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Everything that could be said has been said over and over and over again.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-02_22:51:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "PTCruiser", "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}, "1083919": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "T:\"  The words  \"You had ta be there\" now really kick in!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_00:58:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1083829, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1083922": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "So this IS HOW YOU REALLY FEEL???? Huh!   Yaaaaaa!   :&gt;)  :&gt;)  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_01:01:03", "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": 1083856, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1083925": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "oh that is too good - and sadly too much of a ring of truth...LOL. though for the record my cousin's name is pooky", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_01:01:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "ruthdfw", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1083373, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1083928": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "99%:  OOPS.  Looks like somebody \"stepped in it\"!!!!!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_01:02:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1083903, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1083930": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "everyone knows big mamma need a job - she ain't got no social security", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_01:02:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "ruthdfw", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1083426, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1083931": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Miranda:  Whooooooooooooo!   :&gt;)  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_01:03:10", "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": 11, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1083862, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1089712": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Re: <b>TRW's comments</b> about Barack's tight rope...<br><br>Actually, a comment in general and the reason why all this \"ya'll don't say nothing, it's going to hurt Barack\" silliness has got to stop:<br><br><i>\"If I don't win, it's not going to be because of my race. It's going to be because I didn't project a vision of leadership that gave people confidence. It's going to be because of something I didn't do as opposed to because I'm African-American.\"</i><br><br>But I guess Black people, everyone but Barack I suppose, have to be perfect and, as a result, held to a different standard.  <br><br>Re: the Denounce and Reject thing....  You're right, \"people just don't think sometimes\" and that's exactly what I charge Obama with: not thinking.  Look at how that set the stage and the whole chain of evidents that helped write Boyce Watkins piece.<br><br>Obama didn't think...  Well, he did think he was going to nip the Farrakhan thing in the bud until Hillary and Russert pulled that tag team on him.  He thought about not going along with the Jim Crow custom but then said \"fuck it\" and went along to get along when he didn't have to say anything other than \"I've already stepped and fetched...\"<br><br>I'm just playing but anyone who was paying attention and thinking could see how Obama hurt himself doing that.  <br><br>Plus it's like you (TRW) jumped in the middle of a conversation and decided to comment without regard for the context.  My original comment acknowledged the kind of situation he was in but also considered other factors.  Your idea though is based on a straw man.  That is unless you can quote someone saying Obama should have responded to \"every racial slight.\"  I don't know, maybe the purpose of the Clinton Attacks Obama wiki.<br><br>Again, context is crucial.  You didn't ask, but I'd say let a dumbazz like Ferraro do all the work for you.  She called herself a racist before anybody else did.  No need to respond to that. Hell, how can you top it?<br><br>So, my comments had little if anything to do with saying Obama should have responded saying he was the victim of racism.  In this week's incident alone, all he had to do was have his campaign issue a statement and say McCain is just trying to draw attention away from him pattern of flip flopping on issues the most recent of which is his position on the pending referendum item in his own state.<br><br>And the \"it will hurt him theory\" is struggling because every time he's gotten around to standing up on an issue I felt he had to up to and including his race speech... no damage or no serious damage was done.  But maybe you/ya'll think his race speech which was all about \"racial topics\" hurt him.  <br><br>(Note:  I'm saying his race speech, a well delivered and needed speech, helped him even though I found it problematic.)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-04_01:48:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "Nquest", "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}, "1083426": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Senator:  Will all of the meals for the State Dinners with visiting dignitaries consist of the usual cuisine?:  chitterlings, collard greens, red beans and rice and sweet potato pie or will that be peach cobbler??  And a follow-up question:  I have an \"auntie\" who can put her foot in it!  Can you hook a sista up in the kitchen??", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-02_22:54:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1083483": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "PTC, could you elaborate more on how Obama's Father's Day speech was inappropriate?  Was it because he cast himself as the black guy uniquely situated to rain down thunder, lightening, fire and brimstone on Black people?<br><br>I remember an interview he did where he almost bragged about how uniquely situated he was to understand the Black side and the White side in the race divide and, consequently, uniquely situated to bridge that divide.  That Q&A had the flavor of this \"Tell Me About Black People\" stuff.<br><br>It will be interesting to see how he deals with the questions we know are coming from the White press over things like this.  Hmmm...  I haven't kept up but the media is almost sh*t out of luck when it comes to the hecklers:  they can't re-pimp that generational divide line they used to take swipes at Jesse.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-02_23:06:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "Nquest", "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": 1083405, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1108516": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "B,<br><br>Abstinence does work. Maybe not for everyone, but it is a good way to encourage young men and women to respect themselves a little bit more. At least wait until they are adults.<br><br>My \"the nerve of you\" comment was in response to you listing the things that Sen Obama should ONLY talk about.  Your vote does not give you license to dictate everything that comes out of his mouth.  You have the right as an American, to question anyone that you want.<br><br>Lastly, sub-prime lending is not an evil.  It can work for people who make it work.  As you know every home that is going up for foreclosure is not due to a subprime loan, there are prime loans and an over purchasing of investment properties that have gone belly up.<br>  <br>But now that we are on a more important subject. I don't think that the government should regulate the free market.  The credit card companies have more rights and can adjust interest rates all day, while the people keep losing their freedom of choice in the free market.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-05_23:47:17", "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": 1107730, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1083429": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I like how Obama has finally found the courage or finally felt comfortable with saying he should be held to the same standards as other candidates.  We should fault Black people in the media for not press McCain on issues.  McCain quickly turned the race spotlight off of him and his support of Ward Connerly's Arizona initiative by all-of-a-sudden claiming Obama was playing the race card and Obama's dumb azz let that sh*t slide; him and them dummies running his campaign.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-02_22:55:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "Nquest", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 30, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1083943": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "clearly ya'll did not see him dancing on Ellen - his skills are not the best...LOL.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_01:07:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "ruthdfw", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1083783, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1087531": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Val:  Co-signing!  And did I say \"crabs/barrel\"  AGAIN??!!!??  <br>Whew!!  \"Exasperated Deep Breaths!\"   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_18:16:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1085233, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1083952": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<i>You can pull your dashiki off</i><br><br>Ha! Ha! Ha!!<br><br><i>just in case you're still in doubt - ask any white person - he's plenty black.</i><br><br>What the hell are you talking about?   roflmbao!!!<br><br>I've never question Obama's blackness and I've cut at the pretenses of those who have.  So you're routine has run out of time and material.  You just can't touch what you claim I'm trying to sell.  Rather than actually pose a coherent counterpoint, you'd rather engage in bs \"dashiki\" rhetoric showing how you just can't deal with what I say.<br><br>So, yes... Given those multiple incidents where Obama kept his mouth closed and didn't same a damn word about the double-standard the media was holding him to...  FINALLY.<br><br><i>Obama said plainly he did not want any special treatment in response to the criticism he received for not attending that waste of time called \"The State of the Black Union\".</i><br><br>Hmmm...  Obama FINALLY having the courage to tell the media to hold him to same standard as the other candidates and all you can think about is the SOBU that Hillary attended??<br><br>What double-standard are you talking about then??  And ask a regular...  I'm on record saying Tavis should have let Michelle come on but that it was a mistake only because other candidate(s), Hillary, took the invitation.<br><br>(BTW, John McCain received some criticism for not speaking at the UNITY convention.)<br><br>Anyway...<br><br>\"The criticism he received for not attending the SOBU\" came from where, Miranda??    What was the double-standard that Obama felt he was being held to that no other candidate was?<br><br>It was clear that I was talking about the double-standard the media holds Obama to.  So, instead of just playing like you got an legitimate issue... Show when and where the media, the mainstream [white] media held Obama to a different standard?<br><br>Also, let me hear you huff and puff over this \"dashiki\" statement of mine:<br><br><b>We should fault Black people in the media for not press [ing] McCain on issues. McCain quickly turned the race spotlight off of him and his support of Ward Connerly's Arizona initiative by all-of-a-sudden claiming Obama was playing the race card...</b><br><br>That or explain what this is all about.  Did I slap the sh*t out of you somewhere or what?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_01:10:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "Nquest", "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": 1083856, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1083954": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "ruthdfw:  Thanks for the follow-up!   :&gt;)  :&gt;)  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_01:11:25", "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": 1083925, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1083955": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ha! Ha! <br><br>This sh*t is hilarious!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_01:12:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "Nquest", "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": 1083940, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1083960": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Senator,<br><br>Did OJ do it? And what up with your black folk jury that let him off the hook?", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_01:13:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1083388, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1083961": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "ruthdfw:  As for me, all he had ta do was stand there!    :&gt;)       :&gt;)              Now back to my air conditioner!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_01:13:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1083943, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1083963": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Nquest,<br><br>With all due respect, I can't write anymore on that issue. In short, I thought the speech was inappropriate because I felt that Obama was talking to white people, not black people. We were just props in the pulpit. He was pandering and it really does not matter whether some things he said were true. Black folks don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.<br><br> Further, when Obama spoke to the National Council of La Raza he did not talk about public school drop out rates among Hispanics, or teen pregnancy or about Latino youth who are involved in drugs and gang violence. He told them they were an \"aspirational community.\" <br><br>Final point: On a personal note I simply resented hearing this b.s. from him on Fathers Day. My late father, paternal and maternal grandfathers and great-grandfathers, great uncles and uncles got up everyday and did what they could to take care of their families.  In addition, my wife and I adopted three black children out of foster care long past our child rearing years because, in part, we wanted to give something back to our community. Obama and the people who supported that Fathers Day speech could put it where the sun don't shine as far as I am concerned.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_01:14:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "PTCruiser", "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": 1083483, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1083454": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Finally? Did you miss it when he said it back in Feb? Those dummies running his campaign have managed quite well thus far, if you think those folks are \"dummies\" dare I ask whose campaign you're making that comparison to in order to justify that description?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-02_23:00:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 29, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1083429, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1084993": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I really don't understand how Black people don't see that bringing up racial topics hurts, not helps Obama.  The truth of the matter is yes, I felt that the whole renounce and reject situation was absolutely ridiculous, as well as the hard working white people comment.  But Obama didn't have to say anything.  For people who were paying attention, it was further evidence that something was amiss with the Clinton campaign.  If he had spoken out about every racial slight that HRC threw his way, don't people think for a minute that he would have been accused of playing the victim, and yes, even the race card?  Which would have hurt him.  People just don't think sometimes.  <br><br>You have to work smarter, not harder.  By the time that HRC got around to the hard working white people comment, Obama didn't need to say a word because plenty of people called her out on it, and it made her look bad.  <br><br>Obama has been on the tightrope about race since the primary began, but apparently some Black people want him to walk the tightrope and do back flips and jumps.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_08:51:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "ef781b639c890767ebd1ce99011c3afa", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1083856, "depth": 4, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1083970": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Eh hee.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_01:15:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1083216, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1083974": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Jack, all jokes aside, they skipped the questions and are providing the answers by dredging up everything and all things \"black\" they could find to display through media to the voting public.  It's another \"guilt by association\" tactic.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_01:17:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1087559": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Senator:  You stated that they would say that you had a funny name.<br>Do you plan to adopt a Hip Hop name upon your Inauguration?<br>You say that you will keep your initials?  O.K<br><br>       Booyah 2da Hoop O-yeah!!!<br><br>Senator, for the record  --How do you spell that?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_18:22:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1094735": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "No Id,<br><br>Of course. MJ can't f with the whole Dirty Minds Album.<br><br>Kenya", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-04_16:33:21", "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": 1092081, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1108560": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "B,<br>one more thing. lol<br>He is an extra-ordinary politician and that is obvious to see when you look at where he has gotten.  But he is still a human being and therefore flawed like you and I.<br><br>What is somewhat different for this office he is running for, is that he wants the American people to get involved in the process and bring about the \"change\".  Like any good revoluntionary would want.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-05_23:55:32", "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": 1104474, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1087577": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Senator:  As I stated B4, there have been comments on your size and my question is about your style when you assume office.  <br><br>Your pant size will be 40 to match the OUNCES that will be served at the first reception??<br><br>Uh - thank you Senator!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_18:27:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1104474": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Thanks Kenyaw for replying, and my second statement is a bit confusing. Let me try again.<br><br>2. If Barack Obama is running for President of AMERICA, rather than President of Black America, then Obama should not only refrain from speaking to \"black interests\", he should refrain from using black people the way white candidates have used them (to show how tough he is on crime, welfare, and on democratic \"special interests\"). <br><br>While you're being facetious...you are absolutely right. If he's going to talk about changing politics as we know it, then he should only speak of structural issues dealing with crime, he should only talk about systemic responsibility, and he should only talk about systemic issues with schools. <br><br>Unless of course, he's a normal politician who uses racially charged issues to attract moderate white voters by crapping on blacks. Then it's ALLL good. Keep hope alive! (Oops...wrong guy.)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-05_15:27:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "blacksmythe", "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": 1095189, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1083995": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Heh, <b>GreenLady</b>, that's how white boys roll - they call it networking.  <br><br>But we don't emulate them on stuff like that unless, perhaps, you're a soror or a frat....", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_01:21:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1083748, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1083997": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Now tell me what did Obama do when Miss Hillary told him to reject and denounce Farrakhan then turned her azz around and accepted Adelfa Callejo's support.  <br><br>Did he tell Tim Russert in that debate to not hold him to a standard other candidates aren't held to?<br><br>Hell, nawl!!<br><br>What about the \"preacher problems\" him and McCain was having?  Did he say anything about the double-standard?  <br><br>When he was asked about the Cherokee Freedman?  Did he say, \"How come you're not asking the other candidates?\" <br><br>Hell, nawl.  He's FINALLY doing that just like it took him a long azz time to stand up for his wife and I won't even mention how long it took him to stand up for the people at Trinity.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_01:21:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "Nquest", "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": 1083940, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1084000": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LOL at 'The List'", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_01:22:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "735a3659b98d4c0e40e78d40d7ee34da", "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}, "1084002": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Agreed!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_01:22:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1083405, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1084016": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Speaking of <i>all things black</i><br><br>I just saw this over at Jed's<br><br>I had to listen to this a couple of times....<br><br>Did McCain just say he fought for the recognition of <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1AjO-IxfMY&eurl=http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/08/02/mccain-lies-about-his-support-for-mlk-jr-day-in-arizona/ rel=\"nofollow\">Dr. Martin Luther King's Day in Arizona?</a href>  Help me out here...please.....<br><br>Oh and listen to the huge senior moment pause before he starts to answer the question regarding the race card and black issues. I thought he fell asleep at first....", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_01:27:09", "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": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1084018": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "True....but I forgave the dancing once I saw this..LOL....I was watching and I couldn't believe he went there.....this is a pop culture moment in politics for SURE!<br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agI6OceAP5U\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agI6OceAP5U</a>", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_01:27:45", "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": 1083943, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1084020": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Senator:  A press release has raise the question of your weight.  As a follow-up, I wanted to ask about your hair.<br><br>Will you be sporting the 5\" or the 6\" Afro at your Inauguration in January?<br><br>And one quick final question?  Cake pick or regular plastic comb pick?<br><br>Thank you for your candor!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_01:28:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1084023": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Exhibit A of why  reparations is a delusional issue at best.  People look at Nquest's rantings...hell, if your azz was freed yesterday I wouldn't give you a damn dime and its clear your mind is locked up right now.