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Although McCain overreacted to the Georgia situation, Obama didn't help himself when he gave a statement wearing casual clothing and mainly staying AWOL.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-20_10:32:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "514ece7311946709a77d340a35a81d09", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1698914, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1699117": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Obama's VP pick will tell us.<br><br>If it's Biden, that mean's Obama is looking to shore up his foreign policy credentials and add 'gravitas' to the ticket. <br><br>If it's Kaine, then he's looking to appeal to rank-and-file Dems who are still wary of him because of Rev. 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But, in keeping with what I said to Monie, it's a distraction that should-and could, with a little bit of forward thinking-been avoided.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-20_13:05:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1702179, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1698832": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yep.  IMO he lost his journalistic credibility when he hammed it up on stage with Karl \"M.C.\" Rove.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-20_09:48:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1656897, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1656337": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm actually more concerned about the privacy issues that would be raised. Not that Obama insurgency gives a damn.<br><br>But should Town see fit to award points, so be it. I only accept them from him, though.<br><br>Your lack of creativity, though, gets you none. Thanks for playing.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_18:56:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1656227, "depth": 12, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1657874": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<blockquote><b>Jann Wenner:</b> \"There is little doubt that you are going to be \"Swift boated\" in some way during the campaign and that we are all once again going to be hit with the politics of fear. How do you deal with that? <u>In the past, Democrats have cowered in front of that</u>.\"<br><br><b>Barack Obama:</b>\"<i>Yeah, I don't do cowering.</i> You have to respond forcefully, quickly and truthfully to attacks. So far, we've held up pretty well.\"</blockquote><a href=\"http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/21472234/page/7\" rel=\"nofollow\">Rolling Stone's Jan Wenner - A Conversation with Barack Obama</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_21:34:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1655008, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1655317": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/19/172326/010/951/570605\" rel=\"nofollow\">DailyKos: It's Not Joe Biden</a><br><br>Good.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_17:51:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1657878": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Considering everything else he's gotten away with his entire life and career, he continues to be protected.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_21:35:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "87e75d88c7647774003db8905a3e99e6", "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": 1655181, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1654807": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Actually, a presidential candidate's  health has been put to scrutiny before--I came across a case of this in a medical ethics class.  In 1992, Democratic Senator Paul Tsongas's health was put under scrutiny by the media because  he had non-Hodgkins lymphoma years earlier but his doctor's assured he was cancer-free after a bone-marrow transplant.  The questions were raised about the cancer returning.  Sadly, he passed away in 1997 from a recurrence of the cancer.  It is valid to be concerned about candidate's medical history, both physically and mentally.  But there is a fine line to walk  with the privacy issues.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_17:08:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1654488, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1656856": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "We already know he's unfit to be POTUS.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_19:42:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1653829, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1652252": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "That was classic. Barack went southside on ole Joe...LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_15:29:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1651909, "depth": 5, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1657375": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Moreso.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_20:42:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1655067, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1654817": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Very true re the debate coach.<br><br>Also, IF and I say IF, the Dems want to make choice an issue, perhaps they shouldn't use the word 'abortion.'  Since, as Obama likes to say, no one is pro-abortion, this makes anti-abortion a poor campaign term as well.  The Dems should perhaps frame the opposition's dissension to choice as 'anti-choice.'  From a public and media relations perspective, I believe this will resonate with women voters no matter their party affiliation.<br><br>In the end, if Obama doesn't think he needs to brush up on his debating skills, there's not a whole lot his campaign advisers/workers can do about it.  It is, after all, his campaign, and I get the feeling that, unlike she who shall not be named, he takes full control and full responsibility for each and every task and act made in his name.  Nothing gets passed him, but he seems the obstinate type, so I doubt that anyone (except, perhaps, Mrs. Obama) can persuade him to get a coach, although he definitely needs one.<br><br>I'm emailing him that he should be as passionate at the debates as he is when he stumps.  The oratorical passion he exhibited at the VFW today is what is needed during the debates.  Hopefully, he has learned that, while he has become a great orator, he is a poor debater.  A passionate demeanor will win the day, since his opponent, the plagiarist, is as dull as dishwater whenever and wherever he speaks.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_17:09:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1644586, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1655332": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "this should read Obama 's ahead by 2 pts.  He's only ahead  by that much because Dems are not rallying behind him. If they did he would be ahead by a substantial margin. Th", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_17:52:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "514ece7311946709a77d340a35a81d09", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1651124, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1668136": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Cindy says it like it's a source of pride.   Watch the special on CNN tomorrow night on McCain and the Obama's.   They ask Cindy about John's divorce.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_23:56:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1667877, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1644586": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I'm underwhelmed by Monday morning quarterbacking. Not that there are no good points in the essay, but these writers have it easy critiquing performances after the fact.<br><br>That said, Barack needs a good debate coach. When he's on, he's on. When he's not, he's awful. He can't afford to be awful in a single debate this fall.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_12:58:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 50, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1641248, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1656877": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Were your choices Clinton and McCain, would you still be as concerned?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_19:45:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1656629, "depth": 12, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1654834": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "And Leos are stubborn.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_17:10:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1651473, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1666099": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That link goes to a blank page.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_23:23:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1665006, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1665118": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Barack understands the dynamics of election fraud. <br><br>Registering new voters is  the first step to combat it. Getting new registrants to the polls is the second.<br><br>Is it enough to win?<br><br>We'll see.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_23:11:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1665006, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1654838": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "there is nothing wrong with his stammering.  you know what . . . you all need to back up and think about what it takes to run for President.  All these backseat drivers telling Obama what to do, how so speak, stop your stammering, don't slouch . . . . .<br><br>He is an intelligent man, who is confident, and is not perfect.  But he will be president if we vote for him.  I could care less what McCain says.  Our focus should be turning supporters into voters, we will win this thing hands down.  I have no problem with him thinking though what he has to say and adding an um or pausing.  So what?  Let him do his thing.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_17:10:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1651125, "depth": 4, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1654330": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"You want to show that there's something either mentally or physically wrong with McCain that makes him unfit for the presidency.\"<br><br>So you think so too, huh?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_16:25:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 18, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1653829, "depth": 5, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1668155": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Not that I know of, unless he changed his mind at some point.<br><br>My Vote's for Obama (if I could vote) ...by Michael Moore<br><a href=\"http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?id=225\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index...</a><br><br>\"Well, that sounded good last year, but over the past two months, the actions and words of Hillary Clinton have gone from being merely disappointing to downright disgusting. I guess the debate last week was the final straw. I've watched Senator Clinton and her husband play this game of appealing to the worst side of white people, but last Wednesday, when she hurled the name \"Farrakhan\" out of nowhere, well that's when the silly season came to an early end for me. She said the \"F\" word to scare white people, pure and simple.\"", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_23:58:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "72f4448149a58a2132eefff7e3eb0ba6", "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": 1655004, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1689663": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Me too!! I'm sick of hearing Obama and his surrogates praise McCain's POW service. That shit was 30-odd years ago! It's over!<br><br>McCain can toot his own horn (and he does-- SUBJECT-VERB-POW), Obama doesn't need to solidify the idea of him as a patriot any more, especially when Obama is struggling just to get people to recognize him as American. <br><br>Democrats don't have to be liars and hypocrites like Republicans, but they sure as hell need to take the damn gloves off. Americans respond to ONE THING-- <b>STRENGTH</b>, and that means negativity, challenging every talking point and every positive portrait of the opponent. It means NEVER, EVER, EVER saying you are sorry or throwing a supporter overboard. <br><br>I am getting worried because McCain is gaining points with his negative campaigning. He hasn't said one positive thing about himself, and he doesn't need to if Obama keeps saying them.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-20_09:23:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "taritac", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1668014, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1666112": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I'm no Cindy McCain apologist, but if you weren't raised with another child in the home, then you are an only child, no matter how many \"half-siblings\" you may or may not have.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_23:23:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1664633, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1701441": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Centrist has artificially been moved to the right in the last few years, when actually, people believe in much more liberal ideas. YOU, sweetheart, are not centrist or moderate either.<br><br>Every one of those positions you cited, except maybe school choice, are OBAMA's positions.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-20_12:32:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "taritac", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1698895, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1654853": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "wrong.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_17:12:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1651434, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1635911": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Why won't the University of Illinois let Stanley Kurtz research its records relating to the Obama-Ayers relationship?<br><br><a href=\"http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZmJmMmY5ZTZjMDM2M2ViMTI2ZjU1OTc4NjE4OTgxMjM=\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZmJmMm...</a><br><br>Disturbing!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_09:57:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "d4a5571941439b7f9a5ba7979fd49d96", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 27, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1644105": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I can't find the article, TS. It only goes to a page with Pat Buchanan's bio.<br><br>Pat Buchanan makes me ill sometimes, but every now and then, he says something right.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_12:41:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "taritac", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1636791, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1665122": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Reason McCain wants to be President? Blind Ambition!<br><a href=\"http://youtube.com/watch?v=1WbnXn5Q_Hc\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://youtube.com/watch?v=1WbnXn5Q_Hc</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_23:12:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1652056": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "And the problem with all that is....", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_15:13:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1651434, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1657423": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "He bombed the shit out of Georgia.  It looked pretty real to me.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_20:45:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1654668, "depth": 4, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1686096": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "So then......you don't answer the question (not that it was directed towards you), but you use it as an opportunity to bash Bush. Typical.<br><br>It's early, though, so I'll walk with you: it wouldn't be smart.<br><br>But, then again, not only is Bush not running, but no one's questioned his patriotism.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-20_08:18:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1669466, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1685969": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "WHOO HOO! I am so happy for her and for us!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-20_07:56:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1655239, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1651795": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yes", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_14:53:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 21, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1650959, "depth": 3, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1657428": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "LOL.<br><br>The greatest athletes, politicians, and actors tend to be Leos.<br><br>Leos are also wise, intuitive, likable, attractive, generous, ambitious, organized, and cunning.<br><br>No Leos have hurt me. <br><br>Scorpios? <br><br>Now that's another matter.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_20:46:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1657323, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1655384": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "And just in time for some sanity, clarity, and competence (not to mention being free from negrophobia) in the media.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_17:57:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "RonnieB", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1655239, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1643097": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/19/bill-clinton-praises-mcca_n_119781.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Clinton Praises McCain on Energy Policy</a><br><br>LOL -- man I'll be glad when Nov gets here! So Obama can lay the smack down on this McCain/Clinton ticket.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_12:16:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "b8b9328e61e0094ae18e247c922f9dc7", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1654876": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "to give McCain ratings.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_17:13:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1652053, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1651806": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Co-sign", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_14:54:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "514ece7311946709a77d340a35a81d09", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1651662, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1697890": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Cindy is correct when she says she's her parents' only child.  But I think the sister's problem is that Cindy has been going around saying she's her FATHER'S only child, which isn't true.  Their dad only died in 2000, it's not like he died in 1960 and Cindy hasn't seen the sister since.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-20_09:33:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1666112, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1698917": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "99%:  Agreed!   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-20_09:56:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1658214, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1657959": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Not saying you're wrong at all.  <br><br>But Musharraf's been having problems since last year at the beginning of November when he declared a state of emergency in Pakistan.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_21:43:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1657197, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1697103": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "RonnieB:  YEP!  Perhaps we'll start to see more Obama support in her style of delivery!!  This will be good for the woman vote!  I hope!   :&gt;)   ::&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-20_09:31:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1655384, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1656947": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "thank you", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_19:52:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "Texas_Girl_in_LA", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1654838, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1658486": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "There you go, throwing out astrology with the bathwater!<br><br>LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_22:14:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "Lilytiger", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1657742, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1653879": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Terrific.  Convince the Muslim world that Bin Laden is right that the USA is waging a religious crusade....<br><br>McCain On \"Judeo Christian\" Crusade<br><a href=\"http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/08/19/mccains_judeo_christian_values_reference_puzzles/?rss_id=Boston.com%252B--%252BNational%252Bnews\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_16:14:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1664633": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://perezhilton.com/2008-08-19-cindy-mccains-a-big-fat-liar\" rel=\"nofollow\">Perez Hilton.com:  Cindy McCain's A Big Fat Liar</a> <blockquote>\"Mrs. McCain has gone on and on about living life as an 'only child.' <br><br>One LITTLE problem!!!!<br><br>She has a half-sister who she's known about, according to National Public Radio. In fact, Cindy and her sister hung out from time to time when they were growing up.<br><br>NPR points out that Cindy routinely uses the phrase \"only child,\" as she did on CNN last month. \"I grew up with my dad,\" she said then. \"I'm an only child. My father was a cowboy, and he really loved me very much, but I think he wanted a son occasionally.\"<br><br>The wannabe first lady has also been described that way by news organizations from <i>The New Yorker</i> and <i>The New York Times</i> to <i>Newsweek</i> and ABC.<br><br>When NPR asked the McCain campaign \u2014 specifically, Cindy McCain \u2014 to comment or respond, neither replied.<br><br>We think Cindy would suck at being first lady. <br><br>First ladies need to give off that trustworthy vibe!\"</blockquote>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_22:54:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1698751": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Why haven't you been pushy to get your son to register to vote? Even though he just turned eligible?  If she had time to do it and you were right there, you should've been backing her up. Especially in this crucial election year.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-20_09:40:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "3366eb80e96fe7a56d7a45e9dd44e0a3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1665006, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1655425": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Likely a good thing.  Biden would serve the country better in a high-level cabinet position.<br><br>Kaine or Bayh.  I prefer Kaine, because he's a governor.  But Bayh might help in the rustbelt states where people still need to see a white man in charge--somewhere.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_18:02:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "RonnieB", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1655317, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1651842": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I  think you're right when you say that he won't cower in front of  McCain.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_14:57:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "514ece7311946709a77d340a35a81d09", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1651473, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1701508": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Technically, I guess any way where the stars were on the bottom would be considered upside down, as they're supposed to be at the top.<br><br>I guess my biggest issue (and what I wrote on in my blog) is that between the DNC and the Obama campaign, it should have occured to someone to tread very lightly using the flag; to dot every I and cross every T. Even if it is unintentional-which I have my doubts about-someone should've known that the right wing would go ape shit if/when it got out. <br><br>At the very worst, it reads terrible, and looks even worse.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-20_12:37:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1701200, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1655318": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "YEAH!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_17:51:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1655239, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1644680": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Bill's like Puffy, he can't stop, he don't wanna stop.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_13:07:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1643455, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1655319": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The only way he can be more 'consistently arrogant' is if he is free to speak with conviction and honesty about what he believes and what his policies will be. <br><br>He cannot do this however, because his true views and policies are not in the mainstream. He, uh knows this, so he, uh, pauses, and stutters as he, um tries to  move, er, unconvincingly to the, um, center.<br><br>Below I list some of his positions. <br><br>Can he  'aggrogantly' come out and say for example, \"I support driver's licenses for illegal immigrants'? Can he state unequivocally state  \"I oppose a ban on partial birth abortions\"? and hope to win the election?<br><br>He should give it a try.<br><br>\"To thine own self be true.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_17:51:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "d4a5571941439b7f9a5ba7979fd49d96", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1651473, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1689229": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "99%:  Not to mention, that there have been NO pictures of \"McAncient's\" children, especially the adopted child of color!   Hmmmmm&gt;    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-20_09:22:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1667877, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1668113": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yeah but she's a Taurus, so there you go.<br>*wink", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_23:54:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "Lilytiger", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1667877, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1694356": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Monie:  Co-signing on the \"ditch David Gregory . . .\"  Cain't tolerate him!!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-20_09:28:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1656897, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1656983": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Jack Cafferty was hilarious here:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/18/cafferty.mccain/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/18/cafferty...</a><br><br><br>Commentary: Is McCain another George W. Bush?<br><br><i>Sen. John McCain takes weekends off and limits his campaign events to one a day. He made an exception for the religious forum on Saturday at Saddleback Church in Southern California.<br><br>I think he made a big mistake. When he was invited last spring to attend a discussion of the role of faith in his life with Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, at Messiah College in Pennsylvania, McCain didn't bother to show up. Now I know why.<br><br>It occurs to me that John McCain is as intellectually shallow as our current president. When asked what his Christian faith means to him, his answer was a one-liner. \"It means I'm saved and forgiven.\" Great scholars have wrestled with the meaning of faith for centuries. McCain then retold a story we've all heard a hundred times about a guard in Vietnam drawing a cross in the sand.<br><br>Asked about his greatest moral failure, he cited his first marriage, which ended in divorce. While saying it was his greatest moral failing, he offered nothing in the way of explanation. Why not?<br><br>Don't Miss<br>The Cafferty File: Join the conversation <br>Jack's book: \"It's Getting Ugly Out There\" <br>Analysis: Is McCain finding his way on faith? <br>Throughout the evening, McCain chose to recite portions of his stump speech as answers to the questions he was being asked. Why? He has lived 71 years. Surely he has some thoughts on what it all means that go beyond canned answers culled from the same speech he delivers every day.<br><br>He was asked \"if evil exists.\" His response was to repeat for the umpteenth time that Osama bin Laden is a bad man and he will pursue him to \"the gates of hell.\" That was it.<br><br>He was asked to define rich. After trying to dodge the question -- his wife is worth a reported $100 million -- he finally said he thought an income of $5 million was rich.<br><br>One after another, McCain's answers were shallow, simplistic, and trite. He showed the same intellectual curiosity that George Bush has -- virtually none.<br><br>Where are John McCain's writings exploring the vexing moral issues of our time? Where are his position papers setting forth his careful consideration of foreign policy, the welfare state, education, America's moral responsibility in the world, etc., etc., etc.?<br><br>John McCain graduated 894th in a class of 899 at the Naval Academy at Annapolis. His father and grandfather were four star admirals in the Navy. Some have suggested that might have played a role in McCain being admitted. His academic record was awful. And it shows over and over again whenever McCain is called upon to think on his feet.<br><br>He no longer allows reporters unfettered access to him aboard the \"Straight Talk Express\" for a reason. He simply makes too many mistakes. Unless he's reciting talking points or reading from notes or a TelePrompTer, John McCain is lost. He can drop bon mots at a bowling alley or diner -- short glib responses that get a chuckle, but beyond that McCain gets in over his head very quickly.<br><br>I am sick and tired of the president of the United States embarrassing me. The world we live in is too complex to entrust it to someone else whose idea of intellectual curiosity and grasp of foreign policy issues is to tell us he can look into Vladimir Putin's eyes and see into his soul.<br><br>George Bush's record as a student, military man, businessman and leader of the free world is one of constant failure. And the part that troubles me most is he seems content with himself.<br><br>He will leave office with the country $10 trillion in debt, fighting two wars, our international reputation in shambles, our government cloaked in secrecy and suspicion that his entire presidency has been a litany of broken laws and promises, our citizens' faith in our own country ripped to shreds. Yet Bush goes bumbling along, grinning and spewing moronic one-liners, as though nobody understands what a colossal failure he has been.<br><br>I fear to the depth of my being that John McCain is just like him.<br><br></i>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_19:55:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1655748": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I think Rachel is fabulous....except that time she had that sad puppy dog look on her face as Ferraro ranted about sexism and racism.  Rachel just sat there and let her go off.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_18:31:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1655239, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1702556": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"Even if it is unintentional-which I have my doubts about-someone should've known that the right wing would go ape shit if/when it got out.\"<br><br>The fact that the right wing would go ape shit over this SHOULD be the problem!<br><br>\"I guess my biggest issue (and what I wrote on in my blog) is that between the DNC and the Obama campaign, it should have occured to someone to tread very lightly using the flag\"<br><br>Tread lightly?  Really?  Are the right wing the only one's \"allowed\" to use the flag?<br><br>Oops..I will really try next time to only comment when you are talking to me.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-20_13:14:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "pcmadison", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1701508, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1652382": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Random thoughts...<br><br>I'm deeply troubled about the Clintons raising funds to pay off her campaign debt at the DNC convention. If any money should be raised it should be for the nominee and the party...not the loser. <br><br>Additionally, I think the Clintons are testing Obama to see how far they can push the envelope before the convention. They are trying to get Obama to cry foul with their long list of demands, therefore, giving them adequate cause to stage a coup at the convention. <br><br>HRC's strength of support is an illusion. If her support was strong, then the \"18 million\" voters would have retired Clinton's debt and would begin a clandestine presidential fundraisining campaign in the event BO cannot secure the nomination at the convention. <br><br>Reality: This will be a brokered nomination. Obama has negotiated with Clinton to give her and Bill prime speaking spots at the convention; solicit and receive donations to retire her campaign debt; and institute a roll call vote, which Clinton supposedly will look at the results and finally concede.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_15:38:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "soulsistah02", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1651692, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1654947": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "That doesn't bother me so much because it's obvious to me that he is giving himself time to think before he speaks, and that is always a good thing for anyone to do.<br><br>He understands the nuance of linguistics - that there is only one right word, phrase or sentence, and he takes the time to flip through his mental dictionary before he speaks.  I like that.<br><br>It's the timidity of his responses during debates that troubles me.  I don't expect him to hit it out of the park at every question but . . .  I can't quite put my finger on it but I think his responses tend to be  too dispassonate.  Also, during the primaries, I noticed that the questions (generally they aren't very good or substantive) were sometimes used to bait him, and I saw him visibly control being perturbed  (not just during Snuffy Smith and Chunky Charles's ambush).<br><br>All that said, I also understand how difficult it may be for him to campaign, attend fundraisers and work with a coach.  They guy's got to sleep sometime, and I wouldn't want him doing it on the plane with the media hacks traveling with him.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_17:19:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1651125, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1698450": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Cindy actually has TWO older half siblings: one by her father and one by her mother.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-20_09:34:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1667877, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1699612": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That's a more than fair assessment.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-20_10:51:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1699331, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1654962": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You're insane.<br><br>That is all.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_17:20:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1651434, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1652405": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Wow, you're quoting Michael Moore now? You must really be running out of material. Did they threaten you with a beating if you didn't bring in any converts?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_15:40:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1636581, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1654966": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Learn something new every day.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_17:21:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1654807, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1698999": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Truthseeker:   Co-sign!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>s is certainly taking advantage of his/her 1st Amendment rights!<br><br>Whew!  Boring, tiring. la, la, la, - I can't [don't wish ta] hear you Deep Breaths!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-20_10:04:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1651662, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1667956": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "That author thinks it's higher because many women don't say what their religion is.  Still, 20% is significant.  The shame factor is powerful.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_23:46:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1666445, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1644219": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Because they want vision, judgment, compassion, and intelligence at the top of it?", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_12:45:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "taritac", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1643492, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1686433": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I have the same problem as Rachel. I tend to be overly respectful of windbag, stupid old people and fail to challenge them adequately on their idiotic ideas.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-20_09:05:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "taritac", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1655748, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1651909": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Ha, maybe he'll back McCain up against the wall like he did with Lieberman.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_15:02:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1651473, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1658060": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yeah, but the VP can determine whether a person wins or loses.  I disagree with pundits and others who say that no one cares who is VP because Al Gore actually re-defined the VP office during his 2 terms of service.  Slick Dick Cheney has since made it a co-presidency office.<br><br>No, it would not be electric; it would be disastrous for him to choose her.  She has way too much baggage, and her on the ticket would galvanize the neo-cons to go to the polls and vote in a way that McCain't never would.  The fact that her husband's sending letters to her primary supporters asking them for dough tells me it's not her.  People need to get over it; it's not going to be her.<br><br>I have no idea who it WILL be but since she and BJC are a package deal, Obama ain't going with her.  Plus, she hasn't been vetted and will never be vetted because Bill ain't showing nobody the money, especially not Obama.  No Drama Obama is the campaign insider mantra, and it isn't about being afraid of them; it's about winning the election in November.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_21:53:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1657583, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1651404": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Russia isn't to be feared.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_14:24:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1636791, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1699028": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Could be.<br><br>\"Meanwhile, rank-and-file Democrats who are uncomfortable with a candidate who has precious little experience in anything and worrisome personal connections will have some real soul-searching to do on November 4.\"<br><a href=\"http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/will-rank-and-file-democrats-vote-for-obama/2/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/will-rank-and-file...</a>", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-20_10:08:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "d4a5571941439b7f9a5ba7979fd49d96", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1698806, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1701326": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>Freedom to choose an abortion is freedom to choose in favor of one's self-interest.</i><br><br>Isn't that the creed of the right wing...  freedom to choose?  Guilt, shame and remorse comes from applied social pressure.  <br><br>At the time these women make their choice, there is little doubt that they have no other option...until the anti-choice people start showing pictures of aborted fetuses. <br><br> Women do not need to be protected from socially applied shame and guilt.  If you identify shame and guilt as a problem, then don't add to it by judging women.  Instead, validate their choice.<br><br>It's not the abortion per se that harms women, it's the social, religious pressure applied at clinic protests and the near constant religious judgment.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-20_12:24:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1699467, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1699031": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "99%:    \"You're insane\"    co-sign!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>              \"THAT IS ALL!!\"   co-sign!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-20_10:08:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1654962, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1654488": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I disagree wholeheartedly.