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Face it -- race baiting can take a toll.<br><br>regarding \"If he's not elected president, he will lay down and die.\"<br><br>RAOTFLMAO", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_13:19:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2941907, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2941954": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I live in DC and that rumor about Laura being at the Mayflower has been in circulation since 2006 - when she was seen at the Mayflower Hotel.<br><br>I've speculated she's been holed up there with a George Clooney-type hunk named \"Cliff\" who has been \"servicing\" the First Lady, if you get my drift  **wink, wink, nod, nod\"\"<br><br>You can't really blame her - she's married to Bush.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_12:26:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2937896, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2931206": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Looks like McCain accidentally launched a new catchphrase:<br><br>Check <a href=\"http://www.senatorthatone.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">this out</a> and <a href=\"http://www.cafepress.com/xerotopia.315025991#\" rel=\"nofollow\">this</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_00:20:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2944522": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "D:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH59jVKyui8&feature=related\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH59jVKyui8&feat...</a><br><b>Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend  - Beyonce</b><br><br>ENJOY!!  :&gt;)  [Just the music part!!  :&gt;)]", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_14:54:28", "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": 2942250, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2945039": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This is maybe sort of off-topic, but every time I see references to ACORN I remember Gary Delgado's book about it from the 1980s or around there, which includes a chapter on racism, classism and sexism in the internal structure of the organization (eg the demographics and actual power of the unpaid leaders versus the paid staff). <br><br>I don't know if things have changed or not but I do remember that book. If things haven't changed since in their internal structure, I think it's just a tiny a little bit-- is the word ironic? -- that they are being targeted as they are and have been.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_15:28:50", "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": 2943524, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2942992": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  YES!  I posted this yesterday!!<br><br>Here's an article:<br><br><a href=\"http://politics.nashvillepost.com/tag/harold-ford/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://politics.nashvillepost.com/tag/harold-ford/</a><br>Harold Ford: Post Politics: Political News and Views In Tennessee<br><br><i>It certainly was an experience consuming a debate this way amongst the hustle and bustle of the national media just yards away from the actors on the stage.<br><br>Watching the reality of the \u201cSpin Alley\u201d you hear and read so much about up close and personal was an eye opener. Listening to local and national political figures spouting out prepackaged, fluffier-than-fluff instant reactions to reporters desperately sopping every tidbit they could to make deadline or get a story instantly up on the web was something to behold.<br><br>Is this process really that conducive to the pursuit of truth? Yeah, that\u2019s a rhetorical question.<br><br>Anyway, here are some of the quotations I was able to get amongst the crowds of the national and local press pursuing truth.<br><br><b>Harold Ford, Jr.: \u201cOverall this debate will not change the dynamic of race in any meaningful way. Obama is ahead nationally and in the swing states. Obama did good tonight, very good and I think the polls will bear him out as the winner tomorrow.\u201d</b></i><br><br>HOW BLAND IS THIS!??  His INPUT was NOT needed!<br><br>Sorry Rikyrah.  :&gt;(  Just tryin' ta be helpful.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_13:20:28", "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": 2935576, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2933777": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  From TPM:  Poll Results -<br><br>    * 10/7: Gallup Pres-Tracker: Obama 51%, McCain 42%<br><br>    * 10/7: Hotline/Diageo Pres-Tracker: Obama 46%, McCain 44%<br><br>    * 10/7: Rasmussen Pres-Tracker: Obama 52%, McCain 44%<br><br>    * 10/7: Res. 2000 Pres-Tracker: Obama 52%, McCain 41%<br><br>    * 10/7: SurveyUSA NC: McCain 49%, Obama 46%<br><br>    * 10/7: SurveyUSA WI: Obama 52%, McCain 42%<br><br>    * 10/7: PPP (D) OH: Obama 49%, McCain 43%<br><br>    * 10/7: Mason-Dixon FL: Obama 48%, McCain 46%<br><br>    * 10/7: Res. 2000 NV: Obama 50%, McCain 43%<br><br>    * 10/7: Univ. of MN MN: Obama 54%, McCain 40%<br><br><br>Yaaaaaa!  Whoooooo!   Hoooooo!!    :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>GO Mr. President!!  :&gt;)<br><br>Obama-Biden '08!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_06:07:13", "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": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2949138": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Valerie Jarrett is OLD Black Money. Her father was a tenured professor back when NOOOOOOO Black folk went to the University of Chicago.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_20:06:13", "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": 2946862, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2933849": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Where can I buy a that one t-shirt?  I love it.  I am that one they are scared of.... Uppity, college going, newspaper, blog reading, political view having...... Black woman.... Uppity is the new That one.... That one is the new Nigga.... Gotta love it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_06:21:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "rorysmomma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": 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}, "2945562": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Cindy McCain Lobs Harsh Attack At Obama<br><br>Cindy McCain, with her husband and Sarah Palin at a rally in Pennsylvania, took one of her most personal shots yet at Barack Obama today.<br><br>\u201cThe day that Sen. Obama cast a vote to not to fund my son when he was serving sent a cold chill through my body let me tell you,\u201d Cindy McCain said in introducing the GOP ticket. \u201cI would suggest Sen. Obama change shoes with me for just one day. I suggest he take a day and go watch our men and women deploying.\u201d<br><br><br><a href=\"http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/1008/Invoking_sons_service_Cindy_McCain_levels_tough_shot_at_Obama_on_troops.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/10...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_15:53:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2934300": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I need to find some way to start watching the view daily during election season because they are having some fiery segments!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_07:33:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "nickwah22", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2931793, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2943517": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "A bracelet from Tiffany's is a nice apology.<br><br>***ducks*** LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_13:51:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "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": 2942250, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2945567": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I actually thought about you last night after the debate, D, and had the feeling you would do something like this.<br><br>It was this totally random moment, in the midst of several simultaneous streams of thought, that I promptly forgot about ... til right now.<br><br>I'm appreciative -- and not at all surprised to read this and your blog entry.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_15:53:45", "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": 2934625, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2941984": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "What did he say?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_12:27:53", "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": 2935161, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2937947": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Oh, mercy. <br><br>A  Republican just introduced Joe Biden in Florida. He said, \"The next vice president of the United States of America, John McCain!!\"<br><br>Earlier he said Barack O'Biden and Joe Obama.<br><br>His mouth and mind don't work in synch.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_11:27:22", "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": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2943524": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Barbara Comstock, dimwit, just said that Barack Obama has been living off of the government for his whole life.<br><br>She dropped in ACORN in her rant.<br><br>The Nevada ACORN office was raided today.<br><br>This is what the community organizer smear introduced at the big Klan rally in the Twin Cities is leading to.<br><br>No, it's not going to work, but it's not even gutter politics anymore.<br><br>These criminals are in the underground sewage system.<br><br>It'd like to throw them in my septic tank with the rest of the stinking sludge.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_13:51:54", "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": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2944037": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Saw it on television. MSNBC. Andrea Mitchell's hour.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_14:23:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2943860, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2943527": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Democrats lost in the woods: 1980-2008, give or take.<br><br>Republicans lost in the woods: 2000-?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_13:51:59", "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": 2936674, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2931752": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This is the real McCain every potential voter should be exposed to.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/make_believe_maverick_the_real_john_mccain\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/mak...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_01:18:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "382c92ecadd86cf0c401b6239a0f967e", "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}, "2943819": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  MORE SUPPORT!:  :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKU-rvoDlb4&feature=user\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKU-rvoDlb4&feat...</a><br><b>Republican For Obama In Ohio</b><br><br>Obama-Biden '08!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_14:10:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2950778": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Has anyone else noticed that the McCain-Palin ad on CNN's site only features Sarah Palin?!  When you click on the official site, the first thing you see is a video of Palin - no pictures or greetings from McCain himself. <br><br>Why don't they just get it over with and call it the Palin-McCain ticket?  She has already \"slipped\" and said \"A Palin and McCain Administration\" <a href=\"http://tinyurl.com/47dw3a\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://tinyurl.com/47dw3a</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_22:11:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2944049": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Absolutely.  Surely there are some local/regional races that you care about too.  Republican or Democrat, conservative or progressive, don't sit at home because the two major presidential candiates irk you.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_14:24:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "Nate_Wesley", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2941721, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2942005": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Look for Pennsylvania and Virginia to be the next states where McCain Concedes. Texas and Tennessee could also be in play.<br><br>::<br><br>As that labor leader from PA said last week, before it's all over, the only state McCain will be campaigning in the week before the election is Georgia. <br><br>And if it comes down to that, he'll lose Georgia too.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_12:28:58", "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": 2935161, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2946618": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "MsKitty: You ain't spoke nothing but the truth!! How dare he talk about MY Barack Obama behind his back..That's stuff people did in high school. WTH!!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_17:00:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPR", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2945996, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2942011": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "CPR:  Co-sign.  Glad I didn't place a wager on this!!   I would have WON.   <br><br><b>THAT ONE</b>  is close ENOUGH!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_12:29:20", "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": 2941917, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2941509": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You can only lose so much credibility by recognizing that maybe, just maybe, you had something or someone pegged the wrong way, and acknowledging it.  It's an expectation of anyone we consider responsible or honest, and you are both.  <br><br>But  don't lose any sleep because of John McCain.  Its been clear to many that he was willing to forego his own convictions (conservative or not) to win this election, the same ones that helped him 'cross the aisle' the many times he's talked about.  That has comprimised his honesty amongst those in his party and toward the independents who probably favored him from 2000.  \"The Real McCain\" has surfaced, and I'm not referring exclusively to the Robert Greenwald version.  <br><br>I would recommend that you not sit out the election, if only for the civic pride of voting. It's probably silly of anyone to ask you to support an Obama-Biden candidacy you disagree with, but you don't have to give a vote to McCain-Palin either.  Baldwin-Castle (Constitution), Barr-Root (Libertarian), McKinney-Clemente (Green)--hey, I had to at least try on that last one.  <br><br>You don't have to vote enthusiastically or try to take off work doing so, but I feel like voting should at least validate the intellectual work you put into caring (blogging and board posts) about the country's issues.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_11:58:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "Nate_Wesley", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 11, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2934625, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2945101": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "A funny illustration of \"Joe Six Pack\" vs \"Educated Elite\"<br><br><a href=\"http://tariqnelson.com/2008/10/08/joe-six-pack-vs-educated-elite/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://tariqnelson.com/2008/10/08/joe-six-pack-...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_15:32:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "TariqNelson", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2931793": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "rikyrah:  The \"ladies\" on The View just need to take Elizabeth out  - on stage!!  :&gt;)<br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/07/the-view-gets-uglier-barb_n_132587.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/07/the-vi...</a><br><b>The View Gets Uglier. . </b><br><br><i>On Tuesday's \"The View,\" the ladies followed up on a conversation/argument yesterday, in which Elisabeth Hasselbeck pushed Obama's radical views. Today, with Joy back, it was Elisabeth v. the other four as she continued to bring up and slam what she feels are Obama's shady acquaintances.<br><br>Preceding the clip below, Barbara called for a move away from gutter politics towards a discussion of what really matters. Elisabeth then kept talking about Obama's connection to Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers and Tony Rezko, called Wright a \"hate-monger\" and asked of Obama, \"Are you a liar or do you have poor judgment?\"<br><br>Soon after, Sherri jumped down Elisabeth's throat (as she sat expressionless) asking about McCain's first wife with, \"can we talk about poor judgement?\"<br><br>The argument escalated and Joy (celebrating her birthday today) pretended to get up and leave.<br><br>Elisabeth interjected, \"When did this get personal? Wow. This is super personal,\" and she told Sherri to \"relax.\"<br><br>Barbara again asked to no avail, \"Can we stop slinging mud around?\"<br><br>Elisabeth then brought up Obama and claimed Democrats pushed subprime loans, to which Joy called out, \"You're listening to Sean Hannity too much!\" With that, Whoopi quickly took the show to break.<br><br>Watch, as no blow-by-blow will do it justice:</i><br><br>ENJOY!!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_01:23:38", "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": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2931795": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "McCain - another doe in the headlights moment.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_01:23:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "noelani", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": 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}, "2931285": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Cute diary....<br><br>\"In my grams eyes, Barack Obama is already her president. She refers to him as President Obama. She has a framed picture of him and Michelle sitting in her china hutch. She doesn't even have a picture of ME or her other grandchildren in her precious china hutch! She wants to get in the kitchen with Michelle and make sure she's cooking the \"right food to put some meat on President Obama's bones.\" She is knitting keepsake blankets for both Sasha and Malia, which she plans to have delivered to them even if she has to \"fly to Washington myself. Those babies are gonna need some looking after sometimes. My grandmother loves her some President Barack and First Lady Michelle Obama & family.\"<br><br>I love my people, lol.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/7/115857/644/690/622725\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/7/115...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_00:26:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "JJai", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2936408": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Even Obama Hater Christopher Hitchens had to give Obama his props for last night:<br><br><a href=\"http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/hitchens/2008/10/obama-trounces-mccain-in-nashv.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/hitchens/2008/10/obam...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_10:13:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2937945": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You nailed it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_11:27:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2937035, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2942042": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The usual hateration he says when referencing Obama.  NO knock out punch, etc. etc.  I had to tune out and it hurts to actually look at this brotha these days.<br><br>He's looking hurt and the $5000 make up girl isn't helping him.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_12:30:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "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": 2941984, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2942555": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I always get beat up for saying this but so what:<br><br>With the right to vote comes the right NOT to vote. If there's no candidate on the top of the ticket you can vote for in good conscience, it makes a mockery of the democratic process to vote <i>just because</i> our ancestors couldn't.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_12:56:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2941721, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2942556": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Anderkoo:  I hear your compassion.<br><br>BUT, \"McAncient\" got up one morning - about <b>8 years ago</b> and as he was dressing, HE <b>put on his brand new, shiny SHRUB necklace!</b><br><br>He thought that he was \"ready for the DEVIOUS/RACIST game that was his to play\" for the next 8 years!  Well, I'm saying, \"play on!  Play on!\"  But, \"THAT ONE\" has WON the game!!<br><br>So go sit down, with your \"SHRUB necklace\"!  You could spend time polishing it, 'cause it's DULL right 'bout NOW!![20 -something in the approval polls, is it?]<br><br>I'm sorry that I can't join you in you compassion. They were aiming to \"crush us\" and got caught!!  In the \"big leagues\", NO TWO OPPONENTS WIN THE GAME!\"  <br><br>The only <b>W</b> in Shrub's column is in his MIDDLE NAME!  :&gt;)<br><br>Obama-Biden '08!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_12:56:17", "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": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2936586, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2931807": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Anovelista:  That will work!!  I'm ENJOYING!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>Videos are CONTAGEOUS  -huh??   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_01:25:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2931436, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2950845": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Craig, my son and I were watching Hardball and he said the exact same thing.  He said he was repeating and adding to the analysis as though it were true.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_22:17:15", "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": 2946862, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2941541": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "A report from a Stanley Greenberg focus group that should terrify the GOP:<br><br>    Before the debate, McCain had a 48/46 favorability rating; that improved to 56/36 by the end. But that\u2019s about where Obama started the evening\u201454/36. After an hour and a half, Obama\u2019s favorability numbers were 80/14. As Joe Biden would say, let me repeat that: 80% of the undecided voters had favorable views of Obama and only 14% saw him negatively for a net rating of +66. Not even Bill Clinton got such a warm response in town hall formats. <br><br><a href=\"http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/10/the-debate-matt.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_11:59:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2945146": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/politics/Palin_to_throw_out_puck_Saturday_night_.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Palin to Drop Puck at Flyers Home Opener</a><br><br>As a die-hard Maple Leafs fan (in the heart of Flyers country) I don't need much incentive to hate them, but this will work.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_15:35:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2936937": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://static.crooksandliars.com/files/uploads/2008/09/mccain-obama-punch.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://static.crooksandliars.com/files/uploads/...</a><br>Can we get this picture on a button??", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_10:50:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "f9317de7129241a624d86d2388913818", "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}, "2942058": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "ROFLMAOPIMP....", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_12:31:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "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": 2941827, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2943595": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Suprk:   Whoooo!  Hoooo!   I'm lovin' it!!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_13:56:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2943430, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2944793": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "A great McCain website that sets the Straight Talk Express right side up again. It's like a B.A.R. with videos.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.mccainsource.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.mccainsource.com</a>.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_15:12:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": 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}, "2931822": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Robert Gibbs vs. Sean Hannity<br><br><a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/8/04759/4174/888/623560\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/8/04759/4...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_01:26:38", "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": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2931823": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "JJai:  Thanks for sharing!  How passionate!!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_01:26:49", "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": 2931285, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2942065": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I think Joe Biden is friends with both McCain and Hillary Clinton and has worked with them and it's probably hard for him to slam them left and right as is now required.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_12:31:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2941989, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2941046": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Anderkoo:  Thank you so much for your encouragement!  :&gt;)<br><br>So do you think that I should take my socks  - that are stored under my mattress - with me?  That's where I keep most of my savings!   Speaking of FISCAL CONSERVATIVE!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>O.K.  Just Kidding!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>Thanks for your advice.  Annnnnnd, BTW, I have kept my money in conservatively \"safe\" instruments!  Never was that bold!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>Obama-Biden '08!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_11:53:38", "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": 2935424, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2945015": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Found this over at Daily Kos: <br><br>\"Barack Obama's friend tried to kill my family\"<br><br>John McCain's low and disgusting campaign  sent out a press release today, in which they enlisted a man named John Murtagh to give a statement on Barack Obama's relationship with Bill Ayers---Murtagh's home was allegedly firebombed by Ayers.<br><br><br>The press release includes the following:<br><br>\"Barack Obama may have been a child when William Ayers was plotting attacks against U.S. targets -- but I was one of those targets. Barack Obama's friend tried to kill my family.\"<br><br><a href=\"http://www.standardnewswire.com/news/816203460.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.standardnewswire.com/news/816203460....</a><br><br>John McCain's press office number and wesite address are at the top of this press release.<br><br>Purely gutter politics.<br><br>What Fox News and the McCain campaign won't say is that a prominent Republican,  the late Walter Annenburg is the founder of the Annenburg Challenge. <br><br> Annenburg served as ambassador to Britain under the Nixon and Reagan administrations.  And it was Mr. Annenburg who enlisted Ayers to serve on his Annenburg Challenge Board which Obama later became a part of.<br><br>The funny thing is that Walter Annenburg's widow, Leonore,  is on a list of former ambassadors that support John McCain, which was released by his campaign today.  Huffington Post has an article about.<br><br>Not only is the character assaination of  Obama-Ayers connection dumb and unwarranted, but McCain touts the endorsement of of Annenburg's widow, whose husband was the one who enlisted Ayers in setting up his education foundation.  <br><br>So by this guilt-by association standard, does McCain also \"pal around with terrorist\" since one of his supporters' family also has ties to Bill Ayers?<br><br>I mean, does  the McCain campaign  think at all?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_15:27:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2950264": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Today's Polls 10/08<br><br>Georgia Rasmussen McCain 54, Obama 45 McCain +9<br>Minnesota Rasmussen Obama 52, McCain 45 Obama +7<br>New Jersey Fairleigh Dickinson Obama 50, McCain 37 Obama +13<br>Pennsylvania Morning Call Tracking Obama 50, McCain 38 Obama +12<br>Wisconsin Rasmussen Obama 54, McCain 44 Obama +10<br><br>National Gallup Tracking Obama 52, McCain 41 Obama +11<br>National Rasmussen Tracking Obama 51, McCain 45 Obama +6<br>National Ipsos/McClatchy Obama 47, McCain 40 Obama +7", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_21:32:27", "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": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2931834": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I actually saw that today. Someone needs to bring up Caribou Barbie being married to a man who belonged to a SECESSIONIST GROUP", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_01:27:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2931793, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2931325": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Judging from the pundits it seems that some Republican operatives may actually be stupid enough to try and spin the \" That one\" phrase into a campaign slogan. I have to think this is a mistake but then again, these are the same people that selected Sarah Palin as the VP candidate.<br><br>As I see it, the more McCain and Palin focus away from the monumental economic crisis we are facing; it becomes an indictment agains their ability to lead, their lack of vision, and ultimately their  indifference for the plight of the vast majority of Americans.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_00:30:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "382c92ecadd86cf0c401b6239a0f967e", "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}, "2945151": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Interesting take on how McCain showed his age last night (and not in a good way.)<br><br><b> McCain's Five Oldest Debate Moments</b><br><br>1. Listing priorities. The moment that truly jumped out at us was when Brokaw asked the candidates to list three issues \u2014 health care, energy, and entitlement reform \u2014 in order of their priority. <i>McCain went first, but needed Brokaw to repeat the three items he had to put in order, and wrote them down as Brokaw said them again. McCain started with entitlement reform, but sauntered back to his desk to glance at the sheet before moving on to energy. And it seemed that he took another peek at his notes once more before briefly moving to the topic of health care. Take a look:</i><br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmO2a25yqcU\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmO2a25yqcU</a><br><br>I hadn't thought about it last night, but the writer is correct.  McCain had to write everything down and then step back and glance at his notes as he spoke.  Very telling.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_15:35:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2943616": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "DAMN!!<br><br>He's putting his foot on the criminal's neck.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_13:57:50", "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": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2943287, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2935939": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "We love you D.  Blessings to you and your family.  <br><br>Regarding the Repubs, I am sure not all republicans are the same.  McCain and Palin are promoting a dialogue is not helpful in closing the gap on discrimination in this country but I would not assume all Repubs are like that. <br><br>So . . . there is hope.  Much love D.  I like to think of JJP as a family and as such, you are included.  So we can fight, but we always make up, get over it and move on.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_09:55:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2934625, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2942125": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That is what I thought! Can someone explain how this is different than that part of the bailout? One pundit said, \"well if McCain didn't read the 3 page bailout proposal, it is unlikely he read the 100 page edition.\" I'm with her.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_12:34:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "evita", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2941607, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2939841": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/8/91759/1121/669/623787\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/8/917...</a><br><br>Sarah Palin and Friends in NC:<br><br>Lord,<br><br>Please shut the Democrats' lying mouths.<br><br>Amen", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_11:45:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2944650": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Me too!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_15:02:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "8b4edfeff97a04858d7247b03c0d0fd8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2943713, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2942231": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I try to maintain some empathy for these guys mostly to keep myself from turning into a bitter little man.  I don't and can't know who McCain really is.<br><br>I do feel bad for Cindy though. Seems like she is going to suffer a lot if/when he loses.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_12:39:32", "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": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2941889, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2945061": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<b>Palin is a Post Turtle</b><br><br> I would love to take credit for this, but it isn't mine and I'm  not sure where it originated from:<br><br>While suturing a cut on the hand of a 75-year old Texas rancher  whose hand was caught in a gate while working with cattle, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old man.  Eventually, the topic got around to Sarah Palin and her bid to to be a heartbeat away from being President.<br><br>The old rancher said, \"Well, ya know, Palin is a post turtle.\"  Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him what a post turtle was.  The old rancher said, \"When you're driving down a country road and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that's a post turtle.\"  The old rancher saw a puzzled look on the doctor's face, so he continued to explain.<br> <br> \"You know she didn't get up there by herself, she doesn't belong up there, she doesn't know what to do while she is up there, and you just wonder what kind of dumb ass put her up there to begin with.\"<br> <br>Perfect analogy", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_15:30:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "Suprk", "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}, "2940048": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thanks for sharing that with us and I wish you the best also.<br><br>\"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.\"<br><br>\"We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.\"<br><br>                                                       Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_11:46:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2934625, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2941550": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Another McCain campaign strategy goes up in smoke:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14382.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Campaign shifts back to economic crisis</a><br><br><i>McCain\u2019s decision to use Tuesday\u2019s debate to roll out a dramatic new housing plan \u2013 and to downplay an extended weekend of personal attacks on Obama \u2013 appeared to mark a recognition that, after two consecutive days of the Dow plummeting and financial hemorrhaging abroad, the market meltdown is not likely to move from the center of the campaign. <br><br>After days of attempts to persuade voters that Obama\u2019s ties to \u201860s radical Bill Ayers are a crucial character issue, McCain didn\u2019t mention Ayers\u2019 name during the 90 minutes of Tuesday\u2019s forum. His top aides suggested afterward that, going forward, the candidate wouldn\u2019t focus on the former domestic terrorist nor invoke the name of Obama\u2019s controversial pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. </i>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_12:00:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2941591": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Whoopi, Joy and Sherri are trying to stay gainfully employed, that's why they don't call out Hasselbeck on her shyt.<br><br>Which I find ridiculous, because all of them have more media experience than Hasselbeck - her only job prior to \"The View\" was being on \"Survivor\"; while Joy, Sherri and Whoopi all have TV and movie experience on their resumes.<br><br>If Hasselbeck pisses off Barbara Walters, the next thing we'll hear is that Hasselbeck is leaving the show for personal reasons.<br><br>The \"personal reasons\" being fired by Walters and told to hit the road with her conservative bullshyt.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_12:02:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "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": 2935189, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2944664": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Sometimes I think Black people wouldn't be the mules of the Democratic Party if we decided to selectively opt-out in a strategic move. Look how the Latino vote got courted as an example. Or the Independents. It's something to consider but I think it should be done with some thought and care, not out of apathy.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_15:03:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2942555, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2936943": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "it's a miracle!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_10:50:56", "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": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2936408, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2943346": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Craig, gives new meaning to the Cleavon Little Comment from\"Blazing Saddles\"<br><br>\"Where all de White Wimmen at?\"<br><br>Sitting behind and in support of Obama.  ROFL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_13:41:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "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": 2942427, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2935453": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Same here.  In fact, doubling up on the prayers might not be a bad idea since the evil is really starting to manifest itself.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_09:30:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2934619, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2941092": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Where's a good lightning bolt when you need one?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_11:53:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2939841, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2950821": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LOL!!<br><br>God forbid  \"real amurikans\" have a president with a vocabulary!  Using all dem big words all fancy like...", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_22:15:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2948271, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2945191": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "They are digging themselves into a deeper whole by the day with them not making statements about the racist comments their supporters and McRacist(stole that from you) are making.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_15:37:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPR", "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": 2944292, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2936489": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "It shouldn't be my defeat. I guess the only reason it hits as hard as it does is because I've spent a lot of the last year and a half trying to defend McCain-or attack Obama. I feel a lot let down; like it was a lot of time wasted.<br><br>Only good thing about this is that I did wake up and turn on ESPN instead of FNC or CNN this morning.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_10:19:32", "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": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2935136, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2932394": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "ABSOLUTELY!!!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_01:52:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2931843, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2933933": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  \"Ms. Thang\"  SPEAKS!  :&gt;)<br><br><a href=\"http://www.newser.com/story/39400/rambling-palin-opens-up-to-press-pack.htmlhttp://www.newser.com/story/39400/rambling-palin-opens-up-to-press-pack.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.newser.com/story/39400/rambling-pali...</a><br><b>Rambling Palin Opens Up To Press Pack</b><br><br><i><br><br>(Newser) \u2013 <b>Sarah Palin surprised reporters yesterday by coming to the back of her campaign plane to take questions from the press corps for the first time ever, Fox News reports. The candidate spoke in her trademark <u>rambling style</u> for nearly 15 minutes aboard what reporters had dubbed the \"No-Talk Express.\" Palin addressed the Troopergate scandal and defended linking Barack Obama to political radical Bill Ayers.</b><br><br>Palin said her focus on the Ayers connection was relevant in light of the economic crisis because it raised questions about the candidate's \"forthrightedness\" on the issues. Palin told reporters she'd love to appear on Saturday Night Live to give Tina Fey a taste of her own medicine. \"I love her. She\u2019s a hoot,\" said Palin.<br><br>Sources Fox News, CBS</i>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_06:36:13", "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": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2948271": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/08/right-wingers-mock-obamas_n_133111.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/08/right-...</a><br><br>Right Wing:  \"Waaaah!  Obama is all snooty and uppity for pronouncing Pakistan correctly!  We don't need a President who pronounces words correctly!  At least our side has a VP nominee who mispronounces words!  Ignorance is Amurikan!\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_18:55:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2942645": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Anderkoo:  There is ENOUGH \"ale\" in Ms. \"Whateva Cindy's coffers to keep her going for life.  Please don't waste your empathy.<br><br>Use it for:  the military families; for the victims of the various hurricanes; <b>HEAD BOW</b>; for the people HURT by the GREED of CEO's/others in the financial industry, etc!!<br><br>RESPECTFULLY!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_13:01:39", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2942231, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2937015": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LOL!   i'm getting one.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_10:54:48", "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": 2935209, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2943672": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Suprk:  He \"HIT THE ROAD JACK!\"  -Um, YES, there might be a SONG!  :&gt;)<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8Tiz6INF7I\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8Tiz6INF7I</a><br><b>Hit The Road Jack  - Ray Charles</b><br><br>ENOUGH!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_14:00:39", "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": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2942154, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2942153": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "May she always walk in a metal box...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_12:36:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "evita", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2941092, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2943690": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Here's yet another <a href=\"http://thatone08.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">site dedicated to That One</a>.<br><br>Okay, I'm gonna stop posting these links because it's getting out of control LOL.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_14:01:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2937035": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I agree. It's the patriotic thing to do. There is no reason to have loyalty to folks that truly and sincerely, with every cell of their bodies, harbor beliefs of our inferiority because of our race. No one gets to pick their race.<br><br>We have a nation full of heros. We have so many young people who have layed down their very lives in the military, in an unjust war, and basically for the profit of corporations. We have people who work themselves into exhaustion to provide \"the American Dream\" to their children, like the mother of BSerious & like my grandparents. All of the countless Americans who try so hard to do the right thing and play by the rules deserve a different kind of leader. <br><br>I don't think Obama is a savior nor am I looking for him to be. What I believe he will do is provide the leadership to galvanize a grassroots movement to lift the country back up. I don't think we have the $ to fix all the things that need fixing in the country. We are going to have to make sacrifices and have a spirit of volunteerism to turn this shiip around. The hard work is really going to start after the election. So vote for him because he has already shown that he can motivate the masses to take beneficial action, and then volunteer 4 hours a week helping kids learn something. Black boys, especially, are starving for examples of manhood, dignity, respect & discipline, which are qualities that you personally value and represent.  <br><br>It really is time for us to move into a 21st century paradigm, and it's exciting to be on the cutting edge of the much needed change. Vote for a better future for your child (who could become presient one day also).", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_10:56:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "4d9312cd58c7caeb087835daea9d59b6", "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": 2935095, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2947268": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Here is the number for those wh AND o want to call MSNBC complain about the coverage:<br><br>212-664-4444", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_17:47:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "514ece7311946709a77d340a35a81d09", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2947026, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2934981": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "D,<br><br>don't concede  defeat, and please for the love  of God.  remember that all men are fallable, and McCain is just a man.... period.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_08:51:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "rorysmomma", "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": 2934625, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2937124": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "agreed Town.  <br><br>I didn't assume racial epithet either.  I thought more annoyance.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_11:03:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2936025, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2932425": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  I believe that his \"final statement\" stated that he would be a \"guest\" as time permits.  