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I am just saying if this affects Barack (not sure if it does or not), this affects the family. That's how relationships work. Someone hits my sister, I may not hate them, but I sure do give them a side-eye. That's how family works...a healthy, stable one at least.<br><br><br>I agree with Rev. Wright on a lot of points. I did not once bring up anything he said. I was not referring to his words, but what his words say about the condition of his heart. I am not making a judgment, I am stating an opinion. Someone who talks about \"Them Jews\" is coming from a place of hurt. That's just my opinion as a person.<br><br><br>As someone who believes <b> strongly</b> believes in social justice, and someone who loves Trinity and what it means for Chicago, I thought folks did him wrong. And I even thought Barack was wrong for leaving him to the fray. <br><br><br>But then after things died down, he started acting how shall we say it...disorderly... at the press dinner. I was saddened, but I felt like \"Hey, he's been through Deep South, he's still a Black man in America, in Chicago no less, and he's speaking out. I don't like how this might hurt Obama's chances, but I get where he's coming from\". Then he pulls out \"Them Jews ain\u2019t going to let him talk to me\". I can't stand by that. I'm not focusing on the words, I'm focusing on what the words say about his heart. They speak of resentment and bitterness. These are poison to a Christian. I cannot stand by that, as brothers and sisters we are called to love, care and nurture one another towards Christ. It's an opinion based on his words. I have have judgements towards his words, not who he is as a person.<br><br><br>The other stuff you mention near the end, well, I can't respond to that, I agree with you on most points, especially: <i>While you have a right to be disappointed in him. . . he has an equal right to be disappointed in you/us/the people and country he served.</i> and the point about hypocritical Christians, I don't think I've said anything hypocritical, but potato/potahto. But it seems to go in another direction than what I intended and there really is not need to turn this into a brawl. I respect your views, and I hope you respect mine (especially as we agree more than we disagree). Be well and blessed.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_14:17:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "JunePearl", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10800442, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10814979": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "where is our level of respect in some of our discourse?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_16:58:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10813359, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10807813": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"I don't believe that bad times \"make\" you do things out of character, they only amplify the character that was there to begin with.\"<br><br>Town -- this is a first for me. . . you are wrong.  Bad times CAN make you do things out of character.  Been there done that and anyone who says otherwise is not telling the truth unless you are Jesus Christ himself.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_13:52:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10805281, "depth": 4, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10799361": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "They remind me of Islamic Fundamentalists--Dyson, Tavis all of them. They cannot be important unless there is a time of woe and trial. So they bomb and kill to make the mess perpetual. Who was Osama bin Laden without George Bush? What is Hammas without douchebags like Netanyahu & crazy Israeli settler?<br><br>Who are these clowns, if Obama sets up a whole paradigm?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_11:08:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "ChrisChambers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10797620, "depth": 1, "points": 3, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11876364": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yup.  Just cause Michael Richards and Don Imus rubbed people the wrong way doesn't mean that those girls WEREN'T nappy headed hos, or that guy wasn't acting like a N.  <br>James Watson, a Nobel Peace Prize winnign Phycist recently got a lot of grief for pointing out that Africans seem less intelligent than other races.  Just cause it was indefensible doesn't mean it's not true.  Ditto when it comes to crime.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-29_04:52:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "missx", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10811776, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10821645": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "since when is Rev Wright living for President Obama?  Please the man has a right to live his own life.  That ridiculous expectation alone would be enough to prompt me into saying wild crazy crap just to piss people off.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_20:05:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10818004, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10800655": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"it was probably Michelle that was most involved in the spiritual upbringing of thier children, from what I remember Barack was doing his political thing around the time that the kids were born. So it is most likely Michelle that had stronger ties to the church \"<br><br>Why put this on Michelle?   Why go there?  Barack and Michelle were both members of the church.  Wright didn't say anything that was not true.  The quote that circulated the internet (God Damn America) was made by a white man and not Wright and it was taken out of context.   So why go there?  <br><br>How do you know he is not accepting his own role in this situation?   As a matter of fact, why should he? He didn't ask for it. He was thrown in against his will and could do nothing to stop it.  Besides . . . Thou shalt not judge.  Remember?<br><br>Wright is the victim.  Yes he is a Pastor but he is human.  So how about in addition to praying for Wright you also pray for everyone else who destroyed this man's life and reputation after years of service in the military overseas and here at home in addition to all the hypocritical holier than thou \"christians\" who conveniently forget their own shortfalls while adding their own un-christianlike analysis of something they can't remotely understand as they have never experienced it.  <br><br>Consider this.  While you have a right to be disappointed in him. . .  he has an equal right to be disappointed in you/us/the people and country he served.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_11:41:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10800163, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10803730": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "DCD1961, welcome and thank you for sharing  your \"front row\" perspectives.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_12:31:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10803164, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10802196": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"I don't see Reverend Wright as a VICTIM. I think he knows exactly what he's saying and doing and is taking responsibility for his actions. \"<br><br>Spirit.  He is the victim in that he was thrown into all this when he was not running for any political positions.  He had to hide out for weeks and he had nothing to do with the fact that a member of his church was running for the presidency.  <br><br>Man walks down the street someone walks by and shoots him in the head.  He is the VICTIM.  Woman goes out on date, date asks for sex which she rejects and he has intercourse with her anyway. . . She is the VICTIM. Man walks into the halocaust museum, guard opens the door and gets shot. . . he is the VICTIM.  Preacher at a chuch for over 20 years, works to support Aids ministry, sets up programs in his community, serves in the military, commits himself to his church, a member in his church makes the decision to run for office and a clip of a video was edited, taken out of context and looped was posted on youtube, the msm ran these videos nonstop for weeks, commentators destroyed this man's credibility on EVERY channel, Pastor begins to get hate calls and threats at his church, home, and on the streets and he still has to get protection to go anywhere. . . he did nothing to cause this to happen. . . he is the VICTIM.<br><br>That is what i am saying.  I am not excusing anything he is saying now but he was pushed over the edge and what comes up comes out.  That doesn't change the fact that he was the victim in all this and as a result. . they get what they get.  and unfortunately he loses a little more of himself in the process but I can only hope that he will work through this the best he can.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_11:58:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10800479, "depth": 2, "points": 4, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10809877": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LOL!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_14:39:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10808442, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10810391": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "to be fair -- nowhere in problackness note did he/she indicate the phrase \"them blacks\" was okay.  My understanding of the statement is that it touched on Rev Wright as an individual and his right to be who he is and not worry about how he could affect Barack Obama.  In short, problackness summed it up by saying -- If Obama was not in office, we would not be having this conversation.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_14:50:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10806531, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10813359": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Where is Rev. Wright's level of respect?  There are plenty of \"elders\" who don't go out of their way to act a fool no matter how wronged they were in the past, no matter how angry they are today.<br><br>Rev. Wright acting out...doesn't hurt Obama...doesn't hurt \"them jews,\" it hurts Rev. Wright.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_16:12:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10811026, "depth": 1, "points": 5, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10823619": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Guns3000? Keepin it Real?<br><br>Who are you, really?  You sure seem familar!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_21:25:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10806531, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10805281": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "He called Italians \"garlic noses\" before everything he experienced.<br><br>I don't believe that bad times \"make\" you do things out of character, they only amplify the character that was there to begin with.<br><br>You mean to tell me this man went through the worst of segregation times and came out fine but when the press magnified his sermons and appearance at the Press Club he broke?  Even after he acquitted himself well and changed public opinion after his Bill Moyers interview?<br><br>I understand that Wright is pissed that the whole election thing and press scrutiny forced him from his pulpit, trashed his church and Obama kicked him to the curb.  But he's not doing himself any favors by speaking to newspaper reporters about \"them jews\" either.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_13:08:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10803147, "depth": 3, "points": 4, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10800163": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I remember in grad school I would rent a car (when I had the money ) and drive to Trinity CoC when I didn't feel like going to the church in my town. It was a beautiful, Blacklove place. They celebrated the beauty of Blackness like no where else at that point in my life. Not only that, it was the first time I have seen Blackness, social justice, and loving God combined in such deliberate ways.<br><br><br><br>That being said, I am so disappointed by this.<br><br><br><br>What's more I'm pretty sure the Obama family is disappointed by this as well. If we're gonna be really real, it was probably Michelle that was most involved in the spiritual upbringing of thier children, from what I remember Barack was doing his political thing around the time that the kids were born. So it is most likely Michelle that had stronger ties to the church (not to minimize at all what Barack felt and experienced, especially as evidenced by his conversion story) by the time this whole thing blew up.<br><br><br>Rev. Wright is wrong, it would go without saying if it didn't need to be said so much. But on top of that, my sadness is that as an Evangelical, I believe that the church should be the visible reflection of Christ on earth. When Peter betrayed Jesus three times, he was still called the rock upon which the church would be built. <br><br><br><br>Rev. Wright feels betrayed. I think it went both ways. But let's face it, he's probably not accepting his own role in the whole situation. Then fine, I get it. But as someone who is a spiritual leader, and especially as a Christian, of which grace is the bedrock of our faith, in fact, <a href=\"http://thewongday.blogspot.com/2007/03/what-makes-christianity-different.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">grace may be the only thing that signifies us from other religions</a>, he needs to forgive. He needs to mend. This is how the world knows who we are, by our fruits. Resentment and hatred will spoil the vine. I pray for Rev. Wright, I pray for anger based on resentment to be replaced by anger based on righteousness. I pray for the hurt that has turned into hatred be touched by the Healer, and transformed to Love. <br><br><br>Amen. Let it be so.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_11:29:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "JunePearl", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 20, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 3, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10825938": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The biggest difference for me is that the words that conservative/Republicans were attacking were taken out of context. These words are in context.<br><br>That is the biggest difference. I have a problem with twisting words and then analyzing them. I have no problem with analyzing words as they stand.<br><br>These words as they stand are disheartening and anti-semetic. I may be pro-Palestine, but I stand against all hatred, no matter which direction it's coming from.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_23:18:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "JunePearl", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10812406, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10804777": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "If Rev. Wright didn't say \"Them Jews\", everything would be A-OK. The rest of his comment had a lot of truth in it. <br><br>It's clear that Rev. Wright is bitter and I can't say that he doesn't have a right to be. However, he's channeling that bitterness towards the wrong person and in the wrong way.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_12:56:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 5, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10812576": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I think that we need to have some proof...<br><br>Just because a quote appears in the paper doesn't mean it's true.<br><br>Just because a video excerpt appears on television doesn't mean it hasn't been craftily edited. We saw the media do this with Dr. Wright's two sermon excerpts. Anyone who listened to the FULL sermons (which hardly anyone did!) would have instantly recognized that the tiny piece of video that the media kept showing was DELIBERATELY cropped to take his words out of context.<br><br>In one excerpt, he was quoting a white person...did the media say this...NOOOO...they acted as if the quote was Dr. Wright's.<br><br>Let's not be sooo easily duped by the trickery in the media.<br><br>The other point is that just because Dr. Wright is a minister doesn't mean he can't share his personal views. Criticizing Jews is not anti-Semetic. Criticizing blacks is not racist. <br><br>I am a minister and I have every right to speak my mind... every time I open my mouth, I am not speaking for God. I am speaking for Lisa. And that is okay. I am tired of people saying  \"a minister can't say THAT!\" We can share our opinions about world happenings just like other people can.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_15:50:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "facebook-1314242676", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months 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}, "11876398": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "how many different ways can you play the race card in one paragraph?  I counted 2 dozen.  High tech lynching... ha ha.. can't you be more original?  Clarence Thomas used that one decades ago.  People are really sick of black folks acting like the KKK then screaming about being lynched to get a free pass.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-29_04:56:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "missx", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10810872, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10810717": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Point taken, JunePearl!<br><br><br>You expressed it beautifully!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_14:59:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10808834, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10826288": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Christians who are guided by the Bible (not all do, so I am excluding them from this. I am big on respecting how people of different belief systems operate), then James 3:1 and Hebrews 13:17 are guiding verses for how to relate to their pastors. It does not mean that pastor infallible and can do whatever they want (Mark 10:42-44, Luke 22:25-26, 1 Peter 5:3, etc.)<br><br>However, they will have to give an account to God. That is where the whole higher standard thing comes from in the Christian realm. <br><br>So no. I don't thing equestrian excrement is a fitting statement for those who follow Christ, as Rev.Wright does.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_23:34:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "JunePearl", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10813127, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10797620": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Similar to the trio of Dyson, West and Smiley, Rev. Wright continues to  exhibit the effects of Obama Derangement Syndrome.  There is a known cure but it requires that its victims' acknowledge and accept that Obama doesn't have to kiss their asses for anything.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_10:28:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "twitter-10338392", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 6, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10799160": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I can't be mad at him.  They trashed this guy during the race for the Presidency.  He probably looked back at all his hard work, all his contributions, his service to the country and the community , all his sacrifices for YEARS and still they ruthlessly destroyed the man's reputation just so they could get a political edge .  He didn't stand a chance and he was innocent in all that.<br><br>I get it. They pushed him over the edge.  Leave the man alone.  Yes he is a pastor but he is also human.  Wright is the VICTIM in all this.  Whether you agree with him or not, he has every right to say whatever he wants.  Everyone else does so why can't he?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_11:02:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 20, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 5, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10802745": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "At this point, Rev. Wright is not a \"victim.\"  He knows what he's doing and knows what he's saying.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_12:07:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 10, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10799160, "depth": 1, "points": 4, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10814013": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I feel ya. I am saddened about the pain in his heart, because I know that is all this is...just raw, wrenching pain being played out publically.<br><br> I totally agree about the spiritual relationship. It was indeed very sad for the Obamas and Rev Wright to have to go their separate ways. Just awful.  <br><br>The one thing I recall, though is that Wright had always told Obama he would be a liability when his political star started to rise. Wright knew that, he understood global politics. Wright for all his vitriol is right where he knew he would be. Maybe, it was all just about the way Axelrod told him that day, just a few minutes before Obama announced his candidacy that just was unbearable and has led to this.<br><br>Unfortunately, I don't believe Wrights spirituality is greater than his ego. He mind is simply too brilliant. Which is why he and Obama hit it off so well. They are kindred minds.  Despite being rasided in a religious family I just do not believe that his spirituality depth is greater than his ego...thus the pain. <br><br>Also, when you listen to that sermon that the snippet was played over and over...Wright addresses the morality of America and I believe he genuinely decries the brutality, cruelty and raping our nation has done in the name of God, to other peoples and countries.<br><br>Wright is a very complex and you are right about him needing to be more forgiving but if you ask me at this point ..Wright is Palestine and Obama is Israel.<br><br>And for all we know maybe the real destiny is that Wright will be at the table negotiating with Obama on behalf of Palestine. He will be a broker for the Muslim world whose linguistic skills the 44th President of the USA will have to rely on...just like Reagan did.<br><br>IMAGINE that!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_16:31:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10808510, "depth": 3, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10803775": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "now there we agree.  I don't feel sorry for Wright either but I respect his right to feel, say and react without it turning into some political stage show and the man getting hit by every black person because they believe this somehow impacts Barack Obama.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_12:32:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10803375, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10797120": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You're wrong with your hateful racist views! Shut Up!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_10:23:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10795482, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10798789": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I don't have a dog in this fight, i.e., I believe that Wright is extremely egocentric and I don't buy Obama's story about his being not aware of Wright's Sunday perorations. Then again, I stopped attending church, with my parents' blessings, when I was ten years old. I try to keep ministers and their followers and ex-followers at a distance from me.<br><br> Wright did, however, issue a public apology for his remarks about Jews although I am at a loss to understand why he felt the need to single them out for any special opprobrium anyway. The article can be accessed here:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/12/MN8F185IHR.DTL\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_10:51:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "PTCruiser", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months 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}, "10811977": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The good Rev. has retired. Many people are going to listen to Wright, he is an historical icon, his background alone makes him a historical figure. Additionally, his relationship and mentoring of Barack Hussein Obama means he will be read about for centuries. He is the one who shaped BHO's afro-centric concepts.<br><br>I am curious to know if, given BHO's aspirations, Wright counseled him regarding his biracialness and what that meant with regard to what his wife should look like as well.<br><br>Cause I frankly find it baffling that BHO had no dating 'history' to speak of until Michelle.  Not at Columbia, not at Occidental, and not in HS.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_15:34:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10808480, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10806859": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "He's well versed in the usage of language...all he had to say was \"I think Obama's advisors are keeping him away from me\" and kept it moving.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_13:41:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10805476, "depth": 2, "points": 3, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10807886": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "thank you Whiterosebuddy.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_13:54:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10806600, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10824717": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"So Barack was like f^%k it. Throw his old ass overboard. You are not useful anymore. As much as we probably don't like to admit it Obama used Wright to get \"street cred\" Think about it how does half black half white man who grew up in Hawaii around whites get accepted in the black community and be accepted as a brotha? Well, you go to one of the blackest cities in America marry an educated black woman from the hood and get one of most powerful black pastors in American History to cosign you. Check mate.\"<br><br>Wow.........just...wow.....no words", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_22:15:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "CarolinagirlinGA", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10822140, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10813521": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ain't enough black folks in America to make a critical mass against discrimination against other groups. We barely suceeded with our own group. <br><br>Are other groups going to shed blood like our ancestors did not to be discriminated against?  Are they going to get beat and hosed and march and jailed?<br><br>I am all for not discriminating against others but I in no way believe it is a realistic goal for blacks.  We can't even get a prime time anchor on cable...yet the most discriminated group in the nation is now suppose to go to the mat for other groups?<br><br>My parents taught us to take care of home first.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_16:17:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10809081, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10805334": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Very true Town.  I've watched a few clips of Min. Farrakhan on youtube and he was quite explicit that he would be careful w/his words, because he did not want them used to harm what was then Sen. Obama @ that time.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_13:09:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "sdg1844", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10804544, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10803289": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Big, BIG difference between Dyson, West, Smiley and the good Rev. ..<br><br>Rev. Wright has wonderful work in his community for many, many years.  By work, I mean tangible stuff:  supporting apartments, sending kids to college, protesting apartheid when it was FAR from the popular thing to do, being outspoken against homophobia, speaking publicly about preventing the spread of HIV.  <br><br>Dyson, West and Smiley have done NONE of that.  (Although, I'm sure Smiley <i>thinks</i> he's done work with his State of blackness-corporations pay Tavis-contract for Black America -talkfest or whatever it's called...)  <br><br>So right there, I think there is a BIG difference.  When you get past Rev. Wright's bluster, I think he is usually speaking some truth.   It's just that it comes with such bombast.  But hey, he's a bombastic guy<br><br>\"Them Jews\"?  tasteless.  Yes.  Crass?  Yes.   I was embarrassed for him.   But he says what is on his mind.   He let's it out.  But listen to him, really listen.   I think he's got some good points.   His ego seems to have gotten WAY in the way...  <br><br>And , as far as I can tell,  he don't owe nobody nothing.   There is no corporation paying his way, no TV show contract to submit to, no University tenure to worry about.   <br>  <br>Just sayin...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_12:21:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "isonprize", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10797620, "depth": 1, "points": 5, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10822750": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"I don't know, where is it? Because half the time when I log on, people here are calling white people crackers and white bitches and what not. So maybe we all need to dial down the name calling because it takes away from the message.\"<br><br>lolololol  well maybe we should. :-)  Look, I am not defending what Rev Wright said. . .I am defending his right to say it.  <br><br>Wright is clowning.  I agree but it is probably because somehow it has become his job to forget about himself and live for Barack Obama for the next 4 - 8 years.  You know I love my President but he is not my everything.  So why would I expect anything different for the Reverend?  You are right that he isn't mad at Obama because of policy issues. . .he isn't even mad because he wasn't invited to the White House.  He is upset because the person he supported for years, was close to, thought he had a connection with walked away from him when his life was torn apart through no fault of his own.  For political reasons.  <br><br>I am sure he understands why he did it but it still hurts.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_20:52:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10822379, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10807904": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Rikyrah,<br><br>He knew exactly what he was doing.  You know my opinion of him has been consistent.  My introduction to him was his first interview with the NYT.  He was petulent and self-serving.  He was clearly trying to exlpoit  the perceived schism between then candidate Obama and the African American community.  Now he's trying to exploit the schism between the President and the Jewish community.  What I can't understand is how the Obamas never saw the political liability of a close relationship with him.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_13:54:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "NMP", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10805485, "depth": 3, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10805754": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Wow, y'all really took that section and ran far away from where I was going. I must have done a bad job articulating my point. When a miscommunication occurs, I usually don't blame the person who heard me, but the myself, because my frame of reference is not universal, an I understand that.<br><br>I'll try again, and I'll frame my sentiments better:<br><br><br>As someone who has been involved in church since my teens and who has endeavored to pursue a personal, thriving relationship with God since then, I've come to see many things that can be safely generalized from the \"church experience\" no matter the denomination. One of them is that as much as both parents get involved in the spiritual nourishment of the children, it is usually the mother that bares the brunt of the work (actually, that tends to be true no matter the religion). As I mentioned before their membership was also around the time that Barack was getting involved in politics, and from their own words, it was a transition time for them as <a href=\"http://www.slate.com/id/2176679/\" rel=\"nofollow\"> he was away from home a lot doing his work. Read: He was not getting involved at home as much as he previously was</a>. I never said Michelle was close to the church, I never said that Michelle is *more* hurt/disappointed by this, I never said that Barack is not affected by this. I said, and quote <i>What's more I'm pretty sure the Obama family is disappointed by this as well.</i> And I then went on to give an example of why I thought so: because as a mother who chose Trinity as a spiritual home for her children, she probably had an emotional investment in the situation as well. She may or may not have been involved with another church from her younger days in Chicago at the same time(not uncommon btw), but this is where her kids are spending their younger days. As a mother, that means something to you.<br><br><br>The reason I brought this up is because in most of the conversation regarding Rev. Wright, everyone talks about how this affects President Obama. I was just adding the point that if this affects Obama (I think he has a lot on his plate, for all we know, this may not even be a blip on his radar) this affects the whole family, Michelle included. On top of that, in a healthy marriage, when something hurts your mate, it most likely affects you on some level. Even if you yourself may not be directly hurt. Just from an empathy level alone.<br><br><br>So that's what I meant by that section of my note. Not to put anything on Michelle. I stan for her, she really can do no wrong in my eyes. She needs to act truly buckwild in order for me to say anything negative about her. And even then, I'll probably still stand by her, lol.<br><br><br><br>In any case, I appreciate you bringing up your points, and affording me the opportunity to clarify my point. I hope this brings a better understanding of the point I was trying to make. Be well and blessed.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_13:19:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "JunePearl", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10801040, "depth": 2, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10803811": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Welcome, DCD1961", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_12:33:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10803164, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10816105": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I've only heard Tavis Smiley say that Obama \"threw Wright under the bus\".", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_17:34:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "antennaness", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10805708, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10809964": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "(sigh).....there is only one Rev Joseph Lowery...why can't we clone him?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_14:40:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 4, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10809969": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<i>The Moyers interview - went fine.</i><br><br>Rev Wright made a good impression with the Moyers interview and he should have left it at that. But he wanted more of the spotlight at the National Press Club and made himself look like an ass.<br><br>It was a disaster then and he's a disaster now! Geez! :(", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_14:40:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10808224, "depth": 5, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10803826": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "THANK YOU!!!!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_12:34:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10802587, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10800245": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Word.<br>I thought Rev. Wright's 15 minutes were up.<br>Obviously not.<br>He needs to shut the fuck up.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_11:32:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10795460, "depth": 1, "points": 4, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10808442": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Or probably related", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_14:07:25", "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": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10796488, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10825858": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Good point. What is his goal in all of this? What does he think is going to be accomplished by his words? I actually am really interested in the answer to this question.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_23:14:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "JunePearl", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10813077, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10823811": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"Reverend Wright has the right to speak....but he should also have the wisdom to say \"No comment\" on certain matters and keep it moving. Rev. Wright was subjected to an unprecendented level of scrutiny because he was the pastor and mentor to a man who has/is being held to a higher standard than anyone else who has held the office of Presidency.\"<br><br>Monie - I agree with you in theory but I also believe that if the Reverend has something to say and he wants to say it then he should.  if folks want to hold him to a higher standard because Barack Obama became President and he was his pastor. .  .that is their problem and not his.   As a result of last year Rev. Wright's reputation was already torn to shreds.  He has nothing else to lose. <br><br>We both agree that this article has become overblown.  I also hope he is able to work though his issues.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_21:33:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10823002, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10811620": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>If Obama wasn't in office no black person would give 2 cent about Rev Wright comment </i><br><br>That's because we wouldn't have known about the comment because the media wouldn't have sought Wright out.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_15:24:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10802587, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10807916": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Wright MEANT  Precisely what he said.  He is not concerned about being in a sling.  Slings don't mean diddly to a black man raised in his generation.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_13:54:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10805406, "depth": 1, "points": 3, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10808460": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Towne,<br><br>\"He likes Jews, just not Israel!\"<br><br>Anyone who follows Israel politics, knows that the individuals of Jewish descendant closest to Obama want a two state solution NOW. Obama's focus/strategy about Israel is theirs. Most folks know that Emanuel served in the Israeli intelligence dept.<br><br>The young generation of Jews are not as tied to Israel as their parents, just like in most families, things changed when the next generation sets policies.  Jewish folks born in the 60s, 70s,80s ain't tied to Israel like their grandparents and parents were.<br><br>The insurance from backlash are the folks who are developing the policy positions are Jewish.  Obama neither likes nor dislikes Israel, most likely when it comes to religion he is agnostic. Israel is simply a foreign policy issue with the potential to lift him into historical greatness for all time. That is Obama's focus. There simply is nothing haphazard about the guy, he talked about Israel in Audacity of Hope, needing to get along with their neighbors and become a part of the world community.  <br><br>But I am was not addressing anything about getting invites to the WH, other than noting that Wright has an unusual place in history given his own Presidential contacts.<br><br>Sharpton's place in history when it comes to Barack will be a footnote, Wright will have chapters and volumes written about his as he is was his African American connection to politics in the black community and he did school him about life...He was the AA father Barack never had.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_14:07:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10807462, "depth": 4, "points": 3, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10807439": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Tell it!!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_13:43:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10802196, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10795664": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Jill, <br><br>Like you, I was ashamed also. When is Rev Wright going to learn to shut up?! <br><br>It is embarrassing to see him constantly making an ass of himself everytime a microphone is put in his face. For crying out loud, he is a pastor...Act like one! Geez!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_09:52:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months 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}, "10811026": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I love JJP.  I do.  I appreciate all the dialogue but if we encourage each other to call it like we see it. . . don't hold the man to another standard when most of us are guilty of the same.  Some talked about Wright's age and how his experiences are now obsolete.  Said he is now irrelevant and no one wants to hear what this man who has contributed so much to society has to say.<br><br>Karmi raised the exact same points about Rev Wright that some of you have posted on this very page and yet you call call out Karmi as a liar and racist while you are raising the same case against Wright. <br><br>It seems to me we are being just a bit hypocritical in all this.  Look through the history of the JJP postings and read some of our comments. Heck, read our comments from the last two days.  Some could argue we have made worse statements. Aside from not being interviewed for a story, what makes us different from Rev Wright?  We are all good people with strong ideals.  We all at times touch on topics that raises the level of the conversation to \"heated\".  Are we racists, hateful terrible people?  No.  Some of us will even take the time to apologize if we regret the statement.  in short, we are human.  That is all I am saying.<br><br>Ya'll know how I feel about my seniors so I am compelled to add  -- everyone has something of value to offer in a discussion regardless of age especially our seniors.  They have seen and experienced things we may never understand  or agree with them but we do owe them some level of  respect.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_15:08:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 15, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10825875": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>And honestly, if you listen to the audio, it sounds like the Rev Wright was having a regular, straight talk, off-the-cuff, keepin-it-real talk with David Squires as another Black man, but albeit Squires is a columnist</i><br><br>Rev. Wright should have known better.<br><br>Remember 'Hymietown'.<br><br>Unless I'm mistaken, wasn't that ANOTHER ' regular, straight-talk, off-the-cuff, keepin-it-real' conversation with another BLACK columnist that reported that comment? <br><br>I'll say it again:<br><br>Wright is too old  to not know.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_23:15:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10823002, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10813077": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "rikyrah:  I honestly don't know where Rev. Wright wants 2 go? <br><br> I don't see his GOAL!  <br><br>Annnnd, it takes 2 much time & mental energy to determine it.<br><br>Does he just want 2 keep on demeanin' the PRESIDENT?  <br><br>Where doesn't he find RECONCILIATION in the scripture?  He must have PREACHED on it in SOME SERMON!<br><br>I'm prayin' that he FINDS HIS WAY at some point!!!<br><br><b>WHEW!!</b>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_16:05:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months 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}, "10809495": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Exactly!<br><br>As a Pastor, one has to conduct himself accordingly!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_14:32:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10808480, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10804376": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I mean why not just pull a Jessie Jackson yell Hymie Town and get it over with?  That stmt of Rev. Wright's was just foul.  Yeah, The Prez is getting tough with Israel, but he hasn't slandered the Israeli's with a \"you people\" type stmt.  So yeah, I am pissed with Rev. Wright for his nonsensical yapping.  STFU and stop blaming others for your culpability in destroying your relationship w/The President.<br><br>I have no interest in political correctness and I expect better from Rev. Wright.  Like Guns 3000 stated had some caucasian pastor pulled a you people stunt, we'd have roasted them for it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_12:46:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "sdg1844", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10811860": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Sorry, but the word jew is not a perjorative term.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_15:31:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10810029, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10805406": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I listened to the whole comment and a lot of what he said was on point. however, rev. wright has never been nor will be politically correct. he has to know that saying, \"them jews\" and \"those zionists\" are a sure fire way to have his ass put back in the sling. i feel like if he doesn't want the kind of criticism he faced during Obama's campaign to happen again, he needs to learn to temper his language. rev. wright is a smart man, he knows how to make a point without being insulting and inflammatory. <br><br>he should know better.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_13:10:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "Ladyvenoms", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 3, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10810015": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "CO-SIGNING! He turned himself into a caricature.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_14:42:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10808224, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10808480": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "it will start to mean something when people are no longer interested in the good things he has to say.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_14:08:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "Ladyvenoms", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10807916, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10808176": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Appreciate your perspective on this, WRB.