop, but never well enough to win. We fought so long because we believed so strongly in our candidate; sustained by the passions of our supporters, we hoped that, as long as we kept moving, we could keep failure at bay. </i><br><br>I think this is an honest assessment. Despite their nasty tactics.<br><br><i>Then came Thursday night at Invesco Field. During the campaign, we scoffed at events like this, mostly because we were not capable of producing them. A cross section of voters waited for hours to enter the stadium and take their seats. As one friend put it, it looked more like an American convention than the convention of any particular political party.<br><br>Clinton delegates greeted one another with tears and hugs and were greeted in turn by Obama delegates. Several Obama supporters took my hand to thank me for what the Clintons had said that week, urging that they stay involved in the campaign. Every so often, I would simply look around me, amazed at the significance not just of the day but of the entire campaign. </i><br><br>Another honest admission: scoff at what you can't do yourself.<br><br><i>No one in recent history had attempted this kind of a political conversation with 75,000 people. Barack Obama pulled it off.<br><br>For 18 months, I listened to Obama on television, sometimes intently, often just barely -- background noise to a running series of conference calls and meetings and e-mails.<br><br>In person, my attention undivided, I saw something of what so many others had seen for so long.<br><br>Progress in America is never cheap, and even today history exacts a price for Obama's victory -- the dreams of electing the first female president, the dreams of so many who rushed toward Hillary Clinton on rope lines across America and refused to give up her hand and their hopes. Today these dreams are giving way to another kind of progress.<br><br>For me, the presidential campaign began in a crowded Iowa hall, where I saw a man my age lift up a daughter around my daughter's age and tell her that one day she could be president. Last week things came nearly full circle, when I saw another man my age lift up another child and say the very same thing. </i><br><br>Wow. If Barack won over this man, he may yet win over the unwinnable.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_09:51:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1995289": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "ghetto?<br><br><br>lol", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_18:18:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1987565, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1977883": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "My sister has a full house now with 6 of my family members here in Dallas, and I have 2 friends from NOLA with me, and 2 of my aunts are supposedly headed to Dallas.<br><br>So it's gonna be a hectic week", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_11:50:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "fd35c4322b63b2dab06baea3e23047cf", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1975784, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1994781": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://starmediapublication.blogspot.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://starmediapublication.blogspot.com/</a><br><br>Published 8/29/08<br>By: SMP<br><br>THE DARKSIDE OF INTERACIAL RELATIONSHIPS <br><br>Interracial relationships has been on the rise for years and years now, which most logically minded people would agree that it\u2019s a good thing, it shows that as a society we\u2019ve manage to grow and see beyond skin pigmentation like the other lower species on the animal kingdom hierarchy. Unfortunately, it is not the case.<br><br>Great deals of people who are involved in interracial relationships are themselves racist, who suffers from internalized racism, similar to a hate mongering separatist. Often, A lot of people in interracial relationship have an infatuation for the other races and perceive the other races as being some how better or even superior to their own, they don\u2019t like the person that their with for the individual that he/she is but rather for the race to which the partner belongs to. For example a white woman who\u2019s involved in such a relationship with a black men, she\u2019s not with \u201cJerome\u201d for who he is but likes him for his race and vice versa, which is no different from a Neo Nazi who hates a person not for the individual he is but simply for his race. In both circumstances, no one sees the person for who they are but rather their race. As we\u2019ve all learned, there\u2019s a thin line between love and hate.<br><br>A recent interracial phenomenon is black women with white men, who is really nothing new, such pairing dates back since the cotton picking plantation days, but more recently it\u2019s received a lot of attention curtsey of Oprah and Tyra Banks shows that did a segment on that topic. More and more black women are with white men, especially the \u201cprofessional\u201d black women who cries that there\u2019s no good eligible black men, spitting out the same rhetoric that a Grand Dragon of the KKK would that \u201cthey\u2019re in jail, most are homosexuals and most prefers white women\u201d which is all a pile of horse manure, there\u2019s good men and bad men in every race, such claims is used to justified their own racist sentiment and negative perception that they have toward black men and due to that they\u2019re with other men, not because they love that individual but because they despise his black counterpart, these women are white supremacist in dark skin, they hold the same negative stereotype toward black men as that of a imperial wizard of the Klan and utters the same vile comments.<br><br>Often these flaccid relationships are base purely on a sick fetish, although some will claim its a perference but the reality it is a fetish, what determines a fetish and perference, same thing with a nicer term. For example like lust like the Spike Lee film states it\u2019s \u201cJungle Fever\u201d, evidence of that is the racist comment that we all are familiar with that both blacks and whites say \u201cI\u2019ll go out with a person of another race, but I\u2019ll never marry a person of another race\u201d, such comments can simply be stated as being fucked up. Basically, that familiar comment means that \u201cI can satisfy my animalistic urges with a person of another race, but I can never have a person of another race be the mother/father of my children.\u201d One has to be a racist to hold such feelings or say such thing and too often we\u2019ve all heard that comment being uttered and that notion has been the starting point for a lot of relationships, which is purely sick.<br><br>The worst thing is that people that are involved in interracial relationships for race sakes gives a bad name to all the good people that are with someone that they truly love and it comes out that person is of another race. The problem is not interracial relationships, it\u2019s intra-racial racism\u201d, because anyone who dates any race exclusively needs a shrink", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_17:23:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "8c05f4343257db5ed6d88eb4eac74a0e", "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}, "1994783": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Course you would. So, in reality, you'd be upset with ANY conservative woman that was picked, since they don't subscribe to your viewpoint. <br><br>That kind of thinking doesn't merit further response from me.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_17:24:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1986160, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1986082": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That's another angle - if (and I do mean <b>if</b>) she makes it to the veep debate with Biden, she could cause problems for herself if he is seen as a gentleman and she is seen as snarky or condescending.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_15:16:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1980700, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1976356": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/01/us/politics/01clinton.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper&oref=slogin\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hillary Clinton is galled.</a><br><br><i>Mrs. Clinton\u2019s friends said she was galled that Ms. Palin might try to capitalize on a movement that Mrs. Clinton, of New York, built among women in the primaries. And Democrats used strong words on Sunday to rebut the notion: Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts said that women would not be \u201cseduced\u201d by the Republican ticket, and Guy Cecil, the former political director of Mrs. Clinton\u2019s campaign, said it was \u201cinsulting\u201d for Republicans to compare Ms. Palin to Mrs. Clinton.</i>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_09:54:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1996806": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "***************VIDEO********************<br>Amy Goodman Arrested at RNC<br><a href=\"http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=oYjyvkR0bGQ&feature=email\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=oYjyvkR0bGQ&featu...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_20:37:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1984554": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "lipstick on  a pig.<br><br>You and me both, iceberg, about what if this were Malia or Sasha. <br><br>Yeah, we know what the reaction would be.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_14:25:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1979540, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1986603": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "parker404:  My impression also from seeing just 1 picture!  That's why I was looking for a confirmation!    Oh well!  All in due time!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>OTOH:  How is a \"house-husband\"  making money???   Family Leave Act  Subsidy????   :&gt;)    :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>Which RAISES another VETTING QUESTION??<br><br>Aren't ALL American candidates REQUIRED to SHARE their financial records with somebody??? [I'm losing the concept!!  Sorry.]<br>Both billary & Mr. Obama PUBLICLY shared their TAX RETURNS!!<br><br>Come ta think about it - I never heard any thing from \"McAncient\"!!<br><br>And Palin -    wellllllll!<br><br>So what's the deal????  Looking for input - really!!  Thanks!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_15:31:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1985956, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1994797": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "It wouldn't be the first time.  He continues to go along with Bush's deceptive war.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_17:26:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "60266805bc0d9559a62514e1e769b750", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1994754, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1995312": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "McCain couldn't raise enough money to Rent-A-Negro as per Field Negro's blog post. ;-)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_18:20:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1995165, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1977906": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "SPOT ON!! You nailed it! Which article/diary was this comment on?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_11:52:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1977811, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1987635": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Didn't you get the memo? The only thing you need to be feminist is a womb.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_16:15:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1986105, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1986100": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "He doesn't need to speak.  He needs to worry about the rest of his babies having babies.  <br><br>Biden needs to rush to a store that sells chastity belts ASAP!  We can't take any chances.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_15:18:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "nickwah22", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1985082, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1986105": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<blockquote><i>I think some people are upset with Palin's selection because it shows that liberals may or may not have the lock on feminism that they once had.</i></blockquote><br>There is nothing \"feminist\" about Palin.  Are you suggesting that because she's a woman, she's feminist??!!   There is absolutely nothing about her positions or beliefs that are feminist.<br><br>What her selection does, is confirm that Republicans DO have a lock on cynicism and political expediency.   The idea that Female=Feminist...shows a stunning lack of understanding of what Feminism means.  <br><br>Sarah cannot represent women, she already represents the most extreme misogynistic, religious extremist, anti woman viewpoint.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_15:18:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 10, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1985685, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1985082": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "parker404:   Interesting - \". . . her children are obviously LEFT to fend for themselves.\"             'cause this raises the question -  <br><br>WHERE IS \"GRANDPA ALASKA\"?????????   <br><br>And a follow-up question:    \"Whycome\" he has made NO statements regarding his wife????<br><br>And a final question:  Will \"Grandpa Alaska\" speak at the RNC Convention???   :&gt;)<br><br><br>Editorial Response:   \"Hell to the naw!:    He's been muzzled all this time.  His role in the family - Make that oil money and the babies and STFU!!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;<br>[My spell checker just cain't keep up!  :&gt;)]   More therapy!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_14:28:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1979725, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1974879": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/08/obama_and_biden_a_different_\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog...</a><br>dy.html<br><br>Oban and Biden: A Different Dynamic<br><br>This article shows that they are a good match!  Very humanistic!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_04:41:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1995837": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "No can do; they are \"Abstinence Only\" peeps. :)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_19:12:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1986150, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1976382": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "In a word, yes.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_09:59:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "cdb105a0448967d7c26f2589218a5ecb", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1976172, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1987653": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"It is more likely that a teenager not thinking of the outcome would do this and this is the reason for so many repeat teen pregnancies.\"<br><br>This is so that second child of Bristol's. You can't make me believe otherwise.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_16:17:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1987548, "depth": 9, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1995337": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This is really good news!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_18:23:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1986164, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1982027": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You cannot separate the man from his actions.  The things you term \"style\" imply recklessness, adolescence, immaturity, frivolity...  Those things are not style, they're substance.<br><br>Women are deeply offended by this.  Women are not only angry at the Old Boy network, they are angry at how Old Boys in positions of power, pit women against each other,  by elevating the unqualified, younger woman over the hard working older woman.   It is the narrative that plays out in divorce where a loyal wife is replaced with the blond bimbo.   Women are not happy with this.<br><br>Sarah Palin's world view is villainous to women, and anyone who believes in human rights.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_14:05:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1979066, "depth": 3, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1994829": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The RNC (which is playing on C SPAN) is DRYYYYYYYYYYYYY.<br>Too many empty seats to scan the crowd.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_17:29:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "nickwah22", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1983054": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "TruthSeeker:   SPOT ON, as usual!!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_14:15:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1982027, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1998928": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Biden: Difference Between Me And Palin -- \"She's Good-Looking\"<br><a href=\"http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/08/31/biden-palins-good-looking\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/08/31...</a><br><blockquote><i>\u201cThere\u2019s a gigantic difference between John McCain and Barack Obama and between me and I suspect my vice presidential opponent,\u201d Biden said at an outdoor rally Sunday, getting ready to hit the GOP ticket for their economic policies.<br><br>\u201cShe\u2019s good-looking,\u201d he quipped.<br><br>\u201cYou are gorgeous!\u201d a female supporter in the audience shouted out. Biden asked her to repeat it into the microphone so his wife at home would hear.</i></blockquote>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_22:52:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1986133": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Does Ms. Palin know that Hillary is a Scorpio?  My birthday is the day before Sen. Clinton -  We don't play...<br><br>Tee hee hee...", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_15:21:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1976356, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1979481": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This type of 19th Century thinking is what makes us look ridiculous and distracts the real issues.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_13:16:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "c955d4fea8e1769edcfda7cf81ec4eec", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1975069, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1976415": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yes, they have a point. <br><br>A point that completely misses the point of what Barack did.<br><br>The tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr came from two of his children earlier in the event. His set design was a send-up to \"I Have a Dream\" by referencing the Lincoln Memorial. And calling him the \"preacher from Georgia\" didn't reduce MLK to anything.<br><br>I saw Barack's eyes roll and his shoulder's tremble when he called forth MLK's spirit at the end of his speech. That's what being there in person can allow you to see.<br><br>Barack brought it, make no mistake, despite these two's cynical overanalysis.<br><br>And for them to suggest that folks didn't cry during and after this speech is simply a lie. <br><br>We were weeping.<br><br>When Barack's every move is analyzed by Black folks as \"appealing to white folks\" I tend to not take it all that seriously.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_10:03:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1976172, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1996900": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "We knew who you spoke of.  AKA The Gambler. . . .", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_20:47:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1995787, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1986150": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You would think, after the first child, they would invest in some birth control!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_15:22:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "nickwah22", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1979162, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1995256": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://craighickman.blogspot.com/2008/09/slideshow-our-leaders.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Denver Slideshow: Our Leaders</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_18:15:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1986156": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Howard Wolfson also has his own blog - <b>Gotham Acne</b>  <a href=\"http://gothamacme.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://gothamacme.com/</a>", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_15:23:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1976340, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1986160": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "That narrative of the abandoned woman has been playing out between Obama and Hillary....to the Republican benefit.<br><br>The genius McCain campaign has clumsily reinvigorated that ugly fight...now, between the McCain campaign and Democratic women!    Not a smart move.<br><br>Yes, if she believed as I do, I would think she's great.   Democrats and sane people do not ascribe to beliefs they find personally repugnant.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_15:24:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1985694, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1976435": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I saw maybe two minutes of it before I stopped watching so you can take my opinion with a grain of salt.  This is the problem that I have with some Obama supporters.  They don't listen to the things he says, and then criticize him for failing to live up to his expectations.  <br><br>Since Barack has been running, he has NEVER made this election about him being the first Black nominee of a major political party, so why would he now?  He has tried his best to move past the identity politics framework.  He has also said that his run is not about him, it is about the American people.  <br><br>I rarely agree with Al Sharpton, but he made a salient point a couple of weeks ago.  He basically said that some people are expecting Obama to be a civil rights activist when he is not.  Far from it; so they will be continually disappointed when Barack doesn't frame issues in ways that they think is appropriate.   <br><br>And when I think about it, isn't Barack the embodiment of MLK's speech.  If MLK's whole message is that he wanted Americans to be able to judge each other, not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character--isn't that what Barack is trying to do.  I'm just really frustrated that people always seem to invoke MLK, but forget the essence of his message.  <br><br>But that's just me.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_10:06:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "ef781b639c890767ebd1ce99011c3afa", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1976172, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2027124": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I agree with you on this issue.  It really beginning to heat on this issue concerning the Rep. VP", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-03_01:59:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "Independent2008", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1985687, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1975925": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I saw Obama & Biden on 60 minutes last night and they looked great together.   They look like a natural team.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_09:03:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "19a74769090e640800ab92ad66eef018", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1976442": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "In a word, no.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_10:07:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "JJai", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1976382, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1973371": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Big Picture<br><br><a href=\"http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/211842.php\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/211842.php</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_02:54:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1995388": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h7VIY5GfDmjy-A5HsGLuHvA0SHtgD92U6DS00\" rel=\"nofollow\">Palin hires attorney for Troopergate investigation</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_18:28:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1987710": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I didn't proof my work, but you get the point.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_16:25:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1987548, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1973376": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  Several people in my church asked for \"special prayer\" for relatives and friends!<br><br>God Bless them ALL!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_02:56:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1995393": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Just saw Arianna Huffington on C-SPAN, giving a MAJOR \"SMACK DOWN\" to Tucker Carlson!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)   It was FIERCE!!!   :&gt;)<br><br>She said that Palin was NOT qlified for VP on the following SUBSTANTIVE matter:<br><br>SHE IS ARCHAIC:   on 3 points:   1.   global warming [Palin doesn't believe that it is man-made]   2.  Creationism [NOT evolution in any form]      3. NO ABORTION, even in the cases of incest or rape!  <br><br>A.H. supports the \"rants\" of Keith Olbermann as a journalist!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>A.H. said that - \"Bill O'Reilly has NO COMMITTMENT to FACTS.\"  !!!   YES SHE DID!!!  :&gt;)   <br><br>Carlson had no come back!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_18:29:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1977475": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Wow, did you read what one person said what they could be doing? Oh my....", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_11:02:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "Texas_Girl_in_LA", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1973393, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1975069": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://starmediapublication.blogspot.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://starmediapublication.blogspot.com/</a><br><br>Published 8/29/08<br>By: SMP<br><br>THE DARKSIDE OF INTERACIAL RELATIONSHIPS<br><br>Interracial relationships has been on the rise for years and years now, which most logically minded people would agree that it\u2019s a good thing, it shows that as a society we\u2019ve manage to grow and see beyond skin pigmentation like the other lower species on the animal kingdom hierarchy. Unfortunately, it is not the case.<br><br>Great deals of people who are involved in interracial relationships are themselves racist, who suffers from internalized racism, similar to a hate mongering separatist. Often, A lot of people in interracial relationship have an infatuation for the other races and perceive the other races as being some how better or even superior to their own, they don\u2019t like the person that their with for the individual that he/she is but rather for the race to which the partner belongs to. For example a white woman who\u2019s involved in such a relationship with a black men, she\u2019s not with \u201cJerome\u201d for who he is but likes him for his race and vice versa, which is no different from a Neo Nazi who hates a person not for the individual he is but simply for his race. In both circumstances, no one sees the person for who they are but rather their race. As we\u2019ve all learned, there\u2019s a thin line between love and hate.<br><br>A recent interracial phenomenon is black women with white men, who is really nothing new, such pairing dates back since the cotton picking plantation days, but more recently it\u2019s received a lot of attention curtsey of Oprah and Tyra Banks shows that did a segment on that topic. More and more black women are with white men, especially the \u201cprofessional\u201d black women who cries that there\u2019s no good eligible black men, spitting out the same rhetoric that a Grand Dragon of the KKK would that \u201cthey\u2019re in jail, most are homosexuals and most prefers white women\u201d which is all a pile of horse manure, there\u2019s good men and bad men in every race, such claims is used to justified their own racist sentiment and negative perception that they have toward black men and due to that they\u2019re with other men, not because they love that individual but because they despise his black counterpart, these women are white supremacist in dark skin, they hold the same negative stereotype toward black men as that of a imperial wizard of the Klan and utters the same vile comments.<br><br>Often these flaccid relationships are base purely on a sick fetish and lust like the Spike Lee film states it\u2019s \u201cJungle Fever\u201d, evidence of that is the racist comment that we all are familiar with that both blacks and whites say \u201cI\u2019ll go out with a person of another race, but I\u2019ll never marry a person of another race\u201d, such comments can simply be stated as being fucked up. Basically, that familiar comment means that \u201cI can satisfy my animalistic urges with a person of another race, but I can never have a person of another race be the mother/father of my children.