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Especially since Obama hasn't even WON the presidency, only accomplishing the admittedly tremendous feat of becoming the first black man to become a major party nominee.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_15:00:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1941597, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1947144": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "This is what the neighbor said:<br> <br>Sue Williams (12:31:50) : <br><br>To the person who commented on Sarah\u2019s hair - no, it\u2019s what happens when one has hair extensions - which Sarah, at one time, don\u2019t know about now, had.<br><br>Re: babygate - I don\u2019t know what\u2019s being reported. Here, however, is the truth. Trig is Sarah and Todd\u2019s baby. <br><br>When Sarah first learned she was pregnant, it was shocking and overwhelming. While she and Todd had not planned to have anymore children, it is common knowledge among their family and friends that neither of them ever surgically insured that they wouldn\u2019t have any \u201clate in life\u201d surprises/blessings.<br><br>This, to me, showed a disturbing lack of judgement. If you want to ask the citizens of a state to let you run the state for four years, to me she and Todd should have thought ahead and determined that the possibility of an unplanned pregnancy wouldn\u2019t have been prudent for either the child, their family, their extended family (who are the ones who end up helping them raise their current four children) or the citizens of the state.<br><br>They either didn\u2019t think this through, or didn\u2019t care. Not sure. But, either way, to me and to others, it was a lack of foresight and judgement.<br><br>But it is the same vein - this lack of judgement - Sarah showed, on the campaign trail for governor, when asked who would raise her children should she win, she promptly stated that Todd would quit his job and stay at home with the kids (Todd works a \u201cSlope\u201d week on/week off schedule).<br><br>Sarah was elected and then - whoops. Todd didn\u2019t like the stay at home gig - so Sarah, citing they needed money for the kid\u2019s college (even though Track enlisted in the military) said Todd was returning to work. When asked about her statements on the campaign trail about how Todd would quit his job, Sarah said she\u2019d actually never talked to him about what they would do if she was elected (in terms of his employment) and that she\u2019d spoken out of turn when she spoke for him stating he\u2019d quit his job.<br><br>Again, call me picky, but this is the kind of bizarre judgement Sarah routinely displays. Are you kidding me that she would run for governor and she and her husband would somehow not think to have a conversation about what to do with their four school aged kids? That\u2019s insane. So, either her judgement is super goofy, or she wasn\u2019t telling the truth. Either way, it\u2019s not reassuring to now think this is someone who would be one 72 year old heartbeat away from having to call shots for the country/world.<br><br>So Todd trots himself back to work and Sarah is busy traipsing around the state and the nation. The kids are \u201cfarmed out\u201d (this is the word used by thier associates in \u201cthe Valley\u201d) to family and friends to raise while Todd and Sarah are off having their respective careers (Sarah is famously quoted as saying, \u201cMy mom does whatever I need her to\u201d).<br><br>During this period is when Bristol, Sarah\u2019s sixteen year old daughter, turns up pregnant. So, it\u2019s kind of interesting to note that the Republican Vice Presidential Nominee and her sixteen year old junior in high school unwed daughter were carrying babies at the same time. Once Bristol\u2019s condition became more obvious this summer, she was whisked out of sight and hasn\u2019t been seen in public until yesterday in Ohio. This is why Trig\u2019s blanket was strung across her entire abdomen and torso, but, when she walked down the stairs from the stage, in a profile shot, it was very clear to see she is well into her third trimester of her pregnancy.<br><br>It has come out in the past couple of days that she and her high school boyfriend had a quickie wedding and that she is home schooling her senior year.<br><br>The Anchorage Daily News has known about this for months - and haven\u2019t touched the story. But I can\u2019t imagine the national press or the Democratic Party will be as willing to turn a blind eye.<br><br>For me, once again it speaks to judgement. We all - every single one of us - even Sarah\u2019s closest friends in the Valley (I know, I\u2019ve been speaking to them) know she is in no way qualified for this position. At all.<br><br>But then, why would she accept the nomination, knowing that Bristol\u2019s situation will come to light and knowing her hunger for national and international acclaim and attention will carry with it a mighty high price for her seventeen year old daughter who had absent parents last year and who turned up pregnant. <br><br>How embarrassing will it be for Bristol once the news (or the baby) comes out and not just the Valley, not just Alaska, not just the USA - but Bristol will be known the world over as the seventeen year old unwed - then quickly wed senior-in-high-school-homeschooled-teenage mom and daughter to the Republican Vice Presidential Nominee?<br><br>How hard will that degree of scrutiny and shame be?<br><br>How does one do that to one\u2019s daughter?<br><br>How does one dash about the country for the next 66 days trying to pull off an image of the devoted mother of five when she, by and large, isn\u2019t the one raising them and when one of them - her daughter, is in a truly vulnerable point in life; not to say anything about the needs of Trig. But maybe he doesn\u2019t count, except as a talking point or a photo prop. But this is a person, a little boy who is going to require a tremendous amount of time and attention. From his mother.<br><br>This is okay?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_22:15:33", "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": 1947021, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1947148": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Anovelista:   No excuses!   YOU JES GOOD!!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>ENOUGH!!!    :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_22:16:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1945544, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1945613": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You're right.  Either way they can just say it was decaf.<br><br>But the rest of the story still stinks!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_18:32:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1944442, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1945176": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "McCain has cancelled most events on Monday, only essential things will proceed.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_17:35:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "ruthdfw", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1948419": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "And this is the real story.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_00:50:51", "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": 1944831, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1945621": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Comment of the year from a reader on HufingtonPost:<br><br>MY RESUME FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION<br><br>I own a car, I regularly take the train, I live less than 20 miles from O'Hare (closer than Alaska is to Russia), and I once went on a cruise.<br><br>Given my qualifications, I would like to offer my services and expertise as the next Secretary of Transportation.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_18:34:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1947225": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This would be hilarous if it wasn't so sad.<br><br>A modern day self rightous Annie Oakley who has family members raise the five children that she CHOSE to have and one of them ends up a pregnant highschooler. A junior highschooler at that. The child isn't even a senior!<br><br>My heart goes out to Bristol. Can you imagine the HELL her ambitious parents are putting her through because she may have SCREWED up their chances for national political celebrity?", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_22:29:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "e6ff201b15d848b1b0261404221efe43", "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": 1947144, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1941528": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "This people magazine interview title illustrates how the Repubs think they can make history on the cheap.   A woman, ..any woman will do.  I'm inclined to think that they wanted Condoleeza  - to outplay the Dems.  She is a woman AND black, but nixed that idea because of her connection to Bush and her lack of interest.  How cynical they are.<br><br>It is disturbing how Palin responds when asked if she is ready to be Commander in Chief.....Yup, Yup..<br><br>Notice how McCain says he found her intelligent and \"..very well versed on the issues.\"  How can that be, when he met her only once?  We've discovered since then, that Sarah is anything but versed on the issues.<br><br>Cindy thinks Palin is an appropriate choice because of Alaska's proximity to Russia...<br><br>Sigh<br>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>John McCain & Sarah Palin on Shattering the Glass Ceiling<br><a href=\"http://www.people.com/people/article/0%2C%2C20222685%2C00.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,2022268...</a><br><blockquote><b>Mr. Palin, what does Sen. McCain need to know about working with your wife?</b><br>TODD PALIN: She's a hard worker and she's not wired normal. (Laughter)<br><br><b>Sen. McCain, of all the candidates you considered, what drew you to her?</b><br>JOHN: Obviously, <b>I found her to be very intelligent and very well-versed on the issues.</b> But I think the important thing was that she's a reformer. She's taken on special interests since she ran for the PTA and the city council and mayor. The courage, I guess, is what most impressed me.<br><br><b>Mrs. McCain, how much did you weigh in on this process?</b><br>CINDY MCCAIN: I was part of it. I was very enthusiastic [about Palin].</blockquote>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_14:05:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1942042": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<blockquote><b>\". . . she's not wired normal.\"</b></blockquote>Well, he got that right - and McCaint ain't \"wired normal\" either.  Ain't no need in me even commenting on the rest of that caca since both the McCaints are lying liars.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_15:03:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1941528, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1942447": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "There was a lot of talk about this earlier in the year; I read about the daughter leaving regular school to be 'homeschooled' or something when no one was paying attention to Palin, except for the brewing trooper scandal. This isn't a new story; it's only getting so much play now for obvious reasons.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_15:34:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1941112, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1947679": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Anovelista:    Or maybe   -    -    \"SUPER-FEM\"!!!!    :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_22:44:24", "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": 1941732, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1944787": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The baby rumor is going viral--it is on <a href=\"http://gawker.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">gawker.com</a> which is a top ten site on the web.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_17:00:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "9b5357398d793bfa66e0445fa113fd24", "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}, "1944617": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"HER MOOSE STEW!!!\"<br><br>\"Moose and caribou....\"<br><br>AHHHH  Hahahahahahahaha!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_16:41:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1944347, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1941034": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "This story becomes more of a mind f*ck as it procedes. <br><br>*Sorry GreenLady and others for the coarse words, but really I do not know how else to post this. I wasn't raised right.<br><br>LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_13:06:37", "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": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1946668": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Shoot, I weighed only a few ounces more than Trig when I was born (7 lbs, 20z), and according to my mother I was full term and she carried me like Sarah Palin allegedly carried Trig, but most people could tell my mother's belly bump, even though she wore those \"Jackie Kennedy\" sheath dresses until the last month of her pregnancy.  So, Trig, being over five pounds at birth is real suspect because most preemies weigh about three to four pounds and they're kept in the hospital for days after birth for observation and allow them to gain the required weight for them to be sent home on their own (5 lbs.)<br><br>My sister-in-laws (all three of them) called bullshyt the minute I sent them the link to this blog post and asked if it could be true.  Of course their smallest child (and all three of them have three kids each), topped out on average at 7 lbs.  They also said there's no way in hell their doctors would let them on board an airplane that close to delivery and if their water broke where they were out of town, hell, the baby was going to be born in whatever state they were in.  Doctor's orders on both sides of the aisle.<br><br>I think we all know bullshyt when its trying to be blown up our asses; even those of us who have never experienced childbirth.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_21:11:20", "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": 1944429, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1941561": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Wow CPL, you know you've made it big when you have your very own delusional Troll...  <br><br>So let me get this right...  Now McCain is the agent of change?  He is \"Change we can believe in?\"  The Change we need right now?  After almost 30 years in Washington he wants to be a change agent now?  Why wasn't he changing things back then?  Why wasn't he trying to change things while voting with Bush 90%+ of the time?  And not to mention the Keating 5 scandal (Of which dear senator was one of the five.)  Plus, Palin can't be for change when she comes with her own ethics scandal/investigation the first day she hits the campaign trail.  Palin is nothing more than Cheney in drag...  Ugh!  Okay, she's not as ugly as Lynne Cheney, but her lack of ethics and abuse of power ar \"Cheny-esque\" as Kerry put it yesterday.  So keephope alive and keep wishing, but this election is over. <br> \"Please welcome to the stage, President Barack Obama!!!\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_14:09:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "MotorCityBadBoy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1941123, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1946684": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Okay, this is hilarious. See the Sarah Palin decison tree regarding her water breaking and subsequent delivery<br><br><a href=\"http://img364.imageshack.us/img364/4628/sarahpalinla4.png\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://img364.imageshack.us/img364/4628/sarahpa...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_21:14:53", "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}, "1948741": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "blksista:   U R sooooo right on!!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_01:51:04", "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": 1944430, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1941574": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "This lie could have almost worked if she was on a private plane, but there's no way she labored for 12 hours on a commercial flight.<br><br>The screening tests are important regardless of whether you'd abort your baby.  Giving parents early notice of their child's condition gives them as much time to prepare for the more challenging situation.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_14:10:50", "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": 1941486, "depth": 6, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1941580": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The insurance companies want to throw women out after 1 day for a normal delivery, 3 days if cesarean delivery. I would like to know if Palin returned to work that quickly after the births of her other children. Although I must confess, it doesn't matter because I really don't buy this fairy tale. I just think this is a web of lies. I could really be wrong, but my gut says this is all bullshyt. Even so, I refuse to trust a woman who would endanger herself and her child to give a darn speech.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_14:11:19", "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": 1941447, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1942114": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "He got that right; she <i>is</i> a 'kindred spirit' in that she is as temperamentally and judgmentally unqualified to be president as he is.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_15:14:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1941306, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1944656": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Monie said: \"to fly for hours after her amniotic sac had ruptured, placing her and the infant at risk for infection.\"<br><br>Lets make that potential death. Add to this that the baby was almost 2 months pre-mature as well as birth defected, and the story becomes less and less believable.<br><br>I have read a couple of stories suggesting that she is nursing. I don't see how she can if she didn't have a baby, though I know it can be induced with chemicals. I think more women receive a pill to make thir milk dry up if they don't want to nurse, but there is also one to induce lactation.<br><br>The question is, if she believes in life, why did she try to kill her baby?<br><br>I hope the tabloids discover the truth. I don't think we know it yet.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_16:46:20", "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": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1942112, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1942097": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "There are currently 16 female U.S. Senators (35 have served to date) and 9 current female governors.  <br><br>There is currently one black governor and one black U.S. Senator (you know who - ha!).  Both are male of course.  <br><br>There has been one black female U.S. Senator and one black female Lieutenant Governor. <br><br><a href=\"http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/2008/01/all-the-women-2.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/20...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_15:11:37", "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": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1941755, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1942104": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Mind you, she was a runner-up for Miss Alaska and <a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/30/161025/924\" rel=\"nofollow\">she even lied about winning Miss Congeniality</a> in the Miss Alaska contest.<blockquote><b>In 1984, Palin won the Miss Wasilla beauty contest, then finished second in the Miss Alaska pageant, at which she won a college scholarship. In the Wasilla pageant, she played the flute and won \"Miss Congeniality.</b></blockquote>She seems to be a congenital liar, since she also lied that she didn't support Stevens's \"Bridge to Nowhere.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_15:12:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1941629, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1948249": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "waving back at ya!!!!<br><br>You are right the squeamish should not apply - so you will NEVER see my name on a ballot....LOL.<br><br>But I just think that  we have to be careful that we are not pushing a story that ultimately is not factual.  becasue right or wrong Obama is held accountable to some extent by what his \"fanatical\" supporters say or do.  You know that is how they portray us.<br><br>Also as some on Kos & Andrew Sullivan have pointed out, it is possible they can flip the switch and make her big \"reveal\", spin it in such a way that she comes out sympthatic as the mother trying to protect her daughter.<br><br>So I finally read most of the chronology of the birth, interesting that she left Dallas where we have the excellent Children's Medical Center among 3000 other hospitals and flew across country, where she bypassed two larger hospitals to have the baby at a facility where a friend worked.  My point is:  I agree this story looks odd.  As some have said she is either a liar or a questionable mother given the circumstances.  I don't have kids but I know a lot of women in my dept who put the brakes on flying at seven months.  Who the heck goes to work after three days????<br><br>At some point I would think the McCain campaign will have to respond, unless pressure and the hurricane pushes this story on the back burner.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_00:19:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "ruthdfw", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1945904, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1941597": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I have a question...  When did the glass ceiling for a black president get shattered?  I keep hearing from Palin about 18 million cracks in the glass ceiling for women, but I didn't know that black men had made it.  Maybe I'm missing something.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_14:13:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "MotorCityBadBoy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 24, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1942112": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "First, let me say if Sarah Palin claims that is her child, then as a citizen who had no previous knowledge of this woman  I have  to assume that is the truth.<br><br>However, if the story about Palin's flight back to Alaska  after her \"water broke\"  is true then I have to say, in my own opinion, that was a reckless decision.  And since she was already the mother to 4 other children, and well-informed about the labor process, there is no way she could have thought it was okay to fly for hours after her amniotic sac had ruptured, placing her  and the infant at risk for infection.  Most physicians will not allow a woman to be discharged from a hospital, let alone board an airplane after her water breaks.<br><br>Now, I will say that it is possible for  a woman's water to break, and her pregnancy may be  sustained but ONLY after a OB has given her antibiotics and additional care to slow down the labor process---even though it doesn't appear she consulted a physician.  Even if that was the case, there was still enormous risks  in Palin's situation because of the child's medical condition and the possibe medical attention this child may have needed due to complications.  I read that 50% of all Down Syndrome babies have heart defects.Many also have serious gastrointestinal problems.<br><br> And like I mentioned from a previous post, a friend of mine's daughter  was placed in the NICU for a period of time after her birth due to health problems associated with Dow'ns syndrome.<br><br>Regardless of where this story leads(and I'm sure tabloids are already at work), we still  have to mobilize our efforts in getting  people registered, encourage them to vote, and inform people of Obama's policies and how they contrast to the failed policies of George Bush and John McCain", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_15:14:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1941090": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Okay, now Huff Post has the audio of Palin laughing, like a child, as she appears on a shock jock radio show in AK. The DJ's are calling Palin's opponent a cancer, this woman who was a cancer surviror, and saying that she is a bad mother. Palin makes no attempt to change the discord.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/31/palin-laughs-as-opponent_n_122776.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/31/palin-...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_13:12:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "JJai", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1941604": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Great info, parker.<br><br>It just doesn't seem practical to me.  Her amniotic fluid would have continued to leak heavily while on the plane.  Once most of the fluid is gone, their would be a lot of weight and pressure on her pelvis, making it hard to even stand upright let alone walk.  Is Palin saying that she put her baby, herself, the flight crew and fellow passengers at risk by boarding a 9 hour flight  in full labour?...To what end?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_14:15:38", "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": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1941410, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1944678": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Of course its very likely that they just didn't announce the baby in the hosptial online registry.......but still.......there is an awful lot of smoke surrounding this:<br><br>Birth announcement in Anchorage newspaper<br><a href=\"http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/380134.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/380134.html</a><br><br>Birth calendar page from the hospital<br><a href=\"http://www.matsuregional.com/nursery/nursery_calendar.php?month=05&year=2008\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.matsuregional.com/nursery/nursery_ca...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_16:48:28", "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": 1942492, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1941243": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Beyond the fact that his untimely death was a tragedy for his family and friends, I really wish Russert was here to get up in Miss Alaska's shvt.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_13:32:10", "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": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1947758": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Parker, this reminds me of when I was Bristol Palin's age.  <br><br>I decided I was going to sleep with my BF; after all, all my friends were getting their freak on with their BFs, and I was feeling kinda left out.<br><br>Point is, I told my mother about my decision.  Instead of freaking out, she calmly nodded her head; yea or nay, I couldn't tell.<br><br>Next day, I'm called out of class by the principal; my mom came by the school to pick me up.  Thinking I had a \"get out school early\" card, I eagerly bounced to the car where my mom was waiting for me.<br><br>\"Where we goin'? \" I asked.<br><br>\"To the doctor\", my mom said.  \"Why?\" I asked.<br><br>\"Because if you're going to have sex, I'm getting you checked out and you're going on the pill.  I'm not having any grandbabies from you until you're married and out of college.\"<br><br>After the traumatizing pelvic exam (I was a virgin and didn't know what the hell to expect), the doc proceed to give me a lecture on how while I took the pill, I needed to insist my BF strap himself with a condom, , STDs, etc.<br><br>I got bored with the whole thing and told my BF if we had to do \"all that\" to sleep together, I wanted no part of it. <br><br>\"It's too much work\", I said.  And he agreed because his grandparents had him checked out, too.<br><br>All because our parents made it easy for us to talk to them about sex.  Mind you, this was back in 1979.<br><br>Sarah Palin has no excuse for keeping her kid so much in the dark that unplanned pregnancies and shotgun weddings are cropped up as a means of covering up.  Shyt...and that child has more advantages than I could ever think of.<br><br>No excuses.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_22:55:52", "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": 1947069, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1946737": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "For Real, 99%.  Edwards wasn't even in the running, and the Enquirer story broke - all the pundits could do was wax poetic about how Edwards' indiscretion was going to hurt Obama.<br><br>Obama supporters don't have to do any digging - like Rikyrah said, the National Enquirer is all over this one, and if there's any fire where there's smoke, they'll find it and the exposure has more potential to hurt McCain, because he'd have to pick another candidate, and since he's set precedent by picking a woman, the best way he's ensured the ReThug women stay home is to pick a man.  He would have to replace her with Kay Bailey Hutcherson or Christie Whitman, to make it legit.<br><br>Sort of like Bush and Katrina.  No matter how many times he does better in the rescue attempts, they will always be measured against Katrina, and he comes up short.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_21:20:51", "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": 1945904, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1941618": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Okay, <i>that</i> makes sense (about the screening) but the rest of this story does not.  It is definitely NOT passing the smell test.  Something is up...<br><br><a href=\"http://dailykos.com/story/2008/8/30/9336/15731/279/579413\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://dailykos.com/story/2008/8/30/9336/15731/...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_14:16:32", "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": 1941574, "depth": 7, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1941523": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "He asks her about her running everyday to stay in shape and she talks about running daily, even uphill and hiking, but not one time, not once, does she utter that she is supposedly 7 months pregnant at this time. That doesn't make sense. It would have been an obvious question by the interviewee if he had kinown, but you would think she would have at least made a cursory joke about having to slow it down a little - something, anything....but nothing? Nope, not buying this, just now buying this at all.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_14:04:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1941198, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1941112": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I don't like the rumors either.  After all, many pregnant women have been known to carry small so it's not impossible.<br><br>BUT...<br><br>Look at this picture of Sarah Palin on Super Tuesday of this year - February 5, 2008 - when she was 6 months pregnant.  <br><br><a href=\"http://media.adn.com/smedia/2008/03/09/01/307-3504041.standalone.prod_affiliate.7.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://media.adn.com/smedia/2008/03/09/01/307-3...</a><br><br>She announced that she was 7 months pregnant on March 5, 2008.  Her son Trig was born on April 18th.  I know that some women carry small but the rumor around Alaska was that the baby was really her 16 year old daughter Bristol's.  Bristol was out of school - allegedly due to mono - for the last 4 to 5 months of her mom's pregnancy.<br><br><br>Check out this article from The Moderate Voice (a conservative blog no less) <b> The Fully Vetted Sarah Palin</b> <a href=\"http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/sarah-palin/22236/the-fully-vetted-sarah-palin/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/sarah-pali...</a><br><br><br>   <i> \u2026the oldest girl is rumored to have actually been the one who had the last baby, the one with Down's Syndrome. She was taken out of school the last 4 or 5 months of her mother's pregnancy.<br><br>    On March 5th, 2008 Alaska's Republican Governor, Sarah Palin, announced to the media that she was 7 months pregnant with her 5th child. She is currently 44.<br><br>    Palin's daughter Bristol is 16 and attends an Anchorage high school. Students who have attended class with her report that she has been out of school for months, claiming a prolonged case of mono.<br><br>    Palin does not appear pregnant in any recent photographs. The announcement came as quite a shock to people who had worked closely with her, and have been quoted as saying that she did not appear pregnant whatsoever during the prior 7 months. While this is debatable, you can judge for yourself here: <a href=\"http://gov.state.ak.us/photos.php\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://gov.state.ak.us/photos.php</a> </i><br><br><b>    (Ed Note: That link has since died since we first looked at it. The pictures were removed today.)</b><br><br><br>Also, check out Update #1 from that post - an anecdote from Rachel Maddow that piqued the blogger's curiosity.<br><br><i>UPDATE: Reader johnkelley e-mails to remind me of a segment which I saw on MSNBC earlier. Rachel Maddow (yes, I know\u2026 I know) told what sounded like a completely obscure, irrelevant story about Palin giving birth to her last child. Apparently, as she noted, Palin's \"water broke\" while on an extended trip to Texas, but she hopped a plane back home immediately to give birth in Alaska, \"so desperate was she not to have her child born in Texas.\" Is Maddow on to something related to the first story in this piece but not ready to take it to the airwaves?</i><br><br>As we're all saying, it could be nothing - but the details of this story are weird!   Why scrub the web page?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_13:16:09", "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": 28, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1940973, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1941625": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I believe you are quoting the  WaPo quoting the McCain camp-- after the fact.  Of course they would spin it.<br>If you read more than FOX NEWS ONLINE you would know Lieberman was his number one choice but McCain's corporate masters didn't want a Pro Choice VP, even if he has been John McCain's wet nurse for the past few years.<br>The only change Palin owns is her son--or is it grandson's?-diaper.<br>And it is high time you change yours. Pooh........<br><br>Palin  mirrors McCain who mirrors Bush. She is a SAME agent.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_14:18:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "9b5357398d793bfa66e0445fa113fd24", "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": 1941123, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1944700": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Hey, Olbermann was a sportscaster, and he's turned out okay for our side!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_16:52:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "23de9ac7e837d26341deed0ba053ca99", "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": 1944403, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1941629": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "All of this so that little Trig could be \"Alaska born.\"  Mind you, Miss Alaska herself was not \"Alaska born.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_14:18:53", "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": 1941604, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1941630": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You aren't missing a darn thing. I've been wondering why there seems to be this belief that somehow white women have been short-changed so much more than black men. I really don't know where that fallacy stems from.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_14:19:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1941597, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1941123": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Palin (unlike Obama) was vetted, and was certainly not a <i>\u201cPanic Pick\u201d</i> - <a href=\"http://hotair.com/archives/2008/08/31/palin-no-panic-pick-wapo/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Palin no panic pick: WaPo</a>:<br><br><i>\u201cFar from being a last-minute tactical move or a second choice when better known alternatives were eliminated, Palin was very much in McCain\u2019s thinking from the beginning of the selection process, according to McCain\u2019s advisers. The 44-year-old governor made every cut as the first list of candidates assembled last spring was slowly winnowed. The more McCain learned about her, the more attracted he was to her <b>as someone who shared his maverick, anti-establishment instincts</b>.