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"jackandjillpolitics", "is_initial_load": true, "is_authenticated": false, "timestamp": "2009-12-09_15:45:17", "remote_domain": "", "page": 1, "is_moderator": false, "display_username": "", "points": null, "subscribe_on_post": 2, "moderator_can_edit": false, "is_remote": false, "is_verified": false, "missing_perm": "login"}, "realtime_paused": false, "posts": {"2660352": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "What do you think the intent was?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_14:45:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2658020, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2657281": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "exactly.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_10:49:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "JJai", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2657217, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2657282": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "lol<br><br>welcome to the Club", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_10:49:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2657222, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2657195": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "maybe we should start a blog campaign asking just that.<br><br>Where was McCain's flag pin?", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_10:38:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2656139, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2663681": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Just the other day you wondered if Barack saw this election as a matter of life and death.<br><br>He heard you.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_16:47:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2663555, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2656779": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "If I were Huck, I'd tell them to go to hell if they came calling and asked to replace Palin.<br><br>Hell, they had a chance to pick Huck in the primaries.  They went for McCaint.<br><br>Let them live with the consequences of their choice.  Not to mention they could have staved off all of this shyt if they'd gone with McCaint when he was McCould eight years ago.<br><br>They chose Bush and we're worse off for it.  And any Black people voting for the GOP ticket in the last eight years need to be DEALT WITH, if you get my drift...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_09:48:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2655209, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2656268": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Suprk:  Hey!   :&gt;)    Yes!  :&gt;)<br><br>Obama-Biden  '08!!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_08:27:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2656030, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2655245": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "McCain is stuck with Palin unless he can find another overly ambitious but extremely stupid pawn like Palin.<br><br>Most smart Republicans would stay far, far away from McCain lest they be tainted by the stench of LOSER.  They are busy licking their chops for 2012.<br><br>If Palin cuts and runs back to Alaska, her political career is over.<br><br>If McCain dumps her, he acknowledges that he has a LOSER campaign.<br><br>If McCain dumps Palin at this point, he might as well step down himself.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_02:53:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2655043, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2658319": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "They're probably worried because people are watching her and she tells the uncut truth.  <br><br>I read a NY Times article a couple of days ago that discussed her  not having a formidable opponent to interview.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_12:34:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2656716, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2656785": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "We just went through this in Nashville. I'm feeling you, its ridiculous, isn't it????", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_09:49:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "b45f45c3d16eaa32e1783c1d1798a893", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2656099, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2657298": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "very cool! I like Jill, too. I bet that will be a nice event.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_10:52:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "JJai", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2657212, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2657301": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I'm just going to put it out there - with that Blonde Barbie wife of his he will NEVER get my vote for anything.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_10:52:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "60266805bc0d9559a62514e1e769b750", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2657222, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2667030": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  My brother served in the Navy for the better part of 27 years and he's kinda conservative. [But my sister and I are working on him.  :&gt;)]<br><br>After watching \"McAncient\" he said that he had NEVER seen a Military Man act with such DISRESPECT!!  Annnd that his actions were NOT according to PROTOCOL!!<br><br>My sister and I exchange \"virtual daps, and hugs\"!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>We think he's got it!!  :&gt;)   Slowly   - said Lilytiger!! :&gt;)<br><br>Obama-Biden '08!!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-28_00:44:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2656682, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2659602": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That's exactly what they should say.<br><br>And Palin is a <i>competitor</i>.<br><br>I expect her to do just fine.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_14:33:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2659449, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2666521": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MDZiMDhjYTU1NmI5Y2MwZjg2MWNiMWMyYTUxZDkwNTE=\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MDZiMDhjYT...</a><br><br>the conservatives are now turning on Palin. calling for her to drop out \"for her country\". <br><br>Obama 08", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_23:09:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "5e782033d7b0a29544b854f4b13f65ef", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2666192, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2656794": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "More cash in talk shows, GreenLady.<br><br>He'll get good ratings in the beginning, but if there's no difference between him, Hannity or O'Falafel, expect his show to be canceled by this time next year.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_09:50:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2656120, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2659077": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ya'll gotta watch this clip from Bill Maher last night.  TaNeishi Coates at the Atlantic just posted it.  No matter how you feel about Bill Maher (I like him some) his final comment was so on point.<br><br>Check it out:<br><a href=\"http://ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/09/great_great_race_humor.php#commentss\" rel=\"nofollow\">Great Race Humor</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_13:33:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "lamh", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2660528": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "GreenLady - this is the Obama strategy.  McCain's camp has been furiously working to lower expections.  Obama is like -- noooo, we think she is fabulous and will be quite a challenge on Thursday. LOLOL  I think we should spin it the same.<br><br>Don't allow them to drop expectations.  McCain's team did say she is more i ntelligent and has more experience than Barack. . .. well we should hold them to it.  Let the people see for themselves on Thursday.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_14:56:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2660162, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2657316": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yep, Michelle and Jill will be at my alma mater today!  Even though much of the Rattler family is in ATL this weekend for the classic, I am sure there will still be a huge crowd greeting Obama-Biden in Tallahassee.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_10:54:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "60266805bc0d9559a62514e1e769b750", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2657212, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2666758": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hurricane headed to Maine! Will the Bushes have to evacuate Kennebunkport?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_23:47:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "4d9312cd58c7caeb087835daea9d59b6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2660529": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The criminals staged this event to make it appear as though Obama supporters would heckle Sarah at a Philly pub.<br><br>Part of the steal strategy.<br><br>Obama supporters would have been watching the debate, not heckling Sarah Palin outside some pub in ethnic white Philly.<br><br>Part of the steal strategy.<br><br>So the media will start painting Obama supporters as rabid and disrespectful to Palin in ethnic white Philly.<br><br>Part of the steal strategy.<br><br>McCain spoke directly to Irish immigrants in PA, presented himself as a KKK rally leader and fired up his bigot base.<br><br>Part of the steal strategy.<br><br>Get the vote close enough to steal PA.<br><br>Politics is transparent.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_14:56:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2657696, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2655272": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<b>They are busy licking their chops for 2012.</b><br><br>That's what I think. Most Republicans with an ounce of sense are just biding their time and not even playing along with this charade.  This is the first election that has really been affected by the \"You Tube generation\" and a sensible GOP candidate doesn't want too much, if any, public record of supporting Palin.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_03:02:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2655245, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2656007": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"Baby, I'm bout to handle my business then we're outta here.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_07:18:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2654926, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2657325": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"You were wrong\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_10:55:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "Texas_Girl_in_LA", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2656622, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2656303": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Wow. I'm sorry to hear this & that you all are having to go thru this. Are you in a reasonable proximity to any white suburb? When I need something in a time of shortage I usually head there.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_08:37:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "4d9312cd58c7caeb087835daea9d59b6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2656099, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2656818": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Not sure if this link has been dropped yet or not. <a href=\"http://FiveThirtyEight.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">FiveThirtyEight.com</a> has a good writ up on the debate. <br><br><b>Why Voters Thought Obama Won</b><br><a href=\"http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/09/why-voters-thought-obama-won.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/09/why-vote...</a><br><br>A brief portion of what was written:<br><br>TPM has the internals of the CNN poll of debate-watchers, which had Obama winning overall by a margin of 51-38. The poll suggests that Obama is opening up a gap on connectedness, while closing a gap on readiness.<br><br>Specifically, by a 62-32 margin, voters thought that Obama was \u201cmore in touch with the needs and problems of people like you\u201d. This is a gap that has no doubt grown because of the financial crisis of recent days. But it also grew because Obama was actually speaking to middle class voters. Per the transcript, McCain never once mentioned the phrase \u201cmiddle class\u201d (Obama did so three times). And Obama\u2019s eye contact was directly with the camera, i.e. the voters at home. McCain seemed to be speaking literally to the people in the room in Mississippi, but figuratively to the punditry. It is no surprise that a small majority of pundits seemed to have thought that McCain won, even when the polls indicated otherwise; the pundits were his target audience.<br><br>Something as simple as Obama mentioning that he\u2019ll cut taxes for \u201c95 percent of working families\u201d is worth, I would guess, a point or so in the national polls. Obama had not been speaking enough about his middle class tax cut; there was some untapped potential there, and Obama may have gotten the message to sink in tonight", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_09:53:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "Suprk", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2658867": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://newsone.com/elections/article/mccain-called-bin-laden-a-freedom-fighters\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://newsone.com/elections/article/mccain-cal...</a><br><br>McCain Called Bin Laden a 'Freedom Fighter'", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_13:12:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "4d9312cd58c7caeb087835daea9d59b6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2659508": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The other side is really grasping at straws right now if this is their latest argument.  A little while ago I saw a McCain commercial and at the end was their new slogan, \"Change is coming.\"<br><br>I practically fell off the couch laughing.  They want to talk smack about Obama while stealing his slogans at the same time.  What a joke.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_14:22:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2656619, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2665019": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I had to put that jackass on blast.  I was pissed off last night when he said it but was more annoyed when I read it this morning.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_19:07:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2664252, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2659388": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "hustleandfloe:  Thank you for sharing your story/thoughts.  I share you thoughts on the \"First Black Family!\"  :&gt;)<br><br>Obama-Biden  '08!!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_14:07:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2658374, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2655296": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "or kenny... <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_McCormick\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_McCormick</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_03:10:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "hustleandfloe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2655209, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2658370": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "She looked a little street walkerish  or like she was going to a cock tail party to me with all the red on.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_12:39:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2656901, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2665618": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Oops, these folks rep Jesus. If you aren't into that, I am sure United Nations Food Programme, Doctors without Borders, or Red Cross would welcome donations (specified for use in Haiti) and be just as effective.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_20:54:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "JJai", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2665542, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2655302": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  PERFECT POST!!  :&gt;)<br><br>Here's the song:  :&gt;)<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTkcu4GVRe8\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTkcu4GVRe8</a><br><b>I Only Have Eyes For You  - The Flamingos</b><br><br><br>Obama-Biden '08!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_03:13:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2664519": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "VAL:  ABSOLUTELY!!  :&gt;)  We see them!   :&gt;)  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_18:13:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2660528, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2656841": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<b><i>She'll just keep hiding until the night of Nov. 4 when she is standing next to McCain as he gives his concession speech dripping with contempt and anger.</b></i><br><br>I wonder if McCain loses it and beeyotch-slaps her while she's on stage and blaming her for losing the election?<br><br>**ducks***", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_09:56:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2655097, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2666570": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Wow....and not a peep on the news.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_23:15:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2664900, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2665042": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Time for money, guns and lawyers. Major banks are failing overseas. <br><a href=\"http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/banking_and_finance/article4837674.ece\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_19:11:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "RobM", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2656339": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "There is no gas in the white suburbs either. I think they've been worse off than downtown Atlanta.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_08:42:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2656303, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2666580": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "They didn't cover the protests at the RNC either.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_23:16:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2666075, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2656856": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "And she gives him that \"Handle yo' business, boo; the girls and I will be waiting for ya.\"<br><br>Chokes me up.  I have to confess, I'm partially voting for him because of HER.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_09:58:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 11, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2659449": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "not sure if someone already posted this but -- <br><br>Obama campaign calls Palin \u201ca terrific debater\u201d<br><br>Obama campaign manager David Plouffe told reporters Saturday that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice presidential nominee, is \u201ca terrific debater\u201d who could give Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Joe Biden (D-Del.) a run for his money when they meet Thursday.<br><br>\u201cWe\u2019ve looked at tapes of Gov. Palin\u2019s debates, and she\u2019s a terrific debater,\u201d Plouffe told reporters on a conference call. \u201cShe has performed very, very well. She\u2019s obviously a skilled speaker. We expect she\u2019ll give a great performance next Thursday. <br><br><a href=\"http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/14014.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/14014...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_14:15:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 9, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2655322": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  GOOD NEWS!!  :&gt;)<br><br><a href=\"http://blackpoliticsontheweb.com/2008/09/26/sen-kennedy-released-from-hospital/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://blackpoliticsontheweb.com/2008/09/26/sen...</a><br><b>Sen. Kennedy Released From Hospital</b><br><br>Obama-Biden '08!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_03:17:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2666075": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "As a former SF resident I'd guess this didn't make the news because protests are a dime a dozen on the GG bridge and throughout the city.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_22:09:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2664787, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2658405": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I just thought the Sarahcuda, tee was ridiculous! It makes her seem even more of a character; a ploy.<br><br>Just silly. Like her whole candidacy.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_12:42:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "JJai", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2658281, "depth": 3, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2657376": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "John believes the war in Iraq stated in 2007...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_11:02:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "evita", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2656553, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2656866": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "We don't have enough in the economy to wreck it like them greedy white guys on Wall Street.<br><br>Now they're trying to blame Latinos for Washington Mutual's failure.  When will it end?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_09:59:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2656585, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2658403": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  Yep!  I'm praying that her ratings will show people \"what the hap is!\" :&gt;)<br><br>Obama-Biden '08!!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_12:42:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2656716, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2666596": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "...exactly.   LOL<br><br>They're desperate...and that scares me.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_23:18:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2664046, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2660453": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "MsKitty:  Good point!!  LOL!  :&gt;) Jes SHAMED 'em!!  :&gt;)<br><br>Obama-Biden '08!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_14:47:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2659620, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2663527": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "That is a dumb ad....but Huffington ruined the cachet with poor grammar in the title \"Most Stupidest\".", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_16:28:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2660862, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2667015": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Amen to that! When he shows the map, he always shows how red it is, even when his words don't match the visuals. I'm so tired of CNN, and I barely watch it.<br><br>Well, the dems just came out announcing agreements reached on the bailout. Where are the repugs? This should be strictly bi-partisan. We're fucked for sure. I hope heads roll. They are going to put it online. Maybe we can read it in sections and make a JJP report.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-28_00:40:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "4d9312cd58c7caeb087835daea9d59b6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2666890, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2656018": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  This is a diversified [Video] review:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/26/first-obama-mccain-presid_n_129569.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/26/first-...</a><br>Obama-McCain Video Highlights<br><br>Obama-Biden  '08!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_07:22:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2664046": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "What got me was the total lack of logic in the ad.  I mean if Obama agreeing with McCain's positions makes him not ready to lead, doesn't that also mean that McCain is not ready to lead because of said positions?<br><br>Analyzing stupid gives me a headache.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_17:27:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2663527, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2667122": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Don't be scared.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-28_01:04:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2666596, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2657396": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "It's not you, VAL.<br><br>You're just recognizing Harold for the opportunistic hustler that he really is.<br><br>He sees the way the wind is blowing and he doesn't want to get left behind; only he got left behind back in 2006.<br><br>And Obama can't stand him; and what's worse, Harold KNOWS Obama can't stand his ass, so he'd better get out the chapstick and pucker up to apply his lips to Obama's ass for the next eight years.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_11:05:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2657222, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2658423": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "my bad cpl.  clumsy with the board here.  agreed with you here but posted way up top...  don't know how to delete.  will check for that.  thx.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_12:44:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "hustleandfloe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2657553, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2656888": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "And they know if they piss off Letterman, he'll pack up and go elsewhere.  And the major networks will jump at the chance to have him - NBC will kill to get him back because they KNOW their ratings haven't been the same since they kicked him to the curb for Jay Leno and used Conan O'Brien to replace Letterman in the late night time slot.<br><br>They really dissed him when he was groomed to succeed Carson, and stabbed him in the back by picking Leno.  But Letterman has the last laugh.<br><br>And still does.  ROFLMAO", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_10:02:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2656640, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2658425": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "msmartin:  It's all about her \"callin' out \"McAncient\" and <br>The Gov.\" -  STR8  OUT!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_12:44:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2658319, "depth": 3, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2663555": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "That's freakin' brilliant!    I can't believe they did that....it's what I and many people have been dreading.   The depression of of Nov 5 with a McCain victory.    That will light a fire under people to work harder and not take anything for granted.   Even Barack is displaying the urgency by his debate performance.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_16:32:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2661081, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2656901": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Is it me, or did Cindy look a damned sight better last night than she did during the ReThug convention?<br><br>$300K to look like a washed out hag.  Last night, she wore power red (candy apple and a lil too loud), but she looked like she styled her own hair and she does look better with it down, because an up-do shows that she's been nipped and tucked too much.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_10:04:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2656139, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2660486": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I don't think finding a viable replacement is possible at this point.  The campaign is radioactive and any Republican who wants to be in the 2012 game won't want their brand tainted by being associated with McCain.  So I think gramps is stuck with Miss Mooseburger for the duration.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_14:51:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2655043, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2657415": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I agree with the Black Snob.  If Michelle wasn't a Ride and Die sista, I'd still be looking cock-eyed at Barack.<br><br>He's an attractive guy, and I like 'em tall and slim, but the ears got that \"effect\" going on that's a minimal turn off, LOL.<br><br>Michelle's the one who swayed me towards her husband.  I often wish she was the one running - and she really would have handed McCain his ass last night.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_11:07:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2657032, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2665608": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "It seems to me that a lot of the media missed the fact that McCain seemed to acknowledge that our government has been torturing prisoners. Is that the case? Did our government admit to torturing prisoners? Who and when did we do it?<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzhXn8QXW1E&feature=related\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzhXn8QXW1E&feat...</a><br>Listen when the meter gets to 7:02 mins<br><br>\"We have a long way to go in our intelligence services. We have to do a better job with human intelligence. We have to make sure that we have people who are trained interrogators that we don't ever torture a prisoner ever again.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_20:52:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2659465": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Absolutely.  Michelle is going to be one of the best first ladies ever.  I mean look at how many times the media has compared her to Jackie Kennedy, and the election hasn't even taken place yet.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_14:16:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2657217, "depth": 4, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2655886": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "rikyrah:  Look how :McAncient isn't even looking at Mr. Obama!  He's a DISRESPECTFUL, VILE DOG!!  AnnnnnD,these are his good points!!<br><br>Hope this picture comes out!<br><br><a href=\"http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/09/live-blogging-o.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily...</a><br>Live- Blogging  Ole Miss.<br><br>Obama-Biden  '08", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_06:33:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2656109": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Uppity Tee Shirts<br><br>I'm not sure if you guys or selling the Uppity T-Shirts or if it's an advertisement from someone else. (If so, can you pass along this message.)<br><br>Can we get some bigger sizes. Plus-size women's? Also, I'm sure there are some big guys out there who would like a 4x or 5x shirt. <br><br>*Thinking to myself, they know 50% of the Black population is obese, they should have bigger shirts*  :-)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_07:46:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "b99e87516feb7803e19bd7618d57916f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2664082": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<i>McCain's puzzling reference to Madeline Albright.</i><br><br>I didn't notice that but did notice him referring to Ed Schultz as secretary of state at one point (am I remembering right).<br><br>Don't know if that is connected.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_17:30:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "4ec3c0272b87ba5c8ce3a9168cf4e78a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2658020, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2666644": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Dana Bash just said the McCain campaign internally is terrified of being connected to Bush.   She said McCain didn't say Bush at the RNC but when he said 'the President' the focus group graphs for everybody went down.<br><br>Now, if you think this whole bailout fiasco is a trick to associate Dems with Bush, while McCain opposes the plan...you can see how it doesn't bode well for Dems to be seen as siding with Bush.   They may oppose his bill, but they're not doing enough public relations in letting the public know.    They speak almost respectfully of Bush, Bernacke and Paulson and make it look like they support them.   They're not letting the public know they're fighting to make wall st. accountable.    Sometimes it's more important how things look.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_23:27:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2665623": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/27/193735/871/453/612800\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/27/193...</a><br><br>Sarah Palin to appear on SNL tonight?<br><br>So let me get this straight: she can't give coherent answers to softball interviews and doesn't have the time to make the TV rounds in support of her candidate but she does have time to appear on SNL?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_20:55:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2664900": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Sorry - protest was in Philadelphia", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_18:51:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2664878, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2665498": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "thanks, this is one of my favorite pics of me =-) because my thicky thickness is not so apparent, lol<br><br>I was in the Caymans. I call this pic \"God loves Me\" since the sun was going down so beautifully behind me...", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_20:30:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "JJai", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2665455, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2658980": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Actually those fighters split in TWO!<br><br>That article got it wrong!<br>Yeah at time HE was a freedom fighter!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_13:23:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "ochyming", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2658867, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2660521": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I am still not convinced that the bailout is good or that we have been given honest, factual information about what is happening. I'm thankful for the politicians that are blocking it, regardless of their political party. I think the issue is too important to act in haste. I don't like being threatened with losing everything unless. Are the politicians going to lose everything too? I hate that the rethugs are going to get credit for \"saving\" our economy, but many dems are on the wrong side of this. Some CEO's need to go to jail as well.