<br><br>Not to mention the fact that no other presidential candidate in history-at least to my knowledge-has been subjected to a medical test to show that he's fit for office.<br><br>But, that's the general theme of the Obama insurgency: if it helps our candidate, great.....and if it's not beneficial, it's those damn Republicans and their dirty tricks.<br><br>Hope it works out for you. Guess we'll see in a few months.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_16:40:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 16, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1654330, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1657212": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "This was excellent. I tried to post this twice today but I couldn't.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_20:23:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1656983, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1655514": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "LOL at the blood cells.<br><br>Let me ask this: why do you care? Is it because you're genuinely interested in McCain's health? Or are you just looking for something to hold up as a reason not to vote for him?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_18:10:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1655294, "depth": 10, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1655004": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Eh hee!<br><br>They need to stop the madness!<br><br>Besides, Moore supported Obama's primary foe, didn't he?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_17:23:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1652405, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1649887": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Because they know that retarded Republicans cannot resist the \"guilt by association\" meme.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_13:15:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "taritac", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1635911, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1655008": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Obama does not cower.  What? Not used to an intelligent black man who doesn't go off at every provocation?  Nothing personal to you Micheline - but I don't get why Obama is now being flagged as -- since you used the word cowering Micheline --  \"weak\".  He is a strong intelligent man who picks his battles.  <br><br>Go Obama 08", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_17:24:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1651842, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1636581": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "From Michael Moore in Rolling Stone:<br><br>How the Democrats Can Blow It...in 6 Easy Steps<br><br>1. Keep saying nice things about McCain.<br>2. Pick a running mate who is a conservative white guy or a general or a Republican.<br>3. Keep writing speeches for Obama that make him sound like a hawk.<br>4. Forget that this was a historic year for women.<br>5. Show up to a gunfight with a peashooter. <br>6. Denounce me!<br><br><a href=\"http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/22249602/how_the_democrats_can_blow_it_in_six_easy_steps/print\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/2224...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_10:57:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "d4a5571941439b7f9a5ba7979fd49d96", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1651942": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "This is disturbing for so many reasons.  This multi-millionaire is going to ask for her debt to be paid, a debt that she knowingly incurred after it had become mathematically impossible for her to win the nomination?!  <br><br>There are people who can't keep a roof over their family's head, put gas in their cars to get to work, buy food for their children and she wants to make a plea for people to replenish her vault of wealth?!  <br><br>I can't believe that there are people still thinking that this woman should be POTUS????", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_15:05:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "pcmadison", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1651484, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1651665": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Andrew Sullivan discusses a great deal of this interview on the Daily Dish.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_14:44:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1651590, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1657724": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Ok. before everybody runs down the whole zodiac calendar of who is stubborn.....its not Leos or Virgoes or Scorpions or Geminis............its just men.<br><br>lol", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_21:15:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1657375, "depth": 7, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1651434": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "He speaks haltingly and stammers and uhs because he is trying to hide who he really is. <br><br>Obama's positions on the following issues are opposed by a median of 76% of respondents:<br><br>    * Obama supports giving driver's licenses to illegal immigrants<br>    * Obama supports racial preferences in public employment, contracting and school admissions<br>    * Obama opposes a ban on partial birth abortions<br>    * Obama would cut funding for research and development of \"unproven\" missile defense systems<br>    * Obama opposes making English the official language for doing business with the U.S. government<br>    * Obama opposes the Supreme Court decisions prohibiting racial assignments of grade school children<br>    * Obama opposes parental notification for minors obtaining abortions<br><br>Moreover, Obama<br><br>    * would talk without precondition with the leaders of state sponsors of terror<br>    * is the only U.S. senator to vote against the language of the Born Alive Infant Protection Act<br>    * supports giving foreign terrorists habeas rights<br>    * contends William Ayers is a mainstream member of the community<br>    * for twenty years belonged to a church whose pastor, Obama's mentor, was prone to making, well, somewhat radical statements<br>    * plans to raise payroll, income, capital gains and estate taxes<br>    * despite recent rhetoric, never opposed a gun ban<br>    * has received the following ratings:<br><br>    NARAL \u2014 100%<br>    NEA \u2014 A<br>    ACORN \u2014 100%<br>    Planned Parenthood \u2014 100%<br>    National Taxpayers Union \u2014 F<br>    Family Research Council \u2014  0%<br>    Citizens Against Government Waste \u2014 13%<br>    NRA \u2014 F", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_14:27:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "d4a5571941439b7f9a5ba7979fd49d96", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 13, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1651125, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1655020": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I don't fear anything. I just know that some of those who support Obama would use the information in his records for their own partisan purposes. <br><br>You'd look at his birthday and say he's too old. You'd look at his time as a POW and say he's psychotic. You'd look at his white cell count and say it's too high.<br><br>Some of y'all are that....rabid.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_17:25:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 11, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1654784, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1657583": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<b>What if it is Hillary?  What if all of these stunts/distractions are covering up the fact that it will be an Obama-Clinton ticket? </b><br><br>The prevailing VP options remain pretty boring (even though I like Kaine).  <br><br>I know there's still much distrust and unforgiveness about Billary, but then I started thinking about history and the VPs who accompanied Washington, Lincoln, and Roosevelt, namely Adams, Johnson, and Truman.<br><br>Adams - Firebrand Founder<br>Johnson - 1st Ever Impeached President<br>Truman - \"If you can't take the heat, get out the kitchen\" Atomic Bomber<br><br>If you believe that Obama is (will be) in the \"Masterclass\" of Presidents, then you should really compare his VP selection not only on the basis of modern politics, but  consider it within the context of history.  <br><br>The VP need not be a safe choice.  Ultimately, people will not be voting for the VP.  They will be voting for the P.  <br><br>If you fear that Hillary (or Bill) could overshadow Barack, then she would have been the THE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE right now.  She is not.  <br><br>So...<br>Obama-Biden...zzz<br>Obama-Kaine (and I like Kaine)...zzzz<br>Obama-Bayh (highly unlikely)...zzz<br>Obama-Clinton...IT'S ELECTRIC even with all of the accompanying drama.<br><br>It's worth the drama.<br><br>I would not underestimate Barack...\"He ain't scurred of no Clintons.\"  Why should we be?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_21:02:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "Webb", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1635797, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1699059": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Val:   YAAAAAAA!  Co-signing!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-20_10:11:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1654838, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1698914": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I don't buy that. <br><br>I think Obama's base, for the most part (PUMAs excepted) are more behind him than McCain's, parts of which are still largely disenthused (sp?) by him....or at least were until this past Saturday.<br><br>My question would be how much the situation in Georgia affected these numbers.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-20_09:56:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1698806, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1665270": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Of course.<br><br>A hypocrite. A liar. A fraud. A fool. <br><br>I'll stop there.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_23:17:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1665122, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1702392": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "It is one those ambiguous things.  Again, I look at it as possibly being a cross-section of the flag, with a corner of the stars and adjoining stripes , and the flag flapping in the wind.  The stripes are not in a \"perfect \"horizontal plane, so the angle of the stripes can be interpreted in many ways.  They probably should have been careful ( the right wing is so rabid) , especially since the media and opponents have mandated that Sen. Obama MUST AT ALL TIMES WEAR A FLAG PIN to prove his patriotism.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-20_13:04:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1701508, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1655034": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Exactly. Ok with you but not a moderate, center-right electorate. <br><br>Weighing his words for 'precision',  using 'excessive caution' what is he so worried about revealing? <br><br>He is trying to be all things to all people and it is becoming increasingly difficult as voters requires more specific information about his positions and his record.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_17:26:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "d4a5571941439b7f9a5ba7979fd49d96", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1651662, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1700091": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/popup?id=3792222\" rel=\"nofollow\">Here is a montage by ABC.com.</a><br><br>My point in posting the story is to show that it is possibly hitting mainstream with it appearing on one of the most popular, top visited sites on the web.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-20_11:16:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1689229, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1657301": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hate to go Clinton on you, but I have to take you at your word.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_20:34:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1657242, "depth": 14, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1657600": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "ABORTION COMMON AMONG ALL WOMEN<br><a href=\"http://www.guttmacher.org/media/nr/prabort2.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.guttmacher.org/media/nr/prabort2.html</a><br><br>      \u2022 two-thirds of women having abortions intend to have children in the future;<br><br> <b>     \u2022 Catholic women have an abortion rate 29% higher than Protestant women;</b><br><br> <b>     \u2022 one in five women having abortions are born-again or Evangelical Christians;</b><br><br>      \u2022 single women who live with their partner or have no religious affiliation are about four times as likely as other women their age to have an abortion;<br><br>      \u2022 nonwhites, women aged 18-24, Hispanics, separated and never-married women and those who have an annual income of less than $15,000 or have Medicaid are twice as likely as women in the general population to do so; and,<br><br>      \u2022 Hispanic women have a much higher abortion rate than white women, but their rate is not so high as that of black women.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_21:03:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1655253": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I am so sick of this! It's really time for Howard Dean to say enough is enough!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_17:45:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1651484, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1699086": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "This statistic helps explain why this is such a huge issue for evangelicals -- it hits right at the crossroads of freedom and hypocrisy. Wow.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-20_10:15:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "JillTubman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1667956, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1650959": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Would you even know what you were looking at if you did?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_13:51:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 22, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1650595, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1651473": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "He's a Leo. Despite their healthy egos, they wear their insecurity on their sleeves. <br><br>Look at Bill Clinton for more evidence of the same in a politician who happens to be a Leo.<br><br>Barack can't change who he is. But he does need to be more consistently \"arrogant\" in his debates. He certainly has shown he can be. Of course, he gets beat down by the press when he is and he gets beat down as weak when he isn't.<br><br>But something tells me that when he's onstage with the man who has accused him of treason and asked that he has a sense of humor when that same accuser compares to vacuous, promiscuous, blonde, white, female celebrities, he will not cower one bit.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_14:30:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 22, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1650609, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1651994": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The point is that McCain a a lying, psychotic, sack of shit.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_15:08:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1651066, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1655067": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "And so are Virgoes.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_17:29:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1654834, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1651484": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "CLINTON FUNDRAISING AT THE CONVENTION? <br><br><a href=\"http://caffertyfile.blogs.cnn.com/2008/08/19/clinton-fundraising-at-convention/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://caffertyfile.blogs.cnn.com/2008/08/19/cl...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_14:32:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "soulsistah02", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 9, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1641248": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "This is a must read!!!<br>Excellent advise on narratives and messaging.<br>--------------------------------------------------------<br><br>From \"Nuanced\" to Principled: The Lessons of Pastor Rick, and Why and How Obama and the Democrats Should Make Abortion a Voting Issue<br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/drew-westen/from-nuanced-to-principle_b_119810.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/drew-westen/from-...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_11:40:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 51, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1655585": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "McCain wants to scream he's a \"pro-life\" candidate and dictate what a woman should do with her uterus but has no problem listening to Phil \"Nation of Whiners\" Gramm who was an investor in pornographic films.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_18:16:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1651434, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1702179": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Okay, let's walk.  The point that I was making is that there are too many other real things to be discussing! <br><br>Bashing Bush?! He does that very well on his own.  Come on...you have to admit that this has been one of the worst administrations ever! <br><br>Also, I didn't mean to offend you by responding to your comments on this public site.  In the future I will make sure that on your comments I will respond only when specifically asked;-)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-20_12:52:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "pcmadison", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1686096, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1654564": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That was a good one, Miranda.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_16:45:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1654330, "depth": 6, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1667877": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Huh.  I was raised as an only child by a childless great aunt and uncle; I had 6 other siblings who I sometimes saw on weekends.  So I wasn't an only child, and never told people I was.<br><br>I'm not a Perez Hilton fan, but I get what he is saying - though she lived in the home as an only child, she knew she had an older sibling so she knew she wasn't an only.  There's no harm in her saying that she has a sister, whether they were raised together or not.  Not owning her does more damage, particularly since she has reaped all the benefits of her father's financial prowess, while her older sister has struggled her whole life.<br><br>Don't be mad at me because I'm a Scorpio. Heh.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_23:39:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1666112, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1657127": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Okay. Now it's really official: Rachel is getting a show on MSNBC. She will be on at 9pm following Countdown 5 nights a week starting September 8. She'll be replacing Dan Abrams.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/19/rachel-maddow-replacing-d_n_119929.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Link to HuffPo piece</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_20:12:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "671d1f0048a4c40d2100d211456e73dd", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1657642": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "He definitely hit the nail on the head!<br>McCain is even worse than Bush and<br>I didn't think that was possible!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_21:07:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "jelana", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1657212, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1655203": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "From what I've heard and read, Obama's an excellent poker player.<br><br>You're insane. <br><br>That is all.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_17:41:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1655132, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1686319": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "LAT/Bloomberg bombshell: Obama only up 2<br><a href=\"http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/08/experience-key.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008...</a><br><br>Zogby: Obama suffers 15-point swing, trails by 5<br><a href=\"http://zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1541\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1541</a><br><br>Obama\u2019s support for infanticide breaks into mainstream media<br><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/19/AR2008081903228.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...</a><br><br>Obama-Ayers records blocked at U of I Chicago<br><a href=\"http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/08/obamaayers_records_blocked_at.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/08/oba...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-20_08:52:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "d4a5571941439b7f9a5ba7979fd49d96", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1656629": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Im not looking for a reason to not vote for McCain, thats not how I would choose any candidate for any position. To me, thats stupid. I vote FOR a person, not against someone else. <br><br>However, yes, I'm concerned with the possibility of a 72 year old man who has battled skin cancer twice, a former POW who has a very strong reputation of having anger management issues,  one who referred to Vietnamese people as \"gooks\" which may indicate something deeper than just a slip of the tongue (which it wasnt). <br><br>Hey, we all know Reagan's Alzheimer's kicked in before he left office...and Lord knows they wheeled Strom Thurmond's dead body around for 5 years before they finally put it in the ground. For me, age and health is definitely an issue.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_19:22:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1655514, "depth": 11, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1663199": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Couldn't have happened to a better pundit.  And by that I mean Rachel getting her own show (yeah!!) and Dan being replaced - he always annoyed the hell out of me.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_22:40:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "bajanlady", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1657127, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1704798": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ro<br>I wasn't there for the conversation. He will be registered.<br>Did you look at the website? What did you think?", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-20_15:59:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "RobM", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1698751, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1657666": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LOL You forget to say he is a OLD, LYING,PSYCHOTIC , SACK OF SHIT", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_21:09:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "djchefron", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1651994, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1699467": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "How many women turned to faith AFTER having an abortions? The fact is that many, many women who HAD abortions are now PRO-LIFE.<br> <br>Hypocrisy? If you have had an abortion, but are now pro-life, are you a hypocrite? I think not.<br><br>And just what is the personal price to be paid for the freedom to choose an abortion? <br><br>Freedom to choose an abortion is freedom to choose in favor of one's self-interest. Freedom to choose is freedom from responsibility and consequences. But freedom to choose offers no guarantee of freedom from guilt, shame, remorse, grief, and depression.<br><br>Abortion has harmed as many women as it has 'freed' from 'the burden of a baby.'", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-20_10:42:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "d4a5571941439b7f9a5ba7979fd49d96", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1699086, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1655181": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I read that at <a href=http://thecarpetbaggerreport.com rel=\"nofollow\">The Carpetbagger Report</a>. He really is a warmonger, isn't he? Either that or he seems to think that it's 1960 and his words don't go throughout the world within seconds. Or maybe he just thinks that words don't matter. In any case, he's a dangerous person.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_17:40:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "taritac", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1653879, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1655120": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Let the PUMAS pay off Hillary's debt.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_17:34:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1651942, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1652053": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I agree.  I don't think they are the problem here; but, they are not to be trifled with either.<br><br>What's really suspicious is how CNN has given Saakavilli so much airtime.  He was on almost every day, cross-eyed, slumped and ranting incoherently.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_15:13:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1651404, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1657176": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I would argue that Tsonga's cancer history was the sole reason he was not the Democratic nominee.<br><br>Bill Clinton was revealed to be a scandal and the Democrats were scared he would be wiped off the map in November.<br><br>Party leadership pled with Tsongas to return to the race. It was ready to nominate him over Clinton, the presumptive nominee.<br><br>Tsongas turned down the invitation. Some say it was because the brutal primary weakened his constitution, allowing his cancer to return.<br><br>Ross Perot delivered the election to Clinton. <br><br>Perot contested two elections, both of which Clinton won.<br><br>There were plenty rumors that Perot and Clinton were two peas in a pod. Covertly, of course.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_20:18:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1654807, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1636324": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Obama should immediate take advantage of the situation in Pakistan. It provides the opportunity to discuss the need for democracy. For the first time in Pakistan's history there has been a change at the Presidency without a military coup. Quite a contrast from a presidency whom believes in democracy but is constantly supporting dictatorships in the name of US security", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_10:34:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "RobM", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1669466": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "So then...what did it mean when our current POTUS held the flag backwards at the Olympics?  <br><br>Would that be considered stupid?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-20_01:26:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "pcmadison", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1657274, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1643509": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "WTH??? <br><br><b>PAGING KEITH OLBERMANN! PAGING KEITH OLBERMANN!</b> It's time for another Special Comment for the Clintons!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_12:29:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1643097, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1655132": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Obama cannot defend his far left positions to a moderate, center-right electorate or he will lose the election.<br><br>He, uh,  knows this but,  um,  there uh, must be a, er, um, clever, no, um nuanced, way to um, conceal um, no, obfuscate, er, my true positions.<br><br>As in poker,  stammering and stuttering is his tell.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_17:35:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "d4a5571941439b7f9a5ba7979fd49d96", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1654962, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1643492": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Howard Fineman:<br><br>    Within the last few hours I\u2019ve spoken with two of the finalists for the role of Barack Obama\u2019s running-mate, and to two other sources who are close to the process.<br><br>    My bottom line is this: Barring a big surprise or last-minute change of heart, the choice is likely to be Sen. Joe Biden of Deleware, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee\u2026<br><br>    \u201cIf I had to bet my life on it, I\u2019d bet it is Joe,\u201d said one of the other contenders.<br><br>    Said another, \u201cBarack is moving toward a seasoned Beltway type, and that probably means Biden.\u201d <br><br>If this is true the RNC can hope to have lots of fun with him. In addition to what JJP has documented in the previous post there is Biden's his tweaking of Obama for being less curious about NATO\u2019s role in Afghanistan than a subcommittee chairman should be.<br><br>    A classic Joe Biden ad from 1988, which begins: \"The White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation. A President has got to know the territory, but that's not enough.\"<br><br>    Experience was a major theme of Biden's pitch in the primary (take the above, and add 20 years), and it's a contrast they'll have to aim to avoid if he's Obama's running mate.<br><br>An inevitable question if Obama picks Biden: Why would the American people want all of the experience and foreign policy knowledge at the bottom of the ticket?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_12:29:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "d4a5571941439b7f9a5ba7979fd49d96", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1665886": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Not surprised.<br><br>As an adoptee, I know that the most religious women are the ones who have the most unwanted pregnancies.<br><br>Evangelicals and Catholics are also the most likely to surrender a child for adoption. Or drop them off in a \"safe haven\" baby dump.<br><br>Don't. Get. Me. Started.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_23:21:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1657600, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1656549": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm actually with you and holding out hope for the longest of long shots in Gore, who has agreed to speak on Thursday at Invesco Field.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_19:13:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1656256, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1654843": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/08/was-mccain-tort.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Andrew Sullivan: Bush, Cheney don't believe McCain was tortured</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_17:11:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1658214": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Nah, he's a deliberate speaker, and that's a good thing.  He doesn't do a lot of stammering when he's speaking; it is only when he is in a Q/A forum or a debate that he tends to stammer as y'all call it.<br><br>Maybe he believes the fallacy that he has to fill the air with sound while he thinks of the proper words to say.  While it annoys some, it doesn't annoy me.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_22:05:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1656223, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1657191": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I found this really interesting.....<br><br>Surprise: Evangelical Women May Have Gone For Obama At Saddleback<br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christine-wicker/evangelicals-words-and-de_b_119698.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christine-wicker/...</a><br><br><i>\" The highly respected Guttmacher Institute's studies show that<b> evangelical women make up one out of every five women having abortions.</b> The true number is certainly higher than that because many evangelicals aren't going to claim their faith on abortion clinic forms. Some of them are getting two and three abortions. They feel guilty. They feel sinful. They're ashamed and secretive. They repent. \"</i>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_20:19:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1655144": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The chick who lost the primary won't be VP - she cannot be vetted because Billy Jeff didn't allow that kind of scrutiny into their finances; if he had, they wouldn't still be trying to retire her unnecessarily high campaign debt. Plus she has too many negatives and would be a lightening rod for hatred from the neo-cons.<br><br>I doubt if Biden will be the choice either - he is too loquacious - and he just auditioned for S of S anyway. I think the person Obama chooses will be someone whose name has only been whispered - maybe Doug Peterson or Brian Schweitzer.  I don't think it will be a woman, and I don't think it will be an Old Guard Dem, although someone on one of the progressive sites was even pushing Gore and Kerry as possible choices.  I think Obama's head faking the media and the repugs.<br><br>The announcement probably won't be made until just before the convention; since there's no hurry and since the later he announces the better, he could even wait until next Wednesday because he knows McCain't will be attempting to steal the momentum the following weekend with his VP announcement.  <br><br>The later the Obama VP announcement, the better.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_17:36:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1657197": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The timing remains curious.<br><br>Let's see what unfolds during the Democratic convention, right around, say, Thursday.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_20:21:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1655268, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1652081": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Obnoxious, Trite and Narcissistic...ahhh the good old days of Clintopia.<br><br>Excuse me while I go vomit!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_15:15:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "pcmadison", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1651692, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1650546": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "LOL.....I tell ya.....gotta quote my daddy ........\"you must not know the white man\".", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_13:36:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1643097, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1686388": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Dude, define mainstream. <br><br>About 30% of the country self-defines as conservative. About 30% liberal. Everyone else somewhere in the middle.<br><br>When asked about positions instead of how they define themselves, the majority of people, about 60% if I remember correctly, align themselves with the DEMOCRATIC platform.<br><br>The Republican platform is consistently against what people generally believe, but what they are GREAT at is identifying a couple of hot button issues (abortion, gay marriage) that they adopt, and push those memes. They are masterful at it. They consistently convince people to vote against their political, economic, environmental, etc. self interests by appealing to a couple of niche issues. <br><br>You obviously have been co-opted by this game-playing.<br><br>Republicans have one constituency: CORPORATIONS, and they will choose corporations over the economy, the Constitution, gay marriage, abortion, and the American people EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. If corporations could figure out how to make billions providing abortions or gay marriage, you would see Republicans drop those planks with a quickness.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-20_09:00:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "taritac", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1655319, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1657719": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "After Benazir Bhutto was already martyred. He must be getting a nice payoff from Bush.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_21:15:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "87e75d88c7647774003db8905a3e99e6", "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": 1651105, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1643384": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "No, no, no, no, no.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_12:25:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "taritac", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1635797, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1657721": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Wow, I never knew that being born in the \"year of the tiger\" translated to lazyness....no wonder I'm so dayummed laid-back.<br><br>Do you have any links where I can research that further?<br><br>In my experience, Leos are crazy...My mama is a leo and she's crazy...so is every other leo who i've dated or befriended.  When I found out Obama was a leo, I wondered, \"How da f**k is that even possible?\"...then \"My Brothers Keeper\" loyalty kicked-in.<br><br>As for scorpios, we make the world go round...<br>Bill Gates (Richest Man on Earth), Julia Roberts, Puffy, Johnny Carson (R.I.P.)...scorpios are about longevity...we become institutions.<br><br>Scorpios are about longevity...we are going to be around.  So Hillary will be back...believe that shyt...2008 is not her time.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_21:15:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "Webb", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1657323, "depth": 5, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1651066": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "What, exactly, is the point of this exercise?  Gulag Archipelago was published in 1973, the same year that John McCain was released from the POW camp.  There is no way of proving what the bloggers hope, which is that no mention of this story was made until after the book's publication.  And even if that were the case, all it would prove is that John McCain didn't tell this story until after the book's publication, not that it didn't happen.  Vietnam is a country with pretty rich Catholic tradition; tracing a cross in the dirt at Christmas is not something so unthinkably bizarre that it could only have happened in one communist dictatorship. <br><br>The only way this would actually hurt McCain is if you found a signed letter from him saying that this never happened.  Since it's very unlikely that such a letter exists, the very best that this effort will achieve is sowing seeds of doubt in a few minds, making themselves look desperate to almost everyone else (and thereby making people wonder what's wrong with Obama, that they're this desperate), and outraging a number of people that you would call McCain's honor into question with absolutely no evidence, or hope of obtaining same.<br><br>Those desperate to discredit Senator McCain's record will have to impugn his fellow prisoners as well. Orson Swindle, who was held as a prisoner of war along with McCain, recalls that he heard this particular story from McCain \"when we first moved in together.\" That was in the summer of 1971, Swindle said, though \"time blurred\" and he couldn't be sure. He said it was some time around then that the Vietnamese moved all \"36 troublemakers\" into the same quarters, where they \"talked about everything under the sun.\"<br><br>Keep it up. It will only benefit McCain.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_13:55:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "d4a5571941439b7f9a5ba7979fd49d96", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1643756, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1656699": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Okay.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_19:25:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1650546, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1655164": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "At the same time, many opponents of Obama, Republican and Democratic, have used his education at a Muslim elementary school to spread fictional \"Muslim ties\" and insinuate that he is an\"other\" or perhaps  \"unAmerican.\" Obama could not help as youngster which school he attended no more than any of us determined where we went to school as 6 or 7 year olds.  Supporters on all sides can be rabid when they want to be.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_17:38:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1655020, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1655679": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Those are interesting observations.  And I sense that  O is stubborn.<br><br>What was that stuff at the forum about 'getting the president we need' and 'things will work out'...c'mon Senator, that's a far cry from the revolutionary \"Yes We Can!\"   But, I guess he was soothing the Evangelical audience.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_18:24:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1654817, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1655275": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "What is telling is that the McCain camp has virtually cut off his access to media in fear of him committing more gaffes.  McCain's seemingly good performanceat the forum does not override his gaffe of not knowing the relationship between Shiites, Shi'as and Iran or other foreign policy issues, the outright lies he makes about his own voting record(which the media often gives him a pass on) or the numerous times where he has been either speechless or said he'd have to look up an answer before he could give a response.  