\u201d</i><br><br>McCain/Palin now <b>*OWN*</b> the \u201cChange\u201d and Reform and <b>Integrity</b> issues! Now, as far as McCain <i>\u201cstealing Obama\u2019s thunder\u201d</i> goes, it should be clear that Obama was headed down since his return from the <i>\u2018TOUR\u2019</i>. Obama \u2013 <b>the so-called reformer</b> - then picked a <i>\u201c35-year Washington insider as his running mate\u201d</i>. The DNC convention and Obama\u2019s speech were both disasters, and Obama\u2019s so-called <i>\u201cthunder\u201d</i> was then gone\u2026even with MSM desperately trying to help him keep it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_13:17:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "Karmi", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 9, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1946756": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You know this is an off-da-hook post when we can feature quotes from Mudbone.  LOL, I love it!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_21:23:40", "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": 1942259, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1947269": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": ":)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_22:30:36", "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": 1947148, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1948298": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Digital Journal is reporting that the photo in question was taken in April 2006 earlier this year as reported on KOS.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/259257\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/259257</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_00:27:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "ruthdfw", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1948249, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1941131": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The shock jock also made a reference to the woman being very obese.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_13:18:18", "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": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1941090, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1948821": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Now photos that show a pregant Parlin<br><a href=\"http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/31/234157/516/1017/581734#\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/31/234157/...</a>", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_01:54:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "ruthdfw", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1948298, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1946776": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "That is clearly from one of her earlier pregnancies (note the 80's hairdo).  <br><br>If she was showing this much when pregnant with one of her older kids, it makes it VERY unlikely that she would hardly show at all with baby #5.  Women tend to show more during subsequent pregnancies.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_21:26:18", "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": 7, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1946539, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1941148": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Exactly!  I have no problem believing that Palin could have worked out throughout her pregnancy.  However, no matter how active she is, she would have at least mentioned that her workout routine would have been adjusted because of her pregnancy.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_13:20:46", "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": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1940973, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1946783": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I asked a few mothers I know - specifically those that aren't online a lot and wouldn't follow this story.  When I mentioned the details, each one called bullshyt like your sister-in-laws.<br><br>If they hadn't made the baby and the circumstances of his birth a selling point for Sarah, it would be nowhere.  But they didn't...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_21:26:58", "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": 1946668, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1941683": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Re Palin/anti-choicers.  First, Palin. <br><br>The story about the baby being her daughter's has been in the news at least since she announced the birth of the baby.  As I posted elsewhere, the Palin as grandmother story continues to be published online with the rumor disclaimer; yet the Edwards story was dismissed as such as well.  In fact, on certain sites, those who tried to introduce the Edwards story into progressive blog dialogue, even after he suspended his primary campaign, were banned and/or labeled as repug trolls, and their entries/comments were scrubbed from sites.  Yet when the story moved from mere conjecture to verifiable truth, these same sites ended up with egg on their virtual faces.  Just realize that there could very well be as much truth to this as there is/was to the Edwards story that first appeared late last year in the <i>National Enquirer</i>.<br><br>Re anti-abortion/pro-choice.  As Obama likes to say, no one is <i>pro-abortion</i>.  I'm certain that the overwhelming majority of pro-choice people don't believe that abortion should be used as a form of birth control, nor do they believe in partial-birth abortions.  The differences between the two opposing sides are simply that most who are pro-choice believe that a woman ought to have right of decision, and that ultimately it is a private spiritual matter not between women and government, but God and women.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_14:25:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1946805": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yep, Jorge Bush will definitely be our President one day.  He is very handsome, too.  I wish we could be done with the whole family once and for all.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_21:32:25", "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": 1945486, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1944246": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<b>A Physican's Perspective on Palin's Leaking Amniotic Fluid</b><br><br>Check out the first comment from an Alaskan woman who says she was forced to do the opposite of what Palin supposedly did - drive TO Anchorage from Wasilla instead of the other way around because she was having a premature baby and the Mat-Su hospital has no NICU.<br><br>Everything we're questioning here was asked in Alaska from day one - but no answers of course.<br><a href=\"http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/08/palins-leaking-amniotic-fluid.php\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_15:56:09", "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": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1941683, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1941190": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Palin wasn't vetted worth a damn and everybody knows that.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/31/11597/0342/569/581165\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/31/115...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_13:25:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1941706": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I am so with you there. I just watched Meet the Press and they are shilling hard for Palin. Barely a mention of the Democratic convention.<br><br>We need to be on the street people, we are the only ones who will be pushing for us.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_14:28:40", "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": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1941243, "depth": 1, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1946317": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You got to love those series of tubes the internets<br>Sarah Palin at 7 months?<br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZHI4aHW0wU\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZHI4aHW0wU</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_20:20:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "djchefron", "has_been_anonymized": false, "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}, "1941198": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Wow, Alaska reminds me so much of winter mornings in Toronto.  <br><br>I couldn't get any audio on this ....but she does not look pregnant.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_13:26:17", "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": 1940973, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1942136": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I can understand why some feel uncomfortable about the grandma meme if only because it can be turned against us.<br><br>But I wouldn't dismiss it out of hand as just a nasty rumor because of what I previously posted downthread.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_15:18:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1941715": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "There is no glass ceiling for a Black President, it's titanium-plated concrete.  The Black guy was never supposed to become President, anyway.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_14:29:45", "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": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1941597, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1940694": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Good God, I hate to think how the media would roast Obama if Biden hadn't been properly vetted.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_12:27:08", "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": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1944794": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "So true, MotorCityBadBoy. And statistically, White women earn more than Black men & Black women. They don't care about cracking the ceiling for us. We have to crack it for ourselves. We have allowed them to promulgate this misinformation....Their beef should not be with us, it should be with their men and their system, but racism keeps them from seeing it.<br><br>2004 Median Annual Earnings by Race and Sex<br>Race/gender Earnings Wage ratio <br>White men $42,601 100.0% <br>White women 32,683 76.7 <br>Black men 31,732 74.5 <br>Black women 29,145 68.4 <br>Hispanic men 26,921 63.2 <br>Hispanic women 24,255 56.9 <br>All men  $41,667    <br>All women  $32,101    <br>Wage gap    77.0%", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_17:01:28", "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": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1941597, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1948380": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "They may release you after one day; however,Drs. recommend (and most women heed the advice) that you take it easy for six weeks.  I didn't after a delivery and almost hemmoraged to death.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_00:43:19", "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": 1941580, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1948026": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I don't think they make those glass slippers in <i>our</i> size. :-)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_23:41:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1947379, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1941218": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<b>Obama's vetting TEAM was vetted.</b><br><br><i>YES!</i>", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_13:29:42", "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": 1940876, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1941732": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Another point I just noticed - the baby was 6lbs 2 oz at birth!<br><br>Born 1 month premature at 6lbs 2oz to a 44-year-old who gave a keynote speech, rushed from the podium and  took at 10-12 hour commercial flight (with a stop in Seattle) and drove 50 miles to her hometown hospital to give birth and returned to work 3 days later. <br><br>Things that make you go Hmmmm....", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_14:31:35", "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": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1941231, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1941231": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "This whole thing just doesn't pass the smell test, it just doesn't . It makes no sense. No woman gets on an airplane for a 12 hour flight after her water breaks. No medical doctor, hell, not a veterinarian will say its okay for a woman in her last trimester to board a freaking plane AFTER HER WATER BREAKS. This is complete and utter lunacy. Who is buying this story, it just doesnt make any sense. Can you find even ONE woman in this country who has done that? Fly AFTER her water breaks? Only if she is in a life flight helicopter would that be the case. Something is truly not right here.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_13:30:40", "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": 23, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1941112, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1947379": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "TruthSeeker:  Just had to re-fix this \"glass ceiling\" concept in my mind, cause I really forgot it's history.   <br><br>Women in business<br>Women in business<br><br>Jul 21st 2005<br>From The Economist print edition<br><br>IT IS 20 years since the term \u201cglass ceiling\u201d was coined by the Wall Street Journal to describe the apparent barriers that prevent women from reaching the top of the corporate hierarchy; and it is ten years since the American government's specially appointed Glass Ceiling Commission published its recommendations. In 1995 the commission said that the barrier was continuing \u201cto deny untold numbers of qualified people the opportunity to compete for and hold executive level positions in the private sector.\u201d It found that women had 45.7% of America's jobs and more than half of master's degrees being awarded. Yet 95% of senior managers were men, and female managers' earnings were on average a mere 68% of their male counterparts'.<br><br>Ten years on, women account for 46.5% of America's workforce and for less than 8% of its top managers, although at big Fortune 500 companies the figure is a bit higher. Female managers' earnings now average 72% of their male colleagues'. Booz Allen Hamilton, a consulting firm that monitors departing chief executives in America, found that 0.7% of them were women in 1998, and 0.7% of them were women in 2004. In between, the figure fluctuated. But the firm says that one thing is clear: the number is \u201cvery low and not getting higher\u201d. <br><br>So women [especially white] capitalized on this \"glass Ceiling\" concept!!  <br><br>What about the \"GLASS SLIPPERS\"????   Can we get some of them????<br><br>NAAAW!  I've seen \"Cinderella!\"   :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_22:33:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1941528, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1941749": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I just watched that video.<br><br>She was drinking coffee and wearing heels!  Not pointy heels put still!<br><br>Shouldn't pregnant women avoid coffee? If not that sounds great to me because it means that I can keep drinking my coffee whenever I get pregnant!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_14:33:09", "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": 1941148, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1944822": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yes he's okay but no one is asking him to be VP!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_17:04:14", "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": 1944700, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1941239": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Listen, Senator McBush's selection of Governor Prop Palin(yeah, the lady is just that - a political prop) reeks of frivolity and recklessness, is all I have to say right now. My world is still reeling from the incredulity of this VP pick. <br><br>CLEARLY, this very, very old man has failed the first test as Commander in Chief. The next test, however, is ours - the American people. Will we reject this summarily? How serious are we about taking our country back from these GOP hoowinkers?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_13:31:38", "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": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1944826": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Obama supporters have to be careful with how far this gets pushed.  I think with it out there this loudly.  they can't ignore it and hopefully will at least be forced to \"address\" it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_17:04:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "ruthdfw", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1944787, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1941755": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "ITA. From a political aspect, compare the number of white, female governors and U.S. senators to black governors and U.S. senators, regardless of gender, and tell me who's running an uphill battle.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_14:33:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1941597, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1944831": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Exactly, <b>blksista</b>, because that's one thing the NE will do, especially with a murky, muckraking story like this.<br><br>Frank Rich's NY Times Op-Ed today lays out the case for distrusting traditional media: <a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/opinion/31rich.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&oref=slogin\" rel=\"nofollow\">Obama Outwits the Bloviators</a><blockquote><b>All week long a media chorus had fretted whether [Obama] could pull off a potentially vainglorious stunt before 80,000 screaming fans. Well, yes he can, and so he did.<br><br>But was this a surprise? Hardly. No major Obama speech \u2014 each breathlessly hyped in advance as do-or-die and as the \u201cthe most important of his career\u201d \u2014 has been a disaster; most have been triples or home runs, if not grand slams. <i>What is most surprising is how astonished the press still is at each Groundhog Day\u2019s replay of the identical outcome. Indeed, the disconnect between the reality of this campaign and how it is perceived and presented by the mainstream media is now a major part of the year\u2019s story. The press dysfunction is itself a window into the unstable dynamics of Election 2008.</i><br><br>At the Democratic convention, as during primary season, almost every oversold plotline was wrong.<br><br>On TV, each of these hot-air balloons was inflated nonstop right up to the moment they were punctured by reality, at which point the assembled bloviators once more expressed shock, shock at the unexpected denouement. They hadn\u2019t been so surprised since they discovered that Obama was not too black to get white votes, not too white to win black votes, and not too inexperienced to thwart the inevitable triumph of the incomparably well-organized and well-financed Clinton machine.<br><br><u>The main reason McCain knuckled under to the religious right by picking Palin is that he actually believes there\u2019s a large army of embittered Hillary loyalists who will vote for a hard-line conservative simply because she\u2019s a woman. That\u2019s what happens when you listen to the TV news echo chamber. Not only is the whole premise ludicrous, but it is every bit as sexist as the crude joke McCain notoriously told about Janet Reno, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton</u>.<br><br>Given the press\u2019s track record so far, there\u2019s no reason to believe that the bogus scenarios will stop now. The question of why this keeps happening is not easily answered. Ideological bias, unshakeable Clinton addiction and lingering McCain affection may not account for all or even most of it. Journalists are still Americans \u2014 even if much of our audience doubts that \u2014 and in this time of grave uncertainty about our nation\u2019s future we may simply be as discombobulated as everyone else.<br><br>We, too, are made anxious and fearful by hard economic times and the prospect of wrenching change. YouTube, the medium that has transformed our culture and politics, didn\u2019t exist four years ago. Four years from now, it\u2019s entirely possible that some, even many, of the newspapers and magazines covering this campaign won\u2019t exist in their current form, if they exist at all. The Big Three network evening newscasts, and network news divisions as we now know them, may also be extinct by then. <br><br>Andrew Rasiej, the founder of Personal Democracy Forum, which monitors the intersection of politics and technology, points out that when networks judge their success by who got the biggest share of the television audience, \u201cthey are still counting horses while the world has moved on to counting locomotives.\u201d The Web, in its infinite iterations, is eroding all 20th-century media.<br><br>The Obama campaign has long been on board those digital locomotives. Its ability to tell its story under the radar of the mainstream press in part accounts for why the Obama surge has been so often underestimated. Even now we\u2019re uncertain of its size. The extraordinary TV viewership for Obama on Thursday night, larger than the Olympics opening ceremony, this year\u2019s Oscars or any \u201cAmerican Idol\u201d finale, may only be a count of the horses. The Obama campaign\u2019s full reach online \u2014 for viewers as well as fund-raising and organizational networking \u2014 remains unknown. <br><br>As Obama said, this is a big election. We will only begin to confront the magnitude of our choice when and if we stop being distracted by small, let alone utterly fictitious, things.</b></blockquote>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_17:04:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1944430, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1941761": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I just watched that video.  She was also drinking coffee.<br><br>Weeks later she gives birth to a premature baby that weighs 6lbs and 2 oz after a 12 hour flight and 1 hour drive (traveling after her water broke!)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_14:34:32", "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": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1941523, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1941251": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I meant \"GOP hoodwinkers\" at the end there. T.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_13:33:34", "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": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1941239, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1946892": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "That first pic is making the strong case that Sarah Palin is a grandmother.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_21:42:35", "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": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1946776, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1941774": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "There seems to be some kind of correlation to the Hillary sniper fire story. Is she lying or did she put Chelsea in such grave danger in being in harms way? This reads the same.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_14:35:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "Lilytiger", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1941580, "depth": 6, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1945361": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Hispanic women earn LEAST of all people. [Aye, someone feel sorry for me please..]", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_18:00:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "evita", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1944794, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1941273": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Exactly right.  Something is off...<br><br>Aren't pregnant women prevented from flying once they hit 7 months?<br><br>Even on a private plane, you have no guarantees.  Your water breaks and you take a 12 hour flight and risk your baby's health and your own so they baby can be born in your home state?<br><br>And then you go back to work <i>3 days later?</i>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_13:35:39", "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": 11, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1941231, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1944347": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "We're not idiots, and neither are the American people.  Hopefully they will see through this prop and send her back to her moose stew.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_16:09:20", "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": 1944246, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1941722": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This is what gets me: Why would a woman who is such a hard-core pro-life advocate keep her pregancy a secret up until the 7th month? I understand women waiting at most 3 months to tell family and friends, but Palin didn't tell anyone until her 7th month. It sounds strange to me. <br><br>Still, while I find this story intriguing, I think us Obama supporters should focus more on McCain's lack of judgement in choosing her, instead of the issue surrounding this child's paternity.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_14:30:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1941792": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Wow.  just, wow.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_14:37:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "72b9a2be2c4a08c57671c94d1004cf88", "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}, "1945904": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "**Waves at Ruth**<br><br>Why do Obama supporters have to be careful? I'm just curious because, as has been posted elsewhere here, though it could conceivably be turned against the Obama campaign, the story has been out there, and is at least as old as the infant in question, though it has gotten so much play only since Friday since she was announced as repug VP.<br><br>Though traditional media are, as usual, ignoring the story, as it the Edwards story, with few exceptions, they haven't dominated the narrative during this campaign season anyway.  It has been proven that they have been wrong much more than they've been right.<br><br>There is as much of a possibility that this story is true as there was that the Edwards baby mama story was true.  As unsavory as it is, It is a story that deserves to be fleshed out or, at least, make the rounds if and until it dies down.  If there's no truth or the truth is unverifiable, it will die the usual internet death to be retired to the urban legends website soon enough.<br><br>Politics is a dirty business and war is hell; the squeamish need not apply.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_19:14:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1944826, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1946922": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "For real, the blogosphere has been the front line soldiers for Obama because the mainstream media sold their souls a long time ago. The internet has neutralized this race to the point that the GOP and their minions simply cannot get away with the same tactics or 2000 or 2004......its too vast, and Obama also has the financial resources along with the tech savvy to defeat Rove & Co. Mccain is his own worst enemy when it comes to the NOW.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_21:46:36", "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": 1946684, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1941469": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Karmi - please.  She was not vetted. Republicans in Alaska said she wasn't vetted.  <br><br>regarding McCain/Palin owning the change, reform and integrity issues -- clearly you haven't read the articles below from the Alaskan newspapers otherwise you would not say the words, change or integrity.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_13:58:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1941123, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1941808": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "CPL,<br><br>I'm leaving this to the National Enqirer. I'm sure they have folks crawling around Alaska right now.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_14:39:47", "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": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1944882": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Lightly observe it for its boredom factor; I usually have it on the tube but the sound is usually muted.  The schedule for tomorrow includes speeches by Shrub and Darth the Shooter.  <br><br>They put on a very boring show with one or two token blacks paraded on stage to represent the black neo-con side, as a portrayal of the people's party. It ain't gonna be a rocking affair like the Dem confab, that's for sure but, IMO, progressives should keep an eye on it for at least a small portion of each convention day.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_17:10:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1940907, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1941306": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "At 11 a.m. on Thursday, at the McCain vacation compound near Sedona, Ariz., Mr. McCain invited Ms. Palin to join him on the ticket. He hardly knew her, and she had virtually no foreign policy experience, but Ms. Palin was a \u201ckindred spirit,\u201d a McCain adviser said. Mr. McCain was betting, the adviser said, that she would help him reclaim the mantle of maverick that he had lost this year.<br><a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/us/politics/31reconstruct.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/us/politics/3...</a><br><br>McCain is such a dumb azz, I mean a straight up dumb azz.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_13:40:12", "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}, "1941308": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "From Anchorage Daily News in March.  Palin told the paper the baby was due in mid-May.  He was born on April 18th and she went back to work 3 days later.<br><br>Secret's out: Palin pregnant<br>SEVEN MONTHS ALONG: Even her staff was unaware that the first family was expecting a fifth child.<br><br>By WESLEY LOY<br><a href=\"mailto:wloy@adn.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">wloy@adn.com</a><br><br>(03/06/08 00:02:35)<br><br><a href=\"http://www.adn.com/front/story/336402.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.adn.com/front/story/336402.html</a><br><br>JUNEAU -- Gov. Sarah Palin shocked and awed just about everybody around the Capitol on Wednesday when she announced she's expecting her fifth child.<br><br>The governor, who recently turned 44, told a handful of reporters as she was leaving work to expect a new member of the first family, then headed to a reception at the Baranof Hotel to feast on king crab.<br><br><b>Palin said she's already about seven months along, with the baby due to arrive in mid-May.</b><br><br>That the pregnancy is so advanced astonished all who heard the news. The governor, a runner who's always been trim, simply doesn't look pregnant.<br><br>Even close members of her staff said they only learned this week their boss was expecting.<br><br>\"I thought it was becoming obvious,\" Palin said. \"You know, clothes getting snugger and snugger.\"<br><br>But people just couldn't believe the news.<br><br>\"Really? No!\" said Bethel state Rep. Mary Nelson, who is close to giving birth herself.<br><br>\"It's wonderful. She's very well-disguised,\" said Senate President Lyda Green, a mother of three who has sometimes sparred with Palin politically. \"When I was five months pregnant, there was absolutely no question that I was with child.\"<br><br>Having a baby as governor has happened elsewhere, but it's rare. The former acting governor of Massachusetts, Jane Swift, in 2001 was the first governor in office to give birth when she delivered twin girls.<br><br>Palin beamed as lawmakers, Cabinet members and others came by to congratulate her at the Baranof reception, a legislative event Kodiak officials sponsor annually.<br><br>Her husband, Todd, was there holding the couple's sleepy 6-year-old daughter Piper in his arms.<br><br>Palin said she's not aiming to take any time off from her job as governor, assuming all goes well with the pregnancy. She said when she had Piper -- Palin was mayor of Wasilla at the time -- the baby was born on a Monday and she returned to the office on Tuesday.<br><br>\"I've always been a believer that God's not going to give us anything that we cannot handle,\" Palin said.<br><br>Todd Palin, a BP oil field worker currently on leave from his job, said he's thrilled to be headed toward five-time fatherhood.<br><br>\"I'm really excited,\" he said. \"Every child you get from God. The more the merrier.\"<br><br>Aside from Piper, the Palins have three other children: Track, 18, serving in the U.S. Army at Fort Wainwright in Fairbanks; Bristol, 17, a high school junior; and Willow, 13.<br><br>Palin, a Republican, was elected as Alaska's first female governor in 2006 and took office in December of that year.<br><br>She's kept a hectic schedule in recent days, traveling last week to the National Governors Association conference in Washington, D.C., followed by a trip to Los Angeles on Monday for a Newsweek magazine conference also featuring Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano. The magazine profiled the two in its Oct. 15 \"Women & Power\" issue.<br><br>With Palin riding extraordinarily high popularity ratings, pundits have mentioned her as a potential vice presidential candidate. But she said Wednesday night she's \"not pursuing or perpetuating it,\" adding, \"I have no desire to leave my job at all as governor.\"<br><br>Palin said she decided to reveal the pregnancy after she felt the signs were giving her away, like doing less running this winter and being \"ravenously hungry.\"<br><br>She's known as a fashion plate, but said she hasn't been dressing differently to cover her barely perceptible bulge.<br><br>Palin noted another Alaska governor welcomed a new baby to his family while in office -- Mike Stepovich, who served as territorial governor in the late 1950s.<br><br>Having kids and serving as governor are entirely compatible, she said.<br><br>\"To any critics who say a woman can't think and work and carry a baby at the same time, I'd just like to escort that Neanderthal back to the cave,\" Palin said.<br><br>Then the expectant governor turned to greet more well-wishers.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.adn.com/front/story/336402.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.adn.com/front/story/336402.html</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_13:40:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1941231, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1944381": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That explains Palin's strong stance on homeschooling - it's those horrible public schools that get girls pregnant, not their abstinence-only teaching parents.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_16:14:20", "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": 1942447, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1940810": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I certainly hope that the Governor of a state and a potential next Vice President of the United States would not place her entire family, including innocent children, in a web of lies this tawdry.  If Trig is not her son, the Governor must have asked medical professionals, her gubernatorial staff, and friends and family to lie in order to save face and maintain this untenable anti-birth control, abstinence only stance.<br><br>This type of lie would immediately disqualify Palin from McCain's ticket, as it goes to her character, integrity, and human decency.<br><br>Between the swirling questions about Palin's son/grandson and the adoptive daughter the McCains keep in seclusion, it's pretty clear that the Democratic Party now represents real family values in this country.  Tellingly, the Obama children and Biden children and grandchildren all know who their father and grandfather are.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_12:41:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "60266805bc0d9559a62514e1e769b750", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1950541": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I can't find the post that contained the \"Mudflats\"\" article  -  Sarah Palin's Vetting Problems.   But - no matter- 'cause i just LIKED the use of some terminology, as follows:<br><br>1.  The author described waking up on that \"SURREAL MORNING\" - Friday  :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>2.  