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true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1217126, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1221632": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Riddle me this:<br><br>IF Obama had done this, ________________________________", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_17:38:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1218879, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1211394": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I think he's a safe pick, and grabbing him helps dems in VA ..Of course if my memory serves, arent you guys going with Liebermann...whats that about?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_13:05:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "smoothie", "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": 1208804, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1229315": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "val:  Thank you.  :&gt;)    Ya know, they [other countries] will narc on U.S. without hesitation!  They have nothing to loose.  They have the   ---BIG FINISH - - <br>OIL!!!!   OIL DELIVERY ROUTES!  Did I say OIL????  :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>Again, thank you!   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_00:34:14", "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": 1226506, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1223394": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "First off, that order would not go to the Joint Chiefs. Minor point of contention, but the Joint Chiefs do not command troops.<br><br>You just said the same thing I did....that he'd give the order to start pulling out. <br><br>Besides, again, this isn't about who's remiss or not. All I've said is that his position has shifted, evolved, been clarified, whatever dhimmicrats need to call it to help then sleep. Whatever you call it, his position on Iraq today places conditions on the withdrawal. He did not place them their prior to his Iraq trip.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_20:15:09", "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": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1223239, "depth": 15, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1210890": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That is hilarious.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_12:36:34", "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": 1210808, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1222672": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "..endless war.   It would be the greatest tragedy for America to allow the aging, overweight warriors to lead you deeper into the valley of the shadow of death.  Vain men they are, veritable puppets....insecure, and succumbing easily to flattery.  They are easy prey to the wily and cerebral Randy's of the world.   <br><br>The 'Randy's' are clever, they know the McCain's do not hold real power.  The McCain's are vain fools.  Tell them how big and strong they are.  Appeal to their military vanities...and what you get is a lot of dead young people, crying women and utter devastation.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_18:59:37", "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": 1221622, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1210387": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Point of contention: Obama has now said that any withdrawal from Iraq must be conditions-based.<br><br>Let's agree that on the subject of Iraq, each candidate is guilty of flip-flopping, adapting the other's position, etc.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_12:04:29", "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": 1210041, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1217558": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Town...Town...Town..<br><br>So on point", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_16:38:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1210808, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1217047": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "From Perot:  Next Presidnet will be a slave to Bush Economics<br><a href=\"http://perotcharts.com/2008/08/the-next-president-will-be-a-slave-to-bush-administration-fiscal-woes/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://perotcharts.com/2008/08/the-next-preside...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_16:04:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "ruthdfw", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1213274": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "If I'm wrong, show me.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_14:16:29", "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": 1213191, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1210629": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Where are Lily and I on the knife set?", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_12:17:59", "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": 1208668, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1198625": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I've heard a constant refrain lately \u2013 at work, on TV, on the internet \u2013 from a vocal contingent of us exclaiming why they are wary of Barack Obama.<br><br>I'm doing a blog series this week titled <b><a href=\"http://simplifythepositive.blogspot.com/2008/08/what-do-we-want-five-part-series-begins.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">\"What Do We Want?\"</a></b> which will explore some of the issues that underlie this intraracial discord within black America.<br><br><b>Today's topic: Does <a href=\"http://simplifythepositive.blogspot.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">\"No Negro Left Behind\" Trump \"Yes We Can\"?</a></b>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_07:45:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "BrownManATL", "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}, "1229346": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "There is no news. Only a cacophony of fictions.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_00:38:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1229204, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1230373": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Sharing:  <a href=\"http://politicalwire.com/archives/2008/08/13/strategic_vision_obama_leads_in_wisconsin.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://politicalwire.com/archives/2008/08/13/st...</a><br><br>Obama Leads in Wisconsin!!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>We'll take it!   :&gt;)  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_02:33:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1206655": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Obama\u2019s forced <b>Volunteerism</b> starts now - <a href=\"http://www.thedenverchannel.com/politics/17174212/detail.htmlhttp://www.thedenverchannel.com/politics/17174212/detail.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Required To Volunteer?</a> <i>\u201cThose viewers said the campaign told them they must volunteer six hours for the campaign by Friday in order to get a ticket.\u201d</i>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_09:36:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "Karmi", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1206827": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "how did Pickler find a way to slam Obama. After all, she's from AP, and that's what they do.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_09:56:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1195327, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1221676": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "From FiveThirtyEight.com:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/08/road-to-270-indiana.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Road to 270: Indiana </a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_17:41:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1215581": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Billary...?  Where you at?", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_15:44:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1214837, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1215536": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "99%:  Girl!! You got all the answers!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)  Didn't hafta go to a translator site!!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)  Thanks on the \"Yiddish\".  Hung out in a predominately Jewish university for some time.  Knew better!  Typed too fast!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_15:39:59", "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": 1215337, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1217585": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This comes under the heading:   \"Where Have All The Repugs Gone?\" [a 70's song, Where Have All The Flowers Gone]<br><br><a href=\"http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/08/13/1263992.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/08/...</a><br><br>Seems as if:    \"Another GOP Senator To Skip Convention\"<br><br>There are a \"few\" more names that have made the apologies about not attending.  Common excuse:   I'm campaigning!<br><br>Common meaning:  I'll just take \"MY NAP\" some where else, if you don't mind!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_16:41:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1223731": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "His words don't match, but okay. We'll respectfully disagree-for once.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_20:25:13", "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": 1223437, "depth": 17, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1229366": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Where did DG come from anyway?", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_00:42:14", "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": 1223340, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1221687": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "A 6 point win will translate into over 300 electoral votes. Remember its the electoral college that elect presidents not polls.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_17:42:12", "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": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1221602, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1217083": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Cue the jokes.....and general disrespect.<br><br>See y'all tomorrow.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_16:07:30", "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": 5, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1217020, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1217086": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "ruthdfw:   I hear ya. !!~  :&gt;)  :&gt;)  Sometimes I share and say  \"It's not worth it.\"   :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_16:07:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1210214, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1212683": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You know my position has been we never should be in there and get out like yesterday.Everything about this clusterf*ck will be nuanced but make no mistake my trust is with Obama who will get us out of Iraq faster than that OLD MAN who glorifies war with a misplaced sense of honor", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_13:51:11", "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": 1212017, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1218116": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Where is \"here\" because I must live in the opposite place \"there\".", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_16:55:25", "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": 1217867, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1222213": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "McCain: \"In The 21st Century Nations Don't Invade Other Nations\"<br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/13/mccain-in-the-21st-centur_n_118759.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/13/mccain...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_18:26:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1221702": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Lieberman...McCain's Secretary of State?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_17:43:37", "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": 1218879, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1223239": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"on my first day..start pulling everyone out\"  is pysically impossible for him to do.  O has said he will gather the joint chiefs of staff and give them the mission to pull out.(paraphrasing).<br><br>How is what you thought different from saying you will give tax breaks to corporations because it's what the right wing wants despite it's economic tomfoolery?<br><br>It's not O that's remiss here.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_19:59:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1223136, "depth": 14, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1218121": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "He is clarifying his position, not flipping.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_16:55:47", "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": 10, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1213274, "depth": 10, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1221708": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Then you're getting into the briar patch of trying to define \"immediate\".  Did you think immediate meant right this second?...Obviously not.  Clearly, embedded within \"immediate\" are open doorways for conditions which O alluded to by saying he would be careful getting out.  I will say this for O: he is a wordsmith, and chooses his words carefully and precisely to convey his meaning.   It's not O's fault if the partisan has limited comprehension skills and abundant prejudice.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_17:44:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1218705, "depth": 12, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1208911": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Unbelievable!!! I can't believe they published this racist s**t. The author is projecting her racist fantasies onto the Obamas. Isn't  New York magazine liberal? Lord give me strength  to get through this election.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_11:15:24", "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": 1208565, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1210808": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "It's sad but there are white folks who actually think we get up in the morning, kiss our significant other and/or kids and say \"Good morning nigga.\"<br><br>And when we leave for work, we say \"See ya later, nigga.\"<br><br>Then when we get home after work, we say \"Nigga didn't I tell you to put the pot roast on as soon as you got home from work?\"<br><br>Which will be answered with \"Nigga I know you tole me but I forgot.  I'll go to KFC and get a bucket.\"<br><br>At KFC, the girl says,<br><br>\"Welcome to KFC nigga.  How can I take your order?\"<br><br>And then you say,<br><br>\"Nigga, I want a 8 piece bucket with some corn on the cob.  Do you have any muthaphukkin' ice tea?<br><br><br>And she says<br><br>\"Naw we ain't got no muthaphukkin ice tea, nigga!  We got Pepsi Products all up and thru here!\"<br><br>And when we get home at night:<br><br>\"Good night John Boy.\"<br><br>\"Good night, nigga.\"<br><br>Wash, rinse, repeat.<br><br><br>[/eyeroll]", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_12:29:26", "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": 9, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1210049, "depth": 4, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1224275": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Curious: you live in Toronto, right? Are you a Canadian citizen?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_20:30:14", "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": 1223521, "depth": 17, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1212501": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Basically, she's saying that Obama wimped out by letting Billary have their way. <br><br>I can't lie. It does seem like he gave in to their whining. I hope and pray he doesn't let there be a roll call.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_13:43:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1210469, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1217623": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "CNN:  They're showing the author of the anti-Obama book!  Malveaux & others state that there are MANY LIES in that piece of TRASH!!!<br>The author says he's not a RACIST!!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)   :&gt;)   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>LAWD HA'MERCY!!!!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_16:45:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1227866": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Val,<br><br>I wouldn't be surprised if what you say is so.  I've been very suspicious of the timing of this.  I also remember that statement about McCain needing a war to win.  They did set up Georgia.   Didn't they tell McCain that they want action, not a bunch of words?  Now, why would they address McCain and not Obama?  I think you are right that McCain has been in communications with them, and gave assurances.... which is why Saakashvili looks so much in distress.  He didn't count on things playing out this way.<br><br>One thing I know is the Russians are not stupid.  They are sharp and know what's up.  They called the bluff.<br><br>I wish Saakashvili would spill all the beans.  These men, Bush and McCain are dangerous.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_22:55:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1226506, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1208925": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "co-sign.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_11:16:29", "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": 1208814, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1230433": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This comes under the heading:  \"Whycome\" you all up in the kool-aid????<br><br><a href=\"http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/08/gop_sen_susan_collins_edwards.php\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com...</a><br>GOP Senator Collins says Edwards Is the Father.<br><br>Ummmm?????  Who told her what??  <br><br>I'm just askin. . . .", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_02:43:52", "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": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1210469": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/13/opinion/13dowd.html?_r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1218643312-avIH6yoELZF0qq45oVRWvg\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/13/opinion/13dow...</a><br><br>Maureen Dowd claims that it's Billary's convention, not Obama's.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_12:06:37", "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": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1218150": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "MsKitty:  Are you suggesting a \"MEDIA CATHARSIS!?\"   Yell it out!!  Then go back to \"dog whistle\" mode!!!!<br><br>Plausible strategy, as long as you promise them that they won't have ta have \"follow-up\" therapy!    :&gt;)   :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_16:57:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1209793, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1213544": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ohio creates early voting, GOP threatens to sue <br><a href=\"http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/13/12543/4690/219/567277\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/13/12543/4...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_14:22:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "djchefron", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1217159": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Eat this, neo-cons:<br><br>The Great Corporate Tax Heist<br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-l-borosage/the-great-corporate-tax-h_b_118479.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-l-borosage...</a><br><br><br>Obama Adviser: McCain May Have Made Georgia Situation Worse<br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/13/obama-adviser-mccain-may_n_118640.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/13/obama-...</a><br><br>McCain is on tele mumbling like an idiot again. Talking, talking, talking... \"I know Shaskavi..whazza?\"  Does he have an email relationship with him like Scarletttttt had with Barack?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_16:14:04", "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}, "1210479": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Town:  \"500 points\"<br>What do they get \"redeemed\" for??  EGO????/FALSE PRIDE???   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>I'm just askin'   . . . . <br><br>SAD!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_12:06:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1208668, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1209960": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Double co-sign.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_11:49:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "blksista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1209040, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1215090": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Sarah is fabulous!<br><br>I wonder if I could persuade Rikyrah to put up a pic of Shirley Horn as well.   Best song: 'Once I Loved' on Antonio Carlos Jobim songbook, and 'And I love him' from Travelin' Light.<br><br>Both amazing women!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_15:04:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1196960, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1213557": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Sharing:   Obama Ad:  McCain's War Policy An Economic Disaster<br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/13/obama-ad-mccains-war-poli_n_118696.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/13/obama-...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_14:23:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1209977": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Co-signing once again.  I didn't see this when I posted my link - I was probably typing.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_11:51:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1208565, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1210041": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Wow the spin you people do<br>Foreign Policy- First it was Obama who had the judgement not to get bog down in Iraq once you idiots screw it up beyond belief Obama propose a timeline which your OLD candidate ridicule by saying we will stay in Iraq for a 100 years \"oops\" Iraq said no way Jose by 2010 get out. What McCain then said with bush we will withdraw our troops in 16 months.I know in ReThug fantasy island McCain got it right but the truth is Maliki punked bush and the OLD MAN who cant remember what he says from one day to the next.<br>National security -Obama during the democratic debates said if Pakistan will not take action against Bin laden and crew he would.The outrage among you idiots was laughable \"How dare he presume to say we would attack our ally Pakistan\" What have bush been doing? Attacking Pakistan trying to get Ai-quaida.Checkmate Obama<br>Energy -Everyone with a lick of common sense knows we cannot drill our way out of this problem, suspend the gas tax,if you do that a lot of highway construction workers will be laid off because unlike ReTHUGS bizzaro world gas tax revenues pays to maintain our highways and whatever savings you think you might get I advise you to read what happen in Illinois when they suspended the gas tax.And now for the coup de grace tire pressure everyone knows from Nascar to Triple A knows that properly inflated tires can save up to 3% on gas which is by the way even with off shore drilling which wont come online for 10 years would gives us more gas, and guess what after McCain had his laugh about the idea his OLD #ss agreed with Obama.<br>Taxes - McCain wants to keep destroying the middle class with his and bush tax breaks for the rich and further drive us deeper into debt While Obama knows that if you put more money in the hands of the middle class like in the 90's the economy will be stronger. I will say it again but even louder.YOU PEOPLE TAKE PRIDE IN YOUR IGNORANCE!!!!!!!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_11:56:28", "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": 22, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1208679, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1208959": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "isn't Radar the magazine of Jesse Jackson's Son that supported Hillpatine during the primaries?<br><br>just asking.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_11:18:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1208719, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1221760": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "99%:  Co-signing!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_17:49:27", "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": 1217535, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1210498": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "McCain's Lobbyists Raked In $1 Billion From U.S. Clients, Study Says<br><a href=\"http://www.campaignmoney.org/pressroom/2008/08/13/the-nearly-1-billion-connection-mccain-and-his-lobbyists-clients\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.campaignmoney.org/pressroom/2008/08/...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_12:07:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "djchefron", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1227909": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yeah, and the irony is he's married to a woman of Mexican descent and his kids speak Spanish.  Do as I say, not as I do.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_23:01:59", "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": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1227825, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1209793": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I know I'm becoming an angry black person by being subjected by all the dogwhistling going on in the media.  They think they're being slick but aren't fooling anyone.  Just call Barack and Michelle n****** and be done with it.  Sheesh.<br><br>&lt;/mini-rant&gt;<br><br>P.S. and didn't appreciate the posthumous dig at Bernie Mac either.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_11:35:10", "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": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1208565, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1209483": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "SMH.......Pilgrims....that's all I'll say....this is how PILGRIMS think.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_11:27:42", "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": 1208565, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1230476": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This one just sooooo satisfies my \"DISS THE DUDE\" moment:  :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br><a href=\"http://vodpod.com/watch/939799-mccain-cant-pronounce-name-of-georgias-president\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://vodpod.com/watch/939799-mccain-cant-pron...</a><br>McCain Can't PRONOUNCE The Name of Georgia's President   :&gt;)   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>How insulting is this!??  And we're suppose ta believe that he has been in regular contact with the president!!!<br><br>What did McAncient call him?   DUDE!!???<br><br>This is so embarrassing!  He is NOT representin'!!<br><br>Whew!  Embarrassed Deep Breaths!!  But pleased!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_02:55:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1217126": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Someone shook her hand too hard.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/17182197/detail.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/17182197/det...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_16:11:13", "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": 1217020, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1228945": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I stopped reading her awhile back. Her writing voice has gotten far to sarcastic for my liking.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_23:55:32", "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": 1210469, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1211027": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "From <a href=\"http://www.boston.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.boston.com</a>  also check out <a href=\"http://www.mccainslobbyists.