Far too many Mccain supporters have short term memory---but thank goodness for Youtube.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_17:48:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1655132, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1651590": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "On Friday night, my hubby and I watched an interview on Bill Moyers Journal with author Andrew J. Bacevich.  Bacevich, who is a conservative, served 23 years in the Army, graduated from West Point,and retired as a colonel. He also teaches international history relations and history at Boston University, and is the author of several books. His latest called THE NEW AMERICAN MILITARISM.  His son also died in Iraq last year. He gave, in my opinion, a very insightful interview, revealing that he is troubled by the course of our U.S. policy. One quote Bacevich gave on Friday sounded fairly close to an answer John McCain gave at the forum on Saturday:<br><br>Bill Moyers:  How is Iraq a clear manifestation, as you say, of this \"yawning disparity\"      between what Americans expect, and what they are willing to pay?<br><br>Andrew Bacevich: Let's think about World War Two.  A war that President Roosevelt told us was essential to United States national security, and was.  And Roosevelt said at the time, because this is an important enterprise, you, the American people will be called upon to make sacrifices.  And indeed, the people of the United Stated went off to fight that war in large numbers.  It was a national effort.  None of that's been true with regard to Iraq.  I mean, one of the most striking things about the way the Bush administration has managed the Global War on Terror, which President Bush has compared to World war Two.<br><br>Bill Moyers:  Right.<br><br>Andrew Bacevich:  One of the most striking things about it is that there was no effort to mobilize the country, there was no effort to mobilize the country, there was actually no effort made to expand the size of the armed forces, as a matter of fact.  The President said just two weks or so after 9/11, \"Go to Disney World.  Go shopping.\" Well, there's something out of whack here, if indeed the Global War on Terror, and Iraq as a subset of the Global War on Terror is said to be so critically important, on the one hand.  And on the other hand, when the country basically goes about its business, as if, really, there were no War on Terror, and no war in Iraq ongoing at all.<br><br>His answer, which I saw on Friday night seemed to be a somewhat mirror to the response John McCain gave to the forum on Sunday, particularly when on the moral failure question when Mccain said (and I'm phrasing): \"Right after 9/11 instead of shopping, we should have joined the peace corps etc.etc. \" I told my husband then that I thought John McCain may have watched that program, and borrowed Bacevich's thoughts about  regular American's non-involvement in this war.  Anyway, the Bacevich interview brought up many good points, like the militarization of our foreign policy and American's \"empire of consumption.\".  If anyone' s interested you can read the transcript at:<br><a href=\"http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/08152008/transcript/.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/08152008/tran...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_14:39:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1656897": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I'm so glad Rachel's getting her own show.  But MSNBC should have kept Dan Abrams and ditched David Gregory's lame ass.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_19:47:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1655239, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1643756": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/08/the-cross-in--1.html#more\" rel=\"nofollow\">Andrew Sullivan:</a><br><br><i>Here are the perfectly legitimate questions reporters should now, in my opinion, ask McCain:<br><br>why did you not mention this transcendent story in 1973? Why, in discussing three Christmases in captivity in Vietnam, was this story - far more powerful than any of the other anecdotes - omitted? How was it possible for the gun guard of May 1969 to be present at Christmas that year when McCain had been transferred to another camp? Is it possible that McCain's memory has faded with time and that he has simply fused his own memories with other stories - as Clinton did with Bosnia sniper fire and as Kerry did in remembering another Christmas he could not have actually witnessed where he said he did?<br><br>And why are we not allowed to ask these questions, when they relate to one of the most important questions anyone can ask about a president: the question of integrity? If McCain has fabricated a religious epiphany for political purposes, it is about as deep a betrayal of core integrity as one can imagine, and the latest example of how pernicious the religious domination of political life in America has become.</i>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_12:35:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1654668": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I still don't watch CNN.<br><br>My Russian friends tell me that Putin is posturing.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_16:54:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1652053, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1657229": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Stubborn. Obstinate. Yes.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_20:25:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1655679, "depth": 4, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1657742": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "And here we were getting along so well, with me being born on Nov 2.  Heh.<br><br>I've known good Leos and horrible ones, thus proving that astrology isn't a reliable means of analyzing character and personaly.<br><br>Some Leos are wise, some aren't; some are intuitive, some aren't, some are likable, some aren't, some are generous, some aren't, some are ambitious, some aren't, some are organized, some aren't, some are cunning, some aren't.  I know a Leo athlete - very popular - who has the public persona of a nice guy but is really a lowdown, dirty, rotten, scoundrel based on what I've experienced with him.  I know a Leo male born on Aug 4 just like Obama, yet he doesn't even have a high school diploma and believes that his sexual prowess and having 3 children by 3 diffrent women without marrying them equals the quintessential man.  He doesn't have a pot to piss in nor a window to throw it out of.  <br><br>Halle Berry is a Leo and very beautiful; I like Halle a lot, yet Halle can't act her way out of a paper bag. <br><br>And not all Scorpios are low down,  vengeful and mean-spirited.  Some are, some aren't.  Some are Eagles, some are serpents, some are scorpions, some are Phoenixes, some are direct and honest, some are shifty-eyed liars, some are sex machines, some are celibate, some are just plain evil, some are good and sweet and very sensitive.<br><br>It just depends on the person and it doesn't matter what their astrological sign is.  Some Aries are lowdown dirty, some aren't.  Some Pisces are drunken bums, some aren't. Some Tauruses are cheap and stingy, some aren't. Some Virgos are smart, some aren't (see John McCain't).  Some Capricorns are ambitious, high achievers, some aren't. <br><br>Whatever their sign, some people are just lousy human beings, and some aren't.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_21:17:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1657428, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1651088": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Because they would prove that he's a boar, among other things, that's why.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_13:57:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1650595, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1652116": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Sorry....I got there following and link from Huffington.  Try going there first:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/19/patrick-j-buchanan-who-st_n_119816.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/19/patric...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_15:18:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1644105, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1657242": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yes", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_20:27:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1656877, "depth": 13, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1663727": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Well now, aint that the truth!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_22:45:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1656983, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1656223": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Obama's mind is moving much faster than his mouth can get the words out.  And so he doesn't use the wrong word, he uses um...uh....uh....uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.....pauses.<br><br>The problem is Joe Blow on the street turns on TV and sees him going uh......uh........uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh and concludes that he's stupid or slow of mind.  He either needs to slow his mind down or accelerate his mouth.  The mind and the mouth need to work in sync and they're not.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_18:42:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1654947, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1651105": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Don't you find it curious that this resignation comes right now?<br><br>I certainly do.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_13:58:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1636324, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1650595": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Why won't McCain let anyone view his entire Navy medical file- you know - the files without half the pages missing. Where are those pages? Where? Why can't we view them? Why? What is he hiding?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_13:40:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 24, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1635911, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1702820": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ok, we're talking now...... ;)<br><br>Of course the right wing doesn't have a monopoly on use of the flag, and I didn't suggest they did. <br><br>As a veteran-albeit a partisan one-<b>anyone</b> who's gonna use the flag in <b>any</b> venue or medium should do so correctly. This usage (granting the benefit of the doubt) appears wrong).", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-20_13:34:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1702556, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1657253": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"You're insane.\"<br><br>That IS all.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_20:28:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1655203, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1655210": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Obama 's ahead by 2 pts.  He's only ahead because Dems are not rallying behind him.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_17:42:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "514ece7311946709a77d340a35a81d09", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1651124, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1701447": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Re the parents making sure their daughters had abortions...I can totally see that happening.   The parent would be the most realistic about the coming hardships.  They might not want the social stigma of being parent to a teenage mom or the community thinking they failed.<br><br>Religious groups need to understand the unintended consequences of their interference.  Sometimes the more strongly you resist something, the more entrenched it becomes.  The irony is that Barack's position is a softer, less resistant approach of providing support and options.  Isn't it interesting that by voting Conservative, the so-called Pro-lifers have actually increased deaths.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-20_12:33:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1686509, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1668014": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "This is a continuation of Hillary's strategy.  Take something you've said yourself, accuse your opponent of it - by the time your opponent  mounts a defence, you've moved on to the next irrational attack.<br><br>Do you really think O is relying solely on new registrations?  If so, that's cutting it pretty close.<br><br>There are 2 specials airing on CNN tomorrow night on McCain and Obama.<br>John King is doing McCain, and Suzanne the Obama's.<br>John King said that with regard to McCain's reported hot temper, Daschle and  Feingold said  they think Obama would be the better President but  they wouldn't \"lose any sleep\" if McCain was President.   I don't know if that's a direct quote.. John King is partial to McCain.<br><br>I'm tired of Democrats singing praises to McCain.  I don't know if they noticed, but McCain is attacking their candidate.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_23:48:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1665270, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1655215": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Speaking of The Carpetbagger Report, Steve Benen is leaving and taking a job at the Washington Monthly. I enjoyed Carpetbagger. Now I have to get used to a new site. Bummer.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_17:42:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "taritac", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1655181, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1698736": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "99%:  \"The chick who lost the primary . . . \"   LOL   :&gt;)   :&gt;)  I keep reminding myself of the \"vetting process\" when I weaken and even think that billary could be selected as VP.  :&gt;)   Not to mention, Patty Solis Doyle standing in the VP Office doorway, BLOCKING billary's entrance and waiting to b**** slap her if she tried to get through!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-20_09:39:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1655144, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1650609": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "It's frustrating for me to watch because these are things we've identified from in the primaries, as areas the O campaign needs to brush up on.   Yet, here we are a couple months from the general election, and they haven't been dealt with.<br><br>Just ordinary people commenting in blogs, say O looked stilted again.  His head was tilted to his right,  and he didn't have a direct gaze.  I can tell when Obama doesn't feel in command.   Barack was hiding behind that table at the faith forum and he was slumped in his chair.   Another thing is he partially bent his head to his mug of water rather than keeping his head still, and bringing the mug up to his mouth.   It looked insecure.  There are techniques to help someone feel grounded, and in control in hostile environments....isn't anyone working with him on this stuff??<br><br>I  think they shouldn't leave any stone unturned,  and he's running out of time to make corrections.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_13:41:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 46, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1644586, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1655218": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Fair enough.....though I'd argue that there's a clear difference between the two situations.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_17:43:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1655164, "depth": 10, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1650419": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Why I think Obama VP will be Roemer, Schweitzer, Sebelius, or Clark.<br><br>Read here:  <a href=\"http://majorman.wordpress.com/2008/08/14/obama-vice-president-picks/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://majorman.wordpress.com/2008/08/14/obama-...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_13:28:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "e7afc928e0592229851719d896ff7303", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1651124": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "New L.A. Times/Bloomberg presidential poll has some surprises later today<br><br>Which White House contender had the better summer?<br><br>A new Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll of registered voters across the country leaves little doubt about the answer.<br><br>We can't reveal the precise figures yet; for that, check back at <a href=\"http://LATimes.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">LATimes.com</a> about 2 p.m. PDT (5 p.m. EDT). Suffice to say that the results will not alter the perception that -- given a seemingly sunny political climate for Democrats -- Barack Obama is under-performing nationally.<br><br>Also, a series of questions gauging voter attitudes about candidate attributes makes clear which perceptions Obama needs to shore up between now and election day.<br><br>For John McCain, the poll underscores that the more voters focus on domestic issues, the greater the challenge to his hopes of winning the presidency.<br><br>And he and his aides might be a bit surprised by the findings when voters are asked whether they view Obama as \"too arrogant and presumptuous\" and whether McCain could be considered \"too hot-tempered.\"<br><br>-- Don Frederick", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_13:59:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "d4a5571941439b7f9a5ba7979fd49d96", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1651125": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "He really needs to work on his stammering and  stop using ahs, ums as pauses.   It seems to me he needs to see a speech coach.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_13:59:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "514ece7311946709a77d340a35a81d09", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 22, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1650609, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1636791": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "My friends, trust me on this, you DON'T want to fuck with the Russians...<br><br>Pat Buchanan might be a SOB, but I think he nails it here:<br>------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br><b>Who Started Cold War II?</b><br><a href=\"http://www.antiwar.com/pat/?articleid=13323\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.antiwar.com/pat/?articleid=13323</a><br><br><i>\"If Cold War II is coming, who started it, if not us?<br><br>The swift and decisive action of Putin's army in running the Georgian forces out of South Ossetia in 24 hours after Saakashvili began his barrage and invasion suggests Putin knew exactly what Saakashvili was up to and dropped the hammer on him.<br><br><b>What did we know? Did we know Georgia was about to walk into Putin's trap? Did we not see the Russians lying in wait north of the border? Did we give Saakashvili a green light?<br><br>Joe Biden ought to be conducting public hearings on who caused this U.S. humiliation.</b> \"</i>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_11:15:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1657274": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=97788&catid=188\" rel=\"nofollow\">Viewers question credential design</a><br><br><i>KUSA - Some viewers contacted 9NEWS Saturday, questioning the design of the credentials to see Sen. Barack Obama accept the Democratic Party's presidential nomination at INVESCO Field at Mile High.<br><br>The viewers say with the stars and blue field in the lower left corner, it looks like an upside down American flag. Published flag etiquette states the stars should always be displayed in the upper left corner. An upside down flag represents an international symbol of extreme distress.</i><br><br>If it's so, talk about incredibly stupid.<br><br>However......trust, but verify. Craig, do you know, since you're going?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_20:30:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 9, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1659837": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I just assumed that since it is a feline, it meant sleeping all day. This is interesting. Look at the countries. Heh. Blend that with Scorpio --ah oh.<br><br>My favorite person in the world is a Scorpio. You guys are loyal once on your side.<br><br><a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_%28zodiac\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_(zodiac</a>)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_22:25:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "Lilytiger", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1657721, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1643455": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I was just about to post that. Bill Clinton is showing his ass. He needs to stop.<br><br>Who would have ever thought that my love for Bill Clinton could die? BILL, only YOU can make me love you again!!!! Stop being an asshole!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_12:28:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "taritac", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1643097, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1656256": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "SCHWEITZER or GORE<br><br>VP picks with experience in energy.  Discuss.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_18:47:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1657281": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "He can't slow down his mind.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_20:30:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1656223, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1648068": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "He can't help himself.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_13:13:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1643455, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1657797": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Eh hee!  See my essay response to Craig posted upthread.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_21:25:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1657724, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1655239": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/19/161133/955/1005/570567\" rel=\"nofollow\">Keith Olbermann: Rachel Maddow Gets Her Own Show!</a><br><br>It's about time.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_17:44:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 10, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1651662": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Wrong again s.  McCain talks like an excitable 7 year old....<br><br>and, and....and...we're gonna go to mars!!!...'cause we wanna see what mars looks like!! .....pant pant pant.<br><br>Anyway, Obama stammers because he's thinking hard while he speaks.  Every word is weighed for precision...it's not conducive to sound bite tv; but, we understand it.    You could call it excessive caution, but it definitely is not deceptive.<br><br>..and btw, that stuff you listed...is A-Ok with me!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_14:44:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1651434, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1698768": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "taritac:  Ahhhhh man!!!!  I like that site too. :&gt;)    Thanks for this information!   :&gt;(   :&gt;(", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-20_09:42:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1655215, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1657297": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I used the word cower first.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_20:33:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1655008, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1656227": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "::golf clap::<br><br>Congratulations, D! You've made a valiant effort here today on behalf of the McThuselah campaign with their orders!  Have you met your quota of posts for the day?  What did you qualify for -- the mini golf clubs, or the koozie??", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_18:43:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "602d2dab0d55e070836cd5f0edf19f29", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1655514, "depth": 11, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1635797": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "From the NYT<br><br>What If...<br><br>\"No power brokers in the Democratic Party are openly campaigning for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton as their vice-presidential nominee this year, and even Mrs. Clinton\u2019s closest aides have stopped talking her up. Yet privately, some Democrats continue to see her as exactly the partner that Senator Barack Obama needs.<br><br>Clinton supporters have tried to make this point in recent weeks, winning language in the party\u2019s convention platform that acknowledged Mrs. Clinton\u2019s history-making candidacy, and praising her as a smart, seasoned policy wonk who could add ballast to Mr. Obama\u2019s message of hope and change.\"<br><br>But then again recent polls say McCain leads Obama 55/27 in being better qualified to deal with Russia, so it may very well be Biden.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_09:47:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "d4a5571941439b7f9a5ba7979fd49d96", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1651158": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I read the information from Kurtz.  It is explained as fact, the University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC) does not own the the records.  Some lower library officials gave permission to view the records based on the normal process for viewing any records of special collections.  The managers were notified by the donors a deed for the records had not been executed and in addition the records were not organized by the library.  Since the library did not own the records, it could not give permission for your boy to review them.<br><br>By the way the records are not on the Obama -Ayers relationship, they are on a foundation they both served as board members.  They both stated this is the extent of any relationship.  Ayers is on the faculty of UIC.<br><br>The lack of organization means the library does not know what was in the records.  It is absolutely appropriate to prohibit access to uncatalogued documents.  The researcher could still or damage the records.  It is better to create images of the records and then allow access to who so ever.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_14:03:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "b1e8e18ba31ae1e4c8fe371561db8970", "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": 1635911, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1651159": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "So long as Obama is ahead. I really don't care.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_14:03:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "514ece7311946709a77d340a35a81d09", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1651124, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1699801": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Obviously this is a personal and sensitive issue for you. I have a lot<br>of compassion for you. By freedom and hypocrisy, I mean that there's<br>clearly a disconnect between the number of evangelical women having<br>abortions (probably due to inadequate knowledge of or access to<br>conception combined with pressure to conceive) and the conservative<br>evangelical pro-life position. Women have the freedom to terminate<br>pregnancies but do not feel free enough in their own communities to<br>protect that freedom for themselves and others.<br><br>America's abortion and STD rates is much too high and that is in part<br>due to poor public health education policies combined with very low<br>availability of help such as child care, sick leave, tax breaks etc<br>for mothers, especially those raising children on their own. No woman<br>has an abortion with a light heart and if we provide more help to<br>women, perhaps they might feel free to make other choices.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-20_11:04:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "JillTubman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1699467, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1655258": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I've seen accounts by other POWs there at the time that McCain would have only been tortured 2 of the 5 years he was a POW. Not that it makes it much better, but we shouldn't be exaggerating the record.<br><br>The only C-in-C credentials I allowed McCain for his POW service was that he knew what it meant to be tortured, and therefore knew that no moral country would torture. He ruined any respect I had for him by acquiescing to the Bushies on torture. Yet another Republican hypocrite.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_17:46:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "taritac", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1654843, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1698895": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Look,  Dems are the ones who are making a concerted effort to to bring pro-life voters into the party. Obama is trying to reach out to Evangelical voters. Independents, moderates, centrists, whatever you want to call them are not center-left. They are center-right and Obama knows this better than anyone. <br><br>Obama wants to move to the center but can he do it? Will his record, for example,  in opposition to partial birth abortion and the Born-Alive Infant Protection Act, convince women and Catholics that there will be reasonable restrictions on abortion?<br><br>This is just one example. But on issue after issue of as he 'thoughtfully' um uses, er, 'excessive caution' to uh craft a 'nuanced' um position, he is obviously uncomfortable and at a loss for words.<br><br>Throughout his political career he has aligned himself with the far-left of the Democrat party and has maintained relationships with individuals and organizations whose views can be characterized as 'extreme.' <br><br>Now, you may not see it this way, but you are not moderate, or centrist in your views. <br><br>I submit that today's \"mainstream\" moderate:<br><br>1) May oppose the war in Iraq, but acknowledges the ongoing success of the 'surge' and wants to withdraw when conditions on the ground signal the time is right to withdraw.<br><br>2) Are environmentally sensitive to the issue of global warming, but also want energy independence. They are open to supporting any and all options that will reduce our dependence on foreign oil, increase domestic energy supply, and explore all alternative sources of energy, including nuclear, wind, solar, etc.<br><br>3) Does not want their taxes raised. Especially during an economic downturn.<br><br>3) Supports school choice.<br><br>4) Wants secure borders to deter illegal immigration. Opposes driver's licenses for illegal immigrants. Supports a 'path to citizenship' for those already in the country.<br><br>5) Against wasteful government spending. Wary of huge government programs.<br><br>6) Personally opposes abortion, supports a women's right to choose, but does favor some restrictions, such as parental notification for minors, partial birth abortion ban, and protection for infants born alive during a botched abortion.<br><br>7) Gay marriage. Supports civil unions.Leave 'defining' or 'protecting' traditional marriage to the states.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-20_09:54:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "d4a5571941439b7f9a5ba7979fd49d96", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1686388, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1701200": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Maybe we should have questioned Bush's patriotism.  Let us not forget he joined the Air Force Reserves and his questionable absence for 4 years in an effort to avoid the Vietnam war.  Cheney was another one of those \"draft dodgers.\"  As far as the credential, if looking at it \"face-on\" to be upside down, I would think the stars would be in the lower right hand corner, which is how it would appear if someone was literally placing the flag upside down.  The flag kinda looks like it could be flapping from a different angle...just my observation.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-20_12:15:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1686096, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1652194": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Its not her fault she lost, its Obama's fault that he won. That appears to be their line of thinking.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_15:24:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1651942, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1655268": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I don't know, Craig.  I do know that Obama has been talking about the Afghanistan-Pakistan border being a haven for OBL and other terrorists.  Maybe the Emperor Dim Son and Darth Cheney are planning to send in the Rangers to get OBL.  I doubt it but quien sabe?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_17:46:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1651105, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1655292": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Awesome!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_17:49:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1655239, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1657323": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Craig, I think it's time to come clean with the Leo bit.<br><br> Who hurt you, baby?<br><br>Signed by an arrogant, stubborn but basically insecure Lioness. Born in the year of the tiger so ....I'm really lazy as well. LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_20:36:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "Lilytiger", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1651473, "depth": 4, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1651692": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I got that email. Here's the text of it:<br><br>I have played so many roles at so many Democratic National Conventions. I've been there as a campaign worker, a governor, a keynote speaker, a nominee, a president, and a former president.<br><br>But no convention is quite like your first. There is nothing like seeing for the first time so many people in one place working toward one common purpose: electing the next Democratic president.<br><br>It's an inspiration, and you don't want to miss it if you have a chance. So I hope you'll take Hillary up on her offer and contribute by midnight tonight for a chance to attend the Denver convention in person. You'll get to see Hillary speak on Tuesday, and Barack Obama -- the next president of the United States -- on Thursday.<br><br>And I hear Hillary and you will have a chat -- I'll make sure to stop by.<br><br>Enter before midnight tonight for a chance to see me, Hillary, and Barack Obama at the convention in Denver next week!<br><br>Join Hillary in Denver. Contribute today.<br><br>I know you've always been there for Hillary, and she needs you now as she works to pay the small vendors who helped us during the campaign. Hillary's not going to stop fighting for the issues we all care so much about, and she's going to need you all the way.<br><br>And if you contribute before the midnight deadline, you might have the chance to join Hillary and me in Denver next week for a truly exciting and historic convention. You're going to get to see an amazing display of Democratic unity in person -- you don't want to miss it.<br><br>Contribute before midnight tonight for a chance to join me and Hillary in Denver next week.<br><br>Thanks for all the support and help you've shown to Hillary. I can tell you that it means the world to her.<br><br>Sincerely,<br><br>Bill Clinton<br><br>::", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_14:46:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1651484, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1686509": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Has anyone read Freakonomics? The author posits that the reason crime has gone down so much, particularly in the 1990's was because abortion was legalized in the 1970's.  Women who knew they didn't have the capacity to raise kids had abortions instead.<br><br>Another interesting fact-- in states where there is \"parental notification\" parents MADE SURE their daughters had abortions. They were more likely to get abortions!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-20_09:14:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "taritac", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1657600, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1665006": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I was running errands today getting my son of to college. He walked by the Obama HQ. Engaged by a young lady he came back and asked me if campaign people were pushy. I tried to explain it depended on what their job was. He still kept going on she was pushy to get him to register to vote(he just turned this week) saying Obama would lose if he didn't get registered. His response that's BS.<br><br>I responded that one of Obama's strengths has been registering new voters and getting them to vote to him and that is what he is up against. I also told him that one of the things I think Obama is ignoring is those whom are already registered and aren't for him.  <br><br>Then I see this a few minutes ago: <a href=\"http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=its_his_party_08:\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=its...</a>. My question is after you read this is institutionalizing the party and seeking new voters enough to win the Predential election?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_23:03:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "RobM", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1698799": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/08/20/politics/politico/thecrypt/main4365715.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/08/20/polit...</a><br><br>Stephanie Tubbs Jones was taken to the hospital.  The police were trying to pull her over for speeding but she was unconcious behind the wheel.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-20_09:45:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1656819": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Clintopia! Love it. <br><br><br>er..the word not the place.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_19:38:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "Lilytiger", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1652081, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1656820": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Those are some valid points you make.  Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt's health problems also raised questions about their judgement and policies during various times in their presidency.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_19:38:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1656629, "depth": 12, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1655294": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Well you know how \"rabid\" physicians can be...what with having those geriatric specialties and pediatricians - I mean really, what's age got to do with it? And then here you have the military setting up suicide hotlines for guys coming back from war (22,000 calls in a year...is that a lot?) and those mandatory evaluations for all POWs - what's that about? And when has a white cell count ever been too...(gulp)...\"high\".  I mean they're white so they must be good...no?<br><br>Yep, you got me with the \"rabid\" reactionaries there.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_17:49:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1655020, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1698806": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "He's down because he has not yet solidified his base.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-20_09:46:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "514ece7311946709a77d340a35a81d09", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1686319, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1666445": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Only one of five? I'm somewhat surprised by that stat. I think it's too low.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_23:25:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1657191, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1654268": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Why I Will Not Vote for John McCain<br><a href=\"http://www.military.com/opinion/0%2C15202%2C164859_1%2C00.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.military.com/opinion/0,15202,164859_...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_16:20:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1653829": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Based on your extensive medical knowledge, no doubt.<br><br>What good does opening this information up to the public do? And does it stop with McCain, or would you like to scrutinize the medical history of every veteran as part of a job hiring/election process?<br><br>Reality is, I get it. You want to show that there's something either mentally or physically wrong with McCain that makes him unfit for the presidency. You're not interested in McCain the person; you just want what you need to benefit Obama.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-19_16:14:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 20, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1651795, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1698815": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "BlackButterfly:    \"DISTURBING\"    Co-signing Big Time on this and all points!!   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-20_09:46:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1651942, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}}, "integration": {"receiver_url": "", "theme": 4, "reply_position": true, "disqus_logo": false}, "timer": {"timer_url": "http://localhost:8005", "thread_id": "3310740", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "21630", "hash": 977581997886318911}, "thread": {"days_alive": 0, "slug": "tuesday_open_thread_57", "paginate": false, "num_pages": 1, "num_posts": 210, "per_page": 0, "total_posts": 0, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 3310740, "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 disqus_popup_reference = null;

