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Barack needs to STOP being conversational!!<br>He needs to develop talking points and stick to them.  Especially when it came to that quesion on McCain voting 90% with Bush being flipped into \"Barry\" u voted 97% with your party.  I wanted to jump through the TV when Obama said George you are trying to CONFLATE 2 different things.  STOP IT!!!   The masses do not understand the term CONFLATE!!<br><br>Break it the phuck down Barack,...don't use LARGE uncommon words. Say simply he is SPINNING the question!!  People understand that.  Tell them that meant you OPPOSED Bush 97% of the time UNLIKE McCain who AGREED with Bush 90% of the time!!  Geez!!   ....Then enumerated what you OPPOSED or I should say LIST it...Obama is suppose to RUN OVER  Stepinfetchinopolous at the point like a friggin PITBULL withOUT lipstick and say that meant you voted FOR Energy conservation, you voted FOR insuring Children, you voted FOR not giving up civil liberties, you voted FOR not torturing our enemies and you voted FOR medical care for our VETERANS...all the things McCain OPPOSED by voting WITH Bush!!<br><br>Barack is pissin me OFF.  And I was even angrier when he let Stepinfetchinopoulos get away with calling him BARRY...that was a complete DIS.<br><br>Obama also needs to learn how to spin this you were WRONG on the Surge and that he is OPPOSED to Victory.  What he needs to say is that  if the Surge is working why are we STILL there?  Why are the troops not coming home George?  If the Surge WORKED and we have VICTORY why the hell does McCain say the troops can't come home?  <br><br>Then ...he can go into his  2 word answer...because in 2 words George MISSION UNACCOMPLISHED!!..Those 2 words FORCE additional inquiry.<br><br>Dayum...how come Obama has not figured out how to give a simplistic  answer and MAKE them DEMAND detail!.  When you simplify the answer and they do not hear what they want they are FORCED to DIGG Deeper...and thEN you get the opportunity to explain.  But first, you have to go on OFFENSE!<br>Make their asses scramble for pete's sake...make them ask & frame the question the way YOU need it in order to say what you want to convey.<br><br>Obama needs to start saying that McCAIN voted AGAINST new Energy plans for solar, wind and nuclear. McCain voted against that by voting with Bush but now he says he is FOR alternative Energy...when he has OPPOSED it. Force McCain to defend his record for pete's sake.  <br><br>Obama needs to say that Change we can believe in..means  more jobs, more bridges, more schools and more tax cuts for the middle class....while McCain will maintain the status quo..that is more of the SAME change that McCain wants to call Change.  <br><br>Obama needs to hit HARDER.  He also needs to run on Clinton's economic record. He needs to show that it was the DEMOCRATS that brought prosperity and the BUSHES that brought recession and outsourcing.  He needs to say that it was the DEMOCRATS who brought 100 Million jobs under Clinton and Bush who LOSS 3.5Million jobs.  He needs to say that it was the DEMOCRATS who build a 3 TRILLION dollar SURPLUS and the GOP and Bush who brought us a 3 BILLION and growing defecit.<br><br>It is now DEMOCRATS  vs. GOP...and Obama has a RECORD to run on!!<br><br>They do not...and McCain's 90% voting record proves he is not a reformer..he is not a maverick...he is a SIDEKICK!!<br><br>ARRRRGH...I am so madddd.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_12:54:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "7e083bfacaf8048b977903a10fdb24da", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 21, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2216851, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2209809": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Some idiot black republican on BET News (mother watches the gospel show, turning now) said that palin having a unwed pregnant teen should make her appealing to the AA community - WTF!!!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_11:00:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2216979": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Ha! Ha!! <br><br>The Grand Ole [WHITE] Party.  <br><br>CNN flashed the numbers/percentages of non-white delegates at the DNC with AA's composing some 24% (non-whites totaled 44% of the delegates).  They even noted how Native Americans made up 3% of the DNC delegates.  I didn't see similar \"fact\"oids on CNN for the RNC.  I wonder why...<br><br>Now, did Shafer ask McCain about the skeleton thin number of Black Republicans speaking at the convention -- let alone Black Democrats with switchin' party stories like <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQVbOXvR_l0\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pam</a> or <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuAVw_v3br8\" rel=\"nofollow\">Barney Smith</a> not to be confused with Smith Barney, of course.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_12:29:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "Nquest", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2208347, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2227220": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "(I should mention, I don't currently live in VA.)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-08_03:41:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "4ec3c0272b87ba5c8ce3a9168cf4e78a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2227217, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2218519": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "What show was Boxer on?", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_15:54:45", "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": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2217013, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2224157": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Haha!!! That video was great. That picture too.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_22:51:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "taritac", "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": 2223175, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2219553": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Guess Who's COming To Dinner?<br><br>From <a href=\"http://Politicalinaction.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Politicalinaction.com</a><br><br><i>September 7, 2008<br>Obama and Bill Clinton To Have Dinner Thursday <br><br>The worst thing the McCain campaign could have done was unite the Clintons and Obama. He did that by selecting Sarah Palin. The Clintons will be damned before they let another woman steal Hillary's birth right. Bill Clinton invited Obama to dinner on 9/11, Thursday night, after Obama meets with McCain at their joint appearance.</i><br><br>Ah, to be a fly on the wall at THAT dinner...LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_18:13:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2216996": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I disagree with all the hand wringing over Palin. It is much better to ignore her. If we underestimate her and demand that she be brought before the press, expectations are lowered and if she doesn't break down and sob, then everyone will think she's great.<br><br>That's how it works. The media is in the bag for the Republicans, and will try their level best to make them look great and make us look weak.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_12:31:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "taritac", "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": 2216854, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2219565": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "this was a great story. I enjoyed it.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_18:15:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2218309, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2220078": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "taritac:    WHEW!!!!       SLOW, SUSTAINED DEEP BREATHS!!   Really!!!     :&gt;)      :&gt;)      :&gt;)<br><br>Followed by PRAYER!!<br><br>And a \"VIRTUAL HUG\"!   :&gt;)      :&gt;)     :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_19:25:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2217886, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2217519": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I find them all weak.  They sometimes have good responses...but weak delivery.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_13:45:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2194939, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2203184": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "taritac: Good merning[Madea - style :&gt;) ]  Yes, I'm trying ta see what the MSM is talkin' about at this time.  :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>Watched Rick Sanchez on CNN, he APPEARED ta be SUPPORTING Mr. Obama, 'cause he was PRESSING his guest [forgot name] for specifics when he was attacking Mr. Obama!!  That was NOVEL, in light of the fact that I wrote him a gently scathing e-mail a couple of months ago for ATTACKING Mr. Obama!!   Interesting.   :&gt;)      :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>I, also, see that the WAPost is almost DEVOID [at least the early edition] of campaign/election news.   :&gt;)      :&gt;)  Interesting.   :&gt;)     :&gt;)<br><br>HuffPost:  Need ta check.  But they ran the same headlines FOREVA!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>Well. gotta go to church.  C y'all L8R!    :&gt;)       :&gt;)  Hallelerjah!!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_10:42:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2194359, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2227250": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "My opinion on this:<br><br>Senator Obama knows how to deal with truth and lies in this cultural context.<br><br>He knows.<br><br>Calling out liars as liars can lead to Energizer-Bunny-energy feedback loops. I know this from experience. <br><br>I believe -- from observation and from my gut -- that Senator Obama knows how to work with truth, and deal with lies. <br><br>I have never found a good way to call out lies -- they multiply and there is no accountability at all.<br><br>But I see that he does. I think he understands how to do this. Remember the primaries.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-08_03:48:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "4ec3c0272b87ba5c8ce3a9168cf4e78a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2218402, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2217012": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Whatever he says, it should be a 5-second soundbite reply. Say it and move on. He gets into explaining and it just sounds like he's equivocating. We're beyond the point where nuanced answers work. The undecideds are basing their decision on a beauty contest.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_12:33:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "taritac", "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": 2216852, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2219573": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Right. what if she gets pregnant again, potentially while in office? She went back to work 3 days after \"giving birth\" to her baby.<br><br>I consider myself to be pro-woman, and I think there are biological differences and different stages of life where a woman is called upon to put the best interest of the child above her own desires. It is very tricky/slippery, though a baby has physiological & emotional needs that are best met by a mother. A human baby is not the same as a kitten. I am pro-choice, but once someone decides to have a baby, I think it's needs should be met. I guess Palin's beliefs are the opposite of  mine. She thinks that babies deserve to be born, but after that they have to take what they get. I really love babies.<br><br>When I was in college, I thought there were no differences between males & females. Myself and another lady had a chance to pour the metal for our sculptures by hand (with our backs). We were both petite, and she was more petite than me. So we had to lift this heavy crucible with molten metal in it, plus the holder. We did it only by the grace of God. We basically endangered peoples lives to prove a feminist point. To this day I am thankful that we didn't drop the red hot, hundreds of degrees in temperature crucible containing molten metal and hurt ourselves and others. So now I have a different opinion. Every man or woman can't or shouldn't do any and everything. It's not always possible. There are times we need to accept our limitations as humans, and there is no shame in that.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_18:16:34", "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": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2202803, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2218550": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Here's the video. <br><br>Commercial in the beginning...so hang for a sec. <br><br><a href=http://music.aol.com/video/black-coffee/heavy-d-and-the-boyz/1449044 rel=\"nofollow\">Black Coffee-Heavy D</a href> no longer heavy,btw", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_15:59:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "Texas_Girl_in_LA", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2216120, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2223671": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "It figures, he will go light on her just like he did McCain.  He said he didn't feel like he had to ask McCain about the pregnancy or her husband's affiliation with the AIP because it was out there.  (Has anybody ever heard such b.s.?)  I can think of a million questions he could have asked about those things.<br><br>Let us not forget it was Gibson who tried to make mince meat out of Obama at the ABC debate. His interview with Palin will be weak and complimentary for the repubs.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_21:42:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2220378, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2218042": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "taritac:<br><br>all is well.<br>inhale deeply,<br>hold it, and exhale.<br><br><br>be still. and know that you are among a legion of voices with the same prayer.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_14:52:46", "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": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2217886, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2223166": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I am tv free as I type these words. I just can't take it. It is putting me in the mood for intoxicants, and I am not one to intoxicate myself (wrong image for my kids). So when it gets to that, I have to realize it's time for a change. <br><br>Don't let them continue to assult your mind and soul. Turn it off, Whiterosebuddy.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_20:45:25", "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": 2219659, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2203714": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "nickwah22:  2 MORE LOOOOOOOON MONTHS!!!   :&gt;)     :&gt;)  Then we get ta do an N'SYNC   -----\"BYE!    BYE!     BYE!  :&gt;)      :&gt;)      :&gt;) <br><br>Also, nickwah22, in case you felt CHEATED out of the accompanying video, here it is!!!     :&gt;)     :&gt;)<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JoJqID-wJY\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JoJqID-wJY</a><br><br><br>ENJOY!!    :&gt;)      :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_10:44:56", "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": 2194064, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2218563": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Reflections on Palin from a Christian in Wasilla<br><a href=\"http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008159242_webwasillamom04.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationwor...</a><br><blockquote><i>Considering that the Palin family includes four minors and that the income from either Palin parent would support the family, is this the position of evangelical Christians \u2014 for both parents to choose demanding jobs that require frequent and extended absences from home? Up until now, Dobson would have criticized that lifestyle. Now, he calls it a \"personal matter.\"</i></blockquote>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_16:01:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2218565": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The other day I saw SF's mayor, Newson, speaking on behalf of Obama and I felt he did an excellent job.  We need more of him out there.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_16:01:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "f9aaa8acc43fd7620185ff90cef3c05a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2218402, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2198369": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "See how Repubs always have the back o f their candidate? They don't feel obligated to appear to play fair. <br>We should email Hasselbeck and ask why we didn't hear about Cindy stealing drugs from the pharmacy of the health organization she bankrolls.She was caught but not prosecuted.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_10:11:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "delfinajones", "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": 2194892, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2226249": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I guess that's where the maligned community organizers come in....LOL. :-)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-08_00:28:38", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2223941, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2219594": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<blockquote><i>Ah, to be a fly on the wall at THAT dinner...</i></blockquote><br><br>Yes, indeed.  Lets hope they do some strategizing...although, the numbers don't work in McCain's favour.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_18:19:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2219553, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2210894": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "msmartin:  Co-signing on   -   \" Some IDIOT . . . ... .\"     :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_11:05:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2209809, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2207824": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Rikyrah: From the WaPo:  Palin's Family Has Always Played a Role in Her Politics<br>I guess this was a \"family values\" article??<br><br><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/06/AR2008090603024.html?wpisrc=newsletter\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_10:52:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2223941": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Very cool tool. I wonder how they plan to roll it out to the masses. Lots of inner-city people won't have access to computers to check.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_22:22:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "taritac", "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": 2223352, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2218583": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Biden was just all kinds of awesome! Brokaw tried his best to trip him up(particularly with the bankruptcy bill), but he was as smooth as a Chi-Town pimp!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_16:04:43", "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": 2216665, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2208347": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "McCain on Face the Nation - doing horribly IMO.  He was asked about the \"community organizer\" insult.  Shiffer said he knew community organizers and thought the work was good and asked why Palin and Giuliana would denigrate community organizing and he said Palin was upset that the Obama camp said she was a small town mayor, bet they'll take that out of stump speech.<br><br>Shiffer stated that out of 3200 republican delegates only 23 were AA's and asked how they could continue to be the party of \"white people\".  McCain answered with some garbled bs.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_10:53:42", "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": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2224224": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This comes under the heading  -   \"And Then There Were 5\" [Is that number SIGNIFICANT?  -as in KEATING??  :&gt;)     :&gt;)]<br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/05/heart-van-halen-orleans-j_n_124264.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/05/heart-...</a><br><br>Seems as if 4 additional artists [plus their many song writers] are MIFFED that the Repugs used their SONGS during the Convention WITHOUT PERMISSION!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>I don't blame them!!  People couldn't CLAP or MOVE to the correct BEAT of the music!!  It must have been INSULTING!!     :&gt;)        :&gt;)        :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_22:59:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2221667": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "miss sarah has been successful in infiltrating the gop. That is the mission of AIP, to infiltrate major political parties.<br><br>Check out this link from a AIP meeting.<br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NK2sFJebGc\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NK2sFJebGc</a><br><br>miss sarah has denied being a member. This is the most solid proof that she was. Let's make sure that MSM put this on blast.<br><br>For those not familiar, AIP is Alaska Independent Party. Their mission is to secede from the USA and become an independent country. Their motto is Alaska First, which is in direct contradiction of mcsame's slogan \"Country First.\" Now how patriotic is that?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_20:19:13", "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": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2220378, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2224228": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You should have seen the tape from the daily show. Rove was saying Kaine was the governor of a small state, yada yada then roll tape to him defending criticcism that Palin was smal state governor and mayor of what 500?  And she f*(ked up all their money. Gimme a break GTFOH.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_23:00:04", "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": 2224099, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2219621": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Hate to disappoint on this but they are all so knee deep in this fiasco they should all be taken out and shot. You are poor and all of a sudden you can buy a house w/ no proof of income, no credit check and no downpayment. This offer is made on National Television  during your favorite program. Yet next to no one goes HUH?!!!!<br><br>As to Phil Gramm and deregulation: He wanted everything deregulated. It is his hands and his wife's Wendy(as head of the CFTC) whom were most effective in the commodity pits.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_18:25:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "RobM", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2217385, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2217062": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "No, of course not, journalist ask a few difficult questions of the republicans so they appear to be journalist, but then let them carry on endlessly with their responses and stump speech talking points, unlike the Democrats who they challenge constantly on their answer as if it were a debate.  I saw it this morning with Stephanopolus and Shiffer.  I see it all the time.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_12:43:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2216979, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2218087": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Mission accomplished, indeed.<br><br>Is that in the print edition too?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_14:55:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2217459, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2217577": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Obama Biography<br><br>***Video*****<br><a href=\"http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=XL0KxjeKlrM\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=XL0KxjeKlrM</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_13:54:15", "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": 2217354, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2223210": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Teacher:  Yes!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)  Back-atchu on the WISDOM!   U da WOMAN!!   :&gt;)       :&gt;)      :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_20:51:53", "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": 2222957, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2218605": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<i><b>he said Palin was upset that the Obama camp said she was a small town mayor,</b></i><br><br>Aww! Her wittle fweelings were hurt? Poor baby!<br><br>Wow! Shiffer said they were a party of the white people?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_16:08:16", "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": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2208347, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2223214": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Studies have been done on mother's who don't bond with their<br>babies.  It is definitely not in the child's best interest.  I agree with you on the pro choice.  Why have children if you don't really want them?  Birth control is a much better idea.  We have seen too many negative stories in the news about these pro-life mothers<br>and what sometimes happen to their children.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_20:52:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "jelana", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2223086, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2223215": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I hope Bill isn't going to be an asshole. He is so predatory and exploitive. If he can extract a pound of flesh, he will. I hope O has gotten enough rest before he goes into any meeting with Bill so that he has 100% discernment.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_20:52:31", "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": 2219553, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2220144": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Teacher:  \"Every man or woman . . . .  and there is NO SHAME in that!\"<br><br>I can't believe that I was just in a conversation and shared my thoughts, that were IDENTICAL to yours!!   WOW!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>CHANGE, although it can be disconcerting in some matters [NOT with respect to Mr. O :&gt;)], can also be enlightening and contribute to one's growth!!     Thank you!!!    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_19:35:12", "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": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2219573, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2217590": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Ridiculous fluff piece.  Glossed over all the real issues involving Palins.  Even glossed over Palin's riding in a car holding Trig, instead of strapping in a car seat.  That alone tells you she's not fit to lead!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_13:55:55", "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": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2207824, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2200046": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "OK, I admit that I'm pretty ignorant, but in researching the Detroit riots of 1967, I discovered that the governor of Michigan at the time was... George Romney. Wow. The 1960s is the gift that keeps on giving.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_10:16:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anderkoo", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2199855, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2199999": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Is she saying that Michelle came into wardrobe and makeup \"unfresh?\"<br><br>Why isn't Cindy talking about her drug addiction?<br><br>Theft?<br><br>Consistent pattern of lying?<br><br>Cheating with McCain while married to his first wife?<br><br>Nothing to hide?  Let's see what's in Hasselbitch's closet.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_10:15:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "b55fc0e16623c181a6c8436de91a9fb4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2194892, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2219648": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Michelle,<br>I can accept that. You are probably right. I am upset and frustrated and just plain pissed about this Palin and the media black out as well as their complicity in allowing mcCain's lies to go un rebutted.<br><br>I have no hope that the media will do their jobs so all I can do is exhort Obama to kick some butt!!<br><br>I do think it is needed though, cause I think lots of folks feel like me AND I think the folks he has to reach now..want to see some fire in his belly.<br><br>I apologize though to all the supporters here @ J&J  having to listen to me vent.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_18:30:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "7e083bfacaf8048b977903a10fdb24da", "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": 2217707, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2217090": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Don't be discouraged.  This is part of a large portion of corporatist MSM role.  They wan't McCain in the whitehouse to avoid being taxed on their enormous incomes (Bush provided shelter for them and their money) and they will do whatever they can do to help to get McCain/Palin to the whitehouse.<br><br>It won't work, the american people are concerned about their financial futures and Palin does nothing for that issue.  Be patient she will wear off and they will be forced to talk about something else.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_12:48:04", "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": 2216789, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2218262": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I could personally use a chill pill perscription. <br><br>A part of what is contributing to our alarmism is the continuous & blatantly biased spin in the media that we are subjected to. And as a news junkie, how can you avoid it? I'm going to have to fire CNN once & for all. I may have to totally fast from tv, because no matter where you go there is someone offensive talking. We may be ODing on MSM lies and negativity.<br><br>That said, I enjoyed Fareed Zakaria's show today and his guest. I'm trying to figure out if if there is any particular agenda in this show, and if so, what it is.<br><br>There is a lot of bad news today regarding issue #1. We're in a recession. All this negativity is having a bad influence on people. It's time to turn off the tv forreal.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_15:14:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "4d9312cd58c7caeb087835daea9d59b6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2217484, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2223750": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Whatever it will be, it will be rehearsed.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_21:53:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2223671, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2221705": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I don't think he will be working if they go to Washington, DC. I think his job would then be 2nd man.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_20:24:54", "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": 2194953, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2194059": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "rikyrah:  Where's Dick Cheney??  Oh! Yeah!  He's in Russia [by way of a fuel stop in Alaska  :&gt;) ]:<br><br><a href=\"http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/09/05/us.russia.nuclear/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/09/05/...</a><br>U.S. May Pull Nuclear Deal To Punish Russia source says<br><br>One thing is for sure, the next President WILL be able to say N-U-C-L-E-A-R!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>No more NU-CU-LAR!!!   aaaaarrrrgggg!!   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_04:05:49", "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": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2217100": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I know I wish he would stop explaining so much and just get out the cold hard truth.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_12:49:23", "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": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2217012, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2194064": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Dubya does his best.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_04:09:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "nickwah22", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2194059, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2219665": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The Enron debacle was a matter of deregulation in the commodity markets and Gramm is guilty of it. <br>The real debacle of Enron is that everyone in that company was offered stock as part of the match as an employee. If you took stock instead of cash you received a larger dollar committment as stock. Damn near everybody in that company took the stock and then they really got stupid they committed their personal  contribution to Enron Stock. That is called no Diversification(all your eggs in one basket). When the stock collapsed because of the scandal of cooking their books people lost big time. Worse they could not sell the stock because of the rules.<br><br>If you have an IRA, SEP,  KEOGH anything that is called qualified money you have to spread it around the asset classes you are offered. It does effect your return because the costs of holding multiple account is costly until you reach a given dollar level. BUT IT PROTECTS YOUR ASS FROM A TOTAL MELTDOWN OF ONE ASST CLASS.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_18:33:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "RobM", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2218304, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2223762": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "What's far worse, is that the AIP is an outgrowth of the Constitution Party, which seeks to rule the US as dominionists.<br><br>However you slice it, she's dangerous.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_21:55:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2221667, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2217107": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You admire him for the content of his character, that's all good!<br><br>Heh", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_12:50:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "29f6805818d1f575c4b8e2182a2ac4ce", "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": 2216665, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2194030": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  SIMPLY BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;) The more the WORLD sees this 1st FAMILY, the more they will get USE TO THEM.  'cause they'll be moving into their \"NEW WHITE HOUSE\" in January 2009!!<br><br>Whooooo!  Hoooo!    :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_03:50:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2223259": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "JJai:   Oh, you must know that this raises the question about the after - birth [NOT THAT  :&gt;)] of the 4 other children!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>And James Dobson: He says that he did NOT train to be a minister.  He is a [child ?] psychologist.  <br><br>I'm going ta take a \"Field Trip\" to Wiki -unless it's been \"scrubbed\"!   :&gt;)      :&gt;)   I'll bring it back!    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_20:58:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2219724, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2200732": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Send it to the campaign.<br><br>Leave no stone unturned. Try everything and anything.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_10:25:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2196446, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2217117": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "What did you guys think he was going to do considering the ABC debate that he moderated with Gibson where they talked about everything but the real issues for the first half of the debate?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_12:51:36", "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": 2216851, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2221733": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Sepia: Just got back--love the Jay-Z quote.Hope Barack is listening!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_20:27:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "delfinajones", "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": 2218748, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2226371": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I wonder what is being done about these illegal activities?<br><br>Dare I say <b>nothing</b>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-08_00:44:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "nickwah22", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2223820, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2223473": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thanks.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_21:23:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2217577, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2194092": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:<br><br>Themes Set, Both Campaigns Dash To Election<br><a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/06/us/politics/06campaign.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/06/us/politics/0...</a><br><br>Mr. Obama continues to FIRE UP his followers!!      :&gt;)     :&gt;)     :&gt;)<br><br>FIRED UP!!!   READY TO GO!!  To the WHITE HOUSE!!!   :&gt;)      :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_04:25:24", "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": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2223277": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "jelana:  True dat!   :&gt;)  :&gt;)     We get them in our schools!!   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_21:01:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2223214, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2202803": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "We need a quick response team to counteract some of this crap, even if it seems unimportant. Palin supports the extreme platform of the Republican party which is in effect curtailing womens rights--she is not a feminist in any sense.But the Repubs call her that.Not letting her daughter use birth control is child abuse and poor parenting. She can't superrvise her family how can she supervise  the country. She has 5 kids but she risked having a downs child by not taking precaurions? THIS WOMAN IS NOT A FEMINIST!!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_10:36:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "delfinajones", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 10, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2200208, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2226356": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm not getting email notifications.   No sweat, my pleasure.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-08_00:42:14", "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": 2220047, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2216120": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Good Morning!<br>I was listening to my iPod while taking a walk and a song came on that immediately brought to mind Michelle and Barack.  <br><br>Black Coffee by Heavy D and The Boyz.  <br>...Black coffee, no sugar, no cream, that's the kinda girl I need down with my team...<br>A totally funky and uplifting song.<br><br>As a few of JJP's regulars post video links, I hope someone can track this one down.<br><br>Be Blessed,<br><br>Rejeana", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_11:28:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "1a35274513047c4e9711c6feb4609dac", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2218684": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I saw that too, and agree that Newsom was great.  He was poised, confident and polished.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_16:18:28", "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": 2218565, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2223811": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  Sara Palin's Appeal To Working Class Women May Be Limited<br><a href=\"http://www.latimes.com/news/la-na-women7-2008sep07%2C0%2C5839377.story?track=rss\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.latimes.com/news/la-na-women7-2008se...</a><br><br><br>THIS IS A PART OF THE ARTICLE:<br>I wanted Hillary to win so bad, but I saw Sarah, and it just didn't work for me,\" said Heckman, taking a break in the empty courtyard of J. Paul's restaurant in a downtown struggling to revive. \"I have no retirement. Obama understands it's the economy. He knows how we live.\"<br><br>Heckman, like many others in this former coal-mining town at the western foot of the Appalachians, is the type of voter that both presidential campaigns will target in the final two months. Polls show that working-class women have emerged as one of the most critical categories of swing voters at a time when McCain and Barack Obama have galvanized their party bases but still need more votes to win.<br><br><br>Palin, a little-known 44-year-old mother of five, burst onto the scene just days ago, presenting herself as the woman to finally shatter the glass ceiling cracked by the Democratic New York senator's historic candidacy.<br><br>But now, after a chaotic introductory week that sparked national debates on McCain's judgment, Palin's experience and even her teenage daughter's pregnancy, the initial signs are not entirely positive for the reinvigorated Republican ticket.<br><br>Interviews with some two dozen women here after Palin's convention speech found that these voters were not swayed by the fiery dramatic speeches or compelling personal biographies that marked both the Republican and Democratic conventions. Instead, they were thinking about the price of milk -- nearly $5 a gallon -- or the healthcare coverage that many working families here cannot afford.<br><br>Even if they admire Palin's attempt to juggle political ambition, an infant son with Down syndrome and a pregnant unwed daughter, these women say that maternal grit is not enough to win their votes.