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_01:31:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1083952, "depth": 5, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1085564": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "co-signing on this intelligent analysis.<br><br>we already know what would have happened had obama called HRC out on every single slight her campaign offered up. because SHE did it.<br><br>SHE played the victim<br>SHE whined<br>SHE bullied and intimidated<br>SHE accused Obama and the media of sexism repeatedly<br><br>I know that many of her and her supporter's claims were legit, but when the focus of your campaign is whining about the other side, you come across as weak. That's not \"leaderly.\"<br><br>Look at the trouble Hillary had with it as a white woman and imagine if the black man's campaign did this directly. There would have been zero tolerance. <br><br>That's why WE had to do it with the wiki and other tools.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_11:06:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "baratunde", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1084993, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": true, "is_realtime": false}, "1084030": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>I can't write anymore on that issue.</i><br><br>That's cool, bruh...  I just wanted to see the connection you were drawing.<br><br>Re: La Raza...  There's a pattern to it.  He used that same \"aspirational community\" rhetoric (not the term per se) when he spoke before LULAC - League of United Latin American Citizens.  Re: La Raza, this stands out: <br><br><i>I'm not taking a single Latino vote for granted in this campaign. We're meeting with Latino leaders across the country. We're reaching out to Latino organizations to get input on my policy proposals. We've got a nationwide Hispanic media strategy. We're recruiting and training Latino organizers. We're holding Latino voter registration drives across America. And when I'm President, I'll be asking many of you to serve at every level of government.</i>", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_01:33:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "Nquest", "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": 1083963, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1095189": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "blacksmythe,<br><br>\"Barack Obama is running for President of Black America\" Huh??<br><br>Why would Obama being running for President of Black America? Is there such a job?<br><br>\"Further Obama himself should refrain from talking about black people to whites (as per the Father's Day speech PTC referenced)\"<br><br>I am confused.  The church was full of negroes.  He was speaking to a room full of NEGROES!! Ya'll crazy!!!<br>CAN HE OR CAN HE NOT TALK ABOUT BLACK ISSUES??????????????????<br>If he talks about criminal justice = only speak of crooked cops and judges<br>if he talks about fatherhood = don't mention responsiblity (ever!)<br>if he talks about education = don't talk about the drop out rate over the past 20 years, just Bush's no child left behind of the past 6<br><br>This is pure madness.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-04_17:25:35", "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": 5, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1087279, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1084034": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Oh I thought this was serious for a minute. Speaking of Prince & MJ I'm off to Soul Slam the annual DJ Spinna party that is always stellar. This year I'm dressing in the style of New Power Generation members.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_01:36:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "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}, "1084037": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Damn, it's true.  Somebody turned JJP into Free Republic.<br><br><br>(I can't believe I'm hearing lame azz comebacks like this.)<br><br>Re: Reparations...  Nquest supports the ideas of most of the leading Reparations advocates and organizations that de-emphasize or don't include the idea of cash checks to individuals.<br><br>GET A DAMN CLUE!!!<br><br>(At least you finally came out with what you're real issue is:  IGNORANCE and your personal ignorance issues with Reparations.)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_01:36:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "Nquest", "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": 1084023, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1084044": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Its a shame, but these agent provocateurs running around hollering about reparations and yelling \"why won't Barack talk about black issues\" probably put their two rusty nickels in a WHITE bank, have their little piss poor insurance policies thru a WHITE insurer and a bunch of african masks and trinkets all made in Taiwan, but swear they have the lock on blackness. Please, they can kiss my BLACK azz.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_01:38:49", "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": 10, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1083931, "depth": 6, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1084053": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Texas:  OOOOOOO-eeeeeee!  This is a masterful clip!!!!  Beginning loooooonnnnnng pause!  :&gt;)    That was the state of C-O-N-F-U-S-I-O-N at work!!!!! Beautiful!!  :&gt;)  Hey!  I forgot the song \"Ball of Confusion.\" O'Jays???<br><br>Did he answer the question?  Ya know, he hoped that he did!  BUT  NO HE DIDN'T!!!  :&gt;)<br>Also notice how he, like billary, have difficulty having the words African-American come passed his lips!  Cain't do it!!!<br><br>Lying all the way:  He confessed in Alabama and to the Urban League that \"I made a mistake!\" [When he didn't support thr Dr. MLK holiday.<br>And yes, I would love to see his Senatorial record- like his military record! Hmmmm.<br><br>Whew!  LMAO Deep Breaths!   :&gt;)  :&gt;)  :&gt;)  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_01:41:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1084016, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1085593": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "C-signing", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_11:13:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "514ece7311946709a77d340a35a81d09", "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": 1084993, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1084063": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "99%:  You are correct!!!  Sadly!  :&gt;(  Something about crabs/barrels!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_01:44:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1083995, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1085089": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "YES! That's the \"Hummina, Hummina\" moment I posted about the other day! <br><br>A REAL journalist would've called him out on that lie, but....well...you know....", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_09:16:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1084016, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1084070": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Speaking of cake - will you be representing brothers and sisters in the White House with your love for red velvet cake?<br><br>Oh yeah, Senator, is their any truth to the rumor that, should you become the first black president you'll have the privilege of having your likeness on paper currency?  The repugs, Speaker Pelosi and the Clintons have protested this honor and, in the spirit of party unity and non-partisanship, are insisting that your image only appears on EBT cards for all 50 states and US possessions.<br><br>How do you feel about that?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_01:47:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1084020, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1084080": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "99%:  Good ones!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_01:51:31", "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": 1084070, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1098929": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Senator:  Up until your Inauguration, your campaign has used the slogan -                YES WE CAN!  Will you use a different one afterwards to address Mr. McCain?<br><br>          \"NO YOU CAIN'T\"??\"    <br><br>And a follow-up question?  How do you roll your head on your neck like that??<br><br>Finally, do you snap your fingers during the head roll or after??<br><br>One more?  Is this called the DISS ATTITUDE???<br><br>Uhhhhhhhh -thank you Senator.  ~ ~? ?  ?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-05_02:37:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1087667": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Senator: What flavor of Kool-Aid do you prefer: Red or Grape?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_18:50:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1083573": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ahhh yes...the good old days of journalistic standards and integrity!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-02_23:25:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "pcmadison", "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": 1083208, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1084102": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Miranda:   OUCH!!!!!   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_01:59:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1084044, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1083591": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Senator:  Really.  You can tell us  - Was that \"dap\" really a \"terroristic fist jab!!\"<br><br>And a follow-up question - will all White House staff and all who enter the oval office be required to use the \"dap\" instead of a handshake?<br><br>Oh, and another final question- Looking ahead, can we expect that the \"dap\" will be  replaced by yet another hand movement in 2010??<br><br>Thank you Senator!  Now how does that \"dap\" work again!???", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-02_23:29:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1085128": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "true dat, re: Russert and the war, though I must confess I didn't know about the Scooter connection.     But you gotta admit, when he decided to tear someone a new one, they would be on the way to the emergency room when he finished with 'em. <br><br>I would also add Gwen Ifill, but you know, ain't NO WAY two sistas would be 'allowed' at the same time...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_09:30:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "isonprize", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1083685, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1083938": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "preach on girlfriend ---- somebody fan this girl and get her a class of water before she \"take her seat\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_01:05:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "ruthdfw", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1083856, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1093839": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "hmmm, not sure who i agree with here as you both make good points, though i'm leaning toward nquest, dashiki and all. i just love that JJP gives black folks a place to have the debates, and brings forth the level of commentary that it does. i have to say my beloved root has fallen off. it's much more fun over here lately.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-04_14:54:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "cc6569f8cbd4abd6bef53a2f883f8ca5", "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": 1089496, "depth": 10, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1084112": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "What is your current church affliation?  If there is none, is your lack of church affiliation your embracing of the Muslim faith or even the Nation of Islam?<br><br>But honestly, he might as well.  As far as I'm concerned \"post-racial\" was the biggest gaffe because now, when race comes up the white folk can holla that people are not following in Obama's (the black man) vision of a \"post-racial society\" and now [liberal] white folk have the perfect excuse to think racism doesn't exist, or moreover that it's not as bad as it really seems.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_02:02:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "7289a57d9f7a482c2a16cec668306cf1", "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}, "1083940": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "99Percent....these rejects from the Black Revolutionary Liberation New World Order People of the Motherland Nationalist Agenda Party are really a nuisance.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_01:06:27", "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": 1083903, "depth": 5, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1107674": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "b,<br><br>Love ya, but you are tripping!<br><br>What if he is a black man running for POTUS, who cares about his community and he has thoughts and ideas that he did put in terms of policy.  And what if he chooses to express some of those ideas to his community? This is a new paradigm for us and it is going to take some getting used to; I understand that much.<br><br>Have you walked outside lately?  Do you see what is going on in our community?  We need all of our collective minds to work together to make some major changes. Somebody needs to be mad enough to take action. Don't like what he said, then how bout we make today, August 5th, \"Adopt a Babydaddy or Momma Day\".  Let's start some abstinece groups. Quit complaining and lets start working. <br><br>Luckily for us ALL, we have freedom of speech in this country and that includes Sen Obama.<br>\"He should only\"...Aint that about a blimp! Dude is a grown ass man. The nerve of you.<br><br>And yes Keep Hope Alive.  I won first place for writing a speech with the same title.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-05_21:44:38", "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": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1104474, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1083614": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Oh Michelle Malkin is still colored...much to her dismay. She so wants to be blonde and blue-eyed, poor dear....self-hate is a terrible thing.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-02_23:34:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1083208, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1084128": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Damn, Freeper...  My insurance man is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha. <br><br>GET A FREAKIN' CLUE!!<br><br>And leave all your naked psycho-melodrama issues out of this.  Here's a link to a list of <a href=\"http://www.abpsi.org/listing.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\">BLACK Psychologists</a>, though.  Maybe they can help your BLACK azz with your issues vicarious trauma issues -- you taking critiques about Obama so damn personal like somebody smacked the sh*t out your azz when they (I) made arguments that you just can't contend with.  So now you're pulling the Freeper routine.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_02:07:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "Nquest", "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": 1084044, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1086701": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Okay, so I guess that's a no on the spicy bbq potato chips. <br><br>;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_15:25:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "CarolinagirlinGA", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1086262, "depth": 11, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1083630": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "with any luck black people, we can ruin his campaign and any chance of this happening again anytime soon with our crab in a barrel antics.<br><br>this campaign isnt to make Obama president of black people--and the fact is at 10-12% of the population and a mediocre voting history in recent years doesnt add to much clout in trying to tell Obama what to do.<br><br>Just be cool and make sure to vote--THEN you scream at Obama for what you want, anything about not voting or voting for the GOP is just political terrorism.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-02_23:38:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "559bd9339a5518b28f677cd6c51b30a2", "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": null, "depth": 0, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1084712": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Your insurance man is an Alpha?......AND? Who is your INSURER? Please....you're just another agent provocateur running around in 30 years ago hollering about \"my people\" but doing ONLY that.....just a empty voice.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_07:14:23", "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": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1084128, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1083647": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I know...right.  But really, isn't he dealing with the same thing all of us have had to deal with at one time or another...he's just on the world stage.  Who on here hasn't had someone ask some dumb ass question or make some dumb ass statement about \"blackness\".<br><br>W: What does it feel like?<br>B: What?<br>W: Your Hair.<br>B: It feels like hair.<br>W: Can I touch it?<br>B: Only if you want me to rip your arm out of it's socket...oops, I meant to say,  no that would be an invasion of my personal space.<br><br>He will not be able to escape the ignorant questions or the ignorant people asking them.   Obama is fine...he will handle the ignorance in a calm but assertive manner!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-02_23:43:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "pcmadison", "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": 3, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1086723": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "If black people give each other the hook-up, we're WRONG.<br><br>Questions for Sen. Obama:<br><br>If your wife hates white people so much, why does she put \"Just 4 Me\" in your daughters' hair?  Is she trying to be white?  Does she hate white people because she can't be white?<br><br>Will Michelle be redecorating the Oval Office in Red, Black and Green?<br><br>What is your furniture like?  Is is black laquer and is all the plastic still on it?<br><br>Will you be putting wooden forks and spoons on the walls?<br><br>What will you be serving at State dinners?  Will you be serving arugula or collard greens?<br><br>Why are your lips so black?<br><br>Why won't you send your children to DC Public Schools?  Don't you think the President should send their children to public schools to signify their support for public education?<br><br>Did you run for the Presidency so you could get free public housing?<br><br>Is Michelle familiar with public housing?  Don't you think you and your family living in the White House is a form of welfare?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_15:29:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1083995, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1083656": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This past year especially, I've missed Ed Bradley so much.  I'd have loved to have seen him cover Obama's march to the presidency.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-02_23:45:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "2bcfb68e46ed1c3e91653e7834aa2e5e", "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": 1083208, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1086218": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Off topic here, but does anybody like those Lays Spicy BBQ potato chips as much as I do? I can't eat just one.<br><br>....Just trying to ease the tension in here.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_13:39:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "CarolinagirlinGA", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1084712, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1085911": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Thank you; I don't either.  He's gonna need something like 40% of the white vote to beat McCain and every time his race is mentioned he goes lower in the polls because people who'd not thought about it before suddenly question their logic in voting for him.  Eugene Robinson recently suggested that it wouldn't take long before the comments came about Obama not being black enough.  Thing is, though ... he expected those comments out of the McCain camp and not the black community.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_12:25:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "Oldnovice", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1094926": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "LL,<br><br>Obama has been talking about the criminal justice system for the over 10 years.  What are you talking about? <br><br>Nevertheless, a black male incarceration rate is not a platform on which you run a campaign.  That is activist work.  It is up to activist to lobby on behalf of the community affected by that problem.  It would be up to the POTUS to endure that the Justice Department is doing its job.  <br>Is SBO suppose to be on the stomp saying \"vote for me because we need to keep black people out of jail or vote for me because we need to make sure that crack dealers and coke dealers get the same time\"?  Really... I mean really.<br>Folks need to focus on your state and local elected officials.  How about voters start doing research on the judges that they elected, since they have a direct impact on the criminal justice system.<br><br>Lastly, what does Paris Hiltons case have to do with our justice system being overhauled?  Do you live in California?  <br>The federal govt does not, and should not set state laws.  If someone can afford an attorney that is better than a public defender, then you should hate on them for being able to afford a good lawyer.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-04_16:53:52", "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": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1087319, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1107730": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Tripping. <br><br>I'll be that.<br><br>The problem is that it isn't a new paradigm for us. Bill Clinton gave a very similar speech in a black church when he was President. I felt the same way then--that he was playing black people like chumps and blaming us for problems that weren't our responsibility--in order to show moderate white voters how hard he was. Hated it then. Why should I have a different opinion just because it's someone black saying it?<br><br>\"Have you walked outside lately?\"<br><br>I'll give the same response I gave to Amiri Baraka. I've got a black wife, five black kids, live in a black neighborhood...and I would've added if there weren't more guests on the show...I pledged a black community, and I study black people for a living. <br><br>Have I gone outside? <br><br>Yes.<br><br>Abstinence doesn't work. But on top of that, Pookie doesn't have anything to do with either the energy crisis, or the subprime lending crisis. Black babbies daddies can all of a sudden get hella responsible and it. wouldn't. change. a. thing.<br><br>Except perhaps people couldn't blame black babbies daddies for the problems we have anymore. <br><br>(The nerve of me? How do you think presidential elections in a democracy work? He says what he says, I'm supposed to just take it, keep my mouth shut and cast a vote? On the real?)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-05_21:52:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "blacksmythe", "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": 1107674, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1084473": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Send a request to FOX.