\u201d One has to be a racist to hold such feelings or say such thing and too often we\u2019ve all heard that comment being uttered and that notion has been the starting point for a lot of relationships, which is purely sick.<br><br>The worst thing is that people that are involved in interracial relationships for race sakes gives a bad name to all the good people that are with someone that they truly love and it comes out that person is of another race. The problem is not interracial relationships, it\u2019s intra-racial racism\u201d, because anyone who dates any race exclusively needs a shrink", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_05:38:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "8c05f4343257db5ed6d88eb4eac74a0e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2019976": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hey Rikyrah - can you embed the YouTube link that shows Morning Joe's response on Friday morning when Sarah Palin name was tossed up as the potential VP pick?<br><br>All the Repubs now have their new talking points and he is now equating Palin as having more experience than Obama when he clearly said the opposite.  Hoping more blogs will post this YouTube momemt on their sites.  I think this is the BEST ad for Democrats to use.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTbsbeY5k5k\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTbsbeY5k5k</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-02_18:23:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1985644": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "so i was curious to see how this was playing out on the conservative circuit (because conveniently for mccain the news media is preoccupied with roadblocked coverage of gustav) and i visited a few of their more mainstream blogs...the overt racialization of the commentary is almost mindblowing. granted, i see things on the left sites (kos and here included) sometimes that i find a little extreme to my personal views but it's generally ideological and not racially offensive. one thing i did find interesting is the constant references to obama's \"punished with a baby\" statement as rebuttal. honestly, i dont expect obama to touch this with a 10foot pole...his surrogates are another story.<br><br>it just goes to show that had one of the obama daughters come out as pregnant, there would be no \"oh what a blessing\" talk going around as it is for palin.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_14:37:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "5c16a2cd5b24519a3273f3c489a744f7", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1985675": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This is a great find, Craig!  I moseyed on over to his blog, and discovered he isn't an ogre and has a love of music.<br><br>OMG, Howard drank the cool aid!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_14:40:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1976340, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1981072": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "D:   \"SHOOT first; ask later. . \"   How would that play out in Alaska????<br>There are all kinds and levels of ANIMAL PRESERVATION laws!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>Secondly:  What is the building behind you?  Thanks!   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_13:56:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1979066, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1973393": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/09/mccain-only-now-sending-8perso.php\" rel=\"nofollow\">McCain only NOW sending 8-person team to Alaska to vet Palin</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_03:01:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1996434": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I just logged on to post about that.  Whe was taking him to task and made him look like a fool.  H e really couldn't not answer the question about her foreign policy experience.  He offered that she was the commander and chief of the National Guard.  When told by Campbell that the governor does not deploy the guard in situations like Iraq, he warned that Campbell shouldn't belittle her.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_20:01:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1996204, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1987731": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I agree about the likelyhood of a teen becoming pregnant again right away.<br><br>Breastfeeding would provide some contraceptive protection, but a teen is less likely to choose to breastfeed.<br><br>This is about Sarah, not Bristol.  This is about voters being mad about politicians lying to portray themselves as something they're not!<br><br>Candy Crowly is saying they're talking about this in the hallways at the GOP convention.<br><br>Matalin is saying \"this is what families go through\"....well great, that they should be the party that wants to make women's lives unbearable.  Then she says to Donna \"you go, girl\".....UGH!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_16:26:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1987548, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1979540": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Sarah Palin's teenage daughter 5 month pregnant.  Talk about NOT VETTING.<br><a href=\"http://thisweekwithbarackobama.blogspot.com/2008/09/sarah-palins-daughter-bristol-17-is.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Here</a><br><br>Sorry, I keep going back if it was one of Obama's daughters, better yet, this reeks of Britney Spears lil sis having a baby this young on a tween/teen show on Nickolodean.<br><br>We look up to the first and second families of this country as GOLD.  This pregnancy is like putting lipstick on a pig.  Reeks.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_13:20:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "icebergslim", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 14, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1985685": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I don't get the Hillary 2.0 brand. She doesn't compare to her at all. Hillary is a....um, fighter. Palin I can't really see getting too heated.<br><br>Your problem seems to be more with her beliefs than her selection. Nothing wrong with that. <br><br>I think some people are upset with Palin's selection because it shows that liberals may or may not have the lock on feminism that they once had. The optimistic side of me wants to believe that this is the GOP's real attempt to move away from their old guard, and that women are gonna have their seat at the table.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_14:41:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 15, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1982886, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1973398": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Rikyrah:  Subset of the \"Big Picture\":  Palin Could Prompt McCain To Flip Flop On Drilling<br><br><a href=\"http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/08/palin_could_prompt_mccain_flip.php\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/...</a><br><br>Let's hope so!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>This will EXTEND the F/f Lists being developed!!   Yaaaa!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>FOCUS ON \"McANCIENT\"!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_03:03:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1985687": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "this is what must be gotten out to the American woman.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_14:41:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1977814, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1990809": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "WOW.  That is more than below the belt.  Incest?  Really?  There is no evidence to base this statement on whatsoever.  This is a teenage girl we are talking about here.  I just can't even believe this.<br><br>Have things taken an interesting and somewhat bizarre turn?  Yes.  But if people start falling into a pattern of putting innocent people down and making absurd accusations and innuendo,  then are they really any better then the extreme right wing?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_16:42:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "ef781b639c890767ebd1ce99011c3afa", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1987759, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1979547": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Fuckin' A!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_13:21:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1979162, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1985693": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "PREACH", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_14:42:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1977811, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1985694": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "But if she believed as you do-or most liberals do-she'd be just great, wouldn't she?!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_14:42:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1982027, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1973408": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:   Well EXCUSE ME!!  Why doesn't he send a contingency on a \"FIELD TRIP\" to-<br><br>      JJP!!!?????<br><br>ENOUGH VETTING has been done HERE!!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)   Save our tax payer dollars!!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>Whew!  Shaking her head Deep Breaths!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_03:07:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1973393, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1995939": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "'Tis rather convenient at least, particularly if we are to believe that just 6  months ago, the VP pick birthed a baby.  Now, personally, I don't know nothing about birthin' no babies, but doing the math, this would mean that the teen daughter was fornicating and got pregnant a month after - argh!!! <br><br>Never mind, this is too much work and I ain't that deep into really.<br><br>Whatever.<br><br>Oh, and she's apparently announced that <a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/1/172629/5737/286/582473\" rel=\"nofollow\">she hired a lawyer for troopergate</a> 2 weeks ago.<blockquote><b>Palin's lawyer Tom Van Flein has told NBC news he was actually hired two weeks ago before Palin was selected to be John McCain's running mate. And this is a point that he thinks is significant, he represents both Governor Palin and the Office of the Governor because there is no council in house that represents the governor there. In essence, the lawyer's saying that the Associated Press may have been overstating this story a bit by pronouncing that she hired a private practice attorney. </b></blockquote> The quote is a report by Dan Abrams on MSNBC.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_19:23:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1985915, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1994917": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I think he's serious....I'm just not sure he made the best pick.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_17:37:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1994827, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1985820": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "jelana:  \". . lost the baby.\"   Then will she loose the \"FAUX Husband\"????   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>Joining you in the drink of \"cynicism\" - aide!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_14:54:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1983773, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1996972": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I feel you guys have reached a turning point in your elections.  Even Republican bloggers are finally admitting that Obama is not an \"empty suit\".  I've seen a couple people admit that he's earned his place through hard work.  So, I guess the Palin pick has it's upside.<br><br>Barack is out of the news, it gives his team some breathing room, 'cause even though he sometimes gets more coverage, it's typically negative.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_20:56:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1979566": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "icebergslim:  \". . . lipstick on a pig.\"   The imagery -  - PRICELESS!!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)     :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_13:23:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1979540, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1987759": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Lets just hope that baby #1 wasn't a product of incest..  I will be watching the interaction the family has with Mr. Palin closely.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_16:30:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "nickwah22", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1987369, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1976498": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Thank you Craig.  I was literally captivated by the speech, and the history of the moment.  I couldn't take my eyes away because I was just so overwhelmed with what was going on.  I am really starting to believe that we are our own worst enemy.  No joke.  <br><br>This whole, \"appealing to White folks\" argument is one of the main reasons why some people can't get things done in the Black community.   Some Black people have become so lazy with setting up White people and racism in general as the cause for all that ills the Black community, that they are failing to see what is right in front of their eyes.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_10:15:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "ef781b639c890767ebd1ce99011c3afa", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1976415, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1995427": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://mediamatters.org/items/200809010004?f=h_latest\" rel=\"nofollow\">Glenn Beck, Debra Saunders falsely claimed Palin supports benefits for same-sex partners of state employees</a><br><br><i><b>Summary: Syndicated columnist Debra Saunders and CNN Headline News host Glenn Beck both falsely claimed that Gov. Sarah Palin supports benefits for same-sex partners of state employees. In fact, while Palin did veto a bill that would have prevented state officials from granting spousal benefits to same-sex couples, she stated that she did so because the Alaska attorney general had advised her that the bill was unconstitutional, not because she supported spousal benefits for same-sex couples. She has also reportedly said that she would support a ballot question banning benefits for same-sex couples.</i></b>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_18:31:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1974217": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Iraq-US Troops on Alert Ahead of Anbar Handover:<br><br><a href=\"http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080831/wl_mideast_afp/iraqunrestusanbar_080831125747\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080831/wl_mideast...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_04:24:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1995448": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I did notice him playing with his wedding ring when I watched that speech Friday..<br>His wife was right behind him - no shame this man.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_18:33:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "nickwah22", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1994533, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1985652": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "So Sarah just announced her 17 year old daughter is pregnant and will be getting married soon.   So is this the second child from the product of an abstinence upbringing or the first?  This is getting interesting, at least for me now that I am more Independent the Republican.  However my Republican mom (yes black like me) is grasping for every talking point possible to explain Sarah.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_14:38:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1979066": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I haven't lost faith in McCain to govern and lead the nation, though there is a \"shoot first; ask later\" aspect to this pick.<br><br>That's McCain's style, though. Concerning on a few levels, but not unexpected.<br><br>I don't think her selection is disrespectful to women. If anything, it says to me that a woman without name recognition or riches (on the level of the Clintons) can be no less successful. You can respect what Palin represents without liking her...but many women will get wrapped up in her politics and vilify her because they don't agree (we're seeing that already). Unfortunate, but that's our world.<br><br>I'm not as enthusiastic as I was on, say, Friday. But the top half of the ticket still works.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_12:39:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 28, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1978791, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1996477": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hahaha!!<br><br>I heard!! I was dying laughing it was so embarassing for the party!!<br><br>I came to see if anyone saw what she was saying.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_20:05:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1996204, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1987263": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I was thinking the same thing - what in the world is feminist about her.  With her views on abortion, the feminist will quickly turn from Barack to handle her.<br><br>I guess he thinks we are stupid enough to equate palin = woman = feminist = someone who cares about women.  NOT!   Palin = conservative religious  zeal = above her own higher power's decision to grant free will = disaster.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_15:38:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1986105, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1995459": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://starmediapublication.blogspot.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://starmediapublication.blogspot.com/</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_18:35:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "8c05f4343257db5ed6d88eb4eac74a0e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1995393, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1977545": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Excellent points... very well put.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_11:10:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "MotorCityBadBoy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1976435, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1981130": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Thomas Eagleton anyone? <br><br><a href=\"http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0%2C9171%2C879139-1%2C00.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,917...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_13:57:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1979700, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1996493": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Dobson Commends Palins For 'Living Out Pro-Life Values'<br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/01/dobson-comments-palins-fo_n_123007.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/01/dobson...</a><br><br>James, James, James...We in the pro-choice world, tell our children to wait, but if they ever have sex, they must use a condom.   You see James, we prefer the quiet, boring life of avoided pregnancy and std.   We don't want the excitement and roller coaster ride of the \"Abstinence Only\" lifestyle.<br><br>In the words of Bill Clinton, notorious sex fiend.....\"Thanks, but no thanks\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_20:07:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1976528": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "To my mind, Dr. Cornel West and Dr. Juliane Malveaux are the Uppity Negro characters in this tale.<br><br>They need to get a grip.  If they want to continue to exalt the Clintons over Barack Obama, that's their right.<br><br>But I see them.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_10:18:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1976498, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1985749": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Obama's comments on the pregnancy are below:<br><br>At a press availability in Monroe, Mich., Barack Obama said: \"Back off these kinds of stories.\" <br><br>\"I have said before and I will repeat again: People's families are off limits,\" Obama said. \"And people's children are especially off limits. This shouldn't be part of politics. It has no relevance to Gov. Palin's performance as a governor and/or her potential performance as a vice president. So I would strongly urge people to back off these kinds of stories. You know my mother had me when she was 18, and how a family deals with issues and teenage children, that shouldn\u2019t be a topic of our politics.\" <br><br>On charges that his campaign has stoked the story via liberal blogs: <br><br>\"I am offended by that statement. There is no evidence at all that any of this involved us,\" he said. \"Our people were not involved in any way in this, and they will not be. And if I thought there was somebody in my campaign who was involved in something like that, they would be fired.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_14:47:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "JJai", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1985644, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1994454": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Well, sort of.  Leaving her politics aside, I just find it troubling that she is being used as a political tool.  This whole thing makes me uncomfortable.  I don't think the Dems have the lock on \"feminism\" (whatever that means) per se, it just seems like this whole thing is a gimmick.  I truly question whether she would have been picked if she weren't a woman.  I honestly don't think so, which means a Republican candidate doesn't have a problem using a woman to gain votes to get into political office.<br><br>I understand that you view it differently.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_16:49:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "ef781b639c890767ebd1ce99011c3afa", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1985685, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1994788": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I agree with Biden's Momma - Bloody her nose (figuratively speaking of course)!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_17:24:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1977811, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1995482": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "So much for the Abstinence Only illogic that the VP pick claims to espouse.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_18:37:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1987488, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1995326": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/commentary/hc-commentarydavis0831.artaug31,0,3487488.story\" rel=\"nofollow\">No Room At The Table For Black Republicans</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_18:21:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1996622": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Craig,<br><br>Too cool!<br><br>Dude, how tall are you? You are taller than everybody in your photos.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_20:22:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "Texas_Girl_in_LA", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1995256, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1996005": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Ahh....Why deal with all the drama, America?   Isn't the NORMAL Barack Obama and Michelle Obama and their two normal kids looking mighty fine to you?  Isn't the predictably decent, widowed and remarried Joe Biden looking just fine?    Why go through the 3 ringed circus, America?<br><br>SKIP THE DRAMA, VOTE OBAMA!!!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_19:31:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1995939, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1987306": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Lets hope \"The Enquirer\" beat them to it.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_15:41:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1977475, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1996017": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "and lily white skin . . . .", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_19:32:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1987635, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1973491": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "This guy, Drew Westen hits so many notes in this article..it makes my fingers and toes all tingly.   It is chock full of wonderful insights and good advice for the Democratic establishment and O campaign.  Please read the whole thing at the link below if you get a chance to:<br><br>----------------------------<br><b>Brand First, Equivocate Later: The Message of Denver and the Importance of Defining McCain-Palin Before They Define Themselves</b><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/drew-westen/brand-first-equivocate-la_b_122855.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/drew-westen/brand...</a><br><br><blockquote><i>In my book, The Political Brain, I argued that if you do exactly what the Democrats did last week--both inspire voters with your vision of what could be and raise legitimate anger or concern about what your opponent and his party have done or likely will do--you win elections. The latest polling data from Gallup bear that out: Obama went from 2 points behind just before the convention to 8 points ahead, reaching a high for two straight days of 49 to 41 against McCain. The convention reversed the momentum of a dreadful July and August campaign that made every standard Democratic error outlined in the book, starting with the campaign's stubborn refusal to brand McCain before he could brand himself or to respond to his successful efforts to brand Obama--as other, different, empty celebrity, uppity, narcissistic, and elitist.</i></blockquote><br>I saw Obama with fire and blood in his eyes at that Convention.  He was the avenging angel, wearing a breastplate of truth and justice, fighting for the American people....cheesy, I know.  But it tapped into something primitive and yearning.  I want him to continue:<br><blockquote><i>Obama is now poised to break 50 percent in the polls. Whether he does so, and whether he wins or loses in November, will likely depend on whether he, his campaign team, and the Democrats learn the lessons of this convention, or whether they backslide in debates and public statements into the politics of meandering, dispassionate prose; failure to demonstrate toughness, resolve, and, yes, aggression where appropriate; and failure to understand that the best time to shape the public discourse is before the other side has had a chance to \"sell\" its version of truth to the American people. Decades of research in social psychology have demonstrated that two of most important principles of persuasion when people have a choice between options are to get there first--to tell your side of the story--and to inoculate against what the other side is likely to say. Democratic consultants need to read that research--tonight--and stop relying on the same intuitions that have proven wrong in election after election. We are supposed to be the party of science, yet we constantly practice political creationism.</i></blockquote><br>See how he brilliantly frames the opposition to abortion in the case of rape...he says it's the rapist's bill of rights, where the rapist has the right to choose the mother of his child....<br><blockquote><i>Palin may be a woman, but she does not share the agenda of any woman who voted for Hillary Clinton (and Democrats should speak out against the implication that she is picking up where Hillary Clinton, a woman of tremendous stature who could have assumed the role of commander-in-chief in a heartbeat, left off). Rather, the position she and others on the right have articulated gives every rapist the right to pick the mother of his child. That position is tantamount to a Rapist's Bill of Rights, which privileges the rights of rapists and child molesters over the rights of their victims. Those are McCain-Palin's \"family values,\" and they are not mainstream American values. Stan Greenberg and I recently identified seven different messages on abortion that beat a well-crafted, well-branded Republican message about life beginning at conception by 15-20 points, and McCain has just given Democratic and progressive candidates every reason to play offense on abortion this year instead of assuming their usual defensive crouch. In fact, McCain has just forced them to play offense, and they should do so immediately, because the extremist position he and his new running mate would impose by force is offensive to the vast majority of Americans, and it will become the law of the land if the Republicans succeed this week in pulling the heartstrings of the American people with Palin's personal choice in a way that makes them forget that others should have the same choice and may decide differently than she did, and that this should not be a governmental decision.</i></blockquote>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_03:27:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1987318": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:    Yaaaaaa!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)   Whooo!!!   Hoooo!!