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.mccainslobbyists.com</a><br><br>\"Watchdog group spotlights McCain lobbyists<br>by Foon Rhee, deputy national political editor August 13, 2008 11:10 AM <br><br>A campaign finance watchdog group that has been going after John McCain's campaign and its lobbyist connections reported this morning that his staffers, advisers, and top fund-raisers have received nearly $1 billion from domestic lobbying clients over the past decade. <br><br>Campaign Money Watch, analyzing data from the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, also said that employees and political action committees of the clients have donated nearly $12 million to McCain's campaigns over the years. <br><br>\u201cThe McCain campaign relies on big money lobbyists, and they\u2019ll rely on him,\u201d David Donnelly, director of Campaign Money Watch, said in a statement. \u201cIn the \u2018you-scratch-my-back, I\u2019ll-scratch-yours\u2019 world of Washington, $931 million gets the special interests the best government money can buy. But just think of the payday these lobbyists might expect in a McCain Administration.\u201d<br><br>The group launched a website today to focus more attention on McCain's lobbyists. \u201cHow can John McCain say he\u2019ll reduce the influence of special interests in Washington, when he\u2019s so fully dependent on lobbyists and their clients to finance his campaign?\u201d Donnelly asked. \u201cAll candidates need to raise money, but is this exemplary of a candidate who claims he\u2019ll tackle the special interests?\u201d <br><br>While McCain has had to dismiss several top campaign aides because of their lobbyist ties and Democrat Barack Obama has eschewed campaign money from Washington lobbyists, independent observers say that lobbyists play an important role in how the federal government works. \"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_12:42:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "Angela1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "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}, "1209494": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I know you support McCain but think if you can for one second What should the US do?Do you support a war that might go nuclear with Russia over Georgia? and if you do please let us know what are our interest are that could lead to the incineration of my children.Also since you and your candidate wants to go John Wayne please tell us where are the troops coming from to go fight your war?Like I said you people take pride in your ignorance.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_11:28:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "djchefron", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1207475, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1215133": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "How you say?......Word", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_15:07:47", "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": 1197560, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1210530": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:   Pic  -  Her expression - sassy attitude!!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)    DING!   DING!   DING!    We have a WINNER!!!!   :&gt;)   <br><br>Thank you.   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_12:10:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1214747": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Random Stuff:<br><br><a href=\"http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080813/ap_on_re_us/navy_commander_fired\" rel=\"nofollow\">Navy relieves commander of air recon squadron </a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_14:35:45", "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": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1228967": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thanks, iceberg.<br><br>Spread it.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_23:57:52", "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": 1214946, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1206954": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Oh, he sure will be reprimanded. Sean KKKlanity let the genie out of the bottle. And his excuse? \"Oh, that was 30 years ago!!! He got beat down for 5 years. It was a different circumstance!!!\" Excuse me, but WTF???", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_10:08:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "CarolinagirlinGA", "has_been_anonymized": false, "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": 1202123, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1213127": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Okay then how if you are 501c4 you only have 5 donors who gave a total of less than $5000 your org. can run national commercials parroting the OLD MAN'S talking points.You see you have to declare who gives to a 501c4 because they are a charity but you do not have to declare who gives money to a 527. You know some of us can put 2+2 together.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_14:03:39", "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": 1212086, "depth": 3, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1223340": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Lord, let us hope he has judgement and wisdom, and not stick us with an idiot like David Gregory on MTP.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_20:09:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1221825, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1210030": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "She probably wrote it before Bernie Mac died but yeah, I get your point.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_11:55:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1209793, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1207475": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Susan Rice makes herself look ridiculous on Hardball last night as Bush Derrangement Syndrome is projected onto John McCain:<br><br> \"John McCain shot from the hip, [with a] very aggressive, very belligerent statement \u2026He may or may not have complicated the situation.\"<br><br>I understand that Rice wants to spin this for Obama, but even this is flat-out ridiculous. McCain didn\u2019t \u201cshoot from the hip\u201d \u2014 unlike Obama, he actually knew the situation and understood its implications.  In fact, one need look no further for confirmation of this than Obama\u2019s later statements, in which he agreed with McCain\u2019s original statement on the subject.<br><br>Obama\u2019s campaign seems to agree with this.  Richard Holbrooke, another of Obama\u2019s 300 foreign policy advisers, told CNN that Obama and McCain agree on the response to Georgia, and that the Bush administration was \u201cbehind the curve\u201d.  Actually, the Bush admistration heightened its response before the Obama campaign did.  Besides, which is it?  Did McCain get it right, or did Obama get it wrong later?<br><br>Barack Obama wasn\u2019t prepared to handle this crisis, as his first statements showed.  John McCain understands Russia better than most people in Washington, and had diagnosed Russian intentions in the Caucasus and elsewhere years before Russian tanks rolled across the border into Georgia.  Blaming McCain for getting it right represents a new low in desperation from Team Obama, especially while at the same time praising Obama for finally catching up to McCain.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_10:40:37", "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": 29, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1212086": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Actually, Vets for Freedom is a 501(c)(4).<br><br>Try again.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_13:36:57", "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": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1211825, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1210039": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Maybe Yusef needs to assign someone to examine the politics of his parents' marriage?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_11:56:27", "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": 1209582, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1223353": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "depending on whose sources are correct - collin powell may or may not plan to endorse Obama at the Dem convention.<br><br><a href=\"http://friendfeed.com/e/34837fed-c353-46a6-9b5b-5ff0d37baa8f/Kristol-Colin-Powell-to-Endorse-Barack/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://friendfeed.com/e/34837fed-c353-46a6-9b5b...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_20:11:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "ruthdfw", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1222842": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Sepia:  But they're trying hard ta be.   NOT!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_19:18:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1221883, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1212603": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You just cannot make this  farce up, now it seems the OLD MAN foreign policy will be based on which country can bribed the OLD MAN's most trusted ad visors the most<br>Adviser's Firm Pockets $$ While Counseling McCain on Georgia<br><a href=\"http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/13/123258/040/197/567291\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/13/123258/...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_13:44:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "djchefron", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1221821": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yes, it does matter.<br><br>Her \"historic support\" is acknowledged every time she or one of her surrogates (falsely) talk about how she had 18 million voters. What more does she want? <br><br>This is Obama's time, but Billary is trying to takeover in the name of \"women's rights\" and \"democracy\". They could give a rat's ass about women or democracy. All they care about is themselves and how they can undermine Obama's run and prepare for 2012 and it shouldn't be allowed. Period.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_17:54:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1214767, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1222846": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm with Miranda. This IS too easy.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_19:19:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1217083, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1223521": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "D,<br><br>you cling to misguided beliefs like a tick clings to a very mangy dog.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_20:23:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1223394, "depth": 16, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1210049": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<i>nigger sing-a-longs</i><br><br>Oh Town!<br><br>On point. <br><br>I wanna know how she's acting Black too. <br><br>And, I don't give a rat's ass who is at the Obama potluck dinners, and they'd never even question who was at the McCain ones. <br><br>And what if it IS all Black folk. Something wrong about that? <br><br>How about YOUR potluck dinners, Ms. Writer. Who's at YOUR dinner table?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_11:57:09", "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": 10, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1209040, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1215435": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Keep this kind of stuff coming.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_15:32:24", "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": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1211277, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1228996": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Pure politics. <br><br>Most war is pure politics (and economics).<br><br>Make no mistake, human life has no value to the warmonger.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_00:02:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1226506, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1208519": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "McCain: Let's Compound the Blunder!<br><br><a href=\"http://www.belgraviadispatch.com/2008/08/mccain_clueless.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.belgraviadispatch.com/2008/08/mccain...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_10:49:00", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1209032": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "My hard bopping stepdad had her albums.  <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_Mister_Kelly%27s\" rel=\"nofollow\">Especially this one.</a><br><br>Gave it 'back' to my dad last year.  He was thrilled.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_11:21:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "blksista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1197560, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1209040": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I'm still pissed at the \"Would Obama drop the N-word around a black audience?\" bit.<br><br>Do white people really think we all get together and have nigger sing a longs when we're by ourselves?<br><br>How is Michelle \"acting black\" around black people but acting \"white\" around white people?  And why wonder about the racial makeup of the Obama's potluck dinners?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_11:21:44", "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": 12, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1208814, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1210577": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The prize for 500 pts. is a Ronco Mr.Microphone so they can practice their idiotic talkings points to get the proper tone down without laughing", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_12:14:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "djchefron", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1210479, "depth": 6, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1213139": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Now that's a lie!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_14:04:42", "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": 1213056, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1227990": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hillary 's shenanigans will only make the victory sweeter.  Obama will stick to his plan as he has along.  I'm not worried about what the Clintons will do at the convention.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_23:12:13", "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": 1221821, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1212633": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "*DEAD*", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_13:47:00", "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": 1210808, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1229021": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "It was an assassination.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_00:04:28", "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": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1222460, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1210923": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/08/obama_on_527s_do_as_i_say_not.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Obama on 527's: Do as I say, not as I do</a><br><br>It's a slanted article, but links to another one on Huffington Post.<br><br>Keep in mind that the massive Reupblican 527s that everyone was afraid of....don't exist. So why the change?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_12:38:45", "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": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1213154": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Kaylee Anthony is all over the media and yet there have been <a href=\"http://www.womanist-musings.com/2008/08/rielle-hunter-big-bad-whore.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">at least three children of color that have gone missing </a>where is their front page story?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_14:05:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "womanistmusings", "has_been_anonymized": false, "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}, "1228004": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"Hillary Spammers\" Ask Pollsters To Include Clinton In Pre-Convention Surveys<br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stephen-c-rose/pollers-asked-by-spammers_b_118546.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stephen-c-rose/po...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_23:14:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1229029": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Racial politics of a marriage - WTF!!!!!<br><br>What does having the ability to communicate with all kinds have to do with one's marriage?  WTF.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_00:05:22", "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": 1228179, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1229030": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Good question.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_00:05:43", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1221883, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1213160": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Another Democratic party insider/official shot.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/13/133751/856/174/567330\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/13/133751/...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_14:06:14", "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}, "1228011": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Obama's Hawaiian Vacation (PHOTOS)<br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/13/obamas-hawaiian-vacation_n_118677.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/13/obamas...</a><br><br>Some lovely photos of Obama and his girls in Hawaii.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_23:15:07", "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": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1229266": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That's an epic in two paragraphs.<br><br>Bravo.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_00:25:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1222672, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1209582": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yep. Yusef Jackson <a href=\"http://gawker.com/tag/backstory/?i=5024036&t=yusef-jacksons-money\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://gawker.com/tag/backstory/?i=5024036&t=yu...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_11:30:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1208959, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1208565": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "NY Magazine \"examines\" the racial politics of the Obama marriage:<br><br><a href=\"http://nymag.com/news/features/49139/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://nymag.com/news/features/49139/</a><br><br>Choice lines in the story:<br><br>\"As much as any political campaign is an extended meditation on authenticity, the question of just how black the Obamas are has become particularly loaded. Michelle must project herself as black to one community, but she also must act white to another, whatever either adjective means nowadays.\"<br><br>How is Michelle \"acting white?\"  Let's read on.<br><br>\u201cWhen we\u2019re all together in Chicago, we like to play games like charades,\u201d Michelle tells us. \u201cWe also love a busy house, which means potluck dinners with our close friends and family as often as we can.\u201d We have little idea of the racial makeup of such potlucks.\"<br><br>I wonder what the racial makeup of John & Cindy McCain's get togethers are?  Or Billary's, or John Edwards, or Mike Huckabee's or Mitt Romney's.  Nobody questions the \"racial makeup\" of their get togethers, but we must wonder what the racial makeup of the Obamas' get togethers are?<br><br>\"Obama is particularly comfortable in front of black audiences, who inspire him to be passionate and energetic. Watching him, I wondered if in this context he would use the N-word, if only to make a point. \"<br><br>So when black people get together, we just all break out into saying \"nigger?\"  It's just as natural for blacks to say it as rain and snow showers?<br><br>After much blathering about Obama, in an article called \"The Racial Politics of the Obama Marriage,\" the author finally gets to the racial politics of the Obama marriage:<br><br>\"Even if Obama is the kind of black politician that middle-American white voters can get behind, the secret fear is that he could be a black Trojan horse with all sorts of passengers like Wright\u2014or onetime compadres Bernie Mac and Ludacris\u2014peeping out from under the canvas. He could be ... Michelle. Or at least what Michelle represents: a smart, angry black person in the White House. \"<br><br>You got that?  We can't have a SMART, angry black person in the White House.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_10:52:26", "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": 28, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1229149": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LOL.<br><br>He's an idiot.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_00:12:40", "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": 1222583, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1211639": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Town, <br>somewhere Dave Chappelle is saying this is why I quit! <br>So on point, it hurts to laugh....painful pun intended...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_13:11:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "smoothie", "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": 1210808, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1208568": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Took Obama \"three tries\" to get it right, i.e. he ended up <i>'parroting'</i> McCain.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_10:52:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "Karmi", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 26, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1207475, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1210617": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LOL. It's allowed to occasionally happen. <br><br>Not too often, though.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_12:17:01", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1210515, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1221883": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "If these media talking heads know that this book is full of lies, why give it air time? <br><br>They ain't slick!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_17:59:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1217623, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1213056": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "That's a lie.<br><br>What he has always said is that on his first day in office, he will give the order to end the war. There was never any mention of taking conditions on the ground into account. That shift only came about recently.<br><br>Even the \"Iraq\" tab on his page reflects that change.<br><br>Spin it as you will. I'm not knocking the change, but it did happen.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_13:56:42", "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": 15, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1212017, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1205507": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Voter Registration Numbers --- Florida<br><a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/12/14317/7233/527/565960\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/12/143...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_08:29:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "djchefron", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1207044": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Very <i>\u2018Hitleresque\u2019</i> of Obama\u2026what happens if they don\u2019t volunteer? Well, there are the - <a href=\"http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/olympics/article4512306.ece\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cre-education\u201d</a> labour camps.<br><br><i>\"Wang Wei, vice-president of the Beijing Olympic Organising Committee revealed they were volunteers shipped in to \u201ccreate a good atmosphere\u201d by cheering for both sides at team events... The use of fake fans has caused consternation... Unofficially, there are reports that offenders face up to four years in \u201cre-education\u201d labour camps.\"</i>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_10:17:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "Karmi", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1206655, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1215237": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "True that.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_15:16:01", "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": 1211829, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1213191": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You're proud of a picture with Karl Rove such that you use it in your profile.<br><br>This is the last time I respond to you. Not that you care. But I just want to be clear.<br><br>I told the truth. YOU are lying.<br><br>Period.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_14:09:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 12, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1213056, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1226506": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "GreenLady - I told you all two days ago that Bush and McCain triggered this event by tricking the Georgian president into thinking they had his back.  And when he stepped to Russia - the US was no where to be found.  My thought was and I didn't voice all of it -- was think back a few months ago when one of the McCain top advisors said -- McCain needed another war to win this election.<br><br>Well Georgia thought McCain had his back as they took his money and now he is singing like a canary.  He called out not only Bush (by stating they led him to believe they would help him out and they told him that Russia would not attack) but he is now calling out McCain by name as well.<br><br>Sad sad sad.  All those lives lost for political reasons.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_22:20:10", "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": 4, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1217250, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1214731": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "goodness i am sad to hear this and worry about any possible chilling effects it may have.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_14:34:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "ruthdfw", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1213160, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1223437": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "No, Obama hasn't shifted.  Your understanding/awareness has shifted...that's not his fault.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_20:19:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1223394, "depth": 16, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1217806": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "McCain's Live Press Conference on Russia-Georgia Conflict<br><br>McCain is doing a live press conference on the Russia/Georgia conflict.<br><br>\"It is clear that Russian military is continuing combat operations, despite the agreement, in areas far from South Ossetia.\" (paraphrased)<br><br>I didn't think that Obama had to do much during his week's vacation - everyone deserves a break - but this week is starting to really turn into a week where you don't want to be seen golfing. He would be wise to do his own press conference, ASAP.<br><br>McCain must have read Larry Kudlow, because he's talking about the importance of the oil pipelines currently shut down. He praises the five Eastern European presidents traveling to Tbilisi.<br><br>McCain's wingmen, Lindsey Graham and Joe Lieberman, are going to Georgia as soon as possible.<br><br>(Cross Lieberman off the veep list, elevate him to the top of the Secretary of State list.)<br><br>Asked about Obama adviser Susan Rice calling him 'aggressive' and 'belligerent': \"This isn't a time for partisanship and sniping. Hundreds, if not thousands of innocent people whose lives are being taken and who are being driven from their homes.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_16:48:22", "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": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1221903": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "From The Field:<br><br>VP Tote Board<br><br><a href=\"http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/vp-tote-board-process-elimination\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/vp-to...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_18:01:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1215765": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "town:  So does this mean that WHEN Mr. Obama WINS, he hasta live in the \"slave quarters\"??   <br><br>I'm jes askin' . . . . .   ;&gt;)   :&gt;)  :&gt;)<br><br>Good post!!  Always in ANALYTICAL MODE!!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_15:46:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1208565, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1222422": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:   YAAAAAAAA!