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_04:46:54", "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": 1083282, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1086749": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yes, Obama felt he could accentuate the positive and \"look beyond their faults\" (see how that works... for everybody except Black people) and now he's going to have a hell of a time navigating an obstacle course he helped set up for himself.<br><br>It will be interesting to see, once Obama becomes president (and there's no doubt in my mind about that) if he will ever go back to that Philadelphia, race speech \"teaching\" moment for White folks or if that will go down in history as another one of those missed moments...", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_15:35:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "Nquest", "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": 1084112, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1083685": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The debate set up... I can't forgive Russert in being complicit in the runup to the War or his part in the Scooter Libby farce, so he's out.  I propose Bill Moyers instead, along with Charlayne Hunter-Gault and Ed Bradley if we could tear him away from that jam in Heaven ;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-02_23:52:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "2bcfb68e46ed1c3e91653e7834aa2e5e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1083208, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1085222": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Jack - you bring out some great points.  I am glad I am not Obama because if I were -- I would take my ball and go home.  If voters allow themselves to get swiftboated and get distrracted from focusing on real issues that would be their problem and they deserve what they get.  Obama and his family will be just fine.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_09:55:02", "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": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1083688": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "YEP!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-02_23:52:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1083647, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1083691": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Amen!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-02_23:53:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1083630, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1087279": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "A couple of points:<br>1. Black people do not have a \"mediocre voting record\" as someone above noted. Black people are actually more likely to vote than their white counterparts when you take poverty and education into consideration.<br><br>2. If Barack Obama is running for President of Black America, then black people should be as critical of him as any other Democratic candidate. Further Obama himself should refrain from talking about black people to whites (as per the Father's Day speech PTC referenced), UNLESS he is giving the same speech to, I don't know...the banking community.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_17:21:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "blacksmythe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1085233": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "typo -- mispelled distracted.  heavy fingers. sorry.  very tired this morning.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_09:55:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1085222, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1083700": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "co-sign!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-02_23:56:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1083614, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1086262": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "There's not tension in here. Don't you get it? We're only making the rightwing <i>think</i> that we're bickering so they can get the false sense of security that their tactics are working to divide us all the while we'll be more unified than ever in making sure their Dangerous Puppet won't get into the White House to pillage more sovereign nations and savage the lives of more colored people.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_13:49:33", "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": 1086218, "depth": 10, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1083208": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Tavis moderating?  Shelby Steele giving 'color' commentary?  MIchelle Malkin asking questions?  (yeah, I know she's not black, but in the not to distant past, she'da been a colored...) <br><br>No, wait.   New cast  --      Katie Couric moderating,   Pat Buchanan doing the commentary and     Barbara \"Ed Brookes lovin' \" Walters asking the questions...<br><br><br> Seriously,  my dream set-up would in some way include  Max Robinson,  Tim Russert,  and my all-time favorite, Ed Bradley.   <br><br>...  See,  boys and girls, back in the day, news reporting was actually done with some integrity and journalistic standards....", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-02_22:03:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "isonprize", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 10, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1083721": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Senator how did you get all those people to send you their money? Did you promise them prayer cloths? What kind of Rev Ike tom-foolery is that?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_00:00:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1083426, "depth": 1, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1083216": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "LMAO.  As a muslim, why do you hate Jesus?  And as a Black man, why do you hate America?  And as a radical Christian, why do you hate White people?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-02_22:05:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "ef781b639c890767ebd1ce99011c3afa", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 3, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1087319": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "People in the black community always complain about being taken for granted by democrats. Most blacks were going to vote for Slick Willie's wife before the South Carolina primary without even demanding she do anything for the black community. William Jefferson was caught with money in the freezer, but black folks sent him back to Congress. The question should be asked: Do black voters take their votes for granted? Voting blocks that want to be taken seriously ask questions and make demands BEFORE the politician is elected rather than acting as passive cheerleaders for the political establishment. Instead, black voters allow slick politicians to triangulate their positions during the campaign just to find out that the politician was no different than the last. What is more troubling is that the passive cheerleaders on this blog don't think that the criminal justice system deserves national attention. If Booker T. Obama can't convince 40% of white voters that our criminal justice system (after O.J., Paris, and Noel) needs an overhaul, then he is not as \"charismatic\" or \"articulate\" as some would have us believe.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_17:30:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "ea0c481ef0d3494e07b7b81312b9a99e", "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": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1085911, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1083736": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": ":&gt;)     :&gt;)   :&gt;)   :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_00:06:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1083721, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1085275": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "So basically, you just want the black man to be in the white house. Nope.  It doesnt matter what policies he puts out, or that positions he held as early as yesterday are changing a dime a dozen......you just want the man to get in the white house.  No wonder we're stuck with the CBC.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_10:03:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "f9aaa8acc43fd7620185ff90cef3c05a", "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": 1083630, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1086306": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Say it again. <br><br>WE have to fight with Barack in this war.<br><br>And it's a war.<br><br>Too many people stand to lose too much if Barack wins.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_13:57:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1085564, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1083748": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Nellcote:  I saw that the late Tim's son will be a guest commentator for the DNC Convention.   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_00:08:09", "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": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1083685, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1083257": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Chuckle.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-02_22:15:55", "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": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1083216, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1085312": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "All politics are local......what policies have your county commissioners, city council, mayor, local school board, etc. implemented that were positive for your community?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_10:10:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1085275, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1083783": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "i almost included that!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_00:18:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "baratunde", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1083329, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": true, "is_realtime": false}, "1085323": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Great question.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_10:11:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1085312, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1083791": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "What did he do in Feb?<br><br>I can remember the dummy (Obama) doing the dance as soon as Richard Cohen said jump.   He followed that up with \"Yes, Miss Hillary.  I'll denounce and reject\" but you and I both know that Negro never said a mumbling word when Hillary went right to Texas and promptly contradicted the very standard she made him dance to.   She didn't denounce, reject or disown her \"racism\" supporter and Obama said nothing.<br><br>Obama's mouth was closed when the media and Hillary kept claiming he had a problem with White voters, particularly White working class voters but Obama was mum and didn't say, \"hey, how come ya'll not saying she has a problem attracting Black voters.\"<br><br>So you can stop playing stupid.  John Kerry won the Dem nomination with campaign handlers who were dummies to ever let an AWOL Bush and his campaign \"swift boat\" him.<br><br>It's as if the very topic here goes right over your head.  It's as if you imagined Obama questioning the media about how they covered John McCain and his \"preacher problems.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_00:20:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "Nquest", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 28, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1083454, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1083282": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "How you get your hands on a copy of the questions that will be asked at the next ABC debate????", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-02_22:21:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "b45f45c3d16eaa32e1783c1d1798a893", "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}, "1089427": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "pcmad,<br><br>don't forget<br>W: Oh! Your hair is so soft<br>B: Umm, thanks", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-04_00:39:59", "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": 1083647, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1087473": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I've never commented here before (I don't think), so I'm kind of sad that this is going to be the quality of my first comment but it simply must be said:<br><i>\"The year is 1983. Prince or Michael Jackson?\"</i><br>hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_18:01:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "slag", "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}, "1083829": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Guys, you are killin' me!  <br><br>Anyway, I notice that the McBush/GOP's divide-and-conquer strategy of the Obama coalition is in full swing. They started with the low hanging fruit I see - the black community. They seem to think that the easiest group to dismantle is us. But, weirdly, this time, I have faith that it will not happen. I think they are wasting their time because in the end, Obama will get way over 90% of the black vote, and the black turnout will be huge. So, they are barking up the wrong tree. And, our Hispanic friends will stand with us.<br><br>In the last week alone, so many issues regarding race and racial sub-texts...i mean, my head is reeling...coincidence or not? I say not!<br><br>Hang tight and pray y'all. This is going to be a rough ride. But on the morning of Nov 5th, we will all be smiling. <br>When things get rough around here, that's what I think about, the morning of Nov 5th...with a big ole grin on my face.<br><br>President Obama!!!<br><br>T.<br><br>ps. So McCain goes to the National Urban League? Comedic, isn't it?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_00:31:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "d6755b31010b50fc47eac9ee8b3bb319", "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}, "1088953": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Good one!!!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_22:54:37", "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": 1086701, "depth": 12, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1083329": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Senator, can you do the electric slide??", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-02_22:31:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 4, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1083332": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "OK....TRW....I'm done................ROFLMAO!!!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-02_22:32:49", "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": 1083216, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1083856": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You can pull your dashiki off, and cut the pretense of \"I'm the blackest, blue-black, blurple, blackety-black brutha\" routine...nobody's buying it. Obama said plainly he did not want any special treatment in response to the criticism he received for not attending that waste of time called \"The State of the Black Union\".  While you're sitting here playing message board provateur, calling Obama's campaign \"dummies - by the way, what campaign have you managed that was so successful? - Obama's camp has done what WAS the impossible...a man of color is the presumptive Democratic nominee with long, and I do mean LONG, pockets. John Kerry won a easy campaign and then promptly ran out of money to even suggest a real fight...not that anyone was particularly moved with his candidacy in the first place. Obama took on a much more popular opponent (at the time), started out with much less of a war  chest, and just in case you're still in doubt - ask any white person - he's plenty black. <br><br>But you go ahead with your armchair, fight the powers that be, no justice, no peace, message board politicking. Obviously you're in some state of 1975 denial and don't realize its the 21st century and Barack Obama has re-written the book on this game that we're all \"virtually\" playing.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_00:40:43", "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": 27, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1083791, "depth": 3, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1083862": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Sorry, that's \"provocateur\".......<br><br>People beware...there are so many spooks in the building.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_00:42:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 12, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1083856, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1098711": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Booker T. Obama and his passive cheerleaders think that just because he no longer represents a black district in the state senate they can hide behind <i>states' rights</i> arguments.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-05_01:44:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "ea0c481ef0d3494e07b7b81312b9a99e", "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": 1094926, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1089496": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "In other words, I've made arguments that you can't contend with.<br><br>END OF STORY<br><br>But if concocting crazy azz theories about what type of person I must be is a salve for your soul...  I'll be your scapegoat.<br><br>Yes, the fact that Barack Obama treats Black folks that vote for him demonstrably different than he does any other voting demographics is all about me and who my insurer it.<br><br>Matter of fact, my insurer made Barack do it. <br><br>Wait...  I'm self-insured.  That way all the blame for your inability to deal with Barack being criticized can be all on me.<br><br>Anything to excuse your inability to contend with what I've said.  But then that would make me an Agent Provocateur trying to stir up an logic uprising on JJP.  <br><br>Your response:  we can't have any of that.<br><br><br>HIL-freakin'-LARIOUS!!!<br><br><br>Re:  \"MY PEOPLE\"<br><br>Talk to Craig.  With that \"we'll be more unified\" rhetoric along with the open-hand, limp-wristed play of the \"savage the lives of more colored people\" card...  Well, even the crazy azz image you've created of me in your mind couldn't top that.<br><br>The brother is good.   lol<br><br>But, see...  as long as I post and am free to post here, I will be provoking some logic off in here and laughing my ass of when people like you and Craig take leave of your senses and abandon logic and the sense God and \"your people\" gave you just because... Well, because of whatever your mostly undisclosed and obviously unresolved issue is.<br><br>Anytime, though...  Anytime any one of ya'll (you, Craig or the Ray Charles understudy) want to actually deal with what I actually say then I'll be right here, \"empty voice\" and all, ready for any one of you to say something on-topic and remotely intelligent.  <br><br>Until then, I'll be here waiting to oblige your next bit of stupidity and questioning your mental stability.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-04_00:55:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "Nquest", "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": 1084712, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1083880": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<b>grapesoda</b>, I like to say that even if every black man, woman and child from the womb to the tomb could and did vote, we still would not have the voting clout to elect a president, be they black, white, male or female. Throw in all the degreed but unlearned blacks around the nation and we've got zero clout to do anything except to run each other down.<br><br>Yet we roll under big ol' delusions of grandeur.  We're all that, a bag of chips and a 20 oz Coca Cola.<br><br>Love this diary, <b>baratunde</b>. <br><br>I don't swim because I don't like the water getting into my ears plus, as Jimmy the Greek said, I'm one of those blacks who ain't got no buoyancy,", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_00:46:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1083630, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1083373": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Senator:  I know that you have been asked this question a thousand times, BUT, what COLOR do you plan to paint the White House!  And a follow-up to that:  I have a cousin named \"Boo\" who is in the painting business?  Do ya think that you could hook a brotha up on the paint job?  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-02_22:42:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1092081": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Prince is clearly the correct answer :-)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-04_11:44:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "cc6569f8cbd4abd6bef53a2f883f8ca5", "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": 1087473, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1083381": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Miranda:  Seeeeeeeee!!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)  :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-02_22:43:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1083329, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1083382": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"Obama needs to have a \u201cPress Conference On All Things Black\u201d<br><br>-And if he does, he STILL won't be black enough for some folks.<br><br>Election Day cannot come soon enough.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-02_22:43:14", "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": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1083388": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Senator,<br><br>Do you believe O.J. did it?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-02_22:45:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "aaa9a64f782e174b6dbe38d49788ecad", "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}, "1083903": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Keep on dropping it like it's hot, <b>Miranda</b>, because, sorry to say, but that is one ignorant post that you so aptly responded to.<br><br>They posted some seriously misguided repug talking points.  In fact, it sounds like McCentury is up in here speaking gobbledy-gook under the guise of trying to speak jive.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-03_00:52:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1083856, "depth": 4, "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": "2405522", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "21630", "hash": 665114794773174287}, "thread": {"days_alive": 0, "slug": "ok_obama_needs_to_have_a_press_conference_on_all_things_black", "paginate": false, "num_pages": 1, "num_posts": 117, "per_page": 0, "total_posts": 0, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 2405522, "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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/**
 * Dsq.Strings: UI strings
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Dsq.Strings = new function() {
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/**
 * Dsq.FmtStrings: functions that return interpolated UI strings
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Dsq.FmtStrings = new function() {
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			), {num:num});
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};
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Dsq.POST_RE = /(<div.*?id="?dsq-comment-header-(\d+)"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*?)(<\/div>)\s*(<div.*?class="?dsq-comment-body"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*)(<\/div>)/gim;
Dsq.POST_BODY_RE = /\s*(<div.*?id="?dsq-comment-message-(\d+)"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*)(<\/div>)/gim;
// HACK: Safari ends with "-->" while other browsers end with "--&gt;" as expected.
Dsq.MEDIA_POST_RE = /&lt;!--\[(.*?)\]--(?:>|&gt;)/gim;