Then he/she said something about Palin's several \"open gates\"  -   Troopergate, Bridge Gate, Baby Gate!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>3.  First time that I have EVA seen the word   \"SMARMIEST!\"<br>Sooooo, I took a little field trip\" to the dictionary!   :&gt;)  :&gt;)  :&gt;)<br><br>I find it to be a cool word!!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>Smarmiest/smarmy:  1.  marked by a smug, ingratiating or false earnestness<br>                                      2.  Of low sleazy taste or quality.<br><br>O.K. ENOUGH of my musings.  I like HUMOR/SARCASM & \"cool\" WORDS!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)   :&gt;)    :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>Oh!! Look at the time!!    :&gt;)    :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_02:35:55", "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}, "1944400": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"I've always said that black women are judged first by their skin color;\"<br><br>Truer words could not be spoken. If you've listen to the way the mainstream media has characterized the Democratic primary (and now, still the general race), the point is validated.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_16:16:31", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1941978, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1941330": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You think people are stupid?  You think anyone will forget that McCain votes with George Bush 95% of the time, but Palin will somehow eliminate that fact?<br><br>With this sad attempt to gain some \"change\" cachet, this pick has undermined McCain's judgment.  It paints him as cynical and irresponsible.   It shows him to be erratic.  It horrifies feminist-minded women.  Feminist-Minded women do not want the first female VP nominee to be a backward, religious fanatic.  Even the pundits were quietly appalled.  It shows that Republicans have come undone...they have wet themselves.   <br><br>This pick intensifies and highly contrasts Obama's stellar qualifications.<br><br>Yesterday, Obama and Biden spoke before a crowd of about 20,000.  This is after his 84,000 acceptance speech.  Think about  that.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_13:44:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1941123, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1944403": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<b>Sarah Palin: From TV Sports Anchor To Vice Presidential Candidate</b><br><br>Check out the video from 1988 of Sarah Palin (then Heath) as a local sportscaster (not even a <b>news</b>caster!)<br><br>Barack Obama was already a community organizer working on tenant's rights at this time and was entering Harvard Law School.  Michelle Obama graduated from HLS that year.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/30/sarah-palin-from-tv-sport_n_122676.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/30/sarah-...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_16:16:47", "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": 1941808, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1944404": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "That 6 lb, 2 oz. baby was not premature, does not have Down Syndrome, and is not Sarah Palin's.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_16:16:53", "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": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1941732, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1973591": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Great post. Kind of off topic, but during the primaries I noticed during the primaries a lack of knowledge among some feminist about Jim Crow.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_03:42:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "malletgirl02", "has_been_anonymized": false, "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": 1941978, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1940826": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "It's pretty obvious that McCain, being the entitled jerk that he is, thought it was beneath him to vet his VP choice. Let the black guy jump through hoops, do the right thing, follow the rules. Me? I don't have to do any of that! I'm \"The Maverick.\" Who cares? <br><br>This whole thing is so typical it makes me want to scream. There's one set of rules for the white guy and another for the black guy.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_12:42:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "245857794a8d4da90a73fbb64352b916", "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}, "1944422": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Damn.....you're right....wow, there is just too much pointing out the obvious here.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_16:19:33", "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": 1941761, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1948519": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "delfinajones:  Now I wonder if LIEberman will be at the Convention?   Or, will he RSVP his REGRETS due to INCLEMENT WEATHER -OR- a sinus infection _OR- an allergy -to Gov. Palin -OR- ?????   Will he tell the TRUTH for once and say to \"McAncient\":  You STR8 DISSED me so FU!!!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_01:18:20", "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": 1941625, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1944429": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "LOL!<br><br>My mother just told me that I was 6lbs 14 oz when I was born.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_16:20:50", "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": 1944404, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1944430": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The moment some newspaper or magazine comes up with the birth certificate of the child...and it's the kid's child and not the mom's...it's OVAH.<br><br>I'm waiting on the <i>National Enquirer</i> to fulfill what the MSM used to call <i>\"investigative reporting\"...</i>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_16:21:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "blksista", "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": 1941273, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1945455": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "*<i>There is no glass ceiling for a Black President, <b>it's titanium-plated concrete</b></i>.<br><br>Preach!!! I could not have said it better myself!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_18:12:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "JunePearl", "has_been_anonymized": false, "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": 1941715, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1951607": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The truth may be some combination of the above speculation.. I found commenter \"Sue Williams\" to be very interesting on this thread:<br><br><a href=\"http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/08/30/off-to-the-land-of-palin/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/08/30/off-to...</a><br><br>Could Bristol be pregnant presently?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_02:39:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "552f91ca407d55be3c988cc7adb928a2", "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}, "1941368": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Most airlines require a letter from your doctor for their own files..but Alaska Airlines has not such clause. However, did you know she didn't even go to a hospital in Anchorage where they landed? Nope, she then went back to the little hospital in Wasilla......yep, an hour's drive away, a hospital without a neo-natal intensive care unit. This shyt does not add up. Even if this is her child, I don't want anyone so careless even near the presidency of the USA.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.adn.com/626/story/382864.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.adn.com/626/story/382864.html</a><br><br><a href=\"http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/30/9336/15731/279/579413\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/30/9336/15...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_13:48:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1941273, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1944442": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "yep, caffeine should be avoided while pregnant. But, it could have been decaf. Just playing devil's advocate.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_16:23:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "JJai", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1941749, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1948542": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "MCBB:   \". . delusional troll. . . \"   SEEEEE!!!  LMAO!!!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_01:22:43", "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": 1941561, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1942404": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Exactly.  I can't wait to get back out there.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_15:28:15", "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": 1941706, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1949063": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Lilytiger:  U most certainly were \". . . raised right . . .\"  Didn't I see the word SORRY??<br><br>Your spelling   -   that would be \"PH\" instead of \"F\".    :&gt;)      :&gt;)      :&gt;)      :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_02:13:08", "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": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1941034, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1940876": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Please, Obama's vetting TEAM was vetted. Remember the guy that WAS on the committee with Caroline Kennedy and Eric Holder?? <br><br>That old adage that we must be \"twice as good\", is not even close to what Obama must be for this political race. He has to have every aspect of this campaign vetted.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_12:47:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1940694, "depth": 1, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1947021": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Bristol is PREGNANT now!!! A neighbor has confirmed it. If you look at the People magazine pictures there is a bump. Also she has been seen wearing a wedding band. Evidently this was a quickie marriage because her mom was going to be mcsame's vp. <br>So, Trig is sarah's child, but her 17 yr old high school daughter got pregnant by bf and had a shotgun wedding.<br>Remember sarah preaches abstinence and not birthcontrol.<br><br> I swear you can't make this shit up, lol.<br><br>Here is the link. Look for Sue Williams<br><br><a href=\"http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/08/30/off-to-the-land-of-palin\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/08/30/off-to...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_21:58:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "e6ff201b15d848b1b0261404221efe43", "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": 1946892, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1945486": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I feel sorry for you, Evita, but in the near future, Hispanic will be the new white (as long as you don't look too Indian or Black). George Bush III is waiting in the wings to begin his political future and he is half Hispanic (and very handsome).<br><br>Si se puede.<br>Obama/Biden 08", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_18:15:06", "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": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1945361, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1944464": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "yeah, my friend avoided having the amnio because she knew she wouldn't abort and that they can sometimes have faulty information. Thus, she wanted to avoid any undue stress.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_16:27:04", "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": 1941486, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1942510": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm not sure I'm going to put too much stock in this. Yes, the timing does seem awkward, but I'm satisfied with arguing the other hundreds of other legitimate reasons this woman should be no where near the White House.<br><br>That said, when I first heard this story--one, I thought it sounded an awful lot like a storyline from the last season of \"Desperate Housewivves\" and two, that it'd be ironic that McSame brought up <a href=\"http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20167059,00.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Britney Spears, first</a>.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_15:41:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "nctodc", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1942259": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "This whole she's been vetted argument is as dumb as the one in which y'all repugs claim that she's got more executive experience than the Dems' presidential nominee.  She's been no more vetted than I am Queen Elizabeth.<br><br>To quote the late Richard Pryor's Mudbone, \"he say she do\" but that doesn't make it so and I don't care what any corporate media shill says.<br><br>I can't even wrap my mind around anyone saying that McCaint is a person of integrity and an agent of change. I just watched the movie 'Uncounted' again and it reiterated to me that the repugs - most all of them - are lousy thieves.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_15:23:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1941123, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1945496": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Anovelista, I need to get on your level. You find info with the quickness.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_18:16:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "JunePearl", "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": 1942097, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1948569": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "TEACH!   TEACHA!!!   :&gt;)     :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_01:28:21", "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": 1944794, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1941410": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "After her water broke, during this 12 hour flight:<br><br>1.  She would have been in labor.  Her contractions would have varied in intensity, but she would have been in labor, nonetheless.  It would have been very difficult for her to labor while seated (with her seat belt fastened);<br>2.  She and the baby would have needed monitoring of their heart rates, her temperature, etc;<br>3.  Since the baby was known to have special needs, it would have been necessary to monitor him more closely than an otherwise healthy baby; and,<br>4.  Because the sac of water protecting her son had broken, both mom and baby would have been at serious risk for infection.  If not treated, this type of infection could lead to sepsis and stillbirth of the baby.<br><br>This was a commercial flight.  Even if she was seated in first class, it would have been difficult for her to labor for 12 hours without attracting someone's notice.<br><br>Even if everything went smoothly for Palin as she labored for 12 hours on a commercial flight, it is very unlikely that she and baby Trig would have been released from the hospital in 3 days.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_13:52:10", "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": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1948580": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "evita:   Hang in there girrrrrll!!   U gonna B awww-ite!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_01:32:21", "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": 1945361, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1940907": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Along these lines...will JJP be watching and providing commentary on the Republican Convention? I want to stay informed, but I really do not want to watch yet another batch of lies on verbal parade. I may end up watching Palin and if I'm in a good mood, then McCain as well, but otherwise...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_12:50:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "JunePearl", "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}, "1941932": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LOL, but this is probably going to pan out one way or the other, just like the Enquirer story on John Edwards' baby mama.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_14:50:21", "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": 1941808, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1946539": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=117egpk&s=4\" rel=\"nofollow\"><br>Behind the scenes when Sen. McCain announced Gov. Palin as his running mate.  YOU TELL ME which one of these women just had a baby...</a><br><br> <br><a href=\"http://members.aol.com/gregindel/pregnantpalin.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">Also, here is a picture of Gov. Palin when she was pregnant  ( I have no verification of when or where this pic was taken.  It was posted in comments on i-report</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_20:55:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "isonprize", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1941423": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Miss Opinion - I don't get that this was a black/ white thing.  I think it was a pandering stupidity thing.  McCain wanted Liebermann but conservatives wouldn't support him without Palin.  <br><br>Bottom line he put personal gain over judgement on what was right for the country.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_13:53:05", "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": 1940826, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1945523": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Please don't say \"brothers\" like the issue of racism doesn't effect every Black woman and child too. It's a trap to continue to weaken our communities. Don't fall for it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_18:20:23", "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": 1942014, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1944503": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Sarah Palin and Feminists for Life<br>By Ruth Rosen, AlterNet<br>Posted on August 30, 2008, Printed on August 31, 2008<br><a href=\"http://www.alternet.org/story/96991/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.alternet.org/story/96991/</a><br>Many people are unfamiliar with Feminists for Life and wonder what the choice of Sarah Palin, who is against abortion rights, signals to the electorate.<br><br>Well, let me tell you something about Feminists for Life. In 2003, I decided to investigate this group and its energetic leader, Serrin Foster. What did it mean, I wondered, to be a feminist and actively fight against the right to choose when or whether to have a child?<br><br>So I went to a church in sprawling, suburban, wealthy Danville, California to hear Serrin Foster, president of Feminists for Life, speak on \"The Feminist Case Against Abortion\" to a huge crowd of mainly high-school students.<br><br>Founded in 1972, one year before the U.S. Supreme Court handed down the historic Roe vs. Wade decision that made abortion legal in the United States, Feminists for Life now focuses exclusively on practical alternatives to abortion for college-age women.<br><br>No woman, argues Foster, should ever have to choose between having a child and a career. \"Abortion is a reflection that society has failed women,\" she tells high school and college students as she tours the country.<br><br>\"Women deserve better choices,\" she says and points to practical alternatives and resources available to a young woman who has an unwanted pregnancy. She can choose single parenthood and use food stamps or temporary assistance to needy families. She can choose adoption. Or, college-age women can pressure school campuses to offer child care and family housing so that they never, ever, have to choose between a pregnancy and an education.<br><br>Feminism is all about having choices, Foster told me, after her talk. I couldn't agree more. Young women, she says, should have the right to bear a child and have access to high-quality, affordable child care. Again, I heartily agreed.<br><br>But Foster is cleverly disingenuous. When I asked what she does to promote child care, her answers were vague and evasive. When I read the organization's brochures aimed at campus physicians and psychologists, I found nothing about campaigning for child care. The real goal is to convince professionals to persuade young women to \"choose\" to bear a baby.<br><br>Despite its protestations, Feminists for Life is not really about choice. You can see this on its Web site, where the slogan \"refuse to choose\" appeared repeatedly. Nor does the organization challenge the real difficulties working mothers face. Instead, it cleverly appropriates the words \"feminist\" and \"choice\" to convince young women that abortion is always an unacceptable choice.<br><br>Part of the problem is that Foster either does not know her history or purposefully distorts the past. She spoke that night as though she had invented the idea of child care and describes pioneer feminists of the 1960s and 1970s as selfish, diabolical creatures who never wanted women to have the choice to bear a child.<br><br>But she's wrong. The three demands made at the first national march in New York City in 1970 included child care, equal pay for equal work and the legal right to \"choose\" an abortion. Many feminists, moreover, spent years trying to persuade the institutions where they worked that real equality for women required family-friendly policies, including child care.<br><br>Foster also accused Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice America of supporting abortion in order to stay in business. But I had to wonder about her own financial goals when I saw, in the organization's magazine, that I could buy a \"stunning new logo pin\" in either sterling silver or 24-carat gold for $75.<br><br>In the end, I decided that Feminists for Life is neither about feminism nor about choice. It is a cunning attempt to convince young women that choice means giving up the right to \"choose.\"<br><br>Sarah Palin is the inexperienced woman Sen. John McCain has chosen as his running mate, hoping that she will attract the vital female vote.. It's the worst kind of affirmative action, choosing a person he barely knows, who is completely unprepared to assume any national office. It's like nominating Clarence Thomas for the Supreme Court. It's all about ideology and not about competence.<br><br>To put it bluntly, Sarah Palin is no Hillary Clinton. Nor does she have the vision and brilliance of Barack Obama. This is an incredible insult to most American women. Just how stupid does he think we are? <br><br>Ruth Rosen is a historian and journalist who teaches public policy at UC Berkeley. She is a senior fellow at the Longview Institute. <br><br>\u00a9 2008 Independent Media Institute. All rights reserved.<br>View this story online at: <a href=\"http://www.alternet.org/story/96991/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.alternet.org/story/96991/</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_16:34:19", "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}, "1948602": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "99% Sure:   Yeah he wanted LIEberman.  It looks more SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE for him ta WHISPER in \"McAncient's\" EAR during press conferences than it does for the Beauty Queen Contestant!!!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>Additionally, the other/older Beauty Queen Contestant might put a \"beat down\" on the younger BQC for whispering in her man's ear 2 much!!    :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_01:38:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1945059, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1947069": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Absitnence only does not work.  Kids like to have sex.  It feels good.  Put your fast a$$ daughters on the the freaking Pill.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_22:05:02", "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": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1947021, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1945537": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Co to the sign-Cosign!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_18:23:02", "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": 1941978, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1941447": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "What happens in the States when women give birth?  I can't imagine a woman giving birth and being sent home the same day in order to return to work the following day.<br><br>Nurses observe a new mother over 2 days to ensure their bowels are functioning...in fact, the doctor will not authorize a woman be released if she is not eliminating properly.  That requires the woman stay in the hospital for at least a couple days after the birth.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_13:55:46", "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": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1941308, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1945544": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Thanks.:)<br><br>I'm a writer so research is actually fun for me.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_18:23:53", "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": 1945496, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1947084": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Wonder how the repubs are going to spin this? This is getting FUNKY!!!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_22:07:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "e6ff201b15d848b1b0261404221efe43", "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": 1947069, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1941455": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I can't imagine any OB feeling comfortable delivering a premature, Down Syndrome baby without a NICU.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_13:56:59", "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": 1941368, "depth": 5, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1941978": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Both affirmative action and the feminist movement in this country have always benefitted white women more than black men and women.  Political scientists and sociologists have documented that white women have benefited more from affirmative action than any other group of so-called oppressed peoples.  This is another reason why I remain unimpressed/uninvolved in celebrating women's suffrage, especially when you factor in that black people as a whole didn't get the right to vote until 43 years ago, with the 1965 Voting Rights Act.  Elderly black women particularly still tell stories of white women not allowing them to leave work to vote, or preventing them through various machinations from voting, well after the Women's Suffrage Act.<br><br>I've always said that black women are judged first by their skin color; therefore, our fight always has been and always will be first and foremost against racial inequality.  As an example, generally white women are paid a higher wage than black women (well, except for O!) and, on average, the glass ceiling is much easier shattered by white women, i.e., Ferraro, Clinton, and Palin.  <br><br>Remember too that, as of today, the only black woman ever to serve in the US Senate is Carol Mosely Braun and, since Reconstructon, there has only been 2 black men serving as US Senators - Brooke and Obama!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_14:55:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1941630, "depth": 2, "points": 3, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1942491": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Obama was vetted by over 18 million Americans in open elections. Sorry your first sentence doesn't pass the smell test.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_15:39:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "afroacademic", "has_been_anonymized": false, "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": 1941123, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1942492": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "There was talk and string of questionable events that led to the speculation long before the veep stuff.  All detailed in this thread with links. <br><br>Something is fishy with the story.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_15:39:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1942447, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1947613": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "99% Sure:   Co-signing!!!!   :&gt;)  :&gt;)<br><br>Just posted that when this \"bra burning\" phenomenon was in vogue, I just \"WALKED ON BY\"  [Dionne Warwick]  :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>Besides, I wasn't planning to do a \"Waiting To Exhale\" on my own clothes!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)  They cost 2 much!!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_22:40:10", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1941978, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1948642": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "JJai:  This is true [avoiding the amnio].  However, PERHAPS she just wanted ta know [like the National Enquirer :&gt;) ] so that they could mentally prepare for  such a possibility.<br>I'm just giving an \"outside\" possibility. [real \"outside\" - maybe of her body!   :&gt;)]", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_01:48:18", "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": 1944464, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1945059": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "McCaint wanted Uncle Joe Lie - the religious right forced Palin on him.<blockquote><b>[T]he McCain campaign was just as bamboozled as the press by the false Hillary narrative. McCain was obviously itching to choose his pal Joe Lieberman as his running mate. A onetime Democrat who breaks with the G.O.P. by supporting abortion rights might have rebooted his lost maverick cred more forcefully than Palin, who is cracking this particular glass ceiling nearly a quarter-century after the Democrats got there first. Lieberman might have even been of some use in roiling the Obama-Hillary-Bill juggernaut that will now storm through South Florida.<br><br><i>The main reason McCain knuckled under to the religious right by picking Palin is that he actually believes there\u2019s a large army of embittered Hillary loyalists who will vote for a hard-line conservative simply because she\u2019s a woman.</i><br></b></blockquote>This is why she wasn't vetted and this is why I maintain that Princess McCaint will publicly \"act out,\" at some point because the one true power that the party nominee normally has is that of choosing his running mate.  The fundies took that away from him - ergo, the Dayton OH locale where Dr. James Dobson is held in such high esteem.  He's not happy about Palin, as evidenced by his nonsensical comments, and sooner or later we will know it because that is his temperament.  He didn't get his way and his temperamental instability will be demonstrated for all and sundry to see, since he has a distinct inability to stay on message, even when it's one he's previously espoused.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_17:23:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1940826, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1941476": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Exactly. McCain clearly has no interests in putting the interests of the country first. He has shown that he could give a rat's azz about our safety or well-being.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_13:59:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1941239, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1948135": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "TruthSeeker:  DANG!!!  [She says stamping the floor with those size 1 \"glass slippers and \"breaking\" them!!!  ]   :&gt;)    :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_00:00:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1948026, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1941370": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "lol no problem Lilytiger.  lolol", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_13:48:24", "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": 1941034, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1947628": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "parker404:  Truth!!!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_22:41:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1941715, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1940973": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I honestly don't like the rumor-mongering about the child/grandchild, but this story is just bothering me. All aspects of this story are just not adding up. I watched this video and was on the brink of saying this is all just a nasty rumor, she could certainly be pregnant, then realized while she was talking to the interviewer about exercising, she never once mentioned what should have been her condition at the time. Its just very strange for a pregnant woman who is talking about running and hiking everyday to not mention any adjustments because of the obvious, I've just never seen that before. See for yourselves:<br><a href=\"http://admissiblebanter.blogspot.com/2008/08/bristol-palin-is-trigs-momwatch-video.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://admissiblebanter.blogspot.com/2008/08/br...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_12:59:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 37, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1941486": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "A 12-hour commercial flight (with a stop in Seattle) and a 1 hour drive for a 44-year-old woman carrying a baby she knows has Down's Syndrome?<br><br>Also, the Daily Kos article makes a good point: Palin is opposed to abortion in all cases. So, why was she having the tests done (for Downs Syndrome, etc.)?<br><br>If you're opposed to abortion, does it matter what is going on with the baby? If you're pregnant you're pregnant, right?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_14:00:42", "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": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1941368, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1948148": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You got that right, <b>CPL</b>.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-01_00:02:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1946737, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1947127": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "parker404:   Speaking of \"SCRUBBED\" Wiki's:    That airplane flight has been cut back to 8 [NO MINUTES-  just STR8] HOURS!!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>So, you must know that one of us is going to haul her narrow gluteus over to some airline(s) and trace routes for range of hours!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>Whew!   Flighty Deep Breaths!!!   :&gt;)     :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_22:13:12", "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": 1941410, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1942014": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Good point...  You're right, there are plenty of  white female senators. governors, and other elected officials in the US... Just 1 black male senator and one governor.  Seems like the ceiling is trying to meet the floor with the brothers...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-31_14:59:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "MotorCityBadBoy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1941755, "depth": 2, "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": "3942629", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "21630", "hash": 2682181594269736894}, "thread": {"total_posts": 0, "paginate": false, "per_page": 0, "slug": "see_what_happens_when_you_don8217t_vet_your_vp_82", "num_pages": 1, "days_alive": 0, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 3942629, "num_posts": 147, "closed": false, "queued": false, "killed": false}, "reactions_limit": 10, "context": {"show_reply": true, "use_fb_connect": true, "forum_facebook_key": "bd6a8bc56f8eb204984f34b6fefe228d", "use_yahoo": false, "subscribed": false, "use_twitter_signin": true, "use_openid": false, "realtime_speed": 5000}, "reactions_start": 0, "settings": {"debug": false, "disqus_url": "http://disqus.com", "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"}, "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"};
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	this.frames = {};
};