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_14:00:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10806196, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10808482": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "It's not out of character, it's already within your character.  Stress/bad times only amplify what's already in your nature.<br><br>You don't need to act a fool during the good times, there's no need to.<br><br>Rev. Wright isn't acting out of character, this is who he is.<br><br>This situation for me is not about Rev.Wright sitting down to save Obama; it's about Rev. Wright sitting down to save HIMSELF.<br><br>Rev. Wright is destroying himself...and it's not a good look.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_14:08:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10807813, "depth": 5, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10807462": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Or perhaps \"them jews in the White House\" are having Obama publicly embrace Jews/Judaism because they know his stance towards Israel is going to be tougher than his predecessors, so it's kind of insurance against jewish backlash.<br><br>In other words, look! He likes Jews, just not Israel!<br><br>But none of that has anything to do with why Rev. Wright isn't getting an invite to the White House b/c I think Al Sharpton's been there 3 times and he's just as controversial among whites as Wright.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_13:43:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10806482, "depth": 3, "points": 6, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10813041": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I am going to give you blinders for that naughty chair, lights out just ain't working.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_16:04:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10812497, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10812584": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Moyers went fine, and it went downhill from there. That speech at the NAACP was wild and off base as well, but the NPC performance was just jumped the shark completely.<br><br>Again, I understood what happened. Wright was unwilling to be caricatured and set out to let the world know that he was 'somebody'...that entire  taped event for all we know could have triggered a very traumatic memory of being humiliated and left no dignity as a young man. Wright is a proud man born into a very affluent family for his generation of blacks.<br><br>When you think about how he orchestrated the entire set-up at the NPC it was just sheer retribution for years of humiliation and subjugation.  Recall, he told all the black press and janitors, and cooks and everyone to get there at 3pm even though it started at 4pm (allowing for CP time) knowing that would leave only the balcony (in his era for negros only) for the mainstream press.<br><br>The sheer glee and delight everytime he looked out at that audience is what sent him into such ecclesiastical joy!  All the blacks were on the floor and the balcony was a sea of white...imagine the hatred that had to recall to desire mightily to cast the national press in the same position of indignity that blacks endured for centuries.<br><br>It was well thought out ..deliberate and quite strategic, unfortunately...it also just made him so joyous he went into manic mode speaking extemporaneously ..his mind was just stroked out from the vision before him. Not only that by the blacks being on the floor, they were able to just get him more and more wound up with shouts of Amen..remember Cornel West, on the first floor? and other prominent black folks...saying amen...and the whites were stuck in the balcony. Wright was in the place of honor and then he started answering their questions, with all the arrogance of his brilliant mind that had endured simpletons for years and he refused to dissemble for them.<br><br>It was a sheer act and display of courage of convictions.<br><br><br>Terrible for all Obama supporters but Wright was hell bent on displaying himself as not a stumbling bumbling religious freak, only to show the world he was a bombastic, arrogant, old fool filled with vituperation.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_15:50:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10808224, "depth": 5, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10813127": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yep.  <br><br>Since when do Catholics hold ordained ministers to a higher standard?  Muslims and Jews don't hold ordained ministers to a higher standard either.<br><br>Seems like that there is just about 80% of the nation.<br><br>You right to call it equestrian excrement, Val.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_16:06:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10812242, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11876524": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Stupid IS one of them.  Mouth and ego a million times larger than his brain. Typical- it's  the real reason why blacks lag behind everyone else.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-29_05:08:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "missx", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10806482, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10810029": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Rev Wright's comment were not only ill advised but didnt address the point he wanted to make. So he is totally responsible for what has befallen him. If that means he gets dumped on then he gets dumped on.<br>By going to \"the jews\" he dealt in sterotype and not righteous anger. Righeous anger would have made the political point. It would leave him open to a quiet invitation to Obama's home in Chicago. If he wanted to attack David Axelrod and other political advisors he could have simply said his political advisors don't want me there. With that case he is in a long line w/ others they do not want the President Obama around.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_14:42:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "RobM", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10803375": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Val, I get all of your examples of victimhood. <br><br>I am coming at this from a spiritual vantage point.  He set into motion, or CAUSE for these attacks on his character simply by his past ACTIONS, so now he is reaping the EFFECTS.<br><br>Now when the attacks on his character, his church, his standing in the world come, he has an opportunity to become conscious cause, whether he chooses consciously or unconsciously, well that's his call too.<br><br>And no he didn't know that a member of his church would become a candidate for the presidency, but it doesn't change the fact that Barack did.  <br><br>Right now, I don't see Jerimiah Wright as a victim; I see him as a willing participant.<br><br>I have compassion for Rev. Wright, but I don't feel sorry for him.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_12:24:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10802196, "depth": 3, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10825394": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Nailed it!  Reminds me of some of the responses I've seen regarding that \"88\"y/o nutjob.  Folks need to quit crying and waiting for \"Homeland\"security to ride to the rescue.  Practice them so-called 2nd amendment rights.  It worked plenty of times during harsher climates in the '60s.  The only gun talk I hear these days are through wack raps via the faux-thugs terrorizing the streets...S to the M-H!!!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_22:49:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "ch555x", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10802587, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10814324": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Does anyone know how it came about that Jesse Jacksona and Wright were the brokers to the Muslim world under Reagan?  Were they unofficially over there? How did they have the ties to the Muslim world that enabled them to negotiate for Goodman's release?<br><br>Let's take another look at what Wright said. He obviously has ties to the Muslim world going back to the 80s.<br><br>What if he is going to be at the table negotiating for Palestine with Obama?  Are we too busy looking at the trees to see the forest.  Both Wright and Obama are brilliant strategists. Are they playing chess together on the world stage in public view?<br><br>Is the destiny of these two to be the brokers for the Palestine/Israel two state solution?.  Who would Palestine trust.<br><br>We know Wright is fluent in Arabic.  Who else would be at that table? HRC, Emanuel?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_16:40:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months 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}, "10825914": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "what's PC?  lol", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_23:17:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10810243, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10808510": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Good point, it's a family thing <i>both</i> ways.<br><br>However, like I said, I think the betrayl went both ways as well. Which is all the more reason for them to come together, it's sad to let go of a pastor/mentor relationship. I have done it once before, trust me, both sides are wrought with disappointment. It's a sad situation for everybody involved.<br><br>My point is that as a spiritual leader, you are held to a different standard. Additionally, as a Christian, everyone is looking for us to make good on our words. The fact that he still has bitterness about this is not a good sign for me. <i>That type of deep familial betrayal is rarely forgiven</i>: true. But that's why we are called to be a \"peculiar people\" because we called to a community of believers. This is hard, this includes letting go of our ego/pain/hurt/betrayl/etc. and coming together as a community. This calls for us to be more. More forgiving, more loving, more just. Anyone who tells you Christianity is easy has never done it. My point is that this I'm not angry at Rev. Wright, I get where he's coming from! I am disappointed by his words (really though? \"Them Jews...\" really?), and I am saddened by what his words say about the position of his heart.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_14:09:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "JunePearl", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10805500, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11876549": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yes he sent a message- That blacks will blindly treat others the way white people treated them.  To paraphrase Andrew Young \"First it was the Jews, then the Asians, then the Arabs\"... then it was women, then gays... every group has to put up with the black men wearing white sheets.  It's become a rite of passage it the U.S.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-29_05:10:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "missx", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10810624, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10812102": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Thing is, Val, we're <b>supposed</b> to hold Rev. Wright to a higher standard.  He's an ordained minister.  He's a man who's been divinely called to speak on God's behalf -- not Chicagoans; not Black folk; not Americans.  God.<br><br>And when he continues to fail to adhere to that calling, then the people have no choice but to stand and rebuke him.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_15:37:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "RonnieB", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10811026, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10805959": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hmm...hadn't thought about the angle that Rev. Sharpton is seeing A LOT of the White House from the inside. Good point.<br><br>I'm sure Rev. Wright isn't the only one who feels wronged.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_13:24:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "APeach", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10795460, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10799824": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Co-sign \" Another way white people get over: they rein in their assholes.\"<br><br>Example:  Pat BucKKKlanan.  He hasn't frequented the MSNBC cable shows most of this week. <br><br>Perhaps \"The Man Inc.\" told Pat it's time for a lil vacation, ya know...get rested up for the next round of MSM coded messages to their wingnut ILK.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_11:20:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10799263, "depth": 1, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10820817": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Listen up! I said nothing about him being surrounded. I NOTED quite ACCURATELY that there are more Jews in this Presidential inner circle than any other President.<br><br>That is a fact. Not some conspiracy theory. A fact.<br><br>Second, the reason jews hate Emanuel/axelrod is for the very policies on Israel that Obama is taking a hard line on i.e. two-state solution.<br><br>Third, selecting people based on their faith was not the point, whatsoever. It is a simple fact that Jews make up only 2% of the nations population yet they comprise 20% of congress and are dominate to an unprecendented degree in this Presidential candidate.<br><br>Maybe, you think AIPAC has more control than it does. AIPAC is not calling the shots for the new Israel policy Obama is pushing. Neither Axelrod nor Emanuel are supporters of AIPAC when it comes to the West Bank and what Israel should do.<br><br>I suggest you do some research, or either get your pants out a wad cause you completely distorted my point.<br><br>Guns3000...how about you do some research and figure out why it is that Wright and Farrakhan played such a pivotal role in the AFRO-centric development of Obama and you might learn a thing or two.<br><br>One of which is that you have no clue about what is going on when it comes to which side folks are on in the WH regarding Israel policy.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_19:30:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10814366, "depth": 6, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10806482": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Anyone, who pays attention to this administration knows EXACTLY what Wright meant and precisely why he said.  It is NO ACCIDENT that the WH celebrated Seder this year!<br><br>Ever heard of Seder dinner in the WH before with the President?<br><br>Give. ME. A. BREAK.<br><br>Like you said:<br><br>Rev. Wright is a lot of things, but stupid ain't one of 'em.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_13:37:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10805476, "depth": 2, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10807517": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yep, like Wright said ...they are coming home to roost for America.<br><br>See, everything Wright says has national impact. It is America's hate coming home to roost ...they are seeing a black man now who was raised in their hate start to spew their same hatred.<br><br>America's chickensssssssssssssssss....commmmming ..home to roooooooooooost.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_13:45:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10805311, "depth": 5, "points": 4, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10811248": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Exactly. Two words erased a damn good message.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_15:13:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10810029, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10840955": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The pure nonsense is you making that comment in the midst of a very sprited disscussion- one that is sprited precisely because everyone is <i>not</i> giving Wright a pass on this. Who's stereotyping, again?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-13_12:27:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "Plantsmantx", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10806531, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11876580": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "black folks have their own legacy of racism in this country.  From the Crown Heights Lynching to the pongrom on Asian businesses to being the largest group in favor on denying gays their civil rights in California.... black folks have blook on their hands for how they've treated other groups.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-29_05:14:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "missx", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10806600, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10809553": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I appreciate your points, although I have to disagree with you on one section.<br><br>Rev. Wright has a right to be angry, that does not make his anger righteous. <br><br><br>Righteous anger as I use it refers to <a href=\"http://eugenecho.wordpress.com/2009/05/22/fk-human-trafficking-there-i-said-it/\" rel=\"nofollow\">injustice towards the oppressed </a>, not so much injustice towards self. In my opinion (as much as one simple person's opinion can be worth) Rev. Wright has a right to be angry. As someone with a disability, who is Black, who was an immigrant, who is a woman mired in this patriarchal-and-proud-of-it society, I have a right to be angry at certain situations I am forced to go through. But that does not make my anger necessarily righteous.<br><br>...don't know if I got my point across correctly. But I definitely see what you mean.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_14:33:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "JunePearl", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10806196, "depth": 3, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10842492": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ok, so your point is 'not to let being perfect be the enemy of the good'..I can agree with that.<br><br>As far as Axelrod, I am not saying that he advised to get rid of Wright. What I am saying is that there was a discussion and a decision was made and Axelrod was the Messenger who told Wright that he was persona non grata, at the CAPITOL moments before Obama announced his candidacy for President of the United States.<br><br>I do not know that Wright is pissed, I think his commentary was accurate. Wright, as you know, is well-versed on the entire Middle East conflict, and on how AIPAC's stance impacts US policy.  Jews, however, are no longer monolithic on Israel and in that sense Wright may be out of step with the times.<br><br>I feel you about Wright trying to derail Obama's candidacy and many folks believe as you do. My problem is that I see both sides of the old lion vs. new lion as well as an old man's pride and deep scars not allowing him to sit back and be pushed asided quietly, yet again.  It is a sad, sad, situation for both men.<br><br>Obama and Wright  though have a special place in history. Historians will have a field day with the dynamics of their relationship and particularly Wrights history with the Muslim world, his mentoring of Obama and the juxtaposition of Obama's generational Muslim heirtage and the dominance of Jews in the his Presidential inner circle. Was Obama a student in the predominately Muslim world when Wright negotiated the release of Goodman?  The history and parallels about these two intellectual giants, students of history  and global political citizens is rich.<br><br>Hell I could write that book myself...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-13_13:39:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10841827, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10826474": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "if i heard correctly, wright said :  \"them jews in the media are not gonna let me talk to him.\"    <br><br>he was right.  the (largely jewish--if not in practice then in culture) media that follows president obama around would take ANY opportunity to turn a meeting/phone conversation/etc. between the president and wright into something deeply pathological and negative.  there's no denying this. sure,  he could have kept that to himself, but he spoke the truth.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_23:44:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "caligirl65", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10822379": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I don't know, where is it?  Because half the time when I log on, people here are calling white people crackers and white bitches and what not.  So maybe we all need to dial down the name calling because it takes away from the message.<br><br>Rev. Wright is a willing and enthusiastic participant in his own exploitation since the press club incident.  He's no victim.  He knows that little reporter down in Hampton didn't give a damn about the ministers' conference.  He knew the newspaper wanted some juicy tidbits; that's why they didn't send the religion reporter to interview him.  He knew that.<br><br>He knows if he says  to the press whenever they ask about Obama \"no comment\" the press will stop coming around. <br><br>He completely overshadowed the ministers conference in Hampton.  What did they discuss? Who else was there? Nobody knows because all the reporter cared about was drama between Wright and Obama. But Rev. Wright knew that and he gave the reporter what he wanted.<br><br>Rev. Wright is cooning.  He knows the media wants him to clown on Obama and they want to exploit this \"beef\" and he's willingly obliging.  He ain't mad at Obama because of policy issues, he's mad because he didn't get an invite to the White House!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_20:36:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10814979, "depth": 3, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10815725": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I learn so much from my JJP peeps everyday, but I have to say<br><br>Rev Wright is NO VICTIM for these comments he made. plain and simple.<br><br>After you have endured the exploitation, became a household name under the unprecedented barrage of attacks he faced for his connection with President Obama, Rev. Wright knows, NOW MORE THAN EVER, the power of media and how it can be used for or against you.<br><br>Defend him all you what for what I feel was unfair during the campaign season, especailly considering that the videos that were splashed all over TV predated the campaign......but he still has the nerve to say what he said post-election 2009.....it was deliberate.<br><br>Like I said, I saw the sensationalism regarding this story unveil right before my eyes....we talked about it here 2 days ago......after the Holocaust shooting, the headline changes from \"Wright has no regrets\" to the blaring, salacious \"Them Jews are keeping me from Obama\"<br><br>and that, besides what he said it what sickens me.  The tabloid-ish nature in which this was handled.....and let's be real here, the MAJORITY of American media is tabloid-ish in nature.<br><br>That is exactly why you have an Israeli government official saying Obama and the US are \"interfering\" in our affairs ( even though we basically finance them with BILLIONS each year and treat them like a 51st state).......and yet we heard CRICKETS concerning that statement from a supposed \"ally\"  Where was the outrage,discussion, commentary concerning that....YOU WON\"T FIND IT  ANYWHERE, how fitting.<br><br>Rev. Wright got his attention from his so-called \"straight talk\", columist David Squires got  some publicity for not even breaking a real newsworthy scoop and possibly even a raise......the Daily Press (which endorsed John McCain btw) got more traffic, and has kept this story the main headline for at least 2 days now and counting.....<br><br>and the end of the day, what did this \"interview\" give us as citizens?<br><br>some political \"Bossip\" bullshit.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_17:20:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 7, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10804974": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>That's why I don't see Rev. Wright as a victim in this, because he knows at this point anything he says can and will be dissected.</i><br><br>I agree. After the shit Jodi Kantor of the NYT pulled on him, and he wrote <a href=\"http://thepage.time.com/text-of-letter-from-wright-to-the-new-york-times/\" rel=\"nofollow\">this</a> response to her, he should've known not to trust the media.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_13:00:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10804544, "depth": 2, "points": 3, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10803444": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Co-sign", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_12:25:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10803289, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10809080": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Co-sign.<br><br>And let me just add this for WRB: Rev. Wright saying \"them Jews\" was wrong. Full stop. It was wrong. It doesn't help the Palestinians or change the narrative in their favor. In fact, it does the opposite. IF that was indeed his intention to call attention to how they have been and are being treated. I don't know what's in his heart, but on so many levels, he should have known better and acted accordingly.<br><br>Hmph...besides, President Obama is a \"creation of the Jews\" one day and is \"selling out Israel\" on the next. I'm getting mental whiplash trying to keep it straight. ***SMH***", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_14:22:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "APeach", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10807462, "depth": 4, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10809081": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "@ Guns3000:<i>\"Pure nonsense. There is a double standard we have in black america and it needs to stop if we are going to progress as people ... Blacks should know discrimination and stereotypes when they see it and stop turning and a blind eye when of us do it to other groups. And that's not being PC that's Keepin it Real\"</i><br><br><b>TOTAL Co-sign.</b>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_14:23:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "DCD1961", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10806531, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10805500": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Excellent post and I agree with you, only thing is I think there is another facet being overlooked.<br><br>I believe the reason RevWright can't forgive is because his family won't let him. Folks, forget about the  long line of educated people  who were viewed as premiere upstanding blacks of the community, that Wright is a family member of.  His people were 'talented tenth' in the community. Both his parents had Ph.D's when Jim Crow reigned supreme.  It is no accident that Wright has been at the side of 3 Presidents, LBJ, Reagan, Clinton and will be remembered historical as mentoring the first AA President. <br><br> RevWright's family has always been highly regarded and now the entire CLAN feels betrayed. And they likely feel that Wright was dissed by an upstart when they have generations of achievement in their family.<br><br>At the core, this is what is wrong with Wright, his FAMILY feels betrayed and he strikes out because he can't live it down within his own family.<br><br>It would be as if Ted Kennedy nurtured and mentored a young person and then that person became big and Kennedy was persona non grata due to his own behaviors, but behaviors which had been long considered great accomplishments despite errant manners...and now the entire Kennedy clan, feels dishonored and betrayed.<br><br>That type of deep familial betrayal is rarely forgiven.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_13:13:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10800163, "depth": 1, "points": 7, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10810624": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I agree what Wright said was wrong. I am uncertain that it will not help the Palestinians. Piercing remarks have a way of hitting home, and  it was on point.<br><br>I do not engage that nonsense about 'creation of/selling out'<br><br>OTOH, Wright is a highly regarded scholar on Israel/Palestinian history. Respected in the Muslim world and fluent in Arabic. He sent a clear message.<br><br>Even if it was rude, crude and socially unaccepatable.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_14:56:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10809080, "depth": 5, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10799873": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "IMO this is karma for Wright acting like an ass at the press dinner. He knew better than to do that and he did it anyway.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_11:22:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "HopeOverFear", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 11, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 6, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10806531": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Pure nonsense.  There is a double standard we have in black america and it needs to stop if we are going to progress as people. If any white man would have said \"THEM BLacks\" (fill in the blank) you would have been ranting and raving about racism.  The is less about Obama and more about the selective outrage we have in black america.  <br>If a white man says something racist....OUTRAGE<br>If a black man says something racist....HE GETS A PASS<br>If a white man kills a black man...OUTRAGE<br>If a black man kills a black man...NO ONE SAYS A WORD stop snitching <br>If a black politician(Kilpatrick, Jefferson) betrays your trust THE MAN IS SETTING HIM UP<br>white man(Imus) call a black woman a ho (BOYCOTT)<br>black man calls a black woman a ho NO ONE CARES and we shake our asses to it<br><br>Blacks should know discrimination and stereotypes when they see it and stop turning and a blind eye when of us do it to other groups.  And that's not being PC that's Keepin it Real", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_13:38:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "Guns3000", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 12, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10802587, "depth": 1, "points": 4, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11876613": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yes we are seeing a black man treating Jews the way the white man treated him.  We've been seeing this for 50+ years.  Must make you proud!  Rev Wright is too busy policing the Israelis to hold himself and his community to any standards.  Black folks need to up their game.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-29_05:18:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "missx", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10807517, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10799063": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Karmi,<br><br><b>Saaaaaaaa&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;lap</b><br><br>Your lies are not facts!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_10:59:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10798944, "depth": 3, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10813400": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The interview was recorded and played on the news.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_16:13:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10812576, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10813486": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "What does that have to do with Obama?<br><br>See, nobody cares about what Rev. Wright has to say if Obama weren't in the picture.<br><br>The day that John McCain is smeared because of what John Hagee said or Jerry Falwell said or Pat Robertson said or Pat Buchanan said is the day I'll agree with you on Rev. Wright/Barack Obama.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_16:16:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10813265, "depth": 3, "points": 3, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10823727": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Jill:  A RE-POST:<br><br><a href=\"http://blackpoliticsontheweb.com/2009/06/12/statement-from-rev-jeremiah-wright-regarding-daily-press-article/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Statement from Rev. Jeremiah Wright regarding Daily Press article</a><br><br><i>\u201cI am extremely disturbed and deeply saddened that once again my comments as reflected in the June 10, 2009 Daily Press article has resurfaced a divisive debate about my relationship with President Barack Obama. I love President Obama as my son, and support and honor him as the President of the United States America and leader of the free world.<br><br><b>I apologize to the Jewish community and all others who were offended by the way in which I framed my comments. I misspoke.</b><br><br>I meant no harm or ill-will to the American Jewish community or the Obama Administration. My great respect for the Jewish faith and the foundational (and central) part of my Judeo Christian tradition are unquestionable and I pray that all whom I have hurt accept my sincerest apology</i><br><br>As I stated B 4 - - - Ya think that he NEEDS ta READ HIS SPEECHES from a PREPARED TEXT in order 2 prevent - - - -\"MISSPEAKIN'!??\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_21:30:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months 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}, "10813006": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Well I did not turn Pat Buchanan on Wright. I believe he needs the support Al Sharpton would give at time such as this. Heck, even Hucklebee understood Wright, being the southern popcorn popper fried squirrel eating redneck minister he was.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_16:02:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10812406, "depth": 1, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10814238": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hey DCD1961, what it do son? Welcome, welcome. Glad to have your input, and it was so well said!<br><br>I only have one reaction: ditto.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_16:38:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "JunePearl", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10803164, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10799903": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "There is a clear difference between Dyson, West, Smiley and Rev Wright.  <br><br>To my knowledge Dyson, West and Smiley did not experience ANY of what Rev Wright experienced.  Wright was unfairly demonized by a nation and he did nothing to trigger the hatred that was spewed at him.  Rev. Wright's reputation was destroyed, his life and the life of his family and church members were threatened.  He and everyone he cared about was terrorized by psychotic extremists at the instigation of political officials.  He had nothing to do with any of it.  The folks he thought knew better and would stand by him, turned their backs on him.  I understand why he is feeling this way.  So I would cut the man some slack.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_11:22:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10797620, "depth": 1, "points": 4, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10805542": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You BETCHA!!!  **wink, wink\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_13:14:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10805311, "depth": 5, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10812725": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Reynolds and Wright went to Howard together.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_15:54:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10810353, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10805050": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "DITTO!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_13:01:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10804777, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10813244": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ladyvenom:   Your statement is \"SAD BUT TA-RUE!!\"<br><br>Reminds me of the \"Boy Who Cried Wolf\" story.<br><br>After a couple of times - - WE DON'T BELIEVE U!!<br><br>SAD!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_16:09:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10808480, "depth": 3, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10804544": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Both Sharpton and Farrakhan laid low.  It's not that they felt they couldn't say what they wanted, but they understood Amurka wouldn't understand where they were coming from and misrepresent what they were saying, focusing on one bit while the real message got lost.<br><br>That's why I don't see Rev. Wright as a victim in this, because he knows at this point anything he says can and will be dissected.  The only way he's going to get attention is if he says something rowdy about Obama.  If he had just talked religion down at Hampton and said nothign about Obama, the story about him would have been a 2 line blip in the Religion section.<br><br>Instead, he said some stuff...TO A NEWSPAPER REPORTER...that he knew was going to be blown up.  <br><br>People can say whatever they like, but they need to accept the consequences of their words as well.  That goes for Jeremiah Wright, Rush Limbaugh, Von Brunn, Pat Bukkkhanan, etc.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_12:50:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 13, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10803164, "depth": 1, "points": 5, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10809667": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "ITA.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_14:35:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10804777, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10806600": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "He is a victim. He is a victim of his generation.  Of the era he was born into when America's hate for all things black stunted, stifled, humiliation and and push men of character and excellence to the rear and HELD them down if they dared learn to swim.<br><br>Wright is a victim of the centuries of hate and racism in this country...and his bile is spilling out now. <br><br>America's racism shaped Wright and he simply refuses to be quiet now.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_13:39:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10802745, "depth": 2, "points": 4, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10808290": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "AFTERNOON OPEN THREAD IS UP!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_14:03:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months 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}, "10813265": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Does that change his sentiment....does the fact that he didn't use those<br>words during the campaign make him any less suspect?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_16:10:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10812829, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10812242": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"Val, we're supposed to hold Rev. Wright to a higher standard. He's an ordained minister.\"<br><br>Ronnie I love you but that is nothing but horseshit.  We all at some point in life make a decision on our relationship with God.  If you are a Christian you are also held to those standards.  So I ask . .what makes us different?  Nothing.  Why? we are all human and at times fall short in the sight of God.   God understands that.  This isn't new.  The scriptures are filled with men of God who also went through some things and did things that were not aligned with God's word.  So don't give me that.  Also it isn't our place to stand in judgement and rebuke him for failing to adhere to that calling.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_15:41:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10812102, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10841827": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I thought you were defending Wright's actions but I guess you were not but one thing that pisses me off about Wright is the fact like you said he will go down in History for grooming not only the first AA president but an american president and he is not content with that.  Think about it most whites would never accept Rev Wright hanging with Barack in the WH.  So Wright being cast aside was an inevitable that Wright simply expedited.  My problem with Wright instead of understanding the realities of America he went out of his to derail Barack's chances.  That was my point.  Sometimes good men must be sacrificed for the greater good.  If you truly love someone you have to know when it's your time to fall back.  <br><br>Ps:  If Axelrod advised to get rid of Wright then GOD BLESS HIM.  I don't care if his daddy was in the KKK and his mama was one of those bulldawg skin head brawds because that was the prudent thing to do.  If Wright is pissed because the Prez surrounded himself w/ Jews then that is Wright's problem.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-13_13:06:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "Guns3000", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10840001, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10805476": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "My sympathy for the Pastor ran out the minute he decided to show his ass at the Press Club, going there by invitation of someone he KNEW was a Clinton backer.<br><br>Rev. Wright is a lot of things, but stupid ain't one of 'em. <br><br>And then he pulls this stunt.<br><br>What is wrong with this man? Coming out of his mouth with this \"them jews\" tripe? OK, let's leave the immorality out of this even and talk basic media tactics, shall we? He's talking to a reporter. First of all, he could have said \"no comment\" and kept it moving--knowing full well that a story quoting him would be a nice \"get\" for the print reporter and would become cable news catnip in short order. <br><br>But oh no.<br><br>So OK, say \"No\" and drive the convo back to the purpose of the event.<br><br>But oh no. <br><br>He goes into \"Pity Party, Table for One\" mode. So I get it--you haven't seen him, and you seem pretty upset about it. <br><br>Does the Pastor leave it there--oh no.<br><br>He goes on and says \"them Jews\" won't let the President see him. Oooh, we got a twofer here, boys and girls--conspiracy theorist *and* implication that Obama's weak and/or a pawn. And he thought he *wouldn't* be quoted? Really? GTFOH. <br><br>Then, for bonus points, the Pastor pulls some quick CYA work by mentioning the plight of the Palestinians. GREAT move, sir! Thank you SO MUCH for making it seem as if the those who defend the rights of Palestinians and want to see that they are treated with dignity and respect are, at their core, anti-Semitic. Nice job! Heckava job, even.  <br><br>I don't discount the good he's done during his career, but he can be caught up in his own pride and folly...and he is caught up like Usher. He needs to go sit down.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_13:12:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "APeach", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 10, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10799873, "depth": 1, "points": 5, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10823002": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Val, yes Reverend Wright has the right to speak....but he should also have the wisdom to say \"No comment\" on certain matters and keep it moving.<br><br>Rev. Wright was subjected to an unprecendented level of scrutiny because he was the pastor and mentor to a man who has/is  being held to a higher standard than anyone else who has held the office of Presidency....and unfortunately with that Rev. Wright will always be one of the more scrutinized religious leaders in this country....and with that  comes a certain level of being vigilance in what you do or do not say and what verbal games you choose to engage in.<br><br>Like others have said, Rev Wright, if he wanted he could have named the advisors, presumably Axelrod and Rahm, if he wanted to name folks, but he chose \"them Jews\" which was said, let's be honest in a derogatory way just like \"them whiteys\", \"them niggas\" and so forth.<br><br>And honestly, if you listen to the audio, it sounds like the Rev Wright was having a regular, straight talk, off-the-cuff, keepin-it-real talk with David Squires as another Black man, but albeit Squires is a columnist...and in today's  media operates like a tabloid....nothing that you say can be just straight talk, and the Reverend shoul KNOW that by now.....the Daily Press and every other outlet is milking this for what it is worth.<br><br>And along with Wright I am so disappointed with the sensatioanalism the article has attracted...I have been linking to Squire's colums for a while...and with the questioning he asked Wright and all, I am scratching my head wondering, what was the true purpose of this article, other than to stir up shit just like a typical celebrity gossip site.<br><br>Fame, notoriety, and scandal may serve some people well....but is sure doesn't for the Rev.....and I would hope he would recognize that and stop becoming the storyline...at least not so easily with this mess he just created.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_20:59:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10821605, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10800442": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "JunePearl<br><br><i> I pray for Rev. Wright, I pray for anger based on resentment to be replaced by anger based on righteousness. I pray for the hurt that has turned into hatred be touched by the Healer, and transformed to Love.</i><br><br><br>Beautifully and wonderfully said!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_11:35:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10800163, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10800479": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I aint mad at Reverend Wright either, Val.  President Obama has made his decision to cut ties with him and his church.  <br><br>Reverend Wright has just as much right to express his views.  At least he's not on cable tee vee 24/7 spewing racial bigotry and hate.   The same cable station that ran a continuos loop of \"GOD DAMN AMERICA!\"  <br><br>I don't see Reverend Wright as a VICTIM.  I think he knows exactly what he's saying and doing and is taking responsibility for his actions.  <br><br>He didn't have to maintain his 'innocence.\"  He knows America from his own experiences, and called it like he knew it.  He knows it is all politics.  <br>Perhaps he didn't see the video loop coming at him the way it did, but he should make NO apologies for his sermons WHATSOEVER!<br><br>Only Barack & Michelle Obama knows what messages they received from his sermons when they attended Trinity.  Surely Barack knew his past associations with Trinity and Wright would come to light.  <br><br>Barack distanced himself from Wright for political reasons, and Wright keeps talking because that is who he is.<br><br>We know damn well Blacks aren't going to go out and shoot up a Holucost Musem because he said \"Them Jews.\"  Shit, in this economy, they'll go rob a freaking bank first.