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Barack ate into her 30 point lead.  She won nothing, to go from 30 points to 10 is a loss of support.<br></br><br>History will not look kindly on all this.  These days, every scrap of footage is archived, every word saved.  I wonder as these pundits look back on their actions, what they'll think.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-24_04:20:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0e63fda3bc8752465623f674ffcc5f40", "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}, "1961729": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Wow, I'm really honored to see that comment from The Field posted here at Jack and Jill, which I respect so much. And of course the discussion here takes it to deeper levels -- discussions here at this blog usually do. (I'm the same Michelle who reads here regularly and sometimes comments BTW).<br></br><br>I am so grateful to everyone for this discussion being here. Thank you all so much.</br><br></br><br>The more I get into where I'm at right now at this particular point in time, and also thinking about what people are writing here .... the more I find my attention focused on the Democratic Party and its leadership. Even more than the Clintons and even more than the media, and certainly more so than \"the white we mean um 'regular' blue collar voters.\" </br><br></br><br>JJ said, <i>I knew there was no getting this race done with not just because of Hillary but because the party elders, superdelegates and DNC didn't want to.</i></br><br></br><br>Part of it is fear of the CLintons but the BULK of it is they want this Black guy to \"prove\" himself. I've said on any number of occasions if Obama was white he would hav elocked this thing up a long time ago.</br><br></br><br>I keep trying to console myself with \"the numbers\" and \"he'll win the nomination eventually\" but it isn't working for me. </br><br></br><br>The whole thing is making me sick at a deep level and this such a huge part of why. </br><br></br><br>Here there is this amazing quality leader who is stepping up and saying he is willing to take on this intense job at a very very difficult time. And, he is willing to do it under the banner of the Democratic Party. </br><br></br><br>And at the same time there is this obviously corrupt person who wants to be president for the power, to be one of \"history's (imperial) actors\" -- creating reality, as discussed in an earlier thread here  -- and she is attacking as she is.</br><br></br><br>And to me the sane response to this kind of situation from the Democratic Party should be to not only actively have the back of this high quality leader, but also at the same time to step up and say to Hillary Clinton, as loudly and publicly as need be, with no confusion about it at all: \"What you are doing is over the line, it is not acceptable to us, and you can't do this and be part of our party. Period.\"</br><br></br><br>But no. Instead it is this dynamic of supporting her white privilege and of \"prove it to us Black guy.\" </br><br>And in this white supremacist logic, it also somehow becomes valuable to have Ms. Hillary on the attack against someone in her own party. </br><br></br><br>It toughens Senator Obama up, does it? Bull. Shit. To me it seems that if his own party had his back and was doing the right thing to start with, this kind of nonsense would not be necessary for a minute. Offer him the resources of the party and assist him that way, okay?</br><br></br><br>Here's how I get in situations like this, it's always the same for me: I always want so much to flip the dynamic on its head. So now I am internally personally tired of accepting the power dynamic of \"suck up to the superdelegates\" and \"hope the Democratic Party does the right thing.\" </br><br></br><br>But as I see it, the Democratic Party leadership should be freaking grateful that someone with Senator Obama's skills and abilities and ethos is willing to run for president under their party's not-necessarily-deserving banner. They should be grateful and they should back that up with action in support of what he is doing and where he is going. </br><br></br><br>Instead they are letting him do all the heavy lifting while they sit back and judge his worth and act like they would be doing him a favor to grant him their special nomination. </br><br></br><br>And if he does get the nomination and if he does become the president, the Democratic Party gets the credit (look a Democrat is now president) without having to do the work to make it there, and in fact having made the work so much harder than it had to be and should have been. </br><br></br><br>Tomorrow, I'll find the DNC email addresses and send that comment to them as Felicia said I should (I'm just going to google it so if anyone has better info please post the email here and I'll use/add that). But you know, I really don't have faith that they will care. Because I think they have been running this power dynamic all along. Anyway, if I get any sort of answer I'll post it in a comment here.</br><br></br><br>But where my attention goes is with wanting so bad to flip the dynamic (even if I don't know if its possible that is what I end up yearning for in situations like this). I want Democratic Party leadership etc to be under active scrutiny and actively judged by the people it is currently failing in a way that puts it on trial. </br><br></br><br>As I see it, it is failing tests left and right in this campaign season. It is failing to proving itself worthy of what it will get if Senator Obama is president under its banner, and it needs to do better. </br><br></br><br>What leverage is there for this, I don't know because I am terrible at movement strategy, always have been. </br><br></br><br>Anon @ 05:29:00 & Ms. Martin @ 06:14:00, I'm reminded of what you're saying as I write this.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-24_04:36:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "de3917e982ff609a0d6f7fb5e3c8f079", "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}, "1961730": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Great post and lively discussion BUT he will win the nomination.<br></br><br>We need to be more dilligent in expressing our rejection of Billary. </br><br></br><br>This was expected--Obama threatens to change the status quo and isnt beholden to fat cats and lobbyist and that scares ALOT of FOLKS thus the triangulation of Obama by FOX, REPUBS AND HRC.</br><br></br><br>DID I say WE need to be vocal and active in expressing our rejection of HRC and the HHHs that support her?</br><br></br><br>LAstly everyone take a WOOSAAAHH moment...Barack will win the nom.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-24_07:32:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "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}, "1961731": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This is the same anon 4:32AM..<br></br><br>HRC did get 150K votes in Philly, no doubt due to Nutter and the pay us for votes crew..40K vote swing to Barack and we have a diff narrative. </br><br></br><br>Also this was the numbers YESTERDAY:</br><br></br><br></br><br>99.34% precincts reporting.</br><br></br><br></br><br>Candidate Votes Percent</br><br>CLINTON, HILLARY (DEM)</br><br>1,237,696 54.3%</br><br>OBAMA, BARACK (DEM)</br><br>1,043,174 45.7%</br><br></br><br></br><br>THESE ARE NUMBERS TODAY </br><br></br><br>CLINTON, HILLARY (DEM)  </br><br> 1,238,232 54.6% </br><br>OBAMA, BARACK (DEM)  </br><br> 1,030,703 45.4% </br><br></br><br>Barack suddenly lost 13k votes and HRC gained 1k..Yes it has not been certified but how is he loosing votes?</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-24_07:46:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "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}, "1961732": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The original post was spot on.  Not only was it dead accurate regarding this Democratic contest, but it made me think about the very white privilege that goes on right here in my corporate workplace.  <br></br><br>How <i>I</i> must measure and temper every word and action to avoid management repurcussions, while white female subordinates are free to freely speak their mind without consequence.  </br><br></br><br>But I guess that this was bound to be the case.  We knew that Barack's success would threaten the status quo.  I guess we just didn't expect that the status quo were those who called us \"friends\".</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-24_08:36:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "25c2ebf4464c5d95fa227ddd4a0d2fe5", "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}, "1961733": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "anonymous #?, why don't you use a name, it would make responding so much easier. <br>\"vote for obama or you are white supremacist\"...</br><br>deal with it! be true to yourself! if the shoe fits !...</br><br>obama has your racist butt cornered!</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-24_09:25:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab03b08e2f2082ad84cf39c973e5bebb", "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}, "1961734": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Check this out from our \"friends\" over at Politico....  It really sums up Hillary Clinton and what her campaign is about. I think they've been reading over at J&J.;  Enjoy.<br></br><br>From the Politico...Roger Simon </br><br></br><br>Run, Hillary, run.</br><br></br><br>Run in Guam, run in North Carolina, run in Indiana. Run in each and every one of the nine contests that are left.</br><br></br><br>Then make some states do their contests over.</br><br></br><br>Should Barack Obama's victory in Vermont really count? I don't think Vermont is actually a state. I think it is technically a socialist republic. Have somebody check this out.</br><br></br><br>And Obama's victory in Alaska? Are you kidding me? They let caribou vote in Alaska.</br><br></br><br>And do some other stuff that levels the playing field: Raise the voting age to 65 in all the remaining contests, for instance.</br><br></br><br>You do great with this group, Sen. Clinton. Younger people don't really care about who becomes president anyway. All they want to do is go on this World Wide Interweb thing that they keep talking about. </br><br>And while you are at it, Senator, cap all salaries at $50,000 a year, take away all college degrees and give everybody a gun. The demographics are clear: That is your base vote.</br><br></br><br>Also, no men get to vote unless they have a note from a woman saying they are mentally competent. (Good luck with that!)</br><br></br><br>And, Sen. Clinton, keep portraying yourself as a sympathetic underdog. That works much better than when you were the inevitable overlord.</br><br></br><br>In Haverford, Pa., last Thursday, you told the crowd: \"Just knock on the door and say, 'You know, she's really nice.' Or you could say it another way: 'She's not as bad as you think.'\"</br><br></br><br>It is a theme that worked in Pennsylvania and will work elsewhere. I can see the billboards now: \"Hillary Clinton. Not as Bad as You Think.\"</br><br></br><br>But do not give up the kitchen sink stuff, Senator. Make it a Good Hillary/Bad Hillary kind of campaign.</br><br></br><br>Good Hillary talks about the dreamy, gooey, feel-good stuff, like when, in your victory speech from Philadelphia Tuesday night, you said: \"We are, in many ways, all on this journey together to create an America that embraces every last one of us. ... I believe with all of my heart that together we will turn promises into action, words will become solutions, hope will become reality.\"</br><br></br><br>But Bad Hillary can't go away. You have to have the Hillary who says Obama is \"elitist\" and \"demeaning,\" and you have to keep running ads that portray him as the guy who won't be able to protect us from the Great Depression, Pearl Harbor, long lines at the gas pump, Osama bin Laden or ringing telephones.</br><br></br><br>And speaking of Osama bin Laden, isn't he a Muslim? And didn't Bad Hillary say Obama was not a Muslim \"as far as I know\"? Keep up that subtle stuff. It is gold.</br><br></br><br>And then, of course, bribe the superdelegates. These are the 794 party insiders who have one standard for all their decisions in life: \"What's in it for me?\"</br><br></br><br>So offer them something. You know how many interstate rest stops there are? They have to be named for somebody. And promise the holdouts that they will be appointed ambassador to Bermuda. It doesn't matter that they all can't be ambassador to Bermuda, because we don't have an ambassador to Bermuda. (Say it was Bill's idea.)</br><br></br><br>And even if you can't get ahead in the delegate count, don't stop running! </br><br></br><br>Go to the convention in Denver and chain yourself to the front door of the Pepsi Center and refuse to leave unless every resident of Florida and Michigan -- not just the rogue delegates but all 26 million residents! -- is seated inside and gets to cast a ballot for you. </br><br></br><br>What's the worst that could happen? Howard Dean comes out and bites you on the ankle? Forget about it. I could carve a tougher guy out of tofu. </br><br></br><br>But most of all, Sen. Clinton, never give up, never surrender. </br><br></br><br>And remember: There's always 2012</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-24_10:08:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9ba7a5ef530452a0c50c8de982ee7de0", "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}, "1961735": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I wish more people understood what the Constitutional teacher is trying to tell them.<br></br><br>A vote against him is a vote against yourself and for your corrupt government.</br><br></br><br>He speaks to you of the Founding Fathers and creation of this nation reciting the documents that were meant to guide us through our maturity, these documents were not created to delve your conscience for a glimmer of morality, but to ensure that no goverment should be greater than its people and that no government should be used against its people; that when the government of the people no longer works for the people but for the financial and egotistical benefict of a few it should be dismantled and reassembled.</br><br></br><br>It is very simple.  Whether you are black, white, hispanic, asian, jewish, irish, catholic or christian, if you live in the United States of America your government is failing you.  </br><br></br><br>Your government does not work for the people, but against them in favor of a few.</br><br></br><br>George Bush is not just a poor manager, but similiar to a tyrannical dictator.  He has ignored the very law of the country he was chosen to lead; he has used resources of the country to benefit a few financially while the people lose their homes, face prices for basic needs that are crippling their budgets and endangering their well-being.  He has assembled a judicial body that seeks to deny you civil rights.</br><br></br><br>Hillary Clinton is promising you she can, as a Democrat, change what George Bush has done because she is a Democrat.  What she does not tell you and what SBO is trying to tell you is that while she may know the workings of Washington, she is complicit in behavior that brought us to where we are, behavior that many common men are unaware of that is the very behavior that George Bush is guilty of.  </br><br></br><br>Hillary and Bill Clinton were able to amass their 109 million fortune after leaving the Whitehouse because of controls that they set in place while they were in the Whitehouse.  They formed allegiances and monolopies with companies and foreign governments and sold the future of the American people. The Clintons made deals and passed legislature that worked to the detriment of its people.  They would have you believe that because the working-class man made a few dollars more that they were good for him.  </br><br></br><br>While the average man made a $1,000 more a year while they were in office, their friends and allies made millions a year while they were in office and they made hundreds of thousands more a year after they left office based on the allegiances they made while they were in office.</br><br></br><br>I think it is time for SBO to drive his message hard. It is time to just tell the common man exactly what he means.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-24_10:53:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fcb7c771a7713dda01aa936fd426bfe", "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}, "1961736": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I wish more people understood what the Constitutional teacher is trying to tell them.<br></br><br>A vote against him is a vote against yourself and for your corrupt government.</br><br></br><br>He speaks to you of the Founding Fathers and creation of this nation reciting the documents that were meant to guide us through our maturity, these documents were not created to delve your conscience for a glimmer of morality, but to ensure that no goverment should be greater than its people and that no government should be used against its people; that when the government of the people no longer works for the people but for the financial and egotistical benefict of a few it should be dismantled and reassembled.</br><br></br><br>It is very simple.  Whether you are black, white, hispanic, asian, jewish, irish, catholic or christian, if you live in the United States of America your government is failing you.  </br><br></br><br>Your government does not work for the people, but against them in favor of a few.</br><br></br><br>George Bush is not just a poor manager, but similiar to a tyrannical dictator.  He has ignored the very law of the country he was chosen to lead; he has used resources of the country to benefit a few financially while the people lose their homes, face prices for basic needs that are crippling their budgets and endangering their well-being.  He has assembled a judicial body that seeks to deny you civil rights.</br><br></br><br>Hillary Clinton is promising you she can, as a Democrat, change what George Bush has done because she is a Democrat.  