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He said Obama was channelling FDR.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_20:02:48", "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": 2884298, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2885637": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "post a link", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_21:54:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2885601, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2885638": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "DIGG it, please:<br><a href=\"http://digg.com/music/Hey_Sarah_Palin_to_the_tune_of_Hey_There_Delilah\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://digg.com/music/Hey_Sarah_Palin_to_the_tu...</a>", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_21:54:50", "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": 2885409, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2882055": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "How 'bout the email that he read...I'm embarrassed to say that I am a total mess right now...Gosh, man.<br><br>He's gotta be our president. No ifs, no buts, no maybes...<br><br>Don't lose your nerve, he beseeches. Stand with me, he says. Yes, we will.<br><br>T.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_15:08:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "d6755b31010b50fc47eac9ee8b3bb319", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2882027, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2876424": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Amy Holmes is a goddamned idiot.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_00:55:33", "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}, "2886666": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "VAL:  <b>Yaaaaaaaa!!  :&gt;)</b>  <b>CONGRATULATIONS!!</b>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_23:46:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2882840, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2885133": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "stealing, when it rains it pours:http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2008/10/did-jpm-cash-ca.html#comments<br>Read the inbed article as well.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_20:59:55", "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": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2876431": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "SNL too funny<br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/04/tina-fey-as-sarah-palin-i_n_131964.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/04/tina-f...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_00:57:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "karlewis", "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}, "2880016": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Given how desperate the McCain campaign is and Tom Brokaw's antipathy to Obama.  I am increasingly uncomfortable with Tom Brokaw moderating the debate.  My fear is that the debate will be a repeat of the \"debate\"  ABC .  My fear that they will use citizens asking questions about Obama's patriotism and Rev. Wright even though they have nothing to do with the economy being in dire straits.  And we  already know that Brokaw and McCain are friends so there's more reason for Brokaw to be biased towards McCain since the Republican desperately needs a game changer. I raised that question at Daily Kos and some answered that Brokaw is a pro but we felt the same way with Gibson and look how that turned out.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_12:09:09", "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": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2884629": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "$10,000??? that's crazy! The nation is in your debt!<br><br>(How many people is that, btw?)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_20:04:38", "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": 2882840, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2876951": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  And now a word from Maher:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/04/the-good-news-is-palin-ca_n_131854.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/04/the-go...</a><br><b>Bill Maher Takes On Palin's Debate Performance</b><br><br><i>The good news is that Sarah Palin can complete a sentence...the bad news is that the rest of us have to listen to it, according to Bill Maher in his opening monologue on Friday night.<br><br>Maher also had mocking words for Rich Lowry, who thought Palin was 'man straightening.'<br><br>Here's video:</i><br><br>Good one!!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_02:53:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2876440": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "As my Mother would say,  God love him, but he's a raging maniac...<br><br>Saturday Nite Live VP debate skit<br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/04/tina-fey-as-sarah-palin-i_n_131964.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/04/tina-f...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_00:59:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2879513": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Sarah Palin is a bimbo for going out there wearing red stripper pumps and winking and blowing kisses at the debate.  She is a fool because she actually thinks she belongs in the Big Leagues when at best she belongs on the Company Softball League.<br><br>But she's not politically stupid and she knows that McCain will throw her under the bus if/when they lose.  She's only a small part of McCain's problem but she'll get 100% of the blame.  So she's going to start throwing McCain under the bus because she's looking forward to 2012.  She's the fresh new face of the GOP and she knows it.  Those crowds ain't coming for him, they're coming for her.  The only reason people are enthusiastic about McCain's candidacy is because of HER.<br><br>McCain's people know that, which is why they've already started throwing her under the bus.  McCain is not only running against Obama, he's running against his own running mate.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_11:06:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2879514": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/opinion/05dowd.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&oref=slogin\" rel=\"nofollow\">Maureen Dowd's Latest</a><br><br>This was her opening sentence:<br><br><i>I had hoped I was finally done with acting as an interpreter for politicians whose relationship with the English language was tumultuous.</i><br><br>BWA HA HA HA HA", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_11:06:35", "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": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2887173": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "GreenLady,<br><br>I know, I know! He is so fine!  Wow!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-06_00:46:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "8b4edfeff97a04858d7247b03c0d0fd8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2886800, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2878497": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I know I've been gone for a minute, busy week and all that. But, y'all <i>know</i> I have kept reading and keeping up with the jjp post!<br><br>The debate was actually frustrating for me to watch. I knew that Palin would do well enough. In fact, I was getting so fed up of people saying she wouldn't, that's exactly what the McPain camp want to encourage. I keep telling people, coming from Chicago, you can't get far in politics and be a fool or a saint. So:<br><br>Number One: <b>Don't look to Obama as a savior</b>. He himself is really good at calling on people to use their power of civic duty, and not to think he will solve all the problems by himself. It's one of the main reasons I support him, he encourages people to get involved and take ownership of the political process.<br><br>Number Two: Stop calling Palin a bimbo or a stupid fool. The woman is clearly out of her league, but she is <b>no</b> fool. You don't get as far as a governorship by flailing along on pure luck. She is a shrewd politician, who is now in way over her head. In fact, it's probably best that she be out here now, imagine if she had time to fine-tune her political muster, can you imagine this woman running for president in 2012 with enough experience in the political process to render her competent for playing the game, but as an unknown, </i>as opposed to us knowing in advance what she is really all about</i>. It is actually frightening.<br><br><b>But moving forward!</b> Here are some post I found about religion and whiteness and the election. I've been saying for the longest time we are in a special place in time where we can forge positive relationships with white evangelicals. The younger generation especially. They are starting to move in a more liberal direction, we must do all we can to encourage this. If I have learned nothing else in the past 16 years of following politics, is that we <b>must</b> forge alliances if we want to get anything done.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/blog/2008/10/question-for-social-conservati.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Question for Social Conservatives: What Do You Think of Sarah Palin?</a><br><br><a href =\"http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week1205/perspectives.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">PERSPECTIVES: Young Evangelicals and the Candidates</a><br><br><br>Gotta go get ready for church, have a great Sunday all!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_09:25:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "JunePearl", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2879523": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/opinion/05rich.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&oref=slogin\" rel=\"nofollow\">Frank Rich's Latest Column</a><br><br>I think I'd try and hug Frank Rich if I ever met him. He's been on point pretty much this entire election season.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_11:07:59", "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": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2886692": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>Remember what O said to McCain? ....If you don't stop lying about my record, I'll have to start telling the truth about yours...</i><br><br>Yes indeed I do! -- yet another reminder that Senator Obama knows words should relate to action, and uses them accordingly.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_23:49:39", "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": 2886607, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2884133": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The conflict in Iraq is still a problem on the horizon. Here is a chronicle on what needs to be done to leave: <a href=\"http://www.d-n-i.net/fcs/pdf/riccioni_support_our_troops.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.d-n-i.net/fcs/pdf/riccioni_support_o...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_19:09:30", "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}, "2880558": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "McCain and his campaign are just despicable.<br><br>I am personally tired of the media giving a \"pass\" to this man simply because he was a POW.  Don't get me wrong, I love our fellow  American military citizens-- -but it does not simply entitle you to the presidency of the United States.  Hell, even D.C. sniper John Allen Muhammed served in the Army and looked at how he turned out.<br><br>It is mind-boggling to me that John Mccain is considered a foreign policy guru when he has made considerable gaffes dealing with everything from policies to geography, dissing our NATO allies---and last week he even had the nerve to say he asks Gov. Palin for advice on foreign policy---that is too scary.<br><br>I am tired of him using this surge argument about Iraq.  Most Americans KNOW this was an unnecessary war that has led our nation and troops into a needless precarious situation.  Even Gen. Petraues says he would not use the word \"victory\" in describing progress in Iraq. I was thinking of an analogy the other day that I felt conveyed my feelings on Iraq----  You find yourself on trial for a DUI in which you kill a couple and the jury has a choice of convicting you of involuntary manlaughter or vehicular homicide.  The jury hands down the lesser of the 2 charges, involuntary manslaughter, and you breath a sigh of relief.  The problem is you still killed 2 people due to your reckless behavior....and even though you are relieved of the lighter sentence, you still can't consider that a \"victory\" because the lingering truth is that you ended the lives of 2 people who didin't deserve it.  Our armed forces need a Commander-in-chief who is not obsessed with war---diplomacy can work ----and we also need someone who will ensure that our military members are treated well when they come home.  John McCain has a disgusting record when it comes veterans legislation---and McCain with is military background has never served on the Veteran Affairs Committee.  I guess that explains why he feels increased education benefits, in the form of the new GI bill was too \"generous\" for our military members--he has never needed those additonal perks in life being the son of an Admiral and married to a multi-million dollar beer heiress.<br><br>McCain has also been given far too much credit for being \"tough\"---that he will stand up to world leaders.  McCain can't even handle the media, who have been too lightweight regarding his campaign IMO.   McCain canceled a CNN interview when Campbell Brown questioned Palin's qualifications.  He won't grant an interview to NBC for Gov. Palin because of commentators like Keith Olbermann who digs in his campaign ass and does the real truthtelling.  The McCain won't even respond to the Rachel Maddow Show.  HIs wife complains that the ladies from the \"VIew\" \"picked our bones\" when questioned about their consistent campaign strategy of deliberately lying on Obama.  He kicks Maureen Dowd off his campaign plane.  He accuses Mika, the New York Times, and virtually anyone who disagrees with them as being in the tank for Obama.  And most significantly, John McCain could not even look Obama in the eye, with his condescending attitude and disrespect displayed for all the world to see.<br><br>John McCain has embraced the same people who demonized him and his family in 2000.  Even hiring Tucker Eschew, one of the masterminds of the \"black baby smear\" to his campaign.  McCain doesn't stand for shyt----I would never associate with those who used my children as a weapon to discredit me--- John McCain is no maverick but a pushover who is willing to lose all decency to win an election.  And now I am one to believe that this mythical \"maverick\" that the media touted was only a persona--perhaps his break with the Republicans on certain issues was due to \"sour grapes\" he had with the Republican party after his defeat in 2000.  It is not a  coincidence that every issue that he supposedly \"broke away\" with  his party are issues that he has totally flip-flopped on---John McCain never stood for those issues in the first place.<br><br>And it is laughable  that McCain created the biggest celebrity of them all---Gov. Palin.   After she came along, he was finally able to draw larger crowds.  And like actresses, she sticks to the same script.  And like the Paris Hilton's of the world, she has to wink at the audience or do other outrageous antics to send her male wingnut admirers onto their sexual fantasy lands (because there is absolutely no reason a candidate has to wink at an audience during a debate)  And the American media has to reach out and demand   access but are denied just like fans catching a glimpse of their favorite singer backstage before being whisked away to their  dressing room.  And let us not forget how some celebrities get to evade their criminal behavior by hiring the best legal teams, just like the McCain campaign has taken over the investigation of Troopergate and the government of Alaska.<br><br>And most of all, let us look at the shadiness of Keating 5---John McCain's knee-deep involvement in political favoritism, lavish gifts, ---his wife's sweetheart business deals with Keating----and the scandal that cost taxpayers billions.  CIndy McCain and her theft and addiction to drugs behind he guise of her  charitable oraganization----why wasn't she forced to stand trial?  And then tried to malign the whistleblower.  Why was John McCain never held accountable for his lackluster performance as an aviator after it was proven he had a reputation for destroying aircraft---at least 3 times due to stalled aircraft---and was involved in at least 5 mishaps total.  In today's military, he would have been considered a liability and probably had his wings confiscated.  John Mccain and his notorious temper and erratic behavior are angerous for this country---PERIOD.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_13:24:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2879496": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Our campaign's preemptive strike. And it's pretty good.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y42RErUjfAc\" rel=\"nofollow\">This Year</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_11:04:16", "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": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2886358": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "DIGG it.<br><a href=\"http://digg.com/educational/Sarah_Palin_Supports_the_Aerial_Hunting_of_Wolves_2\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://digg.com/educational/Sarah_Palin_Support...</a>", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_23:12:06", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2885688, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2886709": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "JJai:  May God Bless and comfort the family!<br><br>We can send words of COMFORT on <a href=\"http://www.barackobama.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.barackobama.com</a>  [Now I'm going to check to see if it's org.}", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_23:51:36", "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": 2882867, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2880566": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Paul Begala discusses McCain's associations with Iran Contras, wingnuts, anti-Semites, and racists.<br><a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/5/11241/0293/672/620709\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/5/11241/0...</a><br><br>Digg it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_13:25:23", "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": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2876983": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "rikyrah:  O'Racist and Barney Frank :<br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/03/bill-oreilly-and-barney-f_n_131569.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/03/bill-o...</a><br><b>Bill O'Reilly and Barney Frank Face-Off Over Fannie and Freddie</b><br><br><i>Bill O'Reilly and Barney Frank faced off over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on Thursday night's \"O'Reilly Factor\" in one of the most heated \"Factor\" segments in recent memory.<br><br>O'Reilly, who has called for Frank's resignation as the chairman of the House Finance Committee, called Frank a \"coward\" and told him, \"Stop the B.S!\"<br><br>Frank didn't take O'Reilly's abuse lying down, fighting back, saying, \"Bill, here's the problem with going on your show. You start ranting. And the only way to respond is almost to look as boorish as you.\"<br><br>Watch (transcript below):</i><br><br><br>\"Almost as boorish as you!\"  LOL!!:&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_02:59:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2885688": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "This <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T85cOGc8L0\" rel=\"nofollow\">video</a> made me murderous. Absolutely murderous, I tell you. And I'm having trouble stopping crying.<br><br>Sarah Palin is cruel. <br><br>She must not be elected. She can't.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_22:01:19", "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": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2879546": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Town,<br><br>Your observations have been so on point for awhile now. But, all the hounds that McCain's people are keeping at bay in Alaska will be GONE, November 5th. And, she's going to have to deal with all the cockroaches folks have shone a light on in Alaska. <br><br>The knives are poised; they're only waiting for November 5th. And all the questions that everyone here and there have posed that they've been stonewalling on, will start to tumble out.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_11:10:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2879513, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2886204": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Quite honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if this were true.  The gov won't let them fail and that 700B is going to turn into trillions soon.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_22:55:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "nickwah22", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2885133, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2881090": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I just don't think  we need to waste our time dissecting their bullshit.<br><br>We've got 30 days to win an election. We need to be attacking THEM with soundbytes and getting our people out to vote.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_14:29:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2880845, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2887235": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Fire and brimstone....<br><br>New DNC Ad Criticizes McCain Over Negative Attack Ads (VIDEO)<br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/06/new-dnc-ad-criticizes-mcc_n_132113.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/06/new-dn...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-06_00:54:02", "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}, "2878533": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "What was even funnier (and kinda scary too) was the fact that most of what Fey said, was word for word what Palin said during the debates! Talk about about <i>plenty</i> of raw material! LOL!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_09:30:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "JunePearl", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2878330, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2882118": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Palin can't even quote one line from a Starbucks cup correctly...<br><br>Palin Misquotes Albright: \"Place In Hell Reserved For Women Who Don't Support Other Women\"<br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/05/palin-misquotes-albright_n_131967.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/05/palin-...</a><br><br>Albright's smankdown, I mean response:<br><br><i>\"Though I am flattered that Governor Palin has chosen to cite me as a source of wisdom, what I said had nothing to do with politics. This is yet another example of McCain and Palin distorting the truth, and all the more reason to remember that this campaign is not about gender, it is about which candidate has an agenda that will improve the lives of all Americans, including women. The truth is, if you care about the status of women in our society and in our troubled economy, the best choice by far is Obama-Biden.\"</i>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_15:16:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2885707": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "If the others don't work, this one does..<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DIc8jdra0o\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DIc8jdra0o</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_22:03:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "Lilytiger", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2885637, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2884689": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "best part TS, to piggyback on you:<br><br><br><i>I understand from a friend at a local official registration location that Kai did indeed show up - with about 50 of his friends in tow.  I actually started crying.  </i>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_20:11:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2884179, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2886226": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I LOL at the ' Holy Crap- there's white people wearing Obama shirts coming this way.'<br><br>HILARIOUS.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_22:57:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2885085, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2884179": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Wow...<br><br>Canvassing For Obama In Dallas, Texas<br><a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/5/12494/1977/623/620782\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/5/12494/1...</a><br><blockquote><i>My first impression -<br><br>I have been a very ignorant American.  I apologize to God and everyone in my country.  I have never seen living conditions as horrendous as some of these elderly people are living in.  Note to self - detachment is no longer an option - I will now be much much more involved in community issues.  <br><br>My second impression -<br><br>I have been going out every day for the past two weeks.  Early on, my canvassing partner and I ran into two young black men - bling, tattooes, etc.  I try not to be racist - but it was all I could do not to be scared to death.  They came up to us - and we introduced ourselves.  The one gentleman's name is Kai.  I asked Kai if he was registered to vote - he said No and we discussed how he could register.  He looked up at me - and I swear he was tearing up in his eyes - he said - \"You are the first white man who has ever spoken to me with respect in my life.  I appreciate all the work you are doing for Obama.\"  He then asked for more registration forms - he took about 100. </i></blockquote>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_19:13:51", "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": 9, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2883689": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "It's kind of like when your white coworker asks you how can you afford that car or how can you afford to live in that neighborhood, but doesn't give it a second thought if Brad and Biff have \"that car\" or live in \"that neighborhood.\"<br><br>You must be doing something SHADY.  Oh Noes!<br><br>LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_18:19:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2883633, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2880527": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Here's something Barak and the rest of us as we face these last few weeks of the campaign.  Powerful and inspiring lyrics.<br><br>Something Inside So Strong by Labi Siffre<br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otuwNwsqHmQ&feature=related\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otuwNwsqHmQ&feat...</a><br><br>Enjoy", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_13:19:39", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2891357": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "very welcome. that's my dude.  much peace.  h&f", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-06_08:01:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "22764620d6ee8135683d1faed6c5434d", "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": 2889538, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2880607": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Don't be afraid.<br><br>It's not going to work. <br><br>Let Brokaw try to hang him. Barack will fight back against the lynch mob and win.<br><br>Just watch.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_13:31:03", "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": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2880016, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2876512": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "TruthSeeker:  Amy Holmes' \"ringlets\" have sprung!!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_01:13:37", "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": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2876424, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2880609": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You better preach!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_13:31:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "ef6b300676d1702a1666b17cc6a7403f", "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": 2880558, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2876514": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yes it was!  I was laughing out loud. The guy playing Joe Biden had me rolling about his home town. No one good came out of it but him! Hilarious.<br><br>I loved Queen Latifah as Gwen Ifill.  Sure was promoting that book too! lol", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_01:14:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "8b4edfeff97a04858d7247b03c0d0fd8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2876431, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2885051": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "We have started on a path to save the economy. Here is a look at how we got here and all the players: <a href=\"http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2008/10/fannie-mae-and.html#more\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2008/10/...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_20:50:22", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2886244": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Nice story, I hope they get some volunteers out there election day to make sure people are voting and to drive folks to the polls", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_22:59:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "nickwah22", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2885085, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2886760": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": ".....", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_23:57:11", "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": 2884777, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2876521": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Amen!  WTF is wrong with her?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_01:15:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "8b4edfeff97a04858d7247b03c0d0fd8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2876424, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2887275": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "CTHU! I know, right?  They need to step back from the Starbucks!  Nothing but liquid crack!  It's a blizzard of articles and I'm getting a headache keeping up.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-06_00:59:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "freespiritbty", "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": 2887131, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2886764": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Craig,<br><br>No you didn't just blended the names...hhehe", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_23:58:05", "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": 2886560, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2879085": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Have no fear.<br><br>It's going to backfire.<br><br>BIG time.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_10:31:12", "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": 2878898, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2880701": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Say it again.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_13:42:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2880558, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2876531": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Rikyrah,<br><br>That pic is so moving! It can't get any more beautiful.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_01:19:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "8b4edfeff97a04858d7247b03c0d0fd8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2879081": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCx0J3NiABY\" rel=\"nofollow\">American Promise</a><br><br>Spread it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_10:30:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2876539": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "i stop by every day. and never leave a comment. but this photo (and the one of the young girl) have simply taken my heart. i just had to let you know how appreciated you are.<br><br>peace.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_01:20:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "afe244628416de772bb8ec32ab8ac499", "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}, "2886271": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I could only sit through 1 minute and 30 seconds of this... she is the devil.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_23:02:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "evita", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2885688, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2884737": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "this was funny.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_20:16:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2883935, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2882180": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "AP: Palin's Ayers Attack \"Racially Tinged\"<br>DOUGLASS K. DANIEL | October 5, 2008 02:40 PM EST |  <br><br>Once again Obama is being portrayed as un-American, not like the Joe six-packs that make up this country, and he hangs with terrorists.  But instead of the fringe groups sending out emails, Palin is using it as part of her stump speech.  Sigh.<br><br>I guess it's about to be open season on associations.  McCain better get ready.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/05/ap-palins-ayers-attack-ra_n_132008.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/05/ap-pal...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_15:23:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2879623": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "From Booman about Rich Lowry & Palin<br><br><i>Everyone's mocking Lowry, but I at least partially agree with him.  I described myself as stunned, which isn't that far from mesmerized. I had a tremendous amount of difficulty processing any meaning in what she was saying. Part of the reason for that was that she was speaking extraordinarily quickly and part of it was that she kept making unsignaled changes in direction. Part of it was because a lot of what she was saying was filler, and basically meaningless. But another big factor was that I couldn't believe my eyes. I couldn't believe that she was acting like a beauty contestant, and it stunned me almost insensate. I couldn't believe that John McCain had allowed this to happen. I still can't. So my sympathy goes out to Rich Lowry. He's now the butt of a joke. But, for me, those little starbursts in the living room were real. They came from my frying synapses.<br><br></i><br><br><a href=\"http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2008/10/4/0332/29321\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2008/10/4/03...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_11:20:00", "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": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2880137": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "My Obama Screensaver Collection is awesome thanks to the great pics posted on JJP.<br><br>DOES RACE TRUMP THE ECONOMY?<br><br>Apparently \"The Heartland of America\" believes it and McCain is so sure that if he gets the discussion back to Obama's skin color, he can win.  McCain isworking hard at turning the Obama discussion back to \"We don't really know him\" which translates to \"DON'T FORGET HE'S BLACK.\"<br><br> It has to be our hope that ones pocket book, the recession, gas prices, lost mortgages, lost jobs, lost retirements and  the $700B deficit economy would outweigh the issue of race. The sad part is that the issue of race may be more deeply entrenched than we realize. When race trumps people's bank account, it's a sad state of affairs in the USA.<br><br>What's unsaid on the race issue:  Although the discussion about the debate was on Queen Sarah, Biden was the real victor.  We don't talk about race much in this country but  if the minds of men could speak, this is what we would hear from majority voters:  \"I feel more comfortable now in voting for Obama with Biden at his side based on his performance at the debate.\" Biden delivers the vote and wins the minds of men.<br><br>The OCTOBER SURPRISE:  WILL RACE TRUMP THE ECONOMY?<br><br>Obama's unprecedented rise to power IS Divine Providence.  No weapon formed against him shall prosper, it won't work.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_12:25:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mythe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "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}, "2881162": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Out of touch, out of ideas,  and running out of time...LOL!<br><br>I love it!<br><br>Go Senator Obama...<br><br>T.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_14:37:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "d6755b31010b50fc47eac9ee8b3bb319", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2882071": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yes. He read that in Virginia as well I think.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_15:11:23", "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": 2882027, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2885772": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "What keeps being highlighted in all these diaries of white canvassers is that they are breaking through their own fears about black people because they believe enough in Obama. They wouldn't have the fearlessness to go into some of the neighborhoods so they would not have learned that we all are basically the same. We all want to be seen, treated with respect and not forgotten. <br><br>The country has already changed because of Obama. These experiences now over shadow the myths they had. <br><br>What a moment in time.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_22:11:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "Lilytiger", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2884179, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2884441": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That was my favorite diary in a long time.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_19:44:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2883935, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2877071": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  Fer sure!  He's just a gosh darn little sweetie pie!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_03:15:51", "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": 2876997, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2886800": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "rikyrah:  Trying to see if this pic of Mr. Obama will post!!<br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/politics/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/politics/</a><br><br><b> IT DID!   IT DID!!  </b><br><br>LAWD HA'MERCY!!!!    I will be SLEEPING in front of my \"AIR CONDITIONER!!<br><br>WHERE'S MY DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. CHURCH FAN!???  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-06_00:01:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2880659": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Standing up and applauding.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_13:37:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2879976, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2884633": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "hehe..<br><br>I just read that over at kos....really great story.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_20:05:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2884515, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2889370": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I live in Dallas and this is touching. There are more civic minded people here that the media gives them credit for.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-06_01:56:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "freespiritbty", "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": 2884689, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2886511": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I told y'all - ain't nobody going to jail for this woman. Ain't none of them mofos in Alaska got the name Scooter Libby:<br><br>BREAKING: Seven AK Employees to Honor Troopergate Subpoenas (UPDATED 2X)<br><br><a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/5/205555/524/268/621137\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/5/205555/...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_23:29:58", "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}, "2884764": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I love the story about the car. Barack is cheap....lol", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_20:18:48", "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": 2881999, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2876577": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "yep", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_01:28:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2876424, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2879139": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The Biden impersonation fell a little flat for me, but all the funny moments ya'll mentionoed were good.  The reason why I felt the Biden portion was a little flat is because despite what many MSM pundits said, Biden was SOLID in the debate, even his \"friendship\" with John McCain was not as heavily parodiable(?). Biden was the better of the two hands down. Of the two, Palin came off as the lesser knowledgable of the two...PERIOD. The best line of the skit for me was exactly what came out of the debate, when the Biden guy said \"Joe Biden is BETTER. THAN. THAT\". Most Americans agreed.<br>The McCain is my friend, but dangerous riffs were pretty funny too.<br><br>Tina Fey was great as always. Latifah was as beautiful as always. To my eyes, she made Ifill better than she was.<br><br>Basically, they had to go more out of their way to parody Biden. <br>I did like them \"calling\" Palin out for the \"Can I call you Joe\" bit. It's true that throughout the debate she only called him Joe once I think for that lame ass \"Say it isn't so Joe\" line.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_10:34:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "fd35c4322b63b2dab06baea3e23047cf", "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": 2876431, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2882929": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "My prayers are with the fam.<br><br>T.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_16:54:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "d6755b31010b50fc47eac9ee8b3bb319", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2882867, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2885288": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Fro everyone in Atlanta and elsewhere where no one had gasoline some answers: <a href=\"http://www.ajc.com/news/content/metro/stories/2008/10/05/gasanswers_1005.