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But even walking the streets of Baghdad, there should be a visible change from when he was last there.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_14:55:04", "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": 912545, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "915971": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I like ABBA, but I can wait for Mamma Mia on DirecTV.<br><br>I'd rather see <strong>The Dark Knight</strong>.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_20:28:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 912056, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "914439": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "There are no \"gains\" when you shouldn't have been there in the first place. <br><br>You can't talk to them because they're DEAD.<br><br>Unless you plan on doing some channelling.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_17:21:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 912979, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "915356": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "thanks for the reminder!  won't be in new york this summer, but love to catch it on c-span!    i miss brooklyn!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_19:05:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "99bcec632769e483ead5faa515e84132", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 912183, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "910348": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Critical thinking, lots of intelligent candor on that album. <br><br>LOL @ the Fried Chicken song tho\u2019", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_11:05:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "b8b9328e61e0094ae18e247c922f9dc7", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 909981, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "911874": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "cali:  Take heart.  Hep C is more treatable and the article states that she is \"virus negative\" at this time!  Thank God!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_13:25:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 910974, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "914447": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The best of Walken's dancing--<br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMZwZiU0kKs\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMZwZiU0kKs</a><br><br>Still so great after all these yearms", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_17:22:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "29f6805818d1f575c4b8e2182a2ac4ce", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 913038, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "914450": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Because they think everything is funny.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_17:22:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 912158, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "910339": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "dj,<br><br>This is interesting....<br><br>When is he suppose to address them?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_11:05:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "Texas_Girl_in_LA", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 909300, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "914453": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "MSM won't report this. Fox will, but even CNN will find a way to give this little, if any, play.<br><br>I think. ;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_17:22:54", "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": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 913732, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "911385": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "This is exactly what Barack was talking about:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/7/16/112835/575/280/543825\" rel=\"nofollow\">McCain raises $62.5 million through public finance loophole</a><br><br>A crook, I tell you. A crook.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_12:41:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "912410": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "rikyrah:  Hope I'm not being petty, but your PICs are great!  I look forward to them erryday!  :&gt;)  THANKS for the nostalgia!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_14:11:39", "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": 10, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "914980": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "No, I don't think so. It's not going to get much play, and it doesn't really need to. I thought the comment was going to be calling Barack a n***er, which I thought would have sounded much worse. Jesse seems to be using the n-word in a rhetorical sense (if that's the right term). <br><br>Also, I think people should cut Jesse some slack. Black people have long thrown him under the bus, but I think our run away from him has been unwarranted. Today, we have a much wider range of voices, particularly online and in other media, but that doesn't negate Jesse's previous efforts. Yes, he has made a lot of . . . \"personal\" mistakes, but so did MLK, JFK, RFK, Bill Clinton, etc. I have seldom heard him be wrong on the issues.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_18:21:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "taritac", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 914567, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "914469": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<i>\"I know how to win wars\"</i><br><br>I guess there are war schools like there used to be typing schools.<br><br>Iraq is not a war, it's an invasion.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_17:24:32", "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": 910053, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "916657": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Big ups to my area!!! :) I live in GA now and it is very possible for him to win it down here. However, in SC, my home state, if he can compete there, than McCain will lose in a landslide.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_21:40:12", "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": 912165, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "910172": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/07/14/why-doesn-t-lieberman-join-the-gop.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow\">Why doesn't LIE-berman join the GOP?</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_10:48:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "b8b9328e61e0094ae18e247c922f9dc7", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "914476": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I really appreciate the weekend open threads.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_17:25:15", "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": 913715, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "914477": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I really appreciate the weekend open threads.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_17:25:16", "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": 913715, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "915293": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LOL!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_18:56:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 914944, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "909873": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I find it amazing that Obama wrote his policy on Iraq BEFORE traveling to Iraq and speaking with the commanders on the ground to determine the facts. Obama has to stick with his Iraq policy, not for the good of the country, but because he can\u2019t afford to cut his last tie to the Left.<br><br>Obama won\u2019t talk to the generals first because he knows that they will laugh him out of the room if he suggested that we could win the war by retreating.  Even the Iraqis, who want to establish their sovereignty, want to have a continuing American partnership for at least the next several years, especially with an increasingly hegemonic Iran next door.<br><br>After his reversal on FISA reform and to a lesser extent with public financing,  Obama cannot afford to reverse himself on Iraq, regardless of how wrong events proved him to be.  The Left nearly pitched him overboard this month during the FISA vote, and any weakening on Iraq will prove fatal to his presidential aspirations.  It could even result in losing the nomination, if the floor-vote momentum gains ground, as it surely will if Obama departs from his impossible 16-month Iron Timetable.<br><br>Obama cannot stand up a second time to the hard Left, and unlike John McCain, would rather America lose a war rather than see his own presidential ambitions go unrealized.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_10:18:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "db02925cd7f6e6f931701b7d12a93f84", "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": 909724, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "915379": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "If anyone lives up to their screen name it is you. I look for your posts.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_19:09:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "29f6805818d1f575c4b8e2182a2ac4ce", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 914567, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "912439": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "And what real advantage does McCain have when he is surrounded by soldiers who cannot speak the truth? What does he see that doesn't come through his own personal filter of \"the pro war vote is my strongest base\".  He hasn't proven he has any idea of what and who is goingi on in the region.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_14:13:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "29f6805818d1f575c4b8e2182a2ac4ce", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 910792, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "914489": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I have no idea what yearms are, LOL. <br><br>hmm years.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_17:25:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "29f6805818d1f575c4b8e2182a2ac4ce", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 914447, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "914492": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "There's plenty of fake shit you can read out there if you go somewhere else and do it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_17:26:20", "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": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 912891, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "914493": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I am waiting for Obama the ruthless to show up.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_17:26:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 910544, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "912961": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Wow!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_14:59:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "b8b9328e61e0094ae18e247c922f9dc7", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 912857, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "912786": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The s*** is hitting the fan in Afghanistan:<br><a href=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/16/us-troops-forced-out-of-a_n_113000.html rel=\"nofollow\">US abandons Afghan outpost where 9 troops died</a href>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_14:45:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "taritac", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "909381": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "planned parenthood goes after mccain in a new tv ad, the info <a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/7/16/83558/4851/850/552392\" rel=\"nofollow\">here</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_09:31:06", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "916038": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Because they still have to place prominent blacks like Obama as minstrels partly because he isn't stereotypical?<br><br>Because they prefer to see him as Mr. Bojangles as it makes him less personable and more palatable to their small intellect?<br><br>Because they still can't take the high-achieving  black male intellectual seriously and must, therefore, caricature him as a skinning, grinning entertainer, rather than potentially the next president of the United States?<br><br>I've always gotten the feeling that Dowd, with her twisted mouth self,  is a penis envying broad; yet, since she's been covering Senator Obama, I've often suspected that she wants him to pork her.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_20:36:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 912158, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "911943": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Thanks Craig<br><br>I figured as much.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_13:30:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "Texas_Girl_in_LA", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 911304, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "911945": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Barack's team sent out this press release today:<br><br>    The self-professed candidate of \u201cstraight talk\u201d and \u201cexperience\u201d spent today changing his position on gay adoption, adopting Senator Obama\u2019s position that we need more troops in Afghanistan after having resisted taking that position, flip flopping on whether he\u2019d send U.S. or NATO troops (he actually offered three different explanations on where those additional troops would come from), and referring to a country that hasn\u2019t existed since 1992 for the second time in two days. <br><br>    Afghanistan<br><br>    LAST WEEK: Christian Science Monitor Reported that McCain \u201cHas Resisted Calls For More Troops In Afghanistan.\u201d \u201cMcCain has resisted calls for more troops in Afghanistan and has rejected criticism that the Iraq war is detracting from efforts to secure Afghanistan. He labeled Barack Obama \u2018na\u00efve\u2019 for saying he'd strike terrorist targets in Pakistan with or without the cooperation of President Pervez Musharraf. \u2026 Aides to the Arizona senator said Wednesday that he continued to view success in Iraq as the best chance for victory in the global war on terror. \u2018As on many things, Senator Obama is not listening to our commanders, and Senator McCain is,\u2019 says Kori Schake, a senior policy adviser to McCain. \u2018General David Petraeus believes Iraq is the central front in the war on terror. Al Qaeda has even said it is.\u2019 \u2026 Ms. Schake's comments came about two hours after Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said additional troops were needed in Afghanistan but that too many were tied down in Iraq to send more.\u201d [Christian Science Monitor, 7/7/08]<br><br>    TODAY (MORNING): McCain Called for Sending Three Additional Brigades to Afghanistan and Suggests They Would Come From Iraq. According to a press release issued by the McCain campaign on Tuesday morning, McCain would announce in a speech that he now supports sending at least three additional brigades to Afghanistan: \u201cThe status quo in Afghanistan is unacceptable, and from the moment the next President walks into the Oval Office, he will face critical decisions about Afghanistan. \u2026 John McCain Supports Sending At Least Three Additional Brigades To Afghanistan. Our commanders on the ground say they need these troops, and thanks to the success of the surge, these forces are becoming available, and our commanders in Afghanistan must get them.\u201d [McCain press release, 7/15/08]<br><br>    TODAY (AFTERNOON): McCain Clarifies His Proposal On Increasing the Number of Troops, Saying They Could Come From NATO. \u201cSpeaking to reporters on his bus after today's speech, McCain indicated that he'd be open to those additional troops coming from NATO.\u201d [MSNBC, 7/15/08]<br><br>    TODAY (EVEN LATER IN THE AFTERNOON): McCain Campaign Further Clarifies Proposal, Saying The Troop Increase Would Be Comprised Of Both NATO And US Forces. \u201cMcCain spokeswoman Nicolle Wallace said later that U.S. troops will compose some of the additional brigades McCain would send to Afghanistan, but not all of them. \u2018Will we contribute? Of course we will,\u2019 she said.\u201d [Washington Post, 5/15/08]<br><br>    GAY ADOPTION<br><br>    SUNDAY: New York Times Quoted McCain Saying That He Doesn\u2019t Believe In Gay Adoption. \u201cMr. McCain, who with his wife, Cindy, has an adopted daughter, said flatly that he opposed allowing gay couples to adopt. \u2018I think that we\u2019ve proven that both parents are important in the success of a family so, no, I don\u2019t believe in gay adoption,\u2019 he said.\u201d [New York Times, 7/13/08]<br><br>    TODAY: McCain Campaign Clarified Position; Said It Was A State Issue And That McCain Believes \u201cCaring Parental Figures Are Better For The Child Than The Alternative.\u201d \u201cOn Tuesday, as criticism of McCain's comments spread, his campaign elaborated on the candidate's views. \u2018John McCain could have been clearer in the interview in stating that his position on gay adoption is that it is a state issue. ... He was not endorsing any federal legislation,\u2019 a campaign statement said. \u2018Sen. McCain's expressed his personal preference for children to be raised by a mother and a father wherever possible,\u2019 the statement added. \u2018However, as an adoptive father himself, McCain believes children deserve loving and caring home environments, and he recognizes that there are many abandoned children who have yet to find homes. John McCain believes that in those situations that caring parental figures are better for the child than the alternative.\u2019\u201d [Associated Press, 7/15/08]<br><br>    Czechoslovakia<br><br>    For the Second Day In A Row, McCain Refers to Czechoslovakia \u2013 A Country That No Longer Exists. As MSNBC noted, \u201cFor the second time in two days, McCain has made a reference to \u2018Czechoslovakia.\u2019 His answers were about contemporary events, not history. McCain did not use the current name Czech Republic, the country formed in January 1993 when Czechoslovakia split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The first instance was yesterday during a media news availability and the second today during a town hall meeting.\u201d [MSNBC\u2019s First Read, 7/15/08, <a href=\"http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/07/15/1200003.aspx%5D\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/07/...</a><br><br>    ABC News Noted That This Isn\u2019t The First Time McCain Has Mistakenly Referred to Czechoslovakia. \u201cIn early 2000, then-Gov. George W. Bush told Roger Simon, then with U.S. News & World Report, that he was befuddled by how soft the media was on Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. \u2018I don't think there is any plot; I hope there isn't,\u2019 Bush said. \"But it's an amazing phenomenon, I'll tell you that. It's like the flap over the foreign-leader deal. A guy gets up and quizzes me -- it's my fault for trying to answer -- but John McCain says something about the 'ambassador to Czechoslovakia.' Well, I know there is no Czechoslovakia (there's a Czech Republic and a Slovakia), but yet it didn't make the nightly national news. I'm not going to gripe about it, but the media question is starting to pop up.\u2019 Apparently that Czechoslovakia lesson never took, because McCain keeps making that mistake, eight years later.\u201d [ABC News\u2019 Political Punch, 7/15/08, <a href=\"http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/07/mccain-keeps-me.html%5D\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/07...</a><br><br>    Politico: McCain Campaign Released Statement Yesterday \u201cCleaning Up\u201d The Reference to Czechoslovakia. As the Politico noted, \u201cyesterday, McCain's campaign sent out a statement pointedly referring to the \u2018Czech Republic,\u2019 cleaning up his latest reference to the defunct state of Czechoslovakia.\u201d [Politico, 5/15/08, <a href=\"http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0708/Jeste_jednou_Czechoslovakia.html%5D\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0708/Jes...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_13:31:07", "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": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "910690": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Is anyone here freaking out about staflation yet? bad for everyone, worst for the least-well-off.<br><br>I'M SCARED.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_11:37:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anderkoo", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "912979": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"Withdrawal\" is not surrender.<br><br>Withdrawing without taking into consideration the gains that have been made on the ground; without talking face to face with the people who do the job-honorably and nobly-day in and out-that is surrender.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_15:01:16", "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": 912623, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "914516": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I heard Obama say he was confused on Larry King - it was so slick.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_17:29:11", "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": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 913317, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "913494": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I LOVE ABBA and can't wait to see Mamma Mia..LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_15:50:11", "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": 912056, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "917200": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Sounds like Jesse was using the word they way Chris Rock used the word in his routine.<br><br>Thinking out loud.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_22:50:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 915750, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "917598": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "laughing. out. loud.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_23:52:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 917184, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "912991": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You mean the last time that they had him walk down a completely secured area in the green zone? <br><br>They are not going to allow him free reign of the city, just like they didn't before.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_15:02:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "taritac", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 912898, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "915553": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Double blush.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_19:33:05", "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": 915379, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "914020": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Remember to say hello to Langston at your feet in the Schomberg.<br><br>Also, go visit The Invisible Man across the street from Ralph Ellison's apartment house in Washington Heights on Riverside Drive.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_16:39:45", "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": 913746, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "912486": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Jay:  His \"mind\" [such as it is] has been GOP!  He's just waiting for the appropriate moment to drag his tired arse to the same place.  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_14:17:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 910172, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "910438": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "In a few minutes. He intends to propose expansion of  government benefits for education and he will praise, for the first time, Barack in public.<br><br>I wonder if he'll say something like \"I'm not here to talk down to you.\"<br><br>I don't expect there to be any major articles about all the unabashed pandering he'll be doing, but we'll see.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_11:15:23", "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": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 910339, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "913681": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/16/opinion/16friedman.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&oref=slogin\" rel=\"nofollow\">Thomas Friedman's Latest Column</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_16:05:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "914536": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "When Barack gives a speech, his policy proposals take a back seat to the drama about him \"talking down\" to Black people.<br><br>When McCain does exactly the same thing, his policy proposals are front and center and reports of the standing ovation he received and his courage for showing up in \"enemy territory\" are reported.<br><br>Courage? Enemy territory?<br><br>It doesn't take courage to give a speech in front of <i>any</i> audience, portions of which will be televised, providing free advertising for your candidacy, and where you get to take a hit on your political opponent.<br><br>And I guess the white talking heads thought that the militant Blacks were going to attack McCain in some way, thus the \"enemy territory\" rhetoric. Black folks show respect to their \"enemies.\"<br><br>I call ish.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_17:30:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 913833, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "913003": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "So, <i>after</i> Barack gets back from Iraq and has the exact same policy as before, will you support it?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_15:03:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "taritac", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 912979, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "912120": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I just saw a clip of a part of the speech I didn't watch where McCain made it clear he wanted to earn the votes of Black folks. The tone and the emphasis on the word <i>earn</i> implied that he doesn't think Barack is earning the Black vote. I wonder how smart he thinks he is to make that insinuation in front of a room full of Black folks.<br><br>It just proves, to me at least, that he has no intention of getting any Black votes but he's pandering for the white moderates and Independents just as folks are accusing Barack of doing.<br><br>Politics is transparent.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_13:46:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 911943, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "913528": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/15/is-obama-forcing-mccain-t_n_112890.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Did Obama Force McCain To Flip-Flop On Afghanistan?</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_15:53:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "909947": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "From Joe Leiberman:<br><br>\u201cSen. Obama said this morning that he wants a foreign policy that is tough, smart and principled,\u201d said Lieberman. \u201cThis afternoon I want to ask my colleague who I respect and like a couple of direct questions: Was it tough when Sen. Obama voted to order U.S. troops to retreat from Iraq on a fixed timeline regardless of the recommendations of our military commanders or conditions on the ground? Was it smart when Sen. Obama opposed the surge and predicted that it would fail to improve our security? \u2026 Was it tough and principled when Sen. Obama said he would be open to changing his plan on Iraq after going there and talking to General Petraeus, which I think was the right position, only to change that position hours later after being heatedly criticized by organizations like MoveOn.org? I say respectfully the answer to all those questions is, no.\u201d", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_10:25:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "db02925cd7f6e6f931701b7d12a93f84", "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}, "917117": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Oh, I'm sorry I guess he was responding to you, not rikyrah.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_22:39:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 915269, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "910974": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "oh.  sorry to read that.  love natalie.   i've heard that hep-c is actually more prevalent than HIV.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_12:00:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "99bcec632769e483ead5faa515e84132", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 910793, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "917491": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "One person just one called him \"the first black president\" and it holds. <br><br>It's true, what one black person does, all black people do or in this case thinks  ./sarcasm", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_23:36:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "29f6805818d1f575c4b8e2182a2ac4ce", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 914715, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "913538": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://thepage.time.com/2008/07/16/obama-hits-the-indiana-trail/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Obama Hits the Indiana Trail</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_15:54:06", "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}, "914563": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You haven't seen him?<br><br>He tends to show his ruthlessness behind the scenes.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_17:33:07", "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": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 914493, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "914567": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Sigh...I knew it.<br><br>Jesse is on his own personal death march.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_17:33:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 10, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 912857, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "914569": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "12 points  if you go by all adults polled.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_17:33:55", "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": 914412, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "913038": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Walken has been dancing for quite a while; on one or two of his many appearances on <i>Saturday Night Live</i>, he's danced.  He actually started out doing musical theatre at one time, I think.<br><br>There's nothing wrong with Boomer types telling the younger bunch how it's done.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_15:05:57", "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": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 912751, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "913556": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN1529466020080715?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&rpc=22&sp=true\" rel=\"nofollow\">Congress Overrides Bush's Medicare Veto</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_15:55:11", "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}, "915094": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That's one of the reasons why he shouldn't be on Barack's ticket.<br><br>Sam and Dangerous One are of the same generation, to put it diplomatically.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_18:33:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 915001, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "909975": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The SSSSSSSSSSSnake is back, Town. <br><br>The Washington Post has been slinging mud at Barack from Day One.<br><br>Yawn.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_10:28:03", "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": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 909724, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "915098": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "And why the hell shouldn't American black men be angry?", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_18:33:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "737988e6b4d12c4429b1ba8e8badfc81", "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": 914885, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "912751": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I didn't know what this show was about until the movie came out. It sounds like it should be big fun. I would love to see Meryl Streep sing and dance. I wonder if she's got the chops?<br><br>I was so surprised last year when I saw Hairspray that Christopher Walken can DANCE! He's so light on his feet; he looked like a professional. Sure enough, I later found out he was professionally trained as a dancer in his early career.<br><br>I don't think the \"talent\" today are so versatile and well-trained, except in a Disney, pop-star sense.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_14:42:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "taritac", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 912056, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "909981": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I heard he has a lot of tracks on that make the cut.  How is the song about the N word? Is he being critical thinking NAS or stupid NAS?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_10:28:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "evita", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 909299, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "913567": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/07/15/politics/main4261959.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow\">Will Romney's Combative Style Net VP Nod?</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_15:56:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "912545": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I don't know why there is so much emphasis on going to Iraq. It's not like he'll be traveling the countryside, doing his own interviews with people, finding out the truth for himself. On these junkets, the entire trip is set up by the generals, and the politicians see what the generals want them to see, talk to who the generals want them to talk to. If all they are getting is the generals' view of the world, that can be accomplished with a phone call.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_14:23:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "taritac", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 17, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 909873, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "917154": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I've always not liked him, but today he showed his natural ass.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_22:44:04", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 914944, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "909990": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Chuck Todd <i>finally</i> told the truth this morning when assessing the NYTimes poll: the Race Divide is given too much focus. Whites favor Republics, Blacks favor Democrats. That's the way it's been for decades, that's the way it still is. He pointed out the Bill Clinton didn't win the white vote either.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_10:29:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "915111": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Priceless.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_18:34:50", "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": 912224, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "917160": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You gotta love truth she's wise and funny, the place wouldn't be the same without her!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_22:44:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 915379, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "911531": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "incredible CD....i love it, it's musically solid with great lyrics and fantastic delivery. i'd say its a five mic classic if the source had any credibility any more. i encourage anyone who wants a li'l wayne alternative to get it. buy it for your kids, even, maybe they will look up some of the historical figures he references.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_12:55:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "cc6569f8cbd4abd6bef53a2f883f8ca5", "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": 909299, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "915269": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "msmartin:  Thank you for clarifying.  