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_14:55:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "4d9312cd58c7caeb087835daea9d59b6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2659492, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2656426": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "For anyone whom cares about this issue please read: the OIL <a href=\"http://Drum.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Drum.com</a>.<br>They have been following this for weeks and can tell you why it is happening", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_08:56:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "RobM", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2656339, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2664107": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Actually I live near Philly and the media coverage I've seen/heard today only mentioned the protestors in passing.  They spent way more time talking about Palin in the bar with the supporters.  If it gets much more play in tomorrow's papers that will tell the tale.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_17:34:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2660529, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2658478": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  And here it is in HuffPost:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/26/sarah-palins-beauty-pagea_n_129667.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/26/sarah-...</a><br>Sarah Palin's Beauty Pageant [VIDEO]<br><br>ENOUGH!<br><br><br>OBAMA-BIDEN  '08!!!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_12:49:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2656702, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2657455": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://craighickman.blogspot.com/2008/09/obama-wins-first-debate.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">My Take on the Debate, With Polls and Battleground State Responses</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_11:12:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2655920": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I think J Mac is suffering from \"electile dysfunction\".  Politicians used to be to embarrassed to talk about it, but now there's help.<br><br><b>\"Are You Suffering From Electile Dysfunction?\"</b><br><a href=\"http://simplifythepositive.blogspot.com/2008/09/are-you-suffering-from-electile.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://simplifythepositive.blogspot.com/2008/09...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_06:47:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "BrownManATL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2656433": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Actually Ronnie B - they have Barack as the winner in every major paper I looked at.  He got an A- and McCain B- and in some sources McCain received D's.  <br><br>Barack has a few sources on his site and I have been surfing since 7 a.m. and he has received the igher marks.  <a href=\"http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/stateupdates/gGgdsG\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/s...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_08:58:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2656139, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2657458": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "It's not just Snowflake, but how he hid her in the basement during his Senate campaign. I'll never get past that.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_11:12:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2657301, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2655923": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  The people hath spoken!!   :&gt;)<br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/politics/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/politics/</a><br><b>Obama WINS!</b><br><br>Obama-Biden '08!!!<br><br><b>  BIG OOPS!  The HEADLINE CHANGED and I can't find it again!  SORRY!  :&gt;(</b>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_06:47:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2661044": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I think the government has more vested in this bailout than they are letting up.<br><br>I don't want a bailout IF what they are telling us is the whole truth.  The markets will correct themselves, they always have.  I have heard time and time again that your money is only protected if its in Chase, Bank of America or Citi (time will tell).  The gov doesn't care about the market failing, if they did they would not bail out certain companies (which, IMO, they have personal ties to).  Yes, AIGs failure would've had a ripple effect in our economy, but creating mass panic, I do not believe, is the way to resolve our current condition.<br><br>If this problem was so easy to fix why didn't they do this a year and a half ago?  Personally, I don't think we the people are getting the whole truth.  maybe I am a conspiracy theorist but I like to call it how I see it.  All of a sudden everyone is interested in helping the American people?  Look at how high the unemployment rate has surge, look at the home foreclosure rate, look at the high bankruptcy rates.  This country has always had a survival of the fittest attitude, why pretend to change now?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_15:57:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "nickwah22", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2659492, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2666813": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Huh?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-28_00:01:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2666735, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2666170": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<b>What Sen. McCain Doesn't Seem To Understand</b><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deanie-mills/what-sen-mccain-doesnt-se_b_129817.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deanie-mills/what...</a><br><blockquote><i>I can tell you that there are many military families who not only DON'T hero-worship John McCain, but resent deeply his seemingly endless ability to play on his war service and navy family for political purposes while, at the same time, voting against veteran's benefits time and time and time again.<br><br>As one said, \"I'm glad he keeps bringing up his support for veteran's issues. That only gives us an opportunity to point out the facts of his record.\"<br><br>And so \"GoldStarLMW\" did just that. Among the statistics she posted were that, among every major veteran's group you can mention, McCain's voting record in support of their interests virtually never went above 25%, although once or twice, he went along with their needs maybe half the time.<br><br>\"Militarywifeobamamama\" typed, \"Veteran sitting beside me says McCain supports Bush; he doesn't support veterans.\"<br><br>When it came to McCain's sad, sentimental, soaring story about wearing the bracelet of the war dead to remind him that he never wanted to see another soldier die in vain, \"GoldStarLMW\" immediately posted:<br><br>\"NO soldier EVER dies in vain.\"</i></blockquote>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_22:23:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2655946": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "rikyrah:  What did \"McAncient's\" Facial Features Reveal?<br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/27/the-smirk-could-mccains-f_n_129831.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/27/the-sm...</a><br><b>The Smirk:  Could McCain's Facial Gestures Define Debate?</b><br><br><i>As the spin of Friday night's debate settled in and both sides staked a claim to victory, one media narrative began to take hold: while Obama may have been over-complimentary of McCain, the GOP nominee was grumpy, mean, and downright contemptuous of Obama, much to his detriment.<br><br>A clip circulated by Democrats showed the McCain demonstrating all of those traits: smirking when Obama gave his answers, eyes blinking, unwilling to even look at his opponent.<br><br>SKIP<br><br>MSNBC's Chris Matthews described the GOP nominee as \"troll-like\" and \"grouchy.\"<br><br>SKIP<br><br>\"The scowls and the squints and the facial tics of John McCain didn't serve him well here,\" said advisor Robert Gibbs, in the spin room.</i><br><br><br>Obama-Biden  '08!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_06:59:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2658496": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Wow. That sounds like a horrible experience! I don't know how I would react if I was in your shoes. However, it sounds like you handled the situation well.<br><br>Blatant racism/ignorance is stunning. The shock that the mind goes through to process people actually believe such backwards views. One of the few times in my life that I have confronted overt racism, is when my family with to a diner at the NJ shore to eat breakfast. I was about 9. We waited for about 20 minutes to be served. Groups that had come in behind us had their orders taken, including a group of 5 whites and and african american friend. Finally we got that we weren't being served because we were a black family. It's gives me a sinking feeling in stomach just remembering it.<br><br>Bigotry has no rationale. When it's out of the open it's hard to deal with. When it's just under the surface, it's harder to combat. But no matter what, we can afford to drop our vigilance.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_12:51:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "38521c06e117ae66c09aa19770fdac5b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2658374, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2657473": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm so proud of Barack!  Why did it seem to get lost in the mix that Ole Miss was forcibly integrated less than 50 years ago.  I was overcome at the beginning of the debate.  It was just such a momentous, historic, iconic image.  Go Barack!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_11:14:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "d6a6a0e690fe6d40b4d1133b02b84a23", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2664130": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>Change is coming.</i><br><br>Wait a minute -- Wait a minute. <br><br>When Senator Obama is elected, change IS coming. <br><br>So hmmm, on that statement as its own, I have to say it: <br><br>\"I agree with John.\"<br><br>Because -- <b>Change IS Coming.</b> It is true.<br><br>John McCain is just not the one bringing it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_17:37:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "4ec3c0272b87ba5c8ce3a9168cf4e78a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2659508, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2659523": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "As I've said before, I think this whole Palin is dumb thing is to prepare for her to perform well at the debates.  No one as dumb as she is playing would even consider that they could be a vice president - more tricks.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_14:23:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2659449, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2660550": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "nice photo, Rikyrah.  Curtis Mayfield - sadly, an underrated genius - comes to mind on this one.  Enjoy!<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLY_wWjLZew\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLY_wWjLZew</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_14:58:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "bb90730b238bd2c1f318bc1437a3fc1e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2656545": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Back to the Real Deal<br><br>As you  know there is a website that says just say no to the bailout. I find it immature as the reasonss are solid but lacking in alternatives. Here is another view I found on why the deal is no good and what it needs. This is a pay site but you can get a temp subscription:<br><a href=\"http://www.rgemonitor.com/roubini-monitor/253762/rge_conference_call_on_the_economic_and_financial_outlookand_why_the_treasury_tarp_bailout_is_flawed\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.rgemonitor.com/roubini-monitor/25376...</a><br>And more on the deal  froom calculated risk:<br><a href=\"http://calculatedrisk.blogspot.com/2008/09/bailout-plan-and-debate.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://calculatedrisk.blogspot.com/2008/09/bail...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_09:17:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "RobM", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2656716": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "It boggles the mind. They don't crap about Faux Noise, but want to pick on Rachel?<br><br>($(% them", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_09:37:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2656203, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2655434": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "rikyrah:   one commentator posted these Debate Grades:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0%2C8599%2C1845106-2%2C00.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,...</a><br>DEBATE GRADES from <a href=\"http://Times.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Times.com</a><br><br>Obama/Biden '08!!<br><br>P.S.   <b>  Obama  =   Overall  A-</b>     \"McAncient\"  =   Overall B-", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_03:47:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2657484": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Huck's sincere in his Christian beliefs - which is why Black folk in Arkansas voted for him.  He knows that most Blacks are Christians, and he couldn't very well ignore them.<br><br>Which is more than I can say for the rest of the ReThugs professing Christian faith, then getting caught with their slips and drawers showing (David Vitter or Larry Craig, anyone?)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_11:14:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2657129, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2665165": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Read about Judas(the entire Federal government apparatus) role in the financial meltdown:<br><br><a href=\"http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/files/a_memo_found_in_the_street.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/files/a_...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_19:31:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "RobM", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2654926": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Rikyrah,<br><br>You're so right. Look at the love in his eyes! Yeah!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_01:53:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "8b4edfeff97a04858d7247b03c0d0fd8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2660559": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Sounds like they're doing some psych out here.  Keep raising the expectations about Palin so the inevitable crash and burn is that much more dramatic.  Me likey.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_14:59:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2659449, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2666192": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "rikyrah:  Re: that pic.  I'm PRETENDING that that is the back of my head!!  :&gt;)<br><br>Back to the \"air conditioner!\"   :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>Obama-Biden '08!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_22:27:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2658515": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ugh. Typos -- meant \"cannot* afford\".<br><br>Well, you get what I'm saying..", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_12:53:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "38521c06e117ae66c09aa19770fdac5b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2658496, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2658516": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "CPL:  ABSOLUTELY!!  Thanks!  <br><br><br>Obama-Biden '08!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_12:53:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2656794, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2658005": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Not me.  I was behind him before I knew about her.  She and the girls are icing on the cake.  A total package.<br><br>I liked his politics, his intelligence and could tell he would be a good leader, but when I found out that he also married an intelligent black woman that looks like me.....well that resonates with me on a personal level.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_12:01:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2657032, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2655097": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Nope. They're in too deep now.<br><br>I don't think Palin will drop out of the race.  She'll just keep hiding until the night of Nov. 4 when she is standing next to McCain as he gives his concession speech dripping with contempt and anger.<br><br>With all of the scandals (and backlash) brewing back in Alaska, it will be really interesting to see where her political career goes since most intellectually-honest Republicans are actually embarrassed for her now. Even the NRO folks are against her.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_02:20:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2655043, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2658340": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Upset and can't do a damn thing about it.  They better leave him alone before he starts even more more shit.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_12:36:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2656888, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2655962": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Who won the debate according to online polls: <br>MSN 52% Obama, 33% McCain (half a million votes cast)<br>CNN 51% Obama 38% McCain<br>Fox News 54% Obama 46% McCain<br>CBS poll of undecided voters 39% Obama, 24% McCain, 37% Draw", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_07:03:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2665180": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Check out this cute video of Dr. B aka Jill Biden on the stump<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQNn27HMOCU&eurl=http://www.sparrowblog.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQNn27HMOCU&eurl...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_19:33:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "JJai", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2657502": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Today's Schedule:<br><br>Saturday, September 27<br><br>   * <br>         o 11:00 am <br>         o Michelle Obama holds a voter registration rally in Tallahassee, Florida <br>   * <br>         o 12:15 pm <br>         o Barack Obama and Joe Biden hold a rally in Greensborough, North Carolina <br>   * <br>         o 12:45 pm <br>         o Hillary Clinton hosts a \"Change We Need\" rally in Grand Ledge, Michigan <br>   * <br>         o 3:30 pm <br>         o Hillary Clinton hosts a \"Change We Need\" rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan <br>   * <br>         o 6:30 pm <br>         o Barack Obama and Joe Biden hold a rally in Fredericksburg, Virginia <br>         o Hillary Clinton hosts a \"Change We Need\" rally in Flint, Michigan <br>   * <br>         o Evening <br>         <b>o Barack Obama delivers remarks at the 38th Annual Congressional Black Caucus Legislative Conference in Washington, D.C.</b>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_11:17:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "Texas_Girl_in_LA", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2665695": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "57 million watched the debate", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_21:08:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2666695": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I love how ordinary citizens are now interrogating her.  Classic.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_23:36:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2665968, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2666722": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"un-ethnic\"?? Oh.....I too was disappointed that Obama went for the Brooks Brothers suit instead of some RocaWear, and what was that \"middle class\" venacular? Should have just said \"my peeps\". Obama talkin all \"white\"......should have kept it real...fake ass nigger! He didn't say ANYTHING about the hood! <br><br>(sigh)........I miss Peter Jennings.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_23:40:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2664252, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2656483": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "London Calling on the debate:<br><a href=\"http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article4835676.ece\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_...</a><br><a href=\"http://blogs.ft.com/crookblog/2008/09/the-oxford-debate/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://blogs.ft.com/crookblog/2008/09/the-oxfor...</a><br><a href=\"http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/2008/09/the-debate-some-early-reactions/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/2008/09/the-deb...</a><br><a href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/27/uselections2008.barackobama1\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/27/use...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_09:06:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "RobM", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2658020": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The one thing that is still puzzling me about the debate that I haven't seen any blog or media discuss is McCain's puzzling reference to Madeline Albright.  When they were discussing diplomacy and meeting without pre-conditions, Obama said something about Bush's refeusal to speak with teh Axis of Evil.  McCain then responded with a denial that the Bush admin doesn't do diplomacy and pointed out the meeting with North Korea.  He then referenced Secretary of State Madeline Albright meeting with North Korea.<br><br>Now I know Madeline Albright was once Secretary of State, under Clinton , and did meet with North Korea.  But in the context of what was being said shouldn't he be referring to Sec. of State RICE and her meeting with North Korea?  What does Clinton's Secretary of State have to do with redeeming the Bush policy of the silent treatment?<br><br>Did anyone else catch this or was it just me?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_12:03:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "bajanlady", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2664677": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://thisweekwithbarackobama.blogspot.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://thisweekwithbarackobama.blogspot.com/</a><br><br>I like the pick with him praying before he went on stage.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_18:17:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2663972, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2655974": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  And now a word from Madeleine Albright:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/madeleine-albright/a-breakthrough-night-for_b_129786.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/madeleine-albrigh...</a><br><b>A Breakthrough Night For Obama</b><br><br><i>Tonight was a breakthrough for Senator Obama, who showed himself truly ready to be president. He responded knowledgeably, thoughtfully and confidently to the toughest questions on the economy, Iraq, and terror. Meanwhile, Senator McCain spent so much time attacking his opponent, he neglected to show how a McCain-Palin administration would differ from Bush-Cheney. As a result, Obama answered the threshold question about his candidacy; McCain did not.</i><br><br>Yaaaaa!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>Obama-Biden   '08!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_07:07:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2660583": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The hacks on morning joe said that she is going to shock all of them and give an excellent performance. The bar of expectation for her is on the floor (how low can it go?), so if she does half way better than she has been doing, they will spin it as vastly exceeding expectations. All she has to do is better than she has been doing. This is sad, pathetic & angering.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_15:02:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "4d9312cd58c7caeb087835daea9d59b6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2659449, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2657001": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Huck is on tv now. He's making$$$$. He's not gonna rescue McAncient", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_10:19:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2656779, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2657515": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "He's going to get her a tan, dye her hair black and get it kinked up into a natural.<br><br>Then, he'll try to pass her off as a sista - but we remember he claimed his own grandmother was a white woman willingly passing for Black during Jim Crow days.  We all know damned well if anyone was light enough to pass for white, they usually did and got the hell out of there, save for those of conscious who couldn't do it for selling out their own souls.<br><br>Harold Ford, Jr., has no SOUL.  His actions, past, present and future, demonstrates that sad fact.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_11:18:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2657301, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2655981": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Everyone noticed how McStupid was acting....he turned off SOOOOO many independent parents by acting like the 4 yr old they had to swat on the bottom for having a temper tantrum. It was pointed out on CNN that everytime McSilly made those \"he doesn't understand\" comments or they flashed to him with that smirky look on his face, the independent voters they were monitoring leaned over to Obama. McIgnorant was working the nerves of people who were hoping to see two mature adults on stage and not one adult and one grumpy old man.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_07:08:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2655886, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2665325": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That is an awesome, ad. Very daring. You know Keith O is loving his inclusion.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_20:00:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "JJai", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2661081, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2655983": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Brown Man:  U  R  at it again!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>I'll take my \"Field Trip!\"  Thank you!  :&gt;)<br><br>Obama-Biden  '08!!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_07:09:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2655920, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2659058": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "babyming:  TRUE DAT!!  :&gt;)<br><br>Obama-Biden  '08!!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_13:29:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2657645, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2664694": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "A Former Clinton Supporter Sighs With Relief<br><a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/27/145024/378/684/612585\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/27/145024/...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_18:19:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2666556": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "rikyrah:  Here's the deal, IFFF \"McAncient\"  CAIN'T read and comprehend 3 pages. . .  <br><br><a href=\"http://blackpoliticsontheweb.com/2008/09/27/bailout-bill-once-3-pages-swells-in-length/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://blackpoliticsontheweb.com/2008/09/27/bai...</a><br><b>Bailout Bill Once 3 Pages <u>Swells In Length</u></b><br><br><i>A week ago, it totaled just three pages \u2014 the White House\u2019s request for $700 billion to rescue tottering financial institutions by buying their devalued mortgage-related assets.<br><br>By Monday, after an intense weekend of negotiations, the draft of the bailout legislation before Congress had swelled to 42 pages.<br><br>By Friday, after almost a week of marathon talks between Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and key lawmakers in both parties, the working version was up to 102 pages.<br><br>It likely will grow even longer as negotiators continue to tweak the proposal this weekend, adding and subtracting key elements.<br><br>Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., the House Financial Services Committee\u2019s chairman, was optimistic Friday that a final agreement could be reached by Sunday.</i><br><br>HOW the heck do you think that he could READ and COMPREHEND OVER 102 pages!!???  <b>NOT!</b>  :&gt;)<br><br>Obama-Biden '08!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_23:14:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2667769": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I kept wondering where King was getting that stat from. How did he know the bulk of the audience was Dem? Seems like SOME conservatives and Republicans watched something because there is chatter all over the Web about this debate and the upcoming VP debate. I swear. I get that CNN wants to be the opposite of whatever FOX and MSNBC are, but damn. Slow ya roll, homie. What was that?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-28_03:56:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "The_Black_Snob", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2664186": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I don't know if this is true or not, but they say that on Morning Joe today they were discussing why Sen. Obama's makeup was \"too dark?\"  Did that happen?", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_17:45:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2660583, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2665215": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "This is also a a cute little article on Biden<br><br><a href=\"http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080921/NEWS02/809210364\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/art...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_19:39:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "JJai", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2665216": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Pakistan's president tells Palin she's 'gorgeous'<br><br>Palin has been in New York meeting international leaders in town this week for United Nations meetings. <br><br>On entering a room filled with several Pakistani officials Wednesday, Palin was immediately greeted by Sherry Rehman, the country's information minister.<br><br>\"And how does one keep looking that good when one is that busy?\" Rehman asked Palin, drawing friendly laughter from the room.<br><br>\"Oh, thank you,\" Palin said<br><br>Pakistan's new president, Asif Ali Zardari, entered the room seconds later. Palin rose to shake his hand, saying she was \"honored\" to meet him.<br><br>Zardari then called her \"gorgeous\" and said: \"Now I know why the whole of America is crazy about you.\"<br><br><a href=\"http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/24/palin.pakistan/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/24/pali...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_19:39:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2656001": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Miranda:  Good information re the independents!  :&gt;)  Thanks!  :&gt;)<br><br><br>Obama-Biden  '08!!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_07:16:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2655981, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2657538": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  BREAKING NEWS!   Paul Neuman DIES  @ 83<br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/27/paul-newman-dies-at-83_n_129860.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/27/paul-n...</a><br><b>Paul Neuman Dies At 83</b><br><br><i>WESTPORT, Conn. \u2014 Paul Newman, the Academy-Award winning superstar who personified cool as the anti-hero of such films as \"Hud,\" \"Cool Hand Luke\" and \"The Color of Money\" _ and as an activist, race car driver and popcorn impresario _ has died. He was 83.<br><br>Newman died Friday after a long battle with cancer at his farmhouse near Westport, publicist Jeff Sanderson said. He was surrounded by his family and close friends.</i><br><br><br><br>How sad!  God Bless!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_11:21:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2667051": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I agree and came to the same conclusion as soon as I saw not ready.  I thought how stupid.  In their haste to put something together mocking Obama, someone didn't see how this would read.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-28_00:47:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2664046, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2667780": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Chris suffers from chronic foot in mouth disorder. You can not take his verbal thuggery seriously. Most of the time he just comes off as clueless anyway. He cracks me up when he tries to talk like he understands black people, the black experience or women. He usually just comes off as a totally troglodyte. I don't know why he bothers. Oh that's right. They pay him.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-28_03:59:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "The_Black_Snob", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2665019, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2660613": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I was wound up tighter than guitar strings as it approached the 9p hour last night. I just kept walking back and forth in front of the television set. My mind was a maelstrom of activity. Remember to get the pronunciation of the foreign leaders names correct. Don't mix up leaders and countries. Hope your surge argument is tight, coherent 'cause ya know he's gonna try to get at you with that one. Russia/Georgia - check. What if Pakistan is unable or unwilling to go after Bin Laden if he's inside their borders? Iran. Preconditions vs. Preparation. Then I stopped in my tracks. Oh yeah, the bailout. How will your budget take into account this 700b? How can you make people know that you feel their pain without sounding like a panderer? <br><br>Yes, people, that was me at my schizo best last night. But, like an ice-cold stick of fat that's been set down in a hot pan, slowly releasing its buttery goodness, I too, slowly unwound. About 2 minutes in, I realized that I was sitting, but at the edge of the seat. How did I get here? Not sure. Doesn't matter. 10 minutes in, I was reclining. OK. Good sign? 15 minutes, my feet were curled up and I was hugging a big pillow. Yeah, everything's gonna be alright. It was as much about his cogent articulation of his positions as it was about his posture. Shoulders back. Relaxed. Head Up. Confident. Eyes Engaged. Steady. Subliminally, the message was, \"Relax, y'all, I got this shit covered...\" <br><br>The mission was clear: get the job done without overdoing it or look like you are trying too hard to impress. Where McBush was condescending - unwilling to acknowledge his younger foe's accomplishments, Obama was gracious - giving his opponent credit when it was due. Where McBush appeared petulant and angry - refusing to engage his opponent directly, Obama was likeable and respectful - turning to the older man and addressing him as a venerable colleague. Where McBush focused on quantity to highlight his experience - listing off his laundry list of foreign travel, Obama relied on quality to highlight his judgement - his opposition of the Iraq war etc.,<br><br>Before last night's debate performance there were those who doubted Obama's facility with the intricate machinations of foreign policy;  those who misunderstood his cool in the face of obvious contempt; those who questioned his compassion for the plight of many suffering American families;  those who denigrated his penchant for nuance on a variety of complex issues facing this nation. But at 10.30p, those people were silenced. He stood on equal footing with McBush on issue after issue and didn't, ummm, blink. <br><br>There are a few opportunities that I think he missed. 