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_18:35:57", "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": 1221602, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1389847": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yes always.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_08:23:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1227909, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1214767": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "As much as I dislike her, she did have historic support too and that should be acknowledged.  Bill is the former president, and once a popular president so you have to give due where it is there.  Judging by his comments last week, I don't think it is his plan to let them take a roll call.  But if he does, I won't be happy about it - but folks to do otherwise, is a bit undemocratic isn't it?<br><br>Yes I know they can't be trusted but barring a massive exodus does it matter?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_14:38:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "ruthdfw", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1212501, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1211678": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You know, maybe Black people wouldn't be so freakin' angry if we didn't have to put up with hatchet jobs like the one in this magazine.  <br><br>Can we please get a reporter who at least has a clue as to what she is writing about.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_13:15:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "ef781b639c890767ebd1ce99011c3afa", "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": 1208565, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1219632": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Tell him to send Lieberman and Graham to Darfur why don't cha?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_17:16:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1217806, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1211687": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Haven't heard that one. I don't think the current political world is ready for cross-party picks. For all that, we could go back to the Founding, where the person who lost the presidential election was the vice president.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_13:16:54", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1211394, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1211691": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "What did she slam him for?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_13:17:04", "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": 1206827, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1213231": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Barack's been rising in the Gallup tracking poll ever since he went on vacation.<br><br>Perhaps he better stay away, give McCain center stage, and let people see him for the imbecile he is.<br><br>But today's 6-point lead for Barack includes this \"caveat\":<br><br><I>Still, in a historical sense, the race remains fairly close and is similar to other open presidential races. In some of these cases (1960, 1988, 2000, and 2004) the lead switched between the two major party candidates over the convention period. Strong front-runners of past elections who ultimately won by big margins (presidential incumbents Bill Clinton in 1996, Ronald Reagan in 1984, Richard Nixon in 1972, and Lyndon Johnson in 1964) all led their opponents by more than 15 points in the pre-convention phase during those election years.</i><br><br>Isn't that rich. All the examples cited were for INCUMBENT presidents. <br><br>So who's being presumptuous now? Why compare this race to one where an INCUMBENT president was on the ticket?<br><br>There is no comparison.<br><br>Even Gallup's \"analysts\" are corporate shills.</I>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_14:12:55", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1210676": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "dj:   Ohhhhhh!!  I thought it was that all expenses paid trip to Harlem!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_12:20:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1210577, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1212017": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Why would you agree with that?<br><br>It's a lie.<br><br>Barack has always said withdrawal from Iraq was conditioned based.<br><br>Always.<br><br>\"We must be as careful getting out as we were careless getting in.\"<br><br>That's been his mantra since forever.<br><br>What does \"careful  getting out\" mean? It means  a withdrawal plan that takes all sorts of conditions into account. If not, then one is not careful.<br><br>Just keepin it real.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_13:33:30", "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": 17, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1210515, "depth": 6, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1217336": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "TruthSeeker:  These are interesting observations.  I never noticed these things.  So, thanks.  :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_16:23:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1216449, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1215289": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ha!  Thanks for that.  They pick someone to represent the liberal viewpoint who looks sickly, is not very attractive and has a reedy voice  (no disrespect to Colmes) it's so obvious...That day he rocked it!  Good for him.  Now, I'd like him to tell Hannity to shut the f*ck up.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_15:20:39", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1202123, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1222460": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Thanks for the update, Ronnie.   It seems likely this was politically motivated.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_18:39:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1222034, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1219466": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "CNN Alert: The Arkansas Democratic Chairman has died<br><a href=\"http://cnn.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">cnn.com</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_17:13:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1195327": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Obama raises $1.3 million at Hawaii fundraiser By NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writer <br>1 hour, 29 minutes ago", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_05:50:22", "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": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1225539": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Keith Olbermann just put a nice lashing on Rush Limbarf....LOL. Wow....its really gonna be a shame when they find out why ole Rush really likes taking those \"exotic\" vacations to Thailand and the Dominican Repulic...oh, its REALLY gonna be a shame.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_20:45:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1214790": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/12/161159/016/595/566885\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/12/161...</a><br><br>John McCain, prescient or presumptuous?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_14:40:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "ruthdfw", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1217867": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The street runs both ways. <br><br>But the left wing has been a lot more visceral in their attacks on Cindy than the right has been on Michelle, in my opinion. It's definitely been that way here.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_16:49:17", "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": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1217492, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1215308": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Shirley Horn runs very close to Sarah when it comes to my most adored vocalists.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_15:22:30", "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": 1215090, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1217250": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Just got to CNN:  The Russians are \"calling out\" the US to choose sides!<br><br>My concern is:[No flaming, please]:  Is it appropriate for the presidential candidates to be all up in the Kool-aide?  WHERE IS THE SITTING PRESIDENT?????<br><br>Russia and Georgia are SERIOUS and are reading our news!  People have died.<br><br>Really, I'm looking for advice.  Thank you.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_16:19:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1217872": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This is way too easy for my talents.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_16:49:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1217083, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1207123": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "If they don't volunteer, they don't get a ticket.  End of story.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_10:25:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1207044, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1410394": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert Gates Sec of Defense was just on CNN. He made it very clear the US is not going to rearm Georgia and the decision to offer Georgia membership in NATO(it comes up again in Dec) will be made by all 26 nations. He also made it clear the Russians were looking for to take advantage of the situation and did so. The US will not being doing anything militarily to turn the situation around.<br><br>I have seen arguments for Obama keeping Gates based on  slapping down Air Force HQ over sloppy everything, his calling for strengthening the State Dept and by doing so understands that the US has lost its Prestige by not using soft power. Given whom he currently works for ..., but it is something that needs to be pursued. The Democratic bench for Armed Services is very thin, has very few people w/ combat experience and executive level experience in military matters. As much as we look forward to getting out of Iraq and the huge expenditure being there involves, Russia's action keeps security matters forefront.<br><br>The one guy I think Obama better get on the horn to is the Representative from SE Pennsylvania who was an Admiral. McCain is going to have many old guard  military people  out stumping for him about the dangers to the country.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_11:44:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "RobM", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1229718, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1208668": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yeah it is the end of the story.  Obama's not telling people they have to go to reeducation camps if they don't volunteer.  They just don't get a ticket.  But you've earned your 500 points for the day.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_10:59:31", "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": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1207285, "depth": 4, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1214813": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "HuffPost:   How Long Should A Spouse Be Celibate If Their Mate Is Ill?<br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jill-brooke/how-long-should-a-spouse_b_118678.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jill-brooke/how-l...</a><br><br>Actually, this article is one of SUPPORT for EE.  Not much condemning of JE as the title would suggest.<br><br>It was first written for a web site that helps women who are contemplating, navigating or moving on from divorce.  It also doesn't condemn EE for staying with JE.  <br>\"Politics is a business.\" says the author!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_14:42:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1207137": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I just read the first part of the series...great stuff! I'm definitely passing it on.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_10:26:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1198625, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1210214": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "well it appears some on FF are upset with the Obamas trying to exert undue influence on military wives.  Now, these soliders can be trusted to protect our nation - but need to be protected from the political opinions of their spouses?<br><br>I did not read all of the comments or the article linked - just did not feel like picking a fight today.<br><br><a href=\"http://friendfeed.com/e/b3fde670-dbc3-40d9-93b3-139edc98770f/Obama-politicizes-military-spouses/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://friendfeed.com/e/b3fde670-dbc3-40d9-93b3...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_12:02:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "ruthdfw", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1208679": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Whether it's Foreign Policy, National Security, Energy or Taxes, Obama has been merely REACTING to current events, public opinion, and John McCain.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_11:00:14", "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": 25, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1208568, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1215337": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<blockquote><b>How do you say \"UNCLE TOM\" in JEWISH?</b></blockquote>Putz? <br><br>Schlub? <br><br>Schmuck?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_15:24:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1213294, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1229674": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "TruthSeeker:  Hey!  That's what the KKK say!!!  So by further extrapolation, is Lou Dobbs a good candidate for membership  OR would the records show that he IS a member???", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_00:47:42", "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": 1223112, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1213294": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Rikyrah:  Seems as if Kaplan called LIEberman OUT!!!  \"playing the oldest Jewish trick in the books!!\"<br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marty-kaplan/say-it-aint-jew-joe_b_118558.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marty-kaplan/say-...</a><br>Say It Ain't Jew, Joe<br><br>How do you say \"UNCLE TOM\" in JEWISH?  is what Kaplan was saying.   IMHO<br><br>I'm just askin' . . . . .   :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_14:19:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1210088": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ouch!  But... different magazine (he publishes Radar not New York).", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_11:58:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1210039, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1206130": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You can <a href=\"http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/player.html?assetid=te3h-bj-sd24-081308-155805&channelcode=sportte\" rel=\"nofollow\">watch Serena Williams LIVE</a> right now at the Olympics. She's down a set but up a break in the second. It's 9:07 AM EDT", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_09:07:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1210515": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The world must be going crazy because I have to agree with you on that point", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_12:09:19", "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": 19, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1210387, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1214837": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Arkansas Democratic Party Chairman shot in his office; in critical condition.<br><a href=\"http://www.todaysthv.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=70759&catid=238\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.todaysthv.com/news/local/story.aspx?...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_14:44:29", "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": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1214840": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "How about idiotic and crooked.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_14:44:54", "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": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1214790, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1389945": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yes always.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_08:23:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1227909, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1218879": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "McCain sending is own delegation to Georgia.<br><a href=\"http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/208358.php\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/208358.php</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_17:10:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "ruthdfw", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1210749": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "dj:  Whew!  Must say that first Amendment thing is being used quite FREQUENTLY today! s/K - jes havin' a LOVE FEST UP IN HERE!!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_12:25:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1209494, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1222015": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:      . . . .SEEE!  we told you he was \"PRESUMPTUOUS\"   [arrogant, uppity, etc]  !!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_18:12:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1221632, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1217415": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Both Parties Now Ignoring McCain<br><br><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/12/AR2008081202883.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...</a><br><br>Good read!!  Let's hope!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_16:28:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1207178": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Something else the mainstream media will ignore. McCain has absolutely no qualms with who raises money for him, no matter what shady dealings they've had in the past:<br><br><a href=\"http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/mccain-ignoring-calls-to-cancel-controversial-fundraiser-2008-08-12.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/mccain-igno...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_10:30:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1229707": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "TruthSeeker:   Nice pics!!!   Thanks!!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_00:49:42", "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": 1228011, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1211277": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "MCCain on Bush's $1.35 trillion tax cut bill in 2001:<br>  \"I cannot in good conscience support  a tax cut in which so many of the benefits go to the most fortunate among us at the expense of middle class Americans who need tax relief.\"  McCain voted against these tax cuts in 2001, 2003, 2004, and 2005.<br><br>In 2006, he began supporting them.  In a Washington Times article published on Feb. 27, 2006, Grover Norqhist, president of Americans for Tax Reform said \"It's a big flip-flop.:<br>Longtime Republican tax-cut strategist Larry Hunter said \"It looks like a further morphing of McCain into George W.Bush.  He's mailing to his list of campaign contributors and now he is supporting the tax cuts.  It looks political to me.  It runs counter to his whole past behavior. \"<br>When the president's $350 billion tax cut bill accelerated his earlier tax-cut bills and  came up for vote in 2006, McCain voted against that too, saying he was \"very concerned about the deficit.\"   Norqhist goes on to say \"He voted against tax cuts in 2001, 2003, 2004, and 2005, and this year (2006) he's for tax cuts in the reconciliation bill.  It looks like he did it for political reasons.  He's got two years to convince people that this is not a political ploy..\"(in reference to his run for president in 2008)<br>Where is John Mc Cain's conscience now?  Is he still concerned about the deficit?   Who is John McCain today?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_12:57:33", "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": 1208679, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1208719": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "From New York magazine, the latest \"Barack isn't as black (bad) as Michelle who is \"too black\" - except when she goes to fundraisers and hangs around white people (she then \"acts white\").  Seriously!<br><br><b>Black & Blacker: The Racial Politics of The Obama Marriage by Vanessa Grigoriadis </b><br><br><a href=\"http://nymag.com/news/features/49139/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://nymag.com/news/features/49139/</a><br><br>And check out the cover with a menacing Michelle lurking in the black background.  Oooh! Scary!    Can't wait for New York to hire a Black writer to write about \"The Racial Politics of the McCain Marriage\"<br><br>Oh, and speaking of \"scary\", a frowning Michelle is also on the cover of Radar.  I haven't read it yet  (I've got to get back to work!) but the story is called \"What's So Scary About Michelle Obama? An Inside Guide to America's Next First Lady.\"   <a href=\"http://www.radaronline.com/from-the-magazine/2008/08/september_2008_table_of_contents.php\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.radaronline.com/from-the-magazine/20...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_11:02:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1222034": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Sadly, Mr. Gwatney passed away.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_18:14:48", "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": 4, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1217523, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1228179": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Have mercy. I go away for the day, and come back to see this nonsense.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_23:35:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1208565, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1229204": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "i was just looking at the update on Hufington and wondering what the Clinton's had to do with this....LOL!<br><br>I'm also stunned that it's not more in the news.  They are woking the Obama smear book.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_00:13:58", "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": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1229021, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1229718": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Robm:  Very analytical!!!  Thanks!!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_00:52:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1228194, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1214873": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Actually, it's not. Follow me:<br><br>Obama's tab on Iraq used to match what was listed in his Blueprint for Change <b>verbatim</b>. From the Blueprint, on page 51:<br><br><i>Obama will immediately begin to remove our troops from Iraq. He will remove one to two combat brigades<br>each month, and have all of our combat brigades out of Iraq within 16 months. Obama will make it clear that<br>we will not build any permanent bases in Iraq. He will keep some troops in Iraq to protect our embassy and<br>diplomats; if al Qaeda attempts to build a base within Iraq, he will keep troops in Iraq or elsewhere in the<br>region to carry out targeted strikes on al Qaeda.</i><br><br>No mention of consideration of conditions on the ground.<br><br>Now, on his <a href=\"http://www.barackobama.com/issues/iraq/\" rel=\"nofollow\">webpage</a> is the following:<br><br><i>Barack Obama believes we must be as careful getting out of Iraq as we were careless getting in. Immediately upon taking office, Obama will give his Secretary of Defense and military commanders a new mission in Iraq: ending the war. The removal of our troops will be responsible and phased, directed by military commanders on the ground and done in consultation with the Iraqi government. Military experts believe we can safely redeploy combat brigades from Iraq at a pace of 1 to 2 brigades a month that would remove them in 16 months. That would be the summer of 2010 \u2013 more than 7 years after the war began.<br><br>Under the Obama plan, a residual force will remain in Iraq and in the region to conduct targeted counter-terrorism missions against al Qaeda in Iraq and to protect American diplomatic and civilian personnel. He will not build permanent bases in Iraq, but will continue efforts to train and support the Iraqi security forces as long as Iraqi leaders move toward political reconciliation and away from sectarianism.</i><br><br>Don't get me wrong; I'm not attacking Obama for the shift. I <b><i>wish</b></i> he hadn't changed his message; then I'd still have a reason to go after him. But he has. To me, that's acceptable....but to say that his position hasn't shifted is wrong.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_14:47:13", "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": 1213139, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1224090": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Civility just does not become you, does it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_20:28:14", "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": 1223521, "depth": 17, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1229214": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "English is a Germanic language.  Sure, Latin has influenced it, but the romance languages are more closely derived from Latin than English.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_00:16:00", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1223112, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1208735": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Looks like<a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/08/13/ST2008081301060.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mark Warner</a> will be giving the keynote speach.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_11:04:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "smoothie", "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}, "1196960": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I'm ashamed to say I only discovered the beauty of Sarah Vaughn's voice listening to Quincy Jones \"Back on the Block\" CD.........her voice is like slowly pouring chocolate. They really dont make'em like tha t anymore. I guess that's why I'm such a Chrisette Michelle fan. She's an old soul for sure.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_07:21:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1221602": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Barack Obama up in 4 polls<br><br>46O 43M - Pew National<br><br>48O 42M - Gallup Daily Tracking<br><br>46O 41M - Pennsylvania<br><br>51O 41M - New Jersey", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_17:35:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1228194": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Over at Nat Turner's Revenge the idea was posited that the Russian slap down of Georgia was the August surprise. It is worse than that. Russia bitch slapped the Bush Presidency right out of its last 162 days. That is bad for the country as a whole.<br><br>This is bad for the country because the whole world knows we are in an election cycle. While they are happy we can change leaders easily, they understand a vacuum exists during the election. And everyone knows that if there were ever a time to start acting out this is it. W/ the Russians going dare you I suspect we will soon find others doing the same<br><br>It's bad for the country because the intelligence agencies failed worse than Sept 11, 2001. It is not logical to assume that when you have 130 US military  and intelligence advisers training the Georgian army that they didn't see the Georgian Army gearing up to go to an all out assault. This is after a ceasefire has been put into place by the Georgian president himself on Wednesday night.<br><br>The fact that, the Russian Army , with 300 tanks and armored vehicles not surrogates(N Ossetia militias) came roaring through the tunnel separating N Ossetia and Georgia to \"surprise\" the Georgian Army, the NSA did not pick up one radio message between their units is unbelievable. The cyber onslaught against Georgia began on Monday  according to the McNeil Lehrer report tonight.  Jose Nazario said he had informed the FBI about the attacks that had occurred in July . His company-it tracks these things, breaks them down into what they do and try to find the server farm initiating them-figured it out. Hackers looking for info that can be turned into money do not waste their time all the Internet services in one country all at once.