What she does not tell you and what SBO is trying to tell you is that while she may know the workings of Washington, she is complicit in behavior that brought us to where we are, behavior that many common men are unaware of that is the very behavior that George Bush is guilty of.  </br><br></br><br>Hillary and Bill Clinton were able to amass their 109 million fortune after leaving the Whitehouse because of controls that they set in place while they were in the Whitehouse.  They formed allegiances and monolopies with companies and foreign governments and sold the future of the American people. The Clintons made deals and passed legislature that worked to the detriment of its people.  They would have you believe that because the working-class man made a few dollars more that they were good for him.  </br><br></br><br>While the average man made a $1,000 more a year while they were in office, their friends and allies made millions a year while they were in office and they made hundreds of thousands more a year after they left office based on the allegiances they made while they were in office.</br><br></br><br>I think it is time for SBO to drive his message hard. It is time to just tell the common man exactly what he means.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-24_10:54:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fcb7c771a7713dda01aa936fd426bfe", "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}, "1961737": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Well said, Michelle -- and thanks for posting, rikyrah.  And I agree with the commenters as well ...<br></br><br>jon</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-24_12:03:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "fdef04acc6c8ed82007bcc50969db3c4", "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}, "1961738": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "As Tim Wise (panelist in the Meeting David Wilson documentary)said best, \"Barack transcends his race is another way of saying he graduated from his blackness. Hillary doesn't have to transcend her race, because white is something to aspire to, where as black is something undesireable\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-24_13:32:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0ef7c2d2394e80ac946bf761976ee6e4", "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}, "1961739": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Well as much as we support an Obama candidacy we also need to strategize with a contingency plan. If Hillary is allowed to steal the nomination who do we support? We cannot stay home and wait it out 4-8 years. There are things that Obama has not prepared for like last week's debate and going off script that have not helped. He already has the hounds of hell on his back and he needs to tighten that up. With that being said I think he would make one of our best presidents.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-24_17:14:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "1572c9b90152e199379cfb228c0cc759", "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}, "1961740": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I think the contingency plan should be holding the Democratic party accountable. We can't rally around a woman that resembles the Republicans more and more - her recent war mongering comment about Iran is a case in point. The fact is if we rally around her, we are signing up for another 4-8 years of the same stuff we've already been through the past 7 years.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-25_10:44:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "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}, "1961741": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "First, thank you all for this community.  I have learned so much about myself, more like an evolution is taking place.  Exciting transformation from my idealism.  JackandJillpolitics, YOU ROCK!!<br></br><br>I sent Obama double donation from my budget this month. I wasn't expecting (like Obama camp) for a PA win, but at least he wasn't beat by double digits.  The majority of posts have been spot on.  For the past few days I've had a heavy feeling in my heart, and this topic from Michelle, previously from Jack a couple of days ago,so eloquently described what I was feeling. I couldn't properly articulate my frustration to my fiancee. I thank you for finding the words.</br><br> </br><br></br><br>Jack you are doing a fine job! Please get well soon and know that you are supported in your efforts.  You've inspired me to write and address the issues as well!</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-25_14:43:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "66b46c7ea60fc982ec853b4f635c2718", "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}, "1961742": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Although blacks are 12% of the population in reality it is just 2% of the blacks that commit 50% of the murders and a greater percentage of other crimes. Consider: black females - 6%. Blacks from zero yrs. to 12 yrs. and black males from 50-100 years commit an infinitesimal percentage of the crimes. Therefore we are left with two percent. If we eliminate crimes committed by this two percent from the U.S. statistics our country compares very favorably with all Western countries. Fact -- blacks kill 7 times more than whites kill. Fact -- blacks kill whites 20 times more than whites kill blacks. Fact -- blacks mug or commit group crime against whites 50 times more than whites commit against blacks. Fact -- blacks rape white women 2000 (yes 2000) times more than whites rape black women. In New York City, about 300 white women are raped by blacks every year BUT there has not been a black woman raped by a white male in anybody\u2019s memory (going back over 20 yrs.) Consider: Al Sharpton had to go upstate New York to find a hoax and that was almost 20 years ago. (Source NYT 4/22/05)  <br></br><br>According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics 2004 report (released May 2006), blacks commit 54 percent of the homicides in America even though they constitute only 12 percent of the population.</br><br></br><br>An individual black male is seven times more likely to commit murder than an individual white male. It so happens that black felons commit 43 percent of aggravated assaults, 66 percent of armed robberies, 27 percent of rapes and 85 percent of interracial crimes of violence, mainly against whites (this last figure from a Justice Department report 2003). However, it's not just in the United States. The greatest dicators in recent years have emerged in Africa. People like  Idi Amin of Uganda, Hastings Kamuzu Banda in Malawi, Mobutu Sese Seko,  in Zaire, self-anointed Emperor Bokassa of the Central African Republic, Mohammed Saidi Barre in Somalia, Sani Abacha of Nigeria,  Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe -- the list is endless.</br><br></br><br>Blacks are dumber as well, statistics analyzed by the New York Times (July 4, 1999) dispel the poverty argument by establishing that impoverished white children whose parents earn less than $10,000 a year score higher on standardized SAT tests than black children whose parents earn more than $70,000 a year. Also, nearly 70 percent of black children are born out of wedlock.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-07_20:04:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "33b148db5e6e527b1d845db175f0fcf7", "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}, "1961672": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Throughout I wanted to say, \"But wait,\" only, that is how white supremacy works. If there are a couple of \"but waits,\" I think they are:<br>(1) That there could be no more ironic deployment of those strategies than by a Southern woman. </br><br>(2) Although they appear to be doing harm, they apparently are not going to give her the nomination. I think it's failure to deliver the goods that will finally kill that beast, and if I'm right, these are it's death throes.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-23_20:08:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "636d4d18def48b2ac5d7bb64f59f5309", "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}, "1961673": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "AMEN!  I am a hispanic (mistaken for white because I'm not hispanic enough) woman and I agree with everything in this post.  Just watching CNN today it's painfully obvious.  Not once do any of the media blowhards ask how in the world Hillary is going to appeal to the black voters by November should she steal the nomination. This is the first year I've gotten involved in the political process to the extent I have, and I'm with Jack Turner's post from earlier today.  I've had it.  I know that McCain will be a horrible choice, but if she steals the nomination, then the only way to EVER stop the Clinton dynasty (God forbid we'll have Chelsea running in a few years) is to defeat Hillary in November.  The Clinton campaign will have us believe that there isn't much difference between her and Barack, but I see a WORLD of difference.  What I don't see if much difference between her and John McCain.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-23_20:12:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "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}, "1961674": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Excellent post. I think they don't ask her that in part because there seems to be an assumption that at least two-thirds of blacks will still vote for her should she capture the nomination. I really hope they're wrong. At this point, it's time to hold this party hostage, they gone long enough taking the black vote for granted. She has basically substituted the \"Latino/Hispanic\" vote for the black vote. If blacks are to be taken seriously, it has to be abundantly clear that the vast majority will not back her if she's the nominee.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-23_20:29:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "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}, "1961675": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Anon: You're Hispanic.  I'm African American. But I see no difference in what you said and what i'm feeling.<br></br><br>Barack is caught in a bind.  On the one hand, if he goes after Hillary, people will say he's being just another sexist male.  On the other hand, if he continues to stick to the issues, play by the rules, remain \"presidential,\" as they say, white women like Maureen Dowd from the phony liberal New York Times will call him a wimp.  That's all what they SAY.</br><br></br><br>What's behind it is what the post on the field's blog say: white privilege-- this conscious or unconscious mental process that runs like a thread through their mind. Let's see...\"I'm white; I'm more entitled than this skinny black guy. Moreover, I was First Lady when Bill, my white husband, was once president. Why shouldn't I be the next president?\"</br><br></br><br>They don't SAY it. They don't have to. The white people who earn their paychecks from the white, corporate media allow them to practice it.</br><br></br><br>Why? They THINK the same way-- not necessarily that Hillary, white woman should be president (being sexist too), but that some white person should be president; and that, if it has to a woman, then why not Hillary, why not this white woman?</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-23_20:35:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "8f7722f5791bd840b8777096327d9831", "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}, "1961676": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Macdaddy: EXACTLY. As I said before, being hispanic (but not hispanic enough) provided an interesting insight when my mother moved me to the deep south at age 10.  Up until that time, I had lived in California in a very diverse neighborhood.  But in the south, most white folks said exactly what they wanted around me (again...not realizing I wasn't white).  So you are exactly right about what is NOT being said.  That is the unspoken narrative among many white communities. Now that I live in the DC area, I must say it's easier to find white communities that \"get it\" but it's still a fact of life everywhere.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-23_20:48:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "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}, "1961677": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "First of all, it's definitely about white privilege. If Edwards or Dodd were running against Clinton instead of Obama, there is no way in hell this would be happening. There's no way she would still be in the race. She would have dropped out by now. Because she recognizes and understands the racial dynamics going on here, she feels, with good reason, that there is a good chance that she can be given the nomination, even if she doesn't win it.<br></br><br>Secondly, I've been thinking and saying for a while that everything that Obama has had to put up with has been a large-scale version of the things all of us have to deal with daily on a smaller scale. All of it is instantly recognizable.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-23_20:58:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "aedda92d645e540d5d4d78a25c550ffc", "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}, "1961678": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thank you.  Other than calling Hillary Clinton and her supporters all kinds of foul names, I wasn't able to articulate my rage as well as Michelle.<br></br><br>She's on the money.</br><br></br><br>Hope Hillary is happy with her tainted rank win.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-23_21:11:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "2978faeeb8934b97dedc1ba2941b062b", "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}, "1961679": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This post and the description of white supremacy and what it means to this election is accurate to the letter.<br></br><br>This type of supremacy is usually never spoken but understood.  It is championed within certain peer groups and assumed understood and adhered by those who are not of the peer group.</br><br></br><br>It is the challenge of the Senator from Illinois of status quo American politics, the judicial system, the docile will of those living the American nightmare, the forgotten Americans and ability to lead the masses in rebellion against an institution that was established and has been fortified for centuries that has drawn out the benefactors to take a final stand against the loss power that is threatened.</br><br></br><br>I agree with anonymous that this will change, should we choose to fight, this change will be similar to a second civil war for this country. The challenge is to convince many that they need to fight!</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-23_21:14:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fcb7c771a7713dda01aa936fd426bfe", "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}, "1961680": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Great post.  Michelle should send this to the DNC.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-23_21:19:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "6aa3ee71bc9714917dc34dde9e4e2b41", "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}, "1961681": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thank you, Michelle.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-23_21:32:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "8f7722f5791bd840b8777096327d9831", "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}, "1961682": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I guess I will never \"get\" the DNC etc....so called Democratic leaders like Gore, Brazile, Dean, Edwards..etc.<br></br><br>This is not the 90's , the 80's the 60's..  </br><br></br><br>The pundits keep trying to replay stuff about the 50's for heaven's sake.</br><br></br><br>This election is about today and it is about a whole demographic that is more vocal, more activist, more educated, more intelligent than any Democractic demographic ever....</br><br></br><br>I think the party leaders need to educate themselves...the party voters are already ahead of them.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-23_21:44:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "3e892379e7d442c8970d7cad6f54d5b8", "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}, "1961683": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thank you, Michelle.<br>Great post.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-23_21:47:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "56f1b58fb6a26c86d03a37c2ea95329e", "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}, "1961684": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Sometimes we need a reminder, at least I know I do . . .<br></br><br>Obama is winning.</br><br></br><br>The MSM and many of their forces are doing everything they can for us to forget that but millions of people have voted for Obama.</br><br></br><br>Some because of who he is.</br><br></br><br>Some because of what he plans to do.</br><br></br><br>And some because of what he represents.</br><br></br><br>I hate to get all metaphysical about this but I think Obama campaign represents a battle happening in this country between those who are aware and those who are asleep.</br><br></br><br>His campaign challenges white supremacy and a dozen other structural and mental limitations that have been designed to keep us asleep and afraid.</br><br></br><br>As much as the Clinton's try to change the scoreboard, Obama's campaign has permanently changed the political game and that is good news indeed.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-23_21:53:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "bc67a38bb57ec2663caef9c8162bfd38", "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}, "1961685": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "my husband and I just made another donation to Obama today.