1) McBush loves the vets so much so that he didn't even show up to vote for the GI Bill. 2)The opportunity to really nail McBush on the surge, so that's over what do we do now? Biden tidied that up in the spin zone after the debate(btw, Biden was in fine form last night). 3)Obama shouldn't have bothered with the back-and-forth over what Kissinger said/meant or didn't. I think he should have punctuated that segment by saying something like this,\"Regardless of what you think Kissinger meant, I, in the capacity of President of the United States will be willing to meet with blah, blah if it's in the best interest of the nation's security.\" 4)On excessive spending, whenever McBush mentions anything about bear DNA again, remind him of his running mate's seal DNA bullshit up in Alaska. 5)Pakistan as a failed state at the time of the coup, etc. (I may have more comments after re-watching this on Sunday.)<br><br>Listen, It wasn't like Obama was firing from all cylinders last night, guns ablazin'.  Cruise control was more like it. And in that mode, he systematically destroyed all the caricatures of him that he was not conversant with foreign policy, which had been built up over many months. I would not want to see him all fired up. And, I suspect, that today, neither does John McBush.<br><br>Bravo, Senator Obama.<br><br>T.<br>ps. Oh, and when Miss Michelle appeared on stage, my night was complete.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_15:05:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "d6755b31010b50fc47eac9ee8b3bb319", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2654982": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Fact Check: Does McCain almost always agree with Bush?<br><br><b>YES!</b><br><br>According to an analysis by Congressional Quarterly, McCain has voted for bills favored by President Bush 90 percent of the time. The nonpartisan publication, which has analyzed voting by members of Congress since 1953, said the report took into account all legislation that Bush had taken a clear position on. It spans from the beginning of Bush's term to Congress's recess in August.<br><br><a href=\"http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/26/fact-check-does-mccain-almost-always-agree-with-bush/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/26...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_02:02:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2664199": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I have to agree with you.<br><br>Last night was the debate concerning the ONLY area where McAncient consistently outpollls Barack.<br><br>And what did Barack do?<br><br>He more than held his own. <br>More than held his own.<br><br>Looked Presidential, while Senator Country Last looked like a petty petty man. <br><br>McCain's performance played to the GOP base.<br><br>Barack's performance played to Independents.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_17:47:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2660613, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2657032": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The  Black Snob swears that a good chunk of Obama's Black female support is RIDE OR DIE because of MICHELLE.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_10:23:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 10, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2656856, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2667785": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I kept wondering where King was getting that stat from. How did he know the bulk of the audience was Dem? Seems like SOME conservatives and Republicans watched something because there is chatter all over the Web about this debate and the upcoming VP debate. I swear. I get that CNN wants to be the opposite of whatever FOX and MSNBC are, but damn. Slow ya roll, homie. What was that?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-28_04:01:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "The_Black_Snob", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2666890, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2667790": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Kitty, I agree. Desperation also sunk Hillary. I really believe we have this......except for the question of the voting machines. Chris Rock made a joke about hoping that O understands when he gets the most votes but still doesn't win. Bill Maher said that it happened to Al Gore. Definitely not funny.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-28_04:04:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "4d9312cd58c7caeb087835daea9d59b6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2666801, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2660623": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Sarah Palin 2006 Alaska's Governor's Debate<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1-B-OyQ-KI\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1-B-OyQ-KI</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_15:07:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2657553": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Me, neither, Rikyrah.  As many white cousins as I now have (five) thanks to my male cousins interracially marrying, honestly, white women with brothas cease to be an issue for me.<br><br>What pisses me off is if I'm seen with a white guy and a brotha leaves his snowflake to get up in my grill about being with a white guy (even though I may or may not be romantically involved with the guy, but the doofus bro doesn't bother to find out) - and then I have to clock him about dissing me, but he's out with a white woman, and sistas aren't supposed to say shyt.<br><br>Brothas, don't start none and there won't be none.  Y'all good for the Double Standards, but if you get your shorts in a bunch when I call you out on it, you'll just be standing their with your Snowflake and your shorts in a bunch.  What's good for the goose and all that...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_11:22:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2657458, "depth": 3, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2658066": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Here's why I think Obama won last night, despite what the Obama-haters think, I truly believe that many people WANT to like Barack Obama, the fact is that Obama consistently is viewed as a nice guy, but some undecided were still wary of Obama.  Yes some of it is race, some of it class, some wonder is he \"ready to lead\" ya know the whole C-I-C thing.  McCain may have won the debate on points, but the voters aren't scoring them on points, it's all about perceptions to non-pol voters. And I would say that on the stylistic or \"perception\" front, Obama won hands down.  McCain just seemed too condescending and insulting towards Obama, not in a policy-oriented fasion, but on a personal level.  Seriously, McCain refused to even look at Obama.<br><br>People tend to like nice guys and with the majority of the country pissed about the economy, and pissed at the Bush Administration, it's not surprising to me that people want a change, and no matter how \"maviericky\" McCain may be, you just don't \"see\" change when you look at him.  He may not be perceived as the \"typical\" republican, but he is still the Republican, and while McCain's campaign tactics can guide the media narrative, it don't change the fact that a majority of the country want the Repubs out of power", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_12:08:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "lamh", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2655507": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Rikyrah:  The <i>Anchorage Daily News</i> had a video of \"The Gov.\" in the \"swim sit competition\" of the 1984 Pageant.  Apparently, these videos have been\"scrubbed\" from You Tube and other places.  But, this is a \"personal\" copy.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_04:15:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2656533": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I couldn't agree more.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_09:15:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2655245, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2661081": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzuIHjQYW2c\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bad News</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_16:02:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2667055": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "nickwah22:  Good find!!  :&gt;)<br><br>Obama-Biden  '08!1", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-28_00:48:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2666842, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2656030": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "That is a shocking grade when you see it came from Mark (I think Matt Drudge is a God) Halperin.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_07:26:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "Suprk", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2655434, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2665093": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/539236.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/539236.html</a><br><br>Hundreds attend anti-Palin rally<br><br>Hundreds of people turned out for an anti-Sarah Palin rally today.  People waved signs at honking cars headed downtown and listened to speakers in a rally organized by a group called Alaskans for Truth.<br><br> Roark-Martinez says Palin should go back to her hometown of Wasilla because she doesn't have the experience to be vice president.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_19:20:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2667808": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The problem is they DON'T know if the bailout will work. They don't know what letting the banks fail will do. They just know both options are bad and as usual the Bush Administration waited so long, by the time they realized they needed to do something Bear Sterns collapsed and shit has been rolling downhill ever since.<br><br>If they don't do the bail out several banks are on the chopping block to fail without the help (see Washington Mutual who fell apart last week and was scooped up by Merrill Lynch) and the markets will go into disarray and credit is likely to freeze up with no one loaning anyone money for anything and the government would end up spending billions to cover the losses of US citizens in FDIC backed banks.<br><br>BUT if the go with the bailout they risk screwing up inflation. We don't actually have $700 billion. We're going to sell T-bills or whatever to foreign governments to raise the cash, then the treasury is going to start printing dollars to inject them into the market to encourage investment and spending. The only problem is there will be so many dollars out there the value of the US currency could drop dramatically and inflation could skyrocket.<br><br>Plus, the taxpayers would inherit all this worthless real estate we would have to sell for a loss.<br><br>There's just no good answers and Congress, the president and the Fed are just throwing up $700 billion and a prayer and hoping this will stop the bloodletting, then cross their fingers that inflation won't get higher. Or that more money won't be needed for the bailout (because no one knows how much these mortgage securities are worth). <br><br>So, long story short. Either way, we're all screwed.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-28_04:09:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "The_Black_Snob", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2661044, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2666785": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "obamafan:  Hey!  :&gt;)  There were sooo many \"cutting lines\" in her article!  I've got BAND AIDS all over me!!  :&gt;)<br><br>Here's one of my favs:  <br><br><i>She repeats words; filling spaces with deadwood!</i><br><br>OF COURSE, there is a SONG!!  :&gt;)  Presenting . . . . <br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm0enKitJ3w\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm0enKitJ3w</a><br><b>Talking Loud And Saying Nothing  - - James Brown and the JB's</b><br><br>I'm just saying. . . . . .<br><br><br>Obama-Biden '08!!!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_23:53:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2666521, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2659620": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "How about when she had the names of the McCain surrogates that wouldn't come on the show scroll across the screen?  That was wicked.  Shaming them for the cowards they are.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_14:35:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2658425, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2659112": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  Bring some humor!  :&gt;)<br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/27/late-night-jokes-of-the-w_n_129735.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/27/late-n...</a><br><b>Late Night Jokes of the Week</b><br><br>ENJOY!   :&gt;)<br><br>Obama-Biden  '08  !!<br><br><br>P.S.  Gotta go to NAACP Meeting & Voter Reg.  most of the day!  L8R!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_13:37:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2656553": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"I agree with John\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_09:18:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "d4a5571941439b7f9a5ba7979fd49d96", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2657579": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I love that photo. He's just been watched by half the world who *think* they know him and now he's looking into the eyes of the only person who *really* knows him. <br><br>McCain didn't just pick Palin because she appeals to the white evangelicals. He picked her because he can push her around, tell her to shut up and not appear anywhere on the world stage. Obama picked Biden who, whatever else you can say about him, cannot be pushed around. That alone tells ya all you need to know about the two candidates.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_11:24:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "984cb50a7603c89f6bfde119910897f6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2656045": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  The FACTS!  Just the FACTS m'am!!  :&gt;)<br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/27/aps-debate-factcheck-kiss_n_129820.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/27/aps-de...</a><br><b>APs Debate Factcheck - - -</b><br><br><i>Some facts got lost when Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain confronted each other over the financial crisis, Iraq, the oil industry and more in the first presidential debate of the 2008 general election.<br><br>Here are examples: </i>            THERE IS MUCH MORE.<br><br><br>Obama-Biden  '08!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_07:30:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2656558": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "WSJ: 57% Obama, 39.7% McCain", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_09:19:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "nickwah22", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2655962, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2666801": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I look at it this way.  The more desperate the McCain crew gets, the more that desperation comes across, the more stupid they look.  I mean look back at what desperation drove them to do this week.  Did that benefit them in any way, did they come out ahead because of it?<br><br>That's not to say us Obama supporters shouldn't still work our asses off to get him elected, but the tide is beginning to turn.  Us political junkies and blog regulars have known that McCain has got nothing for a long time, but now even the most casual observers of the election are starting to see it too.  McCain came off last night as petty and small, so any lowball tactics his campaign employs at this point is just going to reinforce that perception like steel.  So in a sick, rubbernecking at a car wreck way I'm looking forward to see how low they go.<br><br>That's my rambling way of saying take a few deep breaths because this homestretch is going to be a doozy, but BO and company seem to have a handle on it and they're really good at giving McCain all the rope he needs to hang himself.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_23:57:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2666596, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2665523": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This is not the first time that he has made inappropriate comments with regards to Barack---and Black people in general.  Every \"liberal\" is not your friend people.  I don't care how hard he rails against the likes of Bush and McCain.  If minorities that watch the show, tolerate this ignorance, then you are basically giving him a blank check that he think he can cash at any time.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_20:36:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "ef781b639c890767ebd1ce99011c3afa", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2664252, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2667835": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I actually think she is out of her league. Not dumb. Just in over her head because she's never had to think about national or international issues before. All she has are the basic talking points.<br><br>Truth is, if she was brilliant the McCain campaign wouldn't be hiding her. They'd have her on everything from Larry King to The View to show off their prized, confident, intelligent, youthful superstar. They would NEVER want someone to come off as stupid. That doesn't help McCain. Sure they want to lower expectations, but if she was a dynamo on the national/international issues they wouldn't be hiding her from anyone. They'd play down expectations, but they would shield her when she was such a media sensation when she first came out. Strategically it's too risky to have someone garbling their talking points and looking clueless. Never mind her 101 personal problems. <br><br>McCain just saw a tempting, hot commodity. He never checked to see what was going on upstairs or in her life. She was young, Republican and attractive with ovaries. He didn't think any harder about her than he did about \"suspending his campaign.\" McCain is a desperate man pulling tricks hoping people will fall for them ... and they are genuinely worried about the debate. And as crazy as Biden is, he's no joke. He doesn't stutter. He's concise and likable. This is deadly for them. Conservatives are turning on him for picking her with her every sparse interview that reveals how poorly she understands the issues. I'm sure she's cramming around the clock for the debate.<br><br>She's just lucky the bar is set so low it's in the basement. It'll be a win for her if she just pronounces the names right.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-28_04:17:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "The_Black_Snob", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2659523, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2664252": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/27/matthews-on-obamas-debate_n_129901.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/27/matthe...</a><br><br>Chris Matthews:  Why was Obama so \"un-ethnic\" tonight?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_17:53:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2657597": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm with all of you on this.  She made me take serious notice of Barack!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_11:26:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "jelana", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2657281, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2664766": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Palin Is Ready? Please.<br><a href=\"http://www.newsweek.com/id/161204/page/2\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.newsweek.com/id/161204/page/2</a><br><blockquote><i>Can we now admit the obvious? Sarah Palin is utterly unqualified to be vice president. She is a feisty, charismatic politician who has done some good things in Alaska. But she has never spent a day thinking about any important national or international issue, and this is a hell of a time to start. The next administration is going to face a set of challenges unlike any in recent memory.</i></blockquote>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_18:30:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2666816": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Teacher:  Ya mean dey lyin'???  Say it isn't so!  :&gt;)<br><br>Obama-Biden  '08!!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-28_00:02:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2666665, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2660162": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "val:  The purpose of debate is to score points by delivering information; NOtTjust RAMBLING/BABBLING INCOHERENTLY.  Up 'til this time, that is all she has done.<br><br>I wish I could review ANY tape that shows that she has moved from Point A to conclusion - COHERENTLY!  :&gt;)<br><br>Thanks for this information.  :&gt;)<br><br>Obama-Biden '08!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_14:43:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2659449, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2655043": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I posted this in an older thread a little while ago but I'm liking my theory so posting here...<br><br>Remember the whole \"New Coke\" campaign? Years ago Coke replaced their traditional recipe with a new version, spending tons of money on the marketing of the product.  By the time it was on shelves everyone was excited about it.  Turns out it wasn't  very good.  The world wanted the old Coke back so it was repackaged as Coke Classic and launched with amazing results.<br><br>Maybe that's the strategy here. Introduce Palin as the new flavor, packaged nicely and surrounded by a lot of excitement .  When she fails miserably it will have conservatives begging for a good old fashioned Republican like Romney or Huckabee.  They then dump her, add one of them to the ticket and people come out in droves to support the decision.<br><br>To this day the New Coke strategy is seen a big success as it renewed interest in Coke Classic.  I wonder if the McCain camp is smart enough to copy this strategy.  If they are then this could be a huge political coop.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_02:12:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 18, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2656585": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Too Little Too Late. SEC chr Cox says derugulation didn't work. Bookmark this for all the trolls that say look n@##$%^ did it<br><a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/27/business/27sec.html?_r=1&oref=slogin\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/27/business/27se...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_09:22:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "RobM", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2666831": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Lilytiger:  Good post!!  <i>Slowly, slowly. . . </i>   Amen!!  :&gt;)<br><br>Obama-Biden '08!!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-28_00:06:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2666389, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2656081": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyriah:  According to the writer -  Errybody says so. . :<br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-bergmann/mccains-reckless-response_b_129782.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-bergmann/mcca...</a><br><b>McCain's Reckless Response to Russia</b><br><br><i>In response to the Russia crisis McCain was seen widely as reckless in his condemnation of Russia. Kissinger said last week that \"We have to face the fact that the first shot in Georgia was fired on the Georgian side.\" The funny thing in McCain's Russia answer is that he demonstrated the very reckless behavior that people have accused him of. He recited his over-used \"KGB\" line that when he looks into Putin's soul he sees the letters K-G-B.  Clever line that completely screws us with any future relationship with Russia. Which hey, three Republican Secretaries of State (Kissinger, Powell, and Baker) say is incredibly important and not worth sacrificing for a border conflict in the Caucuses. McCain's priorities are completely off base and his over-the-top rhetoric which was on display only makes the possibility of a new Cold War all the more likely.</i>   THERE IS MUCH MORE!<br><br>Obama-Biden  '08!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_07:39:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2664787": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I didn't see this on the news....<br><br>Bailout protests spread, thousands swarm across Golden Gate Bridge demanding healthcare<br><a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/27/132337/469/376/611868\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/27/132337/...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_18:34:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2666665": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.fedupusa.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.fedupusa.com/</a><br><br>Welcome to the Con of the Century!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_23:31:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "4d9312cd58c7caeb087835daea9d59b6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2666556, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2666842": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Applicable:<br><br>\"I dont know what the key to success is, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.\"<br>-Bill Cosby", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-28_00:07:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "nickwah22", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2656911": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I want mine, and I need an XL cause I have a big pair of...sistas.  LOL", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_10:06:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2656109, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2658143": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "In what respect was that wrong, JJai?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_12:16:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2657696, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2656099": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Folks, we are really outta gas in Atlanta - the whole freaking metro area. Through my network of friends and acquaintances, I managed to locate a gas station with only Super available - so I had to fill up of course. I was fortunate, I managed to make it there, passed by 4 cars that were not so lucky. This. Is. Ridiculous.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_07:43:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2664293": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm not sure it was intentionally.  He was recalling so much of the past that I wonder if he just slipped a bit.  I was waiting for someone to pounce on it as a senior moment and when they didn't I wondered if I was having the senior moment - lol!<br>I think maybe he just slipped, when you are speaking extemporaneously like that sometimes you have a little slippage.  I just thought it was one of the more obvious errors I had heard.  You know, aside from the outright lies and misrepresentations  of Obama's positions.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_18:00:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "bajanlady", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2660352, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2657129": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I don't know. They say Huck won something like 30 to 40% of the black vote in his gubernatorial bid?!?!? Meaning he actually talked to black folks.<br><br>I also think he is less hateful. Plus, he will throw in some bible verses which will feed right in to the \"Evangelical\" Christian demographic. <br><br>I will tell you he was hating on McCain saying the campaign suspension was a mistake and that it would be a mistake for him to miss the debate. He definitely was not on the Republican message.<br><br>Anyway if only in style he is pretty different from Hannity and O'Reilly. Which may be prove ineffective since that is not the traditional succesful Fox model.<br><br>Just my 2 cents...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_10:29:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "JJai", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2656794, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2656619": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Nothing wrong with saying your opponent is right about few things even if he is wrong 90% of the  time. We have been brainwashed by Bush and Fox that we have to see people either as with us  or against us.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_09:26:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "514ece7311946709a77d340a35a81d09", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2656553, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2657645": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Obama looks very presidential.  I hope that more and more people appreciate that.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_11:32:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "3f009d72559f51e7e454b16e5d0687a1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2656622": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"....BUT here's where we disagree.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_09:27:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "b8b9328e61e0094ae18e247c922f9dc7", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2656553, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2663972": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "What's the link...I can' find them and its killing me! I wanna see!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_17:16:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2657658, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2658281": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Such as....", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_12:31:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "60266805bc0d9559a62514e1e769b750", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2658143, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2656120": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "rikyrah:  Speaking of Huckabee - - - -<br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/26/mike-huckabees-fox-news-s_n_129525.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/26/mike-h...</a><br><b>Mike Huckabee's Fox News Show To Debut This Weekend.  . </b><br><br><i>LITTLE ROCK, Ark. \u2014 Heeeere's Huckabee.<br><br>Former Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee announced on his Web site that he has a new show debuting 8 p.m. EDT Saturday and Sunday on the Fox News Channel.<br><br>The show is simply titled \"Huckabee,\" he said.<br><br>\"I'm sure the name will make it easy for all of you to find it,\" Huckabee wrote on his political action committee's blog.<br><br>Fox News Channel spokesman Richard White said that Huckabee's new show would air on the channel but referred all questions about the show to Huckabee's agent.</i><br><br>Hmmmmm!<br><br><br>Obama-Biden '08!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_07:48:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2655209, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2655380": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  Took a little \"Field Trip\" to <i>The Mudflats</i>:  Their \"new format\" is great!  :&gt;)<br><br><a href=\"http://www.themudflats.net/2008/09/26/mccain-camp-realizes-palin-is-clueless/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.themudflats.net/2008/09/26/mccain-ca...</a><br><b>McCain Camp Realizes Palin Is Clueless</b><br><br>The McCain campaign, just like Dorothy and her friends in The Wizard of Oz, has now realized that the giant, intimidating glowing head they believed to be \u201cThe Great and Powerful Palin\u201d, is actually the little pudgy man standing behind the curtain, pulling all those levers. Hey\u2026.that guy kind of looks like Karl Rove!<br><br>Schultz went on to say this morning on air, that Palin\u2019s performance in the mock debate was SO bad, they stopped it right in the middle and didn\u2019t even bother to go on.<br><br>SKIP<br><br>And for the first time, I\u2019ve been hearing people in  Alaska asking, \u201cWhat\u2019s going to happen when she gets back here after the election?\u201d  Her reception will be frostier than the last one, I have a feeling.</i><br><br>As I have stated B4, they are all on it!!   :&gt;)<br><br>Obama-Biden  '08!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_03:34:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2657658": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Hey everybody \"This Week with Barack Obama\" has a flicker slide show from last night with the Obamas.<br><br>The pics are sooo cute showing Michelle and Barack sharing a little kiss in backstage, plus him with his eyes closed as he hugged her on stage. Do not miss these photos!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_11:33:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "JJai", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2657579, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2664318": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yeah - McSame was a frequent flyer in the way back machine last nite.  I just wondered if he had some slippage and got his eras mixed up last nite.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_18:02:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "bajanlady", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2664082, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2666389": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "On another site I frequent which is not a political site but has a thread for it, there is a lot of talk about the disrespect McCain showed Obama. This is from mainly white middle aged women. They are coming around to a deep dislike to McCain and admiration of how well Barack is handling himself. One poster even noted that it may be difficult for Barack to show his anger, \"'cause he's black and that may not go over too well.\" Slowly, slowly information is sinking in.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_22:48:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "Lilytiger", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2665936, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2656640": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I love that they can't so crap. Letterman owns his show, lock, stock and barrel. He gives CBS the right to broadcast it, but he's his own man..LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_09:29:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2656162, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2663659": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "..I agree with Craig, this is great!<br><br>...hehe...it's like your kids first day at preschool isn't it?   I was so wound up initially, I missed most of what was said.   I watched the re-runs and was surprised at how much I didn't notice the first time around.<br><br>Obama did great.   Yes, there were one liners he could have given...but I'm satisfied.<br><br>The minimum he needed was to not LOSE on McCain's \"turf\"....mission accomplished.    But, he went even further...he was likeable, clearly knowledgeable, gracious and seemed to care about America.   