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}



/**
 * Dsq.Strings: UI strings
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Dsq.Strings = new function() {
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// Dsq.Strings

/**
 * Dsq.FmtStrings: functions that return interpolated UI strings
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Dsq.FmtStrings = new function() {
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			(num == 1
				? '%(num)s comment'
				: '%(num)s comments'
			), {num:num});
	};

	this.NUMBER_OF_LIKES = function(num) {
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			(num == 1
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				: '%(num)s likes'
			), {num:num});
	};

	this.NUMBER_OF_POINTS = function(num) {
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			(num == 1
				? '%(num)s point'
				: '%(num)s points'
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};
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Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN = '3a1994e3330279e78957da82fb64f754';
Dsq.COMMENTS_RE = /(<li.*?id="?dsq-comment-(\d+)"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*?)(<\/li>)/gim;
Dsq.POST_RE = /(<div.*?id="?dsq-comment-header-(\d+)"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*?)(<\/div>)\s*(<div.*?class="?dsq-comment-body"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*)(<\/div>)/gim;
Dsq.POST_BODY_RE = /\s*(<div.*?id="?dsq-comment-message-(\d+)"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*)(<\/div>)/gim;
// HACK: Safari ends with "-->" while other browsers end with "--&gt;" as expected.
Dsq.MEDIA_POST_RE = /&lt;!--\[(.*?)\]--(?:>|&gt;)/gim;



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	this._lastHash = null;

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	this.MAX_DATA_LEN	= 1024;

	this.WAIT_TIME		= 10;

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};

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

FragmentPacket.prototype.log = function(msg) {



};

FragmentPacket.prototype.recv = function() {
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				this.log('recv finished: ' + decodeURIComponent(this._accumMsg));
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		this.writer.location.href = this.writer_url + '#' + packet;
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};

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=tuesday_open_thread_57' +
		'&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/tuesday_open_thread_57/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='	+ 'tuesday_open_thread_57'
			+ '&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/tuesday_open_thread_57/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">210</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/tuesday_open_thread_57/latest.rss"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/bullet-feed.png"></a>\
	 </span>\
	 </h3>\
	 <div id="dsq-options" style="margin:15px 0">\
	 <span class="dsq-item-sort">\
	 Sort by\
	 <select id="dsq-sort-select" onchange="Dsq.Thread.sortBy(this.value);">\
	 <option value="hot" selected="selected">Popular now</option>\
	 <option value="best" >Best Rating</option>\
	 <option value="newest" >Newest first</option>\
	 <option value="oldest" >Oldest first</option>\
	 </select>\
	 &nbsp;\
	 </span>\
	 <span class="dsq-item-cp"><a href="http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/tuesday_open_thread_57/">Community Page</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>\
	 <span class="dsq-item-subscribe">\
	 <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/email.png" style="width:12px;height:12px;vertical-align:middle">\
	 <span id="dsq-subscribe">\
	 <a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">Subscribe by email</a>\
	 </span>\
	 </span>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-alerts">\
	 <p><a href="http://disqus.com/profile/login/?next=article:3310740" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false">You must log into your Disqus Profile in order to post comments.</a></p>\
	 </div>\
		';

		

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

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

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.authPost();
		

		html += Dsq.Templates.reactions();

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.trackbacks();
		

		return html;
	};

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

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

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

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

		if(typeof DsqLocal != 'undefined' && DsqLocal.trackback_url && DsqLocal.trackbacks) {
			var trackbacks = DsqLocal.trackbacks;
			var trackback_url = DsqLocal.trackback_url;
		} else {
			var trackbacks = [
			
			
			];
			var trackback_url = 'http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/tuesday_open_thread_57/trackback/';
		}

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

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

		return html;
	}

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		return '<h3 class="dsq-h3-reactions">Reactions</h3><ul id="dsq-reactions" class="dsq-reactions">' + html + '</ul>';
	};
	
	this.missingPermissions = function() {
		return '	<p><a href="http://disqus.com/profile/login/?next=article:3310740" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false">You must log into your Disqus Profile in order to post comments.</a></p> \n';
	};

	//
	// Post
	//

	this.prependPost = function(post_id) {
		var html = '<div id="comment-' + post_id + '"></div>';
		return html;
	};

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

	this.postPrependHeader = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];

		var _includeServices = function() {
			var userServices = Dsq.Post.getUserServices(null, post_id);
			var html = '';
			var hiddenThreshold = 3; // Define # of services to show before stuffing them in hidden div

			for(var i = 0; i < userServices.length; i++) {
				html +=
				(i == hiddenThreshold
					? '<li id="dsq-drop-hidden-' + post_id +'" class="dsq-drop-hidden"><ul>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-drop-services"> \
					<a class="dsq-service-' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" href="' + userServices[i].url + '" target="_blank"> \
						<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/embed/services/' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '.png" alt="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '">'
					+ userServices[i].name
					+ '</a> \
				</li>';
			}

			if(i >= hiddenThreshold) {
				html += '</ul></li> \
				<li id="dsq-drop-more-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-drop-more"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.dropProfileMore(this, '+ post_id + '); return false"><small>&#9660;</small></a></li> \
				';
			}
			return html;
		};

		return ' \
			<div class="dsq-header-avatar" id="dsq-header-avatar-' + post_id + '" onmouseover="Dsq.Post.dropProfile(' + post_id + ')"> \
				<a id="dsq-avatar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-avatar" href="' + userData.url + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">'
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.show_avatar
				? '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.users[_meta.user_key].avatar + '" alt="" />'
				: '')
			+ '</a>'
			+ '</div> \
		';
	};

	this.postAppendHeader = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];

		return ''
			+ (_meta.author_is_moderator
				? '<img class="dsq-mod-star" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/bullet-star.png" title="Moderator" alt="" />'
				: '')
			+ '<span class="dsq-header-meta"> \
				<a id="dsq-time-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-header-time" href="#comment-' + post_id + '" title="Permalink">' + _meta.date + '</a> \
			</span>';
	};

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

	this.postBody = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: Deprecate flagging conditional
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		return ''
			+ (_meta.edited
				? '<p class="dsq-editedtxt">(Edited by a moderator)</p>'
				: '')
			;
	};

	this.postFooter = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: Use media should be conditional
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		if(_meta.killed) { return ''; }

		return ' \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer" id="dsq-comment-footer-' + post_id + '"> \
				<div id="dsq-points-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-likedtxt">'
				+ (_meta.points
					? _meta.points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(_meta.points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this comment.'
					: '')
				+ '</div>'
				+ '<ul class="dsq-comment-options dsq-list-style">'
				+ (_meta.votable
					? '<li class="dsq-list-first dsq-rate" id="dsq-rate-cont-' + post_id + '">'
					+ (!_meta.up_voted
						? '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.rate(this, ' + post_id + ', 1); return false;">Like</a>'
						: 'You liked this.') + '</li>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-report' + (!_meta.votable ? ' dsq-list-first' : '') + '" id="dsq-post-report-' + post_id + '"><a href="#" class="dsq-post-report" onclick="Dsq.Post.report(' + post_id + ', false); return false;">Report</a></li> \
				</ul> \
				<ul class="dsq-list-style">'
				+ (_meta.can_reply
					? '<li class="dsq-list-first"><a href="#" id="dsq-reply-link-' + post_id +'" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleReply(this, ' + post_id +'); return false;">Reply</a></li>'
					: '')
				+ (_meta.can_reply && !_meta.has_replies && _meta.from_request_user
					? '<li id="dsq-edit-el-' + post_id + '"><a id="dsq-edit-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); return false;">Edit</a></li>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="' + (!_meta.can_reply ? 'dsq-list-first' : '') + '" id="dsq-more-el-' + post_id + '"><a id="dsq-more-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, ' + post_id + ', \'more\'); return false">More <small>&#9660;</small></a></li>'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.use_media
					? '<li id="dsq-media-el-' + post_id +'" style="display:none"><a id="dsq-media-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, ' + post_id + ', \'media\'); return false">Use Media <small>&#9660;</small></a></li>'
					: '')
				+ '</ul>'
				+ '<div id="dsq-reply-bar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar" style="display:none"> \
						<div id="dsq-reply-bar-items-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar-items"> \
						</div> \
						<div id="dsq-reply-bar-auth-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar-auth"> \
							 \
								 \
									<a href="#" class="dsq-help dsq-reply-req-opt" title="You must log into an account in order to comment on Jack and Jill Politics" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Required:</a> \
								 \
								<img class="dsq-login-icon" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/dsq-favicon-16x16.png" alt="" /> \
								<a id="dsq-reply-login-' + post_id + '" href="http://disqus.com/profile/login/?next=article:3310740" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false">Login</a> \
								 \
									&nbsp;or&nbsp; \
									<img class="fb_login_image" src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/images/fbconnect/login-buttons/connect_light_small_short.gif" alt="Facebook Connect"/> \
									<a href="#" onclick="FB.Connect.requireSession(DisqusFbcParentController.onLogin); return false;">Connect</a> \
								 \
								&nbsp;or&nbsp; \
									<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/twitter-signin-icon.png" alt="" /> \
									<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect(); return false">Sign-in</a> \
								 \
								 \
							 \
						</div> \
					</div> \
					<div id="dsq-reply-' + post_id + '"></div> \
			</div> \
		';
	};