<br></br><br>We will continue to do so as we feel comfortable with our expenses.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-23_21:53:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "3e892379e7d442c8970d7cad6f54d5b8", "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}, "1961686": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Olbermann cracked me up tonight. All the folks were on point and logical: Todd, Fineman, Wolffe and Maddow. <br></br><br>If you're feeling bad, watch Olbermann tonight. At the very least, it should calm your nerves.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-23_21:55:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f85f4de88a30987f0360c336da9569ae", "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}, "1961687": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>Secondly, I've been thinking and saying for a while that everything that Obama has had to put up with has been a large-scale version of the things all of us have to deal with daily on a smaller scale. All of it is instantly recognizable.</i><br></br><br>I've said for awhile now, that the reason the Black Middle Class and Professional Class were the first to fully embrace Obama, is because we see in him, our own struggles in Corporate America. We understand all-to-well on changing the rules in the middle of the game, and then have folks look at you as if you shoudl have known about the new rules. We know all about moving the bar just as the end is in sight. We relate to Obama on a visceral level on this point...which is why it indeed so personal for us.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-23_21:57:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f85f4de88a30987f0360c336da9569ae", "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}, "1961688": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "this post is a very well synopsis of the last two months. clinton's pennsylvannia win is good for one  last gasp of enraging propaganda. the problem for the status quo racists is the primary is over and obama has won. people believe. the cat is out of the bag and it ain't going back in.<br>the flip side to the racist agenda is the historic moment that obama has created. will america fail the test in a frenzy of swiftboats and bogus analysis. i don't see that ending.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-23_22:12:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab03b08e2f2082ad84cf39c973e5bebb", "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}, "1961689": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Maddow brought up a good point tonight on Olbermann...even if it's only words, at least John McCain has released a statement condemning the race-baiting ad of the NC GOP against Obama. <br></br><br>Hillpatine HAS NOT.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-23_22:17:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f85f4de88a30987f0360c336da9569ae", "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}, "1961690": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You won't see this on TeeVee but the Obama camp is charging voter problems in PA.<br></br><br>http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Obama_camp_charging_voting_problems_in_0422.html</br><br></br><br>Request to extend voter hours denied</br><br></br><br>http://www.thetimeschronicle.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19509317&BRD;=1306&PAG;=461&dept;_id=187823&rfi;=6</br><br></br><br>Ballot Error confuses voters</br><br></br><br>http://www.thetimes-tribune.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19509191&BRD;=2185&PAG;=461&dept;_id=416046&rfi;=6</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-23_22:18:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "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}, "1961691": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I've been saying this for months on my blog.  Once he ran up the 12 wins and then the Texas/Ohio debacle...I knew there was no getting this race done with not just because of Hillary but because the party elders, superdelegates and DNC didn't want to.<br></br><br>Part of it is fear of the CLintons but the BULK of it is they want this Black guy to \"prove\" himself.  I've said on any number of occasions if Obama was white he would hav elocked this thing up a long time ago.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-23_22:27:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "6bc62d82674bf5ad817187b1a79cd32b", "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}, "1961692": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "sorry you all...I am not feeling all that 'redemption\" stuff all Hilary finds convenient these days.<br></br><br>By the way...don't you all find it nice and convenient for Hillary who now believes in \"redemption\" and \"death bed miracles\" when its ok  for her to \"bridge\" the social divdes.</br><br></br><br>Hmmm!!</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-23_22:31:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "3e892379e7d442c8970d7cad6f54d5b8", "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}, "1961693": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "But honestly did we expect anything different?<br></br><br>It's always been my opinion that if Barack were to pull this off, it would be an event of BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS!!!  There aren't many examples in history of a majority population electing a minority to the highest seats of power.</br><br></br><br>There's hope ... I'm hopeful, but.. well you know.. it's a white mans WORLD!</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-23_22:45:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "248baa30ad747303377d0c70eb900f8d", "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}, "1961694": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "By the way, if you don't know the source of Hillary's \"redemption comments and death bed comments...she made them on Countdown.<br></br><br>My point is, she gets to redeem people who some might find offensive, but, others are held to a very different standard???</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-23_22:47:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "3e892379e7d442c8970d7cad6f54d5b8", "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}, "1961695": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hagee is repeating his New Orleans statement.<br></br><br>McCain is worst person of the world today for requesting Hagee's endorsement.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-23_22:52:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fcb7c771a7713dda01aa936fd426bfe", "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}, "1961696": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Got this from the <a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dylan-loewe/hillarys-new-inevitabilit_b_98145.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">HuffingtonPost.</a><br></br><br>I liked this paragraph:</br><br></br><br><i>For Clinton, trouble does not end with Obama's potential gain of new superdelegates. The Obama campaign launched a cold-war style arms race in Pennsylvania, spending so much money that he effectively bankrupted the Clinton campaign. As of April, Obama has $42 million cash on hand to Clinton's $9 million - and Clinton is $10 million in the red. Like Reagan did to the Soviet Union, Barack Obama spent the Clinton Empire to death. With the little money she had left, she needed to buy herself a much larger victory. She needed to buy herself a new rationale for her tired candidacy. Instead, all she bought herself was a little more time.</i></br><br></br><br></br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-23_22:56:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f85f4de88a30987f0360c336da9569ae", "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}, "1961697": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Someone said today that if she believed in her campaign so much,  she would invest in her own stock.<br></br><br>She has enough money, why won't she lend her campaign some more money?</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-23_23:00:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fcb7c771a7713dda01aa936fd426bfe", "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}, "1961698": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm glad Latinos are checking this out: how Hillary threw the progressive MoveOn.Org under the bus (even though it originally formed to support her husband against Republican right-wing attacks, the kind she's tossing at Obama now); Sista-Souljared \"San Francisco\" gays for giving money to the Obama campaign, and knee-capped blacks, their most loyal voters, once Bill, her politically over-rated husband, played the \"like Jessie Jackson\" race card in South Carolina...<br></br><br>...What they do to us today they'll do to you tomorrow.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-23_23:02:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "8f7722f5791bd840b8777096327d9831", "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}, "1961699": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah and everyone, she did all that shitsucking and spewing and for what?  NINE delegates net, according to CBS.  I LOVE that she went down on her knees to Scaife and I hope it killed the Monster's mostly dead soul just that little bit more.<br></br><br>She won but she won just the margin that we (the pragmatists, in spite of our dreams) worked towards.  Yes, they've rounded it up to ten, heck who wouldn't?, but she ain't nothing but abroke, broke.  That's right, I said it and I'm laughing while I type it.</br><br></br><br>I can't even stay mad at her for more than ten minutes anymore because either her ways work and the DNC gets the president it deserves (Michelle is so on) or we keep working like we have been and WE get the president we deserve.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-23_23:05:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "b39a275e838203d0f4f3c15e82eb6719", "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}, "1961700": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Lolo<br></br><br>Today I'm laughing with you.  I'm laughing at the desperation and attempts to spin. She needed a blowout in Pennsylvania and 9.2% does not a blowout make.</br><br></br><br>I don't think working with Scaife bothered her all because she's doing it to severely damage Obama for the general.  She knows the end is in sight, she wants to keep her supporters filled with hope so when the DNC steps in (I think in two weeks)her supports will feel like the nomination was taken away from her and they will vote Republican.</br><br></br><br>Olbermann accussed her of working triangularly with the Republicans and said that there was enough proof that it was not a conspiracy theory.</br><br></br><br>The DNC should be meeting now trying to figure out how to stop this damage.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-23_23:16:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fcb7c771a7713dda01aa936fd426bfe", "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}, "1961701": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "@ ms.martin,<br></br><br><i>She knows the end is in sight, she wants to keep her supporters filled with hope so when the DNC steps in (I think in two weeks)her supports will feel like the nomination was taken away from her and they will vote Republican.</i></br><br></br><br></br><br>...and then, there will be a huge outcry from her supporters demanding she be part of the ticket.  If Barack chooses someone else, they will go away enraged and refuse to vote for him.  This essentially twists his arm and denies him the right of picking a baggage-free, complimentary running mate.  This is some ugly scenario.  </br><br></br><br>I hope - if it comes down to this - that Barack names a running mate before that point to outmaneuver her....or at least say he's already offered it to someone else..lol.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-23_23:34:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0e63fda3bc8752465623f674ffcc5f40", "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}, "1961702": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\" The Democratic Party, in particular its uncommitted superdelegates and any other party leadership passively or actively allowing this insanity, is supporting and encouraging systemic racism/white supremacy. \"<br></br><br>Good f*ckeen grief.  </br><br>i.e., \"Support Obama, or you're a white supremacist.\"  </br><br></br><br>Utterly pitiful.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-23_23:34:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "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}, "1961703": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Today's entry \"The Democratic Party.\"<br></br><br>http://stuffblackpeoplehate.com/</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-23_23:37:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "8f96e5ac552758523d509993c00aa0c1", "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}, "1961704": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>rikyrah and everyone, she did all that shitsucking and spewing and for what? NINE delegates net, according to CBS. I LOVE that she went down on her knees to Scaife and I hope it killed the Monster's mostly dead soul just that little bit more</i><br></br><br>lolo,</br><br></br><br>that's why I enjoyed Olbermann tonight. Chuck Todd was dazzling, beating those numbers like Ike did Tina. </br><br></br><br>Pledged Delegates? Nope.</br><br></br><br>Popular Vote? Nope. </br><br></br><br>He was running through those numbers and just made it simple - by any metric, she can't do it. </br><br></br><br>Richard Wolffe was also entertaining. I think he's very fair - he's about as balanced as they come on the networks. </br><br></br><br>And, a nice shoutout to Michelle Bernard, who called a spade a spade (pun intended), when she said that the Clintons would play the Race Card in dismissing an Obama win in North Carolina. I've been watching her for awhile now, so I think I can tell. She's ' bitter' about the race-baiting of Obama. She's a Republican, no doubt, but she's offended- as a Black woman - at the attacks on Obama by the Clintons. I loved her explictly saying ' THE RACE CARD' when talking about The Clintons...the rest of them on the panel wanted to say something, but they shut the #($* up, because they knew what she was saying was true.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-23_23:38:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f85f4de88a30987f0360c336da9569ae", "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}, "1961705": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>...and then, there will be a huge outcry from her supporters demanding she be part of the ticket. If Barack chooses someone else, they will go away enraged and refuse to vote for him. This essentially twists his arm and denies him the right of picking a baggage-free, complimentary running mate. This is some ugly scenario. </i><br></br><br>I say screw her with her own words..</br><br></br><br>and if they want a White Woman on the ticket, choose Sebelius, McCaskill or Napolitano.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-23_23:40:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f85f4de88a30987f0360c336da9569ae", "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}, "1961706": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Re Hillary claiming she made 10 million ....does anyone notice this is suspiciously the same amount she's in debt for?<br></br><br>I don't believe the amount raised, and think it's spinning to create the illusion of wiping out the debt.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-23_23:44:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0e63fda3bc8752465623f674ffcc5f40", "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}, "1961707": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Rickyrah<br></br><br>\"Richard Wolffe was also entertaining. I think he's very fair - he's about as balanced as they come on the networks. \"</br><br></br><br>Yup, and whenever he chuckles, the situation is really laughable.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-23_23:53:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fcb7c771a7713dda01aa936fd426bfe", "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}, "1961708": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Truthseeker<br></br><br>I think she wants people to believe that she picked up some new support in winning PA - bs!</br><br></br><br>They are working on illusion.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-23_23:59:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fcb7c771a7713dda01aa936fd426bfe", "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}, "1961709": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Rickyrah<br></br><br>What do you think about Indiana?</br><br></br><br>I'm from downstate Illinois, but I've been gone 12 years, but they just don't seem like PA to me.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-24_00:00:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fcb7c771a7713dda01aa936fd426bfe", "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}, "1961710": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thank you for helping out Obama. I'm glad to see how many people are out trying to change the way politics are played.  Please take a look at our Obama website and add it to your blogroll if possible.  Thanks You.<br></br><br>http://obamavsmccain.typepad.com/</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-24_00:13:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "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}, "1961711": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "OK, here\u2019s what drives me nuts.