var disqus_popup_reference = null;

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



/**
 * Dsq.Strings: UI strings
 */
Dsq.Strings = new function() {
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	this.LOG_INTO_DISQUS = "Log into DISQUS";
	this.USE_MEDIA = "Use Media";
	this.LOGOUT = "Logout";
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	this.SORT_BY = "Sort by";
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	this.BEST_RATING = "Best Rating";
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	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";
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	this.YES = "Yes";
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	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";
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  this.SETTINGS = "Settings";
  this.MODERATOR_OPTIONS = "Moderator options: ";
  this.MODERATE_OPTIONS = "Moderate Options";

  // Thread moderator actions
  this.CLOSE_THREAD = "Close thread";
  this.OPEN_THREAD = "Open thread";
  this.REMOVE_THREAD = "Remove thread";
  this.RESTORE_THREAD = "Restore thread";
  this.ACTIONS = "Actions";
};
// 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.
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	};

	this.LOGOUT_FROM = function(disqus) {
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	this.SHOWING_COMMENTS_FULL = function(total, num) {
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			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});
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			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});
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	this.SHOWING_COMMENTS_WITHOUT_PAGINATION = function(num) {
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			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});
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	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});
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};
// 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;



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	this._lastHash = null;

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};

FragmentPacket.prototype.createListener = function() {
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};

FragmentPacket.prototype.log = function(msg) {



};

FragmentPacket.prototype.recv = function() {
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		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);

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		seqno: seqno,
		data: data
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};

FragmentPacket.prototype.sendRawPacket = function(packet) {
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		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...');
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			return;
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		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=see_what_happens_when_you_don8217t_vet_your_vp_82' +
		'&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/see_what_happens_when_you_don8217t_vet_your_vp_82/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>';
		html += '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.showModeratorActions(); return false;">' + Dsq.Strings.MODERATE + '</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 <a href="' + reaction.source_url + '">' + (reaction.source == 'backtype' ? 'BackType' : '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='	+ 'see_what_happens_when_you_don8217t_vet_your_vp_82'
			+ '&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/see_what_happens_when_you_don8217t_vet_your_vp_82/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">147</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/see_what_happens_when_you_don8217t_vet_your_vp_82/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/see_what_happens_when_you_don8217t_vet_your_vp_82/">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:3942629" 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/see_what_happens_when_you_don8217t_vet_your_vp_82/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 <a href="' + reaction.source_url + '">' + (reaction.source == 'backtype' ? 'BackType' : '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:3942629" 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:3942629" 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'				: 'see_what_happens_when_you_don8217t_vet_your_vp_82',
			// 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/see_what_happens_when_you_don8217t_vet_your_vp_82/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='	+ 'see_what_happens_when_you_don8217t_vet_your_vp_82'
			+ '&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='	+ 'see_what_happens_when_you_don8217t_vet_your_vp_82'
			+ '&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='		+ 'see_what_happens_when_you_don8217t_vet_your_vp_82'
				+ '&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.showModeratorActions = function() {
      if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) {
          return;
      }

      var html = '<div class="dsq-moderate-options"><table><tr>' +
                 '<td>' + Dsq.Strings.ACTIONS + '</td><td><ul>';
      html += '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.toggleClosed(); return false;">' +
              (Dsq.jsonData.thread.closed ? Dsq.Strings.OPEN_THREAD : Dsq.Strings.CLOSE_THREAD) +
              '</a></li>';
      html += '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.toggleKilled(); return false;">' +
              (Dsq.jsonData.thread.killed ? Dsq.Strings.RESTORE_THREAD : Dsq.Strings.REMOVE_THREAD) +
              '</a></li>';
      html += '</ul></td></tr></table></div>' +
              '<p>Go to the full <a href="http://disqus.com/comments/moderate-threads/" target="_blank">moderate panel</a> for more options.</p>';
      Dsq.Popup.popModal(html, Dsq.Strings.MODERATE_OPTIONS);
  };