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.ajc.com/news/content/metro/stories/2...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_21:16:52", "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}, "2884777": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "What Truth posted was what got to me the most. The fact that a white man can admit his bigotry and still get on through it to support Barack and face down this big scary-looking Black man.<br><br>And that the big, scary-looking Black man could get respect for the first time in his life from a white man who worked through his bigotry.<br><br>That's what this campaign has made happen.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_20:20:06", "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": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2884689, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2876586": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "LOL at the wig on Queen Latifah, and pushing the book - hilarious.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_01:31:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2876514, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2883243": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "awesome! Good Job, Val!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_17:33:54", "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": 2882840, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2895025": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "150 people.  My birthday was last week so instead of a birthday party we/I hosted a fundraiser for Barack/Biden.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-06_12:56:22", "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": 2884629, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2886323": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Here are a couple of interesting sites paid for by the Obama campaign (according to the notes on the bottom of each site). I got to them first through a link from the recent Action Wire email about changing the subject that led to a page on the <a href=\"http://my.barackobama.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">my.barackobama.com</a> site (<a href=\"http://my.barackobama.com/offtopic\" rel=\"nofollow\">OffTopic -- here</a>). A link at the bottom led to the first site, and a link at the bottom of the Lobbyist page on that site led to the second:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.johnmccainrecord.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">JohnMcCainRecord.com: Three Things Every Voter Should Know About John McCain And: (lists issues)</a><br><br><a href=\"http://www.johnmccainrecord.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">McLOBBYIST.COM - John McCain and Sarah Palin: Bought and Sold To You By Lobbyists</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_23:08:05", "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": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2889399": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "FTFO!!!!!! <br><br>LAUGHING OUT LOUD", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-06_02:03:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "freespiritbty", "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": 2886635, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2883258": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "McCain keeps talking about his record, his record.... Well, here's a video that attacks the lie about Obama voting to raise taxes and a website that tells the truth about McCain's record:<br><br><a href=\"http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=tpIWbYs8sec\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=tpIWbYs8sec</a><br>Cool beat, and invites you to go to the website below:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.johnmccainrecord.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.johnmccainrecord.com/</a><br>Black and red colour scheme on the main page....Nazi chic.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_17:35:24", "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}, "2884298": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "London Calling: Is Obama the new FDR? Read here: <a href=\"http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/william_rees_mogg/article4887392.ece\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/column...</a><br><br>YES", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_19:29:38", "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": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2881214": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Let's not forget Barack went on Fox <b>twice</b>. He's constantly entering the lion's den. <br><br>I have no fear. Barack will fight,  he is use to fighting.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_14:44:04", "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": 2880607, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2883263": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/5/14622/7147/555/620842\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Guilt By Association Game</a><br><br>McCain-Palin are winning. Handsdown.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_17:35:56", "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}, "2886340": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Argh, I screwed up the second link -- it's really here:<br><br><a href=\"http://mclobbyist.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">McLOBBYIST.COM - John McCain and Sarah Palin: Bought and Sold To You By Lobbyists</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_23:09:46", "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": 3, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2886323, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2876613": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I loved her eye moments.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_01:38:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "Texas_Girl_in_LA", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2876586, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2887369": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  Co-signing!!  Ain't NO loyalty there!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-06_01:10:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2886511, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2879690": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  The Mudflats & the Anchorage Daily News give HER and Us the TRUTH about <b>her lack of receptivity in Alaska right NOW!</b><br><br>She cain't go back!!  :&gt;)<br><br>Obama-Biden '08!!!<br><br><br><br><br>Grabbin' my CHOIR ROBE  - for real!  :&gt;)  At choich ALL Day!  :&gt;)   L8R", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_11:28:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2879546, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2886348": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I have no words.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_23:10:43", "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": 2885688, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2879693": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "He needs the Pulitzer Prize for his election coverage.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_11:28:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2879523, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2879697": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This is for you, rikyrah:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/5/102537/780/724/620665\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sarah Palin palling around with secessionists</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_11:28:56", "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}, "2878678": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "By the way, dont forget  crap shooting gambling with industry lobbyist McCain. It seems that he forget to tell the IRS about his winnings.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_09:54:16", "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": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2876927, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2886607": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Remember what O said to McCain?  ....If you don't stop lying about my record, I'll have to start telling the truth about yours...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_23:39:49", "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": 2886393, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2879709": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That's so fucking awesome.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_11:29:46", "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": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2879623, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2886368": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "OBAMA'S GOT GAME!!<br><br>Obama Campaign Launches: <a href=\"http://keatingeconomics.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">keatingeconomics.com</a> !!!<br><a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/5/222047/945/192/621189\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/5/222047/...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_23:13:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2887393": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "freespiritbty:   LOL!!  Starbucks = liquid crack!!   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-06_01:13:30", "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": 2887275, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2883810": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You know this!!!<br><br>We need to figure out how to get this around. The fact is that MSM is <b>NOT</b> doing their job. No one is holding McCain accountable for this. We need to get this word out, Monie. Like our man says \"we are the ones we've been waiting for\".<br><br>BTW, I recently had a mental image of Obama's girls walking around the White House. It just made it that much more real. We're down to the wire, let's get 'em elected.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_18:32:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "JunePearl", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2880558, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2889443": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Freespirit,<br><br>Dallas,huh?  I've got family there!  The Color Purple is playing in Dallas and my cousins want me to come see it with them!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-06_02:12:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "8b4edfeff97a04858d7247b03c0d0fd8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2889370, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2884836": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The Rolling Stones article didn't need to be taken with a grain of salt.<br><br>That was real journalism.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_20:26:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2884515, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2887462": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  Just got an e-mail from the Obama Campaign.<br><br><i>Over the weekend, John McCain's top adviser announced their plan to stop engaging in a debate over the economy and \"turn the page\" to more direct, personal attacks on Barack Obama. <br><br>In the middle of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, they want to change the subject from the central question of this election. Perhaps because the policies McCain supported these past eight years and wants to continue are pretty hard to defend. <br><br>But it's not just McCain's role in the current crisis that they're avoiding. The backward economic philosophy and culture of corruption that helped create the current crisis are looking more and more like the other major financial crisis of our time. <br><br>During the savings and loan crisis of the late '80s and early '90s, McCain's political favors and aggressive support for deregulation put him at the center of the fall of Lincoln Savings and Loan, one of the largest in the country. More than 23,000 investors lost their savings. Overall, the savings and loan crisis required the federal government to bail out the savings of hundreds of thousands of families and ultimately cost American taxpayers $124 billion. <br><br>Sound familiar? <br><br>In that crisis, John McCain and his political patron, Charles Keating, played central roles that ultimately landed Keating in jail for fraud and McCain in front of the Senate Ethics Committee. The McCain campaign has tried to avoid talking about the scandal, but with so many parallels to the current crisis, McCain's Keating history is relevant and voters deserve to know the facts -- and see for themselves the pattern of poor judgment by John McCain. <br><br>So at noon Eastern on Monday, October 6th, we're releasing a 13-minute documentary about the scandal called \"Keating Economics: John McCain and the Making of a Financial Crisis\" -- it will be available at <a href=\"http://KeatingEconomics.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">KeatingEconomics.com</a>, along with background information that every voter should know.</i><br><br>Did they just say  <b>KEATING 5?</b>  HAHAHAHAHAH!!!  Love it!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-06_01:23:29", "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}, "2876646": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  OMG!!  Alaska just BAKED \"McAncient\"/The Gov.:<br><br><a href=\"http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/10/04/mccain-palin-rally-vs-obama-biden-rally-in-anchorage-the-blow-by-blow/#comment-46424\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/10/04/mccain...</a><br><b>McCain-Palin Rally vs Obama-Biden Rally In Anchorage:  The Blow By Blow</b><br><br><i>Once again, there were duelling rallies here in Anchorage today.   The McCain-Palin rally was held in the just-completed Denaina Convention Center in downtown Anchorage.  The Obama rally was held outside, just a couple blocks away, at the Delaney Park Strip, also in downtown Anchorage.<br><br>One would think that the Republican rally celebrating the hometown girl, in her very very red state would have drawn a huge crowd, and that the Obama rally would be a few brave intrepid souls with a couple signs shivering by the side of the road.  One would be <b>wrong.</b><br><br>The <b>Obama rally</b> was all set up and running when I arrived - tents, face painting, t-shirt sales, voter registration, postcard writing to swing states, a huge stage and sound system.  <b>By 1:00, there were more than a thousand people milling around with signs, kids, dogs and huge smiles.</b>  This was definitely a feel-good place.  Hundreds lined the roadside waving signs to appreciative honking motorists, and hundreds more milled around the tent area.  Anchorage mayoral candidate and former legislator Eric Croft got up and spoke, so did Kat Pustay who\u2019s heading up the Obama campaign in the state.  Then came Ethan Berkowitz, Democratic candidate for the U.S. House seat currently held by Don Young.  Ethan welcomed his \u201cfellow revolutionaries\u201d. The crowd went wild.<br><br>SKIP<br><br>I just had a feeling this rally wasn\u2019t going to have as big a crowd as the Obama rally, because the rally that was held for <b>Palin</b> herself, when she was in Anchorage a few weeks ago only had about 500 people show up.  But I walked into the room and I really was stunned.  I felt like I had entered an empty chair convention.  It was really bad.  I actually felt sorry for the organizers for a minute, before I snapped myself out of it.   <b>A head count yielded about 250-300 people.</b><br><br>(Photo gallery to come later tonight)</i><br><br><br>Just scrape me off the ceiling!!  :&gt;)  I love this information  -  from the \"HOME FOLKS!\"<br><br>They know what the \"real\" is!!  :&gt;)<br><br>Obama-Biden '08!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_01:49:34", "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": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2885351": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "It's such a small thing...helping someone to register; but, it meant so much!<br><br>There's a massive healing going on...   Who on earth saw this coming???!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_21:23:10", "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": 2884777, "depth": 3, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2884840": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "JunePearl, as it happens my wife organizes young Christians who are mostly white and mostly evangelical (but also a range of other cultures and Christian faiths) on social justice issues. She is absolutely seeing that change -- but most old-school liberals do NOT see it happening. It's been frustrating from her perspective trying to reach out to other groups -- there are some very strong stereotypes about white evangelicals that most blinds people to the potential. Would love to talk with you more about this if you are interested, drop me a line -- <a href=\"mailto:gene@anderkoo.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">gene@anderkoo.com</a>", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_20:26:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anderkoo", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2878497, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2884846": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Sarah Palin doesn't play dumb. She IS dumb.<br><br>All she knows how to do is wink.<br><br>Todd Palin is the governor of Alaska.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_20:27:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2884355, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2886386": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/5/223839/570/1020/606147\" rel=\"nofollow\">This Week With Barack Obama is up</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_23:14:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "icebergslim", "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}, "2886064": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thats just sad.  She is a murderer but yet stands so firmly against abortion and yet at the same time for capital punishment.<br><br>Someone needs to throw a paint can full of blood on her ass!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_22:37:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "nickwah22", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2885688, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2880757": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Val, that link you posted is such crap, why do we even bother to give it credibility by repeating the nonsense?<br><br>Supporters and donors to politicians have different views from those they support.<br><br>Perry isn't a part of Obama's official campaign.<br><br>There's no <i>there</i> there.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_13:49:08", "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": 6, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2879748, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2885879": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Where are the PETA people about this?!?!?!? They came out in droves over Mike Vick, what about this???  <br><br>That is abosultely AWFUL!!!!<br><br>She cannot get a heartbeat away from the Presidency, she CANT!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_22:21:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "49d04b8a7f93e756537c851b5e9755ea", "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": 2885688, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2886393": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Whoa! I can't see the video but just seeing that site up and ready to go -- that's excellent!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_23:15:41", "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": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2886368, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2880254": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "lol", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_12:40:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "8b4edfeff97a04858d7247b03c0d0fd8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2879756, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2884863": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "For everyone upset about capitalism here is one for you. A serious look at the tax code is in order:http://calculatedrisk.blogspot.com/2008/10/irs-tax-change-helps-wells-fargo.html", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_20:29:36", "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}, "2886400": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "lol....I just came to post <a href=\"http://keatingeconomics.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">keatingeconomics.com</a><br><br>I found it in a KOS diary.<br><br>Jack and Rikyrah have got to embed all these great sites.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_23:16:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2886340, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2884355": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Sarah Palin does not know what an Achilles Heel is!?<br><br>How do you get to be 44 years old, without ever once hearing about - reading about - or hearing a reference to the term \"Achilles Heel\"?   Even if you never read Greek Mythology...at some point in 44 years, you must have heard the term and wondered what it meant.  Or, at least gleaned the meaning of the term by the context in which it was used.<br><br>Is Sarah playing dumb to pander to the functionally illiterate and bigoted?  Or does she really not know what \"Achilles Heel\" means.   Both possibilities are equally abhorrent.<br><br>Scott Bateman's VP debate animations<br><a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/5/18852/4945/399/621006\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/5/18852/4...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_19:36:03", "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": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2879748": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Tyler Perry's Alleged Role As Union Buster May Be Obama Embarrassment<br><br><a href=\"http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/tyler-perrys-accused-role-as-union-buster-becomes-big-obama-embarrassment/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/tyler-per...</a><br><br><br>Yesterday I was going off when someone suggested that Obama is responsible for Tyler Perry and someone responded saying . . . . . everything isn't about Obama.  My response -- in John McCain's world.  Everything is about Obama especially if it comes from a black person.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_11:35:00", "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": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2880773": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Don't tell me after Gwen Ifill's bias was questioned you're going to turn around and question Brokaw's...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_13:51:27", "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": 2880016, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2885387": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I would ONLY give her a pass IF English was her second language.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_21:25:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "evita", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2884355, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2879756": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "He made his bed. And he's pissed he doesn't get to nail her in it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_11:36:12", "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": 2879513, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2887437": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Thanks for the treat, GreenLady!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-06_01:20:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "8b4edfeff97a04858d7247b03c0d0fd8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2887279, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2883342": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Some dumbazz on MSNBC flapped his trap asking \"how come Obama can't close the deal in Pennsylvania.\"  He apparently lives in the Bizarro world Palin does...", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_17:43:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "Nquest", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2882941, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2879763": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Rikyrah and all,<br>See a cute picture from Barack Obama's flickr of an event in Michigan. It a nice picture showing Barack with a couple of kids and what looks like ther Dad and Granpa. It's pretty cute.<br><br><br><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/barackobamadotcom/2911278912/in/set-72157607716229379/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.flickr.com/photos/barackobamadotcom/...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_11:37:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "JJai", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2882840": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Craig I hear you - btw yall we raised $10,000 today for Barack!!!  Yea Democrats.<br><br>Craig - you are preaching to the choir.  I said basically the same thing yesterday.  This post was a response to the person I had the discussion with yesterday.  My reaction - do what I can to help raise money for Barack and Joe - they will need every dime for the next few weeks to push back on this crap.<br><br>In the meanwhile - I have been making sure folks don't overreact - stick to the facts, not get side tracked because Craig -- we knew it was not going to be easy and we would have to fight to down to the last minute.  I said before - this race is not about just Barack or Joe.  It is about all of us.  So an insult to Barack or Joe is an insult to me and my family.  I refuse to take it.<br><br>I am ready and my intention is to get everyone I know fired up and ready to kick a*s on this nonsense.  It is not going to work this time.  I will be darned if I allow them to swiftboat us this year.  <br><br>Go Obama/Biden/We the People 08!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_16:44:33", "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": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2880757, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2889497": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "O is in straight up Justice League mode.  Arriving none too late, looking like fellow bro-man green lantern: <a href=\"http://blog.wired.com/geekdad/images/2008/02/28/galgljstewart.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://blog.wired.com/geekdad/images/2008/02/28...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-06_02:23:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "hustleandfloe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2886800, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2879771": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "this one, too<br><br><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/barackobamadotcom/2911278992/in/set-72157607716229379/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.flickr.com/photos/barackobamadotcom/...</a>", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_11:38:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "JJai", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2879763, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2886430": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "icebergslim:  THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH!!  I'm encouraged by these posts of yours!! :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_23:20:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2886386, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2876704": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  More lawsuits against \"The Gov.\":<br><br><a href=\"http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/546167.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/546167.html</a><br><b>Lawsuit Seeks To Preserve Government-Related Palin E-Mails</b><br><br><i>A critic of Gov. Sarah Palin is suing to try to force preservation of any government-related e-mails that Palin sent from private accounts.Andree McLeod, a former state worker, filed the lawsuit against Palin, the Republican vice presidential candidate, in Anchorage on Thursday. Palin's gubernatorial spokeswoman, Sharon Leighow, said Saturday she could not comment on pending litigation.<br><br>The hacking of Palin's private account is significant because Palin has sometimes used private e-mail accounts to conduct state business. Previously disclosed e-mails indicate her administration embraced Yahoo accounts as an alternative to government e-mail, which could possibly be released to the public under Alaska's Open Records Act.<br><br><b>\"Palin's decision to conduct state business in such an unprofessional and secretive manner suggests that her promise to have an ethical, open, honest and transparent administration is pure bogus,\" McLeod said in a statement Saturday.</b><br><br>\"Equally troubling is the fact that most of Palin's private e-mail accounts have recently been shut down,\" she said. \"I'm seeking the court's help by requesting them to tell the governor to obey Alaska's public record laws.\"</i><br><br>THERE IS MORE.<br><br>\"Whycome I'm a happy camper?  'cause the \"wheels\" are comin' off the \"STRAIGHT-TALK\" EXPRESS!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>Obama-Biden '08!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_02:05:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2885409": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "***Video****<br>VIRAL SONG: HEY SARAH PALIN<br><a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/5/201617/978/276/621113\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/5/201617/...</a><br><br>If the vid doesn't load fast enough...go to YouTube:<br><a href=\"http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=7DIc8jdra0o&feature=related\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=7DIc8jdra0o&featu...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_21:28:34", "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": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2886950": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Starbucks mocha??...I thought that was only for elitists?<br><br>Palin Misquotes Albright: \"Place In Hell Reserved For Women Who Don't Support Other Women\"<br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/05/palin-misquotes-albright_n_131967.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/05/palin-...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-06_00:17:53", "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}, "2884657": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The word is out: the new message is \"Out of touch.\"<br><br>Let's bring that one home", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_20:07:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anderkoo", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2879496, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2879272": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Aw. Poor things. When preachers have to preach politics from the pulpit, we're in a bad way. And that goes for those who support Barack as well.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_10:40:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2878348, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2882860": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "we were already questioning Brokaw when he falsified poll results in favor of McCain after the first Obama/McCain debate.  So he proved he was in fact biased.  Which was entirely different from Ifill who did nothing wrong.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_16:47:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2880773, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2889522": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "freespiritbty:  It's my \"HUMOR CENTER.  :&gt;)  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-06_02:27:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2889399, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2882867": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Jill Biden's mother has passed away.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_16:47:40", "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": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2885432": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "There is beauty in struggle and grace in honesty.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_21:30:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "evita", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2885351, "depth": 4, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2886197": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "McCain's been breaking the law since the 'loan' during his primary days. I say, <br><br>bring.it.on", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_22:53:51", "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": 2883396, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2879808": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I heard that Todd was going to testify?  Maybe the Palins figure they better clear up Troopergate NOW before the lions get to them on Nov. 5th.<br><br>Did you read the Mudflats account of the two different rallies?  They are tryiing to figure out how the mud got in the roads leading to the Obama rallies.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_11:41:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2879546, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2889538": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "hustleandfloe:  GREAT IMAGE!  :&gt;)  Annnnnd, it's GREEN!   My fav color!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>Thanks!  :&gt;)<br><br>Obama-Biden '08!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-06_02:32:29", "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": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2889497, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2883396": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/05/rnc-to-seek-audit-of-all-contributions-to-obama-campaign/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/05...</a><br><br>Republicans:  We demand an investigation into how dat n----r got all that money!  We know it had to be by shady means!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_17:50:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2885601": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "This is classic. Just saw it on another site. Go to youtube people and make it viral!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_21:49:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "Lilytiger", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2885409, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2879819": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "JJP - headed out to a fundraising drive with family and friends.  Trying to raise a sizeable donation for Obama/Biden -- I know they will need every help they can get for the next few weeks.<br><br>Talk to you later All -<br><br>Go Obama/Biden/We the People 08", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_11:43:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2880845": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "On Saturday's thread, it was brought up that John McCain's brother called Arlington  in Northern Virginia \"Communist Country\" because of what seems to be overwhelming support for Obama in that area.  It is interesting that he would use the term \"communist\" since Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was also labeled by his critics as a 'communist\" in an effort to discredit his movement.  To me, this has given me a clearer picture of why McCain was opposed to the King holiday and found himself  often supporting individuals like Richard Quinn and Evan Meacham who  were critical and opposed to Dr. King.   Make no mistake about it, McCain's brother's use of the term \"communist\" is no slip of the tongue----to me it is the same term many used as code for \"this black man has too much power\" during the era of King's rise as a civil rights leader.<br><br>Here's a couple things I found over at Color of Change about McCain's stance on MLK :<br>McCain\u2019s Contorted Position on Federal King Holiday <br><br>McCain Voted Against Creating Martin Luther King Holiday. In 1983, McCain voted against a motion to suspend the rules and pass a bill to designate the third Monday of every January as a federal holiday in honor of the late civil rights leader, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The motion passed 89-77. [HR 3706, Vote 289, 8/2/83; CQ 1983] <br><br>Arizona Governor Rescinded Martin Luther King Jr. Day. In 1987, One of newly elected Governor Evan Mecham\u2019s first acts in office was to rescind Arizona\u2019s recognition of the Martin Luther King Holiday. \u201cMecham strikes many voters as a simpleminded ideologue who is giving a bad name to the nation's second-fastest-growing state. After rescinding the Jan. 19 holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr., Mecham defended the use of the term \"pickaninnies\" for blacks.\u201d [Time 11/9/87]<br><br>McCain Said He Thought Governor Was Correct in His Decision According to the Huffington Post, \u201cIn 1983, McCain voted against passing a bill to designate the third Monday of every January as a federal holiday in honor of King. Four years later, then-Arizona Governor Evan Mecham rescinded Martin Luther King Day as a state holiday, saying it had been established through an illegal executive order by his Democratic predecessor. McCain said he thought Mecham was correct in his decision.\u201d [Sam Stein, Huffington Post, 4/1/08]<br><br>McCain: Wrong on Key Issues for People of Color <br>McCain Consistently Voted Against The Civil Rights Act Of 1990. In 1990, McCain voted against a bill designed to address employer discrimination at least 4 times. According to the Washington Post, the \u201cCivil Rights Act of 1990 is designed to overturn several recent Supreme Court rulings that made it much more difficult for individual employees to prove discrimination. The legislation, being fought by business, also would impose new penalties on employers convicted of job discrimination.\u201d [S 2104, Vote #304, 10/24/90; Vote #276, Vote #275, 10/16/90; Vote #161, 7/18/90; Washington Post, 7/9/90] <br><br><br>McCain Strategist Opposed King Holiday <br>McCain Defended Controversial Spokesman Richard Quinn, McCain's who called the MLK Holiday \"Vitriolic and Profane.\" Richard Quinn, was a South Carolina \"strategist\" for McCain in the 2000 campaign. In a Partisan View column, Richard Quinn wrote, \"King Day should have been rejected because its purpose is vitriolic and profane. By celebrating King as the incarnation of all they admire, they [black leaders] have chosen to glorify the histrionic rather than the heroic and by inference they spurned the brightest and the best among their own race. Ignoring the real heroes in our nation's life, the blacks have chosen a man who represents not their emancipation, not their sacrifices and bravery in service to their country; rather, they have chosen a man whose role in history was to lead his people into a perpetual dependence on the welfare state, a terrible bondage of body and soul.\u201d Quinn has also advocated electing David Duke, and sold T-Shirts through his magazine celebrating Abraham Lincoln\u2019s assassination. [Partisan View, Southern Partisan, Fall, 1983; Partisan View, Southern Partisan, Winter, 1989, PFAW Release, 2/17/00] [Spartanburg Herald-Journal, 12/23/05; Vanity Fair, 11/04] <br><br><br>McCain Defended Quinn as \u2018Respected\u2019 and a \u2018Fine Man.\u201d Despite Mr. Quinn\u2019s writings and history of racial insensitivity, McCain defended him as a \u2018respected\u2019 and \u2018fine man\u2019 and refused to fire him. [Associated Press, 2/18/00; New York Times, 2/8/00]", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_13:59:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2882905": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "T,<br><br><br>Great article. I love Barack & Michelle Obama! I can hardly wait until The Obamas move into the White House with Malia & Sasha!  Woo Hoo!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_16:51:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "8b4edfeff97a04858d7247b03c0d0fd8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2881999, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2879836": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I have a feeling there will be a few more speeches encouraging citizens to rise up over the next few weeks.<br><br>Love this one from Bruce Springsteen<br><br>Hello Philly,<br><br>I am glad to be here today for this voter registration drive and for Barack Obama, the next president of the United States.<br><br>I've spent 35 years writing about America, its people, and the meaning of the American Promise. The Promise that was handed down to us, right here in this city from our founding fathers, with one instruction: Do your best to make these things real: opportunity, equality, social and economic justice, a fair shake for all of our citizens, the American idea, as a positive influence, around the world for a more just and peaceful existence. These are the things that give our lives hope, shape, and meaning. They are the ties that bind us together and give us faith in our contract with one another.<br><br>I've spent most of my creative life measuring the distance between that American promise and American reality. For many Americans, who are today losing their jobs, their homes, seeing their retirement funds disappear, who have no healthcare, or who have been abandoned in our inner cities, the distance between that promise and that reality has never been greater or more painful.<br><br>I believe Senator Obama has taken the measure of that distance in his own life and in his work. I believe he understands, in his heart, the cost of that distance, in blood and suffering, in the lives of everyday Americans. I believe as president, he would work to restore that promise to so many of our fellow citizens who have justifiably lost faith in its meaning. After the disastrous administration of the past 8 years, we need someone to lead us in an American reclamation project. In my job, I travel the world, and occasionally play big stadiums, just like Senator Obama. I've continued to find, wherever I go, America remains a repository of people's hopes, possibilities, and desires, and that despite the terrible erosion to our standing around the world, accomplished by our recent administration, we remain, for many, a house of dreams. One thousand George Bushes and one thousand Dick Cheneys will never be able to tear that house down.<br><br>They will, however, be leaving office, dropping the national tragedies of Katrina, Iraq, and our financial crisis in our laps. Our sacred house of dreams has been abused, looted, and left in a terrible state of disrepair. It needs care; it needs saving, it needs defending against those who would sell it down the river for power or a quick buck. It needs strong arms, hearts, and minds. It needs someone with Senator Obama's understanding, temperateness, deliberativeness, maturity, compassion, toughness, and faith, to help us rebuild our house once again. But most importantly, it needs us. You and me. To build that house with the generosity that is at the heart of the American spirit. A house that is truer and big enough to contain the hopes and dreams of all of our fellow citizens. That is where our future lies. We will rise or fall as a people by our ability to accomplish this task. Now I don't know about you, but I want that dream back, I want my America back, I want my country back.