<br><br>Waitress Judy Artice, \"Miss Judy,\" as she is known at Glisan's roadside diner, declared Palin \"the perfect candidate\" after watching her Wednesday speech. That said, Artice had already decided that her vote would go to the first candidate who mentioned gasoline prices.<br><br>\"And -- I'll be danged -- it was Obama,\" Artice, 46, said between servings of liver and onions during the lunch rush.<br><br>Both campaigns have signaled that these blue-collar hamlets could be where the election will be decided, an assessment made even more likely when the nation's unemployment rate hit a five-year high in August.<br><br>McCain dominates among white men, and Obama, who would be the first black president, is all but sweeping the black vote, most polls show. That leaves white women, the so-called Clinton base, as one of the most sought-after voting groups left on the table.<br><br>Recent surveys suggest that Palin, who opposes abortion even in cases of rape or incest, is not necessarily poised to help McCain with moderate women. A National Journal/Hotline daily tracking poll released Friday found that 49% of male voters say Palin is prepared to be president but that only 41% of female voters think so.<br><br>But Republican strategists hope that Palin's middle-class roots, union-member husband and love of hunting will help her connect to rural and small-town folks in battleground states such as Pennsylvania.<br><br>This is, after all, a place where schools close on the opening day of deer hunting season, people are conflicted about abortion rights and racial bias still simmers.<br><br>Sara Taylor, former Bush White House political affairs director, described Palin as a \"living, breathing replica of the middle class\" who \"connected with people in a way we haven't seen a national figure do in a long time.\"<br><br>And Uniontown was very much in the McCain campaign's sights throughout a convention that showcased Palin's small-town roots while portraying Obama, who lives in Chicago, as a big-city elitist.<br><br>Republican delegates and activists in the convention hall delighted in Palin's jabs at the Illinois senator, such as when she poked fun at the columned backdrop for Obama's stadium acceptance speech or mocked him as intent on \"turning back the waters and healing the planet.\"<br><br>For many women here watching closely, though, that portion of Palin's speech was all they needed to hear.<br><br>My Comments:  The anecdotal data shows that some movement is being made toward the Obama Campaign!   At LEAST some people ARE LISTENING!!  [Beyond WATCHING his SKIN COLOR!!]    :&gt;)      :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_22:03:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2220047": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "TruthSeeker:  SAW IT SEVERAL TIMES!!!   LOVED IT EVERY TIME!!!   :&gt;)      :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>Thanks for providing it!!   :&gt;)      :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_19:20:10", "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": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2217305, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2223820": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Let the caging and vote suppression begin:<br><br>County In Virginia Issues \"Erroneous,\" \"Chilling\" Press Release Regarding College Voters<br><a href=\"http://insidehighered.com/news/2008/09/03/voting\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://insidehighered.com/news/2008/09/03/voting</a><br><br>Nearly 600,000 Subject to Possible Caging in Ohio<br><a href=\"http://www.truthout.org/article/nearly-600000-voters-subject-possible-caging-ohio\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.truthout.org/article/nearly-600000-v...</a><br><br>Project Vote Report Accuses GOP of Decades of Voter Suppression<br><a href=\"http://www.alternet.org/rights/63574/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.alternet.org/rights/63574/</a><br><br>Whitehouse Explains Caging: An \u2018Especially Nefarious Voter Suppression Tactic\u2019\u00bb<br><a href=\"http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/03/whitehouse-caging/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/03/whitehouse-...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_22:04:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2219723": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "For people looking for info on the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac takeover details w/ links:<br><a href=\"http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2008/09/gse-takeover-ov.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2008/09/...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_18:41:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "RobM", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2219724": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "when she had her daughter Piper as mayor of Wasilla she went back to work the very next day. See the link fro the Anchorage Daily News below. This article references concerns about her latest pregnancy.<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><a href=\"http://www.adn.com/front/story/336402.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.adn.com/front/story/336402.html</a><br><br>One friggin' day. That is just unsettling.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_18:41:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "JJai", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2219573, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2217132": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Let me add that AT NO TIME has the media interrogated McCain and demanded that he admit he is wrong for being against time tables for withdrawal.<br><br>So McCain hasn't had to \"ADMIT HE WAS WRONG\" about the war to begin with and doesn't have to say those three words, \"I was wrong\" that they want to con Obama into saying just so they can use it against him.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_12:54:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "Nquest", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2216811, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2218712": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thank you. I'm doing that right now.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_16:21:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "taritac", "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": 2218042, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2211545": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "delfinajones:  Running out the door -  BUT had to respond!!  Mr. Obama's \"aniti-smear\" site may be helpful.  <br><br>Running out the door!   :&lt;)     :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_11:07:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2202803, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2194138": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "NOTE TO MYSELF:  This article was suppose to ALSO be in this comment.   It was suppose to be a \"2-fer\"!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br><a href=\"http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/09/06/cheney.russia/index.html?iref=mpstoryview\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/09/06/...</a><br>Cheney Bashes Russia For 'Brutality' In Georgia<br><br>Here's my dilemma:  There are fewer than 60 days until the election.  \"Whycome\" Shrub is still trying to ACT presidential???<br><br>\"LAME DUCK\", SHRUB!!!!   Sit this one out!!!    :&gt;)     :&gt;)   Whew!!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>p.s.  On second thought, he and \"McAncient\" may be in cahoots on this one!   Hmmmmm?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_04:41:36", "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": 2194059, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2219741": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Did you personally buy a house with no down payment, credit check or proof of income? I don't know anyone who did, even people in the real estate industry. I know people who were approved but whose interest rates were astronomical due to their credit rating. I saw people who weren't denied, but who were reemed by predatory lending and paying 23% interest on their loans when others were paying 5%. They didn't have to come up with 10-20% down payment, but they had to pay the closing costs & other miscellaneous fees, so you still need to have $5-10 grand on hand just to do that.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_18:43:58", "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": 2219621, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2217183": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thanks for the encouragement, the election is too close for comfort.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_13:00:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "514ece7311946709a77d340a35a81d09", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2217100, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2217186": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I saw that Evita. Biden gave a great answer...he said that his FAITH was his answer and that others FAITH do not beleive as his does, protestant, muslim and jews..may be just as devout but can differ based on their FAITH as to when life begins.  Ergo, he cannot challenge anyone on the basis of FAITH.<br><br>Excellent answer.  I really liked that he said that we should not criminalize abortions when that decision is private and based on individuals faith beliefs.<br><br>Which as you mentioned goes directly to separation of church and State. No church can impose their beliefs on the entire society.<br><br>I also liked how Biden said that the banking industry contributes only 2% to his total campaign contributions and that he is the poorest US Senator so no one can say that he is bought and paid for by the lobbyists in banking.  That was a great answer as well about his son Beau's job with MNBA being no more than he would have made as a graduate of Yale Law...as opposed to it being some pay-off to Biden as a US Senator.<br><br>Biden handled Brokaw well.<br><br>Obama handled Stepinfetchinopoulous well when asken about Palin, he flipped it back at George and told him he would wait for the media to ask Palin about her experience as CinC..lol lol lol....she won't even TALK to the press!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_13:00:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "7e083bfacaf8048b977903a10fdb24da", "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": 2216665, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2217188": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I agree.  He needs to get back that \"enough!\" attitude he had at the convention.  He better get ready for the debates.  He better fight with the truth and stop responding to bullshit and narrate the story himself.<br><br>MCCAIN IS A SIDEKICK.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_13:00:55", "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": 2217133, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2217707": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The Republicans raised a lot of energy with their lies and ugly last week. For some people, including myself, this situation is literally painful to experience. This pain, this tension, this incoherent fury, this horror at what could happen with this election.<br><br>I could be wrong, but whiterosebuddy, your comment feels to me like an outpouring of pain and fury going in the WRONG direction.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_14:11:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "4ec3c0272b87ba5c8ce3a9168cf4e78a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2217133, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2219757": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Fascinating article about Palin and her maverick/crazed behavior as mayor of Wasilla in the Seattle Times<br><br>\"A couple of days later, a story in the Frontiersman noted that Palin was saying personnel changes were likely. \"When asked how she would run the city without experienced department heads, she responded, 'It's not rocket science. It's $6 million and 53 employees.' \"<br><br>The day Palin took office, she told Stambaugh she wanted him to stay on provided he would support her as mayor, his notes say. He agreed. She also asked him to drop the issue of bar hours. He agreed to that, too. On this day, Palin fired the city's museum director, one of the department heads.<br><br>Ten days later, Palin wrote to all the department heads, including Stambaugh, asking for letters of resignation. She said she would then decide which to accept. When Stambaugh declined to provide one \u2014 pointing to his contract \u2014 Palin replied in a letter: \"I will expect your loyalty.\"<br><br>Stambaugh was 6-foot-2, 240 pounds. Because he'd heard that Palin had felt intimidated by him during a meeting, he made sure to sit when talking with her, and to use a soothing voice. By early December, things had calmed down, and Stambaugh felt the threat of being fired had passed.\"<br><br><a href=\"http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2008163431_palin070.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_18:46:36", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2217204": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Agree- he should not answer their question but use the time to make a statement he wants to make. Repugs are trained to do this.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_13:03:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "delfinajones", "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": 2217133, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2226423": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "parker404:  U   R   correct!!  :&gt;)     :&gt;)    That poor child!!    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-08_00:54:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2217590, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2223352": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "****FIND OUT IF YOU'RE REGISTERED TO VOTE*****<br><a href=\"https://www.voteforchange.com/index_obama.php\" rel=\"nofollow\">https://www.voteforchange.com/index_obama.php</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_21:10:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2219988": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Anderkoo:  Use ta live in Virginia about 30 years ago!   Does that count??   :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>Just Kidding!!    :&gt;)      :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_19:10:56", "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": 2218815, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2218748": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<i><b>Unfortunately, I think they've got their knife, with Barack mistakenly sayng, \"my Muslim faith.\" </b></i><br><br>To his credit, ol' Georgie boy immediately said, \"You mean your Christian faith\" and allowed Obama to correct himself. I don't think the right will be able to get away with this.<br><br>BTW, I thought he did well when Georgie questioned him about voting with his party, but I definitely see what you and whiterosebuddy mean about using simplistic language. Like Jay-Z said, <i>\"I dumb down for my audience and double my dollars / they criticize me for it; but they all yell \"holla!\"</i>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_16:25:44", "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": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2217268, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2219263": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<b>The woman from nowhere</b><br><a href=\"http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12066224\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/dis...</a><br><blockquote><i>Inexperienced and Bush-level incurious. She has no record of interest in foreign policy, let alone expertise. She once told an Alaskan magazine: \u201cI\u2019ve been so focused on state government; I haven\u2019t really focused much on the war in Iraq.\u201d She obtained an American passport only last summer to visit Alaskan troops in Germany and Kuwait. This not only blunts Mr McCain\u2019s most powerful criticism of Mr Obama. It also raises serious questions about the way he makes decisions.</i></blockquote><br><br>Palin in not about now...it's about the future.  The problem is...America is moving away from religious extremism.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_17:34:25", "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}, "2217216": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "He needs to create word pictures--Repubs  screw you.<br>Dems help you.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_13:05:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "delfinajones", "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": 2217012, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2217645": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "THANK YOU Craig.<br><br>You know how I feel about this kind of thing.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_14:05:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "4ec3c0272b87ba5c8ce3a9168cf4e78a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2217484, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2194179": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  The TITLE of this article is mis-leading.  Mr. Obama said that the TARGET of HIS campaign is \"McAncient\" and his continuing of Shrub's policies!!<br><br><a href=\"http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article4692457.ece\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_...</a><br>Hillary Clinton Unleashed To Counter \"pitbull in lipstick\" Sarah Palin<br><br>Clinton lost no time, attacking Palin moments after John McCain delivered his presidential acceptance speech in St Paul, Minnesota, last week. Reporters\u2019 BlackBerrys buzzed with her verdict. \u201cNo way, no how, no McCain-Palin,\u201d she said.<br><br>Officially, Clinton will not go head-to-head with Palin, a self-proclaimed hockey mom and \u201cpitbull in lipstick\u201d.<br><br>The Obama camp wants to keep the focus on McCain\u2019s supposed continuation of the Bush years and his skimpy policies for reviving the economy and improving healthcare, rather than on his running mate. <br><br>Whew!   Journalist's need ta make a sale!    :&gt;)<br><br>Again, NOTE Mr. Obama's EMPHASIS!!!     :&gt;)       :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_05:07:35", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2217226": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Interesting article <a href=\"http://www.alternet.org/story/95825/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.alternet.org/story/95825/</a>  I Spent Years as a POW with John McCain, and His Finger Should Not Be Near the Red Button<br><br>One interesting excerpt:<br>I furthermore believe that having been a POW is no special qualification for being President of the United States. The two jobs are not the same, and POW experience is not, in my opinion, something I would look for in a presidential candidate...<br><br>I can verify that John has an infamous reputation for being a hot head. He has a quick and explosive temper that many have experienced first hand. Folks, quite honestly that is not the finger I want next to that red button.<br><br>It is also disappointing to see him take on and support Bush's war in Iraq, even stating we might be there for another 100 years. For me John represents the entrenched and bankrupt policies of Washington-as-usual. The past 7 years have proven to be disastrous for our country. And I believe John's views on war, foreign policy, economics, environment, health care, education, national infrastructure and other important areas are much the same as those of the Bush administration.<br><br>I'm disappointed to see John represent himself politically in ways that are not accurate. He is not a moderate Republican. On some issues he is a maverick. But his voting record is far to the right. I fear for his nominations to our Supreme Court, and the consequent continuing loss of individual freedoms, especially regarding moral and religious issues. John is not a religious person, but he has taken every opportunity to ally himself with some really obnoxious and crazy fundamentalist ministers lately. I was also disappointed to see him cozy up to Bush because I know he hates that man. He disingenuously and famously put his arm around the guy, even after Bush had intensely disrespected him with lies and slander. So on these and many other instances, I don't see that John is the \"straight talk express\" he markets himself to be.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_13:06:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "Trumystique", "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}, "2217236": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "George Romney was a well liked and good governor, too. His son is a chameleon. I grew up in Michigan. Never knew George was a Mormon, until Mitt started running.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_13:08:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "7e083bfacaf8048b977903a10fdb24da", "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": 2200046, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2196245": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I invite folks to respond to Willie Brown's obnoxious commentary in the San Francisco paper PALIN FLOATS LIKE A BUTTERFLY-STINGS LIKE A BEE. <br><br><a href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/06/BALU12OCMV.DTL\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_09:29:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "delfinajones", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2194198": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  This article gives some HARSH economic DATA.  It's BAD!  And SAD!!   :&gt;(<br><br><a href=\"http://www.mcclatchydc.com/226/story/51912.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.mcclatchydc.com/226/story/51912.html</a><br>Economists May Not Call It Recession, But Job Statistics Say It Is<br><br>IMHO:  A low economic state could decrease interest in the election.  Therefore, we must ENCOURAGE each other [friends, family, etc] to VOTE!!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_05:16:31", "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": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2216665": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Anyone see Biden on Meet the Press?<br><br>LOVED his response to a question on \"when does life begin,\" proposed to him because he is a Catholic. He said \"life begins for me at conception, but in a pluralistic society, I cannot determine that for for everyone because of my commitment for the separation between Church and State.\"<br><br>I'm starting to develop an inappropriate fondness for Mr. Biden...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_11:34:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "evita", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2224410": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Sleeping with the Republicans...", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_23:14:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "delfinajones", "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": 2224181, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2218267": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yes, they do!  I thought I remembered that Phil Gramm and his legislation was at the bottom of the mortgage financial market meltdown, the energy Enron fiasco as well as the S&L debacle, that McCain was involved with ..recall the \"Keating Five\"? <br><br>This is the type of economic issue Obama needs to be hammering parTICularly with the foreclosure rates and mortage industry collapse.<br><br>Phil Gramm's economic advice and bills are behind it all.<br><br>Gramm's role as a banker and lobbyist is embarrassing to McCain, the greater harm is likely to be done by his economic advice. He and McCain have been friends since they were young congressional \"foot soldiers in the Reagan revolution,\" as both like to say, and he is often touted (or was until lately) as a likely candidate for Treasury secretary should McCain win the White House. <br><br>Now that Gramm has resurfaced in national politics, he surely deserves to be arraigned for his long history of service to powerful interests, dating from the Enron scandal and beyond....... Gramm's career stands for the false promises of right-wing ideology and the troubles that such schemes, embodied in legislation, have repeatedly inflicted on us. <br>Back in the '80s, Gramm smiled upon the abrupt deregulation of the savings-and-loan industry, described by his idol Ronald Reagan as America's opportunity to \"hit the jackpot\" of growth. He used his political clout to protect the Texas operators whose crooked machinations eventually helped to bankrupt the S&L industry. In fact, the S&L debacle cost taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars. ......<br><br>\"I want to predict here tonight,\" he said on the evening that Clinton's budget passed in the spring of 1993, \"that if we adopt this bill the American economy is going to get weaker and not stronger, the deficit four years from today will be higher than it is today and not lower ... When all is said and done, people will pay more taxes, the economy will create fewer jobs, the government will spend more money, and the American people will be worse off.\" <br><br>Is it necessary to point out how utterly wrong that prediction turned out to be? Most Americans did not pay more taxes, the economy created millions more jobs, the deficit was sharply reduced, and people were better off by every measure of economic progress, from productivity and profits to homeownership and reduced poverty. <br><br>But Gramm was not the kind of economist whose convictions are shaken by evidence, no matter how compelling. So obsessed with protecting bankers from government oversight was he that when Clinton tried to place stronger controls on terrorist money laundering, Gramm opposed even that measure as a \"totalitarian\" incursion. <br><br>Before he retired from the Senate in 2002, he wrote the Gramm-Bliley bill, an act broadly deregulating the financial industry -- and now blamed by many economists for the epidemic of speculation and fraud that has shaken the global economy. \"<br><br>-----<br><br>This is the kind of stuff that Obama needs to hang around McCain's neck!!<br>Especially since Gramm is the one who called us a nation of whiners and is presently advising McCain on the economy...which McCain has said he himself knows nothing about'<br><br>Obama needs to run on Clintons'  ECONOMIC record!!  He needs to OWN the Democratic economic prosperity and hammer McCain with GRAMM!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_15:14:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "7e083bfacaf8048b977903a10fdb24da", "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": 2217416, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2217305": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Good for them.  What did you think of his biography video?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_13:18:46", "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": 7, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2217239, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2218544": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I agree. I'm sick of all this talk about surge as if that was the FIRST and ONLY tactic that was used. These talking heads and \"journalists\" completely forget that we were also PAYING folks not to attack, so what happens when the money runs out?<br><br>BTW, our soldiers are still being killed in Iraq, but the surge is working. Riiiight.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_15:58:43", "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": 2216811, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2217251": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "His response was absolutely perfect.  During the entire interview, it was clear that Biden KNOWS the issues and actually cares about solving problems.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_13:10:27", "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": 2216665, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2201895": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Agree- we need to strike at all levels and in a 1000 ways.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_10:28:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "delfinajones", "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": 2200732, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2220323": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Me too.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_20:01:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2219553, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2217351": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I didn't see it today and don't remember it from last week.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_13:24:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2217305, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2199855": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "We need to remind people that they're not just voting for two people. They're voting for an entire party and what it stands for.<br><br><br>love it!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_10:14:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "evita", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2196446, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2217266": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The Cold hard truth.  <br><br>NO WMD in Iraq.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_13:12:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "e9e4415ec669c0d6a571855a775ea53c", "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": 2217100, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2196787": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Brown skinned assassin.<br><br>A Democrat giving tips to the Republicans for how to beat the Democrats.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_09:41:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2196245, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2208564": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "MIcheline:  Sharing some  FIRED UP!!!   READY TO GO!!!   :&gt;)     :&gt;)    :&gt;)  \"C'MON\"  - like they say on the tennis courts!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)    :&gt;)     FIRED UP!!!   :&gt;)      :&gt;)     :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_10:54:41", "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": 2200208, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2219317": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "TruthSeeker, I really love you (in a virtual, cyber, sisterly kinda way). I love how you care so much about us and our nation. Its like having a really cool neighbor that you can trust with your house keys; a neighbor who is also a friend. Thanks for all you do.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_17:40:40", "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": 3, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2219263, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2217784": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That's right, Nquest. Obama should have turned it right around on him and made that point about McCain.<br><br>The more I think about this, the more anxious I'm getting. Obama should have spent all last week retooling his campaign for the post-convention run up to the election. Instead he sounds the same. <br><br>GET MAD, BARACK!!!!<br><br>How can we get this message to him?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_14:21:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "taritac", "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": 2217132, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2217268": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I'm mad too!! When is he going to play the game??!! He's got to at this point. He needs to understand that no one wants to hear policy prescriptions at this point. The one thing that one of the talking heads said today (can't remember what show) is that NO ONE IS INTERESTED IN SOLUTIONS!!! They just want to know that you understand their problems. They don't understand the solutions. They want to be able to trust that you know the solution and they don't have to be involved.<br><br>God, I've been praying all morning. Barack has got to find his ball sack and realize that these media people don't want anything more than to see him go down in flames.<br><br>Unfortunately, I think they've got their knife, with Barack mistakenly sayng, \"my Muslim faith.\" It's going to go viral, then the MSM will just <i>have</i> to cover it incessantly because people are talking about it. I am way worried.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_13:12:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "taritac", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 16, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2217133, "depth": 3, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2223418": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I feel the same way Truth, you're just a friend I haven't met yet.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_21:19:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2219383, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2217013": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Well, finally, the Democrats are bucking up.  I'm pleased at what I've seen today.  Barbara Boxer would not let Kay Hutchison get away with the republicans lies and spin.  She discussed McCains record on the minimum wage, the highway bill and the water bill.  <br><br>This is what they need to do.  Tell the truth about the issues and not be talked down", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_12:33:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2218304": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Gramm who is McCain's economic advisor is a HUGE problem!!<br><br>Obama needs to run on Clintons ECONOMIC record. He needs to OWN the Democratic record of prosperity and the GOP horrible economic record.<br><br>The record shows that Gramm was the architect of the present financial markets meltdown, the energy ENRON collaspe as well as the S&L debacle in the 80s with the Keating FIVe which McCain was part of. Obama needs to start hammering home these messages:<br><br>Gramm's role as a banker and lobbyist is embarrassing to McCain, the greater harm is likely to be done by his economic advice. He and McCain have been friends since they were young congressional \"foot soldiers in the Reagan revolution,\" as both like to say, and he is often touted (or was until lately) as a likely candidate for Treasury secretary should McCain win the White House. <br><br>Now that Gramm has resurfaced in national politics, he surely deserves to be arraigned for his long history of service to powerful interests, dating from the Enron scandal and beyond. But for most Americans, the dubious connections of McCain's lobbying pals, including Gramm, should be less worrisome than the likely results of yet another four years of Republican economic nostrums. Gramm's career stands for the false promises of right-wing ideology and the troubles that such schemes, embodied in legislation, have repeatedly inflicted on us. <br><br>The former Texas senator is less voluble these days than he used to be, perhaps unsurprisingly, but in years past he has boasted of his central role in key conservative legislation, especially in liberating major sectors of the economy and finance from public oversight and skewing taxation in favor of the wealthy. <br><br>So how has that worked out over the past few decades? <br><br>Back in the '80s, Gramm smiled upon the abrupt deregulation of the savings-and-loan industry, described by his idol Ronald Reagan as America's opportunity to \"hit the jackpot\" of growth. He used his political clout to protect the Texas operators whose crooked machinations eventually helped to bankrupt the S&L industry. In fact, the S&L debacle cost taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars. <br><br>\"I want to predict here tonight,\" he said on the evening that Clinton's budget passed in the spring of 1993, \"that if we adopt this bill the American economy is going to get weaker and not stronger, the deficit four years from today will be higher than it is today and not lower ... When all is said and done, people will pay more taxes, the economy will create fewer jobs, the government will spend more money, and the American people will be worse off.\" <br><br>Is it necessary to point out how utterly wrong that prediction turned out to be? Most Americans did not pay more taxes, the economy created millions more jobs, the deficit was sharply reduced, and people were better off by every measure of economic progress, from productivity and profits to homeownership and reduced poverty. <br><br>But Gramm was not the kind of economist whose convictions are shaken by evidence, no matter how compelling. So obsessed with protecting bankers from government oversight was he that when Clinton tried to place stronger controls on terrorist money laundering, Gramm opposed even that measure as a \"totalitarian\" incursion. <br><br>Before he retired from the Senate in 2002, he wrote the Gramm-Bliley bill, an act broadly deregulating the financial industry -- and now blamed by many economists for the epidemic of speculation and fraud that has shaken the global economy. <br><br><a href=\"http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2008/05/30/mccain_gramm/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2008/05/30...</a><br><br>Hell if Gramm is focused on we might even be able to hang terrorism financing around McCains 'country first' neck, as well!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_15:20:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "7e083bfacaf8048b977903a10fdb24da", "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": 2217416, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2194241": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "rikyrah:  Obama Hits McCain on Social Security!!<br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/06/obama-hits-mccain-on-soci_n_124467.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/06/obama-...</a><br><br>Mr. Obama spoke to an AARP group to explain HIS plan in contrast to \"McAncient's\";  who plans to reduce SS funding.  :&gt;!<br><br> Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama criticized Republican John McCain's approach to Social Security on Saturday, saying it would undermine the government program aimed mainly at retirees.<br><br>Obama said McCain's campaign has suggested trimming Social Security benefits and raising the eligibility age, according to prepared remarks of his speech to a gathering of the AARP. Obama was addressing the group via satellite.<br><br>McCain has not specifically embraced such plans. But by saying \"everything is on the table\" in discussing changes to Social Security, he has opened himself to such criticisms from Democrats.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_05:34:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2218306": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "know hope. <br><br>they were in the tank for Hillpatine as much as they are for McCain. <br><br>we know how that wound up", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_15:20:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2216789, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2219659": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Teacher you are sooooo riiiight!!<br><br>It is time for a news junkie timeout.  I had to take one during the primaries too..when HRC was throwing the kitchen sink and the media was defending Billiary.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_18:32:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "7e083bfacaf8048b977903a10fdb24da", "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": 2218262, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2218309": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<b>Palin tanking with targeted voters</b><br><a href=\"http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/7/104458/6796/1001/589886\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/7/104458/6...</a><br><blockquote><i>\"I wanted Hillary to win so bad, but I saw Sarah, and it just didn't work for me,\" said Heckman, taking a break in the empty courtyard of J. Paul's restaurant in a downtown struggling to revive. \"I have no retirement. Obama understands it's the economy. He knows how we live.\" </i></blockquote>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_15:20:49", "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": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2216774": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I'd love to see whether the other View hosts call her out on this.  It goes beyond politics.  As a business matter it strikes me as a bad move on Elizabeth's part.  <br><br>SHE'S TWO-FACED!  That's how Elizabeth comes across with a performance like this.  She had her chance to confront Michelle when she was on their show.  She could not and did not have the guts to say that to Michelle Obama's face.  So instead of being an adult, she pretends to respect Michelle on the air, but then turns around and gets all \"Sean Hannity-like\" when she's not in mixed company.<br><br>Again, she comes off as two-faced and backstabbing.  That's bad for business because people won't trust The View to do fair interviews in the future.<br><br>I'd LOVE to see Whoopi, Barbara, Joy and Sherri confront her on this.  But my guess is Elizabeth might just start crying once they bring it up (she's good for that).", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_11:55:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "B_Serious", "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": 2194892, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2224099": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Actually I think the whole small time mayor thing came into the discourse actually started while Obama was selecting his VP.  Rove said that Obama was going to make a political choice by choosing Kaine.  Rove mentioned that Before being the governor of Virginia, completely skipping over his time as LT governor, that Kaine was only the mayor of Richmond. Rove sneered that Richmond was \"only\" the 127 largest city in the US.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_22:44:07", "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": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2218605, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2216789": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Micheline,<br><br>I completely agree. I am getting really depressed. I just watched Obama on This Week with George Stephanopoulus, and he was okay. Stephanopoulus kept pressing him on the surge issue, when Barack has answered that question REPEATEDLY over the last month.<br><br>When they went to the Round Table, they completely ignored his interview and the entire discussion was about Palin, how great she is for the ticket, how great McCain's biography is, how McCain has a chance to win in November, how compelling his call for CHANGE is [WTF??!!]. <br><br>These people were literally <i>fawning</i>. I couldn't believe it. It really is blatant at this point. People were just looking for a reason not to support Obama, and Palin is that reason. They were so excited. Not one person had a kind word to say about the Democrats.