<br></br><br>I am an affluent, straight, white father of a multi-racial family The whole family together has a veritable shit- load of graduate degrees. I am proudly feminist yet in retrospect can see that I have cashed my white male privilege ticket on more occasions than I can  count. Shit, all I had to do sometimes was smile and say something half-smart and someone was writing me a  \u201cwhite\u201d check. In fact,  white privilege has been so abundant that I have gotten it when I didn\u2019t want it or even when I refused it.  Shit, even when I returned some freebie,  I was liable to wake up to find its benefits crawling up my behind.</br><br></br><br>But what\u2019s my point?</br><br></br><br>Well I have several:</br><br></br><br>This will sound arrogant, but I am simply too fucking smart, with too much political experience,  to  buy Hillary\u2019s load of shit that campaigning is rough and that everybody attacks and that they are both comparably slamming each other. Bullshit. I will resist writing an extended essay on this, but the quantity and vitriole of Hillary Clinton\u2019s attacks are infinitely more mongo and hateful  than anything offered by Barack Obama. You can squawk that crap about \u201cheat in the kitchen\u201d all you want Billary, but Ill tell you a secret that you might not believe: Some of us are even smarter than you, with the same and even more Ivy League degrees that you have, although your world view honestly seems to leave absolutely no room for that possibility to occur among any living homo sapiens non-Clintonus.  </br><br></br><br>You are fighting filthy and my candidate is fighting ferociously.</br><br></br><br>Get the difference?  Filthy vs. ferocious.</br><br></br><br>And Hill, cut the emasculating patronizing phony-ass bullshit of taunting Barack that he can\u2019t stand the heat every time he responds to one of your shit-balls. It\u2019s the shit he can\u2019t stand, the vicious racist infantilizing damning with faint praise, the taunts that you and your race-baiting husband always deliver with a smarmy grin.  Not the heat. </br><br></br><br>Ill give you one thing: You are smart enough to never have called him \u2018boy.\u201d But listen carefully: You are pathetically transparent. The cumulative subtext of every attack and grin and insinuation and subtle move of your head and every patronizing and completely disingenuous \u201ccompliment\u201d you have thrown his way has been screaming: \u201cBOYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!\u201d</br><br></br><br>Actually I am a little ashamed about one thing. There are moments when I see you  taunting him in  such a slime-ass emasculating way that that I am afraid my lifetime of fierce feminism is in jeopardy of heading down the toilet. I gotta watch myself. Someone help me here. </br><br></br><br>Then there is this bat-shit \u201crepudiation list.\u201d Anyone dark enough to even have a fucking sun tan who wants to run for office has to pass the test of repudiating every black woman or man who ever looked cross-eyed at a white person.  What nonsense! Why has no one ever prevailed on my white ass to repudiate David Duke, Timothy McVeigh, George Lincoln Rockwell, Frank Rizzo, and the Posse Comitatus? </br><br></br><br>Ill tell you why: Because I get the unwritten yet crystal clear white man\u2019s BWBB pass (Boys Will Be Boys) that allows me to evolve as a human being and experiment and change and mature and meet whoever I want -- to get a DWI here, utter a racial slur there -- without having to answer for those associations for the rest of my life.  Because I\u2019m a white man. I mature over time. I grow out of shit. </br><br></br><br>A black man doesn\u2019t grown and evolve in this narrative, he  steadily accumulates baggage that he can never \u2013 not fucking ever \u2013 lose, baggage that\u2019s always there when you want to insinuate that, well, there\u2019s something just not right about this  (N-WORD).</br><br></br><br>Seriously, imagine this scenario:  Barack\u2019s amazing mother was a real life force, a free spirit. What if by some chance she had taken him to the Unification Church for a couple months when he was 12? Who wants to tell me that this would not somehow be insinuated into the craposphere by Billary as evidence of strangeness, of cult-inclinations, of moonie-ness? Not in a direct attack, but as something that just wasn\u2019t quite right.</br><br></br><br>As far as I can see, this brilliant, inspiring, ferocious black man, this  man who will be our next President without your abundant sorry-ass on the ticket Hillary, has to answer for and repudiate and explain every fucking person he has met in his life and everything  he has ever said, eaten, swallowed, inhaled, unttered or thought. </br><br></br><br>This is a true story: A sainted  high school civics teacher of mine, a civil rights activist, took me to see George Wallace during his 1968 campaign as a way of helping me explore  and understand what the most vile hate looks like up close. He was a white southerner who revered MLK and Wallace was  appearing at a bowling alley, and surrounded by a bunch of cracker racist white men. It was dicey and a pretty damn menacing scene. We got in the receiving line and actually shook his hand.  And then he took me outside and we spent three of the most valuable  hours of my life discussing and learning about the nature and subtleties of white supremacy. </br><br></br><br>Let\u2019s say that someone snapped a picture of me that night.  I say that today I  could tell the story of this extraordinary teacher in such a way that he would end up looking like the educator of the year and I would look like a young Morris Dees (one of my heroes) in training going to face down evil incarnate. I even have high school friends who remember the whole deal.</br><br></br><br>Now you tell me: Is there one single tiny fucking thing Barack could ever do in the same admittedly unlikely circumstance, any word or phrase he could utter, anything that anyone would even listen  to, if by some bizarre chance he had  had a similar teacher and a Farakhan picture emerged? Hell, Im not even sure Barack would be given half a chance to explain a picture of himself with fucking Art Linkletter.</br><br></br><br>He\u2019s be finished. Not me.  Id be someone who learned about hate at an early age wenut and faced evil because of a visionary teacher.</br><br></br><br>Hillary,  I;m beggin you: Get your vicious emasculating white ass off the stage already before you single-handedly start a race war AND squander all the hard fought gains of four decades of courageous feminist  and racial struggle.</br><br></br><br>Go on now. Off the fucking stage. Now.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-24_00:14:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "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}, "1961712": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Did you guys see the add about gangs and Obama? A really creepy ad?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-24_00:15:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "6b8623e8e850161265a6267d83471b3d", "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}, "1961713": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rhonda,<br></br><br>I did. NOt surprised, and of course, they had an excuse for it. Whatever.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-24_00:21:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f85f4de88a30987f0360c336da9569ae", "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}, "1961714": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "They didn't bring up that Obama could be against the death penalty because he's from Illinois - the state that FREED 13 MEN FROM DEATH ROW...not because they got off on a technicality...BUT, BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T DO IT. <br></br><br>Did they mention that Obama was the one who got it passed that all murder interrogations had to be done on videotape?</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-24_00:23:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f85f4de88a30987f0360c336da9569ae", "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}, "1961715": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Anonymous 9:14,<br></br><br>WORD</br><br></br><br>to your entire post. I hear ya. Loud and Clear.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-24_00:25:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f85f4de88a30987f0360c336da9569ae", "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}, "1961716": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "ms. martin,<br></br><br>Indiana is a tossup to me. It really is, but he will have a money advantage, and he can flood the area with people from Illinois.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-24_00:26:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f85f4de88a30987f0360c336da9569ae", "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}, "1961717": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Sorry, Rikyrah,<br>but what means \"WORD?\"</br><br></br><br>Anonymous 9:14</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-24_00:55:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "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}, "1961718": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Rhondacocoa<br></br><br>It wasn't creepy if you saw it for what it was.</br><br></br><br>Rightwing/Hillary bullshit.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-24_01:10:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fcb7c771a7713dda01aa936fd426bfe", "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}, "1961719": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "WORD=<br></br><br>You said it so well, I have nothing to add. </br><br></br><br>You told it all, like a good sermon.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-24_01:23:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f85f4de88a30987f0360c336da9569ae", "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}, "1961720": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm watching the John Adams series on HBO andd during a meeting of the Continental Congress a proclomation from King George was read stating that they were considered traitors and if the members did not stop their treason against Britain they would be hanged.<br></br><br>One of the members of the Contintental Congress said God damn the King.  </br><br></br><br>Sound familiar.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-24_02:01:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fcb7c771a7713dda01aa936fd426bfe", "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}, "1961721": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Re George Washington<br></br><br>\"To his disappointment, two parties were developing by the end of his first term. Wearied of politics, feeling old, he retired at the end of his second. In his Farewell Address, he urged his countrymen to forswear excessive party spirit and geographical distinctions. In foreign affairs, he warned against long-term alliances. \"</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-24_02:26:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fcb7c771a7713dda01aa936fd426bfe", "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}, "1961722": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Damn they were worried about the negroes uprising and taking over when the struggled over the Declaration of Independence.<br></br><br>Things haven't changed much!</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-24_02:30:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fcb7c771a7713dda01aa936fd426bfe", "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}, "1961723": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Damn they were worried about the negroes uprising and taking over when they struggled to agree upon the Declaration of Independence.<br></br><br>Things haven't changed much!</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-24_02:32:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fcb7c771a7713dda01aa936fd426bfe", "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}, "1961724": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Excellent post.  Regarding the institutional racism revealed by the mainstream media narrative, I have this little gem to add:  One of the talking heads on CNN last night said of Hillary's win, \"Now balance has been restored to the race.\" <br></br><br>At the time, I didn't fully process or understand what he meant.  Obama's up about 155 pledged delegates over Hillary, and she gained, what, nine?  How can that have \"restored balance\" to the race?  I chalked it up to the media rooting for a horserace, but remained uneasy.  The quote stuck in my mind.</br><br></br><br>I mean, there's something almost \"Star Wars\" about that quote, isn't there?  That \"the Force\" was \"out of balance\" before Hillary's Pennsylvania win, but her win has \"restored balance\" to the Force.</br><br></br><br>Your post made me understand just what the Force is.  The \"out of balance\" situation that existed before Pennsylvania was that a black man was winning the nomination.  The Pennsylvania win \"restored balance\" to the race -- now things are as they OUGHT to be, with the contest \"momentum\" possessed by a white First Lady whose husband brought home $109 million over the last 7 years.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-24_02:47:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "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}, "1961725": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Re Adams:<br></br><br>\"On November 1, 1800, just before the election, Adams arrived in the new Capital City to take up his residence in the White House. On his second evening in its damp, unfinished rooms, he wrote his wife, \"Before I end my letter, I pray Heaven to bestow the best of Blessings on this House and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise Men ever rule under this roof.\" </br><br></br><br>Well they messed that one up!</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-24_02:52:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fcb7c771a7713dda01aa936fd426bfe", "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}, "1961726": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Some of you should check out a site called topix,it is a Jewish site.They called him Mabus the anti christ,gay,dope addict. People are getting sick. I guess McCain and Hillary are saints.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-24_03:08:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "a5ae15937ebe1be709883ee250773b97", "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}, "1961727": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "No I'm not crazy or a Tom , this is how she would get my vote.<br></br><br>1. Do a special speech on race,and say how racist you were in Pennsylvania.You did everthing but burn a cross.You were phoney as hell .Getting drunk, talking about hunting and for what , to appeal to racist.</br><br></br><br>2. Appologize to Rev.Jeremicah Wright. This Veteran got death threats because of you.You never heard a sermon like that, ministers that went to college do it all the time , the effect is called a Device.He had you and your sorry ass husbands backs when your family was hurting.</br><br></br><br>3. Appologize to ALL Americans in particularly Blacks. My mother went through Jim Crow so that you racist ass can call US Nigger. You has Stephannie Tubbs-Jones call me one,Bob Johnson call me one then some sorry old ass lady call me one that I voted for before. She even said that I had it easy because I'm black.</br><br></br><br>4.Tell Fox you don't need help from those racist.Not Sean Hannity or his anti-semitic bomber friend , Bill O'reilly or his sexual molesting self.Tell the American people that there is no MSM . That white people control everthing and you're greedy and hate to share sh!t.</br><br></br><br>5. Tell them why Sen.Barack Obama could not respond to you. He could not bring up race, but you and Fox and the MSM can.He couldn't call you out of your name , but you could do that to him.</br><br></br><br>6. Have your husband appologize. We considered him a honorary black, but in reality he was bush lite. Now blacks have a choice. I was going to vote for you ,but when I see the whole USA call me Nigger and you stand there and giggle I said fuck you.Yes you are a woman but my moms a black woman and below that's me NIGGER. You do this it would be good for a start, but when I see little old black ladies from the south look at you every day on TV and get madder and madder I don't know what's up. Your in league with O'reilly, Limbaugh,Hannity ,Beck ,Medved, and eveery other bigot that want me dead.</br><br></br><br>Apologize</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-24_04:14:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "a5ae15937ebe1be709883ee250773b97", "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}}, "integration": {"receiver_url": "", "theme": 4, "reply_position": true, "disqus_logo": false}, "timer": {"timer_url": "http://localhost:8005", "thread_id": "2619450", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "21630", "hash": -938237305638721360}, "thread": {"days_alive": 0, "slug": "this_spoke_to_me8230so_i_bring_it_to_you", "paginate": false, "num_pages": 1, "num_posts": 71, "per_page": 0, "total_posts": 0, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 2619450, "queued": false}, "reactions_limit": 10, "context": {"show_reply": true, "use_fb_connect": true, "forum_facebook_key": "bd6a8bc56f8eb204984f34b6fefe228d", "use_yahoo": false, "subscribed": false, "use_twitter_signin": true, "use_openid": false, "realtime_speed": 5000}, "reactions_start": 0, "settings": {"debug": false, "disqus_url": "http://disqus.com", "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"}, "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"};
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	}
	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=this_spoke_to_me8230so_i_bring_it_to_you' +
		'&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/this_spoke_to_me8230so_i_bring_it_to_you/latest.rss">' + Dsq.Strings.SUBSCRIBE_BY_RSS + '</a> \
			</span> \
		</div> \
		';