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_11:36:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10799160, "depth": 1, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10798944": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I point out truthful facts, and you then call them my \"hateful racist views!\" Like Wright, you are the typical black racist...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_10:56:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "Karmi", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10797120, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10809185": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Chris was just watching undercover Brother before he wrote that. Fess up Chris :-)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_14:25:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "RobM", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10805620, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10814695": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "D, you're right.  But back then, the things that Wright said (and didn't say) had political ramifications.  Now he's a political moot point.  Wright has been isolated, quarantined and placed on an island by himself.  <br><br>Now he's just seen as a crackpot pastor who harms no one but himself.  And I think that's pretty sad.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_16:50:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "RonnieB", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10812406, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10813805": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I don't know what you mean by \"any less suspect\". If you're trying to say that the people who slammed him (and Obama) for his comments on the Middle East were right, and knew they were right...no. This is not really a \"I told you so\" moment for them, because they argued in bad faith back then.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_16:25:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "Plantsmantx", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10813265, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10807663": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "And that's fine, but he shouldn't be surprised at backlash when he says rowdy shit to a reporter.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_13:48:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10806600, "depth": 3, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10818416": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Exactly on point!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_18:06:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "antennaness", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10807462, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10823315": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Town.  You have one of the most analytical minds on this blog.  I love all your writings because you speak truth regardless.  <br><br>I ask you. be objective.  Read the comments again. (ignore mine).  Read the comments made today on all the threads about Rev Wright.  Most are focused on how this affects Obama.  No need to follow up with a comment. Just be objective and take another look.<br><br>and I know you already understand that \"just a politician' comment was made because he was hurt.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_21:12:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10823157, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10805620": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<i>\" The Man, Inc.\"</i><br><br>BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA<br><br>Gonna have to remember that one, Chambers.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_13:16:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10799263, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10812794": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Details, please. Is this the white girl at Columbia that lacked his worldview?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_15:56:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10812660, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10805311": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"He set into motion, or CAUSE for these attacks on his character simply by his past ACTIONS, so now he is reaping the EFFECTS.\"<br><br>In other words, the chickensssssssssssssss....... have come home..................to rooooooooooooooost.........", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_13:08:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10803375, "depth": 4, "points": 6, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10809724": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "bad times depending on the circumstances and the stressors forces you to act out of what you believe is necessity.  We watch the news and in some instances of tradegy we hear family, friends or neighbors say\"I never would have believed he/she would do. . . .\".  You see because of the economic climate the rise in suicides and violence . . . complete families found dead in their beds.  Old folks killing themselves because they are getting booted out of their homes. . .Stressors can cause you to do things completely against your nature.<br><br>we will agree to disagree.  later Town.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_14:36:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10808482, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10811776": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Just cause what Wright  said was indefensible, doesn't mean it's not true.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_15:28:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10800514": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That one-note wonder extraordinaire is back ...Joe Btfsplk!<br><br>Sing it, Joe, sing it!<br><br>Twenty years...Rev. Wright...twenty years...Rev. Wright...<br><br>Break it down...one time!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_11:37:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10795482, "depth": 1, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10810243": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Guns3000 and VAL,<br><br>   Come on my brother  and sister (sniffing)!!! I  STILL smell PC,PC ,PC  on Rev Wright and you're NOT keeping it  100% real but i understand.  I guess  Black folks have to behave and fall in line just to make it . Do you and other black folks will do them. This is about Rev Wright comment  on Obama . Do you believe  that white American would be OK with Obama  socializing with Rev. Wright ?  the answer is NO!!!! We have a double standard because Obama socialize with white racist (some in congress and government) almost everyday but i don't see white  America giving 2 cent . Keep it real<br><br>Guns3000  on the other  non Rev Wright black issue right on but on Rev Wright comment on Obama half  keeping real.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_14:47:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "problackness", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10806531, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10805485": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Amen.<br><br>He's too old and has too many degrees to not understand what his words meant. This wasn't someone ' overhearing' this and repeating it. He said it to a damn reporter....WTH did he think would happen?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_13:13:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 9, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10804544, "depth": 2, "points": 5, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10801040": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I'm not sure that it was MICHELLE that was the one close to the church.  She grew up in Chicago and she probably had her own home church she grew up in.  Trinity Church was on Barack Obama and Barack Obama alone --Michelle just went along with it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_11:50:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10800163, "depth": 1, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10807697": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Wright did not have a racist doctrine ever. What he had was a political insight and an understanding of world politics, beyond what MSM chooses to expose.  Wright may be a lot of things, but he did not teach hate nor racism. He dealt with it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_13:49:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10795482, "depth": 1, "points": 4, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11876247": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Take that white sheet off girlfriend... it does NOT look good with that nappy  hair.  Obama is a big boy, and you make him sound like a child.  Let's talk honestly about blacks and crime and see how long it takes for you to start whinning \"RRAAAACCCISM!!!!!!!!!!\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-29_04:42:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "missx", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10826474, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10801049": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I think his sermons were blown out of proportion but this \"THEM JEWS\" comment was completely unacceptable and anti-semitic.  If a white pastor would have made the statement about \"THEM BLACKS\" I and everyone on this site would have roasted him. As blacks we must police our own even when it's uncomfortable.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_11:51:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "Guns3000", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10802587": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Ok black folks, white America isn't monitoring  this board so we all need to speak the truth and drop the PC act.  We all know very will Rev. Wright is correct about Obama and PLEASE black folks stop this I AM SO OFFENDED BY REV WRIGHT CRAP.  We also know White America is watching Obama very closely to see if this man is going to favor black people.  Obama can't  be seen around  any black writers/pastors/professor who are \" too black\" or \" pro-black\". Rev.Wright is correct<br><br>    We all want Obama to stay in office for  8 year but  African American need to stop acting political  correct when it comes to Rev Wright in front of white people. If Obama wasn't in office no  black person would give 2 cent about  Rev Wright comment so stop  the acting and continue being  your black self.<br><br>I STILL support Rev. Wright and  most all African American", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_12:04:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "problackness", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 17, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 4, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10812828": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "excellent post.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_15:57:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10812576, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10807709": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "well said", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_13:49:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10806196, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10814366": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "There may be more Jews in this administration maybe Obama is more comfortable with them around him than any other group?  WHo freaking knows?  Or maybe the reason that he chose them didn't have anything to do with their religion.  And don't start that Obama is controlled by Jews nonsense because Obama has showed more balls on the Israeli/Palestinian issue than any president in recent memory.  Do you think AIPAC would have allowed a sitting President to go a Muslim country and take a hard line on Israel?  Obama is holding Israel to the agreements they ALREADY MADE on the settlements.  This isn't anything new.  Bush wasn't tough enough to hold the Israelis to the agreement they already made.   Do some research there are Jews that hate Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod for being in this administration.  There are Jews that don't give two shits about Israel and have no interest in going there.  Stop using Farrakahn and Rev Wright talking points and seek the knowledge for yourself.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_16:41:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "Guns3000", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10813397, "depth": 5, "points": 3, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10811807": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yes Sepia,<br><br>I remember hanky head Reynolds...<br>The criticizer of hope!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_15:30:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10810353, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10808224": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You know, the thing is, my thing has always been..<br><br>if you don't know better, you don't know better.<br><br>That's why I thought the National Press Club Clowning was  wrong. <br><br>Everyone seems to want to forget the rest of that weekend. <br><br>The Moyers interview - went fine. <br>The speech to the Detroit NAACP - went fine. <br><br>In both of these, he stepped far away from the Youtube soundbites, and put his critics to shame.<br><br>So, how were folks to interpret that National Press Club Clowning as anything other than DELIBERATE? <br><br>If he had failed in the other 2, then it would have been - ' he can't do any better'. <br><br>but, when you showed that you could do better, and not ' sacrifice' the authentic self, and then you CLOWN....<br><br>he is too old and has too many degrees to not know.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_14:02:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10807904, "depth": 4, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10813339": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I will do a search on this and post if found.  Found great details of his life last year . .. . I hope I saved the links.  I can't remember her name.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_16:12:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10812794, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10813860": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "So coonery = a display of courage of convictions?<br><br>OK.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_16:27:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10812584, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10811814": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "oooo....they gone send you to the naughty chair...Shush!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_15:30:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10811026, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10809258": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "(1) Now that Rev. Wright has tossed himself onto the junk heap of irrelevance, one would *think* that the only person who's accountable for his words is the Rev himself.  But sure as the sun rises, there will be a segment of our society who can't help but *try* to make President Obama -- and members of the Black Church -- forever accountable for Wright's words and deeds.<br><br>(2) Even if Rev. Wright hadn't said \"them Jews\", he was still referencing an entirety of God's children in a spiteful, hurtful spirit.  That's not what a pastor does; it's not what a pastor says.  So one has to ask: was he really righteous in what he said?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_14:26:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "RonnieB", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months 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}, "10821035": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Alright now!<br><br>\"Rev Wright is NO VICTIM for these comments he made. plain and simple.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_19:38:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10815725, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10812829": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Wright didn't talk about \"those Jews\" during the campaign. He also didn't do anything quite as stupid as say \"I meant Zionists\" when people like Rham Emmanuel are assisting the President in gearing up to implement the first truly even-handed Arab/Israeli policy in close to 30 years, if not longer.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_15:57:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "Plantsmantx", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10812406, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10814384": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "True, Val.  We all fall short--pastors, priests, rabbi's included.  I'm just wondering out loud whether God expects more Godly behavior from a pastor than He does from, say, <i>me</i>.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_16:42:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "RonnieB", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10812242, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10806196": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Justice I do beleive that Wright's anger is already based on righteousness, which is why he is unforgiving. He and his family have served the black community for generations, his dad was a minister also, if you recall. This is about a whole lot of Negros for generation helping other negros...and that is why he is so righteousness.<br><br>I like Obama, I believe in what says, but I also know that there can be a case made that he was exceptionally well thought out and had his career path determined before he arrived in Chicago, which is why he wrote the book and why he joined Trinity.<br><br>Obama had no connections with the black community prior to going to Chicago. He also saw the church as an outreach minister and had to no doubt know the long historical traditional of the role of the black church when it came to politics.<br><br>Obama sat at Wrights knee and learned everything he needed to know, he even sat in the Pew with Bill Clinton at Wright's church, after registering over 100K voters, to carry Carol Mosely Braun into the Senate and Clinton to second term.  <br><br>Obama is a master strategist ain't nothing naive, or accidental in terms of his ascendency.  His biggest error was the run for the US Congress against Rush.  But, as when all mistakes he learned from it.  He figured out who his demographic base was and he went right down to the capitol and re-drew his district, to be predominantely white-liberal upper class, along with the financial district of the Chicago and some black folks for good measure.<br><br>So, Wright's angry is righteous, he knows how he gave Obama a launching pad and this type of bitterness and bile of betrayal, he is unwilling to swallow.<br><br>I am not defending Wright.  I just see the dimensional depths of his anger.<br><br>Recall, how the world dissed Wright and Jesse after they went and negotiated the release of that serviceman RonaldGoodman (I think that was his name) and after those two went and negotiated with the Muslim world as Wright is fluent in Arabic, then the media completely ignored them, even though they were with Reagan in the WhiteHouse.<br><br>Wright's sense of betrayal runs deep and long.  It is extremely difficult for intelligent accomplished black men of his generation, whose talents were squandered due to racism to be happy given the magnitude of hate that impeded access to opportunities for these men.<br><br>So, HATE and ANGER righteous anger, is all they have left.<br><br>Like Chris Rock said, show me an old black man and I\"ll show you an angry man.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_13:30:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10800442, "depth": 2, "points": 5, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10825654": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Good point,  whiterosebuddy.  That recent video of some knuckleheaded Isrealis chastising Obama's stance on Isreal isn't helping.  It's not all Isrealis, but some of them hard-liners don't give 2 cents what folks feel about their actions in the M.E...and them lobbyists are all up in D.C.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_23:04:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "ch555x", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10820817, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10802615": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Guns3000.  Now your statements I agree with 100%.  You are absolutely right.<br>He was wrong for that and based on the apology I am guessing he realized it.   I hope he gets through whatever he is dealing with.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_12:04:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10801049, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10812660": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "actually Obama did date.  He was in one serious relationship prior to moving to Chicago and they broke it off.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_15:52:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10811977, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10799263": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Another way white people get over: they rein in their assholes. Yep, even Dick Cheney and Rush. Someone from \"The Man, Inc.\" Security Force will roll up on them and gag them before they go TOO far. <br><br>We need that. these wingnuts, these folk in power get cheap victories b/c of the clowns in our midst. I posted a comment re: What About Our Daughter's blogpost on this stupid diversity council set up with the New York Post, with Rev Al and NAACP bigshots getting free catered lunches, rather than real journalists being on the panel, and real fixes like more people of color making editorial decisions. That's one of the more mild examples of this problem.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_11:05:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "ChrisChambers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months 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}, "10812861": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I agree with you.  Now, we both gone be in the naughty chair, in the back, in the corner in the dark, with no potty breaks.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_15:58:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10811899, "depth": 3, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10811326": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "problackness here is the thing.  I understand EXACTLY what you are saying and about the whole PC thing.  And I think some of us are doing that but that doesn't mean it's right.  Blacks have been the victims of what Rev wright did with his comments for his centuries.   Rev Wright is stereotyping a whole group of people.  I don't know how many times I've heard racists say:<br>THEM BLACKS ARE SO VIOLENT<br>THEM BLACKS ARE DUMB<br>THEM BLACKS ARE NIGGERS ETC ETC ETC<br><br>Times are changing not only for old white people like Pat Buchanan but for old black people like Rev Wright.  And they both can't take it.  I love my grandparents but some of the beliefs that they held are unacceptable today.  I understand historically why my grandparents had certain views and why Rev Wright said those things in his sermons but TODAY you cannot so those things anymore.  If you want to debate US policy toward Israel lets have it but to stereotype a whole group of people or allow one of our own to do it makes us just as guilty as the people who did it to our ancestors for hundreds of years.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_15:15:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "Guns3000", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10810243, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10823157": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I don't think anyone is saying \"shut up for Barack Obama.\"  Because at this point Rev. Wright isn't hurting Barack Obama.  Rev. Wright is hurting HIMSELF and THAT'S why he needs to shut up and sit down.  He KNOWS these people only want a meal of gossip and he keeps feeding their hunger.  He KNOWS these people only want to use his words to tear him (Wright) down.  Yet he keeps talking.  Why?  He's not even defending himself, he's just taking potshots at Obama and the potshots are bouncing off Obama and landing back on him.  He needs to sit down and zip the lips, not for Obama, but for himself.  He's working himself up but good for somebody who's \"just a politician.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_21:05:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10822750, "depth": 5, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10840001": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You know what Guns?  I can't get my head around just where you are coming from. I am fully aware of the NPC 'performance'  My point was simply to provide perspective on the depths and dimensions of Wright's anger.  If you stop and think about that you might see that his family and ancestoral heirtage plays a role in fueling what he is doing. The man is proud. He is accomplished. His family lineage is outstanding for generations of educated folks.  He, himself speaks 5 languages.<br><br>If you wanna get blatant, the question is..how does Obama's family measure up in any sense to that of Wright's?  Wright's family is the quintessential story of Negroes who overcame despite the odds, hate and virulence of racism in America. Obama has no such family heirtage. Who in Barack's family overcame a blessed thing?  Obama as was said often during the campaign does not represent the historical struggle of blacks in this country and neither do any of his ancestors! Yet, a man who does and who had a brilliant mind and outstanding upbringing as well as serving as a veteran in this country, is the one who was cast aside.  AND, since this IS the topic of the thread, he was told that by AXELROD, who is a jew.  So, YES, Wright was righteously angry and no doubt in Jeremiah's mind, he is representing 2-3 generations of blacks like his family by stepping up and saying \" I will not be PUSHED ASIDE, once again and go QUIETLY.<br><br>Doesn't make him right, but there are many folks who would agree with his principle reasons for doing so.<br><br>I know all about the relationship Wright had with Obama and how Obama had no ties to the black community before marrying Michelle and joining Trinity.  So, the question is what is your point, as it regards Wrights  rude commentary?<br><br>And you seem to be making the same point I have when you say that Wright is one of the most powerful, highly regarded, erudite scholars in the ministry.<br><br>It is unclear what your contentiousness is based on..cause it seems to me we are saying the same thing about Wrights background. And I previously stated I was not defending Wright.  <br><br>So, what gives, what is your point?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-13_11:43:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10822140, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10818635": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "My 94 year old dad says \"you catch more flies with honey than vinigar\".", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_18:14:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "antennaness", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10806600, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10795460": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I say that Wright is still pissed he didn't go to the White House with the Obamas.  IMO he thought the whole 9/11, GD America thing would blow over, Obama would lay low and then resume a relationship with him.  It didn't happen, and with the THEM JEWS talk it's never going to happen, and what's more, Wright is seeing Al Sharpton get repeat invites to the White House, but not him.<br><br>Wright talking about THEM JEWS sounds no different than Von Brunn talking about THEM JEWS.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_09:46:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 8, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10805703": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "that was sorta deep, Chambers.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_13:18:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10799361, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10796488": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Your parents were wrong.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_10:09:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10795482, "depth": 1, "points": 5, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10803147": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "As a result of what happened to him he is now going through some things we can't possibly understand.  Was he wrong to say what he said about Jews?  yes.  It was wrong and uncalled for.  But I don't believe he would have made those statements before he experienced what he experienced.But I can't simply say . . . he needs so sit down and shut up because if I experienced what he did I can't honestly say what I would do or say.  I certainly wouldn't assume that he should be over it by now.  His credibility is shot.  His reputation is in the garbage. Folks still hate him (look at unfair commentary by Karmi almost every other day).  He still gets threatening emails, phone calls and letters and he has to get protection to go anywhere.  <br><br>I can cut him some slack and hope the man gets through it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_12:18:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10802745, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10805708": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I agree that Wright has not learned to change with the times. Preachers used to be able to throw out certain words and catch phrases to shock people into paying attention. In today's political correct climate that's just not possible anymore. Yelling \"them Jews\" or \"them Zionists\" is a sure way to upset people. I am sure Wright is smart enough to realize this but just doesn't care because he craves the attention it brings. I just hope that we'll stop claiming Obama \"threw Wright under the bus\" now since its obvious Wright only wants to be a loose cannon that creates problems.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_13:18:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "eclecticbrotha", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10803164, "depth": 1, "points": 6, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10818004": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "First of all: those comments were dead wrong.<br><br>Second: Rev. Wright knew he was creating a headache for the President when he made those comments; especially coming after the Cairo speech and the fact Bibi is over there in Israel working to push Congress to reign in Obama. <br><br>This is fodder to the President's enemies and it's fodder to neo-conservative supporters of the Likud party and the far right Liberman-wing. <br><br>Yesterday I glanced at the Page, they had a FOX poll and the headline was Obama Still Strong. One day, Obama's poll numbers will drop to normal and folks'll move in for the kill. I think GITMO and bailout backlash are the two soft spots the administration has; Israel and AIPAC want to make a tough line against settlements and peace talks a third to send a message about their power. Rev. Wright was just giving them fodder to hit hard and do that.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_17:59:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "Me_Rhoda", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 4, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10813397": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yes, but but but  have jews every been in the position of being in the Presidential inner circle to this degree, ever before in history?<br><br>If not, (and it's not) then how is it a stereotype.<br><br><br>Using the word jew is not perjorative. People of Jewish faith call themselves jews.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_16:13:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10811326, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10803449": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "and there you have it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_12:25:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10802587, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10800088": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I noticed it as well!<br><br>Someone must have pulled Pat Buchanan's coat-tail and told him to shush!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_11:27:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10799824, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10795482": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Wright is wrong and has been wrong for a long long time. The racist BLT doctrine that he teaches/taught - in front of TUCC member Barack - is also wrong.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_09:47:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "Karmi", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10814031": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "lol  Can't help it Whiterosebuddy.  I gotta be fair.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_16:31:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10813041, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10803164": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I am a LONG TIME lurker on JJP but this is my first post.<br><br>I was a member of TUCC for over 15 years. I was married there. My son was dedicated there. I spent MANY a Sunday there. The problem that Rev. Wright has is that the world has changed and he hasn't changed with it -- he's a straight-up a dinosaur.<br><br>There used to be a time that Black preachers could say whatever they wanted in their pulpits and nobody cared. There is value in that because somebody had to \"speak truth to power\" but \"Rev\" always flirted with (and sometimes crossed) the line.<br><br>I wish I had a dollar for every time he said something that would make the entire congregation break out into a collective, \"OOOOOOOO -- I can't believe he went THERE!\"  In a racially-charged climate like Chicago, that was acceptable -- people were always saying wild things. Even still, on the way home, you'd look at your wife and say, \"Hmmmm -- Rev was pretty 'out there' today, wasn't he?\"<br><br>Even still, it was cool because the times were different and again, politically nobody found out about it or cared because what was being said in a Black church wasn't under the microsope. Deeper still, it was okay to make wild statements because Rev. was \"Fighting the Power\", right?<br><br>After a while, it got to be too much for us and we stopped going. While I always thought the Black Church represented a valuable political force in our community, we decided the the Spiritual/political mix was being slanted too heavily toward (sometimes inflammatory) politics with not enough spiritual. Not to say that God wasn't always at the center of the Church becaue it most definitely was. It's just that there was too much politics for my tastes on Sunday morning.<br><br>Fast forward to 2007 and Barack Obama was in a position to BECOME the power and now the whole world is dissecting every part of his life -- including his church. Now all of a sudden, the game has changed but people like Rev. Wright haven't. On top of all that, Obama didn't play the traditional way -- he didn't ASK PERMISSION from any of the established players. He didn't go to Jesse, Rev. Wright, or anyone else and kiss their rings. He changed the way Black politicians played the game and part of that change was to reject some of the rhetoric of the past. Implicit in that was a rejection of the speakers of that rhetoric. <br><br>Some folks understood the game Barack had to play. (Did you notice how Rev. Al chilled out during the election season? Did you notice how even Farrakhan wouldn't get baited into discussion that would reflect poorly on Obama?)<br><br>Other folks like Jesse (talking about \"Cutting folks n**s off) and Rev. Wright couldn't step back and realize it was a new day with new players -- and more importantly, NEW APPROACHES. Rev. Wright's biggest problem is that he doesn't realize that the game has changed and it's not about him (and his ego). He needs to do what folks all over Chicago have been saying for the last year-and-a-half.<br><br>\"Rev. -- sit DOWN!\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_12:18:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "DCD1961", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 19, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 13, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10816477": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Damn Monie!! You said that!!!!!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_17:44:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "CarolinagirlinGA", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10815725, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11877346": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "They finally got DSL in the backwoods??", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-29_06:44:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11876247, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10821605": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Hey Monie - read the posts again.  no one claimed Rev. Wright was a victim for the comments he made. in fact, we all said those comments were wrong.  <br><br>I did push back against the fact that we believe that somehow because Wright is now a household name through no fault of his own, somehow he no longer has a right to free speech and he should spend the next 4 - 8 years of his life living for Barack Obama.  That is wrong especially when the President that I love could give a crap about him.  <br><br>i hope he continues to speak.  Doesn't matter if I agree with his commentary or not. It is his right.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_20:04:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10815725, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10812497": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I see it D.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_15:48:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10812406, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10814955": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "no.  sin is sin.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_16:58:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10814384, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10802671": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I happen to think JW was right...again, but yet people only focus on the \"them Jews\" comment and not the larger context of what he was saying. Personally I think it's somewhat like the media hatchet job that was done to him last year.<br><br>It's easy to say he's a hater. What people whould do is give thought to exactly what he was saying when he referenced Obama/the U.S.A. boycotting the UN conference on racism and siding with Israel in doing so. <br><br>Lemme get this right: Obama can talk tough to Israel when speaking in Cairo, but yet boycott such a necessary conference which spoke of reparations and the Israeli/Palestinian conflict?<br><br>Here's more of what I think:<a href=\"http://rippdemup.blogspot.com/2009/06/dont-you-love-it-when-your-drunk-uncle.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">LINK</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_12:05:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "RiPPa", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months 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}, "10810353": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Speaking of the National Press Club event, do ya'll remember who organized it and invited him? It was one of Hillary's hankerchief heads, Dr. Barbara Reynolds. <br><br>Remember that heavy set black lady with the yellow outfit and effed up hair extensions? She was the one who organized the whole thing. Errol Louis at the NY Daily News busted her ass out. <br><br>Here's the article: <a href=\"http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2008/04/29/2008-04-29_is_jeremiah_wright_a_colossal_disaster_f-2.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2008/0...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_14:50:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10809969, "depth": 6, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10815989": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "And that's what further pisses me off about him pulling this stunt--because he is so well-versed and intelligent. He didn't have to do this, and he didn't further the cause.<br><br>Also, I'm sorry I wasn't as clear: the creation/selling out stuff wasn't aimed at you or anyone on the board, but based on things said in the media in the course of a week. That stuff is maddening. My apologies!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_17:30:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "APeach", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10810624, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10812406": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I wasn't the biggest fan of the Rev. Wright meme during the primaries and the election; I didn't always see the point or value in tying him to PBO. In fairness, I admit to pulling it out a couple times.<br><br>But I'm looking at this and reading the comments and thinking that what's being said here, now, is not much different from the complaints conservatives/Republicans had about Wright.<br><br>So, I ask this in a completely neutral fashion...does anyone else see that? And if not, where am I wrong? Not trying to get into a \"told you so\" argument, but just want to know if that's a shared thought.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_15:45:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months 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}, "10810872": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Ok, but help me out here. I wasn't saying he has a right to be angry, so much as his was a justifiably righteous anger.  How does a man raised under the virulent hatred of racism in the 30s40s&50s when more lychings occurred in America than previous eras, NOT represent the oppressed and is not the victim of injustice?.<br><br>IOW's his anger is born of the injustice inflicted on him as the oppressed, and he is therefore full of righteous anger.<br><br>For Wright, having lived through decades of oppression and being held down by societal barriers, the candidacy of Obama, given his contribution to his growth as an AA, represented another way that society once again, tarred and feathered him. It was a  high-tech lynching with that tape playing non stop to make a complete caricature of him by showing snippets!  That was no different from the humiliation of going in the back door, sitting in the balcony and being invisible when in are in public venues. It was simply brutal! They destroyed his reputation and standing in the community.  A reputation is priceless, built over decades of achievements, accomplishments and sacrifices...and in TWO weeks they SHATTERED it completely! Just ripped it to shreds.<br><br>Wright was unjustly oppressed again and again, no matter how brilliant his intellect and being fluent in 5 languages, main stream society shunned his talents and push him down and put their foot on the back of his neck.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_15:03:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10809553, "depth": 4, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10805242": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Co-signing <br><br>\"That's why I don't see Rev. Wright as a victim in this, because he knows at this point anything he says can and will be dissected.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_13:07:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10804544, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10811899": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I understand that but I don't care.  if we are going to point at somebody then we also need to point to ourselves.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_15:32:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10811814, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10822140": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I don't disagree with anything that you said but Wright did this to himself.  When those tapes were first exposed Obama refused to separate himself from Wright.  Remember the speech.  And instead of Wright \"falling back and chillen\" until the lights dim his arrogant ass made a fool of himself at the National Press Club. Did you forget? Obviously so, this whole thing was self-inflicted. Rev Wright isn't dumb.  He knew his speech at the National Press Club was going to derail Obama's chances.  Instead of being a good father and team player and doing what was necessary for the mission he let his own arrogance blind him.  He started thinking about his own goals with this new found fame.  Remember how is was plugging his book at the National Press Club.  All of a sudden Barack was starting to outshine the \"master\" and Wright couldn't handle it.  So Barack was like f^%k it. Throw his old ass overboard.  You are not useful anymore.   As much as we probably don't like to admit it Obama used Wright to get \"street cred\"  Think about it how does half black half white man who grew up in Hawaii around whites get accepted in the black community and be accepted as a brotha?  Well, you go to one of the blackest cities in America marry an educated black woman from the hood and get one of most powerful black pastors in American History to cosign you.  Check mate.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_20:26:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "Guns3000", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10805500, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10807806": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Wright was angry when he was dis-invited just minutes before Obama made his announcement that he was running for President, on the IL  state capitol steps.  Wright was there that day, and it was Axelrod, who told Wright he was not going to be able to stand and pray with Obama in public prior to Barack announcing his candidacies.<br><br>Which is why Wright, said PRECISELY what he did yesterday.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_13:52:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10795460, "depth": 1, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10812927": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I did!!  I listen to the full sermon.  I agree he has a right to speak his mind.<br>Just this time it was particularly rude and crude.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-12_16:00:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 10812576, "depth": 1, "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": "21379865", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "21630", "hash": -8351762454390582151}, "thread": {"days_alive": 0, "slug": "rev_jeremiah_wright_is_so_wrong", "paginate": false, "num_pages": 1, "num_posts": 189, "per_page": 0, "total_posts": 0, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 21379865, "queued": false}, "reactions_limit": 10, "context": {"show_reply": true, "use_fb_connect": true, "forum_facebook_key": "bd6a8bc56f8eb204984f34b6fefe228d", "use_yahoo": false, "subscribed": false, "use_twitter_signin": true, "use_openid": false, "realtime_speed": 5000}, "reactions_start": 0, "settings": {"debug": false, "disqus_url": "http://disqus.com", "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"}, "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"};
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	this.curPageId = 'dsq-comments';