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_11:58:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "taritac", "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": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2200208, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2218326": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "yep. it was the Alabama part of Pennsylvania", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_15:22:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2203542, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2220377": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Well lets continue to pray that he isn't elected, because he would get us into some stuff that we can't handle. Putin dares us to start some mess. That would really make his day.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_20:07:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "4d9312cd58c7caeb087835daea9d59b6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2218387, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2220378": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Sarah Palin agrees to her first interview- with Charles Gibson of ABC News.<br><br><a href=\"http://news.aol.com/elections/article/palin-agrees-to-interview-with-abc/163821?icid=100214839x1209080729x1200524845\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://news.aol.com/elections/article/palin-agr...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_20:07:53", "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": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2196317": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "9:19 At great danger to my mental health I am still watching Fox News Rick Davis is on  Chris Wallace asks about her earmarks. Davis said these earmarks in Wassilla were on payroll before she was mayor. <br>When will Palin agree to interview: When we say so. Then touts Van Sustern <br>puff piece on last night<br>Rick Davis: We will expose her when we want.<br>Chris Wallace: When will we get to ask questions last week she read a speech(roll the ad). When the press becomes responsible.??!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_09:31:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "RobM", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2194939": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "It's 9:06 Fox news is on an obama ahs this clown representing him;  David Axelrod. An axe handle is what you beat people w/ ! Does he understand this is what he is up against. People w/ a singular focus of telling the Big Lie as long as possible to keep us off target.  <br>Know your enemy: <a href=\"http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/07/america/07schmidt.php\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/07/america/...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_09:11:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "RobM", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2217239": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "MSNBC is airiing Obama's acceptance speech.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_13:08:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2200208": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I am increasingly getting depressed about this election as a result of this Palin pick.  We all know racism is alive but to what extent.  I am amazed at how people makes excuses for this woman with respect to her daughter being pregnant.  Now the media is practically ignoring Obama. Folks this will boil down to GOTV.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_10:20:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "514ece7311946709a77d340a35a81d09", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 24, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2210662": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  From HuffPost:   The Inspiration of Barack Film Series:  Yes We Can<br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/qasim-basir/the-inspiration-of-barack_b_124575.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/qasim-basir/the-i...</a><br><br>This is MAJOR POSITIVE!!!  Whoo! Hoo!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>Sorry, gotta go!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_11:03:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2219921": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:   Heck!   I'll go for broke and try being the \"fly in the soup!\"   And if it is cream of mushroom, I'd fly myself UNDER a chunk of a mushroom piece.   Ain't got NO FEAR or SHAME IN MY GAME!!!      :&gt;)      :&gt;)      :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_19:03:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2219553, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2216811": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "George Stephanopolous is carrying McCain's water like he's an honorary Fox News 'journalist.'  He wanted Obama to \"admit he was wrong\" about the surge but AT NO TIME have Republicans, Bush and McCain, included been heckled to admit they were wrong.<br><br>No.  Stephanopolous, etc. keep talking about mindless concepts of \"victory\" promoted by their Republican agenda setting politicians.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_12:00:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "Nquest", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 27, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2222957": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Well GLH, I guess teacherly minds think alike (smile)! Barring that, I guess some things just make sense. I'm glad to be in the company of wisdom.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_20:30:25", "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": 2220144, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2217838": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "in what context did he say it?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_14:30:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "JJai", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2217793, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2217328": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yeah, that was the one question I completely agreed with how Obama answered George.<br><br>Hahaha, I laughed when George tried to get him to answer anything about Palin's qualifications, he threw it back at George and said he would let the media ask her those quesions..hahahahaha..knowing full well they can't, haven't and most likely aren't.<br><br>McCain is a sidekick and Palin is a Perpetrator....<br><br>obama and Biden need to get busy framing them both into short and sweet talking points.<br><br>Let me tell you why mcCain is a sidekick and not a maverick...this is how he voted.<br><br>Let me tell you why Palin is a perpetrating extremist...she believes in teaching creationism, she believes rapist and fathers can select whomever they want to be mothers including their own daughers.<br><br>Palin the pittbull needs to be demolished by Biden on the trail.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_13:22:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "7e083bfacaf8048b977903a10fdb24da", "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": 2216996, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2198385": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I get the lack of counter attack and protection of the candidate. But that is an institutional trait of the party at the top. And as much as I try to hold my tongue and not free lance, I am disciplined enough to take orders and follow talking points. WHERE ARE MY MARCHING ORDERS? We are not Japanese samurai beholden to our lord and master to the point of seppuku.<br><br>My preference is Napoleon's standing orders \"March to the sound of cannon fire.\" The Republicans are firing cannons. I there: What is the order.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_10:11:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "RobM", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2197397, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2216851": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I was thinking the same thing. He is definitely carrying his water. I am sick of Stephanopoulus. I think he has made it his personal mission to see McCain enter the White House. The Round Table guests just fawned over the Republican ticket and all but ignored Obama and Biden.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_12:05:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "taritac", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 23, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2216811, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2226548": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  Thank you again for the referral to    <a href=\"http://www.FiveThirtyEight.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.FiveThirtyEight.com</a>  <br><br>I decided to re-post this link so that others will be encouraged to look at the tracking DATA.<br><br>If you wanted to start keeping an <strong>ACTION LIST</strong>, here is my contribution:<br><br>I serve as Voter Registration Facilitator in my church.  At lease 10 people have completed the application.  [church population  = 200 +/- ]  People from other churches have been notified of this service.<br><br>I will work the polls, again, on Nov. 4.<br><br>My children asked me what kind of \"music\" would I be using?!!!      :&gt;)       :&gt;)       :&gt;)<br><br>Hope this helps!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-08_01:16:40", "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}, "2219383": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Blush.<br><br>That's awfully nice of you to say.   I believe good should triumph over evil.  I sense a yearning to move forward...in America and the rest of the world.   History is being made, and I cannot look away.  So many people around the world are paying rapt attention, and rooting for you.  You're not alone.<br><br>It will be such a thrill when Barack wins!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_17:49:11", "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": 2219317, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2218815": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Anyone here from Virginia? STANDING OVATION! GOTV!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_16:34:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anderkoo", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2217922, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2223997": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "A wise choice on the McCain camp's side. They know who's in the bag for them.<br><br>We have to start NOW telling Charles Gibson what questions he needs to ask. He can't get away with giving her a softball interview.<br><br><a href=http://abcnews.go.com/Site/page?id=3271346&cat=World%20News%20with%20Charles%20Gibson rel=\"nofollow\">Contact Charles Gibson, World News Tonight</a>.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_22:31:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "taritac", "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": 2220378, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2218884": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I doubt Barbara, Joy or Whoopi will say anything about this because it's clearly evident that they are being muzzled by Republican exec producer of the show, Bill Gedde. I've heard Joy on Air America and I read <a href=\"http://www.wowowow.com/post/whoopi-goldberg-sarah-palin-republican-national-convention-96289\" rel=\"nofollow\">Whoopi's blog</a> and the difference is like night and day. Those ladies are very knowledgeable when it comes to politics and could figuratively slit Hasselbeck's throat when she starts spewing Fox News talking points, but they don't.<br><br>I've emailed the video to KO and suggested that he put her on his Worst Persons list.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_16:41:36", "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": 2216774, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2216854": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Release Sarah Palin to Journalists! <br><a href=\"http://www.petitiononline.com/B9AE83R/petition.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.petitiononline.com/B9AE83R/petition....</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_12:06:15", "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": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2217793": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Well, I hope you are right, Craig. I am literally on the verge of tears.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_14:22:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "taritac", "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": 2217484, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2217353": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I didn't see it today and don't remember it from last week.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_13:25:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2217305, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2217354": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I didn't see it today and don't remember it from last week.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_13:25:05", "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": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2217305, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2217872": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2008_09/014604.php rel=\"nofollow\">Video</a>.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_14:34:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "taritac", "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": 2217838, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2217361": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yes. That was a MAJOR gaffe!!!  We need to organize prayer chains across the country.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_13:25:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "7e083bfacaf8048b977903a10fdb24da", "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": 2217268, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2218387": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "this whole Russia mess is for McCain", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_15:30:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2194059, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2216852": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "This is how Barack Obama should handle the surge issue:<br><br>The surged worked?  Good.  Bring our Troops home. NOW!<br><br>Or, Who says the surge worked?  The media?  Who told the media the surge was workded??  The Bush administration?  You mean the same administration that took us to war based on DEAD WRONG intelligence to look for WMD that was NOT there and without an exit plan?<br><br>Who says the surge is working?  <br>Answer:  The media and the Bush administration.<br><br>Who trusts the media and the Bush administration?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_12:05:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "e9e4415ec669c0d6a571855a775ea53c", "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": 2216789, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2197397": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Brown's commentary is part and parcel of what THE DAILY HOWLER describes as  the usual pile on that occurs against Democrats and highlights the lack of counter attack and protection of the candidate by Dems. <br>Check the Howler out for insight:<br><a href=\"http://www.dailyhowler.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.dailyhowler.com/</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_09:53:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "delfinajones", "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": 2196787, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2203542": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Micheline, CraigHickman made a post yesterday about Barack Obama having a talk in PA in areas otherwise known as the Alabama of PA. Because of the STRENGTH of Obama's organizing, the campaign has strong voter registration and turn out to these events. At this event they expected 5,000 to attend but 15,000 people showed up- with only 2 days notice!<br><br>The energy and info is getting out there to the people who will eventually vote. I believe more people in the fence are appalled by the pick because of her over the top conservative views. That's not how you win independents. <br><br>Palin is weak- that's why they are hiding her. <br><br>Get fired up! WE CAN DO THIS! But remember it will take all of us. Because I have unlimited calling, I make calls for the campaign often. Something as little as that makes a difference. Focus on what YOU CAN DO. :)  Stay up!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_10:43:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "evita", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2200208, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2217883": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "that is completely logical. I could never understand why Barack answers as he does.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_14:36:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "JJai", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2216665, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2217886": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I have been trying to plant plants in my tiny garden and just praying and worrying the entire time. I finally couldn't take it anymore and had to come here to release some of my anxiety.<br><br>Could someone please slap me, shake me, and tell me to snap out of it? Craig? MsMartin? Truthseeker? <i>ANYONE</i>???!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_14:36:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "taritac", "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": 2217361, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2219423": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "****VIDEO****<br><b>Sarah Palin's Churches and The Third Wave: New Video Documentary</b><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-wilson/sarah-palins-churches-and_b_124611.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-wilson/sara...</a><br><blockquote><i>Sarah Palin's churches are actively involved in a resurgent movement that was declared heretical by the Assemblies of God in 1949. This is the same 'Spiritual Warfare' movement that was featured in the award winning movie, \"Jesus Camp,\" which showed young children being trained to do battle for the Lord. At least three of four of Palin's churches are involved with major organizations and leaders of this movement, which is referred to as The Third Wave of the Holy Spirit or the New Apostolic Reformation. The movement is training a young \"Joel's Army\" to take dominion over the United States and the world.</i></blockquote><br>...Scared yet?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_17:54:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2218402": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<b>Dear Barack: When They Lie, Call Them Liars</b><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-almond/dear-barack-when-they-lie_b_124621.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-almond/dear...</a><br><blockquote><i>Dear Barack,<br><br>Next time someone asks what you think of Sarah Palin, please don't just call her a \"skilled politician\" with a \"compelling biography.\" Call her a liar, too. Here's how that would work:</i></blockquote>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_15:33:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2217895": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<b>Palin's \"Biggest Project\" As Mayor: A Hockey Rink With Legal Troubles</b><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/07/palins-biggest-project-as_n_124596.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/07/palins...</a><br><blockquote><i>The biggest project that Sarah Palin undertook as mayor of this small town was an indoor sports complex, where locals played hockey, soccer, and basketball, especially during the long, dark Alaskan winters.<br><br>The only catch was that the city began building roads and installing utilities for the project before it had unchallenged title to the land. The misstep led to years of litigation and at least $1.3 million in extra costs for a small municipality with a small budget. What was to be Ms. Palin's legacy has turned into a financial mess that continues to plague Wasilla.<br><br>\"It's too bad that the city of Wasilla didn't do their homework and secure the land before they began construction,\" said Kathy Wells, a longtime activist here. \"She was not your ceremonial mayor; she was in charge of running the city. So it was her job to make sure things were done correctly.\"</i></blockquote>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_14:37:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2217385": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Did anyone see Blitzer with kyl and Kaine?  They were speaking about the economic mess we are in. Kyl said some crap about the Dems being responsible for deregulating the markets.<br><br>Isn't that completely false...wasn't it none other than Phil Gramm, McCain's economic advisor, who proposed this deregulation of the mortgate markets?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_13:28:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "7e083bfacaf8048b977903a10fdb24da", "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}, "2223175": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "**VIDEO**  Obama appeared at the RNC!<br>Daily Kos<br>UPDATED BREAKING VIDEO - Obama appeared at the RNC! <br><a href=\"http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/7/18118/46765/597/590282\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/7/18118/46...</a><br><br><br>Did you guys see the picture on Huffington's main page??....LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_20:46:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2217388": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Barbara Walters needs to fire this twit for that mess.  What gives her the right to insult ANY guest who is invited on their show?", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_13:28:53", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2194892, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2194353": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Evangelicals' embrace of Palin is not universal: <a href=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008159242_webwasillamom04.html rel=\"nofollow\">Reflections on Palin from a Christian in Wasilla</a><br><br>The woman in this article praises Palin's pro-life stances of having a Down Syndrome baby and for Bristol having her kid. However, the auther says that Palin does not exemplify being \"pro-family\" because she put her career ahead of caring for her special needs kid, dragged her daughter's business in front of everyone, and will be MIA when her daughter and son probably need her most.<br><br>This is exactly my problem with Palin's family life. As a feminist, I reject the idea of people questioning women's family choices, but her actions still strike me as particularly cold-hearted.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_05:59:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "taritac", "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}, "2194359": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Looks like I'm not the only one who can't sleep. Good morning GreenLady!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_06:00:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "taritac", "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": 2194241, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2223991": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  IKE's Floods Kill 58, Adds Insult To Haiti's Misery<br><br><a href=\"http://www.newsweek.com/id/157135\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.newsweek.com/id/157135</a><br><br>HEAD BOW TO ALL.   God Bless!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_22:30:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2224181": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "This is ridiculous. And no one is picking up on this. This goes beyond crazy preachers. This is a crazy ideology, a crazy movement, and antithetical to the principles of the US Constitution.<br><br>MEDIA, WHERE ARE YOU??!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_22:54:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "taritac", "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": 2219423, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2219967": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Teacher:   MAJOR CO-SIGN and a DOUBLE  \"VIRTUAL DAP\"!!!   :&gt;)     :&gt;)<br><br>And while the the SUPPORTIVE THANK YOU'S are going around,  U  2 Teacher!! :&gt;)     :&gt;)      :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_19:07:32", "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": 2219317, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2217408": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "no sugar?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_13:31:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2216120, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2217922": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<b>Obama Campaign: 49,000 New Voters in VA in August</b><br><a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/6/163110/9871\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/6/1631...</a><br><blockquote><i>This is why the work on the ground in terms of registration is so important: in August alone, the Obama campaign registered 49,000 new voters in Virginia:<br><br>State election officials told the campaign Friday that 49,000 new voters signed up in August, a sharp increase from the 36,500 who signed up in July and the 28,000 who registered in June.<br><br>The goal of the Obama campaign was 150,000 total by the time the October 5th deadline rolls around, which leaves one month to get the remaining 36,500. Hats off to all VA Democrats who must have been working so hard on this.</i></blockquote>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_14:41:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2217416": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yes. They have been pushing deregulation for years. <br><br>They LIE and no one calls them on it. It is amazing to me that people will LIE, just blatantly LIE without compunction.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_13:32:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "taritac", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2217385, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2219630": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Amazing docmentary on Sundance today:  Split:  A Divided Amerca directed by Kelly Nyks.  It examines the partisanship dominating America politics today.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_18:26:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "59c49761cca368fc29349d03ff1d7402", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2194892": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Elisabeth Hasselbeck strikes again!<br><br>Here is a video of her at a luncheon to honor Cindy McCain. In the video, she attacks Michelle Obama saying the following:<br><br>\"Cindy came into our hair and make-up room as fresh as can be, and unlike another wife of a political candidate-who shall remain nameless.She didn't come with a list of topics we weren't allowed to touch. Nope, that's because she has nothing to hide\"<br><br>VIDEO: <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoxkQUHZrTg\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoxkQUHZrTg</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_09:02:53", "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": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2196431": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://craighickman.blogspot.com/2008/09/while-they-terrorize-we-organize.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">While They Terrorize, We Organize</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_09:36:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2219987": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I have a friend who is a realtor and she told me about this a year and a half ago.--no credit check, no income verification, no down payment.  The loans were being made to Somalians and Mexicans here in Ohio.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_19:10:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "jelana", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2219741, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2216916": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert Gibbs handled business on Late Edition.  He did not let Wolf Shitzer and the republican surrogate talk over him though they tried really hard.  He ended it by saying the ethics violation investigation would bring out the truth about Sarah Palin.  He was good.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_12:16:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2217429": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "So, America would have to deal with a President prone to \"Upset\" duringing tense foreign policy crises.<br><br>Nice.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_13:33:58", "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": 2208347, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2217431": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The Obama team are all on point today.  I watched several programs this morning and they were stating your points on why they are not mavericks and cited his voting record with specifics.  They noted Palin was an extremist (not in that specific term) and said why, they stated she lied on the bridge to nowhere, earmarks etc. and they stated clearly that they are completely aware that the McCain campaign prefers that the attention shift from issues to things that are not relevant.  <br><br>They were all on point.  It was a thing of beauty.  I hope they keep it up.  <br><br>So stay focused people.  Let us make this happen.<br><br>Go Obama/Biden/WE THE PEOPLE 08!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_13:34:06", "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": 2217328, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2219994": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yes. All of them are.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_19:11:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2218087, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2194938": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "It's 9:06 Fox news is on an obama ahs this clown representing him;  David Axelrod. An axe handle is what you beat people w/ ! Does he understand this is what he is up against. People w/ a singular focus of telling the Big Lie as long as possible to keep us off target.  <br>Know your enemy: <a href=\"http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/07/america/07schmidt.php\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/07/america/...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_09:11:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "RobM", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2196446": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Hi all, I'm wondering what you think of this idea. After the last two weeks, I think I see the strength and beauty of the positive, \"Yes we can\" Obama campaign. The Republicans want to draw us back into the culture war, because that's the only way they can win. I don't want to play a losing game. Instead, I want to focus on what makes Obama -- and Democrats -- a force for positive change in 2008.<br><br>What about a VIDEO that portrays REPUBLICANS as the ANGRY, MARGINAL, and ANTISOCIAL party that they've become? We have so much footage from last week of angry white delegates shouting \"Drill, Baby, Drill!\" It's a pretty sick warcry, not just because it's pushing for a disastrous policy, but because of how it appropriates the Watts race riots and \"Burn Baby Burn!\" (The fact that the only black speaker at the RNC led them in this chant is, to say the least, ironic).<br><br>Now, I don't know your opinion about Watts, but the point is that most white middle Americans do not think highly of that kind of politics, whatever the cause. Associating the Republicans with an angry, violent, 60s-style feeling will not do them any good.<br><br>We need to remind people that they're not just voting for two people. They're voting for an entire party and what it stands for.<br><br>So, what do you think of a video that would compare/contrast the RNC with angry mobs from the 1960s and 1970s? And then offer up our very different mood and behavior from the DNC, one that looks forward rather than back?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_09:37:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anderkoo", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2216927": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Bring it!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_12:18:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "e9e4415ec669c0d6a571855a775ea53c", "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": 2196446, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2216928": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Bring it!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_12:18:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "e9e4415ec669c0d6a571855a775ea53c", "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": 2196446, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2218979": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Dictatorship does have it's charms.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_16:53:44", "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": 2196787, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2227217": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I just sent an email to Governor Tim Kaine about the Virginia situation:<br><br>From: [me]<br><br>Affiliation: Private Citizen<br>Subject: student voting: Montgomery County/Virginia Tech<br><br>Message:<br><br>Dear Gov. Kaine, <br><br>I just read this online article: <a href=\"http://insidehighered.com/news/2008/09/03/voting\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://insidehighered.com/news/2008/09/03/voting</a>.<br><br>I am very concerned about this situation and hope that you are working to prevent/correct any attempted voter suppression of young people in this and any other similar cases in Virginia. <br><br>Could you (aka a member of your staff) let me know what you and others in Virginia are doing to protect the voting rights of Virginia Tech students specifically -- and all Virginia voters, including young people, in general. <br><br>I have heard that you are committed to fair and clean elections in Virginia this November. Could you please inform and reassure me on this point? I would be very grateful. <br><br>Warmly, <br>[me]", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-08_03:40:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "4ec3c0272b87ba5c8ce3a9168cf4e78a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2226371, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2209255": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "McCain on Face the Nation. Palin will be available on Face the Nation First. At end Shiver tried to get him to commit to next week. McCain didn't quite take the bait. <br><br>We will never see her in an unscripted moment till the VP debates.<br> <br>At end announced show was recorded on Sat in Colo.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_10:57:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "RobM", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2209258": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Anderkoo:  GOOD STRATEGIC IDEA!!!  Move that chess piece!!!   :&gt;)     :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_10:57:47", "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": 2196446, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2217965": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<b>Palin and McCain\u2019s Shotgun Marriage</b><br><a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/opinion/07rich.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/opinion/07ric...</a><br><blockquote><i>As is nakedly evident, the speech\u2019s central argument, that the 72-year-old McCain will magically morph into a powerful change agent as president, is a non sequitur. In his 26 years in Washington, most of it with a Republican in the White House and roughly half of it with Republicans in charge of Congress, he was better at lecturing his party about reform than leading a reform movement. G.O.P. corruption and governmental dysfunction only grew. So did his cynical flip-flops on the most destructive policies of the president who remained nameless Thursday night. (In the G.O.P., Bush love is now the second most popular love that dare not speak its name.)</i></blockquote>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_14:46:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2223086": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yes, it is very unsettling, bordering on being negligent or abusive. I can't believe james dobson is endorsing her & this philosophy. She's treating her children like they are the unfortunate result of a booty call, which is why I'm pro-choice.  If I didn't like her before, I really don't like her now. No wonder her daughter is looking for love in all the wrong places. She's looking for something she only got scheduled around her mother's work schedule. Pitiful.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_20:36:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "4d9312cd58c7caeb087835daea9d59b6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2219724, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2220015": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "craig:   Major props!!   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_19:14:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2217459, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2225650": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yep and we need to hold the MSM asses to the fire on this. Especially since mcsame is always questioning someone's patriotism.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_23:47:03", "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": 2223762, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2217459": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Mission accompished. My local paper printed my letter to the editor in its widely-read Sunday edition, along with several others that criticize McCain for his choice. <br><br><a href=\"http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story.php?id=208525&ac=PHedi&pg=1\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story.php?id=...</a><br><br>Write your letters. Get organized.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_13:37:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2217972": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "thanks, Taritac for getting us the video. But, I thought he just said it by mistake or something when attempting to speak about his faith. This is a bit more palatable. I think he intended to say it in that way and didn't consider the consequences fully. He shouldn't have spoken in that way; nor chosen all of those $50 dollar  words. But, this won't stop ignorant folks form sending an e-mail just like ignorant folks I know sending pictures of Palin in that fake bikini picture. I think Barack may have just helped fortify McCain's base. But, like Craig I don't think this is something MSM will have to cover. But, I am praying with you and whiterosebuddy.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_14:47:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "JJai", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2217872, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2200058": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Repubs would have sent Lieberman to the firing squad long ago. Same goes for Carville when he was writing letters of support for Scooter Libby. Hillary and her less than enthusiastic endorsement would have turned into a vacation in Siberia.......", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_10:16:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "delfinajones", "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": 2198385, "depth": 4, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2196475": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Mental health break from the heart of darkness. Assuming that the tripe about ordering soup his movies reviews are obnoxious, his comments on McCain and Palin are on point and true. They are already hiding her; his comment keep her out of fights w/ press and McCain out of suits where his physical ailments make him even stiffer.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_09:37:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "RobM", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2196245, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2224124": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "They have a 500 character limit. Here's what I sent:<br><i><blockquote>Re: Upcoming interview with Sarah Palin.<br><br>As VP, Palin may have to take over in a time of crisis. Ask her about her Bush-like method of  governing-- loyalty tests, hardline, right-wing ideology. Grill her about her \"commander in chief\" responsibilities with the ANG. Ask her about foreign policy positions. Make her give more than sound bites. Make her explain her lies about Obama's record during her acceptance speech. PLEASE REMEMBER YOUR DUTY TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.</i></blockquote><br><br>Please send your thoughts to Charles Gibson!!!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_22:46:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "taritac", "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": 2223997, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2223101": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yeah, Barack should go down a list of Bush=McCain promises regarding jobs and the economy and say, \"... and you got screwed!\"<br><br>Bush promised to reach across the aisle \"... and you got screwed!\"   Bush/McCain declared, \"Mission Accomplished\" and... \"the American people got screwed!\"<br><br>\"Look at this mess!\"<br><br>\"We're talking about bailing out Fannie Mae... but John McCain and our Republican friends said to hell with everyday Americans who got screwed by predatory lenders.\"<br><br>\"Every time you turn around, with people like Bush/McCain... you get screwed.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-07_20:38:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "Nquest", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2217216, "depth": 5, "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": "4265005", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "21630", "hash": -8111655109616060763}, "thread": {"days_alive": 0, "slug": "sunday_open_thread_67", "paginate": false, "num_pages": 1, "num_posts": 201, "per_page": 0, "total_posts": 0, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 4265005, "queued": false}, "reactions_limit": 10, "context": {"show_reply": true, "use_fb_connect": true, "forum_facebook_key": "bd6a8bc56f8eb204984f34b6fefe228d", "use_yahoo": false, "subscribed": false, "use_twitter_signin": true, "use_openid": false, "realtime_speed": 5000}, "reactions_start": 0, "settings": {"debug": false, "disqus_url": "http://disqus.com", "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"}, "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"};
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/**
 * Dsq.Strings: UI strings
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Dsq.Strings = new function() {
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  this.SETTINGS = "Settings";
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// Dsq.Strings