		
		

		return html;

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

		html += Dsq.Templates.pagination();

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

		html += Dsq.Templates.reactions();

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.trackbacks();
		


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

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

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

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

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

		return html;
	};

	this.postBox = function(post_id, use_fallback_iframe) {


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

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


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

		var _requestUserInfo = function() {
			var html;



			var user_has_email = false;

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

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

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


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



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

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




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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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



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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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



	
	this.chooseSubscribe = function(post_id) {

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		d = auth_data;

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

				body.appendChild(edit_area);

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

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

		Dsq.Templates.toggleEdit(post_id);
	};

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		}

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

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

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

		var extra_params = '';

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

		Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML += '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
		
		if(el_clicked) {
			Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked);
		}
		
		Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/jackandjillpolitics/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ 'this_spoke_to_me8230so_i_bring_it_to_you'
			+ '&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/this_spoke_to_me8230so_i_bring_it_to_you/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">71</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
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	 <div id="dsq-options" style="margin:15px 0">\
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	 <a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">Subscribe by email</a>\
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		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) { 
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				</div> \
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		return html;
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	this.footer = function() {
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			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 = [
			
			
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			var trackback_url = 'http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/this_spoke_to_me8230so_i_bring_it_to_you/trackback/';
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		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;
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		if (source) {
			if (limit === 0) {
				limit = source.length;
			}

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

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

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

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

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

		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"/>';
		}

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		return '<h3 class="dsq-h3-reactions">Reactions</h3><ul id="dsq-reactions" class="dsq-reactions">' + html + '</ul>';
	};
	
	this.missingPermissions = function() {
		return '	<p><a href="http://disqus.com/profile/login/?next=article:2619450" 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"> \
							 \
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									<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="" /> \
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								 \
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								 \
								&nbsp;or&nbsp; \
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									<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect(); return false">Sign-in</a> \
								 \
								 \
							 \
						</div> \
					</div> \
					<div id="dsq-reply-' + post_id + '"></div> \
			</div> \
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	//
	// 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'				: 'this_spoke_to_me8230so_i_bring_it_to_you',
			// 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/this_spoke_to_me8230so_i_bring_it_to_you/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='	+ 'this_spoke_to_me8230so_i_bring_it_to_you'
			+ '&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='	+ 'this_spoke_to_me8230so_i_bring_it_to_you'
			+ '&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='		+ 'this_spoke_to_me8230so_i_bring_it_to_you'
				+ '&email=' 	+ encodeURIComponent(email));

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	return obj;
}();

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	this.check = function() {
		if (!ongoing_request && Dsq.jsonData.realtime_enabled) {
			if (prev_script) {
				prev_script.parentNode.removeChild(prev_script);
			}
			ongoing_request = true;
			prev_script = Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/2619450/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);
	};