O.K.  He made a revision.<br><br>Here's his REVISION:<br><br><a href=\"http://essence.typepad.com/news/2008/10/ok-im-back.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://essence.typepad.com/news/2008/10/ok-im-b...</a><br><b>O.K.  I'm Back</b><br><br><i><br><br>Wow, that was short-lived.<br><br>I've decided to pushback the launch of some other web endeavors to keep the conversation going through the election.<br><br>I didn't want to leave folks stuck out, so we'll keep it jumping right here on <a href=\"http://Essence.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Essence.com</a> through the end of the year.<br><br>And you know I've got lots to say! Sent from my BlackBerry\u00ae smartphone with SprintSpeed</i><br><br>Well, That be That!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_01:56:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2931982, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2942154": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Some good pictures from last nights debate. Skip the first 5 and check out the ones at the bottom. Look at how the audience is gathering around Barack . Where is McCain???<br><br><b>Some pictures from the debate</b><br><a href=\"http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4190501\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/du...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_12:36:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "Suprk", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2932427": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "big up on that. despite the big game behind all of them, you can actually see that deep and personal bitterness.  \"That's MY white house!\" they cry with no substance to back it.  thanks ch", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_01:57:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "hustleandfloe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2931005, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2947277": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "What Craig said. <br><br>One time I voted straight democratic ticket and helped to vote some nazi-esque judge into office. I was mortified when I discovered this and vowed never to do it again. Now, if I don't know about the candidate or don't like any of them, I don't vote. I am so ELATED to have someone I want to vote for, but if I didn't, I'm not one to darken the door step of the voting location.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_17:48:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "4d9312cd58c7caeb087835daea9d59b6", "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": 2942555, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2944717": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Palin is a MILF on a cracker for some of these conservatives. They could care less about her policies. She was doing the come-hither dance with her winking and breathiness. Yuck!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_15:08:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "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": 2933468, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2945746": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Just don't let her drive.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_16:06:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2941954, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2937045": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://craighickman.blogspot.com/2008/10/obama-wins-second-debate.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">My Take  on the Mauling that Happened Last Night</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_10:57:41", "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": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2931927": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thanks Rikyrah as always.<br><br>I just tweet the hell out of all of these links...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_01:39:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2931822, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2936356": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I can't say all Republicans are like that. The majority of the ones I know personally aren't. The ones I met last night (and honestly, I expected some tension) didn't appear to be that way.<br><br>It's just that the ones who are, completely ruin things for everyone else.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_10:10:31", "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": 2935939, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2933978": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This is great - thanks for posting the link! \"Obama is a prince among debaters.\"", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_06:43:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "claudia_m", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2932683, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2931919": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Barath:  Hey!  :&gt;)    I'm planning to <b>MULTI-TASK!</b><br><br>I'm going to spend much time on <b>THAT ONE Mr. President Obama and Mr. Biden</b><br><br>I'm going to spend much time on everything negative/stupid /racist by the GOP/McAncient/The Gov.<br><br>I'm planning to spend much time on <b>CAMPAIGNING FOR THAT ONE - MR. PRESIDENT OBAMA!!</b><br><br>Obama-Biden '08!!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_01:38:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2931192, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2946268": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I saw that fool and switched the channel.  Andrea Mitchell gets on my nerves because she didn't call her on any of the crap.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_16:38:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2943524, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2932445": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  Got that right!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_02:00:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2931834, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2941989": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Cut Joe some slack, Sepia - according to reports, he was close to his mother-in-law and he's in mourning, so he probably said what came to mind at that point.<br><br>I'd rather lukewarm than foot in mouth, LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_12:28:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "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": 2935224, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2935008": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Sarah Palin hanging around a SECESSIONIST GROUP?? Say it not so. You couldn't mean this.<br><br><b>Sarah Palin Hates America </b><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrSYnq5eynA\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrSYnq5eynA</a><br><br>or  this<br><br><b>Sarah Palin: Palling Around With Secessionists</b><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eniG9l_7its\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eniG9l_7its</a><br><br>I wish someone would call her out on this. MSM where are you??", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_08:54:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "Suprk", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2931834, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2943713": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "What you say?? LOL., love that song<br><br>Obama / Biden '08", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_14:03:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "Suprk", "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": 2943672, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2935522": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I beleive that influenced his decision to commit. I think she is an heiress and can finance some campaigns for him.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_09:37:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "4d9312cd58c7caeb087835daea9d59b6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2935161, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2937061": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I just ripped the glued one off.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_10:59:19", "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": 2935687, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2945820": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "On Wednesday morning, John McCain's campaign released a list of 100 former ambassadors endorsing the GOP presidential nominee.<br><br>Second on the list, though her name is misspelled, is Leonore Annenberg, currently the president and chairman of the Annenberg Foundation and widow of ambassador and philanthropist Walter Annenberg. Ms. Annenberg was herself the \"chief of protocol\" at the State Department under President Reagan. <br><br>If the last name sounds familiar, it's because it also graces the name of the Chicago education board where Barack Obama and William Ayers sat in the room six times together.<br><br>In recent days, the McCain-Palin ticket (and particularly Palin) has faulted Obama for having served on that board with Ayers, who was a founding member of the radical 60's Weather Underground group when Obama was in grade school. <br><br>Since then, however, Ayers has been rehabilitated in Chicago society, carving out a niche in education circles. As a former Republican representative in Illinois told NPR on Monday, smearing Obama for his board association with Ayers is \"nonsensical.\"<br><br>\"It was never a concern by any of us in the Chicago school reform movement that he had led a fugitive life years earlier ... It's ridiculous,\" Republican Rep. Diana Nelson said. \"There is no reason at all to smear Barack Obama with this association. It's nonsensical, and it just makes me crazy. It's so silly.\"<br><br>Separate calls to the Pennsylvania and California offices of the Annenberg Foundation were not immediately returned Wednesday morning.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/08/mccains-trumpets-endorsem_n_132954.html#postComment\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/08/mccain...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_16:10:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2944233": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<b>Another McCain-Palin Introducer Declares \"Barack Hussein Obama\"</b><br><br><i>For the second time in three days, the speaker at a McCain campaign rally used Barack Obama's middle name \"Hussein\" in a demeaning fashion to ignite the crowd.<br><br>Speaking in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Bill Platt, the GOP chair of Lehigh County, twice referred to \"Barack Hussein Obama\" minutes before John McCain and Sarah Palin were set to take the stage.<br><br>On Monday, a local Florida sheriff preceded Palin's speech by declaring: \"On Nov. 4, let's leave Barack Hussein Obama wondering what happened.\"</i>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_14:37:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2943949, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2943783": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "MsKitty, <br><br>Thanks for that link, I am ordering myself one right now", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_14:07:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "Suprk", "has_been_anonymized": false, "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": 2943690, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2931436": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"That One\" had me thinking of Stevie's \"That Girl\"<br><br><i>That One thinks that he's so bad, he'll change my tears to joy from sad...\" <br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPsvwA6vvVo\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPsvwA6vvVo</a></i>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_00:40:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2941165": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Teacher, it's her stepfather with the ducats.  Not her directly, unless her mother's got access to the checkbook.  She didn't come from money; her mother married into money.<br><br>Something the Dark Sith was too stupid to figure out.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_11:54:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "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": 2935522, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2940968": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yes, Rikyrah, he did.<br><br>Par for the course.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_11:52:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "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": 2935576, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2941907": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Well, it could be perceived that \"that one\" is the singular of \"those people.\"<br><br>McCain is a bigot. There's no reason to believe that he wasn't exhibiting both bigotry and annoyance.<br><br>I'm beginning to believe that John McCain is physically ill, not just old.<br><br>This election is his last hoorah.<br><br>The wheezing, the growing lymph nodes on the side of his face, the closing of his left eye. He'll stay \"healthy\" long enough to be elected president, and then he will lay down and die.<br><br>If he's not elected president, he will lay down and die.<br><br>That's what I see.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_12:23:17", "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": 2937124, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2949877": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Michelle just came on Larry King central time!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_21:04:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "4d9312cd58c7caeb087835daea9d59b6", "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}, "2947318": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/money.asp\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/money.asp</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_17:51:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "264c4db6323f58b41c5fb4896c53f2cf", "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": 2946862, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2941737": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Anyone around Sarah Palin should be careful not to stand too close to her because you don't want to get caught when God aims with His lightening bolt.<br><br>You want the Good Lord to hit what He's aiming at - which is the she-wolf, Palin.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_12:12:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "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": 2939841, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2933500": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  Some movement from those \"18M cracked-out women\":<br><br><a href=\"http://www.newser.com/story/39383/women-swing-back-to-barack.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.newser.com/story/39383/women-swing-b...</a><br><b>Women Swing Back To Barack</b><br><br><i> (Newser) \u2013 Sarah Palin\u2019s novel influence on the presidential campaign appears to have waned, and the \u201cgender gap\u201d among voters has reverted to that in past elections, the Chicago Tribune reports. <b>That means women favor Democrat Barack Obama over Republican John McCain. Women will support Obama by a margin of between four and 11 percentage points on Election Day, predicts a scholar at the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University.</b></i><br><br>The \"women\" come back to roost!!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)<br><br><br>Obama-Biden '08!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_05:06:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2942070": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Myth yesterday posted an email she received about John McCain on vacation behaving like a impetuous, sexist fool from someone who was apparently witnessed this. I sent an email to the professor who signed the email that has gone viral. Here is her response- as she is a real person.  Since she is receiving thousands of email, if you have received and then subsequently forwarded \"her\" email, please forward this response and ask people to STOP forwarding it.  Let's be good, responsible people here. Her response is below:<br><br><br>Mary-Kay Gamel<br> to me<br>\t<br>show details 10:35 PM (13 hours ago)<br>\t<br>\t<br>Reply<br>\t<br>\t<br>I have received thousands of emails and phone calls about the Turtle Island account. I spend many hours every day replying but still can't keep up.<br><br>I did NOT write that account, forward it under my name, or ask for it to be widely distributed.<br><br>I have never been to Turtle Island (which costs $2000/day), have never met Senator McCain, was a classics major (not an English Literature major), and don't like pancakes.<br><br>When I received it three weeks ago the author was identified as Ana (Anasuya) Dubey, a psychologist in San Francisco. But she was not the sender of the email. I forwarded the account,<br>with full email trail information and the name of the purported author, to three friends with whom I discuss politics. It was further forwarded, and at some point I was identified as the author or as making the story public on behalf of Ms. Dubey. I suspect whoever did this thought that my name and contact information would make the story more credible.<br><br>I regret any misinformation which is circulating. This is NOT an organized effort on the part of any political candidate.<br><br>The account is not necessarily false. I have spoken to several people who know Ms. Dubey and vouch for its truth. Snopes is investigating and lists its current status as \"undetermined.\" I have just today heard that Ms. Dubey is working with a reporter to substantiate her account. Until the actual author comes forward, however, we will not know whether the account is valid.<br><br>I hope you will pass this information on to anyone interested in this story.<br>        MKG<br><br>p.s. check out \"Make-Believe Maverick\" in the current ROLLING STONE (available online)<br><br>-- <br><br>Mary-Kay Gamel", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_12:31:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "evita", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2935424": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "GreenLady, much strength to you with your meeting. We have been losing thousands of dollars daily over the past month. But we're young and had most of our money in the market; hopefully you've been more conservative than we.<br><br>Whatever you find out, don't panic! And be careful if your planner starts pressuring you to make sudden decisions.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_09:28:35", "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": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2933676, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2933888": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  Making an attempt to \"VET\" the 1st Dude:<br><br><a href=\"http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/todd_palin_to_testify_in_troop.php\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/...</a><br><b>Todd Palin To Testify In Troopergate  - Kind -of</b><br><br><i>So it looks like Todd Palin will answer questions in the Alaska legislature's Trooper-Gate investigation after all. But there's a catch.<br><br><b>According to representatives of the McCain-Palin campaign speaking at an Anchorage press conference last night, the First Dude will respond to questions from independent investigator Steve Branchflower, but only in writing, and with the answers funneled through his lawyer.</b><br><br>The campaign argued that his written responses would satisfy the subpoena issued by the legislature to Todd Palin. In response, Sen. Hollis French, the Democratic lawmaker overseeing the probe, told the Anchorage Daily News that the full Senate would decide whether Todd Palin is really off the hook. Resisting a subpoena can be punished with jail time.</i><br><br><b>I hope that the Repugs KNOW that their CAMPAIGN DONATIONS are being USED to DEFEND the 1st Dude!!</b><br><br>They probably should used some of that SAME money to buy them a HOUSE in, saaaaaay Arizona.  'cause they don't appear to be welcomed back in Alaska!  :&gt;)<br><br>I'll betch that Miss \"Whateva\" Cindy would just LOVE having The Gov. as a neighbor!! :&gt;)     :&gt;)   NOT!!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_06:27:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2936581": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "D., how do the ones who aren't like McPalin feel about what's going on? Is there some type of movement to remove the McPalins of the GOP out of the party?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_10:26:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2936356, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2943238": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "There have been more than a few times that I used the write-in ballot for someone I thought was a more worthy candidate than the listed names, or put in \"none of the above.\"  By doing that I'm going on record that none of those candidates are up to my standards and they have to come up with better ones next time.  So I don't see it as trivializing the process at all, but constructive disagreements are the beauty of JJP.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_13:35:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2942555, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2941705": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Cause it's getting him NOWHERE, MsKitty.  And everytime he tries to invoke connections to Obama, the polls continue to drop.<br><br>He's trying to stop terminal bleeding because he knows he brought a knife to that gunfight, and Obama packed a .44 Magnum.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_12:10:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "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": 2941550, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2936586": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"I almost feel bad for him because Bush got hung around his neck like a stone and now Bush is pulling him under... I don't know what he will do now. He might just throw the entire house at Obama or he might just quietly trudge along to his destined defeat. I guess we'll find out what McCain's course of action will be today.\"<br><br>I used to hold out hope that Bush might redeem himself, not as a President or politician, but as a person. Maybe show some self awareness or remorse.<br><br>Maybe McCain will show more honor and dignity than Bush. I respect him not one iota as a politician, but I still hope he will emerge with some remainder of his soul intact.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_10:26:47", "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": 16, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2936025, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2931982": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Roland Martin IS still blogging over at Essence.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_01:42:45", "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": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2943761": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Suprk:  Thank you for going along on my musical journey!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_14:06:39", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2943713, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2931843": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yes they are! <br><br>I really needed something to \"come down\" tonight anyway because it is really sinking in.  We have our first Black president in American history...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_01:28:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2931807, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2946837": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "hearts:   TRUE DAT!   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_17:15:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2944717, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2932441": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  Almost a \"smackdown!\"  People gettin' close!!   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_01:59:28", "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": 2931822, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2935576": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "CPL,<br><br>did he REALLY clown like that?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_09:41:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2935161, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2941721": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<i>It's probably silly of anyone to ask you to support an Obama-Biden candidacy you disagree with, but you don't have to give a vote to McCain-Palin either. Baldwin-Castle (Constitution), Barr-Root (Libertarian), McKinney-Clemente (Green)--hey, I had to at least try on that last one.</i><br><br>Not to mention the downticket races.  Those candidates always get lost in the shuffle when folks decide to pass on the presidential elections.  Worse case scenario, there's always the write-in option.  But in any case, get out there and vote because &lt;shameless guilt tripping&gt;it wasn't that long ago that there were people who sacrificed so much so we can have that right, so we should never allow ourselves to take it for granted&lt;/shameless guilt tripping&gt;.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_12:11:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2941509, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2945306": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Conversation at my place last night after the debate:<br><br>Me: \"I know we shouldn't be cocky and it's not won yet. But that said, I really an't wait to hear McCain's concession speech.\"<br><br>My gf: \"You won't enjoy it, you don't like listening to him.\"<br><br>Me: \"Ooooooh, yes, I WILL enjoy it! Yes yes yes I will! I'm thinking I can try to record it as a mp3 file and listen to it more than once!\"<br><br>Now I'm thinking I could cut it down to those two words: \"Mr. President\" and have a smaller mp3 file :)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_15:44:48", "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": 2937646, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2933531": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  MORE LIES from \"Ms Thang\":<br><br><a href=\"http://www.newser.com/story/39378/details-of-palins-union-membership-prove-elusive.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.newser.com/story/39378/details-of-pa...</a><br><b>Details of Palin's Union Membership Prove Elusive</b><br><br><i>Newser) \u2013 John McCain described Sarah Palin as a former union member when introducing his running mate in August, but was she? The Las Vegas Sun has been trying to find conclusive proof, but so far Palin\u2019s union experience remains unclear. McCain officials were initially unresponsive, while her Alaskan office said: \u201cI don\u2019t believe the governor has ever been a member of a union.\u201d<br><br>Eventually, the national campaign told the Sun Palin had been a member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers\u2014though provided no details. Neither did the union, although dates it gave for her membership correspond with her time as a TV sports reporter, a group occasionally represented by the union. Factually correct, but evidence that she, as McCain said in August, \u201cunderstands the problems, the hopes and the values of working people\u201d?<br><br>Source Las Vegas Sun</i><br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j8-_vIplso&feature=related\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j8-_vIplso&feat...</a><br><b>Tell Me LIES - Fleetwood Mac</b><br><br>That's all 2 it!!  :&gt;)<br><br><br>Obama-Biden '08!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_05:15:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2937116": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "why not concede defeat?  mccain's goin' DOWWWWNNNNNN!!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_11:02:49", "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": 2934981, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2943450": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I figure people suffer more languishing in regret at the things they done. One day maybe Bush and McCain and all their ilk may look in the mirror and see who they really are.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_13:46:42", "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": 2942556, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2935582": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thanks D", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_09:41:31", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2934625, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2945823": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/washington/AP-McCain-Obama.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Another McCain Supporter Refers to Obama's Middle Name</a>.<br><br><i>Shouts of ''socialist,'' ''terrorist'' and ''liar'' from supporters followed McCain's references to Obama at Lehigh University.</i><br><br>Keep praying for the Obamas and Bidens.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_16:10:50", "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": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2946862": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Here it goes folks:<br><br>The criminals are smearing Barack in emails as a member of a terrorist sleeper cell. That's why they're questioning his fundraising and how he was able to afford traveling the world in college to visit his mother in Pakistan and his father's side of the family in Kenya. They're even pointed out that Valerie Jarrett was born in Iran and that there's no way that Barck could have afforded all the trips. <br><br>I won't post the email here. I've already reported it to the campaign.<br><br>But that's what the public pronouncements \"linking\" him to terrorists is all about.<br><br>Chris Matthews is talking about this stuff as though it's fact.  He even used the term sleeper cell today. <br><br>I wish I could say I'm appalled, but I'm ont.<br><br>He's been a few days ahead of all the Republican smears. I wonder how he knows so much so many days before all the smears are unleashed?<br><br>27 days isn't a long time for this smear to take hold. But if you have the time, please go to <a href=\"http://barackobama.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">barackobama.com</a> and sign up for phonebanking because we're going to need ever caller talking to voters directly to answer whatever fears they may have with this last desperate push to demonize Barack.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_17:16:49", "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": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2944292": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I saw that on CNN. After the intro they waited like 45 minutes for anyone to come out....Did they the McRacist Campaign issue a statement?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_14:40:06", "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": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2944233, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2942759": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "CPL:  I saw him!  Arrrrggg!  Just couldn't GIVE IT UP for O-MAN!!<br><br>CENTRIST is NOT spelled   S-T-U-P-I-D!!<br><br>Oh!  Wait. . . . .   In HIS CASE,    YES IT IS!!!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>Obama-Biden '08!!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_13:07:17", "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": 2935161, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2933468": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "rikyrah:  The Gov. gives\"more of the same\" to the press:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.newser.com/story/39343/palins-right-the-press-does-stink.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.newser.com/story/39343/palins-right-...</a><br><b>Palin's Right, The Press Does Stink Opinion</b><br><br><i>Newser)  \u2013 Sarah Palin doesn\u2019t like the mainstream media, and after watching its reaction to her debate performance, neither does Richard Cohen of the Washington Post. <b>Palin ignored questions, lied, and invented new powers for the vice president, but somehow the media wound up praising her anyway.</b> \u201cI could quote the hosannas of some of my colleagues,\u201d writes Cohen, \u201cbut I spare them the infamy that will surely follow them to their graves.\u201d</i><br><br>And they still praise her!  Guess somebody is fallin' for thoses \"WINKS!\"<br><br>Obama-Biden '08!!!<br><br><br>Annnnnnd,  after starting ALL this trouble during this election process,  <b>SHE WILL BE GOING BACK TO ALASKA.   And when she returns, they got a little \"somethin', somethin'\" for her arse!!</b>  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_05:00:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2942250": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You make a good point. <br><br>All I know for certain is that I owe the mrs. for the last year and a half I've spent running around promoting this fool.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_12:40:22", "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": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2941509, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2932615": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  this was on the Blogroll of MUDFLATS:<br><br><a href=\"http://womenagainstsarahpalin.blogspot.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://womenagainstsarahpalin.blogspot.com/</a><br><b>Women Against Sara Palin Blogspot</b><br><br><i>Sign the petition -- Sarah Palin: Please Resign.<br><br>Prominent conservative columnist and former Palin supporter Kathleen Parker called for Sarah Palin to resign from the Republican ticket. Even a conservative columnist and former Palin supporter is saying it: Palin is far from Vice-Presidential material. Can you sign our petition asking her to resign? Full petition statement:<br><br>Governor Palin, for the good of the country, please step down as John McCain's running mate.</i><br><br>They are running a petition asking The Gov. to resign as VP running mate!  OOOOO-EEEEEE!!  It's gettin' COLD up there!!   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_02:28:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2937646": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\" I think Bush will be hiding out in his new Dallas home for a good long while. He knows that he's a worldwide joke and nobody outside of his family likes him.\" <br><br> In the bottle.<br><br>\"I think it will severely hurt McCain's soul when he has to call \"that one\" \"Mr. President\" next January.\"   <br><br>I think he is going to try to avoid it as much as possible. I think he will also be one of the ones who will continue to try to damage or undermine everything O tries to do. On Nov. 5, the republicans will start planning their campaign for 2012 if they haven't already started. They really don't give a rat's tail about our country. They care way more about their egos, their power and their money.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_11:08:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "4d9312cd58c7caeb087835daea9d59b6", "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": 2937001, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2943197": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "rikyrah:  A little LEVITY!  I received this e-mail just now!  It caught me off-guard, at first!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>ENJOY!!  :&gt;)<br><br>Dear friends,<br>    With all the turmoil in the market today and the collapse of Lehman Bros and Acquisition of Merrill Lynch by Bank of America this might be some good advice.<br>For all of you with any money left, be aware of the next expected mergers so that you can get in on the ground floor and make some BIG bucks. Take note:<br><br>1.) Hale Business Systems, Mary Kay Cosmetics, Fuller Brush, and W R. Grace Co.<br>Will merge and become:<br>Hale, Mary, Fuller, Grace.<br><br>2.) Polygram Records, Warner Bros., and Zesta Crackers join forces and become:<br>Poly, Warner Cracker.<br><br>3.) 3M will merge with Goodyear and become:<br>MMMGood.<br><br>4. Zippo Manufacturing, Audi Motors, Dofasco, and Dakota Mining will merge and<br>become:<br>ZipAudiDoDa .<br><br>5. FedEx is expected to join its competitor, UPS, and become:<br>FedUP.<br><br>6. Fairchild Electronics and Honeywell Computers will become:<br>Fairwell Honeychild.<br><br>7. Grey Poupon and Docker Pants are expected to become:<br>PouponPants.<br><br>8. Knotts Berry Farm and the National Organization of Women will become:<br>Knott NOW!<br><br>And finally...<br><br>9. Victoria 's Secret and Smith &Wesson will merge under the new name:<br>TittyTittyBangBang", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_13:33:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2946866": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Petraeus Talk Seems to Bolster Obama<br><br>Throughout Sen. John McCain\u2019s presidential campaign, the Republican nominee has wrapped himself in the mantle of U.S. Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, proclaiming himself the leading advocate of the former commanding general in Iraq who devised last year\u2019s controversial troop surge. Yet during a talk Wednesday about Iraq at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative Washington policy organization, Petraeus repeatedly made statements that bolstered the foreign-policy proposals of Sen. Barack Obama, McCain\u2019s Democratic rival, or cut against McCain\u2019s own lines.<br><br>Petraeus relinquished command in Iraq last month. He assumes responsibility for U.S. Central Command later this month, putting him in charge of U.S. forces in the Middle East and South Asia.<br><br><br>Illustration by: Matt Mahurin<br>As a serving military officer, Petraeus attempted to avoid any explicit political discussion. \u201cI\u2019m not walking into minefields now,\u201d Petraeus said, to laughter, when asked a question that referred to Tuesday night\u2019s presidential debate. In fact, the general averred that he didn\u2019t watch the debate.<br><br>Yet Petraeus, whether intentionally or not, often waded into areas of dispute between Obama and McCain involving Afghanistan, negotiating with adversaries and other recent campaign controversies. Each time, the general either lent tacit support to Obama or denied tacit support to McCain.<br><br><a href=\"http://washingtonindependent.com/11381/petraeus\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://washingtonindependent.com/11381/petraeus</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_17:16:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2943287": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I love this, no slowing down, no letting up. Obama is keeping the pressure on and hopefully  bury McCain.<br><br><b>New Obama Ad: Mills</b> <br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1KJwHvOhcs\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1KJwHvOhcs</a><br><br>Obama / Biden '08", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_13:38:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "Suprk", "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}, "2932537": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "New respect for Gibbs.   He seemed so mild-mannered before...he didn't back down from Hannity for one second!   I love it!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_02:16:18", "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": 2931822, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2950458": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Michelle Obama is bringing it on Larry King.  She's got style, grace, and she is classy.  King asked her about Pale-in, Billary, and Cindy CandyMccain.  She gave them all nothing but RESPECT.  Nothing more, nothing less.  The more they come after Barack and her with their filth, the more the light will shine on their ugliness.<br><br>And, GOD don't like UGLY!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_21:45:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "01cd55b5b177f7c1827c08939b7d75f4", "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}, "2931005": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Peter Suderman:<br><br>    One thing that\u2019s clear from this debate is how little there is to John McCain and his campaign. He\u2019s running on a few, vague issues \u2013 tax cuts, an aggressive response to Russia in specific and terrorism in general, something about energy \u2013 and a whole lot of non-policy fluff: America\u2019s inherent strength and goodness, Obama\u2019s inexperience, scorn for Washington insiders. But mostly, he\u2019s running on a platform anchored by a single assumption: that John McCain is inherently, singularly qualified to lead the country, and, subsequently, deserving of the office of president. McCain views the White House as something to which he is unequivocally entitled. Beyond that, nothing else matters. Indeed, if you hold this view, nothing else would.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_00:04:05", "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": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2944565": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "lol", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_14:58:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "8b4edfeff97a04858d7247b03c0d0fd8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2943346, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2942272": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I love that last picture, everybody just looks so happy.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_12:41:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2942154, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2942688": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Suprk:   GOOD FIND!!!   :&gt;)  Thanks!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_13:03:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2935209, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2944835": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "McCain slips and call an audience of supporters \"my fellow prisoners.\" LOL<br><br><a href=\"http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1008/My_fellow_who.html?showall\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1008/My_...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_15:15:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "claudia_m", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2944324": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I haven't seen any statement - and I'm not holding my breath.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_14:43:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2944292, "depth": 3, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2941765": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You mean Hitchens was sober long enough to string together coherent sentences?<br><br>\"The Dead Has Arisen.\" - Old Mister from \"The Color Purple\".", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_12:14:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "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": 2936408, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2937670": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "It's not coming. Hate to say that, but you're not gonna see that McCain.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_11:10:16", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2936761, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2932551": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  MUDFLATS and their \"commentators\"  CALL IT:<br><br><a href=\"http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/10/07/open-thread-debate-discussion/#comment-50674\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/10/07/open-t...</a><br>Open Thread Debate Dicussion<br><br><i>So, what did you think?<br><br>Nailing Jell-O to the wall?<br><br>\u201cTHAT one\u201d?<br><br>\u201cWe need a cool hand on the tiller?\u201d<br><br>Not shaking Obama\u2019s hand?<br><br>Fleeing the interview the moment the debate was over?<br><br>What was John McCain\u2019s worst moment?<br><br>Where did Obama score?<br><br>Who won?<br><br>Discuss.</i><br><br><br>MOST commentators:   <b>OBAMA WON HANDS DOWN!!!</b><br><br>Whoo!  Hooo!   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_02:19:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2945738": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "McTwitchy calls us \"my fellow prisoners.\"<br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/08/mccain-calls-americans-hi_n_133037.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/08/mccain...</a><br><br>We have said for a long time on JJP that this guy thinks he is still fighting the war he lost. Here is ANOTHER example.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_16:05:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "evita", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2935095": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "D, you could always cast your vote for Obama, man.<br><br>There's a difference between being helpless and being powerless.  You're not powerless, and you're not helpless, either.  Get in where you fit in, dude.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_09:01:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "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": 2934625, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2943821": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You should duck. LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_14:10:16", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2943517, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2944128": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Well may Lady Laura (btw that's the name of salsa song,) be blessed wit some caaaaandy. She worked for it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_14:30:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "evita", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2943445, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2931535": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "International Market news:<br><br>Asian markets are down - no surprise. @ 12:50 am est<br>Aussie = -4.6%<br>Shanghai = -3%<br>Nikkei = -6.1%<br>India = -4.9%<br>Singapore/Seoul/Thailand = -4.5% ish<br>Indonesia = -10%<br><br>Again, when does the bailout/rescue kick in?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_00:52:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "nickwah22", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2947922": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Supkr:  Hey!  I received this in an e-mail last week.  My friend from PA. sent it to me.  So at least I know that it has spread far and wide!   :&gt;)     :&gt;)  Its a crack-up!! <br><br>And, sooo true!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_18:25:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2945061, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2940010": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "His introduction alone:<br><br><i>There was a vague and flickering moment of lucidity in the course of the humiliating and even alarming performance of Senator John McCain in the presidential \u201cdebate\u201d in Tennessee, in which as usual no \u201cdebate\u201d between the two nominees was permitted and during which the moderator made every effort to make the average American questioner appear to be both servile and retarded.</i><br><br>is all I needed to read.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_11:46:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2936408, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2937896": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<i>Even Laura looks disgusted with him half of the time.</i><br><br>It has been rumored that for a time Laura moved out of the White House and lived at the Mayflower Hotel. I wouldn't be surprised to hear a divorce announcement within the next few years.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_11:24:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2937001, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2933593": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  An ENDORSEMENT!!!!  :&gt;)<br><br><a href=\"http://www.newser.com/story/39282/new-yorker-endorses-obamas-uplift-and-realism.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.newser.com/story/39282/new-yorker-en...</a><br><b>New Yorker Endorses Obama's 'Uplift and Realism' -Opinion News</b><br><br><i><br><br>(Newser) \u2013 At a critical moment in its history, the United States \"needs both uplift and realism, both change and steadiness\"\u2014and Barack Obama is the man to deliver it, writes the New Yorker in a 4,000-word endorsement. After George W. Bush, whose presidency has been \"the worst since Reconstruction,\" America requires a leader who understands the severity of the economic crisis and the complexities of foreign affairs, but also restores the country's \"battered morale.\"<br><br>One of Obama's greatest virtues is his \"pragmatic calm,\" an equanimity in the face of tough attacks that reminds one of Eisenhower. Unlike John McCain, who has demonstrated himself to be \"impulsive, impatient, self-dramatizing, erratic, and a compulsive risk-taker,\" <b>Obama offers America a leader of character, \"a leader temperamentally, intellectually, and emotionally attuned to the complexities of our troubled globe.