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_18:53:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 915196, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "911304": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "They didn't televise the whole thing but he referred to Barack as an \"impressive fella\" which I find extraordinarily patronizing. But he got decent applause. He then said that all Americans should be proud of the history Barack has made but hopes that his success doesn't continue through to November. He got polite laughter for that recycled joke.<br><br>Approx. 5 minutes into the speech, he started misrespresenting Barack's positions on educational programs. Once he went on the attack, MSNBC stopped covering it because he started to fall flat and look silly (which isn't difficult). I didn't bother watching the rest of it on livestream.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_12:33:15", "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": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 910660, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "915122": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Of course. ;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_18:36:00", "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": 911701, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "915123": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Here is Michael Steele's take on McCain's visit<br><br>From NBC\u2019s Lauren Appelbaum<br><br>After McCain's speech to the NAACP, former Lt. Gov. Michael Steele (R-MD) admitted the Arizona senator is unlikely to garner much of the black vote, but praised him for connecting with the audience. <br> <br>\"You've got to live in the real,\u201d Steele said to NBC's Kelly O'Donnell. \u201cBarack is going to take more than the lion's share of the black vote. But that doesn't and has not stopped John McCain from competing for that vote. And I think that says a lot about the kind of president he is going to be -- that he doesn't just see this as an election opportunity, that he sees this as an opportunity for America to right a lot of wrongs certainly but to grow together -- the idea of every boat being lifted at the same time, and I think that's a powerful message.\"<br> <br>Unlike Obama, McCain held a Q&A after his speech, which caused a visible stir in the room. <br><br>\"You could hear the room go, what?! He's actually going to open this up?!\" Steele later said. \"And I was asking folks, 'Did Barack do that?' And they were, like, 'No.' So, I think it speaks to the style. It speaks to the substance of the man in terms of how he wants to engage the black community, and I appreciate him doing it. <br> <br>Steele, who conquered a couple statewide firsts as an African American in the Republican Party, said it is \"long overdue\" for Republican leaders to reach out to the African Americans. <br><br>\"I think the work has to begin in earnest,\u201d Steele said, \u201cand I think John McCain wants to do that. Regardless of how the election falls out in November, the Republican Party -- if they want to be players; if they want to be taken seriously as a political voice in this country -- they are going to have to engage in all levels, all communities. And you can't piecemeal this. You can't have this attitude, \u2018Well, they won't vote for us so why bother?\u2019\"", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_18:36:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "Texas_Girl_in_LA", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 909300, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "912056": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Okay, call me everything but a child of goddess for this one:<br><br><b>I want to see \"Mamma Mia\" this weekend.  I like ABBA!</b><br><br>I also find it sooo interesting that this is based on a Broadway show about trying to find the right daddy...something that Maury Povich has been doing for <i>how many years</i>?  With how many 'ghetto,' 'barrio,' and 'white trash' folks?<br><br><br>But I like ABBA...(smile)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_13:41:00", "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": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "913593": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/07/management_secrets_of_barack_o_1.php#more\" rel=\"nofollow\">From Marc Ambinder</a>:<br><br>Management Secrets Of Barack Obama<br>16 Jul 2008 11:34 am<br><br><i>Why is there not<br>In the land of Obama<br>only more than<br>A hint of drama?</i><br><br><br>Barack Obama's presidential campaign is a sight to behold for many reasons, but among the least appreciated is its allergy to the disunity and spatting that generally convulses even the most successful of endeavors.<br><br>Obama, who never managed so much as a newsstand, has turned out to be a fairly remarkable leader of a what's becoming a billion dollar enterprise.<br><br>Not that there haven't been disputes; not that there haven't been rollicking disagreements about strategy and message and tactics; not that people haven't been fired; not that personalities haven't clashed; some high-ranking Obama advisers really embraced the concept of multiple town hall meetings with John McCain while others were wary; after some half-hearted stabs at negotiation, the idea kicked the bucket. (By the way: kicking the bucket is not a term of endearment for vegans; a dollar to the person who can explain why.) <br><br>So what principles are responsible for the discipline, the coherence and relational tightness of the campaign? The question is relevant because they tell us something about how Obama might set up his White House, and the principle of function following form applies.<br><br>1. A challenging, clearly-defined mission. <br><br>Win the Democratic nomination. Ok, that's obvious. But in November of 2006, Obama had a handful of wealthy Jewish donors from Chicago ready to raise money, a few Democratic strategy types who stood ready to put a campaign together, and not much of anything else. The challenge was immense, and the folks who joined the Obama campaign early on -- this was when Hillary Clinton was the frontrunner -- came aboard because they believed in Obama the challenge, not because they expected glory or material rewards. Salaries weren't competitive with the Clinton campaign's either. Obama attracted a large number of ideological Democrats who either had reason to dislike the Clintonian influence over the party or who believed that Obama stood at the crossroads between history and hope. <br><br>2. Clear lines of authority, with budget power appropriately vested in the campaign manager.<br><br>David Plouffe was named campaign manager and given the portfolio of essentially building an airplane as it was speeding down the runway. Plouffe's authority did not derive from his personal relationship with Barack Obama; indeed, Plouffe really didn't interact much with Obama before the campaign. Instead, it derived from the decisions he made that Obama later ratified. A corollary: Obama's best friend, Marty Nesbitt, was named campaign treasurer. That meant that Nesbitt, too, had oversight functions about spending and could make sure that Obama's personal values were reflected in the decisions made by the campaign.<br><br>David Axelrod would handle strategy, always a kind of messy and intrusive portfolio, but the strategy was pretty clear from the start: this is a change election, and Obama's the change agent.<br><br>Robert Gibbs would handle the press; and handle is a good word, because Obama's relationship with the press has been fascinating as it has evolved.<br><br>Their subordinates were generally given tasks and clear lines of authority.<br><br>3. The tone from the top.<br><br>Much has been written about Plouffe's preternatural unflappability, but his attitude helps confirm a basic principle of psychology: when the boss is freaked, employees get freaked. When the boss is calm, employees tend to remain calm. <br><br>But there's Obama's tone, too. Generally happy. \"No drama.\" That's made clear to new employees, who feel the presence of the dictum as they go about their work. Drama disappoints Obama. No one wants to disappoint Obama. So -- if there are conflicts -- staffers are advised to work them out by themselves. A social cuing effect helps to cement the bond here; employees see that everyone else is getting along and feel pressure to get along, too.<br><br>4. Protecting Obama's public image at all costs<br><br>This one's also obvious, but it has been a priority from day one. The type of people drawn to the campaign are the type of people who would be angry at themselves if they somehow distorted the carefully crafted image that Obama and guru Gibbs et. al. had worked to create.<br><br><br><br><br>5. The personality cult<br><br>Not meant as an insult or a reference to messianic fervor; I mean more a reflection of Obama's personality. Obama is an occasionally fastidious perfectionist. He expects a high level of professional integrity from his staff; he expects a higher level of execution. When things go wrong, Obama doesn't just leave the aftermath to his subordinates, he actively helps to clean it up. <br><br>6. Decisions made quickly and decisively.<br><br>Occasionally, Obama temporizes. But just as often, he endorses quick, clear decision-making.<br><br>7. The freedom to do things differently.<br><br>Let the Clintons run their campaign the traditional way. Obama had nothing to lose and everything to gain, and so his campaign could experiment; they were trying to accomplish something that no challenger had every before accomplished, so they could afford to try new things, to throw out the old rulebooks, to ignore established habits of mind, and take some risks.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_15:58:43", "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}, "914373": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Bush is taking foreign policy advice from Barack Obama.<br><br>All he's doing is taking away Barack's talking points. He's a lameduck President trying to help the Dangerous One succeed him. It will also help to paint Barack as George Bush instead of McCain.<br><br>Anybody who thinks that Bush and the Iranian leaders are enemies got they weave in too tight.<br><br>I see them.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_17:14:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 913639, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "915146": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I wish MoDo will just admit she wants to be down with the swirl already, damn.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_18:39:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "eclecticbrotha", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 912158, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "917184": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The SSSSSSSSSnake seems to pop up when a certain person is on the board too (hmmm, the other person was also on a break). I always thought it weird the two always seemed post similar inane talking points right on top of each other all the while engaging mostly only each other in conversation.<br><br>Perhaps, I am just being messy and it is just a coincidence.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_22:47:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "Honey01", "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": 909975, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "909511": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That is funny......", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_09:44:01", "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": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 909148, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "913098": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The thing about that is -- it's based partly on actual truth that has been objectively verified. <br><br>Cindy McCain was in fact addicted to prescription drugs. <br><br>John McCain is a Republican and so is connected to Dick Cheney who is the current Republican VP through shared party affiliation. <br><br>John McCain did in fact sing that Bomb bomb Iran thing.<br><br>To me this cover shows part of what's wrong with the other one -- why does this kind of caricature stretching and including pieces of actual truth equate with what was said about the Obamas in the other cover.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_15:10:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "4ec3c0272b87ba5c8ce3a9168cf4e78a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 909148, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "915150": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "O'Reilly is gonna air the tape tonight. You know why? Because Keith Olbermann returns from vacation tonight. That's why he held the tape.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_18:40:12", "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": 912857, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "913615": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/15/sources-recall-mccains-jo_n_112955.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">McCain Ape Rape Joke Recalled By Sources</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_16:00:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "910544": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "For those who wanted more rapid responses from the Barack campaign against stupidity magnified, well this one is for you:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/7/16/6223/05605/885/552365\" rel=\"nofollow\">Barack responds to the utter <i>ludicrity</i> of the NYTimes Poll</a><br><br>\"The NYT story about their poll ignores multiple and significant pieces of data that actually indicate a trend much different from that which the story suggests,\" the critique reads. It goes on to list \"some straightforward points from their data that are omitted from the story.\"...<br><br>    <b>a) More white voters say Obama cares about people like them, than say the same thing about McCain by 31 to 23<br><br>    b) On the essential issue in this campaign - bringing about change in Washington - Among white voters, Obama is seen as the change agent by 52% to 30%<br><br>    c) Obama's 31% favorable rating among white voters is virtually identical to McCain's, which is at 34%.<br><br>    d) By a 2 to 1 margin over McCain, white voters are more likely to say that Obama would improve America's image in the world<br><br>    e) \"Racial dissension\" around Mrs. Obama's 24% favorable rating among whites is an extremely odd description given that Mrs. McCain's favorable rating among white voters is 20%.<br><br>    f) Enthusiasm for Obama's candidacy is roughly 2.5 times higher among white voters than is enthusiasm for McCain's.<br><br>    g) Obama is winning by 6 points against McCain and the gap among white voters is only -9 --- a margin smaller than independent expert on voting patterns, Ruy Texiera, said would give Obama a \" solid win.\"<br><br>    h) though there is a six-point margin of error among black voters the NYT describes the 7-point change in black voters' views that whites had a better chance of getting ahead as slightly higher than 8 years ago. Given that the Times reports horserace questions as statistically even when the margin falls within the margin, it seems that this shift from seven years ago among black voters is well within the margin of error.</b><br><br>::<br><br>So his campaign called the NYT chief political writer on his ish. Right away.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_11:24:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 9, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "917201": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "msmartin:  DOUBLE THANK YOU.  \"&gt;) :&gt;)<br><br>jay:  THANK YOU!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_22:50:13", "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": 917117, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "909523": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.vetsforfreedom.org/multimedia/details.aspx?id=323\" rel=\"nofollow\">Vets for Freedom's Latest: \"Some in Washington\"</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_09:44:52", "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}, "913108": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Stepping out of the \"advocate\" role for a minute:<br><br>I'll respect him for going and seeing what's actually going on, seeing the sacrifices that are being made daily. If he comes back and still insists that the surge was a mistake and that no progress has been made....then no, I can't support him, because a statement like that wouldn't be true.<br><br>If he comes back and says things have improved and that a withdrawal should be dicated by events on the ground, then we'd be in agreement.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_15:11:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 913003, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "917719": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<A HREF=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/16/w-actors-arrest-details-t_n_113218.html rel=\"nofollow\">\"W\" Actors Arrest Details: Tasers, Pepper Sprayed, \"N\" Word Reports TMZ</A HREF><br>Jeffrey Wright, who plays Colin Powell and starred in Syriana and Angels in America , and Josh Brolin, who plays Dubya and starred in No Country for Old Men, were involved in an altercation with police, who threw the n-word around.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-17_00:11:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "taritac", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "914648": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I'm waiting for something public, and mean and so malevolent that  the talking baboons in the MSN will only invoke his name in whispers and hushed, reverent tones.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_17:42:09", "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": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 914563, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "915380": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "that's fucking awful.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_19:09:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "99bcec632769e483ead5faa515e84132", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 912857, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "913624": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/07/keeping_the_dnc_chairman_busy.php\" rel=\"nofollow\">Keeping the DNC Chairman Busy</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_16:01:07", "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}, "910561": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/opinions/cartoonsandvideos/toles_main.html?hpid=opinionsbox1\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/opinions/c...</a><br><br>Now this is satire folks", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_11:25:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "goc", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": 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}, "915067": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "It could have been worse. He could have lamented how Obama doesn't sing those old Negro spirituals or tap dance.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_18:31:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "eclecticbrotha", "has_been_anonymized": false, "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": 914944, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "910053": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I wonder if there's any editorial in the major papers today that outlines John McCain's flip flop on Afghanistan that the b-serious video clip underscores.<br><br>Probably not. Despite the warmonger's lie of \"I know how to win wars\", it's still all about Barack.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_10:36:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "913639": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://thepage.time.com/2008/07/16/official-us-envoy-to-meet-iranian-nuke-negotiator/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Guess who's meeting with the Iranians? Shrub</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_16:02:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "911826": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Jack:  WELCOME back!!  It's been \"tres\" busy 'round here!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_13:21:49", "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": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "912623": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Furthermore, what is \"winning the war?\" What is the definition? What are the milestones? Haven't we already reached the main objectives of getting Saddam Hussein out of power and creating a new constitution-based government?<br><br>Iraq's future stability needs to rest on Iraqis' commitment to bringing it about. They want us OUT OF THERE, and as a (supposedly) sovereign nation, they have every right to ask us to leave. We will undoubtedly be assisting them for the next umpteen years, but it is Iraq that needs to be in the lead and take control. <br><br>You term a timetable for drawdown as a retreat, which is nothing more than partisan rhetoric. Retreating is where we've been beaten so badly that we have to get the fuck out of there. That has never been the case, and probably won't ever be the case. But for the last 6 years, we've seen that there is a limit to what the American military can accomplish. By systematically and sensibly withdrawing, we will allow Iraqis the time to gradually take control.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_14:30:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "taritac", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 10, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 912545, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "915187": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "He probably said \"niggas\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_18:43:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 912857, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "909558": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Hey D, How you like your great leader now.I mean fighting the \"terrist\" he has met the enemy and he is us.<br>Court Backs Bush on Military Detentions <br><a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/16/washington/16combatant.html?_r=2&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin&oref=slogin\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/16/washington/16...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_09:47:55", "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": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "912632": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Right on.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_14:31:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "taritac", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 912296, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "913658": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/16/opinion/16egan.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&oref=slogin\" rel=\"nofollow\">Do they ' get ' the New Yorker cover in Montana?</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_16:03:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "915196": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "No it's a response to Jay's sarcastic comment to rikyrah", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_18:45:31", "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": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 914688, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "917759": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That. Was. GREAT!!!!<br><br>OMG! I love Walken! And he is SOOOO not young!<br><br>See what I miss when I don't have cable?  LOL!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-17_00:17:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "taritac", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 914447, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "914688": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Hello msmartin:  Did this statement, inadvertently, get into the wrong response space?  It appears to respond to \"blksista\".  But I will take your advice.  :&gt;)  :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_17:47:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 914492, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "917359": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Awww, shucks.<br><br>Thank you.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_23:14:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 917160, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "911319": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Barack is moderating a 21st Century Threat summit in Lafayette, Indiana, right now. He's got Sam Nunn, Evan Bayh, a few other national security heavyweights and folks who specialize in bioterrorism and nuclear threats on the panel.<br><br>Wonder what coverage this is going to get. <br><br>I'm watching it now <a href=\"http://www.cnn.com/video/live/live.html?stream=stream2\" rel=\"nofollow\">HERE</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_12:35:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "914703": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Apparently, Gallup says that the \"Black Spokesman\" Title is Still Up For Grabs <a href=\"http://www.gallup.com/poll/108805/Black-Spokesman-Title-Still-Grabs.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.gallup.com/poll/108805/Black-Spokesm...</a><br><br>My thoughts:<br>1) That headline is RIDICULOUS<br>2) Congrats to the 6% of people out there who answered \"Me/Myself\"<br>3) Tavis Smiley gets 1%!  Apparently they polled him, because I don't know a single Black person who agrees with that", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_17:49:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "83e8906ef713ea0aefaf558ef78c5249", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "917265": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "She can't take nor accept EITHER Obama.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_22:59:05", "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": 916038, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "914709": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "No doubt.<br><br>I wonder when someone is going to mention the savings and loan scandale du jour a decade ago...he barely survived THAT.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_17:50:20", "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": 911385, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "915226": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rdxtion:  What a pile of DECEPTION!!!  The title was \"Black Spokesman . . \" BUT the article was about who best addresses the RACE ISSUE!!!  Anything for a \"sale\"!!!!<br>That's how bill and billary got on the LIST - even though the only thing that they did with the RACE ISSUE was to attempt to USE it against Mr. Obama!<br>Whew!  I'm taking deep breaths!   :&gt;)  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_18:48:51", "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": 914703, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "914715": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Also<br><br>4) What the HELL is Billary doing on this list", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_17:50:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "83e8906ef713ea0aefaf558ef78c5249", "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": 914703, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "912158": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Maureen Dowd is at it again.....<br><br><i>\"If Obama keeps being stingy with his quips and smiles, and if the dominant perception of him is that you can\u2019t make jokes about him, it might infect his campaign with an airless quality. His humorlessness could spark humor.\"</i><br><a href:\"http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/16/opinion/16dowd.html?em&ex=1216353600&en=2e8ff8c7ca86e699&ei=5087%0A\" rel=\"nofollow\">May We Mock, Barack</a><br><br>Why does it bother white folk when we don't laugh and grin 24/7?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_13:49:10", "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": 10, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "917381": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "hehehe", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_23:18:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "Texas_Girl_in_LA", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 917184, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "912673": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Because he'd probably lose his committee chairs if he switched.<br><br>Plus, he's only a far right-winger on foreign policy. On domestic issues, he sticks with Democrats.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_14:35:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "taritac", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 910172, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "912165": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "A new set of polls from the Carolinas show that both of these states could be close this Fall, despite the fact that neither has voted Democratic since Jimmy Carter was the South's favorite son in 1976.<br><br>The new North Carolina poll from SurveyUSA: McCain 50%, Obama 45%, with a \u00b13.8% margin of error.<br><br>And here's Public Policy Polling's (D) survey of the much more conservative South Carolina: McCain 45%, Obama 39%, and Bob Barr 5%, with a \u00b14.2% margin of error. The X-factor here is Barr, as much of his vote would presumably have gone to McCain in a two-way race.<br><br>From <a href=\"http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/07/polls_show_close_races_in_nort.php\" rel=\"nofollow\">TPM</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_13:49:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "915750": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Do you mean that maybe it was planned?  It crossed my mind at first, but then now with the supposed \"nigger\" thing...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_19:59:09", "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": 914898, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "913194": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The money shot would be Obama walking in Sadr City, without body armor.<br><br>Of course, the Secret Service would never let it happen.<br><br>But <i><b>that</i></b> would be change you could believe in.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_15:20:06", "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": 912991, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "917127": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I thought that too, but I guess not.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_22:40:31", "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": 915750, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "912687": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Why would anybody care what LIEberman says?", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_14:36:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "ebecbd3d000916c390820264bf726d5c", "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": 909947, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "913201": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "OT sort of, but I wonder if I'm the only one who hates the shorthand symbol-speaking that yields phrase like \"gay adoption.\"<br><br>What a silly phrase. Like the \"adoption\" itself is going to dress up in biking leather or a pink tutu and go be in a pride parade.<br><br>Similarly it is ridiculous in my eyes for anyone to say they \"don't believe in gay adoption.\" You \"don't believe in\" ... fairies (the other kind) or Santa Claus or those huge virtual bats that live under the bed and only come out when your parents aren't in the room.<br><br>This is OT for sure... but it is also serious in a way because I think how these words are used in political/public shorthand says something about the situation -- people being objectified into two-dimensional \"issues\" to be debated. Political footballs. Obviously this is in fact politics and I am not criticizing on that point, but even so I find it gross/ugly every time I see it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_15:21:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "4ec3c0272b87ba5c8ce3a9168cf4e78a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 911945, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "915250": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "i don't like either of these cartoons.  i dislike low-blows, period.  i find them mean-spirited, petty, trite.  just plain old dumb.  as a country, we need to rise up and do better.<br><br>i agree with u--this cover shows EVERYTHING that's wrong with the new yorker cover.  it goes too far...unnecessarily.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_18:51:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "99bcec632769e483ead5faa515e84132", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 913098, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "913715": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I appreciate all the positivie encouragement. We didn't know what a hit the Open Thread would become when we decided to do it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_16:08:31", "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": 912410, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "912183": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yall:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.qbr.com/page10688.asp\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Harlem Book Fair is back again this summer.  Usually, if you can't be there, it is shown on CSpan live during the day and repeated the same night.  So stay tuned.</a><br><br>Here are some of the offerings:<br><br>2:15p - 3:15p BEVERLEY MANLEY: LIFE WITH MICHAEL MANLEY<br>(The Manley Memoirs)<br>Interviewer: Cliff Hughes (Commentator, Nationwide Radio, Jamaica WI) with<br>Beverley Manley<br>As a young girl, starved of her mother's love because she was darker than her<br>siblings, and forced to do housework while her sisters relaxed, Beverley was<br>a modern-day Cinderella. Told incessantly that she was good for nothing, she<br>defied her mother's prophecy by becoming a household name in local radio,<br>television, and on stage. It was her path at the then Jamaica Broadcasting<br>Corporation that lead her to Michael Manley and to the Jamaica House. Marriage to<br>Michael also leads to her political awakening. Not content with being the docile<br>wife, Beverley assumed an activist role in the governing Peoples National Party<br>(PNP), becoming embroiled in the ideological politics of the 1970s that would<br>eventually lead to her estrangement from Michael, the destruction of their<br>marriage, her flight into the arms of a rival lover and finally to a<br>self-imposed exile in the US, where she took refuge from the ire of the Jamaican elite<br>for daring to walk out on one of their own.<br><br>COMMUNITY ALERT: THE STATE OF BLACK MEDIA<br>4:45p - 6:00p THE LONG RISE AND HARD FALL OF BLACK RADIO<br>Moderator: Sabrina Lamb<br>Kristal Brent Zook (I See Black People: Interviews with African American<br>Owners of Radio and Television), Sanford Moore - KISS-FM Week In Review Co-Host.<br>Bob Law - Veteran Broadcaster, Film Producer \"History of Black Radio\"<br>Black radio has long provided an unadulterated perspective of the Black<br>American experience. Mergers, conglomerates, audience diversification and the high<br>costs of maintenance have caused many smaller stations to fold, while other<br>rely on exaggeration and caricature to survive \u2013 all at the expense of providing<br>the type of critical, hard-edged analysis a community requires to stay armed<br>and informed. This panel discusses black media's demise and future.<br><br>2:45 - 3:30p SINS OF THE FATHER: HOW FATHERS IMPACT DAUGHTERS<br>RELATIONSHIPS<br>Moderated by The Flow (Marc Collins, Angelo Hunt, Roy Frank)<br>Panelists: Jonetta Rose Barras (Whatever Happened to Daddy's Little Girl?:<br>The<br>Impact of Fatherlessness on Black Women); Randy Williams (Filmmaker, Fathers<br>and their Impact on Daughters Relationships); Grace Cornish (You Deserve<br>Healthy Love, Sis!: The Seven Steps to Getting the Relationship You Want);<br>June<br>Cross (Secret Daughter: A Mixed-Race Daughter and the Mother Who Gave Her<br>Away); D. E. Brown (Fatherless)<br>How much of a woman's relationship choices are influenced by their father?<br>How do fathers impact<br>daughter's definitions of womanhood, intimacy and self esteem. How many women<br>are trying to make up for the absence, abuse or neglect of their fathers<br>their lives, in romantic relationships risking their own authenticity and<br>relationship success? What attitudes do fathers pass on to their daughters regarding<br>male privilege, domination and control, and what do daughters pass on to their<br>sons? Join The FLOW and their guest panelist as we explore these issues.<br><br>SCHOMBURG CENTER/LANGSTON HUGHES AUDITORIUM<br>515 Malcolm X Blvd., corner of West 135th Street<br>PANEL DISCUSSIONS - SUNDAY, JULY 20<br>The QBR Author Stage<br><br>1:00 - 2:30p FROM BARAKA TO BARACK: THE EVOLUTION OF BLACK<br>POLITICAL THOUGHT: A Conversation with Herb Boyd and Amiri Baraka<br>Poet, activist, elder statesman and political gadfly Amiri Baraka has seen<br>his share of art and political<br>movements; in fact, he is credited with sparking the Black Arts movement of<br>the 60's. Author Herb Boyd is a critically acclaimed journalist/activist who<br>has dedicated his life to chronicling the breadth of the black life in America.