So, he did better than the minimum!<br><br>Barack always exceeds the expectations of those who demean him; but, they never learn.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_16:45:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2660613, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2657668": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Kenyaw,<br><br>I love the way he handles her. It's so loving & tender! Wow!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_11:34:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "8b4edfeff97a04858d7247b03c0d0fd8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2656690, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2656646": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I keep on asking this, and nobody can give me an answer on Senator Country Last.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_09:29:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2656139, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2666887": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I read his refusal to look @ Barack as contempt as well as arrogance. He does feel that he is vastly superior to Barack as well as the overwhelming majority of americans. McCain is an asshole, and he is living up to his reputation as an asshole and a mean spirited, abusive person.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-28_00:16:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "4d9312cd58c7caeb087835daea9d59b6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2665936, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2657160": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Don't be surprised if Sarah Palin \"wins\" next week. Expectations for her are so low, she could show up, sing the alphabet, and \"win\" the debate.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_10:33:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anderkoo", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2656139, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2656137": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Anovelista:  I'm agreeing with you!  They both are the \"great white hopes!\"  :&gt;)<br><br><br>Obama-Biden  '08!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_07:52:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2655097, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2657674": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Val:  You are in the company of MANY who share your feelings!  :&gt;)<br><br>My first encounter with him was about 6 months ago  - when I started blogging.  And I posted the same question:  \"Whycome\" <b>he's always giving Mr. Obama some <i>advice</i>  - on the air??  Why cain't he call him up and tell him this prescient information?</b><br><br>That's when I got educated by JJP!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>I has seen da light!  Hallelujer! [Madea-style  :&gt;) ]<br><br>Obama-Biden  '08!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_11:35:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2657222, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2656139": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Expectations.<br><br>Mark my word; the networks have lowered expectations for McCain/Palin considerably.  It's perhaps the only reason that last night's debate is being called a \"draw\" (even a win by McCain in some quarters).  <br><br>Someone who's been in the Senate for 25+ years, ought to have the highest expectations imaginable.  So let's be sure and remind our friends in the media, the next time they start taking potshots at Barack for not delivering the \"knockout\" blow at every debate.<br><br>Speaking of expectations; <b>WHERE WAS McCAIN'S FLAG PIN???</b>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_07:52:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "RonnieB", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2660749": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Exquisite.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_15:22:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2660613, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2665873": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "It's got the socialist background in it. That's the only reason why they ran the ad.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_21:36:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2660862, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2718100": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Which means the republicans are interested in their nominee.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-28_17:12:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2666996, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2667758": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "There were protests in Alaska (Anchorage) & Philadelphia, and as TruthSeeker said, \"Wow, still not a peep in the news.\"", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-28_03:52:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "4d9312cd58c7caeb087835daea9d59b6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2664900, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2660760": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hear, hear.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_15:23:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2660521, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2666735": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "According to John King they were mostly Democrats - 57 millions Democrats.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_23:43:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2665695, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2665542": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Don't Forget Haiti!<br><br>If you aren't tapped out from donating to Obama, worried about your diminishing 401K, and gas prices (when you can find it Miranda) aren't breaking the bank then you might consider donating to this org I found called Hope for Haiti (<a href=\"http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=10397\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=s...</a>). I made a donation and in my thank you letter they noted that during this dramatic crisis 100% of your donation will go directly to those in need. <br><br><a href=\"http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/wfp-executive-director-surveys-hurricane/story.aspx?guid=%257BB7945D05-C0E7-4181-967A-AA5728E047DB%257D&dist=hppr\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/wfp-execu...</a><br><br>Ala, Russell Simmons God Bless You and Good Night, JJP!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_20:38:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "JJai", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2657182": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I know Michelle cinched the deal for me. I know they say the VP pick is the first real decision that the candidate makes. I am not so sure.<br><br>I think when he chose Michelle his character was revealed in a more profound way than when he selected Biden.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_10:36:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "JJai", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2657032, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2657696": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "When I saw these comments on Jonathan Martin's blog all I could say is....<br>WHAT THE PUCK!<br><br>\"Palin entered the bar after the press pool was pre-positioned in the rear of the venue. Donning a red Phillies jacket that was purchased for her earlier in the day, Palin came in to a loud roar, and the bar quickly descended into a mob scene. She was dressed casually, wearing jeans, a brown leather belt with a leopard-print buckle, and a white t-shirt underneath the Phillies jacket that read \"SARAHCUDA<br><br>and another part was pretty interesting; but no mention of TODD. Is there trouble because of the Enquirer article?<br><br>About 300 protesters had gathered outside the event, loudly chanting \"Obama! Obama!\" Some set off flares. Your pooler has covered Palin since Aug. 29th, and this was one of the largest, rowdiest group of protesters I have seen so far. <br><br>Some of the protester signs included: <br><br>\"McSame/Failin'\" <br><br>\"Hey Hockey Mom -- keep the puck out of PA\" <br><br>\"Just like Bush in lipstick\" <br><br><a href=\"http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0908/Where_was_Sarah_Palin_last_night_you_ask.html?showall\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/09...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_11:38:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "JJai", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2656162": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "rikyrah:  Oooooo!  They MAD!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)   So!<br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/26/cbs-news-executives-aggra_n_129531.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/26/cbs-ne...</a><br><b>ABC News Executives 'Aggravated' By Letterman's Use of Internal News Feed</b><br><br><i>David Letterman vaulted himself into the headlines this week by mocking John McCain for canceling an appearance on his show only to show up on the CBS \"Evening News\" with Katie Couric. And in a classic stunt, Letterman showed the internal CBS News feed on his show to demonstrate McCain's hypocrisy.<br><br>SKIP<br><br>But several CBS News executives - who asked not to be identified - said that the stunt did not go down well within the news division.<br><br><br>\"If we had done something like that to him, someone around here would end up getting fired,\" one said.<br><br>SKIP<br><br>\"But they were not about to start a fight with Letterman,\" the source said. \"We're in the middle of a heavy, heavy news cycle and Letterman is Letterman.</i><br><br>And dat be dat!!  :&gt;)<br><br>Obama-Biden '08!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_08:00:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2665891": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "We're being played.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_21:38:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2661044, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2658374": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Me, too, CPL.  I'm voting for that First Family as new Americana.  I get the chill when I see the world papers having to pay attention to a black family on the front pages.  It stunts a lot of their preconceptions on black humanity.   I'm talking particularly about the so-called developed world.  We underestimate their state of mind with respect to deep-seated pigmentocracy that still thrives.  <br><br>Once, in a graduate classroom in Spain, my professor said, without racist intent, \"black people are like crocodiles in the zoo.  They've been fed free so long that they don't know how to work.\"  I was the only black, only American in the room  ...He was shocked to learn in that same class that most of the \"crocodiles\" in my country weren't black.  Barack/Michelle is a fundamental part of the reeducation of the world's educated folk. <br><br>For different reasons in media and personal choice, most famous black figures don't show up as black couple, black family.  I'm not anti-marrywhoyouwanna (ain't my bus. who you marry), but when black on black love happens, I am distinctly glad to see it taking world stage.  Our kids will be better for that.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_12:39:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "hustleandfloe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2663847": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "McCain Called Bin Laden a 'Freedom Fighter' in Debate<br><a href=\"http://newsone.com/elections/article/mccain-called-bin-laden-a-freedom-fighters\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://newsone.com/elections/article/mccain-cal...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_16:59:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "BarackMarley", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2656682": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "it's the disrespect of Obama that people have noted", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_09:33:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2655946, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2656171": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "RonnieB:  Remember - - He has the \"white gene!\"  <b>DOUBLE STANDARDS!</b>:&gt;)<br><br>Obama-Biden '08!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_08:02:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2656139, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2656174": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Miranda:  Relieved that you found some gas!  Otherwise, ---continued <b>HEAD BOW</b><br><br>Obama-Biden '08!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_08:04:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2656099, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2657713": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<b>CPL/Rikyrah: </b> OOOOO-eee!  Just the mention of his name and <b>it's on!!</b>  LOL!      :&gt;)<br><br>Y'all R  funny!!  :&gt;)     :&gt;)<br><br>Love me some JJP!!!   :&gt;)<br><br><br>Obama-Biden '08!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_11:41:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2657553, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2656690": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Ya'll have me tearing up early this morning. <br>That pic is breathtaking. He was so releaved to see her.  I don't think that he exagerates when he says that she is rock. He loves that black women.<br>And I heart her too. They are great.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_09:33:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "kenyaw", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2654926, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2657204": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "McCain would never select him now that Huck said the \"suspension\" was unwise and so would the choice to skip the debate.<br><br>I don't think McCain and Huck can stand each other!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_10:39:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "JJai", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2657001, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2664878": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "OMG!!  Send Sarah Home Protest in Alaska.  Looks like a lynching.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs1RMQl8wMQ&eurl=http\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs1RMQl8wMQ&eurl...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_18:48:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2657212": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Michelle is supposed to speak at FAMU today.  In preparation for MO's visit, my daughter volunteered to staff the event and noted how admired Michelle and considered her role model -- someone who inspires her.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_10:40:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "Nquest", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2657032, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2656702": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "you know that the video keeps on popping up. This is the internet, and enterprising people keep on making sure that it gets out", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_09:35:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2655507, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2665461": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The FBI might wana start profiling Alfred and Ethan instead of just Mohammed and Abdul.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_20:22:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2665042, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2657217": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I'm right there with you....Michelle Obama tells me everything I need to know about Barack.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_10:41:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2657182, "depth": 3, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2657428": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "S, I see D shook you from his coattails and you can't hide your troll infection anymore.<br><br>Get a life, now that you have been exposed as the troll you really are.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_11:09:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2656553, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2656707": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I know. Halperin is such a tool", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_09:35:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2656030, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2665412": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "me too, Val. I rep for Jesus (smile)<br><br>A commenter on Black Snob who also has the pics now, notes that he held her hand close to his body to either protect her or just have her close to him. I was like, hmmm pretty cute.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_20:15:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "JJai", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2664677, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2657222": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I CANNOT STAND HAROLD FORD JR.  He is such an jackass to me.  <br><br>He is so two faced, first he was anti-Obama and now it is as if he is the next best thing to sliced bread.  He comes off as someone who thinks he is sooo important when he is clearly full of crap.<br><br>Is it me?  Maybe it is me.  That jerkoff just rubs me the wrong way.   I wish he would STHU with his \"advice\" to Barack.<br><br>Can't stand him.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_10:42:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 10, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2666890": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "msmartin:  OF COURSE <b>ALL 57 million people </b>reported/telephoned/Blackberry'ed/e-mailed/teletyped/2 cans and a wired/yelled over the back fence/wired/pony expressed HIM ta let HIM know that they were WATCHING!!<br><br>Annnnnd, I have some beach-front property in Colorado that I can sell to you   -  REAL CHEAP!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>John King, go back to your abacus and bring those stats that show that Mr. Obama/Joe Biden are LEADING!!!     <br><br>Obama-Biden '08!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-28_00:17:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2666735, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2656203": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "rikyrah:  Looks like Dr. Rachel is being 'messed' with:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/26/should-msnbc-allow-rachel_n_129602.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/26/should...</a><br><b>Shoul MSNBC Allow Rachel Maddow To Anchor Breaking News Events?</b><br><br><i>Davidson Goldin, former editorial director of MSNBC and a co-founder of the reputation management firm DolceGoldin, told the Times, \"The most disappointing shift is to see the partisan attitude move from prime time into what's supposed to be straight news programming.\"<br><br>So it may have been something of a surprise Wednesday evening \u2014 as it was for Inside Cable News \u2014 to see MSNBC's opinionated darling Rachel Maddow anchoring the coverage of George Bush's primetime address on the financial crisis. From ICN:<br><br>SKIP<br><br>What do you think? Vote in the poll below to settle the question: Should MSNBC allow Rachel Maddow to anchor breaking news events? There are a few videos of Rachel from Wednesday night below the poll to help you make up your mind.</i><br><br>I'm VOTING.  Please consider it.  Thank you.  YES, I like Dr. Rachel.   :&gt;)<br><br>Obama-Biden '08!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_08:13:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2657740": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "CPL,<br><br>Say it!  Go ahead and speak!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_11:42:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "8b4edfeff97a04858d7247b03c0d0fd8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2657553, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2665936": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "They're reading McCain's refusal to look at Barack as contempt.   That works in Barack's favour.   I still say McCain is ashamed of himself.   He was acting like a man who feels very small.   I don't know what it must be like to face his family after the way he's behaved.<br><br>There are many times I wish Barack would rip out McCain's throat.   I see the wisdom now in him stubbornly taking the high road.    Whatever happens, he will be able to go back home to his wife and kids...and face his colleagues in the Senate and hold his head high.  When Sasha & Malia look at election footage when they're older, they'll be proud of their Dad.   Can McCain say the same thing about his kids and grandkids?    What will his grandkids feel...pity?<br><br>As Anderkoo commented....McCain's given up everything and he still may not win(paraphrasing):<br><br>McCain's Angry Debate Disappoints Morning Joe Panel<br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/27/mccains-angry-debate-disa_n_129915.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/27/mccain...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_21:45:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2658260": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Anybody with two brain cells and the ability to calculate should know that there is no way in hell black people are responsible for the failure of the markets.  ARM and the performances of the market and the the fact that these companies were loaning money that they didn't have based on incomes tied to a failing economy is one of many reasons we are where we are now.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_12:29:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2656585, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2659492": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "About the bailout thing, I confess to not being well informed on wall street, bailouts, and the like so I guess you can call me a low-info voter on that.  So take what I'm about to say with a grain of salt.<br><br>Americans hate the bailout right? Well I guess it depends on who you talk to.  It seems to me that if you are one of the Americans whose retirment funds are intertwined with the markets, then if the market fails, then ur retirement is essentially wiped out right?  So if that's the case, I would think that retirees would be the ones who really want the bailout, to \"keep the markets going?\"<br><br>On the other hand, if you are not of retirment age, and you are middle class or lower, then you would probably see the bailout as a copt-out to Washington fatcats, and people who \"got themselves into this mess\".  So you would I guess oppose the bailout.<br><br>I honestly think that the average voter is more fickle than we think.  Yes they may hate the thought of a bailout, but I would place a bet (based on purely antecdotal(?)evidence) that they would hate it more if nothing is done, and more banks like WaMu go under.  Because while the FDIC(?) says that the personal funds of WaMu customers are insured, how much money could the FDIC really match if there are more banks/financial institutions go belly-up.  How soon after that would people be running to withdraw their funds from the respective banks (BTW, I already know of a few friends of mind who are already comtemplating taking their money from WaMu)<br><br>Anyway, I'm probably wrong about this since like McCain, I don't really understand the economy, but this is how it seems to me anyway.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_14:20:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "lamh", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2714587": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The_Black_Snob:  Hey!  :&gt;) - Again!  Long time NO C!  :&gt;)<br><br><i>Slow ya roll, homie.</i><br><br>ABSOLUTELY!  He was so trying ta make it seem as if, \"OF COURSE MOSTLY DEMS WATCHED which EXPLAINS the OBAMA WIN!\"<br><br>No \"homie\"!  Anybody with eyes,  ears and a pulse -Repugs and Dems- could see the \"beat down\" that \"McAncient\" experienced\" BOTH cognitively and with respect to affective/social skills!  :&gt;)<br><br>LAWD HA'Mercy!  That \"white gene\" can make SOME people both DEAF & DUMB [the cognitive kind!]<br><br>Obama-Biden  '08!!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-28_09:42:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2667785, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2656738": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "One more alternative plan from the Big Picture:<br><a href=\"http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2008/09/an-alternative.html#more\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2008/09/...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_09:41:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "RobM", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2655209": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Only possible substitute is Huckabee. I don't see him going for it now.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_02:45:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 9, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2655043, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2659306": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "then wasn't it funny when Madeline Albright posted a blog on Huffpo last night basically stating Obama passed the commander in chief test.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_13:58:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2658020, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2656750": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Tool was the word I wanted to use, but thought that might be over the top. But to be honest, calling him a tool, is mild to what I really think of him and his work", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_09:43:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "Suprk", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2656707, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2665455": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I love your avatar (sp)! looks like a beautiful destination", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_20:21:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "nickwah22", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2665215, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2665968": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/27/palin-takes-questions-during-cheesesteak-run/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/27...</a><br><br>September 27, 2008<br>Palin takes questions during cheesesteak run<br>Posted: 09:19 PM ET<br><br>From CNN Political Producer Peter Hamby<br><br> <br>Sarah Palin and her daughter Willow ordered cheesestakes in South Philadelphia Saturday.<br>PHILADELPHIA (CNN) \u2013 Sarah Palin partook in an established political ritual on Saturday night when she headed to Tony Luke's in south Philadelphia to order a pair of cheesesteaks with whiz and onions.<br><br>But as the kitchen sizzled and orders were barked out, Palin found herself talking politics, calling McCain's debate performance \"awesome\" and taking questions from a voter about the hunt for terrorists in Pakistan.<br><br>While waiting in line with her daughter Willow to place her order, a reporter asked Palin if she watched Friday's debate, and what her impressions were.<br><br>\"I did, I did,\" she said. \"McCain did awesome. He was great. He was absolutely on his game.\"<br><br>Palin added that she is ready to debate Joe Biden next Thursday in St. Louis.<br><br>\"I am,\" she said. \"Look forward to it. Look forward to getting to speak to Americans through that debate, absolutely.\"<br><br>The governor got a more serious interrogation moments later when Temple graduate student Michael Rovito approached her to inquire about Pakistan.<br><br>\"How about the Pakistan situation?,\" asked Rovito, who said he was not a Palin supporter. \"What's your thoughts about that?\"<br><br>\"In Pakistan?,\" she asked, looking surprised.<br><br><br>\"What's going on over there, like Waziristan?\"<br><br>\"It's working with [Pakistani president] Zardari to make sure that we're all working together to stop the guys from coming in over the border,\" she told him. \"And we'll go from there.\"<br><br>Rovito wasn't finished. \"Waziristan is blowing up!,\" he said.<br><br>\"Yeah it is,\" Palin said, \"and the economy there is blowing up too.\"<br><br>\"So we do cross border, like from Afghanistan to Pakistan you think?,\" Rovito asked.<br><br>\"If that's what we have to do stop the terrorists from coming any further in, absolutely, we should,\" Palin responded, before moving on to greet other voters.<br><br>Palin ordered the two sandwiches, but the managers refused to let her pay, so she slipped a bill into their tip jar. She did not chow down at the restaurant, opting instead to take the food with her in the motorcade.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_21:48:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2666996": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "John King said that the polls were favorable for Obama because mostly Democrats were watching the debate.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-28_00:35:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2666813, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2660862": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Check out the <a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/27/the-most-stupidest-mccain_n_129840.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">new McCain ad</a>.<br><br>Comedy gold, people.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_15:35:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2661033": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I wonder what a Bush administration's FBI investigation will lead to.  Instead of calling for a commission, McCain should have been encouraging the FBI to go all out in conducting the most extensive investigation they can, overtime a plenty, to determine if there was any criminal wrongdoing and demanding that any and everyone found to have a hand in illegal financial deals be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.  That's when and where McCain should have said, \"I will make them famous and you will know their names.\"<br><br>While I'm on what McCain 'should' do...  The MSM should hold McCain accountable and judge him by whether he shows that he cares about working-class Whites.  To hell with those same DOUBLE STANDARDS they (I'm talking about Chris Matthews and racist Pat Buchanan in particular) tried to apply to Obama in the primaries.<br><br>If them dumb mf's (working class Whites) can't weed through McCain's patronizing \"low taxes\" bs and see that those of them making $60K or less will receive 3 times the tax relief if Obama has his druthers... Well, F*CK THEM as they go out of the way to f*ck themselves.<br><br>Obama tried to lay out when he talked about all the talk politicians, Republicans and Democrats, have done while those supposedly all important White voters saw and continue to see manufacturing jobs dry up with the preferred ultra-wealthy businesses, etc. get the tax breaks they are always promised but never see.<br><br>The choice is there's and Obama can do nothing about the racist ones (yes, Chris) and, likewise, those who pretend to be undecided or fake like John SEVEN HOUSE McCain has something more in common with them and understands them better than Obama does when Obama has shown in ways McCain never has.  Political pandering doesn't count.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_15:56:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "Nquest", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2660521, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2655227": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I was really hoping you'd do this with that picture :)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_02:50:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "4ec3c0272b87ba5c8ce3a9168cf4e78a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2659836": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "And don't forget that his production company has produced some successful shows like \"Everybody Loves Raymond,\" so the man has some serious juice in the industry.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_14:39:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2656640, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2656766": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I've already said if McCain forces Palin to step down, or suspends his campaign, you might as well award the election to Obama, by default of John McCain.<br><br>I'd like to see Obama win or lose on the merits, but with McCain in it, merit is in short supply.<br><br>Rock, meet HARD PLACE.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_09:46:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2655245, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2665471": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Devastating Video. <br><br><b>Obama Is Right: McCain Was Wrong</b><br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xG1aOORf8Pc\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xG1aOORf8Pc</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-27_20:25:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "Suprk", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}}, "integration": {"receiver_url": "", "theme": 4, "reply_position": true, "disqus_logo": false}, "timer": {"timer_url": "http://localhost:8005", "thread_id": "5062533", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "21630", "hash": -4082037821400485471}, "thread": {"days_alive": 0, "slug": "saturday_open_thread_20", "paginate": false, "num_pages": 1, "num_posts": 241, "per_page": 0, "total_posts": 0, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 5062533, "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"};
	/* */ this.jsonData.cookie_messages = {"user_created": null, "post_has_profile": null, "post_twitter": null, "post_not_approved": null}; this.jsonData.session = {"url": null, "name": null, "email": null}; /* */

	
	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=saturday_open_thread_20' +
		'&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/saturday_open_thread_20/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='	+ 'saturday_open_thread_20'
			+ '&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/saturday_open_thread_20/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">241</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/saturday_open_thread_20/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/saturday_open_thread_20/">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:5062533" 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/saturday_open_thread_20/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:5062533" 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:5062533" 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'				: 'saturday_open_thread_20',
			// 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/saturday_open_thread_20/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='	+ 'saturday_open_thread_20'
			+ '&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='	+ 'saturday_open_thread_20'
			+ '&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='		+ 'saturday_open_thread_20'
