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video, through votes, his whole life and guess what ? it is not a story. because america is a hypocritical racist sack of shit country at least half the time. called the vietnamese gooks. says he still hates gooks and will for the rest of his life. votes against making an mlk holiday. thought that the confederate flag over south carolina was a states rights issue. changed his mind about both of these after the pressure was off and his cowardice under fire began to look bad. ridiculed chelsea clinton...then apologised when confronted. i guess that is not racist or even necessarrily sexist just a case of attacking the children of a political oponent. what a maverick. i am sure there are more...jack and jill should start a wiki. and keep it limited to those on tape.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_14:48:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "andyfrombrooklyn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2217988": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "mccain has said crazy racist, sexist shit on the record, off the record, on tape, on video, through votes, his whole life and guess what ? it is not a story. because america is a hypocritical racist sack of shit country at least half the time. called the vietnamese gooks. says he still hates gooks and will for the rest of his life. votes against making an mlk holiday. thought that the confederate flag over south carolina was a states rights issue. changed his mind about both of these after the pressure was off and his cowardice under fire began to look bad. ridiculed chelsea clinton...then apologised when confronted. i guess that is not racist or even necessarrily sexist just a case of attacking the children of a political oponent. what a maverick. i am sure there are more...jack and jill should start a wiki. and keep it limited to those on tape.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_14:48:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "andyfrombrooklyn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2219529": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I disagree with you about Hillary.<br><br>If Obama had chosen Hillary, then there wouldn't have been a need to choose Palin - HILLARY would have ignited the GOP Base for McCain, and he would have been able to choose someone else. Someone credible. <br><br>'Elitist' tone of the Obama campaign?<br><br>That's rich.<br><br>Remind me again, which of the campaigns has been built, from the ground up, on the grassroots level?<br><br>Oh yeah.<br><br>The Obama campaign.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_18:10:04", "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": 14, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2219435, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2218507": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The right has shown itself remarkably innovative in using the blogosphere against itself. The majority of Hillary \"PUMA\" sites are fake Republican astroturf. We are engaged in cyber-warfare here, folks; DO NOT let down your guard. They are out there looking for comments like the ones I see in this thread to turn around and fan the flames among their own partisans. Do you really want the \"black bourgeoisie\" to be associated with inflammatory anti-\"redneck\" sentiment? What a great way to prove that Obama is both anti-white AND elitist at the same time.<br><br>I would assume, unless proven otherwise, that in the latter half of the Democratic primary those who were posting anti-black comments for Hillary and those posting anti-female comments for Barack were all Republican agents unless proven otherwise. Doubly so now. If you're really one one us, cut the racist crap and show some discipline. EVERYTHING WE SAY HERE IS PUBLIC AND WILL BE USED AGAINST US.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_15:51:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anderkoo", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2217531, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2218001": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "And we don't  hear a word from the media about this. Amazing. If Michelle Obama had been rumored to have said this, it would have been everywhere.<br><br>I knew the white folks would never let a brother to the White House.  I just knew it", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_14:49:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "blueberry", "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}, "2216978": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hello JJP family<br><br>Republican Senator Oklahoma Infohe stated in a news article that American should elect a president that truly loves America.  In he further implied that this is proof because Obama does not wear his flag pin so I sent him this letter.  Read Below:<br><br><br>\"Dear Senator Inhofe<br><br>Like all Americans I believe that for one to run for the highest office that must truly love America.  In fact to be a public servant to this great nation one must also put country first. So we must question Senator Obama's patriotism in light of the fact he does not wear his flag pin.  <br><br>I enjoyed watching the RNC. I found the speeches electrifying<br>However, there is something that truly troubles me. <br><br>Pailin and her husband were a member of a Alaska Independence Party.  This is a political party that advocates for making Alaska its own country.  Sir that is not AMERICA FIRST but NO AMERICA AT ALL.   She is anti-American, a traitor to our great country.  As a true American patriot,  can you explain to me why you would support a Republican ticket that has an anti-American on the ticket.  How can you be a true American a true Republican?  How can you stand their and let a secessionist be elected to the second highest office in the land?  How can you support a ticket with a person was a part of a political party that hates America.  Shame on you Senator Inhofe.  Shame on you.  <br><br>Is she going to use the US military to support the secession of Alaska from the America.  Alaska is so close to Russia.  Is she going to talk to Putin behind our backs and cut a deal with Russia to help Alaska become independent.  I am scared Senator Inhofe.  I am scared for American if Pailin becomes our Vice President.  I know that McCain didn't know of this I know that he was busy defending himself from the liberal media.  But the Republican party had to know.  You senator had to know.  Why would you do this to America?  Why?<br><br>Sir please we need a true American on both tickets.  I know that Democrats picked their own tickets they wanted those two men on their tickets.  But you sir with all do respect.  You allowed an  anti-American on the Republican ticket.  You allowed an anti-American on the ticket.  Do you love America, Senator Inhofe do you love America.<br><br>A Patriotic American<br><br>Mrs Robert Harrison\"<br><br><br><br>Needless to say instead attacking on the racist meme that Barack is not American because he's a muslim, socialist, no flag pin wearer, etc.  I just trumped him on the GOP's contradictions about putting a secessionist on the ticket.<br><br>I think we should bombard these Republicans elected officials with emails like this and write these to the MSM blogs disguised as the \"small town Americans\" that the Republicans profess to love.  <br><br>Maybe it will a) force the mainstream media to take a look at the hypocrisy of the \"Country First\" campaign slogan and b) weaken the racist Obama is not American theme that is potent in this election.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_12:28:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "ecb8e53ad4dc175b15ab69340dd091f1", "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}, "2220051": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Let's put this out there: Hillary and Bill LIED to the people of PA about Obama's policy stances. And we all know their policies were almost identical. It was Hillary who made it crucial to tell the working class voters that Obama wasn't for hard-working voters, WHITE working class voters. Kia if that is the most racist lie ever spewed I don't know what that is.<br><br>By the way, there has NEVER been a US President who was President of Harvard Law Review.  You have to be more than book smart to get that gig, you have to be BRILLIANT. This was not editor of a college newspaper. <br><br>Kia- when was the last time you were the FIRST of your kind (race, gender, socioeconomic background) to compete with others who have had generations of a head start/ privilege and won?  <br><br>Hillary at minimum at the privilege/ head start/ advantage of having her husband as President for 8 years, which he;ped her win a Senate seat. to help her win her votes... Not saying that she wasn't deserving, but what I am saying is that Obama out worked her, out thought her, out fund-raised her, out managed her... the work. Will it KILL you to admit he DESERVES to be where he is? Or are you so elitist that can't admit that a nobody who came out of the nowhere deserves to be President like any other 8 year-old kid we encourage to at least TRY every day.<br><br>Management? Kia- Hillary is in the hole how many millions? Barack has the most success campaign machine of all time.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_19:20:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "evita", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2219613, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2218517": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Agreed! Just like Hillary's \"iron my shirt\" hecklers were a stunt.<br><br>Just one suggestion -- some might find \"redneck\" racially offensive, or at least insensitive to both class and race.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_15:54:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anderkoo", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2217360, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2220057": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "To be perfectly honest, I'm not sure it is of benefit to have any attorney as president.<br><br>We will need one helluva lawyer to figure out ALL THE WAYS Bush broke the law to get us into this war. And we will need a lawyer to figure out how the heck we can regain our rights again.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_19:22:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "evita", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2220051, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2255393": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You are preaching to the choir.  I work for a law firm and I am the ONLY black and I really believe THE FIRST.<br><br>I've lived in the South too, and your racists require a little more submission on our parts than do Northern racists; you guys have just been doing it so long you don't realize it.  <br><br>The bottom line is a racist is a r.a.c.i.s.t. No matter which part of the country you are in.  I would never defend one.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-09_23:00:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2255316, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2223651": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Reagan Democrats are called REPUBLICANS.<br><br>Reagan Democrats didn't vote for Mondale/Ferraro (hence \"Reagan Democrats\"), Dukakis/Bentsen, Clinton/Gore or Kerry/Edwards. But all of a sudden Obama is deficient because HE can't pull Reagan Democrats when no other Democrat in the past 24 years hasn't either.<br><br>Concern trolling is not a good look.  But you get 100 points, though.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_21:39:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "b55fc0e16623c181a6c8436de91a9fb4", "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": 2219435, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2220072": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "THANK GOD that not all self identified rednecks are stupid.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_19:24:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "evita", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2218350, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2220074": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "So, he didn't get the votes...but he submitted to the same rules.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_19:25:06", "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": 2220020, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2219052": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thank you for posting this!!!  Please read this before you start a campaign to have the story removed from the web. The author gives a totally reasonable explaination and admits to writing the story. This is not a smear being circulated without an author. Get a grip before you gather with the torches & pitch forks.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_17:02:35", "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": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2217756, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2218031": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "yes this anecdote about sarah is flimsy. but there are many votes and statements in mccain's career that are not. i propose a wiki list of substantiated moments in mccain's career when he was racist, sexist, or a child hater. voting against mlk day or speaking out in favor of the rebel flag...racist. let the media argue that it isn't.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_14:52:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "andyfrombrooklyn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2223153": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Preach!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_20:43:37", "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": 2220004, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2218036": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Because it's CRA. <br><br>The media has totally lost its credibility, letting the left push these unsubstantiated rumors into the MSM without bothering to check them out. Countless smears have already been debunked and the public sees the mSM as being 'in the tank\" for Obama.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_14:52:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "80a9e4dcb7b57eef7d8aac7c5265c389", "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": 2218001, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2297398": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ms Martin,<br>we agree on most points. But I am from Los Angeles and I do realize the difference. <br>Trust that I call people out on their bigotted shyt when it is appropriate. <br><br>I have not been doing any kind of submission for any period of time, except to the people who took part in creating me.<br><br>you and I are on the same page.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-12_02:07:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "kenyaw", "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": 2255393, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2218551": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "What I find interesting is that despite the near-ludicrous hype, Obama has not proven to be a breakaway candidate like Bill Clinton, who jumped anywhere from 12-16 points after his convention and never really looked back. We've been told that the electorate is hungry for change and they're angry at the GOP, but they seem reluctant to embrace the \"change\" candidate.<br><br>Despite a week of Palin-bashing, the Republican ticket seems to be doing quite well. The claim that McCain's judgment is so flawed that he would select a western governor to be \"a heartbeat from the presidency\" just didn't catch on.<br><br>We haven't seen the end of McCain's convention bounce. He has, with Palin's help, appropriated Obama's \"change\" theme. And, come to think of it, Obama's \"post-partisan\" theme. Republicans and moderates are just as hungry for a new Washington as Democrats. And it's proven to be way to late in the game for that McSame stuff to stick.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_15:59:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "517d8b02de297166f46205708c9304f3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2219615": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Please tell me EXACTLY, what has Palin done! This isn't Palin-bashing - she's doing it to herself. She's just like McCain - lie through your teeth and no one will notice. She is being called on it and it's Palin-bashing?!?! Palin raised taxes as governor, supported the Bridge to Nowhere before she opposed it and pursued pork-barrel projects as mayor and governor. When Palin took over Wasilla, the town had no long-term debt. By the time she was done, debt service had increased by 69 percent, the town had close to $19 million in long-term debt, making the debt around $3000 per capita. THAT IS THE TRUTH, not Palin-bashing!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_18:24:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "fa6446abdf3aefd7597919bc748a2604", "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": 2218551, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2218556": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You are entitled to your opinion, but not your own facts.  The truth of the matter is, both Obama and McCain have worked on reform issues since they have been in public office.  Obama while he was in the Illinois Senate, and since he has been in the US Senate.  The truth of the matter is that both Obama and McCain have crossed the aisles to work with their colleagues.  The truth of the matter is, that while Sarah Palin did take on members in her party, there are also a string of inconsistencies in her record about her \"reform\" image.  <br><br>Does McCain have a longer record?  Yes.  And I would hope so since he has been in the Senate 26 years to Obama's 4.  <br><br>Is McCain a maverick?  In my mind NO.  People say that he is not  Bush, and maybe not, but since he has been warming up for this election, he has flipped his stance on issues and positions that he had previously held.  And has since hired the same team of people and associates that worked to destroy his campaign in 2000, that...wait for it...worked for Bush.   So you may be absolutely right.  He is not Bush, he certainly has a longer record in public office, and didn't duck and dodge to get out of military service.  But McCain has also demonstrated a willingness to lie down with the dogs so to speak to get elected and that doesn't bode well for him either.  <br><br>So let's be adults.  <br><br>I think Obama owes his \"troubles\" to his slip ups, but also to the double standard in the news media.  I have seen several instances where McCain has said or done questionable things, but the media has not been as nearly as hard on McCain--I guess because they think they \"know him.\"  Also, can we stop this strawman argument that the media is \"in the tank\" for Obama.  I find this laughable considering McCain himself has always had a cozy relationship with the media, has acknowledged that they are his base, and had a barbeque for them at his summer home.  And despite those blatant facts, lets also look at the study that said that Obama, NOT McCain received more negative coverage.  So stop it.  This whole Republican, \"woe is me media narrative\" is beyond tired.  <br><br>As far as the debates, as far as I can tell, Joe Biden can hold his own.  He is clearly knowledgeable on the issues and I think he will do fine.  I don't know about Sarah Palin, I have yet to see how she does with intense questioning on a variety of issues since we have only been formally introduced to her about a week ago.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_16:00:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "ef781b639c890767ebd1ce99011c3afa", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2218350, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2218045": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "yes this anecdote about sarah is flimsy. but there are many votes and statements in mccain's career that are not. i propose a wiki list of substantiated moments in mccain's career when he was racist, sexist, or a child hater. voting against mlk day or speaking out in favor of the rebel flag...racist. let the media argue that it isn't.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_14:52:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "andyfrombrooklyn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2217544": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "none of these folks aint really saying nothing about the issues, Obama maybe,  a little tiny bit, but it seems like Palin and McCain just mantra stealing when they need to talk about N. Korea rebuilding nukes <a href='http://rawdawgb.blogspot.com/2008/09/ping-pong-n-shit.html' rel=\"nofollow\">like North Korea has fallen off the map</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_13:48:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "32a9f52fc4eb8f70910325057a03e6c5", "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}, "2218066": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "by the way i am long past wanting to seceede from the loser southern states. and there are other freeloading crapass states like alaskatjhat i would be happy to be free of. they can have bush, mccain, or sarah as their emperor for life but why should we suffer their stillborn preferences?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_14:54:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "andyfrombrooklyn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2285143": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "In every election there are absolutely false rumors that suddenly surface about each candidate - no doubt circulated by the opponents.  If people would get their heads out of the sand for just one second and do some legitimate research on what each candidate does or does not support - maybe some wise and worthy decisions could be made when it comes time to cast a vote.  I dont believe Sara Palin said any of the things she is being accused of- it is hype with a hidden agenda.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-11_11:08:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "9cf043949553616711a2123a64e0bc82", "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}, "2223704": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Why is it anytime a black person excels, the prize is automatically downgraded?<br><br>\"Oh, the Harvard Law Review ain't that great, nobody else has had it.\"<br><br>I'm sure if/when Obama wins the presidency we will hear from concern troll such as yourself claiming the presidency isn't all that, the real power lies with X, Y or Z.<br><br>Oh, and BTW, Obama got 65% of the vote in Virginia.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_21:47:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "b55fc0e16623c181a6c8436de91a9fb4", "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": 2219613, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2223705": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I have a bachelor's degree in biological sciences, a master's and a Phd in pharmaceutics and biomedical sciences.  I was the first african American to graduate from my department.  <br><br>Oh I was the first to graduate from college in my family and I paid for it all my damn self.<br><br>So does that answer your questions regarding my academic credentials.<br><br>Is it possible to be over-educated? My family would say yes (LOL).<br><br>Seriously, based on my experience in the workplace and just living, different forms of leadership skills are required for different things.  It's my opinion that it's time to let people with backgrounds outside of academia and elite universities govern.  <br><br>If they are good leaders wouldn't they surround themselves with experts anyway.<br><br>Just something to think about.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_21:47:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "dfb764c74e7fb548549259670cc45f87", "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": 2223445, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2219613": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "So if the Obama is really representative of all working class people, why hasn't he done better with poor people in places like VA, PA and Ohio.  <br><br>You can't blame it all on racism.<br><br>Second, McCain had to pick someone right wing, it might not have been Palin but definitely someone who was pro-life, pro-gun, and pro-Jesus.  Based on his record with few exceptions, he has been moderate and not loved by evangicals.  Picking a moderate like Ridge would have insured that the Christian base would have stayed at home.  Now they have a reason to vote.<br><br>You may see a woman with little qualifications, others may see a woman so committed to serving her country that she is willing to put her family on the backburner to preach the gospel of smaller government and faith.<br><br>Finally, can you deny that people have touted the fact the Obama headed the Harvard Law Review as a selling point.  If that was such as great qualification why haven't other candidates had it.  Also what do other law review heads go on to do in their careers.  My point is, are administrative and managements skills, needed for that position the same needed for the presidency.      <br><br>To be perfectly honest, I'm not sure it is of benefit to have any attorney as president.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_18:23:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "59c49761cca368fc29349d03ff1d7402", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 13, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2219529, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2219103": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "And McCain trying to steal Barack's message at the 11th hour is something to be proud of?   Where the hell is your self-respect?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_17:08:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2218551, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2217059": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Pray for Lucille, who if she's around those crackers, will not only be looking for a new job but will have to worry about her safety.<br><br>This is another reason they are keeping this fool away from the press for two weeks.<br><br>Anytime you are the freaking governor of a state and you utter something like this in a room full of people and you honestly don't think that this will get out you are stupid.<br><br>Same with the knocked up daughter, the affair with her husband's business partner, Troopergate, etc...<br><br>Any other candidate dragging that much crap behind them into a campaign would have better sense than to thrust these issues into the national conversation.<br><br>All it shows is that the woman is just that selfish, dangerous and reckless (prefect for McCain in other words) and/or she's incredibly dumb.<br><br>That is relevant to the conversation considering he's running for president and she could be president.<br><br>This may not be as focused and as specific as a discussion about the mortgage crisis or our foreign policy but if you want to know why we are in the mess we are in take a look at these fools and how they run their business, personal and political.<br><br>The evidence is all there.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_12:42:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "3b9a948c39e9b226053d2352a076b064", "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}, "2223722": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"To be perfectly honest, I'm not sure it is of benefit to have any attorney as president.\"<br><br><br>Then you'll agree that Hillary shouldn't be on the ticket?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_21:49:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "b55fc0e16623c181a6c8436de91a9fb4", "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": 2219613, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2223634": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "May I recommend you stop trying to convince Obama's supporters that he is not a viable candidate---because evidently we think he is.<br><br>I see numerous hues of people showing up at  a campaign event for Obama/Biden, in places like PA, IN, and VA (where he won the primary by the way)--so contrary to what you may think ---he is appealing to many voters. <br><br>By the way, it seems Obama has a connection to the many latino, black, and asian working class populations as polls have shown they support him more than Mcain.  And most union organizations endorse Obama's candidacy", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_21:38:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "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": 2223346, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2226296": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Sounds like you're defending your bigots.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-08_00:33:09", "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": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2218433, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2218107": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "ace go fuck yourselk and go live down in alabama if you like facism so much!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_14:55:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "andyfrombrooklyn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2218005, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2217578": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The Washington Post might use use this quote but I'll restate it here: \"People ask me all the time why Elizabeth Hasselback is famous or Rachel Ray is the highest paid \"chef\" in America. It's because of women like Sarah Palin.\"<br><br>Derive your own meaning from it; I think it's clear.<br>I also think Barack should have grown a pair an asked Hillary to run with him. Victory first, intrigue w/she and Bill later. Now do you understand what I've been talking about?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_13:54:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "dcf2c9ce3819616f8ba0ca48c54519c4", "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}, "2223742": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "What does the electoral college map indicate again?", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_21:51:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2218283, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2223231": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "But does raising a hell of a lot of money mean that a person would make a good president?<br>Does presiding over a group of similarly interested law students mean that a candidate will be able to push agenda through.<br> <br>Finally, middle managers with masters and phds (and pharmds) in pharma make about 150000 with 1 or 2 years of experience. Although they have the intellectual capacity to do anything, it doesn't mean they would make a good president or an effective legislator.<br><br>Frist of TN was a physican, didn't help become president or keep his seat in congress.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_20:55:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "dfb764c74e7fb548549259670cc45f87", "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": 2220163, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2220163": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "So, you must know that Obama used his management skills to run his successful campaign---a campaign that even Repubs credit for his  successful use of technological means to get his message out and has out-raised any other candidate in history thus far.<br><br>Most professors I encountered in college had to manage student curricula, research opportunities etc. and so I assume Obama's stint as a college professor was like theirs---and  what is so lopsided is that Palin can be given credit for the PTA, but everyone wants to ignore Obama's position as a law professor.<br><br> And his position as president  of Harvard Law Review included residing over 80 other student editors at that time----a position as president of the law review is considered the highest student position at Harvard Law School.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_19:38:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "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": 2219613, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2216069": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<b>... According to Lucille, the waitress serving her table at the time and who asked that her last name not be used ... </b><br><br>True or false?<br><br>Republicans learned ALLOT of Media's inclination to Clinton over Obama.<br><br>And those who elected Bush are for the kill!<br>Again!<br><br>So this post HELPs you NOT much.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_11:28:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "ochyming", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2218635": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "If you don't have it on YouTube, drop it.<br>It doesn't help Obama.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_16:12:37", "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": 2218398, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2217102": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "TRW, you took the words out of my mouth--this is exactly what I came here to say. <br><br>There are so many legitimate, verifiable reasons that this woman shouldn't come anywhere close to being a heartbeat away from the Presidency and repeating rumors and innuendo like this only serve to weaken our overall argument. This is beneath us and beneath our cause.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_12:49:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "nctodc", "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": 2217007, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2221711": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Have you ever been to law school?  Because if you did you wouldn't be asking these types of question about the Harvard Law Review.  As a former law student and a lawyer, becoming the President of a law review is a big freakin' deal.  Becoming the President of the Harvard law review is MONUFREAKIN'MENTAL.  Other candidates don't have it in their background just because;  it is a super competitive process for all schools in general (you have to receive a certain number of votes from the law review members), for Harvard, I can't even imagine.<br><br>Being a  law review President basically  means you can write your ticket to any job that you want, i.e.  the clerkship with the Supreme Court justice or the $160k + salary with the blue chip law firm.  Best believe it is nothing to scoff at.    <br><br>And I love this anti-intellectualism backlash.  I would prefer a President that has a varied skill set, and going to law school forces you to do critical thinking every single day on a variety of issues; you must have the ability argue both sides of  and understand a complex issues.  That kind of depth and critical thinking has been sorely lacking during this administration.    But hey, that's just me.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_20:25:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "ef781b639c890767ebd1ce99011c3afa", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2219613, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2217617": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "How would that have helped him?  McCain would have still run Palin....then you'd have a girl fight.   The Repubs HATE the Clinton's, and it would have energized them to support Palin against Hillary.    In addition,   the Secret Service under and Bush administration has been protecting the Clintons.  What information do you think Bush has on Hillary and Bill's activities?  The day after Biden was chosen, all the Repub pundits looked absolutely miserable....why?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_14:01:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2217578, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2221716": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Teri from Ohio:  Hey:&gt;)   I had STUDENTS who: missed a lot of class, didn't turn in their homework, acted out in class [-er, that would be TRIED TO  ::&gt;)], cheated on tests [and STILL didn't pass], used essays from the internet, came to class late, TRIED TO sleep in class, etc.   Their QUESTION at the END of the TERM was -   you guessed it!   \"WHYCOME\" YOU FAILED ME???    :&gt;)      :&gt;)<br><br>\"That is the TRUTH. . . \"          :&gt;)     :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_20:26:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2219615, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2219670": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The last time I checked, the majority of white people in Iowa are working class, and they supported Obama in the primaries and are said to be solidly behind him now. So all this marginalization of voters based on class, race, and gender needs to be put to rest.  From the beginning of the primaries, Obama was able to show his appeal to a broad range of people: white, black, Latino, Asian, GLBT, poor, working-class, middle class, rich, Christian and non-Christians, atheists, and so forth.  ANd many who supported Clinton supports him now.<br><br>We all  witnessed the beauty of diversity at the DNC, can't say the same for the RNC.<br><br>Every vote for Hillary was NOT an anti-Obama vote, and vice-versa.  Many Democrats are not \"owned\" by a particualr politician, but instead wholeheartedly agree with the Democratic party's platform---and because of that most support Barack Obama because of his ideals as a Democrat. PERIOD&gt;<br><br>By the way, what is Obama's elitist tone?  I admired Hillary Clinton as well before this campaign, but I never quite understood why she had to praise herself and McCain in the same breath as degrading Obama.  So let's not get into tone here.  Because at the end of the day, Obama and Clinton were BOTH Democrats and to me personally she DID not need to praise McCain's ideals which were contrary to her own in order to make the claim she was the better candidate. <br><br>But please, give examples of Obama talking down to people.  Because all I have heard  him do is encourage young people to go to college, mentor and volunteer--be of service to your country and he will try to make education affordable to you--so that America can continue to compete globally with nations with the best and brightest minds. Or how he is concerned about the middle class and poor people and veterans, through not only his words but his voting record.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_18:34:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 9, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2219435, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2220183": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "They didn't mind the rules when they have no affect on them. So is it ok that they cry, \"The rules need to change\" because they are not winning? I had to put my nephew in time out for not playing fair with the other kids and trying to insist on changing the rules AFTER THE GAME WAS IN PLAY.<br><br>Or because they weren't PREPARED for a fight on that ground and Obama was... \"It's not fair! We didn't know this would matter!\" <br><br>How elitist of you! And them. Rules were created to help instill equity and fair play!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_19:41:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "evita", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2220020, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2223776": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "What  \"elitist\" tone of the Obama campaign? Maybe those are just your own feelings of inadequacy that you should reconcile. Who said an ivy-league education was necessary other than you? Those are your feelings that you need to deal with, dont thrust your insecurities on anyone else and proclaim it as speaking for the \"regular\" folks.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_21:56:13", "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": 2219435, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2218154": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I don't think that the GOP needs a post or story like this to blame Obama for anything.<br><br>They'd blame Obama for a rainy day if they thought they could get away with it.<br><br>I have to take back my initial belief in this story now that you and others have pointed out its problems but I don't think we should not engage this kind of story because of what Rove might do.  Rove's going to drag this campaign into the dirt even if we stick to the facts.<br><br>The issue is what kind of fight do we want to have right?<br><br>Arguing from a place grounded in Palin's lengthy record of corruption is a stronger position.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_14:59:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "3b9a948c39e9b226053d2352a076b064", "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": 2217966, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2223787": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Too late Jack. <br><br>JJP' jumped the shark ' as soon as the first smear re: Trig palin's maternity was DEBUNKED and you did not issue an update or follow Obama's advice.<br><br>Your credibility is GONE.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_21:59:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "d4a5571941439b7f9a5ba7979fd49d96", "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}, "2217138": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "And that's really what's going on.  It's a shame that people don't recognize.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_12:55:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2216657, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2219944": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Nobody knows if she really graduated....in journalism, I might add.  The Bush administration is full of incompetents from Christian colleges...  Look how that turned out.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_19:04:55", "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": 2219752, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2223807": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You do realize that Obama is going to let Bush, Cheney, Rove, and Rice off the hook.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_22:02:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "dfb764c74e7fb548549259670cc45f87", "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": 2220057, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2218785": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "without the southern states, bush wouldn't have been president and mccain wouldn't have a chance and sarah palin would still be an unknown outside of alaska. sarah palin has ruined my week and is threatening to torment me for god knows how many years because of the southern states. the states that insist that the united states forever adopt their backwards ideology. obviously there are bigots everywhere. the question is when will the southern states allow us to be represented by a president who is not a bigot?  i guess they have been winning the civil war for the last forty years. when will they make peace? what will it take? that is why i propose in all seriousness that we seceede from them. how much better would things be here in brooklyn if the southern states were not wasting our money on all sorts of stupid things like global warfare and corporate tax breaks? and bridges to nowhere in alaska. so i step back only to apologise for foul and inappropriate language but not content.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_16:31:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "andyfrombrooklyn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2218433, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2218185": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ace...where have you been ??  the far right of the republican party are the Einsteins of politics of personal destrucion...what's really ironic is what a job they did on McCain and his family in 2000..I'm shocked he's in bed with them now..and I have one name for you  ROVE... he was the \"genius\" behind the worst person destruction of many people while he orchestrated the elections of Bush SR. and Jr.'s governor and presidential runs...Palin is only going to be effective until the shine wears off ....Americans have every right to vett her since the RNC did such a poor job of it", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_15:04:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "8e78994388865df4534415d04f2d0cda", "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": 2218005, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2216657": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "We have to pay much closer attention to the what's REALLY going on.  Sarah Palin is a Big Fat distraction to the what Washington is up to.  I am watching a live briefing of OUR government going into the business of business takeovers and placing their big donors into power Godfather style.  Our government will be be disolving Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, proping up the loses with OUR taxes, and placing the heads of Merrill Lynch and anothe big Financial conglomerate to run it.  This news \"obviously\" broke Friday when not many of us are paying attention so while they are playing their sinister shell game, the wealthy continues to take care of their own and struggling Americans continue to get hosed.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_11:34:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "nettie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2219221": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "So true, Nettie. There are so many other things going on in addition to the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac take over. What are the ramifications of this take over for the american public? Any speculation? I don't have a grip on it yet but am about to research it and come back with a report.<br><br>Let me also go on the record and state that I am four square against sensorship on this blogsite. The story featured here is not totally unsubstantiated. It is substantiated, even though the source remains anonymous TO US. People can come here an post any contrary, trollish opinions  they desire, along with links that are crazy, and their stuff isn't removed. We don't have to like it, we just have to live with it. <br><br>NO SENSORSHIP ON JJP!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_17:26:29", "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": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2216657, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2292440": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I agree...it has always got to be something \"RACIAL\"  that some liar made up.  Slavery and the Civil War are over and gone (Thank God) and I want nothing more to do with them.  There is one race the human race and all are in it together.  If I don't vote for the black candidate then I'm a racist...of course.  What about blacks who don't vote for Obama...are they racist?  No, they aren't really \"black\".  Same jive.  Skin color.  Obama is a great candidate with no experience...maybe next time around he will make the grade.  Meantime, I'm voting for Allan Keyes...oops, that's right, he's black. Sara Palin didn't say anything she's accused of saying.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-11_17:45:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "6df97c5ce734ae9d3c4e63a2c96803c7", "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": 2285143, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2219752": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Well first, Iowa was a caucus state.  There wasn't a wide primary vote so we don't know how Iowans will really vote until the polls close on November 4.<br><br>Second are you denying that Obama supporters are holding Palin's degree from State U against her as if that disqualifies her from being VP or POTUS.  Why do you have to even have a degree to president; all you need to do is be a natural born citizen, 35 years old and 14 years in residency in the country.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_18:45:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "59c49761cca368fc29349d03ff1d7402", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2219670, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2218220": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I don't agree with this post. We went from mass histeria when Palin was selected. But, they we refocused on the issues at hand.<br><br>I know it's tempting to fight slurs with slurs. But, if we abandon our quidelines how can we attack others for doing the same.<br><br>I learned a long time ago not to enter a fight with a fool at their level because they pull you down and then beat you with experience. You do better to elevate the conversation and beat them with your experience.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_15:07:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "JJai", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2223346": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "May I recommend \"The Disadvantages Of An Elite Education\" by William Dereslewicz in the American Scholar.  The author touches on why Gore and Kerry couldn't make a connection to certain segments of the population.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_21:09:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "dfb764c74e7fb548549259670cc45f87", "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": 2220163, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2217086": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Whether it will ever be proven that she said this or not, it does not in any way surprise me. It is, in fact, sadly typical of whites in backwater red states and white Republicans in blue states. <br><br>It. Is. Typical.<br><br>I would bet you everything I own that John McCain has used the same slur and worse. <br><br>I would bet you that 75% of all Republican members of Congress have used the same slur and worse.<br><br>It's what they do. It's how they think. I know these people. I live with them, have lived around them, I've grown up with them. I know them inside and out. <br><br>It's how they talk ~ \"no offense, though, I have black friends\" ~ and how they think and while they'll make excuses if called on it (and I get so FUCKING tired of that), nothing changes the way they think and the beliefs they hold in their hearts.<br><br>So I am 100% certain that Sarah Palin has used this slur and worse. And I am confident that John McCain, he of the \"gooks\" and the \"cunt\" and the she's-such-an-ugly-child remarks, the man called McNasty even in his younger years, he has also said these things. I know it. <br><br>What I can't tolerate is that these people win. Is it going to take another 20 years until people of color are the vast majority of Americans for these motherfuckers to lose, with the resounding, no question about it defeat they so richly deserve?<br><br>And is that why they're building their private (military) security force (Blackwater) and their massive detention facilities? Is that how they're going to <i>keep</i> winning in the future? <br><br>I don't know, but my tinfoil hat tells me we're in for a hell of a ride if the Rethugs are finally overthrown. They'll use every trick, devious and otherwise, to maintain power. They will. It's who they are. Their vision of themselves is that they are inherently <i>more</i> worthy, <i>more</i> deserving, <i>better</i>, <i>superior</i>. They won't give up easily.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_12:47:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "bigassbelle", "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}, "2219258": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You don't want to know (ugly visual).", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_17:33:46", "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": 2219103, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2223743": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I want everyone who frequents this blog tobe well aware of the honest to God truth.  This has almost nothing to do about race and everything to do about power.  While listening to a Thom Hartman radio program during the Democratic Convention, he mention how he thought everyone else (US media and GOP) was playing Chess while the DNC was playing Checkers.  He was right.  Not only is the DNC playing Checkers but black and brown folks continue to allow themselves to be played like a bunch of pawns time and time again.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_21:51:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "nettie", "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": 2217138, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2223880": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"When they attack one personally it means they haven't<br>a single political argument left.\" -- Margaret Thatcher", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_22:13:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "80a9e4dcb7b57eef7d8aac7c5265c389", "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": 2223787, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2225421": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You never could debate straight up.<br><br>Maternity is the social and legal acknowledgment of the parental relationship between a mother and her child. <br><br>Jumped. the. shark.<br><br>ROTFLMHO.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_23:18:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "d4a5571941439b7f9a5ba7979fd49d96", "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": 2223947, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2218260": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "AGREED. We have learned time and again that the way to overcome hatred and bridge across what divides us is not to fight fire with fire, not keep trying to jump over the gap, but to find another way.<br><br>I get disheartened when I see the hatred in the RNC attendees' eye, but I also get disheartened when we return fire with the same kind of name-calling and smears. I'm no perfect person, so I yell at my radio and shake my fists with the same fury as I'm sure many of you do.<br><br>But in the last few days I've started thinking heavily on what \"nonviolence\" means here on the Web. How can we make \"turn the other cheek\" a tactic of POWER rather than an admission of weakness. What can we do and say that would make Gandhi and MLK proud that we carry their torch?<br><br>\"I'm gonna get them back involved in this process, the grassroots level first and then let it go. THAT'S gonna make me happy.\" <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcRA2AZsR2Q\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcRA2AZsR2Q</a> . The feelings I get when I watch this video is what I want to carry with me when I think about our nation and world.<br><br>The opposite of HATE : faith, HOPE, and love.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_15:14:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anderkoo", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2218220, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2529558": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I live in a rural area that is considered a sportman's paradise. Obama's \"clinging to guns and religion\" statement was not have been  the best way to describe people in rural areas, because we have come to expect  him to be an \"eloquent speaker\" to quote  John McCain. Even after aIl that, I must say that I fully understand why Sen. Obama made that statement. <br><br>One of the most preculiar things you learn when you live in a rural area is that  a lot of people are gun owners and they do not want  anyone, any law, or any effort whatsoever  to interfer with their Second Amendment rights. To someone from a surburban or urban area, that may seem odd, since the right  to own a gun is guaranteed by the US Constitution.  You can point out  that since it is one of the first amendments and that the only way to reverse it would take a massive effort like a Constitutional Convention  which has not  been held in this country in a 100 years. You can tell people this until you are blue in the face but people still think the government is trying to take their guns away from them and politicians exploit these fears masterfully. Anyone can agree that there a lot of important political issues, but when you meet people whose main concerns are gun rights and not much more can make a lot of people that do not live in these areas scratch their collective heads. <br><br>The religion remark I also understand because a lot of people think that a lot of society's  ills are due to the fact that prayer was taken out f the schools. I have heard those comments made a lot. The seperation of church and state arguments (another right guaranteed by the US Constitution) do not hold a lot of water. I am a Christian but I understand why it is important to have seperation of church and state and that someone of a different faith is not a worst thing in the world. I  think Sen. Obama could have explained things better. But I am sure while traveling to rural areas, he was surprised why people think this way.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-23_00:13:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "6a121563b38fb57229f37434c713503d", "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}, "2217751": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You guys are so stupid! I know someone who is a Republican insider the McCain. That said the whole story is a plant to make it look like the liberals are trying to smear Sarah. Now, guess who would rise to protect Miss Sarah? Fox News. Heads up Morons look for Fox News in the next three days to debunk this story and blame you guys.<br><br>THE STORY IS A SET UP!  and get ready for Obama is trying to play the race card.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_14:15:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "17e81cb69b3f58788d3669e136de85d8", "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}, "2217007": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I think this post is totally inappropriate.  Many people on this site may not like Sarah Palin, but are you really going to trash this woman based on hearsay?  You have no proof whatsoever that she made these statements, only anecdotal evidence from a witness who can't substantiate her claim.  <br><br>This is where the left gets in trouble.  