<br><br>So now is the time to stand with Barack Obama and Joe Biden, roll up our sleeves, and come on up for the rising.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-springsteen/from-the-stage-at-the-vot_b_131966.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-springsteen...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_11:45:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2883935": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Laugh out loud funny diary....<br><br>Palin helping Obama/Biden Ticket in VA<br><a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/5/172332/034/406/620983\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/5/172332/...</a><br><blockquote><i>My neighbor must be really pissed today. Palin must have said something that got under his skin. The reason I say this is because after I posted my diary, I went to eat and saw him walk across the street to another neighbor with another McCain sign. These two talk frequently (I see them all the time) but my neighbor was gesturing at the McCain sign and was rather animated in whatever he was saying. Oh to be a fly on the wall</i></blockquote>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_18:47:57", "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}, "2886496": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "TruthSeeker:  Co-sign!!  <b>ANY ATHLETE KNOWS THIS TERM!!</b>  Most have injured it in some way?<br><br>Basketball \"star\" in college??<br><br>Oh!   Wait. . . . she went to <b>6 colleges in 5 years!</b>  Maybe they were \"just about to use the term\"  -Achilles Heel- and   OOOP!   she changed school!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)<br><br>I can't think of any other explanation!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_23:28:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2884355, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2884451": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I read a diary about an 89-year-old white man who Barack, whom he supports, FDR with a suntan.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_19:45:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2884298, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2879377": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'd love to meet Bill O'Racist on the street.<br><br>Y'all would have to raise money to get me outta jail.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_10:48:23", "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": 2876983, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2876779": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "uh oh.  did she have a michelle bernard moment?   she used to be kinda sensible.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_02:16:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "99bcec632769e483ead5faa515e84132", "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": 2876424, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2886375": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That was so cute and dead on.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_23:13:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "evita", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2885707, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2884464": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/10/democrats_to_raise_mccain_asso.php\" rel=\"nofollow\">Barack is Playing to Win</a><br><br><i>Democratic surrogates say they've been given the go-ahead from the Obama campaign to mention John McCain's associations with S&L kingpin Charles Keating and other historically tarnished creatures when asked about Obama's connection to ex-Weatherman William Ayers.<br><br>A senior Democrat who has had contact with Obama's high command points to Democratic strategist Paul Begala's comments on this morning's Meet the Press.<br><br>Begala noted that McCain once \"sat on the board of a very right wing organization,\" the U.S. Council for World Freedom, led by a retired Army Maj. General named John Singlaub. The Anti-Defamation League allegedly called the CWF's parent organization a gathering place for racists and anti-Semites.<br><br>Said Begala: \"Now, that's not John McCain. I don't think he is that. But, but, you know, the problem is that a lot of people know John McCain's record better than Governor Palin, and he does not want to play guilt by association or this thing could blow up in his face.\"<br></i>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_19:47:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2879976": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "from Buzzflash, explains why the MSM is favoring McCain and Palin.<br><br>\"By Any Measure, Sarah Palin is a Radical Political and Religious Extremist<br>Submitted by mark karlin on Sun, 10/05/2008 - 10:31am. EditorBlog <br>THE BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG<br><br>By Mark Karlin, Editor and Publisher of <a href=\"http://BuzzFlash.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">BuzzFlash.com</a><br><br>October 5, 2008<br><br>It\u2019s hard to believe that the corporate media is headlining Sarah Palin\u2019s warmed-over-from-the-primaries Sean Hannity smears against Obama. But then again, according to the site Think Progress, the Mainstream Media Stand To Receive $1.44 Billion From McCain\u2019s Tax Cuts. <br><br>While Palin, as the aerial presidential campaign wolf hunter, retreads disproven slander that Obama was somehow in league with an act committed by Bill Ayers when Palin was in the second grade -- so to speak -- and Obama was also in elementary school, the mainstream press ignores Palin\u2019s extremely radical ties to extremist political and religious movements.<br><br>The corporate media shot down the notion that Palin was affiliated and supportive of the Alaskan Independence (Secessionist) Party by accepting the McCain campaign excuse that she has always been a registered Republican. But then explain this video from this year \u2013 2008 \u2013 in which Governor Palin welcomes and praises the secessionist party during their convention in Fairbanks. Watch it. You can\u2019t wish reality away, although Palin is superb at trying to blink it away.<br><br>Also, you can support and be supportive or a member of the Alaskan Independence Party, as you would the John Birch Society (and there is a photo from the '90s of Palin with John Birch Society literature), without having to have them as your registered political party. That appears to be the route that Sarah and Todd Palin have taken. But you know that\u2019s just too \"subtle\" a distinction for the mainstream corporate press to grasp, so they rather recycle disproven slander against Obama than expose Palin\u2019s radical present, not just her fanatical past.<br><br>As we noted in a BuzzFlash headline this weekend: \"Palin Who Pals Around with the Alaska Independence (Secessionist) Party, Gets Blessed by a Nutcase Minister Who Protects Her from Witch Doctors, Listens to Speakers Who Believe Jews are Damned, Calls the Iraq War Divinely Inspired (and More of Unacceptable Anti-American and Extremist Beliefs and Behavior) is Now Following the McCain Effort to Reawaken Old Discredited Smears on Obama. Palin is Just a Rabid Pit Bull. Forget the Lipstick.\" And that\u2019s not even the half of her UnAmerican beliefs, not even a fifth of them.<br><br>But given the desperation of the McCain campaign because somehow \u2013 miraculously \u2013 reality has peaked through the crowds and many Americans are seeing the Grand Hypocrisy Party as the larcenous cabal that it is, Palin is being employed to resurrect the Obama slander that is only newsworthy because of the fact that the McCain campaign has run out of other lies to peddle.<br><br>Meanwhile, Palin \u2013 who is a believer in a renegade theology called \"The Third Wave\" that believes God has chosen certain people (her) to lead America into preparation for Armageddon, indeed that her ascension to the presidency is a prerequisite for End Times \u2013 is getting the kids gloves treatment from the national press (except for, unexpectedly, Katie Couric). Think of the billions of dollars that is spent on corporate news reporting and try to fathom that they covered the VP as a good \"performance\" on Palin\u2019s part, without dealing with her complete deficiency in offering any plan or vision for America\u2019s future. (Meanwhile, the \"snap polls\" that BuzzFlash received \u2013 admittedly unscientific \u2013 ALL showed that Biden won by at least 20% with the crucial Independent vote on every major issue.)<br><br>Remember that Palin was placed on the ticket, allegedly, because a rather secretive organization of far right evangelicals told the McCain campaign to appoint her V.P. or risk the formidable institutional support and get out the vote support of the Armageddon crowd. McCain, seeing that he evoked all the enthusiasm of road kill, relented.  This was the same group of radical evangelical \"leaders\" who anointed George W. Bush in a secret meeting (no media or taping equipment is allowed) in 2000.  Remember, they didn't choose to McCain; they chose to back Palin with the hope that she will soon succeed McCain.<br><br>Since then, Sarah Palin \u2013 in her own language of \"Crack Barrel\" expressions, scripted campaign slogans, and dropped sentences \u2013 has been running not for VP but for president.<br><br>As Frank Rich implies in another scintillating column on October 5, when the Governor accidentally said recently that she was running on the Palin-McCain ticket, she wasn\u2019t kidding. Palin has said several things that contradict the McCain campaign message \u2013 and they don\u2019t seem intentional to try and draw in a different group of voters.<br><br>In Colorado on Saturday, where she resurrected some slime against Obama, from Sean Hannity and the gang, she argued that the McCain campaign shouldn\u2019t have given up on Michigan. Say what?<br><br>McCain is acting so petulantly and irascible of late, it is hard to take him seriously as a candidate. As Frank Rich notes, McCain is now relying on Palin, a radical extremist in the guise of a \"down home\" persona, to carry him across the finish line. <br><br>McCain appears to just want to cross the finish line, to show that he could be elected before he dies. How long he serves is of less importance to him than to feel validated by winning the presidential election. He is not putting the country first; he is putting himself first, a man with a fierce grievance that he wasn\u2019t nominated by his party earlier in his youth, when he had the fire to do something. Now, he just wants his trophy presidency and then he\u2019s ready to turn it over to Sarah Palin.<br><br>Those of you who doubt it should remember the below the radar comment that Palin made in the VP debate, one of the few substantive remarks she uttered. In essence, she said that she would model her role as VP after Cheney. BuzzFlash wrote a commentary on this horrifying power grab (\"Like Putting Lipstick on a Cheney: Palin's Vow to Continue Unitary Executive and Lack of Accountability for VP Position\") that doesn\u2019t exist in the Constitution and to which Biden appropriately replied: <br><br>\"Vice President Cheney has been the most dangerous vice president we've had probably in American history... The Constitution is explicit. The only authority the vice president has from the legislative standpoint is the vote, only when there is a tie vote. He has no authority relative to the Congress. The idea he's part of the Legislative Branch is a bizarre notion invented by Cheney to aggrandize the power of a unitary executive and look where it has gotten us. It has been very dangerous.\" <br><br>But Sarah Palin, to quote \"The Blues Brothers,\" is on a mission from God.<br><br>And as Frank Rich notes, the ultimate game changer may be that if somehow the McCain-Palin tickets squeaks through (and it would have to be with voter suppression and stolen votes), expect Palin to assume the presidency right quick.<br><br>That\u2019s the plan of the Anti-American extremist evangelical right wing. With Palin as president, it becomes their country, not ours. They are the ultimate terrorists against democracy and the Constitution, but you won\u2019t read a word about it in the corporate press.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_12:04:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "Michigander2", "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}, "2878835": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "this is the second day your Open Thread post photos have brought tears to my eyes ~ in a good way. so easy to get discouraged with the right wing hate machine in full cry. this, and the photo yesterday, they lifted my spirits. thank you for that.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_10:09:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "bigassbelle", "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}, "2886518": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The Economist's poll of the economists: Examining the Candidates<br><br><a href=\"http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12342127\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/dis...</a><br><br>\"A survey of academic economists by The Economist finds the majority\u2014at times by overwhelming margins\u2014believe Mr Obama has the superior economic plan, a firmer grasp of economics and will appoint better economic advisers.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_23:30:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "evita", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2878330": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I laughed out loud when Tina Fay/Sarah Palin thanked the 3rd grade class for helping her prep for the debate, but my favorite was this line:<br><br><i>\"I think marriage is a sacred institution between two unwilling teenagers.\"</i><br><br>LOL - Ouch. That was too funny.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_08:51:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "claudia_m", "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": 2876613, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2887279": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Justice58:    <b>OMG   - YES!!</b><br><br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nToEQ3HRM18\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nToEQ3HRM18</a><br><b>He's So Fine   -  The chiffons</b><br><br>With ALL DUE RESPECT to Mrs. Obama!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-06_01:00:24", "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": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2887173, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2882941": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Today's Polls 10/5<br><br>Colorado Denver Post Obama 44, McCain 44 Tie<br>Minnesota Star Tribune Obama 55, McCain 37 Obama +18<br>National Gallup Tracking Obama 50, McCain 43 Obama +7<br>National Rasmussen Tracking Obama 51, McCain 44 Obama +7<br>National Hotline/FD Tracking Obama 48, McCain 41 Obama +7<br>Ohio Columbus Dispatch Obama 49, McCain 42 Obama +7<br>Pennsylvania Morning Call Tracking Obama 50, McCain 40 Obama +10", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_16:55:29", "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": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2883051": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "GOP voter suppression challenge underway in Lake County, IN.<br><a href=\"http://progressillinois.com/2008/10/04/lake-county-voter-supression\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://progressillinois.com/2008/10/04/lake-cou...</a><br><br>I guess the internals in Indiana must look really bad for the criminals.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_17:09:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2887488": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Justice58:  My pleasure!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>Obama-Biden '08!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-06_01:27:01", "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": 2887437, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2882946": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Prayers all around.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_16:55:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2882867, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2883459": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This quote is alarming. As Christians we believe that the only thing that can separate us from God, and heaven as our reward, is belief in Jesus Christ NOT support for Sarah Palin.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_17:56:56", "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": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2882118, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2886538": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Tomorrow at noon, the video of it all debuts.<br><br>McCain walked right into a trap with his vile bullshit.<br><br>You wanna smear somebody and thing you're going to emerged unscathed?<br><br>He isn't going to know what hit him.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_23:31:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2886368, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2878348": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "NYT: Election divides Catholic Church <br><i>In Scranton, Pa., every Catholic attending Mass this weekend will hear a special homily about the election next month: Bishop Joseph Martino has ordered every priest in the diocese to read a letter warning that voting for a supporter of abortion rights amounts to endorsing \u201chomicide.\u201d<br><br>\u201cBeing \u2018right\u2019 on taxes, education, health care, immigration and the economy fails to make up for the error of disregarding the value of a human life,\u201d the bishop wrote. \u201cIt is a tragic irony that \u2018pro-choice\u2019 candidates have come to support homicide \u2014 the gravest injustice a society can tolerate \u2014 in the name of \u2018social justice.\u2019 \u201d </i><br><br><a href=\"http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27023915/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27023915/</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_08:55:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "nickwah22", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2886545": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Isn't it great how Obama gear becomes a sort of passport into ethnic neighborhoods where anyone wearing it is identified as a friend.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_23:32:28", "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": 2885772, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2880917": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Playing now at the Obama rally in NC:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITSF3jUnpY8&feature=related rel=\"nofollow\">AIn't no Stpping us now...</a> <br><br>Damn right!<br>T.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_14:06:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "d6755b31010b50fc47eac9ee8b3bb319", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2876997": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "that was hilarious. See, this is why I love Barney Frank, lisp and all.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_03:03:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2876983, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2886560": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Thanks, Michelle.<br><br>Johnah McPalin are out of their leagues.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_23:33:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2886340, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2884515": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "OK, take this one with as much salt as you took the Rolling Stones article about John McCain:<br><br><a href=\"http://leishacamden.blogspot.com/2008/10/not-that-it-matters.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Obama and the Norwegian bride</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_19:53:29", "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": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2884519": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The gloves are back on... with lead weights &gt;:)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_19:54:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anderkoo", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2884464, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2880936": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Playing at the Obama NC Rally:<br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITSF3jUnpY8&feature=related\" rel=\"nofollow\"> AIn't no stopping us now...</a><br><br>Darn right!<br>T.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_14:08:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "d6755b31010b50fc47eac9ee8b3bb319", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2879917": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "you and I know how the mud got there. don't fool me", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_11:56:25", "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": 2879808, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2876848": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  Darn those nasty tax returns!<br><br><a href=\"http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2008/10/palin_tax_returns_for_2006_and_1.php\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2008/10/palin...</a><br><b>Palin Tax Returns For 2006 and 2007 Released</b><br><br><i><b>Sarah Palin is the breadwinner and husband Todd is, well \u2014 he takes a lot of deductions for his fishing and snow machine racing careers, according to 2007 and 2006 federal tax returns released Friday.&lt;</b><br><br>Sarah Palin makes $125,000 a year as Alaska governor. Plus, since she took the job in December 2006, she hasn't paid taxes on the more than $17,000 she received in controversial per diem payments for working out of the family's lakeside home in Wasilla \u2014 some 575 miles from the capital of Juneau.<br><br>For the 2007 tax year, Todd Palin's self-employment brought him $66,893 in gross receipts \u2014 $49,893 from fishing and $17,000 from snow machine racing. But, the returns show, he claimed so many deductions that he reported only $15,513 net profit from the fishing operation and claimed a $9,639 loss from his racing, leaving him with an overall net income of only $5,874. In addition, Todd earned $43,519 last year working part-time on the North Slope for BP Exploration.</i><br><br><b>IRS!  WHERE ARE YOU??</b>  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_02:35:29", "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}, "2878898": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Well, the right wing hate machine is going full throttle with Queen Palin leading. She is trying to say that Obama is a terrorist and will be relentlessly attacking him in the coming weeks to lead a Willie Horton scare campaign. Say it ain't so...they are doing it again", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_10:15:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "TariqNelson", "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": 2878835, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2886580": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "...High noon.<br><br>hahahahah!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_23:36:19", "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": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2886538, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2879413": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I also have to say that The Right has been after Frank for years. Openly gay, smart, and fearless, Frank is a nightmare to them.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_10:54:25", "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": 2876983, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2881951": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The AP article somebody linked to kills me with that bs that Obama talking about how \"out of touch\" and \"erratic\" McCain has been is clear swipe at his age.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_14:54:44", "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": 2881162, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2879420": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I love it, craig.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_10:55:20", "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": 2879081, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2882493": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Is the media going to talk about the interviews(more) and press conferences that Gov. Palin isn't giving? During the debate she did not answer any questions.  That was not even a debate. Are they going to just roll over and let our opponent's campaign treat them like this? Have they no pride?<br><br>T.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_15:59:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "d6755b31010b50fc47eac9ee8b3bb319", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2885365": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "An interesting story on McCain: \" Make-Believe Maverick\" <br><br>A closer look at the life and career of John McCain reveals a disturbing record of recklessness and dishonesty <br>By TIM DICKINSON<br><a href=\"http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/make_believe_maverick_the_real_john_mccain\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/mak...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_21:24:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "50ec6b0f1965723157a63e9d65899ade", "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}, "2879424": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I told y'all - Birth of a Nation, 2008 is upon us.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_10:55:58", "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": 2878898, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2883009": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Biden's schedule was cleared this weekend and has been cleared at least for the next 2 days.<br><br>My thoughts and prayers are with them as Beau is deployed,too. It's a lot on that family in one short period.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_17:01:44", "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": 2882929, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2879427": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "That was good, but I was thinking a little bit closer to home.<br><br>Like her being married to a mofo who belonged to a SECESSIONIST GROUP.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_10:57:01", "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": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2879137, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2883633": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "LOL - Town, I had to laugh at that one.  <br><br>they are looking desperate right about now.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_18:13:35", "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": 4, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2883396, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2879137": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "On Meet the Press, Paul Begala let people know that if McCain wants to play guilt by association, he'll lose. There was some group that McCain had a relationship with that was a right wing racist organization. And Paul used his notes to get it ought there and get it right.<br><br>The Dangerous One isn't going to know what hit him before this is all over.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/4/224123/325/987/620410\" rel=\"nofollow\">Check this out.</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_10:34:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2879946": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/05/ap-palins-ayers-attack-ra_n_132008.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/05/ap-pal...</a><br><br>Even the AP thinks Palin went a step too far with that \"palling with terrorist\" crap.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_12:00:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "82e96a131aef4eccf36a37ed61d8a947", "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}, "2879435": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I agree. Where's his gambling returns? <br><br>And, where are HER per diems?", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_10:57:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2878678, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2886604": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "If you ever want to know what a person is REALLY like- ask their former employees. <br><br>I would LOVE to know about she felt she had to say on yahoo and not the state server...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_23:39:03", "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": 2886511, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2881999": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/26/AR2008092602856_pf.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"> When Michelle Met Barack.</a> From WaPo.<br><br>Cute excerpt:<br>In interviews and speeches, Michelle frequently talks about her early impressions of Barack. When she first met him, she told her local newspaper, the Hyde Park Herald, \"he had no money; he was really broke. He wasn't ever going to try to impress me with things. His wardrobe was kind of cruddy . . . His first car had so much rust that there was a rusted hole in the passenger door. You could see the ground when you were driving. He loved that car. It would shake ferociously when it would start up. I thought, 'This brother is not interested in ever making a dime.' \"<br><br>Enjoy,<br>T.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_15:01:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "d6755b31010b50fc47eac9ee8b3bb319", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2886609": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "....", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_23:40:08", "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": 2879464, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2883029": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Christian sleeper cells.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_17:05:30", "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": 2879976, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2882010": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "me too, craig.<br><br>T.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_15:03:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "d6755b31010b50fc47eac9ee8b3bb319", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2881194, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2887131": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "rikyrah:  HuffPost is just publishing like editor on crack!!  I cain't hardly keep up!!  :&gt;)<br><br><a href=\"http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14284.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14284...</a><br><b>Obama Takes Big Lead In New Minn. Poll</b><br><br><i>A new Minneapolis Star Tribune poll shows Barack Obama opening an expansive lead in Minnesota, which appears to further shrink the electoral map of John McCain.<br><br>Some 55 percent of  respondents said they support Obama, compared to 37 percent who back McCain. The last Star Tribune Minnesota Poll, conducted in September,  showed Obama and McCain deadlocked at 45 percent.<br><br>The 18-point improvement comes as 58 percent of respondents said the Illinois senator would do a better job handling the economy while only 30 percent said the same of McCain.<br><br>The poll, conducted between September 30 and October 2, is based on 1,084 interviews with likely voters.<br><br>While the Star Tribune attributed the surge in part to \"an increase in the number of Minnesotans who call themselves Democrats,\" Republicans questioned the results, and contended the most recent poll surveyed a disproportionately Democratic-leaning group of likely voters, and thus overstated support for Democratic candidates.<br><br>\u201cThese numbers would be accurate if the Star Tribune had done this poll in New York\u2014 not in Minnesota,\u201d Glen Bolger, a pollster for Republican Sen. Norm Coleman said.<br><br>A portion of the Minnesota poll released yesterday showed a 13-point jump in support for Democratic comedian-turned-politician Al Franken, who's now taken his first clear lead, 43 percent to 34 percent, against Coleman.<br><br>On a conference call Thursday, the McCain campaign mapped out its electoral strategy for the remaining thirty days, with a focus on several states where the RealClear polling averages show Obama in front: Colorado (where Obama has a 4.4-point lead), Wisconsin (5), Pennsylvania (9.6), New Hampshire (5.6), New Mexico (7.8), Nevada (1.8)\u2014and Minnesota.</i>  <br><br>THERE IS MORE.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-06_00:41:23", "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}, "2885085": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I love these stories...<br><br>What's Black, White and Blue All Over? Georgia!!!<br><a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/5/194359/140/318/621087\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/5/194359/...</a><br><blockquote><i>The first two doors we knocked on we only received shouts through the door.  We explained we were from the Obama campaign and they yelled back they were already registered.  I was beginning to think this would be a waste of time.  As we exited the car at the next building we heard through an open window \"Holy crap-there's white people wearing Obama shirts coming this way.\"</i></blockquote>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_20:54:14", "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": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2886624": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_23:41:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2886604, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2883310": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Prayers to the family! May God comfort them in their sad hour!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_17:40:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "8b4edfeff97a04858d7247b03c0d0fd8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2882867, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2883554": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "oh no.  I am sorry to hear that.  My prayers are with the family.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_18:06:03", "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": 2882867, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2894843": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "h&f:  And 2 U 2!!  :&gt;)<br><br>Obama-Biden '08!!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-06_12:44:40", "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": 2891357, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2883047": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Oh how sad that she will not see Joe elected VP - at least not from this side of Jordan.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_17:09:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "ruthdfw", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2882867, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2879464": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "They're not going to attack her or her family. Todd is her family.<br><br>They're going to rake McCain over the coals. He'll have very real flashbacks to the Hanoi Hilton before it's all over.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_11:01:12", "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": 2879427, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2886121": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "True...but I see it from the union angle, not a racial one, which I find bizarre because geeze, he can't speak for every Black person. <br><br>But if you're getting support from unions, then you don't want to associate with someone who is anti-union, cross a picket line, etc. I'm sure if there's anything at all to be \"handled,\" it will be.<br><br>But let me just say this: what a crappy thing for Perry to pull.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_22:42:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "APeach", "has_been_anonymized": false, "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": 2880757, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2882027": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "ok..the ending was ...woah", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_15:05:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "Texas_Girl_in_LA", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2881162, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2886635": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Town:  Then there's the \"water cooler question\":  <b>Soooo, how did YOU happen to get your new position?</b><br><br>Among MY Answers:<br><br>1.  Affirmative Action!<br><br>2.  I slept with ???<br><br>3.  My sister slept with??  on MY behalf!!<br><br>4. I gave  a private \"LAP DANCE!\" to ????<br><br>5.  I sacrificed MY firstborn!<br><br>6.  I told them that MY grandmother was WHITE! [LIE!]<br><br>7.  I reminded the interview team of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 - even though there was NO interview question in this area.<br><br>8.  I sang a few bars of \"WE SHALL OVERCOME\" when I entered and left the interview!<br><br>9. I had a picture of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in my \"resume\" folder!<br><br>10.  I WORE a \"McAncient/The Gov.\" T-shirt for a blouse!  <br><br>Annnnnnd, <b> I WINKED at the end of the interview!!</b><br><br>\"WHYCOME\" they spit their water out and choked??  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_23:42:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2883689, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2887336": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  <i>MUDFLATS</i> has a FAQ PAGE!  Here's the descriptor:<br><br><i><br>New FAQ Page<br>5 10 2008<br><br>There\u2019s a new FAQ page up, talking about spam, trolls, and anonymity. Did I forget anything?<br><br>\u00ab State Employees Will Now Testify in Troopergate Probe.</i><br><br>It is having its own Anti-smear thread!  :&gt;)   GREAT!!   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-06_01:05:56", "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": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2884594": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "time to punch back without hesitation.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_20:00:55", "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": 2884464, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2883754": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "wow, that's bad.  I replied there (and sent mail to BlueIndiana) asking them if they could add it to the Voter Suppression Wiki, helpfully providing a link to the <a href=\"http://votersuppressionwiki.wetpaint.com/page/Incident+Tracker\" rel=\"nofollow\">Incident tracker</a> ...", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_18:25:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "JonPincus", "has_been_anonymized": false, "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": 2883051, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2886650": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "October Surprises Abound! <br><br>Obama is on the offensive!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_23:44:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "JJai", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2886580, "depth": 3, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2887167": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "evita:  Co-sign!  :&gt;)  That's \"whycome\" I'm \"Field Trippin'\" to \"Alaska\"  DAILY!! :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-06_00:45:23", "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": 2886604, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2881194": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Hell yeah.<br><br>I'm watching on <a href=\"http://CNN.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">CNN.com</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_14:41:26", "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": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2881162, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2876927": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "rikyrah:  TAX RETURNS  - Worth Repeating:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/03/palins-tax-return-mystery_n_131791.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/03/palins...</a><br><b>Palin's Tax Return Mystery:  Where Are The Per Diems?</b><br><br><i>In typical news-dump fashion, the McCain campaign put out the last two years of Sarah Palin's tax returns late Friday afternoon.<br><br>The information contained a few interesting revelations in what was, otherwise, a fairly mundane filing. Palin, it appears, did not pay taxes on the more than $60,000 of travel reimbursements that she and her family members reportedly billed the state during her 18 months as governor. There is a fairly wonky debate over whether she should have been charged for these trips or whether it was accounted for in her salary. John Bogdanski, a tax professor at the Lewis and Clark Law School, told the Huffington Post's Seth Colter Walls that they did qualify as taxable income.<br><br>It does not appear that such deductions would have been allowable for any amounts attributable to travel by her husband and children. Section 274(m)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code strictly forbids deductions for bringing spouses and dependents along on business travel unless the spouses and dependents (a) are employees of the taxpayer (here, the taxpayer is the governor), (b) are traveling for a bona fide business purpose, and (c) would otherwise be entitled to deduct the travel on their own tax returns. Unless Palin's spouse and kids are also her employees and she can show that they were away on their own businesses, their expenses would not be deductible by the governor. And therefore she cannot exclude from income any per diems attributable to any of them. (By the way, since she's the employee, the income would be required to be reported on her own return, not her kids'.)</i><br><br>I'm just lovin' this!!  <br><br><b>MSM and IRS  -  Where you at!!?</b><br><br><br>Obama-Biden '08!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_02:48:17", "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}}, "integration": {"receiver_url": "", "theme": 4, "reply_position": true, "disqus_logo": false}, "timer": {"timer_url": "http://localhost:8005", "thread_id": "5372434", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "21630", "hash": 8204691882710016351}, "thread": {"total_posts": 0, "paginate": false, "per_page": 0, "slug": "sunday_open_thread_89", "num_pages": 1, "days_alive": 0, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 5372434, "num_posts": 207, "closed": false, "queued": false, "killed": false}, "reactions_limit": 10, "context": {"show_reply": true, "use_fb_connect": true, "forum_facebook_key": "bd6a8bc56f8eb204984f34b6fefe228d", "use_yahoo": false, "subscribed": false, "use_twitter_signin": true, "use_openid": false, "realtime_speed": 5000}, "reactions_start": 0, "settings": {"debug": false, "disqus_url": "http://disqus.com", "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"}, "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"};
	/* */ this.jsonData.cookie_messages = {"user_created": null, "post_has_profile": null, "post_twitter": null, "post_not_approved": null}; this.jsonData.session = {"url": null, "name": null, "email": null}; /* */