	this.frames = {};
};

var disqus_popup_reference = null;

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



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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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





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



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

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

	this._lastHash = null;

	this._accumMsg = '';

	this._lastSeqno = 0;

	this.MAX_DATA_LEN	= 1024;

	this.WAIT_TIME		= 10;

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

};

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

FragmentPacket.prototype.log = function(msg) {



};

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

		hash = this.reader.name;
	} else {

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

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

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

		this._lastSeqno = seqno;

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

				this._accumMsg = '';

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

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

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

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

};

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

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

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

	if (packetNum === 0) {

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

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

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

	if (num_packets === packetNum) {

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

	this._lastSeqno++;

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

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

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

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

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

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


	this.receiverId = receiverId;
};

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

	var listener = function(e) {

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


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

		that.receiveCallback(data);
	};

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

PostMessagePacket.prototype.send = function(msg) {



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


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

	var packet;
	if (!msg) {

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

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

var JsonRpc = function() {

	this.ids = {};

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

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

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

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

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

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

				json = 'null';
				break;
		}

		return json;
	};

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		send_func(this.objectToJSON(request));

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

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


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



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


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


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

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

	this.packetHandler = null;


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


	var _createReceiverForFragmentPacket = function() {

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

			that._ready = true;
		};

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

		that.receiver.onload = receiver_onload;







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

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

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

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


	var _createReceiverForPostMessage = function() {

		var receiver_onload = function() {

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

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


		ParentMessenger['_receiver_onload_' + receiverId] = receiver_onload;

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

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

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

};

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	var sendFunc = function(msg) {

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


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


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

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

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

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

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

		if (msg.username) {

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	this.url = Dsq.Urls.REPLY +
		'?' + (new Date()).getTime() +
		'&f=jackandjillpolitics' +
		'&t=rev_jeremiah_wright_is_so_wrong' +
		'&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/rev_jeremiah_wright_is_so_wrong/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='	+ 'rev_jeremiah_wright_is_so_wrong'
			+ '&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/rev_jeremiah_wright_is_so_wrong/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">189</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/rev_jeremiah_wright_is_so_wrong/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/rev_jeremiah_wright_is_so_wrong/">Community Page</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>\
	 <span class="dsq-item-subscribe">\
	 <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/email.png" style="width:12px;height:12px;vertical-align:middle">\
	 <span id="dsq-subscribe">\
	 <a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">Subscribe by email</a>\
	 </span>\
	 </span>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-alerts">\
	 <p><a href="http://disqus.com/profile/login/?next=article:21379865" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false">You must log into your Disqus Profile in order to post comments.</a></p>\
	 </div>\
		';

		

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

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

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.authPost();
		

		html += Dsq.Templates.reactions();

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.trackbacks();
		

		return html;
	};

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		return html;
	}

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		return '<h3 class="dsq-h3-reactions">Reactions</h3><ul id="dsq-reactions" class="dsq-reactions">' + html + '</ul>';
	};
	
	this.missingPermissions = function() {
		return '	<p><a href="http://disqus.com/profile/login/?next=article:21379865" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false">You must log into your Disqus Profile in order to post comments.</a></p> \n';
	};

	//
	// Post
	//

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		return ' \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer" id="dsq-comment-footer-' + post_id + '"> \
				<div id="dsq-points-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-likedtxt">'
				+ (_meta.points
					? _meta.points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(_meta.points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this comment.'
					: '')
				+ '</div>'
				+ '<ul class="dsq-comment-options dsq-list-style">'
				+ (_meta.votable
					? '<li class="dsq-list-first dsq-rate" id="dsq-rate-cont-' + post_id + '">'
					+ (!_meta.up_voted
						? '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.rate(this, ' + post_id + ', 1); return false;">Like</a>'
						: 'You liked this.') + '</li>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-report' + (!_meta.votable ? ' dsq-list-first' : '') + '" id="dsq-post-report-' + post_id + '"><a href="#" class="dsq-post-report" onclick="Dsq.Post.report(' + post_id + ', false); return false;">Report</a></li> \
				</ul> \
				<ul class="dsq-list-style">'
				+ (_meta.can_reply
					? '<li class="dsq-list-first"><a href="#" id="dsq-reply-link-' + post_id +'" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleReply(this, ' + post_id +'); return false;">Reply</a></li>'
					: '')
				+ (_meta.can_reply && !_meta.has_replies && _meta.from_request_user
					? '<li id="dsq-edit-el-' + post_id + '"><a id="dsq-edit-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); return false;">Edit</a></li>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="' + (!_meta.can_reply ? 'dsq-list-first' : '') + '" id="dsq-more-el-' + post_id + '"><a id="dsq-more-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, ' + post_id + ', \'more\'); return false">More <small>&#9660;</small></a></li>'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.use_media
					? '<li id="dsq-media-el-' + post_id +'" style="display:none"><a id="dsq-media-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, ' + post_id + ', \'media\'); return false">Use Media <small>&#9660;</small></a></li>'
					: '')
				+ '</ul>'
				+ '<div id="dsq-reply-bar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar" style="display:none"> \
						<div id="dsq-reply-bar-items-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar-items"> \
						</div> \
						<div id="dsq-reply-bar-auth-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar-auth"> \
							 \
								 \
									<a href="#" class="dsq-help dsq-reply-req-opt" title="You must log into an account in order to comment on Jack and Jill Politics" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Required:</a> \
								 \
								<img class="dsq-login-icon" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/dsq-favicon-16x16.png" alt="" /> \
								<a id="dsq-reply-login-' + post_id + '" href="http://disqus.com/profile/login/?next=article:21379865" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false">Login</a> \
								 \
									&nbsp;or&nbsp; \
									<img class="fb_login_image" src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/images/fbconnect/login-buttons/connect_light_small_short.gif" alt="Facebook Connect"/> \
									<a href="#" onclick="FB.Connect.requireSession(DisqusFbcParentController.onLogin); return false;">Connect</a> \
								 \
								&nbsp;or&nbsp; \
									<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/twitter-signin-icon.png" alt="" /> \
									<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect(); return false">Sign-in</a> \
								 \
								 \
							 \
						</div> \
					</div> \
					<div id="dsq-reply-' + post_id + '"></div> \
			</div> \
		';
	};