\"</b><br><br>Source New Yorker</i><br><br><b>YES WE CAN!!!</b><br><br>Obama-Biden '08!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_05:29:39", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2934619": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I know; if you have read my other accounts o this blog I am afraid of McCain's next steps due to his utter failing last night.<br><br>I try to keep Barack, his family, and our country in my prayers daily.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_08:09:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "JJai", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2931579, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2957114": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  <i>Mudflats</i> is ALL OVER the \"First Dude's\"  WRITTEN RESPONSE in Troopergate!!<br><br><a href=\"http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/todd-palin-subpoena-dump-the-latest-from-the-truth-squad/#comment-51795\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/todd-p...</a><br><b>Tood Palin Subpoena Sump & the Latest From the \"Truth Squad!\"</b><br><br><i><br><br>Well, here\u2019s the official subpoena response from Todd Palin through his lawyer, Thomas Van Flein.<br><br>Click HERE.<br><br>And here is the latest video from\u2026..The \u201cTruth Squad\u201d<br><br>Click HERE.<br><br>I suggest aspirin for the first, and Pepto Bismol for the second.<br><br>Cheers.</i><br><br>The videos are long.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-09_00:52:38", "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}, "2943327": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You need to buy her a card and a foam brick to throw at you. :)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_13:40:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "evita", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2942250, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2935136": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "It is not your defeat. It is his. His racism is clearly showing. The that one comment smacked of objectification. as though Obama was a thing, not a human being.<br><br>Hey I also didn't like how he assumed Oliver never heard of Fannie Mae. He should have never assumed that, but then again we all know why: Oliver is young and black.<br><br>I respect your clarity and remind you that as voters we ALL deserve better of our leadership.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_09:04:50", "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": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2934625, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2934625": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/my-long-national-nightmare-is-over/\" rel=\"nofollow\">My Long National Nightmare is Over</a><br><br>It's done in this post, but I want to publically apologize to Jack-and the rest of JJP-for some of my comments yesterday. You all have my respect, and I wish you the best on 11/4.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_08:10:06", "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": 37, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2936674": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "No. At least not yet. It's gonna take a while for that arm of the GOP to realize that Obama didn't \"win\" the election; that <b>they</b> lost it.<br><br>At this point, my hope for 2016 is somewhat dashed, because I don't even think the cleansing will be done by then.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_10:34:32", "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": 2936581, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2931049": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>McCain views the White House as something to which he is unequivocally entitled. Beyond that, nothing else matters.</i><br><br>hmmm -- where have I seen this before?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_00:07:00", "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": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2944365": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<b>The Official Sarah Palin Halloween Costume</b><br><br><a href=\"http://fashionindie.com/the-official-sarah-palin-halloween-costume/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://fashionindie.com/the-official-sarah-pali...</a><br><br>They forgot the rifle! And the tiara LOL...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_14:45:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2941297": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Craig,<br><br>What kind of sh%t is that? That is pitiful!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_11:55:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "8b4edfeff97a04858d7247b03c0d0fd8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2937947, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2931058": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "oops, I meant the above comment as a reply to this one .....", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_00:07:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "4ec3c0272b87ba5c8ce3a9168cf4e78a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2931005, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2943860": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Hey Craig,<br><br>Where did she say that? Where did you hear/read this stuff?<br><br>This is completely disgusting.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_14:12:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "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": 2943524, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2936695": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Not wasted; this is a democracy and we all need to be an honest part of the process. You were helping vet Obama just as many are vetting (or trying) Palin now. He may not have won you over, but at least you (probably) feel like you know Obama know, even if you don't like him.<br><br>Maybe I felt like you did in November 2004. I thought Kerry was weak from the beginning (and he's my Senator!) and when he went down in defeat there was a sense of inevitability about it. And massive disappointment, too, in all the time we spent. The real problem for you guys is that between Dean and Kerry there was an honest effort to build a grassroots. I'm not seeing the same thing with McCain -- it will be a bit of a slog for the GOP in the coming decade.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_10:36:17", "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": 2936489, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2935161": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Look for Pennsylvania and Virginia to be the next states where McCain Concedes.  Texas and Tennessee could also be in play.<br><br>And it looks like the Dark Sith is being rejected by the Obama camp, cause he brought out a jug of hateration last night and proceeded to drink it on the air.  And in the wake of all these lay offs at places like Merrill Lynch, Snowflake might become his only source of income these days.  Bet Snowflake didn't sign on for THAT when she married him.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_09:06:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 14, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2931579": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "JJai, thanks for pointing to this diary -- the section you quote is very cute, but the whole thing bears reading... the rest is not so cute, it's quite stark and realistic, and the contrast with this section is so sharp that it conveys beautifully what Obama is all about.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_00:58:20", "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": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2931285, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2945918": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Does anyone have any Hoe, Sit Down! spray?", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_16:16:50", "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": 2945562, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2941845": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yeah, I think it kinda went down like this:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-0BVT4cqGY\" rel=\"nofollow\">\"Do ya feel lucky, punk?</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_12:19:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2941705, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2943361": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I want the guys who come out with the brooms at the end of the Yankee's games to come out and do the \"sweep.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_13:42:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "evita", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2942005, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2931586": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I loved this diary. I thought the part about the picture in the hutch was funny. Grandma could be any of our Elders.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_00:59:06", "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": 2931285, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2941827": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Does she have a beer distributorship?<br>Just asking.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_12:17:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2935522, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2935687": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "D. look at it this way, timing was on your side here.  I mean if McCain had showed out like this <i>after</i> you voted for him there would be no way that you couldn't take it personally.  The great thing about the O-man is that he wants to lead all of us, not just Democrats, not just black people.  So he will have your best interests at heart too.<br><br>BTW, I found these tips on <a href=\"http://www.ehow.com/how_13376_remove-bumper-stickers.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">bumper sticker removal</a>.  All you need is some WD-40, Turtle Wax, a blow dryer, and a spatula and you're good to go.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_09:49:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2934625, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2943370": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Lawd, I loves me some Clint Eastwood, especially as Dirty Harry.  LOL", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_13:42:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "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": 2941845, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2936203": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "d, <br>    peel as much as you can. then patiently remove rest by saturating with mineral spirits or paint thinner intermittently rubbing with cloth.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_10:00:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "7f586ef2f1112113164e8b337630191e", "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}, "2931599": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i> McCain views the White House as something to which he is unequivocally entitled. Beyond that, nothing else matters. Indeed, if you hold this view, nothing else would.<br></i><br><br>what did I tell you about folks who think they're ENTITLED?<br><br>uh huh", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_01:00:33", "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": 2931005, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2944401": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "D:  I posted at your site.<br><br>Stay in the \"game\"!  Don't let \"nobody or nothin' turn YOU 'round.\"  [I'll forego the SONG  :&gt;)]<br><br>Blessings to the WIFE/you/future \"little d\"!    :&gt;)<br><br>Hopin' to continue to hear from YOU!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_14:47:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2934625, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2945847": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://craighickman.blogspot.com/2008/10/my-fellow-prisoners.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">\"My Fellow Prisoners\"</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_16:12:09", "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": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2942356": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I would be too, standing next to our next President. Who would not want to have a picture and say I remember when I stood next to President Barack Obama. <br><br>Obama/Biden 08", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_12:46:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "Suprk", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2942272, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2935189": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I can't believe Sherri had the testicular fortitude to bring of McCain's affair with Cindy! LMBAO! <br><br>There are so many things Whoopi, Joy and Sherri could counter Elisabeth with when she goes into her GOP histerics, but for whatever reason they don't.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_09:08:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2931793, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2945073": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LOL!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_15:30:33", "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": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2943197, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2931609": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Melissa Harris Lacewell on the debate:<br><br><i>My friends, it is not OK to say that you plan to freeze all government spending while claiming that you are going to buy out billions in mortgages.<br><br>My friends, it is not Ok to pretend you have a secret plan for capturing Osama bin Laden but that you are simply too strategic to share that plan in public.<br><br>My friends, it is not Ok to assume the black man who just asked you about the bailout has never heard of Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac and then to explain to that black man that your goal is to be sure the older white man across the room can keep his home.<br><br>My friends, it is not OK to point to your African American opponent and call him \"that one\" and invoke the image of a \"gold plated Cadillac\"</i><br><br><a href=\"http://princetonprofs.blogspot.com/2008/10/few-quick-thoughts-on-debate-for-my.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://princetonprofs.blogspot.com/2008/10/few-...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_01:02:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2942362": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Whatever you decide to do D- stay home and not vote or vote for Barack, I hope you do make yourself heard to your party. There aren't THAT many Black Republicans and THIS is one of the reasons why. They need to hear how hard your road has been and why you have decided to sit the rest out and let what will be, be.<br><br>In the spirit of your ancestors, and mine- I hope you vote for Barack Obama. many people vote because of one issue: economy, choice, character etc. Support Barack Obama- and you don't have to tell us either! :)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_12:46:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "evita", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2936489, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2943387": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Rumorhazzit the Republicans are putting pressure on Powell not to publicly endorse Barack Obama.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_13:43:38", "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": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2943390": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "God helps those who helps themselves... Sarah is doing a great job killing herself without any intervention.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_13:43:45", "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": 2941737, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2937760": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "&lt; a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/zack-exley/the-new-organizers-part-1_b_132782.html\"&gt; a very long and meticulous description of Obama's ground game in Ohio</a><br><br>Jeremy Bird, general election director, was in charge of the field in South Carolina. Very excellent person and amazing organizer. The piece describes in detail the slow-cook approach of the Obama campaign and how the focus was on building leadership FIRST and then getting to persuasion and GOTV.<br><br>What that means for our democracy is that people all across our nation are becoming EMPOWERED. This is dangerous for the existing power structure. Heck, it's dangerous for Obama himself when he becomes President. But that's how we keep our leaders accountable, no matter how much we like them personally.<br><br>I wrote about what this will mean for South Carolina <a href=\"http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/anderkoo/2008/01/28/obama-sc08-after-the-flood-all-the-colors-came-out/\" rel=\"nofollow\">back in January</a>. We watched ordinary local people buck their traditional leaders who were paid off by the Clinton campaign, rise up, and take control of their own lives. It was a beautiful thing. I can't know that every person who's become a leader will remain one -- but just imagine if even 1/10 of them do. What will that mean to power all across the nation? What wonderful new people will emerge as new leaders? I'm not just talking about age; the woman we worked with is a grandmother and when we left was really starting to see herself as a political force, not just a constituent.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_11:15:53", "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": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2943394": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Nothing wrong with a little service... especially if your man is an idiot.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_13:43:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "evita", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2941954, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2957220": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  Some Poll Numbers from Alaska.  Mudflats is trying HARD, BUT they have a REAL UPHILL BATTLE!!  :&gt;)<br><br><a href=\"http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/new-poll-numbers-for-alaska/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/new-po...</a><br><b>New Poll Numbers For Alaska</b><br><br><i>We\u2019ve all been waiting for some current poll numbers from Alaska. Here are the latest numbers from Rasmussen.<br><br>McCain 55% Obama 40%<br><br>Before his selection of Vice Presidential running mate, McCain led in Alaska by a mere 5 points.<br><br>McCain favorability rating in Alaska:<br><br>    Favorable: 64%<br><br>    Unfavorable: 36%<br><br>Obama favorability rating in Alaska:<br><br>    Favorable: 48%<br><br>    Unfavorable: 51%<br><br>Palin favorability rating in Alaska:<br><br>    Favorable: 63%<br><br>    Unfavorable: 37%<br><br>Biden favorability rating in Alaska:<br><br>    Favorable: 51%<br><br>    Unfavorable: 46%<br><br>It is interesting to note that Palin\u2019s favorability rating has plummeted by 20 points since she became the Republican VP nominee. The people of Alaska have been learning a lot about our Governor since late August, and many don\u2019t like what they see. Others are simply rooting for the home team. Others know the issues and where she stands, and like what they see. And while she still retains popular support overall, she has been actively burning bridges with political colleagues on both sides of the aisle, and no amount of federal earmarks are going to build them back. There\u2019s an old adage that says \u201cbe nice to people on the way up, because you\u2019re sure to meet them on the way down.\u201d It could be a painful homecoming for the Governor.<br><br>Meanwhile in the rest of the nation\u2026.<br><br>Gallup National Daily Tracking poll:<br><br>Obama 52% McCain 41%<br><br>This is Obama\u2019s largest lead yet. While McCain isn\u2019t doing much to \u201cchange the game,\u201d<br>and his less than stellar performance in last night\u2019s debate plays a part in Obama\u2019s growing lead, we can\u2019t ignore the Palin effect. The initial \u201cbump\u201d was obvious, but while support from evangelicals and hard-core social conservatives remains galvanized, Palin\u2019s fringe views, low-ball tactics, and obvious empty-headedness on issues of foreign policy have turned her in to a millstone around McCain\u2019s neck in much of the nation.<br><br>Obama may not win Alaska, but the numbers are strongly trending back his way. And, for the first time in a long time, there are two very viable Democratic candidates for 2 of our 3 congressional seats, all currently held by Republicans. Progressives in the state are waking up, and Alaska is becoming purple one way or another.<br><br>Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)</i><br><br>LAWD,I hope I don't get arrested for violating some copyright laws!   I jes don't look good in an \"orange jumpsuit!\"    :&gt;)     :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-09_01:08:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2935209": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Someone has already made the T-Shirt<br><br><b>I'm Voting for THAT ONE - Obama 2008</b><br><a href=\"http://www.cafepress.com/xerotopia.315025991#\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.cafepress.com/xerotopia.315025991#</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_09:10:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "Suprk", "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}, "2941810": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Town, I don't think Perot was being racist with \"You People\" comment back in 1992, but we all know what happened, anyway.  He still managed to get 20% of the national vote, but it could have been double that if he doesn't utter those two words - because brothas and sistas outside of Arkansas weren't too sold on Clinton and were pissed off at Bush, Sr.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_12:16:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "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": 2936025, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2946475": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Because you know you can't get enough...<br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/07/post-debate-pda-slideshow_n_132848.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Obama PDA (post-debate edition)</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_16:51:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2933676": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "rikyrah:  Financial WOES!!<br><br><a href=\"http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/081006/as_world_markets.html?.v=7\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/081006/as_world_markets...</a><br><b>European, Asian Markets Plunge On Crisis Fears:  Financial News</b><br><br><i>Monday October 6, 7:02 am ET<br>By Emily Flynn Vencat, AP Business Writer<br>European and Asian markets plunge as bailouts in US, Europe fail to ease financial fears<br><br>LONDON (AP) -- Asian and European stock markets plunged Monday as government bank bailouts in the U.S. and Europe failed to alleviate fears that the global financial crisis would depress world economic growth.<br><br>Investors took scant comfort from Washington's passage of a US$700 billion plan to buy bad assets from banks and other institutions to shore up the financial industry on Friday because of the uncertainty still hanging over the details of the deal and the degree to which it will help.<br><br>Britain's benchmark stock index, the FTSE 100, lost 220.11 to 4,760.14 -- a 4.42 percent fall. The declines were led by the banking industry, with the mining and oil industries also suffering drops. HBOS PLC's share price dropped 15.7 percent, while the Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC fell 13.6 percent.<br><br>Germany's DAX index fell 4.22 percent to 5,552.27. France's CAC-40 index dropped 4.85 percent to 3,882.81. In Russia, the RTS stock index tumbled more than 7 percent in first 20 minutes of trading.<br><br>Over the weekend, many European governments moved to save troubled banks, and made more promises to protect depositors from the credit crisis.<br><br>Germany on Sunday agreed a 50 billion euros (US$68 billion) package to bail out Hypo Real Estate, the country's second-biggest commercial property lender, after a rescue plan by private lenders fell apart.<br><br>France's BNP Paribas SA committed to taking a 75-percent stake in troubled European bank Fortis N, and Sweden and Denmark followed Ireland and Britain in raising the amount of savers' deposits guaranteed by the government.<br><br>Britain's treasury chief Alistair Darling said he was \"ready to do whatever it takes\" to get the country through the credit crunch, and was looking at a \"range of proposals.\"<br><br>But analysts said that, like the U.S. plan, the lack of detail in many of Europe's moves failed to restore investors' confidence, resulting in the stock market tumbles. \"What the markets need are some more details about exactly when and how these plans are going to come in,\" said Richard Hunter, head of British equities at Hargreaves Lansdown Stockbrokers, \"And they need some proof that some of these measures are taking hold.\"<br><br>Across Asia, all markets were also in the red. Tokyo's Nikkei 225 index fell to its lowest level in 4 1/2 years, sinking 4.25 percent to 10,473.09.</i><br><br><b>THERE IS MORE.</b><br><br>Just received a letter from my financial planner today.  He said that \"we\" need ta make an appointment  - just to review my accounts&gt;<br><br>I said, y'all cain't fool me!  What have I lost??  :&gt;)  We'll make an appointment  -soon!<br><br>Obama-Biden '08!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_05:45:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2943918": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "MsKitty:  This is GREAT!!  Thank you!!  :&gt;)<br><br>FIRED UP!  READY TO GO!!!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_14:15:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2943690, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2931632": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Keep donating directly to the Obama campaign.... but did you know that you can buy ads in targeted swing states for as little as $100? <a href=\"http://wowofnow.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://wowofnow.com</a><br><br>They've cut this down to a single ad (they used to give a choice -- I think this makes more sense), which compares polar bears to the middle class. As a result I think the best channel to run it on is Animal Planet.<br><br>Anyway, I don't know enough about ad buys to know how it's possible that you can buy an ad for so little, or whether they're bundling lots of people together to run these, but check it out...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_01:04:23", "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": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2944434": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Oh wait! It gets better!  <br><br>You've got Trannie Palin, Gay Pride Palin, Stripper Palin<br><br><a href=\"http://gawker.com/5059995/re+thinking-your-sarah-palin-halloween-costume\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://gawker.com/5059995/re+thinking-your-sara...</a>", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_14:49:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2944365, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2943924": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Craig, all you would have is a backed up septic tank cause some turds can't be flushed.  LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_14:16:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "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": 2943524, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2947510": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Craig - I will make calls but - I am feeling zen.  <br><br>All this chaos is happening for a reason and the bandaid is being ripped off to expose the sores and the light is being shined on the racial tensions in the US.  Now on Nov 4, the American people will have to make a choice.  They can hold on to from the shameful things and prejudices of the past (which no-one can deny because it is so in your face at this point) or grab hold of the future even if it means holding on to a black man (half white) and make the decision to change the direction of this country together.  This election is HUGE!<br><br>The whole world is watching, they know what this is and they know what is happening.  Now they are waiting for our decision.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_18:00:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2946862, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2935224": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "For crissake, Joe Biden! Tell the truth and shame the devil! Call McCain's \"that one\" comment for what it is: Disrespectful!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_09:11:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2936761": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "no problems.  I am still holding out that the John McCain I was looking forward to seeing run against Barack will take the opportunity to retrieve what is left of his honor stand up.<br><br>So . . . if I was still waiting for that . . . I certainly understand why you feel the way you do.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_10:40:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2936489, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2931130": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The problem with the \"experience\" argument is that it's all about you -- you, you, you. whether you = McCain or = Hillary or whoever.<br><br>\"Change\" and \"Hope\" is about us. It asks us, what kind of change do WE want? What do WE hope for?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_00:14:00", "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": 2931005, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2941889": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Anderkoo, you're more hopeful than I am. If McCain loses, he will be looking for someone to blame, so I have no hope that he will show more honor and dignity than he has done to this point (which is non-existant).<br><br>The day he put Sarah Palin on his ticket, the Devil handed him a receipt for his soul - and there's no refund, either.<br><br>Bush is the anvil around his neck and now he's drowning.  He could have retained his \"maverick\" label by poking his finger into Bush's eyes on every damned thing since Bush smeared him about his Bangladeshi daughter back in 2000.  We also found out about Cindy being a Thieving Junkie-Ho at the same time, and yet, he was in full collusion with Bush on every damned thing that passed through Congress and caused this current cluster f*&&^ now.<br><br>Instead of being independent in their thinking, he drank the kool-aid and tried to reinvent himself as a Bush clone.<br><br>He has no soul and anything else that's left is worthless.  GAME OVER.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_12:22:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2936586, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2943427": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "There's a process known as DIVORCE, Anderkoo.<br><br>I only recommend it if the marriage is all over but the shouting, and in Cindy's case, McCain would be the worse for wear, cause she gots all the money.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_13:45:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "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": 2942231, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2941893": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"Socks are better than stocks.\" That seems to be the truth for 2008.<br><br>Truthfully, if you have cash on hand... the next few weeks/months could offer some bargain-basement buying opportunities. But that might keep you awake at night more than some lumpy socks under the mattress.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_12:22:33", "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": 2941046, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2943430": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<b>Gallup Daily: Obama\u2019s Lead Over McCain Expands to 11</b><br><i>52% share of the vote is Obama\u2019s highest to date</i><br><br><a href=\"http://www.gallup.com/poll/111040/Gallup-Daily-Obamas-Lead-Over-McCain-Expands.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.gallup.com/poll/111040/Gallup-Daily-...</a><br><br>These results, based on Oct. 5-7 polling, are the best for Obama during the campaign, both in terms of his share of the vote and the size of his lead over McCain. <br><br>Nearly all interviews in today's report were conducted before Tuesday night's town hall style debate in Nashville. Any movement in voter preferences as a result of this debate will be apparent in coming days. <br><br>Voter preferences seem to have stabilized for the moment, as Obama has held a double-digit lead over McCain in each of the last three individual nights of polling.<br><br>This was before last night debate, I am hoping the numbers swing even greater after last nights performance", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_13:45:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "Suprk", "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}, "2932683": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "haha....this is funny!<br><br>Is John McCain Really Our Friend?<br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/erica-jong/is-john-mccain-really-our_b_132838.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/erica-jong/is-joh...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_02:38:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2945996": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Not to mention that Gramps had to opportunity to call out Barack face-to-face last night and didn't, but will do it behind his back.  So he's being a punk-ass bitch on top of everything else.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_16:21:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2945191, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2943949": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"Unborn Babies for McCain\" says a sign behind the McCain Klan at a rally in Bethlehem, PA.<br><br>Cindy is speaking, her eyes glazed over as usual. The daughter who wrote the children's book and claimed that \"no American family understands war like ours does\" is also onstage. Her grey dress is tight, her blond hair well-coiffed, her robust female parts accentuated by her too-tight dress. Sarah Palin, dressed in black today as if in mourning over last night's mauling, her hair down for the first time I've seen at a rally, is standing behind Cindy.<br><br>The speakers who opened the show couldn't stop saying Barack Hussein Obama.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_14:17:46", "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": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2950465": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The governor of North Carolina just said that there's going to be a \"reverse Bradley Effect\" in North Carolina. His barber, who he said can legally put a razor to your throat and ask you a question, said that there are plenty of folks who have said they weren't going to vote for Barack ARE going to vote for Barack because while they might like John McCain they like their jobs better.<br><br>Snap.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_21:46:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2943309": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "rikyrah:  MORE SUPPORT!:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jan-mcgirk/israelis-sending-word-to_b_132721.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jan-mcgirk/israel...</a><br><b>Israelis Sending Word To US Jews:  We Prefer Obama</b><br><br><i>JERUSALEM -- Ardent grassroots Obama-supporters from Israel are out to convince Jewish voters in the United States that the Democratic candidate would be a welcome change in the troubled Middle East.<br><br>Israelis across the political spectrum, from leftwing actors to retired spy chiefs and generals, are challenging the conventional wisdom that a Republican hawk in the White House would be in their best interests. Their weapon of choice? Online video.<br><br>Sarah Silverman's Great Schlep schtick gets the most hits and even prompted video-kvetching by comedian Jackie Mason, but several Israeli-made pro-Obama clips are making a big impact on YouTube and political websites.<br>They are raising eyebrows and attracting attention. One video, sponsored by The Jewish Council for Education & Research (JCER), a non-profit organization that supports Obama's presidential run, features seven senior defense officials from Israel who now are crying foul.<br><br>SKIP<br><br>\"We're concerned about Jewish voters who are so wrapped in fear that they can't see beyond the lies and distortions,\" she told the Huffington Post. \"We're also extremely concerned about Sarah Palin; it's in Israel's interest to have intelligent support from people who know the region and its many complexities, not just bellicose lip service paid by those who know nothing about it at all.\"</i><br><br>THEY are  FIRED UP!  READY TO GO!!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_13:39:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2947026": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Thanks for info and I will be calling MSNBC", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_17:30:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "514ece7311946709a77d340a35a81d09", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2946862, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2935251": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Let me second what you said, Evita, and add that we get the government we deserve if we are not vigilant on both sides of the aisle and be equally willing to call out our own as well as the other side of the aisle when they do wrong.<br><br>McCain and Palin's racism is showing like hanging slips.  Their silence speaks more loudly than they even realize and they don't care.  D is realizing he can't defend what's not defensible and likewise, should Obama slip after he gets the White House, we have to be equally willing to hold him accountable.<br><br>The current problem is that McCain wants one set of rules for him and different ones to apply to Obama (i. e. Obama has to defend his association with Bill Ayers, but there's not a peep about McCain's associations that he still has, or Sarah Palin's \"Troopergate\" mess about to jump off).<br><br>It is McCain's defeat.  He pledged to run a respectful campaign, but the minute he added Sarah Palin to his ticket, it turned into a straight-talking diss-fest with bigotry as the main dish.<br><br>GAME OVER.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_09:13:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "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": 2935136, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2943445": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "And they do have a few pieces of \"eye candy\" on the <br>Secret Service detail, Evita; I've seen them around town.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_13:46:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "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": 2943394, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2935768": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Because that route seems to be working so well for Gramps. Dark Sith might wanna rethink his strategy LOL.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_09:52:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2935522, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2936025": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I don't think John McCain was trying to be intentionally racist with the \"That One\" comment.  John McCain is an asshole.  He always has been, he always will be.  And we know he's been assy to white congressmen and Senators.  I think if Obama had been white and whooping his ass on national television, he would have been just as assy to him...<br><br><br>HOWEVER<br><br><br>This whole \"that one\" episode and telling Oliver he might not know about Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae proves how out of touch McCain is.  It's a new world. John McCain is still living in Bedrock while everyone else is living like he Jetsons.<br><br>John McCain lost the election last night, and he knows it.  That's why he didn't stay and work the crowd like the Obamas did.  He got the hell out of there to cry in his oatmeal.<br><br>I almost feel bad for him because Bush got hung around his neck like a stone and now Bush is pulling him under.   However, McCain hasn't ONCE come up with fresh and original ideas or talked about his vision for the country...unless it involves war.  Being the president has much more to it than war; what if another Katrina happens?  Or another L.A. Riots?  What if another Brown V. Board of Education comes up?  Or a health epidemic?  What are his views on education?  Immigration?  Failing roads and bridges?<br><br>We don't know because all McCain is about is fighting somebody.  <br><br>And McCain's physical appearance was terrible.  Pacing around the stage like Fred G. Sanford, ill fitting suit, couldn't even halfway sit on the tall stool, wheezing and breathing hard into the mic?<br><br>McCain knows he lost that election last night.  To \"that one.\"  I don't know what he will do now.  He might just throw the entire house at Obama or he might just quietly trudge along to his destined defeat.  I guess we'll find out what McCain's course of action will be today.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_09:56:24", "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": 21, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2942427": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Barack is speaking in Indianapolis right now. In the frame behind him?<br><br>All white women.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_12:49:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2941916": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "So you participated in a rip-off?<br>(I'm joking) :-)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_12:23:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2937061, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2941917": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "After last nights thread about the debate. I thought about the \"That one\" Comment that McStupid made. I tried to put myself in his shoes and thought, well, maybe he was just upset and spoke out of frustration and did not realize what he was saying...But then I thought, this is a debate Stupid (against a black man) You have to choose your words wisely. I haven't read all the comments yet but I'm sure there are some black republicans out there just beating themselves up over this one<br><br>It's funny how, last night I wrote a comment saying that I was praying that McStupid wouldn't call Obama a boy or the N(word)...He came pretty damn close!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_12:24:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPR", "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}, "2941920": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/8/114730/323/499/623933\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/8/114730/...</a><br><br>\"You're only voting for Obama because you're secretly racist.\"<br><br>This is a letter that's been targeted to people in Northern Virginia who have Obama signs in their yards.<br><br>The Institute for Healing Racism says they have no connection to the letter writers at all.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_12:24:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2941157": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "McCain Called Bin Laden's Mujahideen 'Freedom Fighters' in the Debate<br><a href=\"http://newsone.blackplanet.com/elections/mccain-called-bin-laden-a-freedom-fighter/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://newsone.blackplanet.com/elections/mccain...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_11:54:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "BarackMarley", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": 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}, "2943464": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<b>Jewish Americans for Obama</b><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m96chUuvoe0\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m96chUuvoe0</a>", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_13:47:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "Suprk", "has_been_anonymized": false, "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": 2943309, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2941607": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "How was McCain's \"new housing plan\" NEW? What he talked about is included in the Bailout Plan.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_12:03:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2941550, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2943468": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "We have Joe Biden to thank for VAWA.<br><br>Seriously, though, it can be hard for even the wealthiest and most powerful women to leave abusive relationships. Again, I can only rely on what I've read, but it seems possible that Cindy is one of those situations.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_13:48:09", "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": 2943427, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2942446": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Roland Martin calls out McPalin for their guilt-by-association tactics.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/07/martin.townhall/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/07/martin.t...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_12:50:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "RonnieB", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2941523": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "He was nervous.<br><br>He's truly a supporter of the democratic ticket, but he just kept tripping all over his words.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_11:59:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2941297, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2937001": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I think Bush will be hiding out in his new Dallas home for a good long while.  He knows that he's a worldwide joke and nobody outside of his family likes him.  Even Laura looks disgusted with him half of the time.<br><br>I think it will severely hurt McCain's soul when he has to call \"that one\" \"Mr. President\" next January.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_10:54:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2936586, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2931192": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I think it'll probably help us if we spend as little time on the \"that one\" comment and as much time as possible about how clueless McCain is with his \"taxes bad earmarks bad\" solutions.<br><br>(Apparently the GOP is hoping to stoke racial / xenophobic notions with the \"that one\" line already, so we shouldn't buy into it.)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_00:19:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "Barath", "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}, "2943484": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Craig, from what I'm hearing out of Georgia, there were a couple of Black Congressmen who got primary challengers because they weren't initially on Obama's bandwagon in support.  Having said that, it appears that Georgia may be lining up behind Pennsylvania and Virginia as battleground states McCain concedes.<br><br>At this point, he'll only have Alaska, because even his home state of Arizona is pissed and turning blue by some accounts.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_13:49:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "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": 2942005, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2937854": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I read <i>My Long National Nightmare is Over</i><br><br>Thanks for being so open and honest.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-08_11:21:56", "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": 2934625, "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": "5499122", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "21630", "hash": -3972438768602489987}, "thread": {"days_alive": 0, "slug": "wednesday_open_thread_35", "paginate": false, "num_pages": 1, "num_posts": 236, "per_page": 0, "total_posts": 0, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 5499122, "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"};
	/* */ this.jsonData.cookie_messages = {"user_created": null, "post_has_profile": null, "post_twitter": null, "post_not_approved": null}; this.jsonData.session = {"url": null, "name": null, "email": null}; /* */

