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"2412032": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "From Politicalinaction.com:<br><br>Latest CBS POll:<br><br>O 48<br>M 43<br><br>Looks like we are right back to where we were before the conventions. What does that mean? John McCain's gamble with Palin went bust.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_22:47:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2413570": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "msmartin:  Co-signing!!  See what I mean!!   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-18_02:16:57", "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": 2412418, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2407428": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I don't know if this has already been posted but...<br><a href=http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/17/washington-mutual-begins-auction-to-sell-itself/ rel=\"nofollow\"> another bank about to bite the dust! </a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_16:46:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "pcmadison", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2400261": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "McSame the MOST reprehensible of the Keating 5<br>who wudda thunk?<br><br><a href=\"http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1989-11-29/news/mccain-the-most-reprehensible-of-the-keating-five/1\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1989-11-29/news/...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_12:47:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "gaiilonfong", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": 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}, "2400774": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "icebergslim:  Here you go again - - <b>ON POINT!!</b>   Thank you! :&gt;)<br><br>JJP:   I promise!   I only posted this ONCE! :&gt;)<br><br>I don't know why it's DUPLICATED!  Technology -not me!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_13:08:02", "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": 2397966, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2400776": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "icebergslim:  Here you go again - - <b>ON POINT!!</b>   Thank you! :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_13:08:02", "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": 2397966, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2413577": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "JJai:   LOL!!    LOL!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>Now, we'll have a song from the choir!!  <b>Where's my Choir Robe?</b>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-18_02:20:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2410838, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2413485": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "caligirl:   <b>NICE!</b>  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-18_02:00:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2412647, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2409488": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yep...I thought she was copying Michelle, with the neon orange and chartreuse.   Before, it was mostly neutral colours.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_19:23:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2406673, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2406417": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Not sure if someone already posted this but <br><br>Palin takes rare impromptu question from national press<br>Excerpt:<br>A pool reporter from the national press corps asked Palin's reaction to the federal bailout of insurance giant AIG.<br><br>Palin said she is \"disappointed that taxpayers are called upon to bailout another one.\"<br><br>\"Certainly AIG, though, with the construction bonds that they're holding, and with the insurance that they are holding, very, very impactful to Americans,\" she said. \"So you know, the shot that has been called by the feds, its understandable but very, very disappointing that taxpayers are called upon for another one.\"<br><br><a href=\"http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/17/palin-takes-first-impromptu-question-from-national-press/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/17...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_15:46:26", "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": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2398226": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I wonder will she accuse the McCain camp of being sexist?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_10:48:55", "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": 2397496, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2407957": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Justice58:  <b>YEAH!!</b> :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_17:22:32", "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": 2407116, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2398742": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You mean the People's Republic of Northern Virginia?<br><br>Yeah, I was wondering that too. Not the best choice.<br><br>Here's what I find funny: <br><br><i>Republicans have boosted their efforts to reach out to immigrant communities that traditionally have voted Democratic. To bolster participation at the rally, they are targeting Korean, Arab, Chinese, Taiwanese and Latin American communities across the county through phone banks and door-to-door visits.</i><br><br>Now, maybe I'm misinformed, but have the dhimmicrats of late had a more reliable voting block that African Americans?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_11:19:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2398510, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2400279": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I have, but they've all related to Iran wanting a nuke (maybe more specifically, wanting one to use on Israel) as the justification for going in.<br><br>My personal is that we can't do anything against Iran until they give us a reason to. Unless we're going to invade for them taking our embassy in, what, 1980(?), we're kinda short on justifications. If Iran goes after Israel (or hell, Iraq, more likely), then we might be justified. Even that's questionable, as Israel can more than defend itself.<br><br>No way in hell we can fight a third war...especially one that will be seen as nothing <b>but</b> a \"crusade\" against an Islamic nation.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_12:47:50", "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": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2400071, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2400280": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "McSame the MOST reprehensible of the Keating 5<br>who wudda thunk?<br><br><a href=\"http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1989-11-29/news/mccain-the-most-reprehensible-of-the-keating-five/1\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1989-11-29/news/...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_12:47:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "gaiilonfong", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": 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}, "2400281": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I just want to point out that the use of NoVa looks like no va and that in Spanish means \"Doesn't go\". I think most Latinos know that the republicans don't want them and theirs here and are not against posses and militias to do it. Not all but most, our failing economy mirrors Germany's failing economy of the thirties. Who is the scapegoat here?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_12:47:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "Lilytiger", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2399381, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2399260": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "One thing I noticed when I look at polls' demographic breakdown: men and whites are more likely than other groups to vote for the third-party candidates. Those with privilege can afford to assert their \"independence\" and prove how they think for themselves. But when the s**t hits the fan, they come running back when they realize just how much they need each other (and us).", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_11:46:40", "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": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2398962, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2411549": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Well...I don't think your candidate needs to actually have anything connecting the two, sort of along the lines of confusing Sunni and Shia.   Or, the invasion of Iraq to get the people responsible for 9/11.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_22:05:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2399860, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2407967": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "In the past few weeks, Wall Street\u2019s been rocked as banks closed and markets tumbled. But for many of you \u2013 the people I\u2019ve met in town halls, backyards and diners across America \u2013 our troubled economy isn\u2019t news. 600,000 Americans have lost their jobs since January. Paychecks are flat and home values are falling. It\u2019s hard to pay for gas and groceries and if you put it on a credit card they\u2019ve probably raised your rates. You\u2019re paying more than ever for health insurance that covers less and less.<br><br>    This isn\u2019t just a string of bad luck. The truth is that while you\u2019ve been living up to your responsibilities Washington has not. That\u2019s why we need change. Real change. This is no ordinary time and it shouldn\u2019t be an ordinary election. But much of this campaign has been consumed by petty attacks and distractions that have nothing to do with you or how we get America back on track.<br><br>    Here\u2019s what I believe we need to do. Reform our tax system to give a $1,000 tax break to the middle class instead of showering more on oil companies and corporations that outsource our jobs. End the \u2018anything goes\u2019 culture on Wall Street with real regulation that protects your investments and pensions. Fast track a plan for energy \u2018made-in-America\u2019 that will free us from our dependence on mid-east oil in 10 years and put millions of Americans to work. Crack down on lobbyists \u2013 once and for all \u2014 so their back-room deal-making no longer drowns out the voices of the middle class and undermines our common interests as Americans.<br><br>    And yes, bring a responsible end to this war in Iraq so we stop spending billions each month rebuilding their country when we should be rebuilding ours. Doing these things won\u2019t be easy. But we\u2019re Americans. We\u2019ve met tough challenges before. And we can again. I\u2019m Barack Obama. I hope you\u2019ll read my economic plan. I approved this message because bitter, partisan fights and outworn ideas of the left and the right won\u2019t solve the problems we face today. But a new spirit of unity and shared responsibility will.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_17:23:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "ibeching", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2399179, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2413602": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "TruthSeeker:  that's the only way to kill a SSSSSSSSnake!!   :&gt;)<br><br>'bout time  -   press/media!!  [Maybe they will appreciate this compliment as they read this site!]  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-18_02:23:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2410209, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2408807": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "1.It's phony<br>2. Nobody would need to know what's in her email account IFFF<br>a) she had released her emails\\<br>b) hadn't tried to be a sneak and do public business from her private account to get around public accountability", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_18:28:45", "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": 2407775, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2412068": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "And remember this..<br><br>THIS was AFTER she had been spoonfed the questions. <br><br>I'll say it again:<br><br>ANYONE, right, left, middle, who takes politics SERIOUSLY<br><br>Has no choice but to be offended by this woman.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_22:49:49", "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": 2411084, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2407601": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "There's a report saying that they will spend 39 mm in the state.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_16:57:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "514ece7311946709a77d340a35a81d09", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2406360, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2401832": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "rikyrah:  I really like the Dr. Rachel Maddow show!!<br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/17/maddow-show-bill-maher-ta_n_127083.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/17/maddow...</a><br>Rachel Maddow Show:  Bill Maher Takes On Palin [video]", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_13:55:12", "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": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2408490": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "sure thing!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_18:04:01", "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": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2408015, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2416171": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "T:   What they said!!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-18_03:31:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2407775, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2409029": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Sending prayers your way.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_18:46:46", "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": 2408015, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2412848": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "McCain wins, strokes out and Palin is president.<br><br>What will you do?  Would you seriously consider emigrating to another country?  <br><br>Should we starting saving now for a quick escape?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-18_00:12:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "cdb105a0448967d7c26f2589218a5ecb", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2409319": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ingenuity and strength mean nothing if you don't have a JOB!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_19:10:08", "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": 2407675, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2416136": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  Co-sign!!!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-18_03:25:25", "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": 2408807, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2405811": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:   Obama Raises Millions In Beverly Hills<br><br><a href=\"http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-obamafund17-2008sep17%2C0%2C5070594.story\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/...</a><br><br><i>But it came fraught with risk. As if on cue, John McCain used the Illinois senator's lucrative detour from battleground states to Beverly Hills to mock Obama's professed solidarity with working people \"just before he flew off to Hollywood for a fundraiser with Barbra Streisand and his celebrity friends.\"<br><br>\"Let me tell you, my friends, there's no place I'd rather be than right here with the working men and women of Ohio,\" McCain told cheering supporters in Vienna, Ohio, with running mate Sarah Palin at his side.<br><br>McCain, too, raised money in Beverly Hills last month, but with a smaller cluster of stars, including actors Robert Duvall and Jon Voight.<br><br>Even before the likes of actors Jodie Foster, Will Ferrell and Leonardo DiCaprio paid tribute to Obama at the landmark Greystone Mansion -- setting for numerous films, including \"Ghostbusters\" and \"Air Force One\" -- the entertainment industry had given Obama more than $5.6 million, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.<br><br>McCain's take from the industry has reached $885,000, the center said.</i><br><br>I wanted to point out that  McAncient also went to Beverly Hills B4 Mr. Obama did!  ONLY, he came away with <b>much less!</b>!!  OOPS!!  :&gt;)<br><br>Also, \"McAncient\" had an ad that linked Mr. Obama with Hollywood!  Now he's mad, i.e., <b>jealous that Mr. Obama got  MAD BANK from Hollywood!!</b><br><br>\"McAncient!\"    \"McAncient!\"    \"McAncient!\"   <b>You cain't have it both ways!!</b><br><br>Oh!        Wait. . . .   <b>A liar can!!</b> :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_15:05:39", "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}, "2409526": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Oops!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_19:27:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2409067, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2399288": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/184928/september-15-2008/the-word---how-dare-you-\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report...</a><br><br>He hit this out of the park on McCain/ Palin. The Word on Colbert Nation.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_11:48:01", "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}, "2410420": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Campbell  was great with that Rothschild witch today!   She didn't let her off the hook...calling Obama elitist.  Campbell asked her to be specific...Rothschild responded that Obama went to Germany to speak to 200,000 people.   She said he said he's the person who the world has been waiting for(she's wrong on that of course)..She also says Obama is trying to create class warfare.<br><br>Note that Rothschild honeymooned in the white house when Bill was President.  Can you imagine?  Those two fucking in the people's house..like dogs marking their territory?  It enraged me watching her call Obama elitist.<br><br>I have news for that bitch.  There's ALREADY class warfare, it's just that now, someone is fighting on the side of the poor and middle-class for a change.  I suspect this is the true bee in Rothchild's bonnet.  <br><br>The next thing is, it seems \"elitist\" has become the substitution for \"uppity\" when referring to blacks.  Really, what's wrong with Obama drawing a crowd of 200,000?  Those Germans came of their own free will...and Rothschild who lives in London and New York is scared that the world - as her wealthy, entitled, exploitative ass know it - is coming to an end.   The last point is she misquoted Obama....Campbell frowned at this, but didn't correct her.<br><br>Do not take lightly the power of Obama before that crowd of 200,000.   Don't take lightly his ability to draw a crowd of 80,000.   The wealthy and powerful exploiters are  terrified by the things they're seeing.   Why do you thing they  tried to get a \"celebrity\" of their own?   However, Palin is the true \"empty suit\".   Obama has substance and his celebrity comes from being a fighter for the common man.  Their fear is evidenced by Rothschild accusing Obama of \"class warfare\".   She knows the peasants are coming for her with pitchforks and torches.  She knows if Obama wins, things will change forever.   After Americans find their voice and their power through \"community organizing\"(which they tried to demonize) - they know their days of entitlement will be over!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_20:44:55", "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": 11, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2409530": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I figured that the e-mail was either a hoax or wrong after I did a little extra research too. Rasmussen had Obama behind by 4-5 points in FL, which is too close to close shop and too early too. <br><br>Thank you for bringing me back to earth. :) <br><br>I do think that it would be great to see Obama take a chunk of the Cuban-American vote away from McShame.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_19:27:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "adriana01", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2409455, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2412091": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You are to be commended; you have been working over time to get the word out.  It really helps me because I don't have a lot of time to research - working and taking care of my mother.  Thanks.<br><br>You too Greenlady!<br><br>JJP Posters are taking care of business.  Thanks Jack, Jill, Rikyrah, CPL, B-Serious; Dna.  Thanks.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_22:51:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2408697, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2412647": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "barack hussein<br>our handsome blessing who, in turn, is<br>handsomely blessed.<br>but hey... what's in a name??", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_23:49:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "99bcec632769e483ead5faa515e84132", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2413119": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I was trying to keep the faith...but 7 weeks from the election and I was wondering when the fight would begin.<br><br>Thank goodness it has.  I hope they keep up the pressure and keep McCain on the defensive.  When he's on the defensive he can't make trouble for O.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-18_00:50:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2412891, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2409536": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I love this picture. It brought tears to my eyes.  Thank you for posting.  Touching and heartfelt.  That little boy is our little boy. I can see so much hope in his eyes of the future possibilities that he may see the 1st African American President as well as actually witnessing President Obama.  <br><br>I told a white friend who is Republican, that people aren't seeing the bigger picture when it comes to Obama.  My nephews need to see this in their lifetimes, such as our parents have witnessed the impactful 60's.  <br><br>Our men and women who are struggling out there need to see this, need to own the tremendous accomlishment that Obama has achieve, and believe that DESPITE the setbacks, they can believe and achieve their dreams.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_19:27:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "freespiritbty", "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}, "2422853": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Tracey, <br><br>My experience tells me that the Latino community is behind Obama nearly or over two to one. <br><br>I am Latina. Among my more educated peers, there isn't a hesitation in supporting him, but among those less educated, their support is lukewarm. However, I think that Latinos are voting the issues this time and the anti-immigration rhetoric, coupled with the bad economy, will work to Obama's favor.<br><br>I will say that Hillary (I never supported her or was a fan) did do a better job in Latino outreach initially.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-18_10:31:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "adriana01", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2411507, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2398278": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Palin is really smelling herself. She's trying her best to draw Hillary into a public fight.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_10:52:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2398132, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2399303": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Rikyrah,<br><br>I lie to you not, I saw that pic on a Daily Kos blog yesterday and started crying because it epitomizes what this election is all about: the hopes and dreams of so many millions vs. personal ambition and white entitlement.  As much as I criticize the strategies of his Campaign, I pray for Senator Obama every night, and not merely to win, but for God to give him strength.  I can't even begin to imagine carrying the weight of the world on my shoulders.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_11:48:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "NMP", "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}, "2409405": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "During a Florida town hall event with John McCain, Jeb Bush appeared to throw his brother George under the bus. Bush gave a rousing talk about throwing the bums out of Washington. Perhaps he forgot that his brother is the chief bum?<br><br>\"Reform becomes contagious,\" former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, brother of the current president, said at a McCain town hall meeting this week in Orlando. \"If you start to dream bigger dreams and you start challenging the basic assumptions, you can change how things work, and we've done it in Florida, and the Good Lord knows we need to do it in Washington, D.C., and John McCain is the right guy at the right time to make that happen.\"<br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/17/jeb-bush-throws-his-broth_n_127281.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/17/jeb-bu...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_19:17:09", "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}, "2412619": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Al of the Artwork for Obama on the Barack Obama website is \"sold out\"!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_23:45:49", "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": 2411888, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2411084": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Oh dear God....I just watched 2 minutes of Palin's interview with Klannity....oh, My word......this is the type of interview that you need to watch only if you are drunk or high. You cannot be sober because it will give you a migraine. I am not about to pop two 500 mgs of extra strength Tylenol. She went in more circles than a ferris wheel at a county fair. Have mercy....she is seriously simple.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_21:21:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2408015": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "rikyrah:  Gotta GO!   The hospital called!  He's taken a turn for the worst!!  <br><br>JJP:  Keep those thoughts/prayers a-coming!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_17:27:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 10, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2411600": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "watching her on this interview makes me want to take a red pen to her conversation. She uses so many unnecesary words! <br><br>there, that, the, very, very, good, great<br><br>What is she 8 years old? You can tell she does not read. Her vocabulary is miniscule.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_22:09:32", "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": 2411164, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2416210": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Town:   ROTFLMHO!!!  U    R   A    Nut!!!  :&gt;)       :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-18_03:39:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2407170, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2399317": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "yeah, ok. <br><br>uh huh.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_11:49:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2398536, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2401879": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Washington D.C.=Chocolate City", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_13:56:55", "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": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2400015, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2407001": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "she saw McCain checking Sarah out.  She knows what time it is . . . she has been there and lived it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_16:21:14", "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": 2406673, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2412696": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Very good diary!:<br><br>WHY would Palin refuse to fund rape kits? Here's your answer.<br><a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/17/175430/636/888/601186\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/17/175430/...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_23:54:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2416157": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Sepia:  Co-signing!!! :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-18_03:29:56", "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": 2408800, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2407520": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This is a great diary about the \"Wolf\" ad....  I always believe the key for Obama is to hit emotional resonances with voters.   Biden did it with the bit about the kid in school who mocked you when you wore something nice.  This wolf ad reminds most people of the first time they saw an animal killed when they were a kid and the sense of unfairness and the rage toward the killer.   Check it out:<br><br><b>Wolf Ad Is Working</b><br><a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/17/134013/375/342/601724\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/17/134013/...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_16:53:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2412560": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Someone should be asking her if McCain is not regretting putting Romney on the ticket considering the financial mess the country is in.<br><br>Fiorina said she wouldn't hire Palin for an executive position.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_23:39:28", "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": 2408137, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2410838": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "All I can do is sit back and fan my MLK church fan after reading this...<br>tell it!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_21:06:48", "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": 2410695, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2398311": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Republicans have a \"perception problem?\" Yeah, no shit. <br><br>I'm slowly coming to the conclusion that VA's gonna be a lost cause.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_10:54:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 13, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2398100, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2405992": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This \"outreach\" to non-Black minorities is nothing more than a thinly veiled attempt at attracting minorities who might harbor anti-Black sentiments.  <br><br>Typical Republican division tactic.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_15:19:30", "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": 2398100, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2409065": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Heh...good for him!<br><br>It's more nuanced....less forthcoming.   Sure, he still has a messy desk...but it won't prevent him being an effective President.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_18:49:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2408903, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2409067": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Hooked On Phonics did not work for her.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_18:49:55", "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": 2407688, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2399855": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "LOL I can see the commercial now...<br><br>They'll show clips of a blighted generic \"urban\" area complete with grafitti, while a voiceover proclaims that the Democrats, led by Barack Obama pressed for the government to loan money to people who didn't even have the ability to pay it back...<br><br>And then clips of Lehman Brothers, AIG, Merrill Lynch will come on the screen and the voiceover will say, \"The Democrats and Barack Obama's negligence led to the biggest financial meltdown since the Great Depression...<br><br>Then a clip of a white dude carrying his box out of Merrill Lynch will come on the screen and fade to a sad looking white family while Mr. Voiceover says \"Barack Obama promises change, and change all he left the American people with.