	//
	// Iframes
	//

	this._makeAttributes = function(attributes) {
		// Makes a tag attributes string out of an object.
		// Caller is responsible for making sure nothing needs to be escaped.
		var result = [];
		for (key in attributes) {
			result.push(' ' + key + '="' + attributes[key] + '"');
		}
		result = result.join('');
		return result;
	};

	this._frameGeneric = function(base_url, params, attributes) {
		if(typeof(disqus_callback_params) == 'undefined') {
			disqus_callback_params = '';
		}

		var default_params = {
			// TODO: These should be moved to Dsq.jsonData.
			'f'				: 'jackandjillpolitics',
			't'				: 'tuesday_open_thread_57',
			// 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/tuesday_open_thread_57/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='	+ 'tuesday_open_thread_57'
			+ '&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='	+ 'tuesday_open_thread_57'
			+ '&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='		+ 'tuesday_open_thread_57'
				+ '&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/3310740/realtime.js?timestamp=' + last_checked);
		}
	};

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

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

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

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

}();

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

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

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

	return obj;
}();

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		if (isblank(openid_url)) {
			return;
		}

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	return obj;
}();


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





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

	
	var scriptEl = document.createElement('script');
	scriptEl.setAttribute('type', 'text/javascript');
	scriptEl.setAttribute('src', 'http://seesmic.com/version.js?callback=seesmic.widget.callback');
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1650419" href="http://majorman.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">majorman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1650419" class="dsq-comment-message">Why I think Obama VP will be Roemer, Schweitzer, Sebelius, or Clark.<br><br>Read here:  <a href="http://majorman.wordpress.com/2008/08/14/obama-vice-president-picks/" rel="nofollow">http://majorman.wordpress.com/2008/08/14/obama-...</a></div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1643756" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1643756" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/08/the-cross-in--1.html#more" rel="nofollow">Andrew Sullivan:</a><br><br><i>Here are the perfectly legitimate questions reporters should now, in my opinion, ask McCain:<br><br>why did you not mention this transcendent story in 1973? Why, in discussing three Christmases in captivity in Vietnam, was this story - far more powerful than any of the other anecdotes - omitted? How was it possible for the gun guard of May 1969 to be present at Christmas that year when McCain had been transferred to another camp? Is it possible that McCain\'s memory has faded with time and that he has simply fused his own memories with other stories - as Clinton did with Bosnia sniper fire and as Kerry did in remembering another Christmas he could not have actually witnessed where he said he did?<br><br>And why are we not allowed to ask these questions, when they relate to one of the most important questions anyone can ask about a president: the question of integrity? If McCain has fabricated a religious epiphany for political purposes, it is about as deep a betrayal of core integrity as one can imagine, and the latest example of how pernicious the religious domination of political life in America has become.</i></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1651066" class="dsq-comment-message">What, exactly, is the point of this exercise?  Gulag Archipelago was published in 1973, the same year that John McCain was released from the POW camp.  There is no way of proving what the bloggers hope, which is that no mention of this story was made until after the book\'s publication.  And even if that were the case, all it would prove is that John McCain didn\'t tell this story until after the book\'s publication, not that it didn\'t happen.  Vietnam is a country with pretty rich Catholic tradition; tracing a cross in the dirt at Christmas is not something so unthinkably bizarre that it could only have happened in one communist dictatorship. <br><br>The only way this would actually hurt McCain is if you found a signed letter from him saying that this never happened.  Since it\'s very unlikely that such a letter exists, the very best that this effort will achieve is sowing seeds of doubt in a few minds, making themselves look desperate to almost everyone else (and thereby making people wonder what\'s wrong with Obama, that they\'re this desperate), and outraging a number of people that you would call McCain\'s honor into question with absolutely no evidence, or hope of obtaining same.<br><br>Those desperate to discredit Senator McCain\'s record will have to impugn his fellow prisoners as well. Orson Swindle, who was held as a prisoner of war along with McCain, recalls that he heard this particular story from McCain "when we first moved in together." That was in the summer of 1971, Swindle said, though "time blurred" and he couldn\'t be sure. He said it was some time around then that the Vietnamese moved all "36 troublemakers" into the same quarters, where they "talked about everything under the sun."<br><br>Keep it up. It will only benefit McCain.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1651994" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1651994">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1651994" class="dsq-comment-message">The point is that McCain a a lying, psychotic, sack of shit.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1657666">djchefron</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1657666" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL You forget to say he is a OLD, LYING,PSYCHOTIC , SACK OF SHIT</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1635797" class="dsq-comment-message">From the NYT<br><br>What If...<br><br>"No power brokers in the Democratic Party are openly campaigning for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton as their vice-presidential nominee this year, and even Mrs. Clinton’s closest aides have stopped talking her up. Yet privately, some Democrats continue to see her as exactly the partner that Senator Barack Obama needs.<br><br>Clinton supporters have tried to make this point in recent weeks, winning language in the party’s convention platform that acknowledged Mrs. Clinton’s history-making candidacy, and praising her as a smart, seasoned policy wonk who could add ballast to Mr. Obama’s message of hope and change."<br><br>But then again recent polls say McCain leads Obama 55/27 in being better qualified to deal with Russia, so it may very well be Biden.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1643384">taritac</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1643384" class="dsq-comment-message">No, no, no, no, no.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1657583" href="http://www.WEESeeYou.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Webb</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1657583" class="dsq-comment-message"><b>What if it is Hillary?  What if all of these stunts/distractions are covering up the fact that it will be an Obama-Clinton ticket? </b><br><br>The prevailing VP options remain pretty boring (even though I like Kaine).  <br><br>I know there\'s still much distrust and unforgiveness about Billary, but then I started thinking about history and the VPs who accompanied Washington, Lincoln, and Roosevelt, namely Adams, Johnson, and Truman.<br><br>Adams - Firebrand Founder<br>Johnson - 1st Ever Impeached President<br>Truman - "If you can\'t take the heat, get out the kitchen" Atomic Bomber<br><br>If you believe that Obama is (will be) in the "Masterclass" of Presidents, then you should really compare his VP selection not only on the basis of modern politics, but  consider it within the context of history.  <br><br>The VP need not be a safe choice.  Ultimately, people will not be voting for the VP.  They will be voting for the P.  <br><br>If you fear that Hillary (or Bill) could overshadow Barack, then she would have been the THE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE right now.  She is not.  <br><br>So...<br>Obama-Biden...zzz<br>Obama-Kaine (and I like Kaine)...zzzz<br>Obama-Bayh (highly unlikely)...zzz<br>Obama-Clinton...IT\'S ELECTRIC even with all of the accompanying drama.<br><br>It\'s worth the drama.<br><br>I would not underestimate Barack..."He ain\'t scurred of no Clintons."  Why should we be?</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1658060" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1658060" class="dsq-comment-message">Yeah, but the VP can determine whether a person wins or loses.  I disagree with pundits and others who say that no one cares who is VP because Al Gore actually re-defined the VP office during his 2 terms of service.  Slick Dick Cheney has since made it a co-presidency office.<br><br>No, it would not be electric; it would be disastrous for him to choose her.  She has way too much baggage, and her on the ticket would galvanize the neo-cons to go to the polls and vote in a way that McCain\'t never would.  The fact that her husband\'s sending letters to her primary supporters asking them for dough tells me it\'s not her.  People need to get over it; it\'s not going to be her.<br><br>I have no idea who it WILL be but since she and BJC are a package deal, Obama ain\'t going with her.  Plus, she hasn\'t been vetted and will never be vetted because Bill ain\'t showing nobody the money, especially not Obama.  No Drama Obama is the campaign insider mantra, and it isn\'t about being afraid of them; it\'s about winning the election in November.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1635911" class="dsq-comment-message">Why won\'t the University of Illinois let Stanley Kurtz research its records relating to the Obama-Ayers relationship?<br><br><a href="http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZmJmMmY5ZTZjMDM2M2ViMTI2ZjU1OTc4NjE4OTgxMjM=" rel="nofollow">http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZmJmMm...</a><br><br>Disturbing!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1650595">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1650595" class="dsq-comment-message">Why won\'t McCain let anyone view his entire Navy medical file- you know - the files without half the pages missing. Where are those pages? Where? Why can\'t we view them? Why? What is he hiding?</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1651088" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1651088" class="dsq-comment-message">Because they would prove that he\'s a boar, among other things, that\'s why.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1650959" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1650959" class="dsq-comment-message">Would you even know what you were looking at if you did?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1651795">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1651795" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1653829" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1653829" class="dsq-comment-message">Based on your extensive medical knowledge, no doubt.<br><br>What good does opening this information up to the public do? And does it stop with McCain, or would you like to scrutinize the medical history of every veteran as part of a job hiring/election process?<br><br>Reality is, I get it. You want to show that there\'s something either mentally or physically wrong with McCain that makes him unfit for the presidency. You\'re not interested in McCain the person; you just want what you need to benefit Obama.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1654330">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1654330" class="dsq-comment-message">"You want to show that there\'s something either mentally or physically wrong with McCain that makes him unfit for the presidency."<br><br>So you think so too, huh?</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1654564" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1654564" class="dsq-comment-message">That was a good one, Miranda.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1654488" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1654488" class="dsq-comment-message">I disagree wholeheartedly.<br><br>Not to mention the fact that no other presidential candidate in history-at least to my knowledge-has been subjected to a medical test to show that he\'s fit for office.<br><br>But, that\'s the general theme of the Obama insurgency: if it helps our candidate, great.....and if it\'s not beneficial, it\'s those damn Republicans and their dirty tricks.<br><br>Hope it works out for you. Guess we\'ll see in a few months.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1654784">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1654784" class="dsq-comment-message">Well now how did you reach the conclusion that it would benefit Obama in any way, if the redacted portions of McCain\'s military medical records were reviewed? What do you fear is in those missing pages that could possibly hurt McCain?</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1655020" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1655020" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t fear anything. I just know that some of those who support Obama would use the information in his records for their own partisan purposes. <br><br>You\'d look at his birthday and say he\'s too old. You\'d look at his time as a POW and say he\'s psychotic. You\'d look at his white cell count and say it\'s too high.<br><br>Some of y\'all are that....rabid.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1655164">Monie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1655164" class="dsq-comment-message">At the same time, many opponents of Obama, Republican and Democratic, have used his education at a Muslim elementary school to spread fictional "Muslim ties" and insinuate that he is an"other" or perhaps  "unAmerican." Obama could not help as youngster which school he attended no more than any of us determined where we went to school as 6 or 7 year olds.  Supporters on all sides can be rabid when they want to be.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1655218" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1655218" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1655218" class="dsq-comment-message">Fair enough.....though I\'d argue that there\'s a clear difference between the two situations.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1655294">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1655294" class="dsq-comment-message">Well you know how "rabid" physicians can be...what with having those geriatric specialties and pediatricians - I mean really, what\'s age got to do with it? And then here you have the military setting up suicide hotlines for guys coming back from war (22,000 calls in a year...is that a lot?) and those mandatory evaluations for all POWs - what\'s that about? And when has a white cell count ever been too...(gulp)..."high".  I mean they\'re white so they must be good...no?<br><br>Yep, you got me with the "rabid" reactionaries there.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1655514" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1655514" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1655514" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1655514" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL at the blood cells.<br><br>Let me ask this: why do you care? Is it because you\'re genuinely interested in McCain\'s health? Or are you just looking for something to hold up as a reason not to vote for him?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1656227" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1656227">Terri</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1656227" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1656227" class="dsq-comment-message">::golf clap::<br><br>Congratulations, D! You\'ve made a valiant effort here today on behalf of the McThuselah campaign with their orders!  Have you met your quota of posts for the day?  What did you qualify for -- the mini golf clubs, or the koozie??</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1656337" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1656337" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1656337" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1656337" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1656337" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m actually more concerned about the privacy issues that would be raised. Not that Obama insurgency gives a damn.<br><br>But should Town see fit to award points, so be it. I only accept them from him, though.<br><br>Your lack of creativity, though, gets you none. Thanks for playing.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1656629" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1656629" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1656629">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1656629" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1656629" class="dsq-comment-message">Im not looking for a reason to not vote for McCain, thats not how I would choose any candidate for any position. To me, thats stupid. I vote FOR a person, not against someone else. <br><br>However, yes, I\'m concerned with the possibility of a 72 year old man who has battled skin cancer twice, a former POW who has a very strong reputation of having anger management issues,  one who referred to Vietnamese people as "gooks" which may indicate something deeper than just a slip of the tongue (which it wasnt). <br><br>Hey, we all know Reagan\'s Alzheimer\'s kicked in before he left office...and Lord knows they wheeled Strom Thurmond\'s dead body around for 5 years before they finally put it in the ground. For me, age and health is definitely an issue.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1656820" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1656820" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1656820">Monie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1656820" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1656820" class="dsq-comment-message">Those are some valid points you make.  Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt\'s health problems also raised questions about their judgement and policies during various times in their presidency.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1656877" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1656877" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1656877" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1656877" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1656877" class="dsq-comment-message">Were your choices Clinton and McCain, would you still be as concerned?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1657242" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1657242" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1657242">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1657242" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1657242" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1657301" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1657301" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1657301" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1657301" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1657301" class="dsq-comment-message">Hate to go Clinton on you, but I have to take you at your word.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1654807" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1654807" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1654807">Monie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1654807" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1654807" class="dsq-comment-message">Actually, a presidential candidate\'s  health has been put to scrutiny before--I came across a case of this in a medical ethics class.  In 1992, Democratic Senator Paul Tsongas\'s health was put under scrutiny by the media because  he had non-Hodgkins lymphoma years earlier but his doctor\'s assured he was cancer-free after a bone-marrow transplant.  The questions were raised about the cancer returning.  Sadly, he passed away in 1997 from a recurrence of the cancer.  It is valid to be concerned about candidate\'s medical history, both physically and mentally.  But there is a fine line to walk  with the privacy issues.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1654966" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1654966" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1654966" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1654966" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1654966" class="dsq-comment-message">Learn something new every day.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1657176" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1657176" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1657176" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1657176" class="dsq-comment-message">I would argue that Tsonga\'s cancer history was the sole reason he was not the Democratic nominee.<br><br>Bill Clinton was revealed to be a scandal and the Democrats were scared he would be wiped off the map in November.<br><br>Party leadership pled with Tsongas to return to the race. It was ready to nominate him over Clinton, the presumptive nominee.<br><br>Tsongas turned down the invitation. Some say it was because the brutal primary weakened his constitution, allowing his cancer to return.<br><br>Ross Perot delivered the election to Clinton. <br><br>Perot contested two elections, both of which Clinton won.<br><br>There were plenty rumors that Perot and Clinton were two peas in a pod. Covertly, of course.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1656856" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1656856">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1656856" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1656856" class="dsq-comment-message">We already know he\'s unfit to be POTUS.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1649887" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1649887" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1649887">taritac</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1649887" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1649887" class="dsq-comment-message">Because they know that retarded Republicans cannot resist the "guilt by association" meme.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1651158" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1651158" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1651158">Nardwilly</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1651158" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1651158" class="dsq-comment-message">I read the information from Kurtz.  It is explained as fact, the University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC) does not own the the records.  Some lower library officials gave permission to view the records based on the normal process for viewing any records of special collections.  The managers were notified by the donors a deed for the records had not been executed and in addition the records were not organized by the library.  Since the library did not own the records, it could not give permission for your boy to review them.<br><br>By the way the records are not on the Obama -Ayers relationship, they are on a foundation they both served as board members.  They both stated this is the extent of any relationship.  Ayers is on the faculty of UIC.<br><br>The lack of organization means the library does not know what was in the records.  It is absolutely appropriate to prohibit access to uncatalogued documents.  The researcher could still or damage the records.  It is better to create images of the records and then allow access to who so ever.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1636324" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1636324" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1636324">RobM</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1636324" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1636324" class="dsq-comment-message">Obama should immediate take advantage of the situation in Pakistan. It provides the opportunity to discuss the need for democracy. For the first time in Pakistan\'s history there has been a change at the Presidency without a military coup. Quite a contrast from a presidency whom believes in democracy but is constantly supporting dictatorships in the name of US security</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1651105" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1651105" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1651105" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1651105" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1651105" class="dsq-comment-message">Don\'t you find it curious that this resignation comes right now?<br><br>I certainly do.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1655268" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1655268" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1655268" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1655268" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1655268" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t know, Craig.  I do know that Obama has been talking about the Afghanistan-Pakistan border being a haven for OBL and other terrorists.  Maybe the Emperor Dim Son and Darth Cheney are planning to send in the Rangers to get OBL.  I doubt it but quien sabe?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1657197" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1657197" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1657197" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1657197" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1657197" class="dsq-comment-message">The timing remains curious.<br><br>Let\'s see what unfolds during the Democratic convention, right around, say, Thursday.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1657959" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1657959" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1657959" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1657959" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1657959" class="dsq-comment-message">Not saying you\'re wrong at all.  <br><br>But Musharraf\'s been having problems since last year at the beginning of November when he declared a state of emergency in Pakistan.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1657719" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1657719" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1657719" href="http://www.actsoffaithinloveandlife.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">heartsandflowers</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1657719" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1657719" class="dsq-comment-message">After Benazir Bhutto was already martyred. He must be getting a nice payoff from Bush.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1636581" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1636581" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1636581">s</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1636581" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1636581" class="dsq-comment-message">From Michael Moore in Rolling Stone:<br><br>How the Democrats Can Blow It...in 6 Easy Steps<br><br>1. Keep saying nice things about McCain.<br>2. Pick a running mate who is a conservative white guy or a general or a Republican.<br>3. Keep writing speeches for Obama that make him sound like a hawk.<br>4. Forget that this was a historic year for women.<br>5. Show up to a gunfight with a peashooter. <br>6. Denounce me!<br><br><a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/22249602/how_the_democrats_can_blow_it_in_six_easy_steps/print" rel="nofollow">http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/2224...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1652405" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1652405" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1652405">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1652405" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1652405" class="dsq-comment-message">Wow, you\'re quoting Michael Moore now? You must really be running out of material. Did they threaten you with a beating if you didn\'t bring in any converts?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1655004" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1655004" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1655004" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1655004" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1655004" class="dsq-comment-message">Eh hee!<br><br>They need to stop the madness!<br><br>Besides, Moore supported Obama\'s primary foe, didn\'t he?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1668155" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1668155">HH</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1668155" class="dsq-comment-message">Not that I know of, unless he changed his mind at some point.<br><br>My Vote\'s for Obama (if I could vote) ...by Michael Moore<br><a href="http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?id=225" rel="nofollow">http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index...</a><br><br>"Well, that sounded good last year, but over the past two months, the actions and words of Hillary Clinton have gone from being merely disappointing to downright disgusting. I guess the debate last week was the final straw. I\'ve watched Senator Clinton and her husband play this game of appealing to the worst side of white people, but last Wednesday, when she hurled the name "Farrakhan" out of nowhere, well that\'s when the silly season came to an early end for me. She said the "F" word to scare white people, pure and simple."</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1636791" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1636791">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1636791" class="dsq-comment-message">My friends, trust me on this, you DON\'T want to fuck with the Russians...<br><br>Pat Buchanan might be a SOB, but I think he nails it here:<br>------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br><b>Who Started Cold War II?</b><br><a href="http://www.antiwar.com/pat/?articleid=13323" rel="nofollow">http://www.antiwar.com/pat/?articleid=13323</a><br><br><i>"If Cold War II is coming, who started it, if not us?<br><br>The swift and decisive action of Putin\'s army in running the Georgian forces out of South Ossetia in 24 hours after Saakashvili began his barrage and invasion suggests Putin knew exactly what Saakashvili was up to and dropped the hammer on him.<br><br><b>What did we know? Did we know Georgia was about to walk into Putin\'s trap? Did we not see the Russians lying in wait north of the border? Did we give Saakashvili a green light?<br><br>Joe Biden ought to be conducting public hearings on who caused this U.S. humiliation.</b> "</i></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1644105" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1644105">taritac</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1644105" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1644105" class="dsq-comment-message">I can\'t find the article, TS. It only goes to a page with Pat Buchanan\'s bio.<br><br>Pat Buchanan makes me ill sometimes, but every now and then, he says something right.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1652116" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1652116" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1652116">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1652116" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1652116" class="dsq-comment-message">Sorry....I got there following and link from Huffington.  Try going there first:<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/19/patrick-j-buchanan-who-st_n_119816.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/19/patric...