	
	this.curPageId = 'dsq-comments';

	this.frames = {};
};

var disqus_popup_reference = null;

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



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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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





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



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

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

	this._lastHash = null;

	this._accumMsg = '';

	this._lastSeqno = 0;

	this.MAX_DATA_LEN	= 1024;

	this.WAIT_TIME		= 10;

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

};

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

FragmentPacket.prototype.log = function(msg) {



};

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

		hash = this.reader.name;
	} else {

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

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

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

		this._lastSeqno = seqno;

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

				this._accumMsg = '';

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

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

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

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

};

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

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

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

	if (packetNum === 0) {

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

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

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

	if (num_packets === packetNum) {

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

	this._lastSeqno++;

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

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

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

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

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

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


	this.receiverId = receiverId;
};

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

	var listener = function(e) {

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


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

		that.receiveCallback(data);
	};

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

PostMessagePacket.prototype.send = function(msg) {



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


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

	var packet;
	if (!msg) {

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

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

var JsonRpc = function() {

	this.ids = {};

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

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

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

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

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

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

				json = 'null';
				break;
		}

		return json;
	};

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		send_func(this.objectToJSON(request));

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

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


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



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


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


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

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

	this.packetHandler = null;


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


	var _createReceiverForFragmentPacket = function() {

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

			that._ready = true;
		};

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

		that.receiver.onload = receiver_onload;







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

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

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

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


	var _createReceiverForPostMessage = function() {

		var receiver_onload = function() {

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

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


		ParentMessenger['_receiver_onload_' + receiverId] = receiver_onload;

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

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

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

};

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	var sendFunc = function(msg) {

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


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


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

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

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

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

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

		if (msg.username) {

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	this.url = Dsq.Urls.REPLY +
		'?' + (new Date()).getTime() +
		'&f=jackandjillpolitics' +
		'&t=wednesday_open_thread_35' +
		'&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_35/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_35'
			+ '&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_35/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">236</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/wednesday_open_thread_35/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_35/">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:5499122" 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_35/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:5499122" 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:5499122" 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_35',
			// 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_35/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_35'
			+ '&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_35'
			+ '&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_35'
				+ '&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/5499122/realtime.js?timestamp=' + last_checked);
		}
	};

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

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

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

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

}();

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

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

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

	return obj;
}();

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		if (isblank(openid_url)) {
			return;
		}

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	return obj;
}();


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





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

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

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

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

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

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





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

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

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

})();