/**
 * Dsq.FmtStrings: functions that return interpolated UI strings
 */
Dsq.FmtStrings = new function() {
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			return Dsq.Utils.interpolate("Showing <span id='dsq-num-posts'>%(num)s</span> comments", {num:num});
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			(num == 1
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				: '%(num)s comments'
			), {num:num});
	};

	this.NUMBER_OF_LIKES = function(num) {
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			(num == 1
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	};

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			(num == 1
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				: '%(num)s points'
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};
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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() {
	var that = this;
	var listener = function() {
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FragmentPacket.prototype.log = function(msg) {



};

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

				this._accumMsg = '';

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

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

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

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

};

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

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

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

	if (packetNum === 0) {

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

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

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

	if (num_packets === packetNum) {

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

	this._lastSeqno++;

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

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

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

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

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

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


	this.receiverId = receiverId;
};

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

	var listener = function(e) {

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


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

		that.receiveCallback(data);
	};

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

PostMessagePacket.prototype.send = function(msg) {



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


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

	var packet;
	if (!msg) {

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

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

var JsonRpc = function() {

	this.ids = {};

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

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

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

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

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

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

				json = 'null';
				break;
		}

		return json;
	};

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		send_func(this.objectToJSON(request));

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

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


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



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


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


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

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

	this.packetHandler = null;


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


	var _createReceiverForFragmentPacket = function() {

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

			that._ready = true;
		};

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

		that.receiver.onload = receiver_onload;







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

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

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

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


	var _createReceiverForPostMessage = function() {

		var receiver_onload = function() {

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

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


		ParentMessenger['_receiver_onload_' + receiverId] = receiver_onload;

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

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

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

};

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	var sendFunc = function(msg) {

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


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


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

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

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

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

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

		if (msg.username) {

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	this.url = Dsq.Urls.REPLY +
		'?' + (new Date()).getTime() +
		'&f=jackandjillpolitics' +
		'&t=sunday_open_thread_67' +
		'&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/sunday_open_thread_67/latest.rss">' + Dsq.Strings.SUBSCRIBE_BY_RSS + '</a> \
			</span> \
		</div> \
		';

		
		

		return html;

	};
	
	this.footer = function() {
		var html = '';

		html += Dsq.Templates.pagination();

		
		
			html += Dsq.Templates.realtime();
			html += Dsq.Templates.showThreadSettings();
			html += Dsq.Templates.postBox();

		html += Dsq.Templates.reactions();

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.trackbacks();
		


		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator) {
 			html += ' \
				<div class="dsq-global-moderator-extras">'
					+ '<strong>shortname:</strong> ' + Dsq.jsonData.forum.url
					+ '<strong>thread id:</strong> ' + Dsq.jsonData.thread.id
					+ '<strong>thread slug:</strong> ' + Dsq.jsonData.thread.slug
				+ '</div> \
			';
		}

		return html;
	};
	
	this.realtime = function() {
		var html = '';
		
		if (Dsq.jsonData.realtime_enabled) {
			html += '<div id="dsq-realtime-options" class="dsq-options">'
					 + Dsq.Strings.REALTIME_UPDATING_IS + ' <strong id="dsq-realtime-status" style="text-transform: lowercase">' + Dsq.Strings.ENABLED + '</strong>. \
					 <a href="#" id="dsq-realtime-toggle" style="text-transform: capitalize"></a> \
					</div>';
		}

		if (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.streaming_realtime) {
			html += ' \
				<div style="display: none" id="dsq-realtime-alert" class="dsq-realtime-alert"><span id="dsq-realtime-queued"></span> <a href="#" id="dsq-realtime-show"></a></div> \
			';
		}
		
		return html;
	};

	this.showThreadSettings = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) {
			return '';
		}

		html = '<div id="dsq-thread-settings" class="dsq-thread-settings">' + Dsq.Strings.MODERATOR_OPTIONS;
		html += '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.showSettings(); return false;">' + Dsq.Strings.SETTINGS + '</a>';
		if (Dsq.jsonData.forum.reactions_enabled && Dsq.jsonData.reactions.length === 0) {
			html += '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Reaction.reportMissingReactions(); return false;">'
						+ Dsq.Strings.REPORT_MISSING_REACTIONS
						+ '</a>';
		}
		html +='</div>';

		return html;
	};

	this.postBox = function(post_id, use_fallback_iframe) {


		var html;
		var display_sharing_options = Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated;

		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated && Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled && !Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post) {
			return '';
		}
		
		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote) {


			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.hasOwnProperty(Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain)) {
				display_sharing_options = false;
			}
		}
		
		if (post_id) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
			var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];				
		}
		
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';

		var _requestUserInfo = function() {
			var html;



			var user_has_email = false;

			html = '<div class="dsq-request-user-info"> <!-- // If authenticated --> \
				<a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT + '?ctkn=' + Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN + '" class="dsq-request-user-logout">' + Dsq.Strings.LOGOUT + '</a> \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td rowspan="2">'
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '<a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE + '">' : '')
								+ '<img src="' + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_AVATAR + '" width="48" height="48" class="dsq-request-user-avatar">'
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '</a>' : '')
						+ '</td> \
						<td class="dsq-request-user-name">'
								+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
									 ? '<span class="dsq-badge-small dsq-badge-' + Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain + '">' + Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain + '</span>'
									 : (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_verified
											? '<span class="dsq-badge-small dsq-badge-verified">Verified</span>'
											: '<span class="dsq-badge-small dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span>'))
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? ' <a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE + '">' : '') 
								+ Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username 
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '</a>' : '')
							+  (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote && user_has_email ? ' <small>(<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.remoteAccountSettings(); return false;">change settings</a>)</small>' : '')
							+  (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote && !Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? ' <small>(<a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/info/" target="_blank">change name</a> or <a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/avatar/" target="_blank">picture</a>)</small>' : '')
						+ '</td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-request-user-stats"> \
							<span><big>' + Dsq.jsonData.request.comments_count + '</big> ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.comments_count == 1 ? 'comment' : 'comments') + '</span> \
							<span><big>' + Dsq.jsonData.request.likes_count + '</big> ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.likes_count == 1 ? 'like' : 'likes') + '</span> \
							<span><big>' + Dsq.jsonData.request.points + '</big> ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.points == 1 ? 'point' : 'points') + '</span> \
						</td> \
					</tr> \
				</table> \
			</div> \
			';
			return html;
		};

		var _loginOptions = function() {
			var html;
			html = ' \
			<div class="dsq-authenticate"> \
				<p class="dsq-autheneticate-copy">'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
					? Dsq.Strings.YOU_ARE_COMMENTING_AS_A + ' <a class="dsq-help" title="Click for more information" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Guest</a>. ' + Dsq.Strings.OPTIONAL + ': ' + Dsq.Strings.LOGIN_BELOW + '.'
					: Dsq.Strings.REQUIRED + ': ' + Dsq.Strings.PLEASE_LOGIN_BELOW_TO_COMMENT + '.')
				+ '</p> \
				<ul class="dsq-login-buttons">'
					+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-disqus.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Facebook.login(); return false;"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-facebook.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_twitter_signin ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect(); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-twitter.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_openid ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.OpenID.requestURL(); return false" ><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-openid.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_yahoo ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Yahoo.startYahooConnect(); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-yahoo.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
				+ '</ul> \
			</div> \
			';
			return html;
		};

		if (!Dsq.jsonData.context.show_reply) {


			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {



				return '<div id="dsq-form-area" style="display:none"><div id="dsq-textarea-wrapper"></div></div>' + _loginOptions();
			} else {
				return '';
			}
		}

		html = ' \
		<div id="' + (post_id 
			? 'dsq-reply-post-' + post_id
			: 'dsq-new-post')
		 	+ '" class="dsq-post-area"> \
			<div class="dsq-dc-logo"> \
				<a href="http://disqus.com/comments" target="_blank"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/disqus-logo.png"></a> \
			</div>'
			+ (post_id 
				? '<h3>' + Dsq.Strings.REPLYING_TO + ' ' + userData.display_name + '</h3>'
				: '<h3>' + Dsq.Strings.ADD_NEW_COMMENT + '</h3>')
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated 
				? _requestUserInfo()
				: _loginOptions() )
			+ '<div id="dsq-form-area' + pid + '">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-textarea"> \
				<div class="dsq-textarea-wrapper" id="dsq-textarea-wrapper' + pid + '"></div> \
			</div>'
			+ (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated
			? ' \
			<div class="dsq-post-fields"> \
				<form action="." method="GET" onsubmit="Dsq.Templates.postComment(' + post_id + ', this, false); return false;"> \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-left"><div class="dsq-input-wrapper"><input id="dsq-field-name' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (disqus_def_name ? disqus_def_name : (Dsq.jsonData.session.name ? Dsq.jsonData.session.name : Dsq.Strings.NAME + '" class="dsq-placeholder')) + '" onfocus="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'name\')" onblur="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'name\')" /></div></td> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-right"><div class="dsq-input-wrapper"><input id="dsq-field-website' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (Dsq.jsonData.session.url ? Dsq.jsonData.session.url : Dsq.Strings.WEBSITE + ' (' + Dsq.Strings.OPTIONAL.toLowerCase() + ')" class="dsq-placeholder') + '" onfocus="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'website\')" onblur="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'website\')" /></div></td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-left"><div class="dsq-input-wrapper"><input id="dsq-field-email' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (disqus_def_email ? disqus_def_email : (Dsq.jsonData.session.email ? Dsq.jsonData.session.email : Dsq.Strings.EMAIL + '" class="dsq-placeholder')) + '" onfocus="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'email\')" onblur="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'email\')" /></div></td> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-right"> \
							<div class="dsq-subscribe"> \
								<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.chooseSubscribe(' + post_id + '); return false" class="dsq-subscribe-menu"><span id="dsq-subscribe-select' + pid + '">' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.subscribe_on_post ? Dsq.Strings.SUBSCRIBE_TO_ALL_COMMENTS_BY_EMAIL : Dsq.Strings.DO_NOT_SUBSCRIBE_TO_COMMENTS) + '</span> <small>&#9660;</small></a> \
								<ul class="dsq-panel" id="dsq-subscribe-menu' + pid + '"> \
									<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.setSubscribe(2, this, ' + post_id + '); return false">Subscribe to all comments by email</a></li> \
									<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.setSubscribe(0, this, ' + post_id + '); return false">Do not subscribe to comments</a></li> \
								</ul> \
								<input id="dsq-subscribe-on-post' + pid + '" type="hidden" value="' + Dsq.jsonData.request.subscribe_on_post + '" /> \
							</div> \
						</td> \
					</tr> \
				</table> \
				</form> \
			</div>'
			: '')
			+ '<div class="dsq-post-footer"> \
				<div class="dsq-sharing-options" ' + (!display_sharing_options ? 'style="display:none;"' : '') + '> \
					<button class="dsq-button-small" onfocus="document.getElementById(\'dsq-post-button' + pid + '\').focus();"><span>' + Dsq.Strings.SHARING_OPTIONS + ' <small>&#9660;</small></span></button> \
					<div class="dsq-panel"> '
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.twitter !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.twitter.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-twitter' + pid + '"'
								  + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.twitter.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-twitter' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Twitter</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.facebook
								&& (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.facebook.enabled === true ||
										(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote && Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain == 'facebook'))
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-facebook' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.facebook.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-facebook' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Facebook</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.yahoo !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.yahoo.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-yahoo' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.yahoo.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-yahoo' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Yahoo!</label> \
								</div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.tumblr !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.tumblr.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-tumblr' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.tumblr.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-tumblr' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Tumblr</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.wordpress !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.wordpress.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-wordpress' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.wordpress.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-wordpress' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Wordpress</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.movabletype !== undefined
							  && Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.movabletype.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-movabletype' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.movabletype.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-movabletype' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Movable Type</label> \
							   </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.typepad !== undefined
							  && Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.typepad.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-typepad' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.typepad.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
								  <label for="dsq-sharing-typepad' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' TypePad</label> \
							   </div>'
							: '')
						+ '<div><a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/connections/" target="_blank" class="dsq-configure-options">' + Dsq.Strings.CONFIGURE_OPTIONS + '</a></div>'
					+ '</div> \
				</div>'
				+ '<button class="dsq-button" id="dsq-post-button' + pid + '" onclick="Dsq.Templates.postComment(' + post_id + ', this, false)"><span>' + Dsq.Strings.POST_AS + ' '
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username
					? Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username
					: Dsq.Strings.GUEST)
				+ '</span></button>'
				+ (post_id
					? '<button class="dsq-button" id="dsq-cancel-button' + pid + '" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleReply(' + post_id +', this)"><span>' + Dsq.Strings.CANCEL + '</span></button>'
					: '')
			+ '</div>'
			+ '</div>' // end dsq-form-area
		+ '</div> \
		';
		
		return html;
	};




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

	this.postPrependHeader = function(post_id) {
		var html;
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		
		html = ' \
		<table> \
			<tr> \
				<td id="dsq-header-avatar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-header-avatar" onmouseover="Dsq.Post.dropProfile(' + post_id + ')"> \
					<a id="dsq-avatar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-avatar" href="' + userData.url + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.show_avatar
					? '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.users[_meta.user_key].avatar + '" alt="" />'
					: '')
				+ '</a> \
				</td> \
				<td class="dsq-comment-header-meta"> \
		';

		
		return html;
	};
	
	this.postAppendHeader = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var html;
		var parent_display_name = '';
		
		if(_meta.parent_post_id) {

			var _parent_meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[_meta.parent_post_id];

			if (_parent_meta) {
				var parentUserData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_parent_meta.user_key];
				parent_display_name = parentUserData.display_name;
			}
		}

		html = ' \
		<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/moderator.png" class="dsq-moderator-star" title="Moderator" /> \
		<span class="dsq-comment-header-time"><a href="#comment-' + post_id + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.permalink(' + post_id + ')" title="Permalink">' + (_meta.is_realtime ? Dsq.Strings.JUST_NOW : _meta.date) + '</a></span> '
		+ (_meta.parent_post_id && parent_display_name
			? '<a href="#comment-' + _meta.parent_post_id + '" title="Jump to comment">in reply to ' + parent_display_name + '</a>'
			: '')
		+ '</td> \
		<td id="dsq-like-pts-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-comment-header-likes">'
		+ (_meta.points
			? _meta.points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(_meta.points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this.'
			: '')
		+ '</td> \
		</tr> \
		</table> \
		';
		return html;
	};

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

	this.postFooter = function(post_id) {
		var html;
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		if(_meta.killed || !_meta.approved) { return ''; }
		
		html = ' \
		<div class="dsq-comment-footer" id="dsq-comment-footer-' + post_id + '"> \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer-left">'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator
					? '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.moderateOptions(' + post_id+ '); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.MODERATE + '</a>'
					: '')
				+ '<a href="#" id="dsq-post-report-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-post-report" onclick="Dsq.Post.report(' + post_id + ', false); return false;">' + Dsq.Strings.FLAG + '</a> \
			</div> \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer-right">'
				+ (_meta.votable 
					? '<span id="dsq-like-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-like">'
					+ (!_meta.up_voted
						? '<button class="dsq-button-small" onclick="Dsq.Post.rate(this, ' + post_id + ', 1)" >Like</button>'
						: 'You liked this.&nbsp;&nbsp;')
					+ '</span>'
					: '')
				+ (_meta.can_reply && !_meta.has_replies && _meta.from_request_user
					? '<button class="dsq-button-small dsq-post-edit" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + ')" >' + Dsq.Strings.EDIT + '</button>'
					: '')
				+ (_meta.can_reply
					? '<span class="dsq-comment-footer-reply" id="dsq-comment-footer-reply-' + post_id + '" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleReply(' + post_id +', this)"> \
						<button class="dsq-button-small">' + Dsq.Strings.REPLY + '</button> \
						<button class="dsq-comment-footer-reply-tab">' + Dsq.Strings.REPLY + '</button><span></span> \
					</span>'
					: '')
			+ '</div> \
		</div> \
		';
		
		return html;
	};



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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		var item = '<li class="dsq-comment dsq-reaction" id="dsq-reaction-' + reaction.id + '">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-comment-header"> \
			<table> \
			<tr> \
			<td class="dsq-header-avatar"> \
			';

		if (reaction.author_url && reaction.author_url !== '') {
			item += '<a target="_blank" href="' + reaction.author_url +'" class="dsq-avatar">';
		}

		if (reaction.avatar_url && reaction.avatar_url !== '') {
			item += '<img src="' + reaction.avatar_url + '"/>';
		} else {

			item += '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/noavatar92.png"/>';
		}

		var service_icon = (reaction.get_service_name == 'trackback' || reaction.get_service_name == 'pingback' ? 'rss' : reaction.get_service_name.replace(' ', ''));
		item += (reaction.author_url && reaction.author_url !== ''
				? '</a>'
				: '')
			+ '</td>'
			+ '<td><cite class="dsq-comment-cite">' + reaction.author_name + '</cite> <span class="dsq-comment-header-time">' + reaction.date_created + '</span></td>'
			+ '<td class="dsq-comment-header-likes"></td>'
			+ '</tr></table></div>' // end dsq-comment-header
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-header" \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-reaction-header-left">'
							+ '<img class="dsq-service-icon" src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/reactions/services/' + service_icon + '.png" />'
							+ ' From <a class="dsq-service-name" target="_blank" href="' + reaction.url + '">' + reaction.get_service_name + '</a> '
							+ 'via ' + (reaction.source == 'backtype' ? '<a href="http://backtype.com/">BackType</a>' : '<a href="' + reaction.source_url + '">UberVU</a>')
						+ '</td>'
						+ '<td class="dsq-reaction-header-right">';
			
			if(reaction.retweets) {
				var num_retweets = reaction.retweets.length;
				if (num_retweets > 0) {
					if (num_retweets == 1) {
						item += 'One more retweet from <a href="' + reaction.retweets[0].url + '">'  + reaction.retweets[0].author_name + '</a>';
					} else {
						item += (num_retweets + ' more retweets from ');
						item += '<span id="dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '">';
						var n_tweets = (num_retweets > 3) ? 3 : num_retweets;
						item += Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(reaction.id, n_tweets);
						if (n_tweets != num_retweets) {
							item += '</span> <a onclick="Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(' + reaction.id + ', 0, \'dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '\');'
								+ 'this.parentNode.removeChild(this); return false;" href="#">Show all</a>';
						}
					}
				}
			}	
			item += '</td></tr> \
			</table> \
			</div>' // end dsq-reaction-header
			+ '<div class="dsq-comment-body"> \
				<div class="dsq-comment-message">' + reaction.body + '</div>'
			+ '</div> \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer"> \
				<div class="dsq-comment-footer-left"> \
				</div>'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator 
					? ' \
					<div class="dsq-comment-footer-right"> \
						<button class="dsq-button-small dsq-hide-reaction" onclick="Dsq.Reaction.hide(' + reaction.id + ')">Hide</button> \
					</div>'
					: '')
			+ '</div>'
		item += '</li>'; /* Reaction HTML ends */
		return item;
	};

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

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

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

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

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

		return '<h3 id="dsq-reactions-title" class="dsq-h3-reactions">Reactions</h3><ul id="dsq-reactions" class="dsq-reactions">' + html + '</ul>';
	};
	
	this._popupGeneric = function(content) {
		return ' \
		<div class="dsq-popup-container"> \
			<table> \
				<tbody> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-tl"></td><td class="dsq-popup-b"></td><td class="dsq-popup-tr"></td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-b"></td> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-body"> \
							<div class="dsq-popup-content"> \
								<div class="dsq-popup-title"> \
									<button class="dsq-button-small" style="float:right" onclick="Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true)">Close</button>' 
									+ content['header'] 
								+ '</div>'
								+ content['body']
							+ '</div> \
							<div class="powered-by"><a href="http://disqus.com/comments/">Powered by <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-logo.png" alt="Disqus Comments" style="margin-bottom:-5px" /></a></div> \
						</td> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-b"></td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-bl"></td><td class="dsq-popup-b"></td><td class="dsq-popup-br"></td> \
					</tr> \
				</tbody> \
			</table> \
		</div> \
		';
	};



	
	this.chooseSubscribe = function(post_id) {

		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var menu = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-menu' + pid);
		
		menu.style.display = menu.style.display == 'block' ? 'none' : 'block';
		
	};
	
	this.setSubscribe = function(value, el, post_id) {

		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var input = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-on-post' + pid);
		var select = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-select' + pid);
		var menu = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-menu' + pid);
		
		select.innerHTML = el.innerHTML;
		input.value = value;
		this.chooseSubscribe(post_id);
	};
	
	this.getFormFields = function(post_id) {

		var fields = {};
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var name = Dsq.$('dsq-field-name' + pid);
		var email = Dsq.$('dsq-field-email' + pid);
		var website = Dsq.$('dsq-field-website' + pid);
		var username = Dsq.$('dsq-field-username' + pid);
		var password = Dsq.$('dsq-field-password' + pid);

		fields = {
			'name': name,
			'email': email,
			'website': website,
			'username': username,
			'password': password
		}
		
		return fields;
	}
	
	this.validateFields = function(post_id) {
		
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) { return true; }
		
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		
		var nameField = fields.name;
		var websiteField = fields.website;
		var emailField = fields.email;
		
		websiteField.value = (websiteField.value == Dsq.Templates.placeholder['website']) ? '' : websiteField.value;
		
		var v = [{

			validator: Dsq.Validators.name,
			value: nameField.value
		}, {

			validator: Dsq.Validators.email,
			value: emailField.value
		}, {

			validator: Dsq.Validators.url,
			value: websiteField.value
		}];
		
		return Dsq.Validators.validate(v, function(e) { Dsq.Popup.popModal(e, 'Oops...') } );
	};
	
	this.checkExistingUser = function(post_id) {
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);		
		Dsq.Popup.loading(post_id);
		
		if (post_id) {
			Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].getUserByEmail(fields.email.value);
		} else {
			Dsq.frames['reply_0'].getUserByEmail(fields.email.value);
		}
	};

	this.validateAuth = function(el_clicked, post_id, auth_choice) {
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		var email = fields.email ? fields.email.value : '';
		var username = fields.username ? fields.username.value : '';
		var password = fields.password ? fields.password.value : '';
		