	
	this.curPageId = 'dsq-comments';

	this.frames = {};
};

var disqus_popup_reference = null;

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



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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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





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



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

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

	this._lastHash = null;

	this._accumMsg = '';

	this._lastSeqno = 0;

	this.MAX_DATA_LEN	= 1024;

	this.WAIT_TIME		= 10;

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

};

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

FragmentPacket.prototype.log = function(msg) {



};

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

		hash = this.reader.name;
	} else {

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

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

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

		this._lastSeqno = seqno;

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

				this._accumMsg = '';

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

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

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

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

};

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

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

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

	if (packetNum === 0) {

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

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

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

	if (num_packets === packetNum) {

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

	this._lastSeqno++;

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

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

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

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

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

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


	this.receiverId = receiverId;
};

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

	var listener = function(e) {

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


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

		that.receiveCallback(data);
	};

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

PostMessagePacket.prototype.send = function(msg) {



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


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

	var packet;
	if (!msg) {

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

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

var JsonRpc = function() {

	this.ids = {};

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

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

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

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

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

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

				json = 'null';
				break;
		}

		return json;
	};

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		send_func(this.objectToJSON(request));

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

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


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



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


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


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

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

	this.packetHandler = null;


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


	var _createReceiverForFragmentPacket = function() {

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

			that._ready = true;
		};

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

		that.receiver.onload = receiver_onload;







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

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

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

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


	var _createReceiverForPostMessage = function() {

		var receiver_onload = function() {

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

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


		ParentMessenger['_receiver_onload_' + receiverId] = receiver_onload;

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

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

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

};

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	var sendFunc = function(msg) {

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


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


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

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

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

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

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

		if (msg.username) {

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	this.url = Dsq.Urls.REPLY +
		'?' + (new Date()).getTime() +
		'&f=jackandjillpolitics' +
		'&t=sunday_open_thread_89' +
		'&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_89/latest.rss">' + Dsq.Strings.SUBSCRIBE_BY_RSS + '</a> \
			</span> \
		</div> \
		';

		
		

		return html;

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

		html += Dsq.Templates.pagination();

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

		html += Dsq.Templates.reactions();

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.trackbacks();
		


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

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

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

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

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

		return html;
	};

	this.postBox = function(post_id, use_fallback_iframe) {


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

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


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

		var _requestUserInfo = function() {
			var html;



			var user_has_email = false;

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

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

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


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



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

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




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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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



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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		var service_icon = (reaction.get_service_name == 'trackback' || reaction.get_service_name == 'pingback' ? 'rss' : reaction.get_service_name.replace(' ', ''));
		item += (reaction.author_url && reaction.author_url !== ''
				? '</a>'
				: '')
			+ '</td>'
			+ '<td><cite class="dsq-comment-cite">' + reaction.author_name + '</cite> <span class="dsq-comment-header-time">' + reaction.date_created + '</span></td>'
			+ '<td class="dsq-comment-header-likes"></td>'
			+ '</tr></table></div>' // end dsq-comment-header
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-header" \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-reaction-header-left">'
							+ '<img class="dsq-service-icon" src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/reactions/services/' + service_icon + '.png" />'
							+ ' From <a class="dsq-service-name" target="_blank" href="' + reaction.url + '">' + reaction.get_service_name + '</a> '
							+ 'via <a href="' + reaction.source_url + '">' + (reaction.source == 'backtype' ? 'BackType' : 'UberVU') + '</a>'
						+ '</td>'
						+ '<td class="dsq-reaction-header-right">';

			if(reaction.retweets) {
				var num_retweets = reaction.retweets.length;
				if (num_retweets > 0) {
					if (num_retweets == 1) {
						item += 'One more retweet from <a href="' + reaction.retweets[0].url + '">'  + reaction.retweets[0].author_name + '</a>';
					} else {
						item += (num_retweets + ' more retweets from ');
						item += '<span id="dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '">';
						var n_tweets = (num_retweets > 3) ? 3 : num_retweets;
						item += Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(reaction.id, n_tweets);
						if (n_tweets != num_retweets) {
							item += '</span> <a onclick="Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(' + reaction.id + ', 0, \'dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '\');'
								+ 'this.parentNode.removeChild(this); return false;" href="#">Show all</a>';
						}
					}
				}
			}	
			item += '</td></tr> \
			</table> \
			</div>' // end dsq-reaction-header
			+ '<div class="dsq-comment-body"> \
				<div class="dsq-comment-message">' + reaction.body + '</div>'
			+ '</div> \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer"> \
				<div class="dsq-comment-footer-left"> \
				</div>'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator 
					? ' \
					<div class="dsq-comment-footer-right"> \
						<button class="dsq-button-small dsq-hide-reaction" onclick="Dsq.Reaction.hide(' + reaction.id + ')">Hide</button> \
					</div>'
					: '')
			+ '</div>'
		item += '</li>'; /* Reaction HTML ends */
		return item;
	};

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

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

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

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

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

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



	
	this.chooseSubscribe = function(post_id) {

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		d = auth_data;

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

				body.appendChild(edit_area);

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

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

		Dsq.Templates.toggleEdit(post_id);
	};

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		}

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

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

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

		var extra_params = '';

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

		Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML += '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
		
		if(el_clicked) {
			Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked);
		}
		
		Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/jackandjillpolitics/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ 'sunday_open_thread_89'
			+ '&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_89/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">207</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/sunday_open_thread_89/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_89/">Community Page</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>\
	 <span class="dsq-item-subscribe">\
	 <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/email.png" style="width:12px;height:12px;vertical-align:middle">\
	 <span id="dsq-subscribe">\
	 <a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">Subscribe by email</a>\
	 </span>\
	 </span>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-alerts">\
	 <p><a href="http://disqus.com/profile/login/?next=article:5372434" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false">You must log into your Disqus Profile in order to post comments.</a></p>\
	 </div>\
		';