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FragmentPacket.prototype.createListener = function() {
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	var listener = function() {
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FragmentPacket.prototype.log = function(msg) {



};

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

				this._accumMsg = '';

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

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

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

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

};

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

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

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

	if (packetNum === 0) {

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

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

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

	if (num_packets === packetNum) {

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

	this._lastSeqno++;

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

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

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

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

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

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


	this.receiverId = receiverId;
};

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

	var listener = function(e) {

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


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

		that.receiveCallback(data);
	};

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

PostMessagePacket.prototype.send = function(msg) {



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


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

	var packet;
	if (!msg) {

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

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

var JsonRpc = function() {

	this.ids = {};

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

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

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

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

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

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

				json = 'null';
				break;
		}

		return json;
	};

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		send_func(this.objectToJSON(request));

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

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


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



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


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


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

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

	this.packetHandler = null;


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


	var _createReceiverForFragmentPacket = function() {

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

			that._ready = true;
		};

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

		that.receiver.onload = receiver_onload;







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

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

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

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


	var _createReceiverForPostMessage = function() {

		var receiver_onload = function() {

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

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


		ParentMessenger['_receiver_onload_' + receiverId] = receiver_onload;

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

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

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

};

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	var sendFunc = function(msg) {

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


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


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

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

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

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

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

		if (msg.username) {

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	this.url = Dsq.Urls.REPLY +
		'?' + (new Date()).getTime() +
		'&f=jackandjillpolitics' +
		'&t=ok_obama_needs_to_have_a_press_conference_on_all_things_black' +
		'&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/ok_obama_needs_to_have_a_press_conference_on_all_things_black/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='	+ 'ok_obama_needs_to_have_a_press_conference_on_all_things_black'
			+ '&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/ok_obama_needs_to_have_a_press_conference_on_all_things_black/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">117</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/ok_obama_needs_to_have_a_press_conference_on_all_things_black/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/ok_obama_needs_to_have_a_press_conference_on_all_things_black/">Community Page</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>\
	 <span class="dsq-item-subscribe">\
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			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
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			var l = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_limit;

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			html += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions"><a href="#" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</a></li>';
		}

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					+ (!_meta.up_voted
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						: 'You liked this.') + '</li>'
					: '')
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					<div id="dsq-reply-' + post_id + '"></div> \
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	//

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		// Caller is responsible for making sure nothing needs to be escaped.
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		for (key in attributes) {
			result.push(' ' + key + '="' + attributes[key] + '"');
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			disqus_callback_params = '';
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		var default_params = {
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			't'				: 'ok_obama_needs_to_have_a_press_conference_on_all_things_black',
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			'cbp'			: disqus_callback_params,
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			'ac'			: Dsq.Thread.ac,
			'default_text'	: disqus_default_text
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					default_params[key] = encodeURIComponent(params[key]);
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			}
		}
		// Build querystring.
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			if(default_params[key] && default_params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				base_url += '&' + key + '=' + default_params[key];
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		}

		return [
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			(' allowtransparency="true" src="' + base_url + '"'),
			this._makeAttributes(attributes),
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	};

	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
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		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>'
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		? '	<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/ok_obama_needs_to_have_a_press_conference_on_all_things_black/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='	+ 'ok_obama_needs_to_have_a_press_conference_on_all_things_black'
			+ '&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='	+ 'ok_obama_needs_to_have_a_press_conference_on_all_things_black'
			+ '&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='		+ 'ok_obama_needs_to_have_a_press_conference_on_all_things_black'
				+ '&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/2405522/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 = {};