	//
	// Iframes
	//

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	//
	// Menus
	//

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

	//
	// Popups
	//

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

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

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

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

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

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

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

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

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

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

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

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

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

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

		bodyHtml = message;

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

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

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

	//
	// Actions
	//

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

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

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

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

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);

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

	//
	// Media
	//

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

	//
	// Callbacks
	//

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		if(!openedMenu) {
			return;
		}

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	this.report = function(id, confirmed) {
		if(confirmed) {
			Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/jackandjillpolitics/rev_jeremiah_wright_is_so_wrong/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='	+ 'rev_jeremiah_wright_is_so_wrong'
			+ '&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='	+ 'rev_jeremiah_wright_is_so_wrong'
			+ '&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='		+ 'rev_jeremiah_wright_is_so_wrong'
				+ '&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/21379865/realtime.js?timestamp=' + last_checked);
		}
	};

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

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

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

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

}();

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

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

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

	return obj;
}();

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		if (isblank(openid_url)) {
			return;
		}

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	return obj;
}();


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





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

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

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

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

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

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





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

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

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

})();

Dsq.container.className = "clearfix";
Dsq.container.innerHTML = ' \
<ul id="dsq-comments">\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-10803164">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10803164" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10803164" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10803164">DCD1961</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10803164" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10803164" class="dsq-comment-message">I am a LONG TIME lurker on JJP but this is my first post.<br><br>I was a member of TUCC for over 15 years. I was married there. My son was dedicated there. I spent MANY a Sunday there. The problem that Rev. Wright has is that the world has changed and he hasn\'t changed with it -- he\'s a straight-up a dinosaur.<br><br>There used to be a time that Black preachers could say whatever they wanted in their pulpits and nobody cared. There is value in that because somebody had to "speak truth to power" but "Rev" always flirted with (and sometimes crossed) the line.<br><br>I wish I had a dollar for every time he said something that would make the entire congregation break out into a collective, "OOOOOOOO -- I can\'t believe he went THERE!"  In a racially-charged climate like Chicago, that was acceptable -- people were always saying wild things. Even still, on the way home, you\'d look at your wife and say, "Hmmmm -- Rev was pretty \'out there\' today, wasn\'t he?"<br><br>Even still, it was cool because the times were different and again, politically nobody found out about it or cared because what was being said in a Black church wasn\'t under the microsope. Deeper still, it was okay to make wild statements because Rev. was "Fighting the Power", right?<br><br>After a while, it got to be too much for us and we stopped going. While I always thought the Black Church represented a valuable political force in our community, we decided the the Spiritual/political mix was being slanted too heavily toward (sometimes inflammatory) politics with not enough spiritual. Not to say that God wasn\'t always at the center of the Church becaue it most definitely was. It\'s just that there was too much politics for my tastes on Sunday morning.<br><br>Fast forward to 2007 and Barack Obama was in a position to BECOME the power and now the whole world is dissecting every part of his life -- including his church. Now all of a sudden, the game has changed but people like Rev. Wright haven\'t. On top of all that, Obama didn\'t play the traditional way -- he didn\'t ASK PERMISSION from any of the established players. He didn\'t go to Jesse, Rev. Wright, or anyone else and kiss their rings. He changed the way Black politicians played the game and part of that change was to reject some of the rhetoric of the past. Implicit in that was a rejection of the speakers of that rhetoric. <br><br>Some folks understood the game Barack had to play. (Did you notice how Rev. Al chilled out during the election season? Did you notice how even Farrakhan wouldn\'t get baited into discussion that would reflect poorly on Obama?)<br><br>Other folks like Jesse (talking about "Cutting folks n**s off) and Rev. Wright couldn\'t step back and realize it was a new day with new players -- and more importantly, NEW APPROACHES. Rev. Wright\'s biggest problem is that he doesn\'t realize that the game has changed and it\'s not about him (and his ego). He needs to do what folks all over Chicago have been saying for the last year-and-a-half.<br><br>"Rev. -- sit DOWN!"</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10805708">eclecticbrotha</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10805708" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree that Wright has not learned to change with the times. Preachers used to be able to throw out certain words and catch phrases to shock people into paying attention. In today\'s political correct climate that\'s just not possible anymore. Yelling "them Jews" or "them Zionists" is a sure way to upset people. I am sure Wright is smart enough to realize this but just doesn\'t care because he craves the attention it brings. I just hope that we\'ll stop claiming Obama "threw Wright under the bus" now since its obvious Wright only wants to be a loose cannon that creates problems.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10816105">antennaness</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10816105" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'ve only heard Tavis Smiley say that Obama "threw Wright under the bus".</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10804544">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10804544" class="dsq-comment-message">Both Sharpton and Farrakhan laid low.  It\'s not that they felt they couldn\'t say what they wanted, but they understood Amurka wouldn\'t understand where they were coming from and misrepresent what they were saying, focusing on one bit while the real message got lost.<br><br>That\'s why I don\'t see Rev. Wright as a victim in this, because he knows at this point anything he says can and will be dissected.  The only way he\'s going to get attention is if he says something rowdy about Obama.  If he had just talked religion down at Hampton and said nothign about Obama, the story about him would have been a 2 line blip in the Religion section.<br><br>Instead, he said some stuff...TO A NEWSPAPER REPORTER...that he knew was going to be blown up.  <br><br>People can say whatever they like, but they need to accept the consequences of their words as well.  That goes for Jeremiah Wright, Rush Limbaugh, Von Brunn, Pat Bukkkhanan, etc.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10805485">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10805485" class="dsq-comment-message">Amen.<br><br>He\'s too old and has too many degrees to not understand what his words meant. This wasn\'t someone \' overhearing\' this and repeating it. He said it to a damn reporter....WTH did he think would happen?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10807904">NMP</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10807904" class="dsq-comment-message">Rikyrah,<br><br>He knew exactly what he was doing.  You know my opinion of him has been consistent.  My introduction to him was his first interview with the NYT.  He was petulent and self-serving.  He was clearly trying to exlpoit  the perceived schism between then candidate Obama and the African American community.  Now he\'s trying to exploit the schism between the President and the Jewish community.  What I can\'t understand is how the Obamas never saw the political liability of a close relationship with him.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10808224">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10808224" class="dsq-comment-message">You know, the thing is, my thing has always been..<br><br>if you don\'t know better, you don\'t know better.<br><br>That\'s why I thought the National Press Club Clowning was  wrong. <br><br>Everyone seems to want to forget the rest of that weekend. <br><br>The Moyers interview - went fine. <br>The speech to the Detroit NAACP - went fine. <br><br>In both of these, he stepped far away from the Youtube soundbites, and put his critics to shame.<br><br>So, how were folks to interpret that National Press Club Clowning as anything other than DELIBERATE? <br><br>If he had failed in the other 2, then it would have been - \' he can\'t do any better\'. <br><br>but, when you showed that you could do better, and not \' sacrifice\' the authentic self, and then you CLOWN....<br><br>he is too old and has too many degrees to not know.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10809969" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10809969">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10809969" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>The Moyers interview - went fine.</i><br><br>Rev Wright made a good impression with the Moyers interview and he should have left it at that. But he wanted more of the spotlight at the National Press Club and made himself look like an ass.<br><br>It was a disaster then and he\'s a disaster now! Geez! :(</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10810353">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10810353" class="dsq-comment-message">Speaking of the National Press Club event, do ya\'ll remember who organized it and invited him? It was one of Hillary\'s hankerchief heads, Dr. Barbara Reynolds. <br><br>Remember that heavy set black lady with the yellow outfit and effed up hair extensions? She was the one who organized the whole thing. Errol Louis at the NY Daily News busted her ass out. <br><br>Here\'s the article: <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2008/04/29/2008-04-29_is_jeremiah_wright_a_colossal_disaster_f-2.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2008/0...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10811807" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10811807">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10811807" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes Sepia,<br><br>I remember hanky head Reynolds...<br>The criticizer of hope!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10812725">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10812725" class="dsq-comment-message">Reynolds and Wright went to Howard together.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10812584">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10812584" class="dsq-comment-message">Moyers went fine, and it went downhill from there. That speech at the NAACP was wild and off base as well, but the NPC performance was just jumped the shark completely.<br><br>Again, I understood what happened. Wright was unwilling to be caricatured and set out to let the world know that he was \'somebody\'...that entire  taped event for all we know could have triggered a very traumatic memory of being humiliated and left no dignity as a young man. Wright is a proud man born into a very affluent family for his generation of blacks.<br><br>When you think about how he orchestrated the entire set-up at the NPC it was just sheer retribution for years of humiliation and subjugation.  Recall, he told all the black press and janitors, and cooks and everyone to get there at 3pm even though it started at 4pm (allowing for CP time) knowing that would leave only the balcony (in his era for negros only) for the mainstream press.<br><br>The sheer glee and delight everytime he looked out at that audience is what sent him into such ecclesiastical joy!  All the blacks were on the floor and the balcony was a sea of white...imagine the hatred that had to recall to desire mightily to cast the national press in the same position of indignity that blacks endured for centuries.<br><br>It was well thought out ..deliberate and quite strategic, unfortunately...it also just made him so joyous he went into manic mode speaking extemporaneously ..his mind was just stroked out from the vision before him. Not only that by the blacks being on the floor, they were able to just get him more and more wound up with shouts of Amen..remember Cornel West, on the first floor? and other prominent black folks...saying amen...and the whites were stuck in the balcony. Wright was in the place of honor and then he started answering their questions, with all the arrogance of his brilliant mind that had endured simpletons for years and he refused to dissemble for them.<br><br>It was a sheer act and display of courage of convictions.<br><br><br>Terrible for all Obama supporters but Wright was hell bent on displaying himself as not a stumbling bumbling religious freak, only to show the world he was a bombastic, arrogant, old fool filled with vituperation.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10813860">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10813860" class="dsq-comment-message">So coonery = a display of courage of convictions?<br><br>OK.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10810015">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10810015" class="dsq-comment-message">CO-SIGNING! He turned himself into a caricature.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10804974">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10804974" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>That\'s why I don\'t see Rev. Wright as a victim in this, because he knows at this point anything he says can and will be dissected.</i><br><br>I agree. After the shit Jodi Kantor of the NYT pulled on him, and he wrote <a href="http://thepage.time.com/text-of-letter-from-wright-to-the-new-york-times/" rel="nofollow">this</a> response to her, he should\'ve known not to trust the media.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10805242">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10805242" class="dsq-comment-message">Co-signing <br><br>"That\'s why I don\'t see Rev. Wright as a victim in this, because he knows at this point anything he says can and will be dissected."</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10805334">SDG</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10805334" class="dsq-comment-message">Very true Town.  I\'ve watched a few clips of Min. Farrakhan on youtube and he was quite explicit that he would be careful w/his words, because he did not want them used to harm what was then Sen. Obama @ that time.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10803730">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10803730" class="dsq-comment-message">DCD1961, welcome and thank you for sharing  your "front row" perspectives.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10803811">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10803811" class="dsq-comment-message">Welcome, DCD1961</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-10814238" href="http://sooncome.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">JunePearl</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10814238" class="dsq-comment-message">Hey DCD1961, what it do son? Welcome, welcome. Glad to have your input, and it was so well said!<br><br>I only have one reaction: ditto.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10795460">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10795460" class="dsq-comment-message">I say that Wright is still pissed he didn\'t go to the White House with the Obamas.  IMO he thought the whole 9/11, GD America thing would blow over, Obama would lay low and then resume a relationship with him.  It didn\'t happen, and with the THEM JEWS talk it\'s never going to happen, and what\'s more, Wright is seeing Al Sharpton get repeat invites to the White House, but not him.<br><br>Wright talking about THEM JEWS sounds no different than Von Brunn talking about THEM JEWS.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10800245" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10800245">Admiral_Komack</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10800245" class="dsq-comment-message">Word.<br>I thought Rev. Wright\'s 15 minutes were up.<br>Obviously not.<br>He needs to shut the fuck up.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10807806">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10807806" class="dsq-comment-message">Wright was angry when he was dis-invited just minutes before Obama made his announcement that he was running for President, on the IL  state capitol steps.  Wright was there that day, and it was Axelrod, who told Wright he was not going to be able to stand and pray with Obama in public prior to Barack announcing his candidacies.<br><br>Which is why Wright, said PRECISELY what he did yesterday.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10805959">APeach</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10805959" class="dsq-comment-message">Hmm...hadn\'t thought about the angle that Rev. Sharpton is seeing A LOT of the White House from the inside. Good point.<br><br>I\'m sure Rev. Wright isn\'t the only one who feels wronged.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10815725">Monie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10815725" class="dsq-comment-message">I learn so much from my JJP peeps everyday, but I have to say<br><br>Rev Wright is NO VICTIM for these comments he made. plain and simple.<br><br>After you have endured the exploitation, became a household name under the unprecedented barrage of attacks he faced for his connection with President Obama, Rev. Wright knows, NOW MORE THAN EVER, the power of media and how it can be used for or against you.<br><br>Defend him all you what for what I feel was unfair during the campaign season, especailly considering that the videos that were splashed all over TV predated the campaign......but he still has the nerve to say what he said post-election 2009.....it was deliberate.<br><br>Like I said, I saw the sensationalism regarding this story unveil right before my eyes....we talked about it here 2 days ago......after the Holocaust shooting, the headline changes from "Wright has no regrets" to the blaring, salacious "Them Jews are keeping me from Obama"<br><br>and that, besides what he said it what sickens me.  The tabloid-ish nature in which this was handled.....and let\'s be real here, the MAJORITY of American media is tabloid-ish in nature.<br><br>That is exactly why you have an Israeli government official saying Obama and the US are "interfering" in our affairs ( even though we basically finance them with BILLIONS each year and treat them like a 51st state).......and yet we heard CRICKETS concerning that statement from a supposed "ally"  Where was the outrage,discussion, commentary concerning that....YOU WON"T FIND IT  ANYWHERE, how fitting.<br><br>Rev. Wright got his attention from his so-called "straight talk", columist David Squires got  some publicity for not even breaking a real newsworthy scoop and possibly even a raise......the Daily Press (which endorsed John McCain btw) got more traffic, and has kept this story the main headline for at least 2 days now and counting.....<br><br>and the end of the day, what did this "interview" give us as citizens?<br><br>some political "Bossip" bullshit.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10821035">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10821035" class="dsq-comment-message">Alright now!<br><br>"Rev Wright is NO VICTIM for these comments he made. plain and simple."</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10816477">carolinagirl</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10816477" class="dsq-comment-message">Damn Monie!! You said that!!!!!!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10821605" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10821605" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10821605">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10821605" class="dsq-comment-message">Hey Monie - read the posts again.  no one claimed Rev. Wright was a victim for the comments he made. in fact, we all said those comments were wrong.  <br><br>I did push back against the fact that we believe that somehow because Wright is now a household name through no fault of his own, somehow he no longer has a right to free speech and he should spend the next 4 - 8 years of his life living for Barack Obama.  That is wrong especially when the President that I love could give a crap about him.  <br><br>i hope he continues to speak.  Doesn\'t matter if I agree with his commentary or not. It is his right.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10823002" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10823002">Monie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10823002" class="dsq-comment-message">Val, yes Reverend Wright has the right to speak....but he should also have the wisdom to say "No comment" on certain matters and keep it moving.<br><br>Rev. Wright was subjected to an unprecendented level of scrutiny because he was the pastor and mentor to a man who has/is  being held to a higher standard than anyone else who has held the office of Presidency....and unfortunately with that Rev. Wright will always be one of the more scrutinized religious leaders in this country....and with that  comes a certain level of being vigilance in what you do or do not say and what verbal games you choose to engage in.<br><br>Like others have said, Rev Wright, if he wanted he could have named the advisors, presumably Axelrod and Rahm, if he wanted to name folks, but he chose "them Jews" which was said, let\'s be honest in a derogatory way just like "them whiteys", "them niggas" and so forth.<br><br>And honestly, if you listen to the audio, it sounds like the Rev Wright was having a regular, straight talk, off-the-cuff, keepin-it-real talk with David Squires as another Black man, but albeit Squires is a columnist...and in today\'s  media operates like a tabloid....nothing that you say can be just straight talk, and the Reverend shoul KNOW that by now.....the Daily Press and every other outlet is milking this for what it is worth.<br><br>And along with Wright I am so disappointed with the sensatioanalism the article has attracted...I have been linking to Squire\'s colums for a while...and with the questioning he asked Wright and all, I am scratching my head wondering, what was the true purpose of this article, other than to stir up shit just like a typical celebrity gossip site.<br><br>Fame, notoriety, and scandal may serve some people well....but is sure doesn\'t for the Rev.....and I would hope he would recognize that and stop becoming the storyline...at least not so easily with this mess he just created.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10823811" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10823811" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10823811">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10823811" class="dsq-comment-message">"Reverend Wright has the right to speak....but he should also have the wisdom to say "No comment" on certain matters and keep it moving. Rev. Wright was subjected to an unprecendented level of scrutiny because he was the pastor and mentor to a man who has/is being held to a higher standard than anyone else who has held the office of Presidency."<br><br>Monie - I agree with you in theory but I also believe that if the Reverend has something to say and he wants to say it then he should.  if folks want to hold him to a higher standard because Barack Obama became President and he was his pastor. .  .that is their problem and not his.   As a result of last year Rev. Wright\'s reputation was already torn to shreds.  He has nothing else to lose. <br><br>We both agree that this article has become overblown.  I also hope he is able to work though his issues.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10825875" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10825875">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10825875" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10825875" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>And honestly, if you listen to the audio, it sounds like the Rev Wright was having a regular, straight talk, off-the-cuff, keepin-it-real talk with David Squires as another Black man, but albeit Squires is a columnist</i><br><br>Rev. Wright should have known better.<br><br>Remember \'Hymietown\'.<br><br>Unless I\'m mistaken, wasn\'t that ANOTHER \' regular, straight-talk, off-the-cuff, keepin-it-real\' conversation with another BLACK columnist that reported that comment? <br><br>I\'ll say it again:<br><br>Wright is too old  to not know.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10799873" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10799873" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-10799873" href="muttlikme.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Mutt Like Me</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10799873" class="dsq-comment-message">IMO this is karma for Wright acting like an ass at the press dinner. He knew better than to do that and he did it anyway.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10805476" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10805476" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10805476">APeach</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10805476" class="dsq-comment-message">My sympathy for the Pastor ran out the minute he decided to show his ass at the Press Club, going there by invitation of someone he KNEW was a Clinton backer.<br><br>Rev. Wright is a lot of things, but stupid ain\'t one of \'em. <br><br>And then he pulls this stunt.<br><br>What is wrong with this man? Coming out of his mouth with this "them jews" tripe? OK, let\'s leave the immorality out of this even and talk basic media tactics, shall we? He\'s talking to a reporter. First of all, he could have said "no comment" and kept it moving--knowing full well that a story quoting him would be a nice "get" for the print reporter and would become cable news catnip in short order. <br><br>But oh no.<br><br>So OK, say "No" and drive the convo back to the purpose of the event.<br><br>But oh no. <br><br>He goes into "Pity Party, Table for One" mode. So I get it--you haven\'t seen him, and you seem pretty upset about it. <br><br>Does the Pastor leave it there--oh no.<br><br>He goes on and says "them Jews" won\'t let the President see him. Oooh, we got a twofer here, boys and girls--conspiracy theorist *and* implication that Obama\'s weak and/or a pawn. And he thought he *wouldn\'t* be quoted? Really? GTFOH. <br><br>Then, for bonus points, the Pastor pulls some quick CYA work by mentioning the plight of the Palestinians. GREAT move, sir! Thank you SO MUCH for making it seem as if the those who defend the rights of Palestinians and want to see that they are treated with dignity and respect are, at their core, anti-Semitic. Nice job! Heckava job, even.  <br><br>I don\'t discount the good he\'s done during his career, but he can be caught up in his own pride and folly...and he is caught up like Usher. He needs to go sit down.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10806859" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10806859" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10806859">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10806859" class="dsq-comment-message">He\'s well versed in the usage of language...all he had to say was "I think Obama\'s advisors are keeping him away from me" and kept it moving.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10806482" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10806482" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10806482">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10806482" class="dsq-comment-message">Anyone, who pays attention to this administration knows EXACTLY what Wright meant and precisely why he said.  It is NO ACCIDENT that the WH celebrated Seder this year!<br><br>Ever heard of Seder dinner in the WH before with the President?<br><br>Give. ME. A. BREAK.<br><br>Like you said:<br><br>Rev. Wright is a lot of things, but stupid ain\'t one of \'em.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10807462" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10807462" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10807462">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10807462" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10807462" class="dsq-comment-message">Or perhaps "them jews in the White House" are having Obama publicly embrace Jews/Judaism because they know his stance towards Israel is going to be tougher than his predecessors, so it\'s kind of insurance against jewish backlash.<br><br>In other words, look! He likes Jews, just not Israel!<br><br>But none of that has anything to do with why Rev. Wright isn\'t getting an invite to the White House b/c I think Al Sharpton\'s been there 3 times and he\'s just as controversial among whites as Wright.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10808460" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10808460">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10808460" class="dsq-comment-message">Towne,<br><br>"He likes Jews, just not Israel!"<br><br>Anyone who follows Israel politics, knows that the individuals of Jewish descendant closest to Obama want a two state solution NOW. Obama\'s focus/strategy about Israel is theirs. Most folks know that Emanuel served in the Israeli intelligence dept.<br><br>The young generation of Jews are not as tied to Israel as their parents, just like in most families, things changed when the next generation sets policies.  Jewish folks born in the 60s, 70s,80s ain\'t tied to Israel like their grandparents and parents were.<br><br>The insurance from backlash are the folks who are developing the policy positions are Jewish.  Obama neither likes nor dislikes Israel, most likely when it comes to religion he is agnostic. Israel is simply a foreign policy issue with the potential to lift him into historical greatness for all time. That is Obama\'s focus. There simply is nothing haphazard about the guy, he talked about Israel in Audacity of Hope, needing to get along with their neighbors and become a part of the world community.  <br><br>But I am was not addressing anything about getting invites to the WH, other than noting that Wright has an unusual place in history given his own Presidential contacts.<br><br>Sharpton\'s place in history when it comes to Barack will be a footnote, Wright will have chapters and volumes written about his as he is was his African American connection to politics in the black community and he did school him about life...He was the AA father Barack never had.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10809080" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10809080" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10809080">APeach</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10809080" class="dsq-comment-message">Co-sign.<br><br>And let me just add this for WRB: Rev. Wright saying "them Jews" was wrong. Full stop. It was wrong. It doesn\'t help the Palestinians or change the narrative in their favor. In fact, it does the opposite. IF that was indeed his intention to call attention to how they have been and are being treated. I don\'t know what\'s in his heart, but on so many levels, he should have known better and acted accordingly.<br><br>Hmph...besides, President Obama is a "creation of the Jews" one day and is "selling out Israel" on the next. I\'m getting mental whiplash trying to keep it straight. ***SMH***</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10810624" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10810624">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10810624" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree what Wright said was wrong. I am uncertain that it will not help the Palestinians. Piercing remarks have a way of hitting home, and  it was on point.<br><br>I do not engage that nonsense about \'creation of/selling out\'<br><br>OTOH, Wright is a highly regarded scholar on Israel/Palestinian history. Respected in the Muslim world and fluent in Arabic. He sent a clear message.<br><br>Even if it was rude, crude and socially unaccepatable.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10815989" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10815989" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10815989">APeach</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10815989" class="dsq-comment-message">And that\'s what further pisses me off about him pulling this stunt--because he is so well-versed and intelligent. He didn\'t have to do this, and he didn\'t further the cause.<br><br>Also, I\'m sorry I wasn\'t as clear: the creation/selling out stuff wasn\'t aimed at you or anyone on the board, but based on things said in the media in the course of a week. That stuff is maddening. My apologies!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11876549" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11876549">missx</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11876549" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes he sent a message- That blacks will blindly treat others the way white people treated them.  To paraphrase Andrew Young "First it was the Jews, then the Asians, then the Arabs"... then it was women, then gays... every group has to put up with the black men wearing white sheets.  It\'s become a rite of passage it the U.S.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10818416" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10818416">antennaness</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10818416" class="dsq-comment-message">Exactly on point!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11876524">missx</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11876524" class="dsq-comment-message">Stupid IS one of them.  Mouth and ego a million times larger than his brain. Typical- it\'s  the real reason why blacks lag behind everyone else.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10797620" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-10797620" href="http://twitter.com/iamnotstarjones" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">iamnotstarjones</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10797620" class="dsq-comment-message">Similar to the trio of Dyson, West and Smiley, Rev. Wright continues to  exhibit the effects of Obama Derangement Syndrome.  There is a known cure but it requires that its victims\' acknowledge and accept that Obama doesn\'t have to kiss their asses for anything.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10803289" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10803289">isonprize</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10803289" class="dsq-comment-message">Big, BIG difference between Dyson, West, Smiley and the good Rev. ..<br><br>Rev. Wright has wonderful work in his community for many, many years.  By work, I mean tangible stuff:  supporting apartments, sending kids to college, protesting apartheid when it was FAR from the popular thing to do, being outspoken against homophobia, speaking publicly about preventing the spread of HIV.  <br><br>Dyson, West and Smiley have done NONE of that.  (Although, I\'m sure Smiley <i>thinks</i> he\'s done work with his State of blackness-corporations pay Tavis-contract for Black America -talkfest or whatever it\'s called...)  <br><br>So right there, I think there is a BIG difference.  When you get past Rev. Wright\'s bluster, I think he is usually speaking some truth.   It\'s just that it comes with such bombast.  But hey, he\'s a bombastic guy<br><br>"Them Jews"?  tasteless.  Yes.  Crass?  Yes.   I was embarrassed for him.   But he says what is on his mind.   He let\'s it out.  But listen to him, really listen.   I think he\'s got some good points.   His ego seems to have gotten WAY in the way...  <br><br>And , as far as I can tell,  he don\'t owe nobody nothing.   There is no corporation paying his way, no TV show contract to submit to, no University tenure to worry about.   <br>  <br>Just sayin...</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10803444" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10803444">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10803444" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10803444" class="dsq-comment-message">Co-sign</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10799903" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10799903" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10799903">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10799903" class="dsq-comment-message">There is a clear difference between Dyson, West, Smiley and Rev Wright.  <br><br>To my knowledge Dyson, West and Smiley did not experience ANY of what Rev Wright experienced.  Wright was unfairly demonized by a nation and he did nothing to trigger the hatred that was spewed at him.  Rev. Wright\'s reputation was destroyed, his life and the life of his family and church members were threatened.  He and everyone he cared about was terrorized by psychotic extremists at the instigation of political officials.  He had nothing to do with any of it.  The folks he thought knew better and would stand by him, turned their backs on him.  I understand why he is feeling this way.  So I would cut the man some slack.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10799361" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10799361" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10799361">ChrisChambers</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10799361" class="dsq-comment-message">They remind me of Islamic Fundamentalists--Dyson, Tavis all of them. They cannot be important unless there is a time of woe and trial. So they bomb and kill to make the mess perpetual. Who was Osama bin Laden without George Bush? What is Hammas without douchebags like Netanyahu & crazy Israeli settler?<br><br>Who are these clowns, if Obama sets up a whole paradigm?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10805703" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10805703">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10805703" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10805703" class="dsq-comment-message">that was sorta deep, Chambers.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10804777" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10804777">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10804777" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10804777" class="dsq-comment-message">If Rev. Wright didn\'t say "Them Jews", everything would be A-OK. The rest of his comment had a lot of truth in it. <br><br>It\'s clear that Rev. Wright is bitter and I can\'t say that he doesn\'t have a right to be. However, he\'s channeling that bitterness towards the wrong person and in the wrong way.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10805050" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10805050" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10805050">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10805050" class="dsq-comment-message">DITTO!!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10809667" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10809667">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10809667" class="dsq-comment-message">ITA.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10799160" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10799160" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10799160">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10799160" class="dsq-comment-message">I can\'t be mad at him.  They trashed this guy during the race for the Presidency.  He probably looked back at all his hard work, all his contributions, his service to the country and the community , all his sacrifices for YEARS and still they ruthlessly destroyed the man\'s reputation just so they could get a political edge .  He didn\'t stand a chance and he was innocent in all that.<br><br>I get it. They pushed him over the edge.  Leave the man alone.  Yes he is a pastor but he is also human.  Wright is the VICTIM in all this.  Whether you agree with him or not, he has every right to say whatever he wants.  Everyone else does so why can\'t he?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10802745" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10802745" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10802745">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10802745" class="dsq-comment-message">At this point, Rev. Wright is not a "victim."  He knows what he\'s doing and knows what he\'s saying.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10806600" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10806600" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10806600">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10806600" class="dsq-comment-message">He is a victim. He is a victim of his generation.  Of the era he was born into when America\'s hate for all things black stunted, stifled, humiliation and and push men of character and excellence to the rear and HELD them down if they dared learn to swim.<br><br>Wright is a victim of the centuries of hate and racism in this country...and his bile is spilling out now. <br><br>America\'s racism shaped Wright and he simply refuses to be quiet now.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10807663" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10807663" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10807663">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10807663" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10807663" class="dsq-comment-message">And that\'s fine, but he shouldn\'t be surprised at backlash when he says rowdy shit to a reporter.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10807886" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10807886" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10807886">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10807886" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10807886" class="dsq-comment-message">thank you Whiterosebuddy.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10818635" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10818635" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10818635">antennaness</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10818635" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10818635" class="dsq-comment-message">My 94 year old dad says "you catch more flies with honey than vinigar".</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11876580" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11876580" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11876580">missx</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11876580" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11876580" class="dsq-comment-message">black folks have their own legacy of racism in this country.  From the Crown Heights Lynching to the pongrom on Asian businesses to being the largest group in favor on denying gays their civil rights in California.... black folks have blook on their hands for how they\'ve treated other groups.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10803147" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10803147" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10803147">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10803147" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10803147" class="dsq-comment-message">As a result of what happened to him he is now going through some things we can\'t possibly understand.  Was he wrong to say what he said about Jews?  yes.  It was wrong and uncalled for.  But I don\'t believe he would have made those statements before he experienced what he experienced.But I can\'t simply say . . . he needs so sit down and shut up because if I experienced what he did I can\'t honestly say what I would do or say.  I certainly wouldn\'t assume that he should be over it by now.  His credibility is shot.  His reputation is in the garbage. Folks still hate him (look at unfair commentary by Karmi almost every other day).  He still gets threatening emails, phone calls and letters and he has to get protection to go anywhere.  <br><br>I can cut him some slack and hope the man gets through it.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10805281" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10805281" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10805281">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10805281" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10805281" class="dsq-comment-message">He called Italians "garlic noses" before everything he experienced.<br><br>I don\'t believe that bad times "make" you do things out of character, they only amplify the character that was there to begin with.<br><br>You mean to tell me this man went through the worst of segregation times and came out fine but when the press magnified his sermons and appearance at the Press Club he broke?  Even after he acquitted himself well and changed public opinion after his Bill Moyers interview?<br><br>I understand that Wright is pissed that the whole election thing and press scrutiny forced him from his pulpit, trashed his church and Obama kicked him to the curb.  But he\'s not doing himself any favors by speaking to newspaper reporters about "them jews" either.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10807813" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10807813" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10807813">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10807813" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10807813" class="dsq-comment-message">"I don\'t believe that bad times "make" you do things out of character, they only amplify the character that was there to begin with."<br><br>Town -- this is a first for me. . . you are wrong.  Bad times CAN make you do things out of character.  Been there done that and anyone who says otherwise is not telling the truth unless you are Jesus Christ himself.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10808482" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10808482" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10808482">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10808482" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s not out of character, it\'s already within your character.  Stress/bad times only amplify what\'s already in your nature.<br><br>You don\'t need to act a fool during the good times, there\'s no need to.<br><br>Rev. Wright isn\'t acting out of character, this is who he is.<br><br>This situation for me is not about Rev.Wright sitting down to save Obama; it\'s about Rev. Wright sitting down to save HIMSELF.<br><br>Rev. Wright is destroying himself...and it\'s not a good look.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10809724" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10809724">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10809724" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10809724" class="dsq-comment-message">bad times depending on the circumstances and the stressors forces you to act out of what you believe is necessity.  We watch the news and in some instances of tradegy we hear family, friends or neighbors say"I never would have believed he/she would do. . . .".  You see because of the economic climate the rise in suicides and violence . . . complete families found dead in their beds.  Old folks killing themselves because they are getting booted out of their homes. . .Stressors can cause you to do things completely against your nature.<br><br>we will agree to disagree.  later Town.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10800479" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10800479">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10800479" class="dsq-comment-message">I aint mad at Reverend Wright either, Val.  President Obama has made his decision to cut ties with him and his church.  <br><br>Reverend Wright has just as much right to express his views.  At least he\'s not on cable tee vee 24/7 spewing racial bigotry and hate.   The same cable station that ran a continuos loop of "GOD DAMN AMERICA!"  <br><br>I don\'t see Reverend Wright as a VICTIM.  I think he knows exactly what he\'s saying and doing and is taking responsibility for his actions.  <br><br>He didn\'t have to maintain his \'innocence."  He knows America from his own experiences, and called it like he knew it.  He knows it is all politics.  <br>Perhaps he didn\'t see the video loop coming at him the way it did, but he should make NO apologies for his sermons WHATSOEVER!<br><br>Only Barack & Michelle Obama knows what messages they received from his sermons when they attended Trinity.  Surely Barack knew his past associations with Trinity and Wright would come to light.  <br><br>Barack distanced himself from Wright for political reasons, and Wright keeps talking because that is who he is.<br><br>We know damn well Blacks aren\'t going to go out and shoot up a Holucost Musem because he said "Them Jews."  Shit, in this economy, they\'ll go rob a freaking bank first.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10802196" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10802196">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10802196" class="dsq-comment-message">"I don\'t see Reverend Wright as a VICTIM. I think he knows exactly what he\'s saying and doing and is taking responsibility for his actions. "<br><br>Spirit.  He is the victim in that he was thrown into all this when he was not running for any political positions.  He had to hide out for weeks and he had nothing to do with the fact that a member of his church was running for the presidency.  <br><br>Man walks down the street someone walks by and shoots him in the head.  He is the VICTIM.  Woman goes out on date, date asks for sex which she rejects and he has intercourse with her anyway. . . She is the VICTIM. Man walks into the halocaust museum, guard opens the door and gets shot. . . he is the VICTIM.  Preacher at a chuch for over 20 years, works to support Aids ministry, sets up programs in his community, serves in the military, commits himself to his church, a member in his church makes the decision to run for office and a clip of a video was edited, taken out of context and looped was posted on youtube, the msm ran these videos nonstop for weeks, commentators destroyed this man\'s credibility on EVERY channel, Pastor begins to get hate calls and threats at his church, home, and on the streets and he still has to get protection to go anywhere. . . he did nothing to cause this to happen. . . he is the VICTIM.<br><br>That is what i am saying.  I am not excusing anything he is saying now but he was pushed over the edge and what comes up comes out.  That doesn\'t change the fact that he was the victim in all this and as a result. . they get what they get.  and unfortunately he loses a little more of himself in the process but I can only hope that he will work through this the best he can.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10803375" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10803375">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10803375" class="dsq-comment-message">Val, I get all of your examples of victimhood. <br><br>I am coming at this from a spiritual vantage point.  He set into motion, or CAUSE for these attacks on his character simply by his past ACTIONS, so now he is reaping the EFFECTS.<br><br>Now when the attacks on his character, his church, his standing in the world come, he has an opportunity to become conscious cause, whether he chooses consciously or unconsciously, well that\'s his call too.<br><br>And no he didn\'t know that a member of his church would become a candidate for the presidency, but it doesn\'t change the fact that Barack did.  <br><br>Right now, I don\'t see Jerimiah Wright as a victim; I see him as a willing participant.<br><br>I have compassion for Rev. Wright, but I don\'t feel sorry for him.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10805311" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10805311">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10805311" class="dsq-comment-message">"He set into motion, or CAUSE for these attacks on his character simply by his past ACTIONS, so now he is reaping the EFFECTS."<br><br>In other words, the chickensssssssssssssss....... have come home..................to rooooooooooooooost.........</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10807517" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10807517">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10807517" class="dsq-comment-message">Yep, like Wright said ...they are coming home to roost for America.<br><br>See, everything Wright says has national impact. It is America\'s hate coming home to roost ...they are seeing a black man now who was raised in their hate start to spew their same hatred.<br><br>America\'s chickensssssssssssssssss....commmmming ..home to roooooooooooost.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11876613" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11876613" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11876613">missx</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11876613" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11876613" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes we are seeing a black man treating Jews the way the white man treated him.  We\'ve been seeing this for 50+ years.  Must make you proud!  Rev Wright is too busy policing the Israelis to hold himself and his community to any standards.  Black folks need to up their game.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10805542" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10805542">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10805542" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10805542" class="dsq-comment-message">You BETCHA!!!  **wink, wink"</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10803775" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10803775">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10803775" class="dsq-comment-message">now there we agree.  I don\'t feel sorry for Wright either but I respect his right to feel, say and react without it turning into some political stage show and the man getting hit by every black person because they believe this somehow impacts Barack Obama.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10807439" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10807439">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10807439" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10807439" class="dsq-comment-message">Tell it!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10818004" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10818004" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10818004">Me_Rhoda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10818004" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10818004" class="dsq-comment-message">First of all: those comments were dead wrong.<br><br>Second: Rev. Wright knew he was creating a headache for the President when he made those comments; especially coming after the Cairo speech and the fact Bibi is over there in Israel working to push Congress to reign in Obama. <br><br>This is fodder to the President\'s enemies and it\'s fodder to neo-conservative supporters of the Likud party and the far right Liberman-wing. <br><br>Yesterday I glanced at the Page, they had a FOX poll and the headline was Obama Still Strong. One day, Obama\'s poll numbers will drop to normal and folks\'ll move in for the kill. I think GITMO and bailout backlash are the two soft spots the administration has; Israel and AIPAC want to make a tough line against settlements and peace talks a third to send a message about their power. Rev. Wright was just giving them fodder to hit hard and do that.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10821645" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10821645">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10821645" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10821645" class="dsq-comment-message">since when is Rev Wright living for President Obama?  Please the man has a right to live his own life.  That ridiculous expectation alone would be enough to prompt me into saying wild crazy crap just to piss people off.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10809964" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10809964" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10809964">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10809964" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10809964" class="dsq-comment-message">(sigh).....there is only one Rev Joseph Lowery...why can\'t we clone him?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10802587" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10802587">problackness</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10802587" class="dsq-comment-message">Ok black folks, white America isn\'t monitoring  this board so we all need to speak the truth and drop the PC act.  We all know very will Rev. Wright is correct about Obama and PLEASE black folks stop this I AM SO OFFENDED BY REV WRIGHT CRAP.  We also know White America is watching Obama very closely to see if this man is going to favor black people.  Obama can\'t  be seen around  any black writers/pastors/professor who are " too black" or " pro-black". Rev.Wright is correct<br><br>    We all want Obama to stay in office for  8 year but  African American need to stop acting political  correct when it comes to Rev Wright in front of white people. If Obama wasn\'t in office no  black person would give 2 cent about  Rev Wright comment so stop  the acting and continue being  your black self.<br><br>I STILL support Rev. Wright and  most all African American</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10806531" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10806531" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10806531">Guns3000</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10806531" class="dsq-comment-message">Pure nonsense.  There is a double standard we have in black america and it needs to stop if we are going to progress as people. If any white man would have said "THEM BLacks" (fill in the blank) you would have been ranting and raving about racism.  The is less about Obama and more about the selective outrage we have in black america.  <br>If a white man says something racist....OUTRAGE<br>If a black man says something racist....HE GETS A PASS<br>If a white man kills a black man...OUTRAGE<br>If a black man kills a black man...NO ONE SAYS A WORD stop snitching <br>If a black politician(Kilpatrick, Jefferson) betrays your trust THE MAN IS SETTING HIM UP<br>white man(Imus) call a black woman a ho (BOYCOTT)<br>black man calls a black woman a ho NO ONE CARES and we shake our asses to it<br><br>Blacks should know discrimination and stereotypes when they see it and stop turning and a blind eye when of us do it to other groups.  And that\'s not being PC that\'s Keepin it Real</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10809081" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10809081" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10809081">DCD1961</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10809081" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10809081" class="dsq-comment-message">@ Guns3000:<i>"Pure nonsense. There is a double standard we have in black america and it needs to stop if we are going to progress as people ... Blacks should know discrimination and stereotypes when they see it and stop turning and a blind eye when of us do it to other groups. And that\'s not being PC that\'s Keepin it Real"</i><br><br><b>TOTAL Co-sign.</b></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10813521" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10813521" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10813521">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10813521" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10813521" class="dsq-comment-message">Ain\'t enough black folks in America to make a critical mass against discrimination against other groups. We barely suceeded with our own group. <br><br>Are other groups going to shed blood like our ancestors did not to be discriminated against?  Are they going to get beat and hosed and march and jailed?<br><br>I am all for not discriminating against others but I in no way believe it is a realistic goal for blacks.  We can\'t even get a prime time anchor on cable...yet the most discriminated group in the nation is now suppose to go to the mat for other groups?<br><br>My parents taught us to take care of home first.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10810243">problackness</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10810243" class="dsq-comment-message">Guns3000 and VAL,<br><br>   Come on my brother  and sister (sniffing)!!! I  STILL smell PC,PC ,PC  on Rev Wright and you\'re NOT keeping it  100% real but i understand.  I guess  Black folks have to behave and fall in line just to make it . Do you and other black folks will do them. This is about Rev Wright comment  on Obama . Do you believe  that white American would be OK with Obama  socializing with Rev. Wright ?  the answer is NO!!!! We have a double standard because Obama socialize with white racist (some in congress and government) almost everyday but i don\'t see white  America giving 2 cent . Keep it real<br><br>Guns3000  on the other  non Rev Wright black issue right on but on Rev Wright comment on Obama half  keeping real.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10811326" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10811326" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10811326">Guns3000</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10811326" class="dsq-comment-message">problackness here is the thing.  I understand EXACTLY what you are saying and about the whole PC thing.  And I think some of us are doing that but that doesn\'t mean it\'s right.  Blacks have been the victims of what Rev wright did with his comments for his centuries.   Rev Wright is stereotyping a whole group of people.  I don\'t know how many times I\'ve heard racists say:<br>THEM BLACKS ARE SO VIOLENT<br>THEM BLACKS ARE DUMB<br>THEM BLACKS ARE NIGGERS ETC ETC ETC<br><br>Times are changing not only for old white people like Pat Buchanan but for old black people like Rev Wright.  And they both can\'t take it.  I love my grandparents but some of the beliefs that they held are unacceptable today.  I understand historically why my grandparents had certain views and why Rev Wright said those things in his sermons but TODAY you cannot so those things anymore.  If you want to debate US policy toward Israel lets have it but to stereotype a whole group of people or allow one of our own to do it makes us just as guilty as the people who did it to our ancestors for hundreds of years.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10813397" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10813397">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10813397" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes, but but but  have jews every been in the position of being in the Presidential inner circle to this degree, ever before in history?<br><br>If not, (and it\'s not) then how is it a stereotype.<br><br><br>Using the word jew is not perjorative. People of Jewish faith call themselves jews.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10814366" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10814366" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10814366">Guns3000</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10814366" class="dsq-comment-message">There may be more Jews in this administration maybe Obama is more comfortable with them around him than any other group?  WHo freaking knows?  Or maybe the reason that he chose them didn\'t have anything to do with their religion.  And don\'t start that Obama is controlled by Jews nonsense because Obama has showed more balls on the Israeli/Palestinian issue than any president in recent memory.  Do you think AIPAC would have allowed a sitting President to go a Muslim country and take a hard line on Israel?  Obama is holding Israel to the agreements they ALREADY MADE on the settlements.  This isn\'t anything new.  Bush wasn\'t tough enough to hold the Israelis to the agreement they already made.   Do some research there are Jews that hate Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod for being in this administration.  There are Jews that don\'t give two shits about Israel and have no interest in going there.  Stop using Farrakahn and Rev Wright talking points and seek the knowledge for yourself.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10820817" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10820817">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10820817" class="dsq-comment-message">Listen up! I said nothing about him being surrounded. I NOTED quite ACCURATELY that there are more Jews in this Presidential inner circle than any other President.<br><br>That is a fact. Not some conspiracy theory. A fact.<br><br>Second, the reason jews hate Emanuel/axelrod is for the very policies on Israel that Obama is taking a hard line on i.e. two-state solution.<br><br>Third, selecting people based on their faith was not the point, whatsoever. It is a simple fact that Jews make up only 2% of the nations population yet they comprise 20% of congress and are dominate to an unprecendented degree in this Presidential candidate.<br><br>Maybe, you think AIPAC has more control than it does. AIPAC is not calling the shots for the new Israel policy Obama is pushing. Neither Axelrod nor Emanuel are supporters of AIPAC when it comes to the West Bank and what Israel should do.<br><br>I suggest you do some research, or either get your pants out a wad cause you completely distorted my point.<br><br>Guns3000...how about you do some research and figure out why it is that Wright and Farrakhan played such a pivotal role in the AFRO-centric development of Obama and you might learn a thing or two.<br><br>One of which is that you have no clue about what is going on when it comes to which side folks are on in the WH regarding Israel policy.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10825654" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10825654" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10825654">ch555x</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10825654" class="dsq-comment-message">Good point,  whiterosebuddy.  That recent video of some knuckleheaded Isrealis chastising Obama\'s stance on Isreal isn\'t helping.  It\'s not all Isrealis, but some of them hard-liners don\'t give 2 cents what folks feel about their actions in the M.E...and them lobbyists are all up in D.C.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10825914" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10825914" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10825914">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10825914" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10825914" class="dsq-comment-message">what\'s PC?  lol</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10810391" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10810391" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10810391">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10810391" class="dsq-comment-message">to be fair -- nowhere in problackness note did he/she indicate the phrase "them blacks" was okay.  My understanding of the statement is that it touched on Rev Wright as an individual and his right to be who he is and not worry about how he could affect Barack Obama.  In short, problackness summed it up by saying -- If Obama was not in office, we would not be having this conversation.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10823619" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10823619" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10823619">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10823619" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10823619" class="dsq-comment-message">Guns3000? Keepin it Real?<br><br>Who are you, really?  You sure seem familar!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10840955" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10840955" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10840955">Plantsmantx</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10840955" class="dsq-comment-message">The pure nonsense is you making that comment in the midst of a very sprited disscussion- one that is sprited precisely because everyone is <i>not</i> giving Wright a pass on this. Who\'s stereotyping, again?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10803449" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10803449">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10803449" class="dsq-comment-message">and there you have it.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10803826" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10803826" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10803826">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10803826" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10803826" class="dsq-comment-message">THANK YOU!!!!!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10811620" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10811620" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10811620">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10811620" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10811620" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>If Obama wasn\'t in office no black person would give 2 cent about Rev Wright comment </i><br><br>That\'s because we wouldn\'t have known about the comment because the media wouldn\'t have sought Wright out.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10825394" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10825394">ch555x</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10825394" class="dsq-comment-message">Nailed it!  Reminds me of some of the responses I\'ve seen regarding that "88"y/o nutjob.  Folks need to quit crying and waiting for "Homeland"security to ride to the rescue.  Practice them so-called 2nd amendment rights.  It worked plenty of times during harsher climates in the \'60s.  The only gun talk I hear these days are through wack raps via the faux-thugs terrorizing the streets...S to the M-H!!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10805406" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10805406" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-10805406" href="http://ladyvenoms.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Ladyvenoms</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10805406" class="dsq-comment-message">I listened to the whole comment and a lot of what he said was on point. however, rev. wright has never been nor will be politically correct. he has to know that saying, "them jews" and "those zionists" are a sure fire way to have his ass put back in the sling. i feel like if he doesn\'t want the kind of criticism he faced during Obama\'s campaign to happen again, he needs to learn to temper his language. rev. wright is a smart man, he knows how to make a point without being insulting and inflammatory. <br><br>he should know better.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10807916" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10807916">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10807916" class="dsq-comment-message">Wright MEANT  Precisely what he said.  He is not concerned about being in a sling.  Slings don\'t mean diddly to a black man raised in his generation.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10808480" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-10808480" href="http://ladyvenoms.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Ladyvenoms</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10808480" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10808480" class="dsq-comment-message">it will start to mean something when people are no longer interested in the good things he has to say.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10813244" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10813244">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10813244" class="dsq-comment-message">Ladyvenom:   Your statement is "SAD BUT TA-RUE!!"<br><br>Reminds me of the "Boy Who Cried Wolf" story.<br><br>After a couple of times - - WE DON\'T BELIEVE U!!<br><br>SAD!