		

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

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

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.authPost();
		

		html += Dsq.Templates.reactions();

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.trackbacks();
		

		return html;
	};

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

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

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

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

		if(typeof DsqLocal != 'undefined' && DsqLocal.trackback_url && DsqLocal.trackbacks) {
			var trackbacks = DsqLocal.trackbacks;
			var trackback_url = DsqLocal.trackback_url;
		} else {
			var trackbacks = [
			
			
			];
			var trackback_url = 'http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/sunday_open_thread_89/trackback/';
		}

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

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

		return html;
	}

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		return '<h3 class="dsq-h3-reactions">Reactions</h3><ul id="dsq-reactions" class="dsq-reactions">' + html + '</ul>';
	};
	
	this.missingPermissions = function() {
		return '	<p><a href="http://disqus.com/profile/login/?next=article:5372434" 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:5372434" 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_89',
			// 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_89/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_89'
			+ '&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_89'
			+ '&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_89'
				+ '&email=' 	+ encodeURIComponent(email));

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

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

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

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

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

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(html, 'Settings');
	};

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	return obj;
}();

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	this.check = function() {
		if (!ongoing_request && Dsq.jsonData.realtime_enabled) {
			if (prev_script) {
				prev_script.parentNode.removeChild(prev_script);
			}
			ongoing_request = true;
			prev_script = Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/5372434/realtime.js?timestamp=' + last_checked);
		}
	};

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

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

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

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

}();

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

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

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

	return obj;
}();

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		if (isblank(openid_url)) {
			return;
		}

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	return obj;
}();


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





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

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

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

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

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

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





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

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

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

})();