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1651404" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1651404" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1651404" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1651404" class="dsq-comment-message">Russia isn\'t to be feared.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1652053" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1652053" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1652053">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1652053" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree.  I don\'t think they are the problem here; but, they are not to be trifled with either.<br><br>What\'s really suspicious is how CNN has given Saakavilli so much airtime.  He was on almost every day, cross-eyed, slumped and ranting incoherently.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1654668" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1654668" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1654668" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1654668" class="dsq-comment-message">I still don\'t watch CNN.<br><br>My Russian friends tell me that Putin is posturing.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1657423" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1657423" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1657423">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1657423" class="dsq-comment-message">He bombed the shit out of Georgia.  It looked pretty real to me.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1654876">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1654876" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1654876" class="dsq-comment-message">to give McCain ratings.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1641248" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1641248">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1641248" class="dsq-comment-message">This is a must read!!!<br>Excellent advise on narratives and messaging.<br>--------------------------------------------------------<br><br>From "Nuanced" to Principled: The Lessons of Pastor Rick, and Why and How Obama and the Democrats Should Make Abortion a Voting Issue<br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/drew-westen/from-nuanced-to-principle_b_119810.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/drew-westen/from-...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1644586" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1644586" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1644586" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m underwhelmed by Monday morning quarterbacking. Not that there are no good points in the essay, but these writers have it easy critiquing performances after the fact.<br><br>That said, Barack needs a good debate coach. When he\'s on, he\'s on. When he\'s not, he\'s awful. He can\'t afford to be awful in a single debate this fall.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1654817" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1654817" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1654817" class="dsq-comment-message">Very true re the debate coach.<br><br>Also, IF and I say IF, the Dems want to make choice an issue, perhaps they shouldn\'t use the word \'abortion.\'  Since, as Obama likes to say, no one is pro-abortion, this makes anti-abortion a poor campaign term as well.  The Dems should perhaps frame the opposition\'s dissension to choice as \'anti-choice.\'  From a public and media relations perspective, I believe this will resonate with women voters no matter their party affiliation.<br><br>In the end, if Obama doesn\'t think he needs to brush up on his debating skills, there\'s not a whole lot his campaign advisers/workers can do about it.  It is, after all, his campaign, and I get the feeling that, unlike she who shall not be named, he takes full control and full responsibility for each and every task and act made in his name.  Nothing gets passed him, but he seems the obstinate type, so I doubt that anyone (except, perhaps, Mrs. Obama) can persuade him to get a coach, although he definitely needs one.<br><br>I\'m emailing him that he should be as passionate at the debates as he is when he stumps.  The oratorical passion he exhibited at the VFW today is what is needed during the debates.  Hopefully, he has learned that, while he has become a great orator, he is a poor debater.  A passionate demeanor will win the day, since his opponent, the plagiarist, is as dull as dishwater whenever and wherever he speaks.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1655679" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1655679">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1655679" class="dsq-comment-message">Those are interesting observations.  And I sense that  O is stubborn.<br><br>What was that stuff at the forum about \'getting the president we need\' and \'things will work out\'...c\'mon Senator, that\'s a far cry from the revolutionary "Yes We Can!"   But, I guess he was soothing the Evangelical audience.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1657229" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1657229" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1657229" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1657229" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1657229" class="dsq-comment-message">Stubborn. Obstinate. Yes.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1650609" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1650609" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1650609">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1650609" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s frustrating for me to watch because these are things we\'ve identified from in the primaries, as areas the O campaign needs to brush up on.   Yet, here we are a couple months from the general election, and they haven\'t been dealt with.<br><br>Just ordinary people commenting in blogs, say O looked stilted again.  His head was tilted to his right,  and he didn\'t have a direct gaze.  I can tell when Obama doesn\'t feel in command.   Barack was hiding behind that table at the faith forum and he was slumped in his chair.   Another thing is he partially bent his head to his mug of water rather than keeping his head still, and bringing the mug up to his mouth.   It looked insecure.  There are techniques to help someone feel grounded, and in control in hostile environments....isn\'t anyone working with him on this stuff??<br><br>I  think they shouldn\'t leave any stone unturned,  and he\'s running out of time to make corrections.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1651125" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1651125">Micheline</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1651125" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1651125" class="dsq-comment-message">He really needs to work on his stammering and  stop using ahs, ums as pauses.   It seems to me he needs to see a speech coach.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1654838" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1654838" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1654838">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1654838" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1654838" class="dsq-comment-message">there is nothing wrong with his stammering.  you know what . . . you all need to back up and think about what it takes to run for President.  All these backseat drivers telling Obama what to do, how so speak, stop your stammering, don\'t slouch . . . . .<br><br>He is an intelligent man, who is confident, and is not perfect.  But he will be president if we vote for him.  I could care less what McCain says.  Our focus should be turning supporters into voters, we will win this thing hands down.  I have no problem with him thinking though what he has to say and adding an um or pausing.  So what?  Let him do his thing.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1656947" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1656947">Texas_Girl_in_LA</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1656947" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1656947" class="dsq-comment-message">thank you</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1699059">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1699059" class="dsq-comment-message">Val:   YAAAAAAA!  Co-signing!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1654947" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1654947" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1654947" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1654947" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1654947" class="dsq-comment-message">That doesn\'t bother me so much because it\'s obvious to me that he is giving himself time to think before he speaks, and that is always a good thing for anyone to do.<br><br>He understands the nuance of linguistics - that there is only one right word, phrase or sentence, and he takes the time to flip through his mental dictionary before he speaks.  I like that.<br><br>It\'s the timidity of his responses during debates that troubles me.  I don\'t expect him to hit it out of the park at every question but . . .  I can\'t quite put my finger on it but I think his responses tend to be  too dispassonate.  Also, during the primaries, I noticed that the questions (generally they aren\'t very good or substantive) were sometimes used to bait him, and I saw him visibly control being perturbed  (not just during Snuffy Smith and Chunky Charles\'s ambush).<br><br>All that said, I also understand how difficult it may be for him to campaign, attend fundraisers and work with a coach.  They guy\'s got to sleep sometime, and I wouldn\'t want him doing it on the plane with the media hacks traveling with him.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1656223" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1656223" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1656223">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1656223" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1656223" class="dsq-comment-message">Obama\'s mind is moving much faster than his mouth can get the words out.  And so he doesn\'t use the wrong word, he uses um...uh....uh....uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.....pauses.<br><br>The problem is Joe Blow on the street turns on TV and sees him going uh......uh........uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh and concludes that he\'s stupid or slow of mind.  He either needs to slow his mind down or accelerate his mouth.  The mind and the mouth need to work in sync and they\'re not.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1657281" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1657281" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1657281" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1657281" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1657281" class="dsq-comment-message">He can\'t slow down his mind.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1658214" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1658214" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1658214" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1658214" class="dsq-comment-message">Nah, he\'s a deliberate speaker, and that\'s a good thing.  He doesn\'t do a lot of stammering when he\'s speaking; it is only when he is in a Q/A forum or a debate that he tends to stammer as y\'all call it.<br><br>Maybe he believes the fallacy that he has to fill the air with sound while he thinks of the proper words to say.  While it annoys some, it doesn\'t annoy me.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1698917" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1698917">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1698917" class="dsq-comment-message">99%:  Agreed!   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1651434" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1651434">s</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1651434" class="dsq-comment-message">He speaks haltingly and stammers and uhs because he is trying to hide who he really is. <br><br>Obama\'s positions on the following issues are opposed by a median of 76% of respondents:<br><br>    * Obama supports giving driver\'s licenses to illegal immigrants<br>    * Obama supports racial preferences in public employment, contracting and school admissions<br>    * Obama opposes a ban on partial birth abortions<br>    * Obama would cut funding for research and development of "unproven" missile defense systems<br>    * Obama opposes making English the official language for doing business with the U.S. government<br>    * Obama opposes the Supreme Court decisions prohibiting racial assignments of grade school children<br>    * Obama opposes parental notification for minors obtaining abortions<br><br>Moreover, Obama<br><br>    * would talk without precondition with the leaders of state sponsors of terror<br>    * is the only U.S. senator to vote against the language of the Born Alive Infant Protection Act<br>    * supports giving foreign terrorists habeas rights<br>    * contends William Ayers is a mainstream member of the community<br>    * for twenty years belonged to a church whose pastor, Obama\'s mentor, was prone to making, well, somewhat radical statements<br>    * plans to raise payroll, income, capital gains and estate taxes<br>    * despite recent rhetoric, never opposed a gun ban<br>    * has received the following ratings:<br><br>    NARAL — 100%<br>    NEA — A<br>    ACORN — 100%<br>    Planned Parenthood — 100%<br>    National Taxpayers Union — F<br>    Family Research Council —  0%<br>    Citizens Against Government Waste — 13%<br>    NRA — F</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1651662" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1651662" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1651662">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1651662" class="dsq-comment-message">Wrong again s.  McCain talks like an excitable 7 year old....<br><br>and, and....and...we\'re gonna go to mars!!!...\'cause we wanna see what mars looks like!! .....pant pant pant.<br><br>Anyway, Obama stammers because he\'s thinking hard while he speaks.  Every word is weighed for precision...it\'s not conducive to sound bite tv; but, we understand it.    You could call it excessive caution, but it definitely is not deceptive.<br><br>..and btw, that stuff you listed...is A-Ok with me!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1651806" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1651806" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1651806">Micheline</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1651806" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1651806" class="dsq-comment-message">Co-sign</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1698999" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1698999">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1698999" class="dsq-comment-message">Truthseeker:   Co-sign!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>s is certainly taking advantage of his/her 1st Amendment rights!<br><br>Whew!  Boring, tiring. la, la, la, - I can\'t [don\'t wish ta] hear you Deep Breaths!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1655034" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1655034" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1655034">s</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1655034" class="dsq-comment-message">Exactly. Ok with you but not a moderate, center-right electorate. <br><br>Weighing his words for \'precision\',  using \'excessive caution\' what is he so worried about revealing? <br><br>He is trying to be all things to all people and it is becoming increasingly difficult as voters requires more specific information about his positions and his record.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1652056" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1652056" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1652056">MsKitty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1652056" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1652056" class="dsq-comment-message">And the problem with all that is....</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1654853" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1654853">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1654853" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1654853" class="dsq-comment-message">wrong.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1654962" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1654962" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1654962" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1654962" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1654962" class="dsq-comment-message">You\'re insane.<br><br>That is all.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1699031" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1699031">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1699031" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1699031" class="dsq-comment-message">99%:    "You\'re insane"    co-sign!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>              "THAT IS ALL!!"   co-sign!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1655132" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1655132" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1655132">s</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1655132" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1655132" class="dsq-comment-message">Obama cannot defend his far left positions to a moderate, center-right electorate or he will lose the election.<br><br>He, uh,  knows this but,  um,  there uh, must be a, er, um, clever, no, um nuanced, way to um, conceal um, no, obfuscate, er, my true positions.<br><br>As in poker,  stammering and stuttering is his tell.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1655203" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1655203" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1655203" class="dsq-comment-message">From what I\'ve heard and read, Obama\'s an excellent poker player.<br><br>You\'re insane. <br><br>That is all.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1657253" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1657253" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1657253" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1657253" class="dsq-comment-message">"You\'re insane."<br><br>That IS all.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1655275" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1655275" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1655275">Monie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1655275" class="dsq-comment-message">What is telling is that the McCain camp has virtually cut off his access to media in fear of him committing more gaffes.  McCain\'s seemingly good performanceat the forum does not override his gaffe of not knowing the relationship between Shiites, Shi\'as and Iran or other foreign policy issues, the outright lies he makes about his own voting record(which the media often gives him a pass on) or the numerous times where he has been either speechless or said he\'d have to look up an answer before he could give a response.  Far too many Mccain supporters have short term memory---but thank goodness for Youtube.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1655585" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1655585">Monie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1655585" class="dsq-comment-message">McCain wants to scream he\'s a "pro-life" candidate and dictate what a woman should do with her uterus but has no problem listening to Phil "Nation of Whiners" Gramm who was an investor in pornographic films.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1651473" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1651473" class="dsq-comment-message">He\'s a Leo. Despite their healthy egos, they wear their insecurity on their sleeves. <br><br>Look at Bill Clinton for more evidence of the same in a politician who happens to be a Leo.<br><br>Barack can\'t change who he is. But he does need to be more consistently "arrogant" in his debates. He certainly has shown he can be. Of course, he gets beat down by the press when he is and he gets beat down as weak when he isn\'t.<br><br>But something tells me that when he\'s onstage with the man who has accused him of treason and asked that he has a sense of humor when that same accuser compares to vacuous, promiscuous, blonde, white, female celebrities, he will not cower one bit.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1657323">Lilytiger</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1657323" class="dsq-comment-message">Craig, I think it\'s time to come clean with the Leo bit.<br><br> Who hurt you, baby?<br><br>Signed by an arrogant, stubborn but basically insecure Lioness. Born in the year of the tiger so ....I\'m really lazy as well. LOL</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1657721" href="http://www.WEESeeYou.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Webb</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1657721" class="dsq-comment-message">Wow, I never knew that being born in the "year of the tiger" translated to lazyness....no wonder I\'m so dayummed laid-back.<br><br>Do you have any links where I can research that further?<br><br>In my experience, Leos are crazy...My mama is a leo and she\'s crazy...so is every other leo who i\'ve dated or befriended.  When I found out Obama was a leo, I wondered, "How da f**k is that even possible?"...then "My Brothers Keeper" loyalty kicked-in.<br><br>As for scorpios, we make the world go round...<br>Bill Gates (Richest Man on Earth), Julia Roberts, Puffy, Johnny Carson (R.I.P.)...scorpios are about longevity...we become institutions.<br><br>Scorpios are about longevity...we are going to be around.  So Hillary will be back...believe that shyt...2008 is not her time.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1659837">Lilytiger</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1659837" class="dsq-comment-message">I just assumed that since it is a feline, it meant sleeping all day. This is interesting. Look at the countries. Heh. Blend that with Scorpio --ah oh.<br><br>My favorite person in the world is a Scorpio. You guys are loyal once on your side.<br><br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_%28zodiac" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_(zodiac</a>)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1657428" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1657428" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1657428" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL.<br><br>The greatest athletes, politicians, and actors tend to be Leos.<br><br>Leos are also wise, intuitive, likable, attractive, generous, ambitious, organized, and cunning.<br><br>No Leos have hurt me. <br><br>Scorpios? <br><br>Now that\'s another matter.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1657742" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1657742" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1657742" class="dsq-comment-message">And here we were getting along so well, with me being born on Nov 2.  Heh.<br><br>I\'ve known good Leos and horrible ones, thus proving that astrology isn\'t a reliable means of analyzing character and personaly.<br><br>Some Leos are wise, some aren\'t; some are intuitive, some aren\'t, some are likable, some aren\'t, some are generous, some aren\'t, some are ambitious, some aren\'t, some are organized, some aren\'t, some are cunning, some aren\'t.  I know a Leo athlete - very popular - who has the public persona of a nice guy but is really a lowdown, dirty, rotten, scoundrel based on what I\'ve experienced with him.  I know a Leo male born on Aug 4 just like Obama, yet he doesn\'t even have a high school diploma and believes that his sexual prowess and having 3 children by 3 diffrent women without marrying them equals the quintessential man.  He doesn\'t have a pot to piss in nor a window to throw it out of.  <br><br>Halle Berry is a Leo and very beautiful; I like Halle a lot, yet Halle can\'t act her way out of a paper bag. <br><br>And not all Scorpios are low down,  vengeful and mean-spirited.  Some are, some aren\'t.  Some are Eagles, some are serpents, some are scorpions, some are Phoenixes, some are direct and honest, some are shifty-eyed liars, some are sex machines, some are celibate, some are just plain evil, some are good and sweet and very sensitive.<br><br>It just depends on the person and it doesn\'t matter what their astrological sign is.  Some Aries are lowdown dirty, some aren\'t.  Some Pisces are drunken bums, some aren\'t. Some Tauruses are cheap and stingy, some aren\'t. Some Virgos are smart, some aren\'t (see John McCain\'t).  Some Capricorns are ambitious, high achievers, some aren\'t. <br><br>Whatever their sign, some people are just lousy human beings, and some aren\'t.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1658486" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1658486">Lilytiger</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1658486" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1658486" class="dsq-comment-message">There you go, throwing out astrology with the bathwater!<br><br>LOL</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1651842">Micheline</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1651842" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1651842" class="dsq-comment-message">I  think you\'re right when you say that he won\'t cower in front of  McCain.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1655008">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1655008" class="dsq-comment-message">Obama does not cower.  What? Not used to an intelligent black man who doesn\'t go off at every provocation?  Nothing personal to you Micheline - but I don\'t get why Obama is now being flagged as -- since you used the word cowering Micheline --  "weak".  He is a strong intelligent man who picks his battles.  <br><br>Go Obama 08</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1657297" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1657297" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1657297" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1657297" class="dsq-comment-message">I used the word cower first.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1657874" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1657874" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1657874" class="dsq-comment-message"><blockquote><b>Jann Wenner:</b> "There is little doubt that you are going to be "Swift boated" in some way during the campaign and that we are all once again going to be hit with the politics of fear. How do you deal with that? <u>In the past, Democrats have cowered in front of that</u>."<br><br><b>Barack Obama:</b>"<i>Yeah, I don\'t do cowering.</i> You have to respond forcefully, quickly and truthfully to attacks. So far, we\'ve held up pretty well."</blockquote><a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/21472234/page/7" rel="nofollow">Rolling Stone\'s Jan Wenner - A Conversation with Barack Obama</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1651909" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1651909">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1651909" class="dsq-comment-message">Ha, maybe he\'ll back McCain up against the wall like he did with Lieberman.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1652252" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1652252">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1652252" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1652252" class="dsq-comment-message">That was classic. Barack went southside on ole Joe...LOL</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1652738" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1652738" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1652738" class="dsq-comment-message">I would have appreciated him going "southside" and breaking out a good ol\' can of whip-ass on LIE-berman, but we can\'t always get what we want...LOL</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1654834" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1654834" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1654834" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1654834" class="dsq-comment-message">And Leos are stubborn.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1655067">Admiral_Komack</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1655067" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1655067" class="dsq-comment-message">And so are Virgoes.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1657375" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1657375" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1657375" class="dsq-comment-message">Moreso.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1657724">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1657724" class="dsq-comment-message">Ok. before everybody runs down the whole zodiac calendar of who is stubborn.....its not Leos or Virgoes or Scorpions or Geminis............its just men.<br><br>lol</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1657797" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1657797" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1657797" class="dsq-comment-message">Eh hee!  See my essay response to Craig posted upthread.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1655319">s</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1655319" class="dsq-comment-message">The only way he can be more \'consistently arrogant\' is if he is free to speak with conviction and honesty about what he believes and what his policies will be. <br><br>He cannot do this however, because his true views and policies are not in the mainstream. He, uh knows this, so he, uh, pauses, and stutters as he, um tries to  move, er, unconvincingly to the, um, center.<br><br>Below I list some of his positions. <br><br>Can he  \'aggrogantly\' come out and say for example, "I support driver\'s licenses for illegal immigrants\'? Can he state unequivocally state  "I oppose a ban on partial birth abortions"? and hope to win the election?<br><br>He should give it a try.<br><br>"To thine own self be true."</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1686388" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1686388">taritac</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1686388" class="dsq-comment-message">Dude, define mainstream. <br><br>About 30% of the country self-defines as conservative. About 30% liberal. Everyone else somewhere in the middle.<br><br>When asked about positions instead of how they define themselves, the majority of people, about 60% if I remember correctly, align themselves with the DEMOCRATIC platform.<br><br>The Republican platform is consistently against what people generally believe, but what they are GREAT at is identifying a couple of hot button issues (abortion, gay marriage) that they adopt, and push those memes. They are masterful at it. They consistently convince people to vote against their political, economic, environmental, etc. self interests by appealing to a couple of niche issues. <br><br>You obviously have been co-opted by this game-playing.<br><br>Republicans have one constituency: CORPORATIONS, and they will choose corporations over the economy, the Constitution, gay marriage, abortion, and the American people EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. If corporations could figure out how to make billions providing abortions or gay marriage, you would see Republicans drop those planks with a quickness.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1698895" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1698895">s</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1698895" class="dsq-comment-message">Look,  Dems are the ones who are making a concerted effort to to bring pro-life voters into the party. Obama is trying to reach out to Evangelical voters. Independents, moderates, centrists, whatever you want to call them are not center-left. They are center-right and Obama knows this better than anyone. <br><br>Obama wants to move to the center but can he do it? Will his record, for example,  in opposition to partial birth abortion and the Born-Alive Infant Protection Act, convince women and Catholics that there will be reasonable restrictions on abortion?