Dsq.container.className = "clearfix";
Dsq.container.innerHTML = ' \
<ul id="dsq-comments">\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2943524">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2943524" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2943524" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2943524" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2943524" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2943524" class="dsq-comment-message">Barbara Comstock, dimwit, just said that Barack Obama has been living off of the government for his whole life.<br><br>She dropped in ACORN in her rant.<br><br>The Nevada ACORN office was raided today.<br><br>This is what the community organizer smear introduced at the big Klan rally in the Twin Cities is leading to.<br><br>No, it\'s not going to work, but it\'s not even gutter politics anymore.<br><br>These criminals are in the underground sewage system.<br><br>It\'d like to throw them in my septic tank with the rest of the stinking sludge.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2943860">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2943860" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2943860" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2943860" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2943860" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2943860" class="dsq-comment-message">Hey Craig,<br><br>Where did she say that? Where did you hear/read this stuff?<br><br>This is completely disgusting.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2944037">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2944037" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2944037" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2944037" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2944037" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2944037" class="dsq-comment-message">Saw it on television. MSNBC. Andrea Mitchell\'s hour.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2943924">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2943924" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2943924" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2943924" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2943924" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2943924" class="dsq-comment-message">Craig, all you would have is a backed up septic tank cause some turds can\'t be flushed.  LOL</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2945039">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2945039" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2945039" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2945039">Michelle</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2945039" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2945039" class="dsq-comment-message">This is maybe sort of off-topic, but every time I see references to ACORN I remember Gary Delgado\'s book about it from the 1980s or around there, which includes a chapter on racism, classism and sexism in the internal structure of the organization (eg the demographics and actual power of the unpaid leaders versus the paid staff). <br><br>I don\'t know if things have changed or not but I do remember that book. If things haven\'t changed since in their internal structure, I think it\'s just a tiny a little bit-- is the word ironic? -- that they are being targeted as they are and have been.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2946268">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2946268" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2946268" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2946268">Val</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2946268" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2946268" class="dsq-comment-message">I saw that fool and switched the channel.  Andrea Mitchell gets on my nerves because she didn\'t call her on any of the crap.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2943949">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2943949" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2943949" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2943949" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2943949" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2943949" class="dsq-comment-message">"Unborn Babies for McCain" says a sign behind the McCain Klan at a rally in Bethlehem, PA.<br><br>Cindy is speaking, her eyes glazed over as usual. The daughter who wrote the children\'s book and claimed that "no American family understands war like ours does" is also onstage. Her grey dress is tight, her blond hair well-coiffed, her robust female parts accentuated by her too-tight dress. Sarah Palin, dressed in black today as if in mourning over last night\'s mauling, her hair down for the first time I\'ve seen at a rally, is standing behind Cindy.<br><br>The speakers who opened the show couldn\'t stop saying Barack Hussein Obama.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2944233" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2944233" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2944233" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2944233" class="dsq-comment-message"><b>Another McCain-Palin Introducer Declares "Barack Hussein Obama"</b><br><br><i>For the second time in three days, the speaker at a McCain campaign rally used Barack Obama\'s middle name "Hussein" in a demeaning fashion to ignite the crowd.<br><br>Speaking in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Bill Platt, the GOP chair of Lehigh County, twice referred to "Barack Hussein Obama" minutes before John McCain and Sarah Palin were set to take the stage.<br><br>On Monday, a local Florida sheriff preceded Palin\'s speech by declaring: "On Nov. 4, let\'s leave Barack Hussein Obama wondering what happened."</i></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2944292" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2944292" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2944292" href="http://blog.evavegadiversity.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">evita</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2944292" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2944292" class="dsq-comment-message">I saw that on CNN. After the intro they waited like 45 minutes for anyone to come out....Did they the McRacist Campaign issue a statement?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2944324" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2944324" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2944324" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2944324" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2944324" class="dsq-comment-message">I haven\'t seen any statement - and I\'m not holding my breath.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2945191" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2945191" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2945191">CPR</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2945191" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2945191" class="dsq-comment-message">They are digging themselves into a deeper whole by the day with them not making statements about the racist comments their supporters and McRacist(stole that from you) are making.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2945996" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2945996" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2945996">MsKitty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2945996" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2945996" class="dsq-comment-message">Not to mention that Gramps had to opportunity to call out Barack face-to-face last night and didn\'t, but will do it behind his back.  So he\'s being a punk-ass bitch on top of everything else.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2946618" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2946618" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2946618">CPR</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2946618" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2946618" class="dsq-comment-message">MsKitty: You ain\'t spoke nothing but the truth!! How dare he talk about MY Barack Obama behind his back..That\'s stuff people did in high school. WTH!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2943287" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2943287" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2943287">Suprk</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2943287" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2943287" class="dsq-comment-message">I love this, no slowing down, no letting up. Obama is keeping the pressure on and hopefully  bury McCain.<br><br><b>New Obama Ad: Mills</b> <br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1KJwHvOhcs" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1KJwHvOhcs</a><br><br>Obama / Biden \'08</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2943616" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2943616" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2943616" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2943616" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2943616" class="dsq-comment-message">DAMN!!<br><br>He\'s putting his foot on the criminal\'s neck.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2934625" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2934625" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2934625" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2934625" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2934625" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/my-long-national-nightmare-is-over/" rel="nofollow">My Long National Nightmare is Over</a><br><br>It\'s done in this post, but I want to publically apologize to Jack-and the rest of JJP-for some of my comments yesterday. You all have my respect, and I wish you the best on 11/4.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2934981" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2934981" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2934981">rorysmomma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2934981" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2934981" class="dsq-comment-message">D,<br><br>don\'t concede  defeat, and please for the love  of God.  remember that all men are fallable, and McCain is just a man.... period.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2937116" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2937116" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2937116">caligirl</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2937116" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2937116" class="dsq-comment-message">why not concede defeat?  mccain\'s goin\' DOWWWWNNNNNN!!!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2935095" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2935095" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2935095" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2935095" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2935095" class="dsq-comment-message">D, you could always cast your vote for Obama, man.<br><br>There\'s a difference between being helpless and being powerless.  You\'re not powerless, and you\'re not helpless, either.  Get in where you fit in, dude.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2937035" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2937035" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2937035">Teacher</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2937035" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2937035" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree. It\'s the patriotic thing to do. There is no reason to have loyalty to folks that truly and sincerely, with every cell of their bodies, harbor beliefs of our inferiority because of our race. No one gets to pick their race.<br><br>We have a nation full of heros. We have so many young people who have layed down their very lives in the military, in an unjust war, and basically for the profit of corporations. We have people who work themselves into exhaustion to provide "the American Dream" to their children, like the mother of BSerious & like my grandparents. All of the countless Americans who try so hard to do the right thing and play by the rules deserve a different kind of leader. <br><br>I don\'t think Obama is a savior nor am I looking for him to be. What I believe he will do is provide the leadership to galvanize a grassroots movement to lift the country back up. I don\'t think we have the $ to fix all the things that need fixing in the country. We are going to have to make sacrifices and have a spirit of volunteerism to turn this shiip around. The hard work is really going to start after the election. So vote for him because he has already shown that he can motivate the masses to take beneficial action, and then volunteer 4 hours a week helping kids learn something. Black boys, especially, are starving for examples of manhood, dignity, respect & discipline, which are qualities that you personally value and represent.  <br><br>It really is time for us to move into a 21st century paradigm, and it\'s exciting to be on the cutting edge of the much needed change. Vote for a better future for your child (who could become presient one day also).</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2937945" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2937945" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2937945">MsKitty</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2937945" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2937945" class="dsq-comment-message">You nailed it.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2935136" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2935136" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2935136" href="http://blog.evavegadiversity.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">evita</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2935136" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2935136" class="dsq-comment-message">It is not your defeat. It is his. His racism is clearly showing. The that one comment smacked of objectification. as though Obama was a thing, not a human being.<br><br>Hey I also didn\'t like how he assumed Oliver never heard of Fannie Mae. He should have never assumed that, but then again we all know why: Oliver is young and black.<br><br>I respect your clarity and remind you that as voters we ALL deserve better of our leadership.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2935251" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2935251" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2935251" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2935251" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2935251" class="dsq-comment-message">Let me second what you said, Evita, and add that we get the government we deserve if we are not vigilant on both sides of the aisle and be equally willing to call out our own as well as the other side of the aisle when they do wrong.<br><br>McCain and Palin\'s racism is showing like hanging slips.  Their silence speaks more loudly than they even realize and they don\'t care.  D is realizing he can\'t defend what\'s not defensible and likewise, should Obama slip after he gets the White House, we have to be equally willing to hold him accountable.<br><br>The current problem is that McCain wants one set of rules for him and different ones to apply to Obama (i. e. Obama has to defend his association with Bill Ayers, but there\'s not a peep about McCain\'s associations that he still has, or Sarah Palin\'s "Troopergate" mess about to jump off).<br><br>It is McCain\'s defeat.  He pledged to run a respectful campaign, but the minute he added Sarah Palin to his ticket, it turned into a straight-talking diss-fest with bigotry as the main dish.<br><br>GAME OVER.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2936489" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2936489" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2936489" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2936489" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2936489" class="dsq-comment-message">It shouldn\'t be my defeat. I guess the only reason it hits as hard as it does is because I\'ve spent a lot of the last year and a half trying to defend McCain-or attack Obama. I feel a lot let down; like it was a lot of time wasted.<br><br>Only good thing about this is that I did wake up and turn on ESPN instead of FNC or CNN this morning.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2936695" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2936695" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2936695">Anderkoo</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2936695" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2936695" class="dsq-comment-message">Not wasted; this is a democracy and we all need to be an honest part of the process. You were helping vet Obama just as many are vetting (or trying) Palin now. He may not have won you over, but at least you (probably) feel like you know Obama know, even if you don\'t like him.<br><br>Maybe I felt like you did in November 2004. I thought Kerry was weak from the beginning (and he\'s my Senator!) and when he went down in defeat there was a sense of inevitability about it. And massive disappointment, too, in all the time we spent. The real problem for you guys is that between Dean and Kerry there was an honest effort to build a grassroots. I\'m not seeing the same thing with McCain -- it will be a bit of a slog for the GOP in the coming decade.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2936761" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2936761" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2936761">Val</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2936761" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2936761" class="dsq-comment-message">no problems.  I am still holding out that the John McCain I was looking forward to seeing run against Barack will take the opportunity to retrieve what is left of his honor stand up.<br><br>So . . . if I was still waiting for that . . . I certainly understand why you feel the way you do.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2937670" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2937670" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2937670" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2937670" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2937670" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s not coming. Hate to say that, but you\'re not gonna see that McCain.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2942362" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2942362" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2942362" href="http://blog.evavegadiversity.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">evita</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2942362" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2942362" class="dsq-comment-message">Whatever you decide to do D- stay home and not vote or vote for Barack, I hope you do make yourself heard to your party. There aren\'t THAT many Black Republicans and THIS is one of the reasons why. They need to hear how hard your road has been and why you have decided to sit the rest out and let what will be, be.<br><br>In the spirit of your ancestors, and mine- I hope you vote for Barack Obama. many people vote because of one issue: economy, choice, character etc. Support Barack Obama- and you don\'t have to tell us either! :)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2935582" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2935582" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2935582">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2935582" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2935582" class="dsq-comment-message">Thanks D</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2935687" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2935687" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2935687">MsKitty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2935687" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2935687" class="dsq-comment-message">D. look at it this way, timing was on your side here.  I mean if McCain had showed out like this <i>after</i> you voted for him there would be no way that you couldn\'t take it personally.  The great thing about the O-man is that he wants to lead all of us, not just Democrats, not just black people.  So he will have your best interests at heart too.<br><br>BTW, I found these tips on <a href="http://www.ehow.com/how_13376_remove-bumper-stickers.html" rel="nofollow">bumper sticker removal</a>.  All you need is some WD-40, Turtle Wax, a blow dryer, and a spatula and you\'re good to go.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2937061" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2937061" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2937061" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2937061" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2937061" class="dsq-comment-message">I just ripped the glued one off.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2941916" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2941916" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2941916">Admiral_Komack</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2941916" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2941916" class="dsq-comment-message">So you participated in a rip-off?<br>(I\'m joking) :-)</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-2935939">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2935939" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2935939" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2935939">Val</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2935939" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2935939" class="dsq-comment-message">We love you D.  Blessings to you and your family.  <br><br>Regarding the Repubs, I am sure not all republicans are the same.  McCain and Palin are promoting a dialogue is not helpful in closing the gap on discrimination in this country but I would not assume all Repubs are like that. <br><br>So . . . there is hope.  Much love D.  I like to think of JJP as a family and as such, you are included.  So we can fight, but we always make up, get over it and move on.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-2936356">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2936356" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2936356" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2936356" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2936356" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2936356" class="dsq-comment-message">I can\'t say all Republicans are like that. The majority of the ones I know personally aren\'t. The ones I met last night (and honestly, I expected some tension) didn\'t appear to be that way.<br><br>It\'s just that the ones who are, completely ruin things for everyone else.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2936581" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2936581" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2936581">Sepia</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2936581" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2936581" class="dsq-comment-message">D., how do the ones who aren\'t like McPalin feel about what\'s going on? Is there some type of movement to remove the McPalins of the GOP out of the party?</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-2936674">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2936674" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2936674" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2936674" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2936674" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2936674" class="dsq-comment-message">No. At least not yet. It\'s gonna take a while for that arm of the GOP to realize that Obama didn\'t "win" the election; that <b>they</b> lost it.<br><br>At this point, my hope for 2016 is somewhat dashed, because I don\'t even think the cleansing will be done by then.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2943527" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2943527" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2943527">Anderkoo</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2943527" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2943527" class="dsq-comment-message">Democrats lost in the woods: 1980-2008, give or take.<br><br>Republicans lost in the woods: 2000-?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2937854" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2937854" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2937854">Texas_Girl_in_LA</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2937854" class="dsq-comment-message">I read <i>My Long National Nightmare is Over</i><br><br>Thanks for being so open and honest.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2940048">Monie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2940048" class="dsq-comment-message">Thanks for sharing that with us and I wish you the best also.<br><br>"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."<br><br>"We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."<br><br>                                                       Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2941509" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2941509">Nate_Wesley</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2941509" class="dsq-comment-message">You can only lose so much credibility by recognizing that maybe, just maybe, you had something or someone pegged the wrong way, and acknowledging it.  It\'s an expectation of anyone we consider responsible or honest, and you are both.  <br><br>But  don\'t lose any sleep because of John McCain.  Its been clear to many that he was willing to forego his own convictions (conservative or not) to win this election, the same ones that helped him \'cross the aisle\' the many times he\'s talked about.  That has comprimised his honesty amongst those in his party and toward the independents who probably favored him from 2000.  "The Real McCain" has surfaced, and I\'m not referring exclusively to the Robert Greenwald version.  <br><br>I would recommend that you not sit out the election, if only for the civic pride of voting. It\'s probably silly of anyone to ask you to support an Obama-Biden candidacy you disagree with, but you don\'t have to give a vote to McCain-Palin either.  Baldwin-Castle (Constitution), Barr-Root (Libertarian), McKinney-Clemente (Green)--hey, I had to at least try on that last one.  <br><br>You don\'t have to vote enthusiastically or try to take off work doing so, but I feel like voting should at least validate the intellectual work you put into caring (blogging and board posts) about the country\'s issues.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2941721" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2941721">MsKitty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2941721" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2941721" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>It\'s probably silly of anyone to ask you to support an Obama-Biden candidacy you disagree with, but you don\'t have to give a vote to McCain-Palin either. Baldwin-Castle (Constitution), Barr-Root (Libertarian), McKinney-Clemente (Green)--hey, I had to at least try on that last one.</i><br><br>Not to mention the downticket races.  Those candidates always get lost in the shuffle when folks decide to pass on the presidential elections.  Worse case scenario, there\'s always the write-in option.  But in any case, get out there and vote because &lt;shameless guilt tripping&gt;it wasn\'t that long ago that there were people who sacrificed so much so we can have that right, so we should never allow ourselves to take it for granted&lt;/shameless guilt tripping&gt;.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2942555" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2942555" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2942555" class="dsq-comment-message">I always get beat up for saying this but so what:<br><br>With the right to vote comes the right NOT to vote. If there\'s no candidate on the top of the ticket you can vote for in good conscience, it makes a mockery of the democratic process to vote <i>just because</i> our ancestors couldn\'t.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2943238" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2943238" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2943238">MsKitty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2943238" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2943238" class="dsq-comment-message">There have been more than a few times that I used the write-in ballot for someone I thought was a more worthy candidate than the listed names, or put in "none of the above."  By doing that I\'m going on record that none of those candidates are up to my standards and they have to come up with better ones next time.  So I don\'t see it as trivializing the process at all, but constructive disagreements are the beauty of JJP.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2944664" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2944664" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2944664" class="dsq-comment-message">Sometimes I think Black people wouldn\'t be the mules of the Democratic Party if we decided to selectively opt-out in a strategic move. Look how the Latino vote got courted as an example. Or the Independents. It\'s something to consider but I think it should be done with some thought and care, not out of apathy.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2947277">Teacher</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2947277" class="dsq-comment-message">What Craig said. <br><br>One time I voted straight democratic ticket and helped to vote some nazi-esque judge into office. I was mortified when I discovered this and vowed never to do it again. Now, if I don\'t know about the candidate or don\'t like any of them, I don\'t vote. I am so ELATED to have someone I want to vote for, but if I didn\'t, I\'m not one to darken the door step of the voting location.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2944049" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2944049">Nate_Wesley</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2944049" class="dsq-comment-message">Absolutely.  Surely there are some local/regional races that you care about too.  Republican or Democrat, conservative or progressive, don\'t sit at home because the two major presidential candiates irk you.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2942250" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2942250" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2942250" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2942250" class="dsq-comment-message">You make a good point. <br><br>All I know for certain is that I owe the mrs. for the last year and a half I\'ve spent running around promoting this fool.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2943327" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2943327" href="http://blog.evavegadiversity.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">evita</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2943327" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2943327" class="dsq-comment-message">You need to buy her a card and a foam brick to throw at you. :)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2943517" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2943517" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2943517" class="dsq-comment-message">A bracelet from Tiffany\'s is a nice apology.<br><br>***ducks*** LOL</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2943821" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2943821" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2943821" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2943821" class="dsq-comment-message">You should duck. LOL</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2944522" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2944522">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2944522" class="dsq-comment-message">D:<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH59jVKyui8&feature=related" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH59jVKyui8&feat...</a><br><b>Diamonds Are A Girl\'s Best Friend  - Beyonce</b><br><br>ENJOY!!  :&gt;)  [Just the music part!!  :&gt;)]</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2944401" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2944401">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2944401" class="dsq-comment-message">D:  I posted at your site.<br><br>Stay in the "game"!  Don\'t let "nobody or nothin\' turn YOU \'round."  [I\'ll forego the SONG  :&gt;)]<br><br>Blessings to the WIFE/you/future "little d"!    :&gt;)<br><br>Hopin\' to continue to hear from YOU!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2945567" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2945567">Michelle</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2945567" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2945567" class="dsq-comment-message">I actually thought about you last night after the debate, D, and had the feeling you would do something like this.<br><br>It was this totally random moment, in the midst of several simultaneous streams of thought, that I promptly forgot about ... til right now.<br><br>I\'m appreciative -- and not at all surprised to read this and your blog entry.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2931005" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2931005" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2931005" class="dsq-comment-message">Peter Suderman:<br><br>    One thing that’s clear from this debate is how little there is to John McCain and his campaign. He’s running on a few, vague issues – tax cuts, an aggressive response to Russia in specific and terrorism in general, something about energy – and a whole lot of non-policy fluff: America’s inherent strength and goodness, Obama’s inexperience, scorn for Washington insiders. But mostly, he’s running on a platform anchored by a single assumption: that John McCain is inherently, singularly qualified to lead the country, and, subsequently, deserving of the office of president. McCain views the White House as something to which he is unequivocally entitled. Beyond that, nothing else matters. Indeed, if you hold this view, nothing else would.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2931058" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2931058">Michelle</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2931058" class="dsq-comment-message">oops, I meant the above comment as a reply to this one .....</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2931130" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2931130">Anderkoo</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2931130" class="dsq-comment-message">The problem with the "experience" argument is that it\'s all about you -- you, you, you. whether you = McCain or = Hillary or whoever.<br><br>"Change" and "Hope" is about us. It asks us, what kind of change do WE want? What do WE hope for?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2931599">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2931599" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2931599" class="dsq-comment-message"><i> McCain views the White House as something to which he is unequivocally entitled. Beyond that, nothing else matters. Indeed, if you hold this view, nothing else would.<br></i><br><br>what did I tell you about folks who think they\'re ENTITLED?<br><br>uh huh</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2932427" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2932427" href="http://www.hustleandfloe.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">hustleandfloe</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2932427" class="dsq-comment-message">big up on that. despite the big game behind all of them, you can actually see that deep and personal bitterness.  "That\'s MY white house!" they cry with no substance to back it.  thanks ch</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2931049" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2931049">Michelle</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2931049" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>McCain views the White House as something to which he is unequivocally entitled. Beyond that, nothing else matters.</i><br><br>hmmm -- where have I seen this before?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2931206" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2931206">MsKitty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2931206" class="dsq-comment-message">Looks like McCain accidentally launched a new catchphrase:<br><br>Check <a href="http://www.senatorthatone.com/" rel="nofollow">this out</a> and <a href="http://www.cafepress.com/xerotopia.315025991#" rel="nofollow">this</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2931285" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2931285">JJai</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2931285" class="dsq-comment-message">Cute diary....