Dsq.container.className = "clearfix";
Dsq.container.innerHTML = ' \
<ul id="dsq-comments">\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2885085">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2885085" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2885085" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2885085">TruthSeeker</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2885085" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2885085" class="dsq-comment-message">I love these stories...<br><br>What\'s Black, White and Blue All Over? Georgia!!!<br><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/5/194359/140/318/621087" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/5/194359/...</a><br><blockquote><i>The first two doors we knocked on we only received shouts through the door.  We explained we were from the Obama campaign and they yelled back they were already registered.  I was beginning to think this would be a waste of time.  As we exited the car at the next building we heard through an open window "Holy crap-there\'s white people wearing Obama shirts coming this way."</i></blockquote></div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2886226">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2886226" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2886226" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2886226">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2886226" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2886226" class="dsq-comment-message">I LOL at the \' Holy Crap- there\'s white people wearing Obama shirts coming this way.\'<br><br>HILARIOUS.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2886244" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2886244" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2886244">nickwah22</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2886244" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2886244" class="dsq-comment-message">Nice story, I hope they get some volunteers out there election day to make sure people are voting and to drive folks to the polls</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2886518" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2886518" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2886518" href="http://blog.evavegadiversity.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">evita</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2886518" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2886518" class="dsq-comment-message">The Economist\'s poll of the economists: Examining the Candidates<br><br><a href="http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12342127" rel="nofollow">http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/dis...</a><br><br>"A survey of academic economists by The Economist finds the majority—at times by overwhelming margins—believe Mr Obama has the superior economic plan, a firmer grasp of economics and will appoint better economic advisers."</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2886323" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2886323" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2886323">Michelle</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2886323" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2886323" class="dsq-comment-message">Here are a couple of interesting sites paid for by the Obama campaign (according to the notes on the bottom of each site). I got to them first through a link from the recent Action Wire email about changing the subject that led to a page on the <a href="http://my.barackobama.com" rel="nofollow">my.barackobama.com</a> site (<a href="http://my.barackobama.com/offtopic" rel="nofollow">OffTopic -- here</a>). A link at the bottom led to the first site, and a link at the bottom of the Lobbyist page on that site led to the second:<br><br><a href="http://www.johnmccainrecord.com" rel="nofollow">JohnMcCainRecord.com: Three Things Every Voter Should Know About John McCain And: (lists issues)</a><br><br><a href="http://www.johnmccainrecord.com" rel="nofollow">McLOBBYIST.COM - John McCain and Sarah Palin: Bought and Sold To You By Lobbyists</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2886340" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2886340" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2886340">Michelle</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2886340" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2886340" class="dsq-comment-message">Argh, I screwed up the second link -- it\'s really here:<br><br><a href="http://mclobbyist.com/" rel="nofollow">McLOBBYIST.COM - John McCain and Sarah Palin: Bought and Sold To You By Lobbyists</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2886560" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2886560" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2886560" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2886560" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2886560" class="dsq-comment-message">Thanks, Michelle.<br><br>Johnah McPalin are out of their leagues.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2886764" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2886764" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2886764">Texas_Girl_in_LA</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2886764" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2886764" class="dsq-comment-message">Craig,<br><br>No you didn\'t just blended the names...hhehe</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2886400" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2886400" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2886400">TruthSeeker</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2886400" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2886400" class="dsq-comment-message">lol....I just came to post <a href="http://keatingeconomics.com" rel="nofollow">keatingeconomics.com</a><br><br>I found it in a KOS diary.<br><br>Jack and Rikyrah have got to embed all these great sites.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2884298" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2884298" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2884298">RobM</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2884298" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2884298" class="dsq-comment-message">London Calling: Is Obama the new FDR? Read here: <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/william_rees_mogg/article4887392.ece" rel="nofollow">http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/column...</a><br><br>YES</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2884451" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2884451" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2884451" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2884451" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2884451" class="dsq-comment-message">I read a diary about an 89-year-old white man who Barack, whom he supports, FDR with a suntan.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2884610" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2884610" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2884610">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2884610" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2884610" class="dsq-comment-message">Crazy old Dick Gregory said this over a year ago. He said folks weren\'t reaching back far enough (with the comparisons to JFK and RFK). He said Obama was channelling FDR.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2884355" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2884355" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2884355">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2884355" class="dsq-comment-message">Sarah Palin does not know what an Achilles Heel is!?<br><br>How do you get to be 44 years old, without ever once hearing about - reading about - or hearing a reference to the term "Achilles Heel"?   Even if you never read Greek Mythology...at some point in 44 years, you must have heard the term and wondered what it meant.  Or, at least gleaned the meaning of the term by the context in which it was used.<br><br>Is Sarah playing dumb to pander to the functionally illiterate and bigoted?  Or does she really not know what "Achilles Heel" means.   Both possibilities are equally abhorrent.<br><br>Scott Bateman\'s VP debate animations<br><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/5/18852/4945/399/621006" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/5/18852/4...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2886496" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2886496">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2886496" class="dsq-comment-message">TruthSeeker:  Co-sign!!  <b>ANY ATHLETE KNOWS THIS TERM!!</b>  Most have injured it in some way?<br><br>Basketball "star" in college??<br><br>Oh!   Wait. . . . she went to <b>6 colleges in 5 years!</b>  Maybe they were "just about to use the term"  -Achilles Heel- and   OOOP!   she changed school!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)<br><br>I can\'t think of any other explanation!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2885387" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2885387" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2885387" href="http://blog.evavegadiversity.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">evita</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2885387" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2885387" class="dsq-comment-message">I would ONLY give her a pass IF English was her second language.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2884846" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2884846" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2884846" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2884846" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2884846" class="dsq-comment-message">Sarah Palin doesn\'t play dumb. She IS dumb.<br><br>All she knows how to do is wink.<br><br>Todd Palin is the governor of Alaska.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2884464" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2884464" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2884464" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2884464" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/10/democrats_to_raise_mccain_asso.php" rel="nofollow">Barack is Playing to Win</a><br><br><i>Democratic surrogates say they\'ve been given the go-ahead from the Obama campaign to mention John McCain\'s associations with S&L kingpin Charles Keating and other historically tarnished creatures when asked about Obama\'s connection to ex-Weatherman William Ayers.<br><br>A senior Democrat who has had contact with Obama\'s high command points to Democratic strategist Paul Begala\'s comments on this morning\'s Meet the Press.<br><br>Begala noted that McCain once "sat on the board of a very right wing organization," the U.S. Council for World Freedom, led by a retired Army Maj. General named John Singlaub. The Anti-Defamation League allegedly called the CWF\'s parent organization a gathering place for racists and anti-Semites.<br><br>Said Begala: "Now, that\'s not John McCain. I don\'t think he is that. But, but, you know, the problem is that a lot of people know John McCain\'s record better than Governor Palin, and he does not want to play guilt by association or this thing could blow up in his face."<br></i></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2884519" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2884519" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2884519">Anderkoo</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2884519" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2884519" class="dsq-comment-message">The gloves are back on... with lead weights &gt;:)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2884594" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2884594" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2884594">rikyrah</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2884594" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2884594" class="dsq-comment-message">time to punch back without hesitation.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2884179" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2884179" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2884179">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2884179" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2884179" class="dsq-comment-message">Wow...<br><br>Canvassing For Obama In Dallas, Texas<br><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/5/12494/1977/623/620782" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/5/12494/1...</a><br><blockquote><i>My first impression -<br><br>I have been a very ignorant American.  I apologize to God and everyone in my country.  I have never seen living conditions as horrendous as some of these elderly people are living in.  Note to self - detachment is no longer an option - I will now be much much more involved in community issues.  <br><br>My second impression -<br><br>I have been going out every day for the past two weeks.  Early on, my canvassing partner and I ran into two young black men - bling, tattooes, etc.  I try not to be racist - but it was all I could do not to be scared to death.  They came up to us - and we introduced ourselves.  The one gentleman\'s name is Kai.  I asked Kai if he was registered to vote - he said No and we discussed how he could register.  He looked up at me - and I swear he was tearing up in his eyes - he said - "You are the first white man who has ever spoken to me with respect in my life.  I appreciate all the work you are doing for Obama."  He then asked for more registration forms - he took about 100. </i></blockquote></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2884689" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2884689">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2884689" class="dsq-comment-message">best part TS, to piggyback on you:<br><br><br><i>I understand from a friend at a local official registration location that Kai did indeed show up - with about 50 of his friends in tow.  I actually started crying.  </i></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2884777" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2884777" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2884777" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2884777" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2884777" class="dsq-comment-message">What Truth posted was what got to me the most. The fact that a white man can admit his bigotry and still get on through it to support Barack and face down this big scary-looking Black man.<br><br>And that the big, scary-looking Black man could get respect for the first time in his life from a white man who worked through his bigotry.<br><br>That\'s what this campaign has made happen.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2885351" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2885351" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2885351">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2885351" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2885351" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s such a small thing...helping someone to register; but, it meant so much!<br><br>There\'s a massive healing going on...   Who on earth saw this coming???!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2885432" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2885432" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2885432" href="http://blog.evavegadiversity.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">evita</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2885432" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2885432" class="dsq-comment-message">There is beauty in struggle and grace in honesty.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2886760" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2886760" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2886760">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2886760" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2886760" class="dsq-comment-message">.....</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2889370" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2889370" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2889370">freespiritbty</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2889370" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2889370" class="dsq-comment-message">I live in Dallas and this is touching. There are more civic minded people here that the media gives them credit for.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2889443" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2889443" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2889443">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2889443" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2889443" class="dsq-comment-message">Freespirit,<br><br>Dallas,huh?  I\'ve got family there!  The Color Purple is playing in Dallas and my cousins want me to come see it with them!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2885772" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2885772" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2885772">Lilytiger</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2885772" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2885772" class="dsq-comment-message">What keeps being highlighted in all these diaries of white canvassers is that they are breaking through their own fears about black people because they believe enough in Obama. They wouldn\'t have the fearlessness to go into some of the neighborhoods so they would not have learned that we all are basically the same. We all want to be seen, treated with respect and not forgotten. <br><br>The country has already changed because of Obama. These experiences now over shadow the myths they had. <br><br>What a moment in time.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2886545" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2886545" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2886545">TruthSeeker</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2886545" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2886545" class="dsq-comment-message">Isn\'t it great how Obama gear becomes a sort of passport into ethnic neighborhoods where anyone wearing it is identified as a friend.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2882118" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2882118" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2882118">pjamma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2882118" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2882118" class="dsq-comment-message">Palin can\'t even quote one line from a Starbucks cup correctly...<br><br>Palin Misquotes Albright: "Place In Hell Reserved For Women Who Don\'t Support Other Women"<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/05/palin-misquotes-albright_n_131967.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/05/palin-...</a><br><br>Albright\'s smankdown, I mean response:<br><br><i>"Though I am flattered that Governor Palin has chosen to cite me as a source of wisdom, what I said had nothing to do with politics. This is yet another example of McCain and Palin distorting the truth, and all the more reason to remember that this campaign is not about gender, it is about which candidate has an agenda that will improve the lives of all Americans, including women. The truth is, if you care about the status of women in our society and in our troubled economy, the best choice by far is Obama-Biden."</i></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2883459" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2883459" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2883459">JJai</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2883459" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2883459" class="dsq-comment-message">This quote is alarming. As Christians we believe that the only thing that can separate us from God, and heaven as our reward, is belief in Jesus Christ NOT support for Sarah Palin.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2880566" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2880566" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2880566" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2880566" class="dsq-comment-message">Paul Begala discusses McCain\'s associations with Iran Contras, wingnuts, anti-Semites, and racists.<br><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/5/11241/0293/672/620709" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/5/11241/0...</a><br><br>Digg it.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2880936" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2880936">T.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2880936" class="dsq-comment-message">Playing at the Obama NC Rally:<br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITSF3jUnpY8&feature=related" rel="nofollow"> AIn\'t no stopping us now...</a><br><br>Darn right!<br>T.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2880016" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2880016" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2880016">Micheline</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2880016" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2880016" class="dsq-comment-message">Given how desperate the McCain campaign is and Tom Brokaw\'s antipathy to Obama.  I am increasingly uncomfortable with Tom Brokaw moderating the debate.  My fear is that the debate will be a repeat of the "debate"  ABC .  My fear that they will use citizens asking questions about Obama\'s patriotism and Rev. Wright even though they have nothing to do with the economy being in dire straits.  And we  already know that Brokaw and McCain are friends so there\'s more reason for Brokaw to be biased towards McCain since the Republican desperately needs a game changer. I raised that question at Daily Kos and some answered that Brokaw is a pro but we felt the same way with Gibson and look how that turned out.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2880607" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2880607" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2880607" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2880607" class="dsq-comment-message">Don\'t be afraid.<br><br>It\'s not going to work. <br><br>Let Brokaw try to hang him. Barack will fight back against the lynch mob and win.<br><br>Just watch.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2881214" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2881214">Texas_Girl_in_LA</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2881214" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2881214" class="dsq-comment-message">Let\'s not forget Barack went on Fox <b>twice</b>. He\'s constantly entering the lion\'s den. <br><br>I have no fear. Barack will fight,  he is use to fighting.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2880773" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2880773" href="http://nquest2xl.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Nquest</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2880773" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2880773" class="dsq-comment-message">Don\'t tell me after Gwen Ifill\'s bias was questioned you\'re going to turn around and question Brokaw\'s...</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2882860" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2882860" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2882860">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2882860" class="dsq-comment-message">we were already questioning Brokaw when he falsified poll results in favor of McCain after the first Obama/McCain debate.  So he proved he was in fact biased.  Which was entirely different from Ifill who did nothing wrong.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2876424" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2876424" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2876424">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2876424" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2876424" class="dsq-comment-message">Amy Holmes is a goddamned idiot.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2876512">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2876512" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2876512" class="dsq-comment-message">TruthSeeker:  Amy Holmes\' "ringlets" have sprung!!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2876521" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2876521" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2876521">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2876521" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2876521" class="dsq-comment-message">Amen!  WTF is wrong with her?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2876577">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2876577" class="dsq-comment-message">yep</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2876779" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2876779">caligirl</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2876779" class="dsq-comment-message">uh oh.  did she have a michelle bernard moment?   she used to be kinda sensible.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2876431" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2876431">karlewis</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2876431" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2876431" class="dsq-comment-message">SNL too funny<br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/04/tina-fey-as-sarah-palin-i_n_131964.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/04/tina-f...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2876514" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2876514">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2876514" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes it was!  I was laughing out loud. The guy playing Joe Biden had me rolling about his home town. No one good came out of it but him! Hilarious.<br><br>I loved Queen Latifah as Gwen Ifill.  Sure was promoting that book too! lol</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2876586" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2876586">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2876586" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL at the wig on Queen Latifah, and pushing the book - hilarious.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2876613" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2876613">Texas_Girl_in_LA</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2876613" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2876613" class="dsq-comment-message">I loved her eye moments.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2878330" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2878330" href="http://www.thebottomofheaven.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">claudia_m</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2878330" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2878330" class="dsq-comment-message">I laughed out loud when Tina Fay/Sarah Palin thanked the 3rd grade class for helping her prep for the debate, but my favorite was this line:<br><br><i>"I think marriage is a sacred institution between two unwilling teenagers."</i><br><br>LOL - Ouch. That was too funny.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2878533" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2878533" href="http://sooncome.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">JunePearl</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2878533" class="dsq-comment-message">What was even funnier (and kinda scary too) was the fact that most of what Fey said, was word for word what Palin said during the debates! Talk about about <i>plenty</i> of raw material! LOL!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2879139">lamh31</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2879139" class="dsq-comment-message">The Biden impersonation fell a little flat for me, but all the funny moments ya\'ll mentionoed were good.  The reason why I felt the Biden portion was a little flat is because despite what many MSM pundits said, Biden was SOLID in the debate, even his "friendship" with John McCain was not as heavily parodiable(?). Biden was the better of the two hands down. Of the two, Palin came off as the lesser knowledgable of the two...PERIOD. The best line of the skit for me was exactly what came out of the debate, when the Biden guy said "Joe Biden is BETTER. THAN. THAT". Most Americans agreed.<br>The McCain is my friend, but dangerous riffs were pretty funny too.<br><br>Tina Fey was great as always. Latifah was as beautiful as always. To my eyes, she made Ifill better than she was.<br><br>Basically, they had to go more out of their way to parody Biden. <br>I did like them "calling" Palin out for the "Can I call you Joe" bit. It\'s true that throughout the debate she only called him Joe once I think for that lame ass "Say it isn\'t so Joe" line.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2876440" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2876440">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2876440" class="dsq-comment-message">As my Mother would say,  God love him, but he\'s a raging maniac...<br><br>Saturday Nite Live VP debate skit<br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/04/tina-fey-as-sarah-palin-i_n_131964.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/04/tina-f...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2876531" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2876531">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2876531" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2876531" class="dsq-comment-message">Rikyrah,<br><br>That pic is so moving! It can\'t get any more beautiful.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2876539" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2876539" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2876539">AZ Mom</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2876539" class="dsq-comment-message">i stop by every day. and never leave a comment. but this photo (and the one of the young girl) have simply taken my heart. i just had to let you know how appreciated you are.<br><br>peace.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2876646" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2876646">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2876646" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  OMG!!  Alaska just BAKED "McAncient"/The Gov.:<br><br><a href="http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/10/04/mccain-palin-rally-vs-obama-biden-rally-in-anchorage-the-blow-by-blow/#comment-46424" rel="nofollow">http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/10/04/mccain...</a><br><b>McCain-Palin Rally vs Obama-Biden Rally In Anchorage:  The Blow By Blow</b><br><br><i>Once again, there were duelling rallies here in Anchorage today.   The McCain-Palin rally was held in the just-completed Denaina Convention Center in downtown Anchorage.  The Obama rally was held outside, just a couple blocks away, at the Delaney Park Strip, also in downtown Anchorage.<br><br>One would think that the Republican rally celebrating the hometown girl, in her very very red state would have drawn a huge crowd, and that the Obama rally would be a few brave intrepid souls with a couple signs shivering by the side of the road.  One would be <b>wrong.</b><br><br>The <b>Obama rally</b> was all set up and running when I arrived - tents, face painting, t-shirt sales, voter registration, postcard writing to swing states, a huge stage and sound system.  <b>By 1:00, there were more than a thousand people milling around with signs, kids, dogs and huge smiles.</b>  This was definitely a feel-good place.  Hundreds lined the roadside waving signs to appreciative honking motorists, and hundreds more milled around the tent area.  Anchorage mayoral candidate and former legislator Eric Croft got up and spoke, so did Kat Pustay who’s heading up the Obama campaign in the state.  Then came Ethan Berkowitz, Democratic candidate for the U.S. House seat currently held by Don Young.  Ethan welcomed his “fellow revolutionaries”. The crowd went wild.<br><br>SKIP<br><br>I just had a feeling this rally wasn’t going to have as big a crowd as the Obama rally, because the rally that was held for <b>Palin</b> herself, when she was in Anchorage a few weeks ago only had about 500 people show up.  But I walked into the room and I really was stunned.  I felt like I had entered an empty chair convention.  It was really bad.  I actually felt sorry for the organizers for a minute, before I snapped myself out of it.   <b>A head count yielded about 250-300 people.</b><br><br>(Photo gallery to come later tonight)</i><br><br><br>Just scrape me off the ceiling!!  :&gt;)  I love this information  -  from the "HOME FOLKS!"<br><br>They know what the "real" is!!  :&gt;)<br><br>Obama-Biden \'08!!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2876704" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2876704">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2876704" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  More lawsuits against "The Gov.":<br><br><a href="http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/546167.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/546167.html</a><br><b>Lawsuit Seeks To Preserve Government-Related Palin E-Mails</b><br><br><i>A critic of Gov. Sarah Palin is suing to try to force preservation of any government-related e-mails that Palin sent from private accounts.Andree McLeod, a former state worker, filed the lawsuit against Palin, the Republican vice presidential candidate, in Anchorage on Thursday. Palin\'s gubernatorial spokeswoman, Sharon Leighow, said Saturday she could not comment on pending litigation.<br><br>The hacking of Palin\'s private account is significant because Palin has sometimes used private e-mail accounts to conduct state business. Previously disclosed e-mails indicate her administration embraced Yahoo accounts as an alternative to government e-mail, which could possibly be released to the public under Alaska\'s Open Records Act.<br><br><b>"Palin\'s decision to conduct state business in such an unprofessional and secretive manner suggests that her promise to have an ethical, open, honest and transparent administration is pure bogus," McLeod said in a statement Saturday.</b><br><br>"Equally troubling is the fact that most of Palin\'s private e-mail accounts have recently been shut down," she said. "I\'m seeking the court\'s help by requesting them to tell the governor to obey Alaska\'s public record laws."</i><br><br>THERE IS MORE.<br><br>"Whycome I\'m a happy camper?  \'cause the "wheels" are comin\' off the "STRAIGHT-TALK" EXPRESS!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>Obama-Biden \'08!!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2876848" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2876848">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2876848" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  Darn those nasty tax returns!<br><br><a href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2008/10/palin_tax_returns_for_2006_and_1.php" rel="nofollow">http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2008/10/palin...</a><br><b>Palin Tax Returns For 2006 and 2007 Released</b><br><br><i><b>Sarah Palin is the breadwinner and husband Todd is, well — he takes a lot of deductions for his fishing and snow machine racing careers, according to 2007 and 2006 federal tax returns released Friday.&lt;</b><br><br>Sarah Palin makes $125,000 a year as Alaska governor. Plus, since she took the job in December 2006, she hasn\'t paid taxes on the more than $17,000 she received in controversial per diem payments for working out of the family\'s lakeside home in Wasilla — some 575 miles from the capital of Juneau.<br><br>For the 2007 tax year, Todd Palin\'s self-employment brought him $66,893 in gross receipts — $49,893 from fishing and $17,000 from snow machine racing. But, the returns show, he claimed so many deductions that he reported only $15,513 net profit from the fishing operation and claimed a $9,639 loss from his racing, leaving him with an overall net income of only $5,874. In addition, Todd earned $43,519 last year working part-time on the North Slope for BP Exploration.</i><br><br><b>IRS!  WHERE ARE YOU??</b>  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2876927" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2876927">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2876927" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  TAX RETURNS  - Worth Repeating:<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/03/palins-tax-return-mystery_n_131791.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/03/palins...</a><br><b>Palin\'s Tax Return Mystery:  Where Are The Per Diems?</b><br><br><i>In typical news-dump fashion, the McCain campaign put out the last two years of Sarah Palin\'s tax returns late Friday afternoon.<br><br>The information contained a few interesting revelations in what was, otherwise, a fairly mundane filing. Palin, it appears, did not pay taxes on the more than $60,000 of travel reimbursements that she and her family members reportedly billed the state during her 18 months as governor. There is a fairly wonky debate over whether she should have been charged for these trips or whether it was accounted for in her salary. John Bogdanski, a tax professor at the Lewis and Clark Law School, told the Huffington Post\'s Seth Colter Walls that they did qualify as taxable income.<br><br>It does not appear that such deductions would have been allowable for any amounts attributable to travel by her husband and children. Section 274(m)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code strictly forbids deductions for bringing spouses and dependents along on business travel unless the spouses and dependents (a) are employees of the taxpayer (here, the taxpayer is the governor), (b) are traveling for a bona fide business purpose, and (c) would otherwise be entitled to deduct the travel on their own tax returns. Unless Palin\'s spouse and kids are also her employees and she can show that they were away on their own businesses, their expenses would not be deductible by the governor. And therefore she cannot exclude from income any per diems attributable to any of them. (By the way, since she\'s the employee, the income would be required to be reported on her own return, not her kids\'.)</i><br><br>I\'m just lovin\' this!!  <br><br><b>MSM and IRS  -  Where you at!!?</b><br><br><br>Obama-Biden \'08!!!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2878678" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2878678">djchefron</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2878678" class="dsq-comment-message">By the way, dont forget  crap shooting gambling with industry lobbyist McCain. It seems that he forget to tell the IRS about his winnings.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2879435">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2879435" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree. Where\'s his gambling returns? <br><br>And, where are HER per diems?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2876951">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2876951" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  And now a word from Maher:<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/04/the-good-news-is-palin-ca_n_131854.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/04/the-go...</a><br><b>Bill Maher Takes On Palin\'s Debate Performance</b><br><br><i>The good news is that Sarah Palin can complete a sentence...the bad news is that the rest of us have to listen to it, according to Bill Maher in his opening monologue on Friday night.<br><br>Maher also had mocking words for Rich Lowry, who thought Palin was \'man straightening.\'<br><br>Here\'s video:</i><br><br>Good one!!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2876983">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2876983" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  O\'Racist and Barney Frank :<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/03/bill-oreilly-and-barney-f_n_131569.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/03/bill-o...</a><br><b>Bill O\'Reilly and Barney Frank Face-Off Over Fannie and Freddie</b><br><br><i>Bill O\'Reilly and Barney Frank faced off over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on Thursday night\'s "O\'Reilly Factor" in one of the most heated "Factor" segments in recent memory.<br><br>O\'Reilly, who has called for Frank\'s resignation as the chairman of the House Finance Committee, called Frank a "coward" and told him, "Stop the B.S!"<br><br>Frank didn\'t take O\'Reilly\'s abuse lying down, fighting back, saying, "Bill, here\'s the problem with going on your show. You start ranting. And the only way to respond is almost to look as boorish as you."<br><br>Watch (transcript below):</i><br><br><br>"Almost as boorish as you!"  LOL!!:&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2876997">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2876997" class="dsq-comment-message">that was hilarious. See, this is why I love Barney Frank, lisp and all.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2877071">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2877071" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  Fer sure!  He\'s just a gosh darn little sweetie pie!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2879377" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2879377" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2879377" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'d love to meet Bill O\'Racist on the street.<br><br>Y\'all would have to raise money to get me outta jail.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2879413">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2879413" class="dsq-comment-message">I also have to say that The Right has been after Frank for years. Openly gay, smart, and fearless, Frank is a nightmare to them.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2878348">nickwah22</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2878348" class="dsq-comment-message">NYT: Election divides Catholic Church <br><i>In Scranton, Pa., every Catholic attending Mass this weekend will hear a special homily about the election next month: Bishop Joseph Martino has ordered every priest in the diocese to read a letter warning that voting for a supporter of abortion rights amounts to endorsing “homicide.”<br><br>“Being ‘right’ on taxes, education, health care, immigration and the economy fails to make up for the error of disregarding the value of a human life,” the bishop wrote. “It is a tragic irony that ‘pro-choice’ candidates have come to support homicide — the gravest injustice a society can tolerate — in the name of ‘social justice.’ ” </i><br><br><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27023915/" rel="nofollow">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27023915/</a></div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2879272" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2879272" class="dsq-comment-message">Aw. Poor things. When preachers have to preach politics from the pulpit, we\'re in a bad way. And that goes for those who support Barack as well.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2878497" href="http://sooncome.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">JunePearl</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2878497" class="dsq-comment-message">I know I\'ve been gone for a minute, busy week and all that. But, y\'all <i>know</i> I have kept reading and keeping up with the jjp post!