I get that many people are fed up with Republican lies, hypocrisy and nastiness, but if you engage in the same kind of smear, and guilt by association tactics that they do, are you really any better? <br><br>Does anyone remember the whole Whitey/Michelle controversy?  Many were furious, and rightly so, that Michelle was accused of saying Whitey at an event, and the mainstream media picked up on this story without any proof.  This is the EXACT same thing.  <br><br>We need to have standards people.  This whole story is not up to snuff and without proof should be taken down.  It is beneath this website.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_12:33:13", "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": null, "depth": 0, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2217756": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Charley James responds to questions about his anonymous source here:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.laprogressive.com/2008/09/06/sarah-palin-and-me/#more-965\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.laprogressive.com/2008/09/06/sarah-p...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_14:16:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "3b9a948c39e9b226053d2352a076b064", "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}, "2223237": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Afraid of what?", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_20:55:53", "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": 2218350, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2219114": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "i just talked with my wife and we are thinking about driving down to virginia to register voters so as to help prevent  mccain [ i support the confederate flag and don't think there should be a mlk holiday] from becoming our next bigot president. maybe we can get one southern state to enter the 21 st century", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_17:09:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "andyfrombrooklyn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2218408, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2218283": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Love this post. Keep it up!<br><br>Gallup Tracking: McCain leads 48-45. Before the Republican convention, Obama led by 49-42.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_15:17:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "80a9e4dcb7b57eef7d8aac7c5265c389", "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}, "2223405": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "...if we were to go simply on school affiliation, something no one should ever do, we could then run stats to see how many from elite vs. no-name schools have been convicted or suspected of white collar crime, especially with  handling finances.  not being funny, if I did only have state school vs. elite to use as basis, um I dunno... enron wud'n near bouts full of Idaho.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_21:17:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "030d6fe32c418b6cf1ef6437b21bf02d", "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": 2220421, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2223919": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"I know I will be yelled at on this blog for saying this, but Obama lost the election the second he decided not to invite Hillary to be vice president. I don't think she would agreed but at least it would have been a nod to the people who voted for her. If he didn't want to do that, he should have asked the one of three female Democratic governors.\"<br><br>-(1) My opinion: Obama picked Joe Biden to have an attack dog and to strengthen his foreign policy credentials (two areas the Republican would attempt to exploit).<br>IF he had picked Hillary (a) he would inherit her AND Bill's baggage, energizing the Republican base (b) anger HIS base by selecting the woman who damned near dog-whistled him to death, and (c) Hillary's voters aren't voting for Obama, they are voting for Hillary; what if Obama does something the Hillary voters don't like? \"Why\", they will screech, \"we WILL stay home and not vote!\" You want a nod, cop a nod AFTER the election; Obama's in it to win it.<br><br>\"Now he has effectively alienated a number of voters who if they don't for McCain, will stay at home. (Sending that text message announcing his Veep pick at 3 AM when he was supposed to be promoting party unity didn't give these women a reason to vote for him.) \"<br><br>-(2) Those voters are not guarateed to vote for him; they wanted Hillary, not Obama.<br><br>\"That \"clinging to their guns comment\" is coming back to bite him in the ass. It shows that he is as out of touch with certain segments of the population as Gore, Kerry, Mondale, Dukakis, etc. McCain picked the the one working class MILF in the world with 2 minutes of political experience in a frontier state who loves guns, babies and Jesus. A woman who embodies those who cling to their guns and religion. Who do you do think Reagan Democrats are going to vote for in places like Ohio and PA?\"<br><br>-(3) I think Obama was right in what he said. With some of the electorate, his being black, a Harvard Law professor would count as being out of touch. Do you have other examples of Obama being \"out of touch.\"<br>Be careful of the media's role in this election (you did not bring up the media, but I am).<br>Nineteen months of \"oh, my stars and garters, we don't know where Obama stands on the Pledge of Allegiiance, flag pins, and other issues\" vs. less than two weeks of \"oh my goodness, Sarah Palin is a soccer mon, a beauty queen, and she likes mooseburgers, and she's a STAR!\"<br><br>\"I've never cared for the elitist tone of the Obama campaign and the rhetoric of his supporters. The very idea that having an Ivy-league education should qualify one to in leadership doesn't, in my view, jibe with what the founders at in mine for this country. Add to that the manner in which the opinions of working class people are treated and you get a glimpse at the reason why Democrats haven't been able to win the Presidency from people like GW Bush.\"<br><br>-(4) Do you have examples of the elitist tone of the Obama campaign?<br>What did the founders have in mind when they considered leadership?<br>Obama isn't a gentleman farmer, but neither is McCain.<br>I am unclear of what you meant about \"The very idea that having an Ivy-league education should qualify one to in leadership doesn't, in my view, jibe with what the founders at in mine for this country.\" Please expand on this.<br>What is Obama's and McCain's manner in the treatment of the opinions of working class people?. (My take on Bush's treatment of the opinions of working class people is that he (Bush) is LYING to them).<br><br><br>\"You would think that with all that's on the line, the Obama campaign would step out of Starbucks and actually talk to people instead of talk at them, informing them what their best interests should be. It's not in anyone's interest to vote for someone who talks down to you.\"<br><br>-(5) I believe the Obama campaign IS talking to people.<br>I am unclear about your remarks about \"You would think that with all that's on the line, the Obama campaign would step out of Starbucks and actually talk to people instead of talk at them, informing them what their best interests should be.\"<br>What do you think the Republicans are doing?<br>The Republicans are doing exactly what you are criticizing Obama for doing.<br>The Republicans ARE saying in one of their commercials that Obama (and by extension, the Democrats) \"are going to raise your taxes.\"<br>The Republicans are informing the voters of what their best interest is (lower taxes),<br>therefore vote Republican. <br>How is Obama talking down to voters?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_22:19:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2223921": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The Left is now helping to bring real change...McCain just jumped ahead of Obama - 10 pts ahead, it looks like Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews are the first to go in MSM.<br><br>Obama attended a racist church for 20 years, and that is going to be big news in the coming days, IMHO.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_22:20:02", "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": 2223880, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2255673": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Andy,<br><br>Umm, GWB won 30 states in the last election. That means that most of America voted for him. Don't put all of that on the south.<br><br>More importantly, we all need each other to help Sen. Obama win this election in November. So respect everyone's vote.<br>I am sure that there are plenty of people who need to be registered to vote in NY.<br>There is a New York Times article out TODAY, which states that 63 percent of black elected officials are in the south. We vote!  Stop dissing your brothers and sisters in whatever region and let's work together. <br><br>And if McCain wins it won\u2019t be because of people you perceive to be ignorant in the south. It will be because more Americans want lower taxes and less government. Those people believe that is what the Republican Party represents, no matter how true or false the notion.<br>Dead Prez is from the deep-south and they spit that real, don\u2019t be so quick to judge, what you know nothing about. Uhuru", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-09_23:28:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "kenyaw", "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": 2218785, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2225466": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Proof of Trig's birth parents has never been put forward, what are you referring too?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_23:24:33", "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": 2223787, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2218005": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "the left has resorted to the politics of personal destruction because it cannot defend itself with logic.<br><br>    \"The Democrats are in trouble. Sarah Palin has totally changed the dynamics of this campaign.<br><br>Period.<br><br>Palin's speech to the GOP National Convention on Wednesday has set it up so that the Republicans are now on offense and Democrats are on defense. And we don't do well on defense.<br><br>Suddenly, Palin and John McCain are the mavericks and Barack Obama and Joe Biden are the status quo, in a year when you don't want to be seen as defending the status quo.<br><br>From taxes to oil drilling, Democrats are now going to have to start explaining their positions.<br><br>    Whenever you start having to explain things, you\u2019re on defense\u2026<br><br>    As for Palin herself, she is going to be very, very effective on the campaign trail, especially if McCain\u2019s people can figure out how to gently keep her from getting into confrontations with the press.<br><br>    If she can answer questions like she handled herself at the convention, Palin will turn out to be the most interesting person in all of politics, and the press will treat her like they treated Obama when he was first discovered.\"<br><br><a href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/06/BALU12OCMV.DTL\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_14:50:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "80a9e4dcb7b57eef7d8aac7c5265c389", "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}, "2218819": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "There was this little factor named Ross Perot in 1992, who dropped out of the race at the time of the Democratic convention and fueled the Bill Clinton bounce.  (He then rejoined the race later.)<br><br>Perot's presence made a huge difference in that election, because it took away a large number of fiscal conservatives from the GOP base.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_16:34:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "c6760ddbc1fd2da6ff53fc3602b5be25", "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": 2218551, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2218821": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "i want to thank the largely african american voters of the southern states who made barak obama the democratic candidate. he is not a bigot. sadly we saw that hillary clinton was. so thank you to them because we here in brookly couldnt muster any votes for barack in certain polling stations...but that is another story", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_16:35:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "andyfrombrooklyn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2218433, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2223947": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<blockquote><i>JJP' jumped the shark ' as soon as the first smear re: Trig palin's maternity was DEBUNKED and you did not issue an update or follow Obama's advice.<br><br>Your credibility is GONE.</i></blockquote><br>Trig''s maternity, eh?<br><br>You never had any credibility anyway.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_22:23:35", "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": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2223787, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2225487": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Where did you get that definition of \"maternity\"? You might want to stop using that source because clearly its filled with incorrect information.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_23:26:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2225421, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2223445": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The money he raised speaks to the reality that millions of people have seen that his experience QUALIFIES him for the position of POTUS. He has been vetted for 18 months and through a campaign against the Clintons. <br><br>How elitist of you to not accept the will of the people. Please don't start talking about experience (Rove called it already,) McCain's decision was a political one not an executive one. You need the link? <br><br>I agree about your point of education, but truthfully Obama is BRILLIANT. This menas more than book smarts. It is an intuition that matches his smarts.He is not GWB. <br><br>He is not McCain's dumb ass who got into college as a legacy and still managed to graduate at the bottom of his class. Clearly privilege means you don't have to try hard... which was the essence of the book you cited, right? Of course it is. Now I ask you- how about a boy dared to dream and put everything on the line to achieve it? From my experience (13 years working in higher ed,) the kids who paid for their own education worked harder than the kids who did not.<br><br>I'm sad you cannot even see how different he is from the others. Did you get kicked out of school or something? You wanted to express yourself and not do the homework... ahh a pseudo anarchist? <br><br><br><br>SPEAK DO THAT. ACKNOWLEDGE THAT.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_21:21:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "evita", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2223231, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2218838": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "nea doesn't watch enough teevee.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_16:36:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "andyfrombrooklyn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2218551, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2218332": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Love this post. Keep it up!<br><br>Gallup Tracking: McCain leads 48-45. Before the Republican convention, Obama led by 49-42.<br>.........................................................................................<br> You should enjoy it!  Since it's morons like you that put Bush in office twice and look what that got America \"Shit\".  So, once President Senile McCain take office and world war III starts the rest of America will know to blame your dumb ass.<br><br>Go McCain!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_15:24:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "17e81cb69b3f58788d3669e136de85d8", "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}, "2217360": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "This is exactly the post the Republicans are looking for. Call Sarah Palin a racist in a headline and it will come back to haunt us.<br><br>Why can't we for once just leave well enough alone?<br><br>What do we hope to gain by headlining this?<br><br>Why are we still so focused on her character?<br><br>We do ourselves no favors.<br><br>Here's my question:<br><br>Why would a backwater redneck from Alaska even know what Sambo means?<br><br>Why would a woman who heard about Iraq on the news call people from her state Arabs?<br><br>Why would she have praised Barack's message of hope and change as he pulled closer in the polls in Alaska?<br><br>Doesn't this sound like the on-the-record, \"How do we beat the bitch?\" question a woman asked John McCain to a room of laughter?<br><br>I don't care what that writer said to defend himself, if he can't name his sources, he needs to shut the fuck up.<br><br>I don't believe him.<br><br>Or I don't believe the person who told him this story.<br><br>Take your pick.<br><br>Even those who reported about McCain calling his wife a trollop and a sexist slur that rhymes with hunt had the names of those who heard him say it.<br><br>This story is incendiary and I wish it would just go away.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_13:25:46", "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": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2218338": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Folks -<br><br>I know we're DESPERATE for a Macaca moment from McCain or Palin, and we know they both have it in them.<br><br>Here's the problem: What makes a Macaca moment real is video.  Without video, no dice.  That's it.  We have to go all or nothing with this, and not accuse either of them of anything racial until we have video of it, and then go full blast.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_15:24:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "c6760ddbc1fd2da6ff53fc3602b5be25", "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}, "2217531": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "PLEASE be careful. I would just like to point out that this story is UNSOURCED in the website that you link to and the text is IDENTICAL to that posted earlier in a comment. <br><br>Googling portions of the text shows that the story has been seeded all over liberal-leaning websites, mostly in comments and a few indie website articles. I can find NO original sourcing for this. All my rope-a-dope red flags are going off with this. Just because something is plausible doesn't make it true - it makes it perfect bait.<br><br>Where did this story come from? Nobody knows, and that's what makes it dangerous to repeat. It's written up like a newpaper article; OK, so what publication was that?<br><br>I would either identify that source, or take this down. Do you think the right won't be playing games like this from here until Nov 2?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_13:47:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "4d0a087872645dbcd889c14da648e939", "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}, "2220390": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You need to try again.  Constructive criticism is certainly welcome, but I need you to base your arguments/allegations on facts.  <br><br>1) I will not debate the Hillary Clinton VP debacle.  She was a poor choice for VP.  Some people want to look past her behavior during the primary as a justification for forcing her on Barack.  I don't.  <br><br>2) Polls show that the majority of Hillary voters have fallen in line with Barack, and more have done so since the announcement of Palin.  Whether he can get them all remains to be seen.  <br><br>3)  Your point about the bitter comments is by far the most reasoned one.  Barack is going to have to overcome a big hurdle to appeal to these voters, and time will tell if he can do it.  <br><br>4) The elitist tone of the Obama campaign?  Give me a break.  I have never heard him say that his education is a qualification for President.  If you can provide some evidence please do.  <br><br>5)  The Obama campaign should step out of starbucks?  You just showed your ignorance card right there.  The man has campaigned in libraries, barns, fire houses, parks, etc since he has been running.  He has visited people in their home and and where they work.  For you to throw up this false argument about why people don't want to vote for him, shows how uninformed that you are.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_20:09:45", "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": 2219435, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2219068": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "No.<br><br>No all around.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_17:04:15", "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": 2217578, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2218350": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Ultimately the most effective may be this one: \"In small towns, we don't know quite what to make of a candidate who lavishes praise on working people when they are listening, and then talks about how bitterly they cling to their religion and guns when those people aren't listening.\"<br><br>What gives this line its power is that Sarah Palin is definitely part of the \"we\" -- the small town, blue-collar Americans who will decide this election.<br><br>Only once in modern times has a vice presidential candidate swung an election. Lyndon Johnson brought Texas and Alabama to John F. Kennedy in 1960, states that otherwise would have been suspicious of a Catholic liberal from New England. I think Sarah Palin will be the second. She has changed the nature of this race in ways ominous for Mr. Obama.<br><br>First, this race is no longer between a candidate who advocates change and the status quo, as Democrats would like to frame it. It's between two different visions of change, and between a ticket that's actually delivered reform, and a ticket that just talks about it. The argument that John McCain represents a third term for George W. Bush was strained to start with. It's ludicrous now.<br><br>Second, the Republican base is more fired up, and the party more united than it's been since Ronald Reagan ran for his second term. Conservatives see in Sarah Palin Ronald Reagan in a dress, the brains and backbone of Margaret Thatcher in a younger, prettier package. The Grand Old Party has a bright new face.<br><br>Mr. Obama owes much of his new troubles to his friends in the news media. Republicans -- and independent and Democratic women appalled by their sexism -- were enraged by the vicious assaults on Sarah Palin and her family.<br><br>After he learned his fleet had attacked Pearl Harbor before a formal declaration of war, Japanese Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto is reputed to have said: \"I fear all we have done is awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.\"<br><br>The vice presidential debate is Oct. 2. If I were Joe Biden, I would be very, very afraid.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_15:26:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "517d8b02de297166f46205708c9304f3", "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}, "2223983": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I dont even know where to begin.  Why is it when the majority suffers a recession, black folks have long been in a depression.  Why do i have to watch MSNBC make the over fifty percent prison population of black men \"entertainment.\"  We allow it.  Start reading the Wall Street Journal and discover how more International Investors are buying up Real Estate all across America or how displaced African American homeowners are now forced into renting once again.  In other words, there is no one result from the takeover it is simple the next step to reversing the momentum of the Civil Rights movement.  Where it seems with blogging and the constant stream of infomation, we would not be in such dire straits but the Conservative movement is way better organized. I feel like I'm ramblng a little so I'll finish by saying that we cant waste a lot of time on the obvious anymore.  Corporate America has chosen our destiny long enough and the only way out is to try harder at forsight and stop fighting senseless no-win battles.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_22:29:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "nettie", "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": 2219221, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2292598": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I also have to ask...what is the \"sh-t\" on Sara Palin that is enough to fill the Grand Canyon?  If that were so, it would be in front of us now...could JJP please outline some of it for us?  I want to know simply because I am a voter who deserves to know.  Don't worry I'm a Democrat who likes the truth plainly in front of me, that's all.<br>Anyone?", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-11_17:57:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "6df97c5ce734ae9d3c4e63a2c96803c7", "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": 2285143, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2218873": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "RIGHT!! Just like the \"whitey\" accusation that went round & round & round until it finally flushed. Who here forbade that lie from being circulated?<br><br>Is it troll day here and you all forgot to tell me? Whats with all these trolls? They keep listing statistics from their poll of trolls, like we care. Do I need to flag them as inappropriate? Do we need some Billy Goats Gruff up in here to get rid of them? Ok, I'll give you your password so you can go away: Rumplestilskin---Buh-bye now!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_16:40:27", "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": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2218001, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2285441": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "TRW:  Co-sign!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-11_11:30:02", "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": 2220390, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2218044": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>Whenever you start having to explain things, you\u2019re on defense</i><br><br>Thank you for summing up the last eight years of GOP malfeasance in one sentence.<br><br>If you can't explain what it is you are doing to the people of this country there is a problem.<br><br>You see it as being on defense.  Most would see it as being a good public servant.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_14:52:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "3b9a948c39e9b226053d2352a076b064", "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": 2218005, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2217860": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I don't know why anyone is surprised.  Rednecks speak that way. The woman has a company called Rouge Cou .  She is a redneck. I could care less what she has to say.  I want her to be put into a position where she has to answer questions... Lets see if she can stay on message.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_14:32:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "rorysmomma", "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}, "2220421": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Seriously?  While you certainly don't need a degree to be President, I think most people would agree that it comes down to who you would trust based on reputation.  If you are worth over 10 billion dollars, are you going to trust the person handling your finances that has a degree from Univ. of Idaho, or Harvard.  <br><br>I go with Harvard.  I don't know much about Univ. of Idaho, and that's the whole point.  Harvard has a reputation for excellence that is world renowned.  People pay more than what some in a year to go there.  That is the difference.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_20:12:59", "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": 2219752, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2223494": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Actually all law students are not similarily interested.  Why do  <br> you think we have distinction as \"conservative\" and \"liberal\" judges. Just like the military isn't composed of just Republicans.<br><br>Furthermore, his campaign has not only raised lots of money but registered many new voters.  And it is widely kown that new voters are overwhelmingly registering as Democrats.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_21:25:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "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": 2223231, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2217355": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I read TRW's comment and must say that this is the most sensible and rational comment on this subject.  In legal terminology, this is all \"hearsay\" information and in as much as I detest Sara Palin's lies and distortions, let's not sink to the level that, as TRW so rightfully points out, the issue of Michelle Obama and her so-called, non-factual \"Whitey\" remark!  Excellent analogy TRW! This post is BETTER than that!<br>I also totally disagree with Miranda when she states that Sara Palin need to prove that she said it.  This is a ridiculous comment!  Without  proven, factual information, the burden of proof does NOT rest on Sara Palin!  It rests on US to prove it!<br>What I found condescending, elitist, and somewhat racist was her comment re: \"Barack's community organization work.\"  I suggest that the Obama campaign change adopt a title change with their 50 state campaigning- from \"Campaign captains\" to \"Voter Community Organizers.\"  When Obama wins the election, then thank these \"community organizers'\" for their excellent work.  The best revenge against this type of snear and attack is SUCESS! Everyone agree?<br>Let's petition to change campaign title to- \"Voter Community Organizers\" rather than \"captains!.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_13:25:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "919abda75e7b9da3fea9211e3deb7c3c", "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}, "2223500": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Are these the same polls that indicated Hillary Clinton would be the Democratic nominee?", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_21:26:00", "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": 2218551, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2224014": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I wonder how many will really stay at home as that would be a knowledgeable vote for McCain and in direct contrast to beliefs that this particular crowd stated so vocally.  Does the party lose all of its value basis without Hillary as Vice President?<br><br>He did paint a tight corner with the guns and religion comment, but considering that Obama is a Christian himself, I took that he meant clinging to that stuff in the negative, political, and superficial way as also condemned by Jesus.  It was the religious folks (not the true believers) who fought him to the end and who finally had him crucified, clinging to their guns (not invented yet, let's say swords) and religion the whole time.  Nevertheless, we may have to cede that as a point that can't be cleaned up.  Those who trust Obama, trust that he didn' t mean to demean.  Those who don't trust him will believe otherwise.  There are grounds for that in this soundbite age.<br><br>As far as your other points, elitism and ivy league stuff, I am always forced to think of the wild swings between not Black enough and too Black, boring wonkhead and vapid rabblerouser.  I think most people will see what they please with Obama.  But I don't see much grounds to call him elitist.  He comes from where many politicians didn't want to come from - the long hard work in the trenches.  He was awakened to the dangers of disconnect back then according to the folks who worked with him.<br><br>His saving grace is that despite all of those wild swings in perception, the record  will show that he's kept the same steady tone - not bustin rhymes in the streets with buckets of KFC in each arm when he wasn't \"Black enough\" nor toning down his (Black) intonations when they were derided as \"just words.\"   <br><br>And more people trust him for that.  Not trying to convince you as you seem mind-made-up but there were some points there that we could still try to discuss, clarify.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_22:33:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "030d6fe32c418b6cf1ef6437b21bf02d", "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": 2219435, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2217359": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I don't believe this happened.  Nor ddo we have to go down this road.  What is more important to me is her stance on education, healthcare, Roe vs. Wade, her lack of foreign policy experience and lack of understanding on the national experience.  <br><br>Personally I don't think this is an issue.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_13:25:45", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2214800": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I will believe this until Sarah Palin proves she did not say this. She has to prove this is a lie. I believe in fairness, and I will apply the same standard of \"the whitey tape\" and the Larry Sinclair claims. Sarah Palin uttered the word \"Sambo\" in reference to Barack Obama until she categorically denies such...and even then, I still reserve the right to ignore that and believe she did anyway. We don't make the rules, so no one should be upset when we play by'em.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_11:25:13", "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}, "2225475": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You never could handle a debate with Truth or anybody else for that matter.  Just like your troll comrades, all you do is attempt to antagonize.  If we lhad istened to you, we would have thought Obama couldn't win the Democratic primaries.  SO GTFOH.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_23:25:31", "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": 2225421, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2217877": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "JJP is going for the okey-doke.<br>Take down this story.  If its not sourced, its not real.<br><br>While the conversations can get quite heated on JJP, I count on coming here for credible information.  Who ever has the authority should take this down asap!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_14:35:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "1a35274513047c4e9711c6feb4609dac", "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}, "2218398": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Enough!<br><br>We are better than this...really. <br><br>Fight with issues...not rumors.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_15:31:56", "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": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2219937": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Oh here we go, Hillary's minion following HER math, the math that was that goes against THE RULES. The rules she AGREED to. The rules that got her husband elected. <br><br>For me its not that its a State U degree. It's that she didn't have the commitment or grades or judicial record (ie: having cheated on a test and then kicked out, throwing a keeger during quiet hours etc) to stay in one or maybe two years. I used to work for a State University and many of them are no academic joke. The joke is however, 6 college in 6 years or 5 in 6 years- whatever.   Is there anything wrong with Barack Obama who funded HIS OWN education. Through hard work and personal commitment rose to the top of his class and subsequently received the education that ALL parents ideally want for their children? What's wrong with celebrating that? He ISN'T some silver spooned legacy... but that is not what McCain/ Palin would like anyone to recognize. <br><br>Let's not employ misrepresentation of the issue, Kia.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_19:04:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "evita", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2219752, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2225493": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Michelle and Barack are well aware of that, why aren't you?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_23:27:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2223880, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2226161": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Still wrong.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-08_00:17:47", "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": 2225583, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2218408": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Andy,<br>Excuse me!!! Um, I live in Atlanta, but  am orginally from Los Angeles, California. <br>I have had bad bigoted experiences in New York and LA.<br><br>Let us not be so naive as to give the racism that exists in the midwest and the northeast a pass.<br><br>Free loading?? That is insulting.<br>There are enough bigots in all 50 states, don't put them all on us in the south.<br><br>At its height, the Klan was strongest in Chicago, Detroit and Indiana. Remember the  \"Black Legion\"?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_15:33:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "kenyaw", "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": 2218066, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2219435": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I know I will be yelled at on this blog for saying this, but  Obama lost the election the second he decided not to invite Hillary to be vice president.  I don't think she would agreed but at least it would have been a nod to the people who voted for her.  If he didn't want to do that, he should have asked the  one of three female Democratic governors.<br><br>Now he has effectively alienated a number of voters who if they don't for McCain, will stay at home.  (Sending that text message announcing his Veep pick at 3 AM when he was supposed to be promoting party unity didn't give these women a reason to vote for him.)<br><br>That \"clinging to their guns comment\" is coming back to bite him in the ass.  It shows that he is as out of touch with certain segments of the population as Gore, Kerry, Mondale, Dukakis, etc.  McCain picked the the one working class MILF in the world with 2 minutes of political experience in a frontier state who loves guns, babies and Jesus.  A woman who embodies those who cling to their guns and religion.  Who do you do think Reagan Democrats are going to vote for in places like Ohio and PA?<br><br>I've never cared for the elitist tone of the Obama campaign and the rhetoric of his supporters.  The very idea that having an Ivy-league education should qualify one to in leadership doesn't, in my view, jibe with what the founders at in mine for this country.  Add to that the manner in which the opinions of working class people are treated and you get a glimpse at the reason why Democrats haven't been able to win the Presidency from people like GW Bush.<br><br>You would think that with all that's on the line, the Obama campaign would step out of Starbucks and actually talk to people instead of talk at them, informing them what their best interests should be.  It's not in anyone's interest to vote for someone who talks down to you.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_17:57:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "59c49761cca368fc29349d03ff1d7402", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 32, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2225583": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Definitions of maternity on the Web:<br><br>    * pregnancy: the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus<br>    * motherhood: the kinship relation between an offspring and the mother<br>    * motherliness: the quality of having or showing the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother; \"the girl's motherliness made her invaluable in caring for the children\"<br>      wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn<br><br>    * Maternity is the social and legal acknowledgment of the parental relationship between a mother and her child.<br>      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maternity", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_23:39:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "d4a5571941439b7f9a5ba7979fd49d96", "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": 2225487, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2218929": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Not to mention, there wasn't a back-to-backk convention in 1992.<br><br>Barack's bounce might have been bigger if the Republican convention didn't squash it on timing alone.<br><br>The only poll that matters is the final tally on November 4.<br><br>I'm happy to see McCain in the lead.<br><br>Barack campaigns better as the underdog.<br><br>His supporters fight harder. Donate more money, etc....", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_16:47:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2218819, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2218428": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I discovered this video this morning: <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQNpEET9WqQ\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQNpEET9WqQ</a> -- so applicable to our times.<br><br>My partner pointed out that the words \"Let it be\" can be understood not just as \"Let it go,\" but also a prayer: \"May it be.\"<br><br>In the case of the hatred we feel coming at us, I would use the phrase in both senses.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_15:38:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anderkoo", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2218398, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2219965": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I can't speak broadly for all Obama supporters but I don't think her degree personally disqualfies her.  The problem that many of us see is that \"foreign policy experience\" has been the main thing Repubs have been arguing is important for this election but yet she is nominated and they say \"well she lives in Alaska and that's close to Russia\" as sufficient foreign policy experience. That's just ludicrous.  And she is also on record saying she has not thought much  about Iraq, and not even sure what the V.P. does. <br>Now, what I do know is that Obama, by all accounts was an exceptional student in law and international relations and also graduated Magna Cum Laude and achieved many academic milestones.  In my community, success of that nature is not to be dismissed but celebrated. PERIOD.  No matter who you are.  Obama DID NOT benefit from legacy or a well-connected familial ties but instead  from hard work.  So I can't understand why a man who was raised on food-stamps, with an absentee father and later becoming a student of great academia who went on to teach others as a professor cannot be given credit for his immense knowledge and intellect.  <br>Remember, there is a such thing as an old fool---judgment and knowledge  is as important to me as other attributes.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_19:07:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "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": 2219752, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2218433": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "andy,<br>Brooklyn has bigots too. I am going to need you to step back and give the southern states 50 feet. <br>If it weren't for the black leaders from the southern states, your ass and my ass would not have the freedoms that we have today.<br>I am going to need you to remember the preacher from the dirty south aka Georgia that lead the way on civil rights for our black behinds.<br>Brooklyn was no better in 1950 than Selma. Believe that!!!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_15:39:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "kenyaw", "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": 2218107, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2216899": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Meh.<br><br>So ON TOP of being borderline incompetent and snarky in ways that confound the imagination, she, like her running mate, is prone to bigoted statements.<br><br>*shrugs*<br><br>You all are...surprised?<br><br>Come on, people! (Cosby, W.)<br><br>They are who we THOUGHT they were (Green, D)<br><br>I am more bothered by the whole community organizer slur than I am by this.  <br><br>People have the right to utter racial slurs to their hearts content...even in restaurants, should they not have the common decency (as i do) to wait until they get home to talk greasy about other folk.<br><br>Frankly I would be shocked if she WASN'T prone to bust out with a racial epithet in private company.<br><br>IN FACT, I would go so far as to say that everyone's new favorite repentant plagiarizer/Train riding Delawarean is prone ...wait....he already has, bless his heart.  So much for that leap of faith.  <br><br>End of the day, though...for all his crackerishness, Joe Biden has our back (as best a politician can, that is)<br><br><br>Look, I totally get the desire to extract a pound of flesh every time folk channel their inner Archie Bunker/George Jefferson, but the reality is whack-a-mole is more productive.<br><br>Yesterday's Clean and articulate is today's Uppity is tomorrow's Sambo.<br><br>Ima go ahead and sit this one out. <br><br><br>When they get back  to the Governor/Mother of DownSyndrome child slashing funding for Special education....lemme know...im there.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_12:13:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "Inkognegro", "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}, "2347471": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The following is a statement from one of our Juneteenth Directors in Alaska:<br><br>By Gwendolyn Alexander, President<br><br>\u201cAs for Governor Sarah Palin\u2019s involvement in the African American community, the Governor\u2019s office hasn\u2019t participated in any of our Alaska Juneteenth Events. All previous Alaskan Governor\u2019s have traditionally attended and participated in our annual Juneteenth Celebration. Gov. Palin was the first governor not to send out a congratulatory letter or assist us in any way with our Juneteenth activities.<br><br>I didn\u2019t have the courtesy of receiving a reply when I asked for a representative from the Governor\u2019s office to come and speak at our Juneteenth Celebration if Governor Palin was unable to attend. I never even heard of Gov. Palin until she was elected Mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, in Mat-Su Valley.<br><br>Governor Palin is a very energetic and spontaneous woman. With some of the things being said and going around this state right now, I\u2019m surprised none of the national media have bothered to come here and get the words directly from the mouths of the people who have lived with her all of these years instead of \u2019surfing the net!\u2019<br><br>My other opinion is why would an individual who, to my knowledge, has not hired any African-Americans on her gubernatorial staff, insist so passionately on being on a television show owned and operated by an African American, Oprah Winfrey?<br><br>While meeting with black leaders concerning the absence of any African-Americans on her staff, Gov. Palin responded that she doesn\u2019t have to hire any blacks and was not intending to hire any. What kind of attitude is this toward African-American for who may be the first Vice-President of the United States?<br><br>I understand Oprah did have Senator Obama on her show a few times and was the main person raising funds for him \u201cbefore\u201d the presidency race was in full swing. However, the key point here is that it is Oprah\u2019s prerogative not be used as a pawn to tilt the vote one way or another. Oprah has stated repeatedly that she wasn\u2019t going to have one side or the other on her show by choice. I thought that was what the Civil Rights Movement was all about, a persons right to make their own choices. I guess this isn\u2019t a Democracy at all anymore.\u201d<br><br>Gwendolyn Alexander, President<br>African American Historical Society of Alaska, Inc.<br>Alaska Juneteenth Celebration<br>P. O. Box 143105<br>Anchorage AK 99514<br>907 884-6860 email: <a href=\"mailto:aahsa@gci.net\" rel=\"nofollow\">aahsa@gci.net</a><br><a href=\"http://www.juneteenthalaska.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.juneteenthalaska.com</a> <a href=\"http://www.entertainmealaska.com/aahsa\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.entertainmealaska.com/aahsa</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-14_12:36:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "fd6fa71bcc56c50b219f1bb7e5edaaf6", "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}, "2255316": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Ms Martin,<br>I appreciate your comment.<br>But, I have been to Manhattan on business on several occassions and never saw one black man or women. Institutionalized racism is still racism.<br>Like Paul Mooney said, \"I like a little salt on my cracker\". People can pretend to be progressive and still not want our black asses in their neighborhoods. New York is definitely NO exception.<br><br>And we had our votes counted for Obama, can't say the same for racial paradise that is Harlem.<br><br>Remember Harriet from the DNC was from New York. I doubt that she was an anomaly.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-09_22:52:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "kenyaw", "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": 2226296, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2347480": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Alaska has a population of around 25,000 African-Americans, with a total population of around 700,000. Therefore, African-Americans make up around 4% of the overall population of Alaska, with higher percentages in the larger cities like Anchorage.<br> <br>We should familiarize ourselves to the history of African-Americans in Alaska:<br> <br>        <a href=\"http://www.akhistorycourse.org/articles/article.php?artID=233\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.akhistorycourse.org/articles/article...</a><br> <br>For example, African-Americans who built the highway to Alaska stayed to live after it was completed. Taking the position that the people who continue to play a significant role in the building of the infrastructure of Alaska should not be represented on the staff of Gov. Palin is preposterous. <br> <br>Gov. Palin's attitude toward Alaska's black population indicates what her feelings might be toward all African-Americans as vice-president and possibly president of the United States. Like Sen. McCain, Gov. Palin shows little or no respect for the observance of Juneteenth Independence Day in America. Juneteenth is an official state holiday observance in Alaska which requires the Governor to issue an annual proclamation. Despite the statute, Gov. Palin did not issue a Juneteenth Proclamation in 2007. <br> <br>Gov. Palin still refuses to meet with African-American leaders of the Ministers Alliance to discuss job opportunities for African-Americans during the building of the Alaskan pipeline. Again, in my opinion, if elected to the White House, most likely her actions toward African-Americans will not change. Let African-American leaders in Alaska tell their own story about Gov. Palin. I have spoken to several of them and remain quite concerned about what I am hearing.<br> <br>Juneteenth is America\u2019s 2nd Independence Day celebration. 29 states and the District of Columbia recognize Juneteenth as a state holiday or state holiday observance, as well as the Congress of the United States.<br> <br>Together we will see Juneteenth become a national holiday in America!<br> <br>\u201cDOC\u201d<br>Rev. Ronald V. Myers, Sr., M.D.<br>Chairman<br>National Juneteenth Holiday Campaign<br>National Juneteenth Observance Foundation (NJOF)<br>National Juneteenth Christian Leadership Council (NJCLC)<br><a href=\"http://www.Juneteenth.us\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.Juneteenth.us</a><br><a href=\"http://www.19thofJune.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.19thofJune.com</a><br><a href=\"http://www.njclc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.njclc.com</a><br><a href=\"http://www.JuneteenthJazz.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.JuneteenthJazz.com</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-14_12:38:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "fd6fa71bcc56c50b219f1bb7e5edaaf6", "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}, "2220004": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<blockquote><i>It's not in anyone's interest to vote for someone who talks down to you.</i></blockquote><br>Then I guess all those community organizers are just gonna have to vote for Obama, huh?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_19:13:19", "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": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2219435, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2218982": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I agree 100%. <br><br>Unless there is a video of her saying this, LEAVE IT ALONE and STICK TO THE ISSUES. There's enough there to attack them on. We don't need this stuff.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_16:54:04", "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": 2217360, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2225575": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Sigh...I really hate to educate you on anything...but<br><br>\"Trig Palin's maternity\" means Trig Palin's pregnancy....not the same as derivation from father, as in the case of paternity.  Trig Palin is an infant, and is male.<br><br>Check your dictionary.<br><br>..I realize you have a little personal resentment toward me, I'm VERY observant.....but, this is the internets.<br>I think you have numerous aliases...and feel personally affronted when you're ignored.  You have an abnormal need for attention, switching aliases to get your fix.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_23:37:51", "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": 2225421, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2217966": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Elephants & Flowers <br><br> I agree this shit needs to be taken down. The story is a set up folks. They want to use it as a way to claim Obama is playing the race card against Miss Sarah.<br><br>Look at how they blamed Obama camp for the leak about Sarah Palin daughter being knocked up. This shit is playing right into Karl Rove hands.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_14:46:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "17e81cb69b3f58788d3669e136de85d8", "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}, "2223601": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You know why this is catching on like wildfire? It is because Plain said everything BUT call Obama a Sambo. As people of color, all we ever want is for the racist to just ADMIT IT. White racists these days PRETEND to not see race, but the truth is they can see nothing BUT RACE.  Republicans have attacked us (people of color,) through moral judgments aka FAMILY VALUES, economic policy, immigration policy, No (white) Child Left Behind, and the list goes on and on. I just want one of them to say it. <br><br>We all suspect they talk that way behind our backs because we hear your tone, read your face, and understand your double speak. As Obama said you must think we're stupid.<br><br>Maybe Palin didn't say it. The fact she wanted to though was palpable to anyone who has been hated because of their race. IS it just politics? No. This is life.<br><br>I echo the sentiment we drop the discussion of the comment. Let's just nod to each other and recognize this is part of our experience in this country, one McCain knows nothing about despite his daughter is as dark as us.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_21:33:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "evita", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2220019": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That is correct. But since she's proud to call herself one, I will choose her own language when I refer to her.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_19:15:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2218517, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2220020": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"The rules that got her husband elected.\"<br><br>Actually Bill Clinton only received 2% of the caucas votes when he ran in 1992.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_19:15:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "59c49761cca368fc29349d03ff1d7402", "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": 2219937, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2217813": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Some one needs to take this story down quick. This shit is fake!  and a set up to only roil up the rednecks to protect Miss Sarah. Good Lord take the story down!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_14:26:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "17e81cb69b3f58788d3669e136de85d8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}}, "integration": {"receiver_url": "", "theme": 4, "reply_position": true, "disqus_logo": false}, "timer": {"timer_url": "http://localhost:8005", "thread_id": "4276825", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "21630", "hash": -5666137552448337885}, "thread": {"days_alive": 0, "slug": "not_only_is_sarah_palin_james_dobson_in_a_dress_she8217s_also_a_racist", "paginate": false, "num_pages": 1, "num_posts": 130, "per_page": 0, "total_posts": 0, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 4276825, "queued": false}, "reactions_limit": 10, "context": {"show_reply": true, "use_fb_connect": true, "forum_facebook_key": "bd6a8bc56f8eb204984f34b6fefe228d", "use_yahoo": false, "subscribed": false, "use_twitter_signin": true, "use_openid": false, "realtime_speed": 5000}, "reactions_start": 0, "settings": {"debug": false, "disqus_url": "http://disqus.com", "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"}, "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"};
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	}