<br><br>This is bad for the country because the Bush Presidency's view of the world never acknowledged that what other countries considered their interests should be respected. This has come to roost w/ Russia. Russia's entire history is about every body running back and forth,  across, and up and down w/ impunity.  Every last leaders entire reputation depended upon them protecting Russia from the outsiders. It started w/ the Czars and  reached its heights under the Communists.<br><br>What is really bad is this is Condi's specialty. In eight years she could not get President Bush to understand that what ever Bush saw in Putin's soul it was driven by this historical perspective. Kosovo was the last straw for Putin. Here was a piece of a sovereign territory spinning of from its home country(we have to skip the nationalistic aspects of both situations moral equivalence issues)which Russia had always supported(they are Slavs) and going out on their own w/ the support of NATO and the US(peacekeeping again). Putin couldn't do anything about it.<br><br>So now we are seen as powerless to intercede w/ someone whom has nukes-the centrifuges are humming now, incapable of maintaining a common sense relationship w/ allies in precarious situations and have thrown our European allies to the wolves(heavily dependent on Russia for energy) because we can't watch our own interests.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_23:37:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "RobM", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1210787": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "dj:   CO-SIGNING BIG TIME!!!!!   Thanks!!   :&gt;)  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_12:28:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1210041, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1227825": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Lou Dobbs is trying to hang on to the world the way he knows it.  Sorry Lou it's changing.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_22:50:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1223112, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1228203": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That album and Live in Japan are arguably the best live recordings of any jazz vocalist I've ever heard.<br><br>My favorite non-live recording is Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown. Her rendition of \"April in Paris\" is otherworldly.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_23:38:47", "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": 1209032, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1215406": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Who said Obama wasn't tough? <br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/13/obama-ad-mccains-war-poli_n_118696.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">This ad</a> is downright catty.<br><br>There's so much mendacity in the place, Barack had to go and get all feline.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_15:30:35", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1211312": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "...she WISHES.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_12:59:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "blksista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1210469, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1211825": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "First of all the org. you belong to Vets for endless war or whatever is a 527 who is campaigning for your OLD candidate so stop lying and saying re thug ligan 527 don't exist.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_13:24:13", "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": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1210923, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1229235": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I love those photos.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_00:18:13", "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": 1228011, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1211829": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Cause he's Barack Obama. AP doesn't need a reason.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_13:24:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1211691, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1222583": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "What century is this?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_18:50:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1222213, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1216952": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Good one!  LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_15:57:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1210808, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1215221": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Went over ta see what Roland Martin was talkin' 'bout:<br><br>He asked:   Is Mark Penn That Dumb??<br><br>His logic:  Mark Penn is talkin' smack on Mr. Obama.<br>                   Mr. Obama won the primaries.<br>                   Mr. Obama has, as tradition goes, asked his supporters [mainly the deep        pockets] to assist in paying billary's campaign debt [over $25 M].<br>                   Billary owes Penn over $10  M.<br>                   <br><br>BIG FINISH!!!!!!!!!<br><br>                  Would ya do a \"SMACK DOWN\" on the candidate whose supporters have been asked to DONATE to the LOSER?????  And you think you gonna get any part of that $10M????<br><br>Brother Roland:  I love simple multiple choice questions, i.e.,   YES or NO!!<br><br>DING!   DING!   DING!!  the answer is YES!!!!!    Yaaaaaaaaa.   I win!!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>Whew!  Exhausted Deep Breaths!!  :&gt;)     :&gt;)   :&gt;)     :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_15:14:58", "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": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1217472": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "McCain's Top Foreign Policy Advisor Got Money From Georgia<br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/13/mccains-top-foreign-polic_n_118743.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/13/mccain...</a><br><br>...punks.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_16:32:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1216449": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Ok....don't flame me for this.  <br><br>But I've been wondering about this 'angry' charge for some time.  I'm a  little interested in body language and facial expressions and how the subconscious reads that kind of stuff.  I do believe it has some racial roots....but I also think that Michelle has very sharply arched eyebrows, they don't taper gently.  They look sort of like v's.  Also, there are two vertical lines between her brows, which you could interpret as worry, but many do interpret it as anger.  It could also be something benign like chronic sinus pressure or weak eye muscles.  I think people are reading it as anger because they have no other frame of reference for black women.<br><br>I have wondered if she grew her brows in a little and softened the taper, then got some botox to relax the muscles between her brows....If the reaction would be different.<br><br>Barack's brows go straight across, with no exaggerated expression..they're sort of neutral looking.  The muscles in his face are relaxed.<br><br>Cindy has an extremely severe looking face.  Very thin lips that she paints bright red.  Her eyes are icy, pale blue which are lined with black (inappropriate for an older woman), creating an evil, empty look.  Reported back pain has caused the muscles in her face to freeze in a pained expression....and losing weight didn't help either.  Her skin is deathly pale.  When you look at her, what do you think?:....German dominatrix.<br><br>As for McCain, he just looks pale and melted.  His irises are unnaturally black, without reflections or depth.   As a couple, they paint an image of illness and death.<br><br>I think we're reading all this things automatically and overlaying what we consciously believe.  If you have a limited racial vocabulary, then the eyebrows spell \"angry\" only.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_15:51:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1208814, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1217474": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.groupnewsblog.net/2008/08/stinky.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Somebody else fed up with McCain getting a free pass</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_16:32:30", "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": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1221622": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Just wondering did Randy Shuereman or however you spell his name cash that bribe from Georgia yet.You know he is McCain's foreign policy advisor who is also a registered foreign agent for the country of Georgia", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_17:37:18", "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": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1217806, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1215431": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "And, just that quickly, <a href=\"http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3436954\" rel=\"nofollow\">it's a right wing assassination attempt.</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_15:32:11", "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": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1214837, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1223112": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Lou Dobbs is busy doing the devil's work on CNN.  He says that enforcing English only at school recess is not anti-Spanish..it's pro English.   I guess I can extrapolate that to enforcing White only is not anti-black, it's pro White...    Whatever.<br><br>Rah Rah English!!!!  The defenders of English are like the Defenders of Marriage.  Even the British don't speak English anymore.  Well at least, not King James' English.   Earth to Dobbs, language is a shifting, morphing thing.  It arises spontaneously out of the human experience.    <br><br> Er, and English also arose from Latin....as in Latino.  Perhaps modern English wishes to return to it's ancient roots...LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_19:46:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1221577": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Sure.  Those basic lines like upturned v's or sharply angled lines represent ideas and could be a precursor to words/writing/language.  I think they're called 'ideograms'.  Basic lines that represent ideas or emotions   Illustrators know to represent anger or surprise on a cartoon, they use upturned v's and sharply angled brows.  Water is represented by wavy lines...etc.  They escape our conscious notice most of the time and go straight to the limbic system.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_17:33:47", "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": 1217336, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1221825": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "This will be my last post here - the constant drama and concentration on the negatives depresses me, so I've got to go away for awhile.  But I'm not sure this was ever posted -  <a href=\"http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25890669/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mark Whitaker Named D.C. Bureau Chief at NBC</a><blockquote><b>NBC News recently announced that [African-American] Whitaker assumes many off-camera duties held by the late Tim Russert, including being in charge of \"Meet the Press\" and NBC News election and political coverage.</b></blockquote>A tout a'leure.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_17:54:59", "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": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1202123": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "When did Alan Colmes get a backbone?? I'm sure he'll be reprimanded today though:<br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPjr84VklN4\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPjr84VklN4</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_08:02:14", "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": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1215442": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Just hear an Olympics commentator say that    \"Michael Phelps is a Tiger in speedos!\"<br><br>They further explained that Michael not only wants to win, but he wants to DESTROY HIS COMPETITION!   He's that competitive, like Tiger Woods!<br><br>NOW!  At first blush, this might [I'm hedging] sound somewhat complimentary to Mr. Woods.   But wait . . . Do I hear that \"dog whistle blasting in my ear, AGAIN???<br><br>\"Whycome\" Michael has to be compared to TIGER??  Federer, Nadal, Roddick, Connors, MacEnroe, etc. are/were ALL FIERCE COMPETITORS who wish/wished to UTTERLY DESTROY THEIR OPPONENTS!  <br><br>I know, she said rhetorically.  They were trying ta say that there was something ARROGANT, maybe even UPPITY about Michael's ATTITUDE -  like TIGER,   maybeeeee, even like      - - - - - MR. OBAMA!!   AHA!!!  :&gt;)<br><br>Can we say that \"Mr. Obama Goes To The Olympics\"????<br><br><br>No.  But we CAN say that       \"MR. OBAMA GOES TO WASHINGTON!!!\"<br><br>C ya at the \"HOUSE  - the White House, that is!!!<br><br>Boo-yah!!!!    :&gt;)    :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_15:32:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1217492": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Oh so <i>noooooow</i> it's disrespectful to crack wise about Cindy McCain.  <br><br>But if it were Michelle Obama, the inevitable jokes would be \"no big deal\", or \"I don't see the problem\" or other such minimizing.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_16:33:54", "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": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1217083, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1221590": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I know.  Reading that made me have a flashback to his \"Nigger Family\" skit.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_17:34:23", "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": 1211639, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1214936": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "town:  Standin'  \"O\"!!!   ROFLMAO!!!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_14:52:40", "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": 1210808, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1229273": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "As I said before,<br>Vlad is a gangster.<br>A straight up, no holds barred GANGSTER.<br><br>The former head of the KGB.<br>The man has assassinated his political rivals, across the world, in broad daylight, for all the world to see. <br><br>AND, he stole 30 BILLION. <br><br>You think he's afraid of Shrub and McAncient? <br><br>Hell-to-the-naw. <br><br>Not in this lifetime.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_00:26:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1227866, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1210843": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That NYMag profile is ridiculous. So Obama has a \"princely air\" and Michelle has White Friends.  Wow. I really would like to know if that report actually asked those people about their race while conducting the interview.<br><br>People like this reporter want to act like the Black Middle class is some kind of inscrutable minority when then group has been among us for decades. During segregation, we had to have Black professionals because the White ones wouldn't do business with us.<br><br>The tone of that article is very patronizing and insulting.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_12:32:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "c9e6566377259ba2f122f727cc0fc8bf", "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": 1208719, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1223136": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Of course it didn't mean that second. <br><br>Here's how I took it: \"on my first day in office, we're gonna start pulling everyone out, regardles of what's going on, cause that what the people (my base) want.\" <br><br>And to me, that was unacceptable.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_19:48:10", "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": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1221708, "depth": 13, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1214946": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/13/13502/6044/154/567342\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hypocrisy, Hypocrisy, Hypocrisy...That is John McCain (w/video)</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_14:53:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "icebergslim", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1228027": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thailand especially is know for the child sex trade.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_23:17:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1225539, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1208804": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Recycling the playbook already?<br><br>Well, at least Warner was a governor before moving up in the world.......", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_11:09:18", "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": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1208735, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1222082": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "May whatever God you pray to may he/she have mercy on our souls.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_18:18:59", "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": 1221702, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1210861": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "For real. This is why Bill O'Reilly was so surprised when he went to Sylvia's, and the people were like actually civilized. lol", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_12:34:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "c9e6566377259ba2f122f727cc0fc8bf", "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": 1210808, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1208814": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I read it last night, Town. Wondered if I should do a post on it. <br><br><i>He could be ... Michelle. Or at least what Michelle represents: a smart, angry black person in the White House. \"<br></i><br><br>I just wanna know...where's this ANGRY Michelle that these people keep on seeing. As a Black person, shouldn't I be able to see it too? <br><br>Just asking.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_11:10:46", "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": 17, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1208565, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1215471": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Rev. Wright is not publishing a book in October as earlier reported.<br><br><a href=\"http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/08/sorry-billy-rev-wright-aint-pu.php\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/...</a><br><br>for that we all can say thank you.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_15:34:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "ruthdfw", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1211888": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "More <a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/13/123258/040/197/567291\" rel=\"nofollow\">crookery</a> from the crook.<br><br>Didn't some idiotic troll suggest that the Dangerous One knew something about foreign policy recently? <br><br>Pure mythology.<br><br>John McCain is UNFIT.....", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_13:27:55", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1218705": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Thing is, I didn't say Obama flipped. I would accuse him of shifting his position-from \"immediate\" withdrawal to \"conditions based\" withdrawal.<br><br>And again, to me, this isn't a bad thing. Others will accuse him of flip-flopping, and that will be what it is. To Obama's credit, he is now at least saying what I as a voter need to hear, far as Iraq goes. <br><br>Some dhimmicrats are so visceral in defending Obama that they miss what's really going on.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_17:08:11", "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": 9, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1218121, "depth": 11, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1217523": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Arkansas Democratic Party Chairman Shot, Critically Wounded In Attack<br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/13/arkansas-democratic-party_n_118720.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/13/arkans...</a><br><br>Cindy McCain sprains a wrist.....John says it's because someone shook her hand vigorously.  I knew that woman was going to snap a bone one day.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_16:35:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1207285": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Modus Operandi is not the <i>\"End of story.\"</i> It shows a pattern of behavior and thought that Obama continues to exhibit, e.g. even in his speeches.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_10:36:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "Karmi", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1207123, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1211894": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Okay OLD MAN since you say we are all Georgians now even though you didnt ask me to help you cash a check your a** cannot cover.The ball is now in your court.<br>GEORGIA'S PRESIDENT CHALLENGES MCCAIN<br>MOVE \"FROM WORDS TO DEEDS\"<br><a href=\"http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/08/13/georgian-president-to-mccain-move-from-words-to-deeds/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/08/13...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_13:28:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "djchefron", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1221623": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Clinton Bundler: Democratic Nomination Is Still Up For Grabs<br>by Steve Kornacki  |  August 13, 2008<br><br>Ricki Lieberman is one Hillraiser (the designation for those who raised over $100,000 for Hillary Clinton) who\u2019s not ready to give up the fight. Responding to Jason Horowitz\u2019s story in this week\u2019s Observer \u2013 in which Jason detailed the \u201cElectability Watch\u201d newsletter that she\u2019s been sending out every night since the Democratic primaries ended \u2013 Lieberman has written in to make it clear that her efforts are aimed at one goal: securing the Democratic nomination in two weeks for Hillary Clinton, who formally conceded the race on June 7.  Lieberman\u2019s full email follows:<br><br>To the Editor,<br><br>Jason Horowitz is correct in saying that coordinating the Electability Watch (EW) takes time.  Supporters of Senator Clinton across the country give time each week to \"do the EW\" - communicate thoughtfully with Super Delegates (SDs) to remind them that their only job in Denver is to select the electable candidate to bring Democrats back to the White House.  Regardless of previous commitments, SDs only count at the Convention where they have the responsibility to act in the best interests of the party and the country.<br><br>EWers provide updates to hundreds of SDs about electability, noting that Senator Clinton finished the primaries with 18 million votes, more than any other candidate ever, was leading in blue and swing states needed to clinch the Electoral College, and leading in polls against McCain.  We remind SDs that the more voters learned about Obama, the more they voted for Hillary, and that Obama is now virtually tied in the polls with McCain, not \"sealing the deal\".<br><br>The Democratic Party has no nominee.  Its presumptive nominee was selected, not elected, and Mile High Stadium notwithstanding, delegates go to Denver to select the Democratic candidate who can win in November.  We ask the Democratic Party to stop delegate intimidation and replacement, and to hold an open convention with a traditional nominating and roll call process such as was afforded Ted Kennedy in 1980 and even Howard Dean in 2004.  If that happens, we are confident that Senator Clinton will be the nominee and the President of the United States.  We are deeply fearful that to nominate Obama is to elect McCain.<br><br>Ricki Lieberman", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_17:37:23", "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": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1197560": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "That would be the DIVINE Sarah Vaughan. <br><br>Sassy Sarah. <br><br>She's my favorite singer of all time. There was nothing she couldn't sing and her range was off the charts.<br><br>Her voice was smooth, vulgar, sweet, velvety, raunchy, her vibrato so big you could drive a truck through it.<br><br>I love everything about her singing.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_07:31:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1217020": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.cnn.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.cnn.com/</a><br><br>Cindy McCain hospitalized.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_16:02:38", "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": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1210877": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I shouldn't be laughing, but its to keep from crying....Bill O'Lielly realy believes that's how we act, remember how shocked he was when he ate at Sylvia's in Harlem? We didn't eat with our feet or jump up on the tables or anything like that. Shocking I tell ya...simply shocking.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-13_12:35:13", "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": 1210808, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1217535": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "What <b>ruthdfw</b> said.<br><br>Thankfully, No Drama Obama continues to exhibit grace and good manners, since he has absolutely nothing to prove by being nasty to them in kind. <br><br>As current head of the DNC, he's won the primary, moved the headquarters to Chicago, has a huge lead in electoral votes, while continuing to demonstrate nothing except graciousness to the BJ Clintons, despite their gracelessness.  But folk still want him to act as alley as they do, <i>yet it ain't going to happen</i>.<br><br>Nothing changes with him allowing them to speak at the convention, and he loses nothing, nor is his power diminished in anyway.  I'm certain that there won't be a delegate count for her on the convention floor as well.<br><br>And why shouldn't he allow them spots?  She's the first woman to run a major presidential primary campaign and, until Obama became presumptive nominee, BJC was still the top dog Democratic leader, as the last Democrat to serve as president.<br><br>I'm unimpressed with Obama's armchair critics and the Chicken Littles who give way more power to the deposed Clintons than they give to the reigning Obama, or herself, Marueen \"I want him so bad I can't think straight\" Dowd.  As usual, Obama is doing what is right for him and the party, rather than what is politically expedient and/or ill-advised by archmair critics, thereby heaping hot coals on the heads of the Billy Jeff Clintons.<br><br>Over on Daily Kos, <b>wmtriallawyer</b> has posted an excellent diary that is analogous to what <b>ruth</b> and I espouse: <a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/13/10249/7070/267/567229\" rel=\"nofollow\">No Drama</a><blockquote><b>Perhaps it is the lull in the season, perhaps it is the fact that Obama is on vacation, perhaps it is the Olympics dominating the news cycle, but...a lot of us in the political realm and in the media are seeking the drama.  Drama good. 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	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=wednesday_open_thread_06' +
		'&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/wednesday_open_thread_06/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='	+ 'wednesday_open_thread_06'
			+ '&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/wednesday_open_thread_06/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">216</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/wednesday_open_thread_06/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/wednesday_open_thread_06/">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:2734019" 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/wednesday_open_thread_06/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:2734019" 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:2734019" 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'				: 'wednesday_open_thread_06',
			// 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/wednesday_open_thread_06/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='	+ 'wednesday_open_thread_06'
			+ '&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='	+ 'wednesday_open_thread_06'
			+ '&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='		+ 'wednesday_open_thread_06'
				+ '&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/2734019/realtime.js?timestamp=' + last_checked);
		}
	};