\" (picture of some pennies and nickels come on the screen)<br><br>Then McCain and Palin's pictures will come on the screen (with big American flag waving in the background), while Mr. Voiceover says \"But John McCain says \"Never Again.\"  He took on the government during his 26 years in Washington and he'll take on the special interests.  Sarah Palin took on the special interests in Alaska.  Together they'll put their country first.  They're always proud of their country.  And only McCain and Palin promises REAL change.  McCain Palin.  Honest change.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_12:27:17", "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": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2399378, "depth": 3, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2399857": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "On THIS one, you can't blame Bush or Rove: they were doing their best with efforts at immigration reform. This shows how party matters: it was the bulk of the GOP, not Bush or Rove, that engineered this self-destruction in the Latino community (minus the Cubans).", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_12:27:25", "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": 2399381, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2397811": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Hey, I've Got An Idea -- Let's Put These Geniuses In Charge Of Health Care <br><a href=\"http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/17/10426/8714/56/601001\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/17/10426/8...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_10:20:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "djchefron", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2399860": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "How do you get from the bombing in Yemen to invading Iran? That's a stretch. Best of my knowledge, we don't have anything connecting al Qaeda to Iran, so that wouldn't fly as a justification (and save the inevitable Iraq comparisons).", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_12:27:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 12, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2398962, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2407029": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Blake Carrington never could control Alexis.....I just hope I'm watching when Krystal has to kick her ass again.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_16:22:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2406673, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2402936": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "John McCain's Sarah Bobbitt<br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deanie-mills/john-mccains-lorena-bobbi_b_126568.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deanie-mills/john...</a><br><blockquote><i>But my enigmatic husband merely gave me one of those I'm-so-sorry-you're-not-as-smart-as-me smiles and said, \"Ahh, but you forget CINDY McCain. Her husband's status is HER status. The more he gets overshadowed by the NEW trophy wife, the more she's going to resent it. It's just a matter of time before she begins to bitch about it.\"<br><br>I was quiet at that, remembering about three-star wives competing with one-star wives and four-star wives lording it over them ALL.<br><br>A couple weeks went by.<br><br>Then I read about how, when McCain and Palin appear together, he hops up on stage and starts to talk, but SHE'S still down at the rope line drinking in the adoration of her fans, and that when HE tries to talk, he gets drowned out by chants of SA-RAH! SA-RAH!<br><br>Few days later, I read how, when he appeared for the first time without her, the crowds were so anemic that they had to wind the event down early. How the campaign was seriously considering the old Bush/Rove tactic of packing the venues with invitation-only partisan hacks, who then appear on the evening news to be simply common people who happen to adore their guy.</i></blockquote>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_14:29:25", "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": 15, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2409407": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I agree....Why is McCain so adamant they have one?  He's been harping on this for months; so, we know it's a trap.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_19:17:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2406745, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2398336": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I think it's hilarious that Hillpatine dissed her first..LOL", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_10:56:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2398132, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2406019": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rorysmomma:  Grab your Choir Robe, girlll!!  We've got some sangin' ta do!!<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx-qTKXNMnU&feature=related\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx-qTKXNMnU&feat...</a><br><br>Of all the videos that I could have chosen, I decided on this one.  How <b>UNIVERSAL is the concept of \"HOLDING TOMORROW!?  :&gt;)</b>", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_15:22:04", "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": 2405614, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2398852": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "We do know that 10% of blacks vote Republican.  Why not do outreach to that 10%?<br><br>But perhaps to the VA GOP \"unity\" does not include black people?<br><br>And then they wonder why they never get a higher percentage of the black vote?<br><br>Are there not African immigrants?  Scratch that, I know there are African immigrants in NoVA because I gave directions to a whole caravan of them this past weekend.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_11:24:43", "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": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2398742, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2412677": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"...Cindy's been dressing flashier and wearing more plunging necklines? Sometimes the cast is off, sometimes the cast is on? Brighter colors and fancier clothes? The school marm look has morphed into the Power Bitch\u2122 look?\"<br><br>Speaking as a lover of fashion and someone with a sense of style who knows how to make a statement with clothes - YOU ARE SPOT ON.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_23:52:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2406673, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2422921": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I have been saying that all along... Barack Obama will increase the likelihood of there being a Latino president. There is so much the Latino community could learn from the African-American community about strategic organizing on so many levels.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-18_10:37:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "adriana01", "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": 2411851, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2400791": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The truth HURTS.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_13:08:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "RobM", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2397496, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2398349": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "thanks so much Iceberg", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_10:56:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2397966, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2399378": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "LOL....now I know you aren't shocked that its been spun around to be \"our\" fault...right? They have professional goalpost movers working for the GOP, they are sooooo good at it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_11:53:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2399317, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2399381": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "That's because the GOP is represented by such lovely people as Sen. Macaca, who's been living in NoVa long enough to see exactly how many Asians and Hispanics are living up there.  What black people want to be caught shaking hands with George Allen?<br><br>But the GOP should have been \"reaching out\" to ethnic minorities all along.  Don't come stepping to ethnic groups a month and a half before the election saying \"We Care.\"  If McCain were leading Obama by 10-15 points in VA this ethnic \"unity\" rally would never be happening and we all know it.<br><br>I'd rather vote for Jim Gilmore than George Allen.  I've always thought it was very interesting that Macaca Allen was the very next governor after Doug Wilder.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_11:53:40", "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": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2399086, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2409624": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You see the Kennedy pictures in Latino households too, right next to the Our Lady of Guadalupe.<br><br>One of my memories of going to my grandmother's house was seeing her JFK obit card picture right in a family picture frame above the TV, and I grew up in the Reagan era.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_19:34:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "adriana01", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2408635, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2412185": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "One of the major reasons I support Barack Obama has to do with the sincere desire to see our international reputation restored. Here's another reason why we cannot afford another 4 more years like the last 8. I continue to be embarrassed about our waning lack of global leadership.<br><br>Supreme Court\u2019s Global Influence Is Waning <br><a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/18/us/18legal.html?bl&ex=1221796800&en=30e6b5e2e61b3bb9&ei=5087%250A\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/18/us/18legal.ht...</a><br>\"...Another reason is the diminished reputation of the United States in some parts of the world, which experts here and abroad said is in part a consequence of the Bush administration\u2019s unpopularity around the world. Foreign courts are less apt to justify their decisions with citations to cases from a nation unpopular with their domestic audience.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_23:00:23", "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}, "2406555": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I get a tear just reading it!  I can practically hear \"this is our country' playing right now!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_15:55:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2399855, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2411164": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I refused to watch it because I didn't want to contribute to their ratings (watching Rachel Maddow) figured I would catch it on youtube.<br><br>Thanks for the update.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_21:28:44", "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": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2411084, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2398365": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "NYTimes:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/17/opinion/17wed1.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mr. McCain and The Economy</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_10:57:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2408389": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "It sure is good news!<br><br>Anyone who agrees, please DIGG:<br><a href=\"http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/John_McCain_Actions_Speak_Louder_than_Words\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/John_McCain_A...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_17:56:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2408154, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2402978": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Wow this picture is priceless; my computer background has gone from Michelle and Barack with the fist bump, to the embrace, now this.<br><br>Just in images alone, Obama's candidacy has given so many wonderful family images of loving black families in this country....", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_14:31:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "2dcb7ab86ca109aed35adaccb673c5dd", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2399914": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You can buy your own cable TV add in a swing state for as little as $100:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.wowofnow.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.wowofnow.com/</a><br><br>... brought to you by the same team that did the \"Yes we can\" video. I've been communicating with them and they're looking for commercials and producers of new commercials. If you're one, or know of anyone, let me know.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_12:30:38", "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}, "2412715": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "As she's getting dressed for each appearance, she's thinking bitch take this you ragedy ass moose hunter!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_23:55:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2412677, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2412914": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "this is just far fetched and random enough to be true. She is truly a psychopath!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-18_00:22:35", "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": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2412696, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2411695": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Someone shook her hand too hard?<br><br>Uh. Yeah.<br><br>And I'm white.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_22:18:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2409820, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2398385": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/16/AR2008091602877.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Wall Street's Unraveling</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_10:58:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2411698": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Donald Chump is a racist.  The last time I watched the Apprentice was when he tried to hem Randall up into making Becky his co-apprentice.  He ain't never asked Bill if he wanted to make Kwame the co-apprentic or any of the other winners if they would mind if their runners-up were co-apprentices too.  Randall had 50-11 degrees and Becky was fresh out of journalism school but he's supposed to make her his co-apprentice because Becky's feelings were hurt.  Bitch, please.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_22:18:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2411197, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2402995": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I know you're not disagreeing; was pointing out how much sense that just doesn't make. It's not like the GOP isn't known for, um, embelishing the facts occasionally.<br><br>I thought McCain's \"bomb Iran\" singing was more funny than anything. Just struck me as the rant of an old man.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_14:32:32", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2402766, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2411190": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "To me it seems like he is asking slightly leading questions and she gives a fasttalkers type of BS answer.  I figure I'd watch the whole thing so that a) I wouldn't only hear biased sound bites and b) to see if she would be as foolish sounding as the first time.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_21:31:08", "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": 2411084, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2399927": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "LOL @ Kaine.  <br><br>LOL @ Gilmore.  Apparently nobody else is signing up for that mission either.  Poor Gilmore, the only commercial he can afford...ya know how commercials used to look back in the early 80s, all fuzzy looking?  That's what Jim Gilmore's campaign ads look like.  It looks like one of his sons got some old VHS tapes and GOOGLE images and pasted them into Window Movie Maker.<br><br>Heck, I might travel up there Saturday just to get my laugh on.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_12:31:19", "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": 2399625, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2408635": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I forgot about the one with him and Malia!!!<br><br>I just love to see fathers with their daughters.  You can just feel the love.  Just like at the convention, all they wanted was Daddy.  I think when people see kids are really excited to see their parents or Dad; it sends a message this person is all right.<br><br>Anyway, I have a album from the campaign already.  I am waiting for the headline Obama wins.  I've already said if he does the Obama's picture is going up in the house.  <br><br>Almost like the Kennedy, King, and Kennedy pictures or wall hanging my Grandmother had.  I think it's something you will see in Black households across the country.<br><br>Another picture I love is the one of him with the Black shades getting out of the car on the cover of Ebony entitled Cool.  Yes Barack you are....", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_18:14:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "2dcb7ab86ca109aed35adaccb673c5dd", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2406323, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2411197": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "... Donald Trump is on Larry King.  He gushes over McCain saying he supports him because he won't raise taxes.   Then he goes to to say that he supports McCain because he knows him, likes him etc.   Trump then compliments McCain on his choice of VP(never mind the fact he doesn't \"know\" her).    Then!....he brags about just selling a property in Palm Beach to a Russian for 100 million dollars!!!   Can you say out of touch!    That's exactly what struggling Americans need to hear,  the Russians - who McCain has been demonizing as wanting to reinvigorate their empire - is buying up property in Palm beach while they're losing the one roof over their head.  <br><br>100 million dollars worth of American real estate, sold to a Russian who McCain is spoiling for a war with!   Now, if they can put two and two together as to WHY Trump really supports McCain....", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_21:31:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2410695, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2409579": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/enough-heres-why-the-poll_b_127167.html/ rel=\"nofollow\"> Enough! Here's Why The Polls Are So Damn Close </a><br><br>Bob Cesca says what I wanted to say. All I can say is, can they give Obama a break? The guy revolutionize the campaigning game and knocked their best on HIS & HER ass but still gets no respect. I feel that \"Hustle and Flow \" song coming on cause \"it's hard out there for a pimp\"<br><br>Obama/Biden 08", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_19:31:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "karlewis", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": 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}, "2399423": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "NMP,<br><br>I know you're not lying, because I had the same reaction. This picture punched me in my gut. Very few White folks truly understand what Obama is trying to do, even those who support him all the way. I believe Black folks understand just what he's up against, even the mofo haters.  If Obama wins, it changes a number of things so fundamentally, but a lot of folks don't want to admit it. I believe Town is the one who said that every non-White person should be working their hearts out for Obama, because if he wins, he just made it 50% easier for the next non-White person. I agreed with that assessment completely.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_11:56:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2399303, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2399425": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Palin betta recognize....she don't want none of Hillz...not right now....Hillz gotta lot of frustration and anger pent up inside...Palin bests to step back.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_11:56:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2398278, "depth": 2, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2401038": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  From the HuffPost:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-neffinger/hello-if-mccain-had-his-w_b_126968.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-neffinger/he...</a><br><b>Hello?  If McCain Had His Way, That'd Be Our Social Security Money Wall Street Is Losing</b><br><br>Does the word, from \"McAncient\",  <b>PRIVATIZATION</b> come to mind?<br><br><i>But while ordinary Americans spoke out, John McCain stood with Bush (hugged him awkwardly in public, even), against the American people. In fact, just six months ago, McCain again let slip his fondness for privatization.</i><br><br><b>Obama-Biden '08!!</b>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_13:28:06", "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}, "2397891": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Politicians Lie, Numbers Don't<br>And the numbers show that Democrats are better for the economy than Republicans.<br><a href=\"http://www.slate.com/id/2199810/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.slate.com/id/2199810/</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_10:25:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "djchefron", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2400964": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "That is the greatest picture - already copped it last night for an upcoming \"Obama and the African American Male\" series.<br><br>But that's then - right now, I have regressed into my own childhood - how I channeled Batman while commenting on Wall Street escapes me, but sometimes you have to go with what you've got.<br><br>WHILE GOTHAM CITY GOES BUST<br><a href=\"http://simplifythepositive.blogspot.com/2008/09/obama-economy-and-you.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://simplifythepositive.blogspot.com/2008/09...</a><br><br><br>DA-yum!<br><br><br>Is the smell of RECESSION in the air?<br><br><br>Could the nation\u2019s financial sector be ON THE ROPES?<br><br><br>Are our political candidates taking WALL STREET\u2019S GURGLING as a green light?<br><br><br>Irritated intellectual types debate the underlying issues!<br><br><br>All day, everyday, for the foreseeable future!<br><br><br>Same bat time!<br><br><br>Same bat channel!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_13:25:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "BrownManATL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2410182": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "American's consume health care like \"caviar\", eh?<br><br>Oh yes...can't wait to go back to the proctologist again...and oh what fun it is when the doctor uses that cold speculum?   These guys are a bunch of turds.   How great it is to be told you've got cancer?<br><br>Where are the trolls...???", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_20:27:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2397811, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2409761": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LMAO!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_19:47:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2406912, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2411720": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Biden is so amazing!  They rarely show clips of him speaking on CNN.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_22:20:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2398169, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2407116": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Sure has!  Damn home wrecker!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_16:28:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "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": 2407001, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2410698": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I don't know but I want to know if her private email address is AKHottie69...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_21:02:52", "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": 2407775, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2397900": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "A little something lighter in the midst of all the bad news:<br><br>Black Comic Introduces John McCain: <a href=\"http://www.observer.com/2008/style/black-comic-introduces-mccain\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.observer.com/2008/style/black-comic-...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_10:26:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "83e8906ef713ea0aefaf558ef78c5249", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2399949": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "LOL the same way we got from 9/11 and the Taliban in Afghanistan to Saddam Hussein in Iraq.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_12:32:47", "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": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2399860, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2411728": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_22:21:25", "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": 2400169, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2400465": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This is pure ignorance. The Federal Reserve is where redlining started. In the 50's they let banks know if they lent in the redline neighborhoods the bank(s) would not have access to Fed funds. The fed funds  are where banks borrow from other banks to meet their reserve requirements", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_12:55:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "RobM", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2398536, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2405587": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Justice58:  I wrote MSNBC 2!!   Hope they see/feel the love!   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_14:52:39", "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": 2404656, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2411733": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "A woman like Sarah Palin does not like being ignored and dismissed.  Those type hate you more when you do ignore them.  She thinks you're supposed to blow smoke up her ass and when you don't, she gets her fangs out.  The attacks on both Hillary and Obama will come more and more frequently from her.  She's gonna make them fight and then when they come at her she will cry victim.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_22:21:53", "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": 2408802, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2408154": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "This is great news TruthSeeker! IT's great to see this ad running in battleground states and I'm sure they'll make a positive impact for Obama.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_17:37:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "freespiritbty", "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": 2405716, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2407134": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Town:  Co-signing with you on <b>all points!</b>  :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>I remarked this to my sister on <b>Day 1</b> of the RNC Convention!!<br><br>Miss \"Whatever\" Cindy rolled right between \"McAncient\" and \"The Gov.\" when they went to the \"group stage show!\"  :&gt;)  :&gt;)<br><br>She knows <b>the \"vixen, cut-throat and vicious</b> side of the <b>PAGEANT GAME!!</b>   They ONLY smile when they are on-stage!!   And even that smile is PHONY!!  :&gt;)<br><br>Miss \"Whatever\" Cindy has been saying to \"The Gov.\" -<b>I'll Be Watching You!!</b>   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_16:29:30", "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": 2406673, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2397407": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122152292213639569.html?mod=googlenews_wsj\" rel=\"nofollow\">Why Obama's Health Plan is Better</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_09:35:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2407648": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "ChaunceyDevega:  I went on a \"Field Trip\" and made a post!  <br><br><b>GREAT IDEA!!</b><br><br><br>Hockey Moms<br><br>American People<br><br>Work Force", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_17:01:23", "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": 2407205, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2410209": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Joe Johns had a great piece on McCain Insider/Outsider.   The press is really putting their foot on the head of the McCain snake.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_20:30:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2408137": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Hmmm...I guess Sarah is something you do in the pep squad on the track field ;-)<br><br>....That's pretty funny, Town.  LOL    Also, accurate.  They've been working that angle already.  Suggesting Obama regrets not putting Hillary on his ticket..suggesting he's jealous of her outshining him...she's getting under his skin...blah blah.    Men love girlfights..pitting women against each other.  Already they tried to ambush Hillary at the UN appearance, which she supposedly canceled after she found out Palin would be there.(who knows the whole truth about that?)  <br><br>If the VP had been Hillary, they'd still pick Palin and use her taunt both Obama and Hillary about the drama that happened in the Primary.  They'd say O was weak, he had to pick her to help him win.  They'd talk about the assissination comment...<br><br>If that blogger at HuffPO is right, they might yet get their girlfight.  Cindy will soon be beating down Sarah for upstaging her husband.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_17:36:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2407170, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2405614": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Girl I told you I had you.... and I know who holds my hand.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_14:53:55", "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": 2400160, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2409713": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Well, crystal meth is a helluva drug!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_19:42:44", "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": 2406689, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2412786": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You need to quickly share your thoughts with your candidate's Vp pick.  She has other ideas!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-18_00:04:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2400279, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2399989": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hell, I haven't even SEEN a Gilmore commercial in Hampton Roads (granted, I'm on the road a lot). My local representative (Thelma Drake) is getting more airtime than Gilmore.<br><br>I was a kid through his administration, and I thought he was a shitty governor.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_12:35:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2399927, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2408697": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "This is great...(with Videos)...McCain goes round and round with platitudes and talking points, repeating them over and over regardless of what Matt asks him.  He's described as \"stiff\" and \"surly\".<br>-----------------------------<br><b>Does McCain Understand The AIG Crisis?</b><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/17/does-mccain-understand-th_n_126947.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/17/does-m...</a><br><blockquote><i>McCain's answer yesterday on AIG was not an accident. Put bluntly, I can't see any evidence that he knew what he was talking about; nor any evidence that he wanted to try. This is a blatant moment, on tape, under urgent questioning from the media at a moment of crisis, and not only was his lack of preparation apparent but his attitude spoke volumes. This isn't a matter of left or right, of \"gotcha\" or \"in the tank\" or anything else \u2014 it's a matter of accountability at a pretty critical moment. It should be noted, and remembered.