<br>Together they discuss politics, Barak Obama, and the parting of the Red Sea.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_13:51:29", "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": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "914991": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "To All:  I am going to make a bold attempt to post this site.  It continues to grow daily.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/flipflops\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/flipflops</a>.<br><br>This site also has a \"list\" of \"mcancient's\" CONFUSIONS!  True but hilarious!<br>OOPS!  This was previously cited by taritac.  Sorry for the duplication.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_18:23:22", "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}, "912186": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Here's the link to Dowd's column<br><a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/16/opinion/16dowd.html?em&ex=1216353600&en=2e8ff8c7ca86e699&ei=5087%0A\" rel=\"nofollow\">May We Mock, Barack</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_13:51:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 912158, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "913211": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thank you.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_15:22:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "4ec3c0272b87ba5c8ce3a9168cf4e78a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 912224, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "914755": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The nomination battle goes on:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/16/clinton-distances-herself_n_113094.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Anti-Obama Hillraiser Raising Hell</a><br><br>::<br><br>Another LIEbernman out to get Barack. Is she related to the other one?<br><br>The good thing is, neither one of them make much sense.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_17:55:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "910660": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I'm extremely curious about this one...<br><br>Give us updates if you can", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_11:34:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "Texas_Girl_in_LA", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 910438, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "911019": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Well the \"stag\" part of \"stagflation\" really scares me -- prices are going up AND ppl are losing jobs.<br><br>On the gv't cuts side, we're finally reaping the fruits of Reaganomics: yeah you can keep cutting taxes but sooner or later you cut spending. That was their goal, and now they got what they wanted. Which is to screw the little people.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_12:05:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anderkoo", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 910848, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "910665": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Oh, right, Obama himself personally locked himself into a room and wrote up a foreign policy all by his lonesome... give me a break. There are such things as advisors who do things like do on-the-ground research.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_11:34:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anderkoo", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 909873, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "910156": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Bill Clinton, Al Gore and John Kerry never got the \"Reagan Democrat\" vote; neither did Mondale & Geriatric Ferraro.  That's why they're called \"Reagan Democrats.\"  So why people are expecting Barack Obama to capture the Reagan Democrat vote when Mondale/Ferraro, Dukakis, Clinton, Gore and Kerry never got it their damn selves is amazing to me.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_10:46:21", "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": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 909990, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "914914": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "craig,<br><br>always looking out for snakes...thanks.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_18:14:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 914755, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "914257": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2008/07/mccain-on-afgha.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">McCain follows Barack on Afghanistan</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_17:02:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "913746": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I've been a member of Schomburg for 10 years. One of these years, I'm going to NYC for the fair and to see Schomburg. Book Fair? A slice of heaven as far as I'm concerned.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_16:11:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 912183, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "911701": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Craig:  Thanks for the \"SSSSSSSSSSnake\" shout out!  It really presents good imagery.  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_13:11:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 909975, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "915001": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Oh no....<br><br>Sam Nunn says Czechoslovakia too....<br><br>Today at Obama's Global Threats Summit<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37PnDDMrJEY\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37PnDDMrJEY</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_18:24:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "Texas_Girl_in_LA", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "915290": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "there's a deep and looooong history behind white folks' thinking that blacks as a whole are non-analytical.  ever read \"the bell curve\"?   this belief system is very old.  what bell hooks described as \"white supremacist thought\".", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_18:55:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "99bcec632769e483ead5faa515e84132", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 914419, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "909148": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Ok, was I the only one who spit out there drink when they saw this:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/15/a-new-yorker-cover-for-na_n_112877.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">McCain & Wife hypothetical 'satiricial' cover</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_09:00:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "b8b9328e61e0094ae18e247c922f9dc7", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "914234": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "What is winning?  What are the goals for this mission.  Was it to achieve freedom for the Iraqi citizens? If so, then I would say the mission is accomplished since the Iraqi government itself is pushing a withdrawal deadline.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_16:59:23", "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": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 912979, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "912224": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "This election ain't no minstrel show for these people.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_13:54:40", "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": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 912158, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "909666": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The editors of The Washington Post  offer a brutal editorial on Obama and Iraq. Highlights:<br><br>    \"After hinting earlier this month that he might \"refine\" his Iraq strategy after visiting the country and listening to commanders, Mr. Obama appears to have decided that sticking to his arbitrary, 16-month timetable is more important than adjusting to the dramatic changes in Iraq...<br><br>    The real difference between the various plans is not the dates but the conditions: Both the Iraqis and Mr. McCain say the withdrawal would be linked to the ability of Iraqi forces to take over from U.S. troops, as they have begun to do. Mr. Obama's strategy allows no such linkage \u2014 his logic is that a timetable unilaterally dictated from Washington is necessary to force Iraqis to take responsibility for the country.<br><br>    At the time he first proposed his timetable, Mr. Obama argued \u2014 wrongly, as it turned out \u2014 that U.S. troops could not stop a sectarian civil war. He conceded that a withdrawal might be accompanied by a \"spike\" in violence. Now, he describes as \"an achievable goal\" that \"we leave Iraq to a government that is taking responsibility for its future \u2014 a government that prevents sectarian conflict and ensures that the al-Qaeda threat which has been beaten back by our troops does not reemerge.\" How will that \"true success\" be achieved? By the same pullout that Mr. Obama proposed when chaos in Iraq appeared to him inevitable.<br><br>    ...American commanders will probably tell Mr. Obama that from a logistical standpoint, a 16-month withdrawal timetable will be difficult, if not impossible, to fulfill. Iraqis will say that a pullout that is not negotiated with the government and disregards the readiness of Iraqi troops will be a gift to al-Qaeda and other enemies. If Mr. Obama really intends to listen to such advisers, why would he lock in his position in advance?<br><br>    \"What's missing in our debate,\" Mr. Obama said yesterday, \"is a discussion of the strategic consequences of Iraq.\" Indeed: The message that the Democrat sends is that he is ultimately indifferent to the war's outcome \u2014 that Iraq \"distracts us from every threat we face\" and thus must be speedily evacuated regardless of the consequences. That's an irrational and ahistorical way to view a country at the strategic center of the Middle East, with some of the world's largest oil reserves.\"<br><br>In the eyes of the Post, Obama has been wrong about the biggest and most pressing foreign policy decision facing the country, and continues to double down on a wrong position.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_09:57:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "db02925cd7f6e6f931701b7d12a93f84", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 34, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "917350": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": ":-)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_23:12:35", "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": 917184, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "915345": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "good.  she definitely has my prayers.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_19:03:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "99bcec632769e483ead5faa515e84132", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 911874, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "914794": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Word it however you like, but the bottom line is they want to talk about us leaving.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_18:00:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 914307, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "914285": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Okay . <br><br>D -you just believe differently than I do and we just won't agree on how well the situation is over there. Vote for your man, McCain and I will vote for my man Obama. <br>Thanks for the passive dumb remark. It made me rethink everything.<br>Unengaging now.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_17:05:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "29f6805818d1f575c4b8e2182a2ac4ce", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 913878, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "916846": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Now this BURNS. ME. UP.<br><br>Talk about telling niggers how to behave: <br><a href=http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/25706515/ rel=\"nofollow\">NFL to monitor players for use of gang signs</a href><br><br>Okay, no one wants to promote gang activity, but I am sick of the NFL and the NBA telling grown-ass men how to act, whether telling them they have to wear f*cking BUSINESS SUITS or this. <br><br>I'm sick of this paternalistic bullshit. The members of the NHL can act a damn-fool, and the Powers That Be have nothing to say. <br><br>I hope if they ever enforce this, someone files a lawsuit alleging infringement of their first amendment rights: freedom of expression and freedom of association.<br><br>Bah!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_22:00:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "taritac", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "911727": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "as in: he speaks so well!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_13:13:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "cc6569f8cbd4abd6bef53a2f883f8ca5", "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": 911304, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "917877": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "yeah well, what's the title of the book?  \"$40M slaves\"...?", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-17_00:39:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "99bcec632769e483ead5faa515e84132", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 916846, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "914307": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The goals are to prevent Iraq from becoming a haven for terrorists and extremists, and to assist the Iraqis in establishing a governmentthat is strong, secure, and protect its citizens.<br><br>Contrary to popular (liberal?) opinion, the Iraqis have not called for us to withdraw. They have asked us to look at our plans to leave, or at a \"reprogramming\" of our present mission (BBC has the exact quote, which I thought I posted yesterday. If not, I will).", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_17:07:12", "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": 914234, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "926085": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Great. Just great. \"Gay lifestyle\" - that is so not anywhere near what I was saying. <br><br>*Sigh.* Never mind. I'd rather not say anything on this kind of thing than say something that invites a comment-reply using the phrase \"gay lifestyle\" in what seems to be an un-sarcastic tone. Next time I'll just STFU on this.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-17_17:26:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "4ec3c0272b87ba5c8ce3a9168cf4e78a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 915947, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "911756": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "i love it i always say statistics are only valid based on who was asked and how the numbers are interpreted, which most of the time folks get wrong.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_13:16:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "cc6569f8cbd4abd6bef53a2f883f8ca5", "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": 910544, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "910232": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2008/07/16/2008-07-16_untitled__cover16m-1.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">It's only a cartoon! Obama syas, but the NYer insults Muslims</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_10:54:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "b8b9328e61e0094ae18e247c922f9dc7", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "914834": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Unless you plan on doing some channelling.<br><br>::<br><br>Brilliant.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_18:05:27", "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": 914439, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "914840": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>Why does it bother white folk when we don't laugh and grin 24/7?<br></i><br><br>They are only comfortable with us:<br>singing and dancing for their amusement<br>dribbling a ball for their amusement", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_18:06:06", "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": 912158, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "913732": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "OK, round 2. <br><br>Damn.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_16:09:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 912857, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "915355": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That's al-Maliki's words.<br><br>And they want to talk about withdrawal based on conditions on the ground, just like we do.<br><br>Obama just wants out regardless.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_19:05:06", "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": 914794, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "909724": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Wasn't the Washington Post the same paper that tried to insinuate the Obamas got a shady mortgage because he got a lower interest rate than the average person, without knowing FICO scores and other pertinent data?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_10:03:28", "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": 33, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 909666, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "913823": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Oh did they repeal the imparative that says they can question their mission. When did that happen? Right on, free speech indeed for everyone.<br><br>It's good to have an achievable goal in answer to the second part of your post.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_16:18:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "29f6805818d1f575c4b8e2182a2ac4ce", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 912869, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "913767": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Brian Williams, Charlie Gibson (jacka**) and Katie Couric will travel overseas next week to gear up for Obama's trip through Europe and the Middle East. <br><br><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/16/AR2008071600758_pf.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_16:14:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "Texas_Girl_in_LA", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "913317": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Excellent article listing areas of McCain's constant confusion by Steve Benen:<br><a href=http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/16220.html#more-16220 rel=\"nofollow\">Obama campaign: McCain \u2018got confused again\u2019</a href>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_15:33:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "taritac", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "912296": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "It's the Commander-in-Chief that lays out the agenda; not the other way around.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_14:00:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "f9aaa8acc43fd7620185ff90cef3c05a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 909873, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "913833": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I just find the headlines this one's generating interesting.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/dayton/stories/2008/07/14/daily24.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">\"McCain touts school vouchers, lower taxes in NAACP speech\"</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_16:19:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "0800a8f74d23d39eb9819b1330390f07", "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": 909300, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "916394": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thanks.<br><br>I believe it is Craig who says McCain is dangerous.  The Republicans are very dangerous.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_21:15:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 915437, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "913479": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/07/hot-mic-moment.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hot Mic Moment Catches Obama in Private Chat</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_15:48:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "914589": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That's why Bush scheduled his press conference at that time. And why McCain moved up his Iraq speech by two days and scheduled it immediately after Barack's.<br><br>Politics is transparent.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_17:36:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 913479, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "913842": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Don't  assume what change I believe in, you don't seem to have the subtlety of thought for it. But I could be making a rash assumption there.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_16:20:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "29f6805818d1f575c4b8e2182a2ac4ce", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 913194, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "909299": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.theroot.com/id/47296\" rel=\"nofollow\">Nas - Untitled Album Review</a><br><br>Did anyone get that album? Its dope!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_09:21:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "b8b9328e61e0094ae18e247c922f9dc7", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "911284": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Roland Martin broadcast from Ghana this morning. I thought that was cool.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_12:31:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "916918": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "A haven for terrorist?  <br><br>Huh, like Afghanistan or Pakistan you mean.  <br><br>Our military is already strained.  We no longer have a draft as you well know, so the miliatry is all volunteer, and I would  not be surprised to learn that recruiment is not as high as we need it to be.<br><br>While we have been busy keeping Iraq from becoming a \"haven for terrorists\", places like Afghanistan and Pakistan have become  an acutal haven.   Not only that, but the perpretrators of 9/11 like Bin Laden are in Afghanistan.  <br><br>Due to the nature of our military obligations in Iraq, we are getting pummeled in Afghanistan, but we cannot send more troops to the region unless we take more out of Iraq.<br><br>And before Obama discussed it in his speech yesterday, McCain did not believe that securing Afghanistan is as important as \"winning\" in Iraq, now of course, in a \"me too\" type of manner he is is proposing sending brigades to Afghanistan.<br><br>Looks to me McCain is playing follow the leader and contrary to the MSM latest storyline, that is Obama.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_22:09:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "lamh", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 914307, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "914879": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LOL.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_18:10:09", "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": 914648, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "914885": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "TRUTHSEEKER,<br><br>they'll find a way to channel it into ' the angry black man' memo if they can get it on tape.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_18:10:28", "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": 914648, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "914593": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"Combative\"..Hahahaha?", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_17:36:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 913567, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "910792": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Well, who are they? <br><br>And why haven't they reported the success of the surge-<b><i>especially if they're doing \"on the ground\" research?</i></b>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_11:45:05", "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": 910665, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "910793": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5jhw9ECY5Vi1V5rvld6tX3gsamPHA\" rel=\"nofollow\">Natalie Cole diagnosed with Hepatitis C</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_11:45:07", "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": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "914379": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I find the entire debate, or fact that there is still a debate on Iraq and Afghanistan.  Barack Obama had the ability to see that we had no business in Iraq and that we needed to be in Afghanistan where the terrorists are.  Never mind the surge for had we not invaded there would have been no need for a surge.  The surge may have curbed violence that we INITIATED, but it is not the sole reason for the quell of that violence.  A large part of the end of the violence is that while our economy tanks, the US government is paying the factions that we fought with in Iraq not to fight with us anymore.  So in essence we created a war and then paid the people not to fight back.  This little move was an attempt to draw attention from the fact that we should not have been there.  <br><br>The other factions we were fighting  then fled to Afghanistan where we should have been fighting terrorism in the first place and made it harder for our troops there who are not numerous enough or properly equipped due to the money, personnell and equipment being used in Iraq to fight a war that we didn't need to fight, unless of course you believe all of the death and destruction for oil is worth it.<br><br>Now McCain and the administration who by the way ridiculed Obama's desire to meet with enemies and are now meeting with Iran (I guess they since the American people aren't having that war - USA v. Iran) would like to say they need to take the fight to Afghanistan where Barack told them we should have been all along.  Oh I almost forgot we're also paying Pakistan to harbor the very terrorists we were supposed to be in search of when we invaded Iraq.<br><br>We've wasted lives, time and money to fight in Iraq and now the administration would like to follow Barack's advice only they would like us to believe that it is John McCains idea when it is what Obama has said all along.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_17:15:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 910053, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "915404": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LOL!   gregory is a troll.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_19:12:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "99bcec632769e483ead5faa515e84132", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 914944, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "909777": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yes, so we should all be fearful that Bush-with less than a year remaining in office-will have all dissenters locked up.<br><br>Please.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_10:09:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 909558, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "914898": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "TS, <br><br>I dunno. I've been going back and forth on this, and I just don't know.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_18:12:09", "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": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 914567, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "913878": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I made that comment to prove the point that seeing any American-much less a presidential candidate-walking in an area unprotected where they would be foolish to do so two years ago would be a sign of progress that couldn't be questioned.<br><br>Only someone who didn't know that something like that could happen in Sadr City now would be dumb enough to assume that comment was directed at them personally.<br><br>Yeah, you are making assumptions.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_16:24:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 913842, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "913879": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Brilliant!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_16:24:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "29f6805818d1f575c4b8e2182a2ac4ce", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 912224, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "912857": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Jesse says:<br><a href=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/16/jesse-jackson-caught-on-m_n_111732.html rel=\"nofollow\"><b>\"Barack...he's talking down to black people...telling niggers how to behave.\"</b></a href><br>So, <i>that's</i> what O'Reilly was talking about. That's bad, but not as bad as I thought.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_14:51:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "taritac", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 17, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "913515": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/07/mccain-shifts-p.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">McCain Shifts Position on More US Troops to Afghanistan</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_15:51:45", "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}, "916962": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Not to be ungracious.   Thank you Lily, that's lovely of you to say.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_22:16:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 915379, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "914916": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "craig:  Not to appear to continue this imagery ad infinitum, BUT, can we say - slither to the SSSSSSSSSSSSnake List - Ricki LIEberman!!!  billary stated that she is distancing herself.  BUT - who REALLY knows?", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_18:14:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 914755, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "912869": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Surrounded by soldiers who can't speak the truth? Really?<br><br>If McCain's willing to let any withdrawal be dictated by conditions on the ground, he's got a better idea of what's going on than someone who's going to start a withdrawal on his first day in office.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_14:52:24", "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": 912439, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "914406": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of talk about Obama and guns, and \u2014 I\u2019ll be honest with you \u2014 a lot of fear,\u201d said Tawney. \u201cBut at least he\u2019s not trying to fake it. Not like John Kerry with a dead goose over his shoulder and new hunting outfit one month before the election.\u201d<br><br>::<br><br>Best quote in the article.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_17:17:47", "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": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 913658, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "915947": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "It's a poor choice of words that sounds as if  the masses are lining up to adopt a gay lifestyle.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_20:25:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "99PercentSure", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 913201, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "914412": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Obama is winning by 8 points.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_17:18:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 910544, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "915437": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Wow, great comment ms.martin!<br><br>I don't get how their conscience can justify the loss of life & the disabilities.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_19:18:04", "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": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 914379, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "914415": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The Dangerous One.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_17:18:14", "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": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 913615, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "910322": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'd go a step farther and say that Reagan Democrats don't exist. Reagan's been dead for a while now. Hasn't won an election in 24 years. Times are a changing.<br><br>Barack will win the blue collar, lower-educated white vote in Wisconsin and Minnesota and do well enough in that demographic to win Michigan handily, Iowa, Ohio, Pennsylvania and maybe even Missouri and Indiana, not to mention North Dakota and Montana.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_11:02:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 910156, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "914419": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Ha!...I just responded to your comment on the the other thread.<br><br>It is condescending.<br><br>This is the problem with speaking down to black audiences as form.   People really do begin to believe blacks are child-like and non-analytical.  McCain thinks he can go there and be jovial, tell a few jokes like he's on the BET awards, and black people love a good joke ya know...maybe do a little dance.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_17:18:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 911304, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "909300": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "John McCain and the NAACP<br><a href=\"http://progressiveaccountability.org/2259/09/10/john-mccain-and-the-naacp/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://progressiveaccountability.org/2259/09/10...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_09:21:33", "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": 12, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "910837": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1823145,00.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Barack chooses Dennis Ross to accompany him to the Mideast</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_11:49:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "914857": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Will someone EVER ask him WHICH WARS HE'S WON?", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_18:08:33", "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": 914469, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "912891": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Aww, you're such a nice lady. All your posts are so positive and complimentary.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_14:54:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "b8b9328e61e0094ae18e247c922f9dc7", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 912410, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "914429": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Precisely why Obama declined public financing.  He was smart to do so.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_17:20:12", "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": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 911385, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}}, "integration": {"receiver_url": "", "theme": 4, "reply_position": true, "disqus_logo": false}, "timer": {"timer_url": "http://localhost:8005", "thread_id": "1942648", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "21630", "hash": -8464339817764335971}, "thread": {"days_alive": 0, "slug": "wednesday_open_thread_33", "paginate": false, "num_pages": 1, "num_posts": 198, "per_page": 0, "total_posts": 0, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 1942648, "queued": false}, "reactions_limit": 10, "context": {"show_reply": true, "use_fb_connect": true, "forum_facebook_key": "bd6a8bc56f8eb204984f34b6fefe228d", "use_yahoo": false, "subscribed": false, "use_twitter_signin": true, "use_openid": false, "realtime_speed": 5000}, "reactions_start": 0, "settings": {"debug": false, "disqus_url": "http://disqus.com", "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"}, "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"};
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		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
			(num == 1
				? '%(num)s comment'
				: '%(num)s comments'
			), {num:num});
	};