				+ '&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/5062533/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-2666644">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2666644" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2666644" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2666644">TruthSeeker</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2666644" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2666644" class="dsq-comment-message">Dana Bash just said the McCain campaign internally is terrified of being connected to Bush.   She said McCain didn\'t say Bush at the RNC but when he said \'the President\' the focus group graphs for everybody went down.<br><br>Now, if you think this whole bailout fiasco is a trick to associate Dems with Bush, while McCain opposes the plan...you can see how it doesn\'t bode well for Dems to be seen as siding with Bush.   They may oppose his bill, but they\'re not doing enough public relations in letting the public know.    They speak almost respectfully of Bush, Bernacke and Paulson and make it look like they support them.   They\'re not letting the public know they\'re fighting to make wall st. accountable.    Sometimes it\'s more important how things look.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2666192">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2666192" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2666192" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2666192">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2666192" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2666192" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  Re: that pic.  I\'m PRETENDING that that is the back of my head!!  :&gt;)<br><br>Back to the "air conditioner!"   :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>Obama-Biden \'08!!</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2666521">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2666521" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2666521" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2666521">obamafan</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2666521" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2666521" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MDZiMDhjYTU1NmI5Y2MwZjg2MWNiMWMyYTUxZDkwNTE=" rel="nofollow">http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MDZiMDhjYT...</a><br><br>the conservatives are now turning on Palin. calling for her to drop out "for her country". <br><br>Obama 08</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2666785">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2666785" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2666785" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2666785">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2666785" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2666785" class="dsq-comment-message">obamafan:  Hey!  :&gt;)  There were sooo many "cutting lines" in her article!  I\'ve got BAND AIDS all over me!!  :&gt;)<br><br>Here\'s one of my favs:  <br><br><i>She repeats words; filling spaces with deadwood!</i><br><br>OF COURSE, there is a SONG!!  :&gt;)  Presenting . . . . <br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm0enKitJ3w" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm0enKitJ3w</a><br><b>Talking Loud And Saying Nothing  - - James Brown and the JB\'s</b><br><br>I\'m just saying. . . . . .<br><br><br>Obama-Biden \'08!!!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2660613">T</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2660613" class="dsq-comment-message">I was wound up tighter than guitar strings as it approached the 9p hour last night. I just kept walking back and forth in front of the television set. My mind was a maelstrom of activity. Remember to get the pronunciation of the foreign leaders names correct. Don\'t mix up leaders and countries. Hope your surge argument is tight, coherent \'cause ya know he\'s gonna try to get at you with that one. Russia/Georgia - check. What if Pakistan is unable or unwilling to go after Bin Laden if he\'s inside their borders? Iran. Preconditions vs. Preparation. Then I stopped in my tracks. Oh yeah, the bailout. How will your budget take into account this 700b? How can you make people know that you feel their pain without sounding like a panderer? <br><br>Yes, people, that was me at my schizo best last night. But, like an ice-cold stick of fat that\'s been set down in a hot pan, slowly releasing its buttery goodness, I too, slowly unwound. About 2 minutes in, I realized that I was sitting, but at the edge of the seat. How did I get here? Not sure. Doesn\'t matter. 10 minutes in, I was reclining. OK. Good sign? 15 minutes, my feet were curled up and I was hugging a big pillow. Yeah, everything\'s gonna be alright. It was as much about his cogent articulation of his positions as it was about his posture. Shoulders back. Relaxed. Head Up. Confident. Eyes Engaged. Steady. Subliminally, the message was, "Relax, y\'all, I got this shit covered..." <br><br>The mission was clear: get the job done without overdoing it or look like you are trying too hard to impress. Where McBush was condescending - unwilling to acknowledge his younger foe\'s accomplishments, Obama was gracious - giving his opponent credit when it was due. Where McBush appeared petulant and angry - refusing to engage his opponent directly, Obama was likeable and respectful - turning to the older man and addressing him as a venerable colleague. Where McBush focused on quantity to highlight his experience - listing off his laundry list of foreign travel, Obama relied on quality to highlight his judgement - his opposition of the Iraq war etc.,<br><br>Before last night\'s debate performance there were those who doubted Obama\'s facility with the intricate machinations of foreign policy;  those who misunderstood his cool in the face of obvious contempt; those who questioned his compassion for the plight of many suffering American families;  those who denigrated his penchant for nuance on a variety of complex issues facing this nation. But at 10.30p, those people were silenced. He stood on equal footing with McBush on issue after issue and didn\'t, ummm, blink. <br><br>There are a few opportunities that I think he missed. 1) McBush loves the vets so much so that he didn\'t even show up to vote for the GI Bill. 2)The opportunity to really nail McBush on the surge, so that\'s over what do we do now? Biden tidied that up in the spin zone after the debate(btw, Biden was in fine form last night). 3)Obama shouldn\'t have bothered with the back-and-forth over what Kissinger said/meant or didn\'t. I think he should have punctuated that segment by saying something like this,"Regardless of what you think Kissinger meant, I, in the capacity of President of the United States will be willing to meet with blah, blah if it\'s in the best interest of the nation\'s security." 4)On excessive spending, whenever McBush mentions anything about bear DNA again, remind him of his running mate\'s seal DNA bullshit up in Alaska. 5)Pakistan as a failed state at the time of the coup, etc. (I may have more comments after re-watching this on Sunday.)<br><br>Listen, It wasn\'t like Obama was firing from all cylinders last night, guns ablazin\'.  Cruise control was more like it. And in that mode, he systematically destroyed all the caricatures of him that he was not conversant with foreign policy, which had been built up over many months. I would not want to see him all fired up. And, I suspect, that today, neither does John McBush.<br><br>Bravo, Senator Obama.<br><br>T.<br>ps. Oh, and when Miss Michelle appeared on stage, my night was complete.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2660749" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2660749" class="dsq-comment-message">Exquisite.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2663659" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2663659">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2663659" class="dsq-comment-message">..I agree with Craig, this is great!<br><br>...hehe...it\'s like your kids first day at preschool isn\'t it?   I was so wound up initially, I missed most of what was said.   I watched the re-runs and was surprised at how much I didn\'t notice the first time around.<br><br>Obama did great.   Yes, there were one liners he could have given...but I\'m satisfied.<br><br>The minimum he needed was to not LOSE on McCain\'s "turf"....mission accomplished.    But, he went even further...he was likeable, clearly knowledgeable, gracious and seemed to care about America.   So, he did better than the minimum!<br><br>Barack always exceeds the expectations of those who demean him; but, they never learn.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2664199">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2664199" class="dsq-comment-message">I have to agree with you.<br><br>Last night was the debate concerning the ONLY area where McAncient consistently outpollls Barack.<br><br>And what did Barack do?<br><br>He more than held his own. <br>More than held his own.<br><br>Looked Presidential, while Senator Country Last looked like a petty petty man. <br><br>McCain\'s performance played to the GOP base.<br><br>Barack\'s performance played to Independents.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2659077">lamh32</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2659077" class="dsq-comment-message">Ya\'ll gotta watch this clip from Bill Maher last night.  TaNeishi Coates at the Atlantic just posted it.  No matter how you feel about Bill Maher (I like him some) his final comment was so on point.<br><br>Check it out:<br><a href="http://ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/09/great_great_race_humor.php#commentss" rel="nofollow">Great Race Humor</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2658020">bajanlady</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2658020" class="dsq-comment-message">The one thing that is still puzzling me about the debate that I haven\'t seen any blog or media discuss is McCain\'s puzzling reference to Madeline Albright.  When they were discussing diplomacy and meeting without pre-conditions, Obama said something about Bush\'s refeusal to speak with teh Axis of Evil.  McCain then responded with a denial that the Bush admin doesn\'t do diplomacy and pointed out the meeting with North Korea.  He then referenced Secretary of State Madeline Albright meeting with North Korea.<br><br>Now I know Madeline Albright was once Secretary of State, under Clinton , and did meet with North Korea.  But in the context of what was being said shouldn\'t he be referring to Sec. of State RICE and her meeting with North Korea?  What does Clinton\'s Secretary of State have to do with redeeming the Bush policy of the silent treatment?<br><br>Did anyone else catch this or was it just me?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2659306">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2659306" class="dsq-comment-message">then wasn\'t it funny when Madeline Albright posted a blog on Huffpo last night basically stating Obama passed the commander in chief test.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2660352" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2660352" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2660352" class="dsq-comment-message">What do you think the intent was?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2664293" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2664293">bajanlady</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2664293" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m not sure it was intentionally.  He was recalling so much of the past that I wonder if he just slipped a bit.  I was waiting for someone to pounce on it as a senior moment and when they didn\'t I wondered if I was having the senior moment - lol!<br>I think maybe he just slipped, when you are speaking extemporaneously like that sometimes you have a little slippage.  I just thought it was one of the more obvious errors I had heard.  You know, aside from the outright lies and misrepresentations  of Obama\'s positions.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2664082">Michelle</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2664082" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>McCain\'s puzzling reference to Madeline Albright.</i><br><br>I didn\'t notice that but did notice him referring to Ed Schultz as secretary of state at one point (am I remembering right).<br><br>Don\'t know if that is connected.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2664318">bajanlady</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2664318" class="dsq-comment-message">Yeah - McSame was a frequent flyer in the way back machine last nite.  I just wondered if he had some slippage and got his eras mixed up last nite.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2658066">lamh32</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2658066" class="dsq-comment-message">Here\'s why I think Obama won last night, despite what the Obama-haters think, I truly believe that many people WANT to like Barack Obama, the fact is that Obama consistently is viewed as a nice guy, but some undecided were still wary of Obama.  Yes some of it is race, some of it class, some wonder is he "ready to lead" ya know the whole C-I-C thing.  McCain may have won the debate on points, but the voters aren\'t scoring them on points, it\'s all about perceptions to non-pol voters. And I would say that on the stylistic or "perception" front, Obama won hands down.  McCain just seemed too condescending and insulting towards Obama, not in a policy-oriented fasion, but on a personal level.  Seriously, McCain refused to even look at Obama.<br><br>People tend to like nice guys and with the majority of the country pissed about the economy, and pissed at the Bush Administration, it\'s not surprising to me that people want a change, and no matter how "maviericky" McCain may be, you just don\'t "see" change when you look at him.  He may not be perceived as the "typical" republican, but he is still the Republican, and while McCain\'s campaign tactics can guide the media narrative, it don\'t change the fact that a majority of the country want the Repubs out of power</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2657473">Martin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2657473" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m so proud of Barack!  Why did it seem to get lost in the mix that Ole Miss was forcibly integrated less than 50 years ago.  I was overcome at the beginning of the debate.  It was just such a momentous, historic, iconic image.  Go Barack!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2657502">Texas_Girl_in_LA</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2657502" class="dsq-comment-message">Today\'s Schedule:<br><br>Saturday, September 27<br><br>   * <br>         o 11:00 am <br>         o Michelle Obama holds a voter registration rally in Tallahassee, Florida <br>   * <br>         o 12:15 pm <br>         o Barack Obama and Joe Biden hold a rally in Greensborough, North Carolina <br>   * <br>         o 12:45 pm <br>         o Hillary Clinton hosts a "Change We Need" rally in Grand Ledge, Michigan <br>   * <br>         o 3:30 pm <br>         o Hillary Clinton hosts a "Change We Need" rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan <br>   * <br>         o 6:30 pm <br>         o Barack Obama and Joe Biden hold a rally in Fredericksburg, Virginia <br>         o Hillary Clinton hosts a "Change We Need" rally in Flint, Michigan <br>   * <br>         o Evening <br>         <b>o Barack Obama delivers remarks at the 38th Annual Congressional Black Caucus Legislative Conference in Washington, D.C.</b></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2657645">babyming</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2657645" class="dsq-comment-message">Obama looks very presidential.  I hope that more and more people appreciate that.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2659058">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2659058" class="dsq-comment-message">babyming:  TRUE DAT!!  :&gt;)<br><br>Obama-Biden  \'08!!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2656818">Suprk</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2656818" class="dsq-comment-message">Not sure if this link has been dropped yet or not. <a href="http://FiveThirtyEight.com" rel="nofollow">FiveThirtyEight.com</a> has a good writ up on the debate. <br><br><b>Why Voters Thought Obama Won</b><br><a href="http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/09/why-voters-thought-obama-won.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/09/why-vote...</a><br><br>A brief portion of what was written:<br><br>TPM has the internals of the CNN poll of debate-watchers, which had Obama winning overall by a margin of 51-38. The poll suggests that Obama is opening up a gap on connectedness, while closing a gap on readiness.<br><br>Specifically, by a 62-32 margin, voters thought that Obama was “more in touch with the needs and problems of people like you”. This is a gap that has no doubt grown because of the financial crisis of recent days. But it also grew because Obama was actually speaking to middle class voters. Per the transcript, McCain never once mentioned the phrase “middle class” (Obama did so three times). And Obama’s eye contact was directly with the camera, i.e. the voters at home. McCain seemed to be speaking literally to the people in the room in Mississippi, but figuratively to the punditry. It is no surprise that a small majority of pundits seemed to have thought that McCain won, even when the polls indicated otherwise; the pundits were his target audience.<br><br>Something as simple as Obama mentioning that he’ll cut taxes for “95 percent of working families” is worth, I would guess, a point or so in the national polls. Obama had not been speaking enough about his middle class tax cut; there was some untapped potential there, and Obama may have gotten the message to sink in tonight</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2656856" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2656856" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2656856" class="dsq-comment-message">And she gives him that "Handle yo\' business, boo; the girls and I will be waiting for ya."<br><br>Chokes me up.  I have to confess, I\'m partially voting for him because of HER.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2657032">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2657032" class="dsq-comment-message">The  Black Snob swears that a good chunk of Obama\'s Black female support is RIDE OR DIE because of MICHELLE.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2657182">JJai</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2657182" class="dsq-comment-message">I know Michelle cinched the deal for me. I know they say the VP pick is the first real decision that the candidate makes. I am not so sure.<br><br>I think when he chose Michelle his character was revealed in a more profound way than when he selected Biden.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2657217">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2657217" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m right there with you....Michelle Obama tells me everything I need to know about Barack.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2659465">MsKitty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2659465" class="dsq-comment-message">Absolutely.  Michelle is going to be one of the best first ladies ever.  I mean look at how many times the media has compared her to Jackie Kennedy, and the election hasn\'t even taken place yet.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2657281">JJai</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2657281" class="dsq-comment-message">exactly.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2657597" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2657597">jelana</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2657597" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m with all of you on this.  She made me take serious notice of Barack!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2657212" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2657212" href="http://nquest2xl.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Nquest</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2657212" class="dsq-comment-message">Michelle is supposed to speak at FAMU today.  In preparation for MO\'s visit, my daughter volunteered to staff the event and noted how admired Michelle and considered her role model -- someone who inspires her.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2657298">JJai</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2657298" class="dsq-comment-message">very cool! I like Jill, too. I bet that will be a nice event.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2657316" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2657316" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2657316">parker404</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2657316" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2657316" class="dsq-comment-message">Yep, Michelle and Jill will be at my alma mater today!  Even though much of the Rattler family is in ATL this weekend for the classic, I am sure there will still be a huge crowd greeting Obama-Biden in Tallahassee.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2657415" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2657415" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2657415" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2657415" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2657415" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree with the Black Snob.  If Michelle wasn\'t a Ride and Die sista, I\'d still be looking cock-eyed at Barack.<br><br>He\'s an attractive guy, and I like \'em tall and slim, but the ears got that "effect" going on that\'s a minimal turn off, LOL.<br><br>Michelle\'s the one who swayed me towards her husband.  I often wish she was the one running - and she really would have handed McCain his ass last night.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2658005" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2658005" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2658005">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2658005" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2658005" class="dsq-comment-message">Not me.  I was behind him before I knew about her.  She and the girls are icing on the cake.  A total package.<br><br>I liked his politics, his intelligence and could tell he would be a good leader, but when I found out that he also married an intelligent black woman that looks like me.....well that resonates with me on a personal level.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2657222" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2657222" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2657222">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2657222" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2657222" class="dsq-comment-message">I CANNOT STAND HAROLD FORD JR.  He is such an jackass to me.  <br><br>He is so two faced, first he was anti-Obama and now it is as if he is the next best thing to sliced bread.  He comes off as someone who thinks he is sooo important when he is clearly full of crap.<br><br>Is it me?  Maybe it is me.  That jerkoff just rubs me the wrong way.   I wish he would STHU with his "advice" to Barack.<br><br>Can\'t stand him.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2657674" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2657674" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2657674">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2657674" class="dsq-comment-message">Val:  You are in the company of MANY who share your feelings!  :&gt;)<br><br>My first encounter with him was about 6 months ago  - when I started blogging.  And I posted the same question:  "Whycome" <b>he\'s always giving Mr. Obama some <i>advice</i>  - on the air??  Why cain\'t he call him up and tell him this prescient information?</b><br><br>That\'s when I got educated by JJP!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>I has seen da light!  Hallelujer! [Madea-style  :&gt;) ]<br><br>Obama-Biden  \'08!!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2657282" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2657282" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2657282">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2657282" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2657282" class="dsq-comment-message">lol<br><br>welcome to the Club</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2657301" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2657301" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2657301">parker404</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2657301" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m just going to put it out there - with that Blonde Barbie wife of his he will NEVER get my vote for anything.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2657458" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2657458" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2657458">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2657458" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2657458" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s not just Snowflake, but how he hid her in the basement during his Senate campaign. I\'ll never get past that.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2657553" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2657553" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2657553" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2657553" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2657553" class="dsq-comment-message">Me, neither, Rikyrah.  As many white cousins as I now have (five) thanks to my male cousins interracially marrying, honestly, white women with brothas cease to be an issue for me.<br><br>What pisses me off is if I\'m seen with a white guy and a brotha leaves his snowflake to get up in my grill about being with a white guy (even though I may or may not be romantically involved with the guy, but the doofus bro doesn\'t bother to find out) - and then I have to clock him about dissing me, but he\'s out with a white woman, and sistas aren\'t supposed to say shyt.<br><br>Brothas, don\'t start none and there won\'t be none.  Y\'all good for the Double Standards, but if you get your shorts in a bunch when I call you out on it, you\'ll just be standing their with your Snowflake and your shorts in a bunch.  What\'s good for the goose and all that...</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2657713" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2657713">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2657713" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2657713" class="dsq-comment-message"><b>CPL/Rikyrah: </b> OOOOO-eee!  Just the mention of his name and <b>it\'s on!!</b>  LOL!      :&gt;)<br><br>Y\'all R  funny!!  :&gt;)     :&gt;)<br><br>Love me some JJP!!!   :&gt;)<br><br><br>Obama-Biden \'08!!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2657740" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2657740" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2657740">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2657740" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2657740" class="dsq-comment-message">CPL,<br><br>Say it!  Go ahead and speak!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2658423" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2658423" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2658423" href="http://www.hustleandfloe.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">hustleandfloe</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2658423" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2658423" class="dsq-comment-message">my bad cpl.  clumsy with the board here.  agreed with you here but posted way up top...  don\'t know how to delete.  will check for that.  thx.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2657515" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2657515" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2657515" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2657515" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2657515" class="dsq-comment-message">He\'s going to get her a tan, dye her hair black and get it kinked up into a natural.<br><br>Then, he\'ll try to pass her off as a sista - but we remember he claimed his own grandmother was a white woman willingly passing for Black during Jim Crow days.  We all know damned well if anyone was light enough to pass for white, they usually did and got the hell out of there, save for those of conscious who couldn\'t do it for selling out their own souls.<br><br>Harold Ford, Jr., has no SOUL.  His actions, past, present and future, demonstrates that sad fact.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2657396" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2657396" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2657396" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2657396" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2657396" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s not you, VAL.<br><br>You\'re just recognizing Harold for the opportunistic hustler that he really is.<br><br>He sees the way the wind is blowing and he doesn\'t want to get left behind; only he got left behind back in 2006.<br><br>And Obama can\'t stand him; and what\'s worse, Harold KNOWS Obama can\'t stand his ass, so he\'d better get out the chapstick and pucker up to apply his lips to Obama\'s ass for the next eight years.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2655920" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2655920" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2655920" href="http://www.brownmanthinkinghard.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Brown Man</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2655920" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2655920" class="dsq-comment-message">I think J Mac is suffering from "electile dysfunction".  Politicians used to be to embarrassed to talk about it, but now there\'s help.<br><br><b>"Are You Suffering From Electile Dysfunction?"</b><br><a href="http://simplifythepositive.blogspot.com/2008/09/are-you-suffering-from-electile.html" rel="nofollow">http://simplifythepositive.blogspot.com/2008/09...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2655983" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2655983" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2655983">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2655983" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2655983" class="dsq-comment-message">Brown Man:  U  R  at it again!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>I\'ll take my "Field Trip!"  Thank you!  :&gt;)<br><br>Obama-Biden  \'08!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2654926" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2654926" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2654926">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2654926" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2654926" class="dsq-comment-message">Rikyrah,<br><br>You\'re so right. Look at the love in his eyes! Yeah!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2656007" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2656007" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2656007">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2656007" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2656007" class="dsq-comment-message">"Baby, I\'m bout to handle my business then we\'re outta here."</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2656690" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2656690" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2656690">kenyaw</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2656690" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2656690" class="dsq-comment-message">Ya\'ll have me tearing up early this morning. <br>That pic is breathtaking. He was so releaved to see her.  I don\'t think that he exagerates when he says that she is rock. He loves that black women.<br>And I heart her too. They are great.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2657668" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2657668" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2657668">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2657668" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2657668" class="dsq-comment-message">Kenyaw,<br><br>I love the way he handles her. It\'s so loving & tender! Wow!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2654982" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2654982" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2654982" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2654982" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2654982" class="dsq-comment-message">Fact Check: Does McCain almost always agree with Bush?<br><br><b>YES!</b><br><br>According to an analysis by Congressional Quarterly, McCain has voted for bills favored by President Bush 90 percent of the time. The nonpartisan publication, which has analyzed voting by members of Congress since 1953, said the report took into account all legislation that Bush had taken a clear position on. It spans from the beginning of Bush\'s term to Congress\'s recess in August.<br><br><a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/26/fact-check-does-mccain-almost-always-agree-with-bush/" rel="nofollow">http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/26...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2655043" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2655043" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2655043">pjamma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2655043" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2655043" class="dsq-comment-message">I posted this in an older thread a little while ago but I\'m liking my theory so posting here...<br><br>Remember the whole "New Coke" campaign? Years ago Coke replaced their traditional recipe with a new version, spending tons of money on the marketing of the product.  By the time it was on shelves everyone was excited about it.  Turns out it wasn\'t  very good.  The world wanted the old Coke back so it was repackaged as Coke Classic and launched with amazing results.<br><br>Maybe that\'s the strategy here. Introduce Palin as the new flavor, packaged nicely and surrounded by a lot of excitement .  When she fails miserably it will have conservatives begging for a good old fashioned Republican like Romney or Huckabee.  They then dump her, add one of them to the ticket and people come out in droves to support the decision.<br><br>To this day the New Coke strategy is seen a big success as it renewed interest in Coke Classic.  I wonder if the McCain camp is smart enough to copy this strategy.  If they are then this could be a huge political coop.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2655245" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2655245" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2655245">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2655245" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2655245" class="dsq-comment-message">McCain is stuck with Palin unless he can find another overly ambitious but extremely stupid pawn like Palin.<br><br>Most smart Republicans would stay far, far away from McCain lest they be tainted by the stench of LOSER.  They are busy licking their chops for 2012.<br><br>If Palin cuts and runs back to Alaska, her political career is over.<br><br>If McCain dumps her, he acknowledges that he has a LOSER campaign.<br><br>If McCain dumps Palin at this point, he might as well step down himself.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2655272" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2655272" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2655272" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2655272" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2655272" class="dsq-comment-message"><b>They are busy licking their chops for 2012.</b><br><br>That\'s what I think. Most Republicans with an ounce of sense are just biding their time and not even playing along with this charade.  This is the first election that has really been affected by the "You Tube generation" and a sensible GOP candidate doesn\'t want too much, if any, public record of supporting Palin.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2656533" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2656533" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2656533" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2656533" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2656533" class="dsq-comment-message">I couldn\'t agree more.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2656766" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2656766" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2656766" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2656766" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2656766" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'ve already said if McCain forces Palin to step down, or suspends his campaign, you might as well award the election to Obama, by default of John McCain.<br><br>I\'d like to see Obama win or lose on the merits, but with McCain in it, merit is in short supply.<br><br>Rock, meet HARD PLACE.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2655097" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2655097" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2655097" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2655097" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2655097" class="dsq-comment-message">Nope. They\'re in too deep now.