	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);
	};

  this.toggleClosed = function() {
      Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/jackandjillpolitics/toggle_thread_closed.js', {thread:Dsq.jsonData.thread.id});
      window.setTimeout(function() { window.location.reload(); }, 500);
  };

  this.toggleKilled = function() {
      Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/jackandjillpolitics/toggle_thread_killed.js', {thread:Dsq.jsonData.thread.id});
      window.setTimeout(function() { window.location.reload(); }, 500);
  };
};
// 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/3942629/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) {
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1941410" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1941410">parker404</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1941410" class="dsq-comment-message">After her water broke, during this 12 hour flight:<br><br>1.  She would have been in labor.  Her contractions would have varied in intensity, but she would have been in labor, nonetheless.  It would have been very difficult for her to labor while seated (with her seat belt fastened);<br>2.  She and the baby would have needed monitoring of their heart rates, her temperature, etc;<br>3.  Since the baby was known to have special needs, it would have been necessary to monitor him more closely than an otherwise healthy baby; and,<br>4.  Because the sac of water protecting her son had broken, both mom and baby would have been at serious risk for infection.  If not treated, this type of infection could lead to sepsis and stillbirth of the baby.<br><br>This was a commercial flight.  Even if she was seated in first class, it would have been difficult for her to labor for 12 hours without attracting someone\'s notice.<br><br>Even if everything went smoothly for Palin as she labored for 12 hours on a commercial flight, it is very unlikely that she and baby Trig would have been released from the hospital in 3 days.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1941604" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1941604" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1941604">TruthSeeker</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1941604" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1941604" class="dsq-comment-message">Great info, parker.<br><br>It just doesn\'t seem practical to me.  Her amniotic fluid would have continued to leak heavily while on the plane.  Once most of the fluid is gone, their would be a lot of weight and pressure on her pelvis, making it hard to even stand upright let alone walk.  Is Palin saying that she put her baby, herself, the flight crew and fellow passengers at risk by boarding a 9 hour flight  in full labour?...To what end?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1941629" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1941629" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1941629">parker404</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1941629" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1941629" class="dsq-comment-message">All of this so that little Trig could be "Alaska born."  Mind you, Miss Alaska herself was not "Alaska born."</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1942104" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1942104" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1942104" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1942104" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1942104" class="dsq-comment-message">Mind you, she was a runner-up for Miss Alaska and <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/30/161025/924" rel="nofollow">she even lied about winning Miss Congeniality</a> in the Miss Alaska contest.<blockquote><b>In 1984, Palin won the Miss Wasilla beauty contest, then finished second in the Miss Alaska pageant, at which she won a college scholarship. In the Wasilla pageant, she played the flute and won "Miss Congeniality.</b></blockquote>She seems to be a congenital liar, since she also lied that she didn\'t support Stevens\'s "Bridge to Nowhere."</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1947127" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1947127" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1947127">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1947127" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1947127" class="dsq-comment-message">parker404:   Speaking of "SCRUBBED" Wiki\'s:    That airplane flight has been cut back to 8 [NO MINUTES-  just STR8] HOURS!!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>So, you must know that one of us is going to haul her narrow gluteus over to some airline(s) and trace routes for range of hours!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>Whew!   Flighty Deep Breaths!!!   :&gt;)     :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1941190">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1941190" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1941190" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1941190">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1941190" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1941190" class="dsq-comment-message">Palin wasn\'t vetted worth a damn and everybody knows that.<br><br><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/31/11597/0342/569/581165" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/31/115...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1941239" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1941239" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1941239">T.</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1941239" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1941239" class="dsq-comment-message">Listen, Senator McBush\'s selection of Governor Prop Palin(yeah, the lady is just that - a political prop) reeks of frivolity and recklessness, is all I have to say right now. My world is still reeling from the incredulity of this VP pick. <br><br>CLEARLY, this very, very old man has failed the first test as Commander in Chief. The next test, however, is ours - the American people. Will we reject this summarily? How serious are we about taking our country back from these GOP hoowinkers?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1941251" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1941251" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1941251">T.</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1941251" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1941251" class="dsq-comment-message">I meant "GOP hoodwinkers" at the end there. T.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1941476" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1941476" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1941476">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1941476" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1941476" class="dsq-comment-message">Exactly. McCain clearly has no interests in putting the interests of the country first. He has shown that he could give a rat\'s azz about our safety or well-being.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1941243" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1941243">parker404</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1941243" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1941243" class="dsq-comment-message">Beyond the fact that his untimely death was a tragedy for his family and friends, I really wish Russert was here to get up in Miss Alaska\'s shvt.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1941706" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1941706" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1941706">Lilytiger</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1941706" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1941706" class="dsq-comment-message">I am so with you there. I just watched Meet the Press and they are shilling hard for Palin. Barely a mention of the Democratic convention.<br><br>We need to be on the street people, we are the only ones who will be pushing for us.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1942404" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1942404" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1942404" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1942404" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1942404" class="dsq-comment-message">Exactly.  I can\'t wait to get back out there.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1941528" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1941528" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1941528">TruthSeeker</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1941528" class="dsq-comment-message">This people magazine interview title illustrates how the Repubs think they can make history on the cheap.   A woman, ..any woman will do.  I\'m inclined to think that they wanted Condoleeza  - to outplay the Dems.  She is a woman AND black, but nixed that idea because of her connection to Bush and her lack of interest.  How cynical they are.<br><br>It is disturbing how Palin responds when asked if she is ready to be Commander in Chief.....Yup, Yup..<br><br>Notice how McCain says he found her intelligent and "..very well versed on the issues."  How can that be, when he met her only once?  We\'ve discovered since then, that Sarah is anything but versed on the issues.<br><br>Cindy thinks Palin is an appropriate choice because of Alaska\'s proximity to Russia...<br><br>Sigh<br>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>John McCain & Sarah Palin on Shattering the Glass Ceiling<br><a href="http://www.people.com/people/article/0%2C%2C20222685%2C00.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,2022268...</a><br><blockquote><b>Mr. Palin, what does Sen. McCain need to know about working with your wife?</b><br>TODD PALIN: She\'s a hard worker and she\'s not wired normal. (Laughter)<br><br><b>Sen. McCain, of all the candidates you considered, what drew you to her?</b><br>JOHN: Obviously, <b>I found her to be very intelligent and very well-versed on the issues.</b> But I think the important thing was that she\'s a reformer. She\'s taken on special interests since she ran for the PTA and the city council and mayor. The courage, I guess, is what most impressed me.<br><br><b>Mrs. McCain, how much did you weigh in on this process?</b><br>CINDY MCCAIN: I was part of it. I was very enthusiastic [about Palin].</blockquote></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1942042" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1942042" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1942042" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1942042" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1942042" class="dsq-comment-message"><blockquote><b>". . . she\'s not wired normal."</b></blockquote>Well, he got that right - and McCaint ain\'t "wired normal" either.  Ain\'t no need in me even commenting on the rest of that caca since both the McCaints are lying liars.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1947379" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1947379" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1947379">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1947379" class="dsq-comment-message">TruthSeeker:  Just had to re-fix this "glass ceiling" concept in my mind, cause I really forgot it\'s history.   <br><br>Women in business<br>Women in business<br><br>Jul 21st 2005<br>From The Economist print edition<br><br>IT IS 20 years since the term “glass ceiling” was coined by the Wall Street Journal to describe the apparent barriers that prevent women from reaching the top of the corporate hierarchy; and it is ten years since the American government\'s specially appointed Glass Ceiling Commission published its recommendations. In 1995 the commission said that the barrier was continuing “to deny untold numbers of qualified people the opportunity to compete for and hold executive level positions in the private sector.” It found that women had 45.7% of America\'s jobs and more than half of master\'s degrees being awarded. Yet 95% of senior managers were men, and female managers\' earnings were on average a mere 68% of their male counterparts\'.<br><br>Ten years on, women account for 46.5% of America\'s workforce and for less than 8% of its top managers, although at big Fortune 500 companies the figure is a bit higher. Female managers\' earnings now average 72% of their male colleagues\'. Booz Allen Hamilton, a consulting firm that monitors departing chief executives in America, found that 0.7% of them were women in 1998, and 0.7% of them were women in 2004. In between, the figure fluctuated. But the firm says that one thing is clear: the number is “very low and not getting higher”. <br><br>So women [especially white] capitalized on this "glass Ceiling" concept!!  <br><br>What about the "GLASS SLIPPERS"????   Can we get some of them????<br><br>NAAAW!  I\'ve seen "Cinderella!"   :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1948026" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1948026" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1948026">TruthSeeker</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1948026" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1948026" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t think they make those glass slippers in <i>our</i> size. :-)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1948135" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1948135" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1948135">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1948135" class="dsq-comment-message">TruthSeeker:  DANG!!!  [She says stamping the floor with those size 1 "glass slippers and "breaking" them!!!  ]   :&gt;)    :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1941597" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1941597" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1941597">MotorCityBadBoy</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1941597" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1941597" class="dsq-comment-message">I have a question...  When did the glass ceiling for a black president get shattered?  I keep hearing from Palin about 18 million cracks in the glass ceiling for women, but I didn\'t know that black men had made it.  Maybe I\'m missing something.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1941630" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1941630" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1941630">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1941630" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1941630" class="dsq-comment-message">You aren\'t missing a darn thing. I\'ve been wondering why there seems to be this belief that somehow white women have been short-changed so much more than black men. I really don\'t know where that fallacy stems from.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1941978" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1941978" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1941978" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1941978" class="dsq-comment-message">Both affirmative action and the feminist movement in this country have always benefitted white women more than black men and women.  Political scientists and sociologists have documented that white women have benefited more from affirmative action than any other group of so-called oppressed peoples.  This is another reason why I remain unimpressed/uninvolved in celebrating women\'s suffrage, especially when you factor in that black people as a whole didn\'t get the right to vote until 43 years ago, with the 1965 Voting Rights Act.  Elderly black women particularly still tell stories of white women not allowing them to leave work to vote, or preventing them through various machinations from voting, well after the Women\'s Suffrage Act.<br><br>I\'ve always said that black women are judged first by their skin color; therefore, our fight always has been and always will be first and foremost against racial inequality.  As an example, generally white women are paid a higher wage than black women (well, except for O!) and, on average, the glass ceiling is much easier shattered by white women, i.e., Ferraro, Clinton, and Palin.  <br><br>Remember too that, as of today, the only black woman ever to serve in the US Senate is Carol Mosely Braun and, since Reconstructon, there has only been 2 black men serving as US Senators - Brooke and Obama!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1944400" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1944400" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1944400">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1944400" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1944400" class="dsq-comment-message">"I\'ve always said that black women are judged first by their skin color;"<br><br>Truer words could not be spoken. If you\'ve listen to the way the mainstream media has characterized the Democratic primary (and now, still the general race), the point is validated.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1945537" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1945537">Teacher</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1945537" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1945537" class="dsq-comment-message">Co to the sign-Cosign!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1947613">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1947613" class="dsq-comment-message">99% Sure:   Co-signing!!!!   :&gt;)  :&gt;)<br><br>Just posted that when this "bra burning" phenomenon was in vogue, I just "WALKED ON BY"  [Dionne Warwick]  :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>Besides, I wasn\'t planning to do a "Waiting To Exhale" on my own clothes!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)  They cost 2 much!!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1973591">malletgirl02</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1973591" class="dsq-comment-message">Great post. Kind of off topic, but during the primaries I noticed during the primaries a lack of knowledge among some feminist about Jim Crow.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1941715">parker404</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1941715" class="dsq-comment-message">There is no glass ceiling for a Black President, it\'s titanium-plated concrete.  The Black guy was never supposed to become President, anyway.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1945455" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1945455" href="http://sooncome.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">JunePearl</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1945455" class="dsq-comment-message">*<i>There is no glass ceiling for a Black President, <b>it\'s titanium-plated concrete</b></i>.<br><br>Preach!!! I could not have said it better myself!!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1947628" class="dsq-comment-header">\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1947628">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1947628" class="dsq-comment-message">parker404:  Truth!!!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1941755">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1941755" class="dsq-comment-message">ITA. From a political aspect, compare the number of white, female governors and U.S. senators to black governors and U.S. senators, regardless of gender, and tell me who\'s running an uphill battle.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1942014">MotorCityBadBoy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1942014" class="dsq-comment-message">Good point...  You\'re right, there are plenty of  white female senators. governors, and other elected officials in the US... Just 1 black male senator and one governor.  Seems like the ceiling is trying to meet the floor with the brothers...</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1945523">Teacher</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1945523" class="dsq-comment-message">Please don\'t say "brothers" like the issue of racism doesn\'t effect every Black woman and child too. It\'s a trap to continue to weaken our communities. Don\'t fall for it.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1942097" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1942097" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1942097" class="dsq-comment-message">There are currently 16 female U.S. Senators (35 have served to date) and 9 current female governors.  <br><br>There is currently one black governor and one black U.S. Senator (you know who - ha!).  Both are male of course.  <br><br>There has been one black female U.S. Senator and one black female Lieutenant Governor. <br><br><a href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/2008/01/all-the-women-2.html" rel="nofollow">http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/20...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1945496" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1945496" href="http://sooncome.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">JunePearl</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1945496" class="dsq-comment-message">Anovelista, I need to get on your level. You find info with the quickness.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1945544" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1945544" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1945544" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1945544" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1945544" class="dsq-comment-message">Thanks.:)<br><br>I\'m a writer so research is actually fun for me.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1947148">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1947148" class="dsq-comment-message">Anovelista:   No excuses!   YOU JES GOOD!!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>ENOUGH!!!    :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1947269" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1947269" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1947269" class="dsq-comment-message">:)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1942019" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1942019" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1942019" class="dsq-comment-message">. . . Especially since Obama hasn\'t even WON the presidency, only accomplishing the admittedly tremendous feat of becoming the first black man to become a major party nominee.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1944794">Teacher</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1944794" class="dsq-comment-message">So true, MotorCityBadBoy. And statistically, White women earn more than Black men & Black women. They don\'t care about cracking the ceiling for us. We have to crack it for ourselves. We have allowed them to promulgate this misinformation....Their beef should not be with us, it should be with their men and their system, but racism keeps them from seeing it.<br><br>2004 Median Annual Earnings by Race and Sex<br>Race/gender Earnings Wage ratio <br>White men $42,601 100.0% <br>White women 32,683 76.7 <br>Black men 31,732 74.5 <br>Black women 29,145 68.4 <br>Hispanic men 26,921 63.2 <br>Hispanic women 24,255 56.9 <br>All men  $41,667    <br>All women  $32,101    <br>Wage gap    77.0%</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1945361" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1945361" href="http://blog.evavegadiversity.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">evita</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1945361" class="dsq-comment-message">Hispanic women earn LEAST of all people. [Aye, someone feel sorry for me please..]</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1945486">Teacher</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1945486" class="dsq-comment-message">I feel sorry for you, Evita, but in the near future, Hispanic will be the new white (as long as you don\'t look too Indian or Black). George Bush III is waiting in the wings to begin his political future and he is half Hispanic (and very handsome).<br><br>Si se puede.<br>Obama/Biden 08</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1946805">parker404</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1946805" class="dsq-comment-message">Yep, Jorge Bush will definitely be our President one day.  He is very handsome, too.  I wish we could be done with the whole family once and for all.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1948580">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1948580" class="dsq-comment-message">evita:   Hang in there girrrrrll!!   U gonna B awww-ite!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1948569">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1948569" class="dsq-comment-message">TEACH!   TEACHA!!!   :&gt;)     :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1940694" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1940694" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1940694" class="dsq-comment-message">Good God, I hate to think how the media would roast Obama if Biden hadn\'t been properly vetted.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1940876">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1940876" class="dsq-comment-message">Please, Obama\'s vetting TEAM was vetted. Remember the guy that WAS on the committee with Caroline Kennedy and Eric Holder?? <br><br>That old adage that we must be "twice as good", is not even close to what Obama must be for this political race. He has to have every aspect of this campaign vetted.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1941218" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1941218" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1941218" class="dsq-comment-message"><b>Obama\'s vetting TEAM was vetted.</b><br><br><i>YES!</i></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1940826">Miss- Opinion </span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1940826" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s pretty obvious that McCain, being the entitled jerk that he is, thought it was beneath him to vet his VP choice. Let the black guy jump through hoops, do the right thing, follow the rules. Me? I don\'t have to do any of that! I\'m "The Maverick." Who cares? <br><br>This whole thing is so typical it makes me want to scream. There\'s one set of rules for the white guy and another for the black guy.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1941423">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1941423" class="dsq-comment-message">Miss Opinion - I don\'t get that this was a black/ white thing.  I think it was a pandering stupidity thing.  McCain wanted Liebermann but conservatives wouldn\'t support him without Palin.  <br><br>Bottom line he put personal gain over judgement on what was right for the country.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1945059" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1945059" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1945059" class="dsq-comment-message">McCaint wanted Uncle Joe Lie - the religious right forced Palin on him.<blockquote><b>[T]he McCain campaign was just as bamboozled as the press by the false Hillary narrative. McCain was obviously itching to choose his pal Joe Lieberman as his running mate. A onetime Democrat who breaks with the G.O.P. by supporting abortion rights might have rebooted his lost maverick cred more forcefully than Palin, who is cracking this particular glass ceiling nearly a quarter-century after the Democrats got there first. Lieberman might have even been of some use in roiling the Obama-Hillary-Bill juggernaut that will now storm through South Florida.<br><br><i>The main reason McCain knuckled under to the religious right by picking Palin is that he actually believes there’s a large army of embittered Hillary loyalists who will vote for a hard-line conservative simply because she’s a woman.</i><br></b></blockquote>This is why she wasn\'t vetted and this is why I maintain that Princess McCaint will publicly "act out," at some point because the one true power that the party nominee normally has is that of choosing his running mate.  The fundies took that away from him - ergo, the Dayton OH locale where Dr. James Dobson is held in such high esteem.  He\'s not happy about Palin, as evidenced by his nonsensical comments, and sooner or later we will know it because that is his temperament.  He didn\'t get his way and his temperamental instability will be demonstrated for all and sundry to see, since he has a distinct inability to stay on message, even when it\'s one he\'s previously espoused.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1948602">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1948602" class="dsq-comment-message">99% Sure:   Yeah he wanted LIEberman.  It looks more SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE for him ta WHISPER in "McAncient\'s" EAR during press conferences than it does for the Beauty Queen Contestant!!!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>Additionally, the other/older Beauty Queen Contestant might put a "beat down" on the younger BQC for whispering in her man\'s ear 2 much!!    :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1940973">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1940973" class="dsq-comment-message">I honestly don\'t like the rumor-mongering about the child/grandchild, but this story is just bothering me. All aspects of this story are just not adding up. I watched this video and was on the brink of saying this is all just a nasty rumor, she could certainly be pregnant, then realized while she was talking to the interviewer about exercising, she never once mentioned what should have been her condition at the time. Its just very strange for a pregnant woman who is talking about running and hiking everyday to not mention any adjustments because of the obvious, I\'ve just never seen that before. See for yourselves:<br><a href="http://admissiblebanter.blogspot.com/2008/08/bristol-palin-is-trigs-momwatch-video.html" rel="nofollow">http://admissiblebanter.blogspot.com/2008/08/br...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1941112" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1941112" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1941112" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t like the rumors either.  After all, many pregnant women have been known to carry small so it\'s not impossible.<br><br>BUT...<br><br>Look at this picture of Sarah Palin on Super Tuesday of this year - February 5, 2008 - when she was 6 months pregnant.  <br><br><a href="http://media.adn.com/smedia/2008/03/09/01/307-3504041.standalone.prod_affiliate.7.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://media.adn.com/smedia/2008/03/09/01/307-3...</a><br><br>She announced that she was 7 months pregnant on March 5, 2008.  Her son Trig was born on April 18th.  I know that some women carry small but the rumor around Alaska was that the baby was really her 16 year old daughter Bristol\'s.  Bristol was out of school - allegedly due to mono - for the last 4 to 5 months of her mom\'s pregnancy.<br><br><br>Check out this article from The Moderate Voice (a conservative blog no less) <b> The Fully Vetted Sarah Palin</b> <a href="http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/sarah-palin/22236/the-fully-vetted-sarah-palin/" rel="nofollow">http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/sarah-pali...</a><br><br><br>   <i> …the oldest girl is rumored to have actually been the one who had the last baby, the one with Down\'s Syndrome. She was taken out of school the last 4 or 5 months of her mother\'s pregnancy.<br><br>    On March 5th, 2008 Alaska\'s Republican Governor, Sarah Palin, announced to the media that she was 7 months pregnant with her 5th child. She is currently 44.<br><br>    Palin\'s daughter Bristol is 16 and attends an Anchorage high school. Students who have attended class with her report that she has been out of school for months, claiming a prolonged case of mono.<br><br>    Palin does not appear pregnant in any recent photographs. The announcement came as quite a shock to people who had worked closely with her, and have been quoted as saying that she did not appear pregnant whatsoever during the prior 7 months. While this is debatable, you can judge for yourself here: <a href="http://gov.state.ak.us/photos.php" rel="nofollow">http://gov.state.ak.us/photos.php</a> </i><br><br><b>    (Ed Note: That link has since died since we first looked at it. The pictures were removed today.)</b><br><br><br>Also, check out Update #1 from that post - an anecdote from Rachel Maddow that piqued the blogger\'s curiosity.<br><br><i>UPDATE: Reader johnkelley e-mails to remind me of a segment which I saw on MSNBC earlier. Rachel Maddow (yes, I know… I know) told what sounded like a completely obscure, irrelevant story about Palin giving birth to her last child. Apparently, as she noted, Palin\'s "water broke" while on an extended trip to Texas, but she hopped a plane back home immediately to give birth in Alaska, "so desperate was she not to have her child born in Texas." Is Maddow on to something related to the first story in this piece but not ready to take it to the airwaves?</i><br><br>As we\'re all saying, it could be nothing - but the details of this story are weird!   Why scrub the web page?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1941231">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1941231" class="dsq-comment-message">This whole thing just doesn\'t pass the smell test, it just doesn\'t . It makes no sense. No woman gets on an airplane for a 12 hour flight after her water breaks. No medical doctor, hell, not a veterinarian will say its okay for a woman in her last trimester to board a freaking plane AFTER HER WATER BREAKS. This is complete and utter lunacy. Who is buying this story, it just doesnt make any sense. Can you find even ONE woman in this country who has done that? Fly AFTER her water breaks? Only if she is in a life flight helicopter would that be the case. Something is truly not right here.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1941273" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1941273" class="dsq-comment-message">Exactly right.  Something is off...<br><br>Aren\'t pregnant women prevented from flying once they hit 7 months?<br><br>Even on a private plane, you have no guarantees.  Your water breaks and you take a 12 hour flight and risk your baby\'s health and your own so they baby can be born in your home state?<br><br>And then you go back to work <i>3 days later?</i></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1941368">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1941368" class="dsq-comment-message">Most airlines require a letter from your doctor for their own files..but Alaska Airlines has not such clause. However, did you know she didn\'t even go to a hospital in Anchorage where they landed? Nope, she then went back to the little hospital in Wasilla......yep, an hour\'s drive away, a hospital without a neo-natal intensive care unit. This shyt does not add up. Even if this is her child, I don\'t want anyone so careless even near the presidency of the USA.