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

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





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



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

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

	this._lastHash = null;

	this._accumMsg = '';

	this._lastSeqno = 0;

	this.MAX_DATA_LEN	= 1024;

	this.WAIT_TIME		= 10;

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

};

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

FragmentPacket.prototype.log = function(msg) {



};

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

		hash = this.reader.name;
	} else {

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

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

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

		this._lastSeqno = seqno;

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

				this._accumMsg = '';

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

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

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

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

};

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

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

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

	if (packetNum === 0) {

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

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

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

	if (num_packets === packetNum) {

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

	this._lastSeqno++;

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

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

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

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

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

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


	this.receiverId = receiverId;
};

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

	var listener = function(e) {

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


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

		that.receiveCallback(data);
	};

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

PostMessagePacket.prototype.send = function(msg) {



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


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

	var packet;
	if (!msg) {

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

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

var JsonRpc = function() {

	this.ids = {};

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

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

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

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

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

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

				json = 'null';
				break;
		}

		return json;
	};

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		send_func(this.objectToJSON(request));

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

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


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



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


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


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

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

	this.packetHandler = null;


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


	var _createReceiverForFragmentPacket = function() {

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

			that._ready = true;
		};

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

		that.receiver.onload = receiver_onload;







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

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

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

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


	var _createReceiverForPostMessage = function() {

		var receiver_onload = function() {

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

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


		ParentMessenger['_receiver_onload_' + receiverId] = receiver_onload;

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

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

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

};

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	var sendFunc = function(msg) {