</i></blockquote>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_18:19:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2407675": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Another Palin interview from Sean Hannity<br><br>Excerpt<br>HANNITY: Senator Barack Obama yesterday was attacking Senator McCain for saying that the fundamentals of the economy are strong. Do you believe that the fundamentals of our economy are strong? <br><br>PALIN: Well, it was an unfair attack on the verbiage that Senator McCain chose to use. The fundamentals that he was having to explain afterwards, he means the work force, he means ingenuity of the American people. And of course, that is strong, that is the foundation of our economy. So that was an unfair attack based on verbiage that John McCain used. Certainly, it is a mess, though. <br><br><br>****************************************************************************<br>Yes! How dare Barack Obama use the things that John McCain says to prove some sort of point, even when that very \"attack on verbiage\" directly led to McCain's \"by 'fundamentals' I meant 'American workers'\" clarification that Palin recites in this exchange.<br><br>In other news, I can't help but notice that Palin answers Hannity's question two different ways. If \"fundamentals\" means \"the work force, ingenuity of the American people,\" then \"of course, that is strong.\" Otherwise, \"certainly, it is a mess.\" No doubt Sean will make sure Palin clarifies her platitudes.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/17/palin-decries-unfair-atta_n_127197.html#postComment\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/17/palin-...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_17:03:12", "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": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2397436": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/authentic-journalism-work-michigan-vote-cagers-run\" rel=\"nofollow\">Authentic Journalism at Work: Michigan Vote-Cagers on the Run</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_09:37:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2409088": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This is great.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_18:51:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2408095, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2407170": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "They are trying to goad Hillary into a fight.  Palin thinks \"Iran\" is something you on the track field, we know she doesn't have the slightest clue about anything.<br><br>This is nothing more than some high school Queen Bee bullshit.  The more Hillary ignores Sarah, the more Sarah will put Hillary's name on her lips goading her into a confrontation.  If Hillary lashes back, they will claim she's jealous of Sarah making it onto a VP ticket and not her.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_16:31:33", "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": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2406845, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2409326": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Don't think...just  Sa-Rah!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_19:10:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2407688, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2407688": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "My question is this: Can this woman form a complete, coherent sentence?<br><br>T.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_17:04:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "d6755b31010b50fc47eac9ee8b3bb319", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2407675, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2409260": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ha!.....ask and it is given:<br><br><a href=\"http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=Pgq3UFVi2s8\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=Pgq3UFVi2s8</a><br><a href=\"http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=QcNp57CT92A\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=QcNp57CT92A</a> ( a slightly longer clip)<br><br>Kinda reminds me of the Nazi's at the close of the war.  Remember what O said at the Convention:  The must own their failure.   They need to do a better job of laying the current disaster at the feet of McCain...instead of saying it's not his fault.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_19:04:46", "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": 2407929, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2397966": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/17/94016/0264/300/591612\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Motherlode of All Voter Registration Diaries.</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_10:30:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "icebergslim", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2400015": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"If Obama wins, will it be the Black House?\"<br><br>and<br><br>\"Joe Biden BET NOT think about receiving Communion.\"<br><br><a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/17/115312/501/466/601592\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/17/115...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_12:36:24", "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": 3, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2399671, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2406673": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Have you noticed that since Miss Sarah came on the scene, Cindy's been dressing flashier and wearing more plunging necklines?  Sometimes the cast is off, sometimes the cast is on?  Brighter colors and fancier clothes?  The school marm look has morphed into the Power Bitch\u2122 look?  That ain't no accident, Cindy is screaming for attention.<br><br>I will agree with this blogger, Cindy's got her knives out for Miss Sarah.  Cindy knows all the tricks of the game (after all she used them to get John away from his 1st wife) and she's not going to sit back and watch Sarah snatch her place away from her.  <br><br>Budweiser Barbie is not going to let White Trash Barbie steal her  shine.  So expect to see Cindy in all her fancy clothes, bright colors, plunging necklines and packed on makeup more and more \"out there\" on the campaign trail.<br><br>And while all of this drama goes on, it just makes McCain look more and more out of control of his own campaign.  But this is what happens when you choose a VP just to win instead of to govern.<br><br>And let's keep it real, if Obama had chosen Hillary, this would be happening to him, but in reverse because Bill would be trying to prove HE's still the Top Dawg while Obama would have to issue daily smackdowns.<br><br>Everyone joked about Obama needing a food taster if he chose Hillary.  McCain better get himself a food taster NOW.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_15:57:43", "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": 14, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2402936, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2415891": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Justice58:  Thank you very much!!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-18_02:37:44", "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": 2409350, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2400558": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "D is right on this one. Even if you want to fight a war you have to have something to fight w/ unless you are going totally nuclear. No one, except the Israelis whom see the Iran capablity as an existential threat, are going there.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_13:00:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "RobM", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2400279, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2409751": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Cantor is my congressman and I make sure to vote against him every chance I get even though I know he will win.  I even voted for Cooter from Dukes of Hazzard against him.   Ugh.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_19:46:20", "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": 2407929, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2399002": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "McCain Gets Both Acronym And Purpose Of SIPC Wrong\u00bb<br><a href=\"http://thinkprogress.org/wonkroom/2008/09/16/mccain-sipc-wrong/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://thinkprogress.org/wonkroom/2008/09/16/mc...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_11:32:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "djchefron", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2462491": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": ":&gt;) APeach that is the crux of it, we don't see these images everyday! Thank God for the Internet because a lot of what MSM fails to report and show falls by the wayside. I think I'm going to put that pic on my desktop.  :-)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-20_15:24:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "freespiritbty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2435921, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2409736": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Praying for your friend's son.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_19:44:39", "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": 2407929, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2411653": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That's a withering ad.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_22:15:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2405716, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2397472": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122152292213639569.html?mod=googlenews_wsj\" rel=\"nofollow\">Why Obama's Health Plan is Better</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_09:54:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2406689": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Something that's bothering me about this chick is her constant mangling of the English language.  It bothers me more than even BUSH.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_15:58:54", "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": 5, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2406417, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2407205": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "A fun contest. Have you noticed how the MSM is struggling with actually naming White Voters as \"White?\" They are \"values\" voters or \"heartland\" or \"hard-working Americans.\"<br><br>We are putting together a list of all the ways one can say White without having to actually name it at:<br><br><a href=\"http://wearerespectablenegroes.blogspot.com/2008/09/2how-many-ways-can-mainstream-media.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://wearerespectablenegroes.blogspot.com/200...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_16:33:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "e364df47f230e3ed8cfa0997fbf6354e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2415911": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  Thank you very much!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-18_02:41:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2408753, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2407721": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Town,<br><br>You continue to make me go AMEN when I read your stuff. LOL about the portable cast.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_17:06:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2406673, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2400555": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:   There are several good articles on Black Politics OTW:<br><br><a href=\"http://blackpoliticsontheweb.com/2008/09/17/new-naacp-leader-kicks-off-tenure-%25e2%2580%259cregister-every-last-voter%25e2%2580%259d/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://blackpoliticsontheweb.com/2008/09/17/new...</a><br>President Benjamin Jealous -NAACP [and he is/was a\"Community Organizer] -\"Register Every Last Voter\"<br><br><a href=\"http://blackpoliticsontheweb.com/2008/09/17/black-ministers-rally-action-on-climate-change/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://blackpoliticsontheweb.com/2008/09/17/bla...</a><br>Black Minister Rally Action On Climate Change<br>They see it as a \"moral issue!\"<br><br><a href=\"http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2008/09/17/racist-pub-bans-woman-for-being-black-115875-20739770/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2008/0...</a><br>Racist Pub [in Germany] Bans Woman For Being Black<br>Guess they haven't entered the 20th Century[much less the 21st].", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_12:59:55", "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}, "2406088": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "And God bless the vanilla suburbs.<br><br>(sorry, couldn't resist)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_15:26:50", "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": 2401879, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2398510": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Ya know, it just MIGHT be helpful not to have a \"unity rally\" for minorities....led by the guy who called an ethnic minority a slur.   I guess George Allen thought because he was in Boondocks, VA and not in the United Nations of Northern Virginia that he could get away with calling the boy \"Macaca\" (even as the boy filmed him).  Was there no one else in the Republican party of VA who could lead this rally?<br><br>No?  No one?  And they wonder why they have a \"perception problem?\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_11:05:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 10, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2398311, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2415919": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "JJai:  Thank you very much!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-18_02:44:16", "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": 2408490, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2404656": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "GreenLady,<br><br>I've always liked Rachel Maddow too. She shoots straight from the hip. Woo hoo, I was loving it when she called McCain's lies out!  I knew it wouldn't be long before Rachel got her own show. Believe me, I wrote MSNBC enough! Yay!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_14:44:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "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": 2401832, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2408753": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I will say some prayers", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_18:25:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2408015, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2397492": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This is why I love this man....", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_09:56:10", "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}, "2408158": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Careful T, you don't want to be called sexist - lol<br><br>As Maher said on Rachel Maddow's show - \"If you describe her accurately, there's no way you can do that and not sound condescending.\"<br><br>I'll drink to that...<br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/17/maddow-show-bill-maher-ta_n_127083.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/17/maddow...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_17:38:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "ce6aa58e6423b98fc646d33fcc334f28", "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": 2407766, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2410806": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "A rally of one.    Now, that's revolutionary.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_21:05:46", "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": 2398510, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2397496": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "McCain Camp Throws Fiorina Under The Bus: \"Carly Will Now Disappear\"<br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/17/mccain-camp-throws-fiorin_n_127009.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/17/mccain...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_09:56:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2400058": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "LOL.<br><br>Noncompliant and noncooperative....there's a place in Cuba for people like you.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_12:38:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2399949, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2401595": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I agree with you too<br><br>BUT<br><br>the RNC seems to think otherwise.  In the 9/11 tribute video, they begin with \"The first attack occurred in Iran.  444 days Americans held hostage.......\"<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw1vEzqld0I\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw1vEzqld0I</a><br><br>so clearly Republicans are setting up a link between 9/11 and the hostage crisis in the late 1970's....which is an  outright exploitation  of 9/11 and we can all be certain we will hear this false link brought up in the future.  <br><br>And to me, that is downright dangerous and reckless.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_13:46:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2400279, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2407229": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "MsKitty:   Sometimes \"you got ta do what you got ta do!\"   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_16:35:30", "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": 2406088, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2397502": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I liked Bill Clinton, I love obama, because he actually hugs black children on the campaign trail.   He even looks sincere.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_09:56:53", "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}, "2415938": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Town:  Thank you very much!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-18_02:46:48", "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": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2409736, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2405686": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "tracey,<br><br>I agree this is a fabulous picture.<br>My background went from the fist bump, to Sen Obama and Malia walking on the beach, to the embrace. I love the embrace, but I might subsitute it for this one...for a week.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_14:58:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "kenyaw", "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": 2402978, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2400071": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Like Town said D. These progressives are way into the 9/11 theory and are convinced that Bush wants to go into Iran before he's out. They see the bombing in Yemen as a way in.<br><br>Me? I have no problem with the idea that our foreign policies over the last century have mad enough people mad that they would plot against us. I call it the Columbine Syndrome, bully enough people and ask  'What are you going to do about it?\"  and you'll get your answer. On the going into Iran, haven't you heard the talking points memo for the last two years?  I don't think militarily, financially or emotionally this country could handle a third front. I don't want it to. I respect the patriotism that many feel but this is insanity on so many levels. In my humble opinion.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_12:38:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "Lilytiger", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2399860, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2398536": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://dailykos.com/story/2008/9/17/102915/730/589/601493\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://dailykos.com/story/2008/9/17/102915/730/...</a><br><br>Republican Congresswoman says if the government hadn't been pressured to stop redlining and tell lenders to give money to uncreditworthy people lest they be accused of discrimination, we wouldn't be in this housing crisis.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_11:07:39", "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": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2409290": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I think it's a plant....like the Hillary emails.   Until they release some with sensitive information, I'll continue to believe it's a plant.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_19:07:48", "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": 2407775, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2411851": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I wish someone would break it down for them...the sooner that there's a President Obama, it means that there will be a President of the US who is Latino. It just works that way. We do the heavy lifting, and the rest take advantage with half the work.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_22:32:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2411507, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2433677": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Hey thanks for taking the time to school me.  <br><br>Actually I would have liked to have seen Bill Richardson on the ticket, but a very connected friend of mine that is an elected official said the combination of Barack and Richardson would have been too much change for certain segments of this country at one time.<br><br>I think people from Latin America, Africa, etc that have emigrated to the U.S. support Obama, because they can see the American dream if you will in him.  What America is suppose to be about; Love God, go to school, help the next man and your family.<br><br>I agree Rikyrah, whites better get a clue, Barack, a Latino, some person of color will be President and they just have to deal with it....But we can't let folks divide us....", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-18_17:58:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "2dcb7ab86ca109aed35adaccb673c5dd", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2422921, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2435921": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Oh, that little boy is just SOOOO cute! And the look on his face--WOW! Every time I see a picture like that, or one of he and Michelle with the girls (heck, I'm calling them \"the girls\" like I've picked up two more nieces!) just reminds me how we don't see these images everyday--if ever--in the mainstream media. We know they exist, but to see it so openly...wow...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-18_21:28:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "APeach", "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": 2409536, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2405716": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Catholics United Airs Ad: Pro-Life, Anti-McCain (VIDEO)<br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/17/catholics-united-airs-ad_n_127158.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/17/cathol...</a><br><blockquote><i>Catholics United today unveiled a new ad campaign asking why Senator John McCain has voted against health care and effective assistance to pregnant women, children, and families -- and for the war in Iraq. The ad will run on cable television in heavily Catholic areas of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Michigan. \"It's not enough to say you're pro-life,\" the narrator says. \"Actions speak louder than words.\" Watch:</i></blockquote>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_15:00:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2407766": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "lol", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_17:09:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2407688, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2400087": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Oh,, that's pretty harsh there. I must protest that remark to Town.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_12:39:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "Lilytiger", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2400058, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2406745": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Note to Senator Obama: <br><br>PLEASE do not agree to any additional meetings with John McStalker other than the 3 that have already been scheduled. <br><br>No town halls with that CLOWN. PLEASE. <br><br>I read last week that you were considering the possibilty of joining him for one on ABC. <br><br>Sir, please don't. You do not need to do town halls with that geriatric nutcase in order to showcase your policy proposals to the American people. You're doing plenty fine on your own(with Senator Biden). Let him make his case BY HIMSELF and/or with his incoherent, hubristic, vindictive sidekick.<br><br>T.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_16:02:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "d6755b31010b50fc47eac9ee8b3bb319", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2412891": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Wow, what a difference a couple of days make.  Yall are all positive and speaking truth here today.<br><br>This story should make you happier.  Obama represents change and McCain is the same old tired:  <a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/18/us/politics/18poll.html?partner=rssyahoo&emc=rss\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/18/us/politics/1...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-18_00:19:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2409820": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "LOL, what a delicate flower Cindy McCain is!<br><br>First somebody shakes her hand too hard and she has to go to the Emergency Room!<br><br>Then she needs a cast for the poor little wrist.<br><br>If the cast doesn't go with her outfit that day, she doesn't put it on!<br><br>But when she needs some sympathy, here comes the cast!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_19:53:08", "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": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2407721, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2402141": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"As much as I criticize the strategies of his Campaign, I pray for Senator Obama (and his family)  every night, and not merely to win, but for God to give him strength. I can't even begin to imagine carrying the weight of the world on my shoulders...\" - NMP<br><br>CO-SIGN!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_14:06:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "bb90730b238bd2c1f318bc1437a3fc1e", "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}, "2407775": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Do y'all think that <a href=\"http://thepage.time.com/2008/09/17/a-shocking-invasion-of-the-governors-privacy\" rel=\"nofollow\">this(the alleged hacked email account) </a>is real or is it another classic diversionary tactic by the GOP...you know, to attemp to paint Saint Sarah as a victim of the evil-weevil democwats?<br><br>T.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_17:09:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "d6755b31010b50fc47eac9ee8b3bb319", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2408800": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Tweety was visibly annoyed with Cantor and just wouldn't let up. And I'm glad! It amazes me how McCain & Co. are trying to act like they had nothing to do with the screw ups for the past 8 yrs!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_18:28:19", "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": 2407929, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2408802": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Hillary is doing the right thing that is getting under their skin. . . . ignoring her.<br><br>Some women can't take it.  To them that is as bad as denying they exist.  LOL<br><br>too funny.  I woudn't even argue . . . I hope they keep it up.  They look like high school kids  . . . too funny.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_18:28:24", "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": 2406845, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2401127": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Brown Man:  Nice concept!!  I'll take my \"Field Trip\" today!!  See ya soon! :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_13:31:20", "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": 2400964, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2402664": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "11 year old campaigns for Obama in New Mexico<br><br><a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/17/13480/4894/35/598972\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/17/13480/4...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_14:18:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2422634": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The problem is that they're sending out real advisors, not salesmen. Was listening to an NPR interview -- NPR! -- and their senior economic advisor, Jason Furman, was just terrible on radio, using words like \"ex ante\" and not hammering home a single, clear, non-equivocal statement. A 4-minute interview is not the time to be nuanced -- save it for advising. <a href=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94748559\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?st...</a>", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-18_10:13:17", "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": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2409924, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2435949": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I was just speaking with an older Gentleman tonight who said \"This race isn't about me\" and pointed to a group of kids.  He said \"it's about them and we have to understand that.\"<br><br>I often say my grandparents, and beyond, even myself have taken the blows so my kids will have an easier time.<br><br>I believe it we all keep that in mind on election day and beyond, Obama will be the next President.<br><br>This has been goo; thanks again for the knowledge...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-18_21:30:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "2dcb7ab86ca109aed35adaccb673c5dd", "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": 2435317, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2398574": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'd really appreciate any support, and thoughts, for this suggestion I've made on DailyKos and also to the Obama campaign's new media staff:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/17/103834/443\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/17/103834/443</a><br><br>I agree with others here that the most important thing we can do individually is to keep making those phone calls and knocking on doors. But let's not pretend that media message isn't important -- we can't reach every voter, and part of winning entails getting undecideds to our side and pushing McCain supporters away from him, keeping them home in Nov or at least stopping them from talking up their candidate to friends/neighbors.<br><br>The problem I see in the blogosphere is taking potshots all over the place without any focus, which is playing directly into the hands of the McCain campaign. They know that message chaos benefits them, and a lot of their stunts were specifically designed to cut through the noise (e.g. \"lipstick\"). We don't have the same discipline, because, well, Democrats are so damned democratic.<br><br>I think it's time to end that and focus on a single, simple message. I happen to think it's \"They'll say anything,\" but I don't care what it is -- I want our creative anarchy to be productive rather than waste energy going all over the place.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_11:09:41", "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}, "2411837": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Randall should have asked him:  Is there something about me that makes you think I would accept any less than I've earned, or that I'm entitled to? <br><br>He should have confronted his dumb ass!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_22:30:40", "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": 2411698, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2411888": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I'm waiting for Obama on black velvet...LOL <br><br>Ok, admit it, who here has ordered the Ebony Cover posters of Obama?