<br><br>The debate was actually frustrating for me to watch. I knew that Palin would do well enough. In fact, I was getting so fed up of people saying she wouldn\'t, that\'s exactly what the McPain camp want to encourage. I keep telling people, coming from Chicago, you can\'t get far in politics and be a fool or a saint. So:<br><br>Number One: <b>Don\'t look to Obama as a savior</b>. He himself is really good at calling on people to use their power of civic duty, and not to think he will solve all the problems by himself. It\'s one of the main reasons I support him, he encourages people to get involved and take ownership of the political process.<br><br>Number Two: Stop calling Palin a bimbo or a stupid fool. The woman is clearly out of her league, but she is <b>no</b> fool. You don\'t get as far as a governorship by flailing along on pure luck. She is a shrewd politician, who is now in way over her head. In fact, it\'s probably best that she be out here now, imagine if she had time to fine-tune her political muster, can you imagine this woman running for president in 2012 with enough experience in the political process to render her competent for playing the game, but as an unknown, </i>as opposed to us knowing in advance what she is really all about</i>. It is actually frightening.<br><br><b>But moving forward!</b> Here are some post I found about religion and whiteness and the election. I\'ve been saying for the longest time we are in a special place in time where we can forge positive relationships with white evangelicals. The younger generation especially. They are starting to move in a more liberal direction, we must do all we can to encourage this. If I have learned nothing else in the past 16 years of following politics, is that we <b>must</b> forge alliances if we want to get anything done.<br><br><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/blog/2008/10/question-for-social-conservati.html" rel="nofollow">Question for Social Conservatives: What Do You Think of Sarah Palin?</a><br><br><a href ="http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week1205/perspectives.html" rel="nofollow">PERSPECTIVES: Young Evangelicals and the Candidates</a><br><br><br>Gotta go get ready for church, have a great Sunday all!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2884840">Anderkoo</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2884840" class="dsq-comment-message">JunePearl, as it happens my wife organizes young Christians who are mostly white and mostly evangelical (but also a range of other cultures and Christian faiths) on social justice issues. She is absolutely seeing that change -- but most old-school liberals do NOT see it happening. It\'s been frustrating from her perspective trying to reach out to other groups -- there are some very strong stereotypes about white evangelicals that most blinds people to the potential. Would love to talk with you more about this if you are interested, drop me a line -- <a href="mailto:gene@anderkoo.com" rel="nofollow">gene@anderkoo.com</a></div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2878835" href="http://www.bigassbelle.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">bigassbelle</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2878835" class="dsq-comment-message">this is the second day your Open Thread post photos have brought tears to my eyes ~ in a good way. so easy to get discouraged with the right wing hate machine in full cry. this, and the photo yesterday, they lifted my spirits. thank you for that.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2878898" href="http://www.tariqnelson.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">TariqNelson</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2878898" class="dsq-comment-message">Well, the right wing hate machine is going full throttle with Queen Palin leading. She is trying to say that Obama is a terrorist and will be relentlessly attacking him in the coming weeks to lead a Willie Horton scare campaign. Say it ain\'t so...they are doing it again</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2879085" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2879085" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2879085" class="dsq-comment-message">Have no fear.<br><br>It\'s going to backfire.<br><br>BIG time.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2879424">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2879424" class="dsq-comment-message">I told y\'all - Birth of a Nation, 2008 is upon us.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2879081" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2879081" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2879081" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCx0J3NiABY" rel="nofollow">American Promise</a><br><br>Spread it.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2879420">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2879420" class="dsq-comment-message">I love it, craig.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2879137" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2879137" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2879137" class="dsq-comment-message">On Meet the Press, Paul Begala let people know that if McCain wants to play guilt by association, he\'ll lose. There was some group that McCain had a relationship with that was a right wing racist organization. And Paul used his notes to get it ought there and get it right.<br><br>The Dangerous One isn\'t going to know what hit him before this is all over.<br><br><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/4/224123/325/987/620410" rel="nofollow">Check this out.</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2879427">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2879427" class="dsq-comment-message">That was good, but I was thinking a little bit closer to home.<br><br>Like her being married to a mofo who belonged to a SECESSIONIST GROUP.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2879464" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2879464" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2879464" class="dsq-comment-message">They\'re not going to attack her or her family. Todd is her family.<br><br>They\'re going to rake McCain over the coals. He\'ll have very real flashbacks to the Hanoi Hilton before it\'s all over.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2886609">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2886609" class="dsq-comment-message">....</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2879496" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2879496" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2879496" class="dsq-comment-message">Our campaign\'s preemptive strike. And it\'s pretty good.<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y42RErUjfAc" rel="nofollow">This Year</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2884657">Anderkoo</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2884657" class="dsq-comment-message">The word is out: the new message is "Out of touch."<br><br>Let\'s bring that one home</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2879513" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2879513">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2879513" class="dsq-comment-message">Sarah Palin is a bimbo for going out there wearing red stripper pumps and winking and blowing kisses at the debate.  She is a fool because she actually thinks she belongs in the Big Leagues when at best she belongs on the Company Softball League.<br><br>But she\'s not politically stupid and she knows that McCain will throw her under the bus if/when they lose.  She\'s only a small part of McCain\'s problem but she\'ll get 100% of the blame.  So she\'s going to start throwing McCain under the bus because she\'s looking forward to 2012.  She\'s the fresh new face of the GOP and she knows it.  Those crowds ain\'t coming for him, they\'re coming for her.  The only reason people are enthusiastic about McCain\'s candidacy is because of HER.<br><br>McCain\'s people know that, which is why they\'ve already started throwing her under the bus.  McCain is not only running against Obama, he\'s running against his own running mate.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2879546">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2879546" class="dsq-comment-message">Town,<br><br>Your observations have been so on point for awhile now. But, all the hounds that McCain\'s people are keeping at bay in Alaska will be GONE, November 5th. And, she\'s going to have to deal with all the cockroaches folks have shone a light on in Alaska. <br><br>The knives are poised; they\'re only waiting for November 5th. And all the questions that everyone here and there have posed that they\'ve been stonewalling on, will start to tumble out.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2879690" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2879690">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2879690" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  The Mudflats & the Anchorage Daily News give HER and Us the TRUTH about <b>her lack of receptivity in Alaska right NOW!</b><br><br>She cain\'t go back!!  :&gt;)<br><br>Obama-Biden \'08!!!<br><br><br><br><br>Grabbin\' my CHOIR ROBE  - for real!  :&gt;)  At choich ALL Day!  :&gt;)   L8R</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2879808" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2879808">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2879808" class="dsq-comment-message">I heard that Todd was going to testify?  Maybe the Palins figure they better clear up Troopergate NOW before the lions get to them on Nov. 5th.<br><br>Did you read the Mudflats account of the two different rallies?  They are tryiing to figure out how the mud got in the roads leading to the Obama rallies.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2879917">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2879917" class="dsq-comment-message">you and I know how the mud got there. don\'t fool me</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2879756" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2879756" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2879756" class="dsq-comment-message">He made his bed. And he\'s pissed he doesn\'t get to nail her in it.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2879514" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/opinion/05dowd.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&oref=slogin" rel="nofollow">Maureen Dowd\'s Latest</a><br><br>This was her opening sentence:<br><br><i>I had hoped I was finally done with acting as an interpreter for politicians whose relationship with the English language was tumultuous.</i><br><br>BWA HA HA HA HA</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2879523">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2879523" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/opinion/05rich.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&oref=slogin" rel="nofollow">Frank Rich\'s Latest Column</a><br><br>I think I\'d try and hug Frank Rich if I ever met him. He\'s been on point pretty much this entire election season.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2879693" class="dsq-comment-message">He needs the Pulitzer Prize for his election coverage.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2879623" class="dsq-comment-message">From Booman about Rich Lowry & Palin<br><br><i>Everyone\'s mocking Lowry, but I at least partially agree with him.  I described myself as stunned, which isn\'t that far from mesmerized. I had a tremendous amount of difficulty processing any meaning in what she was saying. Part of the reason for that was that she was speaking extraordinarily quickly and part of it was that she kept making unsignaled changes in direction. Part of it was because a lot of what she was saying was filler, and basically meaningless. But another big factor was that I couldn\'t believe my eyes. I couldn\'t believe that she was acting like a beauty contestant, and it stunned me almost insensate. I couldn\'t believe that John McCain had allowed this to happen. I still can\'t. So my sympathy goes out to Rich Lowry. He\'s now the butt of a joke. But, for me, those little starbursts in the living room were real. They came from my frying synapses.<br><br></i><br><br><a href="http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2008/10/4/0332/29321" rel="nofollow">http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2008/10/4/03...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2879709" class="dsq-comment-message">That\'s so fucking awesome.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2879697" class="dsq-comment-message">This is for you, rikyrah:<br><br><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/5/102537/780/724/620665" rel="nofollow">Sarah Palin palling around with secessionists</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2879748">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2879748" class="dsq-comment-message">Tyler Perry\'s Alleged Role As Union Buster May Be Obama Embarrassment<br><br><a href="http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/tyler-perrys-accused-role-as-union-buster-becomes-big-obama-embarrassment/" rel="nofollow">http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/tyler-per...</a><br><br><br>Yesterday I was going off when someone suggested that Obama is responsible for Tyler Perry and someone responded saying . . . . . everything isn\'t about Obama.  My response -- in John McCain\'s world.  Everything is about Obama especially if it comes from a black person.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2880757" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2880757" class="dsq-comment-message">Val, that link you posted is such crap, why do we even bother to give it credibility by repeating the nonsense?<br><br>Supporters and donors to politicians have different views from those they support.<br><br>Perry isn\'t a part of Obama\'s official campaign.<br><br>There\'s no <i>there</i> there.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2882840" class="dsq-comment-message">Craig I hear you - btw yall we raised $10,000 today for Barack!!!  Yea Democrats.<br><br>Craig - you are preaching to the choir.  I said basically the same thing yesterday.  This post was a response to the person I had the discussion with yesterday.  My reaction - do what I can to help raise money for Barack and Joe - they will need every dime for the next few weeks to push back on this crap.<br><br>In the meanwhile - I have been making sure folks don\'t overreact - stick to the facts, not get side tracked because Craig -- we knew it was not going to be easy and we would have to fight to down to the last minute.  I said before - this race is not about just Barack or Joe.  It is about all of us.  So an insult to Barack or Joe is an insult to me and my family.  I refuse to take it.<br><br>I am ready and my intention is to get everyone I know fired up and ready to kick a*s on this nonsense.  It is not going to work this time.  I will be darned if I allow them to swiftboat us this year.  <br><br>Go Obama/Biden/We the People 08!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2883243" class="dsq-comment-message">awesome! Good Job, Val!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2884629" class="dsq-comment-message">$10,000??? that\'s crazy! The nation is in your debt!<br><br>(How many people is that, btw?)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2895025" class="dsq-comment-message">150 people.  My birthday was last week so instead of a birthday party we/I hosted a fundraiser for Barack/Biden.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2886666" class="dsq-comment-message">VAL:  <b>Yaaaaaaaa!!  :&gt;)</b>  <b>CONGRATULATIONS!!</b></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2886121" class="dsq-comment-message">True...but I see it from the union angle, not a racial one, which I find bizarre because geeze, he can\'t speak for every Black person. <br><br>But if you\'re getting support from unions, then you don\'t want to associate with someone who is anti-union, cross a picket line, etc. I\'m sure if there\'s anything at all to be "handled," it will be.<br><br>But let me just say this: what a crappy thing for Perry to pull.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2879763" class="dsq-comment-message">Rikyrah and all,<br>See a cute picture from Barack Obama\'s flickr of an event in Michigan. It a nice picture showing Barack with a couple of kids and what looks like ther Dad and Granpa. It\'s pretty cute.<br><br><br><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/barackobamadotcom/2911278912/in/set-72157607716229379/" rel="nofollow">http://www.flickr.com/photos/barackobamadotcom/...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2879771" class="dsq-comment-message">this one, too<br><br><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/barackobamadotcom/2911278992/in/set-72157607716229379/" rel="nofollow">http://www.flickr.com/photos/barackobamadotcom/...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2879819">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2879819" class="dsq-comment-message">JJP - headed out to a fundraising drive with family and friends.  Trying to raise a sizeable donation for Obama/Biden -- I know they will need every help they can get for the next few weeks.<br><br>Talk to you later All -<br><br>Go Obama/Biden/We the People 08</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2879836" class="dsq-comment-message">I have a feeling there will be a few more speeches encouraging citizens to rise up over the next few weeks.<br><br>Love this one from Bruce Springsteen<br><br>Hello Philly,<br><br>I am glad to be here today for this voter registration drive and for Barack Obama, the next president of the United States.<br><br>I\'ve spent 35 years writing about America, its people, and the meaning of the American Promise. The Promise that was handed down to us, right here in this city from our founding fathers, with one instruction: Do your best to make these things real: opportunity, equality, social and economic justice, a fair shake for all of our citizens, the American idea, as a positive influence, around the world for a more just and peaceful existence. These are the things that give our lives hope, shape, and meaning. They are the ties that bind us together and give us faith in our contract with one another.<br><br>I\'ve spent most of my creative life measuring the distance between that American promise and American reality. For many Americans, who are today losing their jobs, their homes, seeing their retirement funds disappear, who have no healthcare, or who have been abandoned in our inner cities, the distance between that promise and that reality has never been greater or more painful.<br><br>I believe Senator Obama has taken the measure of that distance in his own life and in his work. I believe he understands, in his heart, the cost of that distance, in blood and suffering, in the lives of everyday Americans. I believe as president, he would work to restore that promise to so many of our fellow citizens who have justifiably lost faith in its meaning. After the disastrous administration of the past 8 years, we need someone to lead us in an American reclamation project. In my job, I travel the world, and occasionally play big stadiums, just like Senator Obama. I\'ve continued to find, wherever I go, America remains a repository of people\'s hopes, possibilities, and desires, and that despite the terrible erosion to our standing around the world, accomplished by our recent administration, we remain, for many, a house of dreams. One thousand George Bushes and one thousand Dick Cheneys will never be able to tear that house down.<br><br>They will, however, be leaving office, dropping the national tragedies of Katrina, Iraq, and our financial crisis in our laps. Our sacred house of dreams has been abused, looted, and left in a terrible state of disrepair. It needs care; it needs saving, it needs defending against those who would sell it down the river for power or a quick buck. It needs strong arms, hearts, and minds. It needs someone with Senator Obama\'s understanding, temperateness, deliberativeness, maturity, compassion, toughness, and faith, to help us rebuild our house once again. But most importantly, it needs us. You and me. To build that house with the generosity that is at the heart of the American spirit. A house that is truer and big enough to contain the hopes and dreams of all of our fellow citizens. That is where our future lies. We will rise or fall as a people by our ability to accomplish this task. Now I don\'t know about you, but I want that dream back, I want my America back, I want my country back.<br><br>So now is the time to stand with Barack Obama and Joe Biden, roll up our sleeves, and come on up for the rising.<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-springsteen/from-the-stage-at-the-vot_b_131966.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-springsteen...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2879946" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/05/ap-palins-ayers-attack-ra_n_132008.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/05/ap-pal...</a><br><br>Even the AP thinks Palin went a step too far with that "palling with terrorist" crap.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2879976" class="dsq-comment-message">from Buzzflash, explains why the MSM is favoring McCain and Palin.<br><br>"By Any Measure, Sarah Palin is a Radical Political and Religious Extremist<br>Submitted by mark karlin on Sun, 10/05/2008 - 10:31am. EditorBlog <br>THE BUZZFLASH EDITOR\'S BLOG<br><br>By Mark Karlin, Editor and Publisher of <a href="http://BuzzFlash.com" rel="nofollow">BuzzFlash.com</a><br><br>October 5, 2008<br><br>It’s hard to believe that the corporate media is headlining Sarah Palin’s warmed-over-from-the-primaries Sean Hannity smears against Obama. But then again, according to the site Think Progress, the Mainstream Media Stand To Receive $1.44 Billion From McCain’s Tax Cuts. <br><br>While Palin, as the aerial presidential campaign wolf hunter, retreads disproven slander that Obama was somehow in league with an act committed by Bill Ayers when Palin was in the second grade -- so to speak -- and Obama was also in elementary school, the mainstream press ignores Palin’s extremely radical ties to extremist political and religious movements.<br><br>The corporate media shot down the notion that Palin was affiliated and supportive of the Alaskan Independence (Secessionist) Party by accepting the McCain campaign excuse that she has always been a registered Republican. But then explain this video from this year – 2008 – in which Governor Palin welcomes and praises the secessionist party during their convention in Fairbanks. Watch it. You can’t wish reality away, although Palin is superb at trying to blink it away.<br><br>Also, you can support and be supportive or a member of the Alaskan Independence Party, as you would the John Birch Society (and there is a photo from the \'90s of Palin with John Birch Society literature), without having to have them as your registered political party. That appears to be the route that Sarah and Todd Palin have taken. But you know that’s just too "subtle" a distinction for the mainstream corporate press to grasp, so they rather recycle disproven slander against Obama than expose Palin’s radical present, not just her fanatical past.<br><br>As we noted in a BuzzFlash headline this weekend: "Palin Who Pals Around with the Alaska Independence (Secessionist) Party, Gets Blessed by a Nutcase Minister Who Protects Her from Witch Doctors, Listens to Speakers Who Believe Jews are Damned, Calls the Iraq War Divinely Inspired (and More of Unacceptable Anti-American and Extremist Beliefs and Behavior) is Now Following the McCain Effort to Reawaken Old Discredited Smears on Obama. Palin is Just a Rabid Pit Bull. Forget the Lipstick." And that’s not even the half of her UnAmerican beliefs, not even a fifth of them.<br><br>But given the desperation of the McCain campaign because somehow – miraculously – reality has peaked through the crowds and many Americans are seeing the Grand Hypocrisy Party as the larcenous cabal that it is, Palin is being employed to resurrect the Obama slander that is only newsworthy because of the fact that the McCain campaign has run out of other lies to peddle.<br><br>Meanwhile, Palin – who is a believer in a renegade theology called "The Third Wave" that believes God has chosen certain people (her) to lead America into preparation for Armageddon, indeed that her ascension to the presidency is a prerequisite for End Times – is getting the kids gloves treatment from the national press (except for, unexpectedly, Katie Couric). Think of the billions of dollars that is spent on corporate news reporting and try to fathom that they covered the VP as a good "performance" on Palin’s part, without dealing with her complete deficiency in offering any plan or vision for America’s future. (Meanwhile, the "snap polls" that BuzzFlash received – admittedly unscientific – ALL showed that Biden won by at least 20% with the crucial Independent vote on every major issue.)<br><br>Remember that Palin was placed on the ticket, allegedly, because a rather secretive organization of far right evangelicals told the McCain campaign to appoint her V.P. or risk the formidable institutional support and get out the vote support of the Armageddon crowd. McCain, seeing that he evoked all the enthusiasm of road kill, relented.  This was the same group of radical evangelical "leaders" who anointed George W. Bush in a secret meeting (no media or taping equipment is allowed) in 2000.  Remember, they didn\'t choose to McCain; they chose to back Palin with the hope that she will soon succeed McCain.<br><br>Since then, Sarah Palin – in her own language of "Crack Barrel" expressions, scripted campaign slogans, and dropped sentences – has been running not for VP but for president.<br><br>As Frank Rich implies in another scintillating column on October 5, when the Governor accidentally said recently that she was running on the Palin-McCain ticket, she wasn’t kidding. Palin has said several things that contradict the McCain campaign message – and they don’t seem intentional to try and draw in a different group of voters.<br><br>In Colorado on Saturday, where she resurrected some slime against Obama, from Sean Hannity and the gang, she argued that the McCain campaign shouldn’t have given up on Michigan. Say what?<br><br>McCain is acting so petulantly and irascible of late, it is hard to take him seriously as a candidate. As Frank Rich notes, McCain is now relying on Palin, a radical extremist in the guise of a "down home" persona, to carry him across the finish line. <br><br>McCain appears to just want to cross the finish line, to show that he could be elected before he dies. How long he serves is of less importance to him than to feel validated by winning the presidential election. He is not putting the country first; he is putting himself first, a man with a fierce grievance that he wasn’t nominated by his party earlier in his youth, when he had the fire to do something. Now, he just wants his trophy presidency and then he’s ready to turn it over to Sarah Palin.<br><br>Those of you who doubt it should remember the below the radar comment that Palin made in the VP debate, one of the few substantive remarks she uttered. In essence, she said that she would model her role as VP after Cheney. BuzzFlash wrote a commentary on this horrifying power grab ("Like Putting Lipstick on a Cheney: Palin\'s Vow to Continue Unitary Executive and Lack of Accountability for VP Position") that doesn’t exist in the Constitution and to which Biden appropriately replied: <br><br>"Vice President Cheney has been the most dangerous vice president we\'ve had probably in American history... The Constitution is explicit. The only authority the vice president has from the legislative standpoint is the vote, only when there is a tie vote. He has no authority relative to the Congress. The idea he\'s part of the Legislative Branch is a bizarre notion invented by Cheney to aggrandize the power of a unitary executive and look where it has gotten us. It has been very dangerous." <br><br>But Sarah Palin, to quote "The Blues Brothers," is on a mission from God.<br><br>And as Frank Rich notes, the ultimate game changer may be that if somehow the McCain-Palin tickets squeaks through (and it would have to be with voter suppression and stolen votes), expect Palin to assume the presidency right quick.<br><br>That’s the plan of the Anti-American extremist evangelical right wing. With Palin as president, it becomes their country, not ours. They are the ultimate terrorists against democracy and the Constitution, but you won’t read a word about it in the corporate press."</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2880659" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2883029" class="dsq-comment-message">Christian sleeper cells.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2880137" class="dsq-comment-message">My Obama Screensaver Collection is awesome thanks to the great pics posted on JJP.<br><br>DOES RACE TRUMP THE ECONOMY?<br><br>Apparently "The Heartland of America" believes it and McCain is so sure that if he gets the discussion back to Obama\'s skin color, he can win.  McCain isworking hard at turning the Obama discussion back to "We don\'t really know him" which translates to "DON\'T FORGET HE\'S BLACK."<br><br> It has to be our hope that ones pocket book, the recession, gas prices, lost mortgages, lost jobs, lost retirements and  the $700B deficit economy would outweigh the issue of race. The sad part is that the issue of race may be more deeply entrenched than we realize. When race trumps people\'s bank account, it\'s a sad state of affairs in the USA.<br><br>What\'s unsaid on the race issue:  Although the discussion about the debate was on Queen Sarah, Biden was the real victor.  We don\'t talk about race much in this country but  if the minds of men could speak, this is what we would hear from majority voters:  "I feel more comfortable now in voting for Obama with Biden at his side based on his performance at the debate." Biden delivers the vote and wins the minds of men.<br><br>The OCTOBER SURPRISE:  WILL RACE TRUMP THE ECONOMY?<br><br>Obama\'s unprecedented rise to power IS Divine Providence.  No weapon formed against him shall prosper, it won\'t work.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2880527">Elephants &amp; Flowers</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2880527" class="dsq-comment-message">Here\'s something Barak and the rest of us as we face these last few weeks of the campaign.  Powerful and inspiring lyrics.<br><br>Something Inside So Strong by Labi Siffre<br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otuwNwsqHmQ&feature=related" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otuwNwsqHmQ&feat...</a><br><br>Enjoy</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2880558">Monie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2880558" class="dsq-comment-message">McCain and his campaign are just despicable.<br><br>I am personally tired of the media giving a "pass" to this man simply because he was a POW.  Don\'t get me wrong, I love our fellow  American military citizens-- -but it does not simply entitle you to the presidency of the United States.  Hell, even D.C. sniper John Allen Muhammed served in the Army and looked at how he turned out.<br><br>It is mind-boggling to me that John Mccain is considered a foreign policy guru when he has made considerable gaffes dealing with everything from policies to geography, dissing our NATO allies---and last week he even had the nerve to say he asks Gov. Palin for advice on foreign policy---that is too scary.<br><br>I am tired of him using this surge argument about Iraq.  Most Americans KNOW this was an unnecessary war that has led our nation and troops into a needless precarious situation.  Even Gen. Petraues says he would not use the word "victory" in describing progress in Iraq. I was thinking of an analogy the other day that I felt conveyed my feelings on Iraq----  You find yourself on trial for a DUI in which you kill a couple and the jury has a choice of convicting you of involuntary manlaughter or vehicular homicide.  The jury hands down the lesser of the 2 charges, involuntary manslaughter, and you breath a sigh of relief.  The problem is you still killed 2 people due to your reckless behavior....and even though you are relieved of the lighter sentence, you still can\'t consider that a "victory" because the lingering truth is that you ended the lives of 2 people who didin\'t deserve it.  Our armed forces need a Commander-in-chief who is not obsessed with war---diplomacy can work ----and we also need someone who will ensure that our military members are treated well when they come home.  John McCain has a disgusting record when it comes veterans legislation---and McCain with is military background has never served on the Veteran Affairs Committee.  I guess that explains why he feels increased education benefits, in the form of the new GI bill was too "generous" for our military members--he has never needed those additonal perks in life being the son of an Admiral and married to a multi-million dollar beer heiress.<br><br>McCain has also been given far too much credit for being "tough"---that he will stand up to world leaders.  McCain can\'t even handle the media, who have been too lightweight regarding his campaign IMO.   McCain canceled a CNN interview when Campbell Brown questioned Palin\'s qualifications.  He won\'t grant an interview to NBC for Gov. Palin because of commentators like Keith Olbermann who digs in his campaign ass and does the real truthtelling.  The McCain won\'t even respond to the Rachel Maddow Show.  HIs wife complains that the ladies from the "VIew" "picked our bones" when questioned about their consistent campaign strategy of deliberately lying on Obama.  He kicks Maureen Dowd off his campaign plane.  He accuses Mika, the New York Times, and virtually anyone who disagrees with them as being in the tank for Obama.  And most significantly, John McCain could not even look Obama in the eye, with his condescending attitude and disrespect displayed for all the world to see.<br><br>John McCain has embraced the same people who demonized him and his family in 2000.  Even hiring Tucker Eschew, one of the masterminds of the "black baby smear" to his campaign.  McCain doesn\'t stand for shyt----I would never associate with those who used my children as a weapon to discredit me--- John McCain is no maverick but a pushover who is willing to lose all decency to win an election.  And now I am one to believe that this mythical "maverick" that the media touted was only a persona--perhaps his break with the Republicans on certain issues was due to "sour grapes" he had with the Republican party after his defeat in 2000.  It is not a  coincidence that every issue that he supposedly "broke away" with  his party are issues that he has totally flip-flopped on---John McCain never stood for those issues in the first place.<br><br>And it is laughable  that McCain created the biggest celebrity of them all---Gov. Palin.   After she came along, he was finally able to draw larger crowds.  And like actresses, she sticks to the same script.  And like the Paris Hilton\'s of the world, she has to wink at the audience or do other outrageous antics to send her male wingnut admirers onto their sexual fantasy lands (because there is absolutely no reason a candidate has to wink at an audience during a debate)  And the American media has to reach out and demand   access but are denied just like fans catching a glimpse of their favorite singer backstage before being whisked away to their  dressing room.  And let us not forget how some celebrities get to evade their criminal behavior by hiring the best legal teams, just like the McCain campaign has taken over the investigation of Troopergate and the government of Alaska.<br><br>And most of all, let us look at the shadiness of Keating 5---John McCain\'s knee-deep involvement in political favoritism, lavish gifts, ---his wife\'s sweetheart business deals with Keating----and the scandal that cost taxpayers billions.  CIndy McCain and her theft and addiction to drugs behind he guise of her  charitable oraganization----why wasn\'t she forced to stand trial?  And then tried to malign the whistleblower.  Why was John McCain never held accountable for his lackluster performance as an aviator after it was proven he had a reputation for destroying aircraft---at least 3 times due to stalled aircraft---and was involved in at least 5 mishaps total.  In today\'s military, he would have been considered a liability and probably had his wings confiscated.  John Mccain and his notorious temper and erratic behavior are angerous for this country---PERIOD.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2880609">Shazza</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2880609" class="dsq-comment-message">You better preach!!!</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2880701" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2880701" class="dsq-comment-message">Say it again.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2883810" href="http://sooncome.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">JunePearl</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2883810" class="dsq-comment-message">You know this!!!<br><br>We need to figure out how to get this around. The fact is that MSM is <b>NOT</b> doing their job. No one is holding McCain accountable for this. We need to get this word out, Monie. Like our man says "we are the ones we\'ve been waiting for".<br><br>BTW, I recently had a mental image of Obama\'s girls walking around the White House. It just made it that much more real. We\'re down to the wire, let\'s get \'em elected.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2880845" class="dsq-comment-message">On Saturday\'s thread, it was brought up that John McCain\'s brother called Arlington  in Northern Virginia "Communist Country" because of what seems to be overwhelming support for Obama in that area.  It is interesting that he would use the term "communist" since Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was also labeled by his critics as a \'communist" in an effort to discredit his movement.  To me, this has given me a clearer picture of why McCain was opposed to the King holiday and found himself  often supporting individuals like Richard Quinn and Evan Meacham who  were critical and opposed to Dr. King.   Make no mistake about it, McCain\'s brother\'s use of the term "communist" is no slip of the tongue----to me it is the same term many used as code for "this black man has too much power" during the era of King\'s rise as a civil rights leader.<br><br>Here\'s a couple things I found over at Color of Change about McCain\'s stance on MLK :<br>McCain’s Contorted Position on Federal King Holiday <br><br>McCain Voted Against Creating Martin Luther King Holiday. In 1983, McCain voted against a motion to suspend the rules and pass a bill to designate the third Monday of every January as a federal holiday in honor of the late civil rights leader, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The motion passed 89-77. [HR 3706, Vote 289, 8/2/83; CQ 1983] <br><br>Arizona Governor Rescinded Martin Luther King Jr. Day. In 1987, One of newly elected Governor Evan Mecham’s first acts in office was to rescind Arizona’s recognition of the Martin Luther King Holiday. “Mecham strikes many voters as a simpleminded ideologue who is giving a bad name to the nation\'s second-fastest-growing state. After rescinding the Jan. 19 holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr., Mecham defended the use of the term "pickaninnies" for blacks.” [Time 11/9/87]<br><br>McCain Said He Thought Governor Was Correct in His Decision According to the Huffington Post, “In 1983, McCain voted against passing a bill to designate the third Monday of every January as a federal holiday in honor of King. Four years later, then-Arizona Governor Evan Mecham rescinded Martin Luther King Day as a state holiday, saying it had been established through an illegal executive order by his Democratic predecessor. McCain said he thought Mecham was correct in his decision.” [Sam Stein, Huffington Post, 4/1/08]<br><br>McCain: Wrong on Key Issues for People of Color <br>McCain Consistently Voted Against The Civil Rights Act Of 1990. In 1990, McCain voted against a bill designed to address employer discrimination at least 4 times. According to the Washington Post, the “Civil Rights Act of 1990 is designed to overturn several recent Supreme Court rulings that made it much more difficult for individual employees to prove discrimination. The legislation, being fought by business, also would impose new penalties on employers convicted of job discrimination.” [S 2104, Vote #304, 10/24/90; Vote #276, Vote #275, 10/16/90; Vote #161, 7/18/90; Washington Post, 7/9/90] <br><br><br>McCain Strategist Opposed King Holiday <br>McCain Defended Controversial Spokesman Richard Quinn, McCain\'s who called the MLK Holiday "Vitriolic and Profane." Richard Quinn, was a South Carolina "strategist" for McCain in the 2000 campaign. In a Partisan View column, Richard Quinn wrote, "King Day should have been rejected because its purpose is vitriolic and profane. By celebrating King as the incarnation of all they admire, they [black leaders] have chosen to glorify the histrionic rather than the heroic and by inference they spurned the brightest and the best among their own race. Ignoring the real heroes in our nation\'s life, the blacks have chosen a man who represents not their emancipation, not their sacrifices and bravery in service to their country; rather, they have chosen a man whose role in history was to lead his people into a perpetual dependence on the welfare state, a terrible bondage of body and soul.” Quinn has also advocated electing David Duke, and sold T-Shirts through his magazine celebrating Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. [Partisan View, Southern Partisan, Fall, 1983; Partisan View, Southern Partisan, Winter, 1989, PFAW Release, 2/17/00] [Spartanburg Herald-Journal, 12/23/05; Vanity Fair, 11/04] <br><br><br>McCain Defended Quinn as ‘Respected’ and a ‘Fine Man.” Despite Mr. Quinn’s writings and history of racial insensitivity, McCain defended him as a ‘respected’ and ‘fine man’ and refused to fire him. [Associated Press, 2/18/00; New York Times, 2/8/00]</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2881090" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2881090" class="dsq-comment-message">I just don\'t think  we need to waste our time dissecting their bullshit.<br><br>We\'ve got 30 days to win an election. We need to be attacking THEM with soundbytes and getting our people out to vote.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2880917">T.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2880917" class="dsq-comment-message">Playing now at the Obama rally in NC:<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITSF3jUnpY8&feature=related rel="nofollow">AIn\'t no Stpping us now...</a> <br><br>Damn right!<br>T.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2881162">T.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2881162" class="dsq-comment-message">Out of touch, out of ideas,  and running out of time...LOL!<br><br>I love it!<br><br>Go Senator Obama...<br><br>T.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2881194" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2881194" class="dsq-comment-message">Hell yeah.<br><br>I\'m watching on <a href="http://CNN.com" rel="nofollow">CNN.com</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2882010">T.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2882010" class="dsq-comment-message">me too, craig.<br><br>T.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2881951" href="http://nquest2xl.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Nquest</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2881951" class="dsq-comment-message">The AP article somebody linked to kills me with that bs that Obama talking about how "out of touch" and "erratic" McCain has been is clear swipe at his age.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2882027">Texas_Girl_in_LA</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2882027" class="dsq-comment-message">ok..the ending was ...woah</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2882055">T.