	var 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=not_only_is_sarah_palin_james_dobson_in_a_dress_she8217s_also_a_racist' +
		'&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/not_only_is_sarah_palin_james_dobson_in_a_dress_she8217s_also_a_racist/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='	+ 'not_only_is_sarah_palin_james_dobson_in_a_dress_she8217s_also_a_racist'
			+ '&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/not_only_is_sarah_palin_james_dobson_in_a_dress_she8217s_also_a_racist/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">130</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/not_only_is_sarah_palin_james_dobson_in_a_dress_she8217s_also_a_racist/latest.rss"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/bullet-feed.png"></a>\
	 </span>\
	 </h3>\
	 <div id="dsq-options" style="margin:15px 0">\
	 <span class="dsq-item-sort">\
	 Sort by\
	 <select id="dsq-sort-select" onchange="Dsq.Thread.sortBy(this.value);">\
	 <option value="hot" selected="selected">Popular now</option>\
	 <option value="best" >Best Rating</option>\
	 <option value="newest" >Newest first</option>\
	 <option value="oldest" >Oldest first</option>\
	 </select>\
	 &nbsp;\
	 </span>\
	 <span class="dsq-item-cp"><a href="http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/not_only_is_sarah_palin_james_dobson_in_a_dress_she8217s_also_a_racist/">Community Page</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>\
	 <span class="dsq-item-subscribe">\
	 <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/email.png" style="width:12px;height:12px;vertical-align:middle">\
	 <span id="dsq-subscribe">\
	 <a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">Subscribe by email</a>\
	 </span>\
	 </span>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-alerts">\
	 <p><a href="http://disqus.com/profile/login/?next=article:4276825" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false">You must log into your Disqus Profile in order to post comments.</a></p>\
	 </div>\
		';