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_15:42:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1986164, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1996585": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "JJP, its time for yet another new thread! LOLOL!!<br><br><a href=\"http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/members-of-frin.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09...</a><br><br>Confirmed by ABC News that Palin was a member of secessionist group.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_20:17:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1981696": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "99% Sure:  Love it!   :&gt;)  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_14:01:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1977860, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1986176": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ta-Nehisi Coates's take on Malveaux and West <a href=\"http://ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/09/more_thoughts_on_west_obama_and_malveaux.php\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com/archives...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_15:25:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1976415, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1980163": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "What will all of those parents who complained about the example 17 year old Nickelodeon \"Zoey 101\" star Jamie Lynn Spears set?   How about the parents upset over non-pregnant 15 year old Miley Cyrus's sexy Leibovitz shots in Vanity Fair? <br><br><b><i>Obama's vetting team was vetted!</b></i><br><br><i>Lynn Sweet, Chicago Sun Times</i>:  <a href=\"http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/06/caroline_kennedy_and_eric_hold.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/06/carolin...</a><br><br><b> Obama's Veep Vetter Jim Johnson Steps Down After Controversy</b> <br><br><i> After this morning's flurry of controversy over Jim Johnson, one of the committee members selected by Barack Obama to help him choose a running mate, Johnson has stepped down from the position. The former Fannie Mae CEO (and Washington power broker) was under attack from conservative critics from the moment The Wall Street Journal revealed that he had accepted below-market-rate mortgages from Countrywide Financial. At first, Obama defended him, saying it would take too much energy to \"vet the vetters,\" but this afternoon he let Johnson resign.</i><br><br><a href=\"http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2008/06/obamas_vp_vetter_jim_johnson_s.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2008/06/obamas_vp_...</a><br><br><b>McCain camp's response: Jim Johnson Resigns From Obama Camp</b>  <br><br> From the McCain campaign:<br><br>  <b> <i>  \"Jim Johnson's resignation raises serious questions about Barack Obama's judgment.  Selecting the vice presidential nominee is the most important decision a presidential candidate can make and one even Barack Obama has said will 'signal how I want to operate my presidency.'  By entrusting this process to a man who has now been forced to step down because of questionable loans, the American people have reason to question the judgment of a candidate who has shown he will only make the right call when under pressure from the news media.  America can't afford a president who flip-flops on key questions in the course of 24 hours. That's not change we can believe in.\" \u2014McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds</b> </i><br><br><a href=\"http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YTVhNDFhMjhiYTdkYThhZjBjNGEzYjgzN2RmOTRkNDk=\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YTVhND...</a><br><br>Obama would have <b>NEVER</b> gotten away with selecting a VP with a 17-yr-old unmarried pregnant daughter.  And there is no way in hell he would be where he is today if he had an unmarried teen daughter.<br><br>NYT: <a href=\"http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/01/palins-17-year-old-daughter-is-pregnant/?hp\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/01/p...</a><br><br>Hypocrisy, hypocrisy, hypocrisy...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_13:46:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1979540, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1995019": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Damn they were stupid! LOL!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_17:49:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1987492, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1979162": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "lololol<br><br>They say her daughter is 5 months pregnant.  I don't believe it.  I think the initial reaction was true.  This is just too funny.  I want to see how the conservative base reacts to this tidbit.  RAOTFLMAO", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_12:49:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 10, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1978778, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1980700": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I agree.  I don't think however, Joe should do it condescendingly.  He shouldn't belittle her....as she may try to do with him.  (See video's of her debating posted in open thread).   Joe strikes me as a gentleman, now that I've seen his family.  He's not going to bluster and put her down.  I think he will forcefully stick to the issues.  Let her be the one to be sexist and insulting.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_13:52:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1977811, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1983773": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "With the REPUGS, you can never separate truth from fiction.  This could be fiction.  Months from now we may hear that Bristol has lost the baby.  At this point, I am suspect of anything which comes from them.  Who knows?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_14:20:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "jelana", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1979540, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1977630": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yes, it was very good. Very real. And they work well as a team. Just makes me want to work even harder to get them elected.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_11:20:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "Texas_Girl_in_LA", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1975925, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1997189": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "James Carville is on Larry King using Props!!!!   <br><br>OMG, he's showing a picture of the building in Wasilla that Sara worked out of(not sure, didn't catch that part)  He said it looked like a bakery or something like that.  Then the Repub spokeswoman said she thought that was offensive to women.   Carville says he doesn't know how to tell her this, but he supported a woman for President.<br><br>Sigh, now they're taking up Hillary's stance.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_21:21:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1996064": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The GOP must be poor as Job's turkey because I know plenty of black college students they could have rented out for cheap.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_19:36:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1995312, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1983268": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "TRW:  Co-signing!   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_14:17:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1982886, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1994533": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "John McCain's wandering eyes...............<br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RN5xbWtNSU&feature=related\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RN5xbWtNSU&feat...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_16:58:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1986855": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Most succinct comment on that video:<br><br><blockquote><i>Ichibanjohnjon (1 hour ago) <br><br>I don't get these muthafuckas at all</i></blockquote><br><br>LOL!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_15:32:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1976172, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1987369": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "And they're gonna force that child to get married to save face...po thang....and I'm still convinced this is baby #2.....its textbook, that cry for attention wasn't met with baby #1. I've seen this entire episode play out before with a close friend and her family.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_15:47:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1987354, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1985834": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Anovelista:  Good analysis!!     U R good!!    :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_14:55:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1980163, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1995565": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "yeah, I posted the same thing over on DKos and some white chick ran in and said that it actually does make it untrue.  So I left it alone because, liberal or not, white folks always have to be right and they always defend their own.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/1/144946/9115/461/582298\" rel=\"nofollow\"> Obama: 'Back Off'</a><blockquote><b>At a press avail in Monroe, Mich., Barack Obama on Palin: \"Back off these kinds of stories.\"<br><br>\"I have said before and I will repeat again: People's families are off limits,\" Obama said. \"And people's children are especially off-limits. This shouldn't be part of politics. It has no relevance to Gov. Palin's performance as a governor and/or her potential performance as a vice president. So I would strongly urge people to back off these kinds of stories. You know my mother had me when she was 18 and how a family deals with issues and teenage children, that shouldn\u2019t be a topic of our politics.\" <br><br>He also vows to fire any campaign staffer that stokes this story, and obviously isn't happy with the implication his campaign had anything to do with the story:<br><br>\"I am offended by that statement. There is no evidence at all that any of this involved us,\" he said. \"Our people were not involved in any way in this, and they will not be. And if I thought there was somebody in my campaign who was involved in something like that, they would be fired.\" </b></blockquote>So <b>Ruth</b>'s post yesterday was accurate in the sense that any blowback re a Katie Holmes type faked pregnancy and the VP pick would be on the Obama/Biden campaign.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_18:46:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1987369, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1979700": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "IF McSame knew Grandma Alaska's daughter was pregnant before he offered her the VP slot, it's real cute for him to announce this in the middle of a hurricane.  The story is not being covered on television at all!<br><br>I still say Grandma Alaska will be off the ticket before the convention ends.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_13:33:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "60266805bc0d9559a62514e1e769b750", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1994553": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Damn, remember I said she was holding the baby like a shield?   Damn, now I see that footage again, and she was using the baby and blanket to hide her stomach!<br><br>Lesson: always trust your intuition.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_17:01:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1987548, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1987389": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Ha!  good one.<br><br>I was thinking about your earlier comment about Bristol looking heavy around the waist.. when the news broke about her pregnancy.  They say she's 5 months pregnant.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_15:50:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1987263, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1973573": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This comes under the heading:  They are dirt bags to each other  [RNC & Limpballs]:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/08/rnc_mulls_limbaugh_abortion_ja.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog...</a><br><br><br>RNC Mulls Limbaugh Abortion Jab<br><br>Cliff Notes version[thanks to ?]<br><br>Flush Limpballs email was intercepted by the RNC and considered for a You tube clip.<br>Limpball was doing a \"MAKE BELIEVE RIFT\" = LIE=NOT FUNNY using Mr. Obama in a MAKE BELIEVE interview of Palin.  <br><br>SICK!  TWISTED!   DESPICABLE!!!<br><br>Conservative radio commentator Rush Limbaugh boosted Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's pro-life position and mocked Barack Obama on his radio show yesterday with a make-believe riff in which Obama asked Palin \"When you found out your baby would be born with Down syndrome, did you consider killing it before or after the due date?\" <br><br>Limbaugh's \"humor\" caught the fancy of the Republican National Committee, which, in an internal e-mail, proposed using the bit in a YouTube clip.<br><br>The e-mail, which was sent to RNC Communications Director Danny Diaz, and mistakenly to a Tribune reporter, was titled \"wow...good YouTube potential...\"<br><br>The rest of it reads:<br><br>\"Rush, just now imagining a series of questions that Obama can ask Palin, if they ever meet:<br><br>One about how to shoot a gun...<br>One about do you bait your hooks when you go fishing?<br><br>And then, this (paraphrase):<br>\"when you learned that you were going to have a Down Syndrome baby, did you consider aborting it, before or after the due date?\"\"<br><br><br>Here's a PDF of the e-mail: RNC email<br><br>Palin, named to yesterday by McCain to fill out the GOP ticket as his running mate, has been on Limbaugh's radar screen in the veepstakes since February, when he noted that she was on the right side of the issues and \"a babe\" besides.<br><br>In a statement, an RNC spokesman said, \"A staffer with separate responsibilities made a poor recommendation that was not heeded. The individual has been spoken to and this will not occur again.\"<br><br>The staffer who wrote the message said the obvious -- that it was sent to the wrong person -- but otherwise declined to discuss it. <br><br>Diaz asked The Swamp not to post the message and said the RNC had not and would not act on the suggestion, but otherwise declined to talk about it on the record.<br><br>There's a time to honor requests to disregard misdirected email, but this isn't one of them.<br><br>The note is a good illustration of how campaigns really work and helps to explain why many people think the national political discourse is noxious.<br><br>The official McCain campaign, and the official Obama campaign for that matter, generally take the high road, rarely getting down and dirty. <br><br>Limbaugh and his ilk in talk radio and the blogosphere, on the right and left, are, officially, independent actors. So when they veer into coarse or offensive commentary, campaigns shrug, 'What can we do? We don't control them.'<br><br>They could repudiate ugly comment. But that rarely happens.<br><br>What does happen, as yesterday's errant RNC notes illustrates, is campaigns look for a benefit, furtively.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_03:41:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1982278": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "It'd go over quite well, I think.<br><br>That's at the main gate to the base in Guantanamo Bay. The building marks the entrance into Cuban territory (the sign says \"territory free of America).", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_14:08:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1981072, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1987400": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Exactly!!!!!!!!!!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_15:50:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1979700, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1979725": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "MSM criticized the Obamas for allowing their girls to be interviewed (with them) by Access Hollywood.  Talk about bad parenting, Grandma Alaska is flying all over the country campaigning for an office for which she is not qualified while her children are obviously left to fend for themselves.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_13:35:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "60266805bc0d9559a62514e1e769b750", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1979540, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1995598": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I'm not sure if that makes it better or worse.<br><br>The levee that's in danger of breaking is a private one-meaning not owned by the city or the federal government. Most people in the area-some 2 million-have already been evacuated in what's being suggested is the largest evacuation operation in the country's history.<br><br>And, yeah, I know that. Just as I know that several hundred of your country's servicemen have given their lives in the War on Terror. I can only hope that you afford them the measure of respect that you refuse to afford to my brothers and sisters in uniform.<br><br>But somehow, I doubt that you do.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_18:49:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1995184, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1985882": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Soledad mentioned it earlier.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_14:58:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1979700, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1987420": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Am I the only one who finds the McCain-Palin ticket to be the most trailer park, backwoods type ticket ever?? Seriously, it doesn't matter how much money they have, the McCain's reek of an episode of Mama's Family. Now throw in the Palin clan, and geez.....its like the Beverly Hillibillies go to Washington.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_15:52:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1985886": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "JJai:   and there you are!!!   :&gt;)  :&gt;)<br><br>Good post!!  :&gt;)   Thanks JJai!    :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_14:59:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1985749, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1973600": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<b>the position she and others on the right have articulated gives every rapist the right to pick the mother of his child. That position is tantamount to a Rapist's Bill of Rights, which privileges the rights of rapists and child molesters over the rights of their victims. Those are McCain-Palin's \"family values,\" and they are not mainstream American values.</b><br><br>That is brilliant - and true.  Just say, \"You oppose abortion even in the case of rape or incest? That means you are giving every rapist and child molester the right to pick the mother of his child.\"  Very useful in a campaign commercial with a woman doing the voice over.<br><br>Also, from here on in, it is important to never mention Palin without mentioning McCain's judgment and cynicism.  McCain's choice speaks volumes about his character and judgment.  So much for \"Country First\" - more like \"Country Last!\"  Also, don't evangelicals put God First not country?  That is one of the worst slogans ever - another cheap shot at Michelle Obama's alleged \"gaffe\". <br><br>Another helpful source for defining McCain and his VP choice - this Alaska-based blog someone linked yesterday called Mudflats.  <a href=\"http://mudflats.wordpress.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://mudflats.wordpress.com/</a><br><br>The blogs are valuable since the official Alaska Governor site has been scrubbed along with her original wiki entries.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_03:44:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1973491, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1994593": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I don't know....would a person with Palin's resume been picked were they not a woman? Probably not; that would've led you to Pawlenty or Jindal. <br><br>I guess the reason I'm not seeing the offensiveness of it all is because other women's names for floated as McCain's VP. My wife sees it for what it is, and she's not offended (and she's about as apolitical as they come). <br><br>Would you be as upset if some other woman-one of the Whitmans, Fiorina-had been chosen?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_17:06:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1994454, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1987426": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yea...Palin is a great member of the NRA since her daughter will now be having a shotgun wedding....haha....sorry, Obama does not have to touch it and he should not but I will. The hypocrisy stinks !!<br><br>I love all the excuses that people are making for them.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_15:53:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1976172": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "apparently cornel west and dr. juliane malveux hated barack's speech (appearance on tavis smiley's show). do they have a point?<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdtNi_kVQd0&eurl=http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=519441353&ref=nf\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdtNi_kVQd0&eurl...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_09:44:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "da94bccc8940d46ec323250f1f58ee38", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 11, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1978733": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Good morning, <b>Miranda</b>, and thanks. It's on The Lazio Fallacy diary.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_12:04:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1977906, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1996146": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Surely America doesn't want the Clampetts and the Ewings running the country...can they?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_19:44:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1996005, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1977918": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Barack Obam on Stephanie Tubbs Jones.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_11:53:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "fd35c4322b63b2dab06baea3e23047cf", "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}, "1996150": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "No, she wouldn't.  Maybe you're intentionally being obtuse about this, but the simple fact is that she is unqualified to even be governor let alone run on the presidential ticket.  She does not have the bonafides.  I guarantee you that if any other neo-con woman with the experience of say a Whitman (even with her baggage) or a Hutchison or Bay Buchanan had been chosen, not only would the discussion be totally different, but his choice would demonstrate to 'liberals' and neo-cons alike that, perhaps, McCaint does indeed have the gravitas, the temperament and the judgment to be president.<br><br>Not vetting her, being bullied into choosing her by his moral majority/fundie religious right enemy, Dobson, shows that he is weak that, 30 years later, he is now a POW of a different sort - he's a Prisoner of the Wingnuts.<br><br>You can't always break everything down into an us v. them dynamic - politics isn't always that clear cut.  Sometimes it's just about quality and qualifications, no matter the differences in ideology. <br><br>She ain't qualified and she got the wonk eye of crazy too, with bucked saucer sized eyes just like the runaway bride of a few years ago, the one who claimed to have been ravished by a Mexican man.  I'll bet she was a repug too.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_19:44:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1985694, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1980794": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "TRW:   This post is Soooo good!!      Cogent analysis!!!  :&gt;)  <br><br>I tried to pick my \"favorite\" point that you posed!  :&gt;)  <br><br>NEVER MIND!!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)  Co-signing ALL!!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>  Thanks!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)    :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_13:53:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1978791, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1985915": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "5 months.....I'm skeptical.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_15:01:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1979162, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1995132": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Crackhead McCain and Laura Bush are speaking on hurricane relief efforts and a levee in Plaquemines (sp) Parish is breaking as they speak.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_18:01:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "60266805bc0d9559a62514e1e769b750", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1997034": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "99% Sure:  Thank you!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)  Appreciate this information!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_21:02:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1995778, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1977881": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "???<br><br>Lord, deliver me.<br><br>That is all.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_11:50:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1975069, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1999233": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "USAToday/Gallup poll<br>By UrbanAsh - September 1, 2008, 10:16PM<br><br><br><br>In the head-to-head race between the candidates, Obama now leads McCain by 50% to 43%. Last week, the Gallup poll had them tied at 44% to 43%.<br><br>On personal characteristics, Obama eliminated McCain\u2019s advantage as \u201cstrong and decisive leader\u201d, with a slight majority who now say this characteristic applies more to Obama: 46% to 44%. Before the convention, McCain held an 8-point advantage.<br><br>Obama now has a 13-point advantage with voters who see him as \u201csomeone who shares your values\u201d over McCain. Before the convention, only a 6-point advantage.<br><br><br>Obama is also viewed as the more trustworthy of the two, with an 8-point advantage over McCain. Before the convention, the two were tied.<br><br><br>He has also eliminated McCain\u2019s advantage on \u201chandling Iraq\u201d, with 47% now preferring Obama, and 46% McCain. Before the convention, McCain had a 9-point advantage.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_23:34:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "4d9312cd58c7caeb087835daea9d59b6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1979542": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Arianna Huffington weighs in:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/saving-the-gop-and-the-un_b_122948.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffingto...</a><br>Saving The GOP and the UNBEARABLE Lightness of Being Sarah Palin<br><br>Favorite line [among many]:  \"Palin is notable for what she DOESN\"T BRING:    A TRACK RECORD!!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)     :&gt;)         <br><br>Brrrrrrrrrrr!   Please hand me my FUR JACKET!!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>Oh wait. . .. . That was my \"fake\" one wasn't it?? :&gt;)    :&gt;)   :&gt;)    My \"real\" one was given BACK to the animal!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_13:20:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1994630": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I feel like the majority of people take what they get from the \"leaders\" of our country.  If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it probably is a duck; regardless of what they want to call it.  It doesn't smell right to me.<br><br>This race has been extremely skeptical of everything Obama because he was such an \"unknown.\"  This woman comes out of nowhere with a very questionable family life and no one is supposed to comment on it because it's \"off limits?\"  Why wasn't Michelle off limits but Cindy was?<br><br>Calling it like I see it, but I can understand your p.o.v.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_17:09:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "nickwah22", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1990809, "depth": 4, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1974160": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Comparing Careers:   Obama Leads McCain in Total Votes Won<br>Again, this is a comparison of LIFE TIME CAREERS:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.jedreport.com/2008/08/obama-leads-mccain-in-total-vo.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.jedreport.com/2008/08/obama-leads-mc...</a><br><br>These stats are interesting considering that \"McAncient\" has had more years in his career!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_04:03:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1987474": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Nickwah22:   On another post, it was reported that SHE doesn't \"believe\" in birth control i.e., condoms. etc.] EVEN within marriage!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>Whew!   Shaking her head Deep Breaths!