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2882055" class="dsq-comment-message">How \'bout the email that he read...I\'m embarrassed to say that I am a total mess right now...Gosh, man.<br><br>He\'s gotta be our president. No ifs, no buts, no maybes...<br><br>Don\'t lose your nerve, he beseeches. Stand with me, he says. Yes, we will.<br><br>T.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2882071" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2882071" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes. He read that in Virginia as well I think.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2881999">T.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2881999" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/26/AR2008092602856_pf.html" rel="nofollow"> When Michelle Met Barack.</a> From WaPo.<br><br>Cute excerpt:<br>In interviews and speeches, Michelle frequently talks about her early impressions of Barack. When she first met him, she told her local newspaper, the Hyde Park Herald, "he had no money; he was really broke. He wasn\'t ever going to try to impress me with things. His wardrobe was kind of cruddy . . . His first car had so much rust that there was a rusted hole in the passenger door. You could see the ground when you were driving. He loved that car. It would shake ferociously when it would start up. I thought, \'This brother is not interested in ever making a dime.\' "<br><br>Enjoy,<br>T.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2882905">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2882905" class="dsq-comment-message">T,<br><br><br>Great article. I love Barack & Michelle Obama! I can hardly wait until The Obamas move into the White House with Malia & Sasha!  Woo Hoo!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2884764">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2884764" class="dsq-comment-message">I love the story about the car. Barack is cheap....lol</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2882180">pjamma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2882180" class="dsq-comment-message">AP: Palin\'s Ayers Attack "Racially Tinged"<br>DOUGLASS K. DANIEL | October 5, 2008 02:40 PM EST |  <br><br>Once again Obama is being portrayed as un-American, not like the Joe six-packs that make up this country, and he hangs with terrorists.  But instead of the fringe groups sending out emails, Palin is using it as part of her stump speech.  Sigh.<br><br>I guess it\'s about to be open season on associations.  McCain better get ready.<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/05/ap-palins-ayers-attack-ra_n_132008.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/05/ap-pal...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2882493">T.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2882493" class="dsq-comment-message">Is the media going to talk about the interviews(more) and press conferences that Gov. Palin isn\'t giving? During the debate she did not answer any questions.  That was not even a debate. Are they going to just roll over and let our opponent\'s campaign treat them like this? Have they no pride?<br><br>T.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2882867">JJai</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2882867" class="dsq-comment-message">Jill Biden\'s mother has passed away.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2882929">T.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2882929" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2882929" class="dsq-comment-message">My prayers are with the fam.<br><br>T.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2883009" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2883009" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2883009">JJai</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2883009" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2883009" class="dsq-comment-message">Biden\'s schedule was cleared this weekend and has been cleared at least for the next 2 days.<br><br>My thoughts and prayers are with them as Beau is deployed,too. It\'s a lot on that family in one short period.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2882946" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2882946" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2882946" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2882946" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2882946" class="dsq-comment-message">Prayers all around.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2883047" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2883047" href="http://www.ilivetoshop.typepad.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ruthdfw</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2883047" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2883047" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh how sad that she will not see Joe elected VP - at least not from this side of Jordan.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2883310" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2883310" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2883310">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2883310" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2883310" class="dsq-comment-message">Prayers to the family! May God comfort them in their sad hour!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2883554" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2883554" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2883554">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2883554" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2883554" class="dsq-comment-message">oh no.  I am sorry to hear that.  My prayers are with the family.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2886709" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2886709" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2886709">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2886709" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2886709" class="dsq-comment-message">JJai:  May God Bless and comfort the family!<br><br>We can send words of COMFORT on <a href="http://www.barackobama.com" rel="nofollow">www.barackobama.com</a>  [Now I\'m going to check to see if it\'s org.}</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2882941" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2882941" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2882941" class="dsq-comment-message">Today\'s Polls 10/5<br><br>Colorado Denver Post Obama 44, McCain 44 Tie<br>Minnesota Star Tribune Obama 55, McCain 37 Obama +18<br>National Gallup Tracking Obama 50, McCain 43 Obama +7<br>National Rasmussen Tracking Obama 51, McCain 44 Obama +7<br>National Hotline/FD Tracking Obama 48, McCain 41 Obama +7<br>Ohio Columbus Dispatch Obama 49, McCain 42 Obama +7<br>Pennsylvania Morning Call Tracking Obama 50, McCain 40 Obama +10</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2883342" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2883342" href="http://nquest2xl.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Nquest</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2883342" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2883342" class="dsq-comment-message">Some dumbazz on MSNBC flapped his trap asking "how come Obama can\'t close the deal in Pennsylvania."  He apparently lives in the Bizarro world Palin does...</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2883051" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2883051" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2883051" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2883051" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2883051" class="dsq-comment-message">GOP voter suppression challenge underway in Lake County, IN.<br><a href="http://progressillinois.com/2008/10/04/lake-county-voter-supression" rel="nofollow">http://progressillinois.com/2008/10/04/lake-cou...</a><br><br>I guess the internals in Indiana must look really bad for the criminals.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2883754" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2883754" href="http://talesfromthe.net/jon" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">jon</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2883754" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2883754" class="dsq-comment-message">wow, that\'s bad.  I replied there (and sent mail to BlueIndiana) asking them if they could add it to the Voter Suppression Wiki, helpfully providing a link to the <a href="http://votersuppressionwiki.wetpaint.com/page/Incident+Tracker" rel="nofollow">Incident tracker</a> ...</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2883258" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2883258" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2883258">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2883258" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2883258" class="dsq-comment-message">McCain keeps talking about his record, his record.... Well, here\'s a video that attacks the lie about Obama voting to raise taxes and a website that tells the truth about McCain\'s record:<br><br><a href="http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=tpIWbYs8sec" rel="nofollow">http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=tpIWbYs8sec</a><br>Cool beat, and invites you to go to the website below:<br><br><a href="http://www.johnmccainrecord.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.johnmccainrecord.com/</a><br>Black and red colour scheme on the main page....Nazi chic.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2883263" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2883263" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2883263" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2883263" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2883263" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/5/14622/7147/555/620842" rel="nofollow">The Guilt By Association Game</a><br><br>McCain-Palin are winning. Handsdown.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2883396" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2883396" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2883396">Town</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2883396" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2883396" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/05/rnc-to-seek-audit-of-all-contributions-to-obama-campaign/" rel="nofollow">http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/05...</a><br><br>Republicans:  We demand an investigation into how dat n----r got all that money!  We know it had to be by shady means!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2883633" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2883633" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2883633">Val</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2883633" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2883633" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL - Town, I had to laugh at that one.  <br><br>they are looking desperate right about now.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2883689" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2883689" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2883689">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2883689" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2883689" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s kind of like when your white coworker asks you how can you afford that car or how can you afford to live in that neighborhood, but doesn\'t give it a second thought if Brad and Biff have "that car" or live in "that neighborhood."<br><br>You must be doing something SHADY.  Oh Noes!<br><br>LOL</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2886635" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2886635">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2886635" class="dsq-comment-message">Town:  Then there\'s the "water cooler question":  <b>Soooo, how did YOU happen to get your new position?</b><br><br>Among MY Answers:<br><br>1.  Affirmative Action!<br><br>2.  I slept with ???<br><br>3.  My sister slept with??  on MY behalf!!<br><br>4. I gave  a private "LAP DANCE!" to ????<br><br>5.  I sacrificed MY firstborn!<br><br>6.  I told them that MY grandmother was WHITE! [LIE!]<br><br>7.  I reminded the interview team of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 - even though there was NO interview question in this area.<br><br>8.  I sang a few bars of "WE SHALL OVERCOME" when I entered and left the interview!<br><br>9. I had a picture of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in my "resume" folder!<br><br>10.  I WORE a "McAncient/The Gov." T-shirt for a blouse!  <br><br>Annnnnnd, <b> I WINKED at the end of the interview!!</b><br><br>"WHYCOME" they spit their water out and choked??  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2889399" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2889399">freespiritbty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2889399" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2889399" class="dsq-comment-message">FTFO!!!!!! <br><br>LAUGHING OUT LOUD</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2889522" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2889522" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2889522">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2889522" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2889522" class="dsq-comment-message">freespiritbty:  It\'s my "HUMOR CENTER.  :&gt;)  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2886197" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2886197">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2886197" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2886197" class="dsq-comment-message">McCain\'s been breaking the law since the \'loan\' during his primary days. I say, <br><br>bring.it.on</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2883935" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2883935">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2883935" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2883935" class="dsq-comment-message">Laugh out loud funny diary....<br><br>Palin helping Obama/Biden Ticket in VA<br><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/5/172332/034/406/620983" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/5/172332/...</a><br><blockquote><i>My neighbor must be really pissed today. Palin must have said something that got under his skin. The reason I say this is because after I posted my diary, I went to eat and saw him walk across the street to another neighbor with another McCain sign. These two talk frequently (I see them all the time) but my neighbor was gesturing at the McCain sign and was rather animated in whatever he was saying. Oh to be a fly on the wall</i></blockquote></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2884441" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2884441" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2884441" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2884441" class="dsq-comment-message">That was my favorite diary in a long time.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2884737" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2884737">rikyrah</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2884737" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2884737" class="dsq-comment-message">this was funny.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2884133" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2884133">RobM</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2884133" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2884133" class="dsq-comment-message">The conflict in Iraq is still a problem on the horizon. Here is a chronicle on what needs to be done to leave: <a href="http://www.d-n-i.net/fcs/pdf/riccioni_support_our_troops.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.d-n-i.net/fcs/pdf/riccioni_support_o...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2884515" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2884515" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2884515">Anderkoo</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2884515" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2884515" class="dsq-comment-message">OK, take this one with as much salt as you took the Rolling Stones article about John McCain:<br><br><a href="http://leishacamden.blogspot.com/2008/10/not-that-it-matters.html" rel="nofollow">Obama and the Norwegian bride</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2884836" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2884836" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2884836" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2884836" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2884836" class="dsq-comment-message">The Rolling Stones article didn\'t need to be taken with a grain of salt.<br><br>That was real journalism.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2884633" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2884633" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2884633">TruthSeeker</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2884633" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2884633" class="dsq-comment-message">hehe..<br><br>I just read that over at kos....really great story.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2884863" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2884863" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2884863">RobM</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2884863" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2884863" class="dsq-comment-message">For everyone upset about capitalism here is one for you. A serious look at the tax code is in order:http://calculatedrisk.blogspot.com/2008/10/irs-tax-change-helps-wells-fargo.html</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2885051" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2885051" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2885051">RobM</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2885051" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2885051" class="dsq-comment-message">We have started on a path to save the economy. Here is a look at how we got here and all the players: <a href="http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2008/10/fannie-mae-and.html#more" rel="nofollow">http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2008/10/...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2885133" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2885133">RobM</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2885133" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2885133" class="dsq-comment-message">stealing, when it rains it pours:http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2008/10/did-jpm-cash-ca.html#comments<br>Read the inbed article as well.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2886204" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2886204">nickwah22</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2886204" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2886204" class="dsq-comment-message">Quite honestly, I wouldn\'t be surprised if this were true.  The gov won\'t let them fail and that 700B is going to turn into trillions soon.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2885288" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2885288">RobM</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2885288" class="dsq-comment-message">Fro everyone in Atlanta and elsewhere where no one had gasoline some answers: <a href="http://www.ajc.com/news/content/metro/stories/2008/10/05/gasanswers_1005.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.ajc.com/news/content/metro/stories/2...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2885365" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2885365">Malou</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2885365" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2885365" class="dsq-comment-message">An interesting story on McCain: " Make-Believe Maverick" <br><br>A closer look at the life and career of John McCain reveals a disturbing record of recklessness and dishonesty <br>By TIM DICKINSON<br><a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/make_believe_maverick_the_real_john_mccain" rel="nofollow">http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/mak...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2885409" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2885409">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2885409" class="dsq-comment-message">***Video****<br>VIRAL SONG: HEY SARAH PALIN<br><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/5/201617/978/276/621113" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/5/201617/...</a><br><br>If the vid doesn\'t load fast enough...go to YouTube:<br><a href="http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=7DIc8jdra0o&feature=related" rel="nofollow">http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=7DIc8jdra0o&featu...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2885601" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2885601">Lilytiger</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2885601" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2885601" class="dsq-comment-message">This is classic. Just saw it on another site. Go to youtube people and make it viral!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2885637" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2885637">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2885637" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2885637" class="dsq-comment-message">post a link</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2885707" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2885707">Lilytiger</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2885707" class="dsq-comment-message">If the others don\'t work, this one does..<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DIc8jdra0o" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DIc8jdra0o</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2886375" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2886375" href="http://blog.evavegadiversity.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">evita</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2886375" class="dsq-comment-message">That was so cute and dead on.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2885638" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2885638">TruthSeeker</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2885638" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2885638" class="dsq-comment-message">DIGG it, please:<br><a href="http://digg.com/music/Hey_Sarah_Palin_to_the_tune_of_Hey_There_Delilah" rel="nofollow">http://digg.com/music/Hey_Sarah_Palin_to_the_tu...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2885688" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2885688" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2885688" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2885688" class="dsq-comment-message">This <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T85cOGc8L0" rel="nofollow">video</a> made me murderous. Absolutely murderous, I tell you. And I\'m having trouble stopping crying.<br><br>Sarah Palin is cruel. <br><br>She must not be elected. She can\'t.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2885879" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2885879" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2885879">Obamafan</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2885879" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2885879" class="dsq-comment-message">Where are the PETA people about this?!?!?!? They came out in droves over Mike Vick, what about this???  <br><br>That is abosultely AWFUL!!!!<br><br>She cannot get a heartbeat away from the Presidency, she CANT!!!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2886064">nickwah22</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2886064" class="dsq-comment-message">Thats just sad.  She is a murderer but yet stands so firmly against abortion and yet at the same time for capital punishment.<br><br>Someone needs to throw a paint can full of blood on her ass!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2886271" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2886271" href="http://blog.evavegadiversity.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">evita</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2886271" class="dsq-comment-message">I could only sit through 1 minute and 30 seconds of this... she is the devil.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2886348" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2886348">Texas_Girl_in_LA</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2886348" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2886348" class="dsq-comment-message">I have no words.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2886358" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2886358">TruthSeeker</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2886358" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2886358" class="dsq-comment-message">DIGG it.<br><a href="http://digg.com/educational/Sarah_Palin_Supports_the_Aerial_Hunting_of_Wolves_2" rel="nofollow">http://digg.com/educational/Sarah_Palin_Support...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2886368" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2886368">TruthSeeker</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2886368" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2886368" class="dsq-comment-message">OBAMA\'S GOT GAME!!<br><br>Obama Campaign Launches: <a href="http://keatingeconomics.com" rel="nofollow">keatingeconomics.com</a> !!!<br><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/5/222047/945/192/621189" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/5/222047/...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2886538" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2886538" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2886538" class="dsq-comment-message">Tomorrow at noon, the video of it all debuts.<br><br>McCain walked right into a trap with his vile bullshit.<br><br>You wanna smear somebody and thing you\'re going to emerged unscathed?<br><br>He isn\'t going to know what hit him.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2886580" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2886580">TruthSeeker</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2886580" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2886580" class="dsq-comment-message">...High noon.<br><br>hahahahah!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2886650" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2886650" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2886650">JJai</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2886650" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2886650" class="dsq-comment-message">October Surprises Abound! <br><br>Obama is on the offensive!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2886393" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2886393" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2886393">Michelle</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2886393" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2886393" class="dsq-comment-message">Whoa! I can\'t see the video but just seeing that site up and ready to go -- that\'s excellent!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2886607" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2886607">TruthSeeker</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2886607" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2886607" class="dsq-comment-message">Remember what O said to McCain?  ....If you don\'t stop lying about my record, I\'ll have to start telling the truth about yours...</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2886692" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2886692" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2886692">Michelle</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2886692" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2886692" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>Remember what O said to McCain? ....If you don\'t stop lying about my record, I\'ll have to start telling the truth about yours...</i><br><br>Yes indeed I do! -- yet another reminder that Senator Obama knows words should relate to action, and uses them accordingly.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2886386" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2886386" href="http://thisweekwithbarackobama.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">icebergslim</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2886386" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2886386" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/5/223839/570/1020/606147" rel="nofollow">This Week With Barack Obama is up</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2886430" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2886430" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2886430">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2886430" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2886430" class="dsq-comment-message">icebergslim:  THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH!!  I\'m encouraged by these posts of yours!! :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2886511" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2886511" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2886511">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2886511" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2886511" class="dsq-comment-message">I told y\'all - ain\'t nobody going to jail for this woman. Ain\'t none of them mofos in Alaska got the name Scooter Libby:<br><br>BREAKING: Seven AK Employees to Honor Troopergate Subpoenas (UPDATED 2X)<br><br><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/5/205555/524/268/621137" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/5/205555/...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2886604" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2886604" href="http://blog.evavegadiversity.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">evita</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2886604" class="dsq-comment-message">If you ever want to know what a person is REALLY like- ask their former employees. <br><br>I would LOVE to know about she felt she had to say on yahoo and not the state server...</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2886624" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2886624">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2886624" class="dsq-comment-message">...</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2887167" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2887167" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2887167">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2887167" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2887167" class="dsq-comment-message">evita:  Co-sign!  :&gt;)  That\'s "whycome" I\'m "Field Trippin\'" to "Alaska"  DAILY!! :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2887369" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2887369">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2887369" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2887369" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  Co-signing!!  Ain\'t NO loyalty there!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2886800" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2886800" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2886800">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2886800" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  Trying to see if this pic of Mr. Obama will post!!<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/politics/" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/politics/</a><br><br><b> IT DID!   IT DID!!  </b><br><br>LAWD HA\'MERCY!!!!    I will be SLEEPING in front of my "AIR CONDITIONER!!<br><br>WHERE\'S MY DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. CHURCH FAN!???  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2887173" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2887173">Justice58</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2887173" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2887173" class="dsq-comment-message">GreenLady,<br><br>I know, I know! He is so fine!  Wow!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2887279" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2887279">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2887279" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2887279" class="dsq-comment-message">Justice58:    <b>OMG   - YES!!</b><br><br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nToEQ3HRM18" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nToEQ3HRM18</a><br><b>He\'s So Fine   -  The chiffons</b><br><br>With ALL DUE RESPECT to Mrs. Obama!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2887437" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2887437" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2887437">Justice58</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2887437" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2887437" class="dsq-comment-message">Thanks for the treat, GreenLady!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2887488" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2887488">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2887488" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2887488" class="dsq-comment-message">Justice58:  My pleasure!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>Obama-Biden \'08!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2889497" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2889497" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2889497" href="http://www.hustleandfloe.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">hustleandfloe</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2889497" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2889497" class="dsq-comment-message">O is in straight up Justice League mode.  Arriving none too late, looking like fellow bro-man green lantern: <a href="http://blog.wired.com/geekdad/images/2008/02/28/galgljstewart.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://blog.wired.com/geekdad/images/2008/02/28...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2889538" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2889538">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2889538" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2889538" class="dsq-comment-message">hustleandfloe:  GREAT IMAGE!  :&gt;)  Annnnnd, it\'s GREEN!   My fav color!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>Thanks!  :&gt;)<br><br>Obama-Biden \'08!!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2891357" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2891357">hustleandfloe</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2891357" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2891357" class="dsq-comment-message">very welcome. that\'s my dude.  much peace.  h&f</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-2894843">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2894843" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2894843" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2894843">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2894843" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2894843" class="dsq-comment-message">h&f:  And 2 U 2!!  :&gt;)<br><br>Obama-Biden \'08!!</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2886950">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2886950" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2886950" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2886950">TruthSeeker</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2886950" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2886950" class="dsq-comment-message">Starbucks mocha??...I thought that was only for elitists?<br><br>Palin Misquotes Albright: "Place In Hell Reserved For Women Who Don\'t Support Other Women"<br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/05/palin-misquotes-albright_n_131967.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/05/palin-...</a></div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2887131">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2887131" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2887131" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2887131">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2887131" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2887131" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  HuffPost is just publishing like editor on crack!!  I cain\'t hardly keep up!!  :&gt;)<br><br><a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14284.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14284...</a><br><b>Obama Takes Big Lead In New Minn. Poll</b><br><br><i>A new Minneapolis Star Tribune poll shows Barack Obama opening an expansive lead in Minnesota, which appears to further shrink the electoral map of John McCain.<br><br>Some 55 percent of  respondents said they support Obama, compared to 37 percent who back McCain. The last Star Tribune Minnesota Poll, conducted in September,  showed Obama and McCain deadlocked at 45 percent.<br><br>The 18-point improvement comes as 58 percent of respondents said the Illinois senator would do a better job handling the economy while only 30 percent said the same of McCain.<br><br>The poll, conducted between September 30 and October 2, is based on 1,084 interviews with likely voters.<br><br>While the Star Tribune attributed the surge in part to "an increase in the number of Minnesotans who call themselves Democrats," Republicans questioned the results, and contended the most recent poll surveyed a disproportionately Democratic-leaning group of likely voters, and thus overstated support for Democratic candidates.<br><br>“These numbers would be accurate if the Star Tribune had done this poll in New York— not in Minnesota,” Glen Bolger, a pollster for Republican Sen. Norm Coleman said.<br><br>A portion of the Minnesota poll released yesterday showed a 13-point jump in support for Democratic comedian-turned-politician Al Franken, who\'s now taken his first clear lead, 43 percent to 34 percent, against Coleman.<br><br>On a conference call Thursday, the McCain campaign mapped out its electoral strategy for the remaining thirty days, with a focus on several states where the RealClear polling averages show Obama in front: Colorado (where Obama has a 4.4-point lead), Wisconsin (5), Pennsylvania (9.6), New Hampshire (5.6), New Mexico (7.8), Nevada (1.8)—and Minnesota.</i>  <br><br>THERE IS MORE.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-2887275">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2887275" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2887275" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2887275">freespiritbty</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2887275" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2887275" class="dsq-comment-message">CTHU! I know, right?  They need to step back from the Starbucks!  Nothing but liquid crack!  It\'s a blizzard of articles and I\'m getting a headache keeping up.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-2887393">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2887393" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2887393" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2887393">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2887393" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2887393" class="dsq-comment-message">freespiritbty:   LOL!!  Starbucks = liquid crack!!   :&gt;)</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2887235">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2887235" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2887235" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2887235">TruthSeeker</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2887235" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2887235" class="dsq-comment-message">Fire and brimstone....<br><br>New DNC Ad Criticizes McCain Over Negative Attack Ads (VIDEO)<br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/06/new-dnc-ad-criticizes-mcc_n_132113.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/06/new-dn...</a></div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2887336">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2887336" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2887336" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2887336">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2887336" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2887336" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  <i>MUDFLATS</i> has a FAQ PAGE!  Here\'s the descriptor:<br><br><i><br>New FAQ Page<br>5 10 2008<br><br>There’s a new FAQ page up, talking about spam, trolls, and anonymity. Did I forget anything?<br><br>« State Employees Will Now Testify in Troopergate Probe.</i><br><br>It is having its own Anti-smear thread!  :&gt;)   GREAT!!   :&gt;)</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2887462">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2887462" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2887462" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2887462">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2887462" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2887462" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  Just got an e-mail from the Obama Campaign.<br><br><i>Over the weekend, John McCain\'s top adviser announced their plan to stop engaging in a debate over the economy and "turn the page" to more direct, personal attacks on Barack Obama. <br><br>In the middle of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, they want to change the subject from the central question of this election. Perhaps because the policies McCain supported these past eight years and wants to continue are pretty hard to defend. <br><br>But it\'s not just McCain\'s role in the current crisis that they\'re avoiding. The backward economic philosophy and culture of corruption that helped create the current crisis are looking more and more like the other major financial crisis of our time. <br><br>During the savings and loan crisis of the late \'80s and early \'90s, McCain\'s political favors and aggressive support for deregulation put him at the center of the fall of Lincoln Savings and Loan, one of the largest in the country. More than 23,000 investors lost their savings. Overall, the savings and loan crisis required the federal government to bail out the savings of hundreds of thousands of families and ultimately cost American taxpayers $124 billion. <br><br>Sound familiar? <br><br>In that crisis, John McCain and his political patron, Charles Keating, played central roles that ultimately landed Keating in jail for fraud and McCain in front of the Senate Ethics Committee. The McCain campaign has tried to avoid talking about the scandal, but with so many parallels to the current crisis, McCain\'s Keating history is relevant and voters deserve to know the facts -- and see for themselves the pattern of poor judgment by John McCain. <br><br>So at noon Eastern on Monday, October 6th, we\'re releasing a 13-minute documentary about the scandal called "Keating Economics: John McCain and the Making of a Financial Crisis" -- it will be available at <a href="http://KeatingEconomics.com" rel="nofollow">KeatingEconomics.com</a>, along with background information that every voter should know.</i><br><br>Did they just say  <b>KEATING 5?</b>  HAHAHAHAHAH!!!  Love it!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 </li>\
	 </ul>\
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