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


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


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

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

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

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

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

		if (msg.username) {

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	this.url = Dsq.Urls.REPLY +
		'?' + (new Date()).getTime() +
		'&f=jackandjillpolitics' +
		'&t=wednesday_open_thread_33' +
		'&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_33/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_33'
			+ '&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_33/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">198</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/wednesday_open_thread_33/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_33/">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:1942648" 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_33/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:1942648" 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:1942648" 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_33',
			// 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_33/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_33'
			+ '&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_33'
			+ '&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_33'
				+ '&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/1942648/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() {
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-915001" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-915001" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-915001">Texas_Girl_in_LA</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-915001" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-915001" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh no....<br><br>Sam Nunn says Czechoslovakia too....<br><br>Today at Obama\'s Global Threats Summit<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37PnDDMrJEY" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37PnDDMrJEY</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-915094" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-915094" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-915094" class="dsq-comment-message">That\'s one of the reasons why he shouldn\'t be on Barack\'s ticket.<br><br>Sam and Dangerous One are of the same generation, to put it diplomatically.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-911945" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-911945" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-911945" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-911945" class="dsq-comment-message">Barack\'s team sent out this press release today:<br><br>    The self-professed candidate of “straight talk” and “experience” spent today changing his position on gay adoption, adopting Senator Obama’s position that we need more troops in Afghanistan after having resisted taking that position, flip flopping on whether he’d send U.S. or NATO troops (he actually offered three different explanations on where those additional troops would come from), and referring to a country that hasn’t existed since 1992 for the second time in two days. <br><br>    Afghanistan<br><br>    LAST WEEK: Christian Science Monitor Reported that McCain “Has Resisted Calls For More Troops In Afghanistan.” “McCain has resisted calls for more troops in Afghanistan and has rejected criticism that the Iraq war is detracting from efforts to secure Afghanistan. He labeled Barack Obama ‘naïve’ for saying he\'d strike terrorist targets in Pakistan with or without the cooperation of President Pervez Musharraf. … Aides to the Arizona senator said Wednesday that he continued to view success in Iraq as the best chance for victory in the global war on terror. ‘As on many things, Senator Obama is not listening to our commanders, and Senator McCain is,’ says Kori Schake, a senior policy adviser to McCain. ‘General David Petraeus believes Iraq is the central front in the war on terror. Al Qaeda has even said it is.’ … Ms. Schake\'s comments came about two hours after Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said additional troops were needed in Afghanistan but that too many were tied down in Iraq to send more.” [Christian Science Monitor, 7/7/08]<br><br>    TODAY (MORNING): McCain Called for Sending Three Additional Brigades to Afghanistan and Suggests They Would Come From Iraq. According to a press release issued by the McCain campaign on Tuesday morning, McCain would announce in a speech that he now supports sending at least three additional brigades to Afghanistan: “The status quo in Afghanistan is unacceptable, and from the moment the next President walks into the Oval Office, he will face critical decisions about Afghanistan. … John McCain Supports Sending At Least Three Additional Brigades To Afghanistan. Our commanders on the ground say they need these troops, and thanks to the success of the surge, these forces are becoming available, and our commanders in Afghanistan must get them.” [McCain press release, 7/15/08]<br><br>    TODAY (AFTERNOON): McCain Clarifies His Proposal On Increasing the Number of Troops, Saying They Could Come From NATO. “Speaking to reporters on his bus after today\'s speech, McCain indicated that he\'d be open to those additional troops coming from NATO.” [MSNBC, 7/15/08]<br><br>    TODAY (EVEN LATER IN THE AFTERNOON): McCain Campaign Further Clarifies Proposal, Saying The Troop Increase Would Be Comprised Of Both NATO And US Forces. “McCain spokeswoman Nicolle Wallace said later that U.S. troops will compose some of the additional brigades McCain would send to Afghanistan, but not all of them. ‘Will we contribute? Of course we will,’ she said.” [Washington Post, 5/15/08]<br><br>    GAY ADOPTION<br><br>    SUNDAY: New York Times Quoted McCain Saying That He Doesn’t Believe In Gay Adoption. “Mr. McCain, who with his wife, Cindy, has an adopted daughter, said flatly that he opposed allowing gay couples to adopt. ‘I think that we’ve proven that both parents are important in the success of a family so, no, I don’t believe in gay adoption,’ he said.” [New York Times, 7/13/08]<br><br>    TODAY: McCain Campaign Clarified Position; Said It Was A State Issue And That McCain Believes “Caring Parental Figures Are Better For The Child Than The Alternative.” “On Tuesday, as criticism of McCain\'s comments spread, his campaign elaborated on the candidate\'s views. ‘John McCain could have been clearer in the interview in stating that his position on gay adoption is that it is a state issue. ... He was not endorsing any federal legislation,’ a campaign statement said. ‘Sen. McCain\'s expressed his personal preference for children to be raised by a mother and a father wherever possible,’ the statement added. ‘However, as an adoptive father himself, McCain believes children deserve loving and caring home environments, and he recognizes that there are many abandoned children who have yet to find homes. John McCain believes that in those situations that caring parental figures are better for the child than the alternative.’” [Associated Press, 7/15/08]<br><br>    Czechoslovakia<br><br>    For the Second Day In A Row, McCain Refers to Czechoslovakia – A Country That No Longer Exists. As MSNBC noted, “For the second time in two days, McCain has made a reference to ‘Czechoslovakia.’ His answers were about contemporary events, not history. McCain did not use the current name Czech Republic, the country formed in January 1993 when Czechoslovakia split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The first instance was yesterday during a media news availability and the second today during a town hall meeting.” [MSNBC’s First Read, 7/15/08, <a href="http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/07/15/1200003.aspx%5D" rel="nofollow">http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/07/...</a><br><br>    ABC News Noted That This Isn’t The First Time McCain Has Mistakenly Referred to Czechoslovakia. “In early 2000, then-Gov. George W. Bush told Roger Simon, then with U.S. News & World Report, that he was befuddled by how soft the media was on Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. ‘I don\'t think there is any plot; I hope there isn\'t,’ Bush said. "But it\'s an amazing phenomenon, I\'ll tell you that. It\'s like the flap over the foreign-leader deal. A guy gets up and quizzes me -- it\'s my fault for trying to answer -- but John McCain says something about the \'ambassador to Czechoslovakia.\' Well, I know there is no Czechoslovakia (there\'s a Czech Republic and a Slovakia), but yet it didn\'t make the nightly national news. I\'m not going to gripe about it, but the media question is starting to pop up.’ Apparently that Czechoslovakia lesson never took, because McCain keeps making that mistake, eight years later.” [ABC News’ Political Punch, 7/15/08, <a href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/07/mccain-keeps-me.html%5D" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/07...</a><br><br>    Politico: McCain Campaign Released Statement Yesterday “Cleaning Up” The Reference to Czechoslovakia. As the Politico noted, “yesterday, McCain\'s campaign sent out a statement pointedly referring to the ‘Czech Republic,’ cleaning up his latest reference to the defunct state of Czechoslovakia.” [Politico, 5/15/08, <a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0708/Jeste_jednou_Czechoslovakia.html%5D" rel="nofollow">http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0708/Jes...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-913201" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-913201">Michelle</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-913201" class="dsq-comment-message">OT sort of, but I wonder if I\'m the only one who hates the shorthand symbol-speaking that yields phrase like "gay adoption."<br><br>What a silly phrase. Like the "adoption" itself is going to dress up in biking leather or a pink tutu and go be in a pride parade.<br><br>Similarly it is ridiculous in my eyes for anyone to say they "don\'t believe in gay adoption." You "don\'t believe in" ... fairies (the other kind) or Santa Claus or those huge virtual bats that live under the bed and only come out when your parents aren\'t in the room.<br><br>This is OT for sure... but it is also serious in a way because I think how these words are used in political/public shorthand says something about the situation -- people being objectified into two-dimensional "issues" to be debated. Political footballs. Obviously this is in fact politics and I am not criticizing on that point, but even so I find it gross/ugly every time I see it.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-915947" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-915947" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-915947" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s a poor choice of words that sounds as if  the masses are lining up to adopt a gay lifestyle.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-926085">Michelle</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-926085" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-926085" class="dsq-comment-message">Great. Just great. "Gay lifestyle" - that is so not anywhere near what I was saying. <br><br>*Sigh.* Never mind. I\'d rather not say anything on this kind of thing than say something that invites a comment-reply using the phrase "gay lifestyle" in what seems to be an un-sarcastic tone. Next time I\'ll just STFU on this.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-912056" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-912056" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-912056" href="http://thisblksistaspage.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">blksista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-912056" class="dsq-comment-message">Okay, call me everything but a child of goddess for this one:<br><br><b>I want to see "Mamma Mia" this weekend.  I like ABBA!</b><br><br>I also find it sooo interesting that this is based on a Broadway show about trying to find the right daddy...something that Maury Povich has been doing for <i>how many years</i>?  With how many \'ghetto,\' \'barrio,\' and \'white trash\' folks?<br><br><br>But I like ABBA...(smile)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-912751" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-912751">taritac</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-912751" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-912751" class="dsq-comment-message">I didn\'t know what this show was about until the movie came out. It sounds like it should be big fun. I would love to see Meryl Streep sing and dance. I wonder if she\'s got the chops?<br><br>I was so surprised last year when I saw Hairspray that Christopher Walken can DANCE! He\'s so light on his feet; he looked like a professional. Sure enough, I later found out he was professionally trained as a dancer in his early career.<br><br>I don\'t think the "talent" today are so versatile and well-trained, except in a Disney, pop-star sense.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-913038" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-913038" href="http://thisblksistaspage.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">blksista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-913038" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-913038" class="dsq-comment-message">Walken has been dancing for quite a while; on one or two of his many appearances on <i>Saturday Night Live</i>, he\'s danced.  He actually started out doing musical theatre at one time, I think.<br><br>There\'s nothing wrong with Boomer types telling the younger bunch how it\'s done.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-914447">Lily</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-914447" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-914447" class="dsq-comment-message">The best of Walken\'s dancing--<br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMZwZiU0kKs" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMZwZiU0kKs</a><br><br>Still so great after all these yearms</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-914489" class="dsq-comment-header">\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-914489">Lily</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-914489" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-914489" class="dsq-comment-message">I have no idea what yearms are, LOL. <br><br>hmm years.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-917759" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-917759" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-917759">taritac</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-917759" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-917759" class="dsq-comment-message">That. Was. GREAT!!!!<br><br>OMG! I love Walken! And he is SOOOO not young!<br><br>See what I miss when I don\'t have cable?  LOL!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-913494" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-913494" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-913494">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-913494" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-913494" class="dsq-comment-message">I LOVE ABBA and can\'t wait to see Mamma Mia..LOL</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-915971" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-915971" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-915971" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-915971" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-915971" class="dsq-comment-message">I like ABBA, but I can wait for Mamma Mia on DirecTV.<br><br>I\'d rather see <strong>The Dark Knight</strong>.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-912158">Sepia</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-912158" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-912158" class="dsq-comment-message">Maureen Dowd is at it again.....<br><br><i>"If Obama keeps being stingy with his quips and smiles, and if the dominant perception of him is that you can’t make jokes about him, it might infect his campaign with an airless quality. His humorlessness could spark humor."</i><br><a href:"http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/16/opinion/16dowd.html?em&ex=1216353600&en=2e8ff8c7ca86e699&ei=5087%0A" rel="nofollow">May We Mock, Barack</a><br><br>Why does it bother white folk when we don\'t laugh and grin 24/7?</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-912186">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-912186" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-912186" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-912186">Sepia</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-912186" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-912186" class="dsq-comment-message">Here\'s the link to Dowd\'s column<br><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/16/opinion/16dowd.html?em&ex=1216353600&en=2e8ff8c7ca86e699&ei=5087%0A" rel="nofollow">May We Mock, Barack</a></div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-912224">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-912224" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-912224" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-912224" href="http://thisblksistaspage.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">blksista</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-912224" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-912224" class="dsq-comment-message">This election ain\'t no minstrel show for these people.</div>\
	 </div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-913211">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-913211" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-913211" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-913211">Michelle</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-913211" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-913211" class="dsq-comment-message">Thank you.</div>\
	 </div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-913879">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-913879" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-913879" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-913879">Lily</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-913879" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-913879" class="dsq-comment-message">Brilliant!</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-915111">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-915111" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-915111" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-915111" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-915111" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-915111" class="dsq-comment-message">Priceless.</div>\
	 </div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-914450">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-914450" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-914450" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-914450">msmartin</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-914450" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-914450" class="dsq-comment-message">Because they think everything is funny.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-914840">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-914840" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-914840" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-914840">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-914840" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-914840" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>Why does it bother white folk when we don\'t laugh and grin 24/7?<br></i><br><br>They are only comfortable with us:<br>singing and dancing for their amusement<br>dribbling a ball for their amusement</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-915146">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-915146" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-915146" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-915146">eclecticbrotha</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-915146" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-915146" class="dsq-comment-message">I wish MoDo will just admit she wants to be down with the swirl already, damn.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-916038">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-916038" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-916038" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-916038" href="http://peoplepowerforchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">99 Percent Sure</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-916038" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-916038" class="dsq-comment-message">Because they still have to place prominent blacks like Obama as minstrels partly because he isn\'t stereotypical?<br><br>Because they prefer to see him as Mr. Bojangles as it makes him less personable and more palatable to their small intellect?<br><br>Because they still can\'t take the high-achieving  black male intellectual seriously and must, therefore, caricature him as a skinning, grinning entertainer, rather than potentially the next president of the United States?<br><br>I\'ve always gotten the feeling that Dowd, with her twisted mouth self,  is a penis envying broad; yet, since she\'s been covering Senator Obama, I\'ve often suspected that she wants him to pork her.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-917265">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-917265" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-917265" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-917265">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-917265" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-917265" class="dsq-comment-message">She can\'t take nor accept EITHER Obama.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-911385" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-911385" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-911385" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-911385" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-911385" class="dsq-comment-message">This is exactly what Barack was talking about:<br><br><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/7/16/112835/575/280/543825" rel="nofollow">McCain raises $62.5 million through public finance loophole</a><br><br>A crook, I tell you. A crook.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-914429">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-914429" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-914429" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-914429">msmartin</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-914429" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-914429" class="dsq-comment-message">Precisely why Obama declined public financing.  He was smart to do so.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-914709" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-914709" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-914709" href="http://thisblksistaspage.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">blksista</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-914709" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-914709" class="dsq-comment-message">No doubt.<br><br>I wonder when someone is going to mention the savings and loan scandale du jour a decade ago...he barely survived THAT.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-909148">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-909148" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-909148" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-909148">Jay</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-909148" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-909148" class="dsq-comment-message">Ok, was I the only one who spit out there drink when they saw this:<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/15/a-new-yorker-cover-for-na_n_112877.html" rel="nofollow">McCain & Wife hypothetical \'satiricial\' cover</a></div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-909511">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-909511" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-909511" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-909511" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-909511" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-909511" class="dsq-comment-message">That is funny......</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-913098">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-913098" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-913098" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-913098">Michelle</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-913098" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-913098" class="dsq-comment-message">The thing about that is -- it\'s based partly on actual truth that has been objectively verified. <br><br>Cindy McCain was in fact addicted to prescription drugs. <br><br>John McCain is a Republican and so is connected to Dick Cheney who is the current Republican VP through shared party affiliation. <br><br>John McCain did in fact sing that Bomb bomb Iran thing.<br><br>To me this cover shows part of what\'s wrong with the other one -- why does this kind of caricature stretching and including pieces of actual truth equate with what was said about the Obamas in the other cover.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-915250">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-915250" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-915250" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-915250">caligirl</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-915250" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-915250" class="dsq-comment-message">i don\'t like either of these cartoons.  i dislike low-blows, period.  i find them mean-spirited, petty, trite.  just plain old dumb.  as a country, we need to rise up and do better.<br><br>i agree with u--this cover shows EVERYTHING that\'s wrong with the new yorker cover.  it goes too far...unnecessarily.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-909299">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-909299" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-909299" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-909299">Jay</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-909299" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-909299" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.theroot.com/id/47296" rel="nofollow">Nas - Untitled Album Review</a><br><br>Did anyone get that album? Its dope!</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-909981">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-909981" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-909981" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-909981" href="http://blog.evavegadiversity.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">evita</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-909981" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-909981" class="dsq-comment-message">I heard he has a lot of tracks on that make the cut.  How is the song about the N word? Is he being critical thinking NAS or stupid NAS?</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-910348">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-910348" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-910348" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-910348">Jay</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-910348" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-910348" class="dsq-comment-message">Critical thinking, lots of intelligent candor on that album. <br><br>LOL @ the Fried Chicken song tho’</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-911531" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-911531" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-911531">NO ID</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-911531" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-911531" class="dsq-comment-message">incredible CD....i love it, it\'s musically solid with great lyrics and fantastic delivery. i\'d say its a five mic classic if the source had any credibility any more. i encourage anyone who wants a li\'l wayne alternative to get it. buy it for your kids, even, maybe they will look up some of the historical figures he references.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-909300">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-909300" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-909300" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-909300">djchefron</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-909300" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-909300" class="dsq-comment-message">John McCain and the NAACP<br><a href="http://progressiveaccountability.org/2259/09/10/john-mccain-and-the-naacp/" rel="nofollow">http://progressiveaccountability.org/2259/09/10...</a></div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-910339">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-910339" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-910339" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-910339">Texas_Girl_in_LA</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-910339" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-910339" class="dsq-comment-message">dj,<br><br>This is interesting....<br><br>When is he suppose to address them?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-910438" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-910438" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-910438" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-910438" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-910438" class="dsq-comment-message">In a few minutes. He intends to propose expansion of  government benefits for education and he will praise, for the first time, Barack in public.<br><br>I wonder if he\'ll say something like "I\'m not here to talk down to you."<br><br>I don\'t expect there to be any major articles about all the unabashed pandering he\'ll be doing, but we\'ll see.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-910660" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-910660" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-910660">Texas_Girl_in_LA</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-910660" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-910660" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m extremely curious about this one...<br><br>Give us updates if you can</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-911304">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-911304" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-911304" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-911304" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-911304" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-911304" class="dsq-comment-message">They didn\'t televise the whole thing but he referred to Barack as an "impressive fella" which I find extraordinarily patronizing. But he got decent applause. He then said that all Americans should be proud of the history Barack has made but hopes that his success doesn\'t continue through to November. He got polite laughter for that recycled joke.<br><br>Approx. 5 minutes into the speech, he started misrespresenting Barack\'s positions on educational programs. Once he went on the attack, MSNBC stopped covering it because he started to fall flat and look silly (which isn\'t difficult). I didn\'t bother watching the rest of it on livestream.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-911727">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-911727" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-911727" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-911727">NO ID</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-911727" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-911727" class="dsq-comment-message">as in: he speaks so well!</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-911943">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-911943" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-911943" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-911943">Texas_Girl_in_LA</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-911943" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-911943" class="dsq-comment-message">Thanks Craig<br><br>I figured as much.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-912120">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-912120" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-912120" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-912120" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-912120" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-912120" class="dsq-comment-message">I just saw a clip of a part of the speech I didn\'t watch where McCain made it clear he wanted to earn the votes of Black folks. The tone and the emphasis on the word <i>earn</i> implied that he doesn\'t think Barack is earning the Black vote. I wonder how smart he thinks he is to make that insinuation in front of a room full of Black folks.<br><br>It just proves, to me at least, that he has no intention of getting any Black votes but he\'s pandering for the white moderates and Independents just as folks are accusing Barack of doing.<br><br>Politics is transparent.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-914419">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-914419" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-914419" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-914419">TruthSeeker</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-914419" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-914419" class="dsq-comment-message">Ha!...I just responded to your comment on the the other thread.<br><br>It is condescending.<br><br>This is the problem with speaking down to black audiences as form.   People really do begin to believe blacks are child-like and non-analytical.  McCain thinks he can go there and be jovial, tell a few jokes like he\'s on the BET awards, and black people love a good joke ya know...maybe do a little dance.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-915290">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-915290" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-915290" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-915290">caligirl</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-915290" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-915290" class="dsq-comment-message">there\'s a deep and looooong history behind white folks\' thinking that blacks as a whole are non-analytical.  ever read "the bell curve"?   this belief system is very old.  what bell hooks described as "white supremacist thought".</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-913833">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-913833" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-913833" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-913833">mcc</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-913833" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-913833" class="dsq-comment-message">I just find the headlines this one\'s generating interesting.<br><br><a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/dayton/stories/2008/07/14/daily24.html" rel="nofollow">"McCain touts school vouchers, lower taxes in NAACP speech"</a></div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-914536">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-914536" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-914536" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-914536" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-914536" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-914536" class="dsq-comment-message">When Barack gives a speech, his policy proposals take a back seat to the drama about him "talking down" to Black people.<br><br>When McCain does exactly the same thing, his policy proposals are front and center and reports of the standing ovation he received and his courage for showing up in "enemy territory" are reported.<br><br>Courage? Enemy territory?<br><br>It doesn\'t take courage to give a speech in front of <i>any</i> audience, portions of which will be televised, providing free advertising for your candidacy, and where you get to take a hit on your political opponent.<br><br>And I guess the white talking heads thought that the militant Blacks were going to attack McCain in some way, thus the "enemy territory" rhetoric. Black folks show respect to their "enemies."<br><br>I call ish.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-915123">Texas_Girl_in_LA</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-915123" class="dsq-comment-message">Here is Michael Steele\'s take on McCain\'s visit<br><br>From NBC’s Lauren Appelbaum<br><br>After McCain\'s speech to the NAACP, former Lt. Gov. Michael Steele (R-MD) admitted the Arizona senator is unlikely to garner much of the black vote, but praised him for connecting with the audience. <br> <br>"You\'ve got to live in the real,” Steele said to NBC\'s Kelly O\'Donnell. “Barack is going to take more than the lion\'s share of the black vote. But that doesn\'t and has not stopped John McCain from competing for that vote. And I think that says a lot about the kind of president he is going to be -- that he doesn\'t just see this as an election opportunity, that he sees this as an opportunity for America to right a lot of wrongs certainly but to grow together -- the idea of every boat being lifted at the same time, and I think that\'s a powerful message."<br> <br>Unlike Obama, McCain held a Q&A after his speech, which caused a visible stir in the room. <br><br>"You could hear the room go, what?! He\'s actually going to open this up?!" Steele later said. "And I was asking folks, \'Did Barack do that?\' And they were, like, \'No.\' So, I think it speaks to the style. It speaks to the substance of the man in terms of how he wants to engage the black community, and I appreciate him doing it. <br> <br>Steele, who conquered a couple statewide firsts as an African American in the Republican Party, said it is "long overdue" for Republican leaders to reach out to the African Americans. <br><br>"I think the work has to begin in earnest,” Steele said, “and I think John McCain wants to do that. Regardless of how the election falls out in November, the Republican Party -- if they want to be players; if they want to be taken seriously as a political voice in this country -- they are going to have to engage in all levels, all communities. And you can\'t piecemeal this. You can\'t have this attitude, ‘Well, they won\'t vote for us so why bother?’"</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-909381" href="http://thisweekwithbarackobama.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">icebergslim</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-909381" class="dsq-comment-message">planned parenthood goes after mccain in a new tv ad, the info <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/7/16/83558/4851/850/552392" rel="nofollow">here</a></div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-909523" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-909523" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.vetsforfreedom.org/multimedia/details.aspx?id=323" rel="nofollow">Vets for Freedom\'s Latest: "Some in Washington"</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-909558">djchefron</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-909558" class="dsq-comment-message">Hey D, How you like your great leader now.I mean fighting the "terrist" he has met the enemy and he is us.<br>Court Backs Bush on Military Detentions <br><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/16/washington/16combatant.html?_r=2&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin&oref=slogin" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/16/washington/16...