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_22:35:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2408635, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2401436": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  Obama goes \"Hollywood\" <b>for real</b>:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/17/obama-at-holllywood-fundr_n_127095.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/17/obama-...</a><br>Obama At Hollywood Fundraiser:  \"This Is Not A Sitcom\"<br><br>Obama speech at Hollywood fundraiser yesterday ....<br><br>Part 1 ...<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPJuwhVsdWw\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPJuwhVsdWw</a><br><br>Part 2 ...<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge76ApkuRDA\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge76ApkuRDA</a><br><br>T:  SORRY.   I didn't SEE YOUR POST!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_13:40:48", "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": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2401139": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "he is a real class act.  that's what i call straight-talk", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_13:31:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "ibeching", "has_been_anonymized": false, "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": 2399179, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2415990": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LOL, that is soooo funny!!!!!<br><br>I think you're right about there being some competition there.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-18_02:58:55", "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": 2412715, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2414274": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "msmartin:  I've been meaning to ask you how your job was going?  :&gt;)  Well, I hope!<br><br><b>Warm thoughts to your mom!!  Major props to you for your care-taking!!</b>", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-18_02:28:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2412091, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2415995": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I don't think a sprain takes this long to heal.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-18_03:00:31", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2411695, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2399613": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "E.J. Dionne's Latest Column<br><br><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/15/AR2008091502472.html?sub=AR\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_12:06:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2411157": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Is the Senate a \"do nothing Senate\" because they really do absolutely nothing or because what they actually do gets blocked/vetoed?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_21:28:16", "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}, "2401152": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hello my people: Been lurking. What up? Anyway...<a href=\"http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/17/71615/2986/718/601364\" rel=\"nofollow\">OBAMA SPEAKS AT THE FUNDRAISER LAST NIGHT...</a><br><br>T.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_13:32:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "d6755b31010b50fc47eac9ee8b3bb319", "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}, "2398081": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Rikyrah<br><br>Yep. The pic says it all. And he's so cute too. Look at the dimple!<br><br>mmm wah", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_10:38:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": 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}, "2412418": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "She's not an \"empty suit\", she's an empty head.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_23:21:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2410420, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2400133": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Hillary mad so trumps an angry bear, Palin. Be warned.<br><br>LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_12:41:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "Lilytiger", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2399425, "depth": 3, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2409350": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "GreenLady,<br><br>I'm sending prayers your way. My thoughts are with you.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_19:12:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "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": 2408015, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2398600": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The face on the little dude (three years old?) in O-man's arms is simply priceless--as is the face of the young man in the back ground.  I want  hugs too!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_11:11:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "113b8b42f25d4b142e2e7f99aded9a96", "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}, "2399625": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I met him once, as a kid. No picture, though.<br><br>There'd be no need for the rally if McCain was up (outside of the margin of error). This might be worth a trip up on Saturday, at least for comedic (sp?) value.<br><br>Not a Gilmore fan....can't bring myself to sign on for that suicide mission. Hell, not a Warner fan, to cover both sides in that particular race. I'd rather write in Kaine.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_12:07:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2399381, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2399626": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Even GOP says McCain must accept earmarks<br><br><a href=\"http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13525.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13525...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_12:07:13", "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": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2408847": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Look at the polls...way too close to be closing any offices there.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_18:32:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 9, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2406360, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2415909": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Val:  Thank you very much!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-18_02:41:57", "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": 2408948, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2399634": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thomas Friedman's Latest<br><br><a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/17/opinion/17friedman.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&oref=slogin\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/17/opinion/17fri...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_12:07:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2398100": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/16/AR2008091603151.html?hpid=topnews\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...</a><br><br>Sen. Macaca and the VA GOP reach out to all minorities (except blacks) for a \"unity rally\" to show them the GOP cares about them.<br><br>In other words, the GOP wants to get some of the minority vote in NoVa to stem the Democratic tide coming this Nov.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_10:39:39", "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": 15, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2407662": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Now, of all the things I've said about Hillpatine, you best believe I never said the woman was stupid.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_17:02:23", "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": 2407170, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2412950": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I had jokingly noted Canada but saw on Slate how they are going through their own sort of tumultous campaign with another right leaning candidate. So, its Obama/Biden or bust!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-18_00:26:54", "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": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2412848, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2401690": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  Federal Bank Insurance Fund Dwindling<br><br><a href=\"http://blackpoliticsontheweb.com/2008/09/17/federal-bank-insurance-fund-dwindling/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://blackpoliticsontheweb.com/2008/09/17/fed...</a><br><br>So that \"fine print\" statement on my bank statements  -   \"<b>Backed by the FDIC up to $100,000</b> -   is not quite accurate???<br><br>Back to the <b>socks under my mattress</b>!!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_13:48:50", "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": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2412444": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "From DailyKos<br><br><a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/17/20176/8651/921/602170\" rel=\"nofollow\">Thoughts from the Trading Floor</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_23:24:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2410695": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Damn! you're fired up. <br><br>I like it. good stuff.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_21:02:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "karlewis", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2410420, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2402207": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "That's a stretch, as the organization that would become al Qaeda didn't come into existence until the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. They weren't around for the Iranian hostage crisis, so.......<br><br>Besides, if that was the \"first attack\" in the War on Terror, <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Eagle_Claw\" rel=\"nofollow\">we damn sure didn't respond very well to it.</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_14:09:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2401595, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2400160": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "rikyrah:   That <b>PICTURE!</b>  <b>PRICELESS!!</b><br><br>One phrase in a song that we sing says  <i> . . but I know who holds the future. . . </i><br><br>This is what comes to my mind when I see \"President\" Obama with this child  - a future leader!  :&gt;)<br><br>I am crying!!  But, \"where's my Choir Robe?\"  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_12:42:44", "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}, "2406305": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  Hope this isn't a duplicate.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/16/conservatives-turn-on-mcc_n_126749.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/16/conser...</a><br><b>Conservatives Turn On McCain/Palin</b>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_15:39:57", "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}, "2412450": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "O.k.a.y.!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_23:25:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2411698, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2407846": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "T - I saw that earlier.  It is probably a joke.  They write these spoofs from time to time.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_17:14:46", "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": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2407775, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2402727": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  We'll take 'em!\"<br><br><a href=\"http://www.newser.com/article/d9385ui80/womens-rights-groups-endorse-obama-for-president.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.newser.com/article/d9385ui80/womens-...</a><br>Women's Rights Group endorses Obama For President<br><br><i>Women's rights groups endorsed Democrat Barack Obama for president Tuesday, asserting the historic selection of a female Republican vice presidential candidate does not make up for John McCain's lack of support on issues important to women.<br><br>\"We don't think it's much to break a glass ceiling for one woman and leave millions of women behind,\" said Eleanor Smeal, chairman of the Feminist Majority Political Action Committee.<br><br>Smeal was among leaders from six organizations that announced their endorsement of the Democratic presidential nominee at a news conference.<br><br>Obama also won the support of the National Organization for Women, which said it has not endorsed a candidate for president since Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro shared the Democratic ticket in 1984. Ferraro was the first female major party vice presidential candidate.</i><br><br>SKIP<br><br><i>Obama was also endorsed by leaders from Business and Professional Women/USA, the National Association of Social Workers, the National Congress of Black Women and the Women's Information Network.<br><br>The McCain campaign said it was unhappy with NOW's decision to endorse Obama in the race for the White House.<br><br>\"It's extremely disappointing that an organization that purports to be an advocate for all women not only opposes, but feels compelled to go out of its way to criticize and make negative comments, about the only ticket in the presidential race with a woman on the ticket,\" Palin's spokeswoman Maria Comella said in an e-mail.</i><br><br><b>  It's about QUALITY \"McAncient\", not just GENDER!</b><br><br>Whew!! 894/899 Deep Breaths!!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_14:22:06", "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}, "2400169": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "From your sad and dejected keyboard to God's ears.<br><br>:-0", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_12:42:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "Lilytiger", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2398311, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2416199": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Town:   Whycome U    R     telling the <b>TRUTH?</b>  LOL!!:&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-18_03:36:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2411733, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2398962": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Good news of sorts. The 'progressive\" site I go to that has been academically discussing there's \"no difference\" between McCain and Obama has at least 75% of them changing their tune to \"We have to get Obama in, this situation is scary\"<br><br>Between Palin and the economy and now the bombing of the embassy in Yemen which they see as a way for this admin to go into Iran, they now see that there is holding your nose and voting and there is holding onto your b*lls and voting.<br><br>Again sorry for such language, wasn't raised right.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_11:30:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "Lilytiger", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 14, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2400686": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Lilytiger:  Good one!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_13:03:32", "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": 2400133, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2408077": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "T, that made me literally LAUGH OUT LOUD!! I'm sure all of us are thinking the same thing!  The way she just twisted McCain's explanation is nothing more than politricks. This woman is pathological.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_17:32:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "freespiritbty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2407688, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2413384": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  Yaaaaa!  I'm 2 thrilled!!  Thanks for this information!!   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-18_01:33:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2412032, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2406323": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Kenyaw,<br><br>On another forum, I had the fist bump as my avatar, then as a footer. There's so many  wonderful pics that it's hard to choose from and I love them all.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_15:41:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "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": 2405686, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2398132": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/09/palin_criticize.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalin...</a><br><br>Palin disses Hillary for cancelling her appearance at the anti-Ahmedinejad rally.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_10:41:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2399671": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The Day I Was Denied Communion for Endorsing Obama, by Douglas Kmiec<br><br><a href=\"http://blog.beliefnet.com/stevenwaldman/2008/09/the-day-i-was-denied-communion.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://blog.beliefnet.com/stevenwaldman/2008/09...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_12:09:38", "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": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2408095": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The lies from McSame just keep coming.<br><br><a href=\"http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/17/mccain-anticipate-crisis/#comments\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/17/mccain-anti...</a><br><br>He claimed he saw the collapse coming but earlier he said he didn't. What else is new?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_17:33:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "karlewis", "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}, "2406845": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Dammit, McCain's camp is just some lying ass snakes. They just lie for the hell of it. They are habitual, obsessive liars. They can't even say \"truth\". ...and why is CNN even printing this bullshyt??<br><br><a href=\"http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/17/mccain-camp-accuses-obama-of-pressuring-clinton/#comments\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/17...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_16:10:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2435317": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I agree w/ your friend. Obama and Richardson would be a dream ticket for a lot of us, but can you imagine two dark skinned men on one ticket at this time when we have those Obama waffles, \"Minutemen\" patrolling the border, immigrants being detained and beaten? What this race has proven is that racism is alive and well in America despite the millions of people who can see beyond skin color and ethnicities. <br><br>I think that even Richardson could see that... too much color this time around. But in the future, a Latino and a black or what about a black Latino (a Dominican or Puerto Rican) could very well be on the ticket... thanks to the effort of Obama and the team behind him.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-18_20:30:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "adriana01", "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": 2433677, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2409924": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Obama needs to clean up his advisers and spokespeople.  Bill Burton is on Lou Dobbs and he is terrible.   He couldn't get out his answer fluently and did not inspire confident.  In addition he has a expression on his face that looks dumb.  He also looks like a little boy.<br><br><br>There was a SENIOUR advisor on Hardball the other day.  First, Photenhauer appeared for McCain.  Now, she's nasty...but she knows how to fight, and who to fight.  Chris put her through the meatgrinder.  Next, Chris had on the Obama Seniour adviser and she was so busy sassing Chris, she failed to see he was giving her a freebie.  At the end, she didn't have her facts straight when Chris had to ask 3 times what income level you have to be to escape higher taxes under the Obama plan, and she couldn't answer clearly.  She got the number wrong at the end!<br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/15/chris-matthews-battles-na_n_126657.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/15/chris-...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_20:00:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2399086": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Numbers game: 10% of blacks in Northern VA doesn't translate into a win in an area that's 67% white, 14% black, and 24% Hispanic or Asian. Reaching out to the Hispanic/Asian communities lessens the number of whites you have to win over. <br><br>Doesn't make it right, but it is what it is.<br><br>(Besides, any black person in VA who publically shows his support for the GOP runs the risk of being shot....or at best, having his bumper stickers stolen)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_11:36:51", "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": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2398852, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2406854": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  \"McAncient\" continues to attempt to have it <b>both ways!</b><br><br><a href=\"http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13525.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13525...</a><br><b>Even GOP Says McCain Must Accept Earmarks</b><br><br><i>Out on the stump, John McCain gets wild applause each time he promises as president to veto every spending bill that contains an earmark.<br><br>But McCain will find it almost impossible to live up to his vow, and gridlock would result if Congress refused to go along with such an executive branch power grab.<br><br>And that\u2019s what members of McCain\u2019s own party are saying.<br><br>\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s the right approach,\u201d said Rep. Ralph Regula, an Ohio Republican who has spent three decades on the House Appropriations Committee. \u201cI haven\u2019t done an earmark I wouldn\u2019t be happy to have spread all over the front pages of the paper.\u201d<br><br>Rep. C.W. Bill Young (R-Fla.), a former Appropriations Committee chairman, warns that both parties in Congress would protect their power against a no-earmark policy.<br><br>\u201cThe Constitution is very specific and very clear about who appropriates money,\u201d Young said. \u201cNot all earmarks are pork-barrel spending.\u201d</i><br><br><b>McAncient\" continues to campaign against himself.  He's been a Repug Senator for \"26 YEARS!!</b><br><br><b>Obama-Biden '08!!</b>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_16:10:53", "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": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2408903": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Geez, someone finally taught our fearless leader, Obama, how to <a href=\"http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/09/17/couricandco/entry4455870.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow\">answer</a> that \"my greatest weakness question\" using politician-speak! Yeah! LOL!<br><br>Note, McStupid's answer begs the question - did you apply that philosophy to your Veep vetting process?<br><br>T.<br>ps. Remember during the primary debates, he was asked a similar question, answered first, was a little too truthful, then everybody else gave the classic non-answer. Sucker!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_18:36:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "d6755b31010b50fc47eac9ee8b3bb319", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2399179": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "new ad by Obama on his economic plan. 2 minutes long- this is how he is spending the money. i'm ready to cut another check. this is the kind of info people need. only thing i wish he has a  800 number to call to request one in print or go to the free library for people without computer skills.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/17/obama-takes-on-economy-pa_n_127021.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/17/obama-...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_11:42:06", "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": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2402766": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Again, I am NOT in disagreement  with you.<br><br>I am simply bringing up the propanganda that Republicans are using----the RNC said it, not me.<br><br>And let's not forget, the Bush administration, especially Cheney , continually trumped a connection between Saddam Hussein and 9/11 on interviews and then outright lied later and said he never made that connection.<br><br>And of course we cannot ignore \"bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, Iran\" coming out of John McCain's own mouth  on the campaign trial while the RNC plays that tribute video that starts off with references to Iran as the first attack on America.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_14:24:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2402207, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2423767": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I remember that.  Pissed me off so bad that I stopped watching the show right then and there.  And don't get me started on how they did Stacey on the season before that.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-18_11:33:41", "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": 2411698, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2406360": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "A political consultant friend just sent me an e-mail that said the Obama campaign is closing Florida offices. Does anyone here know anything about this?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_15:43:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "adriana01", "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": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2398169": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Biden Labels McCain Attacks As \"Republican Garbage\"<br><a href=\"http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/09/16/politics/fromtheroad/entry4453954.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/09/16/politic...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_10:44:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "djchefron", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2410975": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This Rothschild heifer is the best spokesperson the Obama campaign could ever hope for. When you have a woman who actually has a wierd title of \"Lady\" and her husband is \"Sir\", living between their homes in London and NYC, but daring to call the black man from Chi-town \"elitist\"?? Oh, that's priceless. This woman thinks a black man is supposed to take her expensive Versace luggage to her room and pick up her little dog's shit and that's it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_21:12:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2410420, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2409442": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I am no English aficionado.. but I agree.  There's something creepy, peculiar about her syntax and word choice.    Sort of like if you imagined how an alien would talk.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_19:19:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2406689, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2399205": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "What a great photo and a beautiful way to start the day...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_11:43:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "a03444493e1580c18261c6ff4f84f813", "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}, "2406886": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I had to shake my head and laugh Town.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_16:13:28", "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": 2406689, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2398698": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "No, only Barack Obama can be sexist.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_11:16:49", "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": 2398226, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2413548": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "JJai:  I'm going to give myself a few more times to listen to her speak extemporaneously, then I'm going to seek the advice of a professional to determine her \"situation!\"    Situation=CODE for mental health diagnosis.<br><br>Something appears to be very wrong!!  :&gt;)<br><br>I'm just sayin'. . . . . <br><br><br>P.s.:  <b>THANK YOU for your concern/thought/prayers!</b>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-18_02:13:49", "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": 2411600, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2409455": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I agree....Plouffe sent out an email asking for 39 million for Florida.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_19:20:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2408847, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2411507": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I don't want to assume; but are you a Latina?<br><br>If so would you say the Latino community will support Obama?  <br><br>Where I am the Latino community has a complex regarding supporting African-American candidates, unless they are originally from NYC then they don't have a problem.  <br><br>I think part of it because there is a power struggle between the African-Americans and Latinos here who tend to side with the Whites.<br><br>Thanks for your knowledge....", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_22:00:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "2dcb7ab86ca109aed35adaccb673c5dd", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2409530, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2408948": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Praying for you and yours GreenLadyHere", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_18:39:47", "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": 2408015, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2407929": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "rikyrah:  Chris Matthews is putting Congressman Cantor on the \"proverbial ropes\" and is pounding the crap out of him!!  :&gt;)   He has been relentless and accusatory!!<br><br><b>He has accused Repugs of \"running from your Repug uniforms\" and acting like they are different from SHRUB, when supporting \"McAncient\"! </b>  <br><br>He is truly playing  -   <b>\"HARDBALL!!\"</b>   WOW!!!<br><br>I'm sure someone will get the You Tubes!!    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_17:20:14", "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": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2415898": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Sepia:  Thank you very much!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-18_02:39:31", "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": 2409029, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2407933": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Well nobody puts Cindy in the corner! She's paid for and sponsored her hubby's entire political career. I wonder how healthy McCain really is and if that's another reason why he let the religious perpetrating good ol' boys pick Palin. They may have info on his medical history indicating a pending illness and they need the real Manchurian Candidate in place. He'd better have food tasters, air sniffers and everything else. I also think Cindy better get in a visit to the White House before January cos that'll be the last time she'll get to set foot in there for a long time!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-17_17:20:34", "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": 2406673, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}}, "integration": {"receiver_url": "", "theme": 4, "reply_position": true, "disqus_logo": false}, "timer": {"timer_url": "http://localhost:8005", "thread_id": "4674302", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "21630", "hash": 1971548037651021099}, "thread": {"days_alive": 0, "slug": "wednesday_open_thread_44", "paginate": false, "num_pages": 1, "num_posts": 247, "per_page": 0, "total_posts": 0, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 4674302, "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_44' +