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10809495" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10809495" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10809495">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10809495" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10809495" class="dsq-comment-message">Exactly!<br><br>As a Pastor, one has to conduct himself accordingly!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10811977" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10811977">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10811977" class="dsq-comment-message">The good Rev. has retired. Many people are going to listen to Wright, he is an historical icon, his background alone makes him a historical figure. Additionally, his relationship and mentoring of Barack Hussein Obama means he will be read about for centuries. He is the one who shaped BHO\'s afro-centric concepts.<br><br>I am curious to know if, given BHO\'s aspirations, Wright counseled him regarding his biracialness and what that meant with regard to what his wife should look like as well.<br><br>Cause I frankly find it baffling that BHO had no dating \'history\' to speak of until Michelle.  Not at Columbia, not at Occidental, and not in HS.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10812660" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10812660">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10812660" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10812660" class="dsq-comment-message">actually Obama did date.  He was in one serious relationship prior to moving to Chicago and they broke it off.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10812794" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10812794">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10812794" class="dsq-comment-message">Details, please. Is this the white girl at Columbia that lacked his worldview?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10813339" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10813339" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10813339">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10813339" class="dsq-comment-message">I will do a search on this and post if found.  Found great details of his life last year . .. . I hope I saved the links.  I can\'t remember her name.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10800163" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-10800163" href="http://sooncome.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">JunePearl</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10800163" class="dsq-comment-message">I remember in grad school I would rent a car (when I had the money ) and drive to Trinity CoC when I didn\'t feel like going to the church in my town. It was a beautiful, Blacklove place. They celebrated the beauty of Blackness like no where else at that point in my life. Not only that, it was the first time I have seen Blackness, social justice, and loving God combined in such deliberate ways.<br><br><br><br>That being said, I am so disappointed by this.<br><br><br><br>What\'s more I\'m pretty sure the Obama family is disappointed by this as well. If we\'re gonna be really real, it was probably Michelle that was most involved in the spiritual upbringing of thier children, from what I remember Barack was doing his political thing around the time that the kids were born. So it is most likely Michelle that had stronger ties to the church (not to minimize at all what Barack felt and experienced, especially as evidenced by his conversion story) by the time this whole thing blew up.<br><br><br>Rev. Wright is wrong, it would go without saying if it didn\'t need to be said so much. But on top of that, my sadness is that as an Evangelical, I believe that the church should be the visible reflection of Christ on earth. When Peter betrayed Jesus three times, he was still called the rock upon which the church would be built. <br><br><br><br>Rev. Wright feels betrayed. I think it went both ways. But let\'s face it, he\'s probably not accepting his own role in the whole situation. Then fine, I get it. But as someone who is a spiritual leader, and especially as a Christian, of which grace is the bedrock of our faith, in fact, <a href="http://thewongday.blogspot.com/2007/03/what-makes-christianity-different.html" rel="nofollow">grace may be the only thing that signifies us from other religions</a>, he needs to forgive. He needs to mend. This is how the world knows who we are, by our fruits. Resentment and hatred will spoil the vine. I pray for Rev. Wright, I pray for anger based on resentment to be replaced by anger based on righteousness. I pray for the hurt that has turned into hatred be touched by the Healer, and transformed to Love. <br><br><br>Amen. Let it be so.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10805500" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10805500">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10805500" class="dsq-comment-message">Excellent post and I agree with you, only thing is I think there is another facet being overlooked.<br><br>I believe the reason RevWright can\'t forgive is because his family won\'t let him. Folks, forget about the  long line of educated people  who were viewed as premiere upstanding blacks of the community, that Wright is a family member of.  His people were \'talented tenth\' in the community. Both his parents had Ph.D\'s when Jim Crow reigned supreme.  It is no accident that Wright has been at the side of 3 Presidents, LBJ, Reagan, Clinton and will be remembered historical as mentoring the first AA President. <br><br> RevWright\'s family has always been highly regarded and now the entire CLAN feels betrayed. And they likely feel that Wright was dissed by an upstart when they have generations of achievement in their family.<br><br>At the core, this is what is wrong with Wright, his FAMILY feels betrayed and he strikes out because he can\'t live it down within his own family.<br><br>It would be as if Ted Kennedy nurtured and mentored a young person and then that person became big and Kennedy was persona non grata due to his own behaviors, but behaviors which had been long considered great accomplishments despite errant manners...and now the entire Kennedy clan, feels dishonored and betrayed.<br><br>That type of deep familial betrayal is rarely forgiven.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10822140" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10822140" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10822140">Guns3000</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10822140" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t disagree with anything that you said but Wright did this to himself.  When those tapes were first exposed Obama refused to separate himself from Wright.  Remember the speech.  And instead of Wright "falling back and chillen" until the lights dim his arrogant ass made a fool of himself at the National Press Club. Did you forget? Obviously so, this whole thing was self-inflicted. Rev Wright isn\'t dumb.  He knew his speech at the National Press Club was going to derail Obama\'s chances.  Instead of being a good father and team player and doing what was necessary for the mission he let his own arrogance blind him.  He started thinking about his own goals with this new found fame.  Remember how is was plugging his book at the National Press Club.  All of a sudden Barack was starting to outshine the "master" and Wright couldn\'t handle it.  So Barack was like f^%k it. Throw his old ass overboard.  You are not useful anymore.   As much as we probably don\'t like to admit it Obama used Wright to get "street cred"  Think about it how does half black half white man who grew up in Hawaii around whites get accepted in the black community and be accepted as a brotha?  Well, you go to one of the blackest cities in America marry an educated black woman from the hood and get one of most powerful black pastors in American History to cosign you.  Check mate.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10824717">carolinagirl</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10824717" class="dsq-comment-message">"So Barack was like f^%k it. Throw his old ass overboard. You are not useful anymore. As much as we probably don\'t like to admit it Obama used Wright to get "street cred" Think about it how does half black half white man who grew up in Hawaii around whites get accepted in the black community and be accepted as a brotha? Well, you go to one of the blackest cities in America marry an educated black woman from the hood and get one of most powerful black pastors in American History to cosign you. Check mate."<br><br>Wow.........just...wow.....no words</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10840001">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10840001" class="dsq-comment-message">You know what Guns?  I can\'t get my head around just where you are coming from. I am fully aware of the NPC \'performance\'  My point was simply to provide perspective on the depths and dimensions of Wright\'s anger.  If you stop and think about that you might see that his family and ancestoral heirtage plays a role in fueling what he is doing. The man is proud. He is accomplished. His family lineage is outstanding for generations of educated folks.  He, himself speaks 5 languages.<br><br>If you wanna get blatant, the question is..how does Obama\'s family measure up in any sense to that of Wright\'s?  Wright\'s family is the quintessential story of Negroes who overcame despite the odds, hate and virulence of racism in America. Obama has no such family heirtage. Who in Barack\'s family overcame a blessed thing?  Obama as was said often during the campaign does not represent the historical struggle of blacks in this country and neither do any of his ancestors! Yet, a man who does and who had a brilliant mind and outstanding upbringing as well as serving as a veteran in this country, is the one who was cast aside.  AND, since this IS the topic of the thread, he was told that by AXELROD, who is a jew.  So, YES, Wright was righteously angry and no doubt in Jeremiah\'s mind, he is representing 2-3 generations of blacks like his family by stepping up and saying " I will not be PUSHED ASIDE, once again and go QUIETLY.<br><br>Doesn\'t make him right, but there are many folks who would agree with his principle reasons for doing so.<br><br>I know all about the relationship Wright had with Obama and how Obama had no ties to the black community before marrying Michelle and joining Trinity.  So, the question is what is your point, as it regards Wrights  rude commentary?<br><br>And you seem to be making the same point I have when you say that Wright is one of the most powerful, highly regarded, erudite scholars in the ministry.<br><br>It is unclear what your contentiousness is based on..cause it seems to me we are saying the same thing about Wrights background. And I previously stated I was not defending Wright.  <br><br>So, what gives, what is your point?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10841827" class="dsq-comment-message">I thought you were defending Wright\'s actions but I guess you were not but one thing that pisses me off about Wright is the fact like you said he will go down in History for grooming not only the first AA president but an american president and he is not content with that.  Think about it most whites would never accept Rev Wright hanging with Barack in the WH.  So Wright being cast aside was an inevitable that Wright simply expedited.  My problem with Wright instead of understanding the realities of America he went out of his to derail Barack\'s chances.  That was my point.  Sometimes good men must be sacrificed for the greater good.  If you truly love someone you have to know when it\'s your time to fall back.  <br><br>Ps:  If Axelrod advised to get rid of Wright then GOD BLESS HIM.  I don\'t care if his daddy was in the KKK and his mama was one of those bulldawg skin head brawds because that was the prudent thing to do.  If Wright is pissed because the Prez surrounded himself w/ Jews then that is Wright\'s problem.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10842492" class="dsq-comment-message">Ok, so your point is \'not to let being perfect be the enemy of the good\'..I can agree with that.<br><br>As far as Axelrod, I am not saying that he advised to get rid of Wright. What I am saying is that there was a discussion and a decision was made and Axelrod was the Messenger who told Wright that he was persona non grata, at the CAPITOL moments before Obama announced his candidacy for President of the United States.<br><br>I do not know that Wright is pissed, I think his commentary was accurate. Wright, as you know, is well-versed on the entire Middle East conflict, and on how AIPAC\'s stance impacts US policy.  Jews, however, are no longer monolithic on Israel and in that sense Wright may be out of step with the times.<br><br>I feel you about Wright trying to derail Obama\'s candidacy and many folks believe as you do. My problem is that I see both sides of the old lion vs. new lion as well as an old man\'s pride and deep scars not allowing him to sit back and be pushed asided quietly, yet again.  It is a sad, sad, situation for both men.<br><br>Obama and Wright  though have a special place in history. Historians will have a field day with the dynamics of their relationship and particularly Wrights history with the Muslim world, his mentoring of Obama and the juxtaposition of Obama\'s generational Muslim heirtage and the dominance of Jews in the his Presidential inner circle. Was Obama a student in the predominately Muslim world when Wright negotiated the release of Goodman?  The history and parallels about these two intellectual giants, students of history  and global political citizens is rich.<br><br>Hell I could write that book myself...</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10808510" class="dsq-comment-message">Good point, it\'s a family thing <i>both</i> ways.<br><br>However, like I said, I think the betrayl went both ways as well. Which is all the more reason for them to come together, it\'s sad to let go of a pastor/mentor relationship. I have done it once before, trust me, both sides are wrought with disappointment. It\'s a sad situation for everybody involved.<br><br>My point is that as a spiritual leader, you are held to a different standard. Additionally, as a Christian, everyone is looking for us to make good on our words. The fact that he still has bitterness about this is not a good sign for me. <i>That type of deep familial betrayal is rarely forgiven</i>: true. But that\'s why we are called to be a "peculiar people" because we called to a community of believers. This is hard, this includes letting go of our ego/pain/hurt/betrayl/etc. and coming together as a community. This calls for us to be more. More forgiving, more loving, more just. Anyone who tells you Christianity is easy has never done it. My point is that this I\'m not angry at Rev. Wright, I get where he\'s coming from! I am disappointed by his words (really though? "Them Jews..." really?), and I am saddened by what his words say about the position of his heart.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10814013" class="dsq-comment-message">I feel ya. I am saddened about the pain in his heart, because I know that is all this is...just raw, wrenching pain being played out publically.<br><br> I totally agree about the spiritual relationship. It was indeed very sad for the Obamas and Rev Wright to have to go their separate ways. Just awful.  <br><br>The one thing I recall, though is that Wright had always told Obama he would be a liability when his political star started to rise. Wright knew that, he understood global politics. Wright for all his vitriol is right where he knew he would be. Maybe, it was all just about the way Axelrod told him that day, just a few minutes before Obama announced his candidacy that just was unbearable and has led to this.<br><br>Unfortunately, I don\'t believe Wrights spirituality is greater than his ego. He mind is simply too brilliant. Which is why he and Obama hit it off so well. They are kindred minds.  Despite being rasided in a religious family I just do not believe that his spirituality depth is greater than his ego...thus the pain. <br><br>Also, when you listen to that sermon that the snippet was played over and over...Wright addresses the morality of America and I believe he genuinely decries the brutality, cruelty and raping our nation has done in the name of God, to other peoples and countries.<br><br>Wright is a very complex and you are right about him needing to be more forgiving but if you ask me at this point ..Wright is Palestine and Obama is Israel.<br><br>And for all we know maybe the real destiny is that Wright will be at the table negotiating with Obama on behalf of Palestine. He will be a broker for the Muslim world whose linguistic skills the 44th President of the USA will have to rely on...just like Reagan did.<br><br>IMAGINE that!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10801040" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m not sure that it was MICHELLE that was the one close to the church.  She grew up in Chicago and she probably had her own home church she grew up in.  Trinity Church was on Barack Obama and Barack Obama alone --Michelle just went along with it.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10805754" class="dsq-comment-message">Wow, y\'all really took that section and ran far away from where I was going. I must have done a bad job articulating my point. When a miscommunication occurs, I usually don\'t blame the person who heard me, but the myself, because my frame of reference is not universal, an I understand that.<br><br>I\'ll try again, and I\'ll frame my sentiments better:<br><br><br>As someone who has been involved in church since my teens and who has endeavored to pursue a personal, thriving relationship with God since then, I\'ve come to see many things that can be safely generalized from the "church experience" no matter the denomination. One of them is that as much as both parents get involved in the spiritual nourishment of the children, it is usually the mother that bares the brunt of the work (actually, that tends to be true no matter the religion). As I mentioned before their membership was also around the time that Barack was getting involved in politics, and from their own words, it was a transition time for them as <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2176679/" rel="nofollow"> he was away from home a lot doing his work. Read: He was not getting involved at home as much as he previously was</a>. I never said Michelle was close to the church, I never said that Michelle is *more* hurt/disappointed by this, I never said that Barack is not affected by this. I said, and quote <i>What\'s more I\'m pretty sure the Obama family is disappointed by this as well.</i> And I then went on to give an example of why I thought so: because as a mother who chose Trinity as a spiritual home for her children, she probably had an emotional investment in the situation as well. She may or may not have been involved with another church from her younger days in Chicago at the same time(not uncommon btw), but this is where her kids are spending their younger days. As a mother, that means something to you.<br><br><br>The reason I brought this up is because in most of the conversation regarding Rev. Wright, everyone talks about how this affects President Obama. I was just adding the point that if this affects Obama (I think he has a lot on his plate, for all we know, this may not even be a blip on his radar) this affects the whole family, Michelle included. On top of that, in a healthy marriage, when something hurts your mate, it most likely affects you on some level. Even if you yourself may not be directly hurt. Just from an empathy level alone.<br><br><br>So that\'s what I meant by that section of my note. Not to put anything on Michelle. I stan for her, she really can do no wrong in my eyes. She needs to act truly buckwild in order for me to say anything negative about her. And even then, I\'ll probably still stand by her, lol.<br><br><br><br>In any case, I appreciate you bringing up your points, and affording me the opportunity to clarify my point. I hope this brings a better understanding of the point I was trying to make. Be well and blessed.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10800655" class="dsq-comment-message">"it was probably Michelle that was most involved in the spiritual upbringing of thier children, from what I remember Barack was doing his political thing around the time that the kids were born. So it is most likely Michelle that had stronger ties to the church "<br><br>Why put this on Michelle?   Why go there?  Barack and Michelle were both members of the church.  Wright didn\'t say anything that was not true.  The quote that circulated the internet (God Damn America) was made by a white man and not Wright and it was taken out of context.   So why go there?  <br><br>How do you know he is not accepting his own role in this situation?   As a matter of fact, why should he? He didn\'t ask for it. He was thrown in against his will and could do nothing to stop it.  Besides . . . Thou shalt not judge.  Remember?<br><br>Wright is the victim.  Yes he is a Pastor but he is human.  So how about in addition to praying for Wright you also pray for everyone else who destroyed this man\'s life and reputation after years of service in the military overseas and here at home in addition to all the hypocritical holier than thou "christians" who conveniently forget their own shortfalls while adding their own un-christianlike analysis of something they can\'t remotely understand as they have never experienced it.  <br><br>Consider this.  While you have a right to be disappointed in him. . .  he has an equal right to be disappointed in you/us/the people and country he served.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10800442" class="dsq-comment-message">JunePearl<br><br><i> I pray for Rev. Wright, I pray for anger based on resentment to be replaced by anger based on righteousness. I pray for the hurt that has turned into hatred be touched by the Healer, and transformed to Love.</i><br><br><br>Beautifully and wonderfully said!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10806196" class="dsq-comment-message">Justice I do beleive that Wright\'s anger is already based on righteousness, which is why he is unforgiving. He and his family have served the black community for generations, his dad was a minister also, if you recall. This is about a whole lot of Negros for generation helping other negros...and that is why he is so righteousness.<br><br>I like Obama, I believe in what says, but I also know that there can be a case made that he was exceptionally well thought out and had his career path determined before he arrived in Chicago, which is why he wrote the book and why he joined Trinity.<br><br>Obama had no connections with the black community prior to going to Chicago. He also saw the church as an outreach minister and had to no doubt know the long historical traditional of the role of the black church when it came to politics.<br><br>Obama sat at Wrights knee and learned everything he needed to know, he even sat in the Pew with Bill Clinton at Wright\'s church, after registering over 100K voters, to carry Carol Mosely Braun into the Senate and Clinton to second term.  <br><br>Obama is a master strategist ain\'t nothing naive, or accidental in terms of his ascendency.  His biggest error was the run for the US Congress against Rush.  But, as when all mistakes he learned from it.  He figured out who his demographic base was and he went right down to the capitol and re-drew his district, to be predominantely white-liberal upper class, along with the financial district of the Chicago and some black folks for good measure.<br><br>So, Wright\'s angry is righteous, he knows how he gave Obama a launching pad and this type of bitterness and bile of betrayal, he is unwilling to swallow.<br><br>I am not defending Wright.  I just see the dimensional depths of his anger.<br><br>Recall, how the world dissed Wright and Jesse after they went and negotiated the release of that serviceman RonaldGoodman (I think that was his name) and after those two went and negotiated with the Muslim world as Wright is fluent in Arabic, then the media completely ignored them, even though they were with Reagan in the WhiteHouse.<br><br>Wright\'s sense of betrayal runs deep and long.  It is extremely difficult for intelligent accomplished black men of his generation, whose talents were squandered due to racism to be happy given the magnitude of hate that impeded access to opportunities for these men.<br><br>So, HATE and ANGER righteous anger, is all they have left.<br><br>Like Chris Rock said, show me an old black man and I"ll show you an angry man.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10809553" class="dsq-comment-message">I appreciate your points, although I have to disagree with you on one section.<br><br>Rev. Wright has a right to be angry, that does not make his anger righteous. <br><br><br>Righteous anger as I use it refers to <a href="http://eugenecho.wordpress.com/2009/05/22/fk-human-trafficking-there-i-said-it/" rel="nofollow">injustice towards the oppressed </a>, not so much injustice towards self. In my opinion (as much as one simple person\'s opinion can be worth) Rev. Wright has a right to be angry. As someone with a disability, who is Black, who was an immigrant, who is a woman mired in this patriarchal-and-proud-of-it society, I have a right to be angry at certain situations I am forced to go through. But that does not make my anger necessarily righteous.<br><br>...don\'t know if I got my point across correctly. But I definitely see what you mean.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10810872" class="dsq-comment-message">Ok, but help me out here. I wasn\'t saying he has a right to be angry, so much as his was a justifiably righteous anger.  How does a man raised under the virulent hatred of racism in the 30s40s&50s when more lychings occurred in America than previous eras, NOT represent the oppressed and is not the victim of injustice?.<br><br>IOW\'s his anger is born of the injustice inflicted on him as the oppressed, and he is therefore full of righteous anger.<br><br>For Wright, having lived through decades of oppression and being held down by societal barriers, the candidacy of Obama, given his contribution to his growth as an AA, represented another way that society once again, tarred and feathered him. It was a  high-tech lynching with that tape playing non stop to make a complete caricature of him by showing snippets!  That was no different from the humiliation of going in the back door, sitting in the balcony and being invisible when in are in public venues. It was simply brutal! They destroyed his reputation and standing in the community.  A reputation is priceless, built over decades of achievements, accomplishments and sacrifices...and in TWO weeks they SHATTERED it completely! Just ripped it to shreds.<br><br>Wright was unjustly oppressed again and again, no matter how brilliant his intellect and being fluent in 5 languages, main stream society shunned his talents and push him down and put their foot on the back of his neck.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11876398" class="dsq-comment-message">how many different ways can you play the race card in one paragraph?  I counted 2 dozen.  High tech lynching... ha ha.. can\'t you be more original?  Clarence Thomas used that one decades ago.  People are really sick of black folks acting like the KKK then screaming about being lynched to get a free pass.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10808176" class="dsq-comment-message">Appreciate your perspective on this, WRB.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-10808834" href="http://sooncome.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">JunePearl</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10808834" class="dsq-comment-message">As I stated above in my response to Town, I do not put this on Michelle. I am just saying if this affects Barack (not sure if it does or not), this affects the family. That\'s how relationships work. Someone hits my sister, I may not hate them, but I sure do give them a side-eye. That\'s how family works...a healthy, stable one at least.<br><br><br>I agree with Rev. Wright on a lot of points. I did not once bring up anything he said. I was not referring to his words, but what his words say about the condition of his heart. I am not making a judgment, I am stating an opinion. Someone who talks about "Them Jews" is coming from a place of hurt. That\'s just my opinion as a person.<br><br><br>As someone who believes <b> strongly</b> believes in social justice, and someone who loves Trinity and what it means for Chicago, I thought folks did him wrong. And I even thought Barack was wrong for leaving him to the fray. <br><br><br>But then after things died down, he started acting how shall we say it...disorderly... at the press dinner. I was saddened, but I felt like "Hey, he\'s been through Deep South, he\'s still a Black man in America, in Chicago no less, and he\'s speaking out. I don\'t like how this might hurt Obama\'s chances, but I get where he\'s coming from". Then he pulls out "Them Jews ain’t going to let him talk to me". I can\'t stand by that. I\'m not focusing on the words, I\'m focusing on what the words say about his heart. They speak of resentment and bitterness. These are poison to a Christian. I cannot stand by that, as brothers and sisters we are called to love, care and nurture one another towards Christ. It\'s an opinion based on his words. I have have judgements towards his words, not who he is as a person.<br><br><br>The other stuff you mention near the end, well, I can\'t respond to that, I agree with you on most points, especially: <i>While you have a right to be disappointed in him. . . he has an equal right to be disappointed in you/us/the people and country he served.</i> and the point about hypocritical Christians, I don\'t think I\'ve said anything hypocritical, but potato/potahto. But it seems to go in another direction than what I intended and there really is not need to turn this into a brawl. I respect your views, and I hope you respect mine (especially as we agree more than we disagree). Be well and blessed.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10810717" class="dsq-comment-message">Point taken, JunePearl!<br><br><br>You expressed it beautifully!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10826474" class="dsq-comment-message">if i heard correctly, wright said :  "them jews in the media are not gonna let me talk to him."    <br><br>he was right.  the (largely jewish--if not in practice then in culture) media that follows president obama around would take ANY opportunity to turn a meeting/phone conversation/etc. between the president and wright into something deeply pathological and negative.  there\'s no denying this. sure,  he could have kept that to himself, but he spoke the truth.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11876247" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11876247" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11876247">missx</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11876247" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11876247" class="dsq-comment-message">Take that white sheet off girlfriend... it does NOT look good with that nappy  hair.  Obama is a big boy, and you make him sound like a child.  Let\'s talk honestly about blacks and crime and see how long it takes for you to start whinning "RRAAAACCCISM!!!!!!!!!!"</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11877346" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11877346" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11877346">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11877346" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11877346" class="dsq-comment-message">They finally got DSL in the backwoods??</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10811776" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10811776" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10811776">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10811776" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10811776" class="dsq-comment-message">Just cause what Wright  said was indefensible, doesn\'t mean it\'s not true.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11876364" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11876364" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11876364">missx</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11876364" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11876364" class="dsq-comment-message">Yup.  Just cause Michael Richards and Don Imus rubbed people the wrong way doesn\'t mean that those girls WEREN\'T nappy headed hos, or that guy wasn\'t acting like a N.  <br>James Watson, a Nobel Peace Prize winnign Phycist recently got a lot of grief for pointing out that Africans seem less intelligent than other races.  Just cause it was indefensible doesn\'t mean it\'s not true.  Ditto when it comes to crime.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10810029" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10810029" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10810029">RobM</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10810029" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10810029" class="dsq-comment-message">Rev Wright\'s comment were not only ill advised but didnt address the point he wanted to make. So he is totally responsible for what has befallen him. If that means he gets dumped on then he gets dumped on.<br>By going to "the jews" he dealt in sterotype and not righteous anger. Righeous anger would have made the political point. It would leave him open to a quiet invitation to Obama\'s home in Chicago. If he wanted to attack David Axelrod and other political advisors he could have simply said his political advisors don\'t want me there. With that case he is in a long line w/ others they do not want the President Obama around.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10811248" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10811248" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10811248">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10811248" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10811248" class="dsq-comment-message">Exactly. Two words erased a damn good message.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10811860" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10811860" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10811860">whiterosebuddy</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10811860" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10811860" class="dsq-comment-message">Sorry, but the word jew is not a perjorative term.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10804376" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10804376" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10804376">SDG</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10804376" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10804376" class="dsq-comment-message">I mean why not just pull a Jessie Jackson yell Hymie Town and get it over with?  That stmt of Rev. Wright\'s was just foul.  Yeah, The Prez is getting tough with Israel, but he hasn\'t slandered the Israeli\'s with a "you people" type stmt.  So yeah, I am pissed with Rev. Wright for his nonsensical yapping.  STFU and stop blaming others for your culpability in destroying your relationship w/The President.<br><br>I have no interest in political correctness and I expect better from Rev. Wright.  Like Guns 3000 stated had some caucasian pastor pulled a you people stunt, we\'d have roasted them for it.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10823727" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10823727" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10823727">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10823727" class="dsq-comment-message">Jill:  A RE-POST:<br><br><a href="http://blackpoliticsontheweb.com/2009/06/12/statement-from-rev-jeremiah-wright-regarding-daily-press-article/" rel="nofollow">Statement from Rev. Jeremiah Wright regarding Daily Press article</a><br><br><i>“I am extremely disturbed and deeply saddened that once again my comments as reflected in the June 10, 2009 Daily Press article has resurfaced a divisive debate about my relationship with President Barack Obama. I love President Obama as my son, and support and honor him as the President of the United States America and leader of the free world.<br><br><b>I apologize to the Jewish community and all others who were offended by the way in which I framed my comments. I misspoke.</b><br><br>I meant no harm or ill-will to the American Jewish community or the Obama Administration. My great respect for the Jewish faith and the foundational (and central) part of my Judeo Christian tradition are unquestionable and I pray that all whom I have hurt accept my sincerest apology</i><br><br>As I stated B 4 - - - Ya think that he NEEDS ta READ HIS SPEECHES from a PREPARED TEXT in order 2 prevent - - - -"MISSPEAKIN\'!??"</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-10812406">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10812406" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10812406" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-10812406" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10812406" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10812406" class="dsq-comment-message">I wasn\'t the biggest fan of the Rev. Wright meme during the primaries and the election; I didn\'t always see the point or value in tying him to PBO. In fairness, I admit to pulling it out a couple times.