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_15:57:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1986150, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1987475": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Um, no you're not.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_15:57:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1987420, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1978778": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Well folks it turns out Palin's daughter is pregant:  now and will be marrying the baby's daddy.<br><a href=\"http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN2944356420080901\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN294...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_12:09:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "ruthdfw", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 11, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1995674": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yes, my Gen X and Gen Y family and friends are fascinated when I tell them the story of Thomas Eagleton.  Now you know he should have told them that he had been in what was then widely known as the insane asylum. He wasn't deeply vetted either and McGovern wanted someone who wasn't a 'name' senator, unlike McCaint who allowed the neo-con moral majority leader(s) and that fat a** drug addict (Limbo) to choose his running mate.<br><br>I was in the 11th grade that year.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_18:56:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1981130, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1987488": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "So Palin's daughter is pregnant? COME ON! This little blurb from an AP article about this tells the TRUE tale:<br><br><i><b>John McCain's running mate Sarah Palin said Monday that her 17-year-old unmarried daughter is five months pregnant, an announcement campaign aides said was aimed at rebutting Internet rumors that Palin's youngest son, born in April, was actually her daughter's.<br><br>A statement released by the campaign said that Bristol Palin will keep her baby and marry the child's father. Bristol Palin's baby is due in late December.<br></i></b>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_15:59:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1985956": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I get the impression that Grandpa Alaska is not that smart.  He doesn't really look like he'd be a public speaker.<br><br>When Grandma Alaska was running for Mayor (I believe) she told voters and the press that her husband was going to stay home to take care of the kids.  Apparently, that only lasted for a year or so.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_15:04:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "60266805bc0d9559a62514e1e769b750", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1985082, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1997126": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Sara implicated in another firing?<br><br>The Reform Candidate?<br><a href=\"http://www.washingtonindependent.com/3671/the-reform-candidate\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.washingtonindependent.com/3671/the-r...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_21:14:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1982886": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "How is the pick not disrespectful to women though?  I'm not knocking the fact that she is relatively unknown, or that her story is atypical in politics (with regards to having name recognition, money, and power to get elected), I think that is great because it shows that those barriers may finally be coming down;  what I am knocking is the fact that she and McCain are trying to brand her as Hillary 2.0.  <br><br>I can reconcile the two.  Female governor of Alaska--I say more power to her--gives young women hope that they to can become elected to office.  But leaving that aside, as I must because I do not subscribe to identity politics, her views on abortion, sex-ed education, and lack of views on foreign policy leave much to be desired.  I guess its the other side of the coin with you and Obama.  You have discussed your admiration for the way he has built his political organization and the fact that he is making history, but it doesn't change the differences that you have with his policy positions.<br><br>Why should it be any different for this woman?  I guess I just find it interesting that some of the same people that weren't willing to give Obama an inch on anything just a couple of days ago, want me to close my eyes and ears to the reality of what Palin stands for.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_14:14:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "ef781b639c890767ebd1ce99011c3afa", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 17, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1979066, "depth": 3, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1978791": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "D I read your blog.  As of right now, I am exhausted on Palin, but I feel compelled to respond to your post.  I have nothing against this woman, but by picking her as VP this gives me a better understanding of who McCain is.<br><br>1) His \"Country First\" theme is a crock.  By picking Palin, he did not put country first, he put politics first.  And it makes him seem that much more hypocritical by accusing Obama of willing to \"lose a war to win an election.\"  <br><br>2) He doesn't value the role of the vice presidency.  I cannot reconcile your candidate's previous statements about the seriousness of the issues we face as a country with choosing a candidate that really has no stances on said issues--and in the words of his former surrogate, \"will learn at his knee.\" <br><br>3) He doesn't respect women.  By pushing the theme that Palin is picking up where Hillary left off is insulting to my intelligence.  I get that she is the darling of the Republican party; but she is a poor man's Hillary and you and I both know it.  What McCain has basically said to women voters is any uterus will do. <br><br>4) He makes decisions in a reckless fashion.  How do you reconcile the fact that as one commenter put it, some people have spent more time getting to know their new digital camera then McCain spent getting to know Palin.  He literally met her maybe once or twice before.  And now he calls them \"soulmates\"?!?   <br><br>As this race has unfolded, I have rejected the constant theme that it is Obama that is the risky choice, since apparently we \"know\" what a McCain presidency will look like.  As of this weekend, I now have a better understanding of both candidates.  Obama chose a running mate that will help him govern the country and hit the ground running, even if it cut against his campaign slogan of \"change\".  McCain chose a running mate to appeal to his base and pick up votes by playing gender politics.  He is no more a \"maverick\" than I am.  <br><br>I no longer have faith in his ability to govern this country.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_12:10:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "ef781b639c890767ebd1ce99011c3afa", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 30, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1977801, "depth": 1, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1974184": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This comes under the heading:   \"They're GRRRRRRREAT!!!\":<br><br><a href=\"http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/08/obama_lands_on_frosted_flakes.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog...</a><br><br>Posted August 31, 2008 8:34 PM<br> <br>by James Oliphant<br><br>BATTLE CREEK, Mich--We are, of course, in the home of Kellogg's.<br><br>Thus:<br><br>Obama spokesperson Jen Psaki models the Obama-Biden cereal box<br><br>Oh Well!   I didn't get the pic!   One day!!  I'm going to get this!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_04:11:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1987354": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Get this....<br><br>SARAH PALIN'S DAUGHTER, 17 YEARS OF AGE IS UNWED AND PREGNANT...<br><br>Can you imagine if this was one of the Obama girls at 17?<br><br>::shakes ones head::", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_15:45:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "46a57329173ec4a42efc2227298af07f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1996204": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "OMG.....Campbell is killing it!!!!<br><br>She asked Tucker Bounds to give ONE decision that Palin has made for the National Guard!!!!<br><br>He kept going back to Obama!!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_19:51:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1995165": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "nickwah22:   ANNNNNNDD!!!!!  Where da People Of Color!????   :&gt;)    :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>Waaaay Just Kidding!!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)     But I was looking for some well -respected [by the RNC]  N(o)BRA members!:&gt;)   :&gt;)   Guess they are still NOT getting any SUPPORT!!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_18:04:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1994829, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1995184": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<blockquote><i>Are you so viscerally partisan that you believe that God would send a storm to benefit a political party or candidate?</i></blockquote><br><br>I am Atheist, D...I don't believe in god as you understand it.   So, your question doesn't make sense.<br><br>I do have an interest in symbolism, mythology, consciousness and some aspects of quantum physics.  And, it is through those lenses that I sometimes observe events.<br><br>Being partisan is not a bad thing when you're on the side of justice and fairness.  The hurricanes have much to do with energy policy and global warming.  The flooding has to do with lack of funding for adequate levees.<br><br>I won't thank god...but I was thankful to see the headline that Gustav had delivered only a passing glance to New Orleans.  However, it was just reported that a levee is breaking as we speak.  They are rushing to evacuate everyone.<br><br>As for your nationalism...You do know that Canadians took Americans into their homes when planes were grounded after 9/11, don't you?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_18:07:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1994742, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1986894": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "nickwah22:   LOL!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)   :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_15:32:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1986100, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1998774": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Fanstastic, what a great time you had and you met so many people. Next time, Barak, Joey, Al and John.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_22:34:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "Lilytiger", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1995256, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1994481": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<blockquote><i>It's unfortunate that this has been made into another moment for political posturing, but we know that God is on our nation's side, and not that of any political party.</BLOCKQUOTE></I><br>So, god takes sides with Nations, but not with political parties?<br><br>Is god on Iran's side?</i></blockquote>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_16:53:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1975784, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1995709": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://swamphermit.wordpress.com/2008/09/01/pds-%e2%80%93-%e2%80%9cpalin-derangement-syndrome%e2%80%9d/\" rel=\"nofollow\">P.D.S. \u2013 \u201cPalin Derangement Syndrome\u201d</a>. That is a new disease, and it has spread quicker than B.D.S. did.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_19:00:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "Karmi", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1987521": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Lol.... <br><br>They made it seem like the black community is somehow aberrant with sexual matters and teenage pregnancy.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_16:02:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1987426, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1994827": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I have heard both names floated around as better picks then Palin, but honestly I don't know much about either so while I may still feel like there is some pandering going on, if their resume stacked up, at least I would think that McCain was serious about the choice.  <br><br>But honestly, I guess I am still smarting from the primary.  I respect Hillary as a competent public servant.  But, I was really ticked off by a lot of the sexism accusations and the \"feminism\" mantle that was being displayed.  It just seemed like in the name of both, some people were willing to overlook some pretty ridiculous behavior and ultimately it undermines the whole argument about empowering women.  <br><br>I just don't want to be used in that way.  Pick me for the job because you think that I am the best and most competent, not because I have a uterus and you believe I can generically relate to all women.  The same should go for political candidates.  <br><br>I just think that identity politics can be a dangerous thing.  Look at that whole Nikki Tinker situation--Black and a woman, but clearly not the person to do the job.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_17:29:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "ef781b639c890767ebd1ce99011c3afa", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1994593, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1995205": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "nickwah22:  This statement FITS with CPL's new thread -  DOUBLE STANDARDS!!  Good one!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_18:09:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1994630, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1987528": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LMAO @ the previous comment...<br><br>\"WHO'S THE BABY MOMMA NOW?\"<br><br>Hilarious......keep it going!!<br><br>I'm sorry but this is a disgustingly poor image for the Palin's. What? Sarah was too busy induldging herself in her family scandal to tell her daughter have him strap on a condom?! No it's NOT OKAY to be 17 and pregnant. Teenage pregnancy is not a positive statement, so the family should stop sugar coating it like it is!<br><br>Very trashy Bristol!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_16:03:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "46a57329173ec4a42efc2227298af07f", "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}, "1977801": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com/2008/09/01/thoughts-on-mccainpalin/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Thoughts on McCain/Palin</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_11:42:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 31, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1996747": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Tell that to the people who elected her; obviously they thought she was qualified.<br><br>Some people-as I said earlier-would've hated any conservative woman being put on the ticket, as their belief system (whatever it may be) wouldn't have made them feel all warm and fuzzy inside. The discussion would still be the same as the one we're having now: liberals would be all up in arms about who had whose baby and who's pregnant now.<br><br>Now, I'll admit that I'm not following the McCain campaign as closely as I once was (for multiple reasons), but I haven't seen/heard/read anything to suggest that he was bullied into picking Palin by anyone. It seems like he made the decision on his own; that he feels that she's qualified. People will agree or disagree <b>based on the issues as presented to them.</b> And if they don't feel she is, then they won't vote for McCain.<br><br>If all the case against Sarah Palin consists of is her lack of experience, so be it (though I'm not sure that's the best argument to make, all things considered). But from where I sit, the hatred (call it what it is) seems to be more often than not based in ideology that on quality/qualifications.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_20:33:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1996150, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1999820": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  Ending the day with a God Bless You - to all affected by the storms!!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-02_00:48:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1996238": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ha!...In Canada, black is white, and up is down.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_19:54:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1995289, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1995215": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "There you go trying to read my mind again...<br><br>Respond...or not.   And, I'll try not to cry myself to sleep over that one.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_18:09:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1994783, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1987537": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Texas:   Me  2!    :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_16:04:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1977630, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1977811": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Good morning all! Welcome back, <b>CraigH</b>.<br><br>I'm a little riled so excuse my abruptness but when white people talk about how Biden should be gentle with McCaint's VP pick at the debate, it gets me riled.  This entitled white women because she's a beautiful delicate flower program is way out of hand.  I posted the following comment over on DKos.<br><br><blockquote><b>Bullfeathers. If she were a black woman - or Latino - man or woman - this sensitivity to her gender (\"don't go after the bunny?\") wouldn't even be a consideration, not even on this site. This is what gets me riled about white people in relation to white women.<br><br>She's playing in the major, MAJOR leagues. What was it HRC said during the primaries about Obama - if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen, as she threw the kitchen sink at him?<br><br>This coddling of white chicks even when they're out of their league or rude or nasty or just plain being the typical entitled white chick always infuriates me because I know - my personal and professional experience has taught me - that not one white person would be carefully strategizing as to how to handle a black man or woman with as few credentials as she possesses, even if, by some modern American miracle they found themselves in her place. <br><br>White chicks - especially those perceived to be attractive - are allowed to get away with saying and doing most anything no matter how ignorant and offensive and degrading, while other whites apologize for them, treating them as delicate flowers even in the rough and tumble of politics.<br><br>If, say, the repug version of a Michelle Obama had been the choice, there would be one of this strategizing on how Biden must best approach her during the debate so as not to hurt her itty-bitty feelings or appear to be crushing her, because she's a gentle flower whose womanhood must be respected.  This is all utter crap and always has been.<br><br>Joe should kick the feces out of her in the debates. She's unqualified to be VP under any circumstances, and that needs to be pointed out.  She's competing in the big boys' arena, she's a longstanding member of the NRA, she hunts moose and probably caribou, so she at least ought to understand blood sports - and politics is definitely a blood sport. If she doesn't get it or if it is too rough for her, then that's just too bad.  After all, she didn't have to accept the offer to be McCaint's running mate.</b></blockquote>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_11:43:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1978702": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Be safe, and hope everyone is well.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_12:00:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1977883, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1977814": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Check this out. Looks like trouble might be brewing.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/01/palin-on-abortion-id-oppo_n_122924.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/01/palin-...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_11:44:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "Independent2008", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1987492": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "********VIDEO**********<br><br>This is so damned funny!!!<br>\t<br>P.U.M.A. Hunting<br><a href=\"http://www.236.com/blog/w/katie_halper/puma_hunting_8606.php\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.236.com/blog/w/katie_halper/puma_hun...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_16:00:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1987548": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I have always been able to tell when a woman is pregnant.  I've seen pictures of Sarah Palin from an april event, and she wasn't pregnant; sure she had a belly bump but her face showed no indication at all that she was with child.  Earlier pictures of her where someone noted that the hairstyle was from the eighties definitely show pregnancy througout her face and the rest of her body.  A woman 44 years of age would no doubt show pregnancy with an increased weight gain and fatigue that a younger woman would not. <br><br>Also, she would have been advised to take it easy for six weeks after that delivery that she didn't have and she would still show that weight at her age.  I don't know who Palin and McCain think they're bullshitting.  Women accross the country know better than this story.<br><br>She is the grandmother of that child.  A woman is more likely to become pregnant in the six weeks following a delivery and without some form of birth control or abstinence usually does because they are in a europhic, hormonal loving state and usually engage in with relations with the husband or father of the child.  It is more likely that a teenager not thinking of the outcome would do this and this is the reason for so many repeat teen pregnancies.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_16:06:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1987389, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1987552": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "VERY TRASHY  <br><br>TRAILER PARK-ISH<br><br>BEVERLY GOES HILLIBILLIES<br><br>COULDN'T OF SAID IT BETTER", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_16:06:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "205ba3f4c0a275c131cab21db9893fba", "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}, "1996257": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I remember you said she was holding the baby like a shield.  I guess they guessed we figured it out so they went ahead and admitted it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_19:56:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1994553, "depth": 10, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1998819": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://starmediapublication.blogspot.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://starmediapublication.blogspot.com/</a>", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_22:39:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "8c05f4343257db5ed6d88eb4eac74a0e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1997189, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1986020": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Here's a comment by MOSPDC that sums it up:<br><br>MOSPDC See Profile I'm a Fan of MOSPDC  I'm a fan of this user   permalink<br><br>Let me make sure I got this straight. SHE is trying to enforce a policy that she can't enforce in her own household? Lady you need to govern your house before trying to manage mine.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_15:11:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1977814, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1996198": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Stop with the spamming.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_19:50:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1995459, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1975784": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Prayers to all in the areas affected by Hurricane Gustav. It's unfortunate that this has been made into another moment for political posturing, but we know that God is on our nation's side, and not that of any political party.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_08:51:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1987565": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yeah...they're ....ghetto.<br><br>I thought so, but didn't want to say it, having used up my \"bitch\" points.<br><br>But really, does Cindy look like the cool, classy blond heiress?  Naw, she looks like new money in very poor taste....the big, overblond hair and harsh makeup.   And John with the nasty jokes about Chelsea and the \"C\" word... UGH.<br><br>Isn't it ironic, though?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_16:07:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1987420, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1996286": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "saw it! It was great.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_19:58:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "JJai", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1996204, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1994742": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Are you so viscerally partisan that you believe that God would send a storm to benefit a political party or candidate?<br><br>Really?<br><br>I guess I could play this stupid game and say that maybe the dhimmicratic governor during Katrina-oh, let's forgive her and just blame Bush-had to be voted out and replaced by a Republican in order to get a decent response plan in place. <br><br>See how stupid that sounds?<br><br>But, fear not-most of my countrymen will thank God that the storm does not seem to be as bad as feared and have the intelligence to leave the politics out of it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_17:20:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1994481, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1996279": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "*****Video******<br><br>Good questions, Arianna <br><br>Arianna On Cindy McCain's RNC Comments (VIDEO)<br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/01/arianna-on-cindy-mccains_n_123031.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/01/ariann...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_19:58:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1986040": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You know I think we are up and arms but as long as Trig is not confirmed as Bristol's mom then conservatives will still be pleased. They will say that family has ultimately made the best decisions, parenthood, and etc. in face of indiscretions. Twice the family chose life. The base will eat that up.<br><br>The scope of the campaign for a while anyway is firmly focused on abortion, abstinence, and etc. Not necessarily a good place for dems... <br><br>So far, I think it is still a win for McCain.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_15:12:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "JJai", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1985886, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1979386": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Who's a baby momma now?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_13:07:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "60266805bc0d9559a62514e1e769b750", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1995774": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm not trying to soothe you.<br><br>There you have me, because \"levee\" and \"private\" don't mix, in my philosophy.  Levees and flood control are public affairs.  And, no one should expect private entities to protect the public good.  It's creating some cognitive dissonance.<br><br>\"War on Terror\" is not part of Canadian consciousness.   I think of our soldiers more as peacekeepers rather than waging active war per se.<br><br>You are relegating warriors to the ranks of the emotionally needy.   They care not what I think.  I suspect it is your own neediness; therefore, speak only for yourself.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_19:06:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1995598, "depth": 5, "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": "3963374", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "21630", "hash": -7905640449299683544}, "thread": {"days_alive": 0, "slug": "monday_open_thread_jack_amp_jill_politics", "paginate": false, "num_pages": 1, "num_posts": 194, "per_page": 0, "total_posts": 0, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 3963374, "queued": false}, "reactions_limit": 10, "context": {"show_reply": true, "use_fb_connect": true, "forum_facebook_key": "bd6a8bc56f8eb204984f34b6fefe228d", "use_yahoo": false, "subscribed": false, "use_twitter_signin": true, "use_openid": false, "realtime_speed": 5000}, "reactions_start": 0, "settings": {"debug": false, "disqus_url": "http://disqus.com", "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"}, "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"};
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		this.log(' seqno: ' + seqno + ' len: ' + hash.substring(4, 24).length + ' (' + hash.substring(4, 24) + ')');
		this.log(' data: ' + data + ' len: ' + data.length);