		'&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_44/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_44'
			+ '&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_44/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">247</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/wednesday_open_thread_44/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_44/">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:4674302" 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_44/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:4674302" 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:4674302" 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_44',
			// 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_44/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_44'
			+ '&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_44'
			+ '&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_44'
				+ '&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/4674302/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-2411084">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2411084" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2411084" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2411084">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2411084" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2411084" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh dear God....I just watched 2 minutes of Palin\'s interview with Klannity....oh, My word......this is the type of interview that you need to watch only if you are drunk or high. You cannot be sober because it will give you a migraine. I am not about to pop two 500 mgs of extra strength Tylenol. She went in more circles than a ferris wheel at a county fair. Have mercy....she is seriously simple.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2411164">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2411164" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2411164" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2411164">Val</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2411164" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2411164" class="dsq-comment-message">I refused to watch it because I didn\'t want to contribute to their ratings (watching Rachel Maddow) figured I would catch it on youtube.<br><br>Thanks for the update.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2411600">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2411600" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2411600" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2411600">JJai</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2411600" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2411600" class="dsq-comment-message">watching her on this interview makes me want to take a red pen to her conversation. She uses so many unnecesary words! <br><br>there, that, the, very, very, good, great<br><br>What is she 8 years old? You can tell she does not read. Her vocabulary is miniscule.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2413548">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2413548" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2413548" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2413548">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2413548" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2413548" class="dsq-comment-message">JJai:  I\'m going to give myself a few more times to listen to her speak extemporaneously, then I\'m going to seek the advice of a professional to determine her "situation!"    Situation=CODE for mental health diagnosis.<br><br>Something appears to be very wrong!!  :&gt;)<br><br>I\'m just sayin\'. . . . . <br><br><br>P.s.:  <b>THANK YOU for your concern/thought/prayers!</b></div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2411190">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2411190" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2411190" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2411190">nickwah22</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2411190" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2411190" class="dsq-comment-message">To me it seems like he is asking slightly leading questions and she gives a fasttalkers type of BS answer.  I figure I\'d watch the whole thing so that a) I wouldn\'t only hear biased sound bites and b) to see if she would be as foolish sounding as the first time.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2412068">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2412068" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2412068" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2412068">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2412068" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2412068" class="dsq-comment-message">And remember this..<br><br>THIS was AFTER she had been spoonfed the questions. <br><br>I\'ll say it again:<br><br>ANYONE, right, left, middle, who takes politics SERIOUSLY<br><br>Has no choice but to be offended by this woman.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2406854">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2406854" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2406854" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2406854">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2406854" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2406854" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  "McAncient" continues to attempt to have it <b>both ways!</b><br><br><a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13525.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13525...</a><br><b>Even GOP Says McCain Must Accept Earmarks</b><br><br><i>Out on the stump, John McCain gets wild applause each time he promises as president to veto every spending bill that contains an earmark.<br><br>But McCain will find it almost impossible to live up to his vow, and gridlock would result if Congress refused to go along with such an executive branch power grab.<br><br>And that’s what members of McCain’s own party are saying.<br><br>“I don’t think it’s the right approach,” said Rep. Ralph Regula, an Ohio Republican who has spent three decades on the House Appropriations Committee. “I haven’t done an earmark I wouldn’t be happy to have spread all over the front pages of the paper.”<br><br>Rep. C.W. Bill Young (R-Fla.), a former Appropriations Committee chairman, warns that both parties in Congress would protect their power against a no-earmark policy.<br><br>“The Constitution is very specific and very clear about who appropriates money,” Young said. “Not all earmarks are pork-barrel spending.”</i><br><br><b>McAncient" continues to campaign against himself.  He\'s been a Repug Senator for "26 YEARS!!</b><br><br><b>Obama-Biden \'08!!</b></div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2397966">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2397966" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2397966" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2397966" href="http://thisweekwithbarackobama.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">icebergslim</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2397966" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2397966" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/17/94016/0264/300/591612" rel="nofollow">The Motherlode of All Voter Registration Diaries.</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2398349">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2398349" class="dsq-comment-message">thanks so much Iceberg</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2400774" class="dsq-comment-message">icebergslim:  Here you go again - - <b>ON POINT!!</b>   Thank you! :&gt;)<br><br>JJP:   I promise!   I only posted this ONCE! :&gt;)<br><br>I don\'t know why it\'s DUPLICATED!  Technology -not me!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2400776">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2400776" class="dsq-comment-message">icebergslim:  Here you go again - - <b>ON POINT!!</b>   Thank you! :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2397407">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2397407" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122152292213639569.html?mod=googlenews_wsj" rel="nofollow">Why Obama\'s Health Plan is Better</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2397436">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2397436" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/authentic-journalism-work-michigan-vote-cagers-run" rel="nofollow">Authentic Journalism at Work: Michigan Vote-Cagers on the Run</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2397472">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2397472" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122152292213639569.html?mod=googlenews_wsj" rel="nofollow">Why Obama\'s Health Plan is Better</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2397492">rorysmomma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2397492" class="dsq-comment-message">This is why I love this man....</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2397496">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2397496" class="dsq-comment-message">McCain Camp Throws Fiorina Under The Bus: "Carly Will Now Disappear"<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/17/mccain-camp-throws-fiorin_n_127009.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/17/mccain...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2398226">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2398226" class="dsq-comment-message">I wonder will she accuse the McCain camp of being sexist?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2398698">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2398698" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2398698" class="dsq-comment-message">No, only Barack Obama can be sexist.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2400791">RobM</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2400791" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2400791" class="dsq-comment-message">The truth HURTS.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2397502">rorysmomma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2397502" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2397502" class="dsq-comment-message">I liked Bill Clinton, I love obama, because he actually hugs black children on the campaign trail.   He even looks sincere.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2397811">djchefron</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2397811" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2397811" class="dsq-comment-message">Hey, I\'ve Got An Idea -- Let\'s Put These Geniuses In Charge Of Health Care <br><a href="http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/17/10426/8714/56/601001" rel="nofollow">http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/17/10426/8...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2410182" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2410182">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2410182" class="dsq-comment-message">American\'s consume health care like "caviar", eh?<br><br>Oh yes...can\'t wait to go back to the proctologist again...and oh what fun it is when the doctor uses that cold speculum?   These guys are a bunch of turds.   How great it is to be told you\'ve got cancer?<br><br>Where are the trolls...???</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2397891">djchefron</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2397891" class="dsq-comment-message">Politicians Lie, Numbers Don\'t<br>And the numbers show that Democrats are better for the economy than Republicans.<br><a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2199810/" rel="nofollow">http://www.slate.com/id/2199810/</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2397900">rdxtion</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2397900" class="dsq-comment-message">A little something lighter in the midst of all the bad news:<br><br>Black Comic Introduces John McCain: <a href="http://www.observer.com/2008/style/black-comic-introduces-mccain" rel="nofollow">http://www.observer.com/2008/style/black-comic-...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2398081">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2398081" class="dsq-comment-message">Rikyrah<br><br>Yep. The pic says it all. And he\'s so cute too. Look at the dimple!<br><br>mmm wah</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2398100" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2398100" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2398100">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2398100" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2398100" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/16/AR2008091603151.html?hpid=topnews" rel="nofollow">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...</a><br><br>Sen. Macaca and the VA GOP reach out to all minorities (except blacks) for a "unity rally" to show them the GOP cares about them.<br><br>In other words, the GOP wants to get some of the minority vote in NoVa to stem the Democratic tide coming this Nov.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2398311" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2398311" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2398311" class="dsq-comment-message">Republicans have a "perception problem?" Yeah, no shit. <br><br>I\'m slowly coming to the conclusion that VA\'s gonna be a lost cause.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2400169">Lilytiger</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2400169" class="dsq-comment-message">From your sad and dejected keyboard to God\'s ears.<br><br>:-0</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2411728">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2411728" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2398510">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2398510" class="dsq-comment-message">Ya know, it just MIGHT be helpful not to have a "unity rally" for minorities....led by the guy who called an ethnic minority a slur.   I guess George Allen thought because he was in Boondocks, VA and not in the United Nations of Northern Virginia that he could get away with calling the boy "Macaca" (even as the boy filmed him).  Was there no one else in the Republican party of VA who could lead this rally?<br><br>No?  No one?  And they wonder why they have a "perception problem?"</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2398742" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2398742" class="dsq-comment-message">You mean the People\'s Republic of Northern Virginia?<br><br>Yeah, I was wondering that too. Not the best choice.<br><br>Here\'s what I find funny: <br><br><i>Republicans have boosted their efforts to reach out to immigrant communities that traditionally have voted Democratic. To bolster participation at the rally, they are targeting Korean, Arab, Chinese, Taiwanese and Latin American communities across the county through phone banks and door-to-door visits.</i><br><br>Now, maybe I\'m misinformed, but have the dhimmicrats of late had a more reliable voting block that African Americans?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2398852">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2398852" class="dsq-comment-message">We do know that 10% of blacks vote Republican.  Why not do outreach to that 10%?<br><br>But perhaps to the VA GOP "unity" does not include black people?<br><br>And then they wonder why they never get a higher percentage of the black vote?<br><br>Are there not African immigrants?  Scratch that, I know there are African immigrants in NoVA because I gave directions to a whole caravan of them this past weekend.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2399086" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2399086" class="dsq-comment-message">Numbers game: 10% of blacks in Northern VA doesn\'t translate into a win in an area that\'s 67% white, 14% black, and 24% Hispanic or Asian. Reaching out to the Hispanic/Asian communities lessens the number of whites you have to win over. <br><br>Doesn\'t make it right, but it is what it is.<br><br>(Besides, any black person in VA who publically shows his support for the GOP runs the risk of being shot....or at best, having his bumper stickers stolen)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2399381">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2399381" class="dsq-comment-message">That\'s because the GOP is represented by such lovely people as Sen. Macaca, who\'s been living in NoVa long enough to see exactly how many Asians and Hispanics are living up there.  What black people want to be caught shaking hands with George Allen?<br><br>But the GOP should have been "reaching out" to ethnic minorities all along.  Don\'t come stepping to ethnic groups a month and a half before the election saying "We Care."  If McCain were leading Obama by 10-15 points in VA this ethnic "unity" rally would never be happening and we all know it.<br><br>I\'d rather vote for Jim Gilmore than George Allen.  I\'ve always thought it was very interesting that Macaca Allen was the very next governor after Doug Wilder.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2399625" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2399625" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2399625" class="dsq-comment-message">I met him once, as a kid. No picture, though.<br><br>There\'d be no need for the rally if McCain was up (outside of the margin of error). This might be worth a trip up on Saturday, at least for comedic (sp?) value.<br><br>Not a Gilmore fan....can\'t bring myself to sign on for that suicide mission. Hell, not a Warner fan, to cover both sides in that particular race. I\'d rather write in Kaine.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2399927">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2399927" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL @ Kaine.  <br><br>LOL @ Gilmore.  Apparently nobody else is signing up for that mission either.  Poor Gilmore, the only commercial he can afford...ya know how commercials used to look back in the early 80s, all fuzzy looking?  That\'s what Jim Gilmore\'s campaign ads look like.  It looks like one of his sons got some old VHS tapes and GOOGLE images and pasted them into Window Movie Maker.<br><br>Heck, I might travel up there Saturday just to get my laugh on.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2399989" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2399989" class="dsq-comment-message">Hell, I haven\'t even SEEN a Gilmore commercial in Hampton Roads (granted, I\'m on the road a lot). My local representative (Thelma Drake) is getting more airtime than Gilmore.<br><br>I was a kid through his administration, and I thought he was a shitty governor.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2399857">Anderkoo</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2399857" class="dsq-comment-message">On THIS one, you can\'t blame Bush or Rove: they were doing their best with efforts at immigration reform. This shows how party matters: it was the bulk of the GOP, not Bush or Rove, that engineered this self-destruction in the Latino community (minus the Cubans).</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2400281">Lilytiger</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2400281" class="dsq-comment-message">I just want to point out that the use of NoVa looks like no va and that in Spanish means "Doesn\'t go". I think most Latinos know that the republicans don\'t want them and theirs here and are not against posses and militias to do it. Not all but most, our failing economy mirrors Germany\'s failing economy of the thirties. Who is the scapegoat here?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2410806" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2410806">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2410806" class="dsq-comment-message">A rally of one.    Now, that\'s revolutionary.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2405992">RonnieB</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2405992" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2405992" class="dsq-comment-message">This "outreach" to non-Black minorities is nothing more than a thinly veiled attempt at attracting minorities who might harbor anti-Black sentiments.  <br><br>Typical Republican division tactic.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2398132" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2398132">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2398132" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2398132" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/09/palin_criticize.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalin...</a><br><br>Palin disses Hillary for cancelling her appearance at the anti-Ahmedinejad rally.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2398278">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2398278" class="dsq-comment-message">Palin is really smelling herself. She\'s trying her best to draw Hillary into a public fight.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2399425" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2399425">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2399425" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2399425" class="dsq-comment-message">Palin betta recognize....she don\'t want none of Hillz...not right now....Hillz gotta lot of frustration and anger pent up inside...Palin bests to step back.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2400133">Lilytiger</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2400133" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2400133" class="dsq-comment-message">Hillary mad so trumps an angry bear, Palin. Be warned.<br><br>LOL</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2400686" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2400686">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2400686" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2400686" class="dsq-comment-message">Lilytiger:  Good one!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2398336">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2398336" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2398336" class="dsq-comment-message">I think it\'s hilarious that Hillpatine dissed her first..LOL</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2398169" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2398169" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2398169">djchefron</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2398169" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2398169" class="dsq-comment-message">Biden Labels McCain Attacks As "Republican Garbage"<br><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/09/16/politics/fromtheroad/entry4453954.shtml" rel="nofollow">http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/09/16/politic...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2411720" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2411720">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2411720" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2411720" class="dsq-comment-message">Biden is so amazing!  They rarely show clips of him speaking on CNN.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2398365" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2398365" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2398365">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2398365" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2398365" class="dsq-comment-message">NYTimes:<br><br><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/17/opinion/17wed1.html" rel="nofollow">Mr. McCain and The Economy</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2398385" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2398385">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2398385" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2398385" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/16/AR2008091602877.html" rel="nofollow">Wall Street\'s Unraveling</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2398536" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2398536" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2398536">Town</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2398536" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2398536" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://dailykos.com/story/2008/9/17/102915/730/589/601493" rel="nofollow">http://dailykos.com/story/2008/9/17/102915/730/...</a><br><br>Republican Congresswoman says if the government hadn\'t been pressured to stop redlining and tell lenders to give money to uncreditworthy people lest they be accused of discrimination, we wouldn\'t be in this housing crisis.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2399317" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2399317">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2399317" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2399317" class="dsq-comment-message">yeah, ok. <br><br>uh huh.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2399378" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2399378">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2399378" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2399378" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL....now I know you aren\'t shocked that its been spun around to be "our" fault...right? They have professional goalpost movers working for the GOP, they are sooooo good at it.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2399855" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2399855" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2399855">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2399855" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2399855" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL I can see the commercial now...<br><br>They\'ll show clips of a blighted generic "urban" area complete with grafitti, while a voiceover proclaims that the Democrats, led by Barack Obama pressed for the government to loan money to people who didn\'t even have the ability to pay it back...<br><br>And then clips of Lehman Brothers, AIG, Merrill Lynch will come on the screen and the voiceover will say, "The Democrats and Barack Obama\'s negligence led to the biggest financial meltdown since the Great Depression...<br><br>Then a clip of a white dude carrying his box out of Merrill Lynch will come on the screen and fade to a sad looking white family while Mr. Voiceover says "Barack Obama promises change, and change all he left the American people with." (picture of some pennies and nickels come on the screen)<br><br>Then McCain and Palin\'s pictures will come on the screen (with big American flag waving in the background), while Mr. Voiceover says "But John McCain says "Never Again."  He took on the government during his 26 years in Washington and he\'ll take on the special interests.  Sarah Palin took on the special interests in Alaska.  Together they\'ll put their country first.  They\'re always proud of their country.  And only McCain and Palin promises REAL change.  McCain Palin.  Honest change."</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2406555" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2406555">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2406555" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2406555" class="dsq-comment-message">I get a tear just reading it!  I can practically hear "this is our country\' playing right now!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2400465" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2400465">RobM</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2400465" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2400465" class="dsq-comment-message">This is pure ignorance. The Federal Reserve is where redlining started. In the 50\'s they let banks know if they lent in the redline neighborhoods the bank(s) would not have access to Fed funds. The fed funds  are where banks borrow from other banks to meet their reserve requirements</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2398574" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2398574">Anderkoo</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2398574" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2398574" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'d really appreciate any support, and thoughts, for this suggestion I\'ve made on DailyKos and also to the Obama campaign\'s new media staff:<br><br><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/17/103834/443" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/17/103834/443</a><br><br>I agree with others here that the most important thing we can do individually is to keep making those phone calls and knocking on doors. But let\'s not pretend that media message isn\'t important -- we can\'t reach every voter, and part of winning entails getting undecideds to our side and pushing McCain supporters away from him, keeping them home in Nov or at least stopping them from talking up their candidate to friends/neighbors.<br><br>The problem I see in the blogosphere is taking potshots all over the place without any focus, which is playing directly into the hands of the McCain campaign. They know that message chaos benefits them, and a lot of their stunts were specifically designed to cut through the noise (e.g. "lipstick"). We don\'t have the same discipline, because, well, Democrats are so damned democratic.<br><br>I think it\'s time to end that and focus on a single, simple message. I happen to think it\'s "They\'ll say anything," but I don\'t care what it is -- I want our creative anarchy to be productive rather than waste energy going all over the place.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2398600" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2398600" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2398600">Slave Revolt</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2398600" class="dsq-comment-message">The face on the little dude (three years old?) in O-man\'s arms is simply priceless--as is the face of the young man in the back ground.  I want  hugs too!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2398962" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2398962">Lilytiger</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2398962" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2398962" class="dsq-comment-message">Good news of sorts. The \'progressive" site I go to that has been academically discussing there\'s "no difference" between McCain and Obama has at least 75% of them changing their tune to "We have to get Obama in, this situation is scary"<br><br>Between Palin and the economy and now the bombing of the embassy in Yemen which they see as a way for this admin to go into Iran, they now see that there is holding your nose and voting and there is holding onto your b*lls and voting.<br><br>Again sorry for such language, wasn\'t raised right.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2399260" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2399260">Anderkoo</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2399260" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2399260" class="dsq-comment-message">One thing I noticed when I look at polls\' demographic breakdown: men and whites are more likely than other groups to vote for the third-party candidates. Those with privilege can afford to assert their "independence" and prove how they think for themselves. But when the s**t hits the fan, they come running back when they realize just how much they need each other (and us).</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2399860" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2399860" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2399860" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2399860" class="dsq-comment-message">How do you get from the bombing in Yemen to invading Iran? That\'s a stretch. Best of my knowledge, we don\'t have anything connecting al Qaeda to Iran, so that wouldn\'t fly as a justification (and save the inevitable Iraq comparisons).</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2399949" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2399949">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2399949" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2399949" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL the same way we got from 9/11 and the Taliban in Afghanistan to Saddam Hussein in Iraq.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2400058" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2400058" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2400058" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2400058" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL.<br><br>Noncompliant and noncooperative....there\'s a place in Cuba for people like you.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2400087" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2400087" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2400087">Lilytiger</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2400087" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2400087" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh,, that\'s pretty harsh there. I must protest that remark to Town.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2400071" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2400071">Lilytiger</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2400071" class="dsq-comment-message">Like Town said D. These progressives are way into the 9/11 theory and are convinced that Bush wants to go into Iran before he\'s out. They see the bombing in Yemen as a way in.