<br><br>"In my grams eyes, Barack Obama is already her president. She refers to him as President Obama. She has a framed picture of him and Michelle sitting in her china hutch. She doesn\'t even have a picture of ME or her other grandchildren in her precious china hutch! She wants to get in the kitchen with Michelle and make sure she\'s cooking the "right food to put some meat on President Obama\'s bones." She is knitting keepsake blankets for both Sasha and Malia, which she plans to have delivered to them even if she has to "fly to Washington myself. Those babies are gonna need some looking after sometimes. My grandmother loves her some President Barack and First Lady Michelle Obama & family."<br><br>I love my people, lol.<br><br><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/7/115857/644/690/622725" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/7/115...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2931579" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2931579">Anderkoo</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2931579" class="dsq-comment-message">JJai, thanks for pointing to this diary -- the section you quote is very cute, but the whole thing bears reading... the rest is not so cute, it\'s quite stark and realistic, and the contrast with this section is so sharp that it conveys beautifully what Obama is all about.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2934619" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2934619" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2934619">JJai</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2934619" class="dsq-comment-message">I know; if you have read my other accounts o this blog I am afraid of McCain\'s next steps due to his utter failing last night.<br><br>I try to keep Barack, his family, and our country in my prayers daily.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2935453" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2935453">MsKitty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2935453" class="dsq-comment-message">Same here.  In fact, doubling up on the prayers might not be a bad idea since the evil is really starting to manifest itself.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2931586">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2931586" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2931586" class="dsq-comment-message">I loved this diary. I thought the part about the picture in the hutch was funny. Grandma could be any of our Elders.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2931823">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2931823" class="dsq-comment-message">JJai:  Thanks for sharing!  How passionate!!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2931325" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2931325" href="http://Black-Thought-Police.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Jefferson Sergeant</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2931325" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2931325" class="dsq-comment-message">Judging from the pundits it seems that some Republican operatives may actually be stupid enough to try and spin the " That one" phrase into a campaign slogan. I have to think this is a mistake but then again, these are the same people that selected Sarah Palin as the VP candidate.<br><br>As I see it, the more McCain and Palin focus away from the monumental economic crisis we are facing; it becomes an indictment agains their ability to lead, their lack of vision, and ultimately their  indifference for the plight of the vast majority of Americans.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2931436" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2931436" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2931436" class="dsq-comment-message">"That One" had me thinking of Stevie\'s "That Girl"<br><br><i>That One thinks that he\'s so bad, he\'ll change my tears to joy from sad..." <br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPsvwA6vvVo" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPsvwA6vvVo</a></i></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2931807">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2931807" class="dsq-comment-message">Anovelista:  That will work!!  I\'m ENJOYING!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>Videos are CONTAGEOUS  -huh??   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2931843" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2931843" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2931843" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes they are! <br><br>I really needed something to "come down" tonight anyway because it is really sinking in.  We have our first Black president in American history...</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2932394">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2932394" class="dsq-comment-message">ABSOLUTELY!!!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2931535" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2931535">nickwah22</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2931535" class="dsq-comment-message">International Market news:<br><br>Asian markets are down - no surprise. @ 12:50 am est<br>Aussie = -4.6%<br>Shanghai = -3%<br>Nikkei = -6.1%<br>India = -4.9%<br>Singapore/Seoul/Thailand = -4.5% ish<br>Indonesia = -10%<br><br>Again, when does the bailout/rescue kick in?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2931609" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2931609" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2931609" class="dsq-comment-message">Melissa Harris Lacewell on the debate:<br><br><i>My friends, it is not OK to say that you plan to freeze all government spending while claiming that you are going to buy out billions in mortgages.<br><br>My friends, it is not Ok to pretend you have a secret plan for capturing Osama bin Laden but that you are simply too strategic to share that plan in public.<br><br>My friends, it is not Ok to assume the black man who just asked you about the bailout has never heard of Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac and then to explain to that black man that your goal is to be sure the older white man across the room can keep his home.<br><br>My friends, it is not OK to point to your African American opponent and call him "that one" and invoke the image of a "gold plated Cadillac"</i><br><br><a href="http://princetonprofs.blogspot.com/2008/10/few-quick-thoughts-on-debate-for-my.html" rel="nofollow">http://princetonprofs.blogspot.com/2008/10/few-...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2931632">Anderkoo</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2931632" class="dsq-comment-message">Keep donating directly to the Obama campaign.... but did you know that you can buy ads in targeted swing states for as little as $100? <a href="http://wowofnow.com" rel="nofollow">http://wowofnow.com</a><br><br>They\'ve cut this down to a single ad (they used to give a choice -- I think this makes more sense), which compares polar bears to the middle class. As a result I think the best channel to run it on is Animal Planet.<br><br>Anyway, I don\'t know enough about ad buys to know how it\'s possible that you can buy an ad for so little, or whether they\'re bundling lots of people together to run these, but check it out...</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2931752" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2931752" href="http://Black-Thought-Police.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Jefferson Sergeant</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2931752" class="dsq-comment-message">This is the real McCain every potential voter should be exposed to.<br><br><a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/make_believe_maverick_the_real_john_mccain" rel="nofollow">http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/mak...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2931793">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2931793" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  The "ladies" on The View just need to take Elizabeth out  - on stage!!  :&gt;)<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/07/the-view-gets-uglier-barb_n_132587.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/07/the-vi...</a><br><b>The View Gets Uglier. . </b><br><br><i>On Tuesday\'s "The View," the ladies followed up on a conversation/argument yesterday, in which Elisabeth Hasselbeck pushed Obama\'s radical views. Today, with Joy back, it was Elisabeth v. the other four as she continued to bring up and slam what she feels are Obama\'s shady acquaintances.<br><br>Preceding the clip below, Barbara called for a move away from gutter politics towards a discussion of what really matters. Elisabeth then kept talking about Obama\'s connection to Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers and Tony Rezko, called Wright a "hate-monger" and asked of Obama, "Are you a liar or do you have poor judgment?"<br><br>Soon after, Sherri jumped down Elisabeth\'s throat (as she sat expressionless) asking about McCain\'s first wife with, "can we talk about poor judgement?"<br><br>The argument escalated and Joy (celebrating her birthday today) pretended to get up and leave.<br><br>Elisabeth interjected, "When did this get personal? Wow. This is super personal," and she told Sherri to "relax."<br><br>Barbara again asked to no avail, "Can we stop slinging mud around?"<br><br>Elisabeth then brought up Obama and claimed Democrats pushed subprime loans, to which Joy called out, "You\'re listening to Sean Hannity too much!" With that, Whoopi quickly took the show to break.<br><br>Watch, as no blow-by-blow will do it justice:</i><br><br>ENJOY!!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2931834">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2931834" class="dsq-comment-message">I actually saw that today. Someone needs to bring up Caribou Barbie being married to a man who belonged to a SECESSIONIST GROUP</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2932445">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2932445" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  Got that right!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2935008">Suprk</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2935008" class="dsq-comment-message">Sarah Palin hanging around a SECESSIONIST GROUP?? Say it not so. You couldn\'t mean this.<br><br><b>Sarah Palin Hates America </b><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrSYnq5eynA" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrSYnq5eynA</a><br><br>or  this<br><br><b>Sarah Palin: Palling Around With Secessionists</b><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eniG9l_7its" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eniG9l_7its</a><br><br>I wish someone would call her out on this. MSM where are you??</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2934300">nickwah22</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2934300" class="dsq-comment-message">I need to find some way to start watching the view daily during election season because they are having some fiery segments!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2935189">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2935189" class="dsq-comment-message">I can\'t believe Sherri had the testicular fortitude to bring of McCain\'s affair with Cindy! LMBAO! <br><br>There are so many things Whoopi, Joy and Sherri could counter Elisabeth with when she goes into her GOP histerics, but for whatever reason they don\'t.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2941591" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2941591" class="dsq-comment-message">Whoopi, Joy and Sherri are trying to stay gainfully employed, that\'s why they don\'t call out Hasselbeck on her shyt.<br><br>Which I find ridiculous, because all of them have more media experience than Hasselbeck - her only job prior to "The View" was being on "Survivor"; while Joy, Sherri and Whoopi all have TV and movie experience on their resumes.<br><br>If Hasselbeck pisses off Barbara Walters, the next thing we\'ll hear is that Hasselbeck is leaving the show for personal reasons.<br><br>The "personal reasons" being fired by Walters and told to hit the road with her conservative bullshyt.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2931795" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2931795" href="http://getbad.net/blog" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Noelani</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2931795" class="dsq-comment-message">McCain - another doe in the headlights moment.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2931822">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2931822" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert Gibbs vs. Sean Hannity<br><br><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/8/04759/4174/888/623560" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/8/04759/4...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2931927" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2931927" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2931927" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2931927" class="dsq-comment-message">Thanks Rikyrah as always.<br><br>I just tweet the hell out of all of these links...</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2932441" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2932441">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2932441" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  Almost a "smackdown!"  People gettin\' close!!   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2932537" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2932537">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2932537" class="dsq-comment-message">New respect for Gibbs.   He seemed so mild-mannered before...he didn\'t back down from Hannity for one second!   I love it!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2931982" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2931982">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2931982" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2931982" class="dsq-comment-message">Roland Martin IS still blogging over at Essence.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2932425">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2932425" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  I believe that his "final statement" stated that he would be a "guest" as time permits.  O.K.  He made a revision.<br><br>Here\'s his REVISION:<br><br><a href="http://essence.typepad.com/news/2008/10/ok-im-back.html" rel="nofollow">http://essence.typepad.com/news/2008/10/ok-im-b...</a><br><b>O.K.  I\'m Back</b><br><br><i><br><br>Wow, that was short-lived.<br><br>I\'ve decided to pushback the launch of some other web endeavors to keep the conversation going through the election.<br><br>I didn\'t want to leave folks stuck out, so we\'ll keep it jumping right here on <a href="http://Essence.com" rel="nofollow">Essence.com</a> through the end of the year.<br><br>And you know I\'ve got lots to say! Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone with SprintSpeed</i><br><br>Well, That be That!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2932551" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2932551">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2932551" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  MUDFLATS and their "commentators"  CALL IT:<br><br><a href="http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/10/07/open-thread-debate-discussion/#comment-50674" rel="nofollow">http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/10/07/open-t...</a><br>Open Thread Debate Dicussion<br><br><i>So, what did you think?<br><br>Nailing Jell-O to the wall?<br><br>“THAT one”?<br><br>“We need a cool hand on the tiller?”<br><br>Not shaking Obama’s hand?<br><br>Fleeing the interview the moment the debate was over?<br><br>What was John McCain’s worst moment?<br><br>Where did Obama score?<br><br>Who won?<br><br>Discuss.</i><br><br><br>MOST commentators:   <b>OBAMA WON HANDS DOWN!!!</b><br><br>Whoo!  Hooo!   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2932615" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2932615">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2932615" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  this was on the Blogroll of MUDFLATS:<br><br><a href="http://womenagainstsarahpalin.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">http://womenagainstsarahpalin.blogspot.com/</a><br><b>Women Against Sara Palin Blogspot</b><br><br><i>Sign the petition -- Sarah Palin: Please Resign.<br><br>Prominent conservative columnist and former Palin supporter Kathleen Parker called for Sarah Palin to resign from the Republican ticket. Even a conservative columnist and former Palin supporter is saying it: Palin is far from Vice-Presidential material. Can you sign our petition asking her to resign? Full petition statement:<br><br>Governor Palin, for the good of the country, please step down as John McCain\'s running mate.</i><br><br>They are running a petition asking The Gov. to resign as VP running mate!  OOOOO-EEEEEE!!  It\'s gettin\' COLD up there!!   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2932683" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2932683">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2932683" class="dsq-comment-message">haha....this is funny!<br><br>Is John McCain Really Our Friend?<br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/erica-jong/is-john-mccain-really-our_b_132838.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/erica-jong/is-joh...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2933978" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2933978" href="http://www.thebottomofheaven.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">claudia_m</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2933978" class="dsq-comment-message">This is great - thanks for posting the link! "Obama is a prince among debaters."</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2933468" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2933468">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2933468" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  The Gov. gives"more of the same" to the press:<br><br><a href="http://www.newser.com/story/39343/palins-right-the-press-does-stink.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.newser.com/story/39343/palins-right-...</a><br><b>Palin\'s Right, The Press Does Stink Opinion</b><br><br><i>Newser)  – Sarah Palin doesn’t like the mainstream media, and after watching its reaction to her debate performance, neither does Richard Cohen of the Washington Post. <b>Palin ignored questions, lied, and invented new powers for the vice president, but somehow the media wound up praising her anyway.</b> “I could quote the hosannas of some of my colleagues,” writes Cohen, “but I spare them the infamy that will surely follow them to their graves.”</i><br><br>And they still praise her!  Guess somebody is fallin\' for thoses "WINKS!"<br><br>Obama-Biden \'08!!!<br><br><br>Annnnnnd,  after starting ALL this trouble during this election process,  <b>SHE WILL BE GOING BACK TO ALASKA.   And when she returns, they got a little "somethin\', somethin\'" for her arse!!</b>  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2944717" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2944717" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2944717" class="dsq-comment-message">Palin is a MILF on a cracker for some of these conservatives. They could care less about her policies. She was doing the come-hither dance with her winking and breathiness. Yuck!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2946837">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2946837" class="dsq-comment-message">hearts:   TRUE DAT!   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2933500">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2933500" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  Some movement from those "18M cracked-out women":<br><br><a href="http://www.newser.com/story/39383/women-swing-back-to-barack.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.newser.com/story/39383/women-swing-b...</a><br><b>Women Swing Back To Barack</b><br><br><i> (Newser) – Sarah Palin’s novel influence on the presidential campaign appears to have waned, and the “gender gap” among voters has reverted to that in past elections, the Chicago Tribune reports. <b>That means women favor Democrat Barack Obama over Republican John McCain. Women will support Obama by a margin of between four and 11 percentage points on Election Day, predicts a scholar at the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University.</b></i><br><br>The "women" come back to roost!!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)<br><br><br>Obama-Biden \'08!!!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2933531">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2933531" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  MORE LIES from "Ms Thang":<br><br><a href="http://www.newser.com/story/39378/details-of-palins-union-membership-prove-elusive.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.newser.com/story/39378/details-of-pa...</a><br><b>Details of Palin\'s Union Membership Prove Elusive</b><br><br><i>Newser) – John McCain described Sarah Palin as a former union member when introducing his running mate in August, but was she? The Las Vegas Sun has been trying to find conclusive proof, but so far Palin’s union experience remains unclear. McCain officials were initially unresponsive, while her Alaskan office said: “I don’t believe the governor has ever been a member of a union.”<br><br>Eventually, the national campaign told the Sun Palin had been a member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers—though provided no details. Neither did the union, although dates it gave for her membership correspond with her time as a TV sports reporter, a group occasionally represented by the union. Factually correct, but evidence that she, as McCain said in August, “understands the problems, the hopes and the values of working people”?<br><br>Source Las Vegas Sun</i><br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j8-_vIplso&feature=related" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j8-_vIplso&feat...</a><br><b>Tell Me LIES - Fleetwood Mac</b><br><br>That\'s all 2 it!!  :&gt;)<br><br><br>Obama-Biden \'08!!!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2933593">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2933593" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  An ENDORSEMENT!!!!  :&gt;)<br><br><a href="http://www.newser.com/story/39282/new-yorker-endorses-obamas-uplift-and-realism.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.newser.com/story/39282/new-yorker-en...</a><br><b>New Yorker Endorses Obama\'s \'Uplift and Realism\' -Opinion News</b><br><br><i><br><br>(Newser) – At a critical moment in its history, the United States "needs both uplift and realism, both change and steadiness"—and Barack Obama is the man to deliver it, writes the New Yorker in a 4,000-word endorsement. After George W. Bush, whose presidency has been "the worst since Reconstruction," America requires a leader who understands the severity of the economic crisis and the complexities of foreign affairs, but also restores the country\'s "battered morale."<br><br>One of Obama\'s greatest virtues is his "pragmatic calm," an equanimity in the face of tough attacks that reminds one of Eisenhower. Unlike John McCain, who has demonstrated himself to be "impulsive, impatient, self-dramatizing, erratic, and a compulsive risk-taker," <b>Obama offers America a leader of character, "a leader temperamentally, intellectually, and emotionally attuned to the complexities of our troubled globe."</b><br><br>Source New Yorker</i><br><br><b>YES WE CAN!!!</b><br><br>Obama-Biden \'08!!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2933676">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2933676" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  Financial WOES!!<br><br><a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/081006/as_world_markets.html?.v=7" rel="nofollow">http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/081006/as_world_markets...</a><br><b>European, Asian Markets Plunge On Crisis Fears:  Financial News</b><br><br><i>Monday October 6, 7:02 am ET<br>By Emily Flynn Vencat, AP Business Writer<br>European and Asian markets plunge as bailouts in US, Europe fail to ease financial fears<br><br>LONDON (AP) -- Asian and European stock markets plunged Monday as government bank bailouts in the U.S. and Europe failed to alleviate fears that the global financial crisis would depress world economic growth.<br><br>Investors took scant comfort from Washington\'s passage of a US$700 billion plan to buy bad assets from banks and other institutions to shore up the financial industry on Friday because of the uncertainty still hanging over the details of the deal and the degree to which it will help.<br><br>Britain\'s benchmark stock index, the FTSE 100, lost 220.11 to 4,760.14 -- a 4.42 percent fall. The declines were led by the banking industry, with the mining and oil industries also suffering drops. HBOS PLC\'s share price dropped 15.7 percent, while the Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC fell 13.6 percent.<br><br>Germany\'s DAX index fell 4.22 percent to 5,552.27. France\'s CAC-40 index dropped 4.85 percent to 3,882.81. In Russia, the RTS stock index tumbled more than 7 percent in first 20 minutes of trading.<br><br>Over the weekend, many European governments moved to save troubled banks, and made more promises to protect depositors from the credit crisis.<br><br>Germany on Sunday agreed a 50 billion euros (US$68 billion) package to bail out Hypo Real Estate, the country\'s second-biggest commercial property lender, after a rescue plan by private lenders fell apart.<br><br>France\'s BNP Paribas SA committed to taking a 75-percent stake in troubled European bank Fortis N, and Sweden and Denmark followed Ireland and Britain in raising the amount of savers\' deposits guaranteed by the government.<br><br>Britain\'s treasury chief Alistair Darling said he was "ready to do whatever it takes" to get the country through the credit crunch, and was looking at a "range of proposals."<br><br>But analysts said that, like the U.S. plan, the lack of detail in many of Europe\'s moves failed to restore investors\' confidence, resulting in the stock market tumbles. "What the markets need are some more details about exactly when and how these plans are going to come in," said Richard Hunter, head of British equities at Hargreaves Lansdown Stockbrokers, "And they need some proof that some of these measures are taking hold."<br><br>Across Asia, all markets were also in the red. Tokyo\'s Nikkei 225 index fell to its lowest level in 4 1/2 years, sinking 4.25 percent to 10,473.09.</i><br><br><b>THERE IS MORE.</b><br><br>Just received a letter from my financial planner today.  He said that "we" need ta make an appointment  - just to review my accounts&gt;<br><br>I said, y\'all cain\'t fool me!  What have I lost??  :&gt;)  We\'ll make an appointment  -soon!<br><br>Obama-Biden \'08!!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2935424">Anderkoo</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2935424" class="dsq-comment-message">GreenLady, much strength to you with your meeting. We have been losing thousands of dollars daily over the past month. But we\'re young and had most of our money in the market; hopefully you\'ve been more conservative than we.<br><br>Whatever you find out, don\'t panic! And be careful if your planner starts pressuring you to make sudden decisions.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2941046">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2941046" class="dsq-comment-message">Anderkoo:  Thank you so much for your encouragement!  :&gt;)<br><br>So do you think that I should take my socks  - that are stored under my mattress - with me?  That\'s where I keep most of my savings!   Speaking of FISCAL CONSERVATIVE!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>O.K.  Just Kidding!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>Thanks for your advice.  Annnnnnd, BTW, I have kept my money in conservatively "safe" instruments!  Never was that bold!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>Obama-Biden \'08!!!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2941893">Anderkoo</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2941893" class="dsq-comment-message">"Socks are better than stocks." That seems to be the truth for 2008.<br><br>Truthfully, if you have cash on hand... the next few weeks/months could offer some bargain-basement buying opportunities. But that might keep you awake at night more than some lumpy socks under the mattress.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2933777">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2933777" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  From TPM:  Poll Results -<br><br>    * 10/7: Gallup Pres-Tracker: Obama 51%, McCain 42%<br><br>    * 10/7: Hotline/Diageo Pres-Tracker: Obama 46%, McCain 44%<br><br>    * 10/7: Rasmussen Pres-Tracker: Obama 52%, McCain 44%<br><br>    * 10/7: Res. 2000 Pres-Tracker: Obama 52%, McCain 41%<br><br>    * 10/7: SurveyUSA NC: McCain 49%, Obama 46%<br><br>    * 10/7: SurveyUSA WI: Obama 52%, McCain 42%<br><br>    * 10/7: PPP (D) OH: Obama 49%, McCain 43%<br><br>    * 10/7: Mason-Dixon FL: Obama 48%, McCain 46%<br><br>    * 10/7: Res. 2000 NV: Obama 50%, McCain 43%<br><br>    * 10/7: Univ. of MN MN: Obama 54%, McCain 40%<br><br><br>Yaaaaaa!  Whoooooo!   Hoooooo!!    :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>GO Mr. President!!  :&gt;)<br><br>Obama-Biden \'08!!!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2933849">rorysmomma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2933849" class="dsq-comment-message">Where can I buy a that one t-shirt?  I love it.  I am that one they are scared of.... Uppity, college going, newspaper, blog reading, political view having...... Black woman.... Uppity is the new That one.... That one is the new Nigga.... Gotta love it.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2933888">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2933888" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  Making an attempt to "VET" the 1st Dude:<br><br><a href="http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/todd_palin_to_testify_in_troop.php" rel="nofollow">http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/...</a><br><b>Todd Palin To Testify In Troopergate  - Kind -of</b><br><br><i>So it looks like Todd Palin will answer questions in the Alaska legislature\'s Trooper-Gate investigation after all. But there\'s a catch.<br><br><b>According to representatives of the McCain-Palin campaign speaking at an Anchorage press conference last night, the First Dude will respond to questions from independent investigator Steve Branchflower, but only in writing, and with the answers funneled through his lawyer.</b><br><br>The campaign argued that his written responses would satisfy the subpoena issued by the legislature to Todd Palin. In response, Sen. Hollis French, the Democratic lawmaker overseeing the probe, told the Anchorage Daily News that the full Senate would decide whether Todd Palin is really off the hook. Resisting a subpoena can be punished with jail time.</i><br><br><b>I hope that the Repugs KNOW that their CAMPAIGN DONATIONS are being USED to DEFEND the 1st Dude!!</b><br><br>They probably should used some of that SAME money to buy them a HOUSE in, saaaaaay Arizona.  \'cause they don\'t appear to be welcomed back in Alaska!  :&gt;)<br><br>I\'ll betch that Miss "Whateva" Cindy would just LOVE having The Gov. as a neighbor!! :&gt;)     :&gt;)   NOT!!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2933933">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2933933" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  "Ms. Thang"  SPEAKS!  :&gt;)<br><br><a href="http://www.newser.com/story/39400/rambling-palin-opens-up-to-press-pack.htmlhttp://www.newser.com/story/39400/rambling-palin-opens-up-to-press-pack.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.newser.com/story/39400/rambling-pali...</a><br><b>Rambling Palin Opens Up To Press Pack</b><br><br><i><br><br>(Newser) – <b>Sarah Palin surprised reporters yesterday by coming to the back of her campaign plane to take questions from the press corps for the first time ever, Fox News reports. The candidate spoke in her trademark <u>rambling style</u> for nearly 15 minutes aboard what reporters had dubbed the "No-Talk Express." Palin addressed the Troopergate scandal and defended linking Barack Obama to political radical Bill Ayers.</b><br><br>Palin said her focus on the Ayers connection was relevant in light of the economic crisis because it raised questions about the candidate\'s "forthrightedness" on the issues. Palin told reporters she\'d love to appear on Saturday Night Live to give Tina Fey a taste of her own medicine. "I love her. She’s a hoot," said Palin.<br><br>Sources Fox News, CBS</i></div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2935161" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2935161" class="dsq-comment-message">Look for Pennsylvania and Virginia to be the next states where McCain Concedes.  Texas and Tennessee could also be in play.<br><br>And it looks like the Dark Sith is being rejected by the Obama camp, cause he brought out a jug of hateration last night and proceeded to drink it on the air.  And in the wake of all these lay offs at places like Merrill Lynch, Snowflake might become his only source of income these days.  Bet Snowflake didn\'t sign on for THAT when she married him.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2935522">Teacher</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2935522" class="dsq-comment-message">I beleive that influenced his decision to commit. I think she is an heiress and can finance some campaigns for him.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2935768">MsKitty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2935768" class="dsq-comment-message">Because that route seems to be working so well for Gramps. Dark Sith might wanna rethink his strategy LOL.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2941165" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2941165" class="dsq-comment-message">Teacher, it\'s her stepfather with the ducats.  Not her directly, unless her mother\'s got access to the checkbook.  She didn\'t come from money; her mother married into money.<br><br>Something the Dark Sith was too stupid to figure out.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2941827">Admiral_Komack</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2941827" class="dsq-comment-message">Does she have a beer distributorship?<br>Just asking.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2942058" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2942058" class="dsq-comment-message">ROFLMAOPIMP....</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2935576">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2935576" class="dsq-comment-message">CPL,<br><br>did he REALLY clown like that?</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2940968" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2940968" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes, Rikyrah, he did.<br><br>Par for the course.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2942992">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2942992" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  YES!  I posted this yesterday!!<br><br>Here\'s an article:<br><br><a href="http://politics.nashvillepost.com/tag/harold-ford/" rel="nofollow">http://politics.nashvillepost.com/tag/harold-ford/</a><br>Harold Ford: Post Politics: Political News and Views In Tennessee<br><br><i>It certainly was an experience consuming a debate this way amongst the hustle and bustle of the national media just yards away from the actors on the stage.<br><br>Watching the reality of the “Spin Alley” you hear and read so much about up close and personal was an eye opener. Listening to local and national political figures spouting out prepackaged, fluffier-than-fluff instant reactions to reporters desperately sopping every tidbit they could to make deadline or get a story instantly up on the web was something to behold.<br><br>Is this process really that conducive to the pursuit of truth? Yeah, that’s a rhetorical question.<br><br>Anyway, here are some of the quotations I was able to get amongst the crowds of the national and local press pursuing truth.<br><br><b>Harold Ford, Jr.: “Overall this debate will not change the dynamic of race in any meaningful way. Obama is ahead nationally and in the swing states. Obama did good tonight, very good and I think the polls will bear him out as the winner tomorrow.”</b></i><br><br>HOW BLAND IS THIS!??  His INPUT was NOT needed!<br><br>Sorry Rikyrah.  :&gt;(  Just tryin\' ta be helpful.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2941984" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2941984" class="dsq-comment-message">What did he say?</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2942042" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2942042" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2942042" class="dsq-comment-message">The usual hateration he says when referencing Obama.  NO knock out punch, etc. etc.  I had to tune out and it hurts to actually look at this brotha these days.<br><br>He\'s looking hurt and the $5000 make up girl isn\'t helping him.