		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked, post_id);
		
		if (post_id) {
			Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].validateAuth(auth_choice, email, username, password);
		} else {
			Dsq.frames['reply_0'].validateAuth(auth_choice, email, username, password);
		}
	};

	this.lightboxUpdateEmail = function(post_id, new_email) {
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		fields.email.value = new_email;
	};

	this.lightboxAuthenticate = function(post_id, auth_choice, auth_data) {
		var title, body;
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';

		if(typeof(auth_data) == 'undefined') {
			var auth_data = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		}

		d = auth_data;

		switch(auth_choice) {
			case 'register':
				var suggestedUsername = d.name.value.replace(/[^a-zA-Z0-9-]/g,'').toLowerCase();
			
				title = Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post ? 'Optional:' : 'Required:';
				title += ' Register a <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-profile.png" alt=Disqus Profile" />';

				body = ' \
				<ul class="dsq-lightbox-register-reasons"> \
				<li>Verify your comments</li> \
				<li>Edit and delete comments</li> \
				<li>Manage comments and replies</li> \
				</ul> \
				';

				body += ' \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-fields"> \
					<table> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Email</td> \
							<td><input type="text" value="' + d.email.value + '" onchange="Dsq.Templates.lightboxUpdateEmail(' + post_id + ', this.value)" /><div id="dsq-email-errors' + pid + '"></div></td> \
						</tr> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Username</td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-username' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + suggestedUsername + '"/><div id="dsq-username-errors' + pid + '"></div></td> \
						</tr> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Password</td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-password' + pid + '" type="password" /><div id="dsq-password-errors' + pid + '"></div></td> \
						</tr> \
					</table> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-switch-auth"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(' + post_id + ',\'login\'); return false">Login instead</a></div> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-lightbox-errors' + pid + '" class="dsq-lightbox-errors"></div> \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-submit"> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-post"><button class="dsq-button" onclick="Dsq.Templates.validateAuth(this, ' + post_id + ',\'' + auth_choice + '\')">Register and Post comment</button></div>'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
						? '<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-skip"><button class="dsq-button-small" onclick="Dsq.Templates.postComment(' + post_id + ', this, true)">Just post as a Guest</button></div>'
						: '')
				+ '</div> \
				';
				break;
			case 'login':
				title = Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post ? 'Optional:' : 'Required:';
				title += ' Login to your <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-profile.png" alt=Disqus Profile" />';
				body = '';
				
				if(d.avatar_url) {
					body += '<div class="dsq-lightbox-recognized"><table><tr>';
					body += '<td><img src="' + d.avatar_url + '" alt="" /></td>';
					body += '<td><span class="dsq-badge ' + (d.verified ? 'dsq-badge-verified' : 'dsq-badge-registered') + '">' + (d.verified ? 'Verified' : 'Registered') + '</span></td>';
					body += '<td>Hey <strong>' + d.display_name + '</strong>, is that you? Login below to claim this comment.';
					body += '</tr></table></div>';
				}

				body += ' \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-fields"> \
					<table> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Username or Email</td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-username' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (d.avatar_url ? d.username : '') + '" /></td> \
						</tr> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Password <a href="http://disqus.com/forgot" target="_blank">(cannot log in?)</a></td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-password' + pid + '" type="password" /></td> \
						</tr> \
					</table> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-switch-auth"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(' + post_id + ',\'register\'); return false">Register instead</a></div> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-lightbox-errors' + pid + '" class="dsq-lightbox-errors"></div> \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-submit"> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-post"><button class="dsq-button" onclick="Dsq.Templates.validateAuth(this, ' + post_id + ',\'' + auth_choice + '\')">Login and Post comment</button></div>'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
						? '<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-skip"><button class="dsq-button-small" onclick="Dsq.Templates.postComment(' + post_id + ', this, true)">Just post as a Guest</button></div>'
						: '')
				+ '</div> \
				';
				break;
			default:
				break;
		}
		Dsq.Popup.lightbox(body, title, post_id);
		Dsq.$('dsq-field-username' + pid).focus();
	};
	
	this.buttonsToRestore = [];
	this.setLoadingButton = function(btn, post_id) {
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		if (btn) {

			var loadingBtn = document.createElement('button');
			loadingBtn.id = btn.id + '-loading';
			loadingBtn.innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-lite.gif" alt="" /> Just a moment...';
			loadingBtn.className = btn.className + ' dsq-post-loading';
			btn.parentNode.appendChild(loadingBtn);
			btn.style.display = 'none';
			var cancelBtn = Dsq.$('dsq-cancel-button' + pid);
			if(cancelBtn) { cancelBtn.style.display = 'none'; this.buttonsToRestore.push(cancelBtn); }
			this.buttonsToRestore.push(btn);
		} else {

			var buttons = this.buttonsToRestore;
			for(var i = 0; i < buttons.length; i++) {
				buttons[i].style.display = 'inline';
				Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(Dsq.$(buttons[i].id + '-loading'));
			}
		}
		
	};

	this.postComment = function(post_id, el_clicked, force, auth_choice) {
		var append_id = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);

		if (Dsq.Templates.validateFields(post_id)) {

			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated && !force &&
				((!Dsq.Utils.readCookie('skipped_auth') && !disqus_skip_auth && !Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled) || !Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post)) {
				Dsq.Templates.checkExistingUser(post_id);
				return false;
			}
			var params = [];
			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {
				params.push(fields.name.value,
					fields.email.value,
					fields.website.value);

				if (auth_choice == 'login' || auth_choice == 'register') {
					params.push({
						auth_choice: auth_choice,
						username: fields.username.value,
						password: fields.password.value,
						email: fields.email.value
					});
				} else {
					params.push(null);
				}

				params.push(null /* sharing options */, Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-on-post' + append_id).value);
			} else {
				var service_checked = function(name) {
					var el = Dsq.$('dsq-sharing-' + name + append_id);
					return (el !== null && el.checked === true) ? '1' : '0';
				};
				params.push(null, null, null, null, {
					tw: service_checked('twitter'),
					fb: service_checked('facebook'),
					tr: service_checked('tumblr'),
					wp: service_checked('wordpress'),
					mt: service_checked('movabletype'),
					tp: service_checked('typepad'),
					yh: service_checked('yahoo')
				});
			}

			var frame = Dsq.frames['reply_' + (post_id ? post_id : 0)];
			frame.post.apply(frame, params);

			if (el_clicked) {
				Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked, post_id);
			}
			
			if (force) {
				Dsq.Utils.createCookie('skipped_auth', true);	
			}
			
		} else {
			return false;
		}
	};

	this.editComment = function(el_clicked, post_id) {
		var edited_message = Dsq.$('dsq-edit-textarea-' + post_id).value;

		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked, post_id);
		Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id].edit(post_id, edited_message);
	};

	this.toggleEdit = function(post_id) {
		var body = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-body-' + post_id);
		var message = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + post_id);

		if (!Dsq.Post.stateEditToggled[post_id]) {


			message.style.display = 'none';
			if (Dsq.$('dsq-edit-' + post_id)) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-edit-' + post_id).style.display = 'block';
			} else {

				var edit_area = document.createElement('div');
				edit_area.id = 'dsq-edit-' + post_id;
				edit_area.className = 'dsq-edit dsq-textarea';
				edit_area.innerHTML = ' \
				<div class="dsq-textarea-wrapper"> \
					<textarea class="dsq-edit-textarea" id="dsq-edit-textarea-' + post_id + '">' + message.innerHTML + '</textarea> \
				</div> \
				<div class="dsq-save-edit"> \
					<button onclick="Dsq.Templates.editComment(this, ' + post_id + ')" class="dsq-button-small">Save Edit</button> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-edit-iframe-' + post_id + '" style="display: none"></div> \
				';

				body.appendChild(edit_area);

				if (!Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id]) {
					var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
					Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(Dsq.$('dsq-edit-iframe-' + post_id), post_id);
					Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id].init();
					Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id].setState(post_id, _meta.depth);
				}
			}
		} else {

			message.style.display = 'block';
			Dsq.$('dsq-edit-' + post_id).style.display = 'none';
		}
		
		Dsq.Post.stateEditToggled[post_id] = !Dsq.Post.stateEditToggled[post_id];
	};
	
	this.edit = function(el, post_id) {

		Dsq.Templates.toggleEdit(post_id);
	};

	this.toggleReply = function(post_id, button) {
		
		if(!this.stateReplyToggled[post_id]) {

			if (Dsq.$('dsq-reply-post-' + post_id)) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).style.display = 'block';
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.postBox(post_id);
				var container = Dsq.$('dsq-textarea-wrapper-' + post_id);
				if (!Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id] && container) {
					var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(container, post_id);
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].init(function() {

						Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.postBox(post_id, true);
						Dsq.$('dsq-form-area-' + post_id).innerHTML = '';

						var theme = (typeof disqus_frame_theme == 'undefined') ? 'default' : disqus_frame_theme;
						Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(Dsq.$('dsq-form-area-' + post_id), post_id, {theme: theme});

					});
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].setState(post_id, _meta.depth);
				}
			}
			Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).className = 'dsq-append-post';
			Dsq.$('dsq-comment-footer-reply-' + post_id).className = 'dsq-comment-footer-reply-active';
			
		} else {

			Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).style.display = 'none';
			Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).className = '';
			Dsq.$('dsq-comment-footer-reply-' + post_id).className = 'dsq-comment-footer-reply';
		}
		
		this.stateReplyToggled[post_id] = !this.stateReplyToggled[post_id];

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie && this.stateReplyToggled[post_id]) {

		}

		Dsq.Events.fire(Dsq.Events.REPLY_IFRAME_TOGGLED, {
			postId: post_id,
			opened: this.stateReplyToggled[post_id]
		});
	};
	
	this.moderateOptions = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		
		if(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator && !Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator) { return false; }

		var html;
		
		html = ' \
		<div class="dsq-moderate-options"> \
		<table>'
		+ (_meta.email ? '<tr><td>Email</td><td>' + _meta.email + '</td></tr>' : '')
		+ (_meta.ip ? '<tr><td>IP address</td><td>' + _meta.ip + '</td></tr>' : '')
		+ '<tr> \
			<td>Actions</td> \
			<td><ul>'
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.moderator_can_edit
				? '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false;">Edit Comment</a></li>'
				: '')
			+ '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.removePost(' + post_id + ', 1); Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false;">Delete Comment</a></li> \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.reportSpam(' + post_id + '); Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false;">Mark Spam</a></li> \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.blacklist(' + post_id + '); return false">Block User</a></li> \
			</ul></td> \
			</table> \
		</div> \
		';
		
		html += '<p>Go to the full <a href="http://disqus.com/comments/moderate/" target="_blank">moderate panel</a> for more options.</p>';
		
		return Dsq.Popup.popModal(html, 'Moderate Options', post_id);
	};
	
	this.placeholder = {
		'class': 'dsq-placeholder',
		'name': Dsq.Strings.NAME,
		'email': Dsq.Strings.EMAIL,
		'website': Dsq.Strings.WEBSITE + ' (' + Dsq.Strings.OPTIONAL.toLowerCase() + ')'
	};
	
	this.handlePlaceholder = function(evt, el, key) {
		var placeholder = Dsq.Templates.placeholder[key];
		var className = Dsq.Templates.placeholder['class'];
		
		switch(evt.type) {
			case 'focus':
				if(el.value == placeholder) {
					el.value = '';
					el.className = '';
				}
				break;

			case 'blur':
				if(el.value == '') {
					el.value = placeholder;
					el.className = className;
				}
				break;
			default:
				break;
		}
	};
	
	this.paginate = function(page, el_clicked) {

		var extra_params = '';

		if(typeof disqus_per_page != 'undefined') {
			extra_params += '&per_page=' + disqus_per_page;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_sort != 'undefined') {
			extra_params += '&sort=' + disqus_sort;
		}

		Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML += '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
		
		if(el_clicked) {
			Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked);
		}
		
		Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/jackandjillpolitics/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ 'sunday_open_thread_67'
			+ '&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/sunday_open_thread_67/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">201</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/sunday_open_thread_67/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/sunday_open_thread_67/">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>\
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	 </span>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-alerts">\
	 <p><a href="http://disqus.com/profile/login/?next=article:4265005" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false">You must log into your Disqus Profile in order to post comments.</a></p>\
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		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> \
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				</div> \
			</div> \
			' + html; 
		}
		return html;
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	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/sunday_open_thread_67/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;
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	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;
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		if (source) {
			if (limit === 0) {
				limit = source.length;
			}

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	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:4265005" 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:4265005" 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'				: 'sunday_open_thread_67',
			// 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/sunday_open_thread_67/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='	+ 'sunday_open_thread_67'
			+ '&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='	+ 'sunday_open_thread_67'
			+ '&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='		+ 'sunday_open_thread_67'
				+ '&email=' 	+ encodeURIComponent(email));

		} else if(!email) {
			// If anonymous user and no email has been provided yet, prompt for email

			var title = 'Subscribe to this comment thread';
			var message = ' \
				New comments will be sent directly to your email inbox! \
				<div class="dsq-subscribe-submit"> \
					<p><strong>Enter your email address below.</strong></p> \
					<input type="text" id="dsq-subscribe-email"> \
					<button onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1, Dsq.$(\'dsq-subscribe-email\').value)">Subscribe</button> \
				</div> \
			';

			Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);
		}
	};

	this.showSettings = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) {
			return;
		}

		/* The form has to be re-designed when more options will come out. */
		var html = 'Automatically close comments after <input size="3" id="dsq-thread-days-alive" value="' + Dsq.jsonData.thread.days_alive + '" type="text" /> days. Existing comments will still be displayed.<br /><br />(Using 0 days will disable this feature)<br /><br />'
								 + '<button onclick="Dsq.Thread.updateDaysAlive();" class="dsq-button-small"><span>Save</span></button>'
								 + '<span id="dsq-thread-settings-status" class="dsq-options-status"></span>';
		Dsq.Popup.popModal(html, 'Settings');
	};

	this.updateDaysAlive = function() {
		var days = Dsq.$('dsq-thread-days-alive').value;
		var status = Dsq.$('dsq-thread-settings-status');
		Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/jackandjillpolitics/update_days_alive.js', {days:days,thread:Dsq.jsonData.thread.id});
		status.innerHTML = 'Saved!';
		window.setTimeout(function() { status.innerHTML = ''; }, 1000);
	};
};
// Dsq.Thread

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

	// Private
	var handlers = {};
	var getHandlers = function(event) {
		if (handlers[event] === undefined) {
			handlers[event] = [];
		}
		return handlers[event];
	};

	// Public
	// Value keys : postId, node, xtype
	obj.REPLY_IFRAME_CREATED = 1;
	// Value keys : postId, opened
	obj.REPLY_IFRAME_TOGGLED = 2;
	obj.fire = function(event, opt_value) {
		if (!event) {
			throw new Error('Unknown event');
		}
		var value = opt_value || {};
		for (var i=0; i<getHandlers(event).length; i++) {
			getHandlers(event)[i](value);
		}
	};
	obj.addHandler = function(event, callback) {
		getHandlers(event).push(callback);
	};

	return obj;
}();

/**
 * Dsq.Realtime
 */
Dsq.Realtime = new function() {
	var initialized = false;
	var interval = null;
	var last_checked = Dsq.jsonData.request.timestamp;
	var new_posts = [];
	var ongoing_request = false;
	var prev_script = null;

	function updateNewPostCount() {
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-alert').style.display = new_posts.length ? 'block' : 'none';

		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-queued').innerHTML = new_posts.length
		+ ' new '
		+ Dsq.Utils.pluralize(new_posts.length, 'comment', 'comments')
		+ Dsq.Utils.pluralize(new_posts.length, ' was', ' were')
		+ ' just posted.';

		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-show').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.SHOW + ')';
	}

	function insertNewPosts() {
		var post_id = null;
		var after_id = Dsq.$('dsq-sort-select').value === 'oldest' ? -1 : null;

		for (var i=0; i<new_posts.length; i++) {
			post_id = new_posts[i];
			Dsq.Post.insert(after_id, post_id, Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id].message);
			Dsq.Post.incrementPostCount();
			Dsq.Post.outlineComment(post_id);
		}
		new_posts = [];
	}

	this.enableInterval = function() {
		interval = setInterval(Dsq.Realtime.check, Dsq.jsonData.context.realtime_speed);
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-status').innerHTML = Dsq.Strings.ENABLED;
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.PAUSE + ')';
	}

	this.disableInterval = function() {
		if (interval) {
			clearInterval(interval);
			interval = null;
		}
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-status').innerHTML = Dsq.Strings.PAUSED;
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.RESUME + ')';
	}

	this.toggleInterval = function() {
		if (!interval) {
			Dsq.Realtime.enableInterval();
		} else {
			Dsq.Realtime.disableInterval();
		}
		return false;
	}

	this.initialize = function() {
		if (!initialized) {
			initialized = true;
			Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').onclick = this.toggleInterval;
			if (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.streaming_realtime) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-show').onclick = this.show;
				updateNewPostCount();
			}
			if (Dsq.jsonData.thread.realtime_paused) {
				Dsq.Realtime.disableInterval();
			} else {
				Dsq.Realtime.enableInterval();
			}
		}
	}

	this.show = function() {
		insertNewPosts();
		updateNewPostCount();
		return false;
	}

	this.check = function() {
		if (!ongoing_request && Dsq.jsonData.realtime_enabled) {
			if (prev_script) {
				prev_script.parentNode.removeChild(prev_script);
			}
			ongoing_request = true;
			prev_script = Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/4265005/realtime.js?timestamp=' + last_checked);
		}
	};

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

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

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

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

}();

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

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

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

	return obj;
}();

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		if (isblank(openid_url)) {
			return;
		}

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	return obj;
}();