<br><br>Me? I have no problem with the idea that our foreign policies over the last century have mad enough people mad that they would plot against us. I call it the Columbine Syndrome, bully enough people and ask  \'What are you going to do about it?"  and you\'ll get your answer. On the going into Iran, haven\'t you heard the talking points memo for the last two years?  I don\'t think militarily, financially or emotionally this country could handle a third front. I don\'t want it to. I respect the patriotism that many feel but this is insanity on so many levels. In my humble opinion.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2400279" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2400279" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2400279" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2400279" class="dsq-comment-message">I have, but they\'ve all related to Iran wanting a nuke (maybe more specifically, wanting one to use on Israel) as the justification for going in.<br><br>My personal is that we can\'t do anything against Iran until they give us a reason to. Unless we\'re going to invade for them taking our embassy in, what, 1980(?), we\'re kinda short on justifications. If Iran goes after Israel (or hell, Iraq, more likely), then we might be justified. Even that\'s questionable, as Israel can more than defend itself.<br><br>No way in hell we can fight a third war...especially one that will be seen as nothing <b>but</b> a "crusade" against an Islamic nation.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2400558" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2400558">RobM</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2400558" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2400558" class="dsq-comment-message">D is right on this one. Even if you want to fight a war you have to have something to fight w/ unless you are going totally nuclear. No one, except the Israelis whom see the Iran capablity as an existential threat, are going there.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2401595" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2401595">Monie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2401595" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2401595" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree with you too<br><br>BUT<br><br>the RNC seems to think otherwise.  In the 9/11 tribute video, they begin with "The first attack occurred in Iran.  444 days Americans held hostage......."<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw1vEzqld0I" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw1vEzqld0I</a><br><br>so clearly Republicans are setting up a link between 9/11 and the hostage crisis in the late 1970\'s....which is an  outright exploitation  of 9/11 and we can all be certain we will hear this false link brought up in the future.  <br><br>And to me, that is downright dangerous and reckless.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2402207" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2402207" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2402207" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2402207" class="dsq-comment-message">That\'s a stretch, as the organization that would become al Qaeda didn\'t come into existence until the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. They weren\'t around for the Iranian hostage crisis, so.......<br><br>Besides, if that was the "first attack" in the War on Terror, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Eagle_Claw" rel="nofollow">we damn sure didn\'t respond very well to it.</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2402766" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2402766">Monie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2402766" class="dsq-comment-message">Again, I am NOT in disagreement  with you.<br><br>I am simply bringing up the propanganda that Republicans are using----the RNC said it, not me.<br><br>And let\'s not forget, the Bush administration, especially Cheney , continually trumped a connection between Saddam Hussein and 9/11 on interviews and then outright lied later and said he never made that connection.<br><br>And of course we cannot ignore "bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, Iran" coming out of John McCain\'s own mouth  on the campaign trial while the RNC plays that tribute video that starts off with references to Iran as the first attack on America.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2402995" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2402995" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2402995" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2402995" class="dsq-comment-message">I know you\'re not disagreeing; was pointing out how much sense that just doesn\'t make. It\'s not like the GOP isn\'t known for, um, embelishing the facts occasionally.<br><br>I thought McCain\'s "bomb Iran" singing was more funny than anything. Just struck me as the rant of an old man.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2412786" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2412786">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2412786" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2412786" class="dsq-comment-message">You need to quickly share your thoughts with your candidate\'s Vp pick.  She has other ideas!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2411549" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2411549">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2411549" class="dsq-comment-message">Well...I don\'t think your candidate needs to actually have anything connecting the two, sort of along the lines of confusing Sunni and Shia.   Or, the invasion of Iraq to get the people responsible for 9/11.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2399002">djchefron</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2399002" class="dsq-comment-message">McCain Gets Both Acronym And Purpose Of SIPC Wrong»<br><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/wonkroom/2008/09/16/mccain-sipc-wrong/" rel="nofollow">http://thinkprogress.org/wonkroom/2008/09/16/mc...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2399179" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2399179" href="http://blog.evavegadiversity.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">evita</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2399179" class="dsq-comment-message">new ad by Obama on his economic plan. 2 minutes long- this is how he is spending the money. i\'m ready to cut another check. this is the kind of info people need. only thing i wish he has a  800 number to call to request one in print or go to the free library for people without computer skills.<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/17/obama-takes-on-economy-pa_n_127021.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/17/obama-...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2401139" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2401139" href="www.ibeching.tumblr.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ibeching</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2401139" class="dsq-comment-message">he is a real class act.  that\'s what i call straight-talk</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2407967" href="www.ibeching.tumblr.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ibeching</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2407967" class="dsq-comment-message">In the past few weeks, Wall Street’s been rocked as banks closed and markets tumbled. But for many of you – the people I’ve met in town halls, backyards and diners across America – our troubled economy isn’t news. 600,000 Americans have lost their jobs since January. Paychecks are flat and home values are falling. It’s hard to pay for gas and groceries and if you put it on a credit card they’ve probably raised your rates. You’re paying more than ever for health insurance that covers less and less.<br><br>    This isn’t just a string of bad luck. The truth is that while you’ve been living up to your responsibilities Washington has not. That’s why we need change. Real change. This is no ordinary time and it shouldn’t be an ordinary election. But much of this campaign has been consumed by petty attacks and distractions that have nothing to do with you or how we get America back on track.<br><br>    Here’s what I believe we need to do. Reform our tax system to give a $1,000 tax break to the middle class instead of showering more on oil companies and corporations that outsource our jobs. End the ‘anything goes’ culture on Wall Street with real regulation that protects your investments and pensions. Fast track a plan for energy ‘made-in-America’ that will free us from our dependence on mid-east oil in 10 years and put millions of Americans to work. Crack down on lobbyists – once and for all — so their back-room deal-making no longer drowns out the voices of the middle class and undermines our common interests as Americans.<br><br>    And yes, bring a responsible end to this war in Iraq so we stop spending billions each month rebuilding their country when we should be rebuilding ours. Doing these things won’t be easy. But we’re Americans. We’ve met tough challenges before. And we can again. I’m Barack Obama. I hope you’ll read my economic plan. I approved this message because bitter, partisan fights and outworn ideas of the left and the right won’t solve the problems we face today. But a new spirit of unity and shared responsibility will.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2399205" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2399205" href="http://www.thebottomofheaven.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Claudia</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2399205" class="dsq-comment-message">What a great photo and a beautiful way to start the day...</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2399288" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2399288" href="http://blog.evavegadiversity.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">evita</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2399288" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2399288" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/184928/september-15-2008/the-word---how-dare-you-" rel="nofollow">http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report...</a><br><br>He hit this out of the park on McCain/ Palin. The Word on Colbert Nation.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2399303" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2399303">NMP</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2399303" class="dsq-comment-message">Rikyrah,<br><br>I lie to you not, I saw that pic on a Daily Kos blog yesterday and started crying because it epitomizes what this election is all about: the hopes and dreams of so many millions vs. personal ambition and white entitlement.  As much as I criticize the strategies of his Campaign, I pray for Senator Obama every night, and not merely to win, but for God to give him strength.  I can\'t even begin to imagine carrying the weight of the world on my shoulders.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2399423">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2399423" class="dsq-comment-message">NMP,<br><br>I know you\'re not lying, because I had the same reaction. This picture punched me in my gut. Very few White folks truly understand what Obama is trying to do, even those who support him all the way. I believe Black folks understand just what he\'s up against, even the mofo haters.  If Obama wins, it changes a number of things so fundamentally, but a lot of folks don\'t want to admit it. I believe Town is the one who said that every non-White person should be working their hearts out for Obama, because if he wins, he just made it 50% easier for the next non-White person. I agreed with that assessment completely.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2399613" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2399613">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2399613" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2399613" class="dsq-comment-message">E.J. Dionne\'s Latest Column<br><br><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/15/AR2008091502472.html?sub=AR" rel="nofollow">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2399626" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2399626">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2399626" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2399626" class="dsq-comment-message">Even GOP says McCain must accept earmarks<br><br><a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13525.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13525...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2399634" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2399634">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2399634" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2399634" class="dsq-comment-message">Thomas Friedman\'s Latest<br><br><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/17/opinion/17friedman.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&oref=slogin" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/17/opinion/17fri...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2399671" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2399671">Admiral_Komack</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2399671" class="dsq-comment-message">The Day I Was Denied Communion for Endorsing Obama, by Douglas Kmiec<br><br><a href="http://blog.beliefnet.com/stevenwaldman/2008/09/the-day-i-was-denied-communion.html" rel="nofollow">http://blog.beliefnet.com/stevenwaldman/2008/09...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2400015" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2400015">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2400015" class="dsq-comment-message">"If Obama wins, will it be the Black House?"<br><br>and<br><br>"Joe Biden BET NOT think about receiving Communion."<br><br><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/17/115312/501/466/601592" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/17/115...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2401879" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2401879">Admiral_Komack</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2401879" class="dsq-comment-message">Washington D.C.=Chocolate City</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2406088" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2406088">MsKitty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2406088" class="dsq-comment-message">And God bless the vanilla suburbs.<br><br>(sorry, couldn\'t resist)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2407229">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2407229" class="dsq-comment-message">MsKitty:   Sometimes "you got ta do what you got ta do!"   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2399914">Anderkoo</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2399914" class="dsq-comment-message">You can buy your own cable TV add in a swing state for as little as $100:<br><br><a href="http://www.wowofnow.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.wowofnow.com/</a><br><br>... brought to you by the same team that did the "Yes we can" video. I\'ve been communicating with them and they\'re looking for commercials and producers of new commercials. If you\'re one, or know of anyone, let me know.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2400160" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2400160">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2400160" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:   That <b>PICTURE!</b>  <b>PRICELESS!!</b><br><br>One phrase in a song that we sing says  <i> . . but I know who holds the future. . . </i><br><br>This is what comes to my mind when I see "President" Obama with this child  - a future leader!  :&gt;)<br><br>I am crying!!  But, "where\'s my Choir Robe?"  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2405614" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2405614">rorysmomma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2405614" class="dsq-comment-message">Girl I told you I had you.... and I know who holds my hand.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2406019">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2406019" class="dsq-comment-message">rorysmomma:  Grab your Choir Robe, girlll!!  We\'ve got some sangin\' ta do!!<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx-qTKXNMnU&feature=related" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx-qTKXNMnU&feat...</a><br><br>Of all the videos that I could have chosen, I decided on this one.  How <b>UNIVERSAL is the concept of "HOLDING TOMORROW!?  :&gt;)</b></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2400261" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2400261">gaiilonfong</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2400261" class="dsq-comment-message">McSame the MOST reprehensible of the Keating 5<br>who wudda thunk?<br><br><a href="http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1989-11-29/news/mccain-the-most-reprehensible-of-the-keating-five/1" rel="nofollow">http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1989-11-29/news/...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2400280" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2400280">gaiilonfong</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2400280" class="dsq-comment-message">McSame the MOST reprehensible of the Keating 5<br>who wudda thunk?<br><br><a href="http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1989-11-29/news/mccain-the-most-reprehensible-of-the-keating-five/1" rel="nofollow">http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1989-11-29/news/...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2400555">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2400555" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:   There are several good articles on Black Politics OTW:<br><br><a href="http://blackpoliticsontheweb.com/2008/09/17/new-naacp-leader-kicks-off-tenure-%25e2%2580%259cregister-every-last-voter%25e2%2580%259d/" rel="nofollow">http://blackpoliticsontheweb.com/2008/09/17/new...</a><br>President Benjamin Jealous -NAACP [and he is/was a"Community Organizer] -"Register Every Last Voter"<br><br><a href="http://blackpoliticsontheweb.com/2008/09/17/black-ministers-rally-action-on-climate-change/" rel="nofollow">http://blackpoliticsontheweb.com/2008/09/17/bla...</a><br>Black Minister Rally Action On Climate Change<br>They see it as a "moral issue!"<br><br><a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2008/09/17/racist-pub-bans-woman-for-being-black-115875-20739770/" rel="nofollow">http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2008/0...</a><br>Racist Pub [in Germany] Bans Woman For Being Black<br>Guess they haven\'t entered the 20th Century[much less the 21st].</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2400964" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2400964" href="http://www.brownmanthinkinghard.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Brown Man</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2400964" class="dsq-comment-message">That is the greatest picture - already copped it last night for an upcoming "Obama and the African American Male" series.<br><br>But that\'s then - right now, I have regressed into my own childhood - how I channeled Batman while commenting on Wall Street escapes me, but sometimes you have to go with what you\'ve got.<br><br>WHILE GOTHAM CITY GOES BUST<br><a href="http://simplifythepositive.blogspot.com/2008/09/obama-economy-and-you.html" rel="nofollow">http://simplifythepositive.blogspot.com/2008/09...</a><br><br><br>DA-yum!<br><br><br>Is the smell of RECESSION in the air?<br><br><br>Could the nation’s financial sector be ON THE ROPES?<br><br><br>Are our political candidates taking WALL STREET’S GURGLING as a green light?<br><br><br>Irritated intellectual types debate the underlying issues!<br><br><br>All day, everyday, for the foreseeable future!<br><br><br>Same bat time!<br><br><br>Same bat channel!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2401127">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2401127" class="dsq-comment-message">Brown Man:  Nice concept!!  I\'ll take my "Field Trip" today!!  See ya soon! :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2401038">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2401038" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  From the HuffPost:<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-neffinger/hello-if-mccain-had-his-w_b_126968.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-neffinger/he...</a><br><b>Hello?  If McCain Had His Way, That\'d Be Our Social Security Money Wall Street Is Losing</b><br><br>Does the word, from "McAncient",  <b>PRIVATIZATION</b> come to mind?<br><br><i>But while ordinary Americans spoke out, John McCain stood with Bush (hugged him awkwardly in public, even), against the American people. In fact, just six months ago, McCain again let slip his fondness for privatization.</i><br><br><b>Obama-Biden \'08!!</b></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2401152">T.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2401152" class="dsq-comment-message">Hello my people: Been lurking. What up? Anyway...<a href="http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/17/71615/2986/718/601364" rel="nofollow">OBAMA SPEAKS AT THE FUNDRAISER LAST NIGHT...</a><br><br>T.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2401436">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2401436" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  Obama goes "Hollywood" <b>for real</b>:<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/17/obama-at-holllywood-fundr_n_127095.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/17/obama-...</a><br>Obama At Hollywood Fundraiser:  "This Is Not A Sitcom"<br><br>Obama speech at Hollywood fundraiser yesterday ....<br><br>Part 1 ...<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPJuwhVsdWw" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPJuwhVsdWw</a><br><br>Part 2 ...<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge76ApkuRDA" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge76ApkuRDA</a><br><br>T:  SORRY.   I didn\'t SEE YOUR POST!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2401690">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2401690" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  Federal Bank Insurance Fund Dwindling<br><br><a href="http://blackpoliticsontheweb.com/2008/09/17/federal-bank-insurance-fund-dwindling/" rel="nofollow">http://blackpoliticsontheweb.com/2008/09/17/fed...</a><br><br>So that "fine print" statement on my bank statements  -   "<b>Backed by the FDIC up to $100,000</b> -   is not quite accurate???<br><br>Back to the <b>socks under my mattress</b>!!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2401832">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2401832" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  I really like the Dr. Rachel Maddow show!!<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/17/maddow-show-bill-maher-ta_n_127083.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/17/maddow...</a><br>Rachel Maddow Show:  Bill Maher Takes On Palin [video]</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2404656">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2404656" class="dsq-comment-message">GreenLady,<br><br>I\'ve always liked Rachel Maddow too. She shoots straight from the hip. Woo hoo, I was loving it when she called McCain\'s lies out!  I knew it wouldn\'t be long before Rachel got her own show. Believe me, I wrote MSNBC enough! Yay!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2405587">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2405587" class="dsq-comment-message">Justice58:  I wrote MSNBC 2!!   Hope they see/feel the love!   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2402141">Denise</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2402141" class="dsq-comment-message">"As much as I criticize the strategies of his Campaign, I pray for Senator Obama (and his family)  every night, and not merely to win, but for God to give him strength. I can\'t even begin to imagine carrying the weight of the world on my shoulders..." - NMP<br><br>CO-SIGN!!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2402664">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2402664" class="dsq-comment-message">11 year old campaigns for Obama in New Mexico<br><br><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/17/13480/4894/35/598972" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/17/13480/4...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2402727" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2402727">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2402727" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  We\'ll take \'em!"<br><br><a href="http://www.newser.com/article/d9385ui80/womens-rights-groups-endorse-obama-for-president.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.newser.com/article/d9385ui80/womens-...</a><br>Women\'s Rights Group endorses Obama For President<br><br><i>Women\'s rights groups endorsed Democrat Barack Obama for president Tuesday, asserting the historic selection of a female Republican vice presidential candidate does not make up for John McCain\'s lack of support on issues important to women.<br><br>"We don\'t think it\'s much to break a glass ceiling for one woman and leave millions of women behind," said Eleanor Smeal, chairman of the Feminist Majority Political Action Committee.<br><br>Smeal was among leaders from six organizations that announced their endorsement of the Democratic presidential nominee at a news conference.<br><br>Obama also won the support of the National Organization for Women, which said it has not endorsed a candidate for president since Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro shared the Democratic ticket in 1984. Ferraro was the first female major party vice presidential candidate.</i><br><br>SKIP<br><br><i>Obama was also endorsed by leaders from Business and Professional Women/USA, the National Association of Social Workers, the National Congress of Black Women and the Women\'s Information Network.<br><br>The McCain campaign said it was unhappy with NOW\'s decision to endorse Obama in the race for the White House.<br><br>"It\'s extremely disappointing that an organization that purports to be an advocate for all women not only opposes, but feels compelled to go out of its way to criticize and make negative comments, about the only ticket in the presidential race with a woman on the ticket," Palin\'s spokeswoman Maria Comella said in an e-mail.</i><br><br><b>  It\'s about QUALITY "McAncient", not just GENDER!</b><br><br>Whew!! 894/899 Deep Breaths!!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2402936" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2402936">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2402936" class="dsq-comment-message">John McCain\'s Sarah Bobbitt<br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deanie-mills/john-mccains-lorena-bobbi_b_126568.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deanie-mills/john...</a><br><blockquote><i>But my enigmatic husband merely gave me one of those I\'m-so-sorry-you\'re-not-as-smart-as-me smiles and said, "Ahh, but you forget CINDY McCain. Her husband\'s status is HER status. The more he gets overshadowed by the NEW trophy wife, the more she\'s going to resent it. It\'s just a matter of time before she begins to bitch about it."<br><br>I was quiet at that, remembering about three-star wives competing with one-star wives and four-star wives lording it over them ALL.<br><br>A couple weeks went by.<br><br>Then I read about how, when McCain and Palin appear together, he hops up on stage and starts to talk, but SHE\'S still down at the rope line drinking in the adoration of her fans, and that when HE tries to talk, he gets drowned out by chants of SA-RAH! SA-RAH!<br><br>Few days later, I read how, when he appeared for the first time without her, the crowds were so anemic that they had to wind the event down early. How the campaign was seriously considering the old Bush/Rove tactic of packing the venues with invitation-only partisan hacks, who then appear on the evening news to be simply common people who happen to adore their guy.</i></blockquote></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2406673" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2406673">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2406673" class="dsq-comment-message">Have you noticed that since Miss Sarah came on the scene, Cindy\'s been dressing flashier and wearing more plunging necklines?  Sometimes the cast is off, sometimes the cast is on?  Brighter colors and fancier clothes?  The school marm look has morphed into the Power Bitch™ look?  That ain\'t no accident, Cindy is screaming for attention.<br><br>I will agree with this blogger, Cindy\'s got her knives out for Miss Sarah.  Cindy knows all the tricks of the game (after all she used them to get John away from his 1st wife) and she\'s not going to sit back and watch Sarah snatch her place away from her.  <br><br>Budweiser Barbie is not going to let White Trash Barbie steal her  shine.  So expect to see Cindy in all her fancy clothes, bright colors, plunging necklines and packed on makeup more and more "out there" on the campaign trail.<br><br>And while all of this drama goes on, it just makes McCain look more and more out of control of his own campaign.  But this is what happens when you choose a VP just to win instead of to govern.<br><br>And let\'s keep it real, if Obama had chosen Hillary, this would be happening to him, but in reverse because Bill would be trying to prove HE\'s still the Top Dawg while Obama would have to issue daily smackdowns.<br><br>Everyone joked about Obama needing a food taster if he chose Hillary.  McCain better get himself a food taster NOW.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2407001">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2407001" class="dsq-comment-message">she saw McCain checking Sarah out.  She knows what time it is . . . she has been there and lived it.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2407116">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2407116" class="dsq-comment-message">Sure has!  Damn home wrecker!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2407957">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2407957" class="dsq-comment-message">Justice58:  <b>YEAH!!</b> :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2407029">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2407029" class="dsq-comment-message">Blake Carrington never could control Alexis.....I just hope I\'m watching when Krystal has to kick her ass again.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2407134">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2407134" class="dsq-comment-message">Town:  Co-signing with you on <b>all points!</b>  :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>I remarked this to my sister on <b>Day 1</b> of the RNC Convention!!<br><br>Miss "Whatever" Cindy rolled right between "McAncient" and "The Gov." when they went to the "group stage show!"  :&gt;)  :&gt;)<br><br>She knows <b>the "vixen, cut-throat and vicious</b> side of the <b>PAGEANT GAME!!</b>   They ONLY smile when they are on-stage!!   And even that smile is PHONY!!  :&gt;)<br><br>Miss "Whatever" Cindy has been saying to "The Gov." -<b>I\'ll Be Watching You!!</b>   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2407721">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2407721" class="dsq-comment-message">Town,<br><br>You continue to make me go AMEN when I read your stuff. LOL about the portable cast.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2409820">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2409820" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL, what a delicate flower Cindy McCain is!<br><br>First somebody shakes her hand too hard and she has to go to the Emergency Room!<br><br>Then she needs a cast for the poor little wrist.<br><br>If the cast doesn\'t go with her outfit that day, she doesn\'t put it on!<br><br>But when she needs some sympathy, here comes the cast!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2411695" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2411695" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2411695" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2411695" class="dsq-comment-message">Someone shook her hand too hard?<br><br>Uh. Yeah.<br><br>And I\'m white.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2415995" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2415995">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2415995" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t think a sprain takes this long to heal.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2407933" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2407933" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2407933" class="dsq-comment-message">Well nobody puts Cindy in the corner! She\'s paid for and sponsored her hubby\'s entire political career. I wonder how healthy McCain really is and if that\'s another reason why he let the religious perpetrating good ol\' boys pick Palin. They may have info on his medical history indicating a pending illness and they need the real Manchurian Candidate in place. He\'d better have food tasters, air sniffers and everything else. I also think Cindy better get in a visit to the White House before January cos that\'ll be the last time she\'ll get to set foot in there for a long time!