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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961672">gwfrink3</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961672" class="dsq-comment-message">Throughout I wanted to say, "But wait," only, that is how white supremacy works. If there are a couple of "but waits," I think they are:<br>(1) That there could be no more ironic deployment of those strategies than by a Southern woman. </br><br>(2) Although they appear to be doing harm, they apparently are not going to give her the nomination. I think it\'s failure to deliver the goods that will finally kill that beast, and if I\'m right, these are it\'s death throes.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961673">Anonymous</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961673" class="dsq-comment-message">AMEN!  I am a hispanic (mistaken for white because I\'m not hispanic enough) woman and I agree with everything in this post.  Just watching CNN today it\'s painfully obvious.  Not once do any of the media blowhards ask how in the world Hillary is going to appeal to the black voters by November should she steal the nomination. This is the first year I\'ve gotten involved in the political process to the extent I have, and I\'m with Jack Turner\'s post from earlier today.  I\'ve had it.  I know that McCain will be a horrible choice, but if she steals the nomination, then the only way to EVER stop the Clinton dynasty (God forbid we\'ll have Chelsea running in a few years) is to defeat Hillary in November.  The Clinton campaign will have us believe that there isn\'t much difference between her and Barack, but I see a WORLD of difference.  What I don\'t see if much difference between her and John McCain.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961674">Anonymous</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961674" class="dsq-comment-message">Excellent post. I think they don\'t ask her that in part because there seems to be an assumption that at least two-thirds of blacks will still vote for her should she capture the nomination. I really hope they\'re wrong. At this point, it\'s time to hold this party hostage, they gone long enough taking the black vote for granted. She has basically substituted the "Latino/Hispanic" vote for the black vote. If blacks are to be taken seriously, it has to be abundantly clear that the vast majority will not back her if she\'s the nominee.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961675">MacDaddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961675" class="dsq-comment-message">Anon: You\'re Hispanic.  I\'m African American. But I see no difference in what you said and what i\'m feeling.<br></br><br>Barack is caught in a bind.  On the one hand, if he goes after Hillary, people will say he\'s being just another sexist male.  On the other hand, if he continues to stick to the issues, play by the rules, remain "presidential," as they say, white women like Maureen Dowd from the phony liberal New York Times will call him a wimp.  That\'s all what they SAY.</br><br></br><br>What\'s behind it is what the post on the field\'s blog say: white privilege-- this conscious or unconscious mental process that runs like a thread through their mind. Let\'s see..."I\'m white; I\'m more entitled than this skinny black guy. Moreover, I was First Lady when Bill, my white husband, was once president. Why shouldn\'t I be the next president?"</br><br></br><br>They don\'t SAY it. They don\'t have to. The white people who earn their paychecks from the white, corporate media allow them to practice it.</br><br></br><br>Why? They THINK the same way-- not necessarily that Hillary, white woman should be president (being sexist too), but that some white person should be president; and that, if it has to a woman, then why not Hillary, why not this white woman?</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961676">Anonymous</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961676" class="dsq-comment-message">Macdaddy: EXACTLY. As I said before, being hispanic (but not hispanic enough) provided an interesting insight when my mother moved me to the deep south at age 10.  Up until that time, I had lived in California in a very diverse neighborhood.  But in the south, most white folks said exactly what they wanted around me (again...not realizing I wasn\'t white).  So you are exactly right about what is NOT being said.  That is the unspoken narrative among many white communities. Now that I live in the DC area, I must say it\'s easier to find white communities that "get it" but it\'s still a fact of life everywhere.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961677">Plantsmantx</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961677" class="dsq-comment-message">First of all, it\'s definitely about white privilege. If Edwards or Dodd were running against Clinton instead of Obama, there is no way in hell this would be happening. There\'s no way she would still be in the race. She would have dropped out by now. Because she recognizes and understands the racial dynamics going on here, she feels, with good reason, that there is a good chance that she can be given the nomination, even if she doesn\'t win it.<br></br><br>Secondly, I\'ve been thinking and saying for a while that everything that Obama has had to put up with has been a large-scale version of the things all of us have to deal with daily on a smaller scale. All of it is instantly recognizable.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961678">I am not Star Jones</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961678" class="dsq-comment-message">Thank you.  Other than calling Hillary Clinton and her supporters all kinds of foul names, I wasn\'t able to articulate my rage as well as Michelle.<br></br><br>She\'s on the money.</br><br></br><br>Hope Hillary is happy with her tainted rank win.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961679">Ms.Martin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961679" class="dsq-comment-message">This post and the description of white supremacy and what it means to this election is accurate to the letter.<br></br><br>This type of supremacy is usually never spoken but understood.  It is championed within certain peer groups and assumed understood and adhered by those who are not of the peer group.</br><br></br><br>It is the challenge of the Senator from Illinois of status quo American politics, the judicial system, the docile will of those living the American nightmare, the forgotten Americans and ability to lead the masses in rebellion against an institution that was established and has been fortified for centuries that has drawn out the benefactors to take a final stand against the loss power that is threatened.</br><br></br><br>I agree with anonymous that this will change, should we choose to fight, this change will be similar to a second civil war for this country. The challenge is to convince many that they need to fight!</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961680">Felicia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961680" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961680" class="dsq-comment-message">Great post.  Michelle should send this to the DNC.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961681">MacDaddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961681" class="dsq-comment-message">Thank you, Michelle.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961682">Angela</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961682" class="dsq-comment-message">I guess I will never "get" the DNC etc....so called Democratic leaders like Gore, Brazile, Dean, Edwards..etc.<br></br><br>This is not the 90\'s , the 80\'s the 60\'s..  </br><br></br><br>The pundits keep trying to replay stuff about the 50\'s for heaven\'s sake.</br><br></br><br>This election is about today and it is about a whole demographic that is more vocal, more activist, more educated, more intelligent than any Democractic demographic ever....</br><br></br><br>I think the party leaders need to educate themselves...the party voters are already ahead of them.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961683">Admiral Komack</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961683" class="dsq-comment-message">Thank you, Michelle.<br>Great post.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961684">Adam</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961684" class="dsq-comment-message">Sometimes we need a reminder, at least I know I do . . .<br></br><br>Obama is winning.</br><br></br><br>The MSM and many of their forces are doing everything they can for us to forget that but millions of people have voted for Obama.</br><br></br><br>Some because of who he is.</br><br></br><br>Some because of what he plans to do.</br><br></br><br>And some because of what he represents.</br><br></br><br>I hate to get all metaphysical about this but I think Obama campaign represents a battle happening in this country between those who are aware and those who are asleep.</br><br></br><br>His campaign challenges white supremacy and a dozen other structural and mental limitations that have been designed to keep us asleep and afraid.</br><br></br><br>As much as the Clinton\'s try to change the scoreboard, Obama\'s campaign has permanently changed the political game and that is good news indeed.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961685">Angela</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961685" class="dsq-comment-message">my husband and I just made another donation to Obama today.<br></br><br>We will continue to do so as we feel comfortable with our expenses.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961686">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961686" class="dsq-comment-message">Olbermann cracked me up tonight. All the folks were on point and logical: Todd, Fineman, Wolffe and Maddow. <br></br><br>If you\'re feeling bad, watch Olbermann tonight. At the very least, it should calm your nerves.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961687">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961687" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961687" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>Secondly, I\'ve been thinking and saying for a while that everything that Obama has had to put up with has been a large-scale version of the things all of us have to deal with daily on a smaller scale. All of it is instantly recognizable.</i><br></br><br>I\'ve said for awhile now, that the reason the Black Middle Class and Professional Class were the first to fully embrace Obama, is because we see in him, our own struggles in Corporate America. We understand all-to-well on changing the rules in the middle of the game, and then have folks look at you as if you shoudl have known about the new rules. We know all about moving the bar just as the end is in sight. We relate to Obama on a visceral level on this point...which is why it indeed so personal for us.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961688">andyfrombrooklyn</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961688" class="dsq-comment-message">this post is a very well synopsis of the last two months. clinton\'s pennsylvannia win is good for one  last gasp of enraging propaganda. the problem for the status quo racists is the primary is over and obama has won. people believe. the cat is out of the bag and it ain\'t going back in.<br>the flip side to the racist agenda is the historic moment that obama has created. will america fail the test in a frenzy of swiftboats and bogus analysis. i don\'t see that ending.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961689">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961689" class="dsq-comment-message">Maddow brought up a good point tonight on Olbermann...even if it\'s only words, at least John McCain has released a statement condemning the race-baiting ad of the NC GOP against Obama. <br></br><br>Hillpatine HAS NOT.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961690">Anonymous</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961690" class="dsq-comment-message">You won\'t see this on TeeVee but the Obama camp is charging voter problems in PA.<br></br><br>http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Obama_camp_charging_voting_problems_in_0422.html</br><br></br><br>Request to extend voter hours denied</br><br></br><br>http://www.thetimeschronicle.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19509317&BRD;=1306&PAG;=461&dept;_id=187823&rfi;=6</br><br></br><br>Ballot Error confuses voters</br><br></br><br>http://www.thetimes-tribune.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19509191&BRD;=2185&PAG;=461&dept;_id=416046&rfi;=6</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961691">JJ</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961691" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'ve been saying this for months on my blog.  Once he ran up the 12 wins and then the Texas/Ohio debacle...I knew there was no getting this race done with not just because of Hillary but because the party elders, superdelegates and DNC didn\'t want to.<br></br><br>Part of it is fear of the CLintons but the BULK of it is they want this Black guy to "prove" himself.  I\'ve said on any number of occasions if Obama was white he would hav elocked this thing up a long time ago.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961692">Angela</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961692" class="dsq-comment-message">sorry you all...I am not feeling all that \'redemption" stuff all Hilary finds convenient these days.<br></br><br>By the way...don\'t you all find it nice and convenient for Hillary who now believes in "redemption" and "death bed miracles" when its ok  for her to "bridge" the social divdes.</br><br></br><br>Hmmm!!</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961693">truthToPower</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961693" class="dsq-comment-message">But honestly did we expect anything different?<br></br><br>It\'s always been my opinion that if Barack were to pull this off, it would be an event of BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS!!!  There aren\'t many examples in history of a majority population electing a minority to the highest seats of power.</br><br></br><br>There\'s hope ... I\'m hopeful, but.. well you know.. it\'s a white mans WORLD!</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961694">Angela</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961694" class="dsq-comment-message">By the way, if you don\'t know the source of Hillary\'s "redemption comments and death bed comments...she made them on Countdown.<br></br><br>My point is, she gets to redeem people who some might find offensive, but, others are held to a very different standard???</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961695">Ms.Martin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961695" class="dsq-comment-message">Hagee is repeating his New Orleans statement.<br></br><br>McCain is worst person of the world today for requesting Hagee\'s endorsement.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961696">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961696" class="dsq-comment-message">Got this from the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dylan-loewe/hillarys-new-inevitabilit_b_98145.html" rel="nofollow">HuffingtonPost.</a><br></br><br>I liked this paragraph:</br><br></br><br><i>For Clinton, trouble does not end with Obama\'s potential gain of new superdelegates. The Obama campaign launched a cold-war style arms race in Pennsylvania, spending so much money that he effectively bankrupted the Clinton campaign. As of April, Obama has $42 million cash on hand to Clinton\'s $9 million - and Clinton is $10 million in the red. Like Reagan did to the Soviet Union, Barack Obama spent the Clinton Empire to death. With the little money she had left, she needed to buy herself a much larger victory. She needed to buy herself a new rationale for her tired candidacy. Instead, all she bought herself was a little more time.</i></br><br></br><br></br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961697">Ms.Martin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961697" class="dsq-comment-message">Someone said today that if she believed in her campaign so much,  she would invest in her own stock.<br></br><br>She has enough money, why won\'t she lend her campaign some more money?</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961698">MacDaddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961698" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m glad Latinos are checking this out: how Hillary threw the progressive MoveOn.Org under the bus (even though it originally formed to support her husband against Republican right-wing attacks, the kind she\'s tossing at Obama now); Sista-Souljared "San Francisco" gays for giving money to the Obama campaign, and knee-capped blacks, their most loyal voters, once Bill, her politically over-rated husband, played the "like Jessie Jackson" race card in South Carolina...<br></br><br>...What they do to us today they\'ll do to you tomorrow.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961699">Lolo</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961699" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah and everyone, she did all that shitsucking and spewing and for what?  NINE delegates net, according to CBS.  I LOVE that she went down on her knees to Scaife and I hope it killed the Monster\'s mostly dead soul just that little bit more.<br></br><br>She won but she won just the margin that we (the pragmatists, in spite of our dreams) worked towards.  Yes, they\'ve rounded it up to ten, heck who wouldn\'t?, but she ain\'t nothing but abroke, broke.  That\'s right, I said it and I\'m laughing while I type it.</br><br></br><br>I can\'t even stay mad at her for more than ten minutes anymore because either her ways work and the DNC gets the president it deserves (Michelle is so on) or we keep working like we have been and WE get the president we deserve.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961700">Ms.Martin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961700" class="dsq-comment-message">Lolo<br></br><br>Today I\'m laughing with you.  I\'m laughing at the desperation and attempts to spin. She needed a blowout in Pennsylvania and 9.2% does not a blowout make.</br><br></br><br>I don\'t think working with Scaife bothered her all because she\'s doing it to severely damage Obama for the general.  She knows the end is in sight, she wants to keep her supporters filled with hope so when the DNC steps in (I think in two weeks)her supports will feel like the nomination was taken away from her and they will vote Republican.</br><br></br><br>Olbermann accussed her of working triangularly with the Republicans and said that there was enough proof that it was not a conspiracy theory.</br><br></br><br>The DNC should be meeting now trying to figure out how to stop this damage.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961701">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961701" class="dsq-comment-message">@ ms.martin,<br></br><br><i>She knows the end is in sight, she wants to keep her supporters filled with hope so when the DNC steps in (I think in two weeks)her supports will feel like the nomination was taken away from her and they will vote Republican.</i></br><br></br><br></br><br>...and then, there will be a huge outcry from her supporters demanding she be part of the ticket.  If Barack chooses someone else, they will go away enraged and refuse to vote for him.  This essentially twists his arm and denies him the right of picking a baggage-free, complimentary running mate.  This is some ugly scenario.  </br><br></br><br>I hope - if it comes down to this - that Barack names a running mate before that point to outmaneuver her....or at least say he\'s already offered it to someone else..lol.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961702">Anonymous</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961702" class="dsq-comment-message">" The Democratic Party, in particular its uncommitted superdelegates and any other party leadership passively or actively allowing this insanity, is supporting and encouraging systemic racism/white supremacy. "<br></br><br>Good f*ckeen grief.  </br><br>i.e., "Support Obama, or you\'re a white supremacist."  </br><br></br><br>Utterly pitiful.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961703">DWS</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961703" class="dsq-comment-message">Today\'s entry "The Democratic Party."<br></br><br>http://stuffblackpeoplehate.com/</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961704">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961704" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>rikyrah and everyone, she did all that shitsucking and spewing and for what? NINE delegates net, according to CBS. I LOVE that she went down on her knees to Scaife and I hope it killed the Monster\'s mostly dead soul just that little bit more</i><br></br><br>lolo,</br><br></br><br>that\'s why I enjoyed Olbermann tonight. Chuck Todd was dazzling, beating those numbers like Ike did Tina. </br><br></br><br>Pledged Delegates? Nope.