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

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

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

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

}();

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

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

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

	return obj;
}();

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		if (isblank(openid_url)) {
			return;
		}

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	return obj;
}();


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





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

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

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

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

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

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





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

		
		for(var prop in Dsq.Themes[theme]) {
			if(Dsq.Themes[theme] && Dsq.Themes[theme].hasOwnProperty(prop)) {
				Dsq.Templates[prop] = Dsq.Themes[theme][prop];
			}
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1208565">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1208565" class="dsq-comment-message">NY Magazine "examines" the racial politics of the Obama marriage:<br><br><a href="http://nymag.com/news/features/49139/" rel="nofollow">http://nymag.com/news/features/49139/</a><br><br>Choice lines in the story:<br><br>"As much as any political campaign is an extended meditation on authenticity, the question of just how black the Obamas are has become particularly loaded. Michelle must project herself as black to one community, but she also must act white to another, whatever either adjective means nowadays."<br><br>How is Michelle "acting white?"  Let\'s read on.<br><br>“When we’re all together in Chicago, we like to play games like charades,” Michelle tells us. “We also love a busy house, which means potluck dinners with our close friends and family as often as we can.” We have little idea of the racial makeup of such potlucks."<br><br>I wonder what the racial makeup of John & Cindy McCain\'s get togethers are?  Or Billary\'s, or John Edwards, or Mike Huckabee\'s or Mitt Romney\'s.  Nobody questions the "racial makeup" of their get togethers, but we must wonder what the racial makeup of the Obamas\' get togethers are?<br><br>"Obama is particularly comfortable in front of black audiences, who inspire him to be passionate and energetic. Watching him, I wondered if in this context he would use the N-word, if only to make a point. "<br><br>So when black people get together, we just all break out into saying "nigger?"  It\'s just as natural for blacks to say it as rain and snow showers?<br><br>After much blathering about Obama, in an article called "The Racial Politics of the Obama Marriage," the author finally gets to the racial politics of the Obama marriage:<br><br>"Even if Obama is the kind of black politician that middle-American white voters can get behind, the secret fear is that he could be a black Trojan horse with all sorts of passengers like Wright—or onetime compadres Bernie Mac and Ludacris—peeping out from under the canvas. He could be ... Michelle. Or at least what Michelle represents: a smart, angry black person in the White House. "<br><br>You got that?  We can\'t have a SMART, angry black person in the White House.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1215765">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1215765" class="dsq-comment-message">town:  So does this mean that WHEN Mr. Obama WINS, he hasta live in the "slave quarters"??   <br><br>I\'m jes askin\' . . . . .   ;&gt;)   :&gt;)  :&gt;)<br><br>Good post!!  Always in ANALYTICAL MODE!!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1211678">TRW</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1211678" class="dsq-comment-message">You know, maybe Black people wouldn\'t be so freakin\' angry if we didn\'t have to put up with hatchet jobs like the one in this magazine.  <br><br>Can we please get a reporter who at least has a clue as to what she is writing about.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1208814">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1208814" class="dsq-comment-message">I read it last night, Town. Wondered if I should do a post on it. <br><br><i>He could be ... Michelle. Or at least what Michelle represents: a smart, angry black person in the White House. "<br></i><br><br>I just wanna know...where\'s this ANGRY Michelle that these people keep on seeing. As a Black person, shouldn\'t I be able to see it too? <br><br>Just asking.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1208925">Micheline</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1208925" class="dsq-comment-message">co-sign.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1209040">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1209040" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m still pissed at the "Would Obama drop the N-word around a black audience?" bit.<br><br>Do white people really think we all get together and have nigger sing a longs when we\'re by ourselves?<br><br>How is Michelle "acting black" around black people but acting "white" around white people?  And why wonder about the racial makeup of the Obama\'s potluck dinners?</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1209960" href="http://thisblksistaspage.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">blksista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1209960" class="dsq-comment-message">Double co-sign.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1210049">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1210049" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>nigger sing-a-longs</i><br><br>Oh Town!<br><br>On point. <br><br>I wanna know how she\'s acting Black too. <br><br>And, I don\'t give a rat\'s ass who is at the Obama potluck dinners, and they\'d never even question who was at the McCain ones. <br><br>And what if it IS all Black folk. Something wrong about that? <br><br>How about YOUR potluck dinners, Ms. Writer. Who\'s at YOUR dinner table?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1210808">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1210808" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s sad but there are white folks who actually think we get up in the morning, kiss our significant other and/or kids and say "Good morning nigga."<br><br>And when we leave for work, we say "See ya later, nigga."<br><br>Then when we get home after work, we say "Nigga didn\'t I tell you to put the pot roast on as soon as you got home from work?"<br><br>Which will be answered with "Nigga I know you tole me but I forgot.  I\'ll go to KFC and get a bucket."<br><br>At KFC, the girl says,<br><br>"Welcome to KFC nigga.  How can I take your order?"<br><br>And then you say,<br><br>"Nigga, I want a 8 piece bucket with some corn on the cob.  Do you have any muthaphukkin\' ice tea?<br><br><br>And she says<br><br>"Naw we ain\'t got no muthaphukkin ice tea, nigga!  We got Pepsi Products all up and thru here!"<br><br>And when we get home at night:<br><br>"Good night John Boy."<br><br>"Good night, nigga."<br><br>Wash, rinse, repeat.<br><br><br>[/eyeroll]</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1210861">Marvy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1210861" class="dsq-comment-message">For real. This is why Bill O\'Reilly was so surprised when he went to Sylvia\'s, and the people were like actually civilized. lol</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1210877">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1210877" class="dsq-comment-message">I shouldn\'t be laughing, but its to keep from crying....Bill O\'Lielly realy believes that\'s how we act, remember how shocked he was when he ate at Sylvia\'s in Harlem? We didn\'t eat with our feet or jump up on the tables or anything like that. Shocking I tell ya...simply shocking.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1210890" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1210890" class="dsq-comment-message">That is hilarious.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1211639" href="http://realpeeplz.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">smoothie</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1211639" class="dsq-comment-message">Town, <br>somewhere Dave Chappelle is saying this is why I quit! <br>So on point, it hurts to laugh....painful pun intended...</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1221590">MsKitty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1221590" class="dsq-comment-message">I know.  Reading that made me have a flashback to his "Nigger Family" skit.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1212633">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1212633" class="dsq-comment-message">*DEAD*</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1214936">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1214936" class="dsq-comment-message">town:  Standin\'  "O"!!!   ROFLMAO!!!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1216952">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1216952" class="dsq-comment-message">Good one!  LOL</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1217558">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1217558" class="dsq-comment-message">Town...Town...Town..<br><br>So on point</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1216449">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1216449" class="dsq-comment-message">Ok....don\'t flame me for this.  <br><br>But I\'ve been wondering about this \'angry\' charge for some time.  I\'m a  little interested in body language and facial expressions and how the subconscious reads that kind of stuff.  I do believe it has some racial roots....but I also think that Michelle has very sharply arched eyebrows, they don\'t taper gently.  They look sort of like v\'s.  Also, there are two vertical lines between her brows, which you could interpret as worry, but many do interpret it as anger.  It could also be something benign like chronic sinus pressure or weak eye muscles.  I think people are reading it as anger because they have no other frame of reference for black women.<br><br>I have wondered if she grew her brows in a little and softened the taper, then got some botox to relax the muscles between her brows....If the reaction would be different.<br><br>Barack\'s brows go straight across, with no exaggerated expression..they\'re sort of neutral looking.  The muscles in his face are relaxed.<br><br>Cindy has an extremely severe looking face.  Very thin lips that she paints bright red.  Her eyes are icy, pale blue which are lined with black (inappropriate for an older woman), creating an evil, empty look.  Reported back pain has caused the muscles in her face to freeze in a pained expression....and losing weight didn\'t help either.  Her skin is deathly pale.  When you look at her, what do you think?:....German dominatrix.<br><br>As for McCain, he just looks pale and melted.  His irises are unnaturally black, without reflections or depth.   As a couple, they paint an image of illness and death.<br><br>I think we\'re reading all this things automatically and overlaying what we consciously believe.  If you have a limited racial vocabulary, then the eyebrows spell "angry" only.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1217336">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1217336" class="dsq-comment-message">TruthSeeker:  These are interesting observations.  I never noticed these things.  So, thanks.  :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1221577">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1221577" class="dsq-comment-message">Sure.  Those basic lines like upturned v\'s or sharply angled lines represent ideas and could be a precursor to words/writing/language.  I think they\'re called \'ideograms\'.  Basic lines that represent ideas or emotions   Illustrators know to represent anger or surprise on a cartoon, they use upturned v\'s and sharply angled brows.  Water is represented by wavy lines...etc.  They escape our conscious notice most of the time and go straight to the limbic system.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1208911">Micheline</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1208911" class="dsq-comment-message">Unbelievable!!! I can\'t believe they published this racist s**t. The author is projecting her racist fantasies onto the Obamas. Isn\'t  New York magazine liberal? Lord give me strength  to get through this election.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1209483">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1209483" class="dsq-comment-message">SMH.......Pilgrims....that\'s all I\'ll say....this is how PILGRIMS think.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1209793">MsKitty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1209793" class="dsq-comment-message">I know I\'m becoming an angry black person by being subjected by all the dogwhistling going on in the media.  They think they\'re being slick but aren\'t fooling anyone.  Just call Barack and Michelle n****** and be done with it.  Sheesh.<br><br>&lt;/mini-rant&gt;<br><br>P.S. and didn\'t appreciate the posthumous dig at Bernie Mac either.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1210030" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1210030" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1210030" class="dsq-comment-message">She probably wrote it before Bernie Mac died but yeah, I get your point.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1218150">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1218150" class="dsq-comment-message">MsKitty:  Are you suggesting a "MEDIA CATHARSIS!?"   Yell it out!!  Then go back to "dog whistle" mode!!!!<br><br>Plausible strategy, as long as you promise them that they won\'t have ta have "follow-up" therapy!    :&gt;)   :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1209977" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1209977" class="dsq-comment-message">Co-signing once again.  I didn\'t see this when I posted my link - I was probably typing.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1228179" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1228179" class="dsq-comment-message">Have mercy. I go away for the day, and come back to see this nonsense.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1229029">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1229029" class="dsq-comment-message">Racial politics of a marriage - WTF!!!!!<br><br>What does having the ability to communicate with all kinds have to do with one\'s marriage?  WTF.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1197560" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1197560" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1197560" class="dsq-comment-message">That would be the DIVINE Sarah Vaughan. <br><br>Sassy Sarah. <br><br>She\'s my favorite singer of all time. There was nothing she couldn\'t sing and her range was off the charts.<br><br>Her voice was smooth, vulgar, sweet, velvety, raunchy, her vibrato so big you could drive a truck through it.<br><br>I love everything about her singing.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1209032" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1209032" href="http://thisblksistaspage.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">blksista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1209032" class="dsq-comment-message">My hard bopping stepdad had her albums.  <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_Mister_Kelly%27s" rel="nofollow">Especially this one.</a><br><br>Gave it \'back\' to my dad last year.  He was thrilled.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1228203" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1228203" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1228203" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1228203" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1228203" class="dsq-comment-message">That album and Live in Japan are arguably the best live recordings of any jazz vocalist I\'ve ever heard.<br><br>My favorite non-live recording is Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown. Her rendition of "April in Paris" is otherworldly.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1215133" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1215133">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1215133" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1215133" class="dsq-comment-message">How you say?......Word</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1195327" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1195327">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1195327" class="dsq-comment-message">Obama raises $1.3 million at Hawaii fundraiser By NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writer <br>1 hour, 29 minutes ago</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1206827" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1206827">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1206827" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1206827" class="dsq-comment-message">how did Pickler find a way to slam Obama. After all, she\'s from AP, and that\'s what they do.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1211691" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1211691" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1211691" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1211691" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1211691" class="dsq-comment-message">What did she slam him for?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1211829" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1211829" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1211829">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1211829" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1211829" class="dsq-comment-message">Cause he\'s Barack Obama. AP doesn\'t need a reason.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1215237" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1215237" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1215237" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1215237" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1215237" class="dsq-comment-message">True that.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1196960" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1196960">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1196960" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1196960" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m ashamed to say I only discovered the beauty of Sarah Vaughn\'s voice listening to Quincy Jones "Back on the Block" CD.........her voice is like slowly pouring chocolate. They really dont make\'em like tha t anymore. I guess that\'s why I\'m such a Chrisette Michelle fan. She\'s an old soul for sure.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1215090" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1215090">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1215090" class="dsq-comment-message">Sarah is fabulous!<br><br>I wonder if I could persuade Rikyrah to put up a pic of Shirley Horn as well.   Best song: \'Once I Loved\' on Antonio Carlos Jobim songbook, and \'And I love him\' from Travelin\' Light.<br><br>Both amazing women!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1215308" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1215308" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1215308" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1215308" class="dsq-comment-message">Shirley Horn runs very close to Sarah when it comes to my most adored vocalists.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1198625" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1198625" href="http://www.brownmanthinkinghard.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Brown Man</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1198625" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1198625" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'ve heard a constant refrain lately – at work, on TV, on the internet – from a vocal contingent of us exclaiming why they are wary of Barack Obama.<br><br>I\'m doing a blog series this week titled <b><a href="http://simplifythepositive.blogspot.com/2008/08/what-do-we-want-five-part-series-begins.html" rel="nofollow">"What Do We Want?"</a></b> which will explore some of the issues that underlie this intraracial discord within black America.<br><br><b>Today\'s topic: Does <a href="http://simplifythepositive.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">"No Negro Left Behind" Trump "Yes We Can"?</a></b></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1207137" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1207137">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1207137" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1207137" class="dsq-comment-message">I just read the first part of the series...great stuff! I\'m definitely passing it on.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1202123" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1202123">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1202123" class="dsq-comment-message">When did Alan Colmes get a backbone?? I\'m sure he\'ll be reprimanded today though:<br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPjr84VklN4" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPjr84VklN4</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1206954" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1206954">carolinagirl</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1206954" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh, he sure will be reprimanded. Sean KKKlanity let the genie out of the bottle. And his excuse? "Oh, that was 30 years ago!!! He got beat down for 5 years. It was a different circumstance!!!" Excuse me, but WTF???</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1215289" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1215289">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1215289" class="dsq-comment-message">Ha!  Thanks for that.  They pick someone to represent the liberal viewpoint who looks sickly, is not very attractive and has a reedy voice  (no disrespect to Colmes) it\'s so obvious...That day he rocked it!  Good for him.  Now, I\'d like him to tell Hannity to shut the f*ck up.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1205507" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1205507">djchefron</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1205507" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1205507" class="dsq-comment-message">Voter Registration Numbers --- Florida<br><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/12/14317/7233/527/565960" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/12/143...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1206130" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1206130" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1206130" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1206130" class="dsq-comment-message">You can <a href="http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/player.html?assetid=te3h-bj-sd24-081308-155805&channelcode=sportte" rel="nofollow">watch Serena Williams LIVE</a> right now at the Olympics. She\'s down a set but up a break in the second. It\'s 9:07 AM EDT</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1207178" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1207178">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1207178" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1207178" class="dsq-comment-message">Something else the mainstream media will ignore. McCain has absolutely no qualms with who raises money for him, no matter what shady dealings they\'ve had in the past:<br><br><a href="http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/mccain-ignoring-calls-to-cancel-controversial-fundraiser-2008-08-12.html" rel="nofollow">http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/mccain-igno...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1208519" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1208519">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1208519" class="dsq-comment-message">McCain: Let\'s Compound the Blunder!<br><br><a href="http://www.belgraviadispatch.com/2008/08/mccain_clueless.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.belgraviadispatch.com/2008/08/mccain...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1208719" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1208719" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1208719" class="dsq-comment-message">From New York magazine, the latest "Barack isn\'t as black (bad) as Michelle who is "too black" - except when she goes to fundraisers and hangs around white people (she then "acts white").  Seriously!<br><br><b>Black & Blacker: The Racial Politics of The Obama Marriage by Vanessa Grigoriadis </b><br><br><a href="http://nymag.com/news/features/49139/" rel="nofollow">http://nymag.com/news/features/49139/</a><br><br>And check out the cover with a menacing Michelle lurking in the black background.  Oooh! Scary!    Can\'t wait for New York to hire a Black writer to write about "The Racial Politics of the McCain Marriage"<br><br>Oh, and speaking of "scary", a frowning Michelle is also on the cover of Radar.  I haven\'t read it yet  (I\'ve got to get back to work!) but the story is called "What\'s So Scary About Michelle Obama? An Inside Guide to America\'s Next First Lady."   <a href="http://www.radaronline.com/from-the-magazine/2008/08/september_2008_table_of_contents.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.radaronline.com/from-the-magazine/20...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1208959" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1208959">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1208959" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1208959" class="dsq-comment-message">isn\'t Radar the magazine of Jesse Jackson\'s Son that supported Hillpatine during the primaries?<br><br>just asking.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1209582" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1209582" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1209582" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1209582" class="dsq-comment-message">Yep. Yusef Jackson <a href="http://gawker.com/tag/backstory/?i=5024036&t=yusef-jacksons-money" rel="nofollow">http://gawker.com/tag/backstory/?i=5024036&t=yu...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1210039" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1210039" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1210039">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1210039" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1210039" class="dsq-comment-message">Maybe Yusef needs to assign someone to examine the politics of his parents\' marriage?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1210088" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1210088" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1210088" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1210088" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1210088" class="dsq-comment-message">Ouch!  But... different magazine (he publishes Radar not New York).</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1210843" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1210843" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1210843">Marvy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1210843" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1210843" class="dsq-comment-message">That NYMag profile is ridiculous. So Obama has a "princely air" and Michelle has White Friends.  Wow. I really would like to know if that report actually asked those people about their race while conducting the interview.<br><br>People like this reporter want to act like the Black Middle class is some kind of inscrutable minority when then group has been among us for decades. During segregation, we had to have Black professionals because the White ones wouldn\'t do business with us.<br><br>The tone of that article is very patronizing and insulting.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1208735" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1208735" href="http://realpeeplz.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">smoothie</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1208735" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1208735" class="dsq-comment-message">Looks like<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/08/13/ST2008081301060.html" rel="nofollow">Mark Warner</a> will be giving the keynote speach.