if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) {
	(function() {
		DSQ_HEADER_AVATAR_RE = /<div class="dsq-header-avatar"(.*?)>/gim;
		Dsq.Templates.registerFilter('postPrependHeader', function(html, post_id) {
			// Add "onmouseout" for dsq-header-avatar for dropProfile
			// functionality since IE6 cannot use :hover.
			function _headerAvatarReplace(content, inner, _unused, html) {
				return '<div class="dsq-header-avatar" '
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2219757">JJai</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2219757" class="dsq-comment-message">Fascinating article about Palin and her maverick/crazed behavior as mayor of Wasilla in the Seattle Times<br><br>"A couple of days later, a story in the Frontiersman noted that Palin was saying personnel changes were likely. "When asked how she would run the city without experienced department heads, she responded, \'It\'s not rocket science. It\'s $6 million and 53 employees.\' "<br><br>The day Palin took office, she told Stambaugh she wanted him to stay on provided he would support her as mayor, his notes say. He agreed. She also asked him to drop the issue of bar hours. He agreed to that, too. On this day, Palin fired the city\'s museum director, one of the department heads.<br><br>Ten days later, Palin wrote to all the department heads, including Stambaugh, asking for letters of resignation. She said she would then decide which to accept. When Stambaugh declined to provide one — pointing to his contract — Palin replied in a letter: "I will expect your loyalty."<br><br>Stambaugh was 6-foot-2, 240 pounds. Because he\'d heard that Palin had felt intimidated by him during a meeting, he made sure to sit when talking with her, and to use a soothing voice. By early December, things had calmed down, and Stambaugh felt the threat of being fired had passed."<br><br><a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2008163431_palin070.html" rel="nofollow">http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2219263" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2219263">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2219263" class="dsq-comment-message"><b>The woman from nowhere</b><br><a href="http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12066224" rel="nofollow">http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/dis...</a><br><blockquote><i>Inexperienced and Bush-level incurious. She has no record of interest in foreign policy, let alone expertise. She once told an Alaskan magazine: “I’ve been so focused on state government; I haven’t really focused much on the war in Iraq.” She obtained an American passport only last summer to visit Alaskan troops in Germany and Kuwait. This not only blunts Mr McCain’s most powerful criticism of Mr Obama. It also raises serious questions about the way he makes decisions.</i></blockquote><br><br>Palin in not about now...it\'s about the future.  The problem is...America is moving away from religious extremism.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2219317">Teacher</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2219317" class="dsq-comment-message">TruthSeeker, I really love you (in a virtual, cyber, sisterly kinda way). I love how you care so much about us and our nation. Its like having a really cool neighbor that you can trust with your house keys; a neighbor who is also a friend. Thanks for all you do.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2219383">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2219383" class="dsq-comment-message">Blush.<br><br>That\'s awfully nice of you to say.   I believe good should triumph over evil.  I sense a yearning to move forward...in America and the rest of the world.   History is being made, and I cannot look away.  So many people around the world are paying rapt attention, and rooting for you.  You\'re not alone.<br><br>It will be such a thrill when Barack wins!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2223418">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2223418" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2223418" class="dsq-comment-message">I feel the same way Truth, you\'re just a friend I haven\'t met yet.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2219967">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2219967" class="dsq-comment-message">Teacher:   MAJOR CO-SIGN and a DOUBLE  "VIRTUAL DAP"!!!   :&gt;)     :&gt;)<br><br>And while the the SUPPORTIVE THANK YOU\'S are going around,  U  2 Teacher!! :&gt;)     :&gt;)      :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2217459" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2217459" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217459" class="dsq-comment-message">Mission accompished. My local paper printed my letter to the editor in its widely-read Sunday edition, along with several others that criticize McCain for his choice. <br><br><a href="http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story.php?id=208525&ac=PHedi&pg=1" rel="nofollow">http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story.php?id=...</a><br><br>Write your letters. Get organized.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2218087" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2218087">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2218087" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2218087" class="dsq-comment-message">Mission accomplished, indeed.<br><br>Is that in the print edition too?</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2219994" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2219994" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2219994" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes. All of them are.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2220015">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2220015" class="dsq-comment-message">craig:   Major props!!   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2194030">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2194030" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  SIMPLY BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;) The more the WORLD sees this 1st FAMILY, the more they will get USE TO THEM.  \'cause they\'ll be moving into their "NEW WHITE HOUSE" in January 2009!!<br><br>Whooooo!  Hoooo!    :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2194059">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2194059" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  Where\'s Dick Cheney??  Oh! Yeah!  He\'s in Russia [by way of a fuel stop in Alaska  :&gt;) ]:<br><br><a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/09/05/us.russia.nuclear/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/09/05/...</a><br>U.S. May Pull Nuclear Deal To Punish Russia source says<br><br>One thing is for sure, the next President WILL be able to say N-U-C-L-E-A-R!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>No more NU-CU-LAR!!!   aaaaarrrrgggg!!   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2194064">nickwah22</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2194064" class="dsq-comment-message">Dubya does his best.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2203714">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2203714" class="dsq-comment-message">nickwah22:  2 MORE LOOOOOOOON MONTHS!!!   :&gt;)     :&gt;)  Then we get ta do an N\'SYNC   -----"BYE!    BYE!     BYE!  :&gt;)      :&gt;)      :&gt;) <br><br>Also, nickwah22, in case you felt CHEATED out of the accompanying video, here it is!!!     :&gt;)     :&gt;)<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JoJqID-wJY" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JoJqID-wJY</a><br><br><br>ENJOY!!    :&gt;)      :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2194138">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2194138" class="dsq-comment-message">NOTE TO MYSELF:  This article was suppose to ALSO be in this comment.   It was suppose to be a "2-fer"!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br><a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/09/06/cheney.russia/index.html?iref=mpstoryview" rel="nofollow">http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/09/06/...</a><br>Cheney Bashes Russia For \'Brutality\' In Georgia<br><br>Here\'s my dilemma:  There are fewer than 60 days until the election.  "Whycome" Shrub is still trying to ACT presidential???<br><br>"LAME DUCK", SHRUB!!!!   Sit this one out!!!    :&gt;)     :&gt;)   Whew!!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>p.s.  On second thought, he and "McAncient" may be in cahoots on this one!   Hmmmmm?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2218387">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2218387" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2218387" class="dsq-comment-message">this whole Russia mess is for McCain</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2220377">Teacher</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2220377" class="dsq-comment-message">Well lets continue to pray that he isn\'t elected, because he would get us into some stuff that we can\'t handle. Putin dares us to start some mess. That would really make his day.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2194092">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2194092" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:<br><br>Themes Set, Both Campaigns Dash To Election<br><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/06/us/politics/06campaign.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/06/us/politics/0...</a><br><br>Mr. Obama continues to FIRE UP his followers!!      :&gt;)     :&gt;)     :&gt;)<br><br>FIRED UP!!!   READY TO GO!!  To the WHITE HOUSE!!!   :&gt;)      :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2194179">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2194179" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  The TITLE of this article is mis-leading.  Mr. Obama said that the TARGET of HIS campaign is "McAncient" and his continuing of Shrub\'s policies!!<br><br><a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article4692457.ece" rel="nofollow">http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_...</a><br>Hillary Clinton Unleashed To Counter "pitbull in lipstick" Sarah Palin<br><br>Clinton lost no time, attacking Palin moments after John McCain delivered his presidential acceptance speech in St Paul, Minnesota, last week. Reporters’ BlackBerrys buzzed with her verdict. “No way, no how, no McCain-Palin,” she said.<br><br>Officially, Clinton will not go head-to-head with Palin, a self-proclaimed hockey mom and “pitbull in lipstick”.<br><br>The Obama camp wants to keep the focus on McCain’s supposed continuation of the Bush years and his skimpy policies for reviving the economy and improving healthcare, rather than on his running mate. <br><br>Whew!   Journalist\'s need ta make a sale!    :&gt;)<br><br>Again, NOTE Mr. Obama\'s EMPHASIS!!!     :&gt;)       :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2194198">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2194198" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  This article gives some HARSH economic DATA.  It\'s BAD!  And SAD!!   :&gt;(<br><br><a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/226/story/51912.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.mcclatchydc.com/226/story/51912.html</a><br>Economists May Not Call It Recession, But Job Statistics Say It Is<br><br>IMHO:  A low economic state could decrease interest in the election.  Therefore, we must ENCOURAGE each other [friends, family, etc] to VOTE!!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2194241" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2194241">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2194241" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  Obama Hits McCain on Social Security!!<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/06/obama-hits-mccain-on-soci_n_124467.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/06/obama-...</a><br><br>Mr. Obama spoke to an AARP group to explain HIS plan in contrast to "McAncient\'s";  who plans to reduce SS funding.  :&gt;!<br><br> Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama criticized Republican John McCain\'s approach to Social Security on Saturday, saying it would undermine the government program aimed mainly at retirees.<br><br>Obama said McCain\'s campaign has suggested trimming Social Security benefits and raising the eligibility age, according to prepared remarks of his speech to a gathering of the AARP. Obama was addressing the group via satellite.<br><br>McCain has not specifically embraced such plans. But by saying "everything is on the table" in discussing changes to Social Security, he has opened himself to such criticisms from Democrats.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2194359" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2194359">taritac</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2194359" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2194359" class="dsq-comment-message">Looks like I\'m not the only one who can\'t sleep. Good morning GreenLady!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2203184">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2203184" class="dsq-comment-message">taritac: Good merning[Madea - style :&gt;) ]  Yes, I\'m trying ta see what the MSM is talkin\' about at this time.  :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>Watched Rick Sanchez on CNN, he APPEARED ta be SUPPORTING Mr. Obama, \'cause he was PRESSING his guest [forgot name] for specifics when he was attacking Mr. Obama!!  That was NOVEL, in light of the fact that I wrote him a gently scathing e-mail a couple of months ago for ATTACKING Mr. Obama!!   Interesting.   :&gt;)      :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>I, also, see that the WAPost is almost DEVOID [at least the early edition] of campaign/election news.   :&gt;)      :&gt;)  Interesting.   :&gt;)     :&gt;)<br><br>HuffPost:  Need ta check.  But they ran the same headlines FOREVA!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>Well. gotta go to church.  C y\'all L8R!    :&gt;)       :&gt;)  Hallelerjah!!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2194353" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2194353">taritac</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2194353" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2194353" class="dsq-comment-message">Evangelicals\' embrace of Palin is not universal: <a href=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008159242_webwasillamom04.html rel="nofollow">Reflections on Palin from a Christian in Wasilla</a><br><br>The woman in this article praises Palin\'s pro-life stances of having a Down Syndrome baby and for Bristol having her kid. However, the auther says that Palin does not exemplify being "pro-family" because she put her career ahead of caring for her special needs kid, dragged her daughter\'s business in front of everyone, and will be MIA when her daughter and son probably need her most.<br><br>This is exactly my problem with Palin\'s family life. As a feminist, I reject the idea of people questioning women\'s family choices, but her actions still strike me as particularly cold-hearted.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2194953" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2194953" href="http://blog.evavegadiversity.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">evita</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2194953" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree! This is what rubs me the wrong way. Her husband is an oil man, not the primary caregiver. If this was the dynamic for their family for years, then I\'d say fine. But dude is going to be working too! Makes me sad, really.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2221705">Teacher</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2221705" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t think he will be working if they go to Washington, DC. I think his job would then be 2nd man.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2194892">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2194892" class="dsq-comment-message">Elisabeth Hasselbeck strikes again!<br><br>Here is a video of her at a luncheon to honor Cindy McCain. In the video, she attacks Michelle Obama saying the following:<br><br>"Cindy came into our hair and make-up room as fresh as can be, and unlike another wife of a political candidate-who shall remain nameless.She didn\'t come with a list of topics we weren\'t allowed to touch. Nope, that\'s because she has nothing to hide"<br><br>VIDEO: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoxkQUHZrTg" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoxkQUHZrTg</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2198369" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2198369">delfinajones</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2198369" class="dsq-comment-message">See how Repubs always have the back o f their candidate? They don\'t feel obligated to appear to play fair. <br>We should email Hasselbeck and ask why we didn\'t hear about Cindy stealing drugs from the pharmacy of the health organization she bankrolls.She was caught but not prosecuted.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2199999" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2199999">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2199999" class="dsq-comment-message">Is she saying that Michelle came into wardrobe and makeup "unfresh?"<br><br>Why isn\'t Cindy talking about her drug addiction?<br><br>Theft?<br><br>Consistent pattern of lying?<br><br>Cheating with McCain while married to his first wife?<br><br>Nothing to hide?  Let\'s see what\'s in Hasselbitch\'s closet.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2216774" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2216774" href="http://www.reachblack.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">B-Serious</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2216774" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'d love to see whether the other View hosts call her out on this.  It goes beyond politics.  As a business matter it strikes me as a bad move on Elizabeth\'s part.  <br><br>SHE\'S TWO-FACED!  That\'s how Elizabeth comes across with a performance like this.  She had her chance to confront Michelle when she was on their show.  She could not and did not have the guts to say that to Michelle Obama\'s face.  So instead of being an adult, she pretends to respect Michelle on the air, but then turns around and gets all "Sean Hannity-like" when she\'s not in mixed company.<br><br>Again, she comes off as two-faced and backstabbing.  That\'s bad for business because people won\'t trust The View to do fair interviews in the future.<br><br>I\'d LOVE to see Whoopi, Barbara, Joy and Sherri confront her on this.  But my guess is Elizabeth might just start crying once they bring it up (she\'s good for that).</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2218884" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2218884">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2218884" class="dsq-comment-message">I doubt Barbara, Joy or Whoopi will say anything about this because it\'s clearly evident that they are being muzzled by Republican exec producer of the show, Bill Gedde. I\'ve heard Joy on Air America and I read <a href="http://www.wowowow.com/post/whoopi-goldberg-sarah-palin-republican-national-convention-96289" rel="nofollow">Whoopi\'s blog</a> and the difference is like night and day. Those ladies are very knowledgeable when it comes to politics and could figuratively slit Hasselbeck\'s throat when she starts spewing Fox News talking points, but they don\'t.<br><br>I\'ve emailed the video to KO and suggested that he put her on his Worst Persons list.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2217388">parker404</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217388" class="dsq-comment-message">Barbara Walters needs to fire this twit for that mess.  What gives her the right to insult ANY guest who is invited on their show?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2194938">RobM</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2194938" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s 9:06 Fox news is on an obama ahs this clown representing him;  David Axelrod. An axe handle is what you beat people w/ ! Does he understand this is what he is up against. People w/ a singular focus of telling the Big Lie as long as possible to keep us off target.  <br>Know your enemy: <a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/07/america/07schmidt.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/07/america/...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2194939">RobM</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2194939" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s 9:06 Fox news is on an obama ahs this clown representing him;  David Axelrod. An axe handle is what you beat people w/ ! Does he understand this is what he is up against. People w/ a singular focus of telling the Big Lie as long as possible to keep us off target.  <br>Know your enemy: <a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/07/america/07schmidt.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/07/america/...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2217519" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2217519">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217519" class="dsq-comment-message">I find them all weak.  They sometimes have good responses...but weak delivery.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2196245" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2196245">delfinajones</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2196245" class="dsq-comment-message">I invite folks to respond to Willie Brown\'s obnoxious commentary in the San Francisco paper PALIN FLOATS LIKE A BUTTERFLY-STINGS LIKE A BEE. <br><br><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/06/BALU12OCMV.DTL" rel="nofollow">http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2196475">RobM</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2196475" class="dsq-comment-message">Mental health break from the heart of darkness. Assuming that the tripe about ordering soup his movies reviews are obnoxious, his comments on McCain and Palin are on point and true. They are already hiding her; his comment keep her out of fights w/ press and McCain out of suits where his physical ailments make him even stiffer.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2196787" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2196787" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2196787" class="dsq-comment-message">Brown skinned assassin.<br><br>A Democrat giving tips to the Republicans for how to beat the Democrats.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2197397" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2197397">delfinajones</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2197397" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2197397" class="dsq-comment-message">Brown\'s commentary is part and parcel of what THE DAILY HOWLER describes as  the usual pile on that occurs against Democrats and highlights the lack of counter attack and protection of the candidate by Dems. <br>Check the Howler out for insight:<br><a href="http://www.dailyhowler.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailyhowler.com/</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2198385">RobM</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2198385" class="dsq-comment-message">I get the lack of counter attack and protection of the candidate. But that is an institutional trait of the party at the top. And as much as I try to hold my tongue and not free lance, I am disciplined enough to take orders and follow talking points. WHERE ARE MY MARCHING ORDERS? We are not Japanese samurai beholden to our lord and master to the point of seppuku.<br><br>My preference is Napoleon\'s standing orders "March to the sound of cannon fire." The Republicans are firing cannons. I there: What is the order.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2200058">delfinajones</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2200058" class="dsq-comment-message">Repubs would have sent Lieberman to the firing squad long ago. Same goes for Carville when he was writing letters of support for Scooter Libby. Hillary and her less than enthusiastic endorsement would have turned into a vacation in Siberia.......</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2218979">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2218979" class="dsq-comment-message">Dictatorship does have it\'s charms.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2196317">RobM</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2196317" class="dsq-comment-message">9:19 At great danger to my mental health I am still watching Fox News Rick Davis is on  Chris Wallace asks about her earmarks. Davis said these earmarks in Wassilla were on payroll before she was mayor. <br>When will Palin agree to interview: When we say so. Then touts Van Sustern <br>puff piece on last night<br>Rick Davis: We will expose her when we want.<br>Chris Wallace: When will we get to ask questions last week she read a speech(roll the ad). When the press becomes responsible.??!!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2196431" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2196431" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2196431" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com/2008/09/while-they-terrorize-we-organize.html" rel="nofollow">While They Terrorize, We Organize</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2196446">Anderkoo</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2196446" class="dsq-comment-message">Hi all, I\'m wondering what you think of this idea. After the last two weeks, I think I see the strength and beauty of the positive, "Yes we can" Obama campaign. The Republicans want to draw us back into the culture war, because that\'s the only way they can win. I don\'t want to play a losing game. Instead, I want to focus on what makes Obama -- and Democrats -- a force for positive change in 2008.<br><br>What about a VIDEO that portrays REPUBLICANS as the ANGRY, MARGINAL, and ANTISOCIAL party that they\'ve become? We have so much footage from last week of angry white delegates shouting "Drill, Baby, Drill!" It\'s a pretty sick warcry, not just because it\'s pushing for a disastrous policy, but because of how it appropriates the Watts race riots and "Burn Baby Burn!" (The fact that the only black speaker at the RNC led them in this chant is, to say the least, ironic).<br><br>Now, I don\'t know your opinion about Watts, but the point is that most white middle Americans do not think highly of that kind of politics, whatever the cause. Associating the Republicans with an angry, violent, 60s-style feeling will not do them any good.<br><br>We need to remind people that they\'re not just voting for two people. They\'re voting for an entire party and what it stands for.<br><br>So, what do you think of a video that would compare/contrast the RNC with angry mobs from the 1960s and 1970s? And then offer up our very different mood and behavior from the DNC, one that looks forward rather than back?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2199855" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2199855" href="http://blog.evavegadiversity.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">evita</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2199855" class="dsq-comment-message">We need to remind people that they\'re not just voting for two people. They\'re voting for an entire party and what it stands for.<br><br><br>love it!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2200046" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2200046">Anderkoo</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2200046" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2200046" class="dsq-comment-message">OK, I admit that I\'m pretty ignorant, but in researching the Detroit riots of 1967, I discovered that the governor of Michigan at the time was... George Romney. Wow. The 1960s is the gift that keeps on giving.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2217236" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2217236">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2217236" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217236" class="dsq-comment-message">George Romney was a well liked and good governor, too. His son is a chameleon. I grew up in Michigan. Never knew George was a Mormon, until Mitt started running.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2200732" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2200732" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2200732" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2200732" class="dsq-comment-message">Send it to the campaign.<br><br>Leave no stone unturned. Try everything and anything.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2201895" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2201895" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2201895">delfinajones</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2201895" class="dsq-comment-message">Agree- we need to strike at all levels and in a 1000 ways.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2209258">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2209258" class="dsq-comment-message">Anderkoo:  GOOD STRATEGIC IDEA!!!  Move that chess piece!!!   :&gt;)     :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2216927">Booky</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2216927" class="dsq-comment-message">Bring it!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2216928" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2216928" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2216928">Booky</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2216928" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2216928" class="dsq-comment-message">Bring it!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2196994">RobM</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2196994" class="dsq-comment-message">Back in the hert of darkenss.<br>Marissa: She exploded onto the scene will she implode w/ another disclosure.<br>Juan Williams: no comment<br>Kristol: Lauded for on air pick in June<br>Hume: Nor sure Democrat women governors can talk women back(?) to Obama camp. McCain as 3rd term Bush threadbare<br><br>Little of substance</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2200208">Micheline</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2200208" class="dsq-comment-message">I am increasingly getting depressed about this election as a result of this Palin pick.  We all know racism is alive but to what extent.  I am amazed at how people makes excuses for this woman with respect to her daughter being pregnant.  Now the media is practically ignoring Obama. Folks this will boil down to GOTV.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2216789">taritac</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2216789" class="dsq-comment-message">Micheline,<br><br>I completely agree. I am getting really depressed. I just watched Obama on This Week with George Stephanopoulus, and he was okay. Stephanopoulus kept pressing him on the surge issue, when Barack has answered that question REPEATEDLY over the last month.<br><br>When they went to the Round Table, they completely ignored his interview and the entire discussion was about Palin, how great she is for the ticket, how great McCain\'s biography is, how McCain has a chance to win in November, how compelling his call for CHANGE is [WTF??!!]. <br><br>These people were literally <i>fawning</i>. I couldn\'t believe it. It really is blatant at this point. People were just looking for a reason not to support Obama, and Palin is that reason. They were so excited. Not one person had a kind word to say about the Democrats.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2216852">Booky</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2216852" class="dsq-comment-message">This is how Barack Obama should handle the surge issue:<br><br>The surged worked?  Good.  Bring our Troops home. NOW!<br><br>Or, Who says the surge worked?  The media?  Who told the media the surge was workded??  The Bush administration?  You mean the same administration that took us to war based on DEAD WRONG intelligence to look for WMD that was NOT there and without an exit plan?<br><br>Who says the surge is working?  <br>Answer:  The media and the Bush administration.<br><br>Who trusts the media and the Bush administration?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2217012">taritac</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217012" class="dsq-comment-message">Whatever he says, it should be a 5-second soundbite reply. Say it and move on. He gets into explaining and it just sounds like he\'s equivocating. We\'re beyond the point where nuanced answers work. The undecideds are basing their decision on a beauty contest.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2217100">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217100" class="dsq-comment-message">I know I wish he would stop explaining so much and just get out the cold hard truth.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2217183">Micheline</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217183" class="dsq-comment-message">Thanks for the encouragement, the election is too close for comfort.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2217266">Booky</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217266" class="dsq-comment-message">The Cold hard truth.  <br><br>NO WMD in Iraq.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2217216">delfinajones</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217216" class="dsq-comment-message">He needs to create word pictures--Repubs  screw you.<br>Dems help you.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2223101" href="http://nquest2xl.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Nquest</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2223101" class="dsq-comment-message">Yeah, Barack should go down a list of Bush=McCain promises regarding jobs and the economy and say, "... and you got screwed!"<br><br>Bush promised to reach across the aisle "... and you got screwed!"   Bush/McCain declared, "Mission Accomplished" and... "the American people got screwed!"<br><br>"Look at this mess!"<br><br>"We\'re talking about bailing out Fannie Mae... but John McCain and our Republican friends said to hell with everyday Americans who got screwed by predatory lenders."<br><br>"Every time you turn around, with people like Bush/McCain... you get screwed."</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2217090">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217090" class="dsq-comment-message">Don\'t be discouraged.  This is part of a large portion of corporatist MSM role.  They wan\'t McCain in the whitehouse to avoid being taxed on their enormous incomes (Bush provided shelter for them and their money) and they will do whatever they can do to help to get McCain/Palin to the whitehouse.<br><br>It won\'t work, the american people are concerned about their financial futures and Palin does nothing for that issue.  Be patient she will wear off and they will be forced to talk about something else.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2218306">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2218306" class="dsq-comment-message">know hope. <br><br>they were in the tank for Hillpatine as much as they are for McCain. <br><br>we know how that wound up</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2202803">delfinajones</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2202803" class="dsq-comment-message">We need a quick response team to counteract some of this crap, even if it seems unimportant. Palin supports the extreme platform of the Republican party which is in effect curtailing womens rights--she is not a feminist in any sense.But the Repubs call her that.Not letting her daughter use birth control is child abuse and poor parenting. She can\'t superrvise her family how can she supervise  the country. She has 5 kids but she risked having a downs child by not taking precaurions? THIS WOMAN IS NOT A FEMINIST!!!!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2211545">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2211545" class="dsq-comment-message">delfinajones:  Running out the door -  BUT had to respond!!  Mr. Obama\'s "aniti-smear" site may be helpful.  <br><br>Running out the door!   :&lt;)     :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2219573">Teacher</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2219573" class="dsq-comment-message">Right. what if she gets pregnant again, potentially while in office? She went back to work 3 days after "giving birth" to her baby.<br><br>I consider myself to be pro-woman, and I think there are biological differences and different stages of life where a woman is called upon to put the best interest of the child above her own desires. It is very tricky/slippery, though a baby has physiological & emotional needs that are best met by a mother. A human baby is not the same as a kitten. I am pro-choice, but once someone decides to have a baby, I think it\'s needs should be met. I guess Palin\'s beliefs are the opposite of  mine. She thinks that babies deserve to be born, but after that they have to take what they get. I really love babies.<br><br>When I was in college, I thought there were no differences between males & females. Myself and another lady had a chance to pour the metal for our sculptures by hand (with our backs). We were both petite, and she was more petite than me. So we had to lift this heavy crucible with molten metal in it, plus the holder. We did it only by the grace of God. We basically endangered peoples lives to prove a feminist point. To this day I am thankful that we didn\'t drop the red hot, hundreds of degrees in temperature crucible containing molten metal and hurt ourselves and others. So now I have a different opinion. Every man or woman can\'t or shouldn\'t do any and everything. It\'s not always possible. There are times we need to accept our limitations as humans, and there is no shame in that.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2219724">JJai</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2219724" class="dsq-comment-message">when she had her daughter Piper as mayor of Wasilla she went back to work the very next day. See the link fro the Anchorage Daily News below. This article references concerns about her latest pregnancy.<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><a href="http://www.adn.com/front/story/336402.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.adn.com/front/story/336402.html</a><br><br>One friggin\' day. That is just unsettling.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2223086">Teacher</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2223086" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes, it is very unsettling, bordering on being negligent or abusive. I can\'t believe james dobson is endorsing her & this philosophy. She\'s treating her children like they are the unfortunate result of a booty call, which is why I\'m pro-choice.  If I didn\'t like her before, I really don\'t like her now. No wonder her daughter is looking for love in all the wrong places. She\'s looking for something she only got scheduled around her mother\'s work schedule. Pitiful.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2223214">jelana</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2223214" class="dsq-comment-message">Studies have been done on mother\'s who don\'t bond with their<br>babies.  It is definitely not in the child\'s best interest.  I agree with you on the pro choice.  Why have children if you don\'t really want them?  Birth control is a much better idea.  We have seen too many negative stories in the news about these pro-life mothers<br>and what sometimes happen to their children.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2223277">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2223277" class="dsq-comment-message">jelana:  True dat!   :&gt;)  :&gt;)     We get them in our schools!!   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2223259">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2223259" class="dsq-comment-message">JJai:   Oh, you must know that this raises the question about the after - birth [NOT THAT  :&gt;)] of the 4 other children!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>And James Dobson: He says that he did NOT train to be a minister.  He is a [child ?] psychologist.  <br><br>I\'m going ta take a "Field Trip" to Wiki -unless it\'s been "scrubbed"!   :&gt;)      :&gt;)   I\'ll bring it back!    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2220144">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2220144" class="dsq-comment-message">Teacher:  "Every man or woman . . . .  