		this._lastSeqno = seqno;

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

				this._accumMsg = '';

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

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

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

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

};

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

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

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

	if (packetNum === 0) {

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

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

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

	if (num_packets === packetNum) {

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

	this._lastSeqno++;

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

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

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

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

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

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


	this.receiverId = receiverId;
};

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

	var listener = function(e) {

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


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

		that.receiveCallback(data);
	};

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

PostMessagePacket.prototype.send = function(msg) {



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


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

	var packet;
	if (!msg) {

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

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

var JsonRpc = function() {

	this.ids = {};

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

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

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

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

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

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

				json = 'null';
				break;
		}

		return json;
	};

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		send_func(this.objectToJSON(request));

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

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


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



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


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


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

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

	this.packetHandler = null;


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


	var _createReceiverForFragmentPacket = function() {

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

			that._ready = true;
		};

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

		that.receiver.onload = receiver_onload;







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

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

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

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


	var _createReceiverForPostMessage = function() {

		var receiver_onload = function() {

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

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


		ParentMessenger['_receiver_onload_' + receiverId] = receiver_onload;

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

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

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

};

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	var sendFunc = function(msg) {

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


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


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

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

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

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

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

		if (msg.username) {

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	this.url = Dsq.Urls.REPLY +
		'?' + (new Date()).getTime() +
		'&f=jackandjillpolitics' +
		'&t=monday_open_thread_jack_amp_jill_politics' +
		'&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_jack_amp_jill_politics/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_jack_amp_jill_politics'
			+ '&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_jack_amp_jill_politics/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">194</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/monday_open_thread_jack_amp_jill_politics/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>\
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			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">Profile</a></li>'
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			: '')
		+ ' <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_jack_amp_jill_politics/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_jack_amp_jill_politics'
			+ '&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_jack_amp_jill_politics'
			+ '&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_jack_amp_jill_politics'
				+ '&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/3963374/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/";
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1995132">parker404</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995132" class="dsq-comment-message">Crackhead McCain and Laura Bush are speaking on hurricane relief efforts and a levee in Plaquemines (sp) Parish is breaking as they speak.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1976356" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1976356" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1976356" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/01/us/politics/01clinton.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper&oref=slogin" rel="nofollow">Hillary Clinton is galled.</a><br><br><i>Mrs. Clinton’s friends said she was galled that Ms. Palin might try to capitalize on a movement that Mrs. Clinton, of New York, built among women in the primaries. And Democrats used strong words on Sunday to rebut the notion: Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts said that women would not be “seduced” by the Republican ticket, and Guy Cecil, the former political director of Mrs. Clinton’s campaign, said it was “insulting” for Republicans to compare Ms. Palin to Mrs. Clinton.</i></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1986133" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1986133" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1986133" class="dsq-comment-message">Does Ms. Palin know that Hillary is a Scorpio?  My birthday is the day before Sen. Clinton -  We don\'t play...<br><br>Tee hee hee...</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1973491">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1973491" class="dsq-comment-message">This guy, Drew Westen hits so many notes in this article..it makes my fingers and toes all tingly.   It is chock full of wonderful insights and good advice for the Democratic establishment and O campaign.  Please read the whole thing at the link below if you get a chance to:<br><br>----------------------------<br><b>Brand First, Equivocate Later: The Message of Denver and the Importance of Defining McCain-Palin Before They Define Themselves</b><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/drew-westen/brand-first-equivocate-la_b_122855.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/drew-westen/brand...</a><br><br><blockquote><i>In my book, The Political Brain, I argued that if you do exactly what the Democrats did last week--both inspire voters with your vision of what could be and raise legitimate anger or concern about what your opponent and his party have done or likely will do--you win elections. The latest polling data from Gallup bear that out: Obama went from 2 points behind just before the convention to 8 points ahead, reaching a high for two straight days of 49 to 41 against McCain. The convention reversed the momentum of a dreadful July and August campaign that made every standard Democratic error outlined in the book, starting with the campaign\'s stubborn refusal to brand McCain before he could brand himself or to respond to his successful efforts to brand Obama--as other, different, empty celebrity, uppity, narcissistic, and elitist.</i></blockquote><br>I saw Obama with fire and blood in his eyes at that Convention.  He was the avenging angel, wearing a breastplate of truth and justice, fighting for the American people....cheesy, I know.  But it tapped into something primitive and yearning.  I want him to continue:<br><blockquote><i>Obama is now poised to break 50 percent in the polls. Whether he does so, and whether he wins or loses in November, will likely depend on whether he, his campaign team, and the Democrats learn the lessons of this convention, or whether they backslide in debates and public statements into the politics of meandering, dispassionate prose; failure to demonstrate toughness, resolve, and, yes, aggression where appropriate; and failure to understand that the best time to shape the public discourse is before the other side has had a chance to "sell" its version of truth to the American people. Decades of research in social psychology have demonstrated that two of most important principles of persuasion when people have a choice between options are to get there first--to tell your side of the story--and to inoculate against what the other side is likely to say. Democratic consultants need to read that research--tonight--and stop relying on the same intuitions that have proven wrong in election after election. We are supposed to be the party of science, yet we constantly practice political creationism.</i></blockquote><br>See how he brilliantly frames the opposition to abortion in the case of rape...he says it\'s the rapist\'s bill of rights, where the rapist has the right to choose the mother of his child....<br><blockquote><i>Palin may be a woman, but she does not share the agenda of any woman who voted for Hillary Clinton (and Democrats should speak out against the implication that she is picking up where Hillary Clinton, a woman of tremendous stature who could have assumed the role of commander-in-chief in a heartbeat, left off). Rather, the position she and others on the right have articulated gives every rapist the right to pick the mother of his child. That position is tantamount to a Rapist\'s Bill of Rights, which privileges the rights of rapists and child molesters over the rights of their victims. Those are McCain-Palin\'s "family values," and they are not mainstream American values. Stan Greenberg and I recently identified seven different messages on abortion that beat a well-crafted, well-branded Republican message about life beginning at conception by 15-20 points, and McCain has just given Democratic and progressive candidates every reason to play offense on abortion this year instead of assuming their usual defensive crouch. In fact, McCain has just forced them to play offense, and they should do so immediately, because the extremist position he and his new running mate would impose by force is offensive to the vast majority of Americans, and it will become the law of the land if the Republicans succeed this week in pulling the heartstrings of the American people with Palin\'s personal choice in a way that makes them forget that others should have the same choice and may decide differently than she did, and that this should not be a governmental decision.</i></blockquote></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1973600" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1973600" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1973600" class="dsq-comment-message"><b>the position she and others on the right have articulated gives every rapist the right to pick the mother of his child. That position is tantamount to a Rapist\'s Bill of Rights, which privileges the rights of rapists and child molesters over the rights of their victims. Those are McCain-Palin\'s "family values," and they are not mainstream American values.</b><br><br>That is brilliant - and true.  Just say, "You oppose abortion even in the case of rape or incest? That means you are giving every rapist and child molester the right to pick the mother of his child."  Very useful in a campaign commercial with a woman doing the voice over.<br><br>Also, from here on in, it is important to never mention Palin without mentioning McCain\'s judgment and cynicism.  McCain\'s choice speaks volumes about his character and judgment.  So much for "Country First" - more like "Country Last!"  Also, don\'t evangelicals put God First not country?  That is one of the worst slogans ever - another cheap shot at Michelle Obama\'s alleged "gaffe". <br><br>Another helpful source for defining McCain and his VP choice - this Alaska-based blog someone linked yesterday called Mudflats.  <a href="http://mudflats.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow">http://mudflats.wordpress.com/</a><br><br>The blogs are valuable since the official Alaska Governor site has been scrubbed along with her original wiki entries.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1973371">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1973371" class="dsq-comment-message">Big Picture<br><br><a href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/211842.php" rel="nofollow">http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/211842.php</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1973376">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1973376" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  Several people in my church asked for "special prayer" for relatives and friends!<br><br>God Bless them ALL!!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1973393">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1973393" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/09/mccain-only-now-sending-8perso.php" rel="nofollow">McCain only NOW sending 8-person team to Alaska to vet Palin</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1973408" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1973408">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1973408" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:   Well EXCUSE ME!!  Why doesn\'t he send a contingency on a "FIELD TRIP" to-<br><br>      JJP!!!?????<br><br>ENOUGH VETTING has been done HERE!!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)   Save our tax payer dollars!!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>Whew!  Shaking her head Deep Breaths!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1977475">Texas_Girl_in_LA</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1977475" class="dsq-comment-message">Wow, did you read what one person said what they could be doing? Oh my....</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1987306">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1987306" class="dsq-comment-message">Lets hope "The Enquirer" beat them to it.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1973398">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1973398" class="dsq-comment-message">Rikyrah:  Subset of the "Big Picture":  Palin Could Prompt McCain To Flip Flop On Drilling<br><br><a href="http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/08/palin_could_prompt_mccain_flip.php" rel="nofollow">http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/...</a><br><br>Let\'s hope so!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>This will EXTEND the F/f Lists being developed!!   Yaaaa!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>FOCUS ON "McANCIENT"!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1973573">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1973573" class="dsq-comment-message">This comes under the heading:  They are dirt bags to each other  [RNC & Limpballs]:<br><br><a href="http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/08/rnc_mulls_limbaugh_abortion_ja.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog...</a><br><br><br>RNC Mulls Limbaugh Abortion Jab<br><br>Cliff Notes version[thanks to ?]<br><br>Flush Limpballs email was intercepted by the RNC and considered for a You tube clip.<br>Limpball was doing a "MAKE BELIEVE RIFT" = LIE=NOT FUNNY using Mr. Obama in a MAKE BELIEVE interview of Palin.  <br><br>SICK!  TWISTED!   DESPICABLE!!!<br><br>Conservative radio commentator Rush Limbaugh boosted Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin\'s pro-life position and mocked Barack Obama on his radio show yesterday with a make-believe riff in which Obama asked Palin "When you found out your baby would be born with Down syndrome, did you consider killing it before or after the due date?" <br><br>Limbaugh\'s "humor" caught the fancy of the Republican National Committee, which, in an internal e-mail, proposed using the bit in a YouTube clip.<br><br>The e-mail, which was sent to RNC Communications Director Danny Diaz, and mistakenly to a Tribune reporter, was titled "wow...good YouTube potential..."<br><br>The rest of it reads:<br><br>"Rush, just now imagining a series of questions that Obama can ask Palin, if they ever meet:<br><br>One about how to shoot a gun...<br>One about do you bait your hooks when you go fishing?<br><br>And then, this (paraphrase):<br>"when you learned that you were going to have a Down Syndrome baby, did you consider aborting it, before or after the due date?""<br><br><br>Here\'s a PDF of the e-mail: RNC email<br><br>Palin, named to yesterday by McCain to fill out the GOP ticket as his running mate, has been on Limbaugh\'s radar screen in the veepstakes since February, when he noted that she was on the right side of the issues and "a babe" besides.<br><br>In a statement, an RNC spokesman said, "A staffer with separate responsibilities made a poor recommendation that was not heeded. The individual has been spoken to and this will not occur again."<br><br>The staffer who wrote the message said the obvious -- that it was sent to the wrong person -- but otherwise declined to discuss it. <br><br>Diaz asked The Swamp not to post the message and said the RNC had not and would not act on the suggestion, but otherwise declined to talk about it on the record.<br><br>There\'s a time to honor requests to disregard misdirected email, but this isn\'t one of them.<br><br>The note is a good illustration of how campaigns really work and helps to explain why many people think the national political discourse is noxious.<br><br>The official McCain campaign, and the official Obama campaign for that matter, generally take the high road, rarely getting down and dirty. <br><br>Limbaugh and his ilk in talk radio and the blogosphere, on the right and left, are, officially, independent actors. So when they veer into coarse or offensive commentary, campaigns shrug, \'What can we do? We don\'t control them.\'<br><br>They could repudiate ugly comment. But that rarely happens.<br><br>What does happen, as yesterday\'s errant RNC notes illustrates, is campaigns look for a benefit, furtively.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1974160">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1974160" class="dsq-comment-message">Comparing Careers:   Obama Leads McCain in Total Votes Won<br>Again, this is a comparison of LIFE TIME CAREERS:<br><br><a href="http://www.jedreport.com/2008/08/obama-leads-mccain-in-total-vo.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.jedreport.com/2008/08/obama-leads-mc...</a><br><br>These stats are interesting considering that "McAncient" has had more years in his career!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1974184">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1974184" class="dsq-comment-message">This comes under the heading:   "They\'re GRRRRRRREAT!!!":<br><br><a href="http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/08/obama_lands_on_frosted_flakes.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog...</a><br><br>Posted August 31, 2008 8:34 PM<br> <br>by James Oliphant<br><br>BATTLE CREEK, Mich--We are, of course, in the home of Kellogg\'s.<br><br>Thus:<br><br>Obama spokesperson Jen Psaki models the Obama-Biden cereal box<br><br>Oh Well!   I didn\'t get the pic!   One day!!  I\'m going to get this!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1974217">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1974217" class="dsq-comment-message">Iraq-US Troops on Alert Ahead of Anbar Handover:<br><br><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080831/wl_mideast_afp/iraqunrestusanbar_080831125747" rel="nofollow">http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080831/wl_mideast...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1974879">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1974879" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/08/obama_and_biden_a_different_" rel="nofollow">http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog...</a><br>dy.html<br><br>Oban and Biden: A Different Dynamic<br><br>This article shows that they are a good match!  Very humanistic!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1975784" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1975784" class="dsq-comment-message">Prayers to all in the areas affected by Hurricane Gustav. It\'s unfortunate that this has been made into another moment for political posturing, but we know that God is on our nation\'s side, and not that of any political party.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1977883">lamh31</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1977883" class="dsq-comment-message">My sister has a full house now with 6 of my family members here in Dallas, and I have 2 friends from NOLA with me, and 2 of my aunts are supposedly headed to Dallas.<br><br>So it\'s gonna be a hectic week</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1978702" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1978702" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1978702" class="dsq-comment-message">Be safe, and hope everyone is well.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1994481" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1994481">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1994481" class="dsq-comment-message"><blockquote><i>It\'s unfortunate that this has been made into another moment for political posturing, but we know that God is on our nation\'s side, and not that of any political party.</BLOCKQUOTE></I><br>So, god takes sides with Nations, but not with political parties?<br><br>Is god on Iran\'s side?</i></blockquote></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1994742" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1994742" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1994742" class="dsq-comment-message">Are you so viscerally partisan that you believe that God would send a storm to benefit a political party or candidate?<br><br>Really?<br><br>I guess I could play this stupid game and say that maybe the dhimmicratic governor during Katrina-oh, let\'s forgive her and just blame Bush-had to be voted out and replaced by a Republican in order to get a decent response plan in place. <br><br>See how stupid that sounds?<br><br>But, fear not-most of my countrymen will thank God that the storm does not seem to be as bad as feared and have the intelligence to leave the politics out of it.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1995184" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1995184">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995184" class="dsq-comment-message"><blockquote><i>Are you so viscerally partisan that you believe that God would send a storm to benefit a political party or candidate?</i></blockquote><br><br>I am Atheist, D...I don\'t believe in god as you understand it.   So, your question doesn\'t make sense.<br><br>I do have an interest in symbolism, mythology, consciousness and some aspects of quantum physics.  And, it is through those lenses that I sometimes observe events.<br><br>Being partisan is not a bad thing when you\'re on the side of justice and fairness.  The hurricanes have much to do with energy policy and global warming.  The flooding has to do with lack of funding for adequate levees.<br><br>I won\'t thank god...but I was thankful to see the headline that Gustav had delivered only a passing glance to New Orleans.  However, it was just reported that a levee is breaking as we speak.  They are rushing to evacuate everyone.<br><br>As for your nationalism...You do know that Canadians took Americans into their homes when planes were grounded after 9/11, don\'t you?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1995598" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1995598" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995598" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m not sure if that makes it better or worse.<br><br>The levee that\'s in danger of breaking is a private one-meaning not owned by the city or the federal government. Most people in the area-some 2 million-have already been evacuated in what\'s being suggested is the largest evacuation operation in the country\'s history.<br><br>And, yeah, I know that. Just as I know that several hundred of your country\'s servicemen have given their lives in the War on Terror. I can only hope that you afford them the measure of respect that you refuse to afford to my brothers and sisters in uniform.<br><br>But somehow, I doubt that you do.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1995774" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1995774">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995774" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m not trying to soothe you.<br><br>There you have me, because "levee" and "private" don\'t mix, in my philosophy.  Levees and flood control are public affairs.  And, no one should expect private entities to protect the public good.  It\'s creating some cognitive dissonance.<br><br>"War on Terror" is not part of Canadian consciousness.   I think of our soldiers more as peacekeepers rather than waging active war per se.<br><br>You are relegating warriors to the ranks of the emotionally needy.   They care not what I think.  I suspect it is your own neediness; therefore, speak only for yourself.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1975925">Angela</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1975925" class="dsq-comment-message">I saw Obama & Biden on 60 minutes last night and they looked great together.   They look like a natural team.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1977630">Texas_Girl_in_LA</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1977630" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes, it was very good. Very real. And they work well as a team. Just makes me want to work even harder to get them elected.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1987537">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1987537" class="dsq-comment-message">Texas:   Me  2!    :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1976172">worrieddem</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1976172" class="dsq-comment-message">apparently cornel west and dr. juliane malveux hated barack\'s speech (appearance on tavis smiley\'s show). do they have a point?<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdtNi_kVQd0&eurl=http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=519441353&ref=nf" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdtNi_kVQd0&eurl...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1976435">TRW</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1976435" class="dsq-comment-message">I saw maybe two minutes of it before I stopped watching so you can take my opinion with a grain of salt.  This is the problem that I have with some Obama supporters.  They don\'t listen to the things he says, and then criticize him for failing to live up to his expectations.  <br><br>Since Barack has been running, he has NEVER made this election about him being the first Black nominee of a major political party, so why would he now?  He has tried his best to move past the identity politics framework.  He has also said that his run is not about him, it is about the American people.  <br><br>I rarely agree with Al Sharpton, but he made a salient point a couple of weeks ago.  He basically said that some people are expecting Obama to be a civil rights activist when he is not.  Far from it; so they will be continually disappointed when Barack doesn\'t frame issues in ways that they think is appropriate.   <br><br>And when I think about it, isn\'t Barack the embodiment of MLK\'s speech.  If MLK\'s whole message is that he wanted Americans to be able to judge each other, not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character--isn\'t that what Barack is trying to do.  I\'m just really frustrated that people always seem to invoke MLK, but forget the essence of his message.  <br><br>But that\'s just me.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1977545">MotorCityBadBoy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1977545" class="dsq-comment-message">Excellent points... very well put.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1976382">Monica</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1976382" class="dsq-comment-message">In a word, yes.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1976442">JJai</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1976442" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1976442" class="dsq-comment-message">In a word, no.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1976415" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1976415" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1976415" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes, they have a point. <br><br>A point that completely misses the point of what Barack did.<br><br>The tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr came from two of his children earlier in the event. His set design was a send-up to "I Have a Dream" by referencing the Lincoln Memorial. And calling him the "preacher from Georgia" didn\'t reduce MLK to anything.<br><br>I saw Barack\'s eyes roll and his shoulder\'s tremble when he called forth MLK\'s spirit at the end of his speech. That\'s what being there in person can allow you to see.<br><br>Barack brought it, make no mistake, despite these two\'s cynical overanalysis.<br><br>And for them to suggest that folks didn\'t cry during and after this speech is simply a lie. <br><br>We were weeping.<br><br>When Barack\'s every move is analyzed by Black folks as "appealing to white folks" I tend to not take it all that seriously.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1976498">TRW</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1976498" class="dsq-comment-message">Thank you Craig.  I was literally captivated by the speech, and the history of the moment.  I couldn\'t take my eyes away because I was just so overwhelmed with what was going on.  I am really starting to believe that we are our own worst enemy.  No joke.  <br><br>This whole, "appealing to White folks" argument is one of the main reasons why some people can\'t get things done in the Black community.   Some Black people have become so lazy with setting up White people and racism in general as the cause for all that ills the Black community, that they are failing to see what is right in front of their eyes.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1976528" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1976528" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1976528" class="dsq-comment-message">To my mind, Dr. Cornel West and Dr. Juliane Malveaux are the Uppity Negro characters in this tale.