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<ul id="dsq-comments">\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1083329" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1083329" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1083329">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1083329" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1083329" class="dsq-comment-message">Senator, can you do the electric slide??</div>\
	 </div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1083381" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1083381" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1083381">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1083381" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1083381" class="dsq-comment-message">Miranda:  Seeeeeeeee!!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)  :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
	 </div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1083783" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1083783" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1083783" href="http://baratunde.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">baratunde</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1083783" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1083783" class="dsq-comment-message">i almost included that!</div>\
	 </div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1083943">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1083943" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1083943" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1083943" href="http://www.ilivetoshop.typepad.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ruthdfw</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1083943" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1083943" class="dsq-comment-message">clearly ya\'ll did not see him dancing on Ellen - his skills are not the best...LOL.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-1083961">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1083961" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1083961" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1083961">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1083961" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1083961" class="dsq-comment-message">ruthdfw:  As for me, all he had ta do was stand there!    :&gt;)       :&gt;)              Now back to my air conditioner!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-1084018">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1084018" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1084018" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1084018">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1084018" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1084018" class="dsq-comment-message">True....but I forgave the dancing once I saw this..LOL....I was watching and I couldn\'t believe he went there.....this is a pop culture moment in politics for SURE!<br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agI6OceAP5U" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agI6OceAP5U</a></div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-1083647">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1083647" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1083647" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1083647">BlackButterfly</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1083647" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1083647" class="dsq-comment-message">I know...right.  But really, isn\'t he dealing with the same thing all of us have had to deal with at one time or another...he\'s just on the world stage.  Who on here hasn\'t had someone ask some dumb ass question or make some dumb ass statement about "blackness".<br><br>W: What does it feel like?<br>B: What?<br>W: Your Hair.<br>B: It feels like hair.<br>W: Can I touch it?<br>B: Only if you want me to rip your arm out of it\'s socket...oops, I meant to say,  no that would be an invasion of my personal space.<br><br>He will not be able to escape the ignorant questions or the ignorant people asking them.   Obama is fine...he will handle the ignorance in a calm but assertive manner!</div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-1083688">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1083688" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1083688" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1083688">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1083688" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1083688" class="dsq-comment-message">YEP!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1089427">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1089427" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1089427" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1089427">kenyaw</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1089427" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1089427" class="dsq-comment-message">pcmad,<br><br>don\'t forget<br>W: Oh! Your hair is so soft<br>B: Umm, thanks</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1083216">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1083216" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1083216" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1083216">TRW</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1083216" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1083216" class="dsq-comment-message">LMAO.  As a muslim, why do you hate Jesus?  And as a Black man, why do you hate America?  And as a radical Christian, why do you hate White people?</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1083257">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1083257" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1083257" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1083257" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1083257" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1083257" class="dsq-comment-message">Chuckle.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1083332" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1083332" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1083332">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1083332" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1083332" class="dsq-comment-message">OK....TRW....I\'m done................ROFLMAO!!!!!</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1083970">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1083970" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1083970" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1083970" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1083970" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1083970" class="dsq-comment-message">Eh hee.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1083630">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1083630" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1083630" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1083630">grapesoda</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1083630" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1083630" class="dsq-comment-message">with any luck black people, we can ruin his campaign and any chance of this happening again anytime soon with our crab in a barrel antics.<br><br>this campaign isnt to make Obama president of black people--and the fact is at 10-12% of the population and a mediocre voting history in recent years doesnt add to much clout in trying to tell Obama what to do.<br><br>Just be cool and make sure to vote--THEN you scream at Obama for what you want, anything about not voting or voting for the GOP is just political terrorism.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1083691" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1083691" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1083691">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1083691" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1083691" class="dsq-comment-message">Amen!</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1083880">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1083880" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1083880" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1083880" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1083880" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1083880" class="dsq-comment-message"><b>grapesoda</b>, I like to say that even if every black man, woman and child from the womb to the tomb could and did vote, we still would not have the voting clout to elect a president, be they black, white, male or female. Throw in all the degreed but unlearned blacks around the nation and we\'ve got zero clout to do anything except to run each other down.<br><br>Yet we roll under big ol\' delusions of grandeur.  We\'re all that, a bag of chips and a 20 oz Coca Cola.<br><br>Love this diary, <b>baratunde</b>. <br><br>I don\'t swim because I don\'t like the water getting into my ears plus, as Jimmy the Greek said, I\'m one of those blacks who ain\'t got no buoyancy,</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1085275" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1085275" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1085275">AnthonyMason</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1085275" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1085275" class="dsq-comment-message">So basically, you just want the black man to be in the white house. Nope.  It doesnt matter what policies he puts out, or that positions he held as early as yesterday are changing a dime a dozen......you just want the man to get in the white house.  No wonder we\'re stuck with the CBC.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1085312" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1085312" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1085312">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1085312" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1085312" class="dsq-comment-message">All politics are local......what policies have your county commissioners, city council, mayor, local school board, etc. implemented that were positive for your community?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1085323" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1085323" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1085323" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1085323" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1085323" class="dsq-comment-message">Great question.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1085222" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1085222" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1085222">Val</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1085222" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1085222" class="dsq-comment-message">Jack - you bring out some great points.  I am glad I am not Obama because if I were -- I would take my ball and go home.  If voters allow themselves to get swiftboated and get distrracted from focusing on real issues that would be their problem and they deserve what they get.  Obama and his family will be just fine.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1085233" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1085233" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1085233">Val</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1085233" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1085233" class="dsq-comment-message">typo -- mispelled distracted.  heavy fingers. sorry.  very tired this morning.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1087531" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1087531" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1087531">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1087531" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1087531" class="dsq-comment-message">Val:  Co-signing!  And did I say "crabs/barrel"  AGAIN??!!!??  <br>Whew!!  "Exasperated Deep Breaths!"   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1083208">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1083208" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1083208" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1083208">isonprize</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1083208" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1083208" class="dsq-comment-message">Tavis moderating?  Shelby Steele giving \'color\' commentary?  MIchelle Malkin asking questions?  (yeah, I know she\'s not black, but in the not to distant past, she\'da been a colored...) <br><br>No, wait.   New cast  --      Katie Couric moderating,   Pat Buchanan doing the commentary and     Barbara "Ed Brookes lovin\' " Walters asking the questions...<br><br><br> Seriously,  my dream set-up would in some way include  Max Robinson,  Tim Russert,  and my all-time favorite, Ed Bradley.   <br><br>...  See,  boys and girls, back in the day, news reporting was actually done with some integrity and journalistic standards....</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1083685" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1083685">Nellcote</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1083685" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1083685" class="dsq-comment-message">The debate set up... I can\'t forgive Russert in being complicit in the runup to the War or his part in the Scooter Libby farce, so he\'s out.  I propose Bill Moyers instead, along with Charlayne Hunter-Gault and Ed Bradley if we could tear him away from that jam in Heaven ;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1083748" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1083748" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1083748">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1083748" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1083748" class="dsq-comment-message">Nellcote:  I saw that the late Tim\'s son will be a guest commentator for the DNC Convention.   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1083995">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1083995" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1083995" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1083995" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1083995" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1083995" class="dsq-comment-message">Heh, <b>GreenLady</b>, that\'s how white boys roll - they call it networking.  <br><br>But we don\'t emulate them on stuff like that unless, perhaps, you\'re a soror or a frat....</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1084063" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1084063" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1084063">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1084063" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1084063" class="dsq-comment-message">99%:  You are correct!!!  Sadly!  :&gt;(  Something about crabs/barrels!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1086723">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1086723" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1086723" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1086723">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1086723" class="dsq-comment-message">If black people give each other the hook-up, we\'re WRONG.<br><br>Questions for Sen. Obama:<br><br>If your wife hates white people so much, why does she put "Just 4 Me" in your daughters\' hair?  Is she trying to be white?  Does she hate white people because she can\'t be white?<br><br>Will Michelle be redecorating the Oval Office in Red, Black and Green?<br><br>What is your furniture like?  Is is black laquer and is all the plastic still on it?<br><br>Will you be putting wooden forks and spoons on the walls?<br><br>What will you be serving at State dinners?  Will you be serving arugula or collard greens?<br><br>Why are your lips so black?<br><br>Why won\'t you send your children to DC Public Schools?  Don\'t you think the President should send their children to public schools to signify their support for public education?<br><br>Did you run for the Presidency so you could get free public housing?<br><br>Is Michelle familiar with public housing?  Don\'t you think you and your family living in the White House is a form of welfare?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1085128" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1085128" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1085128">isonprize</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1085128" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1085128" class="dsq-comment-message">true dat, re: Russert and the war, though I must confess I didn\'t know about the Scooter connection.     But you gotta admit, when he decided to tear someone a new one, they would be on the way to the emergency room when he finished with \'em. <br><br>I would also add Gwen Ifill, but you know, ain\'t NO WAY two sistas would be \'allowed\' at the same time...</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1083614" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1083614" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1083614">Miranda</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1083614" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1083614" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh Michelle Malkin is still colored...much to her dismay. She so wants to be blonde and blue-eyed, poor dear....self-hate is a terrible thing.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1083700" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1083700" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1083700">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1083700" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1083700" class="dsq-comment-message">co-sign!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1083573" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1083573" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1083573">BlackButterfly</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1083573" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1083573" class="dsq-comment-message">Ahhh yes...the good old days of journalistic standards and integrity!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1083656" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1083656" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1083656">Nellcote</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1083656" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1083656" class="dsq-comment-message">This past year especially, I\'ve missed Ed Bradley so much.  I\'d have loved to have seen him cover Obama\'s march to the presidency.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1083373" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1083373" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1083373">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1083373" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1083373" class="dsq-comment-message">Senator:  I know that you have been asked this question a thousand times, BUT, what COLOR do you plan to paint the White House!  And a follow-up to that:  I have a cousin named "Boo" who is in the painting business?  Do ya think that you could hook a brotha up on the paint job?  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1083925" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1083925" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1083925" href="http://www.ilivetoshop.typepad.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ruthdfw</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1083925" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1083925" class="dsq-comment-message">oh that is too good - and sadly too much of a ring of truth...LOL. though for the record my cousin\'s name is pooky</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1083954" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1083954" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1083954">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1083954" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1083954" class="dsq-comment-message">ruthdfw:  Thanks for the follow-up!   :&gt;)  :&gt;)  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1083392" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1083392" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1083392">Justin Pugh</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1083392" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1083392" class="dsq-comment-message">Thats funny... I like that one!!!!<br><br>Like...<br><br>Do you plan on putting spinners on your new Cadillacs?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1083398" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1083398" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1083398">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1083398" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1083398" class="dsq-comment-message">Justin:  U R wild!!!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1083382" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1083382" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1083382">Admiral_Komack</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1083382" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1083382" class="dsq-comment-message">"Obama needs to have a “Press Conference On All Things Black”<br><br>-And if he does, he STILL won\'t be black enough for some folks.<br><br>Election Day cannot come soon enough.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1083282" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1083282" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1083282">Kat</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1083282" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1083282" class="dsq-comment-message">How you get your hands on a copy of the questions that will be asked at the next ABC debate????</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1084473" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1084473" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1084473">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1084473" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1084473" class="dsq-comment-message">Send a request to FOX.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1083388" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1083388" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1083388">Justin Pugh</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1083388" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1083388" class="dsq-comment-message">Senator,<br><br>Do you believe O.J. did it?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1083960" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1083960" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1083960" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1083960" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1083960" class="dsq-comment-message">Senator,<br><br>Did OJ do it? And what up with your black folk jury that let him off the hook?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1083394" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1083394" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1083394">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1083394" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1083394" class="dsq-comment-message">JACK:  I just got up off the floor!!!  Lawd!  Lawd!  Lawd!!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br>"Laughing all the way"  [a line from "Here Comes Santa Claus"] to the floor again!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1083405" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1083405" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1083405">PTCruiser</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1083405" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1083405" class="dsq-comment-message">Obama should avoid feeding this monster, which is precisely why I argued that his Fathers Day speech was inappropriate. This is a bottomless well and he lacks the sort of independence that, say, someone like James Baldwin possessed to address these questions. Obama is a politician and he should stick to politics. Obama cannot represent for all black people. In fact, at this point black folks would probably be better off if we ourselves called a moratorium on trying to explain anything at all to white folks. Everything that could be said has been said over and over and over again.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1084002" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1084002">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1084002" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1084002" class="dsq-comment-message">Agreed!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1083483" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1083483" href="http://nquest2xl.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Nquest</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1083483" class="dsq-comment-message">PTC, could you elaborate more on how Obama\'s Father\'s Day speech was inappropriate?  Was it because he cast himself as the black guy uniquely situated to rain down thunder, lightening, fire and brimstone on Black people?<br><br>I remember an interview he did where he almost bragged about how uniquely situated he was to understand the Black side and the White side in the race divide and, consequently, uniquely situated to bridge that divide.  That Q&A had the flavor of this "Tell Me About Black People" stuff.<br><br>It will be interesting to see how he deals with the questions we know are coming from the White press over things like this.  Hmmm...  I haven\'t kept up but the media is almost sh*t out of luck when it comes to the hecklers:  they can\'t re-pimp that generational divide line they used to take swipes at Jesse.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1083963" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1083963" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1083963">PTCruiser</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1083963" class="dsq-comment-message">Nquest,<br><br>With all due respect, I can\'t write anymore on that issue. In short, I thought the speech was inappropriate because I felt that Obama was talking to white people, not black people. We were just props in the pulpit. He was pandering and it really does not matter whether some things he said were true. Black folks don\'t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.<br><br> Further, when Obama spoke to the National Council of La Raza he did not talk about public school drop out rates among Hispanics, or teen pregnancy or about Latino youth who are involved in drugs and gang violence. He told them they were an "aspirational community." <br><br>Final point: On a personal note I simply resented hearing this b.s. from him on Fathers Day. My late father, paternal and maternal grandfathers and great-grandfathers, great uncles and uncles got up everyday and did what they could to take care of their families.  In addition, my wife and I adopted three black children out of foster care long past our child rearing years because, in part, we wanted to give something back to our community. Obama and the people who supported that Fathers Day speech could put it where the sun don\'t shine as far as I am concerned.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1084030" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1084030" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1084030" href="http://nquest2xl.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Nquest</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1084030" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1084030" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>I can\'t write anymore on that issue.</i><br><br>That\'s cool, bruh...  I just wanted to see the connection you were drawing.<br><br>Re: La Raza...  There\'s a pattern to it.  He used that same "aspirational community" rhetoric (not the term per se) when he spoke before LULAC - League of United Latin American Citizens.  Re: La Raza, this stands out: <br><br><i>I\'m not taking a single Latino vote for granted in this campaign. We\'re meeting with Latino leaders across the country. We\'re reaching out to Latino organizations to get input on my policy proposals. We\'ve got a nationwide Hispanic media strategy. We\'re recruiting and training Latino organizers. We\'re holding Latino voter registration drives across America. And when I\'m President, I\'ll be asking many of you to serve at every level of government.</i></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1083426" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1083426" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1083426">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1083426" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1083426" class="dsq-comment-message">Senator:  Will all of the meals for the State Dinners with visiting dignitaries consist of the usual cuisine?:  chitterlings, collard greens, red beans and rice and sweet potato pie or will that be peach cobbler??  And a follow-up question:  I have an "auntie" who can put her foot in it!  Can you hook a sista up in the kitchen??</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1083721" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1083721" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1083721">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1083721" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1083721" class="dsq-comment-message">Senator how did you get all those people to send you their money? Did you promise them prayer cloths? What kind of Rev Ike tom-foolery is that?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1083736" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1083736">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1083736" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1083736" class="dsq-comment-message">:&gt;)     :&gt;)   :&gt;)   :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1083930" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1083930" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1083930" href="http://www.ilivetoshop.typepad.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ruthdfw</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1083930" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1083930" class="dsq-comment-message">everyone knows big mamma need a job - she ain\'t got no social security</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1083591" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1083591" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1083591">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1083591" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1083591" class="dsq-comment-message">Senator:  Really.  You can tell us  - Was that "dap" really a "terroristic fist jab!!"<br><br>And a follow-up question - will all White House staff and all who enter the oval office be required to use the "dap" instead of a handshake?<br><br>Oh, and another final question- Looking ahead, can we expect that the "dap" will be  replaced by yet another hand movement in 2010??<br><br>Thank you Senator!  Now how does that "dap" work again!???</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1083829" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1083829" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1083829">T.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1083829" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1083829" class="dsq-comment-message">Guys, you are killin\' me!  <br><br>Anyway, I notice that the McBush/GOP\'s divide-and-conquer strategy of the Obama coalition is in full swing. They started with the low hanging fruit I see - the black community. They seem to think that the easiest group to dismantle is us. But, weirdly, this time, I have faith that it will not happen. I think they are wasting their time because in the end, Obama will get way over 90% of the black vote, and the black turnout will be huge. So, they are barking up the wrong tree. And, our Hispanic friends will stand with us.<br><br>In the last week alone, so many issues regarding race and racial sub-texts...i mean, my head is reeling...coincidence or not? I say not!<br><br>Hang tight and pray y\'all. This is going to be a rough ride. But on the morning of Nov 5th, we will all be smiling. <br>When things get rough around here, that\'s what I think about, the morning of Nov 5th...with a big ole grin on my face.<br><br>President Obama!!!<br><br>T.<br><br>ps. So McCain goes to the National Urban League? Comedic, isn\'t it?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1083919" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1083919" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1083919">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1083919" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1083919" class="dsq-comment-message">T:"  The words  "You had ta be there" now really kick in!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1083974" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1083974" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1083974">msmartin</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1083974" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1083974" class="dsq-comment-message">Jack, all jokes aside, they skipped the questions and are providing the answers by dredging up everything and all things "black" they could find to display through media to the voting public.  It\'s another "guilt by association" tactic.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1084000" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1084000">Nita</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1084000" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1084000" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL at \'The List\'</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1084016" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1084016">Texas_Girl_in_LA</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1084016" class="dsq-comment-message">Speaking of <i>all things black</i><br><br>I just saw this over at Jed\'s<br><br>I had to listen to this a couple of times....<br><br>Did McCain just say he fought for the recognition of <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1AjO-IxfMY&eurl=http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/08/02/mccain-lies-about-his-support-for-mlk-jr-day-in-arizona/ rel="nofollow">Dr. Martin Luther King\'s Day in Arizona?</a href>  Help me out here...please.....<br><br>Oh and listen to the huge senior moment pause before he starts to answer the question regarding the race card and black issues. I thought he fell asleep at first....</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1084053">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1084053" class="dsq-comment-message">Texas:  OOOOOOO-eeeeeee!  This is a masterful clip!!!!  Beginning loooooonnnnnng pause!  :&gt;)    That was the state of C-O-N-F-U-S-I-O-N at work!!!!! Beautiful!!  :&gt;)  Hey!  I forgot the song "Ball of Confusion." O\'Jays???<br><br>Did he answer the question?  Ya know, he hoped that he did!  BUT  NO HE DIDN\'T!!!  :&gt;)<br>Also notice how he, like billary, have difficulty having the words African-American come passed his lips!  Cain\'t do it!!!<br><br>Lying all the way:  He confessed in Alabama and to the Urban League that "I made a mistake!" [When he didn\'t support thr Dr. MLK holiday.<br>And yes, I would love to see his Senatorial record- like his military record! Hmmmm.<br><br>Whew!  LMAO Deep Breaths!   :&gt;)  :&gt;)  :&gt;)  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1085089">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1085089" class="dsq-comment-message">YES! That\'s the "Hummina, Hummina" moment I posted about the other day! <br><br>A REAL journalist would\'ve called him out on that lie, but....well...you know....</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1084020">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1084020" class="dsq-comment-message">Senator:  A press release has raise the question of your weight.  As a follow-up, I wanted to ask about your hair.<br><br>Will you be sporting the 5" or the 6" Afro at your Inauguration in January?<br><br>And one quick final question?  Cake pick or regular plastic comb pick?<br><br>Thank you for your candor!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1084070" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1084070" class="dsq-comment-message">Speaking of cake - will you be representing brothers and sisters in the White House with your love for red velvet cake?<br><br>Oh yeah, Senator, is their any truth to the rumor that, should you become the first black president you\'ll have the privilege of having your likeness on paper currency?  The repugs, Speaker Pelosi and the Clintons have protested this honor and, in the spirit of party unity and non-partisanship, are insisting that your image only appears on EBT cards for all 50 states and US possessions.<br><br>How do you feel about that?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1084080">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1084080" class="dsq-comment-message">99%:  Good ones!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1084034" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1084034" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh I thought this was serious for a minute. Speaking of Prince & MJ I\'m off to Soul Slam the annual DJ Spinna party that is always stellar. This year I\'m dressing in the style of New Power Generation members.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1084112" href="http://uppitynegronetwork.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">the uppity negro</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1084112" class="dsq-comment-message">What is your current church affliation?  If there is none, is your lack of church affiliation your embracing of the Muslim faith or even the Nation of Islam?<br><br>But honestly, he might as well.  As far as I\'m concerned "post-racial" was the biggest gaffe because now, when race comes up the white folk can holla that people are not following in Obama\'s (the black man) vision of a "post-racial society" and now [liberal] white folk have the perfect excuse to think racism doesn\'t exist, or moreover that it\'s not as bad as it really seems.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1086749" href="http://nquest2xl.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Nquest</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1086749" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes, Obama felt he could accentuate the positive and "look beyond their faults" (see how that works... for everybody except Black people) and now he\'s going to have a hell of a time navigating an obstacle course he helped set up for himself.<br><br>It will be interesting to see, once Obama becomes president (and there\'s no doubt in my mind about that) if he will ever go back to that Philadelphia, race speech "teaching" moment for White folks or if that will go down in history as another one of those missed moments...</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1085911">Oldnovice</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1085911" class="dsq-comment-message">Thank you; I don\'t either.  He\'s gonna need something like 40% of the white vote to beat McCain and every time his race is mentioned he goes lower in the polls because people who\'d not thought about it before suddenly question their logic in voting for him.  Eugene Robinson recently suggested that it wouldn\'t take long before the comments came about Obama not being black enough.  Thing is, though ... he expected those comments out of the McCain camp and not the black community.