		

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

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

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.authPost();
		

		html += Dsq.Templates.reactions();

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.trackbacks();
		

		return html;
	};

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

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

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

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

		if(typeof DsqLocal != 'undefined' && DsqLocal.trackback_url && DsqLocal.trackbacks) {
			var trackbacks = DsqLocal.trackbacks;
			var trackback_url = DsqLocal.trackback_url;
		} else {
			var trackbacks = [
			
			
			];
			var trackback_url = 'http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/not_only_is_sarah_palin_james_dobson_in_a_dress_she8217s_also_a_racist/trackback/';
		}

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

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

		return html;
	}

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		return '<h3 class="dsq-h3-reactions">Reactions</h3><ul id="dsq-reactions" class="dsq-reactions">' + html + '</ul>';
	};
	
	this.missingPermissions = function() {
		return '	<p><a href="http://disqus.com/profile/login/?next=article:4276825" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false">You must log into your Disqus Profile in order to post comments.</a></p> \n';
	};

	//
	// Post
	//

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		return ' \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer" id="dsq-comment-footer-' + post_id + '"> \
				<div id="dsq-points-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-likedtxt">'
				+ (_meta.points
					? _meta.points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(_meta.points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this comment.'
					: '')
				+ '</div>'
				+ '<ul class="dsq-comment-options dsq-list-style">'
				+ (_meta.votable
					? '<li class="dsq-list-first dsq-rate" id="dsq-rate-cont-' + post_id + '">'
					+ (!_meta.up_voted
						? '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.rate(this, ' + post_id + ', 1); return false;">Like</a>'
						: 'You liked this.') + '</li>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-report' + (!_meta.votable ? ' dsq-list-first' : '') + '" id="dsq-post-report-' + post_id + '"><a href="#" class="dsq-post-report" onclick="Dsq.Post.report(' + post_id + ', false); return false;">Report</a></li> \
				</ul> \
				<ul class="dsq-list-style">'
				+ (_meta.can_reply
					? '<li class="dsq-list-first"><a href="#" id="dsq-reply-link-' + post_id +'" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleReply(this, ' + post_id +'); return false;">Reply</a></li>'
					: '')
				+ (_meta.can_reply && !_meta.has_replies && _meta.from_request_user
					? '<li id="dsq-edit-el-' + post_id + '"><a id="dsq-edit-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); return false;">Edit</a></li>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="' + (!_meta.can_reply ? 'dsq-list-first' : '') + '" id="dsq-more-el-' + post_id + '"><a id="dsq-more-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, ' + post_id + ', \'more\'); return false">More <small>&#9660;</small></a></li>'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.use_media
					? '<li id="dsq-media-el-' + post_id +'" style="display:none"><a id="dsq-media-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, ' + post_id + ', \'media\'); return false">Use Media <small>&#9660;</small></a></li>'
					: '')
				+ '</ul>'
				+ '<div id="dsq-reply-bar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar" style="display:none"> \
						<div id="dsq-reply-bar-items-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar-items"> \
						</div> \
						<div id="dsq-reply-bar-auth-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar-auth"> \
							 \
								 \
									<a href="#" class="dsq-help dsq-reply-req-opt" title="You must log into an account in order to comment on Jack and Jill Politics" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Required:</a> \
								 \
								<img class="dsq-login-icon" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/dsq-favicon-16x16.png" alt="" /> \
								<a id="dsq-reply-login-' + post_id + '" href="http://disqus.com/profile/login/?next=article:4276825" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false">Login</a> \
								 \
									&nbsp;or&nbsp; \
									<img class="fb_login_image" src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/images/fbconnect/login-buttons/connect_light_small_short.gif" alt="Facebook Connect"/> \
									<a href="#" onclick="FB.Connect.requireSession(DisqusFbcParentController.onLogin); return false;">Connect</a> \
								 \
								&nbsp;or&nbsp; \
									<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/twitter-signin-icon.png" alt="" /> \
									<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect(); return false">Sign-in</a> \
								 \
								 \
							 \
						</div> \
					</div> \
					<div id="dsq-reply-' + post_id + '"></div> \
			</div> \
		';
	};

	//
	// Iframes
	//

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

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

		var default_params = {
			// TODO: These should be moved to Dsq.jsonData.
			'f'				: 'jackandjillpolitics',
			't'				: 'not_only_is_sarah_palin_james_dobson_in_a_dress_she8217s_also_a_racist',
			// Do we need encodeURIComponent here?
			'ifrs'			: encodeURIComponent(disqus_iframe_css),
			'to_redirect'	: encodeURIComponent(window.location),
			'cbp'			: disqus_callback_params,
			'ff'			: Dsq.Thread.ff,
			'fc'			: Dsq.Thread.fc,
			'ac'			: Dsq.Thread.ac,
			'default_text'	: disqus_default_text
		};

		base_url += '?' + (new Date()).getTime();
		// Add params to default_params.
		if(params) {
			for(var key in params) {
				if(params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
					default_params[key] = encodeURIComponent(params[key]);
				}
			}
		}
		// Build querystring.
		for(var key in default_params) {
			if(default_params[key] && default_params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				base_url += '&' + key + '=' + default_params[key];
			}
		}

		return [
			'<iframe marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" frameborder="0"',
			(' allowtransparency="true" src="' + base_url + '"'),
			this._makeAttributes(attributes),
			'</iframe>'].join('');
	};

	this.frameLogin = function(opt_attributes) {
		var params = {};
		var base_url = 'http://disqus.com/embed/login.html';
		var attributes = opt_attributes || {};
		attributes['class'] = 'dsq-post-login';

		if(typeof disqus_frame_theme != 'undefined') {
			params['theme'] = disqus_frame_theme;
		}
		return this._frameGeneric(base_url, params, attributes);
	};

	this.frameReply = function(post_id, extra_params, attributes) {
		// Returns the HTML for a reply iframe. Called by Dsq.Iframes.setReplyIframeToContainer
		var _meta = (typeof post_id != 'undefined') ? Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id] : false;
		var base_url = Dsq.Urls.REPLY;
		var params = {
			'def_email'		: disqus_def_email,
			'def_name'		: disqus_def_name
		};
		if(extra_params) {
			for(var key in extra_params) {
				if(extra_params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
					params[key] = extra_params[key];
				}
			}
		}
		if(_meta) {
			params['parent_post'] = post_id;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_per_page != 'undefined') {
			params['per_page'] = disqus_per_page;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_frame_theme != 'undefined') {
			params['theme'] = disqus_frame_theme;
		}
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {
			attributes['class'] += '-authenticated';
		}
		return this._frameGeneric(base_url, params, attributes);
	};

	this.frameEdit = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = (typeof post_id != 'undefined') ? Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id] : false;
		var base_url = 'http://disqus.com/embed/edit.html';
		var params = {
			'p' : post_id
		};
		return this._frameGeneric(base_url, params, {'class': 'dsq-post-edit', 'name': 'dsq-edit_' + post_id + '-frame'});
	};

	//
	// Menus
	//

	this.menuMore = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: "Remove post" button should hide menu.
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		return ' \
			<li><a href="#comment-' + post_id + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.permalink(' + post_id + ')">Link</a></li> \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">Profile</a></li>'
	+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator
		? '	<li class="dsq-menu-sep"></li>' + (_meta.email ? '<li class="dsq-admin-email">' + _meta.email + '</li>' : '')
		+ '	<li class="dsq-admin-ip">' + _meta.ip + '</li> \
			<li class="dsq-menu-sep"></li>'
		+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.moderator_can_edit
			? ' <li class="dsq-admin-edit"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); return false;">Edit Comment</a></li>'
			: '')
		+ ' <li class="dsq-remove"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.removePost(' + post_id + ', 1); return false;">Remove Comment</a></li> \
			<li class="dsq-report-spam"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.reportSpam(' + post_id + '); return false;">Mark Spam</a></li> \
			<li class="dsq-block-user"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.blacklist(' + post_id + '); return false">Block User</a></li>'
		: '');
	};

	this.menuMedia = function(post_id) {
		return ' \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleMediaReply(this, ' + post_id + ', \'seesmic\'); return false;">Record video</a></li> \
		';
	};

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

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

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

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


		var menu = '<li class="dsq-drop-showlnk"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">Expand &#8663;</a></li>';
		var pointsMessage = '';
		if (userData['registered']) {
			pointsMessage = 'with ' + userData['points'] + ' points (more points are better).';
		}

		if (userData['is_remote']) {
			var domain = userData['remote_domain_name'];
			menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' is a ' + domain + ' user ' + pointsMessage + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()">';
			menu += '<span class="dsq-badge-' + domain.toLowerCase() + '">' + domain + '</span></li>';
		} else if (userData['registered']) {
			if (userData['verified']) {
				menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' has a verified commenter profile ' + pointsMessage + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()">';
				menu += '<span class="dsq-badge-verified">Verified</span></li>';
			} else {
				menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' has a registered, but unverified, commenter profile ' + pointsMessage + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()">';
				menu += '<span class="dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span></li>';
			}
		} else {
			menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' has not claimed this commenter profile." onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()"><span class="dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span></li>';
		}

		menu += _includeServices();
		return menu;
	};

	//
	// Popups
	//

	this._popupGeneric = function(content) {
		return ' \
		<div class="dsq-popup-content"> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-top"></div> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-body" class="clearfix"> \
				<div class="dsq-popup-body-padding"> \
					<div class="dsq-popup-header"> \
						<a class="dsq-close-link" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/modal-close.png" alt="" /></a>'
						+ content['header']
					+ '</div>'
					+ content['body']
					+ '<div class="powered-by"><a href="http://disqus.com/comments/">Powered by <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-logo.png" alt="Disqus Comments" style="margin-bottom:-5px" /></a></div> \
				</div> <!-- padding --> \
			</div> <!-- body --> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-bottom"></div> \
		</div> \
		';
	};

	this.popupProfile = function(user_key) {
		var userServices = Dsq.Post.getUserServices(user_key, null);
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][user_key];
		var headerHtml = '';
		var bodyHtml = '';
		var content = {};

		var _includeServices = function() {
			var html = '';
			for(var i = 0; i < userServices.length; i++) {
				html +=
				(i == 0
					? '<h4>Connections</h4><ul>'
					: '')
				+ '<li> \
					<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/embed/services/' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '.png" alt="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" title="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" /> \
					<a class="dsq-service-' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" href="' + userServices[i].url + '" target="_blank">'
					+ userServices[i].name
					+ '</a> \
				</li>'
				+ (i+1 == userServices.length ? '</ul>' : '');
			}
			return html;
		};

		headerHtml = ' \
			<table> \
				<tr> \
					<td> \
						<a class="dsq-profile-userurl" href="' + userData.url + '"><img class="dsq-popup-profile-avatar" src="' + userData['avatar'] + '" alt="" /></a> \
					</td> \
					<td> \
						<div class="dsq-popup-profile-user"> \
							<h3>' + userData['display_name'] + '</h3> \
							<div class="dsq-popup-profile-user-stats" id="dsq-popup-profile-user-stats-' + user_key + '">Loading...</div> \
						</div> \
					</td> \
				</tr> \
			</table> \
		';

		bodyHtml = ' \
			<div class="dsq-popup-profile-state"> \
				This is a&nbsp;<span class="'
					+ (userData['registered']
						? (userData['verified']
							? ' dsq-badge-verified'
							: (userData['is_remote']
								? ' dsq-badge-' + userData['remote_domain_name'].toLowerCase()
								: ' dsq-badge-registered')
							)
							: ' dsq-badge-guest') + '">'
			+ (userData['registered']
				? (userData['verified']
					? 'Verified'
					: (userData['is_remote']
						 ? userData['remote_domain_name']
						 : 'Registered')
					)
				: 'Guest')
			+ '</span>&nbsp;commenter profile.'
			+ '&nbsp;<a class="dsq-profile-userurl" href="' + userData.url + '"><strong>View more comments </strong></a>'
			+ (!userData['points']
				? '<p class="dsq-popup-notice">If this is you, <a href="http://disqus.com/profile" target="_blank">claim it now</a> to manage your comments.</p>'
				: '')
			+ ((userData['registered'] && !userData['verified'] && (Dsq.jsonData.request.username && (Dsq.jsonData.request.username == userData['username'])) && !userData['is_remote'])
				? '<p class="dsq-popup-notice"><strong>Alert</strong>: You have not verified this account. <a href="http://disqus.com/verify">Verify it now.</a></p>'
				: '')
			+ '</div> \
			<div id="dsq-profile-status-' + user_key + '" class="dsq-popup-profile-status" style="display:none"></div> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-profile-snapshot"> \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td> \
							<div id="dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-wrapper-' + user_key + '"> \
								<h4>Most active sites</h4> \
								<ul id="dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-' + user_key + '"> \
									<li>Loading...</li> \
								</ul> \
							</div> \
						</td> \
						<td>'
							+ _includeServices()
							+ '<div id="dsq-popup-profile-moderated-wrapper-' + user_key + '"> \
								<h4>Moderator of</h4> \
								<ul id="dsq-popup-profile-moderated-' + user_key + '"> \
									<li>Loading...</li> \
								</ul> \
							</div> \
						</td> \
					</tr> \
				</table> \
			</div> \
			';

		content = {
			'header': headerHtml,
			'body': bodyHtml
		};

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

	this.popupReblog = function() {
		var headerHtml = '';
		var bodyHtml = '';
		var content = {};

		headerHtml = ' \
			<cite><span>Reblog this comment</span></cite> \
		';

		bodyHtml = ' \
			<div id="dsq-reblog-form" class="dsq-reblog-form"> \
			</div> \
		';

		content = {
			'header': headerHtml,
			'body': bodyHtml
		};