<br><br>They need to get a grip.  If they want to continue to exalt the Clintons over Barack Obama, that\'s their right.<br><br>But I see them.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1977860" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1977860" class="dsq-comment-message">They are what author Norman Kelley calls \'the niggerati.\'</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1981696">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1981696" class="dsq-comment-message">99% Sure:  Love it!   :&gt;)  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1986176" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1986176" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1986176" class="dsq-comment-message">Ta-Nehisi Coates\'s take on Malveaux and West <a href="http://ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/09/more_thoughts_on_west_obama_and_malveaux.php" rel="nofollow">http://ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com/archives...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1986855">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1986855" class="dsq-comment-message">Most succinct comment on that video:<br><br><blockquote><i>Ichibanjohnjon (1 hour ago) <br><br>I don\'t get these muthafuckas at all</i></blockquote><br><br>LOL!</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1976340" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1976340" class="dsq-comment-message">Howard Wolfson is on board. HOWARD WOLFSON!!!<br><br><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/31/AR2008083101620.html" rel="nofollow">This article</a>, I must admit is great. He\'s a good writer.<br><br>Excerpts...<br><br><i>Most of us never heard him speak in person. At work 14 hours a day in the war room, we focused on his perceived faults and deficiencies. Our time was spent sharpening and advancing arguments. Skepticism was critical to our efforts. Insulated from Obamamania, I met few Obama supporters and distanced myself from the ones I knew. I lived this way for 18 months.<br><br>From the outside, our loss may have seemed inevitable for months, but inside the campaign we simply kept going. Each late victory brought false hope. We were finally doing too well to stop, but never well enough to win. We fought so long because we believed so strongly in our candidate; sustained by the passions of our supporters, we hoped that, as long as we kept moving, we could keep failure at bay. </i><br><br>I think this is an honest assessment. Despite their nasty tactics.<br><br><i>Then came Thursday night at Invesco Field. During the campaign, we scoffed at events like this, mostly because we were not capable of producing them. A cross section of voters waited for hours to enter the stadium and take their seats. As one friend put it, it looked more like an American convention than the convention of any particular political party.<br><br>Clinton delegates greeted one another with tears and hugs and were greeted in turn by Obama delegates. Several Obama supporters took my hand to thank me for what the Clintons had said that week, urging that they stay involved in the campaign. Every so often, I would simply look around me, amazed at the significance not just of the day but of the entire campaign. </i><br><br>Another honest admission: scoff at what you can\'t do yourself.<br><br><i>No one in recent history had attempted this kind of a political conversation with 75,000 people. Barack Obama pulled it off.<br><br>For 18 months, I listened to Obama on television, sometimes intently, often just barely -- background noise to a running series of conference calls and meetings and e-mails.<br><br>In person, my attention undivided, I saw something of what so many others had seen for so long.<br><br>Progress in America is never cheap, and even today history exacts a price for Obama\'s victory -- the dreams of electing the first female president, the dreams of so many who rushed toward Hillary Clinton on rope lines across America and refused to give up her hand and their hopes. Today these dreams are giving way to another kind of progress.<br><br>For me, the presidential campaign began in a crowded Iowa hall, where I saw a man my age lift up a daughter around my daughter\'s age and tell her that one day she could be president. Last week things came nearly full circle, when I saw another man my age lift up another child and say the very same thing. </i><br><br>Wow. If Barack won over this man, he may yet win over the unwinnable.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1985675">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1985675" class="dsq-comment-message">This is a great find, Craig!  I moseyed on over to his blog, and discovered he isn\'t an ogre and has a love of music.<br><br>OMG, Howard drank the cool aid!</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1986156" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1986156" class="dsq-comment-message">Howard Wolfson also has his own blog - <b>Gotham Acne</b>  <a href="http://gothamacme.com/" rel="nofollow">http://gothamacme.com/</a></div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1977801" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1977801" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com/2008/09/01/thoughts-on-mccainpalin/" rel="nofollow">Thoughts on McCain/Palin</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1978791">TRW</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1978791" class="dsq-comment-message">D I read your blog.  As of right now, I am exhausted on Palin, but I feel compelled to respond to your post.  I have nothing against this woman, but by picking her as VP this gives me a better understanding of who McCain is.<br><br>1) His "Country First" theme is a crock.  By picking Palin, he did not put country first, he put politics first.  And it makes him seem that much more hypocritical by accusing Obama of willing to "lose a war to win an election."  <br><br>2) He doesn\'t value the role of the vice presidency.  I cannot reconcile your candidate\'s previous statements about the seriousness of the issues we face as a country with choosing a candidate that really has no stances on said issues--and in the words of his former surrogate, "will learn at his knee." <br><br>3) He doesn\'t respect women.  By pushing the theme that Palin is picking up where Hillary left off is insulting to my intelligence.  I get that she is the darling of the Republican party; but she is a poor man\'s Hillary and you and I both know it.  What McCain has basically said to women voters is any uterus will do. <br><br>4) He makes decisions in a reckless fashion.  How do you reconcile the fact that as one commenter put it, some people have spent more time getting to know their new digital camera then McCain spent getting to know Palin.  He literally met her maybe once or twice before.  And now he calls them "soulmates"?!?   <br><br>As this race has unfolded, I have rejected the constant theme that it is Obama that is the risky choice, since apparently we "know" what a McCain presidency will look like.  As of this weekend, I now have a better understanding of both candidates.  Obama chose a running mate that will help him govern the country and hit the ground running, even if it cut against his campaign slogan of "change".  McCain chose a running mate to appeal to his base and pick up votes by playing gender politics.  He is no more a "maverick" than I am.  <br><br>I no longer have faith in his ability to govern this country.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1979066" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1979066" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1979066" class="dsq-comment-message">I haven\'t lost faith in McCain to govern and lead the nation, though there is a "shoot first; ask later" aspect to this pick.<br><br>That\'s McCain\'s style, though. Concerning on a few levels, but not unexpected.<br><br>I don\'t think her selection is disrespectful to women. If anything, it says to me that a woman without name recognition or riches (on the level of the Clintons) can be no less successful. You can respect what Palin represents without liking her...but many women will get wrapped up in her politics and vilify her because they don\'t agree (we\'re seeing that already). Unfortunate, but that\'s our world.<br><br>I\'m not as enthusiastic as I was on, say, Friday. But the top half of the ticket still works.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1982027" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1982027">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1982027" class="dsq-comment-message">You cannot separate the man from his actions.  The things you term "style" imply recklessness, adolescence, immaturity, frivolity...  Those things are not style, they\'re substance.<br><br>Women are deeply offended by this.  Women are not only angry at the Old Boy network, they are angry at how Old Boys in positions of power, pit women against each other,  by elevating the unqualified, younger woman over the hard working older woman.   It is the narrative that plays out in divorce where a loyal wife is replaced with the blond bimbo.   Women are not happy with this.<br><br>Sarah Palin\'s world view is villainous to women, and anyone who believes in human rights.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1983054">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1983054" class="dsq-comment-message">TruthSeeker:   SPOT ON, as usual!!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1985694" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1985694" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1985694" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1985694" class="dsq-comment-message">But if she believed as you do-or most liberals do-she\'d be just great, wouldn\'t she?!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1986160" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1986160">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1986160" class="dsq-comment-message">That narrative of the abandoned woman has been playing out between Obama and Hillary....to the Republican benefit.<br><br>The genius McCain campaign has clumsily reinvigorated that ugly fight...now, between the McCain campaign and Democratic women!    Not a smart move.<br><br>Yes, if she believed as I do, I would think she\'s great.   Democrats and sane people do not ascribe to beliefs they find personally repugnant.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1994783" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1994783" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1994783" class="dsq-comment-message">Course you would. So, in reality, you\'d be upset with ANY conservative woman that was picked, since they don\'t subscribe to your viewpoint. <br><br>That kind of thinking doesn\'t merit further response from me.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1995215" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1995215">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995215" class="dsq-comment-message">There you go trying to read my mind again...<br><br>Respond...or not.   And, I\'ll try not to cry myself to sleep over that one.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1996150" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1996150" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1996150" class="dsq-comment-message">No, she wouldn\'t.  Maybe you\'re intentionally being obtuse about this, but the simple fact is that she is unqualified to even be governor let alone run on the presidential ticket.  She does not have the bonafides.  I guarantee you that if any other neo-con woman with the experience of say a Whitman (even with her baggage) or a Hutchison or Bay Buchanan had been chosen, not only would the discussion be totally different, but his choice would demonstrate to \'liberals\' and neo-cons alike that, perhaps, McCaint does indeed have the gravitas, the temperament and the judgment to be president.<br><br>Not vetting her, being bullied into choosing her by his moral majority/fundie religious right enemy, Dobson, shows that he is weak that, 30 years later, he is now a POW of a different sort - he\'s a Prisoner of the Wingnuts.<br><br>You can\'t always break everything down into an us v. them dynamic - politics isn\'t always that clear cut.  Sometimes it\'s just about quality and qualifications, no matter the differences in ideology. <br><br>She ain\'t qualified and she got the wonk eye of crazy too, with bucked saucer sized eyes just like the runaway bride of a few years ago, the one who claimed to have been ravished by a Mexican man.  I\'ll bet she was a repug too.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1996747" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1996747" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1996747" class="dsq-comment-message">Tell that to the people who elected her; obviously they thought she was qualified.<br><br>Some people-as I said earlier-would\'ve hated any conservative woman being put on the ticket, as their belief system (whatever it may be) wouldn\'t have made them feel all warm and fuzzy inside. The discussion would still be the same as the one we\'re having now: liberals would be all up in arms about who had whose baby and who\'s pregnant now.<br><br>Now, I\'ll admit that I\'m not following the McCain campaign as closely as I once was (for multiple reasons), but I haven\'t seen/heard/read anything to suggest that he was bullied into picking Palin by anyone. It seems like he made the decision on his own; that he feels that she\'s qualified. People will agree or disagree <b>based on the issues as presented to them.</b> And if they don\'t feel she is, then they won\'t vote for McCain.<br><br>If all the case against Sarah Palin consists of is her lack of experience, so be it (though I\'m not sure that\'s the best argument to make, all things considered). But from where I sit, the hatred (call it what it is) seems to be more often than not based in ideology that on quality/qualifications.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1982886">TRW</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1982886" class="dsq-comment-message">How is the pick not disrespectful to women though?  I\'m not knocking the fact that she is relatively unknown, or that her story is atypical in politics (with regards to having name recognition, money, and power to get elected), I think that is great because it shows that those barriers may finally be coming down;  what I am knocking is the fact that she and McCain are trying to brand her as Hillary 2.0.  <br><br>I can reconcile the two.  Female governor of Alaska--I say more power to her--gives young women hope that they to can become elected to office.  But leaving that aside, as I must because I do not subscribe to identity politics, her views on abortion, sex-ed education, and lack of views on foreign policy leave much to be desired.  I guess its the other side of the coin with you and Obama.  You have discussed your admiration for the way he has built his political organization and the fact that he is making history, but it doesn\'t change the differences that you have with his policy positions.<br><br>Why should it be any different for this woman?  I guess I just find it interesting that some of the same people that weren\'t willing to give Obama an inch on anything just a couple of days ago, want me to close my eyes and ears to the reality of what Palin stands for.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1983268">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1983268" class="dsq-comment-message">TRW:  Co-signing!   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1985685" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1985685" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1985685" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t get the Hillary 2.0 brand. She doesn\'t compare to her at all. Hillary is a....um, fighter. Palin I can\'t really see getting too heated.<br><br>Your problem seems to be more with her beliefs than her selection. Nothing wrong with that. <br><br>I think some people are upset with Palin\'s selection because it shows that liberals may or may not have the lock on feminism that they once had. The optimistic side of me wants to believe that this is the GOP\'s real attempt to move away from their old guard, and that women are gonna have their seat at the table.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1986105" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1986105">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1986105" class="dsq-comment-message"><blockquote><i>I think some people are upset with Palin\'s selection because it shows that liberals may or may not have the lock on feminism that they once had.</i></blockquote><br>There is nothing "feminist" about Palin.  Are you suggesting that because she\'s a woman, she\'s feminist??!!   There is absolutely nothing about her positions or beliefs that are feminist.<br><br>What her selection does, is confirm that Republicans DO have a lock on cynicism and political expediency.   The idea that Female=Feminist...shows a stunning lack of understanding of what Feminism means.  <br><br>Sarah cannot represent women, she already represents the most extreme misogynistic, religious extremist, anti woman viewpoint.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1987263" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1987263">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1987263" class="dsq-comment-message">I was thinking the same thing - what in the world is feminist about her.  With her views on abortion, the feminist will quickly turn from Barack to handle her.<br><br>I guess he thinks we are stupid enough to equate palin = woman = feminist = someone who cares about women.  NOT!   Palin = conservative religious  zeal = above her own higher power\'s decision to grant free will = disaster.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1987389" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1987389">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1987389" class="dsq-comment-message">Ha!  good one.<br><br>I was thinking about your earlier comment about Bristol looking heavy around the waist.. when the news broke about her pregnancy.  They say she\'s 5 months pregnant.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1987548">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1987548" class="dsq-comment-message">I have always been able to tell when a woman is pregnant.  I\'ve seen pictures of Sarah Palin from an april event, and she wasn\'t pregnant; sure she had a belly bump but her face showed no indication at all that she was with child.  Earlier pictures of her where someone noted that the hairstyle was from the eighties definitely show pregnancy througout her face and the rest of her body.  A woman 44 years of age would no doubt show pregnancy with an increased weight gain and fatigue that a younger woman would not. <br><br>Also, she would have been advised to take it easy for six weeks after that delivery that she didn\'t have and she would still show that weight at her age.  I don\'t know who Palin and McCain think they\'re bullshitting.  Women accross the country know better than this story.<br><br>She is the grandmother of that child.  A woman is more likely to become pregnant in the six weeks following a delivery and without some form of birth control or abstinence usually does because they are in a europhic, hormonal loving state and usually engage in with relations with the husband or father of the child.  It is more likely that a teenager not thinking of the outcome would do this and this is the reason for so many repeat teen pregnancies.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1987653">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1987653" class="dsq-comment-message">"It is more likely that a teenager not thinking of the outcome would do this and this is the reason for so many repeat teen pregnancies."<br><br>This is so that second child of Bristol\'s. You can\'t make me believe otherwise.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1987710">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1987710" class="dsq-comment-message">I didn\'t proof my work, but you get the point.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1987731" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1987731">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1987731" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree about the likelyhood of a teen becoming pregnant again right away.<br><br>Breastfeeding would provide some contraceptive protection, but a teen is less likely to choose to breastfeed.<br><br>This is about Sarah, not Bristol.  This is about voters being mad about politicians lying to portray themselves as something they\'re not!<br><br>Candy Crowly is saying they\'re talking about this in the hallways at the GOP convention.<br><br>Matalin is saying "this is what families go through"....well great, that they should be the party that wants to make women\'s lives unbearable.  Then she says to Donna "you go, girl".....UGH!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1994553" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1994553">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1994553" class="dsq-comment-message">Damn, remember I said she was holding the baby like a shield?   Damn, now I see that footage again, and she was using the baby and blanket to hide her stomach!<br><br>Lesson: always trust your intuition.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1996257" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1996257">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1996257" class="dsq-comment-message">I remember you said she was holding the baby like a shield.  I guess they guessed we figured it out so they went ahead and admitted it.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1987635" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1987635">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1987635" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1987635" class="dsq-comment-message">Didn\'t you get the memo? The only thing you need to be feminist is a womb.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1996017" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1996017" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1996017" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1996017" class="dsq-comment-message">and lily white skin . . . .</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1994454">TRW</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1994454" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1994454" class="dsq-comment-message">Well, sort of.  Leaving her politics aside, I just find it troubling that she is being used as a political tool.  This whole thing makes me uncomfortable.  I don\'t think the Dems have the lock on "feminism" (whatever that means) per se, it just seems like this whole thing is a gimmick.  I truly question whether she would have been picked if she weren\'t a woman.  I honestly don\'t think so, which means a Republican candidate doesn\'t have a problem using a woman to gain votes to get into political office.<br><br>I understand that you view it differently.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1994593" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1994593" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1994593" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1994593" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t know....would a person with Palin\'s resume been picked were they not a woman? Probably not; that would\'ve led you to Pawlenty or Jindal. <br><br>I guess the reason I\'m not seeing the offensiveness of it all is because other women\'s names for floated as McCain\'s VP. My wife sees it for what it is, and she\'s not offended (and she\'s about as apolitical as they come). <br><br>Would you be as upset if some other woman-one of the Whitmans, Fiorina-had been chosen?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1994827">TRW</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1994827" class="dsq-comment-message">I have heard both names floated around as better picks then Palin, but honestly I don\'t know much about either so while I may still feel like there is some pandering going on, if their resume stacked up, at least I would think that McCain was serious about the choice.  <br><br>But honestly, I guess I am still smarting from the primary.  I respect Hillary as a competent public servant.  But, I was really ticked off by a lot of the sexism accusations and the "feminism" mantle that was being displayed.  It just seemed like in the name of both, some people were willing to overlook some pretty ridiculous behavior and ultimately it undermines the whole argument about empowering women.  <br><br>I just don\'t want to be used in that way.  Pick me for the job because you think that I am the best and most competent, not because I have a uterus and you believe I can generically relate to all women.  The same should go for political candidates.  <br><br>I just think that identity politics can be a dangerous thing.  Look at that whole Nikki Tinker situation--Black and a woman, but clearly not the person to do the job.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1994917" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1994917" class="dsq-comment-message">I think he\'s serious....I\'m just not sure he made the best pick.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1981072">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1981072" class="dsq-comment-message">D:   "SHOOT first; ask later. . "   How would that play out in Alaska????<br>There are all kinds and levels of ANIMAL PRESERVATION laws!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>Secondly:  What is the building behind you?  Thanks!   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1982278" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1982278" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'d go over quite well, I think.<br><br>That\'s at the main gate to the base in Guantanamo Bay. The building marks the entrance into Cuban territory (the sign says "territory free of America).</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1980794">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1980794" class="dsq-comment-message">TRW:   This post is Soooo good!!      Cogent analysis!!!  :&gt;)  <br><br>I tried to pick my "favorite" point that you posed!  :&gt;)  <br><br>NEVER MIND!!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)  Co-signing ALL!!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>  Thanks!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)    :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1977811" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1977811" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1977811" class="dsq-comment-message">Good morning all! Welcome back, <b>CraigH</b>.<br><br>I\'m a little riled so excuse my abruptness but when white people talk about how Biden should be gentle with McCaint\'s VP pick at the debate, it gets me riled.  This entitled white women because she\'s a beautiful delicate flower program is way out of hand.  I posted the following comment over on DKos.<br><br><blockquote><b>Bullfeathers. If she were a black woman - or Latino - man or woman - this sensitivity to her gender ("don\'t go after the bunny?") wouldn\'t even be a consideration, not even on this site. This is what gets me riled about white people in relation to white women.<br><br>She\'s playing in the major, MAJOR leagues. What was it HRC said during the primaries about Obama - if you can\'t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen, as she threw the kitchen sink at him?<br><br>This coddling of white chicks even when they\'re out of their league or rude or nasty or just plain being the typical entitled white chick always infuriates me because I know - my personal and professional experience has taught me - that not one white person would be carefully strategizing as to how to handle a black man or woman with as few credentials as she possesses, even if, by some modern American miracle they found themselves in her place. <br><br>White chicks - especially those perceived to be attractive - are allowed to get away with saying and doing most anything no matter how ignorant and offensive and degrading, while other whites apologize for them, treating them as delicate flowers even in the rough and tumble of politics.<br><br>If, say, the repug version of a Michelle Obama had been the choice, there would be one of this strategizing on how Biden must best approach her during the debate so as not to hurt her itty-bitty feelings or appear to be crushing her, because she\'s a gentle flower whose womanhood must be respected.  This is all utter crap and always has been.<br><br>Joe should kick the feces out of her in the debates. She\'s unqualified to be VP under any circumstances, and that needs to be pointed out.  She\'s competing in the big boys\' arena, she\'s a longstanding member of the NRA, she hunts moose and probably caribou, so she at least ought to understand blood sports - and politics is definitely a blood sport. If she doesn\'t get it or if it is too rough for her, then that\'s just too bad.  After all, she didn\'t have to accept the offer to be McCaint\'s running mate.</b></blockquote></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1977906">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1977906" class="dsq-comment-message">SPOT ON!! You nailed it! Which article/diary was this comment on?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1978733" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1978733" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1978733" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1978733" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1978733" class="dsq-comment-message">Good morning, <b>Miranda</b>, and thanks. It\'s on The Lazio Fallacy diary.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1980700" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1980700" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1980700">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1980700" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree.  I don\'t think however, Joe should do it condescendingly.  He shouldn\'t belittle her....as she may try to do with him.  (See video\'s of her debating posted in open thread).   Joe strikes me as a gentleman, now that I\'ve seen his family.  He\'s not going to bluster and put her down.  I think he will forcefully stick to the issues.  Let her be the one to be sexist and insulting.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1986082" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1986082" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1986082" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1986082" class="dsq-comment-message">That\'s another angle - if (and I do mean <b>if</b>) she makes it to the veep debate with Biden, she could cause problems for herself if he is seen as a gentleman and she is seen as snarky or condescending.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1985693">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1985693" class="dsq-comment-message">PREACH</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1994788">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1994788" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1994788" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree with Biden\'s Momma - Bloody her nose (figuratively speaking of course)!