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2409488" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2409488">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2409488" class="dsq-comment-message">Yep...I thought she was copying Michelle, with the neon orange and chartreuse.   Before, it was mostly neutral colours.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2412677">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2412677" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2412677" class="dsq-comment-message">"...Cindy\'s been dressing flashier and wearing more plunging necklines? Sometimes the cast is off, sometimes the cast is on? Brighter colors and fancier clothes? The school marm look has morphed into the Power Bitch™ look?"<br><br>Speaking as a lover of fashion and someone with a sense of style who knows how to make a statement with clothes - YOU ARE SPOT ON.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2412715">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2412715" class="dsq-comment-message">As she\'s getting dressed for each appearance, she\'s thinking bitch take this you ragedy ass moose hunter!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2415990" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2415990">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2415990" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL, that is soooo funny!!!!!<br><br>I think you\'re right about there being some competition there.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2402978">tracey</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2402978" class="dsq-comment-message">Wow this picture is priceless; my computer background has gone from Michelle and Barack with the fist bump, to the embrace, now this.<br><br>Just in images alone, Obama\'s candidacy has given so many wonderful family images of loving black families in this country....</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2405686">kenyaw</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2405686" class="dsq-comment-message">tracey,<br><br>I agree this is a fabulous picture.<br>My background went from the fist bump, to Sen Obama and Malia walking on the beach, to the embrace. I love the embrace, but I might subsitute it for this one...for a week.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2406323">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2406323" class="dsq-comment-message">Kenyaw,<br><br>On another forum, I had the fist bump as my avatar, then as a footer. There\'s so many  wonderful pics that it\'s hard to choose from and I love them all.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2408635">tracey</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2408635" class="dsq-comment-message">I forgot about the one with him and Malia!!!<br><br>I just love to see fathers with their daughters.  You can just feel the love.  Just like at the convention, all they wanted was Daddy.  I think when people see kids are really excited to see their parents or Dad; it sends a message this person is all right.<br><br>Anyway, I have a album from the campaign already.  I am waiting for the headline Obama wins.  I\'ve already said if he does the Obama\'s picture is going up in the house.  <br><br>Almost like the Kennedy, King, and Kennedy pictures or wall hanging my Grandmother had.  I think it\'s something you will see in Black households across the country.<br><br>Another picture I love is the one of him with the Black shades getting out of the car on the cover of Ebony entitled Cool.  Yes Barack you are....</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2409624" href="http://www.latinopoliticsblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">adriana01</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2409624" class="dsq-comment-message">You see the Kennedy pictures in Latino households too, right next to the Our Lady of Guadalupe.<br><br>One of my memories of going to my grandmother\'s house was seeing her JFK obit card picture right in a family picture frame above the TV, and I grew up in the Reagan era.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2411888">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2411888" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m waiting for Obama on black velvet...LOL <br><br>Ok, admit it, who here has ordered the Ebony Cover posters of Obama?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2412619">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2412619" class="dsq-comment-message">Al of the Artwork for Obama on the Barack Obama website is "sold out"!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2405716">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2405716" class="dsq-comment-message">Catholics United Airs Ad: Pro-Life, Anti-McCain (VIDEO)<br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/17/catholics-united-airs-ad_n_127158.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/17/cathol...</a><br><blockquote><i>Catholics United today unveiled a new ad campaign asking why Senator John McCain has voted against health care and effective assistance to pregnant women, children, and families -- and for the war in Iraq. The ad will run on cable television in heavily Catholic areas of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Michigan. "It\'s not enough to say you\'re pro-life," the narrator says. "Actions speak louder than words." Watch:</i></blockquote></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2408154">freespiritbty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2408154" class="dsq-comment-message">This is great news TruthSeeker! IT\'s great to see this ad running in battleground states and I\'m sure they\'ll make a positive impact for Obama.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2408389">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2408389" class="dsq-comment-message">It sure is good news!<br><br>Anyone who agrees, please DIGG:<br><a href="http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/John_McCain_Actions_Speak_Louder_than_Words" rel="nofollow">http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/John_McCain_A...</a></div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2411653" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2411653" class="dsq-comment-message">That\'s a withering ad.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2405811">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2405811" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:   Obama Raises Millions In Beverly Hills<br><br><a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-obamafund17-2008sep17%2C0%2C5070594.story" rel="nofollow">http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/...</a><br><br><i>But it came fraught with risk. As if on cue, John McCain used the Illinois senator\'s lucrative detour from battleground states to Beverly Hills to mock Obama\'s professed solidarity with working people "just before he flew off to Hollywood for a fundraiser with Barbra Streisand and his celebrity friends."<br><br>"Let me tell you, my friends, there\'s no place I\'d rather be than right here with the working men and women of Ohio," McCain told cheering supporters in Vienna, Ohio, with running mate Sarah Palin at his side.<br><br>McCain, too, raised money in Beverly Hills last month, but with a smaller cluster of stars, including actors Robert Duvall and Jon Voight.<br><br>Even before the likes of actors Jodie Foster, Will Ferrell and Leonardo DiCaprio paid tribute to Obama at the landmark Greystone Mansion -- setting for numerous films, including "Ghostbusters" and "Air Force One" -- the entertainment industry had given Obama more than $5.6 million, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.<br><br>McCain\'s take from the industry has reached $885,000, the center said.</i><br><br>I wanted to point out that  McAncient also went to Beverly Hills B4 Mr. Obama did!  ONLY, he came away with <b>much less!</b>!!  OOPS!!  :&gt;)<br><br>Also, "McAncient" had an ad that linked Mr. Obama with Hollywood!  Now he\'s mad, i.e., <b>jealous that Mr. Obama got  MAD BANK from Hollywood!!</b><br><br>"McAncient!"    "McAncient!"    "McAncient!"   <b>You cain\'t have it both ways!!</b><br><br>Oh!        Wait. . . .   <b>A liar can!!</b> :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2406305">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2406305" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  Hope this isn\'t a duplicate.<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/16/conservatives-turn-on-mcc_n_126749.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/16/conser...</a><br><b>Conservatives Turn On McCain/Palin</b></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2406360" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2406360" href="http://www.latinopoliticsblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">adriana01</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2406360" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2406360" class="dsq-comment-message">A political consultant friend just sent me an e-mail that said the Obama campaign is closing Florida offices. Does anyone here know anything about this?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2407601">Micheline</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2407601" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2407601" class="dsq-comment-message">There\'s a report saying that they will spend 39 mm in the state.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2408847">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2408847" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2408847" class="dsq-comment-message">Look at the polls...way too close to be closing any offices there.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2409455" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2409455">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2409455" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree....Plouffe sent out an email asking for 39 million for Florida.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2409530" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2409530" href="http://www.latinopoliticsblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">adriana01</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2409530" class="dsq-comment-message">I figured that the e-mail was either a hoax or wrong after I did a little extra research too. Rasmussen had Obama behind by 4-5 points in FL, which is too close to close shop and too early too. <br><br>Thank you for bringing me back to earth. :) <br><br>I do think that it would be great to see Obama take a chunk of the Cuban-American vote away from McShame.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2411507">tracey</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2411507" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t want to assume; but are you a Latina?<br><br>If so would you say the Latino community will support Obama?  <br><br>Where I am the Latino community has a complex regarding supporting African-American candidates, unless they are originally from NYC then they don\'t have a problem.  <br><br>I think part of it because there is a power struggle between the African-Americans and Latinos here who tend to side with the Whites.<br><br>Thanks for your knowledge....</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2411851">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2411851" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2411851" class="dsq-comment-message">I wish someone would break it down for them...the sooner that there\'s a President Obama, it means that there will be a President of the US who is Latino. It just works that way. We do the heavy lifting, and the rest take advantage with half the work.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2422921" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2422921" href="http://www.latinopoliticsblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">adriana01</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2422921" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2422921" class="dsq-comment-message">I have been saying that all along... Barack Obama will increase the likelihood of there being a Latino president. There is so much the Latino community could learn from the African-American community about strategic organizing on so many levels.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2433677">tracey</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2433677" class="dsq-comment-message">Hey thanks for taking the time to school me.  <br><br>Actually I would have liked to have seen Bill Richardson on the ticket, but a very connected friend of mine that is an elected official said the combination of Barack and Richardson would have been too much change for certain segments of this country at one time.<br><br>I think people from Latin America, Africa, etc that have emigrated to the U.S. support Obama, because they can see the American dream if you will in him.  What America is suppose to be about; Love God, go to school, help the next man and your family.<br><br>I agree Rikyrah, whites better get a clue, Barack, a Latino, some person of color will be President and they just have to deal with it....But we can\'t let folks divide us....</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2435317" href="http://www.latinopoliticsblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">adriana01</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2435317" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree w/ your friend. Obama and Richardson would be a dream ticket for a lot of us, but can you imagine two dark skinned men on one ticket at this time when we have those Obama waffles, "Minutemen" patrolling the border, immigrants being detained and beaten? What this race has proven is that racism is alive and well in America despite the millions of people who can see beyond skin color and ethnicities. <br><br>I think that even Richardson could see that... too much color this time around. But in the future, a Latino and a black or what about a black Latino (a Dominican or Puerto Rican) could very well be on the ticket... thanks to the effort of Obama and the team behind him.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2435949">tracey</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2435949" class="dsq-comment-message">I was just speaking with an older Gentleman tonight who said "This race isn\'t about me" and pointed to a group of kids.  He said "it\'s about them and we have to understand that."<br><br>I often say my grandparents, and beyond, even myself have taken the blows so my kids will have an easier time.<br><br>I believe it we all keep that in mind on election day and beyond, Obama will be the next President.<br><br>This has been goo; thanks again for the knowledge...</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2422853" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2422853" href="http://www.latinopoliticsblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">adriana01</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2422853" class="dsq-comment-message">Tracey, <br><br>My experience tells me that the Latino community is behind Obama nearly or over two to one. <br><br>I am Latina. Among my more educated peers, there isn\'t a hesitation in supporting him, but among those less educated, their support is lukewarm. However, I think that Latinos are voting the issues this time and the anti-immigration rhetoric, coupled with the bad economy, will work to Obama\'s favor.<br><br>I will say that Hillary (I never supported her or was a fan) did do a better job in Latino outreach initially.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2406417">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2406417" class="dsq-comment-message">Not sure if someone already posted this but <br><br>Palin takes rare impromptu question from national press<br>Excerpt:<br>A pool reporter from the national press corps asked Palin\'s reaction to the federal bailout of insurance giant AIG.<br><br>Palin said she is "disappointed that taxpayers are called upon to bailout another one."<br><br>"Certainly AIG, though, with the construction bonds that they\'re holding, and with the insurance that they are holding, very, very impactful to Americans," she said. "So you know, the shot that has been called by the feds, its understandable but very, very disappointing that taxpayers are called upon for another one."<br><br><a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/17/palin-takes-first-impromptu-question-from-national-press/" rel="nofollow">http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/17...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2406689">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2406689" class="dsq-comment-message">Something that\'s bothering me about this chick is her constant mangling of the English language.  It bothers me more than even BUSH.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2406886">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2406886" class="dsq-comment-message">I had to shake my head and laugh Town.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2406912">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2406912" class="dsq-comment-message">Town:  It\'s called <b>PAGEANT-SPEAK!!</b>!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2409761">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2409761" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2409761" class="dsq-comment-message">LMAO!!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2409442" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2409442">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2409442" class="dsq-comment-message">I am no English aficionado.. but I agree.  There\'s something creepy, peculiar about her syntax and word choice.    Sort of like if you imagined how an alien would talk.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2409713">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2409713" class="dsq-comment-message">Well, crystal meth is a helluva drug!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2406745">T.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2406745" class="dsq-comment-message">Note to Senator Obama: <br><br>PLEASE do not agree to any additional meetings with John McStalker other than the 3 that have already been scheduled. <br><br>No town halls with that CLOWN. PLEASE. <br><br>I read last week that you were considering the possibilty of joining him for one on ABC. <br><br>Sir, please don\'t. You do not need to do town halls with that geriatric nutcase in order to showcase your policy proposals to the American people. You\'re doing plenty fine on your own(with Senator Biden). Let him make his case BY HIMSELF and/or with his incoherent, hubristic, vindictive sidekick.<br><br>T.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2409407" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2409407">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2409407" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2409407" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree....Why is McCain so adamant they have one?  He\'s been harping on this for months; so, we know it\'s a trap.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2406845" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2406845" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2406845">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2406845" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2406845" class="dsq-comment-message">Dammit, McCain\'s camp is just some lying ass snakes. They just lie for the hell of it. They are habitual, obsessive liars. They can\'t even say "truth". ...and why is CNN even printing this bullshyt??<br><br><a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/17/mccain-camp-accuses-obama-of-pressuring-clinton/#comments" rel="nofollow">http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/17...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2407170" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2407170" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2407170">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2407170" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2407170" class="dsq-comment-message">They are trying to goad Hillary into a fight.  Palin thinks "Iran" is something you on the track field, we know she doesn\'t have the slightest clue about anything.<br><br>This is nothing more than some high school Queen Bee bullshit.  The more Hillary ignores Sarah, the more Sarah will put Hillary\'s name on her lips goading her into a confrontation.  If Hillary lashes back, they will claim she\'s jealous of Sarah making it onto a VP ticket and not her.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2407662" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2407662">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2407662" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2407662" class="dsq-comment-message">Now, of all the things I\'ve said about Hillpatine, you best believe I never said the woman was stupid.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2408137" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2408137" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2408137">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2408137" class="dsq-comment-message">Hmmm...I guess Sarah is something you do in the pep squad on the track field ;-)<br><br>....That\'s pretty funny, Town.  LOL    Also, accurate.  They\'ve been working that angle already.  Suggesting Obama regrets not putting Hillary on his ticket..suggesting he\'s jealous of her outshining him...she\'s getting under his skin...blah blah.    Men love girlfights..pitting women against each other.  Already they tried to ambush Hillary at the UN appearance, which she supposedly canceled after she found out Palin would be there.(who knows the whole truth about that?)  <br><br>If the VP had been Hillary, they\'d still pick Palin and use her taunt both Obama and Hillary about the drama that happened in the Primary.  They\'d say O was weak, he had to pick her to help him win.  They\'d talk about the assissination comment...<br><br>If that blogger at HuffPO is right, they might yet get their girlfight.  Cindy will soon be beating down Sarah for upstaging her husband.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2412560" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2412560" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2412560">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2412560" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2412560" class="dsq-comment-message">Someone should be asking her if McCain is not regretting putting Romney on the ticket considering the financial mess the country is in.<br><br>Fiorina said she wouldn\'t hire Palin for an executive position.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2416210" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2416210">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2416210" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2416210" class="dsq-comment-message">Town:   ROTFLMHO!!!  U    R   A    Nut!!!  :&gt;)       :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2408802" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2408802" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2408802">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2408802" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2408802" class="dsq-comment-message">Hillary is doing the right thing that is getting under their skin. . . . ignoring her.<br><br>Some women can\'t take it.  To them that is as bad as denying they exist.  LOL<br><br>too funny.  I woudn\'t even argue . . . I hope they keep it up.  They look like high school kids  . . . too funny.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2411733" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2411733" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2411733">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2411733" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2411733" class="dsq-comment-message">A woman like Sarah Palin does not like being ignored and dismissed.  Those type hate you more when you do ignore them.  She thinks you\'re supposed to blow smoke up her ass and when you don\'t, she gets her fangs out.  The attacks on both Hillary and Obama will come more and more frequently from her.  She\'s gonna make them fight and then when they come at her she will cry victim.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2416199" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2416199">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2416199" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2416199" class="dsq-comment-message">Town:   Whycome U    R     telling the <b>TRUTH?</b>  LOL!!:&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2407205" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2407205" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2407205" href="http://wearerespectablenegroes.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ChaunceyDevega</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2407205" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2407205" class="dsq-comment-message">A fun contest. Have you noticed how the MSM is struggling with actually naming White Voters as "White?" They are "values" voters or "heartland" or "hard-working Americans."<br><br>We are putting together a list of all the ways one can say White without having to actually name it at:<br><br><a href="http://wearerespectablenegroes.blogspot.com/2008/09/2how-many-ways-can-mainstream-media.html" rel="nofollow">http://wearerespectablenegroes.blogspot.com/200...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2407648" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2407648" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2407648">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2407648" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2407648" class="dsq-comment-message">ChaunceyDevega:  I went on a "Field Trip" and made a post!  <br><br><b>GREAT IDEA!!</b><br><br><br>Hockey Moms<br><br>American People<br><br>Work Force</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2407428" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2407428" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2407428">BlackButterfly</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2407428" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2407428" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t know if this has already been posted but...<br><a href=http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/17/washington-mutual-begins-auction-to-sell-itself/ rel="nofollow"> another bank about to bite the dust! </a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2407520" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2407520" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2407520">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2407520" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2407520" class="dsq-comment-message">This is a great diary about the "Wolf" ad....  I always believe the key for Obama is to hit emotional resonances with voters.   Biden did it with the bit about the kid in school who mocked you when you wore something nice.  This wolf ad reminds most people of the first time they saw an animal killed when they were a kid and the sense of unfairness and the rage toward the killer.   Check it out:<br><br><b>Wolf Ad Is Working</b><br><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/17/134013/375/342/601724" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/17/134013/...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2407675" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2407675" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2407675">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2407675" class="dsq-comment-message">Another Palin interview from Sean Hannity<br><br>Excerpt<br>HANNITY: Senator Barack Obama yesterday was attacking Senator McCain for saying that the fundamentals of the economy are strong. Do you believe that the fundamentals of our economy are strong? <br><br>PALIN: Well, it was an unfair attack on the verbiage that Senator McCain chose to use. The fundamentals that he was having to explain afterwards, he means the work force, he means ingenuity of the American people. And of course, that is strong, that is the foundation of our economy. So that was an unfair attack based on verbiage that John McCain used. Certainly, it is a mess, though. <br><br><br>****************************************************************************<br>Yes! How dare Barack Obama use the things that John McCain says to prove some sort of point, even when that very "attack on verbiage" directly led to McCain\'s "by \'fundamentals\' I meant \'American workers\'" clarification that Palin recites in this exchange.<br><br>In other news, I can\'t help but notice that Palin answers Hannity\'s question two different ways. If "fundamentals" means "the work force, ingenuity of the American people," then "of course, that is strong." Otherwise, "certainly, it is a mess." No doubt Sean will make sure Palin clarifies her platitudes.<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/17/palin-decries-unfair-atta_n_127197.html#postComment" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/17/palin-...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2407688" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2407688">T.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2407688" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2407688" class="dsq-comment-message">My question is this: Can this woman form a complete, coherent sentence?<br><br>T.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2407766" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2407766" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2407766">rikyrah</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2407766" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2407766" class="dsq-comment-message">lol</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2408158" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2408158" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2408158">monica</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2408158" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2408158" class="dsq-comment-message">Careful T, you don\'t want to be called sexist - lol<br><br>As Maher said on Rachel Maddow\'s show - "If you describe her accurately, there\'s no way you can do that and not sound condescending."<br><br>I\'ll drink to that...<br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/17/maddow-show-bill-maher-ta_n_127083.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/17/maddow...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2408077" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2408077">freespiritbty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2408077" class="dsq-comment-message">T, that made me literally LAUGH OUT LOUD!! I\'m sure all of us are thinking the same thing!  The way she just twisted McCain\'s explanation is nothing more than politricks. This woman is pathological.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2409067" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2409067">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2409067" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2409067" class="dsq-comment-message">Hooked On Phonics did not work for her.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2409526" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2409526">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2409526" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2409526" class="dsq-comment-message">Oops!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2409326" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2409326">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2409326" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2409326" class="dsq-comment-message">Don\'t think...just  Sa-Rah!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2409319" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2409319" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2409319">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2409319" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2409319" class="dsq-comment-message">Ingenuity and strength mean nothing if you don\'t have a JOB!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2407775" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2407775" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2407775">T.</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2407775" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2407775" class="dsq-comment-message">Do y\'all think that <a href="http://thepage.time.com/2008/09/17/a-shocking-invasion-of-the-governors-privacy" rel="nofollow">this(the alleged hacked email account) </a>is real or is it another classic diversionary tactic by the GOP...you know, to attemp to paint Saint Sarah as a victim of the evil-weevil democwats?<br><br>T.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2407846" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2407846" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2407846">Val</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2407846" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2407846" class="dsq-comment-message">T - I saw that earlier.  It is probably a joke.  They write these spoofs from time to time.