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

	this.popupModal = function(title, message) {
		var headerHtml = '';
		var bodyHtml = '';
		var content = {};

		headerHtml = ' \
			<h3>' + title + '</h3> \
		';

		bodyHtml = message;

		content = {
			'header': headerHtml,
			'body': bodyHtml
		};

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

	this.alertContent = function(name, post_id) {
		var alert = {
			'post_not_approved': {
				'title': 'Comment awaiting approval by a moderator',
				'message': 'Thanks for posting. Your comment must be approved by a moderator before appearing here.'
			},
			'post_has_profile': {
				'title': 'Use your existing commenter profile',
				'message': 'You have just posted your commment as a <span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span>, but you may already have a <span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span> commenter profile.<br /><br /><a href="http://disqus.com/claim">Log in and claim this comment!</a>'
			}
		};
		return alert[name] || false;
	};

	//
	// Actions
	//

	this.voted = function(post_id, points, vote) {
		// Update number of points
		Dsq.$('dsq-points-' + post_id).innerHTML = points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this comment.';

		// Update link text
		if(vote) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-rate-cont-' + post_id).innerHTML = 'You liked this.';
		}
	};

	this.subscribed = function(status) {
		var title, message;

		if(status) {
			title = 'Subscribed!';
			message = 'You have subscribed to this comment thread. New comments will be sent directly to your email inbox, where you may read and respond by email.';
			Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe').innerHTML = ' \
				<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(0); return false">Unsubscribe</a> \
			';
		} else {
			title = 'Unsubscribed';
			message = 'You have unsubscribed to this comment thread. New comments will no longer be sent to your email inbox.';
			Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe').innerHTML = ' \
				<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">Subscribe by email</a> \
			';
		}

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);

	};
	
	this.highlighted = function() {
		Dsq.Popup.popModal('This comment has been highlighted.', 'Highlighted comment');
	};

	//
	// Media
	//

	this.mediaSeesmic = function(id, thumb) {
		return ' \
			<div id="dsq-seesmic-' + id + '_preview" class="dsq-seesmic-preview"><a href="http://www.seesmic.com/video/' + id + '" target="_blank" class="see_link">&nbsp;</a> \
				<div style="display:block;width:160px; height:120px; border:none; background-image:url(http://t.seesmic.com/thumbnail/' + thumb + ')"> \
					<div id="dsq-seesmic-' + id + '_hide" class="seePlayOverlay" style="display:none;"><img onclick="see_play_video(\'' + id + '\',false)" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/seesmic/stopOverlay.png" width="50" height="50" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand; padding-top: 30px; padding-left: 50px" alt="" /></div> \
					<div id="dsq-seesmic-' + id + '_show" class="seePlayOverlay"><img onclick="see_play_video(\'' + id + '\',true)" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/seesmic/playOverlay.png" width="50" height="50" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand; border:none; padding-top: 30px; padding-left: 50px" alt="" /></div> \
				</div> \
			</div> \
			<div id="' + id + '_content" style="display:block; width:100%; padding-top:5px"></div> \
		';
	};

	//
	// Callbacks
	//

	this.postComment_onSuccess = function(parent_post_id) {
		// Increment post count
		var num_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-num-posts');
		var total_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-total-posts');
		
		if (num_posts) { 
			num_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(num_posts.innerHTML) + 1;
		}
		if (total_posts) { 
			total_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(total_posts.innerHTML) + 1;
		}
	};
};
// Dsq.Templates


/**
 * Dsq.Post
 */
Dsq.Post = new function() {
	this.openedMenu = {};
	this.menuEventListener = null;
	this.stateReplyToggled = {};
	this.stateEditToggled = {};
	this.stateRecordLink = {};

	/**
	 * Inserts a new post into the document.
	 *
	 * @param after_id {Number}	Insert a post before specified id.  If after_id
	 *							evaluates to false, then post in the front.  If
	 *							after_id is -1, post at the end.
	 */
	this.insert = function(after_id, id, message, author) {
		// Skeleton template from thread_posts.html.
		var skeleton = ' \
			<li id="dsq-comment-%(id)s"> \
				<div id="dsq-comment-header-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-header"> \
					<cite id="dsq-cite-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-cite"> \
						<a id="dsq-author-user-%(id)s" href="%(author_url)s" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">%(author_name)s</a> \
					</cite> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-comment-body-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-body"> \
					<div id="dsq-comment-message-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-message">%(message)s</div> \
				</div> \
			</li> \
		';
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
		var _user_meta = Dsq.jsonData.users[_meta.user_key];
		var markup = Dsq.Utils.interpolate(skeleton, {
			id: id,
			message: message,
			author_url: _user_meta.blog,
			author_name: _user_meta.display_name
		});
		var div = document.createElement('div');
		markup = markup.replace(Dsq.COMMENTS_RE, Dsq.CommentsHandler);
		div.innerHTML = markup;

		if (after_id === -1) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-comments').appendChild(div);
		} else if (!after_id) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-comments').insertBefore(div, Dsq.$('dsq-comments').firstChild);
		} else if (Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + after_id)) {
			// Get next node after "after_id", so we can insert before it.
			// If "after_id" is the last comment, the target node is the
			// last node.
			
			// var append_post_id = Dsq.Templates.appendPost(after_id).replace('<div id="','').replace('"></div>', '');
			var append_post_id = 'dsq-append-post-' + after_id;
			var node = Dsq.$(append_post_id);
			while (node = node.nextSibling) {
				if (!node || node.nodeType == 1) { // 1 == Node.ELEMENT_NODE
					break;
				}
			}
			if (!node) {
				node = Dsq.$(append_post_id);
			}
			node.parentNode.insertBefore(div, node);
		}
	};

	this.incrementPostCount = function() {
		
		var num_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-num-posts');
		var total_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-total-posts');

		if (num_posts) {
			num_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(num_posts.innerHTML, 10) + 1;
		}
		if (total_posts) {
			total_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(total_posts.innerHTML, 10) + 1;
		}
	}
	
	this.outlineComment = function(post_id) {
		Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + post_id).className += ' dsq-comment-outline';
		setTimeout("(function () { Dsq.Post.clearOutlineComment(" + post_id + ") })()", 3000);
	};
	
	this.clearOutlineComment = function(post_id) {
		Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + post_id).className = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + post_id).className.replace('dsq-comment-outline', '');
	};

	this.showMenu = function(el, id, name) {
		var anchorPos = Dsq.Utils.findPos(el);
		var menu = document.createElement('ul');

		if(this.openedMenu) {
			if(this.openedMenu.linkClicked) {
				this.openedMenu.linkClicked = false;
				return;
			}
		}

		switch(name) {
			case 'more':
				menu.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.menuMore(id);
				break;
			case 'media':
				menu.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.menuMedia(id);
				break;
			default:
				break;
		}

		// Add menu to document body
		menu.id = 'dsq-menu-' + id;
		menu.className = 'dsq-menu';
		Dsq.$b.appendChild(menu);

		// Position and show
		anchorPos[1] += 15;
		menu.style.left = anchorPos[0] + 'px';
		menu.style.top = anchorPos[1] + 'px';
		menu.style.display = 'block';

		// Set global reference
		this.openedMenu = {
			'el' : menu,
			'id' : id,
			'name' : name,
			'linkClicked' : false
		};

		// Set listener
		this.menuEventListener = Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(document, 'mouseup', this._hideMenu);
	};

	this._hideMenu = function(e) {
		var el = e.target || e.srcElement;
		var openedMenu = Dsq.Post.openedMenu.el;
		var id = Dsq.Post.openedMenu.id;

		if(!id) {
			var link = 'dsq-' + Dsq.Post.openedMenu.name + '-link';
		} else {
			var link = 'dsq-' + Dsq.Post.openedMenu.name + '-link-' + id;
		}

		if(!openedMenu) {
			return;
		}

		if(!Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, openedMenu.id)) {
			openedMenu.style.display = 'none';
			Dsq.Utils.removeEventListener(Dsq.Post.menuEventListener);
			Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(openedMenu);

		} else {
			// Hide the menu if a link was clicked inside the menu.  We can't
			// completely remove the menu until the onclick event on the link
			// fires, but the menuEventListener will prevent multiple menus
			// from polluting the DOM.
			if(el && typeof el.href != 'undefined') {
				openedMenu.style.display = 'none';
				Dsq.Post.openedMenu.el = null;
			}
		}

		if(Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, link)) {
 			Dsq.Post.openedMenu.linkClicked = true;
		}
	};


	this.getUserServices = function(user_key, id) {
		if(!user_key && id) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
			user_key = _meta.user_key;
		}
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][user_key];
		var userServices = [];

		// Keep a full list of supported services. This is the order they will display in the drop-profile.
		// Each service must have a corresponding case in _buildServiceUrl()
		var supportedServices = ['blog', 'twitter', 'facebook', 'tumblr'];

		function _buildServiceUrl(serviceName) {
			var data = userData[serviceName];
			var services = {
				blog:		function(d) { return d; },
				twitter:	function(d) { return d; },
				facebook:	function(d) { return d; },
				tumblr:		function(d) { return 'http://' + d + '.tumblr.com'; }
			};
			return services[serviceName](data);
		}

		for(var i = 0; i < supportedServices.length; i++) {
			if(userData[supportedServices[i]]) {
				var serviceUrl = _buildServiceUrl(supportedServices[i]);
				userServices.push({'name' : supportedServices[i], 'url' : serviceUrl});
			}
		}
		return userServices;
	}

	this.dropProfile = function(id) {
		var dp = Dsq.$('dsq-drop-profile-' + id);

		// IE6 needs JS to display/hide. All other browsers use CSS.
		if(dp) {
			if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) dp.style.display = (dp.style.display == 'inline') ? 'none' : 'inline';
			return false;
		} else {
			dp = document.createElement('ul');
		}

		dp.id = 'dsq-drop-profile-' + id;
		dp.className = 'dsq-drop-profile';

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) { dp.style.display = 'inline'; }

		var container = Dsq.$('dsq-header-avatar-' + id);
		dp.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.dropProfile(id);
		container.appendChild(dp);
	};

	this.dropProfileMore = function(el, id) {
		var hiddenItems = Dsq.$('dsq-drop-hidden-' + id);

		hiddenItems.style.display = 'inline';
		el.parentNode.style.display = 'none';
	};

	this._updateReplyLinks = function(el, id) {
		// Update "reply / cancel" links based on state.
		var displayDict = {};

		if(id) {
			if(this.stateReplyToggled[id]) {
				el.innerHTML = 'Cancel';
				displayDict['media'] = 'inline';
				displayDict['edit'] = 'none';
			} else {
				el.innerHTML = 'Reply';
				displayDict['media'] = 'none';
				displayDict['edit'] = 'inline';
			}
		}

		for(var key in displayDict) {
			if(displayDict.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				var	linkEl = Dsq.$('dsq-' + key + '-el-' + id),
					spacer = Dsq.$('dsq-' + key + '-spacer-' + id);

				if(linkEl) {
					linkEl.style.display = displayDict[key];
					if(spacer) spacer.style.display = displayDict[key];
				}
			}
		}
	};

	this._updateMediaLinks = function(el, id) {
		// Update "use media / cancel" links based on state.
		var appendId = (id) ? ('-' + id) : '';
		var link = Dsq.$('dsq-media-link' + appendId);

		if(this.stateRecordLink[id]) {
			link.innerHTML = 'Cancel Media';
			link.onclick = function() { Dsq.Post.toggleMediaReply(link, id); return false; };
		} else {
			link.innerHTML = 'Use Media <small>&#9660;</small>';
			link.onclick = function() { Dsq.Post.showMenu(link, id, 'media'); return false; };
		}
	};

	this.toggleReply = function(el, id) {
		// Create reply IFrame
		if (window.disqus_use_postmessage) {
			if (!this.stateReplyToggled[id]) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id).style.display = 'block';
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'block';
				// Create IFrame if it doesn't exist.
				if (!Dsq.frames['reply_' + id]) {
					var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + id] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(Dsq.$('dsq-reply-frame-' + id), id);
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + id].init();
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + id].setState(id, _meta.depth);
				}
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id).style.display = 'none';
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'none';
			}
		} else {
			// DEPRECATED
			if(!this.stateReplyToggled[id]) {
				// Reply toolbar
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'block';
				Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainerIfAllowed(Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id), id);
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'none';
				Dsq.Iframes.hideAllInContainer(Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id));
				if(this.stateRecordLink[id]) {
					// HACK: Cancel media before canceling self.
					this.toggleMediaReply(Dsq.$('dsq-media-link-' + id), id);
				}
			}
		}

		this.stateReplyToggled[id] = !this.stateReplyToggled[id];
		this._updateReplyLinks(el, id);

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE('dsq-reply-' + id); }

		Dsq.Events.fire(Dsq.Events.REPLY_IFRAME_TOGGLED, {
			postId: id,
			opened: this.stateReplyToggled[id]
		});
	};

	this.toggleMediaReply = function(el, id, xtype) {
		id = id || 0;
		if(id) {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id);
		} else {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-post-add');
		}

		if(!this.stateRecordLink[id]) {
			Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(container, id, {xtype:xtype}, 'dsq-post-video');
		} else {
			Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(container, id);
		}
		this.stateRecordLink[id] = !this.stateRecordLink[id];
		this._updateMediaLinks(el, id);

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(); }
	};

	this.edit = function(el, id) {
		Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + id).innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.frameEdit(id);
		el.parentNode.style.display = 'none';
		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE('dsq-comment-message-' + id); }
	};

    this.rate = function(el, id, vote) {
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated || Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_votes) {
			if(vote == 1) {
                Dsq.$('dsq-rate-cont-' + id).innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
            }

            Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/jackandjillpolitics/vote.js'
                + '?post_id='    + id
                + '&vote='        + vote);

		} else {
			Dsq.Popup.login(Dsq.Strings.TO_RATE_PLEASE_LOG_IN);
		}
    };

	this.report = function(id, confirmed) {
		if(confirmed) {
			Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/jackandjillpolitics/not_only_is_sarah_palin_james_dobson_in_a_dress_she8217s_also_a_racist/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='	+ 'not_only_is_sarah_palin_james_dobson_in_a_dress_she8217s_also_a_racist'
			+ '&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='	+ 'not_only_is_sarah_palin_james_dobson_in_a_dress_she8217s_also_a_racist'
			+ '&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='		+ 'not_only_is_sarah_palin_james_dobson_in_a_dress_she8217s_also_a_racist'
				+ '&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/4276825/realtime.js?timestamp=' + last_checked);
		}
	};

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

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

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

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

}();

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

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

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

	return obj;
}();

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		if (isblank(openid_url)) {
			return;
		}

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	return obj;
}();