</br><br></br><br>Popular Vote? Nope. </br><br></br><br>He was running through those numbers and just made it simple - by any metric, she can\'t do it. </br><br></br><br>Richard Wolffe was also entertaining. I think he\'s very fair - he\'s about as balanced as they come on the networks. </br><br></br><br>And, a nice shoutout to Michelle Bernard, who called a spade a spade (pun intended), when she said that the Clintons would play the Race Card in dismissing an Obama win in North Carolina. I\'ve been watching her for awhile now, so I think I can tell. She\'s \' bitter\' about the race-baiting of Obama. She\'s a Republican, no doubt, but she\'s offended- as a Black woman - at the attacks on Obama by the Clintons. I loved her explictly saying \' THE RACE CARD\' when talking about The Clintons...the rest of them on the panel wanted to say something, but they shut the #($* up, because they knew what she was saying was true.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961705">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961705" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>...and then, there will be a huge outcry from her supporters demanding she be part of the ticket. If Barack chooses someone else, they will go away enraged and refuse to vote for him. This essentially twists his arm and denies him the right of picking a baggage-free, complimentary running mate. This is some ugly scenario. </i><br></br><br>I say screw her with her own words..</br><br></br><br>and if they want a White Woman on the ticket, choose Sebelius, McCaskill or Napolitano.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961706">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961706" class="dsq-comment-message">Re Hillary claiming she made 10 million ....does anyone notice this is suspiciously the same amount she\'s in debt for?<br></br><br>I don\'t believe the amount raised, and think it\'s spinning to create the illusion of wiping out the debt.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961707">Ms.Martin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961707" class="dsq-comment-message">Rickyrah<br></br><br>"Richard Wolffe was also entertaining. I think he\'s very fair - he\'s about as balanced as they come on the networks. "</br><br></br><br>Yup, and whenever he chuckles, the situation is really laughable.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961708">Ms.Martin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961708" class="dsq-comment-message">Truthseeker<br></br><br>I think she wants people to believe that she picked up some new support in winning PA - bs!</br><br></br><br>They are working on illusion.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961709">Ms.Martin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961709" class="dsq-comment-message">Rickyrah<br></br><br>What do you think about Indiana?</br><br></br><br>I\'m from downstate Illinois, but I\'ve been gone 12 years, but they just don\'t seem like PA to me.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961710">Anonymous</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961710" class="dsq-comment-message">Thank you for helping out Obama. I\'m glad to see how many people are out trying to change the way politics are played.  Please take a look at our Obama website and add it to your blogroll if possible.  Thanks You.<br></br><br>http://obamavsmccain.typepad.com/</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961711">Anonymous</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961711" class="dsq-comment-message">OK, here’s what drives me nuts.<br></br><br>I am an affluent, straight, white father of a multi-racial family The whole family together has a veritable shit- load of graduate degrees. I am proudly feminist yet in retrospect can see that I have cashed my white male privilege ticket on more occasions than I can  count. Shit, all I had to do sometimes was smile and say something half-smart and someone was writing me a  “white” check. In fact,  white privilege has been so abundant that I have gotten it when I didn’t want it or even when I refused it.  Shit, even when I returned some freebie,  I was liable to wake up to find its benefits crawling up my behind.</br><br></br><br>But what’s my point?</br><br></br><br>Well I have several:</br><br></br><br>This will sound arrogant, but I am simply too fucking smart, with too much political experience,  to  buy Hillary’s load of shit that campaigning is rough and that everybody attacks and that they are both comparably slamming each other. Bullshit. I will resist writing an extended essay on this, but the quantity and vitriole of Hillary Clinton’s attacks are infinitely more mongo and hateful  than anything offered by Barack Obama. You can squawk that crap about “heat in the kitchen” all you want Billary, but Ill tell you a secret that you might not believe: Some of us are even smarter than you, with the same and even more Ivy League degrees that you have, although your world view honestly seems to leave absolutely no room for that possibility to occur among any living homo sapiens non-Clintonus.  </br><br></br><br>You are fighting filthy and my candidate is fighting ferociously.</br><br></br><br>Get the difference?  Filthy vs. ferocious.</br><br></br><br>And Hill, cut the emasculating patronizing phony-ass bullshit of taunting Barack that he can’t stand the heat every time he responds to one of your shit-balls. It’s the shit he can’t stand, the vicious racist infantilizing damning with faint praise, the taunts that you and your race-baiting husband always deliver with a smarmy grin.  Not the heat. </br><br></br><br>Ill give you one thing: You are smart enough to never have called him ‘boy.” But listen carefully: You are pathetically transparent. The cumulative subtext of every attack and grin and insinuation and subtle move of your head and every patronizing and completely disingenuous “compliment” you have thrown his way has been screaming: “BOYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!”</br><br></br><br>Actually I am a little ashamed about one thing. There are moments when I see you  taunting him in  such a slime-ass emasculating way that that I am afraid my lifetime of fierce feminism is in jeopardy of heading down the toilet. I gotta watch myself. Someone help me here. </br><br></br><br>Then there is this bat-shit “repudiation list.” Anyone dark enough to even have a fucking sun tan who wants to run for office has to pass the test of repudiating every black woman or man who ever looked cross-eyed at a white person.  What nonsense! Why has no one ever prevailed on my white ass to repudiate David Duke, Timothy McVeigh, George Lincoln Rockwell, Frank Rizzo, and the Posse Comitatus? </br><br></br><br>Ill tell you why: Because I get the unwritten yet crystal clear white man’s BWBB pass (Boys Will Be Boys) that allows me to evolve as a human being and experiment and change and mature and meet whoever I want -- to get a DWI here, utter a racial slur there -- without having to answer for those associations for the rest of my life.  Because I’m a white man. I mature over time. I grow out of shit. </br><br></br><br>A black man doesn’t grown and evolve in this narrative, he  steadily accumulates baggage that he can never – not fucking ever – lose, baggage that’s always there when you want to insinuate that, well, there’s something just not right about this  (N-WORD).</br><br></br><br>Seriously, imagine this scenario:  Barack’s amazing mother was a real life force, a free spirit. What if by some chance she had taken him to the Unification Church for a couple months when he was 12? Who wants to tell me that this would not somehow be insinuated into the craposphere by Billary as evidence of strangeness, of cult-inclinations, of moonie-ness? Not in a direct attack, but as something that just wasn’t quite right.</br><br></br><br>As far as I can see, this brilliant, inspiring, ferocious black man, this  man who will be our next President without your abundant sorry-ass on the ticket Hillary, has to answer for and repudiate and explain every fucking person he has met in his life and everything  he has ever said, eaten, swallowed, inhaled, unttered or thought. </br><br></br><br>This is a true story: A sainted  high school civics teacher of mine, a civil rights activist, took me to see George Wallace during his 1968 campaign as a way of helping me explore  and understand what the most vile hate looks like up close. He was a white southerner who revered MLK and Wallace was  appearing at a bowling alley, and surrounded by a bunch of cracker racist white men. It was dicey and a pretty damn menacing scene. We got in the receiving line and actually shook his hand.  And then he took me outside and we spent three of the most valuable  hours of my life discussing and learning about the nature and subtleties of white supremacy. </br><br></br><br>Let’s say that someone snapped a picture of me that night.  I say that today I  could tell the story of this extraordinary teacher in such a way that he would end up looking like the educator of the year and I would look like a young Morris Dees (one of my heroes) in training going to face down evil incarnate. I even have high school friends who remember the whole deal.</br><br></br><br>Now you tell me: Is there one single tiny fucking thing Barack could ever do in the same admittedly unlikely circumstance, any word or phrase he could utter, anything that anyone would even listen  to, if by some bizarre chance he had  had a similar teacher and a Farakhan picture emerged? Hell, Im not even sure Barack would be given half a chance to explain a picture of himself with fucking Art Linkletter.</br><br></br><br>He’s be finished. Not me.  Id be someone who learned about hate at an early age wenut and faced evil because of a visionary teacher.</br><br></br><br>Hillary,  I;m beggin you: Get your vicious emasculating white ass off the stage already before you single-handedly start a race war AND squander all the hard fought gains of four decades of courageous feminist  and racial struggle.</br><br></br><br>Go on now. Off the fucking stage. Now.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961712">RhondaCoca</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961712" class="dsq-comment-message">Did you guys see the add about gangs and Obama? A really creepy ad?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961713">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961713" class="dsq-comment-message">rhonda,<br></br><br>I did. NOt surprised, and of course, they had an excuse for it. Whatever.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961714">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961714" class="dsq-comment-message">They didn\'t bring up that Obama could be against the death penalty because he\'s from Illinois - the state that FREED 13 MEN FROM DEATH ROW...not because they got off on a technicality...BUT, BECAUSE THEY DIDN\'T DO IT. <br></br><br>Did they mention that Obama was the one who got it passed that all murder interrogations had to be done on videotape?</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961715">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961715" class="dsq-comment-message">Anonymous 9:14,<br></br><br>WORD</br><br></br><br>to your entire post. I hear ya. Loud and Clear.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961716" class="dsq-comment-message">ms. martin,<br></br><br>Indiana is a tossup to me. It really is, but he will have a money advantage, and he can flood the area with people from Illinois.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961717" class="dsq-comment-message">Sorry, Rikyrah,<br>but what means "WORD?"</br><br></br><br>Anonymous 9:14</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961718" class="dsq-comment-message">Rhondacocoa<br></br><br>It wasn\'t creepy if you saw it for what it was.</br><br></br><br>Rightwing/Hillary bullshit.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961719" class="dsq-comment-message">WORD=<br></br><br>You said it so well, I have nothing to add. </br><br></br><br>You told it all, like a good sermon.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961720" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m watching the John Adams series on HBO andd during a meeting of the Continental Congress a proclomation from King George was read stating that they were considered traitors and if the members did not stop their treason against Britain they would be hanged.<br></br><br>One of the members of the Contintental Congress said God damn the King.  </br><br></br><br>Sound familiar.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961721" class="dsq-comment-message">Re George Washington<br></br><br>"To his disappointment, two parties were developing by the end of his first term. Wearied of politics, feeling old, he retired at the end of his second. In his Farewell Address, he urged his countrymen to forswear excessive party spirit and geographical distinctions. In foreign affairs, he warned against long-term alliances. "</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961722" class="dsq-comment-message">Damn they were worried about the negroes uprising and taking over when the struggled over the Declaration of Independence.<br></br><br>Things haven\'t changed much!</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961723" class="dsq-comment-message">Damn they were worried about the negroes uprising and taking over when they struggled to agree upon the Declaration of Independence.<br></br><br>Things haven\'t changed much!</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961724" class="dsq-comment-message">Excellent post.  Regarding the institutional racism revealed by the mainstream media narrative, I have this little gem to add:  One of the talking heads on CNN last night said of Hillary\'s win, "Now balance has been restored to the race." <br></br><br>At the time, I didn\'t fully process or understand what he meant.  Obama\'s up about 155 pledged delegates over Hillary, and she gained, what, nine?  How can that have "restored balance" to the race?  I chalked it up to the media rooting for a horserace, but remained uneasy.  The quote stuck in my mind.</br><br></br><br>I mean, there\'s something almost "Star Wars" about that quote, isn\'t there?  That "the Force" was "out of balance" before Hillary\'s Pennsylvania win, but her win has "restored balance" to the Force.</br><br></br><br>Your post made me understand just what the Force is.  The "out of balance" situation that existed before Pennsylvania was that a black man was winning the nomination.  The Pennsylvania win "restored balance" to the race -- now things are as they OUGHT to be, with the contest "momentum" possessed by a white First Lady whose husband brought home $109 million over the last 7 years.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961725" class="dsq-comment-message">Re Adams:<br></br><br>"On November 1, 1800, just before the election, Adams arrived in the new Capital City to take up his residence in the White House. On his second evening in its damp, unfinished rooms, he wrote his wife, "Before I end my letter, I pray Heaven to bestow the best of Blessings on this House and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise Men ever rule under this roof." </br><br></br><br>Well they messed that one up!</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961726" class="dsq-comment-message">Some of you should check out a site called topix,it is a Jewish site.They called him Mabus the anti christ,gay,dope addict. People are getting sick. I guess McCain and Hillary are saints.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961727" class="dsq-comment-message">No I\'m not crazy or a Tom , this is how she would get my vote.<br></br><br>1. Do a special speech on race,and say how racist you were in Pennsylvania.You did everthing but burn a cross.You were phoney as hell .Getting drunk, talking about hunting and for what , to appeal to racist.</br><br></br><br>2. Appologize to Rev.Jeremicah Wright. This Veteran got death threats because of you.You never heard a sermon like that, ministers that went to college do it all the time , the effect is called a Device.He had you and your sorry ass husbands backs when your family was hurting.</br><br></br><br>3. Appologize to ALL Americans in particularly Blacks. My mother went through Jim Crow so that you racist ass can call US Nigger. You has Stephannie Tubbs-Jones call me one,Bob Johnson call me one then some sorry old ass lady call me one that I voted for before. She even said that I had it easy because I\'m black.</br><br></br><br>4.Tell Fox you don\'t need help from those racist.Not Sean Hannity or his anti-semitic bomber friend , Bill O\'reilly or his sexual molesting self.Tell the American people that there is no MSM . That white people control everthing and you\'re greedy and hate to share sh!t.</br><br></br><br>5. Tell them why Sen.Barack Obama could not respond to you. He could not bring up race, but you and Fox and the MSM can.He couldn\'t call you out of your name , but you could do that to him.</br><br></br><br>6. Have your husband appologize. We considered him a honorary black, but in reality he was bush lite. Now blacks have a choice. I was going to vote for you ,but when I see the whole USA call me Nigger and you stand there and giggle I said fuck you.Yes you are a woman but my moms a black woman and below that\'s me NIGGER. You do this it would be good for a start, but when I see little old black ladies from the south look at you every day on TV and get madder and madder I don\'t know what\'s up. Your in league with O\'reilly, Limbaugh,Hannity ,Beck ,Medved, and eveery other bigot that want me dead.</br><br></br><br>Apologize</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961728" class="dsq-comment-message">Yeah, I heard someone on CNN say momentum in regard to Hillary....what freakin\' momentum?  Barack ate into her 30 point lead.  She won nothing, to go from 30 points to 10 is a loss of support.<br></br><br>History will not look kindly on all this.  These days, every scrap of footage is archived, every word saved.  I wonder as these pundits look back on their actions, what they\'ll think.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961729" class="dsq-comment-message">Wow, I\'m really honored to see that comment from The Field posted here at Jack and Jill, which I respect so much. And of course the discussion here takes it to deeper levels -- discussions here at this blog usually do. (I\'m the same Michelle who reads here regularly and sometimes comments BTW).<br></br><br>I am so grateful to everyone for this discussion being here. Thank you all so much.</br><br></br><br>The more I get into where I\'m at right now at this particular point in time, and also thinking about what people are writing here .... the more I find my attention focused on the Democratic Party and its leadership. Even more than the Clintons and even more than the media, and certainly more so than "the white we mean um \'regular\' blue collar voters." </br><br></br><br>JJ said, <i>I knew there was no getting this race done with not just because of Hillary but because the party elders, superdelegates and DNC didn\'t want to.</i></br><br></br><br>Part of it is fear of the CLintons but the BULK of it is they want this Black guy to "prove" himself. I\'ve said on any number of occasions if Obama was white he would hav elocked this thing up a long time ago.</br><br></br><br>I keep trying to console myself with "the numbers" and "he\'ll win the nomination eventually" but it isn\'t working for me. </br><br></br><br>The whole thing is making me sick at a deep level and this such a huge part of why. </br><br></br><br>Here there is this amazing quality leader who is stepping up and saying he is willing to take on this intense job at a very very difficult time. And, he is willing to do it under the banner of the Democratic Party. </br><br></br><br>And at the same time there is this obviously corrupt person who wants to be president for the power, to be one of "history\'s (imperial) actors" -- creating reality, as discussed in an earlier thread here  -- and she is attacking as she is.</br><br></br><br>And to me the sane response to this kind of situation from the Democratic Party should be to not only actively have the back of this high quality leader, but also at the same time to step up and say to Hillary Clinton, as loudly and publicly as need be, with no confusion about it at all: "What you are doing is over the line, it is not acceptable to us, and you can\'t do this and be part of our party. Period."</br><br></br><br>But no. Instead it is this dynamic of supporting her white privilege and of "prove it to us Black guy." </br><br>And in this white supremacist logic, it also somehow becomes valuable to have Ms. Hillary on the attack against someone in her own party. </br><br></br><br>It toughens Senator Obama up, does it? Bull. Shit. To me it seems that if his own party had his back and was doing the right thing to start with, this kind of nonsense would not be necessary for a minute. Offer him the resources of the party and assist him that way, okay?