<br><br>I don\'t think Palin will drop out of the race.  She\'ll just keep hiding until the night of Nov. 4 when she is standing next to McCain as he gives his concession speech dripping with contempt and anger.<br><br>With all of the scandals (and backlash) brewing back in Alaska, it will be really interesting to see where her political career goes since most intellectually-honest Republicans are actually embarrassed for her now. Even the NRO folks are against her.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2656137" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2656137" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2656137">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2656137" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2656137" class="dsq-comment-message">Anovelista:  I\'m agreeing with you!  They both are the "great white hopes!"  :&gt;)<br><br><br>Obama-Biden  \'08!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2656841" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2656841" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2656841" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2656841" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2656841" class="dsq-comment-message"><b><i>She\'ll just keep hiding until the night of Nov. 4 when she is standing next to McCain as he gives his concession speech dripping with contempt and anger.</b></i><br><br>I wonder if McCain loses it and beeyotch-slaps her while she\'s on stage and blaming her for losing the election?<br><br>**ducks***</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2655209" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2655209">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2655209" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2655209" class="dsq-comment-message">Only possible substitute is Huckabee. I don\'t see him going for it now.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2655296" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2655296" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2655296" href="http://www.hustleandfloe.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">hustleandfloe</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2655296" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2655296" class="dsq-comment-message">or kenny... <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_McCormick" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_McCormick</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2656120" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2656120" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2656120">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2656120" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2656120" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  Speaking of Huckabee - - - -<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/26/mike-huckabees-fox-news-s_n_129525.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/26/mike-h...</a><br><b>Mike Huckabee\'s Fox News Show To Debut This Weekend.  . </b><br><br><i>LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Heeeere\'s Huckabee.<br><br>Former Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee announced on his Web site that he has a new show debuting 8 p.m. EDT Saturday and Sunday on the Fox News Channel.<br><br>The show is simply titled "Huckabee," he said.<br><br>"I\'m sure the name will make it easy for all of you to find it," Huckabee wrote on his political action committee\'s blog.<br><br>Fox News Channel spokesman Richard White said that Huckabee\'s new show would air on the channel but referred all questions about the show to Huckabee\'s agent.</i><br><br>Hmmmmm!<br><br><br>Obama-Biden \'08!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2656794" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2656794" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2656794" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2656794" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2656794" class="dsq-comment-message">More cash in talk shows, GreenLady.<br><br>He\'ll get good ratings in the beginning, but if there\'s no difference between him, Hannity or O\'Falafel, expect his show to be canceled by this time next year.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2657129" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2657129" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2657129">JJai</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2657129" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2657129" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t know. They say Huck won something like 30 to 40% of the black vote in his gubernatorial bid?!?!? Meaning he actually talked to black folks.<br><br>I also think he is less hateful. Plus, he will throw in some bible verses which will feed right in to the "Evangelical" Christian demographic. <br><br>I will tell you he was hating on McCain saying the campaign suspension was a mistake and that it would be a mistake for him to miss the debate. He definitely was not on the Republican message.<br><br>Anyway if only in style he is pretty different from Hannity and O\'Reilly. Which may be prove ineffective since that is not the traditional succesful Fox model.<br><br>Just my 2 cents...</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2657484" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2657484" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2657484" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2657484" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2657484" class="dsq-comment-message">Huck\'s sincere in his Christian beliefs - which is why Black folk in Arkansas voted for him.  He knows that most Blacks are Christians, and he couldn\'t very well ignore them.<br><br>Which is more than I can say for the rest of the ReThugs professing Christian faith, then getting caught with their slips and drawers showing (David Vitter or Larry Craig, anyone?)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2658516" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2658516" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2658516">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2658516" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2658516" class="dsq-comment-message">CPL:  ABSOLUTELY!!  Thanks!  <br><br><br>Obama-Biden \'08!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2656779" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2656779" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2656779" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2656779" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2656779" class="dsq-comment-message">If I were Huck, I\'d tell them to go to hell if they came calling and asked to replace Palin.<br><br>Hell, they had a chance to pick Huck in the primaries.  They went for McCaint.<br><br>Let them live with the consequences of their choice.  Not to mention they could have staved off all of this shyt if they\'d gone with McCaint when he was McCould eight years ago.<br><br>They chose Bush and we\'re worse off for it.  And any Black people voting for the GOP ticket in the last eight years need to be DEALT WITH, if you get my drift...</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2657001" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2657001" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2657001">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2657001" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2657001" class="dsq-comment-message">Huck is on tv now. He\'s making$$$$. He\'s not gonna rescue McAncient</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2657204" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2657204" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2657204">JJai</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2657204" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2657204" class="dsq-comment-message">McCain would never select him now that Huck said the "suspension" was unwise and so would the choice to skip the debate.<br><br>I don\'t think McCain and Huck can stand each other!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2660486" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2660486" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2660486">MsKitty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2660486" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2660486" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t think finding a viable replacement is possible at this point.  The campaign is radioactive and any Republican who wants to be in the 2012 game won\'t want their brand tainted by being associated with McCain.  So I think gramps is stuck with Miss Mooseburger for the duration.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2655227" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2655227" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2655227">Michelle</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2655227" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2655227" class="dsq-comment-message">I was really hoping you\'d do this with that picture :)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2655302" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2655302" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2655302">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2655302" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2655302" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  PERFECT POST!!  :&gt;)<br><br>Here\'s the song:  :&gt;)<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTkcu4GVRe8" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTkcu4GVRe8</a><br><b>I Only Have Eyes For You  - The Flamingos</b><br><br><br>Obama-Biden \'08!!</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-2655322">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2655322" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2655322" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2655322">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2655322" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2655322" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  GOOD NEWS!!  :&gt;)<br><br><a href="http://blackpoliticsontheweb.com/2008/09/26/sen-kennedy-released-from-hospital/" rel="nofollow">http://blackpoliticsontheweb.com/2008/09/26/sen...</a><br><b>Sen. Kennedy Released From Hospital</b><br><br>Obama-Biden \'08!!</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-2655380">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2655380" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2655380" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2655380">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2655380" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2655380" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  Took a little "Field Trip" to <i>The Mudflats</i>:  Their "new format" is great!  :&gt;)<br><br><a href="http://www.themudflats.net/2008/09/26/mccain-camp-realizes-palin-is-clueless/" rel="nofollow">http://www.themudflats.net/2008/09/26/mccain-ca...</a><br><b>McCain Camp Realizes Palin Is Clueless</b><br><br>The McCain campaign, just like Dorothy and her friends in The Wizard of Oz, has now realized that the giant, intimidating glowing head they believed to be “The Great and Powerful Palin”, is actually the little pudgy man standing behind the curtain, pulling all those levers. Hey….that guy kind of looks like Karl Rove!<br><br>Schultz went on to say this morning on air, that Palin’s performance in the mock debate was SO bad, they stopped it right in the middle and didn’t even bother to go on.<br><br>SKIP<br><br>And for the first time, I’ve been hearing people in  Alaska asking, “What’s going to happen when she gets back here after the election?”  Her reception will be frostier than the last one, I have a feeling.</i><br><br>As I have stated B4, they are all on it!!   :&gt;)<br><br>Obama-Biden  \'08!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2655434" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2655434" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2655434">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2655434" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:   one commentator posted these Debate Grades:<br><br><a href="http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0%2C8599%2C1845106-2%2C00.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,...</a><br>DEBATE GRADES from <a href="http://Times.com" rel="nofollow">Times.com</a><br><br>Obama/Biden \'08!!<br><br>P.S.   <b>  Obama  =   Overall  A-</b>     "McAncient"  =   Overall B-</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2656030" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2656030" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2656030">Suprk</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2656030" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2656030" class="dsq-comment-message">That is a shocking grade when you see it came from Mark (I think Matt Drudge is a God) Halperin.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2656707" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2656707" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2656707">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2656707" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2656707" class="dsq-comment-message">I know. Halperin is such a tool</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2656750" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2656750" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2656750">Suprk</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2656750" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2656750" class="dsq-comment-message">Tool was the word I wanted to use, but thought that might be over the top. But to be honest, calling him a tool, is mild to what I really think of him and his work</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2656268" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2656268" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2656268">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2656268" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2656268" class="dsq-comment-message">Suprk:  Hey!   :&gt;)    Yes!  :&gt;)<br><br>Obama-Biden  \'08!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2655507" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2655507" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2655507">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2655507" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2655507" class="dsq-comment-message">Rikyrah:  The <i>Anchorage Daily News</i> had a video of "The Gov." in the "swim sit competition" of the 1984 Pageant.  Apparently, these videos have been"scrubbed" from You Tube and other places.  But, this is a "personal" copy.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2656702" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2656702" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2656702">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2656702" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2656702" class="dsq-comment-message">you know that the video keeps on popping up. This is the internet, and enterprising people keep on making sure that it gets out</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2658478" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2658478" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2658478">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2658478" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2658478" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  And here it is in HuffPost:<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/26/sarah-palins-beauty-pagea_n_129667.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/26/sarah-...</a><br>Sarah Palin\'s Beauty Pageant [VIDEO]<br><br>ENOUGH!<br><br><br>OBAMA-BIDEN  \'08!!!</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-2655886">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2655886" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2655886" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2655886">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2655886" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2655886" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  Look how :McAncient isn\'t even looking at Mr. Obama!  He\'s a DISRESPECTFUL, VILE DOG!!  AnnnnnD,these are his good points!!<br><br>Hope this picture comes out!<br><br><a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/09/live-blogging-o.html" rel="nofollow">http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily...</a><br>Live- Blogging  Ole Miss.<br><br>Obama-Biden  \'08</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2655981" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2655981" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2655981">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2655981" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2655981" class="dsq-comment-message">Everyone noticed how McStupid was acting....he turned off SOOOOO many independent parents by acting like the 4 yr old they had to swat on the bottom for having a temper tantrum. It was pointed out on CNN that everytime McSilly made those "he doesn\'t understand" comments or they flashed to him with that smirky look on his face, the independent voters they were monitoring leaned over to Obama. McIgnorant was working the nerves of people who were hoping to see two mature adults on stage and not one adult and one grumpy old man.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2656001" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2656001">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2656001" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2656001" class="dsq-comment-message">Miranda:  Good information re the independents!  :&gt;)  Thanks!  :&gt;)<br><br><br>Obama-Biden  \'08!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2655923" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2655923" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2655923">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2655923" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2655923" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  The people hath spoken!!   :&gt;)<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/politics/" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/politics/</a><br><b>Obama WINS!</b><br><br>Obama-Biden \'08!!!<br><br><b>  BIG OOPS!  The HEADLINE CHANGED and I can\'t find it again!  SORRY!  :&gt;(</b></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2655946" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2655946" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2655946">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2655946" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2655946" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  What did "McAncient\'s" Facial Features Reveal?<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/27/the-smirk-could-mccains-f_n_129831.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/27/the-sm...</a><br><b>The Smirk:  Could McCain\'s Facial Gestures Define Debate?</b><br><br><i>As the spin of Friday night\'s debate settled in and both sides staked a claim to victory, one media narrative began to take hold: while Obama may have been over-complimentary of McCain, the GOP nominee was grumpy, mean, and downright contemptuous of Obama, much to his detriment.<br><br>A clip circulated by Democrats showed the McCain demonstrating all of those traits: smirking when Obama gave his answers, eyes blinking, unwilling to even look at his opponent.<br><br>SKIP<br><br>MSNBC\'s Chris Matthews described the GOP nominee as "troll-like" and "grouchy."<br><br>SKIP<br><br>"The scowls and the squints and the facial tics of John McCain didn\'t serve him well here," said advisor Robert Gibbs, in the spin room.</i><br><br><br>Obama-Biden  \'08!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2656682" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2656682" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2656682">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2656682" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2656682" class="dsq-comment-message">it\'s the disrespect of Obama that people have noted</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2667030" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2667030">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2667030" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  My brother served in the Navy for the better part of 27 years and he\'s kinda conservative. [But my sister and I are working on him.  :&gt;)]<br><br>After watching "McAncient" he said that he had NEVER seen a Military Man act with such DISRESPECT!!  Annnd that his actions were NOT according to PROTOCOL!!<br><br>My sister and I exchange "virtual daps, and hugs"!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>We think he\'s got it!!  :&gt;)   Slowly   - said Lilytiger!! :&gt;)<br><br>Obama-Biden \'08!!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2655962">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2655962" class="dsq-comment-message">Who won the debate according to online polls: <br>MSN 52% Obama, 33% McCain (half a million votes cast)<br>CNN 51% Obama 38% McCain<br>Fox News 54% Obama 46% McCain<br>CBS poll of undecided voters 39% Obama, 24% McCain, 37% Draw</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2656558" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2656558">nickwah22</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2656558" class="dsq-comment-message">WSJ: 57% Obama, 39.7% McCain</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2655974" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2655974">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2655974" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  And now a word from Madeleine Albright:<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/madeleine-albright/a-breakthrough-night-for_b_129786.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/madeleine-albrigh...</a><br><b>A Breakthrough Night For Obama</b><br><br><i>Tonight was a breakthrough for Senator Obama, who showed himself truly ready to be president. He responded knowledgeably, thoughtfully and confidently to the toughest questions on the economy, Iraq, and terror. Meanwhile, Senator McCain spent so much time attacking his opponent, he neglected to show how a McCain-Palin administration would differ from Bush-Cheney. As a result, Obama answered the threshold question about his candidacy; McCain did not.</i><br><br>Yaaaaa!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>Obama-Biden   \'08!!!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2656018" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2656018">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2656018" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2656018" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  This is a diversified [Video] review:<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/26/first-obama-mccain-presid_n_129569.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/26/first-...</a><br>Obama-McCain Video Highlights<br><br>Obama-Biden  \'08!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2656045" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2656045" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2656045">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2656045" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2656045" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  The FACTS!  Just the FACTS m\'am!!  :&gt;)<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/27/aps-debate-factcheck-kiss_n_129820.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/27/aps-de...</a><br><b>APs Debate Factcheck - - -</b><br><br><i>Some facts got lost when Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain confronted each other over the financial crisis, Iraq, the oil industry and more in the first presidential debate of the 2008 general election.<br><br>Here are examples: </i>            THERE IS MUCH MORE.<br><br><br>Obama-Biden  \'08!!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2656081" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2656081">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2656081" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyriah:  According to the writer -  Errybody says so. . :<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-bergmann/mccains-reckless-response_b_129782.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-bergmann/mcca...</a><br><b>McCain\'s Reckless Response to Russia</b><br><br><i>In response to the Russia crisis McCain was seen widely as reckless in his condemnation of Russia. Kissinger said last week that "We have to face the fact that the first shot in Georgia was fired on the Georgian side." The funny thing in McCain\'s Russia answer is that he demonstrated the very reckless behavior that people have accused him of. He recited his over-used "KGB" line that when he looks into Putin\'s soul he sees the letters K-G-B.  Clever line that completely screws us with any future relationship with Russia. Which hey, three Republican Secretaries of State (Kissinger, Powell, and Baker) say is incredibly important and not worth sacrificing for a border conflict in the Caucuses. McCain\'s priorities are completely off base and his over-the-top rhetoric which was on display only makes the possibility of a new Cold War all the more likely.</i>   THERE IS MUCH MORE!<br><br>Obama-Biden  \'08!!!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2656099">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2656099" class="dsq-comment-message">Folks, we are really outta gas in Atlanta - the whole freaking metro area. Through my network of friends and acquaintances, I managed to locate a gas station with only Super available - so I had to fill up of course. I was fortunate, I managed to make it there, passed by 4 cars that were not so lucky. This. Is. Ridiculous.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2656174">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2656174" class="dsq-comment-message">Miranda:  Relieved that you found some gas!  Otherwise, ---continued <b>HEAD BOW</b><br><br>Obama-Biden \'08!!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2656303" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2656303">Teacher</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2656303" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2656303" class="dsq-comment-message">Wow. I\'m sorry to hear this & that you all are having to go thru this. Are you in a reasonable proximity to any white suburb? When I need something in a time of shortage I usually head there.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2656339" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2656339">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2656339" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2656339" class="dsq-comment-message">There is no gas in the white suburbs either. I think they\'ve been worse off than downtown Atlanta.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2656426">RobM</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2656426" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2656426" class="dsq-comment-message">For anyone whom cares about this issue please read: the OIL <a href="http://Drum.com" rel="nofollow">Drum.com</a>.<br>They have been following this for weeks and can tell you why it is happening</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2656785" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2656785">Kat</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2656785" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2656785" class="dsq-comment-message">We just went through this in Nashville. I\'m feeling you, its ridiculous, isn\'t it????</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2656109" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2656109" href="http://Blog-AroundHarlem.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">AroundHarlem.com</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2656109" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2656109" class="dsq-comment-message">Uppity Tee Shirts<br><br>I\'m not sure if you guys or selling the Uppity T-Shirts or if it\'s an advertisement from someone else. (If so, can you pass along this message.)<br><br>Can we get some bigger sizes. Plus-size women\'s? Also, I\'m sure there are some big guys out there who would like a 4x or 5x shirt. <br><br>*Thinking to myself, they know 50% of the Black population is obese, they should have bigger shirts*  :-)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2656911" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2656911" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2656911" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2656911" class="dsq-comment-message">I want mine, and I need an XL cause I have a big pair of...sistas.  LOL</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2656139" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2656139">RonnieB</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2656139" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2656139" class="dsq-comment-message">Expectations.<br><br>Mark my word; the networks have lowered expectations for McCain/Palin considerably.  It\'s perhaps the only reason that last night\'s debate is being called a "draw" (even a win by McCain in some quarters).  <br><br>Someone who\'s been in the Senate for 25+ years, ought to have the highest expectations imaginable.  So let\'s be sure and remind our friends in the media, the next time they start taking potshots at Barack for not delivering the "knockout" blow at every debate.<br><br>Speaking of expectations; <b>WHERE WAS McCAIN\'S FLAG PIN???</b></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2656901" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2656901" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2656901" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2656901" class="dsq-comment-message">Is it me, or did Cindy look a damned sight better last night than she did during the ReThug convention?<br><br>$300K to look like a washed out hag.  Last night, she wore power red (candy apple and a lil too loud), but she looked like she styled her own hair and she does look better with it down, because an up-do shows that she\'s been nipped and tucked too much.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2658370" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2658370">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2658370" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2658370" class="dsq-comment-message">She looked a little street walkerish  or like she was going to a cock tail party to me with all the red on.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2657160" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2657160" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2657160">Anderkoo</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2657160" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2657160" class="dsq-comment-message">Don\'t be surprised if Sarah Palin "wins" next week. Expectations for her are so low, she could show up, sing the alphabet, and "win" the debate.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2656433" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2656433">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2656433" class="dsq-comment-message">Actually Ronnie B - they have Barack as the winner in every major paper I looked at.  He got an A- and McCain B- and in some sources McCain received D\'s.  <br><br>Barack has a few sources on his site and I have been surfing since 7 a.m. and he has received the igher marks.  <a href="http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/stateupdates/gGgdsG" rel="nofollow">http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/s...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2656171" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2656171">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2656171" class="dsq-comment-message">RonnieB:  Remember - - He has the "white gene!"  <b>DOUBLE STANDARDS!</b>:&gt;)<br><br>Obama-Biden \'08!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2656646" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2656646" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2656646">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2656646" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2656646" class="dsq-comment-message">I keep on asking this, and nobody can give me an answer on Senator Country Last.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2657195" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2657195">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2657195" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2657195" class="dsq-comment-message">maybe we should start a blog campaign asking just that.<br><br>Where was McCain\'s flag pin?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2656162" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2656162" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2656162">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2656162" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2656162" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  Oooooo!  They MAD!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)   So!<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/26/cbs-news-executives-aggra_n_129531.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/26/cbs-ne...</a><br><b>ABC News Executives \'Aggravated\' By Letterman\'s Use of Internal News Feed</b><br><br><i>David Letterman vaulted himself into the headlines this week by mocking John McCain for canceling an appearance on his show only to show up on the CBS "Evening News" with Katie Couric. And in a classic stunt, Letterman showed the internal CBS News feed on his show to demonstrate McCain\'s hypocrisy.<br><br>SKIP<br><br>But several CBS News executives - who asked not to be identified - said that the stunt did not go down well within the news division.<br><br><br>"If we had done something like that to him, someone around here would end up getting fired," one said.<br><br>SKIP<br><br>"But they were not about to start a fight with Letterman," the source said. "We\'re in the middle of a heavy, heavy news cycle and Letterman is Letterman.</i><br><br>And dat be dat!!  :&gt;)<br><br>Obama-Biden \'08!!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2656640" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2656640">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2656640" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2656640" class="dsq-comment-message">I love that they can\'t so crap. Letterman owns his show, lock, stock and barrel. He gives CBS the right to broadcast it, but he\'s his own man..LOL</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2656888" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2656888" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2656888" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2656888" class="dsq-comment-message">And they know if they piss off Letterman, he\'ll pack up and go elsewhere.  And the major networks will jump at the chance to have him - NBC will kill to get him back because they KNOW their ratings haven\'t been the same since they kicked him to the curb for Jay Leno and used Conan O\'Brien to replace Letterman in the late night time slot.<br><br>They really dissed him when he was groomed to succeed Carson, and stabbed him in the back by picking Leno.  But Letterman has the last laugh.<br><br>And still does.  ROFLMAO</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2658340" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2658340" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2658340">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2658340" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2658340" class="dsq-comment-message">Upset and can\'t do a damn thing about it.  They better leave him alone before he starts even more more shit.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2659836" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2659836" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2659836">MsKitty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2659836" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2659836" class="dsq-comment-message">And don\'t forget that his production company has produced some successful shows like "Everybody Loves Raymond," so the man has some serious juice in the industry.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2656203" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2656203">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2656203" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  Looks like Dr. Rachel is being \'messed\' with:<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/26/should-msnbc-allow-rachel_n_129602.