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1087319">LL</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1087319" class="dsq-comment-message">People in the black community always complain about being taken for granted by democrats. Most blacks were going to vote for Slick Willie\'s wife before the South Carolina primary without even demanding she do anything for the black community. William Jefferson was caught with money in the freezer, but black folks sent him back to Congress. The question should be asked: Do black voters take their votes for granted? Voting blocks that want to be taken seriously ask questions and make demands BEFORE the politician is elected rather than acting as passive cheerleaders for the political establishment. Instead, black voters allow slick politicians to triangulate their positions during the campaign just to find out that the politician was no different than the last. What is more troubling is that the passive cheerleaders on this blog don\'t think that the criminal justice system deserves national attention. If Booker T. Obama can\'t convince 40% of white voters that our criminal justice system (after O.J., Paris, and Noel) needs an overhaul, then he is not as "charismatic" or "articulate" as some would have us believe.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1094926">kenyaw</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1094926" class="dsq-comment-message">LL,<br><br>Obama has been talking about the criminal justice system for the over 10 years.  What are you talking about? <br><br>Nevertheless, a black male incarceration rate is not a platform on which you run a campaign.  That is activist work.  It is up to activist to lobby on behalf of the community affected by that problem.  It would be up to the POTUS to endure that the Justice Department is doing its job.  <br>Is SBO suppose to be on the stomp saying "vote for me because we need to keep black people out of jail or vote for me because we need to make sure that crack dealers and coke dealers get the same time"?  Really... I mean really.<br>Folks need to focus on your state and local elected officials.  How about voters start doing research on the judges that they elected, since they have a direct impact on the criminal justice system.<br><br>Lastly, what does Paris Hiltons case have to do with our justice system being overhauled?  Do you live in California?  <br>The federal govt does not, and should not set state laws.  If someone can afford an attorney that is better than a public defender, then you should hate on them for being able to afford a good lawyer.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1098711">LL</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1098711" class="dsq-comment-message">Booker T. Obama and his passive cheerleaders think that just because he no longer represents a black district in the state senate they can hide behind <i>states\' rights</i> arguments.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1087279" href="http://blacksmythe.com/blog" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">blacksmythe</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1087279" class="dsq-comment-message">A couple of points:<br>1. Black people do not have a "mediocre voting record" as someone above noted. Black people are actually more likely to vote than their white counterparts when you take poverty and education into consideration.<br><br>2. If Barack Obama is running for President of Black America, then black people should be as critical of him as any other Democratic candidate. Further Obama himself should refrain from talking about black people to whites (as per the Father\'s Day speech PTC referenced), UNLESS he is giving the same speech to, I don\'t know...the banking community.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1095189">kenyaw</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1095189" class="dsq-comment-message">blacksmythe,<br><br>"Barack Obama is running for President of Black America" Huh??<br><br>Why would Obama being running for President of Black America? Is there such a job?<br><br>"Further Obama himself should refrain from talking about black people to whites (as per the Father\'s Day speech PTC referenced)"<br><br>I am confused.  The church was full of negroes.  He was speaking to a room full of NEGROES!! Ya\'ll crazy!!!<br>CAN HE OR CAN HE NOT TALK ABOUT BLACK ISSUES??????????????????<br>If he talks about criminal justice = only speak of crooked cops and judges<br>if he talks about fatherhood = don\'t mention responsiblity (ever!)<br>if he talks about education = don\'t talk about the drop out rate over the past 20 years, just Bush\'s no child left behind of the past 6<br><br>This is pure madness.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1104474" href="http://blacksmythe.com/blog" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">blacksmythe</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1104474" class="dsq-comment-message">Thanks Kenyaw for replying, and my second statement is a bit confusing. Let me try again.<br><br>2. If Barack Obama is running for President of AMERICA, rather than President of Black America, then Obama should not only refrain from speaking to "black interests", he should refrain from using black people the way white candidates have used them (to show how tough he is on crime, welfare, and on democratic "special interests"). <br><br>While you\'re being facetious...you are absolutely right. If he\'s going to talk about changing politics as we know it, then he should only speak of structural issues dealing with crime, he should only talk about systemic responsibility, and he should only talk about systemic issues with schools. <br><br>Unless of course, he\'s a normal politician who uses racially charged issues to attract moderate white voters by crapping on blacks. Then it\'s ALLL good. Keep hope alive! (Oops...wrong guy.)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1107674">kenyaw</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1107674" class="dsq-comment-message">b,<br><br>Love ya, but you are tripping!<br><br>What if he is a black man running for POTUS, who cares about his community and he has thoughts and ideas that he did put in terms of policy.  And what if he chooses to express some of those ideas to his community? This is a new paradigm for us and it is going to take some getting used to; I understand that much.<br><br>Have you walked outside lately?  Do you see what is going on in our community?  We need all of our collective minds to work together to make some major changes. Somebody needs to be mad enough to take action. Don\'t like what he said, then how bout we make today, August 5th, "Adopt a Babydaddy or Momma Day".  Let\'s start some abstinece groups. Quit complaining and lets start working. <br><br>Luckily for us ALL, we have freedom of speech in this country and that includes Sen Obama.<br>"He should only"...Aint that about a blimp! Dude is a grown ass man. The nerve of you.<br><br>And yes Keep Hope Alive.  I won first place for writing a speech with the same title.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1107730" href="http://blacksmythe.com/blog" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">blacksmythe</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1107730" class="dsq-comment-message">Tripping. <br><br>I\'ll be that.<br><br>The problem is that it isn\'t a new paradigm for us. Bill Clinton gave a very similar speech in a black church when he was President. I felt the same way then--that he was playing black people like chumps and blaming us for problems that weren\'t our responsibility--in order to show moderate white voters how hard he was. Hated it then. Why should I have a different opinion just because it\'s someone black saying it?<br><br>"Have you walked outside lately?"<br><br>I\'ll give the same response I gave to Amiri Baraka. I\'ve got a black wife, five black kids, live in a black neighborhood...and I would\'ve added if there weren\'t more guests on the show...I pledged a black community, and I study black people for a living. <br><br>Have I gone outside? <br><br>Yes.<br><br>Abstinence doesn\'t work. But on top of that, Pookie doesn\'t have anything to do with either the energy crisis, or the subprime lending crisis. Black babbies daddies can all of a sudden get hella responsible and it. wouldn\'t. change. a. thing.<br><br>Except perhaps people couldn\'t blame black babbies daddies for the problems we have anymore. <br><br>(The nerve of me? How do you think presidential elections in a democracy work? He says what he says, I\'m supposed to just take it, keep my mouth shut and cast a vote? On the real?)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1108516">kenyaw</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1108516" class="dsq-comment-message">B,<br><br>Abstinence does work. Maybe not for everyone, but it is a good way to encourage young men and women to respect themselves a little bit more. At least wait until they are adults.<br><br>My "the nerve of you" comment was in response to you listing the things that Sen Obama should ONLY talk about.  Your vote does not give you license to dictate everything that comes out of his mouth.  You have the right as an American, to question anyone that you want.<br><br>Lastly, sub-prime lending is not an evil.  It can work for people who make it work.  As you know every home that is going up for foreclosure is not due to a subprime loan, there are prime loans and an over purchasing of investment properties that have gone belly up.<br>  <br>But now that we are on a more important subject. I don\'t think that the government should regulate the free market.  The credit card companies have more rights and can adjust interest rates all day, while the people keep losing their freedom of choice in the free market.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1108560">kenyaw</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1108560" class="dsq-comment-message">B,<br>one more thing. lol<br>He is an extra-ordinary politician and that is obvious to see when you look at where he has gotten.  But he is still a human being and therefore flawed like you and I.<br><br>What is somewhat different for this office he is running for, is that he wants the American people to get involved in the process and bring about the "change".  Like any good revoluntionary would want.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1087473" href="http://www.someofnothing.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">slag</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1087473" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'ve never commented here before (I don\'t think), so I\'m kind of sad that this is going to be the quality of my first comment but it simply must be said:<br><i>"The year is 1983. Prince or Michael Jackson?"</i><br>hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1092081">NO ID</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1092081" class="dsq-comment-message">Prince is clearly the correct answer :-)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1094735">kenyaw</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1094735" class="dsq-comment-message">No Id,<br><br>Of course. MJ can\'t f with the whole Dirty Minds Album.<br><br>Kenya</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1087559" class="dsq-comment-message">Senator:  You stated that they would say that you had a funny name.<br>Do you plan to adopt a Hip Hop name upon your Inauguration?<br>You say that you will keep your initials?  O.K<br><br>       Booyah 2da Hoop O-yeah!!!<br><br>Senator, for the record  --How do you spell that?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1087577">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1087577" class="dsq-comment-message">Senator:  As I stated B4, there have been comments on your size and my question is about your style when you assume office.  <br><br>Your pant size will be 40 to match the OUNCES that will be served at the first reception??<br><br>Uh - thank you Senator!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1087667">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1087667" class="dsq-comment-message">Senator: What flavor of Kool-Aid do you prefer: Red or Grape?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1098929" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1098929">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1098929" class="dsq-comment-message">Senator:  Up until your Inauguration, your campaign has used the slogan -                YES WE CAN!  Will you use a different one afterwards to address Mr. McCain?<br><br>          "NO YOU CAIN\'T"??"    <br><br>And a follow-up question?  How do you roll your head on your neck like that??<br><br>Finally, do you snap your fingers during the head roll or after??<br><br>One more?  Is this called the DISS ATTITUDE???<br><br>Uhhhhhhhh -thank you Senator.  ~ ~? ?  ?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1083429" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1083429" href="http://nquest2xl.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Nquest</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1083429" class="dsq-comment-message">I like how Obama has finally found the courage or finally felt comfortable with saying he should be held to the same standards as other candidates.  We should fault Black people in the media for not press McCain on issues.  McCain quickly turned the race spotlight off of him and his support of Ward Connerly\'s Arizona initiative by all-of-a-sudden claiming Obama was playing the race card and Obama\'s dumb azz let that sh*t slide; him and them dummies running his campaign.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1083454" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1083454" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1083454">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1083454" class="dsq-comment-message">Finally? Did you miss it when he said it back in Feb? Those dummies running his campaign have managed quite well thus far, if you think those folks are "dummies" dare I ask whose campaign you\'re making that comparison to in order to justify that description?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1083791" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1083791" href="http://nquest2xl.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Nquest</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1083791" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1083791" class="dsq-comment-message">What did he do in Feb?<br><br>I can remember the dummy (Obama) doing the dance as soon as Richard Cohen said jump.   He followed that up with "Yes, Miss Hillary.  I\'ll denounce and reject" but you and I both know that Negro never said a mumbling word when Hillary went right to Texas and promptly contradicted the very standard she made him dance to.   She didn\'t denounce, reject or disown her "racism" supporter and Obama said nothing.<br><br>Obama\'s mouth was closed when the media and Hillary kept claiming he had a problem with White voters, particularly White working class voters but Obama was mum and didn\'t say, "hey, how come ya\'ll not saying she has a problem attracting Black voters."<br><br>So you can stop playing stupid.  John Kerry won the Dem nomination with campaign handlers who were dummies to ever let an AWOL Bush and his campaign "swift boat" him.<br><br>It\'s as if the very topic here goes right over your head.  It\'s as if you imagined Obama questioning the media about how they covered John McCain and his "preacher problems."</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1083856" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1083856">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1083856" class="dsq-comment-message">You can pull your dashiki off, and cut the pretense of "I\'m the blackest, blue-black, blurple, blackety-black brutha" routine...nobody\'s buying it. Obama said plainly he did not want any special treatment in response to the criticism he received for not attending that waste of time called "The State of the Black Union".  While you\'re sitting here playing message board provateur, calling Obama\'s campaign "dummies - by the way, what campaign have you managed that was so successful? - Obama\'s camp has done what WAS the impossible...a man of color is the presumptive Democratic nominee with long, and I do mean LONG, pockets. John Kerry won a easy campaign and then promptly ran out of money to even suggest a real fight...not that anyone was particularly moved with his candidacy in the first place. Obama took on a much more popular opponent (at the time), started out with much less of a war  chest, and just in case you\'re still in doubt - ask any white person - he\'s plenty black. <br><br>But you go ahead with your armchair, fight the powers that be, no justice, no peace, message board politicking. Obviously you\'re in some state of 1975 denial and don\'t realize its the 21st century and Barack Obama has re-written the book on this game that we\'re all "virtually" playing.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1084993" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1084993">TRW</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1084993" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1084993" class="dsq-comment-message">I really don\'t understand how Black people don\'t see that bringing up racial topics hurts, not helps Obama.  The truth of the matter is yes, I felt that the whole renounce and reject situation was absolutely ridiculous, as well as the hard working white people comment.  But Obama didn\'t have to say anything.  For people who were paying attention, it was further evidence that something was amiss with the Clinton campaign.  If he had spoken out about every racial slight that HRC threw his way, don\'t people think for a minute that he would have been accused of playing the victim, and yes, even the race card?  Which would have hurt him.  People just don\'t think sometimes.  <br><br>You have to work smarter, not harder.  By the time that HRC got around to the hard working white people comment, Obama didn\'t need to say a word because plenty of people called her out on it, and it made her look bad.  <br><br>Obama has been on the tightrope about race since the primary began, but apparently some Black people want him to walk the tightrope and do back flips and jumps.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1085564" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1085564" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1085564" href="http://baratunde.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">baratunde</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1085564" class="dsq-comment-message">co-signing on this intelligent analysis.<br><br>we already know what would have happened had obama called HRC out on every single slight her campaign offered up. because SHE did it.<br><br>SHE played the victim<br>SHE whined<br>SHE bullied and intimidated<br>SHE accused Obama and the media of sexism repeatedly<br><br>I know that many of her and her supporter\'s claims were legit, but when the focus of your campaign is whining about the other side, you come across as weak. That\'s not "leaderly."<br><br>Look at the trouble Hillary had with it as a white woman and imagine if the black man\'s campaign did this directly. There would have been zero tolerance. <br><br>That\'s why WE had to do it with the wiki and other tools.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1086306" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1086306" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1086306" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1086306" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1086306" class="dsq-comment-message">Say it again. <br><br>WE have to fight with Barack in this war.<br><br>And it\'s a war.<br><br>Too many people stand to lose too much if Barack wins.