<br><br><a href="http://www.adn.com/626/story/382864.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.adn.com/626/story/382864.html</a><br><br><a href="http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/30/9336/15731/279/579413" rel="nofollow">http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/30/9336/15...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1941455">parker404</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1941455" class="dsq-comment-message">I can\'t imagine any OB feeling comfortable delivering a premature, Down Syndrome baby without a NICU.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1941486" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1941486" class="dsq-comment-message">A 12-hour commercial flight (with a stop in Seattle) and a 1 hour drive for a 44-year-old woman carrying a baby she knows has Down\'s Syndrome?<br><br>Also, the Daily Kos article makes a good point: Palin is opposed to abortion in all cases. So, why was she having the tests done (for Downs Syndrome, etc.)?<br><br>If you\'re opposed to abortion, does it matter what is going on with the baby? If you\'re pregnant you\'re pregnant, right?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1941574">parker404</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1941574" class="dsq-comment-message">This lie could have almost worked if she was on a private plane, but there\'s no way she labored for 12 hours on a commercial flight.<br><br>The screening tests are important regardless of whether you\'d abort your baby.  Giving parents early notice of their child\'s condition gives them as much time to prepare for the more challenging situation.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1941618" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1941618" class="dsq-comment-message">Okay, <i>that</i> makes sense (about the screening) but the rest of this story does not.  It is definitely NOT passing the smell test.  Something is up...<br><br><a href="http://dailykos.com/story/2008/8/30/9336/15731/279/579413" rel="nofollow">http://dailykos.com/story/2008/8/30/9336/15731/...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1944464">JJai</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1944464" class="dsq-comment-message">yeah, my friend avoided having the amnio because she knew she wouldn\'t abort and that they can sometimes have faulty information. Thus, she wanted to avoid any undue stress.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1948642">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1948642" class="dsq-comment-message">JJai:  This is true [avoiding the amnio].  However, PERHAPS she just wanted ta know [like the National Enquirer :&gt;) ] so that they could mentally prepare for  such a possibility.<br>I\'m just giving an "outside" possibility. [real "outside" - maybe of her body!   :&gt;)]</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1944430" href="http://thisblksistaspage.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">blksista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1944430" class="dsq-comment-message">The moment some newspaper or magazine comes up with the birth certificate of the child...and it\'s the kid\'s child and not the mom\'s...it\'s OVAH.<br><br>I\'m waiting on the <i>National Enquirer</i> to fulfill what the MSM used to call <i>"investigative reporting"...</i></div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1944831" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1944831" class="dsq-comment-message">Exactly, <b>blksista</b>, because that\'s one thing the NE will do, especially with a murky, muckraking story like this.<br><br>Frank Rich\'s NY Times Op-Ed today lays out the case for distrusting traditional media: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/opinion/31rich.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&oref=slogin" rel="nofollow">Obama Outwits the Bloviators</a><blockquote><b>All week long a media chorus had fretted whether [Obama] could pull off a potentially vainglorious stunt before 80,000 screaming fans. Well, yes he can, and so he did.<br><br>But was this a surprise? Hardly. No major Obama speech — each breathlessly hyped in advance as do-or-die and as the “the most important of his career” — has been a disaster; most have been triples or home runs, if not grand slams. <i>What is most surprising is how astonished the press still is at each Groundhog Day’s replay of the identical outcome. Indeed, the disconnect between the reality of this campaign and how it is perceived and presented by the mainstream media is now a major part of the year’s story. The press dysfunction is itself a window into the unstable dynamics of Election 2008.</i><br><br>At the Democratic convention, as during primary season, almost every oversold plotline was wrong.<br><br>On TV, each of these hot-air balloons was inflated nonstop right up to the moment they were punctured by reality, at which point the assembled bloviators once more expressed shock, shock at the unexpected denouement. They hadn’t been so surprised since they discovered that Obama was not too black to get white votes, not too white to win black votes, and not too inexperienced to thwart the inevitable triumph of the incomparably well-organized and well-financed Clinton machine.<br><br><u>The main reason McCain knuckled under to the religious right by picking Palin is that he actually believes there’s a large army of embittered Hillary loyalists who will vote for a hard-line conservative simply because she’s a woman. That’s what happens when you listen to the TV news echo chamber. Not only is the whole premise ludicrous, but it is every bit as sexist as the crude joke McCain notoriously told about Janet Reno, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton</u>.<br><br>Given the press’s track record so far, there’s no reason to believe that the bogus scenarios will stop now. The question of why this keeps happening is not easily answered. Ideological bias, unshakeable Clinton addiction and lingering McCain affection may not account for all or even most of it. Journalists are still Americans — even if much of our audience doubts that — and in this time of grave uncertainty about our nation’s future we may simply be as discombobulated as everyone else.<br><br>We, too, are made anxious and fearful by hard economic times and the prospect of wrenching change. YouTube, the medium that has transformed our culture and politics, didn’t exist four years ago. Four years from now, it’s entirely possible that some, even many, of the newspapers and magazines covering this campaign won’t exist in their current form, if they exist at all. The Big Three network evening newscasts, and network news divisions as we now know them, may also be extinct by then. <br><br>Andrew Rasiej, the founder of Personal Democracy Forum, which monitors the intersection of politics and technology, points out that when networks judge their success by who got the biggest share of the television audience, “they are still counting horses while the world has moved on to counting locomotives.” The Web, in its infinite iterations, is eroding all 20th-century media.<br><br>The Obama campaign has long been on board those digital locomotives. Its ability to tell its story under the radar of the mainstream press in part accounts for why the Obama surge has been so often underestimated. Even now we’re uncertain of its size. The extraordinary TV viewership for Obama on Thursday night, larger than the Olympics opening ceremony, this year’s Oscars or any “American Idol” finale, may only be a count of the horses. The Obama campaign’s full reach online — for viewers as well as fund-raising and organizational networking — remains unknown. <br><br>As Obama said, this is a big election. We will only begin to confront the magnitude of our choice when and if we stop being distracted by small, let alone utterly fictitious, things.</b></blockquote></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1948419">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1948419" class="dsq-comment-message">And this is the real story.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1948741" class="dsq-comment-message">blksista:   U R sooooo right on!!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1941308" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1941308" class="dsq-comment-message">From Anchorage Daily News in March.  Palin told the paper the baby was due in mid-May.  He was born on April 18th and she went back to work 3 days later.<br><br>Secret\'s out: Palin pregnant<br>SEVEN MONTHS ALONG: Even her staff was unaware that the first family was expecting a fifth child.<br><br>By WESLEY LOY<br><a href="mailto:wloy@adn.com" rel="nofollow">wloy@adn.com</a><br><br>(03/06/08 00:02:35)<br><br><a href="http://www.adn.com/front/story/336402.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.adn.com/front/story/336402.html</a><br><br>JUNEAU -- Gov. Sarah Palin shocked and awed just about everybody around the Capitol on Wednesday when she announced she\'s expecting her fifth child.<br><br>The governor, who recently turned 44, told a handful of reporters as she was leaving work to expect a new member of the first family, then headed to a reception at the Baranof Hotel to feast on king crab.<br><br><b>Palin said she\'s already about seven months along, with the baby due to arrive in mid-May.</b><br><br>That the pregnancy is so advanced astonished all who heard the news. The governor, a runner who\'s always been trim, simply doesn\'t look pregnant.<br><br>Even close members of her staff said they only learned this week their boss was expecting.<br><br>"I thought it was becoming obvious," Palin said. "You know, clothes getting snugger and snugger."<br><br>But people just couldn\'t believe the news.<br><br>"Really? No!" said Bethel state Rep. Mary Nelson, who is close to giving birth herself.<br><br>"It\'s wonderful. She\'s very well-disguised," said Senate President Lyda Green, a mother of three who has sometimes sparred with Palin politically. "When I was five months pregnant, there was absolutely no question that I was with child."<br><br>Having a baby as governor has happened elsewhere, but it\'s rare. The former acting governor of Massachusetts, Jane Swift, in 2001 was the first governor in office to give birth when she delivered twin girls.<br><br>Palin beamed as lawmakers, Cabinet members and others came by to congratulate her at the Baranof reception, a legislative event Kodiak officials sponsor annually.<br><br>Her husband, Todd, was there holding the couple\'s sleepy 6-year-old daughter Piper in his arms.<br><br>Palin said she\'s not aiming to take any time off from her job as governor, assuming all goes well with the pregnancy. She said when she had Piper -- Palin was mayor of Wasilla at the time -- the baby was born on a Monday and she returned to the office on Tuesday.<br><br>"I\'ve always been a believer that God\'s not going to give us anything that we cannot handle," Palin said.<br><br>Todd Palin, a BP oil field worker currently on leave from his job, said he\'s thrilled to be headed toward five-time fatherhood.<br><br>"I\'m really excited," he said. "Every child you get from God. The more the merrier."<br><br>Aside from Piper, the Palins have three other children: Track, 18, serving in the U.S. Army at Fort Wainwright in Fairbanks; Bristol, 17, a high school junior; and Willow, 13.<br><br>Palin, a Republican, was elected as Alaska\'s first female governor in 2006 and took office in December of that year.<br><br>She\'s kept a hectic schedule in recent days, traveling last week to the National Governors Association conference in Washington, D.C., followed by a trip to Los Angeles on Monday for a Newsweek magazine conference also featuring Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano. The magazine profiled the two in its Oct. 15 "Women & Power" issue.<br><br>With Palin riding extraordinarily high popularity ratings, pundits have mentioned her as a potential vice presidential candidate. But she said Wednesday night she\'s "not pursuing or perpetuating it," adding, "I have no desire to leave my job at all as governor."<br><br>Palin said she decided to reveal the pregnancy after she felt the signs were giving her away, like doing less running this winter and being "ravenously hungry."<br><br>She\'s known as a fashion plate, but said she hasn\'t been dressing differently to cover her barely perceptible bulge.<br><br>Palin noted another Alaska governor welcomed a new baby to his family while in office -- Mike Stepovich, who served as territorial governor in the late 1950s.<br><br>Having kids and serving as governor are entirely compatible, she said.<br><br>"To any critics who say a woman can\'t think and work and carry a baby at the same time, I\'d just like to escort that Neanderthal back to the cave," Palin said.<br><br>Then the expectant governor turned to greet more well-wishers.<br><br><a href="http://www.adn.com/front/story/336402.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.adn.com/front/story/336402.html</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1941447">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1941447" class="dsq-comment-message">What happens in the States when women give birth?  I can\'t imagine a woman giving birth and being sent home the same day in order to return to work the following day.<br><br>Nurses observe a new mother over 2 days to ensure their bowels are functioning...in fact, the doctor will not authorize a woman be released if she is not eliminating properly.  That requires the woman stay in the hospital for at least a couple days after the birth.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1941580">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1941580" class="dsq-comment-message">The insurance companies want to throw women out after 1 day for a normal delivery, 3 days if cesarean delivery. I would like to know if Palin returned to work that quickly after the births of her other children. Although I must confess, it doesn\'t matter because I really don\'t buy this fairy tale. I just think this is a web of lies. I could really be wrong, but my gut says this is all bullshyt. Even so, I refuse to trust a woman who would endanger herself and her child to give a darn speech.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1941774">Lilytiger</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1941774" class="dsq-comment-message">There seems to be some kind of correlation to the Hillary sniper fire story. Is she lying or did she put Chelsea in such grave danger in being in harms way? This reads the same.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1948380">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1948380" class="dsq-comment-message">They may release you after one day; however,Drs. recommend (and most women heed the advice) that you take it easy for six weeks.  I didn\'t after a delivery and almost hemmoraged to death.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1941732" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1941732" class="dsq-comment-message">Another point I just noticed - the baby was 6lbs 2 oz at birth!<br><br>Born 1 month premature at 6lbs 2oz to a 44-year-old who gave a keynote speech, rushed from the podium and  took at 10-12 hour commercial flight (with a stop in Seattle) and drove 50 miles to her hometown hospital to give birth and returned to work 3 days later. <br><br>Things that make you go Hmmmm....</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1944404">parker404</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1944404" class="dsq-comment-message">That 6 lb, 2 oz. baby was not premature, does not have Down Syndrome, and is not Sarah Palin\'s.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1944429" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1944429" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL!<br><br>My mother just told me that I was 6lbs 14 oz when I was born.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1946668" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1946668" class="dsq-comment-message">Shoot, I weighed only a few ounces more than Trig when I was born (7 lbs, 20z), and according to my mother I was full term and she carried me like Sarah Palin allegedly carried Trig, but most people could tell my mother\'s belly bump, even though she wore those "Jackie Kennedy" sheath dresses until the last month of her pregnancy.  So, Trig, being over five pounds at birth is real suspect because most preemies weigh about three to four pounds and they\'re kept in the hospital for days after birth for observation and allow them to gain the required weight for them to be sent home on their own (5 lbs.)<br><br>My sister-in-laws (all three of them) called bullshyt the minute I sent them the link to this blog post and asked if it could be true.  Of course their smallest child (and all three of them have three kids each), topped out on average at 7 lbs.  They also said there\'s no way in hell their doctors would let them on board an airplane that close to delivery and if their water broke where they were out of town, hell, the baby was going to be born in whatever state they were in.  Doctor\'s orders on both sides of the aisle.<br><br>I think we all know bullshyt when its trying to be blown up our asses; even those of us who have never experienced childbirth.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1946783" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1946783" class="dsq-comment-message">I asked a few mothers I know - specifically those that aren\'t online a lot and wouldn\'t follow this story.  When I mentioned the details, each one called bullshyt like your sister-in-laws.<br><br>If they hadn\'t made the baby and the circumstances of his birth a selling point for Sarah, it would be nowhere.  But they didn\'t...</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1947679">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1947679" class="dsq-comment-message">Anovelista:    Or maybe   -    -    "SUPER-FEM"!!!!    :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1942447" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1942447" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1942447" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1942447" class="dsq-comment-message">There was a lot of talk about this earlier in the year; I read about the daughter leaving regular school to be \'homeschooled\' or something when no one was paying attention to Palin, except for the brewing trooper scandal. This isn\'t a new story; it\'s only getting so much play now for obvious reasons.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1942492" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1942492" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1942492" class="dsq-comment-message">There was talk and string of questionable events that led to the speculation long before the veep stuff.  All detailed in this thread with links. <br><br>Something is fishy with the story.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1944678" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1944678" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1944678">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1944678" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1944678" class="dsq-comment-message">Of course its very likely that they just didn\'t announce the baby in the hosptial online registry.......but still.......there is an awful lot of smoke surrounding this:<br><br>Birth announcement in Anchorage newspaper<br><a href="http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/380134.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/380134.html</a><br><br>Birth calendar page from the hospital<br><a href="http://www.matsuregional.com/nursery/nursery_calendar.php?month=05&year=2008" rel="nofollow">http://www.matsuregional.com/nursery/nursery_ca...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1944381" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1944381">parker404</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1944381" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1944381" class="dsq-comment-message">That explains Palin\'s strong stance on homeschooling - it\'s those horrible public schools that get girls pregnant, not their abstinence-only teaching parents.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1941148">parker404</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1941148" class="dsq-comment-message">Exactly!  I have no problem believing that Palin could have worked out throughout her pregnancy.  However, no matter how active she is, she would have at least mentioned that her workout routine would have been adjusted because of her pregnancy.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1941749" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1941749" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1941749" class="dsq-comment-message">I just watched that video.<br><br>She was drinking coffee and wearing heels!  Not pointy heels put still!<br><br>Shouldn\'t pregnant women avoid coffee? If not that sounds great to me because it means that I can keep drinking my coffee whenever I get pregnant!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1944442">JJai</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1944442" class="dsq-comment-message">yep, caffeine should be avoided while pregnant. But, it could have been decaf. Just playing devil\'s advocate.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1945613" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1945613" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1945613" class="dsq-comment-message">You\'re right.  Either way they can just say it was decaf.<br><br>But the rest of the story still stinks!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1941198" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1941198">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1941198" class="dsq-comment-message">Wow, Alaska reminds me so much of winter mornings in Toronto.  <br><br>I couldn\'t get any audio on this ....but she does not look pregnant.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1941523">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1941523" class="dsq-comment-message">He asks her about her running everyday to stay in shape and she talks about running daily, even uphill and hiking, but not one time, not once, does she utter that she is supposedly 7 months pregnant at this time. That doesn\'t make sense. It would have been an obvious question by the interviewee if he had kinown, but you would think she would have at least made a cursory joke about having to slow it down a little - something, anything....but nothing? Nope, not buying this, just now buying this at all.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1941761" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1941761" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1941761" class="dsq-comment-message">I just watched that video.  She was also drinking coffee.<br><br>Weeks later she gives birth to a premature baby that weighs 6lbs and 2 oz after a 12 hour flight and 1 hour drive (traveling after her water broke!)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1944422" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1944422">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1944422" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1944422" class="dsq-comment-message">Damn.....you\'re right....wow, there is just too much pointing out the obvious here.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1941090" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1941090">JJai</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1941090" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1941090" class="dsq-comment-message">Okay, now Huff Post has the audio of Palin laughing, like a child, as she appears on a shock jock radio show in AK. The DJ\'s are calling Palin\'s opponent a cancer, this woman who was a cancer surviror, and saying that she is a bad mother. Palin makes no attempt to change the discord.<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/31/palin-laughs-as-opponent_n_122776.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/31/palin-...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1941131" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1941131">parker404</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1941131" class="dsq-comment-message">The shock jock also made a reference to the woman being very obese.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1940810">parker404</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1940810" class="dsq-comment-message">I certainly hope that the Governor of a state and a potential next Vice President of the United States would not place her entire family, including innocent children, in a web of lies this tawdry.  If Trig is not her son, the Governor must have asked medical professionals, her gubernatorial staff, and friends and family to lie in order to save face and maintain this untenable anti-birth control, abstinence only stance.<br><br>This type of lie would immediately disqualify Palin from McCain\'s ticket, as it goes to her character, integrity, and human decency.<br><br>Between the swirling questions about Palin\'s son/grandson and the adoptive daughter the McCains keep in seclusion, it\'s pretty clear that the Democratic Party now represents real family values in this country.  Tellingly, the Obama children and Biden children and grandchildren all know who their father and grandfather are.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1940907" href="http://sooncome.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">JunePearl</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1940907" class="dsq-comment-message">Along these lines...will JJP be watching and providing commentary on the Republican Convention? I want to stay informed, but I really do not want to watch yet another batch of lies on verbal parade. I may end up watching Palin and if I\'m in a good mood, then McCain as well, but otherwise...</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1944882" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1944882" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1944882" class="dsq-comment-message">Lightly observe it for its boredom factor; I usually have it on the tube but the sound is usually muted.  The schedule for tomorrow includes speeches by Shrub and Darth the Shooter.  <br><br>They put on a very boring show with one or two token blacks paraded on stage to represent the black neo-con side, as a portrayal of the people\'s party. It ain\'t gonna be a rocking affair like the Dem confab, that\'s for sure but, IMO, progressives should keep an eye on it for at least a small portion of each convention day.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1941306">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1941306" class="dsq-comment-message">At 11 a.m. on Thursday, at the McCain vacation compound near Sedona, Ariz., Mr. McCain invited Ms. Palin to join him on the ticket. He hardly knew her, and she had virtually no foreign policy experience, but Ms. Palin was a “kindred spirit,” a McCain adviser said. Mr. McCain was betting, the adviser said, that she would help him reclaim the mantle of maverick that he had lost this year.<br><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/us/politics/31reconstruct.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/us/politics/3...</a><br><br>McCain is such a dumb azz, I mean a straight up dumb azz.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1942114" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1942114" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1942114" class="dsq-comment-message">He got that right; she <i>is</i> a \'kindred spirit\' in that she is as temperamentally and judgmentally unqualified to be president as he is.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1941683" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1941683" class="dsq-comment-message">Re Palin/anti-choicers.  First, Palin. <br><br>The story about the baby being her daughter\'s has been in the news at least since she announced the birth of the baby.  As I posted elsewhere, the Palin as grandmother story continues to be published online with the rumor disclaimer; yet the Edwards story was dismissed as such as well.  In fact, on certain sites, those who tried to introduce the Edwards story into progressive blog dialogue, even after he suspended his primary campaign, were banned and/or labeled as repug trolls, and their entries/comments were scrubbed from sites.  Yet when the story moved from mere conjecture to verifiable truth, these same sites ended up with egg on their virtual faces.  Just realize that there could very well be as much truth to this as there is/was to the Edwards story that first appeared late last year in the <i>National Enquirer</i>.<br><br>Re anti-abortion/pro-choice.  As Obama likes to say, no one is <i>pro-abortion</i>.  I\'m certain that the overwhelming majority of pro-choice people don\'t believe that abortion should be used as a form of birth control, nor do they believe in partial-birth abortions.  The differences between the two opposing sides are simply that most who are pro-choice believe that a woman ought to have right of decision, and that ultimately it is a private spiritual matter not between women and government, but God and women.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1944246" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1944246" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1944246" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1944246" class="dsq-comment-message"><b>A Physican\'s Perspective on Palin\'s Leaking Amniotic Fluid</b><br><br>Check out the first comment from an Alaskan woman who says she was forced to do the opposite of what Palin supposedly did - drive TO Anchorage from Wasilla instead of the other way around because she was having a premature baby and the Mat-Su hospital has no NICU.<br><br>Everything we\'re questioning here was asked in Alaska from day one - but no answers of course.<br><a href="http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/08/palins-leaking-amniotic-fluid.php" rel="nofollow">http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1944347" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1944347">parker404</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1944347" class="dsq-comment-message">We\'re not idiots, and neither are the American people.  Hopefully they will see through this prop and send her back to her moose stew.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1944617" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1944617" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1944617" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1944617" class="dsq-comment-message">"HER MOOSE STEW!!!"<br><br>"Moose and caribou...."<br><br>AHHHH  Hahahahahahahaha!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1941722" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1941722" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1941722">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1941722" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1941722" class="dsq-comment-message">This is what gets me: Why would a woman who is such a hard-core pro-life advocate keep her pregancy a secret up until the 7th month? I understand women waiting at most 3 months to tell family and friends, but Palin didn\'t tell anyone until her 7th month. It sounds strange to me. <br><br>Still, while I find this story intriguing, I think us Obama supporters should focus more on McCain\'s lack of judgement in choosing her, instead of the issue surrounding this child\'s paternity.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1941792" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1941792" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1941792">devessel</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1941792" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1941792" class="dsq-comment-message">Wow.  just, wow.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1941808">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1941808" class="dsq-comment-message">CPL,<br><br>I\'m leaving this to the National Enqirer. I\'m sure they have folks crawling around Alaska right now.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1941932" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1941932" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1941932" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1941932" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL, but this is probably going to pan out one way or the other, just like the Enquirer story on John Edwards\' baby mama.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1944403" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1944403" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1944403" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1944403" class="dsq-comment-message"><b>Sarah Palin: From TV Sports Anchor To Vice Presidential Candidate</b><br><br>Check out the video from 1988 of Sarah Palin (then Heath) as a local sportscaster (not even a <b>news</b>caster!)<br><br>Barack Obama was already a community organizer working on tenant\'s rights at this time and was entering Harvard Law School.  Michelle Obama graduated from HLS that year.<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/30/sarah-palin-from-tv-sport_n_122676.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/30/sarah-...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1944700" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1944700">Timmy Mac</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1944700" class="dsq-comment-message">Hey, Olbermann was a sportscaster, and he\'s turned out okay for our side!</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1944822" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1944822" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes he\'s okay but no one is asking him to be VP!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1942112">Monie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1942112" class="dsq-comment-message">First, let me say if Sarah Palin claims that is her child, then as a citizen who had no previous knowledge of this woman  I have  to assume that is the truth.<br><br>However, if the story about Palin\'s flight back to Alaska  after her "water broke"  is true then I have to say, in my own opinion, that was a reckless decision.  And since she was already the mother to 4 other children, and well-informed about the labor process, there is no way she could have thought it was okay to fly for hours after her amniotic sac had ruptured, placing her  and the infant at risk for infection.  Most physicians will not allow a woman to be discharged from a hospital, let alone board an airplane after her water breaks.<br><br>Now, I will say that it is possible for  a woman\'s water to break, and her pregnancy may be  sustained but ONLY after a OB has given her antibiotics and additional care to slow down the labor process---even though it doesn\'t appear she consulted a physician.  