<br><br>This is just one example. But on issue after issue of as he \'thoughtfully\' um uses, er, \'excessive caution\' to uh craft a \'nuanced\' um position, he is obviously uncomfortable and at a loss for words.<br><br>Throughout his political career he has aligned himself with the far-left of the Democrat party and has maintained relationships with individuals and organizations whose views can be characterized as \'extreme.\' <br><br>Now, you may not see it this way, but you are not moderate, or centrist in your views. <br><br>I submit that today\'s "mainstream" moderate:<br><br>1) May oppose the war in Iraq, but acknowledges the ongoing success of the \'surge\' and wants to withdraw when conditions on the ground signal the time is right to withdraw.<br><br>2) Are environmentally sensitive to the issue of global warming, but also want energy independence. They are open to supporting any and all options that will reduce our dependence on foreign oil, increase domestic energy supply, and explore all alternative sources of energy, including nuclear, wind, solar, etc.<br><br>3) Does not want their taxes raised. Especially during an economic downturn.<br><br>3) Supports school choice.<br><br>4) Wants secure borders to deter illegal immigration. Opposes driver\'s licenses for illegal immigrants. Supports a \'path to citizenship\' for those already in the country.<br><br>5) Against wasteful government spending. Wary of huge government programs.<br><br>6) Personally opposes abortion, supports a women\'s right to choose, but does favor some restrictions, such as parental notification for minors, partial birth abortion ban, and protection for infants born alive during a botched abortion.<br><br>7) Gay marriage. Supports civil unions.Leave \'defining\' or \'protecting\' traditional marriage to the states.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1701441" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1701441">taritac</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1701441" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1701441" class="dsq-comment-message">Centrist has artificially been moved to the right in the last few years, when actually, people believe in much more liberal ideas. YOU, sweetheart, are not centrist or moderate either.<br><br>Every one of those positions you cited, except maybe school choice, are OBAMA\'s positions.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1643097" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1643097">Jay</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1643097" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1643097" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/19/bill-clinton-praises-mcca_n_119781.html" rel="nofollow">Clinton Praises McCain on Energy Policy</a><br><br>LOL -- man I\'ll be glad when Nov gets here! So Obama can lay the smack down on this McCain/Clinton ticket.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1643455" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1643455">taritac</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1643455" class="dsq-comment-message">I was just about to post that. Bill Clinton is showing his ass. He needs to stop.<br><br>Who would have ever thought that my love for Bill Clinton could die? BILL, only YOU can make me love you again!!!! Stop being an asshole!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1644680" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1644680">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1644680" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1644680" class="dsq-comment-message">Bill\'s like Puffy, he can\'t stop, he don\'t wanna stop.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1648068" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1648068" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1648068" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1648068" class="dsq-comment-message">He can\'t help himself.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1643509">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1643509" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1643509" class="dsq-comment-message">WTH??? <br><br><b>PAGING KEITH OLBERMANN! PAGING KEITH OLBERMANN!</b> It\'s time for another Special Comment for the Clintons!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1650546">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1650546" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL.....I tell ya.....gotta quote my daddy ........"you must not know the white man".</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1656699">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1656699" class="dsq-comment-message">Okay.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1651484" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1651484">soulsistah02</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1651484" class="dsq-comment-message">CLINTON FUNDRAISING AT THE CONVENTION? <br><br><a href="http://caffertyfile.blogs.cnn.com/2008/08/19/clinton-fundraising-at-convention/" rel="nofollow">http://caffertyfile.blogs.cnn.com/2008/08/19/cl...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1651692" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1651692" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1651692" class="dsq-comment-message">I got that email. Here\'s the text of it:<br><br>I have played so many roles at so many Democratic National Conventions. I\'ve been there as a campaign worker, a governor, a keynote speaker, a nominee, a president, and a former president.<br><br>But no convention is quite like your first. There is nothing like seeing for the first time so many people in one place working toward one common purpose: electing the next Democratic president.<br><br>It\'s an inspiration, and you don\'t want to miss it if you have a chance. So I hope you\'ll take Hillary up on her offer and contribute by midnight tonight for a chance to attend the Denver convention in person. You\'ll get to see Hillary speak on Tuesday, and Barack Obama -- the next president of the United States -- on Thursday.<br><br>And I hear Hillary and you will have a chat -- I\'ll make sure to stop by.<br><br>Enter before midnight tonight for a chance to see me, Hillary, and Barack Obama at the convention in Denver next week!<br><br>Join Hillary in Denver. Contribute today.<br><br>I know you\'ve always been there for Hillary, and she needs you now as she works to pay the small vendors who helped us during the campaign. Hillary\'s not going to stop fighting for the issues we all care so much about, and she\'s going to need you all the way.<br><br>And if you contribute before the midnight deadline, you might have the chance to join Hillary and me in Denver next week for a truly exciting and historic convention. You\'re going to get to see an amazing display of Democratic unity in person -- you don\'t want to miss it.<br><br>Contribute before midnight tonight for a chance to join me and Hillary in Denver next week.<br><br>Thanks for all the support and help you\'ve shown to Hillary. I can tell you that it means the world to her.<br><br>Sincerely,<br><br>Bill Clinton<br><br>::</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1652382">soulsistah02</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1652382" class="dsq-comment-message">Random thoughts...<br><br>I\'m deeply troubled about the Clintons raising funds to pay off her campaign debt at the DNC convention. If any money should be raised it should be for the nominee and the party...not the loser. <br><br>Additionally, I think the Clintons are testing Obama to see how far they can push the envelope before the convention. They are trying to get Obama to cry foul with their long list of demands, therefore, giving them adequate cause to stage a coup at the convention. <br><br>HRC\'s strength of support is an illusion. If her support was strong, then the "18 million" voters would have retired Clinton\'s debt and would begin a clandestine presidential fundraisining campaign in the event BO cannot secure the nomination at the convention. <br><br>Reality: This will be a brokered nomination. Obama has negotiated with Clinton to give her and Bill prime speaking spots at the convention; solicit and receive donations to retire her campaign debt; and institute a roll call vote, which Clinton supposedly will look at the results and finally concede.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1652081" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1652081">BlackButterfly</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1652081" class="dsq-comment-message">Obnoxious, Trite and Narcissistic...ahhh the good old days of Clintopia.<br><br>Excuse me while I go vomit!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1656819">Lilytiger</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1656819" class="dsq-comment-message">Clintopia! Love it. <br><br><br>er..the word not the place.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1651942">BlackButterfly</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1651942" class="dsq-comment-message">This is disturbing for so many reasons.  This multi-millionaire is going to ask for her debt to be paid, a debt that she knowingly incurred after it had become mathematically impossible for her to win the nomination?!  <br><br>There are people who can\'t keep a roof over their family\'s head, put gas in their cars to get to work, buy food for their children and she wants to make a plea for people to replenish her vault of wealth?!  <br><br>I can\'t believe that there are people still thinking that this woman should be POTUS????</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1652194" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1652194">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1652194" class="dsq-comment-message">Its not her fault she lost, its Obama\'s fault that he won. That appears to be their line of thinking.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1655120">Admiral_Komack</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1655120" class="dsq-comment-message">Let the PUMAS pay off Hillary\'s debt.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1698815">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1698815" class="dsq-comment-message">BlackButterfly:    "DISTURBING"    Co-signing Big Time on this and all points!!   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1655253">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1655253" class="dsq-comment-message">I am so sick of this! It\'s really time for Howard Dean to say enough is enough!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1651590">Monie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1651590" class="dsq-comment-message">On Friday night, my hubby and I watched an interview on Bill Moyers Journal with author Andrew J. Bacevich.  Bacevich, who is a conservative, served 23 years in the Army, graduated from West Point,and retired as a colonel. He also teaches international history relations and history at Boston University, and is the author of several books. His latest called THE NEW AMERICAN MILITARISM.  His son also died in Iraq last year. He gave, in my opinion, a very insightful interview, revealing that he is troubled by the course of our U.S. policy. One quote Bacevich gave on Friday sounded fairly close to an answer John McCain gave at the forum on Saturday:<br><br>Bill Moyers:  How is Iraq a clear manifestation, as you say, of this "yawning disparity"      between what Americans expect, and what they are willing to pay?<br><br>Andrew Bacevich: Let\'s think about World War Two.  A war that President Roosevelt told us was essential to United States national security, and was.  And Roosevelt said at the time, because this is an important enterprise, you, the American people will be called upon to make sacrifices.  And indeed, the people of the United Stated went off to fight that war in large numbers.  It was a national effort.  None of that\'s been true with regard to Iraq.  I mean, one of the most striking things about the way the Bush administration has managed the Global War on Terror, which President Bush has compared to World war Two.<br><br>Bill Moyers:  Right.<br><br>Andrew Bacevich:  One of the most striking things about it is that there was no effort to mobilize the country, there was no effort to mobilize the country, there was actually no effort made to expand the size of the armed forces, as a matter of fact.  The President said just two weks or so after 9/11, "Go to Disney World.  Go shopping." Well, there\'s something out of whack here, if indeed the Global War on Terror, and Iraq as a subset of the Global War on Terror is said to be so critically important, on the one hand.  And on the other hand, when the country basically goes about its business, as if, really, there were no War on Terror, and no war in Iraq ongoing at all.<br><br>His answer, which I saw on Friday night seemed to be a somewhat mirror to the response John McCain gave to the forum on Sunday, particularly when on the moral failure question when Mccain said (and I\'m phrasing): "Right after 9/11 instead of shopping, we should have joined the peace corps etc.etc. " I told my husband then that I thought John McCain may have watched that program, and borrowed Bacevich\'s thoughts about  regular American\'s non-involvement in this war.  Anyway, the Bacevich interview brought up many good points, like the militarization of our foreign policy and American\'s "empire of consumption.".  If anyone\' s interested you can read the transcript at:<br><a href="http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/08152008/transcript/.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/08152008/tran...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1651665" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1651665" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1651665" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1651665" class="dsq-comment-message">Andrew Sullivan discusses a great deal of this interview on the Daily Dish.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1653879" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1653879">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1653879" class="dsq-comment-message">Terrific.  Convince the Muslim world that Bin Laden is right that the USA is waging a religious crusade....<br><br>McCain On "Judeo Christian" Crusade<br><a href="http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/08/19/mccains_judeo_christian_values_reference_puzzles/?rss_id=Boston.com%252B--%252BNational%252Bnews" rel="nofollow">http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1655181" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1655181">taritac</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1655181" class="dsq-comment-message">I read that at <a href=http://thecarpetbaggerreport.com rel="nofollow">The Carpetbagger Report</a>. He really is a warmonger, isn\'t he? Either that or he seems to think that it\'s 1960 and his words don\'t go throughout the world within seconds. Or maybe he just thinks that words don\'t matter. In any case, he\'s a dangerous person.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1655215">taritac</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1655215" class="dsq-comment-message">Speaking of The Carpetbagger Report, Steve Benen is leaving and taking a job at the Washington Monthly. I enjoyed Carpetbagger. Now I have to get used to a new site. Bummer.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1698768">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1698768" class="dsq-comment-message">taritac:  Ahhhhh man!!!!  I like that site too. :&gt;)    Thanks for this information!   :&gt;(   :&gt;(</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1657878" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1657878" href="http://www.actsoffaithinloveandlife.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">heartsandflowers</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1657878" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1657878" class="dsq-comment-message">Considering everything else he\'s gotten away with his entire life and career, he continues to be protected.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1654268" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1654268">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1654268" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1654268" class="dsq-comment-message">Why I Will Not Vote for John McCain<br><a href="http://www.military.com/opinion/0%2C15202%2C164859_1%2C00.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.military.com/opinion/0,15202,164859_...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1654843" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1654843" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1654843" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/08/was-mccain-tort.html" rel="nofollow">Andrew Sullivan: Bush, Cheney don\'t believe McCain was tortured</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1655258" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1655258">taritac</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1655258" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'ve seen accounts by other POWs there at the time that McCain would have only been tortured 2 of the 5 years he was a POW. Not that it makes it much better, but we shouldn\'t be exaggerating the record.<br><br>The only C-in-C credentials I allowed McCain for his POW service was that he knew what it meant to be tortured, and therefore knew that no moral country would torture. He ruined any respect I had for him by acquiescing to the Bushies on torture. Yet another Republican hypocrite.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1655144" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1655144" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1655144" class="dsq-comment-message">The chick who lost the primary won\'t be VP - she cannot be vetted because Billy Jeff didn\'t allow that kind of scrutiny into their finances; if he had, they wouldn\'t still be trying to retire her unnecessarily high campaign debt. Plus she has too many negatives and would be a lightening rod for hatred from the neo-cons.<br><br>I doubt if Biden will be the choice either - he is too loquacious - and he just auditioned for S of S anyway. I think the person Obama chooses will be someone whose name has only been whispered - maybe Doug Peterson or Brian Schweitzer.  I don\'t think it will be a woman, and I don\'t think it will be an Old Guard Dem, although someone on one of the progressive sites was even pushing Gore and Kerry as possible choices.  I think Obama\'s head faking the media and the repugs.<br><br>The announcement probably won\'t be made until just before the convention; since there\'s no hurry and since the later he announces the better, he could even wait until next Wednesday because he knows McCain\'t will be attempting to steal the momentum the following weekend with his VP announcement.  <br><br>The later the Obama VP announcement, the better.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1698736">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1698736" class="dsq-comment-message">99%:  "The chick who lost the primary . . . "   LOL   :&gt;)   :&gt;)  I keep reminding myself of the "vetting process" when I weaken and even think that billary could be selected as VP.  :&gt;)   Not to mention, Patty Solis Doyle standing in the VP Office doorway, BLOCKING billary\'s entrance and waiting to b**** slap her if she tried to get through!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1655239" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1655239" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1655239" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/19/161133/955/1005/570567" rel="nofollow">Keith Olbermann: Rachel Maddow Gets Her Own Show!</a><br><br>It\'s about time.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1655292">MsKitty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1655292" class="dsq-comment-message">Awesome!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1655318">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1655318" class="dsq-comment-message">YEAH!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1655384" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1655384">RonnieB</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1655384" class="dsq-comment-message">And just in time for some sanity, clarity, and competence (not to mention being free from negrophobia) in the media.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1697103">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1697103" class="dsq-comment-message">RonnieB:  YEP!  Perhaps we\'ll start to see more Obama support in her style of delivery!!  This will be good for the woman vote!  I hope!   :&gt;)   ::&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1655748" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1655748">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1655748" class="dsq-comment-message">I think Rachel is fabulous....except that time she had that sad puppy dog look on her face as Ferraro ranted about sexism and racism.  Rachel just sat there and let her go off.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1686433">taritac</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1686433" class="dsq-comment-message">I have the same problem as Rachel. I tend to be overly respectful of windbag, stupid old people and fail to challenge them adequately on their idiotic ideas.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1656897">Monie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1656897" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m so glad Rachel\'s getting her own show.  But MSNBC should have kept Dan Abrams and ditched David Gregory\'s lame ass.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1694356">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1694356" class="dsq-comment-message">Monie:  Co-signing on the "ditch David Gregory . . ."  Cain\'t tolerate him!!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1698832">MsKitty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1698832" class="dsq-comment-message">Yep.  IMO he lost his journalistic credibility when he hammed it up on stage with Karl "M.C." Rove.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1685969">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1685969" class="dsq-comment-message">WHOO HOO! I am so happy for her and for us!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1655317" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1655317" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1655317" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/19/172326/010/951/570605" rel="nofollow">DailyKos: It\'s Not Joe Biden</a><br><br>Good.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1655425">RonnieB</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1655425" class="dsq-comment-message">Likely a good thing.  Biden would serve the country better in a high-level cabinet position.<br><br>Kaine or Bayh.  I prefer Kaine, because he\'s a governor.  But Bayh might help in the rustbelt states where people still need to see a white man in charge--somewhere.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1656256" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1656256">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1656256" class="dsq-comment-message">SCHWEITZER or GORE<br><br>VP picks with experience in energy.  Discuss.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1656549" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1656549" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m actually with you and holding out hope for the longest of long shots in Gore, who has agreed to speak on Thursday at Invesco Field.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1656983">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1656983" class="dsq-comment-message">Jack Cafferty was hilarious here:<br><br><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/18/cafferty.mccain/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/18/cafferty...</a><br><br><br>Commentary: Is McCain another George W. Bush?<br><br><i>Sen. John McCain takes weekends off and limits his campaign events to one a day. He made an exception for the religious forum on Saturday at Saddleback Church in Southern California.<br><br>I think he made a big mistake. When he was invited last spring to attend a discussion of the role of faith in his life with Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, at Messiah College in Pennsylvania, McCain didn\'t bother to show up. Now I know why.<br><br>It occurs to me that John McCain is as intellectually shallow as our current president. When asked what his Christian faith means to him, his answer was a one-liner. "It means I\'m saved and forgiven." Great scholars have wrestled with the meaning of faith for centuries. McCain then retold a story we\'ve all heard a hundred times about a guard in Vietnam drawing a cross in the sand.<br><br>Asked about his greatest moral failure, he cited his first marriage, which ended in divorce. While saying it was his greatest moral failing, he offered nothing in the way of explanation. Why not?<br><br>Don\'t Miss<br>The Cafferty File: Join the conversation <br>Jack\'s book: "It\'s Getting Ugly Out There" <br>Analysis: Is McCain finding his way on faith? <br>Throughout the evening, McCain chose to recite portions of his stump speech as answers to the questions he was being asked. Why? He has lived 71 years. Surely he has some thoughts on what it all means that go beyond canned answers culled from the same speech he delivers every day.<br><br>He was asked "if evil exists." His response was to repeat for the umpteenth time that Osama bin Laden is a bad man and he will pursue him to "the gates of hell." That was it.<br><br>He was asked to define rich. After trying to dodge the question -- his wife is worth a reported $100 million -- he finally said he thought an income of $5 million was rich.<br><br>One after another, McCain\'s answers were shallow, simplistic, and trite. He showed the same intellectual curiosity that George Bush has -- virtually none.<br><br>Where are John McCain\'s writings exploring the vexing moral issues of our time? Where are his position papers setting forth his careful consideration of foreign policy, the welfare state, education, America\'s moral responsibility in the world, etc., etc., etc.?<br><br>John McCain graduated 894th in a class of 899 at the Naval Academy at Annapolis. His father and grandfather were four star admirals in the Navy. Some have suggested that might have played a role in McCain being admitted. His academic record was awful. And it shows over and over again whenever McCain is called upon to think on his feet.<br><br>He no longer allows reporters unfettered access to him aboard the "Straight Talk Express" for a reason. He simply makes too many mistakes. Unless he\'s reciting talking points or reading from notes or a TelePrompTer, John McCain is lost. He can drop bon mots at a bowling alley or diner -- short glib responses that get a chuckle, but beyond that McCain gets in over his head very quickly.<br><br>I am sick and tired of the president of the United States embarrassing me. The world we live in is too complex to entrust it to someone else whose idea of intellectual curiosity and grasp of foreign policy issues is to tell us he can look into Vladimir Putin\'s eyes and see into his soul.<br><br>George Bush\'s record as a student, military man, businessman and leader of the free world is one of constant failure. And the part that troubles me most is he seems content with himself.<br><br>He will leave office with the country $10 trillion in debt, fighting two wars, our international reputation in shambles, our government cloaked in secrecy and suspicion that his entire presidency has been a litany of broken laws and promises, our citizens\' faith in our own country ripped to shreds. Yet Bush goes bumbling along, grinning and spewing moronic one-liners, as though nobody understands what a colossal failure he has been.<br><br>I fear to the depth of my being that John McCain is just like him.<br><br></i></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1657212">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1657212" class="dsq-comment-message">This was excellent. I tried to post this twice today but I couldn\'t.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1657642">jelana</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1657642" class="dsq-comment-message">He definitely hit the nail on the head!<br>McCain is even worse than Bush and<br>I didn\'t think that was possible!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1663727">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1663727" class="dsq-comment-message">Well now, aint that the truth!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1657127" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1657127">Lv99 Slacker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1657127" class="dsq-comment-message">Okay. Now it\'s really official: Rachel is getting a show on MSNBC. She will be on at 9pm following Countdown 5 nights a week starting September 8. She\'ll be replacing Dan Abrams.<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/19/rachel-maddow-replacing-d_n_119929.html" rel="nofollow">Link to HuffPo piece</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1663199">bajanlady</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1663199" class="dsq-comment-message">Couldn\'t have happened to a better pundit.  And by that I mean Rachel getting her own show (yeah!!) and Dan being replaced - he always annoyed the hell out of me.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1657191" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1657191">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1657191" class="dsq-comment-message">I found this really interesting.....<br><br>Surprise: Evangelical Women May Have Gone For Obama At Saddleback<br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christine-wicker/evangelicals-words-and-de_b_119698.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christine-wicker/...</a><br><br><i>" The highly respected Guttmacher Institute\'s studies show that<b> evangelical women make up one out of every five women having abortions.</b> The true number is certainly higher than that because many evangelicals aren\'t going to claim their faith on abortion clinic forms. Some of them are getting two and three abortions. They feel guilty. They feel sinful. They\'re ashamed and secretive. They repent. "</i></div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1666445" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1666445" class="dsq-comment-message">Only one of five? I\'m somewhat surprised by that stat. I think it\'s too low.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1667956">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1667956" class="dsq-comment-message">That author thinks it\'s higher because many women don\'t say what their religion is.  Still, 20% is significant.  The shame factor is powerful.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1699086" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">cheryl aka jill tubman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1699086" class="dsq-comment-message">This statistic helps explain why this is such a huge issue for evangelicals -- it hits right at the crossroads of freedom and hypocrisy. Wow.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1699467">s</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1699467" class="dsq-comment-message">How many women turned to faith AFTER having an abortions? The fact is that many, many women who HAD abortions are now PRO-LIFE.<br> <br>Hypocrisy? If you have had an abortion, but are now pro-life, are you a hypocrite? I think not.<br><br>And just what is the personal price to be paid for the freedom to choose an abortion? <br><br>Freedom to choose an abortion is freedom to choose in favor of one\'s self-interest. Freedom to choose is freedom from responsibility and consequences. But freedom to choose offers no guarantee of freedom from guilt, shame, remorse, grief, and depression.<br><br>Abortion has harmed as many women as it has \'freed\' from \'the burden of a baby.\'</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1699801" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">cheryl aka jill tubman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1699801" class="dsq-comment-message">Obviously this is a personal and sensitive issue for you. I have a lot<br>of compassion for you. By freedom and hypocrisy, I mean that there\'s<br>clearly a disconnect between the number of evangelical women having<br>abortions (probably due to inadequate knowledge of or access to<br>conception combined with pressure to conceive) and the conservative<br>evangelical pro-life position. Women have the freedom to terminate<br>pregnancies but do not feel free enough in their own communities to<br>protect that freedom for themselves and others.