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





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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2217360" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2217360" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217360" class="dsq-comment-message">This is exactly the post the Republicans are looking for. Call Sarah Palin a racist in a headline and it will come back to haunt us.<br><br>Why can\'t we for once just leave well enough alone?<br><br>What do we hope to gain by headlining this?<br><br>Why are we still so focused on her character?<br><br>We do ourselves no favors.<br><br>Here\'s my question:<br><br>Why would a backwater redneck from Alaska even know what Sambo means?<br><br>Why would a woman who heard about Iraq on the news call people from her state Arabs?<br><br>Why would she have praised Barack\'s message of hope and change as he pulled closer in the polls in Alaska?<br><br>Doesn\'t this sound like the on-the-record, "How do we beat the bitch?" question a woman asked John McCain to a room of laughter?<br><br>I don\'t care what that writer said to defend himself, if he can\'t name his sources, he needs to shut the fuck up.<br><br>I don\'t believe him.<br><br>Or I don\'t believe the person who told him this story.<br><br>Take your pick.<br><br>Even those who reported about McCain calling his wife a trollop and a sexist slur that rhymes with hunt had the names of those who heard him say it.<br><br>This story is incendiary and I wish it would just go away.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2218517">Anderkoo</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2218517" class="dsq-comment-message">Agreed! Just like Hillary\'s "iron my shirt" hecklers were a stunt.<br><br>Just one suggestion -- some might find "redneck" racially offensive, or at least insensitive to both class and race.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2220019" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2220019" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2220019" class="dsq-comment-message">That is correct. But since she\'s proud to call herself one, I will choose her own language when I refer to her.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2218982">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2218982" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree 100%. <br><br>Unless there is a video of her saying this, LEAVE IT ALONE and STICK TO THE ISSUES. There\'s enough there to attack them on. We don\'t need this stuff.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2217007">TRW</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217007" class="dsq-comment-message">I think this post is totally inappropriate.  Many people on this site may not like Sarah Palin, but are you really going to trash this woman based on hearsay?  You have no proof whatsoever that she made these statements, only anecdotal evidence from a witness who can\'t substantiate her claim.  <br><br>This is where the left gets in trouble.  I get that many people are fed up with Republican lies, hypocrisy and nastiness, but if you engage in the same kind of smear, and guilt by association tactics that they do, are you really any better? <br><br>Does anyone remember the whole Whitey/Michelle controversy?  Many were furious, and rightly so, that Michelle was accused of saying Whitey at an event, and the mainstream media picked up on this story without any proof.  This is the EXACT same thing.  <br><br>We need to have standards people.  This whole story is not up to snuff and without proof should be taken down.  It is beneath this website.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2217102" href="http://natthedem.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">nctodc</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217102" class="dsq-comment-message">TRW, you took the words out of my mouth--this is exactly what I came here to say. <br><br>There are so many legitimate, verifiable reasons that this woman shouldn\'t come anywhere close to being a heartbeat away from the Presidency and repeating rumors and innuendo like this only serve to weaken our overall argument. This is beneath us and beneath our cause.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2218220">JJai</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2218220" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2218220" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t agree with this post. We went from mass histeria when Palin was selected. But, they we refocused on the issues at hand.<br><br>I know it\'s tempting to fight slurs with slurs. But, if we abandon our quidelines how can we attack others for doing the same.<br><br>I learned a long time ago not to enter a fight with a fool at their level because they pull you down and then beat you with experience. You do better to elevate the conversation and beat them with your experience.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2218260">Anderkoo</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2218260" class="dsq-comment-message">AGREED. We have learned time and again that the way to overcome hatred and bridge across what divides us is not to fight fire with fire, not keep trying to jump over the gap, but to find another way.<br><br>I get disheartened when I see the hatred in the RNC attendees\' eye, but I also get disheartened when we return fire with the same kind of name-calling and smears. I\'m no perfect person, so I yell at my radio and shake my fists with the same fury as I\'m sure many of you do.<br><br>But in the last few days I\'ve started thinking heavily on what "nonviolence" means here on the Web. How can we make "turn the other cheek" a tactic of POWER rather than an admission of weakness. What can we do and say that would make Gandhi and MLK proud that we carry their torch?<br><br>"I\'m gonna get them back involved in this process, the grassroots level first and then let it go. THAT\'S gonna make me happy." <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcRA2AZsR2Q" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcRA2AZsR2Q</a> . The feelings I get when I watch this video is what I want to carry with me when I think about our nation and world.<br><br>The opposite of HATE : faith, HOPE, and love.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2218338">BR</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2218338" class="dsq-comment-message">Folks -<br><br>I know we\'re DESPERATE for a Macaca moment from McCain or Palin, and we know they both have it in them.<br><br>Here\'s the problem: What makes a Macaca moment real is video.  Without video, no dice.  That\'s it.  We have to go all or nothing with this, and not accuse either of them of anything racial until we have video of it, and then go full blast.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2218398">Texas_Girl_in_LA</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2218398" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2218398" class="dsq-comment-message">Enough!<br><br>We are better than this...really. <br><br>Fight with issues...not rumors.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2218428">Anderkoo</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2218428" class="dsq-comment-message">I discovered this video this morning: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQNpEET9WqQ" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQNpEET9WqQ</a> -- so applicable to our times.<br><br>My partner pointed out that the words "Let it be" can be understood not just as "Let it go," but also a prayer: "May it be."<br><br>In the case of the hatred we feel coming at us, I would use the phrase in both senses.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2218635">Admiral_Komack</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2218635" class="dsq-comment-message">If you don\'t have it on YouTube, drop it.<br>It doesn\'t help Obama.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2217355">Maurice Stewart</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217355" class="dsq-comment-message">I read TRW\'s comment and must say that this is the most sensible and rational comment on this subject.  In legal terminology, this is all "hearsay" information and in as much as I detest Sara Palin\'s lies and distortions, let\'s not sink to the level that, as TRW so rightfully points out, the issue of Michelle Obama and her so-called, non-factual "Whitey" remark!  Excellent analogy TRW! This post is BETTER than that!<br>I also totally disagree with Miranda when she states that Sara Palin need to prove that she said it.  This is a ridiculous comment!  Without  proven, factual information, the burden of proof does NOT rest on Sara Palin!  It rests on US to prove it!<br>What I found condescending, elitist, and somewhat racist was her comment re: "Barack\'s community organization work."  I suggest that the Obama campaign change adopt a title change with their 50 state campaigning- from "Campaign captains" to "Voter Community Organizers."  When Obama wins the election, then thank these "community organizers\'" for their excellent work.  The best revenge against this type of snear and attack is SUCESS! Everyone agree?<br>Let\'s petition to change campaign title to- "Voter Community Organizers" rather than "captains!."</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2216069" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2216069" href="http://deoclicianocgiportfolio.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ochyming</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2216069" class="dsq-comment-message"><b>... According to Lucille, the waitress serving her table at the time and who asked that her last name not be used ... </b><br><br>True or false?<br><br>Republicans learned ALLOT of Media\'s inclination to Clinton over Obama.<br><br>And those who elected Bush are for the kill!<br>Again!<br><br>So this post HELPs you NOT much.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2214800">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2214800" class="dsq-comment-message">I will believe this until Sarah Palin proves she did not say this. She has to prove this is a lie. I believe in fairness, and I will apply the same standard of "the whitey tape" and the Larry Sinclair claims. Sarah Palin uttered the word "Sambo" in reference to Barack Obama until she categorically denies such...and even then, I still reserve the right to ignore that and believe she did anyway. We don\'t make the rules, so no one should be upset when we play by\'em.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2216657">nettie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2216657" class="dsq-comment-message">We have to pay much closer attention to the what\'s REALLY going on.  Sarah Palin is a Big Fat distraction to the what Washington is up to.  I am watching a live briefing of OUR government going into the business of business takeovers and placing their big donors into power Godfather style.  Our government will be be disolving Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, proping up the loses with OUR taxes, and placing the heads of Merrill Lynch and anothe big Financial conglomerate to run it.  This news "obviously" broke Friday when not many of us are paying attention so while they are playing their sinister shell game, the wealthy continues to take care of their own and struggling Americans continue to get hosed.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2217138">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217138" class="dsq-comment-message">And that\'s really what\'s going on.  It\'s a shame that people don\'t recognize.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2223743">nettie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2223743" class="dsq-comment-message">I want everyone who frequents this blog tobe well aware of the honest to God truth.  This has almost nothing to do about race and everything to do about power.  While listening to a Thom Hartman radio program during the Democratic Convention, he mention how he thought everyone else (US media and GOP) was playing Chess while the DNC was playing Checkers.  He was right.  Not only is the DNC playing Checkers but black and brown folks continue to allow themselves to be played like a bunch of pawns time and time again.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2219221">Teacher</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2219221" class="dsq-comment-message">So true, Nettie. There are so many other things going on in addition to the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac take over. What are the ramifications of this take over for the american public? Any speculation? I don\'t have a grip on it yet but am about to research it and come back with a report.<br><br>Let me also go on the record and state that I am four square against sensorship on this blogsite. The story featured here is not totally unsubstantiated. It is substantiated, even though the source remains anonymous TO US. People can come here an post any contrary, trollish opinions  they desire, along with links that are crazy, and their stuff isn\'t removed. We don\'t have to like it, we just have to live with it. <br><br>NO SENSORSHIP ON JJP!!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2223983">nettie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2223983" class="dsq-comment-message">I dont even know where to begin.  Why is it when the majority suffers a recession, black folks have long been in a depression.  Why do i have to watch MSNBC make the over fifty percent prison population of black men "entertainment."  We allow it.  Start reading the Wall Street Journal and discover how more International Investors are buying up Real Estate all across America or how displaced African American homeowners are now forced into renting once again.  In other words, there is no one result from the takeover it is simple the next step to reversing the momentum of the Civil Rights movement.  Where it seems with blogging and the constant stream of infomation, we would not be in such dire straits but the Conservative movement is way better organized. I feel like I\'m ramblng a little so I\'ll finish by saying that we cant waste a lot of time on the obvious anymore.  Corporate America has chosen our destiny long enough and the only way out is to try harder at forsight and stop fighting senseless no-win battles.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2216899" href="http://www.inkognegro.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Inkognegro</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2216899" class="dsq-comment-message">Meh.<br><br>So ON TOP of being borderline incompetent and snarky in ways that confound the imagination, she, like her running mate, is prone to bigoted statements.<br><br>*shrugs*<br><br>You all are...surprised?<br><br>Come on, people! (Cosby, W.)<br><br>They are who we THOUGHT they were (Green, D)<br><br>I am more bothered by the whole community organizer slur than I am by this.  <br><br>People have the right to utter racial slurs to their hearts content...even in restaurants, should they not have the common decency (as i do) to wait until they get home to talk greasy about other folk.<br><br>Frankly I would be shocked if she WASN\'T prone to bust out with a racial epithet in private company.<br><br>IN FACT, I would go so far as to say that everyone\'s new favorite repentant plagiarizer/Train riding Delawarean is prone ...wait....he already has, bless his heart.  So much for that leap of faith.  <br><br>End of the day, though...for all his crackerishness, Joe Biden has our back (as best a politician can, that is)<br><br><br>Look, I totally get the desire to extract a pound of flesh every time folk channel their inner Archie Bunker/George Jefferson, but the reality is whack-a-mole is more productive.<br><br>Yesterday\'s Clean and articulate is today\'s Uppity is tomorrow\'s Sambo.<br><br>Ima go ahead and sit this one out. <br><br><br>When they get back  to the Governor/Mother of DownSyndrome child slashing funding for Special education....lemme know...im there.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2216978" class="dsq-comment-message">Hello JJP family<br><br>Republican Senator Oklahoma Infohe stated in a news article that American should elect a president that truly loves America.  In he further implied that this is proof because Obama does not wear his flag pin so I sent him this letter.  Read Below:<br><br><br>"Dear Senator Inhofe<br><br>Like all Americans I believe that for one to run for the highest office that must truly love America.  In fact to be a public servant to this great nation one must also put country first. So we must question Senator Obama\'s patriotism in light of the fact he does not wear his flag pin.  <br><br>I enjoyed watching the RNC. I found the speeches electrifying<br>However, there is something that truly troubles me. <br><br>Pailin and her husband were a member of a Alaska Independence Party.  This is a political party that advocates for making Alaska its own country.  Sir that is not AMERICA FIRST but NO AMERICA AT ALL.   She is anti-American, a traitor to our great country.  As a true American patriot,  can you explain to me why you would support a Republican ticket that has an anti-American on the ticket.  How can you be a true American a true Republican?  How can you stand their and let a secessionist be elected to the second highest office in the land?  How can you support a ticket with a person was a part of a political party that hates America.  Shame on you Senator Inhofe.  Shame on you.  <br><br>Is she going to use the US military to support the secession of Alaska from the America.  Alaska is so close to Russia.  Is she going to talk to Putin behind our backs and cut a deal with Russia to help Alaska become independent.  I am scared Senator Inhofe.  I am scared for American if Pailin becomes our Vice President.  I know that McCain didn\'t know of this I know that he was busy defending himself from the liberal media.  But the Republican party had to know.  You senator had to know.  Why would you do this to America?  Why?<br><br>Sir please we need a true American on both tickets.  I know that Democrats picked their own tickets they wanted those two men on their tickets.  But you sir with all do respect.  You allowed an  anti-American on the Republican ticket.  You allowed an anti-American on the ticket.  Do you love America, Senator Inhofe do you love America.<br><br>A Patriotic American<br><br>Mrs Robert Harrison"<br><br><br><br>Needless to say instead attacking on the racist meme that Barack is not American because he\'s a muslim, socialist, no flag pin wearer, etc.  I just trumped him on the GOP\'s contradictions about putting a secessionist on the ticket.<br><br>I think we should bombard these Republicans elected officials with emails like this and write these to the MSM blogs disguised as the "small town Americans" that the Republicans profess to love.  <br><br>Maybe it will a) force the mainstream media to take a look at the hypocrisy of the "Country First" campaign slogan and b) weaken the racist Obama is not American theme that is potent in this election.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2217059">baltogeek</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217059" class="dsq-comment-message">Pray for Lucille, who if she\'s around those crackers, will not only be looking for a new job but will have to worry about her safety.<br><br>This is another reason they are keeping this fool away from the press for two weeks.<br><br>Anytime you are the freaking governor of a state and you utter something like this in a room full of people and you honestly don\'t think that this will get out you are stupid.<br><br>Same with the knocked up daughter, the affair with her husband\'s business partner, Troopergate, etc...<br><br>Any other candidate dragging that much crap behind them into a campaign would have better sense than to thrust these issues into the national conversation.<br><br>All it shows is that the woman is just that selfish, dangerous and reckless (prefect for McCain in other words) and/or she\'s incredibly dumb.<br><br>That is relevant to the conversation considering he\'s running for president and she could be president.<br><br>This may not be as focused and as specific as a discussion about the mortgage crisis or our foreign policy but if you want to know why we are in the mess we are in take a look at these fools and how they run their business, personal and political.<br><br>The evidence is all there.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2217086" href="http://www.bigassbelle.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">bigassbelle</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217086" class="dsq-comment-message">Whether it will ever be proven that she said this or not, it does not in any way surprise me. It is, in fact, sadly typical of whites in backwater red states and white Republicans in blue states. <br><br>It. Is. Typical.<br><br>I would bet you everything I own that John McCain has used the same slur and worse. <br><br>I would bet you that 75% of all Republican members of Congress have used the same slur and worse.<br><br>It\'s what they do. It\'s how they think. I know these people. I live with them, have lived around them, I\'ve grown up with them. I know them inside and out. <br><br>It\'s how they talk ~ "no offense, though, I have black friends" ~ and how they think and while they\'ll make excuses if called on it (and I get so FUCKING tired of that), nothing changes the way they think and the beliefs they hold in their hearts.<br><br>So I am 100% certain that Sarah Palin has used this slur and worse. And I am confident that John McCain, he of the "gooks" and the "cunt" and the she\'s-such-an-ugly-child remarks, the man called McNasty even in his younger years, he has also said these things. I know it. <br><br>What I can\'t tolerate is that these people win. Is it going to take another 20 years until people of color are the vast majority of Americans for these motherfuckers to lose, with the resounding, no question about it defeat they so richly deserve?<br><br>And is that why they\'re building their private (military) security force (Blackwater) and their massive detention facilities? Is that how they\'re going to <i>keep</i> winning in the future? <br><br>I don\'t know, but my tinfoil hat tells me we\'re in for a hell of a ride if the Rethugs are finally overthrown. They\'ll use every trick, devious and otherwise, to maintain power. They will. It\'s who they are. Their vision of themselves is that they are inherently <i>more</i> worthy, <i>more</i> deserving, <i>better</i>, <i>superior</i>. They won\'t give up easily.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2217359">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217359" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t believe this happened.  Nor ddo we have to go down this road.  What is more important to me is her stance on education, healthcare, Roe vs. Wade, her lack of foreign policy experience and lack of understanding on the national experience.  <br><br>Personally I don\'t think this is an issue.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2217531">biomuse</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217531" class="dsq-comment-message">PLEASE be careful. I would just like to point out that this story is UNSOURCED in the website that you link to and the text is IDENTICAL to that posted earlier in a comment. <br><br>Googling portions of the text shows that the story has been seeded all over liberal-leaning websites, mostly in comments and a few indie website articles. I can find NO original sourcing for this. All my rope-a-dope red flags are going off with this. Just because something is plausible doesn\'t make it true - it makes it perfect bait.<br><br>Where did this story come from? Nobody knows, and that\'s what makes it dangerous to repeat. It\'s written up like a newpaper article; OK, so what publication was that?<br><br>I would either identify that source, or take this down. Do you think the right won\'t be playing games like this from here until Nov 2?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2218507">Anderkoo</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2218507" class="dsq-comment-message">The right has shown itself remarkably innovative in using the blogosphere against itself. The majority of Hillary "PUMA" sites are fake Republican astroturf. We are engaged in cyber-warfare here, folks; DO NOT let down your guard. They are out there looking for comments like the ones I see in this thread to turn around and fan the flames among their own partisans. Do you really want the "black bourgeoisie" to be associated with inflammatory anti-"redneck" sentiment? What a great way to prove that Obama is both anti-white AND elitist at the same time.<br><br>I would assume, unless proven otherwise, that in the latter half of the Democratic primary those who were posting anti-black comments for Hillary and those posting anti-female comments for Barack were all Republican agents unless proven otherwise. Doubly so now. If you\'re really one one us, cut the racist crap and show some discipline. EVERYTHING WE SAY HERE IS PUBLIC AND WILL BE USED AGAINST US.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2217544" href="http://rawdawgb.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">rawdawgbuffalo</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217544" class="dsq-comment-message">none of these folks aint really saying nothing about the issues, Obama maybe,  a little tiny bit, but it seems like Palin and McCain just mantra stealing when they need to talk about N. Korea rebuilding nukes <a href=\'http://rawdawgb.blogspot.com/2008/09/ping-pong-n-shit.html\' rel="nofollow">like North Korea has fallen off the map</a></div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2217578" href="http://www.natturnersrevenge.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Christopher Chambers</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217578" class="dsq-comment-message">The Washington Post might use use this quote but I\'ll restate it here: "People ask me all the time why Elizabeth Hasselback is famous or Rachel Ray is the highest paid "chef" in America. It\'s because of women like Sarah Palin."<br><br>Derive your own meaning from it; I think it\'s clear.<br>I also think Barack should have grown a pair an asked Hillary to run with him. Victory first, intrigue w/she and Bill later. Now do you understand what I\'ve been talking about?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2217617">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217617" class="dsq-comment-message">How would that have helped him?  McCain would have still run Palin....then you\'d have a girl fight.   The Repubs HATE the Clinton\'s, and it would have energized them to support Palin against Hillary.    In addition,   the Secret Service under and Bush administration has been protecting the Clintons.  What information do you think Bush has on Hillary and Bill\'s activities?  The day after Biden was chosen, all the Repub pundits looked absolutely miserable....why?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2219068">Teacher</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2219068" class="dsq-comment-message">No.<br><br>No all around.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2217751">Kay</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217751" class="dsq-comment-message">You guys are so stupid! I know someone who is a Republican insider the McCain. That said the whole story is a plant to make it look like the liberals are trying to smear Sarah. Now, guess who would rise to protect Miss Sarah? Fox News. Heads up Morons look for Fox News in the next three days to debunk this story and blame you guys.<br><br>THE STORY IS A SET UP!  and get ready for Obama is trying to play the race card.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2217756">baltogeek</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217756" class="dsq-comment-message">Charley James responds to questions about his anonymous source here:<br><br><a href="http://www.laprogressive.com/2008/09/06/sarah-palin-and-me/#more-965" rel="nofollow">http://www.laprogressive.com/2008/09/06/sarah-p...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2219052">Teacher</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2219052" class="dsq-comment-message">Thank you for posting this!!!  Please read this before you start a campaign to have the story removed from the web. The author gives a totally reasonable explaination and admits to writing the story. This is not a smear being circulated without an author. Get a grip before you gather with the torches & pitch forks.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2217813">Kay</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217813" class="dsq-comment-message">Some one needs to take this story down quick. This shit is fake!  and a set up to only roil up the rednecks to protect Miss Sarah. Good Lord take the story down!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2217860">rorysmomma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217860" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t know why anyone is surprised.  Rednecks speak that way. The woman has a company called Rouge Cou .  She is a redneck. I could care less what she has to say.  I want her to be put into a position where she has to answer questions... Lets see if she can stay on message.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2217877">Elephants &amp; Flowers</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217877" class="dsq-comment-message">JJP is going for the okey-doke.<br>Take down this story.  If its not sourced, its not real.<br><br>While the conversations can get quite heated on JJP, I count on coming here for credible information.  Who ever has the authority should take this down asap!!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2217966">Kay</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217966" class="dsq-comment-message">Elephants & Flowers <br><br> I agree this shit needs to be taken down. The story is a set up folks. They want to use it as a way to claim Obama is playing the race card against Miss Sarah.<br><br>Look at how they blamed Obama camp for the leak about Sarah Palin daughter being knocked up. This shit is playing right into Karl Rove hands.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2218154">baltogeek</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2218154" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t think that the GOP needs a post or story like this to blame Obama for anything.<br><br>They\'d blame Obama for a rainy day if they thought they could get away with it.<br><br>I have to take back my initial belief in this story now that you and others have pointed out its problems but I don\'t think we should not engage this kind of story because of what Rove might do.  Rove\'s going to drag this campaign into the dirt even if we stick to the facts.<br><br>The issue is what kind of fight do we want to have right?<br><br>Arguing from a place grounded in Palin\'s lengthy record of corruption is a stronger position.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2217987">andyfrombrooklyn</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217987" class="dsq-comment-message">mccain has said crazy racist, sexist shit on the record, off the record, on tape, on video, through votes, his whole life and guess what ? it is not a story. because america is a hypocritical racist sack of shit country at least half the time. called the vietnamese gooks. says he still hates gooks and will for the rest of his life. votes against making an mlk holiday. thought that the confederate flag over south carolina was a states rights issue. changed his mind about both of these after the pressure was off and his cowardice under fire began to look bad. ridiculed chelsea clinton...then apologised when confronted. i guess that is not racist or even necessarrily sexist just a case of attacking the children of a political oponent. what a maverick. i am sure there are more...jack and jill should start a wiki. and keep it limited to those on tape.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2217988">andyfrombrooklyn</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217988" class="dsq-comment-message">mccain has said crazy racist, sexist shit on the record, off the record, on tape, on video, through votes, his whole life and guess what ? it is not a story. because america is a hypocritical racist sack of shit country at least half the time. called the vietnamese gooks. says he still hates gooks and will for the rest of his life. votes against making an mlk holiday. thought that the confederate flag over south carolina was a states rights issue. changed his mind about both of these after the pressure was off and his cowardice under fire began to look bad. ridiculed chelsea clinton...then apologised when confronted. i guess that is not racist or even necessarrily sexist just a case of attacking the children of a political oponent. what a maverick. i am sure there are more...jack and jill should start a wiki. and keep it limited to those on tape.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2218001">Liza</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2218001" class="dsq-comment-message">And we don\'t  hear a word from the media about this. Amazing. If Michelle Obama had been rumored to have said this, it would have been everywhere.<br><br>I knew the white folks would never let a brother to the White House.  I just knew it</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2218873">Teacher</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2218873" class="dsq-comment-message">RIGHT!! Just like the "whitey" accusation that went round & round & round until it finally flushed. Who here forbade that lie from being circulated?<br><br>Is it troll day here and you all forgot to tell me? Whats with all these trolls? They keep listing statistics from their poll of trolls, like we care. Do I need to flag them as inappropriate? Do we need some Billy Goats Gruff up in here to get rid of them? Ok, I\'ll give you your password so you can go away: Rumplestilskin---Buh-bye now!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2218036" class="dsq-comment-message">Because it\'s CRA. <br><br>The media has totally lost its credibility, letting the left push these unsubstantiated rumors into the MSM without bothering to check them out. Countless smears have already been debunked and the public sees the mSM as being \'in the tank" for Obama.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2218031">andyfrombrooklyn</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2218031" class="dsq-comment-message">yes this anecdote about sarah is flimsy. but there are many votes and statements in mccain\'s career that are not. i propose a wiki list of substantiated moments in mccain\'s career when he was racist, sexist, or a child hater. voting against mlk day or speaking out in favor of the rebel flag...racist. let the media argue that it isn\'t.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2218045">andyfrombrooklyn</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2218045" class="dsq-comment-message">yes this anecdote about sarah is flimsy. but there are many votes and statements in mccain\'s career that are not. i propose a wiki list of substantiated moments in mccain\'s career when he was racist, sexist, or a child hater. voting against mlk day or speaking out in favor of the rebel flag...racist. let the media argue that it isn\'t.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2218066">andyfrombrooklyn</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2218066" class="dsq-comment-message">by the way i am long past wanting to seceede from the loser southern states. and there are other freeloading crapass states like alaskatjhat i would be happy to be free of. they can have bush, mccain, or sarah as their emperor for life but why should we suffer their stillborn preferences?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2218408">kenyaw</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2218408" class="dsq-comment-message">Andy,<br>Excuse me!!! Um, I live in Atlanta, but  am orginally from Los Angeles, California. <br>I have had bad bigoted experiences in New York and LA.<br><br>Let us not be so naive as to give the racism that exists in the midwest and the northeast a pass.<br><br>Free loading?? That is insulting.<br>There are enough bigots in all 50 states, don\'t put them all on us in the south.<br><br>At its height, the Klan was strongest in Chicago, Detroit and Indiana. Remember the  "Black Legion"?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2219114">andyfrombrooklyn</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2219114" class="dsq-comment-message">i just talked with my wife and we are thinking about driving down to virginia to register voters so as to help prevent  mccain [ i support the confederate flag and don\'t think there should be a mlk holiday] from becoming our next bigot president. maybe we can get one southern state to enter the 21 st century</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2218283">ace</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2218283" class="dsq-comment-message">Love this post. Keep it up!