and there is NO SHAME in that!"<br><br>I can\'t believe that I was just in a conversation and shared my thoughts, that were IDENTICAL to yours!!   WOW!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>CHANGE, although it can be disconcerting in some matters [NOT with respect to Mr. O :&gt;)], can also be enlightening and contribute to one\'s growth!!     Thank you!!!    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2222957">Teacher</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2222957" class="dsq-comment-message">Well GLH, I guess teacherly minds think alike (smile)! Barring that, I guess some things just make sense. I\'m glad to be in the company of wisdom.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2223210">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2223210" class="dsq-comment-message">Teacher:  Yes!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)  Back-atchu on the WISDOM!   U da WOMAN!!   :&gt;)       :&gt;)      :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2203542" href="http://blog.evavegadiversity.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">evita</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2203542" class="dsq-comment-message">Micheline, CraigHickman made a post yesterday about Barack Obama having a talk in PA in areas otherwise known as the Alabama of PA. Because of the STRENGTH of Obama\'s organizing, the campaign has strong voter registration and turn out to these events. At this event they expected 5,000 to attend but 15,000 people showed up- with only 2 days notice!<br><br>The energy and info is getting out there to the people who will eventually vote. I believe more people in the fence are appalled by the pick because of her over the top conservative views. That\'s not how you win independents. <br><br>Palin is weak- that\'s why they are hiding her. <br><br>Get fired up! WE CAN DO THIS! But remember it will take all of us. Because I have unlimited calling, I make calls for the campaign often. Something as little as that makes a difference. Focus on what YOU CAN DO. :)  Stay up!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2218326">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2218326" class="dsq-comment-message">yep. it was the Alabama part of Pennsylvania</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2208564">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2208564" class="dsq-comment-message">MIcheline:  Sharing some  FIRED UP!!!   READY TO GO!!!   :&gt;)     :&gt;)    :&gt;)  "C\'MON"  - like they say on the tennis courts!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)    :&gt;)     FIRED UP!!!   :&gt;)      :&gt;)     :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2207824">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2207824" class="dsq-comment-message">Rikyrah: From the WaPo:  Palin\'s Family Has Always Played a Role in Her Politics<br>I guess this was a "family values" article??<br><br><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/06/AR2008090603024.html?wpisrc=newsletter" rel="nofollow">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2217590">parker404</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217590" class="dsq-comment-message">Ridiculous fluff piece.  Glossed over all the real issues involving Palins.  Even glossed over Palin\'s riding in a car holding Trig, instead of strapping in a car seat.  That alone tells you she\'s not fit to lead!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2226423">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2226423" class="dsq-comment-message">parker404:  U   R   correct!!  :&gt;)     :&gt;)    That poor child!!    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2208347">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2208347" class="dsq-comment-message">McCain on Face the Nation - doing horribly IMO.  He was asked about the "community organizer" insult.  Shiffer said he knew community organizers and thought the work was good and asked why Palin and Giuliana would denigrate community organizing and he said Palin was upset that the Obama camp said she was a small town mayor, bet they\'ll take that out of stump speech.<br><br>Shiffer stated that out of 3200 republican delegates only 23 were AA\'s and asked how they could continue to be the party of "white people".  McCain answered with some garbled bs.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2216979" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2216979" href="http://nquest2xl.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Nquest</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2216979" class="dsq-comment-message">Ha! Ha!! <br><br>The Grand Ole [WHITE] Party.  <br><br>CNN flashed the numbers/percentages of non-white delegates at the DNC with AA\'s composing some 24% (non-whites totaled 44% of the delegates).  They even noted how Native Americans made up 3% of the DNC delegates.  I didn\'t see similar "fact"oids on CNN for the RNC.  I wonder why...<br><br>Now, did Shafer ask McCain about the skeleton thin number of Black Republicans speaking at the convention -- let alone Black Democrats with switchin\' party stories like <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQVbOXvR_l0" rel="nofollow">Pam</a> or <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuAVw_v3br8" rel="nofollow">Barney Smith</a> not to be confused with Smith Barney, of course.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2217062">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217062" class="dsq-comment-message">No, of course not, journalist ask a few difficult questions of the republicans so they appear to be journalist, but then let them carry on endlessly with their responses and stump speech talking points, unlike the Democrats who they challenge constantly on their answer as if it were a debate.  I saw it this morning with Stephanopolus and Shiffer.  I see it all the time.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2217429">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217429" class="dsq-comment-message">So, America would have to deal with a President prone to "Upset" duringing tense foreign policy crises.<br><br>Nice.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2218605">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2218605" class="dsq-comment-message"><i><b>he said Palin was upset that the Obama camp said she was a small town mayor,</b></i><br><br>Aww! Her wittle fweelings were hurt? Poor baby!<br><br>Wow! Shiffer said they were a party of the white people?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2224099">malletgirl02</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2224099" class="dsq-comment-message">Actually I think the whole small time mayor thing came into the discourse actually started while Obama was selecting his VP.  Rove said that Obama was going to make a political choice by choosing Kaine.  Rove mentioned that Before being the governor of Virginia, completely skipping over his time as LT governor, that Kaine was only the mayor of Richmond. Rove sneered that Richmond was "only" the 127 largest city in the US.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2224228">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2224228" class="dsq-comment-message">You should have seen the tape from the daily show. Rove was saying Kaine was the governor of a small state, yada yada then roll tape to him defending criticcism that Palin was smal state governor and mayor of what 500?  And she f*(ked up all their money. Gimme a break GTFOH.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2209255">RobM</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2209255" class="dsq-comment-message">McCain on Face the Nation. Palin will be available on Face the Nation First. At end Shiver tried to get him to commit to next week. McCain didn\'t quite take the bait. <br><br>We will never see her in an unscripted moment till the VP debates.<br> <br>At end announced show was recorded on Sat in Colo.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2209809">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2209809" class="dsq-comment-message">Some idiot black republican on BET News (mother watches the gospel show, turning now) said that palin having a unwed pregnant teen should make her appealing to the AA community - WTF!!!!!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2210894">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2210894" class="dsq-comment-message">msmartin:  Co-signing on   -   " Some IDIOT . . . ... ."     :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2210662">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2210662" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  From HuffPost:   The Inspiration of Barack Film Series:  Yes We Can<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/qasim-basir/the-inspiration-of-barack_b_124575.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/qasim-basir/the-i...</a><br><br>This is MAJOR POSITIVE!!!  Whoo! Hoo!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>Sorry, gotta go!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2216120">Elephants &amp; Flowers</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2216120" class="dsq-comment-message">Good Morning!<br>I was listening to my iPod while taking a walk and a song came on that immediately brought to mind Michelle and Barack.  <br><br>Black Coffee by Heavy D and The Boyz.  <br>...Black coffee, no sugar, no cream, that\'s the kinda girl I need down with my team...<br>A totally funky and uplifting song.<br><br>As a few of JJP\'s regulars post video links, I hope someone can track this one down.<br><br>Be Blessed,<br><br>Rejeana</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2217408">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217408" class="dsq-comment-message">no sugar?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2218550">Texas_Girl_in_LA</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2218550" class="dsq-comment-message">Here\'s the video. <br><br>Commercial in the beginning...so hang for a sec. <br><br><a href=http://music.aol.com/video/black-coffee/heavy-d-and-the-boyz/1449044 rel="nofollow">Black Coffee-Heavy D</a href> no longer heavy,btw</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2216665" href="http://blog.evavegadiversity.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">evita</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2216665" class="dsq-comment-message">Anyone see Biden on Meet the Press?<br><br>LOVED his response to a question on "when does life begin," proposed to him because he is a Catholic. He said "life begins for me at conception, but in a pluralistic society, I cannot determine that for for everyone because of my commitment for the separation between Church and State."<br><br>I\'m starting to develop an inappropriate fondness for Mr. Biden...</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2217107">lilytiger</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217107" class="dsq-comment-message">You admire him for the content of his character, that\'s all good!<br><br>Heh</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2217186">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217186" class="dsq-comment-message">I saw that Evita. Biden gave a great answer...he said that his FAITH was his answer and that others FAITH do not beleive as his does, protestant, muslim and jews..may be just as devout but can differ based on their FAITH as to when life begins.  Ergo, he cannot challenge anyone on the basis of FAITH.<br><br>Excellent answer.  I really liked that he said that we should not criminalize abortions when that decision is private and based on individuals faith beliefs.<br><br>Which as you mentioned goes directly to separation of church and State. No church can impose their beliefs on the entire society.<br><br>I also liked how Biden said that the banking industry contributes only 2% to his total campaign contributions and that he is the poorest US Senator so no one can say that he is bought and paid for by the lobbyists in banking.  That was a great answer as well about his son Beau\'s job with MNBA being no more than he would have made as a graduate of Yale Law...as opposed to it being some pay-off to Biden as a US Senator.<br><br>Biden handled Brokaw well.<br><br>Obama handled Stepinfetchinopoulous well when asken about Palin, he flipped it back at George and told him he would wait for the media to ask Palin about her experience as CinC..lol lol lol....she won\'t even TALK to the press!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2217251">parker404</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217251" class="dsq-comment-message">His response was absolutely perfect.  During the entire interview, it was clear that Biden KNOWS the issues and actually cares about solving problems.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2217883">JJai</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217883" class="dsq-comment-message">that is completely logical. I could never understand why Barack answers as he does.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2218583">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2218583" class="dsq-comment-message">Biden was just all kinds of awesome! Brokaw tried his best to trip him up(particularly with the bankruptcy bill), but he was as smooth as a Chi-Town pimp!</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2216811" href="http://nquest2xl.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Nquest</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2216811" class="dsq-comment-message">George Stephanopolous is carrying McCain\'s water like he\'s an honorary Fox News \'journalist.\'  He wanted Obama to "admit he was wrong" about the surge but AT NO TIME have Republicans, Bush and McCain, included been heckled to admit they were wrong.<br><br>No.  Stephanopolous, etc. keep talking about mindless concepts of "victory" promoted by their Republican agenda setting politicians.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2216851">taritac</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2216851" class="dsq-comment-message">I was thinking the same thing. He is definitely carrying his water. I am sick of Stephanopoulus. I think he has made it his personal mission to see McCain enter the White House. The Round Table guests just fawned over the Republican ticket and all but ignored Obama and Biden.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2217133">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217133" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes, they did fawn over the GOP ticket...except the one highlight was when David Brooke actually called Palin TRAILER TRASH!!..I could not beleive he repeated what he had received in his emails...I did not ever think I would hear someone on a major news program upchuck that large numbers of people consider TRAILER TRASH.  <br><br>As far as for Obama\'s interview.  Barack needs to STOP being conversational!!<br>He needs to develop talking points and stick to them.  Especially when it came to that quesion on McCain voting 90% with Bush being flipped into "Barry" u voted 97% with your party.  I wanted to jump through the TV when Obama said George you are trying to CONFLATE 2 different things.  STOP IT!!!   The masses do not understand the term CONFLATE!!<br><br>Break it the phuck down Barack,...don\'t use LARGE uncommon words. Say simply he is SPINNING the question!!  People understand that.  Tell them that meant you OPPOSED Bush 97% of the time UNLIKE McCain who AGREED with Bush 90% of the time!!  Geez!!   ....Then enumerated what you OPPOSED or I should say LIST it...Obama is suppose to RUN OVER  Stepinfetchinopolous at the point like a friggin PITBULL withOUT lipstick and say that meant you voted FOR Energy conservation, you voted FOR insuring Children, you voted FOR not giving up civil liberties, you voted FOR not torturing our enemies and you voted FOR medical care for our VETERANS...all the things McCain OPPOSED by voting WITH Bush!!<br><br>Barack is pissin me OFF.  And I was even angrier when he let Stepinfetchinopoulos get away with calling him BARRY...that was a complete DIS.<br><br>Obama also needs to learn how to spin this you were WRONG on the Surge and that he is OPPOSED to Victory.  What he needs to say is that  if the Surge is working why are we STILL there?  Why are the troops not coming home George?  If the Surge WORKED and we have VICTORY why the hell does McCain say the troops can\'t come home?  <br><br>Then ...he can go into his  2 word answer...because in 2 words George MISSION UNACCOMPLISHED!!..Those 2 words FORCE additional inquiry.<br><br>Dayum...how come Obama has not figured out how to give a simplistic  answer and MAKE them DEMAND detail!.  When you simplify the answer and they do not hear what they want they are FORCED to DIGG Deeper...and thEN you get the opportunity to explain.  But first, you have to go on OFFENSE!<br>Make their asses scramble for pete\'s sake...make them ask & frame the question the way YOU need it in order to say what you want to convey.<br><br>Obama needs to start saying that McCAIN voted AGAINST new Energy plans for solar, wind and nuclear. McCain voted against that by voting with Bush but now he says he is FOR alternative Energy...when he has OPPOSED it. Force McCain to defend his record for pete\'s sake.  <br><br>Obama needs to say that Change we can believe in..means  more jobs, more bridges, more schools and more tax cuts for the middle class....while McCain will maintain the status quo..that is more of the SAME change that McCain wants to call Change.  <br><br>Obama needs to hit HARDER.  He also needs to run on Clinton\'s economic record. He needs to show that it was the DEMOCRATS that brought prosperity and the BUSHES that brought recession and outsourcing.  He needs to say that it was the DEMOCRATS who brought 100 Million jobs under Clinton and Bush who LOSS 3.5Million jobs.  He needs to say that it was the DEMOCRATS who build a 3 TRILLION dollar SURPLUS and the GOP and Bush who brought us a 3 BILLION and growing defecit.<br><br>It is now DEMOCRATS  vs. GOP...and Obama has a RECORD to run on!!<br><br>They do not...and McCain\'s 90% voting record proves he is not a reformer..he is not a maverick...he is a SIDEKICK!!<br><br>ARRRRGH...I am so madddd.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2217268">taritac</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217268" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m mad too!! When is he going to play the game??!! He\'s got to at this point. He needs to understand that no one wants to hear policy prescriptions at this point. The one thing that one of the talking heads said today (can\'t remember what show) is that NO ONE IS INTERESTED IN SOLUTIONS!!! They just want to know that you understand their problems. They don\'t understand the solutions. They want to be able to trust that you know the solution and they don\'t have to be involved.<br><br>God, I\'ve been praying all morning. Barack has got to find his ball sack and realize that these media people don\'t want anything more than to see him go down in flames.<br><br>Unfortunately, I think they\'ve got their knife, with Barack mistakenly sayng, "my Muslim faith." It\'s going to go viral, then the MSM will just <i>have</i> to cover it incessantly because people are talking about it. I am way worried.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2217361">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217361" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes. That was a MAJOR gaffe!!!  We need to organize prayer chains across the country.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2217886">taritac</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217886" class="dsq-comment-message">I have been trying to plant plants in my tiny garden and just praying and worrying the entire time. I finally couldn\'t take it anymore and had to come here to release some of my anxiety.<br><br>Could someone please slap me, shake me, and tell me to snap out of it? Craig? MsMartin? Truthseeker? <i>ANYONE</i>???!!!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2218042">devessel</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2218042" class="dsq-comment-message">taritac:<br><br>all is well.<br>inhale deeply,<br>hold it, and exhale.<br><br><br>be still. and know that you are among a legion of voices with the same prayer.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2218712" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2218712" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2218712">taritac</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2218712" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2218712" class="dsq-comment-message">Thank you. I\'m doing that right now.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2220078" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2220078" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2220078">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2220078" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2220078" class="dsq-comment-message">taritac:    WHEW!!!!       SLOW, SUSTAINED DEEP BREATHS!!   Really!!!     :&gt;)      :&gt;)      :&gt;)<br><br>Followed by PRAYER!!<br><br>And a "VIRTUAL HUG"!   :&gt;)      :&gt;)     :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2217484" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2217484" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2217484" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2217484" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217484" class="dsq-comment-message">Consider taking a chill pill.<br><br>Barack is playing the game his way, and is doing just fine.<br><br>As for the "gaffe", I\'m not worried about it at all. And I\'m the worrying kind.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2217645" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2217645" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2217645">Michelle</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2217645" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217645" class="dsq-comment-message">THANK YOU Craig.<br><br>You know how I feel about this kind of thing.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2217793" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2217793" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2217793">taritac</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2217793" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217793" class="dsq-comment-message">Well, I hope you are right, Craig. I am literally on the verge of tears.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2217838" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2217838" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2217838">JJai</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2217838" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217838" class="dsq-comment-message">in what context did he say it?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2217872" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2217872" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2217872">taritac</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2217872" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217872" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href=http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2008_09/014604.php rel="nofollow">Video</a>.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2217972" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2217972" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2217972">JJai</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2217972" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217972" class="dsq-comment-message">thanks, Taritac for getting us the video. But, I thought he just said it by mistake or something when attempting to speak about his faith. This is a bit more palatable. I think he intended to say it in that way and didn\'t consider the consequences fully. He shouldn\'t have spoken in that way; nor chosen all of those $50 dollar  words. But, this won\'t stop ignorant folks form sending an e-mail just like ignorant folks I know sending pictures of Palin in that fake bikini picture. I think Barack may have just helped fortify McCain\'s base. But, like Craig I don\'t think this is something MSM will have to cover. But, I am praying with you and whiterosebuddy.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2218262" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2218262" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2218262">Teacher</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2218262" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2218262" class="dsq-comment-message">I could personally use a chill pill perscription. <br><br>A part of what is contributing to our alarmism is the continuous & blatantly biased spin in the media that we are subjected to. And as a news junkie, how can you avoid it? I\'m going to have to fire CNN once & for all. I may have to totally fast from tv, because no matter where you go there is someone offensive talking. We may be ODing on MSM lies and negativity.<br><br>That said, I enjoyed Fareed Zakaria\'s show today and his guest. I\'m trying to figure out if if there is any particular agenda in this show, and if so, what it is.<br><br>There is a lot of bad news today regarding issue #1. We\'re in a recession. All this negativity is having a bad influence on people. It\'s time to turn off the tv forreal.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2219659" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2219659">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2219659" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2219659" class="dsq-comment-message">Teacher you are sooooo riiiight!!<br><br>It is time for a news junkie timeout.  I had to take one during the primaries too..when HRC was throwing the kitchen sink and the media was defending Billiary.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2223166" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2223166" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2223166">Teacher</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2223166" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2223166" class="dsq-comment-message">I am tv free as I type these words. I just can\'t take it. It is putting me in the mood for intoxicants, and I am not one to intoxicate myself (wrong image for my kids). So when it gets to that, I have to realize it\'s time for a change. <br><br>Don\'t let them continue to assult your mind and soul. Turn it off, Whiterosebuddy.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2218748" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2218748">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2218748" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2218748" class="dsq-comment-message"><i><b>Unfortunately, I think they\'ve got their knife, with Barack mistakenly sayng, "my Muslim faith." </b></i><br><br>To his credit, ol\' Georgie boy immediately said, "You mean your Christian faith" and allowed Obama to correct himself. I don\'t think the right will be able to get away with this.<br><br>BTW, I thought he did well when Georgie questioned him about voting with his party, but I definitely see what you and whiterosebuddy mean about using simplistic language. Like Jay-Z said, <i>"I dumb down for my audience and double my dollars / they criticize me for it; but they all yell "holla!"</i></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2221733" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2221733">delfinajones</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2221733" class="dsq-comment-message">Sepia: Just got back--love the Jay-Z quote.Hope Barack is listening!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2217188" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2217188" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2217188">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2217188" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217188" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree.  He needs to get back that "enough!" attitude he had at the convention.  He better get ready for the debates.  He better fight with the truth and stop responding to bullshit and narrate the story himself.<br><br>MCCAIN IS A SIDEKICK.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2217204" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2217204" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2217204">delfinajones</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2217204" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217204" class="dsq-comment-message">Agree- he should not answer their question but use the time to make a statement he wants to make. Repugs are trained to do this.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2217707" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2217707" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2217707">Michelle</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2217707" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217707" class="dsq-comment-message">The Republicans raised a lot of energy with their lies and ugly last week. For some people, including myself, this situation is literally painful to experience. This pain, this tension, this incoherent fury, this horror at what could happen with this election.<br><br>I could be wrong, but whiterosebuddy, your comment feels to me like an outpouring of pain and fury going in the WRONG direction.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2219648" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2219648">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2219648" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2219648" class="dsq-comment-message">Michelle,<br>I can accept that. You are probably right. I am upset and frustrated and just plain pissed about this Palin and the media black out as well as their complicity in allowing mcCain\'s lies to go un rebutted.<br><br>I have no hope that the media will do their jobs so all I can do is exhort Obama to kick some butt!!<br><br>I do think it is needed though, cause I think lots of folks feel like me AND I think the folks he has to reach now..want to see some fire in his belly.<br><br>I apologize though to all the supporters here @ J&J  having to listen to me vent.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2217117" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2217117">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2217117" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217117" class="dsq-comment-message">What did you guys think he was going to do considering the ABC debate that he moderated with Gibson where they talked about everything but the real issues for the first half of the debate?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2217132" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2217132" href="http://nquest2xl.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Nquest</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2217132" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217132" class="dsq-comment-message">Let me add that AT NO TIME has the media interrogated McCain and demanded that he admit he is wrong for being against time tables for withdrawal.<br><br>So McCain hasn\'t had to "ADMIT HE WAS WRONG" about the war to begin with and doesn\'t have to say those three words, "I was wrong" that they want to con Obama into saying just so they can use it against him.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2217784" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2217784">taritac</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2217784" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217784" class="dsq-comment-message">That\'s right, Nquest. Obama should have turned it right around on him and made that point about McCain.<br><br>The more I think about this, the more anxious I\'m getting. Obama should have spent all last week retooling his campaign for the post-convention run up to the election. Instead he sounds the same. <br><br>GET MAD, BARACK!!!!<br><br>How can we get this message to him?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2218544" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2218544">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2218544" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2218544" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree. I\'m sick of all this talk about surge as if that was the FIRST and ONLY tactic that was used. These talking heads and "journalists" completely forget that we were also PAYING folks not to attack, so what happens when the money runs out?<br><br>BTW, our soldiers are still being killed in Iraq, but the surge is working. Riiiight.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2216854" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2216854">djchefron</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2216854" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2216854" class="dsq-comment-message">Release Sarah Palin to Journalists! <br><a href="http://www.petitiononline.com/B9AE83R/petition.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.petitiononline.com/B9AE83R/petition....</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2216996" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2216996">taritac</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2216996" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2216996" class="dsq-comment-message">I disagree with all the hand wringing over Palin. It is much better to ignore her. If we underestimate her and demand that she be brought before the press, expectations are lowered and if she doesn\'t break down and sob, then everyone will think she\'s great.<br><br>That\'s how it works. The media is in the bag for the Republicans, and will try their level best to make them look great and make us look weak.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2217328" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2217328">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2217328" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217328" class="dsq-comment-message">Yeah, that was the one question I completely agreed with how Obama answered George.<br><br>Hahaha, I laughed when George tried to get him to answer anything about Palin\'s qualifications, he threw it back at George and said he would let the media ask her those quesions..hahahahaha..knowing full well they can\'t, haven\'t and most likely aren\'t.<br><br>McCain is a sidekick and Palin is a Perpetrator....<br><br>obama and Biden need to get busy framing them both into short and sweet talking points.<br><br>Let me tell you why mcCain is a sidekick and not a maverick...this is how he voted.<br><br>Let me tell you why Palin is a perpetrating extremist...she believes in teaching creationism, she believes rapist and fathers can select whomever they want to be mothers including their own daughers.<br><br>Palin the pittbull needs to be demolished by Biden on the trail.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2217431" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2217431" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2217431">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2217431" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217431" class="dsq-comment-message">The Obama team are all on point today.  I watched several programs this morning and they were stating your points on why they are not mavericks and cited his voting record with specifics.  They noted Palin was an extremist (not in that specific term) and said why, they stated she lied on the bridge to nowhere, earmarks etc. and they stated clearly that they are completely aware that the McCain campaign prefers that the attention shift from issues to things that are not relevant.  <br><br>They were all on point.  It was a thing of beauty.  I hope they keep it up.  <br><br>So stay focused people.  Let us make this happen.<br><br>Go Obama/Biden/WE THE PEOPLE 08!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2216916" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2216916" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2216916">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2216916" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2216916" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert Gibbs handled business on Late Edition.  He did not let Wolf Shitzer and the republican surrogate talk over him though they tried really hard.  He ended it by saying the ethics violation investigation would bring out the truth about Sarah Palin.  He was good.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2217013" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2217013">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2217013" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217013" class="dsq-comment-message">Well, finally, the Democrats are bucking up.  I\'m pleased at what I\'ve seen today.  Barbara Boxer would not let Kay Hutchison get away with the republicans lies and spin.  She discussed McCains record on the minimum wage, the highway bill and the water bill.  <br><br>This is what they need to do.  Tell the truth about the issues and not be talked down</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2218519" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2218519">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2218519" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2218519" class="dsq-comment-message">What show was Boxer on?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2217226" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2217226">Trumystique</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2217226" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217226" class="dsq-comment-message">Interesting article <a href="http://www.alternet.org/story/95825/" rel="nofollow">http://www.alternet.org/story/95825/</a>  I Spent Years as a POW with John McCain, and His Finger Should Not Be Near the Red Button<br><br>One interesting excerpt:<br>I furthermore believe that having been a POW is no special qualification for being President of the United States. The two jobs are not the same, and POW experience is not, in my opinion, something I would look for in a presidential candidate...<br><br>I can verify that John has an infamous reputation for being a hot head. He has a quick and explosive temper that many have experienced first hand. Folks, quite honestly that is not the finger I want next to that red button.<br><br>It is also disappointing to see him take on and support Bush\'s war in Iraq, even stating we might be there for another 100 years. For me John represents the entrenched and bankrupt policies of Washington-as-usual. The past 7 years have proven to be disastrous for our country. And I believe John\'s views on war, foreign policy, economics, environment, health care, education, national infrastructure and other important areas are much the same as those of the Bush administration.<br><br>I\'m disappointed to see John represent himself politically in ways that are not accurate. He is not a moderate Republican. On some issues he is a maverick. But his voting record is far to the right. I fear for his nominations to our Supreme Court, and the consequent continuing loss of individual freedoms, especially regarding moral and religious issues. John is not a religious person, but he has taken every opportunity to ally himself with some really obnoxious and crazy fundamentalist ministers lately. I was also disappointed to see him cozy up to Bush because I know he hates that man. He disingenuously and famously put his arm around the guy, even after Bush had intensely disrespected him with lies and slander. So on these and many other instances, I don\'t see that John is the "straight talk express" he markets himself to be.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2217239" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2217239">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2217239" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217239" class="dsq-comment-message">MSNBC is airiing Obama\'s acceptance speech.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2217305" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2217305">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217305" class="dsq-comment-message">Good for them.  What did you think of his biography video?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2217351">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217351" class="dsq-comment-message">I didn\'t see it today and don\'t remember it from last week.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2217353">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217353" class="dsq-comment-message">I didn\'t see it today and don\'t remember it from last week.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2217354">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217354" class="dsq-comment-message">I didn\'t see it today and don\'t remember it from last week.