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1208804" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1208804" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1208804" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1208804" class="dsq-comment-message">Recycling the playbook already?<br><br>Well, at least Warner was a governor before moving up in the world.......</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1211394" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1211394" href="http://realpeeplz.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">smoothie</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1211394" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1211394" class="dsq-comment-message">I think he\'s a safe pick, and grabbing him helps dems in VA ..Of course if my memory serves, arent you guys going with Liebermann...whats that about?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1211687" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1211687" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1211687" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1211687" class="dsq-comment-message">Haven\'t heard that one. I don\'t think the current political world is ready for cross-party picks. For all that, we could go back to the Founding, where the person who lost the presidential election was the vice president.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1210214" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1210214" href="http://www.ilivetoshop.typepad.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ruthdfw</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1210214" class="dsq-comment-message">well it appears some on FF are upset with the Obamas trying to exert undue influence on military wives.  Now, these soliders can be trusted to protect our nation - but need to be protected from the political opinions of their spouses?<br><br>I did not read all of the comments or the article linked - just did not feel like picking a fight today.<br><br><a href="http://friendfeed.com/e/b3fde670-dbc3-40d9-93b3-139edc98770f/Obama-politicizes-military-spouses/" rel="nofollow">http://friendfeed.com/e/b3fde670-dbc3-40d9-93b3...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1217086">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1217086" class="dsq-comment-message">ruthdfw:   I hear ya. !!~  :&gt;)  :&gt;)  Sometimes I share and say  "It\'s not worth it."   :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1210469">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1210469" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/13/opinion/13dowd.html?_r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1218643312-avIH6yoELZF0qq45oVRWvg" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/13/opinion/13dow...</a><br><br>Maureen Dowd claims that it\'s Billary\'s convention, not Obama\'s.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1211312" href="http://thisblksistaspage.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">blksista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1211312" class="dsq-comment-message">...she WISHES.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1212501">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1212501" class="dsq-comment-message">Basically, she\'s saying that Obama wimped out by letting Billary have their way. <br><br>I can\'t lie. It does seem like he gave in to their whining. I hope and pray he doesn\'t let there be a roll call.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1217535" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1217535" class="dsq-comment-message">What <b>ruthdfw</b> said.<br><br>Thankfully, No Drama Obama continues to exhibit grace and good manners, since he has absolutely nothing to prove by being nasty to them in kind. <br><br>As current head of the DNC, he\'s won the primary, moved the headquarters to Chicago, has a huge lead in electoral votes, while continuing to demonstrate nothing except graciousness to the BJ Clintons, despite their gracelessness.  But folk still want him to act as alley as they do, <i>yet it ain\'t going to happen</i>.<br><br>Nothing changes with him allowing them to speak at the convention, and he loses nothing, nor is his power diminished in anyway.  I\'m certain that there won\'t be a delegate count for her on the convention floor as well.<br><br>And why shouldn\'t he allow them spots?  She\'s the first woman to run a major presidential primary campaign and, until Obama became presumptive nominee, BJC was still the top dog Democratic leader, as the last Democrat to serve as president.<br><br>I\'m unimpressed with Obama\'s armchair critics and the Chicken Littles who give way more power to the deposed Clintons than they give to the reigning Obama, or herself, Marueen "I want him so bad I can\'t think straight" Dowd.  As usual, Obama is doing what is right for him and the party, rather than what is politically expedient and/or ill-advised by archmair critics, thereby heaping hot coals on the heads of the Billy Jeff Clintons.<br><br>Over on Daily Kos, <b>wmtriallawyer</b> has posted an excellent diary that is analogous to what <b>ruth</b> and I espouse: <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/13/10249/7070/267/567229" rel="nofollow">No Drama</a><blockquote><b>Perhaps it is the lull in the season, perhaps it is the fact that Obama is on vacation, perhaps it is the Olympics dominating the news cycle, but...a lot of us in the political realm and in the media are seeking the drama.  Drama good. Boring bad.</b></blockquote></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1221760">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1221760" class="dsq-comment-message">99%:  Co-signing!!</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1214767" href="http://www.ilivetoshop.typepad.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ruthdfw</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1214767" class="dsq-comment-message">As much as I dislike her, she did have historic support too and that should be acknowledged.  Bill is the former president, and once a popular president so you have to give due where it is there.  Judging by his comments last week, I don\'t think it is his plan to let them take a roll call.  But if he does, I won\'t be happy about it - but folks to do otherwise, is a bit undemocratic isn\'t it?<br><br>Yes I know they can\'t be trusted but barring a massive exodus does it matter?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1221821">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1221821" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes, it does matter.<br><br>Her "historic support" is acknowledged every time she or one of her surrogates (falsely) talk about how she had 18 million voters. What more does she want? <br><br>This is Obama\'s time, but Billary is trying to takeover in the name of "women\'s rights" and "democracy". They could give a rat\'s ass about women or democracy. All they care about is themselves and how they can undermine Obama\'s run and prepare for 2012 and it shouldn\'t be allowed. Period.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1227990">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1227990" class="dsq-comment-message">Hillary \'s shenanigans will only make the victory sweeter.  Obama will stick to his plan as he has along.  I\'m not worried about what the Clintons will do at the convention.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1228945" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1228945" class="dsq-comment-message">I stopped reading her awhile back. Her writing voice has gotten far to sarcastic for my liking.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1210498">djchefron</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1210498" class="dsq-comment-message">McCain\'s Lobbyists Raked In $1 Billion From U.S. Clients, Study Says<br><a href="http://www.campaignmoney.org/pressroom/2008/08/13/the-nearly-1-billion-connection-mccain-and-his-lobbyists-clients" rel="nofollow">http://www.campaignmoney.org/pressroom/2008/08/...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1210530">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1210530" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:   Pic  -  Her expression - sassy attitude!!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)    DING!   DING!   DING!    We have a WINNER!!!!   :&gt;)   <br><br>Thank you.   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1211027">Angela1</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1211027" class="dsq-comment-message">From <a href="http://www.boston.com" rel="nofollow">www.boston.com</a>  also check out <a href="http://www.mccainslobbyists.com" rel="nofollow">www.mccainslobbyists.com</a><br><br>"Watchdog group spotlights McCain lobbyists<br>by Foon Rhee, deputy national political editor August 13, 2008 11:10 AM <br><br>A campaign finance watchdog group that has been going after John McCain\'s campaign and its lobbyist connections reported this morning that his staffers, advisers, and top fund-raisers have received nearly $1 billion from domestic lobbying clients over the past decade. <br><br>Campaign Money Watch, analyzing data from the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, also said that employees and political action committees of the clients have donated nearly $12 million to McCain\'s campaigns over the years. <br><br>“The McCain campaign relies on big money lobbyists, and they’ll rely on him,” David Donnelly, director of Campaign Money Watch, said in a statement. “In the ‘you-scratch-my-back, I’ll-scratch-yours’ world of Washington, $931 million gets the special interests the best government money can buy. But just think of the payday these lobbyists might expect in a McCain Administration.”<br><br>The group launched a website today to focus more attention on McCain\'s lobbyists. “How can John McCain say he’ll reduce the influence of special interests in Washington, when he’s so fully dependent on lobbyists and their clients to finance his campaign?” Donnelly asked. “All candidates need to raise money, but is this exemplary of a candidate who claims he’ll tackle the special interests?” <br><br>While McCain has had to dismiss several top campaign aides because of their lobbyist ties and Democrat Barack Obama has eschewed campaign money from Washington lobbyists, independent observers say that lobbyists play an important role in how the federal government works. "</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1211888" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1211888" class="dsq-comment-message">More <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/13/123258/040/197/567291" rel="nofollow">crookery</a> from the crook.<br><br>Didn\'t some idiotic troll suggest that the Dangerous One knew something about foreign policy recently? <br><br>Pure mythology.<br><br>John McCain is UNFIT.....</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1211894">djchefron</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1211894" class="dsq-comment-message">Okay OLD MAN since you say we are all Georgians now even though you didnt ask me to help you cash a check your a** cannot cover.The ball is now in your court.<br>GEORGIA\'S PRESIDENT CHALLENGES MCCAIN<br>MOVE "FROM WORDS TO DEEDS"<br><a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/08/13/georgian-president-to-mccain-move-from-words-to-deeds/" rel="nofollow">http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/08/13...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1212603">djchefron</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1212603" class="dsq-comment-message">You just cannot make this  farce up, now it seems the OLD MAN foreign policy will be based on which country can bribed the OLD MAN\'s most trusted ad visors the most<br>Adviser\'s Firm Pockets $$ While Counseling McCain on Georgia<br><a href="http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/13/123258/040/197/567291" rel="nofollow">http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/13/123258/...</a></div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1213154" href="http://www.womanist-musings.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">womanistmusings</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1213154" class="dsq-comment-message">Kaylee Anthony is all over the media and yet there have been <a href="http://www.womanist-musings.com/2008/08/rielle-hunter-big-bad-whore.html" rel="nofollow">at least three children of color that have gone missing </a>where is their front page story?</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1213160" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1213160" class="dsq-comment-message">Another Democratic party insider/official shot.<br><br><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/13/133751/856/174/567330" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/13/133751/...</a></div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1214731" href="http://www.ilivetoshop.typepad.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ruthdfw</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1214731" class="dsq-comment-message">goodness i am sad to hear this and worry about any possible chilling effects it may have.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1213231" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1213231" class="dsq-comment-message">Barack\'s been rising in the Gallup tracking poll ever since he went on vacation.<br><br>Perhaps he better stay away, give McCain center stage, and let people see him for the imbecile he is.<br><br>But today\'s 6-point lead for Barack includes this "caveat":<br><br><I>Still, in a historical sense, the race remains fairly close and is similar to other open presidential races. In some of these cases (1960, 1988, 2000, and 2004) the lead switched between the two major party candidates over the convention period. Strong front-runners of past elections who ultimately won by big margins (presidential incumbents Bill Clinton in 1996, Ronald Reagan in 1984, Richard Nixon in 1972, and Lyndon Johnson in 1964) all led their opponents by more than 15 points in the pre-convention phase during those election years.</i><br><br>Isn\'t that rich. All the examples cited were for INCUMBENT presidents. <br><br>So who\'s being presumptuous now? Why compare this race to one where an INCUMBENT president was on the ticket?<br><br>There is no comparison.<br><br>Even Gallup\'s "analysts" are corporate shills.</I></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1213294">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1213294" class="dsq-comment-message">Rikyrah:  Seems as if Kaplan called LIEberman OUT!!!  "playing the oldest Jewish trick in the books!!"<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marty-kaplan/say-it-aint-jew-joe_b_118558.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marty-kaplan/say-...</a><br>Say It Ain\'t Jew, Joe<br><br>How do you say "UNCLE TOM" in JEWISH?  is what Kaplan was saying.   IMHO<br><br>I\'m just askin\' . . . . .   :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1215337" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1215337" class="dsq-comment-message"><blockquote><b>How do you say "UNCLE TOM" in JEWISH?</b></blockquote>Putz? <br><br>Schlub? <br><br>Schmuck?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1215536">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1215536" class="dsq-comment-message">99%:  Girl!! You got all the answers!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)  Didn\'t hafta go to a translator site!!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)  Thanks on the "Yiddish".  Hung out in a predominately Jewish university for some time.  Knew better!  Typed too fast!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1213544">djchefron</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1213544" class="dsq-comment-message">Ohio creates early voting, GOP threatens to sue <br><a href="http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/13/12543/4690/219/567277" rel="nofollow">http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/13/12543/4...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1213557">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1213557" class="dsq-comment-message">Sharing:   Obama Ad:  McCain\'s War Policy An Economic Disaster<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/13/obama-ad-mccains-war-poli_n_118696.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/13/obama-...</a></div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1214747" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1214747" class="dsq-comment-message">Random Stuff:<br><br><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080813/ap_on_re_us/navy_commander_fired" rel="nofollow">Navy relieves commander of air recon squadron </a></div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1214790" href="http://www.ilivetoshop.typepad.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ruthdfw</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1214790" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1214790" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/12/161159/016/595/566885" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/12/161...</a><br><br>John McCain, prescient or presumptuous?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1214840" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1214840" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1214840" class="dsq-comment-message">How about idiotic and crooked.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1214813">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1214813" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1214813" class="dsq-comment-message">HuffPost:   How Long Should A Spouse Be Celibate If Their Mate Is Ill?<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jill-brooke/how-long-should-a-spouse_b_118678.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jill-brooke/how-l...</a><br><br>Actually, this article is one of SUPPORT for EE.  Not much condemning of JE as the title would suggest.<br><br>It was first written for a web site that helps women who are contemplating, navigating or moving on from divorce.  It also doesn\'t condemn EE for staying with JE.  <br>"Politics is a business." says the author!!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1214837">RonnieB</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1214837" class="dsq-comment-message">Arkansas Democratic Party Chairman shot in his office; in critical condition.<br><a href="http://www.todaysthv.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=70759&catid=238" rel="nofollow">http://www.todaysthv.com/news/local/story.aspx?...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1215431" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1215431" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1215431" class="dsq-comment-message">And, just that quickly, <a href="http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3436954" rel="nofollow">it\'s a right wing assassination attempt.</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1215581" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1215581">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1215581" class="dsq-comment-message">Billary...?  Where you at?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1214946" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1214946" href="http://thisweekwithbarackobama.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">icebergslim</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1214946" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/13/13502/6044/154/567342" rel="nofollow">Hypocrisy, Hypocrisy, Hypocrisy...That is John McCain (w/video)</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1228967" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1228967" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1228967" class="dsq-comment-message">Thanks, iceberg.<br><br>Spread it.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1215221">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1215221" class="dsq-comment-message">Went over ta see what Roland Martin was talkin\' \'bout:<br><br>He asked:   Is Mark Penn That Dumb??<br><br>His logic:  Mark Penn is talkin\' smack on Mr. Obama.<br>                   Mr. Obama won the primaries.<br>                   Mr. Obama has, as tradition goes, asked his supporters [mainly the deep        pockets] to assist in paying billary\'s campaign debt [over $25 M].<br>                   Billary owes Penn over $10  M.<br>                   <br><br>BIG FINISH!!!!!!!!!<br><br>                  Would ya do a "SMACK DOWN" on the candidate whose supporters have been asked to DONATE to the LOSER?????  And you think you gonna get any part of that $10M????<br><br>Brother Roland:  I love simple multiple choice questions, i.e.,   YES or NO!!<br><br>DING!   DING!   DING!!  the answer is YES!!!!!    Yaaaaaaaaa.   I win!!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>Whew!  Exhausted Deep Breaths!!  :&gt;)     :&gt;)   :&gt;)     :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1215406" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1215406" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1215406" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1215406" class="dsq-comment-message">Who said Obama wasn\'t tough? <br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/13/obama-ad-mccains-war-poli_n_118696.html" rel="nofollow">This ad</a> is downright catty.<br><br>There\'s so much mendacity in the place, Barack had to go and get all feline.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1215442">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1215442" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1215442" class="dsq-comment-message">Just hear an Olympics commentator say that    "Michael Phelps is a Tiger in speedos!"<br><br>They further explained that Michael not only wants to win, but he wants to DESTROY HIS COMPETITION!   He\'s that competitive, like Tiger Woods!<br><br>NOW!  At first blush, this might [I\'m hedging] sound somewhat complimentary to Mr. Woods.   But wait . . . Do I hear that "dog whistle blasting in my ear, AGAIN???<br><br>"Whycome" Michael has to be compared to TIGER??  Federer, Nadal, Roddick, Connors, MacEnroe, etc. are/were ALL FIERCE COMPETITORS who wish/wished to UTTERLY DESTROY THEIR OPPONENTS!  <br><br>I know, she said rhetorically.  They were trying ta say that there was something ARROGANT, maybe even UPPITY about Michael\'s ATTITUDE -  like TIGER,   maybeeeee, even like      - - - - - MR. OBAMA!!   AHA!!!  :&gt;)<br><br>Can we say that "Mr. Obama Goes To The Olympics"????<br><br><br>No.  But we CAN say that       "MR. OBAMA GOES TO WASHINGTON!!!"<br><br>C ya at the "HOUSE  - the White House, that is!!!<br><br>Boo-yah!!!!    :&gt;)    :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1215471" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1215471" href="http://www.ilivetoshop.typepad.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ruthdfw</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1215471" class="dsq-comment-message">Rev. Wright is not publishing a book in October as earlier reported.<br><br><a href="http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/08/sorry-billy-rev-wright-aint-pu.php" rel="nofollow">http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/...</a><br><br>for that we all can say thank you.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1217020" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1217020">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1217020" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.cnn.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.cnn.com/</a><br><br>Cindy McCain hospitalized.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1217083" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1217083" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1217083" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1217083" class="dsq-comment-message">Cue the jokes.....and general disrespect.<br><br>See y\'all tomorrow.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1217492" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1217492">RonnieB</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1217492" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh so <i>noooooow</i> it\'s disrespectful to crack wise about Cindy McCain.  <br><br>But if it were Michelle Obama, the inevitable jokes would be "no big deal", or "I don\'t see the problem" or other such minimizing.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1217867" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1217867" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1217867" class="dsq-comment-message">The street runs both ways. <br><br>But the left wing has been a lot more visceral in their attacks on Cindy than the right has been on Michelle, in my opinion. It\'s definitely been that way here.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1218116">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1218116" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1218116" class="dsq-comment-message">Where is "here" because I must live in the opposite place "there".</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1217872">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1217872" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1217872" class="dsq-comment-message">This is way too easy for my talents.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1222846">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1222846" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1222846" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m with Miranda. This IS too easy.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1217126" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1217126">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1217126" class="dsq-comment-message">Someone shook her hand too hard.<br><br><a href="http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/17182197/detail.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/17182197/det...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1226752" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1226752">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1226752" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1226752" class="dsq-comment-message">so they say . . .</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1217047" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1217047" href="http://www.ilivetoshop.typepad.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ruthdfw</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1217047" class="dsq-comment-message">From Perot:  Next Presidnet will be a slave to Bush Economics<br><a href="http://perotcharts.com/2008/08/the-next-president-will-be-a-slave-to-bush-administration-fiscal-woes/" rel="nofollow">http://perotcharts.com/2008/08/the-next-preside...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1217159" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1217159">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1217159" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1217159" class="dsq-comment-message">Eat this, neo-cons:<br><br>The Great Corporate Tax Heist<br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-l-borosage/the-great-corporate-tax-h_b_118479.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-l-borosage...</a><br><br><br>Obama Adviser: McCain May Have Made Georgia Situation Worse<br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/13/obama-adviser-mccain-may_n_118640.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/13/obama-...</a><br><br>McCain is on tele mumbling like an idiot again. Talking, talking, talking... "I know Shaskavi..whazza?"  Does he have an email relationship with him like Scarletttttt had with Barack?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1217250" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1217250">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1217250" class="dsq-comment-message">Just got to CNN:  The Russians are "calling out" the US to choose sides!<br><br>My concern is:[No flaming, please]:  Is it appropriate for the presidential candidates to be all up in the Kool-aide?  WHERE IS THE SITTING PRESIDENT?????<br><br>Russia and Georgia are SERIOUS and are reading our news!  People have died.<br><br>Really, I\'m looking for advice.  Thank you.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1226506" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1226506">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1226506" class="dsq-comment-message">GreenLady - I told you all two days ago that Bush and McCain triggered this event by tricking the Georgian president into thinking they had his back.  And when he stepped to Russia - the US was no where to be found.  My thought was and I didn\'t voice all of it -- was think back a few months ago when one of the McCain top advisors said -- McCain needed another war to win this election.