<br><br>But I\'m looking at this and reading the comments and thinking that what\'s being said here, now, is not much different from the complaints conservatives/Republicans had about Wright.<br><br>So, I ask this in a completely neutral fashion...does anyone else see that? And if not, where am I wrong? Not trying to get into a "told you so" argument, but just want to know if that\'s a shared thought.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10813006" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10813006" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10813006">whiterosebuddy</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10813006" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10813006" class="dsq-comment-message">Well I did not turn Pat Buchanan on Wright. I believe he needs the support Al Sharpton would give at time such as this. Heck, even Hucklebee understood Wright, being the southern popcorn popper fried squirrel eating redneck minister he was.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10812497" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10812497" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10812497">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10812497" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10812497" class="dsq-comment-message">I see it D.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10813041" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10813041" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10813041">whiterosebuddy</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10813041" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10813041" class="dsq-comment-message">I am going to give you blinders for that naughty chair, lights out just ain\'t working.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10814031" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10814031" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10814031">Val</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10814031" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10814031" class="dsq-comment-message">lol  Can\'t help it Whiterosebuddy.  I gotta be fair.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10812829" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10812829" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10812829">Plantsmantx</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10812829" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10812829" class="dsq-comment-message">Wright didn\'t talk about "those Jews" during the campaign. He also didn\'t do anything quite as stupid as say "I meant Zionists" when people like Rham Emmanuel are assisting the President in gearing up to implement the first truly even-handed Arab/Israeli policy in close to 30 years, if not longer.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10813265" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10813265" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-10813265" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10813265" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10813265" class="dsq-comment-message">Does that change his sentiment....does the fact that he didn\'t use those<br>words during the campaign make him any less suspect?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10813486" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10813486" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10813486">Town</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10813486" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10813486" class="dsq-comment-message">What does that have to do with Obama?<br><br>See, nobody cares about what Rev. Wright has to say if Obama weren\'t in the picture.<br><br>The day that John McCain is smeared because of what John Hagee said or Jerry Falwell said or Pat Robertson said or Pat Buchanan said is the day I\'ll agree with you on Rev. Wright/Barack Obama.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10813805" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10813805" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10813805">Plantsmantx</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10813805" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10813805" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t know what you mean by "any less suspect". If you\'re trying to say that the people who slammed him (and Obama) for his comments on the Middle East were right, and knew they were right...no. This is not really a "I told you so" moment for them, because they argued in bad faith back then.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-10814695">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10814695" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10814695" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10814695">RonnieB</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10814695" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10814695" class="dsq-comment-message">D, you\'re right.  But back then, the things that Wright said (and didn\'t say) had political ramifications.  Now he\'s a political moot point.  Wright has been isolated, quarantined and placed on an island by himself.  <br><br>Now he\'s just seen as a crackpot pastor who harms no one but himself.  And I think that\'s pretty sad.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-10825938">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10825938" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10825938" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-10825938" href="http://sooncome.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">JunePearl</a>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10825938" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10825938" class="dsq-comment-message">The biggest difference for me is that the words that conservative/Republicans were attacking were taken out of context. These words are in context.<br><br>That is the biggest difference. I have a problem with twisting words and then analyzing them. I have no problem with analyzing words as they stand.<br><br>These words as they stand are disheartening and anti-semetic. I may be pro-Palestine, but I stand against all hatred, no matter which direction it\'s coming from.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10811026" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10811026" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10811026">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10811026" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10811026" class="dsq-comment-message">I love JJP.  I do.  I appreciate all the dialogue but if we encourage each other to call it like we see it. . . don\'t hold the man to another standard when most of us are guilty of the same.  Some talked about Wright\'s age and how his experiences are now obsolete.  Said he is now irrelevant and no one wants to hear what this man who has contributed so much to society has to say.<br><br>Karmi raised the exact same points about Rev Wright that some of you have posted on this very page and yet you call call out Karmi as a liar and racist while you are raising the same case against Wright. <br><br>It seems to me we are being just a bit hypocritical in all this.  Look through the history of the JJP postings and read some of our comments. Heck, read our comments from the last two days.  Some could argue we have made worse statements. Aside from not being interviewed for a story, what makes us different from Rev Wright?  We are all good people with strong ideals.  We all at times touch on topics that raises the level of the conversation to "heated".  Are we racists, hateful terrible people?  No.  Some of us will even take the time to apologize if we regret the statement.  in short, we are human.  That is all I am saying.<br><br>Ya\'ll know how I feel about my seniors so I am compelled to add  -- everyone has something of value to offer in a discussion regardless of age especially our seniors.  They have seen and experienced things we may never understand  or agree with them but we do owe them some level of  respect.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10813359" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10813359" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10813359">Town</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10813359" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10813359" class="dsq-comment-message">Where is Rev. Wright\'s level of respect?  There are plenty of "elders" who don\'t go out of their way to act a fool no matter how wronged they were in the past, no matter how angry they are today.<br><br>Rev. Wright acting out...doesn\'t hurt Obama...doesn\'t hurt "them jews," it hurts Rev. Wright.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-10814979">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10814979" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10814979" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10814979">Val</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10814979" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10814979" class="dsq-comment-message">where is our level of respect in some of our discourse?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10822379" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10822379" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10822379">Town</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10822379" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10822379" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t know, where is it?  Because half the time when I log on, people here are calling white people crackers and white bitches and what not.  So maybe we all need to dial down the name calling because it takes away from the message.<br><br>Rev. Wright is a willing and enthusiastic participant in his own exploitation since the press club incident.  He\'s no victim.  He knows that little reporter down in Hampton didn\'t give a damn about the ministers\' conference.  He knew the newspaper wanted some juicy tidbits; that\'s why they didn\'t send the religion reporter to interview him.  He knew that.<br><br>He knows if he says  to the press whenever they ask about Obama "no comment" the press will stop coming around. <br><br>He completely overshadowed the ministers conference in Hampton.  What did they discuss? Who else was there? Nobody knows because all the reporter cared about was drama between Wright and Obama. But Rev. Wright knew that and he gave the reporter what he wanted.<br><br>Rev. Wright is cooning.  He knows the media wants him to clown on Obama and they want to exploit this "beef" and he\'s willingly obliging.  He ain\'t mad at Obama because of policy issues, he\'s mad because he didn\'t get an invite to the White House!</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-10822750">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10822750" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10822750" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10822750">Val</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10822750" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10822750" class="dsq-comment-message">"I don\'t know, where is it? Because half the time when I log on, people here are calling white people crackers and white bitches and what not. So maybe we all need to dial down the name calling because it takes away from the message."<br><br>lolololol  well maybe we should. :-)  Look, I am not defending what Rev Wright said. . .I am defending his right to say it.  <br><br>Wright is clowning.  I agree but it is probably because somehow it has become his job to forget about himself and live for Barack Obama for the next 4 - 8 years.  You know I love my President but he is not my everything.  So why would I expect anything different for the Reverend?  You are right that he isn\'t mad at Obama because of policy issues. . .he isn\'t even mad because he wasn\'t invited to the White House.  He is upset because the person he supported for years, was close to, thought he had a connection with walked away from him when his life was torn apart through no fault of his own.  For political reasons.  <br><br>I am sure he understands why he did it but it still hurts.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10823157" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10823157" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10823157">Town</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10823157" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10823157" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t think anyone is saying "shut up for Barack Obama."  Because at this point Rev. Wright isn\'t hurting Barack Obama.  Rev. Wright is hurting HIMSELF and THAT\'S why he needs to shut up and sit down.  He KNOWS these people only want a meal of gossip and he keeps feeding their hunger.  He KNOWS these people only want to use his words to tear him (Wright) down.  Yet he keeps talking.  Why?  He\'s not even defending himself, he\'s just taking potshots at Obama and the potshots are bouncing off Obama and landing back on him.  He needs to sit down and zip the lips, not for Obama, but for himself.  He\'s working himself up but good for somebody who\'s "just a politician."</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10823315" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10823315" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10823315">Val</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10823315" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10823315" class="dsq-comment-message">Town.  You have one of the most analytical minds on this blog.  I love all your writings because you speak truth regardless.  <br><br>I ask you. be objective.  Read the comments again. (ignore mine).  Read the comments made today on all the threads about Rev Wright.  Most are focused on how this affects Obama.  No need to follow up with a comment. Just be objective and take another look.<br><br>and I know you already understand that "just a politician\' comment was made because he was hurt.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10812102" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10812102" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10812102">RonnieB</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10812102" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10812102" class="dsq-comment-message">Thing is, Val, we\'re <b>supposed</b> to hold Rev. Wright to a higher standard.  He\'s an ordained minister.  He\'s a man who\'s been divinely called to speak on God\'s behalf -- not Chicagoans; not Black folk; not Americans.  God.<br><br>And when he continues to fail to adhere to that calling, then the people have no choice but to stand and rebuke him.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10812242" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10812242">Val</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10812242" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10812242" class="dsq-comment-message">"Val, we\'re supposed to hold Rev. Wright to a higher standard. He\'s an ordained minister."<br><br>Ronnie I love you but that is nothing but horseshit.  We all at some point in life make a decision on our relationship with God.  If you are a Christian you are also held to those standards.  So I ask . .what makes us different?  Nothing.  Why? we are all human and at times fall short in the sight of God.   God understands that.  This isn\'t new.  The scriptures are filled with men of God who also went through some things and did things that were not aligned with God\'s word.  So don\'t give me that.  Also it isn\'t our place to stand in judgement and rebuke him for failing to adhere to that calling.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10813127" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10813127" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10813127">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10813127" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10813127" class="dsq-comment-message">Yep.  <br><br>Since when do Catholics hold ordained ministers to a higher standard?  Muslims and Jews don\'t hold ordained ministers to a higher standard either.<br><br>Seems like that there is just about 80% of the nation.<br><br>You right to call it equestrian excrement, Val.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10826288" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10826288" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-10826288" href="http://sooncome.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">JunePearl</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10826288" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10826288" class="dsq-comment-message">Christians who are guided by the Bible (not all do, so I am excluding them from this. I am big on respecting how people of different belief systems operate), then James 3:1 and Hebrews 13:17 are guiding verses for how to relate to their pastors. It does not mean that pastor infallible and can do whatever they want (Mark 10:42-44, Luke 22:25-26, 1 Peter 5:3, etc.)<br><br>However, they will have to give an account to God. That is where the whole higher standard thing comes from in the Christian realm. <br><br>So no. I don\'t thing equestrian excrement is a fitting statement for those who follow Christ, as Rev.Wright does.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10814384" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10814384" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10814384">RonnieB</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10814384" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10814384" class="dsq-comment-message">True, Val.  We all fall short--pastors, priests, rabbi\'s included.  I\'m just wondering out loud whether God expects more Godly behavior from a pastor than He does from, say, <i>me</i>.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10814955" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10814955" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10814955">Val</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10814955" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10814955" class="dsq-comment-message">no.  sin is sin.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10811814" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10811814" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10811814">whiterosebuddy</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10811814" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10811814" class="dsq-comment-message">oooo....they gone send you to the naughty chair...Shush!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10811899" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10811899" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10811899">Val</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10811899" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10811899" class="dsq-comment-message">I understand that but I don\'t care.  if we are going to point at somebody then we also need to point to ourselves.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10812861" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10812861" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10812861">whiterosebuddy</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10812861" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10812861" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree with you.  Now, we both gone be in the naughty chair, in the back, in the corner in the dark, with no potty breaks.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10809258" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10809258" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10809258">RonnieB</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10809258" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10809258" class="dsq-comment-message">(1) Now that Rev. Wright has tossed himself onto the junk heap of irrelevance, one would *think* that the only person who\'s accountable for his words is the Rev himself.  But sure as the sun rises, there will be a segment of our society who can\'t help but *try* to make President Obama -- and members of the Black Church -- forever accountable for Wright\'s words and deeds.<br><br>(2) Even if Rev. Wright hadn\'t said "them Jews", he was still referencing an entirety of God\'s children in a spiteful, hurtful spirit.  That\'s not what a pastor does; it\'s not what a pastor says.  So one has to ask: was he really righteous in what he said?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10801049" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10801049" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10801049">Guns3000</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10801049" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10801049" class="dsq-comment-message">I think his sermons were blown out of proportion but this "THEM JEWS" comment was completely unacceptable and anti-semitic.  If a white pastor would have made the statement about "THEM BLACKS" I and everyone on this site would have roasted him. As blacks we must police our own even when it\'s uncomfortable.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10802615" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10802615" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10802615">Val</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10802615" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10802615" class="dsq-comment-message">Guns3000.  Now your statements I agree with 100%.  You are absolutely right.<br>He was wrong for that and based on the apology I am guessing he realized it.   I hope he gets through whatever he is dealing with.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10802671" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10802671" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-10802671" href="http://rippdemup.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">RiPPa</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10802671" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10802671" class="dsq-comment-message">I happen to think JW was right...again, but yet people only focus on the "them Jews" comment and not the larger context of what he was saying. Personally I think it\'s somewhat like the media hatchet job that was done to him last year.<br><br>It\'s easy to say he\'s a hater. What people whould do is give thought to exactly what he was saying when he referenced Obama/the U.S.A. boycotting the UN conference on racism and siding with Israel in doing so. <br><br>Lemme get this right: Obama can talk tough to Israel when speaking in Cairo, but yet boycott such a necessary conference which spoke of reparations and the Israeli/Palestinian conflict?<br><br>Here\'s more of what I think:<a href="http://rippdemup.blogspot.com/2009/06/dont-you-love-it-when-your-drunk-uncle.html" rel="nofollow">LINK</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10799263" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10799263" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10799263">ChrisChambers</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10799263" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10799263" class="dsq-comment-message">Another way white people get over: they rein in their assholes. Yep, even Dick Cheney and Rush. Someone from "The Man, Inc." Security Force will roll up on them and gag them before they go TOO far. <br><br>We need that. these wingnuts, these folk in power get cheap victories b/c of the clowns in our midst. I posted a comment re: What About Our Daughter\'s blogpost on this stupid diversity council set up with the New York Post, with Rev Al and NAACP bigshots getting free catered lunches, rather than real journalists being on the panel, and real fixes like more people of color making editorial decisions. That\'s one of the more mild examples of this problem.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10799824" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10799824" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10799824">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10799824" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10799824" class="dsq-comment-message">Co-sign " Another way white people get over: they rein in their assholes."<br><br>Example:  Pat BucKKKlanan.  He hasn\'t frequented the MSNBC cable shows most of this week. <br><br>Perhaps "The Man Inc." told Pat it\'s time for a lil vacation, ya know...get rested up for the next round of MSM coded messages to their wingnut ILK.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10800088" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10800088" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10800088">Justice58</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10800088" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10800088" class="dsq-comment-message">I noticed it as well!<br><br>Someone must have pulled Pat Buchanan\'s coat-tail and told him to shush!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10805620" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10805620" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10805620">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10805620" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10805620" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>" The Man, Inc."</i><br><br>BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA<br><br>Gonna have to remember that one, Chambers.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10809185" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10809185" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10809185">RobM</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10809185" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10809185" class="dsq-comment-message">Chris was just watching undercover Brother before he wrote that. Fess up Chris :-)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10795482" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10795482" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-10795482" href="http://swamphermit.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Karmi</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10795482" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10795482" class="dsq-comment-message">Wright is wrong and has been wrong for a long long time. The racist BLT doctrine that he teaches/taught - in front of TUCC member Barack - is also wrong.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10796488" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10796488" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10796488">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10796488" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10796488" class="dsq-comment-message">Your parents were wrong.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10808442" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10808442" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10808442">Texas_Girl_in_LA</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10808442" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10808442" class="dsq-comment-message">Or probably related</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10809877" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10809877" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10809877">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10809877" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10809877" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10807697" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10807697" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10807697">whiterosebuddy</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10807697" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10807697" class="dsq-comment-message">Wright did not have a racist doctrine ever. What he had was a political insight and an understanding of world politics, beyond what MSM chooses to expose.  Wright may be a lot of things, but he did not teach hate nor racism. He dealt with it.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10800514" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10800514" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10800514">Admiral_Komack</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10800514" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10800514" class="dsq-comment-message">That one-note wonder extraordinaire is back ...Joe Btfsplk!<br><br>Sing it, Joe, sing it!<br><br>Twenty years...Rev. Wright...twenty years...Rev. Wright...<br><br>Break it down...one time!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10797120" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10797120" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10797120">Justice58</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10797120" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10797120" class="dsq-comment-message">You\'re wrong with your hateful racist views! Shut Up!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10798944" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10798944" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-10798944" href="http://swamphermit.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Karmi</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10798944" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10798944" class="dsq-comment-message">I point out truthful facts, and you then call them my "hateful racist views!" Like Wright, you are the typical black racist...</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10799063" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10799063" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10799063">Justice58</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10799063" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10799063" class="dsq-comment-message">Karmi,<br><br><b>Saaaaaaaa&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;lap</b><br><br>Your lies are not facts!</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-10795664">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10795664" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10795664" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10795664">Justice58</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10795664" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10795664" class="dsq-comment-message">Jill, <br><br>Like you, I was ashamed also. When is Rev Wright going to learn to shut up?! <br><br>It is embarrassing to see him constantly making an ass of himself everytime a microphone is put in his face. For crying out loud, he is a pastor...Act like one! Geez!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10798789" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10798789" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10798789">PTCruiser</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10798789" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10798789" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t have a dog in this fight, i.e., I believe that Wright is extremely egocentric and I don\'t buy Obama\'s story about his being not aware of Wright\'s Sunday perorations. Then again, I stopped attending church, with my parents\' blessings, when I was ten years old. I try to keep ministers and their followers and ex-followers at a distance from me.<br><br> Wright did, however, issue a public apology for his remarks about Jews although I am at a loss to understand why he felt the need to single them out for any special opprobrium anyway. The article can be accessed here:<br><br><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/12/MN8F185IHR.DTL" rel="nofollow">http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10808290" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10808290" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10808290">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10808290" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10808290" class="dsq-comment-message">AFTERNOON OPEN THREAD IS UP!!</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-10812576">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10812576" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10812576" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-10812576" href="http://www.facebook.com/people/Blackwomen-Blowthetrumpet/1314242676" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Blackwomen Blowthetrumpet</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10812576" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10812576" class="dsq-comment-message">I think that we need to have some proof...<br><br>Just because a quote appears in the paper doesn\'t mean it\'s true.<br><br>Just because a video excerpt appears on television doesn\'t mean it hasn\'t been craftily edited. We saw the media do this with Dr. Wright\'s two sermon excerpts. Anyone who listened to the FULL sermons (which hardly anyone did!) would have instantly recognized that the tiny piece of video that the media kept showing was DELIBERATELY cropped to take his words out of context.<br><br>In one excerpt, he was quoting a white person...did the media say this...NOOOO...they acted as if the quote was Dr. Wright\'s.<br><br>Let\'s not be sooo easily duped by the trickery in the media.<br><br>The other point is that just because Dr. Wright is a minister doesn\'t mean he can\'t share his personal views. Criticizing Jews is not anti-Semetic. Criticizing blacks is not racist. <br><br>I am a minister and I have every right to speak my mind... every time I open my mouth, I am not speaking for God. I am speaking for Lisa. And that is okay. I am tired of people saying  "a minister can\'t say THAT!" We can share our opinions about world happenings just like other people can.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10812828" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10812828" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10812828">Val</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10812828" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10812828" class="dsq-comment-message">excellent post.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10812927" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10812927" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10812927">whiterosebuddy</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10812927" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10812927" class="dsq-comment-message">I did!!  I listen to the full sermon.  I agree he has a right to speak his mind.<br>Just this time it was particularly rude and crude.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10813400" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10813400" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10813400">Town</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10813400" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10813400" class="dsq-comment-message">The interview was recorded and played on the news.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-10813077">\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10813077">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10813077" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  I honestly don\'t know where Rev. Wright wants 2 go? <br><br> I don\'t see his GOAL!  <br><br>Annnnd, it takes 2 much time & mental energy to determine it.<br><br>Does he just want 2 keep on demeanin\' the PRESIDENT?  <br><br>Where doesn\'t he find RECONCILIATION in the scripture?  He must have PREACHED on it in SOME SERMON!<br><br>I\'m prayin\' that he FINDS HIS WAY at some point!!!<br><br><b>WHEW!!</b></div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-10825858" href="http://sooncome.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">JunePearl</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10825858" class="dsq-comment-message">Good point. What is his goal in all of this? What does he think is going to be accomplished by his words? I actually am really interested in the answer to this question.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10814324">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10814324" class="dsq-comment-message">Does anyone know how it came about that Jesse Jacksona and Wright were the brokers to the Muslim world under Reagan?  Were they unofficially over there? How did they have the ties to the Muslim world that enabled them to negotiate for Goodman\'s release?<br><br>Let\'s take another look at what Wright said. He obviously has ties to the Muslim world going back to the 80s.<br><br>What if he is going to be at the table negotiating for Palestine with Obama?  Are we too busy looking at the trees to see the forest.  Both Wright and Obama are brilliant strategists. Are they playing chess together on the world stage in public view?<br><br>Is the destiny of these two to be the brokers for the Palestine/Israel two state solution?.  Who would Palestine trust.<br><br>We know Wright is fluent in Arabic.  Who else would be at that table? HRC, Emanuel?</div>\
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	 </li>\
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