Even if that was the case, there was still enormous risks  in Palin\'s situation because of the child\'s medical condition and the possibe medical attention this child may have needed due to complications.  I read that 50% of all Down Syndrome babies have heart defects.Many also have serious gastrointestinal problems.<br><br> And like I mentioned from a previous post, a friend of mine\'s daughter  was placed in the NICU for a period of time after her birth due to health problems associated with Dow\'ns syndrome.<br><br>Regardless of where this story leads(and I\'m sure tabloids are already at work), we still  have to mobilize our efforts in getting  people registered, encourage them to vote, and inform people of Obama\'s policies and how they contrast to the failed policies of George Bush and John McCain</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1944656">Teacher</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1944656" class="dsq-comment-message">Monie said: "to fly for hours after her amniotic sac had ruptured, placing her and the infant at risk for infection."<br><br>Lets make that potential death. Add to this that the baby was almost 2 months pre-mature as well as birth defected, and the story becomes less and less believable.<br><br>I have read a couple of stories suggesting that she is nursing. I don\'t see how she can if she didn\'t have a baby, though I know it can be induced with chemicals. I think more women receive a pill to make thir milk dry up if they don\'t want to nurse, but there is also one to induce lactation.<br><br>The question is, if she believes in life, why did she try to kill her baby?<br><br>I hope the tabloids discover the truth. I don\'t think we know it yet.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1942136" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1942136" class="dsq-comment-message">I can understand why some feel uncomfortable about the grandma meme if only because it can be turned against us.<br><br>But I wouldn\'t dismiss it out of hand as just a nasty rumor because of what I previously posted downthread.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1942510" href="http://natthedem.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">nctodc</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1942510" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m not sure I\'m going to put too much stock in this. Yes, the timing does seem awkward, but I\'m satisfied with arguing the other hundreds of other legitimate reasons this woman should be no where near the White House.<br><br>That said, when I first heard this story--one, I thought it sounded an awful lot like a storyline from the last season of "Desperate Housewivves" and two, that it\'d be ironic that McSame brought up <a href="http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20167059,00.html" rel="nofollow">Britney Spears, first</a>.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1944503" class="dsq-comment-message">Sarah Palin and Feminists for Life<br>By Ruth Rosen, AlterNet<br>Posted on August 30, 2008, Printed on August 31, 2008<br><a href="http://www.alternet.org/story/96991/" rel="nofollow">http://www.alternet.org/story/96991/</a><br>Many people are unfamiliar with Feminists for Life and wonder what the choice of Sarah Palin, who is against abortion rights, signals to the electorate.<br><br>Well, let me tell you something about Feminists for Life. In 2003, I decided to investigate this group and its energetic leader, Serrin Foster. What did it mean, I wondered, to be a feminist and actively fight against the right to choose when or whether to have a child?<br><br>So I went to a church in sprawling, suburban, wealthy Danville, California to hear Serrin Foster, president of Feminists for Life, speak on "The Feminist Case Against Abortion" to a huge crowd of mainly high-school students.<br><br>Founded in 1972, one year before the U.S. Supreme Court handed down the historic Roe vs. Wade decision that made abortion legal in the United States, Feminists for Life now focuses exclusively on practical alternatives to abortion for college-age women.<br><br>No woman, argues Foster, should ever have to choose between having a child and a career. "Abortion is a reflection that society has failed women," she tells high school and college students as she tours the country.<br><br>"Women deserve better choices," she says and points to practical alternatives and resources available to a young woman who has an unwanted pregnancy. She can choose single parenthood and use food stamps or temporary assistance to needy families. She can choose adoption. Or, college-age women can pressure school campuses to offer child care and family housing so that they never, ever, have to choose between a pregnancy and an education.<br><br>Feminism is all about having choices, Foster told me, after her talk. I couldn\'t agree more. Young women, she says, should have the right to bear a child and have access to high-quality, affordable child care. Again, I heartily agreed.<br><br>But Foster is cleverly disingenuous. When I asked what she does to promote child care, her answers were vague and evasive. When I read the organization\'s brochures aimed at campus physicians and psychologists, I found nothing about campaigning for child care. The real goal is to convince professionals to persuade young women to "choose" to bear a baby.<br><br>Despite its protestations, Feminists for Life is not really about choice. You can see this on its Web site, where the slogan "refuse to choose" appeared repeatedly. Nor does the organization challenge the real difficulties working mothers face. Instead, it cleverly appropriates the words "feminist" and "choice" to convince young women that abortion is always an unacceptable choice.<br><br>Part of the problem is that Foster either does not know her history or purposefully distorts the past. She spoke that night as though she had invented the idea of child care and describes pioneer feminists of the 1960s and 1970s as selfish, diabolical creatures who never wanted women to have the choice to bear a child.<br><br>But she\'s wrong. The three demands made at the first national march in New York City in 1970 included child care, equal pay for equal work and the legal right to "choose" an abortion. Many feminists, moreover, spent years trying to persuade the institutions where they worked that real equality for women required family-friendly policies, including child care.<br><br>Foster also accused Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice America of supporting abortion in order to stay in business. But I had to wonder about her own financial goals when I saw, in the organization\'s magazine, that I could buy a "stunning new logo pin" in either sterling silver or 24-carat gold for $75.<br><br>In the end, I decided that Feminists for Life is neither about feminism nor about choice. It is a cunning attempt to convince young women that choice means giving up the right to "choose."<br><br>Sarah Palin is the inexperienced woman Sen. John McCain has chosen as his running mate, hoping that she will attract the vital female vote.. It\'s the worst kind of affirmative action, choosing a person he barely knows, who is completely unprepared to assume any national office. It\'s like nominating Clarence Thomas for the Supreme Court. It\'s all about ideology and not about competence.<br><br>To put it bluntly, Sarah Palin is no Hillary Clinton. Nor does she have the vision and brilliance of Barack Obama. This is an incredible insult to most American women. Just how stupid does he think we are? <br><br>Ruth Rosen is a historian and journalist who teaches public policy at UC Berkeley. She is a senior fellow at the Longview Institute. <br><br>© 2008 Independent Media Institute. All rights reserved.<br>View this story online at: <a href="http://www.alternet.org/story/96991/" rel="nofollow">http://www.alternet.org/story/96991/</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1944787">delfinajones</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1944787" class="dsq-comment-message">The baby rumor is going viral--it is on <a href="http://gawker.com" rel="nofollow">gawker.com</a> which is a top ten site on the web.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1944826" href="http://www.ilivetoshop.typepad.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ruthdfw</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1944826" class="dsq-comment-message">Obama supporters have to be careful with how far this gets pushed.  I think with it out there this loudly.  they can\'t ignore it and hopefully will at least be forced to "address" it.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1945904" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1945904" class="dsq-comment-message">**Waves at Ruth**<br><br>Why do Obama supporters have to be careful? I\'m just curious because, as has been posted elsewhere here, though it could conceivably be turned against the Obama campaign, the story has been out there, and is at least as old as the infant in question, though it has gotten so much play only since Friday since she was announced as repug VP.<br><br>Though traditional media are, as usual, ignoring the story, as it the Edwards story, with few exceptions, they haven\'t dominated the narrative during this campaign season anyway.  It has been proven that they have been wrong much more than they\'ve been right.<br><br>There is as much of a possibility that this story is true as there was that the Edwards baby mama story was true.  As unsavory as it is, It is a story that deserves to be fleshed out or, at least, make the rounds if and until it dies down.  If there\'s no truth or the truth is unverifiable, it will die the usual internet death to be retired to the urban legends website soon enough.<br><br>Politics is a dirty business and war is hell; the squeamish need not apply.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1946737" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1946737" class="dsq-comment-message">For Real, 99%.  Edwards wasn\'t even in the running, and the Enquirer story broke - all the pundits could do was wax poetic about how Edwards\' indiscretion was going to hurt Obama.<br><br>Obama supporters don\'t have to do any digging - like Rikyrah said, the National Enquirer is all over this one, and if there\'s any fire where there\'s smoke, they\'ll find it and the exposure has more potential to hurt McCain, because he\'d have to pick another candidate, and since he\'s set precedent by picking a woman, the best way he\'s ensured the ReThug women stay home is to pick a man.  He would have to replace her with Kay Bailey Hutcherson or Christie Whitman, to make it legit.<br><br>Sort of like Bush and Katrina.  No matter how many times he does better in the rescue attempts, they will always be measured against Katrina, and he comes up short.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1948148" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1948148" class="dsq-comment-message">You got that right, <b>CPL</b>.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1948249" href="http://www.ilivetoshop.typepad.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ruthdfw</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1948249" class="dsq-comment-message">waving back at ya!!!!<br><br>You are right the squeamish should not apply - so you will NEVER see my name on a ballot....LOL.<br><br>But I just think that  we have to be careful that we are not pushing a story that ultimately is not factual.  becasue right or wrong Obama is held accountable to some extent by what his "fanatical" supporters say or do.  You know that is how they portray us.<br><br>Also as some on Kos & Andrew Sullivan have pointed out, it is possible they can flip the switch and make her big "reveal", spin it in such a way that she comes out sympthatic as the mother trying to protect her daughter.<br><br>So I finally read most of the chronology of the birth, interesting that she left Dallas where we have the excellent Children\'s Medical Center among 3000 other hospitals and flew across country, where she bypassed two larger hospitals to have the baby at a facility where a friend worked.  My point is:  I agree this story looks odd.  As some have said she is either a liar or a questionable mother given the circumstances.  I don\'t have kids but I know a lot of women in my dept who put the brakes on flying at seven months.  Who the heck goes to work after three days????<br><br>At some point I would think the McCain campaign will have to respond, unless pressure and the hurricane pushes this story on the back burner.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1948298" class="dsq-comment-message">Digital Journal is reporting that the photo in question was taken in April 2006 earlier this year as reported on KOS.<br><br><a href="http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/259257" rel="nofollow">http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/259257</a></div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1948821" href="http://www.ilivetoshop.typepad.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ruthdfw</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1948821" class="dsq-comment-message">Now photos that show a pregant Parlin<br><a href="http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/31/234157/516/1017/581734#" rel="nofollow">http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/31/234157/...</a></div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1945176" href="http://www.ilivetoshop.typepad.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ruthdfw</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1945176" class="dsq-comment-message">McCain has cancelled most events on Monday, only essential things will proceed.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1945621">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1945621" class="dsq-comment-message">Comment of the year from a reader on HufingtonPost:<br><br>MY RESUME FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION<br><br>I own a car, I regularly take the train, I live less than 20 miles from O\'Hare (closer than Alaska is to Russia), and I once went on a cruise.<br><br>Given my qualifications, I would like to offer my services and expertise as the next Secretary of Transportation.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1946317">djchefron</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1946317" class="dsq-comment-message">You got to love those series of tubes the internets<br>Sarah Palin at 7 months?<br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZHI4aHW0wU" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZHI4aHW0wU</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1946539">isonprize</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1946539" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=117egpk&s=4" rel="nofollow"><br>Behind the scenes when Sen. McCain announced Gov. Palin as his running mate.  YOU TELL ME which one of these women just had a baby...</a><br><br> <br><a href="http://members.aol.com/gregindel/pregnantpalin.jpg" rel="nofollow">Also, here is a picture of Gov. Palin when she was pregnant  ( I have no verification of when or where this pic was taken.  It was posted in comments on i-report</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1946776">parker404</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1946776" class="dsq-comment-message">That is clearly from one of her earlier pregnancies (note the 80\'s hairdo).  <br><br>If she was showing this much when pregnant with one of her older kids, it makes it VERY unlikely that she would hardly show at all with baby #5.  Women tend to show more during subsequent pregnancies.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1946892">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1946892" class="dsq-comment-message">That first pic is making the strong case that Sarah Palin is a grandmother.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1947021">Angee</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1947021" class="dsq-comment-message">Bristol is PREGNANT now!!! A neighbor has confirmed it. If you look at the People magazine pictures there is a bump. Also she has been seen wearing a wedding band. Evidently this was a quickie marriage because her mom was going to be mcsame\'s vp. <br>So, Trig is sarah\'s child, but her 17 yr old high school daughter got pregnant by bf and had a shotgun wedding.<br>Remember sarah preaches abstinence and not birthcontrol.<br><br> I swear you can\'t make this shit up, lol.<br><br>Here is the link. Look for Sue Williams<br><br><a href="http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/08/30/off-to-the-land-of-palin" rel="nofollow">http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/08/30/off-to...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1947069">parker404</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1947069" class="dsq-comment-message">Absitnence only does not work.  Kids like to have sex.  It feels good.  Put your fast a$$ daughters on the the freaking Pill.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1947084">Angee</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1947084" class="dsq-comment-message">Wonder how the repubs are going to spin this? This is getting FUNKY!!!!!</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1947758" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1947758" class="dsq-comment-message">Parker, this reminds me of when I was Bristol Palin\'s age.  <br><br>I decided I was going to sleep with my BF; after all, all my friends were getting their freak on with their BFs, and I was feeling kinda left out.<br><br>Point is, I told my mother about my decision.  Instead of freaking out, she calmly nodded her head; yea or nay, I couldn\'t tell.<br><br>Next day, I\'m called out of class by the principal; my mom came by the school to pick me up.  Thinking I had a "get out school early" card, I eagerly bounced to the car where my mom was waiting for me.<br><br>"Where we goin\'? " I asked.<br><br>"To the doctor", my mom said.  "Why?" I asked.<br><br>"Because if you\'re going to have sex, I\'m getting you checked out and you\'re going on the pill.  I\'m not having any grandbabies from you until you\'re married and out of college."<br><br>After the traumatizing pelvic exam (I was a virgin and didn\'t know what the hell to expect), the doc proceed to give me a lecture on how while I took the pill, I needed to insist my BF strap himself with a condom, , STDs, etc.<br><br>I got bored with the whole thing and told my BF if we had to do "all that" to sleep together, I wanted no part of it. <br><br>"It\'s too much work", I said.  And he agreed because his grandparents had him checked out, too.<br><br>All because our parents made it easy for us to talk to them about sex.  Mind you, this was back in 1979.<br><br>Sarah Palin has no excuse for keeping her kid so much in the dark that unplanned pregnancies and shotgun weddings are cropped up as a means of covering up.  Shyt...and that child has more advantages than I could ever think of.<br><br>No excuses.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1947144" class="dsq-comment-message">This is what the neighbor said:<br> <br>Sue Williams (12:31:50) : <br><br>To the person who commented on Sarah’s hair - no, it’s what happens when one has hair extensions - which Sarah, at one time, don’t know about now, had.<br><br>Re: babygate - I don’t know what’s being reported. Here, however, is the truth. Trig is Sarah and Todd’s baby. <br><br>When Sarah first learned she was pregnant, it was shocking and overwhelming. While she and Todd had not planned to have anymore children, it is common knowledge among their family and friends that neither of them ever surgically insured that they wouldn’t have any “late in life” surprises/blessings.<br><br>This, to me, showed a disturbing lack of judgement. If you want to ask the citizens of a state to let you run the state for four years, to me she and Todd should have thought ahead and determined that the possibility of an unplanned pregnancy wouldn’t have been prudent for either the child, their family, their extended family (who are the ones who end up helping them raise their current four children) or the citizens of the state.<br><br>They either didn’t think this through, or didn’t care. Not sure. But, either way, to me and to others, it was a lack of foresight and judgement.<br><br>But it is the same vein - this lack of judgement - Sarah showed, on the campaign trail for governor, when asked who would raise her children should she win, she promptly stated that Todd would quit his job and stay at home with the kids (Todd works a “Slope” week on/week off schedule).<br><br>Sarah was elected and then - whoops. Todd didn’t like the stay at home gig - so Sarah, citing they needed money for the kid’s college (even though Track enlisted in the military) said Todd was returning to work. When asked about her statements on the campaign trail about how Todd would quit his job, Sarah said she’d actually never talked to him about what they would do if she was elected (in terms of his employment) and that she’d spoken out of turn when she spoke for him stating he’d quit his job.<br><br>Again, call me picky, but this is the kind of bizarre judgement Sarah routinely displays. Are you kidding me that she would run for governor and she and her husband would somehow not think to have a conversation about what to do with their four school aged kids? That’s insane. So, either her judgement is super goofy, or she wasn’t telling the truth. Either way, it’s not reassuring to now think this is someone who would be one 72 year old heartbeat away from having to call shots for the country/world.<br><br>So Todd trots himself back to work and Sarah is busy traipsing around the state and the nation. The kids are “farmed out” (this is the word used by thier associates in “the Valley”) to family and friends to raise while Todd and Sarah are off having their respective careers (Sarah is famously quoted as saying, “My mom does whatever I need her to”).<br><br>During this period is when Bristol, Sarah’s sixteen year old daughter, turns up pregnant. So, it’s kind of interesting to note that the Republican Vice Presidential Nominee and her sixteen year old junior in high school unwed daughter were carrying babies at the same time. Once Bristol’s condition became more obvious this summer, she was whisked out of sight and hasn’t been seen in public until yesterday in Ohio. This is why Trig’s blanket was strung across her entire abdomen and torso, but, when she walked down the stairs from the stage, in a profile shot, it was very clear to see she is well into her third trimester of her pregnancy.<br><br>It has come out in the past couple of days that she and her high school boyfriend had a quickie wedding and that she is home schooling her senior year.<br><br>The Anchorage Daily News has known about this for months - and haven’t touched the story. But I can’t imagine the national press or the Democratic Party will be as willing to turn a blind eye.<br><br>For me, once again it speaks to judgement. We all - every single one of us - even Sarah’s closest friends in the Valley (I know, I’ve been speaking to them) know she is in no way qualified for this position. At all.<br><br>But then, why would she accept the nomination, knowing that Bristol’s situation will come to light and knowing her hunger for national and international acclaim and attention will carry with it a mighty high price for her seventeen year old daughter who had absent parents last year and who turned up pregnant. <br><br>How embarrassing will it be for Bristol once the news (or the baby) comes out and not just the Valley, not just Alaska, not just the USA - but Bristol will be known the world over as the seventeen year old unwed - then quickly wed senior-in-high-school-homeschooled-teenage mom and daughter to the Republican Vice Presidential Nominee?<br><br>How hard will that degree of scrutiny and shame be?<br><br>How does one do that to one’s daughter?<br><br>How does one dash about the country for the next 66 days trying to pull off an image of the devoted mother of five when she, by and large, isn’t the one raising them and when one of them - her daughter, is in a truly vulnerable point in life; not to say anything about the needs of Trig. But maybe he doesn’t count, except as a talking point or a photo prop. But this is a person, a little boy who is going to require a tremendous amount of time and attention. From his mother.<br><br>This is okay?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1947225">Angee</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1947225" class="dsq-comment-message">This would be hilarous if it wasn\'t so sad.<br><br>A modern day self rightous Annie Oakley who has family members raise the five children that she CHOSE to have and one of them ends up a pregnant highschooler. A junior highschooler at that. The child isn\'t even a senior!<br><br>My heart goes out to Bristol. Can you imagine the HELL her ambitious parents are putting her through because she may have SCREWED up their chances for national political celebrity?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1946684">JJai</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1946684" class="dsq-comment-message">Okay, this is hilarious. See the Sarah Palin decison tree regarding her water breaking and subsequent delivery<br><br><a href="http://img364.imageshack.us/img364/4628/sarahpalinla4.png" rel="nofollow">http://img364.imageshack.us/img364/4628/sarahpa...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1946922">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1946922" class="dsq-comment-message">For real, the blogosphere has been the front line soldiers for Obama because the mainstream media sold their souls a long time ago. The internet has neutralized this race to the point that the GOP and their minions simply cannot get away with the same tactics or 2000 or 2004......its too vast, and Obama also has the financial resources along with the tech savvy to defeat Rove & Co. Mccain is his own worst enemy when it comes to the NOW.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1950541">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1950541" class="dsq-comment-message">I can\'t find the post that contained the "Mudflats"" article  -  Sarah Palin\'s Vetting Problems.   But - no matter- \'cause i just LIKED the use of some terminology, as follows:<br><br>1.  The author described waking up on that "SURREAL MORNING" - Friday  :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>2.  Then he/she said something about Palin\'s several "open gates"  -   Troopergate, Bridge Gate, Baby Gate!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>3.  First time that I have EVA seen the word   "SMARMIEST!"<br>Sooooo, I took a little field trip" to the dictionary!   :&gt;)  :&gt;)  :&gt;)<br><br>I find it to be a cool word!!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>Smarmiest/smarmy:  1.  marked by a smug, ingratiating or false earnestness<br>                                      2.  Of low sleazy taste or quality.<br><br>O.K. ENOUGH of my musings.  I like HUMOR/SARCASM & "cool" WORDS!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)   :&gt;)    :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>Oh!! Look at the time!!    :&gt;)    :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1951607">Someone</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1951607" class="dsq-comment-message">The truth may be some combination of the above speculation.. I found commenter "Sue Williams" to be very interesting on this thread:<br><br><a href="http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/08/30/off-to-the-land-of-palin/" rel="nofollow">http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/08/30/off-to...</a><br><br>Could Bristol be pregnant presently?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1941034">Lilytiger</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1941034" class="dsq-comment-message">This story becomes more of a mind f*ck as it procedes. <br><br>*Sorry GreenLady and others for the coarse words, but really I do not know how else to post this. I wasn\'t raised right.<br><br>LOL</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1941370">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1941370" class="dsq-comment-message">lol no problem Lilytiger.  lolol</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1949063">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1949063" class="dsq-comment-message">Lilytiger:  U most certainly were ". . . raised right . . ."  Didn\'t I see the word SORRY??<br><br>Your spelling   -   that would be "PH" instead of "F".    :&gt;)      :&gt;)      :&gt;)      :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1941123" href="http://swamphermit.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Karmi</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1941123" class="dsq-comment-message">Palin (unlike Obama) was vetted, and was certainly not a <i>“Panic Pick”</i> - <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2008/08/31/palin-no-panic-pick-wapo/" rel="nofollow">Palin no panic pick: WaPo</a>:<br><br><i>“Far from being a last-minute tactical move or a second choice when better known alternatives were eliminated, Palin was very much in McCain’s thinking from the beginning of the selection process, according to McCain’s advisers. The 44-year-old governor made every cut as the first list of candidates assembled last spring was slowly winnowed. The more McCain learned about her, the more attracted he was to her <b>as someone who shared his maverick, anti-establishment instincts</b>.”</i><br><br>McCain/Palin now <b>*OWN*</b> the “Change” and Reform and <b>Integrity</b> issues! Now, as far as McCain <i>“stealing Obama’s thunder”</i> goes, it should be clear that Obama was headed down since his return from the <i>‘TOUR’</i>. Obama – <b>the so-called reformer</b> - then picked a <i>“35-year Washington insider as his running mate”</i>. The DNC convention and Obama’s speech were both disasters, and Obama’s so-called <i>“thunder”</i> was then gone…even with MSM desperately trying to help him keep it.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1942259" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1942259" class="dsq-comment-message">This whole she\'s been vetted argument is as dumb as the one in which y\'all repugs claim that she\'s got more executive experience than the Dems\' presidential nominee.  She\'s been no more vetted than I am Queen Elizabeth.<br><br>To quote the late Richard Pryor\'s Mudbone, "he say she do" but that doesn\'t make it so and I don\'t care what any corporate media shill says.<br><br>I can\'t even wrap my mind around anyone saying that McCaint is a person of integrity and an agent of change. I just watched the movie \'Uncounted\' again and it reiterated to me that the repugs - most all of them - are lousy thieves.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1946756" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1946756" class="dsq-comment-message">You know this is an off-da-hook post when we can feature quotes from Mudbone.  LOL, I love it!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1941330">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1941330" class="dsq-comment-message">You think people are stupid?  You think anyone will forget that McCain votes with George Bush 95% of the time, but Palin will somehow eliminate that fact?<br><br>With this sad attempt to gain some "change" cachet, this pick has undermined McCain\'s judgment.  It paints him as cynical and irresponsible.   It shows him to be erratic.  It horrifies feminist-minded women.  Feminist-Minded women do not want the first female VP nominee to be a backward, religious fanatic.  Even the pundits were quietly appalled.  It shows that Republicans have come undone...they have wet themselves.   <br><br>This pick intensifies and highly contrasts Obama\'s stellar qualifications.<br><br>Yesterday, Obama and Biden spoke before a crowd of about 20,000.  This is after his 84,000 acceptance speech.  Think about  that.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1941469">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1941469" class="dsq-comment-message">Karmi - please.  She was not vetted. Republicans in Alaska said she wasn\'t vetted.  <br><br>regarding McCain/Palin owning the change, reform and integrity issues -- clearly you haven\'t read the articles below from the Alaskan newspapers otherwise you would not say the words, change or integrity.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1941561">MotorCityBadBoy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1941561" class="dsq-comment-message">Wow CPL, you know you\'ve made it big when you have your very own delusional Troll...  <br><br>So let me get this right...  Now McCain is the agent of change?  He is "Change we can believe in?"  The Change we need right now?  After almost 30 years in Washington he wants to be a change agent now?  Why wasn\'t he changing things back then?  Why wasn\'t he trying to change things while voting with Bush 90%+ of the time?  And not to mention the Keating 5 scandal (Of which dear senator was one of the five.)  Plus, Palin can\'t be for change when she comes with her own ethics scandal/investigation the first day she hits the campaign trail.  Palin is nothing more than Cheney in drag...  Ugh!  Okay, she\'s not as ugly as Lynne Cheney, but her lack of ethics and abuse of power ar "Cheny-esque" as Kerry put it yesterday.  So keephope alive and keep wishing, but this election is over. <br> "Please welcome to the stage, President Barack Obama!!!"</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1948542">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1948542" class="dsq-comment-message">MCBB:   ". . delusional troll. . . "   SEEEEE!!!  LMAO!!!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1941625">delfinajones</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1941625" class="dsq-comment-message">I believe you are quoting the  WaPo quoting the McCain camp-- after the fact.  Of course they would spin it.<br>If you read more than FOX NEWS ONLINE you would know Lieberman was his number one choice but McCain\'s corporate masters didn\'t want a Pro Choice VP, even if he has been John McCain\'s wet nurse for the past few years.<br>The only change Palin owns is her son--or is it grandson\'s?-diaper.<br>And it is high time you change yours. Pooh........<br><br>Palin  mirrors McCain who mirrors Bush. She is a SAME agent.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1948519">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1948519" class="dsq-comment-message">delfinajones:  Now I wonder if LIEberman will be at the Convention?   Or, will he RSVP his REGRETS due to INCLEMENT WEATHER -OR- a sinus infection _OR- an allergy -to Gov. Palin -OR- ?????   Will he tell the TRUTH for once and say to "McAncient":  You STR8 DISSED me so FU!!!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1942491">afroacademic</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1942491" class="dsq-comment-message">Obama was vetted by over 18 million Americans in open elections. Sorry your first sentence doesn\'t pass the smell test.</div>\
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			Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(Dsq.$('dsq-post-add'));
		}
	}