<br><br>Well Georgia thought McCain had his back as they took his money and now he is singing like a canary.  He called out not only Bush (by stating they led him to believe they would help him out and they told him that Russia would not attack) but he is now calling out McCain by name as well.<br><br>Sad sad sad.  All those lives lost for political reasons.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1227866" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1227866">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1227866" class="dsq-comment-message">Val,<br><br>I wouldn\'t be surprised if what you say is so.  I\'ve been very suspicious of the timing of this.  I also remember that statement about McCain needing a war to win.  They did set up Georgia.   Didn\'t they tell McCain that they want action, not a bunch of words?  Now, why would they address McCain and not Obama?  I think you are right that McCain has been in communications with them, and gave assurances.... which is why Saakashvili looks so much in distress.  He didn\'t count on things playing out this way.<br><br>One thing I know is the Russians are not stupid.  They are sharp and know what\'s up.  They called the bluff.<br><br>I wish Saakashvili would spill all the beans.  These men, Bush and McCain are dangerous.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1229273">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1229273" class="dsq-comment-message">As I said before,<br>Vlad is a gangster.<br>A straight up, no holds barred GANGSTER.<br><br>The former head of the KGB.<br>The man has assassinated his political rivals, across the world, in broad daylight, for all the world to see. <br><br>AND, he stole 30 BILLION. <br><br>You think he\'s afraid of Shrub and McAncient? <br><br>Hell-to-the-naw. <br><br>Not in this lifetime.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1228996" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1228996" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1228996" class="dsq-comment-message">Pure politics. <br><br>Most war is pure politics (and economics).<br><br>Make no mistake, human life has no value to the warmonger.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1229315">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1229315" class="dsq-comment-message">val:  Thank you.  :&gt;)    Ya know, they [other countries] will narc on U.S. without hesitation!  They have nothing to loose.  They have the   ---BIG FINISH - - <br>OIL!!!!   OIL DELIVERY ROUTES!  Did I say OIL????  :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>Again, thank you!   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1217415">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1217415" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1217415" class="dsq-comment-message">Both Parties Now Ignoring McCain<br><br><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/12/AR2008081202883.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...</a><br><br>Good read!!  Let\'s hope!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1217472" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1217472">TruthSeeker</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1217472" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1217472" class="dsq-comment-message">McCain\'s Top Foreign Policy Advisor Got Money From Georgia<br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/13/mccains-top-foreign-polic_n_118743.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/13/mccain...</a><br><br>...punks.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1217474" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1217474" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1217474">MsKitty</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1217474" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1217474" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.groupnewsblog.net/2008/08/stinky.html" rel="nofollow">Somebody else fed up with McCain getting a free pass</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1217523" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1217523">TruthSeeker</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1217523" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1217523" class="dsq-comment-message">Arkansas Democratic Party Chairman Shot, Critically Wounded In Attack<br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/13/arkansas-democratic-party_n_118720.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/13/arkans...</a><br><br>Cindy McCain sprains a wrist.....John says it\'s because someone shook her hand vigorously.  I knew that woman was going to snap a bone one day.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1222034" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1222034" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1222034">RonnieB</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1222034" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1222034" class="dsq-comment-message">Sadly, Mr. Gwatney passed away.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1222460" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1222460">TruthSeeker</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1222460" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1222460" class="dsq-comment-message">Thanks for the update, Ronnie.   It seems likely this was politically motivated.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1229021" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1229021" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1229021" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1229021" class="dsq-comment-message">It was an assassination.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1229204" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1229204">TruthSeeker</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1229204" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1229204" class="dsq-comment-message">i was just looking at the update on Hufington and wondering what the Clinton\'s had to do with this....LOL!<br><br>I\'m also stunned that it\'s not more in the news.  They are woking the Obama smear book.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1229346" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1229346" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1229346" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1229346" class="dsq-comment-message">There is no news. Only a cacophony of fictions.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1217585" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1217585" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1217585">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1217585" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1217585" class="dsq-comment-message">This comes under the heading:   "Where Have All The Repugs Gone?" [a 70\'s song, Where Have All The Flowers Gone]<br><br><a href="http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/08/13/1263992.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/08/...</a><br><br>Seems as if:    "Another GOP Senator To Skip Convention"<br><br>There are a "few" more names that have made the apologies about not attending.  Common excuse:   I\'m campaigning!<br><br>Common meaning:  I\'ll just take "MY NAP" some where else, if you don\'t mind!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1217623" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1217623">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1217623" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1217623" class="dsq-comment-message">CNN:  They\'re showing the author of the anti-Obama book!  Malveaux & others state that there are MANY LIES in that piece of TRASH!!!<br>The author says he\'s not a RACIST!!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)   :&gt;)   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>LAWD HA\'MERCY!!!!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1221883" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1221883" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1221883">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1221883" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1221883" class="dsq-comment-message">If these media talking heads know that this book is full of lies, why give it air time? <br><br>They ain\'t slick!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1222842" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1222842" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1222842">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1222842" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1222842" class="dsq-comment-message">Sepia:  But they\'re trying hard ta be.   NOT!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1229030" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1229030" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1229030" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1229030" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1229030" class="dsq-comment-message">Good question.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1218879" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1218879" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1218879" href="http://www.ilivetoshop.typepad.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ruthdfw</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1218879" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1218879" class="dsq-comment-message">McCain sending is own delegation to Georgia.<br><a href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/208358.php" rel="nofollow">http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/208358.php</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1221632" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1221632" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1221632">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1221632" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1221632" class="dsq-comment-message">Riddle me this:<br><br>IF Obama had done this, ________________________________</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1222015" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1222015" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1222015">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1222015" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1222015" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:      . . . .SEEE!  we told you he was "PRESUMPTUOUS"   [arrogant, uppity, etc]  !!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1221702" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1221702" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1221702">s</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1221702" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1221702" class="dsq-comment-message">Lieberman...McCain\'s Secretary of State?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1222082" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1222082" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1222082">djchefron</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1222082" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1222082" class="dsq-comment-message">May whatever God you pray to may he/she have mercy on our souls.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1219466" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1219466" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1219466">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1219466" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1219466" class="dsq-comment-message">CNN Alert: The Arkansas Democratic Chairman has died<br><a href="http://cnn.com" rel="nofollow">cnn.com</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1221602" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1221602" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1221602">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1221602" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1221602" class="dsq-comment-message">Barack Obama up in 4 polls<br><br>46O 43M - Pew National<br><br>48O 42M - Gallup Daily Tracking<br><br>46O 41M - Pennsylvania<br><br>51O 41M - New Jersey</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1221687" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1221687">djchefron</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1221687" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1221687" class="dsq-comment-message">A 6 point win will translate into over 300 electoral votes. Remember its the electoral college that elect presidents not polls.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1222422" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1222422" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1222422">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1222422" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1222422" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:   YAAAAAAAA!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1221676" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1221676" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1221676">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1221676" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1221676" class="dsq-comment-message">From FiveThirtyEight.com:<br><br><a href="http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/08/road-to-270-indiana.html" rel="nofollow">Road to 270: Indiana </a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1221903" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1221903" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1221903">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1221903" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1221903" class="dsq-comment-message">From The Field:<br><br>VP Tote Board<br><br><a href="http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/vp-tote-board-process-elimination" rel="nofollow">http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/vp-to...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1222213" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1222213" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1222213">TruthSeeker</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1222213" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1222213" class="dsq-comment-message">McCain: "In The 21st Century Nations Don\'t Invade Other Nations"<br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/13/mccain-in-the-21st-centur_n_118759.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/13/mccain...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1222583" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1222583" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1222583">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1222583" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1222583" class="dsq-comment-message">What century is this?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1229149" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1229149" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1229149" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1229149" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1229149" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL.<br><br>He\'s an idiot.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1223112" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1223112" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1223112">TruthSeeker</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1223112" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1223112" class="dsq-comment-message">Lou Dobbs is busy doing the devil\'s work on CNN.  He says that enforcing English only at school recess is not anti-Spanish..it\'s pro English.   I guess I can extrapolate that to enforcing White only is not anti-black, it\'s pro White...    Whatever.<br><br>Rah Rah English!!!!  The defenders of English are like the Defenders of Marriage.  Even the British don\'t speak English anymore.  Well at least, not King James\' English.   Earth to Dobbs, language is a shifting, morphing thing.  It arises spontaneously out of the human experience.    <br><br> Er, and English also arose from Latin....as in Latino.  Perhaps modern English wishes to return to it\'s ancient roots...LOL</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1227825" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1227825" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1227825">msmartin</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1227825" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1227825" class="dsq-comment-message">Lou Dobbs is trying to hang on to the world the way he knows it.  Sorry Lou it\'s changing.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1227909" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1227909" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1227909">TruthSeeker</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1227909" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1227909" class="dsq-comment-message">Yeah, and the irony is he\'s married to a woman of Mexican descent and his kids speak Spanish.  Do as I say, not as I do.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1389847" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1389847" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1389847">msmartin</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1389847" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1389847" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes always.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1389945" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1389945" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1389945">msmartin</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1389945" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1389945" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes always.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1229214" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1229214" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1229214" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1229214" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1229214" class="dsq-comment-message">English is a Germanic language.  Sure, Latin has influenced it, but the romance languages are more closely derived from Latin than English.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1229674" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1229674" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1229674">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1229674" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1229674" class="dsq-comment-message">TruthSeeker:  Hey!  That\'s what the KKK say!!!  So by further extrapolation, is Lou Dobbs a good candidate for membership  OR would the records show that he IS a member???</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1223353" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1223353" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1223353" href="http://www.ilivetoshop.typepad.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ruthdfw</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1223353" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1223353" class="dsq-comment-message">depending on whose sources are correct - collin powell may or may not plan to endorse Obama at the Dem convention.<br><br><a href="http://friendfeed.com/e/34837fed-c353-46a6-9b5b-5ff0d37baa8f/Kristol-Colin-Powell-to-Endorse-Barack/" rel="nofollow">http://friendfeed.com/e/34837fed-c353-46a6-9b5b...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1225539">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1225539" class="dsq-comment-message">LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Keith Olbermann just put a nice lashing on Rush Limbarf....LOL. Wow....its really gonna be a shame when they find out why ole Rush really likes taking those "exotic" vacations to Thailand and the Dominican Repulic...oh, its REALLY gonna be a shame.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1228027" class="dsq-comment-message">Thailand especially is know for the child sex trade.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1228004" class="dsq-comment-message">"Hillary Spammers" Ask Pollsters To Include Clinton In Pre-Convention Surveys<br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stephen-c-rose/pollers-asked-by-spammers_b_118546.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stephen-c-rose/po...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1228011" class="dsq-comment-message">Obama\'s Hawaiian Vacation (PHOTOS)<br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/13/obamas-hawaiian-vacation_n_118677.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/13/obamas...</a><br><br>Some lovely photos of Obama and his girls in Hawaii.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1229235" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1229235" class="dsq-comment-message">I love those photos.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1229707">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1229707" class="dsq-comment-message">TruthSeeker:   Nice pics!!!   Thanks!!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1228194" class="dsq-comment-message">Over at Nat Turner\'s Revenge the idea was posited that the Russian slap down of Georgia was the August surprise. It is worse than that. Russia bitch slapped the Bush Presidency right out of its last 162 days. That is bad for the country as a whole.<br><br>This is bad for the country because the whole world knows we are in an election cycle. While they are happy we can change leaders easily, they understand a vacuum exists during the election. And everyone knows that if there were ever a time to start acting out this is it. W/ the Russians going dare you I suspect we will soon find others doing the same<br><br>It\'s bad for the country because the intelligence agencies failed worse than Sept 11, 2001. It is not logical to assume that when you have 130 US military  and intelligence advisers training the Georgian army that they didn\'t see the Georgian Army gearing up to go to an all out assault. This is after a ceasefire has been put into place by the Georgian president himself on Wednesday night.<br><br>The fact that, the Russian Army , with 300 tanks and armored vehicles not surrogates(N Ossetia militias) came roaring through the tunnel separating N Ossetia and Georgia to "surprise" the Georgian Army, the NSA did not pick up one radio message between their units is unbelievable. The cyber onslaught against Georgia began on Monday  according to the McNeil Lehrer report tonight.  Jose Nazario said he had informed the FBI about the attacks that had occurred in July . His company-it tracks these things, breaks them down into what they do and try to find the server farm initiating them-figured it out. Hackers looking for info that can be turned into money do not waste their time all the Internet services in one country all at once.<br><br>This is bad for the country because the Bush Presidency\'s view of the world never acknowledged that what other countries considered their interests should be respected. This has come to roost w/ Russia. Russia\'s entire history is about every body running back and forth,  across, and up and down w/ impunity.  Every last leaders entire reputation depended upon them protecting Russia from the outsiders. It started w/ the Czars and  reached its heights under the Communists.<br><br>What is really bad is this is Condi\'s specialty. In eight years she could not get President Bush to understand that what ever Bush saw in Putin\'s soul it was driven by this historical perspective. Kosovo was the last straw for Putin. Here was a piece of a sovereign territory spinning of from its home country(we have to skip the nationalistic aspects of both situations moral equivalence issues)which Russia had always supported(they are Slavs) and going out on their own w/ the support of NATO and the US(peacekeeping again). Putin couldn\'t do anything about it.<br><br>So now we are seen as powerless to intercede w/ someone whom has nukes-the centrifuges are humming now, incapable of maintaining a common sense relationship w/ allies in precarious situations and have thrown our European allies to the wolves(heavily dependent on Russia for energy) because we can\'t watch our own interests.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1229718">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1229718" class="dsq-comment-message">Robm:  Very analytical!!!  Thanks!!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1410394" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert Gates Sec of Defense was just on CNN. He made it very clear the US is not going to rearm Georgia and the decision to offer Georgia membership in NATO(it comes up again in Dec) will be made by all 26 nations. He also made it clear the Russians were looking for to take advantage of the situation and did so. The US will not being doing anything militarily to turn the situation around.<br><br>I have seen arguments for Obama keeping Gates based on  slapping down Air Force HQ over sloppy everything, his calling for strengthening the State Dept and by doing so understands that the US has lost its Prestige by not using soft power. Given whom he currently works for ..., but it is something that needs to be pursued. The Democratic bench for Armed Services is very thin, has very few people w/ combat experience and executive level experience in military matters. As much as we look forward to getting out of Iraq and the huge expenditure being there involves, Russia\'s action keeps security matters forefront.<br><br>The one guy I think Obama better get on the horn to is the Representative from SE Pennsylvania who was an Admiral. McCain is going to have many old guard  military people  out stumping for him about the dangers to the country.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1230373" class="dsq-comment-message">Sharing:  <a href="http://politicalwire.com/archives/2008/08/13/strategic_vision_obama_leads_in_wisconsin.html" rel="nofollow">http://politicalwire.com/archives/2008/08/13/st...</a><br><br>Obama Leads in Wisconsin!!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>We\'ll take it!   :&gt;)  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1230433" class="dsq-comment-message">This comes under the heading:  "Whycome" you all up in the kool-aid????<br><br><a href="http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/08/gop_sen_susan_collins_edwards.php" rel="nofollow">http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com...</a><br>GOP Senator Collins says Edwards Is the Father.<br><br>Ummmm?????  Who told her what??  <br><br>I\'m just askin. . . .</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1230476">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1230476" class="dsq-comment-message">This one just sooooo satisfies my "DISS THE DUDE" moment:  :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br><a href="http://vodpod.com/watch/939799-mccain-cant-pronounce-name-of-georgias-president" rel="nofollow">http://vodpod.com/watch/939799-mccain-cant-pron...</a><br>McCain Can\'t PRONOUNCE The Name of Georgia\'s President   :&gt;)   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>How insulting is this!??  And we\'re suppose ta believe that he has been in regular contact with the president!!!<br><br>What did McAncient call him?   DUDE!!???<br><br>This is so embarrassing!  He is NOT representin\'!!<br><br>Whew!  Embarrassed Deep Breaths!!  But pleased!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1207475" class="dsq-comment-message">Susan Rice makes herself look ridiculous on Hardball last night as Bush Derrangement Syndrome is projected onto John McCain:<br><br> "John McCain shot from the hip, [with a] very aggressive, very belligerent statement …He may or may not have complicated the situation."<br><br>I understand that Rice wants to spin this for Obama, but even this is flat-out ridiculous. McCain didn’t “shoot from the hip” — unlike Obama, he actually knew the situation and understood its implications.  In fact, one need look no further for confirmation of this than Obama’s later statements, in which he agreed with McCain’s original statement on the subject.<br><br>Obama’s campaign seems to agree with this.  Richard Holbrooke, another of Obama’s 300 foreign policy advisers, told CNN that Obama and McCain agree on the response to Georgia, and that the Bush administration was “behind the curve”.  Actually, the Bush admistration heightened its response before the Obama campaign did.  Besides, which is it?  Did McCain get it right, or did Obama get it wrong later?<br><br>Barack Obama wasn’t prepared to handle this crisis, as his first statements showed.  John McCain understands Russia better than most people in Washington, and had diagnosed Russian intentions in the Caucasus and elsewhere years before Russian tanks rolled across the border into Georgia.  