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1085593" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1085593">Micheline</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1085593" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1085593" class="dsq-comment-message">C-signing</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1083862" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1083862" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1083862">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1083862" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1083862" class="dsq-comment-message">Sorry, that\'s "provocateur".......<br><br>People beware...there are so many spooks in the building.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1083931" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1083931" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1083931">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1083931" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1083931" class="dsq-comment-message">Miranda:  Whooooooooooooo!   :&gt;)  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1084044" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1084044" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1084044">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1084044" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1084044" class="dsq-comment-message">Its a shame, but these agent provocateurs running around hollering about reparations and yelling "why won\'t Barack talk about black issues" probably put their two rusty nickels in a WHITE bank, have their little piss poor insurance policies thru a WHITE insurer and a bunch of african masks and trinkets all made in Taiwan, but swear they have the lock on blackness. Please, they can kiss my BLACK azz.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1084102" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1084102" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1084102">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1084102" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1084102" class="dsq-comment-message">Miranda:   OUCH!!!!!   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1084128" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1084128" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1084128" href="http://nquest2xl.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Nquest</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1084128" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1084128" class="dsq-comment-message">Damn, Freeper...  My insurance man is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha. <br><br>GET A FREAKIN\' CLUE!!<br><br>And leave all your naked psycho-melodrama issues out of this.  Here\'s a link to a list of <a href="http://www.abpsi.org/listing.htm" rel="nofollow">BLACK Psychologists</a>, though.  Maybe they can help your BLACK azz with your issues vicarious trauma issues -- you taking critiques about Obama so damn personal like somebody smacked the sh*t out your azz when they (I) made arguments that you just can\'t contend with.  So now you\'re pulling the Freeper routine.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1084712" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1084712" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1084712">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1084712" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1084712" class="dsq-comment-message">Your insurance man is an Alpha?......AND? Who is your INSURER? Please....you\'re just another agent provocateur running around in 30 years ago hollering about "my people" but doing ONLY that.....just a empty voice.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1086218" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1086218" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1086218">carolinagirl</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1086218" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1086218" class="dsq-comment-message">Off topic here, but does anybody like those Lays Spicy BBQ potato chips as much as I do? I can\'t eat just one.<br><br>....Just trying to ease the tension in here.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1086262" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1086262" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1086262" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1086262" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1086262" class="dsq-comment-message">There\'s not tension in here. Don\'t you get it? We\'re only making the rightwing <i>think</i> that we\'re bickering so they can get the false sense of security that their tactics are working to divide us all the while we\'ll be more unified than ever in making sure their Dangerous Puppet won\'t get into the White House to pillage more sovereign nations and savage the lives of more colored people.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1086476" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1086476" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1086476">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1086476" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1086476" class="dsq-comment-message">Ha!  No matter what anyone says...I think we\'ll all support Barack, even if he spits in our eye.  And for those who can vote, they\'ll still vote for him.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1086701" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1086701">carolinagirl</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1086701" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1086701" class="dsq-comment-message">Okay, so I guess that\'s a no on the spicy bbq potato chips. <br><br>;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1088953" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1088953" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1088953">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1088953" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1088953" class="dsq-comment-message">Good one!!!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1089496" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1089496" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1089496" href="http://nquest2xl.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Nquest</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1089496" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1089496" class="dsq-comment-message">In other words, I\'ve made arguments that you can\'t contend with.<br><br>END OF STORY<br><br>But if concocting crazy azz theories about what type of person I must be is a salve for your soul...  I\'ll be your scapegoat.<br><br>Yes, the fact that Barack Obama treats Black folks that vote for him demonstrably different than he does any other voting demographics is all about me and who my insurer it.<br><br>Matter of fact, my insurer made Barack do it. <br><br>Wait...  I\'m self-insured.  That way all the blame for your inability to deal with Barack being criticized can be all on me.<br><br>Anything to excuse your inability to contend with what I\'ve said.  But then that would make me an Agent Provocateur trying to stir up an logic uprising on JJP.  <br><br>Your response:  we can\'t have any of that.<br><br><br>HIL-freakin\'-LARIOUS!!!<br><br><br>Re:  "MY PEOPLE"<br><br>Talk to Craig.  With that "we\'ll be more unified" rhetoric along with the open-hand, limp-wristed play of the "savage the lives of more colored people" card...  Well, even the crazy azz image you\'ve created of me in your mind couldn\'t top that.<br><br>The brother is good.   lol<br><br>But, see...  as long as I post and am free to post here, I will be provoking some logic off in here and laughing my ass of when people like you and Craig take leave of your senses and abandon logic and the sense God and "your people" gave you just because... Well, because of whatever your mostly undisclosed and obviously unresolved issue is.<br><br>Anytime, though...  Anytime any one of ya\'ll (you, Craig or the Ray Charles understudy) want to actually deal with what I actually say then I\'ll be right here, "empty voice" and all, ready for any one of you to say something on-topic and remotely intelligent.  <br><br>Until then, I\'ll be here waiting to oblige your next bit of stupidity and questioning your mental stability.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1093839" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1093839" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1093839">NO ID</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1093839" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1093839" class="dsq-comment-message">hmmm, not sure who i agree with here as you both make good points, though i\'m leaning toward nquest, dashiki and all. i just love that JJP gives black folks a place to have the debates, and brings forth the level of commentary that it does. i have to say my beloved root has fallen off. it\'s much more fun over here lately.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1083903" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1083903" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1083903" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1083903" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1083903" class="dsq-comment-message">Keep on dropping it like it\'s hot, <b>Miranda</b>, because, sorry to say, but that is one ignorant post that you so aptly responded to.<br><br>They posted some seriously misguided repug talking points.  In fact, it sounds like McCentury is up in here speaking gobbledy-gook under the guise of trying to speak jive.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1083940" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1083940" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1083940">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1083940" class="dsq-comment-message">99Percent....these rejects from the Black Revolutionary Liberation New World Order People of the Motherland Nationalist Agenda Party are really a nuisance.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1083955" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1083955" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1083955" href="http://nquest2xl.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Nquest</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1083955" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1083955" class="dsq-comment-message">Ha! Ha! <br><br>This sh*t is hilarious!!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1083997" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1083997" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1083997" href="http://nquest2xl.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Nquest</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1083997" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1083997" class="dsq-comment-message">Now tell me what did Obama do when Miss Hillary told him to reject and denounce Farrakhan then turned her azz around and accepted Adelfa Callejo\'s support.  <br><br>Did he tell Tim Russert in that debate to not hold him to a standard other candidates aren\'t held to?<br><br>Hell, nawl!!<br><br>What about the "preacher problems" him and McCain was having?  Did he say anything about the double-standard?  <br><br>When he was asked about the Cherokee Freedman?  Did he say, "How come you\'re not asking the other candidates?" <br><br>Hell, nawl.  He\'s FINALLY doing that just like it took him a long azz time to stand up for his wife and I won\'t even mention how long it took him to stand up for the people at Trinity.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1083928" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1083928" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1083928">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1083928" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1083928" class="dsq-comment-message">99%:  OOPS.  Looks like somebody "stepped in it"!!!!!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1083922" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1083922" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1083922">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1083922" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1083922" class="dsq-comment-message">So this IS HOW YOU REALLY FEEL???? Huh!   Yaaaaaa!   :&gt;)  :&gt;)  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1083938" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1083938" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1083938" href="http://www.ilivetoshop.typepad.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ruthdfw</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1083938" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1083938" class="dsq-comment-message">preach on girlfriend ---- somebody fan this girl and get her a class of water before she "take her seat"</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1083952" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1083952" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1083952" href="http://nquest2xl.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Nquest</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1083952" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>You can pull your dashiki off</i><br><br>Ha! Ha! Ha!!<br><br><i>just in case you\'re still in doubt - ask any white person - he\'s plenty black.</i><br><br>What the hell are you talking about?   roflmbao!!!<br><br>I\'ve never question Obama\'s blackness and I\'ve cut at the pretenses of those who have.  So you\'re routine has run out of time and material.  You just can\'t touch what you claim I\'m trying to sell.  Rather than actually pose a coherent counterpoint, you\'d rather engage in bs "dashiki" rhetoric showing how you just can\'t deal with what I say.<br><br>So, yes... Given those multiple incidents where Obama kept his mouth closed and didn\'t same a damn word about the double-standard the media was holding him to...  FINALLY.<br><br><i>Obama said plainly he did not want any special treatment in response to the criticism he received for not attending that waste of time called "The State of the Black Union".</i><br><br>Hmmm...  Obama FINALLY having the courage to tell the media to hold him to same standard as the other candidates and all you can think about is the SOBU that Hillary attended??<br><br>What double-standard are you talking about then??  And ask a regular...  I\'m on record saying Tavis should have let Michelle come on but that it was a mistake only because other candidate(s), Hillary, took the invitation.<br><br>(BTW, John McCain received some criticism for not speaking at the UNITY convention.)<br><br>Anyway...<br><br>"The criticism he received for not attending the SOBU" came from where, Miranda??    What was the double-standard that Obama felt he was being held to that no other candidate was?<br><br>It was clear that I was talking about the double-standard the media holds Obama to.  So, instead of just playing like you got an legitimate issue... Show when and where the media, the mainstream [white] media held Obama to a different standard?<br><br>Also, let me hear you huff and puff over this "dashiki" statement of mine:<br><br><b>We should fault Black people in the media for not press [ing] McCain on issues. McCain quickly turned the race spotlight off of him and his support of Ward Connerly\'s Arizona initiative by all-of-a-sudden claiming Obama was playing the race card...</b><br><br>That or explain what this is all about.  Did I slap the sh*t out of you somewhere or what?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1084023">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1084023" class="dsq-comment-message">Exhibit A of why  reparations is a delusional issue at best.  People look at Nquest\'s rantings...hell, if your azz was freed yesterday I wouldn\'t give you a damn dime and its clear your mind is locked up right now.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1084037" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1084037" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1084037" href="http://nquest2xl.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Nquest</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1084037" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1084037" class="dsq-comment-message">Damn, it\'s true.  Somebody turned JJP into Free Republic.<br><br><br>(I can\'t believe I\'m hearing lame azz comebacks like this.)<br><br>Re: Reparations...  Nquest supports the ideas of most of the leading Reparations advocates and organizations that de-emphasize or don\'t include the idea of cash checks to individuals.<br><br>GET A DAMN CLUE!!!<br><br>(At least you finally came out with what you\'re real issue is:  IGNORANCE and your personal ignorance issues with Reparations.)</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1089712">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1089712" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1089712" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1089712" href="http://nquest2xl.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Nquest</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1089712" class="dsq-comment-message">Re: <b>TRW\'s comments</b> about Barack\'s tight rope...<br><br>Actually, a comment in general and the reason why all this "ya\'ll don\'t say nothing, it\'s going to hurt Barack" silliness has got to stop:<br><br><i>"If I don\'t win, it\'s not going to be because of my race. It\'s going to be because I didn\'t project a vision of leadership that gave people confidence. It\'s going to be because of something I didn\'t do as opposed to because I\'m African-American."</i><br><br>But I guess Black people, everyone but Barack I suppose, have to be perfect and, as a result, held to a different standard.  <br><br>Re: the Denounce and Reject thing....  You\'re right, "people just don\'t think sometimes" and that\'s exactly what I charge Obama with: not thinking.  Look at how that set the stage and the whole chain of evidents that helped write Boyce Watkins piece.<br><br>Obama didn\'t think...  Well, he did think he was going to nip the Farrakhan thing in the bud until Hillary and Russert pulled that tag team on him.  He thought about not going along with the Jim Crow custom but then said "fuck it" and went along to get along when he didn\'t have to say anything other than "I\'ve already stepped and fetched..."<br><br>I\'m just playing but anyone who was paying attention and thinking could see how Obama hurt himself doing that.  <br><br>Plus it\'s like you (TRW) jumped in the middle of a conversation and decided to comment without regard for the context.  My original comment acknowledged the kind of situation he was in but also considered other factors.  Your idea though is based on a straw man.  That is unless you can quote someone saying Obama should have responded to "every racial slight."  I don\'t know, maybe the purpose of the Clinton Attacks Obama wiki.<br><br>Again, context is crucial.  You didn\'t ask, but I\'d say let a dumbazz like Ferraro do all the work for you.  She called herself a racist before anybody else did.  No need to respond to that. Hell, how can you top it?<br><br>So, my comments had little if anything to do with saying Obama should have responded saying he was the victim of racism.  In this week\'s incident alone, all he had to do was have his campaign issue a statement and say McCain is just trying to draw attention away from him pattern of flip flopping on issues the most recent of which is his position on the pending referendum item in his own state.<br><br>And the "it will hurt him theory" is struggling because every time he\'s gotten around to standing up on an issue I felt he had to up to and including his race speech... no damage or no serious damage was done.  But maybe you/ya\'ll think his race speech which was all about "racial topics" hurt him.  <br><br>(Note:  I\'m saying his race speech, a well delivered and needed speech, helped him even though I found it problematic.)</div>\
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