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/26/should...</a><br><b>Shoul MSNBC Allow Rachel Maddow To Anchor Breaking News Events?</b><br><br><i>Davidson Goldin, former editorial director of MSNBC and a co-founder of the reputation management firm DolceGoldin, told the Times, "The most disappointing shift is to see the partisan attitude move from prime time into what\'s supposed to be straight news programming."<br><br>So it may have been something of a surprise Wednesday evening — as it was for Inside Cable News — to see MSNBC\'s opinionated darling Rachel Maddow anchoring the coverage of George Bush\'s primetime address on the financial crisis. From ICN:<br><br>SKIP<br><br>What do you think? Vote in the poll below to settle the question: Should MSNBC allow Rachel Maddow to anchor breaking news events? There are a few videos of Rachel from Wednesday night below the poll to help you make up your mind.</i><br><br>I\'m VOTING.  Please consider it.  Thank you.  YES, I like Dr. Rachel.   :&gt;)<br><br>Obama-Biden \'08!!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2656716" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2656716">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2656716" class="dsq-comment-message">It boggles the mind. They don\'t crap about Faux Noise, but want to pick on Rachel?<br><br>($(% them</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2658319">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2658319" class="dsq-comment-message">They\'re probably worried because people are watching her and she tells the uncut truth.  <br><br>I read a NY Times article a couple of days ago that discussed her  not having a formidable opponent to interview.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2658425">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2658425" class="dsq-comment-message">msmartin:  It\'s all about her "callin\' out "McAncient" and <br>The Gov." -  STR8  OUT!!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2659620">MsKitty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2659620" class="dsq-comment-message">How about when she had the names of the McCain surrogates that wouldn\'t come on the show scroll across the screen?  That was wicked.  Shaming them for the cowards they are.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2660453">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2660453" class="dsq-comment-message">MsKitty:  Good point!!  LOL!  :&gt;) Jes SHAMED \'em!!  :&gt;)<br><br>Obama-Biden \'08!!!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2658403">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2658403" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  Yep!  I\'m praying that her ratings will show people "what the hap is!" :&gt;)<br><br>Obama-Biden \'08!!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2656483">RobM</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2656483" class="dsq-comment-message">London Calling on the debate:<br><a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article4835676.ece" rel="nofollow">http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_...</a><br><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/crookblog/2008/09/the-oxford-debate/" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.ft.com/crookblog/2008/09/the-oxfor...</a><br><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/2008/09/the-debate-some-early-reactions/" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/2008/09/the-deb...</a><br><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/27/uselections2008.barackobama1" rel="nofollow">http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/27/use...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2656545">RobM</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2656545" class="dsq-comment-message">Back to the Real Deal<br><br>As you  know there is a website that says just say no to the bailout. I find it immature as the reasonss are solid but lacking in alternatives. Here is another view I found on why the deal is no good and what it needs. This is a pay site but you can get a temp subscription:<br><a href="http://www.rgemonitor.com/roubini-monitor/253762/rge_conference_call_on_the_economic_and_financial_outlookand_why_the_treasury_tarp_bailout_is_flawed" rel="nofollow">http://www.rgemonitor.com/roubini-monitor/25376...</a><br>And more on the deal  froom calculated risk:<br><a href="http://calculatedrisk.blogspot.com/2008/09/bailout-plan-and-debate.html" rel="nofollow">http://calculatedrisk.blogspot.com/2008/09/bail...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2656585">RobM</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2656585" class="dsq-comment-message">Too Little Too Late. SEC chr Cox says derugulation didn\'t work. Bookmark this for all the trolls that say look n@##$%^ did it<br><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/27/business/27sec.html?_r=1&oref=slogin" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/27/business/27se...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2656866" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2656866" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2656866" class="dsq-comment-message">We don\'t have enough in the economy to wreck it like them greedy white guys on Wall Street.<br><br>Now they\'re trying to blame Latinos for Washington Mutual\'s failure.  When will it end?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2658260">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2658260" class="dsq-comment-message">Anybody with two brain cells and the ability to calculate should know that there is no way in hell black people are responsible for the failure of the markets.  ARM and the performances of the market and the the fact that these companies were loaning money that they didn\'t have based on incomes tied to a failing economy is one of many reasons we are where we are now.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2656738">RobM</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2656738" class="dsq-comment-message">One more alternative plan from the Big Picture:<br><a href="http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2008/09/an-alternative.html#more" rel="nofollow">http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2008/09/...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2657455" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2657455" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2657455" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com/2008/09/obama-wins-first-debate.html" rel="nofollow">My Take on the Debate, With Polls and Battleground State Responses</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2657538">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2657538" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  BREAKING NEWS!   Paul Neuman DIES  @ 83<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/27/paul-newman-dies-at-83_n_129860.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/27/paul-n...</a><br><b>Paul Neuman Dies At 83</b><br><br><i>WESTPORT, Conn. — Paul Newman, the Academy-Award winning superstar who personified cool as the anti-hero of such films as "Hud," "Cool Hand Luke" and "The Color of Money" _ and as an activist, race car driver and popcorn impresario _ has died. He was 83.<br><br>Newman died Friday after a long battle with cancer at his farmhouse near Westport, publicist Jeff Sanderson said. He was surrounded by his family and close friends.</i><br><br><br><br>How sad!  God Bless!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2657579">scruncher</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2657579" class="dsq-comment-message">I love that photo. He\'s just been watched by half the world who *think* they know him and now he\'s looking into the eyes of the only person who *really* knows him. <br><br>McCain didn\'t just pick Palin because she appeals to the white evangelicals. He picked her because he can push her around, tell her to shut up and not appear anywhere on the world stage. Obama picked Biden who, whatever else you can say about him, cannot be pushed around. That alone tells ya all you need to know about the two candidates.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2657658">JJai</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2657658" class="dsq-comment-message">Hey everybody "This Week with Barack Obama" has a flicker slide show from last night with the Obamas.<br><br>The pics are sooo cute showing Michelle and Barack sharing a little kiss in backstage, plus him with his eyes closed as he hugged her on stage. Do not miss these photos!!!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2663972">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2663972" class="dsq-comment-message">What\'s the link...I can\' find them and its killing me! I wanna see!!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2664677">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2664677" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://thisweekwithbarackobama.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">http://thisweekwithbarackobama.blogspot.com/</a><br><br>I like the pick with him praying before he went on stage.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2665412">JJai</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2665412" class="dsq-comment-message">me too, Val. I rep for Jesus (smile)<br><br>A commenter on Black Snob who also has the pics now, notes that he held her hand close to his body to either protect her or just have her close to him. I was like, hmmm pretty cute.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2657696">JJai</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2657696" class="dsq-comment-message">When I saw these comments on Jonathan Martin\'s blog all I could say is....<br>WHAT THE PUCK!<br><br>"Palin entered the bar after the press pool was pre-positioned in the rear of the venue. Donning a red Phillies jacket that was purchased for her earlier in the day, Palin came in to a loud roar, and the bar quickly descended into a mob scene. She was dressed casually, wearing jeans, a brown leather belt with a leopard-print buckle, and a white t-shirt underneath the Phillies jacket that read "SARAHCUDA<br><br>and another part was pretty interesting; but no mention of TODD. Is there trouble because of the Enquirer article?<br><br>About 300 protesters had gathered outside the event, loudly chanting "Obama! Obama!" Some set off flares. Your pooler has covered Palin since Aug. 29th, and this was one of the largest, rowdiest group of protesters I have seen so far. <br><br>Some of the protester signs included: <br><br>"McSame/Failin\'" <br><br>"Hey Hockey Mom -- keep the puck out of PA" <br><br>"Just like Bush in lipstick" <br><br><a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0908/Where_was_Sarah_Palin_last_night_you_ask.html?showall" rel="nofollow">http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/09...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2658143">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2658143" class="dsq-comment-message">In what respect was that wrong, JJai?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2658281">parker404</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2658281" class="dsq-comment-message">Such as....</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2658405" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2658405">JJai</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2658405" class="dsq-comment-message">I just thought the Sarahcuda, tee was ridiculous! It makes her seem even more of a character; a ploy.<br><br>Just silly. Like her whole candidacy.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2660529" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2660529" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2660529" class="dsq-comment-message">The criminals staged this event to make it appear as though Obama supporters would heckle Sarah at a Philly pub.<br><br>Part of the steal strategy.<br><br>Obama supporters would have been watching the debate, not heckling Sarah Palin outside some pub in ethnic white Philly.<br><br>Part of the steal strategy.<br><br>So the media will start painting Obama supporters as rabid and disrespectful to Palin in ethnic white Philly.<br><br>Part of the steal strategy.<br><br>McCain spoke directly to Irish immigrants in PA, presented himself as a KKK rally leader and fired up his bigot base.<br><br>Part of the steal strategy.<br><br>Get the vote close enough to steal PA.<br><br>Politics is transparent.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2664107">MsKitty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2664107" class="dsq-comment-message">Actually I live near Philly and the media coverage I\'ve seen/heard today only mentioned the protestors in passing.  They spent way more time talking about Palin in the bar with the supporters.  If it gets much more play in tomorrow\'s papers that will tell the tale.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2658374" href="http://www.hustleandfloe.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">hustleandfloe</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2658374" class="dsq-comment-message">Me, too, CPL.  I\'m voting for that First Family as new Americana.  I get the chill when I see the world papers having to pay attention to a black family on the front pages.  It stunts a lot of their preconceptions on black humanity.   I\'m talking particularly about the so-called developed world.  We underestimate their state of mind with respect to deep-seated pigmentocracy that still thrives.  <br><br>Once, in a graduate classroom in Spain, my professor said, without racist intent, "black people are like crocodiles in the zoo.  They\'ve been fed free so long that they don\'t know how to work."  I was the only black, only American in the room  ...He was shocked to learn in that same class that most of the "crocodiles" in my country weren\'t black.  Barack/Michelle is a fundamental part of the reeducation of the world\'s educated folk. <br><br>For different reasons in media and personal choice, most famous black figures don\'t show up as black couple, black family.  I\'m not anti-marrywhoyouwanna (ain\'t my bus. who you marry), but when black on black love happens, I am distinctly glad to see it taking world stage.  Our kids will be better for that.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2658496" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2658496">Bandbabe</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2658496" class="dsq-comment-message">Wow. That sounds like a horrible experience! I don\'t know how I would react if I was in your shoes. However, it sounds like you handled the situation well.<br><br>Blatant racism/ignorance is stunning. The shock that the mind goes through to process people actually believe such backwards views. One of the few times in my life that I have confronted overt racism, is when my family with to a diner at the NJ shore to eat breakfast. I was about 9. We waited for about 20 minutes to be served. Groups that had come in behind us had their orders taken, including a group of 5 whites and and african american friend. Finally we got that we weren\'t being served because we were a black family. It\'s gives me a sinking feeling in stomach just remembering it.<br><br>Bigotry has no rationale. When it\'s out of the open it\'s hard to deal with. When it\'s just under the surface, it\'s harder to combat. But no matter what, we can afford to drop our vigilance.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2658515">Bandbabe</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2658515" class="dsq-comment-message">Ugh. Typos -- meant "cannot* afford".<br><br>Well, you get what I\'m saying..</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2659388">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2659388" class="dsq-comment-message">hustleandfloe:  Thank you for sharing your story/thoughts.  I share you thoughts on the "First Black Family!"  :&gt;)<br><br>Obama-Biden  \'08!!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2658867">Teacher</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2658867" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://newsone.com/elections/article/mccain-called-bin-laden-a-freedom-fighters" rel="nofollow">http://newsone.com/elections/article/mccain-cal...</a><br><br>McCain Called Bin Laden a \'Freedom Fighter\'</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2658980" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2658980" href="http://deoclicianocgiportfolio.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ochyming</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2658980" class="dsq-comment-message">Actually those fighters split in TWO!<br><br>That article got it wrong!<br>Yeah at time HE was a freedom fighter!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2659112" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2659112" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2659112">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2659112" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  Bring some humor!  :&gt;)<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/27/late-night-jokes-of-the-w_n_129735.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/27/late-n...</a><br><b>Late Night Jokes of the Week</b><br><br>ENJOY!   :&gt;)<br><br>Obama-Biden  \'08  !!<br><br><br>P.S.  Gotta go to NAACP Meeting & Voter Reg.  most of the day!  L8R!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2659449" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2659449">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2659449" class="dsq-comment-message">not sure if someone already posted this but -- <br><br>Obama campaign calls Palin “a terrific debater”<br><br>Obama campaign manager David Plouffe told reporters Saturday that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice presidential nominee, is “a terrific debater” who could give Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Joe Biden (D-Del.) a run for his money when they meet Thursday.<br><br>“We’ve looked at tapes of Gov. Palin’s debates, and she’s a terrific debater,” Plouffe told reporters on a conference call. “She has performed very, very well. She’s obviously a skilled speaker. We expect she’ll give a great performance next Thursday. <br><br><a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/14014.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/14014...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2659523" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2659523">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2659523" class="dsq-comment-message">As I\'ve said before, I think this whole Palin is dumb thing is to prepare for her to perform well at the debates.  No one as dumb as she is playing would even consider that they could be a vice president - more tricks.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2667835" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2667835" href="http://blacksnob.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">The_Black_Snob</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2667835" class="dsq-comment-message">I actually think she is out of her league. Not dumb. Just in over her head because she\'s never had to think about national or international issues before. All she has are the basic talking points.<br><br>Truth is, if she was brilliant the McCain campaign wouldn\'t be hiding her. They\'d have her on everything from Larry King to The View to show off their prized, confident, intelligent, youthful superstar. They would NEVER want someone to come off as stupid. That doesn\'t help McCain. Sure they want to lower expectations, but if she was a dynamo on the national/international issues they wouldn\'t be hiding her from anyone. They\'d play down expectations, but they would shield her when she was such a media sensation when she first came out. Strategically it\'s too risky to have someone garbling their talking points and looking clueless. Never mind her 101 personal problems. <br><br>McCain just saw a tempting, hot commodity. He never checked to see what was going on upstairs or in her life. She was young, Republican and attractive with ovaries. He didn\'t think any harder about her than he did about "suspending his campaign." McCain is a desperate man pulling tricks hoping people will fall for them ... and they are genuinely worried about the debate. And as crazy as Biden is, he\'s no joke. He doesn\'t stutter. He\'s concise and likable. This is deadly for them. Conservatives are turning on him for picking her with her every sparse interview that reveals how poorly she understands the issues. I\'m sure she\'s cramming around the clock for the debate.<br><br>She\'s just lucky the bar is set so low it\'s in the basement. It\'ll be a win for her if she just pronounces the names right.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2659602" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2659602" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2659602" class="dsq-comment-message">That\'s exactly what they should say.<br><br>And Palin is a <i>competitor</i>.<br><br>I expect her to do just fine.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2660162" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2660162">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2660162" class="dsq-comment-message">val:  The purpose of debate is to score points by delivering information; NOtTjust RAMBLING/BABBLING INCOHERENTLY.  Up \'til this time, that is all she has done.<br><br>I wish I could review ANY tape that shows that she has moved from Point A to conclusion - COHERENTLY!  :&gt;)<br><br>Thanks for this information.  :&gt;)<br><br>Obama-Biden \'08!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2660528" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2660528" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2660528">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2660528" class="dsq-comment-message">GreenLady - this is the Obama strategy.  McCain\'s camp has been furiously working to lower expections.  Obama is like -- noooo, we think she is fabulous and will be quite a challenge on Thursday. LOLOL  I think we should spin it the same.<br><br>Don\'t allow them to drop expectations.  McCain\'s team did say she is more i ntelligent and has more experience than Barack. . .. well we should hold them to it.  Let the people see for themselves on Thursday.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2664519" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2664519">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2664519" class="dsq-comment-message">VAL:  ABSOLUTELY!!  :&gt;)  We see them!   :&gt;)  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2660559" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2660559">MsKitty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2660559" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2660559" class="dsq-comment-message">Sounds like they\'re doing some psych out here.  Keep raising the expectations about Palin so the inevitable crash and burn is that much more dramatic.  Me likey.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2660583" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2660583">Teacher</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2660583" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2660583" class="dsq-comment-message">The hacks on morning joe said that she is going to shock all of them and give an excellent performance. The bar of expectation for her is on the floor (how low can it go?), so if she does half way better than she has been doing, they will spin it as vastly exceeding expectations. All she has to do is better than she has been doing. This is sad, pathetic & angering.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2664186" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2664186">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2664186" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t know if this is true or not, but they say that on Morning Joe today they were discussing why Sen. Obama\'s makeup was "too dark?"  Did that happen?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2659492" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2659492">lamh32</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2659492" class="dsq-comment-message">About the bailout thing, I confess to not being well informed on wall street, bailouts, and the like so I guess you can call me a low-info voter on that.  So take what I\'m about to say with a grain of salt.<br><br>Americans hate the bailout right? Well I guess it depends on who you talk to.  It seems to me that if you are one of the Americans whose retirment funds are intertwined with the markets, then if the market fails, then ur retirement is essentially wiped out right?  So if that\'s the case, I would think that retirees would be the ones who really want the bailout, to "keep the markets going?"<br><br>On the other hand, if you are not of retirment age, and you are middle class or lower, then you would probably see the bailout as a copt-out to Washington fatcats, and people who "got themselves into this mess".  So you would I guess oppose the bailout.<br><br>I honestly think that the average voter is more fickle than we think.  Yes they may hate the thought of a bailout, but I would place a bet (based on purely antecdotal(?)evidence) that they would hate it more if nothing is done, and more banks like WaMu go under.  Because while the FDIC(?) says that the personal funds of WaMu customers are insured, how much money could the FDIC really match if there are more banks/financial institutions go belly-up.  How soon after that would people be running to withdraw their funds from the respective banks (BTW, I already know of a few friends of mind who are already comtemplating taking their money from WaMu)<br><br>Anyway, I\'m probably wrong about this since like McCain, I don\'t really understand the economy, but this is how it seems to me anyway.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2660521" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2660521">Teacher</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2660521" class="dsq-comment-message">I am still not convinced that the bailout is good or that we have been given honest, factual information about what is happening. I\'m thankful for the politicians that are blocking it, regardless of their political party. I think the issue is too important to act in haste. I don\'t like being threatened with losing everything unless. Are the politicians going to lose everything too? I hate that the rethugs are going to get credit for "saving" our economy, but many dems are on the wrong side of this. Some CEO\'s need to go to jail as well.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2660760" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2660760" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2660760" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2660760" class="dsq-comment-message">Hear, hear.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2661033" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2661033" href="http://nquest2xl.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Nquest</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2661033" class="dsq-comment-message">I wonder what a Bush administration\'s FBI investigation will lead to.  Instead of calling for a commission, McCain should have been encouraging the FBI to go all out in conducting the most extensive investigation they can, overtime a plenty, to determine if there was any criminal wrongdoing and demanding that any and everyone found to have a hand in illegal financial deals be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.  That\'s when and where McCain should have said, "I will make them famous and you will know their names."<br><br>While I\'m on what McCain \'should\' do...  The MSM should hold McCain accountable and judge him by whether he shows that he cares about working-class Whites.  To hell with those same DOUBLE STANDARDS they (I\'m talking about Chris Matthews and racist Pat Buchanan in particular) tried to apply to Obama in the primaries.<br><br>If them dumb mf\'s (working class Whites) can\'t weed through McCain\'s patronizing "low taxes" bs and see that those of them making $60K or less will receive 3 times the tax relief if Obama has his druthers... Well, F*CK THEM as they go out of the way to f*ck themselves.<br><br>Obama tried to lay out when he talked about all the talk politicians, Republicans and Democrats, have done while those supposedly all important White voters saw and continue to see manufacturing jobs dry up with the preferred ultra-wealthy businesses, etc. get the tax breaks they are always promised but never see.<br><br>The choice is there\'s and Obama can do nothing about the racist ones (yes, Chris) and, likewise, those who pretend to be undecided or fake like John SEVEN HOUSE McCain has something more in common with them and understands them better than Obama does when Obama has shown in ways McCain never has.  Political pandering doesn\'t count.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2661044" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2661044" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2661044">nickwah22</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2661044" class="dsq-comment-message">I think the government has more vested in this bailout than they are letting up.<br><br>I don\'t want a bailout IF what they are telling us is the whole truth.  The markets will correct themselves, they always have.  I have heard time and time again that your money is only protected if its in Chase, Bank of America or Citi (time will tell).  The gov doesn\'t care about the market failing, if they did they would not bail out certain companies (which, IMO, they have personal ties to).  Yes, AIGs failure would\'ve had a ripple effect in our economy, but creating mass panic, I do not believe, is the way to resolve our current condition.<br><br>If this problem was so easy to fix why didn\'t they do this a year and a half ago?  Personally, I don\'t think we the people are getting the whole truth.  maybe I am a conspiracy theorist but I like to call it how I see it.  All of a sudden everyone is interested in helping the American people?  Look at how high the unemployment rate has surge, look at the home foreclosure rate, look at the high bankruptcy rates.  This country has always had a survival of the fittest attitude, why pretend to change now?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2665891" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2665891" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2665891" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2665891" class="dsq-comment-message">We\'re being played.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2667808" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2667808" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2667808" href="http://blacksnob.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">The_Black_Snob</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2667808" class="dsq-comment-message">The problem is they DON\'T know if the bailout will work. They don\'t know what letting the banks fail will do. They just know both options are bad and as usual the Bush Administration waited so long, by the time they realized they needed to do something Bear Sterns collapsed and shit has been rolling downhill ever since.<br><br>If they don\'t do the bail out several banks are on the chopping block to fail without the help (see Washington Mutual who fell apart last week and was scooped up by Merrill Lynch) and the markets will go into disarray and credit is likely to freeze up with no one loaning anyone money for anything and the government would end up spending billions to cover the losses of US citizens in FDIC backed banks.<br><br>BUT if the go with the bailout they risk screwing up inflation. We don\'t actually have $700 billion. We\'re going to sell T-bills or whatever to foreign governments to raise the cash, then the treasury is going to start printing dollars to inject them into the market to encourage investment and spending. The only problem is there will be so many dollars out there the value of the US currency could drop dramatically and inflation could skyrocket.<br><br>Plus, the taxpayers would inherit all this worthless real estate we would have to sell for a loss.<br><br>There\'s just no good answers and Congress, the president and the Fed are just throwing up $700 billion and a prayer and hoping this will stop the bloodletting, then cross their fingers that inflation won\'t get higher. Or that more money won\'t be needed for the bailout (because no one knows how much these mortgage securities are worth). <br><br>So, long story short. Either way, we\'re all screwed.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2660550">Denise</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2660550" class="dsq-comment-message">nice photo, Rikyrah.  Curtis Mayfield - sadly, an underrated genius - comes to mind on this one.  Enjoy!<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLY_wWjLZew" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLY_wWjLZew</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2660623" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2660623">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2660623" class="dsq-comment-message">Sarah Palin 2006 Alaska\'s Governor\'s Debate<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1-B-OyQ-KI" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1-B-OyQ-KI</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2660862" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2660862" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2660862">MsKitty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2660862" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2660862" class="dsq-comment-message">Check out the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/27/the-most-stupidest-mccain_n_129840.html" rel="nofollow">new McCain ad</a>.<br><br>Comedy gold, people.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2663527" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2663527" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2663527">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2663527" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2663527" class="dsq-comment-message">That is a dumb ad....but Huffington ruined the cachet with poor grammar in the title "Most Stupidest".</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2664046" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2664046" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2664046">MsKitty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2664046" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2664046" class="dsq-comment-message">What got me was the total lack of logic in the ad.  I mean if Obama agreeing with McCain\'s positions makes him not ready to lead, doesn\'t that also mean that McCain is not ready to lead because of said positions?<br><br>Analyzing stupid gives me a headache.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2666596" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2666596">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2666596" class="dsq-comment-message">...exactly.   LOL<br><br>They\'re desperate...and that scares me.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2666801">MsKitty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2666801" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2666801" class="dsq-comment-message">I look at it this way.  The more desperate the McCain crew gets, the more that desperation comes across, the more stupid they look.  I mean look back at what desperation drove them to do this week.  Did that benefit them in any way, did they come out ahead because of it?<br><br>That\'s not to say us Obama supporters shouldn\'t still work our asses off to get him elected, but the tide is beginning to turn.  Us political junkies and blog regulars have known that McCain has got nothing for a long time, but now even the most casual observers of the election are starting to see it too.  McCain came off last night as petty and small, so any lowball tactics his campaign employs at this point is just going to reinforce that perception like steel.  So in a sick, rubbernecking at a car wreck way I\'m looking forward to see how low they go.<br><br>That\'s my rambling way of saying take a few deep breaths because this homestretch is going to be a doozy, but BO and company seem to have a handle on it and they\'re really good at giving McCain all the rope he needs to hang himself.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2667790" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2667790">Teacher</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2667790" class="dsq-comment-message">Kitty, I agree. Desperation also sunk Hillary. I really believe we have this......except for the question of the voting machines. Chris Rock made a joke about hoping that O understands when he gets the most votes but still doesn\'t win. Bill Maher said that it happened to Al Gore. Definitely not funny.