<br><br>America\'s abortion and STD rates is much too high and that is in part<br>due to poor public health education policies combined with very low<br>availability of help such as child care, sick leave, tax breaks etc<br>for mothers, especially those raising children on their own. No woman<br>has an abortion with a light heart and if we provide more help to<br>women, perhaps they might feel free to make other choices.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1701326" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1701326">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1701326" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>Freedom to choose an abortion is freedom to choose in favor of one\'s self-interest.</i><br><br>Isn\'t that the creed of the right wing...  freedom to choose?  Guilt, shame and remorse comes from applied social pressure.  <br><br>At the time these women make their choice, there is little doubt that they have no other option...until the anti-choice people start showing pictures of aborted fetuses. <br><br> Women do not need to be protected from socially applied shame and guilt.  If you identify shame and guilt as a problem, then don\'t add to it by judging women.  Instead, validate their choice.<br><br>It\'s not the abortion per se that harms women, it\'s the social, religious pressure applied at clinic protests and the near constant religious judgment.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1657274" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1657274" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1657274" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=97788&catid=188" rel="nofollow">Viewers question credential design</a><br><br><i>KUSA - Some viewers contacted 9NEWS Saturday, questioning the design of the credentials to see Sen. Barack Obama accept the Democratic Party\'s presidential nomination at INVESCO Field at Mile High.<br><br>The viewers say with the stars and blue field in the lower left corner, it looks like an upside down American flag. Published flag etiquette states the stars should always be displayed in the upper left corner. An upside down flag represents an international symbol of extreme distress.</i><br><br>If it\'s so, talk about incredibly stupid.<br><br>However......trust, but verify. Craig, do you know, since you\'re going?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1669466" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1669466">BlackButterfly</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1669466" class="dsq-comment-message">So then...what did it mean when our current POTUS held the flag backwards at the Olympics?  <br><br>Would that be considered stupid?</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1686096" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1686096" class="dsq-comment-message">So then......you don\'t answer the question (not that it was directed towards you), but you use it as an opportunity to bash Bush. Typical.<br><br>It\'s early, though, so I\'ll walk with you: it wouldn\'t be smart.<br><br>But, then again, not only is Bush not running, but no one\'s questioned his patriotism.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1701200" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1701200">Monie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1701200" class="dsq-comment-message">Maybe we should have questioned Bush\'s patriotism.  Let us not forget he joined the Air Force Reserves and his questionable absence for 4 years in an effort to avoid the Vietnam war.  Cheney was another one of those "draft dodgers."  As far as the credential, if looking at it "face-on" to be upside down, I would think the stars would be in the lower right hand corner, which is how it would appear if someone was literally placing the flag upside down.  The flag kinda looks like it could be flapping from a different angle...just my observation.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1701508" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1701508" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1701508" class="dsq-comment-message">Technically, I guess any way where the stars were on the bottom would be considered upside down, as they\'re supposed to be at the top.<br><br>I guess my biggest issue (and what I wrote on in my blog) is that between the DNC and the Obama campaign, it should have occured to someone to tread very lightly using the flag; to dot every I and cross every T. Even if it is unintentional-which I have my doubts about-someone should\'ve known that the right wing would go ape shit if/when it got out. <br><br>At the very worst, it reads terrible, and looks even worse.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1702392">Monie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1702392" class="dsq-comment-message">It is one those ambiguous things.  Again, I look at it as possibly being a cross-section of the flag, with a corner of the stars and adjoining stripes , and the flag flapping in the wind.  The stripes are not in a "perfect "horizontal plane, so the angle of the stripes can be interpreted in many ways.  They probably should have been careful ( the right wing is so rabid) , especially since the media and opponents have mandated that Sen. Obama MUST AT ALL TIMES WEAR A FLAG PIN to prove his patriotism.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1702556">BlackButterfly</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1702556" class="dsq-comment-message">"Even if it is unintentional-which I have my doubts about-someone should\'ve known that the right wing would go ape shit if/when it got out."<br><br>The fact that the right wing would go ape shit over this SHOULD be the problem!<br><br>"I guess my biggest issue (and what I wrote on in my blog) is that between the DNC and the Obama campaign, it should have occured to someone to tread very lightly using the flag"<br><br>Tread lightly?  Really?  Are the right wing the only one\'s "allowed" to use the flag?<br><br>Oops..I will really try next time to only comment when you are talking to me.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1702820" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1702820" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1702820" class="dsq-comment-message">Ok, we\'re talking now...... ;)<br><br>Of course the right wing doesn\'t have a monopoly on use of the flag, and I didn\'t suggest they did. <br><br>As a veteran-albeit a partisan one-<b>anyone</b> who\'s gonna use the flag in <b>any</b> venue or medium should do so correctly. This usage (granting the benefit of the doubt) appears wrong).</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1702179" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1702179">BlackButterfly</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1702179" class="dsq-comment-message">Okay, let\'s walk.  The point that I was making is that there are too many other real things to be discussing! <br><br>Bashing Bush?! He does that very well on his own.  Come on...you have to admit that this has been one of the worst administrations ever! <br><br>Also, I didn\'t mean to offend you by responding to your comments on this public site.  In the future I will make sure that on your comments I will respond only when specifically asked;-)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1702410" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1702410" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1702410" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh, stop.....it\'s not that serious. I was more upset at how the discussion immediately swung to Bush; hence, the "typical" comment.<br><br>Worst administration ever? I think history is better left to judge that one.<br><br>And I agree that this won\'t help lower the price of gas one penny. But, in keeping with what I said to Monie, it\'s a distraction that should-and could, with a little bit of forward thinking-been avoided.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1657600" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1657600">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1657600" class="dsq-comment-message">ABORTION COMMON AMONG ALL WOMEN<br><a href="http://www.guttmacher.org/media/nr/prabort2.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.guttmacher.org/media/nr/prabort2.html</a><br><br>      • two-thirds of women having abortions intend to have children in the future;<br><br> <b>     • Catholic women have an abortion rate 29% higher than Protestant women;</b><br><br> <b>     • one in five women having abortions are born-again or Evangelical Christians;</b><br><br>      • single women who live with their partner or have no religious affiliation are about four times as likely as other women their age to have an abortion;<br><br>      • nonwhites, women aged 18-24, Hispanics, separated and never-married women and those who have an annual income of less than $15,000 or have Medicaid are twice as likely as women in the general population to do so; and,<br><br>      • Hispanic women have a much higher abortion rate than white women, but their rate is not so high as that of black women.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1665886" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1665886" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1665886" class="dsq-comment-message">Not surprised.<br><br>As an adoptee, I know that the most religious women are the ones who have the most unwanted pregnancies.<br><br>Evangelicals and Catholics are also the most likely to surrender a child for adoption. Or drop them off in a "safe haven" baby dump.<br><br>Don\'t. Get. Me. Started.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1686509" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1686509">taritac</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1686509" class="dsq-comment-message">Has anyone read Freakonomics? The author posits that the reason crime has gone down so much, particularly in the 1990\'s was because abortion was legalized in the 1970\'s.  Women who knew they didn\'t have the capacity to raise kids had abortions instead.<br><br>Another interesting fact-- in states where there is "parental notification" parents MADE SURE their daughters had abortions. They were more likely to get abortions!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1701447" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1701447">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1701447" class="dsq-comment-message">Re the parents making sure their daughters had abortions...I can totally see that happening.   The parent would be the most realistic about the coming hardships.  They might not want the social stigma of being parent to a teenage mom or the community thinking they failed.<br><br>Religious groups need to understand the unintended consequences of their interference.  Sometimes the more strongly you resist something, the more entrenched it becomes.  The irony is that Barack\'s position is a softer, less resistant approach of providing support and options.  Isn\'t it interesting that by voting Conservative, the so-called Pro-lifers have actually increased deaths.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1664633" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1664633" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1664633" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://perezhilton.com/2008-08-19-cindy-mccains-a-big-fat-liar" rel="nofollow">Perez Hilton.com:  Cindy McCain\'s A Big Fat Liar</a> <blockquote>"Mrs. McCain has gone on and on about living life as an \'only child.\' <br><br>One LITTLE problem!!!!<br><br>She has a half-sister who she\'s known about, according to National Public Radio. In fact, Cindy and her sister hung out from time to time when they were growing up.<br><br>NPR points out that Cindy routinely uses the phrase "only child," as she did on CNN last month. "I grew up with my dad," she said then. "I\'m an only child. My father was a cowboy, and he really loved me very much, but I think he wanted a son occasionally."<br><br>The wannabe first lady has also been described that way by news organizations from <i>The New Yorker</i> and <i>The New York Times</i> to <i>Newsweek</i> and ABC.<br><br>When NPR asked the McCain campaign — specifically, Cindy McCain — to comment or respond, neither replied.<br><br>We think Cindy would suck at being first lady. <br><br>First ladies need to give off that trustworthy vibe!"</blockquote></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1666112" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1666112" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1666112" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1666112" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m no Cindy McCain apologist, but if you weren\'t raised with another child in the home, then you are an only child, no matter how many "half-siblings" you may or may not have.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1667877" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1667877" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1667877" class="dsq-comment-message">Huh.  I was raised as an only child by a childless great aunt and uncle; I had 6 other siblings who I sometimes saw on weekends.  So I wasn\'t an only child, and never told people I was.<br><br>I\'m not a Perez Hilton fan, but I get what he is saying - though she lived in the home as an only child, she knew she had an older sibling so she knew she wasn\'t an only.  There\'s no harm in her saying that she has a sister, whether they were raised together or not.  Not owning her does more damage, particularly since she has reaped all the benefits of her father\'s financial prowess, while her older sister has struggled her whole life.<br><br>Don\'t be mad at me because I\'m a Scorpio. Heh.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1668113" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1668113">Lilytiger</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1668113" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1668113" class="dsq-comment-message">Yeah but she\'s a Taurus, so there you go.<br>*wink</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1668136" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1668136">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1668136" class="dsq-comment-message">Cindy says it like it\'s a source of pride.   Watch the special on CNN tomorrow night on McCain and the Obama\'s.   They ask Cindy about John\'s divorce.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1689229">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1689229" class="dsq-comment-message">99%:  Not to mention, that there have been NO pictures of "McAncient\'s" children, especially the adopted child of color!   Hmmmmm&gt;    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1700091" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1700091" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1700091" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1700091" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/popup?id=3792222" rel="nofollow">Here is a montage by ABC.com.</a><br><br>My point in posting the story is to show that it is possibly hitting mainstream with it appearing on one of the most popular, top visited sites on the web.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1698450" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1698450">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1698450" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1698450" class="dsq-comment-message">Cindy actually has TWO older half siblings: one by her father and one by her mother.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1697890" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1697890">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1697890" class="dsq-comment-message">Cindy is correct when she says she\'s her parents\' only child.  But I think the sister\'s problem is that Cindy has been going around saying she\'s her FATHER\'S only child, which isn\'t true.  Their dad only died in 2000, it\'s not like he died in 1960 and Cindy hasn\'t seen the sister since.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1665006" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1665006">RobM</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1665006" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1665006" class="dsq-comment-message">I was running errands today getting my son of to college. He walked by the Obama HQ. Engaged by a young lady he came back and asked me if campaign people were pushy. I tried to explain it depended on what their job was. He still kept going on she was pushy to get him to register to vote(he just turned this week) saying Obama would lose if he didn\'t get registered. His response that\'s BS.<br><br>I responded that one of Obama\'s strengths has been registering new voters and getting them to vote to him and that is what he is up against. I also told him that one of the things I think Obama is ignoring is those whom are already registered and aren\'t for him.  <br><br>Then I see this a few minutes ago: <a href="http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=its_his_party_08:" rel="nofollow">http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=its...</a>. My question is after you read this is institutionalizing the party and seeking new voters enough to win the Predential election?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1665118" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1665118" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1665118" class="dsq-comment-message">Barack understands the dynamics of election fraud. <br><br>Registering new voters is  the first step to combat it. Getting new registrants to the polls is the second.<br><br>Is it enough to win?<br><br>We\'ll see.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1666099" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1666099">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1666099" class="dsq-comment-message">That link goes to a blank page.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1698751" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1698751">Ro</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1698751" class="dsq-comment-message">Why haven\'t you been pushy to get your son to register to vote? Even though he just turned eligible?  If she had time to do it and you were right there, you should\'ve been backing her up. Especially in this crucial election year.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1704798" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1704798">RobM</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1704798" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1704798" class="dsq-comment-message">Ro<br>I wasn\'t there for the conversation. He will be registered.<br>Did you look at the website? What did you think?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1665122" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1665122" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1665122">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1665122" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1665122" class="dsq-comment-message">Reason McCain wants to be President? Blind Ambition!<br><a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=1WbnXn5Q_Hc" rel="nofollow">http://youtube.com/watch?v=1WbnXn5Q_Hc</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1665270" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1665270" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1665270" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1665270" class="dsq-comment-message">Of course.<br><br>A hypocrite. A liar. A fraud. A fool. <br><br>I\'ll stop there.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1668014" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1668014" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1668014">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1668014" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1668014" class="dsq-comment-message">This is a continuation of Hillary\'s strategy.  Take something you\'ve said yourself, accuse your opponent of it - by the time your opponent  mounts a defence, you\'ve moved on to the next irrational attack.<br><br>Do you really think O is relying solely on new registrations?  If so, that\'s cutting it pretty close.<br><br>There are 2 specials airing on CNN tomorrow night on McCain and Obama.<br>John King is doing McCain, and Suzanne the Obama\'s.<br>John King said that with regard to McCain\'s reported hot temper, Daschle and  Feingold said  they think Obama would be the better President but  they wouldn\'t "lose any sleep" if McCain was President.   I don\'t know if that\'s a direct quote.. John King is partial to McCain.<br><br>I\'m tired of Democrats singing praises to McCain.  I don\'t know if they noticed, but McCain is attacking their candidate.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1689663" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1689663">taritac</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1689663" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1689663" class="dsq-comment-message">Me too!! I\'m sick of hearing Obama and his surrogates praise McCain\'s POW service. That shit was 30-odd years ago! It\'s over!<br><br>McCain can toot his own horn (and he does-- SUBJECT-VERB-POW), Obama doesn\'t need to solidify the idea of him as a patriot any more, especially when Obama is struggling just to get people to recognize him as American. <br><br>Democrats don\'t have to be liars and hypocrites like Republicans, but they sure as hell need to take the damn gloves off. Americans respond to ONE THING-- <b>STRENGTH</b>, and that means negativity, challenging every talking point and every positive portrait of the opponent. It means NEVER, EVER, EVER saying you are sorry or throwing a supporter overboard. <br><br>I am getting worried because McCain is gaining points with his negative campaigning. He hasn\'t said one positive thing about himself, and he doesn\'t need to if Obama keeps saying them.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1698799" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1698799">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1698799" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1698799" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/08/20/politics/politico/thecrypt/main4365715.shtml" rel="nofollow">http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/08/20/polit...</a><br><br>Stephanie Tubbs Jones was taken to the hospital.  The police were trying to pull her over for speeding but she was unconcious behind the wheel.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1643492">s</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1643492" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1643492" class="dsq-comment-message">Howard Fineman:<br><br>    Within the last few hours I’ve spoken with two of the finalists for the role of Barack Obama’s running-mate, and to two other sources who are close to the process.<br><br>    My bottom line is this: Barring a big surprise or last-minute change of heart, the choice is likely to be Sen. Joe Biden of Deleware, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee…<br><br>    “If I had to bet my life on it, I’d bet it is Joe,” said one of the other contenders.<br><br>    Said another, “Barack is moving toward a seasoned Beltway type, and that probably means Biden.” <br><br>If this is true the RNC can hope to have lots of fun with him. In addition to what JJP has documented in the previous post there is Biden\'s his tweaking of Obama for being less curious about NATO’s role in Afghanistan than a subcommittee chairman should be.<br><br>    A classic Joe Biden ad from 1988, which begins: "The White House isn\'t the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation. A President has got to know the territory, but that\'s not enough."<br><br>    Experience was a major theme of Biden\'s pitch in the primary (take the above, and add 20 years), and it\'s a contrast they\'ll have to aim to avoid if he\'s Obama\'s running mate.<br><br>An inevitable question if Obama picks Biden: Why would the American people want all of the experience and foreign policy knowledge at the bottom of the ticket?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1644219" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1644219" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1644219">taritac</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1644219" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1644219" class="dsq-comment-message">Because they want vision, judgment, compassion, and intelligence at the top of it?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1651124" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1651124" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1651124">s</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1651124" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1651124" class="dsq-comment-message">New L.A. Times/Bloomberg presidential poll has some surprises later today<br><br>Which White House contender had the better summer?<br><br>A new Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll of registered voters across the country leaves little doubt about the answer.<br><br>We can\'t reveal the precise figures yet; for that, check back at <a href="http://LATimes.com" rel="nofollow">LATimes.com</a> about 2 p.m. PDT (5 p.m. EDT). Suffice to say that the results will not alter the perception that -- given a seemingly sunny political climate for Democrats -- Barack Obama is under-performing nationally.<br><br>Also, a series of questions gauging voter attitudes about candidate attributes makes clear which perceptions Obama needs to shore up between now and election day.<br><br>For John McCain, the poll underscores that the more voters focus on domestic issues, the greater the challenge to his hopes of winning the presidency.<br><br>And he and his aides might be a bit surprised by the findings when voters are asked whether they view Obama as "too arrogant and presumptuous" and whether McCain could be considered "too hot-tempered."<br><br>-- Don Frederick</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1651159" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1651159" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1651159">Micheline</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1651159" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1651159" class="dsq-comment-message">So long as Obama is ahead. I really don\'t care.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1655210" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1655210" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1655210">Micheline</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1655210" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1655210" class="dsq-comment-message">Obama \'s ahead by 2 pts.  He\'s only ahead because Dems are not rallying behind him.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1655332" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1655332" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1655332">Micheline</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1655332" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1655332" class="dsq-comment-message">this should read Obama \'s ahead by 2 pts.  He\'s only ahead  by that much because Dems are not rallying behind him. If they did he would be ahead by a substantial margin. Th</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1686319" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1686319" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1686319">s</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1686319" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1686319" class="dsq-comment-message">LAT/Bloomberg bombshell: Obama only up 2<br><a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/08/experience-key.html" rel="nofollow">http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008...</a><br><br>Zogby: Obama suffers 15-point swing, trails by 5<br><a href="http://zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1541" rel="nofollow">http://zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1541</a><br><br>Obama’s support for infanticide breaks into mainstream media<br><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/19/AR2008081903228.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...</a><br><br>Obama-Ayers records blocked at U of I Chicago<br><a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/08/obamaayers_records_blocked_at.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/08/oba...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1698806" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1698806" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1698806">Micheline</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1698806" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1698806" class="dsq-comment-message">He\'s down because he has not yet solidified his base.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1698914" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1698914" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1698914" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1698914" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1698914" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t buy that. <br><br>I think Obama\'s base, for the most part (PUMAs excepted) are more behind him than McCain\'s, parts of which are still largely disenthused (sp?) by him....or at least were until this past Saturday.<br><br>My question would be how much the situation in Georgia affected these numbers.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1699117" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1699117" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1699117">s</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1699117" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1699117" class="dsq-comment-message">Obama\'s VP pick will tell us.<br><br>If it\'s Biden, that mean\'s Obama is looking to shore up his foreign policy credentials and add \'gravitas\' to the ticket. <br><br>If it\'s Kaine, then he\'s looking to appeal to rank-and-file Dems who are still wary of him because of Rev. Wright and his \'bittergate\' comments.<br><br>If it\'s Bayh. He thinks the base is behind him and is going with a safe, bland choice.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1699331" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1699331" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1699331">Micheline</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1699331" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1699331" class="dsq-comment-message">In the LA Times <br>Obama has 80% of the D\'s<br>McCain 90% of the R\'s<br><br>In the Zobgy Poll<br><br>Obama has 73% of  the D\'s<br>McCain has 88% of the R\'s <br>This is not to say that Obama doesn\'t have problems.  Although McCain overreacted to the Georgia situation, Obama didn\'t help himself when he gave a statement wearing casual clothing and mainly staying AWOL.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1699612" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1699612" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1699612" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1699612" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1699612" class="dsq-comment-message">That\'s a more than fair assessment.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1699028" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1699028" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1699028">s</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1699028" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1699028" class="dsq-comment-message">Could be.<br><br>"Meanwhile, rank-and-file Democrats who are uncomfortable with a candidate who has precious little experience in anything and worrisome personal connections will have some real soul-searching to do on November 4."<br><a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/will-rank-and-file-democrats-vote-for-obama/2/" rel="nofollow">http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/will-rank-and-file...</a></div>\
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