<br><br>Gallup Tracking: McCain leads 48-45. Before the Republican convention, Obama led by 49-42.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2223742">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2223742" class="dsq-comment-message">What does the electoral college map indicate again?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2218350">nea</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2218350" class="dsq-comment-message">Ultimately the most effective may be this one: "In small towns, we don\'t know quite what to make of a candidate who lavishes praise on working people when they are listening, and then talks about how bitterly they cling to their religion and guns when those people aren\'t listening."<br><br>What gives this line its power is that Sarah Palin is definitely part of the "we" -- the small town, blue-collar Americans who will decide this election.<br><br>Only once in modern times has a vice presidential candidate swung an election. Lyndon Johnson brought Texas and Alabama to John F. Kennedy in 1960, states that otherwise would have been suspicious of a Catholic liberal from New England. I think Sarah Palin will be the second. She has changed the nature of this race in ways ominous for Mr. Obama.<br><br>First, this race is no longer between a candidate who advocates change and the status quo, as Democrats would like to frame it. It\'s between two different visions of change, and between a ticket that\'s actually delivered reform, and a ticket that just talks about it. The argument that John McCain represents a third term for George W. Bush was strained to start with. It\'s ludicrous now.<br><br>Second, the Republican base is more fired up, and the party more united than it\'s been since Ronald Reagan ran for his second term. Conservatives see in Sarah Palin Ronald Reagan in a dress, the brains and backbone of Margaret Thatcher in a younger, prettier package. The Grand Old Party has a bright new face.<br><br>Mr. Obama owes much of his new troubles to his friends in the news media. Republicans -- and independent and Democratic women appalled by their sexism -- were enraged by the vicious assaults on Sarah Palin and her family.<br><br>After he learned his fleet had attacked Pearl Harbor before a formal declaration of war, Japanese Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto is reputed to have said: "I fear all we have done is awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."<br><br>The vice presidential debate is Oct. 2. If I were Joe Biden, I would be very, very afraid.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2218556">TRW</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2218556" class="dsq-comment-message">You are entitled to your opinion, but not your own facts.  The truth of the matter is, both Obama and McCain have worked on reform issues since they have been in public office.  Obama while he was in the Illinois Senate, and since he has been in the US Senate.  The truth of the matter is that both Obama and McCain have crossed the aisles to work with their colleagues.  The truth of the matter is, that while Sarah Palin did take on members in her party, there are also a string of inconsistencies in her record about her "reform" image.  <br><br>Does McCain have a longer record?  Yes.  And I would hope so since he has been in the Senate 26 years to Obama\'s 4.  <br><br>Is McCain a maverick?  In my mind NO.  People say that he is not  Bush, and maybe not, but since he has been warming up for this election, he has flipped his stance on issues and positions that he had previously held.  And has since hired the same team of people and associates that worked to destroy his campaign in 2000, that...wait for it...worked for Bush.   So you may be absolutely right.  He is not Bush, he certainly has a longer record in public office, and didn\'t duck and dodge to get out of military service.  But McCain has also demonstrated a willingness to lie down with the dogs so to speak to get elected and that doesn\'t bode well for him either.  <br><br>So let\'s be adults.  <br><br>I think Obama owes his "troubles" to his slip ups, but also to the double standard in the news media.  I have seen several instances where McCain has said or done questionable things, but the media has not been as nearly as hard on McCain--I guess because they think they "know him."  Also, can we stop this strawman argument that the media is "in the tank" for Obama.  I find this laughable considering McCain himself has always had a cozy relationship with the media, has acknowledged that they are his base, and had a barbeque for them at his summer home.  And despite those blatant facts, lets also look at the study that said that Obama, NOT McCain received more negative coverage.  So stop it.  This whole Republican, "woe is me media narrative" is beyond tired.  <br><br>As far as the debates, as far as I can tell, Joe Biden can hold his own.  He is clearly knowledgeable on the issues and I think he will do fine.  I don\'t know about Sarah Palin, I have yet to see how she does with intense questioning on a variety of issues since we have only been formally introduced to her about a week ago.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2220072" href="http://blog.evavegadiversity.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">evita</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2220072" class="dsq-comment-message">THANK GOD that not all self identified rednecks are stupid.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2223237">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2223237" class="dsq-comment-message">Afraid of what?</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2223601" href="http://blog.evavegadiversity.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">evita</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2223601" class="dsq-comment-message">You know why this is catching on like wildfire? It is because Plain said everything BUT call Obama a Sambo. As people of color, all we ever want is for the racist to just ADMIT IT. White racists these days PRETEND to not see race, but the truth is they can see nothing BUT RACE.  Republicans have attacked us (people of color,) through moral judgments aka FAMILY VALUES, economic policy, immigration policy, No (white) Child Left Behind, and the list goes on and on. I just want one of them to say it. <br><br>We all suspect they talk that way behind our backs because we hear your tone, read your face, and understand your double speak. As Obama said you must think we\'re stupid.<br><br>Maybe Palin didn\'t say it. The fact she wanted to though was palpable to anyone who has been hated because of their race. IS it just politics? No. This is life.<br><br>I echo the sentiment we drop the discussion of the comment. Let\'s just nod to each other and recognize this is part of our experience in this country, one McCain knows nothing about despite his daughter is as dark as us.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2223919">Admiral_Komack</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2223919" class="dsq-comment-message">"I know I will be yelled at on this blog for saying this, but Obama lost the election the second he decided not to invite Hillary to be vice president. I don\'t think she would agreed but at least it would have been a nod to the people who voted for her. If he didn\'t want to do that, he should have asked the one of three female Democratic governors."<br><br>-(1) My opinion: Obama picked Joe Biden to have an attack dog and to strengthen his foreign policy credentials (two areas the Republican would attempt to exploit).<br>IF he had picked Hillary (a) he would inherit her AND Bill\'s baggage, energizing the Republican base (b) anger HIS base by selecting the woman who damned near dog-whistled him to death, and (c) Hillary\'s voters aren\'t voting for Obama, they are voting for Hillary; what if Obama does something the Hillary voters don\'t like? "Why", they will screech, "we WILL stay home and not vote!" You want a nod, cop a nod AFTER the election; Obama\'s in it to win it.<br><br>"Now he has effectively alienated a number of voters who if they don\'t for McCain, will stay at home. (Sending that text message announcing his Veep pick at 3 AM when he was supposed to be promoting party unity didn\'t give these women a reason to vote for him.) "<br><br>-(2) Those voters are not guarateed to vote for him; they wanted Hillary, not Obama.<br><br>"That "clinging to their guns comment" is coming back to bite him in the ass. It shows that he is as out of touch with certain segments of the population as Gore, Kerry, Mondale, Dukakis, etc. McCain picked the the one working class MILF in the world with 2 minutes of political experience in a frontier state who loves guns, babies and Jesus. A woman who embodies those who cling to their guns and religion. Who do you do think Reagan Democrats are going to vote for in places like Ohio and PA?"<br><br>-(3) I think Obama was right in what he said. With some of the electorate, his being black, a Harvard Law professor would count as being out of touch. Do you have other examples of Obama being "out of touch."<br>Be careful of the media\'s role in this election (you did not bring up the media, but I am).<br>Nineteen months of "oh, my stars and garters, we don\'t know where Obama stands on the Pledge of Allegiiance, flag pins, and other issues" vs. less than two weeks of "oh my goodness, Sarah Palin is a soccer mon, a beauty queen, and she likes mooseburgers, and she\'s a STAR!"<br><br>"I\'ve never cared for the elitist tone of the Obama campaign and the rhetoric of his supporters. The very idea that having an Ivy-league education should qualify one to in leadership doesn\'t, in my view, jibe with what the founders at in mine for this country. Add to that the manner in which the opinions of working class people are treated and you get a glimpse at the reason why Democrats haven\'t been able to win the Presidency from people like GW Bush."<br><br>-(4) Do you have examples of the elitist tone of the Obama campaign?<br>What did the founders have in mind when they considered leadership?<br>Obama isn\'t a gentleman farmer, but neither is McCain.<br>I am unclear of what you meant about "The very idea that having an Ivy-league education should qualify one to in leadership doesn\'t, in my view, jibe with what the founders at in mine for this country." Please expand on this.<br>What is Obama\'s and McCain\'s manner in the treatment of the opinions of working class people?. (My take on Bush\'s treatment of the opinions of working class people is that he (Bush) is LYING to them).<br><br><br>"You would think that with all that\'s on the line, the Obama campaign would step out of Starbucks and actually talk to people instead of talk at them, informing them what their best interests should be. It\'s not in anyone\'s interest to vote for someone who talks down to you."<br><br>-(5) I believe the Obama campaign IS talking to people.<br>I am unclear about your remarks about "You would think that with all that\'s on the line, the Obama campaign would step out of Starbucks and actually talk to people instead of talk at them, informing them what their best interests should be."<br>What do you think the Republicans are doing?<br>The Republicans are doing exactly what you are criticizing Obama for doing.<br>The Republicans ARE saying in one of their commercials that Obama (and by extension, the Democrats) "are going to raise your taxes."<br>The Republicans are informing the voters of what their best interest is (lower taxes),<br>therefore vote Republican. <br>How is Obama talking down to voters?</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2347471" href="http://www.juneteenth.us" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Ronald Myers</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2347471" class="dsq-comment-message">The following is a statement from one of our Juneteenth Directors in Alaska:<br><br>By Gwendolyn Alexander, President<br><br>“As for Governor Sarah Palin’s involvement in the African American community, the Governor’s office hasn’t participated in any of our Alaska Juneteenth Events. All previous Alaskan Governor’s have traditionally attended and participated in our annual Juneteenth Celebration. Gov. Palin was the first governor not to send out a congratulatory letter or assist us in any way with our Juneteenth activities.<br><br>I didn’t have the courtesy of receiving a reply when I asked for a representative from the Governor’s office to come and speak at our Juneteenth Celebration if Governor Palin was unable to attend. I never even heard of Gov. Palin until she was elected Mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, in Mat-Su Valley.<br><br>Governor Palin is a very energetic and spontaneous woman. With some of the things being said and going around this state right now, I’m surprised none of the national media have bothered to come here and get the words directly from the mouths of the people who have lived with her all of these years instead of ’surfing the net!’<br><br>My other opinion is why would an individual who, to my knowledge, has not hired any African-Americans on her gubernatorial staff, insist so passionately on being on a television show owned and operated by an African American, Oprah Winfrey?<br><br>While meeting with black leaders concerning the absence of any African-Americans on her staff, Gov. Palin responded that she doesn’t have to hire any blacks and was not intending to hire any. What kind of attitude is this toward African-American for who may be the first Vice-President of the United States?<br><br>I understand Oprah did have Senator Obama on her show a few times and was the main person raising funds for him “before” the presidency race was in full swing. However, the key point here is that it is Oprah’s prerogative not be used as a pawn to tilt the vote one way or another. Oprah has stated repeatedly that she wasn’t going to have one side or the other on her show by choice. I thought that was what the Civil Rights Movement was all about, a persons right to make their own choices. I guess this isn’t a Democracy at all anymore.”<br><br>Gwendolyn Alexander, President<br>African American Historical Society of Alaska, Inc.<br>Alaska Juneteenth Celebration<br>P. O. Box 143105<br>Anchorage AK 99514<br>907 884-6860 email: <a href="mailto:aahsa@gci.net" rel="nofollow">aahsa@gci.net</a><br><a href="http://www.juneteenthalaska.com" rel="nofollow">www.juneteenthalaska.com</a> <a href="http://www.entertainmealaska.com/aahsa" rel="nofollow">www.entertainmealaska.com/aahsa</a></div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2347480" href="http://www.juneteenth.us" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Ronald Myers</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2347480" class="dsq-comment-message">Alaska has a population of around 25,000 African-Americans, with a total population of around 700,000. Therefore, African-Americans make up around 4% of the overall population of Alaska, with higher percentages in the larger cities like Anchorage.<br> <br>We should familiarize ourselves to the history of African-Americans in Alaska:<br> <br>        <a href="http://www.akhistorycourse.org/articles/article.php?artID=233" rel="nofollow">http://www.akhistorycourse.org/articles/article...</a><br> <br>For example, African-Americans who built the highway to Alaska stayed to live after it was completed. Taking the position that the people who continue to play a significant role in the building of the infrastructure of Alaska should not be represented on the staff of Gov. Palin is preposterous. <br> <br>Gov. Palin\'s attitude toward Alaska\'s black population indicates what her feelings might be toward all African-Americans as vice-president and possibly president of the United States. Like Sen. McCain, Gov. Palin shows little or no respect for the observance of Juneteenth Independence Day in America. Juneteenth is an official state holiday observance in Alaska which requires the Governor to issue an annual proclamation. Despite the statute, Gov. Palin did not issue a Juneteenth Proclamation in 2007. <br> <br>Gov. Palin still refuses to meet with African-American leaders of the Ministers Alliance to discuss job opportunities for African-Americans during the building of the Alaskan pipeline. Again, in my opinion, if elected to the White House, most likely her actions toward African-Americans will not change. Let African-American leaders in Alaska tell their own story about Gov. Palin. I have spoken to several of them and remain quite concerned about what I am hearing.<br> <br>Juneteenth is America’s 2nd Independence Day celebration. 29 states and the District of Columbia recognize Juneteenth as a state holiday or state holiday observance, as well as the Congress of the United States.<br> <br>Together we will see Juneteenth become a national holiday in America!<br> <br>“DOC”<br>Rev. Ronald V. Myers, Sr., M.D.<br>Chairman<br>National Juneteenth Holiday Campaign<br>National Juneteenth Observance Foundation (NJOF)<br>National Juneteenth Christian Leadership Council (NJCLC)<br><a href="http://www.Juneteenth.us" rel="nofollow">www.Juneteenth.us</a><br><a href="http://www.19thofJune.com" rel="nofollow">www.19thofJune.com</a><br><a href="http://www.njclc.com" rel="nofollow">www.njclc.com</a><br><a href="http://www.JuneteenthJazz.com" rel="nofollow">www.JuneteenthJazz.com</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2529558">trkyrk</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2529558" class="dsq-comment-message">I live in a rural area that is considered a sportman\'s paradise. Obama\'s "clinging to guns and religion" statement was not have been  the best way to describe people in rural areas, because we have come to expect  him to be an "eloquent speaker" to quote  John McCain. Even after aIl that, I must say that I fully understand why Sen. Obama made that statement. <br><br>One of the most preculiar things you learn when you live in a rural area is that  a lot of people are gun owners and they do not want  anyone, any law, or any effort whatsoever  to interfer with their Second Amendment rights. To someone from a surburban or urban area, that may seem odd, since the right  to own a gun is guaranteed by the US Constitution.  You can point out  that since it is one of the first amendments and that the only way to reverse it would take a massive effort like a Constitutional Convention  which has not  been held in this country in a 100 years. You can tell people this until you are blue in the face but people still think the government is trying to take their guns away from them and politicians exploit these fears masterfully. Anyone can agree that there a lot of important political issues, but when you meet people whose main concerns are gun rights and not much more can make a lot of people that do not live in these areas scratch their collective heads. <br><br>The religion remark I also understand because a lot of people think that a lot of society\'s  ills are due to the fact that prayer was taken out f the schools. I have heard those comments made a lot. The seperation of church and state arguments (another right guaranteed by the US Constitution) do not hold a lot of water. I am a Christian but I understand why it is important to have seperation of church and state and that someone of a different faith is not a worst thing in the world. I  think Sen. Obama could have explained things better. But I am sure while traveling to rural areas, he was surprised why people think this way.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2218332">Kay</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2218332" class="dsq-comment-message">Love this post. Keep it up!<br><br>Gallup Tracking: McCain leads 48-45. Before the Republican convention, Obama led by 49-42.<br>.........................................................................................<br> You should enjoy it!  Since it\'s morons like you that put Bush in office twice and look what that got America "Shit".  So, once President Senile McCain take office and world war III starts the rest of America will know to blame your dumb ass.<br><br>Go McCain!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2218551" class="dsq-comment-message">What I find interesting is that despite the near-ludicrous hype, Obama has not proven to be a breakaway candidate like Bill Clinton, who jumped anywhere from 12-16 points after his convention and never really looked back. We\'ve been told that the electorate is hungry for change and they\'re angry at the GOP, but they seem reluctant to embrace the "change" candidate.<br><br>Despite a week of Palin-bashing, the Republican ticket seems to be doing quite well. The claim that McCain\'s judgment is so flawed that he would select a western governor to be "a heartbeat from the presidency" just didn\'t catch on.<br><br>We haven\'t seen the end of McCain\'s convention bounce. He has, with Palin\'s help, appropriated Obama\'s "change" theme. And, come to think of it, Obama\'s "post-partisan" theme. Republicans and moderates are just as hungry for a new Washington as Democrats. And it\'s proven to be way to late in the game for that McSame stuff to stick.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2218819">BR</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2218819" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2218819" class="dsq-comment-message">There was this little factor named Ross Perot in 1992, who dropped out of the race at the time of the Democratic convention and fueled the Bill Clinton bounce.  (He then rejoined the race later.)<br><br>Perot\'s presence made a huge difference in that election, because it took away a large number of fiscal conservatives from the GOP base.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2218929" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2218929" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2218929" class="dsq-comment-message">Not to mention, there wasn\'t a back-to-backk convention in 1992.<br><br>Barack\'s bounce might have been bigger if the Republican convention didn\'t squash it on timing alone.<br><br>The only poll that matters is the final tally on November 4.<br><br>I\'m happy to see McCain in the lead.<br><br>Barack campaigns better as the underdog.<br><br>His supporters fight harder. Donate more money, etc....</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2218838" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2218838" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2218838">andyfrombrooklyn</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2218838" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2218838" class="dsq-comment-message">nea doesn\'t watch enough teevee.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2219103" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2219103">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2219103" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2219103" class="dsq-comment-message">And McCain trying to steal Barack\'s message at the 11th hour is something to be proud of?   Where the hell is your self-respect?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2219258" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2219258">Teacher</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2219258" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2219258" class="dsq-comment-message">You don\'t want to know (ugly visual).</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2219615">Teri from Ohio</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2219615" class="dsq-comment-message">Please tell me EXACTLY, what has Palin done! This isn\'t Palin-bashing - she\'s doing it to herself. She\'s just like McCain - lie through your teeth and no one will notice. She is being called on it and it\'s Palin-bashing?!?! Palin raised taxes as governor, supported the Bridge to Nowhere before she opposed it and pursued pork-barrel projects as mayor and governor. When Palin took over Wasilla, the town had no long-term debt. By the time she was done, debt service had increased by 69 percent, the town had close to $19 million in long-term debt, making the debt around $3000 per capita. THAT IS THE TRUTH, not Palin-bashing!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2221716" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2221716">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2221716" class="dsq-comment-message">Teri from Ohio:  Hey:&gt;)   I had STUDENTS who: missed a lot of class, didn\'t turn in their homework, acted out in class [-er, that would be TRIED TO  ::&gt;)], cheated on tests [and STILL didn\'t pass], used essays from the internet, came to class late, TRIED TO sleep in class, etc.   Their QUESTION at the END of the TERM was -   you guessed it!   "WHYCOME" YOU FAILED ME???    :&gt;)      :&gt;)<br><br>"That is the TRUTH. . . "          :&gt;)     :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2223500">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2223500" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2223500" class="dsq-comment-message">Are these the same polls that indicated Hillary Clinton would be the Democratic nominee?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2219435">Kia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2219435" class="dsq-comment-message">I know I will be yelled at on this blog for saying this, but  Obama lost the election the second he decided not to invite Hillary to be vice president.  I don\'t think she would agreed but at least it would have been a nod to the people who voted for her.  If he didn\'t want to do that, he should have asked the  one of three female Democratic governors.<br><br>Now he has effectively alienated a number of voters who if they don\'t for McCain, will stay at home.  (Sending that text message announcing his Veep pick at 3 AM when he was supposed to be promoting party unity didn\'t give these women a reason to vote for him.)<br><br>That "clinging to their guns comment" is coming back to bite him in the ass.  It shows that he is as out of touch with certain segments of the population as Gore, Kerry, Mondale, Dukakis, etc.  McCain picked the the one working class MILF in the world with 2 minutes of political experience in a frontier state who loves guns, babies and Jesus.  A woman who embodies those who cling to their guns and religion.  Who do you do think Reagan Democrats are going to vote for in places like Ohio and PA?<br><br>I\'ve never cared for the elitist tone of the Obama campaign and the rhetoric of his supporters.  The very idea that having an Ivy-league education should qualify one to in leadership doesn\'t, in my view, jibe with what the founders at in mine for this country.  Add to that the manner in which the opinions of working class people are treated and you get a glimpse at the reason why Democrats haven\'t been able to win the Presidency from people like GW Bush.<br><br>You would think that with all that\'s on the line, the Obama campaign would step out of Starbucks and actually talk to people instead of talk at them, informing them what their best interests should be.  It\'s not in anyone\'s interest to vote for someone who talks down to you.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2219529">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2219529" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2219529" class="dsq-comment-message">I disagree with you about Hillary.<br><br>If Obama had chosen Hillary, then there wouldn\'t have been a need to choose Palin - HILLARY would have ignited the GOP Base for McCain, and he would have been able to choose someone else. Someone credible. <br><br>\'Elitist\' tone of the Obama campaign?<br><br>That\'s rich.<br><br>Remind me again, which of the campaigns has been built, from the ground up, on the grassroots level?<br><br>Oh yeah.<br><br>The Obama campaign.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2219613">Kia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2219613" class="dsq-comment-message">So if the Obama is really representative of all working class people, why hasn\'t he done better with poor people in places like VA, PA and Ohio.  <br><br>You can\'t blame it all on racism.<br><br>Second, McCain had to pick someone right wing, it might not have been Palin but definitely someone who was pro-life, pro-gun, and pro-Jesus.  Based on his record with few exceptions, he has been moderate and not loved by evangicals.  Picking a moderate like Ridge would have insured that the Christian base would have stayed at home.  Now they have a reason to vote.<br><br>You may see a woman with little qualifications, others may see a woman so committed to serving her country that she is willing to put her family on the backburner to preach the gospel of smaller government and faith.<br><br>Finally, can you deny that people have touted the fact the Obama headed the Harvard Law Review as a selling point.  If that was such as great qualification why haven\'t other candidates had it.  Also what do other law review heads go on to do in their careers.  My point is, are administrative and managements skills, needed for that position the same needed for the presidency.      <br><br>To be perfectly honest, I\'m not sure it is of benefit to have any attorney as president.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2220051" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2220051" href="http://blog.evavegadiversity.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">evita</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2220051" class="dsq-comment-message">Let\'s put this out there: Hillary and Bill LIED to the people of PA about Obama\'s policy stances. And we all know their policies were almost identical. It was Hillary who made it crucial to tell the working class voters that Obama wasn\'t for hard-working voters, WHITE working class voters. Kia if that is the most racist lie ever spewed I don\'t know what that is.<br><br>By the way, there has NEVER been a US President who was President of Harvard Law Review.  You have to be more than book smart to get that gig, you have to be BRILLIANT. This was not editor of a college newspaper. <br><br>Kia- when was the last time you were the FIRST of your kind (race, gender, socioeconomic background) to compete with others who have had generations of a head start/ privilege and won?  <br><br>Hillary at minimum at the privilege/ head start/ advantage of having her husband as President for 8 years, which he;ped her win a Senate seat. to help her win her votes... Not saying that she wasn\'t deserving, but what I am saying is that Obama out worked her, out thought her, out fund-raised her, out managed her... the work. Will it KILL you to admit he DESERVES to be where he is? Or are you so elitist that can\'t admit that a nobody who came out of the nowhere deserves to be President like any other 8 year-old kid we encourage to at least TRY every day.<br><br>Management? Kia- Hillary is in the hole how many millions? Barack has the most success campaign machine of all time.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2220057" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2220057" href="http://blog.evavegadiversity.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">evita</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2220057" class="dsq-comment-message">To be perfectly honest, I\'m not sure it is of benefit to have any attorney as president.<br><br>We will need one helluva lawyer to figure out ALL THE WAYS Bush broke the law to get us into this war. And we will need a lawyer to figure out how the heck we can regain our rights again.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2223807" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2223807" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2223807">Kia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2223807" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2223807" class="dsq-comment-message">You do realize that Obama is going to let Bush, Cheney, Rove, and Rice off the hook.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2220163" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2220163" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2220163">Monie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2220163" class="dsq-comment-message">So, you must know that Obama used his management skills to run his successful campaign---a campaign that even Repubs credit for his  successful use of technological means to get his message out and has out-raised any other candidate in history thus far.<br><br>Most professors I encountered in college had to manage student curricula, research opportunities etc. and so I assume Obama\'s stint as a college professor was like theirs---and  what is so lopsided is that Palin can be given credit for the PTA, but everyone wants to ignore Obama\'s position as a law professor.<br><br> And his position as president  of Harvard Law Review included residing over 80 other student editors at that time----a position as president of the law review is considered the highest student position at Harvard Law School.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2223231" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2223231" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2223231">Kia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2223231" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2223231" class="dsq-comment-message">But does raising a hell of a lot of money mean that a person would make a good president?<br>Does presiding over a group of similarly interested law students mean that a candidate will be able to push agenda through.<br> <br>Finally, middle managers with masters and phds (and pharmds) in pharma make about 150000 with 1 or 2 years of experience. Although they have the intellectual capacity to do anything, it doesn\'t mean they would make a good president or an effective legislator.<br><br>Frist of TN was a physican, didn\'t help become president or keep his seat in congress.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2223445" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2223445" href="http://blog.evavegadiversity.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">evita</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2223445" class="dsq-comment-message">The money he raised speaks to the reality that millions of people have seen that his experience QUALIFIES him for the position of POTUS. He has been vetted for 18 months and through a campaign against the Clintons. <br><br>How elitist of you to not accept the will of the people. Please don\'t start talking about experience (Rove called it already,) McCain\'s decision was a political one not an executive one. You need the link? <br><br>I agree about your point of education, but truthfully Obama is BRILLIANT. This menas more than book smarts. It is an intuition that matches his smarts.He is not GWB. <br><br>He is not McCain\'s dumb ass who got into college as a legacy and still managed to graduate at the bottom of his class. Clearly privilege means you don\'t have to try hard... which was the essence of the book you cited, right? Of course it is. Now I ask you- how about a boy dared to dream and put everything on the line to achieve it? From my experience (13 years working in higher ed,) the kids who paid for their own education worked harder than the kids who did not.<br><br>I\'m sad you cannot even see how different he is from the others. Did you get kicked out of school or something? You wanted to express yourself and not do the homework... ahh a pseudo anarchist? <br><br><br><br>SPEAK DO THAT. ACKNOWLEDGE THAT.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2223705" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2223705">Kia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2223705" class="dsq-comment-message">I have a bachelor\'s degree in biological sciences, a master\'s and a Phd in pharmaceutics and biomedical sciences.  I was the first african American to graduate from my department.  <br><br>Oh I was the first to graduate from college in my family and I paid for it all my damn self.<br><br>So does that answer your questions regarding my academic credentials.<br><br>Is it possible to be over-educated? My family would say yes (LOL).<br><br>Seriously, based on my experience in the workplace and just living, different forms of leadership skills are required for different things.  It\'s my opinion that it\'s time to let people with backgrounds outside of academia and elite universities govern.  <br><br>If they are good leaders wouldn\'t they surround themselves with experts anyway.<br><br>Just something to think about.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2223494" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2223494">Monie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2223494" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2223494" class="dsq-comment-message">Actually all law students are not similarily interested.  