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1977814" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1977814">Independent2008</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1977814" class="dsq-comment-message">Check this out. Looks like trouble might be brewing.<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/01/palin-on-abortion-id-oppo_n_122924.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/01/palin-...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1985687" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1985687">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1985687" class="dsq-comment-message">this is what must be gotten out to the American woman.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2027124" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2027124">Independent2008</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2027124" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2027124" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree with you on this issue.  It really beginning to heat on this issue concerning the Rep. VP</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1986020" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1986020">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1986020" class="dsq-comment-message">Here\'s a comment by MOSPDC that sums it up:<br><br>MOSPDC See Profile I\'m a Fan of MOSPDC  I\'m a fan of this user   permalink<br><br>Let me make sure I got this straight. SHE is trying to enforce a policy that she can\'t enforce in her own household? Lady you need to govern your house before trying to manage mine.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1977918">lamh31</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1977918" class="dsq-comment-message">Barack Obam on Stephanie Tubbs Jones.<br><br><a href="http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/" rel="nofollow">http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/</a></div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1978778" href="http://www.ilivetoshop.typepad.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ruthdfw</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1978778" class="dsq-comment-message">Well folks it turns out Palin\'s daughter is pregant:  now and will be marrying the baby\'s daddy.<br><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN2944356420080901" rel="nofollow">http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN294...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1979162">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1979162" class="dsq-comment-message">lololol<br><br>They say her daughter is 5 months pregnant.  I don\'t believe it.  I think the initial reaction was true.  This is just too funny.  I want to see how the conservative base reacts to this tidbit.  RAOTFLMAO</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1979400">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1979400" class="dsq-comment-message">Val:  "RAOTFLMAO"    Move over!!  I need ta share a piece of that floor!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1979547" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1979547">Admiral_Komack</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1979547" class="dsq-comment-message">Fuckin\' A!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1985915" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1985915">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1985915" class="dsq-comment-message">5 months.....I\'m skeptical.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1995939" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1995939" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995939" class="dsq-comment-message">\'Tis rather convenient at least, particularly if we are to believe that just 6  months ago, the VP pick birthed a baby.  Now, personally, I don\'t know nothing about birthin\' no babies, but doing the math, this would mean that the teen daughter was fornicating and got pregnant a month after - argh!!! <br><br>Never mind, this is too much work and I ain\'t that deep into really.<br><br>Whatever.<br><br>Oh, and she\'s apparently announced that <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/1/172629/5737/286/582473" rel="nofollow">she hired a lawyer for troopergate</a> 2 weeks ago.<blockquote><b>Palin\'s lawyer Tom Van Flein has told NBC news he was actually hired two weeks ago before Palin was selected to be John McCain\'s running mate. And this is a point that he thinks is significant, he represents both Governor Palin and the Office of the Governor because there is no council in house that represents the governor there. In essence, the lawyer\'s saying that the Associated Press may have been overstating this story a bit by pronouncing that she hired a private practice attorney. </b></blockquote> The quote is a report by Dan Abrams on MSNBC.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1996005" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1996005">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1996005" class="dsq-comment-message">Ahh....Why deal with all the drama, America?   Isn\'t the NORMAL Barack Obama and Michelle Obama and their two normal kids looking mighty fine to you?  Isn\'t the predictably decent, widowed and remarried Joe Biden looking just fine?    Why go through the 3 ringed circus, America?<br><br>SKIP THE DRAMA, VOTE OBAMA!!!!!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1996146">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1996146" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1996146" class="dsq-comment-message">Surely America doesn\'t want the Clampetts and the Ewings running the country...can they?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1996298" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1996298" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1996298" class="dsq-comment-message">Hey, hey, hey - leave the Clampetts out of it; they were authentic, honest backwoods people who got rich from bubbling crude and moved to Bever-lee Hills, but their basic character never changed. :)<br><br>This is more like the Ewings v. the Barnes, or the family in-fighting between JR, Bobby, and Gary.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1986150">nickwah22</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1986150" class="dsq-comment-message">You would think, after the first child, they would invest in some birth control!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1987474">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1987474" class="dsq-comment-message">Nickwah22:   On another post, it was reported that SHE doesn\'t "believe" in birth control i.e., condoms. etc.] EVEN within marriage!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>Whew!   Shaking her head Deep Breaths!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1995837" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1995837" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995837" class="dsq-comment-message">No can do; they are "Abstinence Only" peeps. :)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1979386">parker404</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1979386" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1979386" class="dsq-comment-message">Who\'s a baby momma now?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1979540" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1979540" href="http://thisweekwithbarackobama.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">icebergslim</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1979540" class="dsq-comment-message">Sarah Palin\'s teenage daughter 5 month pregnant.  Talk about NOT VETTING.<br><a href="http://thisweekwithbarackobama.blogspot.com/2008/09/sarah-palins-daughter-bristol-17-is.html" rel="nofollow">Here</a><br><br>Sorry, I keep going back if it was one of Obama\'s daughters, better yet, this reeks of Britney Spears lil sis having a baby this young on a tween/teen show on Nickolodean.<br><br>We look up to the first and second families of this country as GOLD.  This pregnancy is like putting lipstick on a pig.  Reeks.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1979566">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1979566" class="dsq-comment-message">icebergslim:  ". . . lipstick on a pig."   The imagery -  - PRICELESS!!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)     :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1995778" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1995778" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995778" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s courtesy of the late Ann Richards, God rest her soul:  <blockquote><b>"You can put lipstick and earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it\'s still a pig.\'\' <br><br>"I\'ve always said that in politics, your enemies can\'t hurt you, but your friends will kill you."</b></blockquote> Eh hee.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1997034" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1997034">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1997034" class="dsq-comment-message">99% Sure:  Thank you!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)  Appreciate this information!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1979725" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1979725" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1979725">parker404</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1979725" class="dsq-comment-message">MSM criticized the Obamas for allowing their girls to be interviewed (with them) by Access Hollywood.  Talk about bad parenting, Grandma Alaska is flying all over the country campaigning for an office for which she is not qualified while her children are obviously left to fend for themselves.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1985082" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1985082">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1985082" class="dsq-comment-message">parker404:   Interesting - ". . . her children are obviously LEFT to fend for themselves."             \'cause this raises the question -  <br><br>WHERE IS "GRANDPA ALASKA"?????????   <br><br>And a follow-up question:    "Whycome" he has made NO statements regarding his wife????<br><br>And a final question:  Will "Grandpa Alaska" speak at the RNC Convention???   :&gt;)<br><br><br>Editorial Response:   "Hell to the naw!:    He\'s been muzzled all this time.  His role in the family - Make that oil money and the babies and STFU!!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;<br>[My spell checker just cain\'t keep up!  :&gt;)]   More therapy!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1985956">parker404</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1985956" class="dsq-comment-message">I get the impression that Grandpa Alaska is not that smart.  He doesn\'t really look like he\'d be a public speaker.<br><br>When Grandma Alaska was running for Mayor (I believe) she told voters and the press that her husband was going to stay home to take care of the kids.  Apparently, that only lasted for a year or so.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1986603" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1986603">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1986603" class="dsq-comment-message">parker404:  My impression also from seeing just 1 picture!  That\'s why I was looking for a confirmation!    Oh well!  All in due time!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>OTOH:  How is a "house-husband"  making money???   Family Leave Act  Subsidy????   :&gt;)    :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>Which RAISES another VETTING QUESTION??<br><br>Aren\'t ALL American candidates REQUIRED to SHARE their financial records with somebody??? [I\'m losing the concept!!  Sorry.]<br>Both billary & Mr. Obama PUBLICLY shared their TAX RETURNS!!<br><br>Come ta think about it - I never heard any thing from "McAncient"!!<br><br>And Palin -    wellllllll!<br><br>So what\'s the deal????  Looking for input - really!!  Thanks!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1986100">nickwah22</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1986100" class="dsq-comment-message">He doesn\'t need to speak.  He needs to worry about the rest of his babies having babies.  <br><br>Biden needs to rush to a store that sells chastity belts ASAP!  We can\'t take any chances.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1986894">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1986894" class="dsq-comment-message">nickwah22:   LOL!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)   :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1980163" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1980163" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1980163" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1980163" class="dsq-comment-message">What will all of those parents who complained about the example 17 year old Nickelodeon "Zoey 101" star Jamie Lynn Spears set?   How about the parents upset over non-pregnant 15 year old Miley Cyrus\'s sexy Leibovitz shots in Vanity Fair? <br><br><b><i>Obama\'s vetting team was vetted!</b></i><br><br><i>Lynn Sweet, Chicago Sun Times</i>:  <a href="http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/06/caroline_kennedy_and_eric_hold.html" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/06/carolin...</a><br><br><b> Obama\'s Veep Vetter Jim Johnson Steps Down After Controversy</b> <br><br><i> After this morning\'s flurry of controversy over Jim Johnson, one of the committee members selected by Barack Obama to help him choose a running mate, Johnson has stepped down from the position. The former Fannie Mae CEO (and Washington power broker) was under attack from conservative critics from the moment The Wall Street Journal revealed that he had accepted below-market-rate mortgages from Countrywide Financial. At first, Obama defended him, saying it would take too much energy to "vet the vetters," but this afternoon he let Johnson resign.</i><br><br><a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2008/06/obamas_vp_vetter_jim_johnson_s.html" rel="nofollow">http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2008/06/obamas_vp_...</a><br><br><b>McCain camp\'s response: Jim Johnson Resigns From Obama Camp</b>  <br><br> From the McCain campaign:<br><br>  <b> <i>  "Jim Johnson\'s resignation raises serious questions about Barack Obama\'s judgment.  Selecting the vice presidential nominee is the most important decision a presidential candidate can make and one even Barack Obama has said will \'signal how I want to operate my presidency.\'  By entrusting this process to a man who has now been forced to step down because of questionable loans, the American people have reason to question the judgment of a candidate who has shown he will only make the right call when under pressure from the news media.  America can\'t afford a president who flip-flops on key questions in the course of 24 hours. That\'s not change we can believe in." —McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds</b> </i><br><br><a href="http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YTVhNDFhMjhiYTdkYThhZjBjNGEzYjgzN2RmOTRkNDk=" rel="nofollow">http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YTVhND...</a><br><br>Obama would have <b>NEVER</b> gotten away with selecting a VP with a 17-yr-old unmarried pregnant daughter.  And there is no way in hell he would be where he is today if he had an unmarried teen daughter.<br><br>NYT: <a href="http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/01/palins-17-year-old-daughter-is-pregnant/?hp" rel="nofollow">http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/01/p...</a><br><br>Hypocrisy, hypocrisy, hypocrisy...</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1985834" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1985834">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1985834" class="dsq-comment-message">Anovelista:  Good analysis!!     U R good!!    :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1983773" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1983773" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1983773">jelana</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1983773" class="dsq-comment-message">With the REPUGS, you can never separate truth from fiction.  This could be fiction.  Months from now we may hear that Bristol has lost the baby.  At this point, I am suspect of anything which comes from them.  Who knows?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1985820" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1985820">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1985820" class="dsq-comment-message">jelana:  ". . lost the baby."   Then will she loose the "FAUX Husband"????   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>Joining you in the drink of "cynicism" - aide!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1984554" class="dsq-comment-header">\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1984554">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1984554" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1984554" class="dsq-comment-message">lipstick on  a pig.<br><br>You and me both, iceberg, about what if this were Malia or Sasha. <br><br>Yeah, we know what the reaction would be.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1979542" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1979542">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1979542" class="dsq-comment-message">Arianna Huffington weighs in:<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/saving-the-gop-and-the-un_b_122948.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffingto...</a><br>Saving The GOP and the UNBEARABLE Lightness of Being Sarah Palin<br><br>Favorite line [among many]:  "Palin is notable for what she DOESN"T BRING:    A TRACK RECORD!!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)     :&gt;)         <br><br>Brrrrrrrrrrr!   Please hand me my FUR JACKET!!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>Oh wait. . .. . That was my "fake" one wasn\'t it?? :&gt;)    :&gt;)   :&gt;)    My "real" one was given BACK to the animal!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1979648" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1979648" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1979648">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1979648" class="dsq-comment-message">From the Jed Report:<br><br><a href="http://www.jedreport.com/2008/08/mccain-turning-gustav-into-cam.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.jedreport.com/2008/08/mccain-turning...</a><br>McCain Turning Gustav Into a Campaign Event<br><br>Really??   Ya think????<br><br>Wait a minute. . . . .    Is HE the POTUS????  <br><br>If so, he\'d better JOIN that FAKE one hiding out in Texas!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1979700" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1979700">parker404</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1979700" class="dsq-comment-message">IF McSame knew Grandma Alaska\'s daughter was pregnant before he offered her the VP slot, it\'s real cute for him to announce this in the middle of a hurricane.  The story is not being covered on television at all!<br><br>I still say Grandma Alaska will be off the ticket before the convention ends.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1981130" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1981130" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1981130" class="dsq-comment-message">Thomas Eagleton anyone? <br><br><a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0%2C9171%2C879139-1%2C00.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,917...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1995674" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1995674" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995674" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes, my Gen X and Gen Y family and friends are fascinated when I tell them the story of Thomas Eagleton.  Now you know he should have told them that he had been in what was then widely known as the insane asylum. He wasn\'t deeply vetted either and McGovern wanted someone who wasn\'t a \'name\' senator, unlike McCaint who allowed the neo-con moral majority leader(s) and that fat a** drug addict (Limbo) to choose his running mate.<br><br>I was in the 11th grade that year.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1985882" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1985882" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1985882">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1985882" class="dsq-comment-message">Soledad mentioned it earlier.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1987400" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1987400" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1987400" class="dsq-comment-message">Exactly!!!!!!!!!!!!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1994754" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1994754">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1994754" class="dsq-comment-message">that makes is worse Parker404 that means he deliberately participated in the effort to deceive the American people.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1994797" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1994797" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1994797">parker404</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1994797" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1994797" class="dsq-comment-message">It wouldn\'t be the first time.  He continues to go along with Bush\'s deceptive war.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1985644" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1985644">99% Honest</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1985644" class="dsq-comment-message">so i was curious to see how this was playing out on the conservative circuit (because conveniently for mccain the news media is preoccupied with roadblocked coverage of gustav) and i visited a few of their more mainstream blogs...the overt racialization of the commentary is almost mindblowing. granted, i see things on the left sites (kos and here included) sometimes that i find a little extreme to my personal views but it\'s generally ideological and not racially offensive. one thing i did find interesting is the constant references to obama\'s "punished with a baby" statement as rebuttal. honestly, i dont expect obama to touch this with a 10foot pole...his surrogates are another story.<br><br>it just goes to show that had one of the obama daughters come out as pregnant, there would be no "oh what a blessing" talk going around as it is for palin.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1985749" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1985749">JJai</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1985749" class="dsq-comment-message">Obama\'s comments on the pregnancy are below:<br><br>At a press availability in Monroe, Mich., Barack Obama said: "Back off these kinds of stories." <br><br>"I have said before and I will repeat again: People\'s families are off limits," Obama said. "And people\'s children are especially off limits. This shouldn\'t be part of politics. It has no relevance to Gov. Palin\'s performance as a governor and/or her potential performance as a vice president. So I would strongly urge people to back off these kinds of stories. You know my mother had me when she was 18, and how a family deals with issues and teenage children, that shouldn’t be a topic of our politics." <br><br>On charges that his campaign has stoked the story via liberal blogs: <br><br>"I am offended by that statement. There is no evidence at all that any of this involved us," he said. "Our people were not involved in any way in this, and they will not be. And if I thought there was somebody in my campaign who was involved in something like that, they would be fired."</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1985886" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1985886">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1985886" class="dsq-comment-message">JJai:   and there you are!!!   :&gt;)  :&gt;)<br><br>Good post!!  :&gt;)   Thanks JJai!    :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1986040" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1986040" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1986040">JJai</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1986040" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1986040" class="dsq-comment-message">You know I think we are up and arms but as long as Trig is not confirmed as Bristol\'s mom then conservatives will still be pleased. They will say that family has ultimately made the best decisions, parenthood, and etc. in face of indiscretions. Twice the family chose life. The base will eat that up.<br><br>The scope of the campaign for a while anyway is firmly focused on abortion, abstinence, and etc. Not necessarily a good place for dems... <br><br>So far, I think it is still a win for McCain.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1985652" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1985652" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1985652">pjamma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1985652" class="dsq-comment-message">So Sarah just announced her 17 year old daughter is pregnant and will be getting married soon.   So is this the second child from the product of an abstinence upbringing or the first?  This is getting interesting, at least for me now that I am more Independent the Republican.  However my Republican mom (yes black like me) is grasping for every talking point possible to explain Sarah.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1986164" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1986164">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1986164" class="dsq-comment-message">Obama\'s leads hold in POLLS<br><br><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/1/13442/82722/587/582164" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/1/13442/82...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1987318">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1987318" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:    Yaaaaaa!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)   Whooo!!!   Hoooo!!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1995337">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995337" class="dsq-comment-message">This is really good news!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1987354" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1987354">Vanity</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1987354" class="dsq-comment-message">Get this....<br><br>SARAH PALIN\'S DAUGHTER, 17 YEARS OF AGE IS UNWED AND PREGNANT...<br><br>Can you imagine if this was one of the Obama girls at 17?<br><br>::shakes ones head::</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1987369">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1987369" class="dsq-comment-message">And they\'re gonna force that child to get married to save face...po thang....and I\'m still convinced this is baby #2.....its textbook, that cry for attention wasn\'t met with baby #1. I\'ve seen this entire episode play out before with a close friend and her family.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1987759" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1987759">nickwah22</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1987759" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1987759" class="dsq-comment-message">Lets just hope that baby #1 wasn\'t a product of incest..  I will be watching the interaction the family has with Mr. Palin closely.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1990809" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1990809">TRW</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1990809" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1990809" class="dsq-comment-message">WOW.  That is more than below the belt.  Incest?  Really?  There is no evidence to base this statement on whatsoever.  This is a teenage girl we are talking about here.  I just can\'t even believe this.<br><br>Have things taken an interesting and somewhat bizarre turn?  Yes.  But if people start falling into a pattern of putting innocent people down and making absurd accusations and innuendo,  then are they really any better then the extreme right wing?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1994630" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1994630">nickwah22</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1994630" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1994630" class="dsq-comment-message">I feel like the majority of people take what they get from the "leaders" of our country.  If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it probably is a duck; regardless of what they want to call it.  It doesn\'t smell right to me.<br><br>This race has been extremely skeptical of everything Obama because he was such an "unknown."  This woman comes out of nowhere with a very questionable family life and no one is supposed to comment on it because it\'s "off limits?"  Why wasn\'t Michelle off limits but Cindy was?<br><br>Calling it like I see it, but I can understand your p.o.v.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1995205">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995205" class="dsq-comment-message">nickwah22:  This statement FITS with CPL\'s new thread -  DOUBLE STANDARDS!!  Good one!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1995565" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1995565" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995565" class="dsq-comment-message">yeah, I posted the same thing over on DKos and some white chick ran in and said that it actually does make it untrue.  So I left it alone because, liberal or not, white folks always have to be right and they always defend their own.<br><br><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/1/144946/9115/461/582298" rel="nofollow"> Obama: \'Back Off\'</a><blockquote><b>At a press avail in Monroe, Mich., Barack Obama on Palin: "Back off these kinds of stories."<br><br>"I have said before and I will repeat again: People\'s families are off limits," Obama said. "And people\'s children are especially off-limits. This shouldn\'t be part of politics. It has no relevance to Gov. Palin\'s performance as a governor and/or her potential performance as a vice president. So I would strongly urge people to back off these kinds of stories. You know my mother had me when she was 18 and how a family deals with issues and teenage children, that shouldn’t be a topic of our politics." <br><br>He also vows to fire any campaign staffer that stokes this story, and obviously isn\'t happy with the implication his campaign had anything to do with the story:<br><br>"I am offended by that statement. There is no evidence at all that any of this involved us," he said. "Our people were not involved in any way in this, and they will not be. And if I thought there was somebody in my campaign who was involved in something like that, they would be fired." </b></blockquote>So <b>Ruth</b>\'s post yesterday was accurate in the sense that any blowback re a Katie Holmes type faked pregnancy and the VP pick would be on the Obama/Biden campaign.