</br><br></br><br>Here\'s how I get in situations like this, it\'s always the same for me: I always want so much to flip the dynamic on its head. So now I am internally personally tired of accepting the power dynamic of "suck up to the superdelegates" and "hope the Democratic Party does the right thing." </br><br></br><br>But as I see it, the Democratic Party leadership should be freaking grateful that someone with Senator Obama\'s skills and abilities and ethos is willing to run for president under their party\'s not-necessarily-deserving banner. They should be grateful and they should back that up with action in support of what he is doing and where he is going. </br><br></br><br>Instead they are letting him do all the heavy lifting while they sit back and judge his worth and act like they would be doing him a favor to grant him their special nomination. </br><br></br><br>And if he does get the nomination and if he does become the president, the Democratic Party gets the credit (look a Democrat is now president) without having to do the work to make it there, and in fact having made the work so much harder than it had to be and should have been. </br><br></br><br>Tomorrow, I\'ll find the DNC email addresses and send that comment to them as Felicia said I should (I\'m just going to google it so if anyone has better info please post the email here and I\'ll use/add that). But you know, I really don\'t have faith that they will care. Because I think they have been running this power dynamic all along. Anyway, if I get any sort of answer I\'ll post it in a comment here.</br><br></br><br>But where my attention goes is with wanting so bad to flip the dynamic (even if I don\'t know if its possible that is what I end up yearning for in situations like this). I want Democratic Party leadership etc to be under active scrutiny and actively judged by the people it is currently failing in a way that puts it on trial. </br><br></br><br>As I see it, it is failing tests left and right in this campaign season. It is failing to proving itself worthy of what it will get if Senator Obama is president under its banner, and it needs to do better. </br><br></br><br>What leverage is there for this, I don\'t know because I am terrible at movement strategy, always have been. </br><br></br><br>Anon @ 05:29:00 & Ms. Martin @ 06:14:00, I\'m reminded of what you\'re saying as I write this.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961730" class="dsq-comment-message">Great post and lively discussion BUT he will win the nomination.<br></br><br>We need to be more dilligent in expressing our rejection of Billary. </br><br></br><br>This was expected--Obama threatens to change the status quo and isnt beholden to fat cats and lobbyist and that scares ALOT of FOLKS thus the triangulation of Obama by FOX, REPUBS AND HRC.</br><br></br><br>DID I say WE need to be vocal and active in expressing our rejection of HRC and the HHHs that support her?</br><br></br><br>LAstly everyone take a WOOSAAAHH moment...Barack will win the nom.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961731" class="dsq-comment-message">This is the same anon 4:32AM..<br></br><br>HRC did get 150K votes in Philly, no doubt due to Nutter and the pay us for votes crew..40K vote swing to Barack and we have a diff narrative. </br><br></br><br>Also this was the numbers YESTERDAY:</br><br></br><br></br><br>99.34% precincts reporting.</br><br></br><br></br><br>Candidate Votes Percent</br><br>CLINTON, HILLARY (DEM)</br><br>1,237,696 54.3%</br><br>OBAMA, BARACK (DEM)</br><br>1,043,174 45.7%</br><br></br><br></br><br>THESE ARE NUMBERS TODAY </br><br></br><br>CLINTON, HILLARY (DEM)  </br><br> 1,238,232 54.6% </br><br>OBAMA, BARACK (DEM)  </br><br> 1,030,703 45.4% </br><br></br><br>Barack suddenly lost 13k votes and HRC gained 1k..Yes it has not been certified but how is he loosing votes?</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961732" class="dsq-comment-message">The original post was spot on.  Not only was it dead accurate regarding this Democratic contest, but it made me think about the very white privilege that goes on right here in my corporate workplace.  <br></br><br>How <i>I</i> must measure and temper every word and action to avoid management repurcussions, while white female subordinates are free to freely speak their mind without consequence.  </br><br></br><br>But I guess that this was bound to be the case.  We knew that Barack\'s success would threaten the status quo.  I guess we just didn\'t expect that the status quo were those who called us "friends".</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961733" class="dsq-comment-message">anonymous #?, why don\'t you use a name, it would make responding so much easier. <br>"vote for obama or you are white supremacist"...</br><br>deal with it! be true to yourself! if the shoe fits !...</br><br>obama has your racist butt cornered!</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961734" class="dsq-comment-message">Check this out from our "friends" over at Politico....  It really sums up Hillary Clinton and what her campaign is about. I think they\'ve been reading over at J&J.;  Enjoy.<br></br><br>From the Politico...Roger Simon </br><br></br><br>Run, Hillary, run.</br><br></br><br>Run in Guam, run in North Carolina, run in Indiana. Run in each and every one of the nine contests that are left.</br><br></br><br>Then make some states do their contests over.</br><br></br><br>Should Barack Obama\'s victory in Vermont really count? I don\'t think Vermont is actually a state. I think it is technically a socialist republic. Have somebody check this out.</br><br></br><br>And Obama\'s victory in Alaska? Are you kidding me? They let caribou vote in Alaska.</br><br></br><br>And do some other stuff that levels the playing field: Raise the voting age to 65 in all the remaining contests, for instance.</br><br></br><br>You do great with this group, Sen. Clinton. Younger people don\'t really care about who becomes president anyway. All they want to do is go on this World Wide Interweb thing that they keep talking about. </br><br>And while you are at it, Senator, cap all salaries at $50,000 a year, take away all college degrees and give everybody a gun. The demographics are clear: That is your base vote.</br><br></br><br>Also, no men get to vote unless they have a note from a woman saying they are mentally competent. (Good luck with that!)</br><br></br><br>And, Sen. Clinton, keep portraying yourself as a sympathetic underdog. That works much better than when you were the inevitable overlord.</br><br></br><br>In Haverford, Pa., last Thursday, you told the crowd: "Just knock on the door and say, \'You know, she\'s really nice.\' Or you could say it another way: \'She\'s not as bad as you think.\'"</br><br></br><br>It is a theme that worked in Pennsylvania and will work elsewhere. I can see the billboards now: "Hillary Clinton. Not as Bad as You Think."</br><br></br><br>But do not give up the kitchen sink stuff, Senator. Make it a Good Hillary/Bad Hillary kind of campaign.</br><br></br><br>Good Hillary talks about the dreamy, gooey, feel-good stuff, like when, in your victory speech from Philadelphia Tuesday night, you said: "We are, in many ways, all on this journey together to create an America that embraces every last one of us. ... I believe with all of my heart that together we will turn promises into action, words will become solutions, hope will become reality."</br><br></br><br>But Bad Hillary can\'t go away. You have to have the Hillary who says Obama is "elitist" and "demeaning," and you have to keep running ads that portray him as the guy who won\'t be able to protect us from the Great Depression, Pearl Harbor, long lines at the gas pump, Osama bin Laden or ringing telephones.</br><br></br><br>And speaking of Osama bin Laden, isn\'t he a Muslim? And didn\'t Bad Hillary say Obama was not a Muslim "as far as I know"? Keep up that subtle stuff. It is gold.</br><br></br><br>And then, of course, bribe the superdelegates. These are the 794 party insiders who have one standard for all their decisions in life: "What\'s in it for me?"</br><br></br><br>So offer them something. You know how many interstate rest stops there are? They have to be named for somebody. And promise the holdouts that they will be appointed ambassador to Bermuda. It doesn\'t matter that they all can\'t be ambassador to Bermuda, because we don\'t have an ambassador to Bermuda. (Say it was Bill\'s idea.)</br><br></br><br>And even if you can\'t get ahead in the delegate count, don\'t stop running! </br><br></br><br>Go to the convention in Denver and chain yourself to the front door of the Pepsi Center and refuse to leave unless every resident of Florida and Michigan -- not just the rogue delegates but all 26 million residents! -- is seated inside and gets to cast a ballot for you. </br><br></br><br>What\'s the worst that could happen? Howard Dean comes out and bites you on the ankle? Forget about it. I could carve a tougher guy out of tofu. </br><br></br><br>But most of all, Sen. Clinton, never give up, never surrender. </br><br></br><br>And remember: There\'s always 2012</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961735" class="dsq-comment-message">I wish more people understood what the Constitutional teacher is trying to tell them.<br></br><br>A vote against him is a vote against yourself and for your corrupt government.</br><br></br><br>He speaks to you of the Founding Fathers and creation of this nation reciting the documents that were meant to guide us through our maturity, these documents were not created to delve your conscience for a glimmer of morality, but to ensure that no goverment should be greater than its people and that no government should be used against its people; that when the government of the people no longer works for the people but for the financial and egotistical benefict of a few it should be dismantled and reassembled.</br><br></br><br>It is very simple.  Whether you are black, white, hispanic, asian, jewish, irish, catholic or christian, if you live in the United States of America your government is failing you.  </br><br></br><br>Your government does not work for the people, but against them in favor of a few.</br><br></br><br>George Bush is not just a poor manager, but similiar to a tyrannical dictator.  He has ignored the very law of the country he was chosen to lead; he has used resources of the country to benefit a few financially while the people lose their homes, face prices for basic needs that are crippling their budgets and endangering their well-being.  He has assembled a judicial body that seeks to deny you civil rights.</br><br></br><br>Hillary Clinton is promising you she can, as a Democrat, change what George Bush has done because she is a Democrat.  What she does not tell you and what SBO is trying to tell you is that while she may know the workings of Washington, she is complicit in behavior that brought us to where we are, behavior that many common men are unaware of that is the very behavior that George Bush is guilty of.  </br><br></br><br>Hillary and Bill Clinton were able to amass their 109 million fortune after leaving the Whitehouse because of controls that they set in place while they were in the Whitehouse.  They formed allegiances and monolopies with companies and foreign governments and sold the future of the American people. The Clintons made deals and passed legislature that worked to the detriment of its people.  They would have you believe that because the working-class man made a few dollars more that they were good for him.  </br><br></br><br>While the average man made a $1,000 more a year while they were in office, their friends and allies made millions a year while they were in office and they made hundreds of thousands more a year after they left office based on the allegiances they made while they were in office.</br><br></br><br>I think it is time for SBO to drive his message hard. It is time to just tell the common man exactly what he means.</br></div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1961736">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961736" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961736" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961736">Ms.Martin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961736" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961736" class="dsq-comment-message">I wish more people understood what the Constitutional teacher is trying to tell them.<br></br><br>A vote against him is a vote against yourself and for your corrupt government.</br><br></br><br>He speaks to you of the Founding Fathers and creation of this nation reciting the documents that were meant to guide us through our maturity, these documents were not created to delve your conscience for a glimmer of morality, but to ensure that no goverment should be greater than its people and that no government should be used against its people; that when the government of the people no longer works for the people but for the financial and egotistical benefict of a few it should be dismantled and reassembled.</br><br></br><br>It is very simple.  Whether you are black, white, hispanic, asian, jewish, irish, catholic or christian, if you live in the United States of America your government is failing you.  </br><br></br><br>Your government does not work for the people, but against them in favor of a few.</br><br></br><br>George Bush is not just a poor manager, but similiar to a tyrannical dictator.  He has ignored the very law of the country he was chosen to lead; he has used resources of the country to benefit a few financially while the people lose their homes, face prices for basic needs that are crippling their budgets and endangering their well-being.  He has assembled a judicial body that seeks to deny you civil rights.</br><br></br><br>Hillary Clinton is promising you she can, as a Democrat, change what George Bush has done because she is a Democrat.  What she does not tell you and what SBO is trying to tell you is that while she may know the workings of Washington, she is complicit in behavior that brought us to where we are, behavior that many common men are unaware of that is the very behavior that George Bush is guilty of.  </br><br></br><br>Hillary and Bill Clinton were able to amass their 109 million fortune after leaving the Whitehouse because of controls that they set in place while they were in the Whitehouse.  They formed allegiances and monolopies with companies and foreign governments and sold the future of the American people. The Clintons made deals and passed legislature that worked to the detriment of its people.  They would have you believe that because the working-class man made a few dollars more that they were good for him.  </br><br></br><br>While the average man made a $1,000 more a year while they were in office, their friends and allies made millions a year while they were in office and they made hundreds of thousands more a year after they left office based on the allegiances they made while they were in office.</br><br></br><br>I think it is time for SBO to drive his message hard. It is time to just tell the common man exactly what he means.</br></div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1961737">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961737" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961737" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961737">jon</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961737" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961737" class="dsq-comment-message">Well said, Michelle -- and thanks for posting, rikyrah.  And I agree with the commenters as well ...<br></br><br>jon</br></div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1961738">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961738" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961738" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961738">Phia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961738" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961738" class="dsq-comment-message">As Tim Wise (panelist in the Meeting David Wilson documentary)said best, "Barack transcends his race is another way of saying he graduated from his blackness. Hillary doesn\'t have to transcend her race, because white is something to aspire to, where as black is something undesireable"</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1961739">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961739" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961739" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961739">heartsandflowers</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961739" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961739" class="dsq-comment-message">Well as much as we support an Obama candidacy we also need to strategize with a contingency plan. If Hillary is allowed to steal the nomination who do we support? We cannot stay home and wait it out 4-8 years. There are things that Obama has not prepared for like last week\'s debate and going off script that have not helped. He already has the hounds of hell on his back and he needs to tighten that up. With that being said I think he would make one of our best presidents.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1961740">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961740" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961740" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961740">Anonymous</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961740" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961740" class="dsq-comment-message">I think the contingency plan should be holding the Democratic party accountable. We can\'t rally around a woman that resembles the Republicans more and more - her recent war mongering comment about Iran is a case in point. The fact is if we rally around her, we are signing up for another 4-8 years of the same stuff we\'ve already been through the past 7 years.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1961741">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961741" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961741" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961741">freespiritbeautee</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961741" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961741" class="dsq-comment-message">First, thank you all for this community.  I have learned so much about myself, more like an evolution is taking place.  Exciting transformation from my idealism.  JackandJillpolitics, YOU ROCK!!<br></br><br>I sent Obama double donation from my budget this month. I wasn\'t expecting (like Obama camp) for a PA win, but at least he wasn\'t beat by double digits.  The majority of posts have been spot on.  For the past few days I\'ve had a heavy feeling in my heart, and this topic from Michelle, previously from Jack a couple of days ago,so eloquently described what I was feeling. I couldn\'t properly articulate my frustration to my fiancee. I thank you for finding the words.</br><br> </br><br></br><br>Jack you are doing a fine job! Please get well soon and know that you are supported in your efforts.  You\'ve inspired me to write and address the issues as well!</br></div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1961742">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1961742" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1961742" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1961742">jovent</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1961742" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1961742" class="dsq-comment-message">Although blacks are 12% of the population in reality it is just 2% of the blacks that commit 50% of the murders and a greater percentage of other crimes. Consider: black females - 6%. Blacks from zero yrs. to 12 yrs. and black males from 50-100 years commit an infinitesimal percentage of the crimes. Therefore we are left with two percent. If we eliminate crimes committed by this two percent from the U.S. statistics our country compares very favorably with all Western countries. Fact -- blacks kill 7 times more than whites kill. Fact -- blacks kill whites 20 times more than whites kill blacks. Fact -- blacks mug or commit group crime against whites 50 times more than whites commit against blacks. Fact -- blacks rape white women 2000 (yes 2000) times more than whites rape black women. In New York City, about 300 white women are raped by blacks every year BUT there has not been a black woman raped by a white male in anybody’s memory (going back over 20 yrs.) Consider: Al Sharpton had to go upstate New York to find a hoax and that was almost 20 years ago. (Source NYT 4/22/05)  <br></br><br>According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics 2004 report (released May 2006), blacks commit 54 percent of the homicides in America even though they constitute only 12 percent of the population.</br><br></br><br>An individual black male is seven times more likely to commit murder than an individual white male. It so happens that black felons commit 43 percent of aggravated assaults, 66 percent of armed robberies, 27 percent of rapes and 85 percent of interracial crimes of violence, mainly against whites (this last figure from a Justice Department report 2003). However, it\'s not just in the United States. The greatest dicators in recent years have emerged in Africa. People like  Idi Amin of Uganda, Hastings Kamuzu Banda in Malawi, Mobutu Sese Seko,  in Zaire, self-anointed Emperor Bokassa of the Central African Republic, Mohammed Saidi Barre in Somalia, Sani Abacha of Nigeria,  Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe -- the list is endless.</br><br></br><br>Blacks are dumber as well, statistics analyzed by the New York Times (July 4, 1999) dispel the poverty argument by establishing that impoverished white children whose parents earn less than $10,000 a year score higher on standardized SAT tests than black children whose parents earn more than $70,000 a year. Also, nearly 70 percent of black children are born out of wedlock.</br></div>\
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