Why do  <br> you think we have distinction as "conservative" and "liberal" judges. Just like the military isn\'t composed of just Republicans.<br><br>Furthermore, his campaign has not only raised lots of money but registered many new voters.  And it is widely kown that new voters are overwhelmingly registering as Democrats.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2223346" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2223346">Kia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2223346" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2223346" class="dsq-comment-message">May I recommend "The Disadvantages Of An Elite Education" by William Dereslewicz in the American Scholar.  The author touches on why Gore and Kerry couldn\'t make a connection to certain segments of the population.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2223634" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2223634">Monie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2223634" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2223634" class="dsq-comment-message">May I recommend you stop trying to convince Obama\'s supporters that he is not a viable candidate---because evidently we think he is.<br><br>I see numerous hues of people showing up at  a campaign event for Obama/Biden, in places like PA, IN, and VA (where he won the primary by the way)--so contrary to what you may think ---he is appealing to many voters. <br><br>By the way, it seems Obama has a connection to the many latino, black, and asian working class populations as polls have shown they support him more than Mcain.  And most union organizations endorse Obama\'s candidacy</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2221711">TRW</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2221711" class="dsq-comment-message">Have you ever been to law school?  Because if you did you wouldn\'t be asking these types of question about the Harvard Law Review.  As a former law student and a lawyer, becoming the President of a law review is a big freakin\' deal.  Becoming the President of the Harvard law review is MONUFREAKIN\'MENTAL.  Other candidates don\'t have it in their background just because;  it is a super competitive process for all schools in general (you have to receive a certain number of votes from the law review members), for Harvard, I can\'t even imagine.<br><br>Being a  law review President basically  means you can write your ticket to any job that you want, i.e.  the clerkship with the Supreme Court justice or the $160k + salary with the blue chip law firm.  Best believe it is nothing to scoff at.    <br><br>And I love this anti-intellectualism backlash.  I would prefer a President that has a varied skill set, and going to law school forces you to do critical thinking every single day on a variety of issues; you must have the ability argue both sides of  and understand a complex issues.  That kind of depth and critical thinking has been sorely lacking during this administration.    But hey, that\'s just me.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2223704">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2223704" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2223704" class="dsq-comment-message">Why is it anytime a black person excels, the prize is automatically downgraded?<br><br>"Oh, the Harvard Law Review ain\'t that great, nobody else has had it."<br><br>I\'m sure if/when Obama wins the presidency we will hear from concern troll such as yourself claiming the presidency isn\'t all that, the real power lies with X, Y or Z.<br><br>Oh, and BTW, Obama got 65% of the vote in Virginia.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2223722">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2223722" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2223722" class="dsq-comment-message">"To be perfectly honest, I\'m not sure it is of benefit to have any attorney as president."<br><br><br>Then you\'ll agree that Hillary shouldn\'t be on the ticket?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2219670">Monie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2219670" class="dsq-comment-message">The last time I checked, the majority of white people in Iowa are working class, and they supported Obama in the primaries and are said to be solidly behind him now. So all this marginalization of voters based on class, race, and gender needs to be put to rest.  From the beginning of the primaries, Obama was able to show his appeal to a broad range of people: white, black, Latino, Asian, GLBT, poor, working-class, middle class, rich, Christian and non-Christians, atheists, and so forth.  ANd many who supported Clinton supports him now.<br><br>We all  witnessed the beauty of diversity at the DNC, can\'t say the same for the RNC.<br><br>Every vote for Hillary was NOT an anti-Obama vote, and vice-versa.  Many Democrats are not "owned" by a particualr politician, but instead wholeheartedly agree with the Democratic party\'s platform---and because of that most support Barack Obama because of his ideals as a Democrat. PERIOD&gt;<br><br>By the way, what is Obama\'s elitist tone?  I admired Hillary Clinton as well before this campaign, but I never quite understood why she had to praise herself and McCain in the same breath as degrading Obama.  So let\'s not get into tone here.  Because at the end of the day, Obama and Clinton were BOTH Democrats and to me personally she DID not need to praise McCain\'s ideals which were contrary to her own in order to make the claim she was the better candidate. <br><br>But please, give examples of Obama talking down to people.  Because all I have heard  him do is encourage young people to go to college, mentor and volunteer--be of service to your country and he will try to make education affordable to you--so that America can continue to compete globally with nations with the best and brightest minds. Or how he is concerned about the middle class and poor people and veterans, through not only his words but his voting record.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2219752">Kia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2219752" class="dsq-comment-message">Well first, Iowa was a caucus state.  There wasn\'t a wide primary vote so we don\'t know how Iowans will really vote until the polls close on November 4.<br><br>Second are you denying that Obama supporters are holding Palin\'s degree from State U against her as if that disqualifies her from being VP or POTUS.  Why do you have to even have a degree to president; all you need to do is be a natural born citizen, 35 years old and 14 years in residency in the country.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2219937" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2219937" href="http://blog.evavegadiversity.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">evita</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2219937" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh here we go, Hillary\'s minion following HER math, the math that was that goes against THE RULES. The rules she AGREED to. The rules that got her husband elected. <br><br>For me its not that its a State U degree. It\'s that she didn\'t have the commitment or grades or judicial record (ie: having cheated on a test and then kicked out, throwing a keeger during quiet hours etc) to stay in one or maybe two years. I used to work for a State University and many of them are no academic joke. The joke is however, 6 college in 6 years or 5 in 6 years- whatever.   Is there anything wrong with Barack Obama who funded HIS OWN education. Through hard work and personal commitment rose to the top of his class and subsequently received the education that ALL parents ideally want for their children? What\'s wrong with celebrating that? He ISN\'T some silver spooned legacy... but that is not what McCain/ Palin would like anyone to recognize. <br><br>Let\'s not employ misrepresentation of the issue, Kia.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2220020">Kia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2220020" class="dsq-comment-message">"The rules that got her husband elected."<br><br>Actually Bill Clinton only received 2% of the caucas votes when he ran in 1992.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2220074">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2220074" class="dsq-comment-message">So, he didn\'t get the votes...but he submitted to the same rules.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2220183" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2220183" href="http://blog.evavegadiversity.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">evita</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2220183" class="dsq-comment-message">They didn\'t mind the rules when they have no affect on them. So is it ok that they cry, "The rules need to change" because they are not winning? I had to put my nephew in time out for not playing fair with the other kids and trying to insist on changing the rules AFTER THE GAME WAS IN PLAY.<br><br>Or because they weren\'t PREPARED for a fight on that ground and Obama was... "It\'s not fair! We didn\'t know this would matter!" <br><br>How elitist of you! And them. Rules were created to help instill equity and fair play!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2219944" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2219944">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2219944" class="dsq-comment-message">Nobody knows if she really graduated....in journalism, I might add.  The Bush administration is full of incompetents from Christian colleges...  Look how that turned out.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2219965">Monie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2219965" class="dsq-comment-message">I can\'t speak broadly for all Obama supporters but I don\'t think her degree personally disqualfies her.  The problem that many of us see is that "foreign policy experience" has been the main thing Repubs have been arguing is important for this election but yet she is nominated and they say "well she lives in Alaska and that\'s close to Russia" as sufficient foreign policy experience. That\'s just ludicrous.  And she is also on record saying she has not thought much  about Iraq, and not even sure what the V.P. does. <br>Now, what I do know is that Obama, by all accounts was an exceptional student in law and international relations and also graduated Magna Cum Laude and achieved many academic milestones.  In my community, success of that nature is not to be dismissed but celebrated. PERIOD.  No matter who you are.  Obama DID NOT benefit from legacy or a well-connected familial ties but instead  from hard work.  So I can\'t understand why a man who was raised on food-stamps, with an absentee father and later becoming a student of great academia who went on to teach others as a professor cannot be given credit for his immense knowledge and intellect.  <br>Remember, there is a such thing as an old fool---judgment and knowledge  is as important to me as other attributes.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2220421">TRW</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2220421" class="dsq-comment-message">Seriously?  While you certainly don\'t need a degree to be President, I think most people would agree that it comes down to who you would trust based on reputation.  If you are worth over 10 billion dollars, are you going to trust the person handling your finances that has a degree from Univ. of Idaho, or Harvard.  <br><br>I go with Harvard.  I don\'t know much about Univ. of Idaho, and that\'s the whole point.  Harvard has a reputation for excellence that is world renowned.  People pay more than what some in a year to go there.  That is the difference.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2223405" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2223405" href="http://hustleandfloe.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">hustleandfloe</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2223405" class="dsq-comment-message">...if we were to go simply on school affiliation, something no one should ever do, we could then run stats to see how many from elite vs. no-name schools have been convicted or suspected of white collar crime, especially with  handling finances.  not being funny, if I did only have state school vs. elite to use as basis, um I dunno... enron wud\'n near bouts full of Idaho.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2220004">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2220004" class="dsq-comment-message"><blockquote><i>It\'s not in anyone\'s interest to vote for someone who talks down to you.</i></blockquote><br>Then I guess all those community organizers are just gonna have to vote for Obama, huh?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2223153">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2223153" class="dsq-comment-message">Preach!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2220390">TRW</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2220390" class="dsq-comment-message">You need to try again.  Constructive criticism is certainly welcome, but I need you to base your arguments/allegations on facts.  <br><br>1) I will not debate the Hillary Clinton VP debacle.  She was a poor choice for VP.  Some people want to look past her behavior during the primary as a justification for forcing her on Barack.  I don\'t.  <br><br>2) Polls show that the majority of Hillary voters have fallen in line with Barack, and more have done so since the announcement of Palin.  Whether he can get them all remains to be seen.  <br><br>3)  Your point about the bitter comments is by far the most reasoned one.  Barack is going to have to overcome a big hurdle to appeal to these voters, and time will tell if he can do it.  <br><br>4) The elitist tone of the Obama campaign?  Give me a break.  I have never heard him say that his education is a qualification for President.  If you can provide some evidence please do.  <br><br>5)  The Obama campaign should step out of starbucks?  You just showed your ignorance card right there.  The man has campaigned in libraries, barns, fire houses, parks, etc since he has been running.  He has visited people in their home and and where they work.  For you to throw up this false argument about why people don\'t want to vote for him, shows how uninformed that you are.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2285441">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2285441" class="dsq-comment-message">TRW:  Co-sign!!!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2223651">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2223651" class="dsq-comment-message">Reagan Democrats are called REPUBLICANS.<br><br>Reagan Democrats didn\'t vote for Mondale/Ferraro (hence "Reagan Democrats"), Dukakis/Bentsen, Clinton/Gore or Kerry/Edwards. But all of a sudden Obama is deficient because HE can\'t pull Reagan Democrats when no other Democrat in the past 24 years hasn\'t either.<br><br>Concern trolling is not a good look.  But you get 100 points, though.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2223776">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2223776" class="dsq-comment-message">What  "elitist" tone of the Obama campaign? Maybe those are just your own feelings of inadequacy that you should reconcile. Who said an ivy-league education was necessary other than you? Those are your feelings that you need to deal with, dont thrust your insecurities on anyone else and proclaim it as speaking for the "regular" folks.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2224014">hustleandfloe</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2224014" class="dsq-comment-message">I wonder how many will really stay at home as that would be a knowledgeable vote for McCain and in direct contrast to beliefs that this particular crowd stated so vocally.  Does the party lose all of its value basis without Hillary as Vice President?<br><br>He did paint a tight corner with the guns and religion comment, but considering that Obama is a Christian himself, I took that he meant clinging to that stuff in the negative, political, and superficial way as also condemned by Jesus.  It was the religious folks (not the true believers) who fought him to the end and who finally had him crucified, clinging to their guns (not invented yet, let\'s say swords) and religion the whole time.  Nevertheless, we may have to cede that as a point that can\'t be cleaned up.  Those who trust Obama, trust that he didn\' t mean to demean.  Those who don\'t trust him will believe otherwise.  There are grounds for that in this soundbite age.<br><br>As far as your other points, elitism and ivy league stuff, I am always forced to think of the wild swings between not Black enough and too Black, boring wonkhead and vapid rabblerouser.  I think most people will see what they please with Obama.  But I don\'t see much grounds to call him elitist.  He comes from where many politicians didn\'t want to come from - the long hard work in the trenches.  He was awakened to the dangers of disconnect back then according to the folks who worked with him.<br><br>His saving grace is that despite all of those wild swings in perception, the record  will show that he\'s kept the same steady tone - not bustin rhymes in the streets with buckets of KFC in each arm when he wasn\'t "Black enough" nor toning down his (Black) intonations when they were derided as "just words."   <br><br>And more people trust him for that.  Not trying to convince you as you seem mind-made-up but there were some points there that we could still try to discuss, clarify.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2285143">LeeAnn</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2285143" class="dsq-comment-message">In every election there are absolutely false rumors that suddenly surface about each candidate - no doubt circulated by the opponents.  If people would get their heads out of the sand for just one second and do some legitimate research on what each candidate does or does not support - maybe some wise and worthy decisions could be made when it comes time to cast a vote.  I dont believe Sara Palin said any of the things she is being accused of- it is hype with a hidden agenda.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2292440">Steven</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2292440" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree...it has always got to be something "RACIAL"  that some liar made up.  Slavery and the Civil War are over and gone (Thank God) and I want nothing more to do with them.  There is one race the human race and all are in it together.  If I don\'t vote for the black candidate then I\'m a racist...of course.  What about blacks who don\'t vote for Obama...are they racist?  No, they aren\'t really "black".  Same jive.  Skin color.  Obama is a great candidate with no experience...maybe next time around he will make the grade.  Meantime, I\'m voting for Allan Keyes...oops, that\'s right, he\'s black. Sara Palin didn\'t say anything she\'s accused of saying.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2292598">Steven</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2292598" class="dsq-comment-message">I also have to ask...what is the "sh-t" on Sara Palin that is enough to fill the Grand Canyon?  If that were so, it would be in front of us now...could JJP please outline some of it for us?  I want to know simply because I am a voter who deserves to know.  Don\'t worry I\'m a Democrat who likes the truth plainly in front of me, that\'s all.<br>Anyone?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2218005">ace</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2218005" class="dsq-comment-message">the left has resorted to the politics of personal destruction because it cannot defend itself with logic.<br><br>    "The Democrats are in trouble. Sarah Palin has totally changed the dynamics of this campaign.<br><br>Period.<br><br>Palin\'s speech to the GOP National Convention on Wednesday has set it up so that the Republicans are now on offense and Democrats are on defense. And we don\'t do well on defense.<br><br>Suddenly, Palin and John McCain are the mavericks and Barack Obama and Joe Biden are the status quo, in a year when you don\'t want to be seen as defending the status quo.<br><br>From taxes to oil drilling, Democrats are now going to have to start explaining their positions.<br><br>    Whenever you start having to explain things, you’re on defense…<br><br>    As for Palin herself, she is going to be very, very effective on the campaign trail, especially if McCain’s people can figure out how to gently keep her from getting into confrontations with the press.<br><br>    If she can answer questions like she handled herself at the convention, Palin will turn out to be the most interesting person in all of politics, and the press will treat her like they treated Obama when he was first discovered."<br><br><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/06/BALU12OCMV.DTL" rel="nofollow">http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2218044">baltogeek</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2218044" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>Whenever you start having to explain things, you’re on defense</i><br><br>Thank you for summing up the last eight years of GOP malfeasance in one sentence.<br><br>If you can\'t explain what it is you are doing to the people of this country there is a problem.<br><br>You see it as being on defense.  Most would see it as being a good public servant.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2218107">andyfrombrooklyn</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2218107" class="dsq-comment-message">ace go fuck yourselk and go live down in alabama if you like facism so much!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2218433">kenyaw</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2218433" class="dsq-comment-message">andy,<br>Brooklyn has bigots too. I am going to need you to step back and give the southern states 50 feet. <br>If it weren\'t for the black leaders from the southern states, your ass and my ass would not have the freedoms that we have today.<br>I am going to need you to remember the preacher from the dirty south aka Georgia that lead the way on civil rights for our black behinds.<br>Brooklyn was no better in 1950 than Selma. Believe that!!!!!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2218785">andyfrombrooklyn</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2218785" class="dsq-comment-message">without the southern states, bush wouldn\'t have been president and mccain wouldn\'t have a chance and sarah palin would still be an unknown outside of alaska. sarah palin has ruined my week and is threatening to torment me for god knows how many years because of the southern states. the states that insist that the united states forever adopt their backwards ideology. obviously there are bigots everywhere. the question is when will the southern states allow us to be represented by a president who is not a bigot?  i guess they have been winning the civil war for the last forty years. when will they make peace? what will it take? that is why i propose in all seriousness that we seceede from them. how much better would things be here in brooklyn if the southern states were not wasting our money on all sorts of stupid things like global warfare and corporate tax breaks? and bridges to nowhere in alaska. so i step back only to apologise for foul and inappropriate language but not content.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2255673">kenyaw</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2255673" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2255673" class="dsq-comment-message">Andy,<br><br>Umm, GWB won 30 states in the last election. That means that most of America voted for him. Don\'t put all of that on the south.<br><br>More importantly, we all need each other to help Sen. Obama win this election in November. So respect everyone\'s vote.<br>I am sure that there are plenty of people who need to be registered to vote in NY.<br>There is a New York Times article out TODAY, which states that 63 percent of black elected officials are in the south. We vote!  Stop dissing your brothers and sisters in whatever region and let\'s work together. <br><br>And if McCain wins it won’t be because of people you perceive to be ignorant in the south. It will be because more Americans want lower taxes and less government. Those people believe that is what the Republican Party represents, no matter how true or false the notion.<br>Dead Prez is from the deep-south and they spit that real, don’t be so quick to judge, what you know nothing about. Uhuru</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-2218821">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2218821" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2218821" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2218821">andyfrombrooklyn</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2218821" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2218821" class="dsq-comment-message">i want to thank the largely african american voters of the southern states who made barak obama the democratic candidate. he is not a bigot. sadly we saw that hillary clinton was. so thank you to them because we here in brookly couldnt muster any votes for barack in certain polling stations...but that is another story</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-2226296">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2226296" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2226296" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2226296">msmartin</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2226296" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2226296" class="dsq-comment-message">Sounds like you\'re defending your bigots.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-2255316">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2255316" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2255316" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2255316">kenyaw</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2255316" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2255316" class="dsq-comment-message">Ms Martin,<br>I appreciate your comment.<br>But, I have been to Manhattan on business on several occassions and never saw one black man or women. Institutionalized racism is still racism.<br>Like Paul Mooney said, "I like a little salt on my cracker". People can pretend to be progressive and still not want our black asses in their neighborhoods. New York is definitely NO exception.<br><br>And we had our votes counted for Obama, can\'t say the same for racial paradise that is Harlem.<br><br>Remember Harriet from the DNC was from New York. I doubt that she was an anomaly.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-2255393">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2255393" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2255393" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2255393">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2255393" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2255393" class="dsq-comment-message">You are preaching to the choir.  I work for a law firm and I am the ONLY black and I really believe THE FIRST.<br><br>I\'ve lived in the South too, and your racists require a little more submission on our parts than do Northern racists; you guys have just been doing it so long you don\'t realize it.  <br><br>The bottom line is a racist is a r.a.c.i.s.t. No matter which part of the country you are in.  I would never defend one.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-2297398">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2297398" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2297398" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2297398">kenyaw</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2297398" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2297398" class="dsq-comment-message">Ms Martin,<br>we agree on most points. But I am from Los Angeles and I do realize the difference. <br>Trust that I call people out on their bigotted shyt when it is appropriate. <br><br>I have not been doing any kind of submission for any period of time, except to the people who took part in creating me.<br><br>you and I are on the same page.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-2218185">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2218185" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2218185" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2218185">jerseyshoregirl</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2218185" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2218185" class="dsq-comment-message">Ace...where have you been ??  the far right of the republican party are the Einsteins of politics of personal destrucion...what\'s really ironic is what a job they did on McCain and his family in 2000..I\'m shocked he\'s in bed with them now..and I have one name for you  ROVE... he was the "genius" behind the worst person destruction of many people while he orchestrated the elections of Bush SR. and Jr.\'s governor and presidential runs...Palin is only going to be effective until the shine wears off ....Americans have every right to vett her since the RNC did such a poor job of it</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-2223787">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2223787" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2223787" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2223787">s</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2223787" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2223787" class="dsq-comment-message">Too late Jack. <br><br>JJP\' jumped the shark \' as soon as the first smear re: Trig palin\'s maternity was DEBUNKED and you did not issue an update or follow Obama\'s advice.<br><br>Your credibility is GONE.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2223947">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2223947" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2223947" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2223947">TruthSeeker</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2223947" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2223947" class="dsq-comment-message"><blockquote><i>JJP\' jumped the shark \' as soon as the first smear re: Trig palin\'s maternity was DEBUNKED and you did not issue an update or follow Obama\'s advice.<br><br>Your credibility is GONE.</i></blockquote><br>Trig\'\'s maternity, eh?<br><br>You never had any credibility anyway.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-2225421">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2225421" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2225421" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2225421">s</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2225421" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2225421" class="dsq-comment-message">You never could debate straight up.<br><br>Maternity is the social and legal acknowledgment of the parental relationship between a mother and her child. <br><br>Jumped. the. shark.<br><br>ROTFLMHO.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-2225475">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2225475" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2225475" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2225475">msmartin</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2225475" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2225475" class="dsq-comment-message">You never could handle a debate with Truth or anybody else for that matter.  Just like your troll comrades, all you do is attempt to antagonize.  If we lhad istened to you, we would have thought Obama couldn\'t win the Democratic primaries.  SO GTFOH.</div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2225487">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2225487" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2225487" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2225487">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2225487" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2225487" class="dsq-comment-message">Where did you get that definition of "maternity"? You might want to stop using that source because clearly its filled with incorrect information.</div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2225583">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2225583" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2225583" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2225583">s</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2225583" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2225583" class="dsq-comment-message">Definitions of maternity on the Web:<br><br>    * pregnancy: the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus<br>    * motherhood: the kinship relation between an offspring and the mother<br>    * motherliness: the quality of having or showing the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother; "the girl\'s motherliness made her invaluable in caring for the children"<br>      wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn<br><br>    * Maternity is the social and legal acknowledgment of the parental relationship between a mother and her child.<br>      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maternity</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-2226161">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2226161" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2226161" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2226161">TruthSeeker</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2226161" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2226161" class="dsq-comment-message">Still wrong.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2225575">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2225575" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2225575" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2225575">TruthSeeker</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2225575" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2225575" class="dsq-comment-message">Sigh...I really hate to educate you on anything...but<br><br>"Trig Palin\'s maternity" means Trig Palin\'s pregnancy....not the same as derivation from father, as in the case of paternity.  Trig Palin is an infant, and is male.<br><br>Check your dictionary.<br><br>..I realize you have a little personal resentment toward me, I\'m VERY observant.....but, this is the internets.<br>I think you have numerous aliases...and feel personally affronted when you\'re ignored.  You have an abnormal need for attention, switching aliases to get your fix.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2225466">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2225466" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2225466" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2225466">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2225466" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2225466" class="dsq-comment-message">Proof of Trig\'s birth parents has never been put forward, what are you referring too?</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2223880">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2223880" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2223880" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2223880">ace</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2223880" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2223880" class="dsq-comment-message">"When they attack one personally it means they haven\'t<br>a single political argument left." -- Margaret Thatcher</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2225493">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2225493" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2225493" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2225493">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2225493" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2225493" class="dsq-comment-message">Michelle and Barack are well aware of that, why aren\'t you?</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2223921">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2223921" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2223921" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2223921" href="http://swamphermit.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Karmi</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2223921" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2223921" class="dsq-comment-message">The Left is now helping to bring real change...McCain just jumped ahead of Obama - 10 pts ahead, it looks like Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews are the first to go in MSM.<br><br>Obama attended a racist church for 20 years, and that is going to be big news in the coming days, IMHO.</div>\
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	 </li>\
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