Blaming McCain for getting it right represents a new low in desperation from Team Obama, especially while at the same time praising Obama for finally catching up to McCain.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1209494">djchefron</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1209494" class="dsq-comment-message">I know you support McCain but think if you can for one second What should the US do?Do you support a war that might go nuclear with Russia over Georgia? and if you do please let us know what are our interest are that could lead to the incineration of my children.Also since you and your candidate wants to go John Wayne please tell us where are the troops coming from to go fight your war?Like I said you people take pride in your ignorance.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1210749">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1210749" class="dsq-comment-message">dj:  Whew!  Must say that first Amendment thing is being used quite FREQUENTLY today! s/K - jes havin\' a LOVE FEST UP IN HERE!!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1208568" href="http://swamphermit.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Karmi</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1208568" class="dsq-comment-message">Took Obama "three tries" to get it right, i.e. he ended up <i>\'parroting\'</i> McCain.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1208679">s</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1208679" class="dsq-comment-message">Whether it\'s Foreign Policy, National Security, Energy or Taxes, Obama has been merely REACTING to current events, public opinion, and John McCain.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1210041">djchefron</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1210041" class="dsq-comment-message">Wow the spin you people do<br>Foreign Policy- First it was Obama who had the judgement not to get bog down in Iraq once you idiots screw it up beyond belief Obama propose a timeline which your OLD candidate ridicule by saying we will stay in Iraq for a 100 years "oops" Iraq said no way Jose by 2010 get out. What McCain then said with bush we will withdraw our troops in 16 months.I know in ReThug fantasy island McCain got it right but the truth is Maliki punked bush and the OLD MAN who cant remember what he says from one day to the next.<br>National security -Obama during the democratic debates said if Pakistan will not take action against Bin laden and crew he would.The outrage among you idiots was laughable "How dare he presume to say we would attack our ally Pakistan" What have bush been doing? Attacking Pakistan trying to get Ai-quaida.Checkmate Obama<br>Energy -Everyone with a lick of common sense knows we cannot drill our way out of this problem, suspend the gas tax,if you do that a lot of highway construction workers will be laid off because unlike ReTHUGS bizzaro world gas tax revenues pays to maintain our highways and whatever savings you think you might get I advise you to read what happen in Illinois when they suspended the gas tax.And now for the coup de grace tire pressure everyone knows from Nascar to Triple A knows that properly inflated tires can save up to 3% on gas which is by the way even with off shore drilling which wont come online for 10 years would gives us more gas, and guess what after McCain had his laugh about the idea his OLD #ss agreed with Obama.<br>Taxes - McCain wants to keep destroying the middle class with his and bush tax breaks for the rich and further drive us deeper into debt While Obama knows that if you put more money in the hands of the middle class like in the 90\'s the economy will be stronger. I will say it again but even louder.YOU PEOPLE TAKE PRIDE IN YOUR IGNORANCE!!!!!!!!!</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1210387" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1210387" class="dsq-comment-message">Point of contention: Obama has now said that any withdrawal from Iraq must be conditions-based.<br><br>Let\'s agree that on the subject of Iraq, each candidate is guilty of flip-flopping, adapting the other\'s position, etc.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1210515">djchefron</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1210515" class="dsq-comment-message">The world must be going crazy because I have to agree with you on that point</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1212017" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1212017" class="dsq-comment-message">Why would you agree with that?<br><br>It\'s a lie.<br><br>Barack has always said withdrawal from Iraq was conditioned based.<br><br>Always.<br><br>"We must be as careful getting out as we were careless getting in."<br><br>That\'s been his mantra since forever.<br><br>What does "careful  getting out" mean? It means  a withdrawal plan that takes all sorts of conditions into account. If not, then one is not careful.<br><br>Just keepin it real.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1212683">djchefron</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1212683" class="dsq-comment-message">You know my position has been we never should be in there and get out like yesterday.Everything about this clusterf*ck will be nuanced but make no mistake my trust is with Obama who will get us out of Iraq faster than that OLD MAN who glorifies war with a misplaced sense of honor</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1213056" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1213056" class="dsq-comment-message">That\'s a lie.<br><br>What he has always said is that on his first day in office, he will give the order to end the war. There was never any mention of taking conditions on the ground into account. That shift only came about recently.<br><br>Even the "Iraq" tab on his page reflects that change.<br><br>Spin it as you will. I\'m not knocking the change, but it did happen.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1213139">Micheline</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1213139" class="dsq-comment-message">Now that\'s a lie!!!</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1214873" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1214873" class="dsq-comment-message">Actually, it\'s not. Follow me:<br><br>Obama\'s tab on Iraq used to match what was listed in his Blueprint for Change <b>verbatim</b>. From the Blueprint, on page 51:<br><br><i>Obama will immediately begin to remove our troops from Iraq. He will remove one to two combat brigades<br>each month, and have all of our combat brigades out of Iraq within 16 months. Obama will make it clear that<br>we will not build any permanent bases in Iraq. He will keep some troops in Iraq to protect our embassy and<br>diplomats; if al Qaeda attempts to build a base within Iraq, he will keep troops in Iraq or elsewhere in the<br>region to carry out targeted strikes on al Qaeda.</i><br><br>No mention of consideration of conditions on the ground.<br><br>Now, on his <a href="http://www.barackobama.com/issues/iraq/" rel="nofollow">webpage</a> is the following:<br><br><i>Barack Obama believes we must be as careful getting out of Iraq as we were careless getting in. Immediately upon taking office, Obama will give his Secretary of Defense and military commanders a new mission in Iraq: ending the war. The removal of our troops will be responsible and phased, directed by military commanders on the ground and done in consultation with the Iraqi government. Military experts believe we can safely redeploy combat brigades from Iraq at a pace of 1 to 2 brigades a month that would remove them in 16 months. That would be the summer of 2010 – more than 7 years after the war began.<br><br>Under the Obama plan, a residual force will remain in Iraq and in the region to conduct targeted counter-terrorism missions against al Qaeda in Iraq and to protect American diplomatic and civilian personnel. He will not build permanent bases in Iraq, but will continue efforts to train and support the Iraqi security forces as long as Iraqi leaders move toward political reconciliation and away from sectarianism.</i><br><br>Don\'t get me wrong; I\'m not attacking Obama for the shift. I <b><i>wish</b></i> he hadn\'t changed his message; then I\'d still have a reason to go after him. But he has. To me, that\'s acceptable....but to say that his position hasn\'t shifted is wrong.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1213191" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1213191" class="dsq-comment-message">You\'re proud of a picture with Karl Rove such that you use it in your profile.<br><br>This is the last time I respond to you. Not that you care. But I just want to be clear.<br><br>I told the truth. YOU are lying.<br><br>Period.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1213274" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1213274" class="dsq-comment-message">If I\'m wrong, show me.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1218121" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1218121">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1218121" class="dsq-comment-message">He is clarifying his position, not flipping.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1218705" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1218705" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1218705" class="dsq-comment-message">Thing is, I didn\'t say Obama flipped. I would accuse him of shifting his position-from "immediate" withdrawal to "conditions based" withdrawal.<br><br>And again, to me, this isn\'t a bad thing. Others will accuse him of flip-flopping, and that will be what it is. To Obama\'s credit, he is now at least saying what I as a voter need to hear, far as Iraq goes. <br><br>Some dhimmicrats are so visceral in defending Obama that they miss what\'s really going on.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1221708">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1221708" class="dsq-comment-message">Then you\'re getting into the briar patch of trying to define "immediate".  Did you think immediate meant right this second?...Obviously not.  Clearly, embedded within "immediate" are open doorways for conditions which O alluded to by saying he would be careful getting out.  I will say this for O: he is a wordsmith, and chooses his words carefully and precisely to convey his meaning.   It\'s not O\'s fault if the partisan has limited comprehension skills and abundant prejudice.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1223136" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1223136" class="dsq-comment-message">Of course it didn\'t mean that second. <br><br>Here\'s how I took it: "on my first day in office, we\'re gonna start pulling everyone out, regardles of what\'s going on, cause that what the people (my base) want." <br><br>And to me, that was unacceptable.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1223239">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1223239" class="dsq-comment-message">"on my first day..start pulling everyone out"  is pysically impossible for him to do.  O has said he will gather the joint chiefs of staff and give them the mission to pull out.(paraphrasing).<br><br>How is what you thought different from saying you will give tax breaks to corporations because it\'s what the right wing wants despite it\'s economic tomfoolery?<br><br>It\'s not O that\'s remiss here.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1223394" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1223394" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1223394" class="dsq-comment-message">First off, that order would not go to the Joint Chiefs. Minor point of contention, but the Joint Chiefs do not command troops.<br><br>You just said the same thing I did....that he\'d give the order to start pulling out. <br><br>Besides, again, this isn\'t about who\'s remiss or not. All I\'ve said is that his position has shifted, evolved, been clarified, whatever dhimmicrats need to call it to help then sleep. Whatever you call it, his position on Iraq today places conditions on the withdrawal. He did not place them their prior to his Iraq trip.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1223437" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1223437">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1223437" class="dsq-comment-message">No, Obama hasn\'t shifted.  Your understanding/awareness has shifted...that\'s not his fault.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1223731" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1223731" class="dsq-comment-message">His words don\'t match, but okay. We\'ll respectfully disagree-for once.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1223521">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1223521" class="dsq-comment-message">D,<br><br>you cling to misguided beliefs like a tick clings to a very mangy dog.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1224090" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1224090" class="dsq-comment-message">Civility just does not become you, does it.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1224275" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1224275" class="dsq-comment-message">Curious: you live in Toronto, right? Are you a Canadian citizen?</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1210617" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1210617" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL. It\'s allowed to occasionally happen. <br><br>Not too often, though.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1210787">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1210787" class="dsq-comment-message">dj:   CO-SIGNING BIG TIME!!!!!   Thanks!!   :&gt;)  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1211277">Monie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1211277" class="dsq-comment-message">MCCain on Bush\'s $1.35 trillion tax cut bill in 2001:<br>  "I cannot in good conscience support  a tax cut in which so many of the benefits go to the most fortunate among us at the expense of middle class Americans who need tax relief."  McCain voted against these tax cuts in 2001, 2003, 2004, and 2005.<br><br>In 2006, he began supporting them.  In a Washington Times article published on Feb. 27, 2006, Grover Norqhist, president of Americans for Tax Reform said "It\'s a big flip-flop.:<br>Longtime Republican tax-cut strategist Larry Hunter said "It looks like a further morphing of McCain into George W.Bush.  He\'s mailing to his list of campaign contributors and now he is supporting the tax cuts.  It looks political to me.  It runs counter to his whole past behavior. "<br>When the president\'s $350 billion tax cut bill accelerated his earlier tax-cut bills and  came up for vote in 2006, McCain voted against that too, saying he was "very concerned about the deficit."   Norqhist goes on to say "He voted against tax cuts in 2001, 2003, 2004, and 2005, and this year (2006) he\'s for tax cuts in the reconciliation bill.  It looks like he did it for political reasons.  He\'s got two years to convince people that this is not a political ploy.."(in reference to his run for president in 2008)<br>Where is John Mc Cain\'s conscience now?  Is he still concerned about the deficit?   Who is John McCain today?</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1215435" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1215435" class="dsq-comment-message">Keep this kind of stuff coming.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1210923" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1210923" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/08/obama_on_527s_do_as_i_say_not.html" rel="nofollow">Obama on 527\'s: Do as I say, not as I do</a><br><br>It\'s a slanted article, but links to another one on Huffington Post.<br><br>Keep in mind that the massive Reupblican 527s that everyone was afraid of....don\'t exist. So why the change?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1211825">djchefron</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1211825" class="dsq-comment-message">First of all the org. you belong to Vets for endless war or whatever is a 527 who is campaigning for your OLD candidate so stop lying and saying re thug ligan 527 don\'t exist.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1212086" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1212086" class="dsq-comment-message">Actually, Vets for Freedom is a 501(c)(4).<br><br>Try again.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1213127">djchefron</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1213127" class="dsq-comment-message">Okay then how if you are 501c4 you only have 5 donors who gave a total of less than $5000 your org. can run national commercials parroting the OLD MAN\'S talking points.You see you have to declare who gives to a 501c4 because they are a charity but you do not have to declare who gives money to a 527. You know some of us can put 2+2 together.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1217806" class="dsq-comment-message">McCain\'s Live Press Conference on Russia-Georgia Conflict<br><br>McCain is doing a live press conference on the Russia/Georgia conflict.<br><br>"It is clear that Russian military is continuing combat operations, despite the agreement, in areas far from South Ossetia." (paraphrased)<br><br>I didn\'t think that Obama had to do much during his week\'s vacation - everyone deserves a break - but this week is starting to really turn into a week where you don\'t want to be seen golfing. He would be wise to do his own press conference, ASAP.<br><br>McCain must have read Larry Kudlow, because he\'s talking about the importance of the oil pipelines currently shut down. He praises the five Eastern European presidents traveling to Tbilisi.<br><br>McCain\'s wingmen, Lindsey Graham and Joe Lieberman, are going to Georgia as soon as possible.<br><br>(Cross Lieberman off the veep list, elevate him to the top of the Secretary of State list.)<br><br>Asked about Obama adviser Susan Rice calling him \'aggressive\' and \'belligerent\': "This isn\'t a time for partisanship and sniping. Hundreds, if not thousands of innocent people whose lives are being taken and who are being driven from their homes."</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1219632">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1219632" class="dsq-comment-message">Tell him to send Lieberman and Graham to Darfur why don\'t cha?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1221622">djchefron</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1221622" class="dsq-comment-message">Just wondering did Randy Shuereman or however you spell his name cash that bribe from Georgia yet.You know he is McCain\'s foreign policy advisor who is also a registered foreign agent for the country of Georgia</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1222672">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1222672" class="dsq-comment-message">..endless war.   It would be the greatest tragedy for America to allow the aging, overweight warriors to lead you deeper into the valley of the shadow of death.  Vain men they are, veritable puppets....insecure, and succumbing easily to flattery.  They are easy prey to the wily and cerebral Randy\'s of the world.   <br><br>The \'Randy\'s\' are clever, they know the McCain\'s do not hold real power.  The McCain\'s are vain fools.  Tell them how big and strong they are.  Appeal to their military vanities...and what you get is a lot of dead young people, crying women and utter devastation.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1229266" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1229266" class="dsq-comment-message">That\'s an epic in two paragraphs.<br><br>Bravo.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1221623" class="dsq-comment-message">Clinton Bundler: Democratic Nomination Is Still Up For Grabs<br>by Steve Kornacki  |  August 13, 2008<br><br>Ricki Lieberman is one Hillraiser (the designation for those who raised over $100,000 for Hillary Clinton) who’s not ready to give up the fight. Responding to Jason Horowitz’s story in this week’s Observer – in which Jason detailed the “Electability Watch” newsletter that she’s been sending out every night since the Democratic primaries ended – Lieberman has written in to make it clear that her efforts are aimed at one goal: securing the Democratic nomination in two weeks for Hillary Clinton, who formally conceded the race on June 7.  Lieberman’s full email follows:<br><br>To the Editor,<br><br>Jason Horowitz is correct in saying that coordinating the Electability Watch (EW) takes time.  Supporters of Senator Clinton across the country give time each week to "do the EW" - communicate thoughtfully with Super Delegates (SDs) to remind them that their only job in Denver is to select the electable candidate to bring Democrats back to the White House.  Regardless of previous commitments, SDs only count at the Convention where they have the responsibility to act in the best interests of the party and the country.<br><br>EWers provide updates to hundreds of SDs about electability, noting that Senator Clinton finished the primaries with 18 million votes, more than any other candidate ever, was leading in blue and swing states needed to clinch the Electoral College, and leading in polls against McCain.  We remind SDs that the more voters learned about Obama, the more they voted for Hillary, and that Obama is now virtually tied in the polls with McCain, not "sealing the deal".<br><br>The Democratic Party has no nominee.  Its presumptive nominee was selected, not elected, and Mile High Stadium notwithstanding, delegates go to Denver to select the Democratic candidate who can win in November.  We ask the Democratic Party to stop delegate intimidation and replacement, and to hold an open convention with a traditional nominating and roll call process such as was afforded Ted Kennedy in 1980 and even Howard Dean in 2004.  If that happens, we are confident that Senator Clinton will be the nominee and the President of the United States.  We are deeply fearful that to nominate Obama is to elect McCain.<br><br>Ricki Lieberman</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1221825" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1221825" class="dsq-comment-message">This will be my last post here - the constant drama and concentration on the negatives depresses me, so I\'ve got to go away for awhile.  But I\'m not sure this was ever posted -  <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25890669/" rel="nofollow">Mark Whitaker Named D.C. Bureau Chief at NBC</a><blockquote><b>NBC News recently announced that [African-American] Whitaker assumes many off-camera duties held by the late Tim Russert, including being in charge of "Meet the Press" and NBC News election and political coverage.</b></blockquote>A tout a\'leure.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1223340">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1223340" class="dsq-comment-message">Lord, let us hope he has judgement and wisdom, and not stick us with an idiot like David Gregory on MTP.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1229366" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1229366" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1229366" class="dsq-comment-message">Where did DG come from anyway?</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-1206655">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1206655" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1206655" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1206655" href="http://swamphermit.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Karmi</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1206655" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1206655" class="dsq-comment-message">Obama’s forced <b>Volunteerism</b> starts now - <a href="http://www.thedenverchannel.com/politics/17174212/detail.htmlhttp://www.thedenverchannel.com/politics/17174212/detail.html" rel="nofollow">Required To Volunteer?</a> <i>“Those viewers said the campaign told them they must volunteer six hours for the campaign by Friday in order to get a ticket.”</i></div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-1207044">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1207044" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1207044" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1207044" href="http://swamphermit.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Karmi</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1207044" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1207044" class="dsq-comment-message">Very <i>‘Hitleresque’</i> of Obama…what happens if they don’t volunteer? Well, there are the - <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/olympics/article4512306.ece" rel="nofollow">“re-education”</a> labour camps.<br><br><i>"Wang Wei, vice-president of the Beijing Olympic Organising Committee revealed they were volunteers shipped in to “create a good atmosphere” by cheering for both sides at team events... The use of fake fans has caused consternation... Unofficially, there are reports that offenders face up to four years in “re-education” labour camps."</i></div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1207123">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1207123" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1207123" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1207123">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1207123" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1207123" class="dsq-comment-message">If they don\'t volunteer, they don\'t get a ticket.  End of story.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1207285">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1207285" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1207285" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1207285" href="http://swamphermit.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Karmi</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1207285" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1207285" class="dsq-comment-message">Modus Operandi is not the <i>"End of story."</i> It shows a pattern of behavior and thought that Obama continues to exhibit, e.g. even in his speeches.</div>\
	 </div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1208668">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1208668" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1208668" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1208668">Town</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1208668" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1208668" class="dsq-comment-message">Yeah it is the end of the story.  Obama\'s not telling people they have to go to reeducation camps if they don\'t volunteer.  They just don\'t get a ticket.  But you\'ve earned your 500 points for the day.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1210479">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1210479" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1210479" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1210479">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1210479" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1210479" class="dsq-comment-message">Town:  "500 points"<br>What do they get "redeemed" for??  EGO????/FALSE PRIDE???   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>I\'m just askin\'   . . . . <br><br>SAD!!!</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1210577">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1210577" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1210577" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1210577">djchefron</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1210577" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1210577" class="dsq-comment-message">The prize for 500 pts. is a Ronco Mr.Microphone so they can practice their idiotic talkings points to get the proper tone down without laughing</div>\
	 </div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1210676">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1210676" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1210676" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1210676">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1210676" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1210676" class="dsq-comment-message">dj:   Ohhhhhh!!  I thought it was that all expenses paid trip to Harlem!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
	 </div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1210629">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1210629" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1210629" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1210629" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1210629" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1210629" class="dsq-comment-message">Where are Lily and I on the knife set?</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
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