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2942005" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2942005" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2942005" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2942005" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2942005" class="dsq-comment-message">Look for Pennsylvania and Virginia to be the next states where McCain Concedes. Texas and Tennessee could also be in play.<br><br>::<br><br>As that labor leader from PA said last week, before it\'s all over, the only state McCain will be campaigning in the week before the election is Georgia. <br><br>And if it comes down to that, he\'ll lose Georgia too.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2943361" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2943361" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2943361" href="http://blog.evavegadiversity.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">evita</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2943361" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2943361" class="dsq-comment-message">I want the guys who come out with the brooms at the end of the Yankee\'s games to come out and do the "sweep."</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2943484" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2943484" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2943484" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2943484" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2943484" class="dsq-comment-message">Craig, from what I\'m hearing out of Georgia, there were a couple of Black Congressmen who got primary challengers because they weren\'t initially on Obama\'s bandwagon in support.  Having said that, it appears that Georgia may be lining up behind Pennsylvania and Virginia as battleground states McCain concedes.<br><br>At this point, he\'ll only have Alaska, because even his home state of Arizona is pissed and turning blue by some accounts.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2942759" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2942759" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2942759">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2942759" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2942759" class="dsq-comment-message">CPL:  I saw him!  Arrrrggg!  Just couldn\'t GIVE IT UP for O-MAN!!<br><br>CENTRIST is NOT spelled   S-T-U-P-I-D!!<br><br>Oh!  Wait. . . . .   In HIS CASE,    YES IT IS!!!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>Obama-Biden \'08!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2935209" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2935209" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2935209">Suprk</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2935209" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2935209" class="dsq-comment-message">Someone has already made the T-Shirt<br><br><b>I\'m Voting for THAT ONE - Obama 2008</b><br><a href="http://www.cafepress.com/xerotopia.315025991#" rel="nofollow">http://www.cafepress.com/xerotopia.315025991#</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2937015" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2937015" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2937015">caligirl</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2937015" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2937015" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL!   i\'m getting one.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2942688" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2942688" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2942688">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2942688" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2942688" class="dsq-comment-message">Suprk:   GOOD FIND!!!   :&gt;)  Thanks!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2935224" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2935224" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2935224">Sepia</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2935224" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2935224" class="dsq-comment-message">For crissake, Joe Biden! Tell the truth and shame the devil! Call McCain\'s "that one" comment for what it is: Disrespectful!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2941989" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2941989" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2941989" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2941989" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2941989" class="dsq-comment-message">Cut Joe some slack, Sepia - according to reports, he was close to his mother-in-law and he\'s in mourning, so he probably said what came to mind at that point.<br><br>I\'d rather lukewarm than foot in mouth, LOL</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-2942065">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2942065" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2942065" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2942065">Town</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2942065" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2942065" class="dsq-comment-message">I think Joe Biden is friends with both McCain and Hillary Clinton and has worked with them and it\'s probably hard for him to slam them left and right as is now required.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2936025" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2936025" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2936025">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2936025" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2936025" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t think John McCain was trying to be intentionally racist with the "That One" comment.  John McCain is an asshole.  He always has been, he always will be.  And we know he\'s been assy to white congressmen and Senators.  I think if Obama had been white and whooping his ass on national television, he would have been just as assy to him...<br><br><br>HOWEVER<br><br><br>This whole "that one" episode and telling Oliver he might not know about Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae proves how out of touch McCain is.  It\'s a new world. John McCain is still living in Bedrock while everyone else is living like he Jetsons.<br><br>John McCain lost the election last night, and he knows it.  That\'s why he didn\'t stay and work the crowd like the Obamas did.  He got the hell out of there to cry in his oatmeal.<br><br>I almost feel bad for him because Bush got hung around his neck like a stone and now Bush is pulling him under.   However, McCain hasn\'t ONCE come up with fresh and original ideas or talked about his vision for the country...unless it involves war.  Being the president has much more to it than war; what if another Katrina happens?  Or another L.A. Riots?  What if another Brown V. Board of Education comes up?  Or a health epidemic?  What are his views on education?  Immigration?  Failing roads and bridges?<br><br>We don\'t know because all McCain is about is fighting somebody.  <br><br>And McCain\'s physical appearance was terrible.  Pacing around the stage like Fred G. Sanford, ill fitting suit, couldn\'t even halfway sit on the tall stool, wheezing and breathing hard into the mic?<br><br>McCain knows he lost that election last night.  To "that one."  I don\'t know what he will do now.  He might just throw the entire house at Obama or he might just quietly trudge along to his destined defeat.  I guess we\'ll find out what McCain\'s course of action will be today.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2936586" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2936586" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2936586">Anderkoo</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2936586" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2936586" class="dsq-comment-message">"I almost feel bad for him because Bush got hung around his neck like a stone and now Bush is pulling him under... I don\'t know what he will do now. He might just throw the entire house at Obama or he might just quietly trudge along to his destined defeat. I guess we\'ll find out what McCain\'s course of action will be today."<br><br>I used to hold out hope that Bush might redeem himself, not as a President or politician, but as a person. Maybe show some self awareness or remorse.<br><br>Maybe McCain will show more honor and dignity than Bush. I respect him not one iota as a politician, but I still hope he will emerge with some remainder of his soul intact.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2937001" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2937001" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2937001">Town</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2937001" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2937001" class="dsq-comment-message">I think Bush will be hiding out in his new Dallas home for a good long while.  He knows that he\'s a worldwide joke and nobody outside of his family likes him.  Even Laura looks disgusted with him half of the time.<br><br>I think it will severely hurt McCain\'s soul when he has to call "that one" "Mr. President" next January.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2937646" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2937646" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2937646">Teacher</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2937646" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2937646" class="dsq-comment-message">" I think Bush will be hiding out in his new Dallas home for a good long while. He knows that he\'s a worldwide joke and nobody outside of his family likes him." <br><br> In the bottle.<br><br>"I think it will severely hurt McCain\'s soul when he has to call "that one" "Mr. President" next January."   <br><br>I think he is going to try to avoid it as much as possible. I think he will also be one of the ones who will continue to try to damage or undermine everything O tries to do. On Nov. 5, the republicans will start planning their campaign for 2012 if they haven\'t already started. They really don\'t give a rat\'s tail about our country. They care way more about their egos, their power and their money.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2945306" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2945306" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2945306">Michelle</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2945306" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2945306" class="dsq-comment-message">Conversation at my place last night after the debate:<br><br>Me: "I know we shouldn\'t be cocky and it\'s not won yet. But that said, I really an\'t wait to hear McCain\'s concession speech."<br><br>My gf: "You won\'t enjoy it, you don\'t like listening to him."<br><br>Me: "Ooooooh, yes, I WILL enjoy it! Yes yes yes I will! I\'m thinking I can try to record it as a mp3 file and listen to it more than once!"<br><br>Now I\'m thinking I could cut it down to those two words: "Mr. President" and have a smaller mp3 file :)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2937896" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2937896" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2937896">MsKitty</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2937896" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2937896" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>Even Laura looks disgusted with him half of the time.</i><br><br>It has been rumored that for a time Laura moved out of the White House and lived at the Mayflower Hotel. I wouldn\'t be surprised to hear a divorce announcement within the next few years.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2941954" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2941954" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2941954" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2941954" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2941954" class="dsq-comment-message">I live in DC and that rumor about Laura being at the Mayflower has been in circulation since 2006 - when she was seen at the Mayflower Hotel.<br><br>I\'ve speculated she\'s been holed up there with a George Clooney-type hunk named "Cliff" who has been "servicing" the First Lady, if you get my drift  **wink, wink, nod, nod""<br><br>You can\'t really blame her - she\'s married to Bush.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2943394" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2943394" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2943394" href="http://blog.evavegadiversity.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">evita</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2943394" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2943394" class="dsq-comment-message">Nothing wrong with a little service... especially if your man is an idiot.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2943445" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2943445" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2943445" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2943445" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2943445" class="dsq-comment-message">And they do have a few pieces of "eye candy" on the <br>Secret Service detail, Evita; I\'ve seen them around town.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2944128" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2944128" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2944128" href="http://blog.evavegadiversity.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">evita</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2944128" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2944128" class="dsq-comment-message">Well may Lady Laura (btw that\'s the name of salsa song,) be blessed wit some caaaaandy. She worked for it.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2945746" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2945746" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2945746">Admiral_Komack</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2945746" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2945746" class="dsq-comment-message">Just don\'t let her drive.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2941889" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2941889" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2941889" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2941889" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2941889" class="dsq-comment-message">Anderkoo, you\'re more hopeful than I am. If McCain loses, he will be looking for someone to blame, so I have no hope that he will show more honor and dignity than he has done to this point (which is non-existant).<br><br>The day he put Sarah Palin on his ticket, the Devil handed him a receipt for his soul - and there\'s no refund, either.<br><br>Bush is the anvil around his neck and now he\'s drowning.  He could have retained his "maverick" label by poking his finger into Bush\'s eyes on every damned thing since Bush smeared him about his Bangladeshi daughter back in 2000.  We also found out about Cindy being a Thieving Junkie-Ho at the same time, and yet, he was in full collusion with Bush on every damned thing that passed through Congress and caused this current cluster f*&&^ now.<br><br>Instead of being independent in their thinking, he drank the kool-aid and tried to reinvent himself as a Bush clone.<br><br>He has no soul and anything else that\'s left is worthless.  GAME OVER.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2942231" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2942231" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2942231">Anderkoo</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2942231" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2942231" class="dsq-comment-message">I try to maintain some empathy for these guys mostly to keep myself from turning into a bitter little man.  I don\'t and can\'t know who McCain really is.<br><br>I do feel bad for Cindy though. Seems like she is going to suffer a lot if/when he loses.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2942645" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2942645" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2942645">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2942645" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2942645" class="dsq-comment-message">Anderkoo:  There is ENOUGH "ale" in Ms. "Whateva Cindy\'s coffers to keep her going for life.  Please don\'t waste your empathy.<br><br>Use it for:  the military families; for the victims of the various hurricanes; <b>HEAD BOW</b>; for the people HURT by the GREED of CEO\'s/others in the financial industry, etc!!<br><br>RESPECTFULLY!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2943427" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2943427" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2943427" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2943427" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2943427" class="dsq-comment-message">There\'s a process known as DIVORCE, Anderkoo.<br><br>I only recommend it if the marriage is all over but the shouting, and in Cindy\'s case, McCain would be the worse for wear, cause she gots all the money.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2943468" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2943468" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2943468">Anderkoo</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2943468" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2943468" class="dsq-comment-message">We have Joe Biden to thank for VAWA.<br><br>Seriously, though, it can be hard for even the wealthiest and most powerful women to leave abusive relationships. Again, I can only rely on what I\'ve read, but it seems possible that Cindy is one of those situations.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2942556" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2942556" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2942556">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2942556" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2942556" class="dsq-comment-message">Anderkoo:  I hear your compassion.<br><br>BUT, "McAncient" got up one morning - about <b>8 years ago</b> and as he was dressing, HE <b>put on his brand new, shiny SHRUB necklace!</b><br><br>He thought that he was "ready for the DEVIOUS/RACIST game that was his to play" for the next 8 years!  Well, I\'m saying, "play on!  Play on!"  But, "THAT ONE" has WON the game!!<br><br>So go sit down, with your "SHRUB necklace"!  You could spend time polishing it, \'cause it\'s DULL right \'bout NOW!![20 -something in the approval polls, is it?]<br><br>I\'m sorry that I can\'t join you in you compassion. They were aiming to "crush us" and got caught!!  In the "big leagues", NO TWO OPPONENTS WIN THE GAME!"  <br><br>The only <b>W</b> in Shrub\'s column is in his MIDDLE NAME!  :&gt;)<br><br>Obama-Biden \'08!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2943450" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2943450" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2943450">Anderkoo</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2943450" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2943450" class="dsq-comment-message">I figure people suffer more languishing in regret at the things they done. One day maybe Bush and McCain and all their ilk may look in the mirror and see who they really are.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2937124" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2937124" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2937124">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2937124" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2937124" class="dsq-comment-message">agreed Town.  <br><br>I didn\'t assume racial epithet either.  I thought more annoyance.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2941907" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2941907" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2941907" class="dsq-comment-message">Well, it could be perceived that "that one" is the singular of "those people."<br><br>McCain is a bigot. There\'s no reason to believe that he wasn\'t exhibiting both bigotry and annoyance.<br><br>I\'m beginning to believe that John McCain is physically ill, not just old.<br><br>This election is his last hoorah.<br><br>The wheezing, the growing lymph nodes on the side of his face, the closing of his left eye. He\'ll stay "healthy" long enough to be elected president, and then he will lay down and die.<br><br>If he\'s not elected president, he will lay down and die.<br><br>That\'s what I see.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2942977">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2942977" class="dsq-comment-message">he is physically sick and he is tired after the last few months.  Face it -- race baiting can take a toll.<br><br>regarding "If he\'s not elected president, he will lay down and die."<br><br>RAOTFLMAO</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2941810" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2941810" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2941810" class="dsq-comment-message">Town, I don\'t think Perot was being racist with "You People" comment back in 1992, but we all know what happened, anyway.  He still managed to get 20% of the national vote, but it could have been double that if he doesn\'t utter those two words - because brothas and sistas outside of Arkansas weren\'t too sold on Clinton and were pissed off at Bush, Sr.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2936203" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2936203">andyfrombrooklyn</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2936203" class="dsq-comment-message">d, <br>    peel as much as you can. then patiently remove rest by saturating with mineral spirits or paint thinner intermittently rubbing with cloth.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2936408">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2936408" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2936408" class="dsq-comment-message">Even Obama Hater Christopher Hitchens had to give Obama his props for last night:<br><br><a href="http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/hitchens/2008/10/obama-trounces-mccain-in-nashv.html" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/hitchens/2008/10/obam...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2936943">caligirl</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2936943" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2936943" class="dsq-comment-message">it\'s a miracle!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2940010" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2940010" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2940010" class="dsq-comment-message">His introduction alone:<br><br><i>There was a vague and flickering moment of lucidity in the course of the humiliating and even alarming performance of Senator John McCain in the presidential “debate” in Tennessee, in which as usual no “debate” between the two nominees was permitted and during which the moderator made every effort to make the average American questioner appear to be both servile and retarded.</i><br><br>is all I needed to read.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2941765" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2941765" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2941765" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2941765" class="dsq-comment-message">You mean Hitchens was sober long enough to string together coherent sentences?<br><br>"The Dead Has Arisen." - Old Mister from "The Color Purple".</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2936937" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2936937">Amy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2936937" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2936937" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://static.crooksandliars.com/files/uploads/2008/09/mccain-obama-punch.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://static.crooksandliars.com/files/uploads/...</a><br>Can we get this picture on a button??</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2937045" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2937045" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2937045" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2937045" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com/2008/10/obama-wins-second-debate.html" rel="nofollow">My Take  on the Mauling that Happened Last Night</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2937760" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2937760">Anderkoo</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2937760" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2937760" class="dsq-comment-message">&lt; a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/zack-exley/the-new-organizers-part-1_b_132782.html"&gt; a very long and meticulous description of Obama\'s ground game in Ohio</a><br><br>Jeremy Bird, general election director, was in charge of the field in South Carolina. Very excellent person and amazing organizer. The piece describes in detail the slow-cook approach of the Obama campaign and how the focus was on building leadership FIRST and then getting to persuasion and GOTV.<br><br>What that means for our democracy is that people all across our nation are becoming EMPOWERED. This is dangerous for the existing power structure. Heck, it\'s dangerous for Obama himself when he becomes President. But that\'s how we keep our leaders accountable, no matter how much we like them personally.<br><br>I wrote about what this will mean for South Carolina <a href="http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/anderkoo/2008/01/28/obama-sc08-after-the-flood-all-the-colors-came-out/" rel="nofollow">back in January</a>. We watched ordinary local people buck their traditional leaders who were paid off by the Clinton campaign, rise up, and take control of their own lives. It was a beautiful thing. I can\'t know that every person who\'s become a leader will remain one -- but just imagine if even 1/10 of them do. What will that mean to power all across the nation? What wonderful new people will emerge as new leaders? I\'m not just talking about age; the woman we worked with is a grandmother and when we left was really starting to see herself as a political force, not just a constituent.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2937947" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2937947" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2937947" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2937947" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh, mercy. <br><br>A  Republican just introduced Joe Biden in Florida. He said, "The next vice president of the United States of America, John McCain!!"<br><br>Earlier he said Barack O\'Biden and Joe Obama.<br><br>His mouth and mind don\'t work in synch.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2941297" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2941297">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2941297" class="dsq-comment-message">Craig,<br><br>What kind of sh%t is that? That is pitiful!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2941523" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2941523" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2941523" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2941523" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2941523" class="dsq-comment-message">He was nervous.<br><br>He\'s truly a supporter of the democratic ticket, but he just kept tripping all over his words.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2939841" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2939841" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2939841">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2939841" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2939841" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/8/91759/1121/669/623787" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/8/917...</a><br><br>Sarah Palin and Friends in NC:<br><br>Lord,<br><br>Please shut the Democrats\' lying mouths.<br><br>Amen</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2941092" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2941092" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2941092">MsKitty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2941092" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2941092" class="dsq-comment-message">Where\'s a good lightning bolt when you need one?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2942153" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2942153" href="http://blog.evavegadiversity.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">evita</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2942153" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2942153" class="dsq-comment-message">May she always walk in a metal box...</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2941737" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2941737" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2941737" class="dsq-comment-message">Anyone around Sarah Palin should be careful not to stand too close to her because you don\'t want to get caught when God aims with His lightening bolt.<br><br>You want the Good Lord to hit what He\'s aiming at - which is the she-wolf, Palin.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2943390" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2943390">Anderkoo</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2943390" class="dsq-comment-message">God helps those who helps themselves... Sarah is doing a great job killing herself without any intervention.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2941157" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2941157">BarackMarley</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2941157" class="dsq-comment-message">McCain Called Bin Laden\'s Mujahideen \'Freedom Fighters\' in the Debate<br><a href="http://newsone.blackplanet.com/elections/mccain-called-bin-laden-a-freedom-fighter/" rel="nofollow">http://newsone.blackplanet.com/elections/mccain...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2941541" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2941541" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2941541" class="dsq-comment-message">A report from a Stanley Greenberg focus group that should terrify the GOP:<br><br>    Before the debate, McCain had a 48/46 favorability rating; that improved to 56/36 by the end. But that’s about where Obama started the evening—54/36. After an hour and a half, Obama’s favorability numbers were 80/14. As Joe Biden would say, let me repeat that: 80% of the undecided voters had favorable views of Obama and only 14% saw him negatively for a net rating of +66. Not even Bill Clinton got such a warm response in town hall formats. <br><br><a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/10/the-debate-matt.html" rel="nofollow">http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2941550" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2941550" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2941550">MsKitty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2941550" class="dsq-comment-message">Another McCain campaign strategy goes up in smoke:<br><br><a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14382.html" rel="nofollow">Campaign shifts back to economic crisis</a><br><br><i>McCain’s decision to use Tuesday’s debate to roll out a dramatic new housing plan – and to downplay an extended weekend of personal attacks on Obama – appeared to mark a recognition that, after two consecutive days of the Dow plummeting and financial hemorrhaging abroad, the market meltdown is not likely to move from the center of the campaign. <br><br>After days of attempts to persuade voters that Obama’s ties to ‘60s radical Bill Ayers are a crucial character issue, McCain didn’t mention Ayers’ name during the 90 minutes of Tuesday’s forum. His top aides suggested afterward that, going forward, the candidate wouldn’t focus on the former domestic terrorist nor invoke the name of Obama’s controversial pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. </i></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2941607" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2941607">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2941607" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2941607" class="dsq-comment-message">How was McCain\'s "new housing plan" NEW? What he talked about is included in the Bailout Plan.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2942125" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2942125" href="http://blog.evavegadiversity.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">evita</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2942125" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2942125" class="dsq-comment-message">That is what I thought! Can someone explain how this is different than that part of the bailout? One pundit said, "well if McCain didn\'t read the 3 page bailout proposal, it is unlikely he read the 100 page edition." I\'m with her.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2941705" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2941705" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2941705" class="dsq-comment-message">Cause it\'s getting him NOWHERE, MsKitty.  And everytime he tries to invoke connections to Obama, the polls continue to drop.<br><br>He\'s trying to stop terminal bleeding because he knows he brought a knife to that gunfight, and Obama packed a .44 Magnum.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2941845" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2941845">MsKitty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2941845" class="dsq-comment-message">Yeah, I think it kinda went down like this:<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-0BVT4cqGY" rel="nofollow">"Do ya feel lucky, punk?</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2943370" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2943370" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2943370" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2943370" class="dsq-comment-message">Lawd, I loves me some Clint Eastwood, especially as Dirty Harry.  LOL</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2941917" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2941917">CPR</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2941917" class="dsq-comment-message">After last nights thread about the debate. I thought about the "That one" Comment that McStupid made. I tried to put myself in his shoes and thought, well, maybe he was just upset and spoke out of frustration and did not realize what he was saying...But then I thought, this is a debate Stupid (against a black man) You have to choose your words wisely. I haven\'t read all the comments yet but I\'m sure there are some black republicans out there just beating themselves up over this one<br><br>It\'s funny how, last night I wrote a comment saying that I was praying that McStupid wouldn\'t call Obama a boy or the N(word)...He came pretty damn close!!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2942011" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2942011">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2942011" class="dsq-comment-message">CPR:  Co-sign.  Glad I didn\'t place a wager on this!!   I would have WON.   <br><br><b>THAT ONE</b>  is close ENOUGH!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2941920" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2941920" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2941920">Town</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2941920" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2941920" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/8/114730/323/499/623933" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/8/114730/...</a><br><br>"You\'re only voting for Obama because you\'re secretly racist."<br><br>This is a letter that\'s been targeted to people in Northern Virginia who have Obama signs in their yards.<br><br>The Institute for Healing Racism says they have no connection to the letter writers at all.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2942070" href="http://blog.evavegadiversity.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">evita</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2942070" class="dsq-comment-message">Myth yesterday posted an email she received about John McCain on vacation behaving like a impetuous, sexist fool from someone who was apparently witnessed this. I sent an email to the professor who signed the email that has gone viral. Here is her response- as she is a real person.  Since she is receiving thousands of email, if you have received and then subsequently forwarded "her" email, please forward this response and ask people to STOP forwarding it.  Let\'s be good, responsible people here. Her response is below:<br><br><br>Mary-Kay Gamel<br> to me<br>	<br>show details 10:35 PM (13 hours ago)<br>	<br>	<br>Reply<br>	<br>	<br>I have received thousands of emails and phone calls about the Turtle Island account. I spend many hours every day replying but still can\'t keep up.<br><br>I did NOT write that account, forward it under my name, or ask for it to be widely distributed.