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1987420">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1987420" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1987420" class="dsq-comment-message">Am I the only one who finds the McCain-Palin ticket to be the most trailer park, backwoods type ticket ever?? Seriously, it doesn\'t matter how much money they have, the McCain\'s reek of an episode of Mama\'s Family. Now throw in the Palin clan, and geez.....its like the Beverly Hillibillies go to Washington.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1987475">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1987475" class="dsq-comment-message">Um, no you\'re not.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1987565" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1987565">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1987565" class="dsq-comment-message">Yeah...they\'re ....ghetto.<br><br>I thought so, but didn\'t want to say it, having used up my "bitch" points.<br><br>But really, does Cindy look like the cool, classy blond heiress?  Naw, she looks like new money in very poor taste....the big, overblond hair and harsh makeup.   And John with the nasty jokes about Chelsea and the "C" word... UGH.<br><br>Isn\'t it ironic, though?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1995289">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1995289" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995289" class="dsq-comment-message">ghetto?<br><br><br>lol</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1996238" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1996238">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1996238" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1996238" class="dsq-comment-message">Ha!...In Canada, black is white, and up is down.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1987426" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1987426" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1987426" class="dsq-comment-message">Yea...Palin is a great member of the NRA since her daughter will now be having a shotgun wedding....haha....sorry, Obama does not have to touch it and he should not but I will. The hypocrisy stinks !!<br><br>I love all the excuses that people are making for them.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1987521" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1987521">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1987521" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1987521" class="dsq-comment-message">Lol.... <br><br>They made it seem like the black community is somehow aberrant with sexual matters and teenage pregnancy.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1987488" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1987488">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1987488" class="dsq-comment-message">So Palin\'s daughter is pregnant? COME ON! This little blurb from an AP article about this tells the TRUE tale:<br><br><i><b>John McCain\'s running mate Sarah Palin said Monday that her 17-year-old unmarried daughter is five months pregnant, an announcement campaign aides said was aimed at rebutting Internet rumors that Palin\'s youngest son, born in April, was actually her daughter\'s.<br><br>A statement released by the campaign said that Bristol Palin will keep her baby and marry the child\'s father. Bristol Palin\'s baby is due in late December.<br></i></b></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1987590" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1987590">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1987590" class="dsq-comment-message">Sepia:   I\'m "doing the math!"   "Waiting To Exhale" in DECEMBER!!<br><br>"Here Comes Santa Claus" with his bundle!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5-OC_5rksk" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5-OC_5rksk</a><br><br>No wait. . .  It\'s a Palin with HER BUNDLE!   :&gt;)  <br><br>Whew!!  Really shaking her head Deep Breaths!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1995482" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1995482" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995482" class="dsq-comment-message">So much for the Abstinence Only illogic that the VP pick claims to espouse.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1987492">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1987492" class="dsq-comment-message">********VIDEO**********<br><br>This is so damned funny!!!<br>	<br>P.U.M.A. Hunting<br><a href="http://www.236.com/blog/w/katie_halper/puma_hunting_8606.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.236.com/blog/w/katie_halper/puma_hun...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1995019">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995019" class="dsq-comment-message">Damn they were stupid! LOL!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1987528" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1987528">Vanity</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1987528" class="dsq-comment-message">LMAO @ the previous comment...<br><br>"WHO\'S THE BABY MOMMA NOW?"<br><br>Hilarious......keep it going!!<br><br>I\'m sorry but this is a disgustingly poor image for the Palin\'s. What? Sarah was too busy induldging herself in her family scandal to tell her daughter have him strap on a condom?! No it\'s NOT OKAY to be 17 and pregnant. Teenage pregnancy is not a positive statement, so the family should stop sugar coating it like it is!<br><br>Very trashy Bristol!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1987552" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1987552">Kelly B.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1987552" class="dsq-comment-message">VERY TRASHY  <br><br>TRAILER PARK-ISH<br><br>BEVERLY GOES HILLIBILLIES<br><br>COULDN\'T OF SAID IT BETTER</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1994533">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1994533" class="dsq-comment-message">John McCain\'s wandering eyes...............<br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RN5xbWtNSU&feature=related" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RN5xbWtNSU&feat...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1995448">nickwah22</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995448" class="dsq-comment-message">I did notice him playing with his wedding ring when I watched that speech Friday..<br>His wife was right behind him - no shame this man.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1994781" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1994781" href="http://starmediapublication.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Star Media Publication</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1994781" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://starmediapublication.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">http://starmediapublication.blogspot.com/</a><br><br>Published 8/29/08<br>By: SMP<br><br>THE DARKSIDE OF INTERACIAL RELATIONSHIPS <br><br>Interracial relationships has been on the rise for years and years now, which most logically minded people would agree that it’s a good thing, it shows that as a society we’ve manage to grow and see beyond skin pigmentation like the other lower species on the animal kingdom hierarchy. Unfortunately, it is not the case.<br><br>Great deals of people who are involved in interracial relationships are themselves racist, who suffers from internalized racism, similar to a hate mongering separatist. Often, A lot of people in interracial relationship have an infatuation for the other races and perceive the other races as being some how better or even superior to their own, they don’t like the person that their with for the individual that he/she is but rather for the race to which the partner belongs to. For example a white woman who’s involved in such a relationship with a black men, she’s not with “Jerome” for who he is but likes him for his race and vice versa, which is no different from a Neo Nazi who hates a person not for the individual he is but simply for his race. In both circumstances, no one sees the person for who they are but rather their race. As we’ve all learned, there’s a thin line between love and hate.<br><br>A recent interracial phenomenon is black women with white men, who is really nothing new, such pairing dates back since the cotton picking plantation days, but more recently it’s received a lot of attention curtsey of Oprah and Tyra Banks shows that did a segment on that topic. More and more black women are with white men, especially the “professional” black women who cries that there’s no good eligible black men, spitting out the same rhetoric that a Grand Dragon of the KKK would that “they’re in jail, most are homosexuals and most prefers white women” which is all a pile of horse manure, there’s good men and bad men in every race, such claims is used to justified their own racist sentiment and negative perception that they have toward black men and due to that they’re with other men, not because they love that individual but because they despise his black counterpart, these women are white supremacist in dark skin, they hold the same negative stereotype toward black men as that of a imperial wizard of the Klan and utters the same vile comments.<br><br>Often these flaccid relationships are base purely on a sick fetish, although some will claim its a perference but the reality it is a fetish, what determines a fetish and perference, same thing with a nicer term. For example like lust like the Spike Lee film states it’s “Jungle Fever”, evidence of that is the racist comment that we all are familiar with that both blacks and whites say “I’ll go out with a person of another race, but I’ll never marry a person of another race”, such comments can simply be stated as being fucked up. Basically, that familiar comment means that “I can satisfy my animalistic urges with a person of another race, but I can never have a person of another race be the mother/father of my children.” One has to be a racist to hold such feelings or say such thing and too often we’ve all heard that comment being uttered and that notion has been the starting point for a lot of relationships, which is purely sick.<br><br>The worst thing is that people that are involved in interracial relationships for race sakes gives a bad name to all the good people that are with someone that they truly love and it comes out that person is of another race. The problem is not interracial relationships, it’s intra-racial racism”, because anyone who dates any race exclusively needs a shrink</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1994829">nickwah22</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1994829" class="dsq-comment-message">The RNC (which is playing on C SPAN) is DRYYYYYYYYYYYYY.<br>Too many empty seats to scan the crowd.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1995165">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995165" class="dsq-comment-message">nickwah22:   ANNNNNNDD!!!!!  Where da People Of Color!????   :&gt;)    :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>Waaaay Just Kidding!!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)     But I was looking for some well -respected [by the RNC]  N(o)BRA members!:&gt;)   :&gt;)   Guess they are still NOT getting any SUPPORT!!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1995312">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995312" class="dsq-comment-message">McCain couldn\'t raise enough money to Rent-A-Negro as per Field Negro\'s blog post. ;-)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1996064">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1996064" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1996064" class="dsq-comment-message">The GOP must be poor as Job\'s turkey because I know plenty of black college students they could have rented out for cheap.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1995256" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1995256" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995256" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com/2008/09/slideshow-our-leaders.html" rel="nofollow">Denver Slideshow: Our Leaders</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1996622" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1996622">Texas_Girl_in_LA</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1996622" class="dsq-comment-message">Craig,<br><br>Too cool!<br><br>Dude, how tall are you? You are taller than everybody in your photos.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1996801">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1996801" class="dsq-comment-message">Enjoyed the "electric slide(s)"   -   CH style!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1998774">Lilytiger</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1998774" class="dsq-comment-message">Fanstastic, what a great time you had and you met so many people. Next time, Barak, Joey, Al and John.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1995276" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1995276">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995276" class="dsq-comment-message">Bill "Abort Black Babies To Lower Crime" Burton just had a hissy fit because a CNN reporter said that pro-sex ed./contraception groups would say that Palin\'s pro-abstinence, no sex ed., anti-contraception stance doesn\'t work considering her teen daughter is pregnant.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1995787">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1995787" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995787" class="dsq-comment-message">Oops! I meant Bill BENNETT!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1996900" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1996900" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1996900" class="dsq-comment-message">We knew who you spoke of.  AKA The Gambler. . . .</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1995326">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995326" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/commentary/hc-commentarydavis0831.artaug31,0,3487488.story" rel="nofollow">No Room At The Table For Black Republicans</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1995388">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995388" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h7VIY5GfDmjy-A5HsGLuHvA0SHtgD92U6DS00" rel="nofollow">Palin hires attorney for Troopergate investigation</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1995393">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995393" class="dsq-comment-message">Just saw Arianna Huffington on C-SPAN, giving a MAJOR "SMACK DOWN" to Tucker Carlson!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)   It was FIERCE!!!   :&gt;)<br><br>She said that Palin was NOT qlified for VP on the following SUBSTANTIVE matter:<br><br>SHE IS ARCHAIC:   on 3 points:   1.   global warming [Palin doesn\'t believe that it is man-made]   2.  Creationism [NOT evolution in any form]      3. NO ABORTION, even in the cases of incest or rape!  <br><br>A.H. supports the "rants" of Keith Olbermann as a journalist!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>A.H. said that - "Bill O\'Reilly has NO COMMITTMENT to FACTS."  !!!   YES SHE DID!!!  :&gt;)   <br><br>Carlson had no come back!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1995459" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1995459" href="http://starmediapublication.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Star Media Publication</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995459" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://starmediapublication.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">http://starmediapublication.blogspot.com/</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1996198" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1996198" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1996198" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1996198" class="dsq-comment-message">Stop with the spamming.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1995427" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1995427">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995427" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200809010004?f=h_latest" rel="nofollow">Glenn Beck, Debra Saunders falsely claimed Palin supports benefits for same-sex partners of state employees</a><br><br><i><b>Summary: Syndicated columnist Debra Saunders and CNN Headline News host Glenn Beck both falsely claimed that Gov. Sarah Palin supports benefits for same-sex partners of state employees. In fact, while Palin did veto a bill that would have prevented state officials from granting spousal benefits to same-sex couples, she stated that she did so because the Alaska attorney general had advised her that the bill was unconstitutional, not because she supported spousal benefits for same-sex couples. She has also reportedly said that she would support a ballot question banning benefits for same-sex couples.</i></b></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1996204" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1996204">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1996204" class="dsq-comment-message">OMG.....Campbell is killing it!!!!<br><br>She asked Tucker Bounds to give ONE decision that Palin has made for the National Guard!!!!<br><br>He kept going back to Obama!!!!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1996286">JJai</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1996286" class="dsq-comment-message">saw it! It was great.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1996434">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1996434" class="dsq-comment-message">I just logged on to post about that.  Whe was taking him to task and made him look like a fool.  H e really couldn\'t not answer the question about her foreign policy experience.  He offered that she was the commander and chief of the National Guard.  When told by Campbell that the governor does not deploy the guard in situations like Iraq, he warned that Campbell shouldn\'t belittle her.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1996477" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1996477" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1996477" class="dsq-comment-message">Hahaha!!<br><br>I heard!! I was dying laughing it was so embarassing for the party!!<br><br>I came to see if anyone saw what she was saying.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1996279" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1996279">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1996279" class="dsq-comment-message">*****Video******<br><br>Good questions, Arianna <br><br>Arianna On Cindy McCain\'s RNC Comments (VIDEO)<br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/01/arianna-on-cindy-mccains_n_123031.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/01/ariann...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1996297">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1996297" class="dsq-comment-message">Obama\'s gonna kick his chubby behind...<br><br>Rove At RNC: Biden A "Big, Blowhard Doofus"<br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/01/rove-at-rnc-biden-a-big-b_n_122998.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/01/rove-a...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1996493" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1996493">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1996493" class="dsq-comment-message">Dobson Commends Palins For \'Living Out Pro-Life Values\'<br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/01/dobson-comments-palins-fo_n_123007.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/01/dobson...</a><br><br>James, James, James...We in the pro-choice world, tell our children to wait, but if they ever have sex, they must use a condom.   You see James, we prefer the quiet, boring life of avoided pregnancy and std.   We don\'t want the excitement and roller coaster ride of the "Abstinence Only" lifestyle.<br><br>In the words of Bill Clinton, notorious sex fiend....."Thanks, but no thanks"</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1996585">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1996585" class="dsq-comment-message">JJP, its time for yet another new thread! LOLOL!!<br><br><a href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/members-of-frin.htm" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09...</a><br><br>Confirmed by ABC News that Palin was a member of secessionist group.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1996806" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1996806">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1996806" class="dsq-comment-message">***************VIDEO********************<br>Amy Goodman Arrested at RNC<br><a href="http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=oYjyvkR0bGQ&feature=email" rel="nofollow">http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=oYjyvkR0bGQ&featu...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1996972" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1996972">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1996972" class="dsq-comment-message">I feel you guys have reached a turning point in your elections.  Even Republican bloggers are finally admitting that Obama is not an "empty suit".  I\'ve seen a couple people admit that he\'s earned his place through hard work.  So, I guess the Palin pick has it\'s upside.<br><br>Barack is out of the news, it gives his team some breathing room, \'cause even though he sometimes gets more coverage, it\'s typically negative.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1997126">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1997126" class="dsq-comment-message">Sara implicated in another firing?<br><br>The Reform Candidate?<br><a href="http://www.washingtonindependent.com/3671/the-reform-candidate" rel="nofollow">http://www.washingtonindependent.com/3671/the-r...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1997189">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1997189" class="dsq-comment-message">James Carville is on Larry King using Props!!!!   <br><br>OMG, he\'s showing a picture of the building in Wasilla that Sara worked out of(not sure, didn\'t catch that part)  He said it looked like a bakery or something like that.  Then the Repub spokeswoman said she thought that was offensive to women.   Carville says he doesn\'t know how to tell her this, but he supported a woman for President.<br><br>Sigh, now they\'re taking up Hillary\'s stance.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1998819" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1998819" href="http://starmediapublication.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Star Media Publication</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1998819" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://starmediapublication.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">http://starmediapublication.blogspot.com/</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1998928" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1998928">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1998928" class="dsq-comment-message">Biden: Difference Between Me And Palin -- "She\'s Good-Looking"<br><a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/08/31/biden-palins-good-looking" rel="nofollow">http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/08/31...</a><br><blockquote><i>“There’s a gigantic difference between John McCain and Barack Obama and between me and I suspect my vice presidential opponent,” Biden said at an outdoor rally Sunday, getting ready to hit the GOP ticket for their economic policies.<br><br>“She’s good-looking,” he quipped.<br><br>“You are gorgeous!” a female supporter in the audience shouted out. Biden asked her to repeat it into the microphone so his wife at home would hear.</i></blockquote></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1999233" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1999233">Teacher</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1999233" class="dsq-comment-message">USAToday/Gallup poll<br>By UrbanAsh - September 1, 2008, 10:16PM<br><br><br><br>In the head-to-head race between the candidates, Obama now leads McCain by 50% to 43%. Last week, the Gallup poll had them tied at 44% to 43%.<br><br>On personal characteristics, Obama eliminated McCain’s advantage as “strong and decisive leader”, with a slight majority who now say this characteristic applies more to Obama: 46% to 44%. Before the convention, McCain held an 8-point advantage.<br><br>Obama now has a 13-point advantage with voters who see him as “someone who shares your values” over McCain. Before the convention, only a 6-point advantage.<br><br><br>Obama is also viewed as the more trustworthy of the two, with an 8-point advantage over McCain. Before the convention, the two were tied.<br><br><br>He has also eliminated McCain’s advantage on “handling Iraq”, with 47% now preferring Obama, and 46% McCain. Before the convention, McCain had a 9-point advantage.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1999820" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1999820">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1999820" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  Ending the day with a God Bless You - to all affected by the storms!!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2019976">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2019976" class="dsq-comment-message">Hey Rikyrah - can you embed the YouTube link that shows Morning Joe\'s response on Friday morning when Sarah Palin name was tossed up as the potential VP pick?<br><br>All the Repubs now have their new talking points and he is now equating Palin as having more experience than Obama when he clearly said the opposite.  Hoping more blogs will post this YouTube momemt on their sites.  I think this is the BEST ad for Democrats to use.<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTbsbeY5k5k" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTbsbeY5k5k</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1975069" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1975069" href="http://starmediapublication.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Star Media Publication</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1975069" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1975069" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://starmediapublication.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">http://starmediapublication.blogspot.com/</a><br><br>Published 8/29/08<br>By: SMP<br><br>THE DARKSIDE OF INTERACIAL RELATIONSHIPS<br><br>Interracial relationships has been on the rise for years and years now, which most logically minded people would agree that it’s a good thing, it shows that as a society we’ve manage to grow and see beyond skin pigmentation like the other lower species on the animal kingdom hierarchy. Unfortunately, it is not the case.<br><br>Great deals of people who are involved in interracial relationships are themselves racist, who suffers from internalized racism, similar to a hate mongering separatist. Often, A lot of people in interracial relationship have an infatuation for the other races and perceive the other races as being some how better or even superior to their own, they don’t like the person that their with for the individual that he/she is but rather for the race to which the partner belongs to. For example a white woman who’s involved in such a relationship with a black men, she’s not with “Jerome” for who he is but likes him for his race and vice versa, which is no different from a Neo Nazi who hates a person not for the individual he is but simply for his race. In both circumstances, no one sees the person for who they are but rather their race. As we’ve all learned, there’s a thin line between love and hate.<br><br>A recent interracial phenomenon is black women with white men, who is really nothing new, such pairing dates back since the cotton picking plantation days, but more recently it’s received a lot of attention curtsey of Oprah and Tyra Banks shows that did a segment on that topic. More and more black women are with white men, especially the “professional” black women who cries that there’s no good eligible black men, spitting out the same rhetoric that a Grand Dragon of the KKK would that “they’re in jail, most are homosexuals and most prefers white women” which is all a pile of horse manure, there’s good men and bad men in every race, such claims is used to justified their own racist sentiment and negative perception that they have toward black men and due to that they’re with other men, not because they love that individual but because they despise his black counterpart, these women are white supremacist in dark skin, they hold the same negative stereotype toward black men as that of a imperial wizard of the Klan and utters the same vile comments.<br><br>Often these flaccid relationships are base purely on a sick fetish and lust like the Spike Lee film states it’s “Jungle Fever”, evidence of that is the racist comment that we all are familiar with that both blacks and whites say “I’ll go out with a person of another race, but I’ll never marry a person of another race”, such comments can simply be stated as being fucked up. Basically, that familiar comment means that “I can satisfy my animalistic urges with a person of another race, but I can never have a person of another race be the mother/father of my children.” One has to be a racist to hold such feelings or say such thing and too often we’ve all heard that comment being uttered and that notion has been the starting point for a lot of relationships, which is purely sick.<br><br>The worst thing is that people that are involved in interracial relationships for race sakes gives a bad name to all the good people that are with someone that they truly love and it comes out that person is of another race. The problem is not interracial relationships, it’s intra-racial racism”, because anyone who dates any race exclusively needs a shrink</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1979481" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1979481" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1979481">Anon</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1979481" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1979481" class="dsq-comment-message">This type of 19th Century thinking is what makes us look ridiculous and distracts the real issues.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1977881" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1977881" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1977881" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1977881" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1977881" class="dsq-comment-message">???<br><br>Lord, deliver me.<br><br>That is all.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1995709">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1995709" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1995709" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1995709" href="http://swamphermit.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Karmi</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1995709" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1995709" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://swamphermit.wordpress.com/2008/09/01/pds-%e2%80%93-%e2%80%9cpalin-derangement-syndrome%e2%80%9d/" rel="nofollow">P.D.S. – “Palin Derangement Syndrome”</a>. That is a new disease, and it has spread quicker than B.D.S. did.</div>\
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