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2217577">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217577" class="dsq-comment-message">Obama Biography<br><br>***Video*****<br><a href="http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=XL0KxjeKlrM" rel="nofollow">http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=XL0KxjeKlrM</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2223473">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2223473" class="dsq-comment-message">Thanks.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2220047">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2220047" class="dsq-comment-message">TruthSeeker:  SAW IT SEVERAL TIMES!!!   LOVED IT EVERY TIME!!!   :&gt;)      :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>Thanks for providing it!!   :&gt;)      :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2226356">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2226356" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m not getting email notifications.   No sweat, my pleasure.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2217385">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217385" class="dsq-comment-message">Did anyone see Blitzer with kyl and Kaine?  They were speaking about the economic mess we are in. Kyl said some crap about the Dems being responsible for deregulating the markets.<br><br>Isn\'t that completely false...wasn\'t it none other than Phil Gramm, McCain\'s economic advisor, who proposed this deregulation of the mortgate markets?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2217416">taritac</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217416" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes. They have been pushing deregulation for years. <br><br>They LIE and no one calls them on it. It is amazing to me that people will LIE, just blatantly LIE without compunction.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2218267">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2218267" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes, they do!  I thought I remembered that Phil Gramm and his legislation was at the bottom of the mortgage financial market meltdown, the energy Enron fiasco as well as the S&L debacle, that McCain was involved with ..recall the "Keating Five"? <br><br>This is the type of economic issue Obama needs to be hammering parTICularly with the foreclosure rates and mortage industry collapse.<br><br>Phil Gramm\'s economic advice and bills are behind it all.<br><br>Gramm\'s role as a banker and lobbyist is embarrassing to McCain, the greater harm is likely to be done by his economic advice. He and McCain have been friends since they were young congressional "foot soldiers in the Reagan revolution," as both like to say, and he is often touted (or was until lately) as a likely candidate for Treasury secretary should McCain win the White House. <br><br>Now that Gramm has resurfaced in national politics, he surely deserves to be arraigned for his long history of service to powerful interests, dating from the Enron scandal and beyond....... Gramm\'s career stands for the false promises of right-wing ideology and the troubles that such schemes, embodied in legislation, have repeatedly inflicted on us. <br>Back in the \'80s, Gramm smiled upon the abrupt deregulation of the savings-and-loan industry, described by his idol Ronald Reagan as America\'s opportunity to "hit the jackpot" of growth. He used his political clout to protect the Texas operators whose crooked machinations eventually helped to bankrupt the S&L industry. In fact, the S&L debacle cost taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars. ......<br><br>"I want to predict here tonight," he said on the evening that Clinton\'s budget passed in the spring of 1993, "that if we adopt this bill the American economy is going to get weaker and not stronger, the deficit four years from today will be higher than it is today and not lower ... When all is said and done, people will pay more taxes, the economy will create fewer jobs, the government will spend more money, and the American people will be worse off." <br><br>Is it necessary to point out how utterly wrong that prediction turned out to be? Most Americans did not pay more taxes, the economy created millions more jobs, the deficit was sharply reduced, and people were better off by every measure of economic progress, from productivity and profits to homeownership and reduced poverty. <br><br>But Gramm was not the kind of economist whose convictions are shaken by evidence, no matter how compelling. So obsessed with protecting bankers from government oversight was he that when Clinton tried to place stronger controls on terrorist money laundering, Gramm opposed even that measure as a "totalitarian" incursion. <br><br>Before he retired from the Senate in 2002, he wrote the Gramm-Bliley bill, an act broadly deregulating the financial industry -- and now blamed by many economists for the epidemic of speculation and fraud that has shaken the global economy. "<br><br>-----<br><br>This is the kind of stuff that Obama needs to hang around McCain\'s neck!!<br>Especially since Gramm is the one who called us a nation of whiners and is presently advising McCain on the economy...which McCain has said he himself knows nothing about\'<br><br>Obama needs to run on Clintons\'  ECONOMIC record!!  He needs to OWN the Democratic economic prosperity and hammer McCain with GRAMM!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2218304">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2218304" class="dsq-comment-message">Gramm who is McCain\'s economic advisor is a HUGE problem!!<br><br>Obama needs to run on Clintons ECONOMIC record. He needs to OWN the Democratic record of prosperity and the GOP horrible economic record.<br><br>The record shows that Gramm was the architect of the present financial markets meltdown, the energy ENRON collaspe as well as the S&L debacle in the 80s with the Keating FIVe which McCain was part of. Obama needs to start hammering home these messages:<br><br>Gramm\'s role as a banker and lobbyist is embarrassing to McCain, the greater harm is likely to be done by his economic advice. He and McCain have been friends since they were young congressional "foot soldiers in the Reagan revolution," as both like to say, and he is often touted (or was until lately) as a likely candidate for Treasury secretary should McCain win the White House. <br><br>Now that Gramm has resurfaced in national politics, he surely deserves to be arraigned for his long history of service to powerful interests, dating from the Enron scandal and beyond. But for most Americans, the dubious connections of McCain\'s lobbying pals, including Gramm, should be less worrisome than the likely results of yet another four years of Republican economic nostrums. Gramm\'s career stands for the false promises of right-wing ideology and the troubles that such schemes, embodied in legislation, have repeatedly inflicted on us. <br><br>The former Texas senator is less voluble these days than he used to be, perhaps unsurprisingly, but in years past he has boasted of his central role in key conservative legislation, especially in liberating major sectors of the economy and finance from public oversight and skewing taxation in favor of the wealthy. <br><br>So how has that worked out over the past few decades? <br><br>Back in the \'80s, Gramm smiled upon the abrupt deregulation of the savings-and-loan industry, described by his idol Ronald Reagan as America\'s opportunity to "hit the jackpot" of growth. He used his political clout to protect the Texas operators whose crooked machinations eventually helped to bankrupt the S&L industry. In fact, the S&L debacle cost taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars. <br><br>"I want to predict here tonight," he said on the evening that Clinton\'s budget passed in the spring of 1993, "that if we adopt this bill the American economy is going to get weaker and not stronger, the deficit four years from today will be higher than it is today and not lower ... When all is said and done, people will pay more taxes, the economy will create fewer jobs, the government will spend more money, and the American people will be worse off." <br><br>Is it necessary to point out how utterly wrong that prediction turned out to be? Most Americans did not pay more taxes, the economy created millions more jobs, the deficit was sharply reduced, and people were better off by every measure of economic progress, from productivity and profits to homeownership and reduced poverty. <br><br>But Gramm was not the kind of economist whose convictions are shaken by evidence, no matter how compelling. So obsessed with protecting bankers from government oversight was he that when Clinton tried to place stronger controls on terrorist money laundering, Gramm opposed even that measure as a "totalitarian" incursion. <br><br>Before he retired from the Senate in 2002, he wrote the Gramm-Bliley bill, an act broadly deregulating the financial industry -- and now blamed by many economists for the epidemic of speculation and fraud that has shaken the global economy. <br><br><a href="http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2008/05/30/mccain_gramm/" rel="nofollow">http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2008/05/30...</a><br><br>Hell if Gramm is focused on we might even be able to hang terrorism financing around McCains \'country first\' neck, as well!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2219665" class="dsq-comment-message">The Enron debacle was a matter of deregulation in the commodity markets and Gramm is guilty of it. <br>The real debacle of Enron is that everyone in that company was offered stock as part of the match as an employee. If you took stock instead of cash you received a larger dollar committment as stock. Damn near everybody in that company took the stock and then they really got stupid they committed their personal  contribution to Enron Stock. That is called no Diversification(all your eggs in one basket). When the stock collapsed because of the scandal of cooking their books people lost big time. Worse they could not sell the stock because of the rules.<br><br>If you have an IRA, SEP,  KEOGH anything that is called qualified money you have to spread it around the asset classes you are offered. It does effect your return because the costs of holding multiple account is costly until you reach a given dollar level. BUT IT PROTECTS YOUR ASS FROM A TOTAL MELTDOWN OF ONE ASST CLASS.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2219621">RobM</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2219621" class="dsq-comment-message">Hate to disappoint on this but they are all so knee deep in this fiasco they should all be taken out and shot. You are poor and all of a sudden you can buy a house w/ no proof of income, no credit check and no downpayment. This offer is made on National Television  during your favorite program. Yet next to no one goes HUH?!!!!<br><br>As to Phil Gramm and deregulation: He wanted everything deregulated. It is his hands and his wife\'s Wendy(as head of the CFTC) whom were most effective in the commodity pits.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2219741" class="dsq-comment-message">Did you personally buy a house with no down payment, credit check or proof of income? I don\'t know anyone who did, even people in the real estate industry. I know people who were approved but whose interest rates were astronomical due to their credit rating. I saw people who weren\'t denied, but who were reemed by predatory lending and paying 23% interest on their loans when others were paying 5%. They didn\'t have to come up with 10-20% down payment, but they had to pay the closing costs & other miscellaneous fees, so you still need to have $5-10 grand on hand just to do that.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2219987">jelana</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2219987" class="dsq-comment-message">I have a friend who is a realtor and she told me about this a year and a half ago.--no credit check, no income verification, no down payment.  The loans were being made to Somalians and Mexicans here in Ohio.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2217895">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217895" class="dsq-comment-message"><b>Palin\'s "Biggest Project" As Mayor: A Hockey Rink With Legal Troubles</b><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/07/palins-biggest-project-as_n_124596.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/07/palins...</a><br><blockquote><i>The biggest project that Sarah Palin undertook as mayor of this small town was an indoor sports complex, where locals played hockey, soccer, and basketball, especially during the long, dark Alaskan winters.<br><br>The only catch was that the city began building roads and installing utilities for the project before it had unchallenged title to the land. The misstep led to years of litigation and at least $1.3 million in extra costs for a small municipality with a small budget. What was to be Ms. Palin\'s legacy has turned into a financial mess that continues to plague Wasilla.<br><br>"It\'s too bad that the city of Wasilla didn\'t do their homework and secure the land before they began construction," said Kathy Wells, a longtime activist here. "She was not your ceremonial mayor; she was in charge of running the city. So it was her job to make sure things were done correctly."</i></blockquote></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217922" class="dsq-comment-message"><b>Obama Campaign: 49,000 New Voters in VA in August</b><br><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/6/163110/9871" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/6/1631...</a><br><blockquote><i>This is why the work on the ground in terms of registration is so important: in August alone, the Obama campaign registered 49,000 new voters in Virginia:<br><br>State election officials told the campaign Friday that 49,000 new voters signed up in August, a sharp increase from the 36,500 who signed up in July and the 28,000 who registered in June.<br><br>The goal of the Obama campaign was 150,000 total by the time the October 5th deadline rolls around, which leaves one month to get the remaining 36,500. Hats off to all VA Democrats who must have been working so hard on this.</i></blockquote></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2218815">Anderkoo</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2218815" class="dsq-comment-message">Anyone here from Virginia? STANDING OVATION! GOTV!!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2219988" class="dsq-comment-message">Anderkoo:  Use ta live in Virginia about 30 years ago!   Does that count??   :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>Just Kidding!!    :&gt;)      :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2217965">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217965" class="dsq-comment-message"><b>Palin and McCain’s Shotgun Marriage</b><br><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/opinion/07rich.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/opinion/07ric...</a><br><blockquote><i>As is nakedly evident, the speech’s central argument, that the 72-year-old McCain will magically morph into a powerful change agent as president, is a non sequitur. In his 26 years in Washington, most of it with a Republican in the White House and roughly half of it with Republicans in charge of Congress, he was better at lecturing his party about reform than leading a reform movement. G.O.P. corruption and governmental dysfunction only grew. So did his cynical flip-flops on the most destructive policies of the president who remained nameless Thursday night. (In the G.O.P., Bush love is now the second most popular love that dare not speak its name.)</i></blockquote></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2217998" class="dsq-comment-message"><b>Report: McCain Pushed Woman In A Wheelchair</b><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/07/report-mccain-pushed-woma_n_124615.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/07/report...</a><br><blockquote><i>Six people present have written statements describing what they saw. According to the accounts, McCain waved his hand to shoo away Jeannette Jenkins, whose cousin was last seen in South Vietnam in 1970, causing her to hit a wall.<br><br><br>As McCain continued walking, Jane Duke Gaylor, the mother of another missing serviceman, approached the senator. Gaylor, in a wheelchair equipped with portable oxygen, stretched her arms toward McCain.<br><br>"McCain stopped, glared at her, raised his left arm ready to strike her, composed himself and pushed the wheelchair away from him," according to Eleanor Apodaca, the sister of an Air Force captain missing since 1967.<br><br>McCain\'s staff wouldn\'t respond to requests for comment about specific incidents.</i></blockquote></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2218309">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2218309" class="dsq-comment-message"><b>Palin tanking with targeted voters</b><br><a href="http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/7/104458/6796/1001/589886" rel="nofollow">http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/7/104458/6...</a><br><blockquote><i>"I wanted Hillary to win so bad, but I saw Sarah, and it just didn\'t work for me," said Heckman, taking a break in the empty courtyard of J. Paul\'s restaurant in a downtown struggling to revive. "I have no retirement. Obama understands it\'s the economy. He knows how we live." </i></blockquote></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2219565" class="dsq-comment-message">this was a great story. I enjoyed it.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2218402" class="dsq-comment-message"><b>Dear Barack: When They Lie, Call Them Liars</b><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-almond/dear-barack-when-they-lie_b_124621.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-almond/dear...</a><br><blockquote><i>Dear Barack,<br><br>Next time someone asks what you think of Sarah Palin, please don\'t just call her a "skilled politician" with a "compelling biography." Call her a liar, too. Here\'s how that would work:</i></blockquote></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2218565">AnthonyMason</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2218565" class="dsq-comment-message">The other day I saw SF\'s mayor, Newson, speaking on behalf of Obama and I felt he did an excellent job.  We need more of him out there.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2218684" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2218684">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2218684" class="dsq-comment-message">I saw that too, and agree that Newsom was great.  He was poised, confident and polished.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2227250">Michelle</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2227250" class="dsq-comment-message">My opinion on this:<br><br>Senator Obama knows how to deal with truth and lies in this cultural context.<br><br>He knows.<br><br>Calling out liars as liars can lead to Energizer-Bunny-energy feedback loops. I know this from experience. <br><br>I believe -- from observation and from my gut -- that Senator Obama knows how to work with truth, and deal with lies. <br><br>I have never found a good way to call out lies -- they multiply and there is no accountability at all.<br><br>But I see that he does. I think he understands how to do this. Remember the primaries.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2218563" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2218563">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2218563" class="dsq-comment-message">Reflections on Palin from a Christian in Wasilla<br><a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008159242_webwasillamom04.html" rel="nofollow">http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationwor...</a><br><blockquote><i>Considering that the Palin family includes four minors and that the income from either Palin parent would support the family, is this the position of evangelical Christians — for both parents to choose demanding jobs that require frequent and extended absences from home? Up until now, Dobson would have criticized that lifestyle. Now, he calls it a "personal matter."</i></blockquote></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2219423">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2219423" class="dsq-comment-message">****VIDEO****<br><b>Sarah Palin\'s Churches and The Third Wave: New Video Documentary</b><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-wilson/sarah-palins-churches-and_b_124611.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-wilson/sara...</a><br><blockquote><i>Sarah Palin\'s churches are actively involved in a resurgent movement that was declared heretical by the Assemblies of God in 1949. This is the same \'Spiritual Warfare\' movement that was featured in the award winning movie, "Jesus Camp," which showed young children being trained to do battle for the Lord. At least three of four of Palin\'s churches are involved with major organizations and leaders of this movement, which is referred to as The Third Wave of the Holy Spirit or the New Apostolic Reformation. The movement is training a young "Joel\'s Army" to take dominion over the United States and the world.</i></blockquote><br>...Scared yet?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2224181">taritac</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2224181" class="dsq-comment-message">This is ridiculous. And no one is picking up on this. This goes beyond crazy preachers. This is a crazy ideology, a crazy movement, and antithetical to the principles of the US Constitution.<br><br>MEDIA, WHERE ARE YOU??!!!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2224410">delfinajones</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2224410" class="dsq-comment-message">Sleeping with the Republicans...</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2219553">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2219553" class="dsq-comment-message">Guess Who\'s COming To Dinner?<br><br>From <a href="http://Politicalinaction.com" rel="nofollow">Politicalinaction.com</a><br><br><i>September 7, 2008<br>Obama and Bill Clinton To Have Dinner Thursday <br><br>The worst thing the McCain campaign could have done was unite the Clintons and Obama. He did that by selecting Sarah Palin. The Clintons will be damned before they let another woman steal Hillary\'s birth right. Bill Clinton invited Obama to dinner on 9/11, Thursday night, after Obama meets with McCain at their joint appearance.</i><br><br>Ah, to be a fly on the wall at THAT dinner...LOL</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2219594" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2219594">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2219594" class="dsq-comment-message"><blockquote><i>Ah, to be a fly on the wall at THAT dinner...</i></blockquote><br><br>Yes, indeed.  Lets hope they do some strategizing...although, the numbers don\'t work in McCain\'s favour.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2219921">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2219921" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:   Heck!   I\'ll go for broke and try being the "fly in the soup!"   And if it is cream of mushroom, I\'d fly myself UNDER a chunk of a mushroom piece.   Ain\'t got NO FEAR or SHAME IN MY GAME!!!      :&gt;)      :&gt;)      :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2220323" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2220323" class="dsq-comment-message">Me too.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2223215">Teacher</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2223215" class="dsq-comment-message">I hope Bill isn\'t going to be an asshole. He is so predatory and exploitive. If he can extract a pound of flesh, he will. I hope O has gotten enough rest before he goes into any meeting with Bill so that he has 100% discernment.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2219723">RobM</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2219723" class="dsq-comment-message">For people looking for info on the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac takeover details w/ links:<br><a href="http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2008/09/gse-takeover-ov.html" rel="nofollow">http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2008/09/...</a></div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2220378" href="http://blog.evavegadiversity.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">evita</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2220378" class="dsq-comment-message">Sarah Palin agrees to her first interview- with Charles Gibson of ABC News.<br><br><a href="http://news.aol.com/elections/article/palin-agrees-to-interview-with-abc/163821?icid=100214839x1209080729x1200524845" rel="nofollow">http://news.aol.com/elections/article/palin-agr...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2221667">angee</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2221667" class="dsq-comment-message">miss sarah has been successful in infiltrating the gop. That is the mission of AIP, to infiltrate major political parties.<br><br>Check out this link from a AIP meeting.<br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NK2sFJebGc" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NK2sFJebGc</a><br><br>miss sarah has denied being a member. This is the most solid proof that she was. Let\'s make sure that MSM put this on blast.<br><br>For those not familiar, AIP is Alaska Independent Party. Their mission is to secede from the USA and become an independent country. Their motto is Alaska First, which is in direct contradiction of mcsame\'s slogan "Country First." Now how patriotic is that?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2223762" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2223762" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2223762" class="dsq-comment-message">What\'s far worse, is that the AIP is an outgrowth of the Constitution Party, which seeks to rule the US as dominionists.<br><br>However you slice it, she\'s dangerous.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2225650">angee</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2225650" class="dsq-comment-message">Yep and we need to hold the MSM asses to the fire on this. Especially since mcsame is always questioning someone\'s patriotism.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2223671">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2223671" class="dsq-comment-message">It figures, he will go light on her just like he did McCain.  He said he didn\'t feel like he had to ask McCain about the pregnancy or her husband\'s affiliation with the AIP because it was out there.  (Has anybody ever heard such b.s.?)  I can think of a million questions he could have asked about those things.<br><br>Let us not forget it was Gibson who tried to make mince meat out of Obama at the ABC debate. His interview with Palin will be weak and complimentary for the repubs.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2223750" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2223750" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2223750" class="dsq-comment-message">Whatever it will be, it will be rehearsed.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2223997">taritac</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2223997" class="dsq-comment-message">A wise choice on the McCain camp\'s side. They know who\'s in the bag for them.<br><br>We have to start NOW telling Charles Gibson what questions he needs to ask. He can\'t get away with giving her a softball interview.<br><br><a href=http://abcnews.go.com/Site/page?id=3271346&cat=World%20News%20with%20Charles%20Gibson rel="nofollow">Contact Charles Gibson, World News Tonight</a>.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2224124">taritac</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2224124" class="dsq-comment-message">They have a 500 character limit. Here\'s what I sent:<br><i><blockquote>Re: Upcoming interview with Sarah Palin.<br><br>As VP, Palin may have to take over in a time of crisis. Ask her about her Bush-like method of  governing-- loyalty tests, hardline, right-wing ideology. Grill her about her "commander in chief" responsibilities with the ANG. Ask her about foreign policy positions. Make her give more than sound bites. Make her explain her lies about Obama\'s record during her acceptance speech. PLEASE REMEMBER YOUR DUTY TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.</i></blockquote><br><br>Please send your thoughts to Charles Gibson!!!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2223175">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2223175" class="dsq-comment-message">**VIDEO**  Obama appeared at the RNC!<br>Daily Kos<br>UPDATED BREAKING VIDEO - Obama appeared at the RNC! <br><a href="http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/7/18118/46765/597/590282" rel="nofollow">http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/7/18118/46...</a><br><br><br>Did you guys see the picture on Huffington\'s main page??....LOL</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2224157">taritac</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2224157" class="dsq-comment-message">Haha!!! That video was great. That picture too.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2226263">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2226263" class="dsq-comment-message">I swear, Obama should use that picture in ads!!!<br><br>hahaha.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2223352" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2223352">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2223352" class="dsq-comment-message">****FIND OUT IF YOU\'RE REGISTERED TO VOTE*****<br><a href="https://www.voteforchange.com/index_obama.php" rel="nofollow">https://www.voteforchange.com/index_obama.php</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2223941">taritac</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2223941" class="dsq-comment-message">Very cool tool. I wonder how they plan to roll it out to the masses. Lots of inner-city people won\'t have access to computers to check.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2226249" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2226249">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2226249" class="dsq-comment-message">I guess that\'s where the maligned community organizers come in....LOL. :-)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2223629">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2223629" class="dsq-comment-message">Obama has created a new online tool for voters, check it out. <a href="http://www.voteforchange.com" rel="nofollow">www.voteforchange.com</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2223811">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2223811" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  Sara Palin\'s Appeal To Working Class Women May Be Limited<br><a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/la-na-women7-2008sep07%2C0%2C5839377.story?track=rss" rel="nofollow">http://www.latimes.com/news/la-na-women7-2008se...</a><br><br><br>THIS IS A PART OF THE ARTICLE:<br>I wanted Hillary to win so bad, but I saw Sarah, and it just didn\'t work for me," said Heckman, taking a break in the empty courtyard of J. Paul\'s restaurant in a downtown struggling to revive. "I have no retirement. Obama understands it\'s the economy. He knows how we live."<br><br>Heckman, like many others in this former coal-mining town at the western foot of the Appalachians, is the type of voter that both presidential campaigns will target in the final two months. Polls show that working-class women have emerged as one of the most critical categories of swing voters at a time when McCain and Barack Obama have galvanized their party bases but still need more votes to win.<br><br><br>Palin, a little-known 44-year-old mother of five, burst onto the scene just days ago, presenting herself as the woman to finally shatter the glass ceiling cracked by the Democratic New York senator\'s historic candidacy.<br><br>But now, after a chaotic introductory week that sparked national debates on McCain\'s judgment, Palin\'s experience and even her teenage daughter\'s pregnancy, the initial signs are not entirely positive for the reinvigorated Republican ticket.<br><br>Interviews with some two dozen women here after Palin\'s convention speech found that these voters were not swayed by the fiery dramatic speeches or compelling personal biographies that marked both the Republican and Democratic conventions. Instead, they were thinking about the price of milk -- nearly $5 a gallon -- or the healthcare coverage that many working families here cannot afford.<br><br>Even if they admire Palin\'s attempt to juggle political ambition, an infant son with Down syndrome and a pregnant unwed daughter, these women say that maternal grit is not enough to win their votes.<br><br>Waitress Judy Artice, "Miss Judy," as she is known at Glisan\'s roadside diner, declared Palin "the perfect candidate" after watching her Wednesday speech. That said, Artice had already decided that her vote would go to the first candidate who mentioned gasoline prices.<br><br>"And -- I\'ll be danged -- it was Obama," Artice, 46, said between servings of liver and onions during the lunch rush.<br><br>Both campaigns have signaled that these blue-collar hamlets could be where the election will be decided, an assessment made even more likely when the nation\'s unemployment rate hit a five-year high in August.<br><br>McCain dominates among white men, and Obama, who would be the first black president, is all but sweeping the black vote, most polls show. That leaves white women, the so-called Clinton base, as one of the most sought-after voting groups left on the table.<br><br>Recent surveys suggest that Palin, who opposes abortion even in cases of rape or incest, is not necessarily poised to help McCain with moderate women. A National Journal/Hotline daily tracking poll released Friday found that 49% of male voters say Palin is prepared to be president but that only 41% of female voters think so.<br><br>But Republican strategists hope that Palin\'s middle-class roots, union-member husband and love of hunting will help her connect to rural and small-town folks in battleground states such as Pennsylvania.<br><br>This is, after all, a place where schools close on the opening day of deer hunting season, people are conflicted about abortion rights and racial bias still simmers.<br><br>Sara Taylor, former Bush White House political affairs director, described Palin as a "living, breathing replica of the middle class" who "connected with people in a way we haven\'t seen a national figure do in a long time."<br><br>And Uniontown was very much in the McCain campaign\'s sights throughout a convention that showcased Palin\'s small-town roots while portraying Obama, who lives in Chicago, as a big-city elitist.<br><br>Republican delegates and activists in the convention hall delighted in Palin\'s jabs at the Illinois senator, such as when she poked fun at the columned backdrop for Obama\'s stadium acceptance speech or mocked him as intent on "turning back the waters and healing the planet."<br><br>For many women here watching closely, though, that portion of Palin\'s speech was all they needed to hear.<br><br>My Comments:  The anecdotal data shows that some movement is being made toward the Obama Campaign!   At LEAST some people ARE LISTENING!!  [Beyond WATCHING his SKIN COLOR!!]    :&gt;)      :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2223820" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2223820" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2223820">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2223820" class="dsq-comment-message">Let the caging and vote suppression begin:<br><br>County In Virginia Issues "Erroneous," "Chilling" Press Release Regarding College Voters<br><a href="http://insidehighered.com/news/2008/09/03/voting" rel="nofollow">http://insidehighered.com/news/2008/09/03/voting</a><br><br>Nearly 600,000 Subject to Possible Caging in Ohio<br><a href="http://www.truthout.org/article/nearly-600000-voters-subject-possible-caging-ohio" rel="nofollow">http://www.truthout.org/article/nearly-600000-v...</a><br><br>Project Vote Report Accuses GOP of Decades of Voter Suppression<br><a href="http://www.alternet.org/rights/63574/" rel="nofollow">http://www.alternet.org/rights/63574/</a><br><br>Whitehouse Explains Caging: An ‘Especially Nefarious Voter Suppression Tactic’»<br><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/03/whitehouse-caging/" rel="nofollow">http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/03/whitehouse-...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2226371">nickwah22</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2226371" class="dsq-comment-message">I wonder what is being done about these illegal activities?<br><br>Dare I say <b>nothing</b></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2227217" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2227217" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2227217">Michelle</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2227217" class="dsq-comment-message">I just sent an email to Governor Tim Kaine about the Virginia situation:<br><br>From: [me]<br><br>Affiliation: Private Citizen<br>Subject: student voting: Montgomery County/Virginia Tech<br><br>Message:<br><br>Dear Gov. Kaine, <br><br>I just read this online article: <a href="http://insidehighered.com/news/2008/09/03/voting" rel="nofollow">http://insidehighered.com/news/2008/09/03/voting</a>.<br><br>I am very concerned about this situation and hope that you are working to prevent/correct any attempted voter suppression of young people in this and any other similar cases in Virginia. <br><br>Could you (aka a member of your staff) let me know what you and others in Virginia are doing to protect the voting rights of Virginia Tech students specifically -- and all Virginia voters, including young people, in general. <br><br>I have heard that you are committed to fair and clean elections in Virginia this November. Could you please inform and reassure me on this point? I would be very grateful. <br><br>Warmly, <br>[me]</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2227220">Michelle</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2227220" class="dsq-comment-message">(I should mention, I don\'t currently live in VA.)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2223991">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2223991" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  IKE\'s Floods Kill 58, Adds Insult To Haiti\'s Misery<br><br><a href="http://www.newsweek.com/id/157135" rel="nofollow">http://www.newsweek.com/id/157135</a><br><br>HEAD BOW TO ALL.   God Bless!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2224224">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2224224" class="dsq-comment-message">This comes under the heading  -   "And Then There Were 5" [Is that number SIGNIFICANT?  -as in KEATING??  :&gt;)     :&gt;)]<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/05/heart-van-halen-orleans-j_n_124264.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/05/heart-...</a><br><br>Seems as if 4 additional artists [plus their many song writers] are MIFFED that the Repugs used their SONGS during the Convention WITHOUT PERMISSION!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>I don\'t blame them!!  People couldn\'t CLAP or MOVE to the correct BEAT of the music!!  It must have been INSULTING!!     :&gt;)        :&gt;)        :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2226548" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2226548">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2226548" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  Thank you again for the referral to    <a href="http://www.FiveThirtyEight.com" rel="nofollow">www.FiveThirtyEight.com</a>  <br><br>I decided to re-post this link so that others will be encouraged to look at the tracking DATA.<br><br>If you wanted to start keeping an <strong>ACTION LIST</strong>, here is my contribution:<br><br>I serve as Voter Registration Facilitator in my church.  At lease 10 people have completed the application.  [church population  = 200 +/- ]  People from other churches have been notified of this service.<br><br>I will work the polls, again, on Nov. 4.<br><br>My children asked me what kind of "music" would I be using?!!!      :&gt;)       :&gt;)       :&gt;)<br><br>Hope this helps!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2219630">Kia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2219630" class="dsq-comment-message">Amazing docmentary on Sundance today:  Split:  A Divided Amerca directed by Kelly Nyks.  It examines the partisanship dominating America politics today.</div>\
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