<br><br>I have never been to Turtle Island (which costs $2000/day), have never met Senator McCain, was a classics major (not an English Literature major), and don\'t like pancakes.<br><br>When I received it three weeks ago the author was identified as Ana (Anasuya) Dubey, a psychologist in San Francisco. But she was not the sender of the email. I forwarded the account,<br>with full email trail information and the name of the purported author, to three friends with whom I discuss politics. It was further forwarded, and at some point I was identified as the author or as making the story public on behalf of Ms. Dubey. I suspect whoever did this thought that my name and contact information would make the story more credible.<br><br>I regret any misinformation which is circulating. This is NOT an organized effort on the part of any political candidate.<br><br>The account is not necessarily false. I have spoken to several people who know Ms. Dubey and vouch for its truth. Snopes is investigating and lists its current status as "undetermined." I have just today heard that Ms. Dubey is working with a reporter to substantiate her account. Until the actual author comes forward, however, we will not know whether the account is valid.<br><br>I hope you will pass this information on to anyone interested in this story.<br>        MKG<br><br>p.s. check out "Make-Believe Maverick" in the current ROLLING STONE (available online)<br><br>-- <br><br>Mary-Kay Gamel</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2942154">Suprk</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2942154" class="dsq-comment-message">Some good pictures from last nights debate. Skip the first 5 and check out the ones at the bottom. Look at how the audience is gathering around Barack . Where is McCain???<br><br><b>Some pictures from the debate</b><br><a href="http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4190501" rel="nofollow">http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/du...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2942272">MsKitty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2942272" class="dsq-comment-message">I love that last picture, everybody just looks so happy.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2942356">Suprk</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2942356" class="dsq-comment-message">I would be too, standing next to our next President. Who would not want to have a picture and say I remember when I stood next to President Barack Obama. <br><br>Obama/Biden 08</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2943672">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2943672" class="dsq-comment-message">Suprk:  He "HIT THE ROAD JACK!"  -Um, YES, there might be a SONG!  :&gt;)<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8Tiz6INF7I" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8Tiz6INF7I</a><br><b>Hit The Road Jack  - Ray Charles</b><br><br>ENOUGH!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2943713">Suprk</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2943713" class="dsq-comment-message">What you say?? LOL., love that song<br><br>Obama / Biden \'08</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2943761">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2943761" class="dsq-comment-message">Suprk:  Thank you for going along on my musical journey!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2944650">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2944650" class="dsq-comment-message">Me too!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2942427" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2942427" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2942427" class="dsq-comment-message">Barack is speaking in Indianapolis right now. In the frame behind him?<br><br>All white women.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2943346" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2943346" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2943346" class="dsq-comment-message">Craig, gives new meaning to the Cleavon Little Comment from"Blazing Saddles"<br><br>"Where all de White Wimmen at?"<br><br>Sitting behind and in support of Obama.  ROFL</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2944565">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2944565" class="dsq-comment-message">lol</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2942446" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2942446">RonnieB</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2942446" class="dsq-comment-message">Roland Martin calls out McPalin for their guilt-by-association tactics.<br><br><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/07/martin.townhall/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/07/martin.t...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2943197">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2943197" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  A little LEVITY!  I received this e-mail just now!  It caught me off-guard, at first!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>ENJOY!!  :&gt;)<br><br>Dear friends,<br>    With all the turmoil in the market today and the collapse of Lehman Bros and Acquisition of Merrill Lynch by Bank of America this might be some good advice.<br>For all of you with any money left, be aware of the next expected mergers so that you can get in on the ground floor and make some BIG bucks. Take note:<br><br>1.) Hale Business Systems, Mary Kay Cosmetics, Fuller Brush, and W R. Grace Co.<br>Will merge and become:<br>Hale, Mary, Fuller, Grace.<br><br>2.) Polygram Records, Warner Bros., and Zesta Crackers join forces and become:<br>Poly, Warner Cracker.<br><br>3.) 3M will merge with Goodyear and become:<br>MMMGood.<br><br>4. Zippo Manufacturing, Audi Motors, Dofasco, and Dakota Mining will merge and<br>become:<br>ZipAudiDoDa .<br><br>5. FedEx is expected to join its competitor, UPS, and become:<br>FedUP.<br><br>6. Fairchild Electronics and Honeywell Computers will become:<br>Fairwell Honeychild.<br><br>7. Grey Poupon and Docker Pants are expected to become:<br>PouponPants.<br><br>8. Knotts Berry Farm and the National Organization of Women will become:<br>Knott NOW!<br><br>And finally...<br><br>9. Victoria \'s Secret and Smith &Wesson will merge under the new name:<br>TittyTittyBangBang</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2945073">Michelle</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2945073" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2943309">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2943309" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  MORE SUPPORT!:<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jan-mcgirk/israelis-sending-word-to_b_132721.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jan-mcgirk/israel...</a><br><b>Israelis Sending Word To US Jews:  We Prefer Obama</b><br><br><i>JERUSALEM -- Ardent grassroots Obama-supporters from Israel are out to convince Jewish voters in the United States that the Democratic candidate would be a welcome change in the troubled Middle East.<br><br>Israelis across the political spectrum, from leftwing actors to retired spy chiefs and generals, are challenging the conventional wisdom that a Republican hawk in the White House would be in their best interests. Their weapon of choice? Online video.<br><br>Sarah Silverman\'s Great Schlep schtick gets the most hits and even prompted video-kvetching by comedian Jackie Mason, but several Israeli-made pro-Obama clips are making a big impact on YouTube and political websites.<br>They are raising eyebrows and attracting attention. One video, sponsored by The Jewish Council for Education & Research (JCER), a non-profit organization that supports Obama\'s presidential run, features seven senior defense officials from Israel who now are crying foul.<br><br>SKIP<br><br>"We\'re concerned about Jewish voters who are so wrapped in fear that they can\'t see beyond the lies and distortions," she told the Huffington Post. "We\'re also extremely concerned about Sarah Palin; it\'s in Israel\'s interest to have intelligent support from people who know the region and its many complexities, not just bellicose lip service paid by those who know nothing about it at all."</i><br><br>THEY are  FIRED UP!  READY TO GO!!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2943464">Suprk</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2943464" class="dsq-comment-message"><b>Jewish Americans for Obama</b><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m96chUuvoe0" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m96chUuvoe0</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2943387" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2943387" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2943387" class="dsq-comment-message">Rumorhazzit the Republicans are putting pressure on Powell not to publicly endorse Barack Obama.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2943430">Suprk</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2943430" class="dsq-comment-message"><b>Gallup Daily: Obama’s Lead Over McCain Expands to 11</b><br><i>52% share of the vote is Obama’s highest to date</i><br><br><a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/111040/Gallup-Daily-Obamas-Lead-Over-McCain-Expands.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://www.gallup.com/poll/111040/Gallup-Daily-...</a><br><br>These results, based on Oct. 5-7 polling, are the best for Obama during the campaign, both in terms of his share of the vote and the size of his lead over McCain. <br><br>Nearly all interviews in today\'s report were conducted before Tuesday night\'s town hall style debate in Nashville. Any movement in voter preferences as a result of this debate will be apparent in coming days. <br><br>Voter preferences seem to have stabilized for the moment, as Obama has held a double-digit lead over McCain in each of the last three individual nights of polling.<br><br>This was before last night debate, I am hoping the numbers swing even greater after last nights performance</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2943595">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2943595" class="dsq-comment-message">Suprk:   Whoooo!  Hoooo!   I\'m lovin\' it!!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2943690">MsKitty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2943690" class="dsq-comment-message">Here\'s yet another <a href="http://thatone08.com/" rel="nofollow">site dedicated to That One</a>.<br><br>Okay, I\'m gonna stop posting these links because it\'s getting out of control LOL.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2943783">Suprk</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2943783" class="dsq-comment-message">MsKitty, <br><br>Thanks for that link, I am ordering myself one right now</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2943918">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2943918" class="dsq-comment-message">MsKitty:  This is GREAT!!  Thank you!!  :&gt;)<br><br>FIRED UP!  READY TO GO!!!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2943819">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2943819" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  MORE SUPPORT!:  :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKU-rvoDlb4&feature=user" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKU-rvoDlb4&feat...</a><br><b>Republican For Obama In Ohio</b><br><br>Obama-Biden \'08!!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2944365" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2944365" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2944365" class="dsq-comment-message"><b>The Official Sarah Palin Halloween Costume</b><br><br><a href="http://fashionindie.com/the-official-sarah-palin-halloween-costume/" rel="nofollow">http://fashionindie.com/the-official-sarah-pali...</a><br><br>They forgot the rifle! And the tiara LOL...</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2944434" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2944434" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh wait! It gets better!  <br><br>You\'ve got Trannie Palin, Gay Pride Palin, Stripper Palin<br><br><a href="http://gawker.com/5059995/re+thinking-your-sarah-palin-halloween-costume" rel="nofollow">http://gawker.com/5059995/re+thinking-your-sara...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2944793" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2944793" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2944793" class="dsq-comment-message">A great McCain website that sets the Straight Talk Express right side up again. It\'s like a B.A.R. with videos.<br><br><a href="http://www.mccainsource.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.mccainsource.com</a>.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2944835" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2944835" href="http://www.thebottomofheaven.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">claudia_m</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2944835" class="dsq-comment-message">McCain slips and call an audience of supporters "my fellow prisoners." LOL<br><br><a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1008/My_fellow_who.html?showall" rel="nofollow">http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1008/My_...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2945015">Monie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2945015" class="dsq-comment-message">Found this over at Daily Kos: <br><br>"Barack Obama\'s friend tried to kill my family"<br><br>John McCain\'s low and disgusting campaign  sent out a press release today, in which they enlisted a man named John Murtagh to give a statement on Barack Obama\'s relationship with Bill Ayers---Murtagh\'s home was allegedly firebombed by Ayers.<br><br><br>The press release includes the following:<br><br>"Barack Obama may have been a child when William Ayers was plotting attacks against U.S. targets -- but I was one of those targets. Barack Obama\'s friend tried to kill my family."<br><br><a href="http://www.standardnewswire.com/news/816203460.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.standardnewswire.com/news/816203460....</a><br><br>John McCain\'s press office number and wesite address are at the top of this press release.<br><br>Purely gutter politics.<br><br>What Fox News and the McCain campaign won\'t say is that a prominent Republican,  the late Walter Annenburg is the founder of the Annenburg Challenge. <br><br> Annenburg served as ambassador to Britain under the Nixon and Reagan administrations.  And it was Mr. Annenburg who enlisted Ayers to serve on his Annenburg Challenge Board which Obama later became a part of.<br><br>The funny thing is that Walter Annenburg\'s widow, Leonore,  is on a list of former ambassadors that support John McCain, which was released by his campaign today.  Huffington Post has an article about.<br><br>Not only is the character assaination of  Obama-Ayers connection dumb and unwarranted, but McCain touts the endorsement of of Annenburg\'s widow, whose husband was the one who enlisted Ayers in setting up his education foundation.  <br><br>So by this guilt-by association standard, does McCain also "pal around with terrorist" since one of his supporters\' family also has ties to Bill Ayers?<br><br>I mean, does  the McCain campaign  think at all?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2945061">Suprk</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2945061" class="dsq-comment-message"><b>Palin is a Post Turtle</b><br><br> I would love to take credit for this, but it isn\'t mine and I\'m  not sure where it originated from:<br><br>While suturing a cut on the hand of a 75-year old Texas rancher  whose hand was caught in a gate while working with cattle, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old man.  Eventually, the topic got around to Sarah Palin and her bid to to be a heartbeat away from being President.<br><br>The old rancher said, "Well, ya know, Palin is a post turtle."  Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him what a post turtle was.  The old rancher said, "When you\'re driving down a country road and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that\'s a post turtle."  The old rancher saw a puzzled look on the doctor\'s face, so he continued to explain.<br> <br> "You know she didn\'t get up there by herself, she doesn\'t belong up there, she doesn\'t know what to do while she is up there, and you just wonder what kind of dumb ass put her up there to begin with."<br> <br>Perfect analogy</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2947922">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2947922" class="dsq-comment-message">Supkr:  Hey!  I received this in an e-mail last week.  My friend from PA. sent it to me.  So at least I know that it has spread far and wide!   :&gt;)     :&gt;)  Its a crack-up!! <br><br>And, sooo true!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2945101" href="http://www.tariqnelson.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">TariqNelson</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2945101" class="dsq-comment-message">A funny illustration of "Joe Six Pack" vs "Educated Elite"<br><br><a href="http://tariqnelson.com/2008/10/08/joe-six-pack-vs-educated-elite/" rel="nofollow">http://tariqnelson.com/2008/10/08/joe-six-pack-...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2945146">MsKitty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2945146" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/politics/Palin_to_throw_out_puck_Saturday_night_.html" rel="nofollow">Palin to Drop Puck at Flyers Home Opener</a><br><br>As a die-hard Maple Leafs fan (in the heart of Flyers country) I don\'t need much incentive to hate them, but this will work.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2945151" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2945151" class="dsq-comment-message">Interesting take on how McCain showed his age last night (and not in a good way.)<br><br><b> McCain\'s Five Oldest Debate Moments</b><br><br>1. Listing priorities. The moment that truly jumped out at us was when Brokaw asked the candidates to list three issues — health care, energy, and entitlement reform — in order of their priority. <i>McCain went first, but needed Brokaw to repeat the three items he had to put in order, and wrote them down as Brokaw said them again. McCain started with entitlement reform, but sauntered back to his desk to glance at the sheet before moving on to energy. And it seemed that he took another peek at his notes once more before briefly moving to the topic of health care. Take a look:</i><br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmO2a25yqcU" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmO2a25yqcU</a><br><br>I hadn\'t thought about it last night, but the writer is correct.  McCain had to write everything down and then step back and glance at his notes as he spoke.  Very telling.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2945562">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2945562" class="dsq-comment-message">Cindy McCain Lobs Harsh Attack At Obama<br><br>Cindy McCain, with her husband and Sarah Palin at a rally in Pennsylvania, took one of her most personal shots yet at Barack Obama today.<br><br>“The day that Sen. Obama cast a vote to not to fund my son when he was serving sent a cold chill through my body let me tell you,” Cindy McCain said in introducing the GOP ticket. “I would suggest Sen. Obama change shoes with me for just one day. I suggest he take a day and go watch our men and women deploying.”<br><br><br><a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/1008/Invoking_sons_service_Cindy_McCain_levels_tough_shot_at_Obama_on_troops.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/10...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2945918">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2945918" class="dsq-comment-message">Does anyone have any Hoe, Sit Down! spray?</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2945738" href="http://blog.evavegadiversity.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">evita</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2945738" class="dsq-comment-message">McTwitchy calls us "my fellow prisoners."<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/08/mccain-calls-americans-hi_n_133037.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/08/mccain...</a><br><br>We have said for a long time on JJP that this guy thinks he is still fighting the war he lost. Here is ANOTHER example.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2945820">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2945820" class="dsq-comment-message">On Wednesday morning, John McCain\'s campaign released a list of 100 former ambassadors endorsing the GOP presidential nominee.<br><br>Second on the list, though her name is misspelled, is Leonore Annenberg, currently the president and chairman of the Annenberg Foundation and widow of ambassador and philanthropist Walter Annenberg. Ms. Annenberg was herself the "chief of protocol" at the State Department under President Reagan. <br><br>If the last name sounds familiar, it\'s because it also graces the name of the Chicago education board where Barack Obama and William Ayers sat in the room six times together.<br><br>In recent days, the McCain-Palin ticket (and particularly Palin) has faulted Obama for having served on that board with Ayers, who was a founding member of the radical 60\'s Weather Underground group when Obama was in grade school. <br><br>Since then, however, Ayers has been rehabilitated in Chicago society, carving out a niche in education circles. As a former Republican representative in Illinois told NPR on Monday, smearing Obama for his board association with Ayers is "nonsensical."<br><br>"It was never a concern by any of us in the Chicago school reform movement that he had led a fugitive life years earlier ... It\'s ridiculous," Republican Rep. Diana Nelson said. "There is no reason at all to smear Barack Obama with this association. It\'s nonsensical, and it just makes me crazy. It\'s so silly."<br><br>Separate calls to the Pennsylvania and California offices of the Annenberg Foundation were not immediately returned Wednesday morning.<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/08/mccains-trumpets-endorsem_n_132954.html#postComment" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/08/mccain...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2945823">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2945823" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/washington/AP-McCain-Obama.html" rel="nofollow">Another McCain Supporter Refers to Obama\'s Middle Name</a>.<br><br><i>Shouts of \'\'socialist,\'\' \'\'terrorist\'\' and \'\'liar\'\' from supporters followed McCain\'s references to Obama at Lehigh University.</i><br><br>Keep praying for the Obamas and Bidens.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2945847" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2945847" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com/2008/10/my-fellow-prisoners.html" rel="nofollow">"My Fellow Prisoners"</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2946475">MsKitty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2946475" class="dsq-comment-message">Because you know you can\'t get enough...<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/07/post-debate-pda-slideshow_n_132848.html" rel="nofollow">Obama PDA (post-debate edition)</a></div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2946862" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2946862" class="dsq-comment-message">Here it goes folks:<br><br>The criminals are smearing Barack in emails as a member of a terrorist sleeper cell. That\'s why they\'re questioning his fundraising and how he was able to afford traveling the world in college to visit his mother in Pakistan and his father\'s side of the family in Kenya. They\'re even pointed out that Valerie Jarrett was born in Iran and that there\'s no way that Barck could have afforded all the trips. <br><br>I won\'t post the email here. I\'ve already reported it to the campaign.<br><br>But that\'s what the public pronouncements "linking" him to terrorists is all about.<br><br>Chris Matthews is talking about this stuff as though it\'s fact.  He even used the term sleeper cell today. <br><br>I wish I could say I\'m appalled, but I\'m ont.<br><br>He\'s been a few days ahead of all the Republican smears. I wonder how he knows so much so many days before all the smears are unleashed?<br><br>27 days isn\'t a long time for this smear to take hold. But if you have the time, please go to <a href="http://barackobama.com" rel="nofollow">barackobama.com</a> and sign up for phonebanking because we\'re going to need ever caller talking to voters directly to answer whatever fears they may have with this last desperate push to demonize Barack.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2947026">Micheline</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2947026" class="dsq-comment-message">Thanks for info and I will be calling MSNBC</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2947268">Micheline</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2947268" class="dsq-comment-message">Here is the number for those wh AND o want to call MSNBC complain about the coverage:<br><br>212-664-4444</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2947318">mybrotherskeeper</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2947318" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/money.asp" rel="nofollow">http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/money.asp</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2947510">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2947510" class="dsq-comment-message">Craig - I will make calls but - I am feeling zen.  <br><br>All this chaos is happening for a reason and the bandaid is being ripped off to expose the sores and the light is being shined on the racial tensions in the US.  Now on Nov 4, the American people will have to make a choice.  They can hold on to from the shameful things and prejudices of the past (which no-one can deny because it is so in your face at this point) or grab hold of the future even if it means holding on to a black man (half white) and make the decision to change the direction of this country together.  This election is HUGE!<br><br>The whole world is watching, they know what this is and they know what is happening.  Now they are waiting for our decision.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2949138">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2949138" class="dsq-comment-message">Valerie Jarrett is OLD Black Money. Her father was a tenured professor back when NOOOOOOO Black folk went to the University of Chicago.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2950845">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2950845" class="dsq-comment-message">Craig, my son and I were watching Hardball and he said the exact same thing.  He said he was repeating and adding to the analysis as though it were true.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2946866">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2946866" class="dsq-comment-message">Petraeus Talk Seems to Bolster Obama<br><br>Throughout Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign, the Republican nominee has wrapped himself in the mantle of U.S. Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, proclaiming himself the leading advocate of the former commanding general in Iraq who devised last year’s controversial troop surge. Yet during a talk Wednesday about Iraq at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative Washington policy organization, Petraeus repeatedly made statements that bolstered the foreign-policy proposals of Sen. Barack Obama, McCain’s Democratic rival, or cut against McCain’s own lines.<br><br>Petraeus relinquished command in Iraq last month. He assumes responsibility for U.S. Central Command later this month, putting him in charge of U.S. forces in the Middle East and South Asia.<br><br><br>Illustration by: Matt Mahurin<br>As a serving military officer, Petraeus attempted to avoid any explicit political discussion. “I’m not walking into minefields now,” Petraeus said, to laughter, when asked a question that referred to Tuesday night’s presidential debate. In fact, the general averred that he didn’t watch the debate.<br><br>Yet Petraeus, whether intentionally or not, often waded into areas of dispute between Obama and McCain involving Afghanistan, negotiating with adversaries and other recent campaign controversies. Each time, the general either lent tacit support to Obama or denied tacit support to McCain.<br><br><a href="http://washingtonindependent.com/11381/petraeus" rel="nofollow">http://washingtonindependent.com/11381/petraeus</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2948271">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2948271" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/08/right-wingers-mock-obamas_n_133111.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/08/right-...</a><br><br>Right Wing:  "Waaaah!  Obama is all snooty and uppity for pronouncing Pakistan correctly!  We don\'t need a President who pronounces words correctly!  At least our side has a VP nominee who mispronounces words!  Ignorance is Amurikan!"</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2950821" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2950821" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL!!<br><br>God forbid  "real amurikans" have a president with a vocabulary!  Using all dem big words all fancy like...</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2949877">Teacher</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2949877" class="dsq-comment-message">Michelle just came on Larry King central time!</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2950264" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2950264" class="dsq-comment-message">Today\'s Polls 10/08<br><br>Georgia Rasmussen McCain 54, Obama 45 McCain +9<br>Minnesota Rasmussen Obama 52, McCain 45 Obama +7<br>New Jersey Fairleigh Dickinson Obama 50, McCain 37 Obama +13<br>Pennsylvania Morning Call Tracking Obama 50, McCain 38 Obama +12<br>Wisconsin Rasmussen Obama 54, McCain 44 Obama +10<br><br>National Gallup Tracking Obama 52, McCain 41 Obama +11<br>National Rasmussen Tracking Obama 51, McCain 45 Obama +6<br>National Ipsos/McClatchy Obama 47, McCain 40 Obama +7</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2950458">Arlene</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2950458" class="dsq-comment-message">Michelle Obama is bringing it on Larry King.  She\'s got style, grace, and she is classy.  King asked her about Pale-in, Billary, and Cindy CandyMccain.  She gave them all nothing but RESPECT.  Nothing more, nothing less.  The more they come after Barack and her with their filth, the more the light will shine on their ugliness.<br><br>And, GOD don\'t like UGLY!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2950465" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2950465" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2950465" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2950465" class="dsq-comment-message">The governor of North Carolina just said that there\'s going to be a "reverse Bradley Effect" in North Carolina. His barber, who he said can legally put a razor to your throat and ask you a question, said that there are plenty of folks who have said they weren\'t going to vote for Barack ARE going to vote for Barack because while they might like John McCain they like their jobs better.<br><br>Snap.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2950778" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2950778" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2950778" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2950778" class="dsq-comment-message">Has anyone else noticed that the McCain-Palin ad on CNN\'s site only features Sarah Palin?!  When you click on the official site, the first thing you see is a video of Palin - no pictures or greetings from McCain himself. <br><br>Why don\'t they just get it over with and call it the Palin-McCain ticket?  She has already "slipped" and said "A Palin and McCain Administration" <a href="http://tinyurl.com/47dw3a" rel="nofollow">http://tinyurl.com/47dw3a</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2957114" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2957114">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2957114" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  <i>Mudflats</i> is ALL OVER the "First Dude\'s"  WRITTEN RESPONSE in Troopergate!!<br><br><a href="http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/todd-palin-subpoena-dump-the-latest-from-the-truth-squad/#comment-51795" rel="nofollow">http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/todd-p...</a><br><b>Tood Palin Subpoena Sump & the Latest From the "Truth Squad!"</b><br><br><i><br><br>Well, here’s the official subpoena response from Todd Palin through his lawyer, Thomas Van Flein.<br><br>Click HERE.<br><br>And here is the latest video from…..The “Truth Squad”<br><br>Click HERE.<br><br>I suggest aspirin for the first, and Pepto Bismol for the second.<br><br>Cheers.</i><br><br>The videos are long.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2957220" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2957220">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2957220" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  Some Poll Numbers from Alaska.  Mudflats is trying HARD, BUT they have a REAL UPHILL BATTLE!!  :&gt;)<br><br><a href="http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/new-poll-numbers-for-alaska/" rel="nofollow">http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/new-po...</a><br><b>New Poll Numbers For Alaska</b><br><br><i>We’ve all been waiting for some current poll numbers from Alaska. Here are the latest numbers from Rasmussen.<br><br>McCain 55% Obama 40%<br><br>Before his selection of Vice Presidential running mate, McCain led in Alaska by a mere 5 points.<br><br>McCain favorability rating in Alaska:<br><br>    Favorable: 64%<br><br>    Unfavorable: 36%<br><br>Obama favorability rating in Alaska:<br><br>    Favorable: 48%<br><br>    Unfavorable: 51%<br><br>Palin favorability rating in Alaska:<br><br>    Favorable: 63%<br><br>    Unfavorable: 37%<br><br>Biden favorability rating in Alaska:<br><br>    Favorable: 51%<br><br>    Unfavorable: 46%<br><br>It is interesting to note that Palin’s favorability rating has plummeted by 20 points since she became the Republican VP nominee. The people of Alaska have been learning a lot about our Governor since late August, and many don’t like what they see. Others are simply rooting for the home team. Others know the issues and where she stands, and like what they see. And while she still retains popular support overall, she has been actively burning bridges with political colleagues on both sides of the aisle, and no amount of federal earmarks are going to build them back. There’s an old adage that says “be nice to people on the way up, because you’re sure to meet them on the way down.” It could be a painful homecoming for the Governor.<br><br>Meanwhile in the rest of the nation….<br><br>Gallup National Daily Tracking poll:<br><br>Obama 52% McCain 41%<br><br>This is Obama’s largest lead yet. While McCain isn’t doing much to “change the game,”<br>and his less than stellar performance in last night’s debate plays a part in Obama’s growing lead, we can’t ignore the Palin effect. The initial “bump” was obvious, but while support from evangelicals and hard-core social conservatives remains galvanized, Palin’s fringe views, low-ball tactics, and obvious empty-headedness on issues of foreign policy have turned her in to a millstone around McCain’s neck in much of the nation.<br><br>Obama may not win Alaska, but the numbers are strongly trending back his way. And, for the first time in a long time, there are two very viable Democratic candidates for 2 of our 3 congressional seats, all currently held by Republicans. Progressives in the state are waking up, and Alaska is becoming purple one way or another.<br><br>Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)</i><br><br>LAWD,I hope I don\'t get arrested for violating some copyright laws!   I jes don\'t look good in an "orange jumpsuit!"    :&gt;)     :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2931192" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2931192">B_R</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2931192" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2931192" class="dsq-comment-message">I think it\'ll probably help us if we spend as little time on the "that one" comment and as much time as possible about how clueless McCain is with his "taxes bad earmarks bad" solutions.<br><br>(Apparently the GOP is hoping to stoke racial / xenophobic notions with the "that one" line already, so we shouldn\'t buy into it.)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2931919" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2931919" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2931919">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2931919" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2931919" class="dsq-comment-message">Barath:  Hey!  :&gt;)    I\'m planning to <b>MULTI-TASK!</b><br><br>I\'m going to spend much time on <b>THAT ONE Mr. President Obama and Mr. Biden</b><br><br>I\'m going to spend much time on everything negative/stupid /racist by the GOP/McAncient/The Gov.<br><br>I\'m planning to spend much time on <b>CAMPAIGNING FOR THAT ONE - MR. PRESIDENT OBAMA!!</b><br><br>Obama-Biden \'08!!</div>\
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