</a></div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-909777" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-909777" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-909777" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes, so we should all be fearful that Bush-with less than a year remaining in office-will have all dissenters locked up.<br><br>Please.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-909666">s</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-909666" class="dsq-comment-message">The editors of The Washington Post  offer a brutal editorial on Obama and Iraq. Highlights:<br><br>    "After hinting earlier this month that he might "refine" his Iraq strategy after visiting the country and listening to commanders, Mr. Obama appears to have decided that sticking to his arbitrary, 16-month timetable is more important than adjusting to the dramatic changes in Iraq...<br><br>    The real difference between the various plans is not the dates but the conditions: Both the Iraqis and Mr. McCain say the withdrawal would be linked to the ability of Iraqi forces to take over from U.S. troops, as they have begun to do. Mr. Obama\'s strategy allows no such linkage — his logic is that a timetable unilaterally dictated from Washington is necessary to force Iraqis to take responsibility for the country.<br><br>    At the time he first proposed his timetable, Mr. Obama argued — wrongly, as it turned out — that U.S. troops could not stop a sectarian civil war. He conceded that a withdrawal might be accompanied by a "spike" in violence. Now, he describes as "an achievable goal" that "we leave Iraq to a government that is taking responsibility for its future — a government that prevents sectarian conflict and ensures that the al-Qaeda threat which has been beaten back by our troops does not reemerge." How will that "true success" be achieved? By the same pullout that Mr. Obama proposed when chaos in Iraq appeared to him inevitable.<br><br>    ...American commanders will probably tell Mr. Obama that from a logistical standpoint, a 16-month withdrawal timetable will be difficult, if not impossible, to fulfill. Iraqis will say that a pullout that is not negotiated with the government and disregards the readiness of Iraqi troops will be a gift to al-Qaeda and other enemies. If Mr. Obama really intends to listen to such advisers, why would he lock in his position in advance?<br><br>    "What\'s missing in our debate," Mr. Obama said yesterday, "is a discussion of the strategic consequences of Iraq." Indeed: The message that the Democrat sends is that he is ultimately indifferent to the war\'s outcome — that Iraq "distracts us from every threat we face" and thus must be speedily evacuated regardless of the consequences. That\'s an irrational and ahistorical way to view a country at the strategic center of the Middle East, with some of the world\'s largest oil reserves."<br><br>In the eyes of the Post, Obama has been wrong about the biggest and most pressing foreign policy decision facing the country, and continues to double down on a wrong position.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-909724" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-909724">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-909724" class="dsq-comment-message">Wasn\'t the Washington Post the same paper that tried to insinuate the Obamas got a shady mortgage because he got a lower interest rate than the average person, without knowing FICO scores and other pertinent data?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-909873" class="dsq-comment-message">I find it amazing that Obama wrote his policy on Iraq BEFORE traveling to Iraq and speaking with the commanders on the ground to determine the facts. Obama has to stick with his Iraq policy, not for the good of the country, but because he can’t afford to cut his last tie to the Left.<br><br>Obama won’t talk to the generals first because he knows that they will laugh him out of the room if he suggested that we could win the war by retreating.  Even the Iraqis, who want to establish their sovereignty, want to have a continuing American partnership for at least the next several years, especially with an increasingly hegemonic Iran next door.<br><br>After his reversal on FISA reform and to a lesser extent with public financing,  Obama cannot afford to reverse himself on Iraq, regardless of how wrong events proved him to be.  The Left nearly pitched him overboard this month during the FISA vote, and any weakening on Iraq will prove fatal to his presidential aspirations.  It could even result in losing the nomination, if the floor-vote momentum gains ground, as it surely will if Obama departs from his impossible 16-month Iron Timetable.<br><br>Obama cannot stand up a second time to the hard Left, and unlike John McCain, would rather America lose a war rather than see his own presidential ambitions go unrealized.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-910665" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-910665">Anderkoo</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-910665" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh, right, Obama himself personally locked himself into a room and wrote up a foreign policy all by his lonesome... give me a break. There are such things as advisors who do things like do on-the-ground research.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-910792" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-910792" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-910792" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-910792" class="dsq-comment-message">Well, who are they? <br><br>And why haven\'t they reported the success of the surge-<b><i>especially if they\'re doing "on the ground" research?</i></b></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-912439">Lily</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-912439" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-912439" class="dsq-comment-message">And what real advantage does McCain have when he is surrounded by soldiers who cannot speak the truth? What does he see that doesn\'t come through his own personal filter of "the pro war vote is my strongest base".  He hasn\'t proven he has any idea of what and who is goingi on in the region.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-912869" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-912869" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-912869" class="dsq-comment-message">Surrounded by soldiers who can\'t speak the truth? Really?<br><br>If McCain\'s willing to let any withdrawal be dictated by conditions on the ground, he\'s got a better idea of what\'s going on than someone who\'s going to start a withdrawal on his first day in office.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-913823">Lily</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-913823" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh did they repeal the imparative that says they can question their mission. When did that happen? Right on, free speech indeed for everyone.<br><br>It\'s good to have an achievable goal in answer to the second part of your post.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-912296">anthonyMason</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-912296" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s the Commander-in-Chief that lays out the agenda; not the other way around.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-912632">taritac</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-912632" class="dsq-comment-message">Right on.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-912545">taritac</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-912545" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t know why there is so much emphasis on going to Iraq. It\'s not like he\'ll be traveling the countryside, doing his own interviews with people, finding out the truth for himself. On these junkets, the entire trip is set up by the generals, and the politicians see what the generals want them to see, talk to who the generals want them to talk to. If all they are getting is the generals\' view of the world, that can be accomplished with a phone call.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-912623">taritac</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-912623" class="dsq-comment-message">Furthermore, what is "winning the war?" What is the definition? What are the milestones? Haven\'t we already reached the main objectives of getting Saddam Hussein out of power and creating a new constitution-based government?<br><br>Iraq\'s future stability needs to rest on Iraqis\' commitment to bringing it about. They want us OUT OF THERE, and as a (supposedly) sovereign nation, they have every right to ask us to leave. We will undoubtedly be assisting them for the next umpteen years, but it is Iraq that needs to be in the lead and take control. <br><br>You term a timetable for drawdown as a retreat, which is nothing more than partisan rhetoric. Retreating is where we\'ve been beaten so badly that we have to get the fuck out of there. That has never been the case, and probably won\'t ever be the case. But for the last 6 years, we\'ve seen that there is a limit to what the American military can accomplish. By systematically and sensibly withdrawing, we will allow Iraqis the time to gradually take control.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-912979" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-912979" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-912979" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-912979" class="dsq-comment-message">"Withdrawal" is not surrender.<br><br>Withdrawing without taking into consideration the gains that have been made on the ground; without talking face to face with the people who do the job-honorably and nobly-day in and out-that is surrender.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-913003">taritac</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-913003" class="dsq-comment-message">So, <i>after</i> Barack gets back from Iraq and has the exact same policy as before, will you support it?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-913108" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-913108" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-913108" class="dsq-comment-message">Stepping out of the "advocate" role for a minute:<br><br>I\'ll respect him for going and seeing what\'s actually going on, seeing the sacrifices that are being made daily. If he comes back and still insists that the surge was a mistake and that no progress has been made....then no, I can\'t support him, because a statement like that wouldn\'t be true.<br><br>If he comes back and says things have improved and that a withdrawal should be dicated by events on the ground, then we\'d be in agreement.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-914234">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-914234" class="dsq-comment-message">What is winning?  What are the goals for this mission.  Was it to achieve freedom for the Iraqi citizens? If so, then I would say the mission is accomplished since the Iraqi government itself is pushing a withdrawal deadline.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-914307" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-914307" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-914307" class="dsq-comment-message">The goals are to prevent Iraq from becoming a haven for terrorists and extremists, and to assist the Iraqis in establishing a governmentthat is strong, secure, and protect its citizens.<br><br>Contrary to popular (liberal?) opinion, the Iraqis have not called for us to withdraw. They have asked us to look at our plans to leave, or at a "reprogramming" of our present mission (BBC has the exact quote, which I thought I posted yesterday. If not, I will).</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-914794" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-914794">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-914794" class="dsq-comment-message">Word it however you like, but the bottom line is they want to talk about us leaving.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-915355" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-915355" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-915355" class="dsq-comment-message">That\'s al-Maliki\'s words.<br><br>And they want to talk about withdrawal based on conditions on the ground, just like we do.<br><br>Obama just wants out regardless.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-916918">lamh32</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-916918" class="dsq-comment-message">A haven for terrorist?  <br><br>Huh, like Afghanistan or Pakistan you mean.  <br><br>Our military is already strained.  We no longer have a draft as you well know, so the miliatry is all volunteer, and I would  not be surprised to learn that recruiment is not as high as we need it to be.<br><br>While we have been busy keeping Iraq from becoming a "haven for terrorists", places like Afghanistan and Pakistan have become  an acutal haven.   Not only that, but the perpretrators of 9/11 like Bin Laden are in Afghanistan.  <br><br>Due to the nature of our military obligations in Iraq, we are getting pummeled in Afghanistan, but we cannot send more troops to the region unless we take more out of Iraq.<br><br>And before Obama discussed it in his speech yesterday, McCain did not believe that securing Afghanistan is as important as "winning" in Iraq, now of course, in a "me too" type of manner he is is proposing sending brigades to Afghanistan.<br><br>Looks to me McCain is playing follow the leader and contrary to the MSM latest storyline, that is Obama.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-914439" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-914439">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-914439" class="dsq-comment-message">There are no "gains" when you shouldn\'t have been there in the first place. <br><br>You can\'t talk to them because they\'re DEAD.<br><br>Unless you plan on doing some channelling.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-914834" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-914834" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-914834" class="dsq-comment-message">Unless you plan on doing some channelling.<br><br>::<br><br>Brilliant.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-912898" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-912898" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-912898" class="dsq-comment-message">Because it will show him what\'s changed in Iraq since his last trip, 900-odd days ago. <br><br>Yes, he won\'t be taking a road trip anywhere. But even walking the streets of Baghdad, there should be a visible change from when he was last there.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-912991" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-912991" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-912991">taritac</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-912991" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-912991" class="dsq-comment-message">You mean the last time that they had him walk down a completely secured area in the green zone? <br><br>They are not going to allow him free reign of the city, just like they didn\'t before.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-913194" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-913194" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-913194" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-913194" class="dsq-comment-message">The money shot would be Obama walking in Sadr City, without body armor.<br><br>Of course, the Secret Service would never let it happen.<br><br>But <i><b>that</i></b> would be change you could believe in.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-913842">Lily</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-913842" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-913842" class="dsq-comment-message">Don\'t  assume what change I believe in, you don\'t seem to have the subtlety of thought for it. But I could be making a rash assumption there.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-913878" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-913878" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-913878" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-913878" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-913878" class="dsq-comment-message">I made that comment to prove the point that seeing any American-much less a presidential candidate-walking in an area unprotected where they would be foolish to do so two years ago would be a sign of progress that couldn\'t be questioned.<br><br>Only someone who didn\'t know that something like that could happen in Sadr City now would be dumb enough to assume that comment was directed at them personally.<br><br>Yeah, you are making assumptions.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-914285" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-914285" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-914285">Lily</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-914285" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-914285" class="dsq-comment-message">Okay . <br><br>D -you just believe differently than I do and we just won\'t agree on how well the situation is over there. Vote for your man, McCain and I will vote for my man Obama. <br>Thanks for the passive dumb remark. It made me rethink everything.<br>Unengaging now.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-909975" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-909975" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-909975" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-909975" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-909975" class="dsq-comment-message">The SSSSSSSSSSSnake is back, Town. <br><br>The Washington Post has been slinging mud at Barack from Day One.<br><br>Yawn.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-911701" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-911701">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-911701" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-911701" class="dsq-comment-message">Craig:  Thanks for the "SSSSSSSSSSnake" shout out!  It really presents good imagery.  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-915122" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-915122" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-915122" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-915122" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-915122" class="dsq-comment-message">Of course. ;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-917184" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-917184">Honey01</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-917184" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-917184" class="dsq-comment-message">The SSSSSSSSSnake seems to pop up when a certain person is on the board too (hmmm, the other person was also on a break). I always thought it weird the two always seemed post similar inane talking points right on top of each other all the while engaging mostly only each other in conversation.<br><br>Perhaps, I am just being messy and it is just a coincidence.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-917350" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-917350">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-917350" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-917350" class="dsq-comment-message">:-)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-917381" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-917381" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-917381">Texas_Girl_in_LA</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-917381" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-917381" class="dsq-comment-message">hehehe</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-917598" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-917598" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-917598" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-917598" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-917598" class="dsq-comment-message">laughing. out. loud.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-909947" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-909947" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-909947">s</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-909947" class="dsq-comment-message">From Joe Leiberman:<br><br>“Sen. Obama said this morning that he wants a foreign policy that is tough, smart and principled,” said Lieberman. “This afternoon I want to ask my colleague who I respect and like a couple of direct questions: Was it tough when Sen. Obama voted to order U.S. troops to retreat from Iraq on a fixed timeline regardless of the recommendations of our military commanders or conditions on the ground? Was it smart when Sen. Obama opposed the surge and predicted that it would fail to improve our security? … Was it tough and principled when Sen. Obama said he would be open to changing his plan on Iraq after going there and talking to General Petraeus, which I think was the right position, only to change that position hours later after being heatedly criticized by organizations like MoveOn.org? I say respectfully the answer to all those questions is, no.”</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-912687" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-912687" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-912687">Mike H.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-912687" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-912687" class="dsq-comment-message">Why would anybody care what LIEberman says?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-909990" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-909990" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-909990" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-909990" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-909990" class="dsq-comment-message">Chuck Todd <i>finally</i> told the truth this morning when assessing the NYTimes poll: the Race Divide is given too much focus. Whites favor Republics, Blacks favor Democrats. That\'s the way it\'s been for decades, that\'s the way it still is. He pointed out the Bill Clinton didn\'t win the white vote either.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-910156" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-910156" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-910156">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-910156" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-910156" class="dsq-comment-message">Bill Clinton, Al Gore and John Kerry never got the "Reagan Democrat" vote; neither did Mondale & Geriatric Ferraro.  That\'s why they\'re called "Reagan Democrats."  So why people are expecting Barack Obama to capture the Reagan Democrat vote when Mondale/Ferraro, Dukakis, Clinton, Gore and Kerry never got it their damn selves is amazing to me.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-910322" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-910322" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-910322" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-910322" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'d go a step farther and say that Reagan Democrats don\'t exist. Reagan\'s been dead for a while now. Hasn\'t won an election in 24 years. Times are a changing.<br><br>Barack will win the blue collar, lower-educated white vote in Wisconsin and Minnesota and do well enough in that demographic to win Michigan handily, Iowa, Ohio, Pennsylvania and maybe even Missouri and Indiana, not to mention North Dakota and Montana.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-910053" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-910053" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-910053" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-910053" class="dsq-comment-message">I wonder if there\'s any editorial in the major papers today that outlines John McCain\'s flip flop on Afghanistan that the b-serious video clip underscores.<br><br>Probably not. Despite the warmonger\'s lie of "I know how to win wars", it\'s still all about Barack.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-914379" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-914379">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-914379" class="dsq-comment-message">I find the entire debate, or fact that there is still a debate on Iraq and Afghanistan.  Barack Obama had the ability to see that we had no business in Iraq and that we needed to be in Afghanistan where the terrorists are.  Never mind the surge for had we not invaded there would have been no need for a surge.  The surge may have curbed violence that we INITIATED, but it is not the sole reason for the quell of that violence.  A large part of the end of the violence is that while our economy tanks, the US government is paying the factions that we fought with in Iraq not to fight with us anymore.  So in essence we created a war and then paid the people not to fight back.  This little move was an attempt to draw attention from the fact that we should not have been there.  <br><br>The other factions we were fighting  then fled to Afghanistan where we should have been fighting terrorism in the first place and made it harder for our troops there who are not numerous enough or properly equipped due to the money, personnell and equipment being used in Iraq to fight a war that we didn\'t need to fight, unless of course you believe all of the death and destruction for oil is worth it.<br><br>Now McCain and the administration who by the way ridiculed Obama\'s desire to meet with enemies and are now meeting with Iran (I guess they since the American people aren\'t having that war - USA v. Iran) would like to say they need to take the fight to Afghanistan where Barack told them we should have been all along.  Oh I almost forgot we\'re also paying Pakistan to harbor the very terrorists we were supposed to be in search of when we invaded Iraq.<br><br>We\'ve wasted lives, time and money to fight in Iraq and now the administration would like to follow Barack\'s advice only they would like us to believe that it is John McCains idea when it is what Obama has said all along.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-915437" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-915437">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-915437" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-915437" class="dsq-comment-message">Wow, great comment ms.martin!<br><br>I don\'t get how their conscience can justify the loss of life & the disabilities.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-916394" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-916394" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-916394">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-916394" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-916394" class="dsq-comment-message">Thanks.<br><br>I believe it is Craig who says McCain is dangerous.  The Republicans are very dangerous.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-914469" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-914469" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-914469">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-914469" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-914469" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>"I know how to win wars"</i><br><br>I guess there are war schools like there used to be typing schools.<br><br>Iraq is not a war, it\'s an invasion.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-914857" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-914857" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-914857">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-914857" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-914857" class="dsq-comment-message">Will someone EVER ask him WHICH WARS HE\'S WON?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-910172" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-910172" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-910172">Jay</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-910172" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-910172" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/07/14/why-doesn-t-lieberman-join-the-gop.aspx" rel="nofollow">Why doesn\'t LIE-berman join the GOP?</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-912486" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-912486" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-912486">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-912486" class="dsq-comment-message">Jay:  His "mind" [such as it is] has been GOP!  He\'s just waiting for the appropriate moment to drag his tired arse to the same place.  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-912673" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-912673" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-912673">taritac</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-912673" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-912673" class="dsq-comment-message">Because he\'d probably lose his committee chairs if he switched.<br><br>Plus, he\'s only a far right-winger on foreign policy. On domestic issues, he sticks with Democrats.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-910232" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-910232">Jay</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-910232" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-910232" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2008/07/16/2008-07-16_untitled__cover16m-1.html" rel="nofollow">It\'s only a cartoon! Obama syas, but the NYer insults Muslims</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-910544" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-910544" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-910544" class="dsq-comment-message">For those who wanted more rapid responses from the Barack campaign against stupidity magnified, well this one is for you:<br><br><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/7/16/6223/05605/885/552365" rel="nofollow">Barack responds to the utter <i>ludicrity</i> of the NYTimes Poll</a><br><br>"The NYT story about their poll ignores multiple and significant pieces of data that actually indicate a trend much different from that which the story suggests," the critique reads. It goes on to list "some straightforward points from their data that are omitted from the story."...<br><br>    <b>a) More white voters say Obama cares about people like them, than say the same thing about McCain by 31 to 23<br><br>    b) On the essential issue in this campaign - bringing about change in Washington - Among white voters, Obama is seen as the change agent by 52% to 30%<br><br>    c) Obama\'s 31% favorable rating among white voters is virtually identical to McCain\'s, which is at 34%.<br><br>    d) By a 2 to 1 margin over McCain, white voters are more likely to say that Obama would improve America\'s image in the world<br><br>    e) "Racial dissension" around Mrs. Obama\'s 24% favorable rating among whites is an extremely odd description given that Mrs. McCain\'s favorable rating among white voters is 20%.<br><br>    f) Enthusiasm for Obama\'s candidacy is roughly 2.5 times higher among white voters than is enthusiasm for McCain\'s.<br><br>    g) Obama is winning by 6 points against McCain and the gap among white voters is only -9 --- a margin smaller than independent expert on voting patterns, Ruy Texiera, said would give Obama a " solid win."<br><br>    h) though there is a six-point margin of error among black voters the NYT describes the 7-point change in black voters\' views that whites had a better chance of getting ahead as slightly higher than 8 years ago. Given that the Times reports horserace questions as statistically even when the margin falls within the margin, it seems that this shift from seven years ago among black voters is well within the margin of error.</b><br><br>::<br><br>So his campaign called the NYT chief political writer on his ish. Right away.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-911756" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-911756">NO ID</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-911756" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-911756" class="dsq-comment-message">i love it i always say statistics are only valid based on who was asked and how the numbers are interpreted, which most of the time folks get wrong.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-914412" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-914412" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-914412">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-914412" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-914412" class="dsq-comment-message">Obama is winning by 8 points.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-914569" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-914569" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-914569" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-914569" class="dsq-comment-message">12 points  if you go by all adults polled.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-914493" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-914493">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-914493" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-914493" class="dsq-comment-message">I am waiting for Obama the ruthless to show up.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-914563" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-914563" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-914563" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-914563" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-914563" class="dsq-comment-message">You haven\'t seen him?<br><br>He tends to show his ruthlessness behind the scenes.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-914648" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-914648" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-914648">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-914648" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m waiting for something public, and mean and so malevolent that  the talking baboons in the MSN will only invoke his name in whispers and hushed, reverent tones.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-914879" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-914879" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-914879" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-914879" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-914879" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-914885">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-914885" class="dsq-comment-message">TRUTHSEEKER,<br><br>they\'ll find a way to channel it into \' the angry black man\' memo if they can get it on tape.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-915098" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-915098">Kat</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-915098" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-915098" class="dsq-comment-message">And why the hell shouldn\'t American black men be angry?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-910561">goc</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-910561" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-910561" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/opinions/cartoonsandvideos/toles_main.html?hpid=opinionsbox1" rel="nofollow">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/opinions/c...</a><br><br>Now this is satire folks</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-910690" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-910690">Anderkoo</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-910690" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-910690" class="dsq-comment-message">Is anyone here freaking out about staflation yet? bad for everyone, worst for the least-well-off.<br><br>I\'M SCARED.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-910848" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-910848">caligirl</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-910848" class="dsq-comment-message">yes, it\'s scary--especially depending on where u live.  here in california, the cost-of-living is OUTRAGEOUSLY expensive anyway, and the governor\'s steadily making all these crazy budget cuts.  we\'re used to paying over-the-top prices for everything already.  but when over-the-top becomes WAY over-the-top???</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-911019">Anderkoo</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-911019" class="dsq-comment-message">Well the "stag" part of "stagflation" really scares me -- prices are going up AND ppl are losing jobs.<br><br>On the gv\'t cuts side, we\'re finally reaping the fruits of Reaganomics: yeah you can keep cutting taxes but sooner or later you cut spending. That was their goal, and now they got what they wanted. Which is to screw the little people.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-910793" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-910793" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-910793" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-910793" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5jhw9ECY5Vi1V5rvld6tX3gsamPHA" rel="nofollow">Natalie Cole diagnosed with Hepatitis C</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-910974" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-910974">caligirl</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-910974" class="dsq-comment-message">oh.  sorry to read that.  love natalie.   i\'ve heard that hep-c is actually more prevalent than HIV.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-911874">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-911874" class="dsq-comment-message">cali:  Take heart.  Hep C is more treatable and the article states that she is "virus negative" at this time!  Thank God!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-915345" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-915345">caligirl</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-915345" class="dsq-comment-message">good.  she definitely has my prayers.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-910837" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-910837" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-910837" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1823145,00.html" rel="nofollow">Barack chooses Dennis Ross to accompany him to the Mideast</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-911284">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-911284" class="dsq-comment-message">Roland Martin broadcast from Ghana this morning. I thought that was cool.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-911319" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-911319" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-911319" class="dsq-comment-message">Barack is moderating a 21st Century Threat summit in Lafayette, Indiana, right now. He\'s got Sam Nunn, Evan Bayh, a few other national security heavyweights and folks who specialize in bioterrorism and nuclear threats on the panel.<br><br>Wonder what coverage this is going to get. <br><br>I\'m watching it now <a href="http://www.cnn.com/video/live/live.html?stream=stream2" rel="nofollow">HERE</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-912165" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-912165" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-912165" class="dsq-comment-message">A new set of polls from the Carolinas show that both of these states could be close this Fall, despite the fact that neither has voted Democratic since Jimmy Carter was the South\'s favorite son in 1976.<br><br>The new North Carolina poll from SurveyUSA: McCain 50%, Obama 45%, with a ±3.8% margin of error.<br><br>And here\'s Public Policy Polling\'s (D) survey of the much more conservative South Carolina: McCain 45%, Obama 39%, and Bob Barr 5%, with a ±4.2% margin of error. The X-factor here is Barr, as much of his vote would presumably have gone to McCain in a two-way race.