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2408807" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2408807" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2408807">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2408807" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2408807" class="dsq-comment-message">1.It\'s phony<br>2. Nobody would need to know what\'s in her email account IFFF<br>a) she had released her emails\\<br>b) hadn\'t tried to be a sneak and do public business from her private account to get around public accountability</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2416136" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2416136">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2416136" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2416136" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  Co-sign!!!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2409290" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2409290" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2409290">TruthSeeker</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2409290" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2409290" class="dsq-comment-message">I think it\'s a plant....like the Hillary emails.   Until they release some with sensitive information, I\'ll continue to believe it\'s a plant.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2410698" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2410698" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2410698" href="http://blog.evavegadiversity.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">evita</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2410698" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2410698" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t know but I want to know if her private email address is AKHottie69...</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2416171" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2416171" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2416171">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2416171" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2416171" class="dsq-comment-message">T:   What they said!!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2407929" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2407929" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2407929">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2407929" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2407929" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  Chris Matthews is putting Congressman Cantor on the "proverbial ropes" and is pounding the crap out of him!!  :&gt;)   He has been relentless and accusatory!!<br><br><b>He has accused Repugs of "running from your Repug uniforms" and acting like they are different from SHRUB, when supporting "McAncient"! </b>  <br><br>He is truly playing  -   <b>"HARDBALL!!"</b>   WOW!!!<br><br>I\'m sure someone will get the You Tubes!!    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2408800" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2408800">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2408800" class="dsq-comment-message">Tweety was visibly annoyed with Cantor and just wouldn\'t let up. And I\'m glad! It amazes me how McCain & Co. are trying to act like they had nothing to do with the screw ups for the past 8 yrs!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2416157">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2416157" class="dsq-comment-message">Sepia:  Co-signing!!! :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2409260">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2409260" class="dsq-comment-message">Ha!.....ask and it is given:<br><br><a href="http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=Pgq3UFVi2s8" rel="nofollow">http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=Pgq3UFVi2s8</a><br><a href="http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=QcNp57CT92A" rel="nofollow">http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=QcNp57CT92A</a> ( a slightly longer clip)<br><br>Kinda reminds me of the Nazi\'s at the close of the war.  Remember what O said at the Convention:  The must own their failure.   They need to do a better job of laying the current disaster at the feet of McCain...instead of saying it\'s not his fault.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2409736" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2409736">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2409736" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2409736" class="dsq-comment-message">Praying for your friend\'s son.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2415938" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2415938">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2415938" class="dsq-comment-message">Town:  Thank you very much!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2409751" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2409751">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2409751" class="dsq-comment-message">Cantor is my congressman and I make sure to vote against him every chance I get even though I know he will win.  I even voted for Cooter from Dukes of Hazzard against him.   Ugh.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2408015">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2408015" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  Gotta GO!   The hospital called!  He\'s taken a turn for the worst!!  <br><br>JJP:  Keep those thoughts/prayers a-coming!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2408490">JJai</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2408490" class="dsq-comment-message">sure thing!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2415919">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2415919" class="dsq-comment-message">JJai:  Thank you very much!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2408753" class="dsq-comment-header">\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2408753">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2408753" class="dsq-comment-message">I will say some prayers</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2415911">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2415911" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  Thank you very much!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2408948" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2408948">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2408948" class="dsq-comment-message">Praying for you and yours GreenLadyHere</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2415909">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2415909" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2415909" class="dsq-comment-message">Val:  Thank you very much!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2409029">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2409029" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2409029" class="dsq-comment-message">Sending prayers your way.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2415898">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2415898" class="dsq-comment-message">Sepia:  Thank you very much!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2409350">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2409350" class="dsq-comment-message">GreenLady,<br><br>I\'m sending prayers your way. My thoughts are with you.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2415891">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2415891" class="dsq-comment-message">Justice58:  Thank you very much!!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2408095">karlewis</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2408095" class="dsq-comment-message">The lies from McSame just keep coming.<br><br><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/17/mccain-anticipate-crisis/#comments" rel="nofollow">http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/17/mccain-anti...</a><br><br>He claimed he saw the collapse coming but earlier he said he didn\'t. What else is new?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2409088" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2409088">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2409088" class="dsq-comment-message">This is great.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2408697" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2408697">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2408697" class="dsq-comment-message">This is great...(with Videos)...McCain goes round and round with platitudes and talking points, repeating them over and over regardless of what Matt asks him.  He\'s described as "stiff" and "surly".<br>-----------------------------<br><b>Does McCain Understand The AIG Crisis?</b><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/17/does-mccain-understand-th_n_126947.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/17/does-m...</a><br><blockquote><i>McCain\'s answer yesterday on AIG was not an accident. Put bluntly, I can\'t see any evidence that he knew what he was talking about; nor any evidence that he wanted to try. This is a blatant moment, on tape, under urgent questioning from the media at a moment of crisis, and not only was his lack of preparation apparent but his attitude spoke volumes. This isn\'t a matter of left or right, of "gotcha" or "in the tank" or anything else — it\'s a matter of accountability at a pretty critical moment. It should be noted, and remembered.</i></blockquote></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2412091">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2412091" class="dsq-comment-message">You are to be commended; you have been working over time to get the word out.  It really helps me because I don\'t have a lot of time to research - working and taking care of my mother.  Thanks.<br><br>You too Greenlady!<br><br>JJP Posters are taking care of business.  Thanks Jack, Jill, Rikyrah, CPL, B-Serious; Dna.  Thanks.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2414274">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2414274" class="dsq-comment-message">msmartin:  I\'ve been meaning to ask you how your job was going?  :&gt;)  Well, I hope!<br><br><b>Warm thoughts to your mom!!  Major props to you for your care-taking!!</b></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2408903">T.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2408903" class="dsq-comment-message">Geez, someone finally taught our fearless leader, Obama, how to <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/09/17/couricandco/entry4455870.shtml" rel="nofollow">answer</a> that "my greatest weakness question" using politician-speak! Yeah! LOL!<br><br>Note, McStupid\'s answer begs the question - did you apply that philosophy to your Veep vetting process?<br><br>T.<br>ps. Remember during the primary debates, he was asked a similar question, answered first, was a little too truthful, then everybody else gave the classic non-answer. Sucker!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2409065" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2409065">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2409065" class="dsq-comment-message">Heh...good for him!<br><br>It\'s more nuanced....less forthcoming.   Sure, he still has a messy desk...but it won\'t prevent him being an effective President.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2409405">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2409405" class="dsq-comment-message">During a Florida town hall event with John McCain, Jeb Bush appeared to throw his brother George under the bus. Bush gave a rousing talk about throwing the bums out of Washington. Perhaps he forgot that his brother is the chief bum?<br><br>"Reform becomes contagious," former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, brother of the current president, said at a McCain town hall meeting this week in Orlando. "If you start to dream bigger dreams and you start challenging the basic assumptions, you can change how things work, and we\'ve done it in Florida, and the Good Lord knows we need to do it in Washington, D.C., and John McCain is the right guy at the right time to make that happen."<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/17/jeb-bush-throws-his-broth_n_127281.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/17/jeb-bu...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2409536">freespiritbty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2409536" class="dsq-comment-message">I love this picture. It brought tears to my eyes.  Thank you for posting.  Touching and heartfelt.  That little boy is our little boy. I can see so much hope in his eyes of the future possibilities that he may see the 1st African American President as well as actually witnessing President Obama.  <br><br>I told a white friend who is Republican, that people aren\'t seeing the bigger picture when it comes to Obama.  My nephews need to see this in their lifetimes, such as our parents have witnessed the impactful 60\'s.  <br><br>Our men and women who are struggling out there need to see this, need to own the tremendous accomlishment that Obama has achieve, and believe that DESPITE the setbacks, they can believe and achieve their dreams.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2435921">APeach</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2435921" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh, that little boy is just SOOOO cute! And the look on his face--WOW! Every time I see a picture like that, or one of he and Michelle with the girls (heck, I\'m calling them "the girls" like I\'ve picked up two more nieces!) just reminds me how we don\'t see these images everyday--if ever--in the mainstream media. We know they exist, but to see it so openly...wow...</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2462491">freespiritbty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2462491" class="dsq-comment-message">:&gt;) APeach that is the crux of it, we don\'t see these images everyday! Thank God for the Internet because a lot of what MSM fails to report and show falls by the wayside. I think I\'m going to put that pic on my desktop.  :-)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2409579" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2409579">karlewis</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2409579" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/enough-heres-why-the-poll_b_127167.html/ rel="nofollow"> Enough! Here\'s Why The Polls Are So Damn Close </a><br><br>Bob Cesca says what I wanted to say. All I can say is, can they give Obama a break? The guy revolutionize the campaigning game and knocked their best on HIS & HER ass but still gets no respect. I feel that "Hustle and Flow " song coming on cause "it\'s hard out there for a pimp"<br><br>Obama/Biden 08</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2409924" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2409924">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2409924" class="dsq-comment-message">Obama needs to clean up his advisers and spokespeople.  Bill Burton is on Lou Dobbs and he is terrible.   He couldn\'t get out his answer fluently and did not inspire confident.  In addition he has a expression on his face that looks dumb.  He also looks like a little boy.<br><br><br>There was a SENIOUR advisor on Hardball the other day.  First, Photenhauer appeared for McCain.  Now, she\'s nasty...but she knows how to fight, and who to fight.  Chris put her through the meatgrinder.  Next, Chris had on the Obama Seniour adviser and she was so busy sassing Chris, she failed to see he was giving her a freebie.  At the end, she didn\'t have her facts straight when Chris had to ask 3 times what income level you have to be to escape higher taxes under the Obama plan, and she couldn\'t answer clearly.  She got the number wrong at the end!<br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/15/chris-matthews-battles-na_n_126657.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/15/chris-...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2422634" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2422634">Anderkoo</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2422634" class="dsq-comment-message">The problem is that they\'re sending out real advisors, not salesmen. Was listening to an NPR interview -- NPR! -- and their senior economic advisor, Jason Furman, was just terrible on radio, using words like "ex ante" and not hammering home a single, clear, non-equivocal statement. A 4-minute interview is not the time to be nuanced -- save it for advising. <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94748559" rel="nofollow">http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?st...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2410209" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2410209">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2410209" class="dsq-comment-message">Joe Johns had a great piece on McCain Insider/Outsider.   The press is really putting their foot on the head of the McCain snake.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2413602">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2413602" class="dsq-comment-message">TruthSeeker:  that\'s the only way to kill a SSSSSSSSnake!!   :&gt;)<br><br>\'bout time  -   press/media!!  [Maybe they will appreciate this compliment as they read this site!]  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2410420" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2410420">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2410420" class="dsq-comment-message">Campbell  was great with that Rothschild witch today!   She didn\'t let her off the hook...calling Obama elitist.  Campbell asked her to be specific...Rothschild responded that Obama went to Germany to speak to 200,000 people.   She said he said he\'s the person who the world has been waiting for(she\'s wrong on that of course)..She also says Obama is trying to create class warfare.<br><br>Note that Rothschild honeymooned in the white house when Bill was President.  Can you imagine?  Those two fucking in the people\'s house..like dogs marking their territory?  It enraged me watching her call Obama elitist.<br><br>I have news for that bitch.  There\'s ALREADY class warfare, it\'s just that now, someone is fighting on the side of the poor and middle-class for a change.  I suspect this is the true bee in Rothchild\'s bonnet.  <br><br>The next thing is, it seems "elitist" has become the substitution for "uppity" when referring to blacks.  Really, what\'s wrong with Obama drawing a crowd of 200,000?  Those Germans came of their own free will...and Rothschild who lives in London and New York is scared that the world - as her wealthy, entitled, exploitative ass know it - is coming to an end.   The last point is she misquoted Obama....Campbell frowned at this, but didn\'t correct her.<br><br>Do not take lightly the power of Obama before that crowd of 200,000.   Don\'t take lightly his ability to draw a crowd of 80,000.   The wealthy and powerful exploiters are  terrified by the things they\'re seeing.   Why do you thing they  tried to get a "celebrity" of their own?   However, Palin is the true "empty suit".   Obama has substance and his celebrity comes from being a fighter for the common man.  Their fear is evidenced by Rothschild accusing Obama of "class warfare".   She knows the peasants are coming for her with pitchforks and torches.  She knows if Obama wins, things will change forever.   After Americans find their voice and their power through "community organizing"(which they tried to demonize) - they know their days of entitlement will be over!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2410695">karlewis</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2410695" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2410695" class="dsq-comment-message">Damn! you\'re fired up. <br><br>I like it. good stuff.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2410838" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2410838" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2410838">JJai</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2410838" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2410838" class="dsq-comment-message">All I can do is sit back and fan my MLK church fan after reading this...<br>tell it!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2413577" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2413577" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2413577">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2413577" class="dsq-comment-message">JJai:   LOL!!    LOL!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>Now, we\'ll have a song from the choir!!  <b>Where\'s my Choir Robe?</b></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2411197" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2411197" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2411197">TruthSeeker</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2411197" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2411197" class="dsq-comment-message">... Donald Trump is on Larry King.  He gushes over McCain saying he supports him because he won\'t raise taxes.   Then he goes to to say that he supports McCain because he knows him, likes him etc.   Trump then compliments McCain on his choice of VP(never mind the fact he doesn\'t "know" her).    Then!....he brags about just selling a property in Palm Beach to a Russian for 100 million dollars!!!   Can you say out of touch!    That\'s exactly what struggling Americans need to hear,  the Russians - who McCain has been demonizing as wanting to reinvigorate their empire - is buying up property in Palm beach while they\'re losing the one roof over their head.  <br><br>100 million dollars worth of American real estate, sold to a Russian who McCain is spoiling for a war with!   Now, if they can put two and two together as to WHY Trump really supports McCain....</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2411698" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2411698" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2411698">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2411698" class="dsq-comment-message">Donald Chump is a racist.  The last time I watched the Apprentice was when he tried to hem Randall up into making Becky his co-apprentice.  He ain\'t never asked Bill if he wanted to make Kwame the co-apprentic or any of the other winners if they would mind if their runners-up were co-apprentices too.  Randall had 50-11 degrees and Becky was fresh out of journalism school but he\'s supposed to make her his co-apprentice because Becky\'s feelings were hurt.  Bitch, please.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2411837" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2411837">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2411837" class="dsq-comment-message">Randall should have asked him:  Is there something about me that makes you think I would accept any less than I\'ve earned, or that I\'m entitled to? <br><br>He should have confronted his dumb ass!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2412450" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2412450">msmartin</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2412450" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2412450" class="dsq-comment-message">O.k.a.y.!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2423767" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2423767" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2423767">MsKitty</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2423767" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2423767" class="dsq-comment-message">I remember that.  Pissed me off so bad that I stopped watching the show right then and there.  And don\'t get me started on how they did Stacey on the season before that.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2410975" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2410975" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2410975">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2410975" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2410975" class="dsq-comment-message">This Rothschild heifer is the best spokesperson the Obama campaign could ever hope for. When you have a woman who actually has a wierd title of "Lady" and her husband is "Sir", living between their homes in London and NYC, but daring to call the black man from Chi-town "elitist"?? Oh, that\'s priceless. This woman thinks a black man is supposed to take her expensive Versace luggage to her room and pick up her little dog\'s shit and that\'s it.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2412418" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2412418" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2412418">msmartin</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2412418" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2412418" class="dsq-comment-message">She\'s not an "empty suit", she\'s an empty head.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2413570" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2413570" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2413570">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2413570" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2413570" class="dsq-comment-message">msmartin:  Co-signing!!  See what I mean!!   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2411157" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2411157" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2411157">nickwah22</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2411157" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2411157" class="dsq-comment-message">Is the Senate a "do nothing Senate" because they really do absolutely nothing or because what they actually do gets blocked/vetoed?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2412032" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2412032" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2412032">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2412032" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2412032" class="dsq-comment-message">From Politicalinaction.com:<br><br>Latest CBS POll:<br><br>O 48<br>M 43<br><br>Looks like we are right back to where we were before the conventions. What does that mean? John McCain\'s gamble with Palin went bust.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2413384" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2413384" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2413384">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2413384" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2413384" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  Yaaaaa!  I\'m 2 thrilled!!  Thanks for this information!!   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-2412185">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2412185" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2412185" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2412185" href="http://blog.evavegadiversity.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">evita</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2412185" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2412185" class="dsq-comment-message">One of the major reasons I support Barack Obama has to do with the sincere desire to see our international reputation restored. Here\'s another reason why we cannot afford another 4 more years like the last 8. I continue to be embarrassed about our waning lack of global leadership.<br><br>Supreme Court’s Global Influence Is Waning <br><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/18/us/18legal.html?bl&ex=1221796800&en=30e6b5e2e61b3bb9&ei=5087%250A" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/18/us/18legal.ht...</a><br>"...Another reason is the diminished reputation of the United States in some parts of the world, which experts here and abroad said is in part a consequence of the Bush administration’s unpopularity around the world. Foreign courts are less apt to justify their decisions with citations to cases from a nation unpopular with their domestic audience."</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2412444" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2412444">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2412444" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2412444" class="dsq-comment-message">From DailyKos<br><br><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/17/20176/8651/921/602170" rel="nofollow">Thoughts from the Trading Floor</a></div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-2412647">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2412647" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2412647" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2412647">caligirl</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2412647" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2412647" class="dsq-comment-message">barack hussein<br>our handsome blessing who, in turn, is<br>handsomely blessed.<br>but hey... what\'s in a name??</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2413485" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2413485" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2413485">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2413485" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2413485" class="dsq-comment-message">caligirl:   <b>NICE!</b>  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2412696" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2412696" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2412696">TruthSeeker</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2412696" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2412696" class="dsq-comment-message">Very good diary!:<br><br>WHY would Palin refuse to fund rape kits? Here\'s your answer.<br><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/17/175430/636/888/601186" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/17/175430/...</a></div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-2412914">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2412914" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2412914" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2412914">JJai</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2412914" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2412914" class="dsq-comment-message">this is just far fetched and random enough to be true. She is truly a psychopath!</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-2412848">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2412848" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2412848" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2412848">JHB</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2412848" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2412848" class="dsq-comment-message">McCain wins, strokes out and Palin is president.<br><br>What will you do?  Would you seriously consider emigrating to another country?  <br><br>Should we starting saving now for a quick escape?</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-2412950">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2412950" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2412950" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2412950">JJai</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2412950" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2412950" class="dsq-comment-message">I had jokingly noted Canada but saw on Slate how they are going through their own sort of tumultous campaign with another right leaning candidate. So, its Obama/Biden or bust!</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-2412891">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2412891" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2412891" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2412891">msmartin</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2412891" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2412891" class="dsq-comment-message">Wow, what a difference a couple of days make.  Yall are all positive and speaking truth here today.<br><br>This story should make you happier.  Obama represents change and McCain is the same old tired:  <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/18/us/politics/18poll.html?partner=rssyahoo&emc=rss" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/18/us/politics/1...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2413119" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2413119" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2413119">TruthSeeker</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2413119" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2413119" class="dsq-comment-message">I was trying to keep the faith...but 7 weeks from the election and I was wondering when the fight would begin.<br><br>Thank goodness it has.  I hope they keep up the pressure and keep McCain on the defensive.  When he\'s on the defensive he can\'t make trouble for O.</div>\
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		fbDiv.id = "FB_HiddenContainer";	// Required or else FeatureLoader will execute a document.write.
		fbDiv.style.position = 'absolute';	// This is intentionally not setting display to none as this breaks
		fbDiv.style.top = '-10000px';		// Flash in Safari.
		fbDiv.style.left = '-10000px';
		fbDiv.style.width = '0px';
		fbDiv.style.height = '0px';
		Dsq.container.appendChild(fbDiv);
	}
	var fbJS = document.createElement('script');
	fbJS.type = "text/javascript";
	fbJS.src = "http://static.ak.connect.facebook.com/js/api_lib/v0.4/FeatureLoader.js.php";
	document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(fbJS);

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

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


	


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

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

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

})();