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2667122" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2667122" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2667122" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2667122" class="dsq-comment-message">Don\'t be scared.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2667051" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2667051">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2667051" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree and came to the same conclusion as soon as I saw not ready.  I thought how stupid.  In their haste to put something together mocking Obama, someone didn\'t see how this would read.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2665873" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2665873" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2665873" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2665873" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s got the socialist background in it. That\'s the only reason why they ran the ad.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2661081" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2661081" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2661081" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzuIHjQYW2c" rel="nofollow">Bad News</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2663555" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2663555">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2663555" class="dsq-comment-message">That\'s freakin\' brilliant!    I can\'t believe they did that....it\'s what I and many people have been dreading.   The depression of of Nov 5 with a McCain victory.    That will light a fire under people to work harder and not take anything for granted.   Even Barack is displaying the urgency by his debate performance.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2663681" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2663681" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2663681" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2663681" class="dsq-comment-message">Just the other day you wondered if Barack saw this election as a matter of life and death.<br><br>He heard you.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2665325">JJai</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2665325" class="dsq-comment-message">That is an awesome, ad. Very daring. You know Keith O is loving his inclusion.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2663847" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2663847">BarackMarley</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2663847" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2663847" class="dsq-comment-message">McCain Called Bin Laden a \'Freedom Fighter\' in Debate<br><a href="http://newsone.com/elections/article/mccain-called-bin-laden-a-freedom-fighters" rel="nofollow">http://newsone.com/elections/article/mccain-cal...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2664252" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2664252">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2664252" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2664252" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/27/matthews-on-obamas-debate_n_129901.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/27/matthe...</a><br><br>Chris Matthews:  Why was Obama so "un-ethnic" tonight?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2665019" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2665019" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2665019">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2665019" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2665019" class="dsq-comment-message">I had to put that jackass on blast.  I was pissed off last night when he said it but was more annoyed when I read it this morning.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2667780" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2667780" href="http://blacksnob.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">The_Black_Snob</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2667780" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2667780" class="dsq-comment-message">Chris suffers from chronic foot in mouth disorder. You can not take his verbal thuggery seriously. Most of the time he just comes off as clueless anyway. He cracks me up when he tries to talk like he understands black people, the black experience or women. He usually just comes off as a totally troglodyte. I don\'t know why he bothers. Oh that\'s right. They pay him.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2665523">TRW</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2665523" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2665523" class="dsq-comment-message">This is not the first time that he has made inappropriate comments with regards to Barack---and Black people in general.  Every "liberal" is not your friend people.  I don\'t care how hard he rails against the likes of Bush and McCain.  If minorities that watch the show, tolerate this ignorance, then you are basically giving him a blank check that he think he can cash at any time.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2666722">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2666722" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2666722" class="dsq-comment-message">"un-ethnic"?? Oh.....I too was disappointed that Obama went for the Brooks Brothers suit instead of some RocaWear, and what was that "middle class" venacular? Should have just said "my peeps". Obama talkin all "white"......should have kept it real...fake ass nigger! He didn\'t say ANYTHING about the hood! <br><br>(sigh)........I miss Peter Jennings.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2664694" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2664694">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2664694" class="dsq-comment-message">A Former Clinton Supporter Sighs With Relief<br><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/27/145024/378/684/612585" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/27/145024/...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2664766" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2664766">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2664766" class="dsq-comment-message">Palin Is Ready? Please.<br><a href="http://www.newsweek.com/id/161204/page/2" rel="nofollow">http://www.newsweek.com/id/161204/page/2</a><br><blockquote><i>Can we now admit the obvious? Sarah Palin is utterly unqualified to be vice president. She is a feisty, charismatic politician who has done some good things in Alaska. But she has never spent a day thinking about any important national or international issue, and this is a hell of a time to start. The next administration is going to face a set of challenges unlike any in recent memory.</i></blockquote></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2664787" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2664787">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2664787" class="dsq-comment-message">I didn\'t see this on the news....<br><br>Bailout protests spread, thousands swarm across Golden Gate Bridge demanding healthcare<br><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/27/132337/469/376/611868" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/27/132337/...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2666075" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2666075">pjamma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2666075" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2666075" class="dsq-comment-message">As a former SF resident I\'d guess this didn\'t make the news because protests are a dime a dozen on the GG bridge and throughout the city.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2666580" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2666580">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2666580" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2666580" class="dsq-comment-message">They didn\'t cover the protests at the RNC either.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2664878" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2664878">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2664878" class="dsq-comment-message">OMG!!  Send Sarah Home Protest in Alaska.  Looks like a lynching.<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs1RMQl8wMQ&eurl=http" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs1RMQl8wMQ&eurl...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2664900" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2664900">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2664900" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2664900" class="dsq-comment-message">Sorry - protest was in Philadelphia</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2666570" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2666570">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2666570" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2666570" class="dsq-comment-message">Wow....and not a peep on the news.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2667758" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2667758">Teacher</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2667758" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2667758" class="dsq-comment-message">There were protests in Alaska (Anchorage) & Philadelphia, and as TruthSeeker said, "Wow, still not a peep in the news."</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2665042" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2665042">RobM</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2665042" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2665042" class="dsq-comment-message">Time for money, guns and lawyers. Major banks are failing overseas. <br><a href="http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/banking_and_finance/article4837674.ece" rel="nofollow">http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2665461">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2665461" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2665461" class="dsq-comment-message">The FBI might wana start profiling Alfred and Ethan instead of just Mohammed and Abdul.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2665093" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2665093">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2665093" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2665093" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/539236.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/539236.html</a><br><br>Hundreds attend anti-Palin rally<br><br>Hundreds of people turned out for an anti-Sarah Palin rally today.  People waved signs at honking cars headed downtown and listened to speakers in a rally organized by a group called Alaskans for Truth.<br><br> Roark-Martinez says Palin should go back to her hometown of Wasilla because she doesn\'t have the experience to be vice president.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2665165" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2665165">RobM</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2665165" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2665165" class="dsq-comment-message">Read about Judas(the entire Federal government apparatus) role in the financial meltdown:<br><br><a href="http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/files/a_memo_found_in_the_street.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/files/a_...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2665180" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2665180">JJai</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2665180" class="dsq-comment-message">Check out this cute video of Dr. B aka Jill Biden on the stump<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQNn27HMOCU&eurl=http://www.sparrowblog.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQNn27HMOCU&eurl...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2665215" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2665215">JJai</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2665215" class="dsq-comment-message">This is also a a cute little article on Biden<br><br><a href="http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080921/NEWS02/809210364" rel="nofollow">http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/art...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2665455">nickwah22</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2665455" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2665455" class="dsq-comment-message">I love your avatar (sp)! looks like a beautiful destination</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2665498" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2665498">JJai</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2665498" class="dsq-comment-message">thanks, this is one of my favorite pics of me =-) because my thicky thickness is not so apparent, lol<br><br>I was in the Caymans. I call this pic "God loves Me" since the sun was going down so beautifully behind me...</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2665216" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2665216">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2665216" class="dsq-comment-message">Pakistan\'s president tells Palin she\'s \'gorgeous\'<br><br>Palin has been in New York meeting international leaders in town this week for United Nations meetings. <br><br>On entering a room filled with several Pakistani officials Wednesday, Palin was immediately greeted by Sherry Rehman, the country\'s information minister.<br><br>"And how does one keep looking that good when one is that busy?" Rehman asked Palin, drawing friendly laughter from the room.<br><br>"Oh, thank you," Palin said<br><br>Pakistan\'s new president, Asif Ali Zardari, entered the room seconds later. Palin rose to shake his hand, saying she was "honored" to meet him.<br><br>Zardari then called her "gorgeous" and said: "Now I know why the whole of America is crazy about you."<br><br><a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/24/palin.pakistan/" rel="nofollow">http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/24/pali...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2665471">Suprk</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2665471" class="dsq-comment-message">Devastating Video. <br><br><b>Obama Is Right: McCain Was Wrong</b><br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xG1aOORf8Pc" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xG1aOORf8Pc</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2665542">JJai</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2665542" class="dsq-comment-message">Don\'t Forget Haiti!<br><br>If you aren\'t tapped out from donating to Obama, worried about your diminishing 401K, and gas prices (when you can find it Miranda) aren\'t breaking the bank then you might consider donating to this org I found called Hope for Haiti (<a href="http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=10397" rel="nofollow">http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=s...</a>). I made a donation and in my thank you letter they noted that during this dramatic crisis 100% of your donation will go directly to those in need. <br><br><a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/wfp-executive-director-surveys-hurricane/story.aspx?guid=%257BB7945D05-C0E7-4181-967A-AA5728E047DB%257D&dist=hppr" rel="nofollow">http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/wfp-execu...</a><br><br>Ala, Russell Simmons God Bless You and Good Night, JJP!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2665618" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2665618">JJai</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2665618" class="dsq-comment-message">Oops, these folks rep Jesus. If you aren\'t into that, I am sure United Nations Food Programme, Doctors without Borders, or Red Cross would welcome donations (specified for use in Haiti) and be just as effective.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2665608">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2665608" class="dsq-comment-message">It seems to me that a lot of the media missed the fact that McCain seemed to acknowledge that our government has been torturing prisoners. Is that the case? Did our government admit to torturing prisoners? Who and when did we do it?<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzhXn8QXW1E&feature=related" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzhXn8QXW1E&feat...</a><br>Listen when the meter gets to 7:02 mins<br><br>"We have a long way to go in our intelligence services. We have to do a better job with human intelligence. We have to make sure that we have people who are trained interrogators that we don\'t ever torture a prisoner ever again."</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2665623" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2665623">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2665623" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/27/193735/871/453/612800" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/27/193...</a><br><br>Sarah Palin to appear on SNL tonight?<br><br>So let me get this straight: she can\'t give coherent answers to softball interviews and doesn\'t have the time to make the TV rounds in support of her candidate but she does have time to appear on SNL?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2665695">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2665695" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2665695" class="dsq-comment-message">57 million watched the debate</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2666735">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2666735" class="dsq-comment-message">According to John King they were mostly Democrats - 57 millions Democrats.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2666813" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2666813" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2666813" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2666813" class="dsq-comment-message">Huh?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2666996">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2666996" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2666996" class="dsq-comment-message">John King said that the polls were favorable for Obama because mostly Democrats were watching the debate.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2718100" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2718100" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2718100" class="dsq-comment-message">Which means the republicans are interested in their nominee.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2666890">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2666890" class="dsq-comment-message">msmartin:  OF COURSE <b>ALL 57 million people </b>reported/telephoned/Blackberry\'ed/e-mailed/teletyped/2 cans and a wired/yelled over the back fence/wired/pony expressed HIM ta let HIM know that they were WATCHING!!<br><br>Annnnnd, I have some beach-front property in Colorado that I can sell to you   -  REAL CHEAP!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>John King, go back to your abacus and bring those stats that show that Mr. Obama/Joe Biden are LEADING!!!     <br><br>Obama-Biden \'08!!!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2667015" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2667015">Teacher</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2667015" class="dsq-comment-message">Amen to that! When he shows the map, he always shows how red it is, even when his words don\'t match the visuals. I\'m so tired of CNN, and I barely watch it.<br><br>Well, the dems just came out announcing agreements reached on the bailout. Where are the repugs? This should be strictly bi-partisan. We\'re fucked for sure. I hope heads roll. They are going to put it online. Maybe we can read it in sections and make a JJP report.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2667785" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2667785" href="http://blacksnob.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">The_Black_Snob</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2667785" class="dsq-comment-message">I kept wondering where King was getting that stat from. How did he know the bulk of the audience was Dem? Seems like SOME conservatives and Republicans watched something because there is chatter all over the Web about this debate and the upcoming VP debate. I swear. I get that CNN wants to be the opposite of whatever FOX and MSNBC are, but damn. Slow ya roll, homie. What was that?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2714587">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2714587" class="dsq-comment-message">The_Black_Snob:  Hey!  :&gt;) - Again!  Long time NO C!  :&gt;)<br><br><i>Slow ya roll, homie.</i><br><br>ABSOLUTELY!  He was so trying ta make it seem as if, "OF COURSE MOSTLY DEMS WATCHED which EXPLAINS the OBAMA WIN!"<br><br>No "homie"!  Anybody with eyes,  ears and a pulse -Repugs and Dems- could see the "beat down" that "McAncient" experienced" BOTH cognitively and with respect to affective/social skills!  :&gt;)<br><br>LAWD HA\'Mercy!  That "white gene" can make SOME people both DEAF & DUMB [the cognitive kind!]<br><br>Obama-Biden  \'08!!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2665936" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2665936">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2665936" class="dsq-comment-message">They\'re reading McCain\'s refusal to look at Barack as contempt.   That works in Barack\'s favour.   I still say McCain is ashamed of himself.   He was acting like a man who feels very small.   I don\'t know what it must be like to face his family after the way he\'s behaved.<br><br>There are many times I wish Barack would rip out McCain\'s throat.   I see the wisdom now in him stubbornly taking the high road.    Whatever happens, he will be able to go back home to his wife and kids...and face his colleagues in the Senate and hold his head high.  When Sasha & Malia look at election footage when they\'re older, they\'ll be proud of their Dad.   Can McCain say the same thing about his kids and grandkids?    What will his grandkids feel...pity?<br><br>As Anderkoo commented....McCain\'s given up everything and he still may not win(paraphrasing):<br><br>McCain\'s Angry Debate Disappoints Morning Joe Panel<br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/27/mccains-angry-debate-disa_n_129915.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/27/mccain...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2666887" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2666887">Teacher</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2666887" class="dsq-comment-message">I read his refusal to look @ Barack as contempt as well as arrogance. He does feel that he is vastly superior to Barack as well as the overwhelming majority of americans. McCain is an asshole, and he is living up to his reputation as an asshole and a mean spirited, abusive person.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2666389">Lilytiger</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2666389" class="dsq-comment-message">On another site I frequent which is not a political site but has a thread for it, there is a lot of talk about the disrespect McCain showed Obama. This is from mainly white middle aged women. They are coming around to a deep dislike to McCain and admiration of how well Barack is handling himself. One poster even noted that it may be difficult for Barack to show his anger, "\'cause he\'s black and that may not go over too well." Slowly, slowly information is sinking in.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2666831" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2666831">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2666831" class="dsq-comment-message">Lilytiger:  Good post!!  <i>Slowly, slowly. . . </i>   Amen!!  :&gt;)<br><br>Obama-Biden \'08!!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2665968" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2665968">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2665968" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/27/palin-takes-questions-during-cheesesteak-run/" rel="nofollow">http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/27...</a><br><br>September 27, 2008<br>Palin takes questions during cheesesteak run<br>Posted: 09:19 PM ET<br><br>From CNN Political Producer Peter Hamby<br><br> <br>Sarah Palin and her daughter Willow ordered cheesestakes in South Philadelphia Saturday.<br>PHILADELPHIA (CNN) – Sarah Palin partook in an established political ritual on Saturday night when she headed to Tony Luke\'s in south Philadelphia to order a pair of cheesesteaks with whiz and onions.<br><br>But as the kitchen sizzled and orders were barked out, Palin found herself talking politics, calling McCain\'s debate performance "awesome" and taking questions from a voter about the hunt for terrorists in Pakistan.<br><br>While waiting in line with her daughter Willow to place her order, a reporter asked Palin if she watched Friday\'s debate, and what her impressions were.<br><br>"I did, I did," she said. "McCain did awesome. He was great. He was absolutely on his game."<br><br>Palin added that she is ready to debate Joe Biden next Thursday in St. Louis.<br><br>"I am," she said. "Look forward to it. Look forward to getting to speak to Americans through that debate, absolutely."<br><br>The governor got a more serious interrogation moments later when Temple graduate student Michael Rovito approached her to inquire about Pakistan.<br><br>"How about the Pakistan situation?," asked Rovito, who said he was not a Palin supporter. "What\'s your thoughts about that?"<br><br>"In Pakistan?," she asked, looking surprised.<br><br><br>"What\'s going on over there, like Waziristan?"<br><br>"It\'s working with [Pakistani president] Zardari to make sure that we\'re all working together to stop the guys from coming in over the border," she told him. "And we\'ll go from there."<br><br>Rovito wasn\'t finished. "Waziristan is blowing up!," he said.<br><br>"Yeah it is," Palin said, "and the economy there is blowing up too."<br><br>"So we do cross border, like from Afghanistan to Pakistan you think?," Rovito asked.<br><br>"If that\'s what we have to do stop the terrorists from coming any further in, absolutely, we should," Palin responded, before moving on to greet other voters.<br><br>Palin ordered the two sandwiches, but the managers refused to let her pay, so she slipped a bill into their tip jar. She did not chow down at the restaurant, opting instead to take the food with her in the motorcade.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2666695" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2666695">MsKitty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2666695" class="dsq-comment-message">I love how ordinary citizens are now interrogating her.  Classic.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2666170" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2666170">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2666170" class="dsq-comment-message"><b>What Sen. McCain Doesn\'t Seem To Understand</b><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deanie-mills/what-sen-mccain-doesnt-se_b_129817.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deanie-mills/what...</a><br><blockquote><i>I can tell you that there are many military families who not only DON\'T hero-worship John McCain, but resent deeply his seemingly endless ability to play on his war service and navy family for political purposes while, at the same time, voting against veteran\'s benefits time and time and time again.<br><br>As one said, "I\'m glad he keeps bringing up his support for veteran\'s issues. That only gives us an opportunity to point out the facts of his record."<br><br>And so "GoldStarLMW" did just that. Among the statistics she posted were that, among every major veteran\'s group you can mention, McCain\'s voting record in support of their interests virtually never went above 25%, although once or twice, he went along with their needs maybe half the time.<br><br>"Militarywifeobamamama" typed, "Veteran sitting beside me says McCain supports Bush; he doesn\'t support veterans."<br><br>When it came to McCain\'s sad, sentimental, soaring story about wearing the bracelet of the war dead to remind him that he never wanted to see another soldier die in vain, "GoldStarLMW" immediately posted:<br><br>"NO soldier EVER dies in vain."</i></blockquote></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2666556">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2666556" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  Here\'s the deal, IFFF "McAncient"  CAIN\'T read and comprehend 3 pages. . .  <br><br><a href="http://blackpoliticsontheweb.com/2008/09/27/bailout-bill-once-3-pages-swells-in-length/" rel="nofollow">http://blackpoliticsontheweb.com/2008/09/27/bai...</a><br><b>Bailout Bill Once 3 Pages <u>Swells In Length</u></b><br><br><i>A week ago, it totaled just three pages — the White House’s request for $700 billion to rescue tottering financial institutions by buying their devalued mortgage-related assets.<br><br>By Monday, after an intense weekend of negotiations, the draft of the bailout legislation before Congress had swelled to 42 pages.<br><br>By Friday, after almost a week of marathon talks between Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and key lawmakers in both parties, the working version was up to 102 pages.<br><br>It likely will grow even longer as negotiators continue to tweak the proposal this weekend, adding and subtracting key elements.<br><br>Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., the House Financial Services Committee’s chairman, was optimistic Friday that a final agreement could be reached by Sunday.</i><br><br>HOW the heck do you think that he could READ and COMPREHEND OVER 102 pages!!???  <b>NOT!</b>  :&gt;)<br><br>Obama-Biden \'08!!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2666665" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2666665">Teacher</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2666665" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.fedupusa.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.fedupusa.com/</a><br><br>Welcome to the Con of the Century!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2666816" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2666816">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2666816" class="dsq-comment-message">Teacher:  Ya mean dey lyin\'???  Say it isn\'t so!  :&gt;)<br><br>Obama-Biden  \'08!!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2666758" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2666758">Teacher</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2666758" class="dsq-comment-message">Hurricane headed to Maine! Will the Bushes have to evacuate Kennebunkport?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2666842">nickwah22</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2666842" class="dsq-comment-message">Applicable:<br><br>"I dont know what the key to success is, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."<br>-Bill Cosby</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2667055">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2667055" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2667055" class="dsq-comment-message">nickwah22:  Good find!!  :&gt;)<br><br>Obama-Biden  \'08!1</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2667769">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2667769" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2667769" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2667769" href="http://blacksnob.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">The_Black_Snob</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2667769" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2667769" class="dsq-comment-message">I kept wondering where King was getting that stat from. How did he know the bulk of the audience was Dem? Seems like SOME conservatives and Republicans watched something because there is chatter all over the Web about this debate and the upcoming VP debate. I swear. I get that CNN wants to be the opposite of whatever FOX and MSNBC are, but damn. Slow ya roll, homie. What was that?</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2656553">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2656553" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2656553" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2656553">s</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2656553" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2656553" class="dsq-comment-message">"I agree with John"</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2656622">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2656622" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2656622" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2656622">Jay</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2656622" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2656622" class="dsq-comment-message">"....BUT here\'s where we disagree.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2657325">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2657325" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2657325" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2657325">Texas_Girl_in_LA</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2657325" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2657325" class="dsq-comment-message">"You were wrong"</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2656619">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2656619" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2656619" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2656619">Micheline</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2656619" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2656619" class="dsq-comment-message">Nothing wrong with saying your opponent is right about few things even if he is wrong 90% of the  time. We have been brainwashed by Bush and Fox that we have to see people either as with us  or against us.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2659508">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2659508" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2659508" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2659508">MsKitty</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2659508" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2659508" class="dsq-comment-message">The other side is really grasping at straws right now if this is their latest argument.  A little while ago I saw a McCain commercial and at the end was their new slogan, "Change is coming."<br><br>I practically fell off the couch laughing.  They want to talk smack about Obama while stealing his slogans at the same time.  What a joke.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2664130">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2664130" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2664130" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2664130">Michelle</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2664130" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2664130" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>Change is coming.</i><br><br>Wait a minute -- Wait a minute. <br><br>When Senator Obama is elected, change IS coming. <br><br>So hmmm, on that statement as its own, I have to say it: <br><br>"I agree with John."<br><br>Because -- <b>Change IS Coming.</b> It is true.<br><br>John McCain is just not the one bringing it.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2657376">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2657376" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2657376" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2657376" href="http://blog.evavegadiversity.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">evita</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2657376" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2657376" class="dsq-comment-message">John believes the war in Iraq stated in 2007...</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2657428">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2657428" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2657428" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2657428" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2657428" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2657428" class="dsq-comment-message">S, I see D shook you from his coattails and you can\'t hide your troll infection anymore.<br><br>Get a life, now that you have been exposed as the troll you really are.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 </ul>\
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