<br><br>From <a href="http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/07/polls_show_close_races_in_nort.php" rel="nofollow">TPM</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-916657" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-916657">carolinagirl</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-916657" class="dsq-comment-message">Big ups to my area!!! :) I live in GA now and it is very possible for him to win it down here. However, in SC, my home state, if he can compete there, than McCain will lose in a landslide.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-912183" href="http://thisblksistaspage.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">blksista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-912183" class="dsq-comment-message">Yall:<br><br><a href="http://www.qbr.com/page10688.asp" rel="nofollow">The Harlem Book Fair is back again this summer.  Usually, if you can\'t be there, it is shown on CSpan live during the day and repeated the same night.  So stay tuned.</a><br><br>Here are some of the offerings:<br><br>2:15p - 3:15p BEVERLEY MANLEY: LIFE WITH MICHAEL MANLEY<br>(The Manley Memoirs)<br>Interviewer: Cliff Hughes (Commentator, Nationwide Radio, Jamaica WI) with<br>Beverley Manley<br>As a young girl, starved of her mother\'s love because she was darker than her<br>siblings, and forced to do housework while her sisters relaxed, Beverley was<br>a modern-day Cinderella. Told incessantly that she was good for nothing, she<br>defied her mother\'s prophecy by becoming a household name in local radio,<br>television, and on stage. It was her path at the then Jamaica Broadcasting<br>Corporation that lead her to Michael Manley and to the Jamaica House. Marriage to<br>Michael also leads to her political awakening. Not content with being the docile<br>wife, Beverley assumed an activist role in the governing Peoples National Party<br>(PNP), becoming embroiled in the ideological politics of the 1970s that would<br>eventually lead to her estrangement from Michael, the destruction of their<br>marriage, her flight into the arms of a rival lover and finally to a<br>self-imposed exile in the US, where she took refuge from the ire of the Jamaican elite<br>for daring to walk out on one of their own.<br><br>COMMUNITY ALERT: THE STATE OF BLACK MEDIA<br>4:45p - 6:00p THE LONG RISE AND HARD FALL OF BLACK RADIO<br>Moderator: Sabrina Lamb<br>Kristal Brent Zook (I See Black People: Interviews with African American<br>Owners of Radio and Television), Sanford Moore - KISS-FM Week In Review Co-Host.<br>Bob Law - Veteran Broadcaster, Film Producer "History of Black Radio"<br>Black radio has long provided an unadulterated perspective of the Black<br>American experience. Mergers, conglomerates, audience diversification and the high<br>costs of maintenance have caused many smaller stations to fold, while other<br>rely on exaggeration and caricature to survive – all at the expense of providing<br>the type of critical, hard-edged analysis a community requires to stay armed<br>and informed. This panel discusses black media\'s demise and future.<br><br>2:45 - 3:30p SINS OF THE FATHER: HOW FATHERS IMPACT DAUGHTERS<br>RELATIONSHIPS<br>Moderated by The Flow (Marc Collins, Angelo Hunt, Roy Frank)<br>Panelists: Jonetta Rose Barras (Whatever Happened to Daddy\'s Little Girl?:<br>The<br>Impact of Fatherlessness on Black Women); Randy Williams (Filmmaker, Fathers<br>and their Impact on Daughters Relationships); Grace Cornish (You Deserve<br>Healthy Love, Sis!: The Seven Steps to Getting the Relationship You Want);<br>June<br>Cross (Secret Daughter: A Mixed-Race Daughter and the Mother Who Gave Her<br>Away); D. E. Brown (Fatherless)<br>How much of a woman\'s relationship choices are influenced by their father?<br>How do fathers impact<br>daughter\'s definitions of womanhood, intimacy and self esteem. How many women<br>are trying to make up for the absence, abuse or neglect of their fathers<br>their lives, in romantic relationships risking their own authenticity and<br>relationship success? What attitudes do fathers pass on to their daughters regarding<br>male privilege, domination and control, and what do daughters pass on to their<br>sons? Join The FLOW and their guest panelist as we explore these issues.<br><br>SCHOMBURG CENTER/LANGSTON HUGHES AUDITORIUM<br>515 Malcolm X Blvd., corner of West 135th Street<br>PANEL DISCUSSIONS - SUNDAY, JULY 20<br>The QBR Author Stage<br><br>1:00 - 2:30p FROM BARAKA TO BARACK: THE EVOLUTION OF BLACK<br>POLITICAL THOUGHT: A Conversation with Herb Boyd and Amiri Baraka<br>Poet, activist, elder statesman and political gadfly Amiri Baraka has seen<br>his share of art and political<br>movements; in fact, he is credited with sparking the Black Arts movement of<br>the 60\'s. Author Herb Boyd is a critically acclaimed journalist/activist who<br>has dedicated his life to chronicling the breadth of the black life in America.<br>Together they discuss politics, Barak Obama, and the parting of the Red Sea.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-913746">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-913746" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'ve been a member of Schomburg for 10 years. One of these years, I\'m going to NYC for the fair and to see Schomburg. Book Fair? A slice of heaven as far as I\'m concerned.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-914020" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-914020" href="http://thisblksistaspage.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">blksista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-914020" class="dsq-comment-message">Remember to say hello to Langston at your feet in the Schomberg.<br><br>Also, go visit The Invisible Man across the street from Ralph Ellison\'s apartment house in Washington Heights on Riverside Drive.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-915356">caligirl</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-915356" class="dsq-comment-message">thanks for the reminder!  won\'t be in new york this summer, but love to catch it on c-span!    i miss brooklyn!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-912410" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-912410">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-912410" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  Hope I\'m not being petty, but your PICs are great!  I look forward to them erryday!  :&gt;)  THANKS for the nostalgia!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-912891" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-912891">Jay</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-912891" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-912891" class="dsq-comment-message">Aww, you\'re such a nice lady. All your posts are so positive and complimentary.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-914492">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-914492" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-914492" class="dsq-comment-message">There\'s plenty of fake shit you can read out there if you go somewhere else and do it.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-914688">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-914688" class="dsq-comment-message">Hello msmartin:  Did this statement, inadvertently, get into the wrong response space?  It appears to respond to "blksista".  But I will take your advice.  :&gt;)  :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-915196" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-915196">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-915196" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-915196" class="dsq-comment-message">No it\'s a response to Jay\'s sarcastic comment to rikyrah</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-915269" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-915269">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-915269" class="dsq-comment-message">msmartin:  Thank you for clarifying.  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-917117" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-917117">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-917117" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh, I\'m sorry I guess he was responding to you, not rikyrah.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-917201" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-917201">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-917201" class="dsq-comment-message">msmartin:  DOUBLE THANK YOU.  "&gt;) :&gt;)<br><br>jay:  THANK YOU!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-913715">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-913715" class="dsq-comment-message">I appreciate all the positivie encouragement. We didn\'t know what a hit the Open Thread would become when we decided to do it.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-914476" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-914476" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-914476">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-914476" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-914476" class="dsq-comment-message">I really appreciate the weekend open threads.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-914477" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-914477" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-914477">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-914477" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-914477" class="dsq-comment-message">I really appreciate the weekend open threads.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-912786" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-912786" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-912786">taritac</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-912786" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-912786" class="dsq-comment-message">The s*** is hitting the fan in Afghanistan:<br><a href=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/16/us-troops-forced-out-of-a_n_113000.html rel="nofollow">US abandons Afghan outpost where 9 troops died</a href></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-912857" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-912857" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-912857">taritac</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-912857" class="dsq-comment-message">Jesse says:<br><a href=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/16/jesse-jackson-caught-on-m_n_111732.html rel="nofollow"><b>"Barack...he\'s talking down to black people...telling niggers how to behave."</b></a href><br>So, <i>that\'s</i> what O\'Reilly was talking about. That\'s bad, but not as bad as I thought.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-912961" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-912961">Jay</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-912961" class="dsq-comment-message">Wow!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-913732" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-913732">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-913732" class="dsq-comment-message">OK, round 2. <br><br>Damn.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-914453" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-914453" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-914453" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-914453" class="dsq-comment-message">MSM won\'t report this. Fox will, but even CNN will find a way to give this little, if any, play.<br><br>I think. ;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-914567" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-914567">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-914567" class="dsq-comment-message">Sigh...I knew it.<br><br>Jesse is on his own personal death march.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-914898" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-914898" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-914898">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-914898" class="dsq-comment-message">TS, <br><br>I dunno. I\'ve been going back and forth on this, and I just don\'t know.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-915750" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-915750">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-915750" class="dsq-comment-message">Do you mean that maybe it was planned?  It crossed my mind at first, but then now with the supposed "nigger" thing...</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-917127" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-917127" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-917127">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-917127" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-917127" class="dsq-comment-message">I thought that too, but I guess not.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-917200" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-917200" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-917200" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-917200" class="dsq-comment-message">Sounds like Jesse was using the word they way Chris Rock used the word in his routine.<br><br>Thinking out loud.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-914980" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-914980" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-914980">taritac</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-914980" class="dsq-comment-message">No, I don\'t think so. It\'s not going to get much play, and it doesn\'t really need to. I thought the comment was going to be calling Barack a n***er, which I thought would have sounded much worse. Jesse seems to be using the n-word in a rhetorical sense (if that\'s the right term). <br><br>Also, I think people should cut Jesse some slack. Black people have long thrown him under the bus, but I think our run away from him has been unwarranted. Today, we have a much wider range of voices, particularly online and in other media, but that doesn\'t negate Jesse\'s previous efforts. Yes, he has made a lot of . . . "personal" mistakes, but so did MLK, JFK, RFK, Bill Clinton, etc. I have seldom heard him be wrong on the issues.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-915379">Lily</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-915379" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-915379" class="dsq-comment-message">If anyone lives up to their screen name it is you. I look for your posts.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-915553" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-915553" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-915553">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-915553" class="dsq-comment-message">Double blush.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-916962" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-916962">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-916962" class="dsq-comment-message">Not to be ungracious.   Thank you Lily, that\'s lovely of you to say.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-917160" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-917160">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-917160" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-917160" class="dsq-comment-message">You gotta love truth she\'s wise and funny, the place wouldn\'t be the same without her!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-917359" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-917359">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-917359" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-917359" class="dsq-comment-message">Awww, shucks.<br><br>Thank you.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-915150">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-915150" class="dsq-comment-message">O\'Reilly is gonna air the tape tonight. You know why? Because Keith Olbermann returns from vacation tonight. That\'s why he held the tape.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-915187">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-915187" class="dsq-comment-message">He probably said "niggas"</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-915380" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-915380">caligirl</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-915380" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-915380" class="dsq-comment-message">that\'s fucking awful.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-913317" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-913317">taritac</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-913317" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-913317" class="dsq-comment-message">Excellent article listing areas of McCain\'s constant confusion by Steve Benen:<br><a href=http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/16220.html#more-16220 rel="nofollow">Obama campaign: McCain ‘got confused again’</a href></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-914516">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-914516" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-914516" class="dsq-comment-message">I heard Obama say he was confused on Larry King - it was so slick.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-913479">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-913479" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-913479" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/07/hot-mic-moment.html" rel="nofollow">Hot Mic Moment Catches Obama in Private Chat</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-914589" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-914589" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-914589" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-914589" class="dsq-comment-message">That\'s why Bush scheduled his press conference at that time. And why McCain moved up his Iraq speech by two days and scheduled it immediately after Barack\'s.<br><br>Politics is transparent.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-913515">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-913515" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-913515" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/07/mccain-shifts-p.html" rel="nofollow">McCain Shifts Position on More US Troops to Afghanistan</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-913528">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-913528" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-913528" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/15/is-obama-forcing-mccain-t_n_112890.html" rel="nofollow">Did Obama Force McCain To Flip-Flop On Afghanistan?</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-913538">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-913538" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://thepage.time.com/2008/07/16/obama-hits-the-indiana-trail/" rel="nofollow">Obama Hits the Indiana Trail</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-913556" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-913556">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-913556" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-913556" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN1529466020080715?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&rpc=22&sp=true" rel="nofollow">Congress Overrides Bush\'s Medicare Veto</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-913567">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-913567" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/07/15/politics/main4261959.shtml" rel="nofollow">Will Romney\'s Combative Style Net VP Nod?</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-914593" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-914593" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-914593">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-914593" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-914593" class="dsq-comment-message">"Combative"..Hahahaha?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-913593" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-913593" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-913593">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-913593" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/07/management_secrets_of_barack_o_1.php#more" rel="nofollow">From Marc Ambinder</a>:<br><br>Management Secrets Of Barack Obama<br>16 Jul 2008 11:34 am<br><br><i>Why is there not<br>In the land of Obama<br>only more than<br>A hint of drama?</i><br><br><br>Barack Obama\'s presidential campaign is a sight to behold for many reasons, but among the least appreciated is its allergy to the disunity and spatting that generally convulses even the most successful of endeavors.<br><br>Obama, who never managed so much as a newsstand, has turned out to be a fairly remarkable leader of a what\'s becoming a billion dollar enterprise.<br><br>Not that there haven\'t been disputes; not that there haven\'t been rollicking disagreements about strategy and message and tactics; not that people haven\'t been fired; not that personalities haven\'t clashed; some high-ranking Obama advisers really embraced the concept of multiple town hall meetings with John McCain while others were wary; after some half-hearted stabs at negotiation, the idea kicked the bucket. (By the way: kicking the bucket is not a term of endearment for vegans; a dollar to the person who can explain why.) <br><br>So what principles are responsible for the discipline, the coherence and relational tightness of the campaign? The question is relevant because they tell us something about how Obama might set up his White House, and the principle of function following form applies.<br><br>1. A challenging, clearly-defined mission. <br><br>Win the Democratic nomination. Ok, that\'s obvious. But in November of 2006, Obama had a handful of wealthy Jewish donors from Chicago ready to raise money, a few Democratic strategy types who stood ready to put a campaign together, and not much of anything else. The challenge was immense, and the folks who joined the Obama campaign early on -- this was when Hillary Clinton was the frontrunner -- came aboard because they believed in Obama the challenge, not because they expected glory or material rewards. Salaries weren\'t competitive with the Clinton campaign\'s either. Obama attracted a large number of ideological Democrats who either had reason to dislike the Clintonian influence over the party or who believed that Obama stood at the crossroads between history and hope. <br><br>2. Clear lines of authority, with budget power appropriately vested in the campaign manager.<br><br>David Plouffe was named campaign manager and given the portfolio of essentially building an airplane as it was speeding down the runway. Plouffe\'s authority did not derive from his personal relationship with Barack Obama; indeed, Plouffe really didn\'t interact much with Obama before the campaign. Instead, it derived from the decisions he made that Obama later ratified. A corollary: Obama\'s best friend, Marty Nesbitt, was named campaign treasurer. That meant that Nesbitt, too, had oversight functions about spending and could make sure that Obama\'s personal values were reflected in the decisions made by the campaign.<br><br>David Axelrod would handle strategy, always a kind of messy and intrusive portfolio, but the strategy was pretty clear from the start: this is a change election, and Obama\'s the change agent.<br><br>Robert Gibbs would handle the press; and handle is a good word, because Obama\'s relationship with the press has been fascinating as it has evolved.<br><br>Their subordinates were generally given tasks and clear lines of authority.<br><br>3. The tone from the top.<br><br>Much has been written about Plouffe\'s preternatural unflappability, but his attitude helps confirm a basic principle of psychology: when the boss is freaked, employees get freaked. When the boss is calm, employees tend to remain calm. <br><br>But there\'s Obama\'s tone, too. Generally happy. "No drama." That\'s made clear to new employees, who feel the presence of the dictum as they go about their work. Drama disappoints Obama. No one wants to disappoint Obama. So -- if there are conflicts -- staffers are advised to work them out by themselves. A social cuing effect helps to cement the bond here; employees see that everyone else is getting along and feel pressure to get along, too.<br><br>4. Protecting Obama\'s public image at all costs<br><br>This one\'s also obvious, but it has been a priority from day one. The type of people drawn to the campaign are the type of people who would be angry at themselves if they somehow distorted the carefully crafted image that Obama and guru Gibbs et. al. had worked to create.<br><br><br><br><br>5. The personality cult<br><br>Not meant as an insult or a reference to messianic fervor; I mean more a reflection of Obama\'s personality. Obama is an occasionally fastidious perfectionist. He expects a high level of professional integrity from his staff; he expects a higher level of execution. When things go wrong, Obama doesn\'t just leave the aftermath to his subordinates, he actively helps to clean it up. <br><br>6. Decisions made quickly and decisively.<br><br>Occasionally, Obama temporizes. But just as often, he endorses quick, clear decision-making.<br><br>7. The freedom to do things differently.<br><br>Let the Clintons run their campaign the traditional way. Obama had nothing to lose and everything to gain, and so his campaign could experiment; they were trying to accomplish something that no challenger had every before accomplished, so they could afford to try new things, to throw out the old rulebooks, to ignore established habits of mind, and take some risks.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-913615" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-913615">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-913615" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-913615" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/15/sources-recall-mccains-jo_n_112955.html" rel="nofollow">McCain Ape Rape Joke Recalled By Sources</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-914415" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-914415" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-914415" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-914415" class="dsq-comment-message">The Dangerous One.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-913624" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-913624" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-913624">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-913624" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-913624" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/07/keeping_the_dnc_chairman_busy.php" rel="nofollow">Keeping the DNC Chairman Busy</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-913639" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-913639" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-913639">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-913639" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-913639" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://thepage.time.com/2008/07/16/official-us-envoy-to-meet-iranian-nuke-negotiator/" rel="nofollow">Guess who\'s meeting with the Iranians? Shrub</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-914373" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-914373" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-914373" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-914373" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-914373" class="dsq-comment-message">Bush is taking foreign policy advice from Barack Obama.<br><br>All he\'s doing is taking away Barack\'s talking points. He\'s a lameduck President trying to help the Dangerous One succeed him. It will also help to paint Barack as George Bush instead of McCain.<br><br>Anybody who thinks that Bush and the Iranian leaders are enemies got they weave in too tight.<br><br>I see them.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-913658" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-913658">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-913658" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-913658" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/16/opinion/16egan.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&oref=slogin" rel="nofollow">Do they \' get \' the New Yorker cover in Montana?</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-914406" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-914406" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-914406" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-914406" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-914406" class="dsq-comment-message">“There’s a lot of talk about Obama and guns, and — I’ll be honest with you — a lot of fear,” said Tawney. “But at least he’s not trying to fake it. Not like John Kerry with a dead goose over his shoulder and new hunting outfit one month before the election.”<br><br>::<br><br>Best quote in the article.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-913681" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-913681">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-913681" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-913681" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/16/opinion/16friedman.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&oref=slogin" rel="nofollow">Thomas Friedman\'s Latest Column</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-913767" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-913767" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-913767">Texas_Girl_in_LA</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-913767" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-913767" class="dsq-comment-message">Brian Williams, Charlie Gibson (jacka**) and Katie Couric will travel overseas next week to gear up for Obama\'s trip through Europe and the Middle East. <br><br><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/16/AR2008071600758_pf.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-914257" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-914257" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-914257" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-914257" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-914257" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2008/07/mccain-on-afgha.html" rel="nofollow">McCain follows Barack on Afghanistan</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-914703" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-914703" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-914703">rdxtion</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-914703" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-914703" class="dsq-comment-message">Apparently, Gallup says that the "Black Spokesman" Title is Still Up For Grabs <a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/108805/Black-Spokesman-Title-Still-Grabs.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://www.gallup.com/poll/108805/Black-Spokesm...</a><br><br>My thoughts:<br>1) That headline is RIDICULOUS<br>2) Congrats to the 6% of people out there who answered "Me/Myself"<br>3) Tavis Smiley gets 1%!  Apparently they polled him, because I don\'t know a single Black person who agrees with that</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-914715" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-914715" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-914715">rdxtion</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-914715" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-914715" class="dsq-comment-message">Also<br><br>4) What the HELL is Billary doing on this list</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-917491" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-917491" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-917491">Lily</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-917491" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-917491" class="dsq-comment-message">One person just one called him "the first black president" and it holds. <br><br>It\'s true, what one black person does, all black people do or in this case thinks  ./sarcasm</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-915226" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-915226" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-915226">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-915226" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-915226" class="dsq-comment-message">rdxtion:  What a pile of DECEPTION!!!  The title was "Black Spokesman . . " BUT the article was about who best addresses the RACE ISSUE!!!  Anything for a "sale"!!!!<br>That\'s how bill and billary got on the LIST - even though the only thing that they did with the RACE ISSUE was to attempt to USE it against Mr. Obama!<br>Whew!  I\'m taking deep breaths!   :&gt;)  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-914755" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-914755" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-914755" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-914755" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-914755" class="dsq-comment-message">The nomination battle goes on:<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/16/clinton-distances-herself_n_113094.html" rel="nofollow">Anti-Obama Hillraiser Raising Hell</a><br><br>::<br><br>Another LIEbernman out to get Barack. Is she related to the other one?<br><br>The good thing is, neither one of them make much sense.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-914914" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-914914">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-914914" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-914914" class="dsq-comment-message">craig,<br><br>always looking out for snakes...thanks.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-914916" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-914916" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-914916">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-914916" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-914916" class="dsq-comment-message">craig:  Not to appear to continue this imagery ad infinitum, BUT, can we say - slither to the SSSSSSSSSSSSnake List - Ricki LIEberman!!!  billary stated that she is distancing herself.  BUT - who REALLY knows?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-914944" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-914944" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-914944">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-914944" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-914944" class="dsq-comment-message">May I tell you how much I can\'t stand David Gregory?<br><br>Quesion today: Should Obama tell more jokes.<br><br>No, mofo, he shouldn\'t. <br><br>He\'s running for President of the United States of America, not next host of Showtime at the Apollo.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-915067" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-915067">eclecticbrotha</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-915067" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-915067" class="dsq-comment-message">It could have been worse. He could have lamented how Obama doesn\'t sing those old Negro spirituals or tap dance.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-915293" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-915293" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-915293">msmartin</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-915293" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-915293" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-915404" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-915404" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-915404">caligirl</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-915404" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-915404" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL!   gregory is a troll.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-917154" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-917154" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-917154" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-917154" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-917154" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'ve always not liked him, but today he showed his natural ass.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-914991" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-914991" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-914991">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-914991" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-914991" class="dsq-comment-message">To All:  I am going to make a bold attempt to post this site.  It continues to grow daily.<br><br><a href="http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/flipflops" rel="nofollow">www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/flipflops</a>.<br><br>This site also has a "list" of "mcancient\'s" CONFUSIONS!  True but hilarious!<br>OOPS!  This was previously cited by taritac.  Sorry for the duplication.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-916846">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-916846" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-916846" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-916846">taritac</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-916846" class="dsq-comment-message">Now this BURNS. ME. UP.<br><br>Talk about telling niggers how to behave: <br><a href=http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/25706515/ rel="nofollow">NFL to monitor players for use of gang signs</a href><br><br>Okay, no one wants to promote gang activity, but I am sick of the NFL and the NBA telling grown-ass men how to act, whether telling them they have to wear f*cking BUSINESS SUITS or this. <br><br>I\'m sick of this paternalistic bullshit. The members of the NHL can act a damn-fool, and the Powers That Be have nothing to say. <br><br>I hope if they ever enforce this, someone files a lawsuit alleging infringement of their first amendment rights: freedom of expression and freedom of association.<br><br>Bah!!!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-917877" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-917877">caligirl</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-917877" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-917877" class="dsq-comment-message">yeah well, what\'s the title of the book?  "$40M slaves"...?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-917719" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-917719" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-917719">taritac</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-917719" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-917719" class="dsq-comment-message"><A HREF=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/16/w-actors-arrest-details-t_n_113218.html rel="nofollow">"W" Actors Arrest Details: Tasers, Pepper Sprayed, "N" Word Reports TMZ</A HREF><br>Jeffrey Wright, who plays Colin Powell and starred in Syriana and Angels in America , and Josh Brolin, who plays Dubya and starred in No Country for Old Men, were involved in an altercation with police, who threw the n-word around.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-911826" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-911826">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-911826" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-911826" class="dsq-comment-message">Jack:  WELCOME back!!  It\'s been "tres" busy \'round here!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	if((typeof OB_Script != 'undefined') && (typeof OB_versionNum != 'undefined')) {
		if(navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Firefox") != -1) {
			if(window.frames['dsq-reply-frame']) {
				window.frames['dsq-reply-frame'].location = Dsq.Urls.REPLY + (new Date()).getTime() + '&f=jackandjillpolitics&t=wednesday_open_thread_33&to_redirect=' + encodeURIComponent(window.location) + '&ifrs=' + encodeURIComponent(disqus_iframe_css);
			}
		}
	}