	
	

	
	if(document.location.hash != '') {
		document.location.hash = document.location.hash.substring(1);
	}

	Dsq.Popup.showCookieMsgs();

	
	if(document.location.search != '' && location.hash != '#disqus_thread') {
		var reply_id = Dsq.Utils.getRequestParams().dsq;
		if(reply_id) { document.location.hash = 'comment-' + reply_id; }
	}

	
	if((typeof OB_Script != 'undefined') && (typeof OB_versionNum != 'undefined')) {
		if(navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Firefox") != -1) {
			if(window.frames['dsq-reply-frame']) {
				window.frames['dsq-reply-frame'].location = Dsq.Urls.REPLY + (new Date()).getTime() + '&f=jackandjillpolitics&t=see_what_happens_when_you_don8217t_vet_your_vp_82&to_redirect=' + encodeURIComponent(window.location) + '&ifrs=' + encodeURIComponent(disqus_iframe_css);
			}
		}
	}

	if (Dsq.jsonData.integration.theme == 4) {
		if (Dsq.jsonData.realtime_enabled) {
			Dsq.Realtime.initialize();
		}
	}

	



	window.ExecuteWhen = (function () {
	var obj = {}
	
	// Private
	var running = false;
	var timer = null;
	var pending = [];
	var startTimer = function() {
		running = true;
		timer = setInterval(obj.heartBeat, 100);
	};
	var stopTimer = function() {
		running = false;
		clearInterval(timer);
	};
	
	// Public
	obj.add = function (condition, code) {
		pending.push([condition,code]);
		this.heartBeat(); //!
		if (!running) {
			startTimer();
		}
	};
	obj.heartBeat = function() {
		if (!pending.length) {
			stopTimer();
		}
		var newPending = [];
		for (var i=0; i<pending.length; i++) {
			var cond = pending[i][0];
			var code = pending[i][1];
			// FIXME: if cond or code throw an error, they never get removed from pending
			if (cond()){
				code();
			}
			else {
				newPending.push([cond, code]);
			}
		}
		pending = newPending;
	};
	return obj;
})();

// also used in embed_thread.js:
window.fbIsReady = function () {return window.FB && FB.init;};
// NOTE: This script gets executed again without threadEl
//       set when we are loaded again as the fbc_receiver.
//       In this case, we don't need the hidden container.

if(!window.FB || !FB.init) {
	if(window.Dsq && Dsq.container) {
		// container is not present when init.js is loaded from an xd-receiver iframe; in this case,
		// we don't need the FB_HiddenContainer anyway.
		var fbDiv = document.createElement('div');
		fbDiv.id = "FB_HiddenContainer";	// Required or else FeatureLoader will execute a document.write.
		fbDiv.style.position = 'absolute';	// This is intentionally not setting display to none as this breaks
		fbDiv.style.top = '-10000px';		// Flash in Safari.
		fbDiv.style.left = '-10000px';
		fbDiv.style.width = '0px';
		fbDiv.style.height = '0px';
		Dsq.container.appendChild(fbDiv);
	}
	var fbJS = document.createElement('script');
	fbJS.type = "text/javascript";
	fbJS.src = "http://static.ak.connect.facebook.com/js/api_lib/v0.4/FeatureLoader.js.php";
	document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(fbJS);

	ExecuteWhen.add(window.fbIsReady,
		function () {
			// HACK: This is a workaround FBC's single domain limitation by
			//		 allowing sites to create multiple forums with different
			//		 Facebook API keys.  This must be used in conjunction with
			//		 disqus_facebook_forum (see authenticateFacebook).
			var facebook_api_key = 'bd6a8bc56f8eb204984f34b6fefe228d';
			if (typeof disqus_facebook_api_key != 'undefined') {
				facebook_api_key = disqus_facebook_api_key;
			}

			FB.init(facebook_api_key, window.facebookXdReceiverPath || null,
				{fetchSignedPublicSessionData: true});
		});
}


	


if(typeof(disqus_callback) == 'function') {
	var callback_params = Dsq.Utils.getRequestParams()['dsq_cbp'] || null;

	// We don't care about any errors in third-party code
	try {
		disqus_callback(callback_params);
	} catch (x) {
		if (typeof(console) != 'undefined' && typeof(console.log) == 'function') {
			// But it would be nice to let developers know about them
			console.log(x);
		}
		// pass
	}

	// HACK: We don't know if the callback wraps our container, which may
	// possibly result in a new DOM element.
	Dsq.container = document.getElementById('dsq-content');
}

})();