	if (Dsq.jsonData.integration.theme == 4) {
		if (Dsq.jsonData.realtime_enabled) {
			Dsq.Realtime.initialize();
		}
	}

	



	window.ExecuteWhen = (function () {
	var obj = {}
	
	// Private
	var running = false;
	var timer = null;
	var pending = [];
	var startTimer = function() {
		running = true;
		timer = setInterval(obj.heartBeat, 100);
	};
	var stopTimer = function() {
		running = false;
		clearInterval(timer);
	};
	
	// Public
	obj.add = function (condition, code) {
		pending.push([condition,code]);
		this.heartBeat(); //!
		if (!running) {
			startTimer();
		}
	};
	obj.heartBeat = function() {
		if (!pending.length) {
			stopTimer();
		}
		var newPending = [];
		for (var i=0; i<pending.length; i++) {
			var cond = pending[i][0];
			var code = pending[i][1];
			// FIXME: if cond or code throw an error, they never get removed from pending
			if (cond()){
				code();
			}
			else {
				newPending.push([cond, code]);
			}
		}
		pending = newPending;
	};
	return obj;
})();

// also used in embed_thread.js:
window.fbIsReady = function () {return window.FB && FB.init;};
// NOTE: This script gets executed again without threadEl
//       set when we are loaded again as the fbc_receiver.
//       In this case, we don't need the hidden container.

if(!window.FB || !FB.init) {
	if(window.Dsq && Dsq.container) {
		// container is not present when init.js is loaded from an xd-receiver iframe; in this case,
		// we don't need the FB_HiddenContainer anyway.
		var fbDiv = document.createElement('div');
		fbDiv.id = "FB_HiddenContainer";	// Required or else FeatureLoader will execute a document.write.
		fbDiv.style.position = 'absolute';	// This is intentionally not setting display to none as this breaks
		fbDiv.style.top = '-10000px';		// Flash in Safari.
		fbDiv.style.left = '-10000px';
		fbDiv.style.width = '0px';
		fbDiv.style.height = '0px';
		Dsq.container.appendChild(fbDiv);
	}
	var fbJS = document.createElement('script');
	fbJS.type = "text/javascript";
	fbJS.src = "http://static.ak.connect.facebook.com/js/api_lib/v0.4/FeatureLoader.js.php";
	document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(fbJS);

	ExecuteWhen.add(window.fbIsReady,
		function () {
			// HACK: This is a workaround FBC's single domain limitation by
			//		 allowing sites to create multiple forums with different
			//		 Facebook API keys.  This must be used in conjunction with
			//		 disqus_facebook_forum (see authenticateFacebook).
			var facebook_api_key = 'bd6a8bc56f8eb204984f34b6fefe228d';
			if (typeof disqus_facebook_api_key != 'undefined') {
				facebook_api_key = disqus_facebook_api_key;
			}

			FB.init(facebook_api_key, window.facebookXdReceiverPath || null,
				{fetchSignedPublicSessionData: true});
		});
}


	


if(typeof(disqus_callback) == 'function') {
	var callback_params = Dsq.Utils.getRequestParams()['dsq_cbp'] || null;

	// We don't care about any errors in third-party code
	try {
		disqus_callback(callback_params);
	} catch (x) {
		if (typeof(console) != 'undefined' && typeof(console.log) == 'function') {
			// But it would be nice to let developers know about them
			console.log(x);
		}
		// pass
	}

	// HACK: We don't know if the callback wraps our container, which may
	// possibly result in a new DOM element.
	Dsq.container = document.getElementById('dsq-content');
}

})();




